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Maoists warn of fresh stir
;Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, 31 JULY: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has started mobilising its cadres to launch a fresh movement in Nandigram alleging that "several demands" of local people have not been "fulfilled" by the government. Taking a dig at the Trinamul Congress, the ultra-left outfit's Nandigram zonal Committee has alleged that except "capitalising" the people's movement in Nandigram, the Opposition party has done nothing to force the government to fulfil their demands. The Maoist cadres have reportedly distributed leaflets in Nandigram in the past couple of days which stated that police officers and CPI-M leaders, "involved in gangrape and police firing in Nandigram on 14 March 2007" have not been punished and criminal cases lodged against farmers have not been withdrawn till date. Terming the Trinamul Congress as a "B-Team of the CPI-M", the Maoists urged the people of Nandigram and members of the Bhumi Ucched Protirodh Committee (BUPC) to take up arms again. The CPI (Maoist) has alleged that Trinamul Congress leaders of Nandigram are "obstructing" people of Nandigram who have been demanding that "CPI-M leaders and police officers" who had "gang raped" women and fired upon people killing several of them on 14 March 2007, be punished. It has now become clear that the Trinamul Congress chief's "anti-CPI-M speech" was aimed at getting "electoral benefit" and not to "protect the democracy", the leaflet ~ issued on 18 July ~ states. Urging the Trinamul Congress to stop making malicious statements against them, the Maoist outfit has called upon the people of Nandigram to start a fresh movement and create pressure on the state government to withdraw criminal cases from BUPC members. The outfit, in the leaflet, has admitted that they are "arming the people" to protect their rights. The Statesman has procured a copy of the leaflet. "The demands of the people of Nandigram are no longer important for the Trinamul Congress. They (the Trinamul leaders) have forgotten the promises that they had made to the people of Nandigram. Unfortunately, they are now trying to suppress the voice of the people who are fighting to get their demands fulfilled," the leaflet maintained. The Maoists have also alleged that the Trinamul Congress leaders in Nandigram were "threatening" local people for providing shelter to CPI (Maoist) activists. The outfit has even accused the Trinamul Congress of "joining hands" with the CPI-M to "wipe-out" the Maoists from the state. "The Central force was sent to Lalgarh at a time when the people were readying to destroy the CPI-M's fort at Garbeta and Keshpur. The Trinamul had sent the force to protect the CPI-M's fort," the leaflet stated.
Gunbattle in Lalgarh, 2 Naxals 'killed'
MIDNAPORE, 31 JULY: Even as the joint forces continued search operations to rescue two jawans of the state armed police who were abducted two days back, at least four civilians were injured, one of them critically, after they were caught in a crossfire between the forces and suspected Maoists. State home secretary Mr Ardhendu Sen said that two Maoists had been killed but this was yet to be confirmed. As the joint forces conducted a combing operation in the area in the forests adjacent to Dharampur in Lalgarh in search of their abducted comrades this morning, the Maoists opened fire from the forests at Bhulageria, about 15 km from Dharampur. The forces also retaliated by firing at least 100 rounds and the gunbattle continued for about five hours. At least four people who were caught in the crossfire were injured. The condition of Mr Lakshmi Hembram was said to be critical. He was rushed to Jhargram Sub-divisional Hospital while the others could not be traced.The forces did not venture deep into the forest for fear of landmine attacks by the Maoists. The sound of at least two landmines blasts was heard from the forest.Meanwhile, even 36 hours after their abduction two jawans of the state armed police could not be rescued despite frantic search operations, the SP Mr Manoj Verma affirmed. By abducting the constables, Mr Kanchan Garai and Mr Sabir Mollah, along with the two-wheelers they were riding on from Brindabanpur Chowk yesterday afternoon the Maoists have thrown yet another gauntlet to the police. The SP said that the constables were unarmed and in civil dress.ArrestAditya Routh from Shitalpur village in Sarenga PS area, Bankura, was arrested from his residence last night for his alleged link with Maoists. According to the police, Routh had led the PSBPC local members during the protest rallies. He had links with the banned Maoist outfit, police said. ;SNS
Sourav Ganguly was the text, subtext and footnote. Everything else was incidental. In microcosm, that was the story of the Cricket Association of Bengal's (CAB) 78th annual general meeting held here this evening.
Jagmohan Dalmiya and his panel were already elected for one more term. The battle of ballots was restricted to just one vice-president's post. Nobody cared if Abhijit Dutta, who is from the opposition group, would be pulling off an upset. As expected, he lost. Nobody even bothered to ask him about his feelings. He will now return to oblivion. And probably for the first time, very few waited for Dalmiya's reactions after a CAB AGM.
This meeting was all about Ganguly. Ever since he stepped out of his brand new BMW 730 LD and strode into the boardroom, he was the centre of all attraction.
The former India captain made a mark on his debut as a cricket administrator. Controversy surrounded his representation at this AGM. He was nominated by little-known Bhukailash Sporting Club, but decided to represent Mohammedan Sporting in the meeting. A few eyebrows were raised. A sting operation by a Bengali TV channel on his Park Street eatery put him in a spot of bother. There was pressure on him on debut. But as usual, he revelled under pressure.
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It was almost like his cricketing debut at Lord's 13 years ago. As an administrator also, he timed his questions right, leaving Dalmiya searching for answers at times.
"Why did the axe fall on coach Utpal Chatterjee despite the Bengal Ranji team's qualification from Plate to Elite Group last season?" Ganguly asked. Dalmiya's reply was timid — "We have appointed Roger Binny this time as we feel this will augur well for the team."
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Nadim Siraj Tags : kolkata, sports Posted: Saturday , Aug 01, 2009 at 0337 hrs Kolkata:
In the days to come, Snehasish Ganguly might need a helmet and plenty of protection when he pads up for his role in Bengal's cricket administration. That's because a stinging beamer hurled by his younger brother Sourav at tonight's AGM might end up hurtling towards him.
Making his CAB debut with a bang today, Sourav sent across a scorcher towards the Jagmohan Dalmiya-led administration, asking it to dig up last year's IPL funds imbroglio and find out what went wrong. Little did the former Indian captain realise that raising questions on why the CAB overspent during IPL-1 by a whopping Rs 4.5 crore would eventually land Snehasish in trouble.
Among a flurry of cricketing issues that he raised at the AGM, Sourav questioned why no action has been taken yet on the issue of lavish overspending. The CAB had overshot by the Rs 3.5 crore budget by Rs 4.5 crore in hosting the seven home matches of Knight Riders during the IPL Twenty20 carnival's inaugural edition in 2008 summer.
In a development that has sent shockwaves across the sports community, a Bengali TV channel today claimed to have carried out a sting operation in which Sourav Ganguly's Kolkata-based restaurant was allegedly being used as a pick-up joint on weekends. A local TV news channel, Channel 10, claims to have exposed a "sleaze racket" that was allegedly being run out of the third floor lounge bar of the Park Street restaurant jointly owned by the Ganguly brothers — called Sourav's. The channel is playing visuals of what it claims are showing dance girls "negotiating with customers" of the restaurant's disco.
According to the channel, the organisers of Sourav's have been running weekend late-night dance shows at the lounge bar, where an agent has been allegedly setting up the girls with customers in what is being termed as a case of "flesh trade".
While members of the Ganguly family is not taking any calls, Sourav's elder brother Snehasish told mediapersons that the restaurant is licensed to host disco sessions. However, the Ganguly family couldn't be contacted on the "sleaze racket" allegation. The channel aired comments of Jawed Shamim, DC (DD), in which he reportedly says that the Gangulys' restaurant doesn't have the requisite permit to play host to dance sessions. Later on, however, the top cop refused to comment on the matter when contacted by this paper.
"Although it is about seven weeks since the central paramilitary forces were deployed in Lalgarh at the request of the West Bengal government, the situation has still not stabilised. The CPI-Maoist (the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist) still continues to have pockets of influence and is suspected to be behind some recent acts of violence," Chidambaram said at his monthly news conference.
"We have made it clear to all states that while paramilitary forces will be available for deployment, such deployment cannot be for an indefinite period and that state police forces will have to take over the responsibility of maintaining law and order as soon as possible," he said.
Chidambaram also defended his earlier comments that parts of West Bengal have become "killing fields".
"I did not use any harsh words for the state government. What I had said was that many districts of West Bengal have become killing fields," said Chidamabaram adding that he had made those remarks "on the basis of letters written by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, the letters written by Trinamool Congress leaders and and the ministry's own intelligence reports".
"They all have expressed concern over the situation in certain pockets of West Bengal," he said adding: "All I said was that the killings have become a routine affair, even owing to political differences. It's the responsibility of the state government to ensure that there is no killing over political differences."
In response to a question, Chidamabaram made it clear that he was unlikely to recommend the president's assent for the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill, passed last week by the state assembly for the third time after the president returned it twice.
He said the bill goes against "the last and latest expression of parliament" made on the issue of security and anti-terror laws while carrying out the the latest amendment to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 2004.
The home minister said the Gujarat bill negated some of the principles of the criminal laws that confessions of an accused before police officers should not be admissible in court, apart from the fact that the power of granting bail to an accused must be left to the discretion of the courts instead of empowering police to detain people for up to six months on the pretext of investigations.
Commenting on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's resignation Monday following an allegation that his name had figured in an alleged CBI list of accused in a sex racket, the home minister said: "I was pained by the developments (after) certain allegations made in the Jammu and Kashmir state legislature.
"The ministry of home affairs promptly put the facts (related to the scandal) in the public domain and, I believe, that helped bring the controversy to an end," said Chidamabaram.
Abdullah's resignation was rejected by Governor N.N. Vohra who found no evidence against him.
"What Jammu and Kashmir needs is good and effective governance and I hope that all political parties will work with the state government to provide good and effective governance in the state," Chidambaram added.
CPM leader's house attacked
;Statesman News ServiceDURGAPUR, 31 JULY: The house of a local CPI-M committee leader was ransacked in Pandaveswar, Burdwan on the morning on 31 July. The leader, Mr Samsan Chatterjee, was also assaulted physically by the group that stormed into his residence. Mr Chatterjee alleged that "the goons, backed by the Trinamul Congress, attacked my house without any provocation. I could identify at least four members of the group, and told this to police. One of their leaders, from Durgapur, during a meeting in the nearby Konda village yesterday evening, instigated his party men to unleash an attack on me and my family." Mr Chatterjee had gone over to the CPI-M from the Trinamul Congress only a couple of years ago. He is the secretary of NREGA works at the local Baidyanathpur panchayat. The Trinamul Congress has refuted the allegation that it had instigated the attack on the leader. Mr Debabrata Sain, the Trinamul Congress vice-president in Durgapur, said that "I went to Pandaveswar yesterday and learnt that the locals were annoyed with him over malpractices and corruption relating to NREGA works." Police, however, have failed to arrest anyone in connection with the incident so far.
Cong opts out in Bowbazar, Sealdah
Soma MookherjeeKOLKATA, 31 JULY: The dispute between the Congress and the Trinamul Congress over seat sharing in two major Assembly constituencies for by-elections was resolved tonight as the former decided to withdraw their nominees from Bowbazar and Sealdah, conceding the demand of Trinamul Congress chief Miss Mamata Banerjee.On behalf of the AICC, Union finance minister and WBPCC president Mr Pranab Mukherjee has communicated to the party's state unit that both the Congress candidates should be withdrawn for the sake of the alliance with the Trinamul Congress to oust the CPI-M from West Bengal, the state Congress working president, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, said.The alliance between the two UPA allies came under stress when both the parties fielded separate candidates for the by-elections. The Congress had fielded Mr Pradip Ghosh against Trinamul Congress' Mrs Shikha Mitra in Sealdah and against Trinamul candidate Mr Swarnakamal Saha in Bowbazar on 29 July. The Congress also fielded Mr Santosh Pathak as a substitute candidate in the Bowbazar seat. Earlier, Miss Banerjee held a series of meetings in Delhi with Mr Pranab Mukherjee and Mr K. Kesava Rao, AICC general secretary in-charge of West Bengal, on this issue on Wednesday evening. Miss Banerjee, who was reportedly not satisfied with the outcome of the meeting, was later called by Mrs Sonia Gandhi at her residence. PCC sources said Mrs Gandhi accepted Miss Banerjee's demand of contesting both the seats as both the seats fall under their newly elected MP Mr Sudip Bandyopadhyay's Kolkata North constituency.Meanwhile, Miss Banerjee today accused the CPI-M of targeting her party supporters in Nandigram style with help from police as she refused to budge from a makeshift podium at a school ground in Bhangor in South 24 Parganas demanding that the post-mortem report of the party's supporter who was allegedly killed in police firing yesterday be disclosed immediately. She alleged that nine of her party supporters are still missing in the area while 35 others are injured in the "attack" of her party supporters by armed CPI-M cadres yesterday. A Trinamul Congress supporter was killed after police allegedly opened fire to quell a clash between Trinamul and CPI-M supporters in the district yesterday.
Govt, NIKD differ on Nayachar
KOLKATA, 31 JULY: Notwithstanding the announcement made by the finance minister, Mr Asim Dasgupta about the scrapping of the Easternlink Expressway between Barasat and Raichak in the Legislative Assembly, the presentation given by New Kolkata Infrastructure Development (NKID) today before government officials on its ongoing projects also included the road project.The state government today mounted pressure on NKID for submitting the master plan for Nayachar but it was apparent that the priority accorded by the state government to the project was not shared by the developer. After the meeting, NKID chairman, Mr Prasoon Mukherjee said: "The project at Nayachar is too far off and there is no point thinking about the project now. I am now more busy about starting productions at the Mahabharat unit."The state land and land reforms department has also been asked to assess the value of the land at Nayachar and calculate the selami to be paid although the land has been already transferred to the commerce and industries department which has in turn given permission to the joint venture company to start its work at Nayachar. There is also a pending court case which the state government would try to conclude as quickly as possible. The issue of fisheries department being compensated for the huge investments it made in Nayachar also came up for discussions.An official of the state government said: "Although the issue of revising the agreement was in the agenda we did not get time to discuss it. But we have asked them to submit the preliminary master plan for the chemical hub as early as possible which is required for environmental impact assessment report." He also said that there was no discussion on the scrapping of the road project. ;SNS
Bengal), July 31 (IANS) Security forces engaged in a five-hour gunbattle with suspected Maoist rebels Friday in a forest in West Bengal's trouble-torn Lalgarh during a combing operation to find two policemen who went missing Thursday evening.
Police said the gunbattle continued for five hours near Bhulabeda forest area in Lalgarh, the headquarters of the Binpur 1 Community Development block, about 200 km west of Kolkata.
The two policemen Sabir Mollah and Kanchan Garia went missing Thursday evening from Brindabanpur locality.
'The gunbattle continued for almost five hours between the security personnel and suspected Maoist rebels. No one has been injured,' West Midnapore District Police Superintendent M.K. Verma told IANS.
But the agitating tribal body People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) claimed that three villagers had received bullet injuries in the firing.
'We've received no such report that three villagers were injured in the firing. The firing took place in a forest area between the joint forces and Maoists. The common villagers had no business there. So it's quite understandable who those people were,' Verma said.
In June, the state government launched the massive security operation to flush out Maoist guerrillas from in and around Lalgarh, after the rebels made the area a virtual 'free zone' by torching police camps and offices of the ruling communists and drove out the civil administration.
Lalgarh has been on the boil since November last year when a landmine exploded on the route of the convoy of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and two other central ministers -- Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitin Prasada.
Alleging police atrocities after the blast, the PCAPA, backed by Maoists, launched an agitation cutting off the area from the rest of West Midnapore district.
Maoists are active in areas under 21 police stations in the state's three western districts -- West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia.
Dalmiya re-elected CAB president
Cricinfo staff
July 31, 2009
Jagmohan Dalmiya has been re-elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on the day former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly marked his entrance into cricket administration.
Dalmiya was re-elected unopposed at the CAB's 78th annual general meeting in Kolkata and also retained his panel of two joint secretaries and treasurer.
Ganguly, 37, had earlier this month
expressed an ambition to join cricket administration in his home state of West Bengal. The state's minister for state and tourism, Sultan Ahmed, who is also the president of Mohammedan Sporting Club which Ganguly represented at the AGM, termed Ganguly's new role as "healthy and successful".
"He [Ganguly] has given very good advice to CAB in the AGM. In a healthy way we will go forward together, we want Bengal cricket to go forward," he said. "Our boys are not getting chances at the senior level which is a point of concern. We have discussed all this and it was very successful. He [Ganguly] said there are many veteran cricketers who have not been given chance."
Dalmiya also welcomed Ganguly's entry into the fray. "Not only Ganguly more and more cricketers should come forward to help the sport grow in the state," he said. "I have personally invited Ganguly to sit with me and discuss various plans to take Bengal cricket forward. Not only Ganguly, I also invited former players Russi Jeejeebhoy, Raja Venkat and Snehashish Ganguly to contribute with their knowledge towards the development of Bengal cricket."
Kolkata: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday made his debut in cricket administration - questioning several decisions of the Jagmohan Dalmiya regime during a nearly hour-long address at the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Annual General Meeting (AGM) here.
Dalmiya, as expected, was elected uncontested for another term of the cash-rich body. He later said the CAB was planning to come out with a master plan under Ganguly's guidance on making full use of the services of former players for the benefit of Bengal cricket.
"Ganguly raised pertinent questions regarding several issues. It was because of his presence that for the first time, the CAB AGM lasted two and a half hours. We had a very good meeting. There were discussions on a host of cricketing issues. This is good for Bengal cricket," said union Minister of State for Tourism Sultan Ahmed.
They made the assertion during discussion on a calling attention notice moved by the CPI-M and CPI wanting to know the measures initiated by the government to help those who had lost jobs.
The notice was jointly given by Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI) and Basudev Acharia and A. Sampath of the CPI-M.
The communists staged a walkout when Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge told the house in his reply that the "positive effects of the three stimulus packages given by the government will benefit the employment sector also".
They charged the government with providing exemptions and stimulus only to the corporates and ignoring the labourers.
The Left party members said a meeting with all the trade unions should be called for this purpose.
Earlier, the minister said: "The impact of the global slowdown on the Indian economy has been felt since mid-2008. To counter the negative fallout of the global slowdown, the government of India has provided three focussed fiscal stimulus packages."
Kharge said the packages were "in the form of tax relief and increased expenditure on public projects, while the Reserve Bank of India has taken a number of monetary easing and liquidity enhancing steps in order to boost the domestic demand".
The minister argued that these measures had helped keep the Indian economy "on the growth trajectory, though at a moderate level as compared to the performance in the recent past".
"Trinamool Congress is moving on a strategy of inciting and escalating violence and using that as a pretext to demand Central intervention. They are conspiring to destabilise a duly elected government and getting the assembly polls advanced so that these can be held under Central rule," party leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.
Mr. Yechury said while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described Maoist violence as the gravest threat to internal security, two Union ministers of the Trinamool Congress, Mukul Roy and Sisir Adhikari, went to Lalgarh and "incited" violence.
"At a time when joint operations by Central and State security forces to contain Maoist violence is going on, they visited the area, incited violence and provoked confrontation with security forces, thereby giving sustenance to Maoist violence and endangering the unity and integrity of the country," Mr. Yechury said.
Kolkata: Is Union railway minister and Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee going for a conscious image makeover before the 2011 assembly election?
Once known as the stormy petrel of Bengal politics, Mamata is pulling out all stops to project the image of an affable leader who has only the best interest of the state in mind. To achieve this goal, memories of the Trinamool-led anti-industrialisation movement were conveniently wiped out, and lo and behold, Mamata metamorphosed into a pro-industry leader. But, the transformation was not at the cost of her earlier stance that agriculture should not be neglected. So, at a recent Vijay Diwas rally in Kolkata, Mamata promised to strike a balance between industry and agriculture.
That she is as good as her word has already been proved by the promptness with which she delivered on her rail budget promises to the state. Bengal's first ladies' special local between Howrah and Bandel has been flagged off and a second between Sealdah and Kalyani will start from August.
Mamata is also serious about shedding all the ills of her past. She has asked party members to desist from calling bandhs and strikes at the drop of a hat and cautionedthem against resorting to violence in an effort to oust the Left Front from West Bengal.
She is also smiling a lot more in public and has adopted the image of a "big Didi" indulgently censuring the public to "be good"."Mamata has realised that to win over the educated class, she will have to act like a responsible leader," summed up a political analyst.
Bhangar (PTI): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday began a sit-in here in protest against the delay in post-mortem of party worker Sarbar Khan Chowdhury.
"Till Sarbar's body is released after post-mortem, I will be on a sit-in here," Ms. Banerjee, also the Railway Minister, said after addressing party workers at a rally at the Chandaneswar High School ground.
Sarbar was killed in police firing during an armed clash between CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress workers on Thursday.
Ms. Banerjee alleged that the police connived with CPI(M) cadres in killing Sarbar "in a planned way", and warned the Marxists that she would no longer tolerate such attacks.
'Tribal uprising a result of state neglect'
;Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 30 JULY: A comprehensive development scheme for tribals taken up by the Centre in 2005-06 was not implemented due to sheer callousness and the ingrained lethargic work culture of the state government. Had the schemes, mostly related to irrigation facilities, been implemented, agitation launched by the tribals demanding improvement of infrastructure in Lalgarh and other areas would not have become so violent. The then special secretary, backward classes welfare department, wrote a letter to the principal secretary, irrigation and waterways department, on 29 March, 2005, requesting that he prepare plans for the comprehensive development of the tribal people. The state government had identified 25 blocks in seven districts where the total population comprised 25 per cent or more tribals. For the development of the tribals, the Centre stressed on a cluster development approach for the all-round upliftment of the tribal population. A sum of Rs 5 crore was given for each cluster. The schemes were to include the construction of roads and bridges, culverts, drinking water facilities, irrigation facilities, water sheds etc. They were meant to increase agricultural production. The reclamation of barren land, as well as the plantation of valuable timber and medicinal plants and the management of forest land was proposed. It was also proposed that irrigation, water shed management and plantation of timber or medicinal plants would use 40 per cent of the project cost. Drinking water sources, and the excavation of ponds and improvement of road connectivity, would constitute 25 per cent and 20 per cent respectively of the project cost. The remaining 15 per cent would be spent in setting up playgrounds and recreation rooms for tribal children, as well as repairing primary schools and hostel buildings for tribal students. The special secretary also mentioned that such schemes in Himachal Pradesh were already funded by the Centre. A senior state government official said over the past three years the state government did not take any steps for the comprehensive development of the tribal people ~ only some ad hoc schemes were taken "as an eyewash". Irrigation and drinking water are two major problems in the tribal dominated areas and ad-hoc schemes could only lead to very limited improvements. The state government should have sent its officials to the tribal dominated areas three years ago and should have won their confidence by telling them about the schemes, said the state official. "But as nothing was done, the agitation slowly snowballed into a major movement that is now out of proportion," he said.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its latest report on implementation of mid-day meal scheme in West Bengal has criticised the state government for "indifferent planning and monitoring of the scheme and non-achievement of its objectives."
The report states that the implementation of the scheme in the state is plagued by various discrepancies particularly due to poor financial management and poor implementation strategies.
The report also points out that nearly half a decade after the scheme was launched, students in as many as 7,321 primary schools are yet to be covered under the scheme. The state has about 49,200 primary schools in the state. It also states that in the schools where the scheme is implemented, the number of days when the mid-day meals are provided is less than that prescribed.
Pointing out the state government's indifference towards it, the report stated that the department failed to utilise around 15 per cent of the foodgrain allocated to it by the Centre under the scheme during 2002-07.
New Delhi, July 30: Union home minister P. Chidambaram today said "many districts of Bengal had become killing fields" while giving a clean chit to Trinamul Congress ministers who visited Lalgarh.
"Many districts of Bengal have become killing fields. This has to stop," P. Chidambaram said after a meeting with Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee and fin-ance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Mamata is believed to have demanded a halt to the security operation in Lalgarh and withdrawal of central forces from there. Chidambaram, however, said that unless the state government said so, the forces would not be moved.
On July 28, Trinamul central ministers and Partha Chatterjee, leader of Opposition in the Assembly, had visited Lalgarh. Chidambaram said political leaders were not allowed to visit Lalgarh earlier because of the joint operation, but one could not prevent them from going there after six weeks.
The home minister said Trinamul had briefed him about "the very repressive action against its workers".
The Congress, too, has suffered at the hands of suspected CPM supporters. Nine Congress MLAs were chased through slushy paddy fields by stone-throwing CPM supporters in Burdwan's Mangalkot recently.
"I will talk to the Bengal government. We are concerned.... These killings should stop," Chidambaram said.
In the Lok Sabha today, Trinamul MPs demanded central intervention to stop the killing of party workers.
Led by chief whip Sudip Bandopadhyay, the MPs stormed the well of the House, blaming the state government for yesterday's murder of three partymen in Burdwan.
Mr. Karat was speaking at a meeting on the birth centenary year of Marxist leader E.M.S Namboodiripad, whose government in Kerala was "undemocratically ousted" in 1959.
The CPI(M) had been under attack by anti-communist forces opposed to its fight against the neo-liberal policies of the Centre, Mr. Karat said.
"The attack against the party now comes camouflaged as if it is from the Left since today it is not possible to attack communist forces by a conservative, fundamentalist, right-wing strategy as was done in Kerala in 1959," he said.
"Everyday, targeted assassinations are taking place by a force that claims to be revolutionist. Our party has decried this version of the naxalites," he said, adding that it was a distorted, degenerate form of ultra-Leftism that was being encouraged by the Opposition alliance that had emerged in the State.
Endorsing the stand of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was present on the occasion, Mr Karat said the CPI(M) would fight the Maoists politically, ideologically as well as administratively when the extremists resorted to violence.
Commenting on the CPI (M)'s performance in the Lok Sabha elections, he said electoral reverses happened and the party had reviewed and identified their shortcomings. The election results were being used to malign the party, its leaders and the cadres, but the CPI (M) would not desert the people. "Despite the serious limitation that the State government has, we must work to improve the standard of living of the people."
On the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland being raised by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha in the Darjeeling hills, Mr. Karat recalled that E.M.S. Namboodiripad had anticipated that there would be linguistic and ethnic minorities in States formed on the basis of linguistic identity. "The solution is not the break up of the States as that is an endless process and will lead to more strife and division."
"Linguistic States are the basic building blocks of the federal structure; within that you have to work out, creatively and innovatively, regional autonomy," he said. The party recommended application of the Sixth Schedule in Darjeeling.
West Bengal State Committee secretary Biman Bose emphasised the need for purging the party of those pursuing self-interests and profiting at the cost of common people.
The spinning wheels in Kolkata and its suburbs are slated to come to a grinding halt again. Commuters using public vehicles like buses,
Bill proposed to convene at least 100 days of Parliament
Bill was moved by Mahendra Mohan, a Samajwadi Party member of the Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: If a proposed legislation eventually sees light of the day, then Parliament will meet for a minimum of 100 days every year, something that has not happened in the Lok Sabha for the last 21 years and in the Rajya Sabha for 35 years.
Interestingly, the proposal, first moved in the Rajya Sabha in December was a private member's Bill and not tabled by the government. A private member Bill is one that is introduced by an individual member rather than the government and a Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha survives the government since it is a perennial House.
Though a discussion—the second since 3 July—on the proposal remained inconclusive, all the leading political parties have lined up behind the proposal made by Mahendra Mohan, a Samajwadi Party member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. Since the proposed Bill seeks to make constitutional amendments—to Articles 85 and 174 of the Constitution—it will require a two-thirds majority.
Mohan said the Bill was necessary for the "healthy functioning" of the democracy as year after year the number of days of Parliament were on the decline.
According to data compiled by PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi-based research unit, the last time the Lok Sabha met for even 100 days in a year was nearly two decades back in 1988, when it met for 102 days. The Rajya Sabha's record is even less impressive. It met for 109 days in 1974, the last time it touched the 100-sitting figure. In 2008, the last year of the 14th Lok Sabha, both Houses of Parliament met for just 46 days each—the lowest ever.
"I am happy that members rising above party lines have supported this Constitution (amendment) Bill introduced by me. Members of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (Marxist), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, apart from the ruling Congress and all other parties have pledged support for the Bill, which will make 120 days sitting mandatory for Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha and 60 days of sitting mandatory for the state legislatures," Mohan said.
The main Opposition party in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP, pledged its support to the Bill if it was put to vote. "Majority of the Parliament time is consumed for government business. We need more time to discuss issues concerning the masses and our constituencies. We are in total support of the Bill," said S.S. Ahluwalia, deputy leader of the BJP in the Rajya Sabha.
Taking part in the discussion on the Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Congress member E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan favoured a government Bill in place of the private member to make a constitutional amendment.
"I am not averse to a government Bill, but I will press for a vote on the Bill if government fails to give clear assurance in the next session when the discussion is resumed. I am sure the Bill will be passed with almost all members supporting it," said Mohan.
From 1952 till 2008, the Lok Sabha has met for 100 or more sittings a year only 28 times, while the corresponding figure for the Rajya Sabha is just 11 times. The Lok Sabha kept a consistent record of over 100 days sitting a year for 12 years from 1952 to 1974, and the highest number of sittings in a year was 151 in 1956, while for the Rajya Sabha it was 113 in the same year.
According to PRS, the number of sittings in the Rajya Sabha has come down from an annual average of 90.5 in the first decade 1952-61 to 71.3 in the decade 1992-2001, declining by one-fifth. The comparative figures for the Lok Sabha are 124.2 and 81, a decline by one-third.
Meanwhile, the record of state assemblies is worse, with the average at 20-50 sittings every year.
Some state assemblies have provisions that specify the number of sittings the assembly would have in a year. These provisions could either be binding or non-binding in nature. For instance, Uttar Pradesh has a no-binding provision for an assembly sitting of 90 days while Orissa has a binding provision of 60 days.
Till date, 14 private member Bill have been passed in Parliament and the last one was in 1970, according to PRS Legislative Research. Another private member Bill, introduced in the Rajya Sabha in 2002, on the subject of sitting of state assemblies is still pending.
Analysts say apart from fixing minimum days, Parliament should also have the right to convene on its own for its effective functioning.
"It is good that MPs are thinking about meeting for a minimum number of days every year. The dates of Parliament are effectively decided by the government of the day. This is ironic considering that the Constitution views Parliament as the body overseeing the work of the government. For the oversight function to work well, Parliament should have the authority to convene even if that is not convenient for the government," said M.R. Madhavan, head of research at PRS Legislative Research.
SEZs need govt clearance to sell more than 49%
The present guidelines permit 100% foreign direct investment through the automatic route in these enclaves
New Delhi: In a significant policy development, promoters of special economic zones (SEZs) now have to seek government approval if they want to sell more than 49% stake in the tax-free enclaves.
Stricter laws: Land earmarked for industrial park at Jadcherla in Andhra Pradesh. The ministry's proposal has evoked mixed reactions. Bharath Sai / Mint
Currently, India permits 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in SEZs through the automatic route, which means a promoter can exit from these enclaves without seeking approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
Some SEZ promoters consider this as a negative development. "This is the first time the government is trying to control the shareholding pattern of an SEZ. Though higher than 51% stake sell is allowed through BoA, there is no clear guidelines for this, which may bring in subjectiveness to clearances," said Gyan Bansal, chief executive officer, SEZs and hotels at Uppal group, a realty firm.
However, Ganesh Raj, tax partner and national leader for policy advisory group at audit and consulting firm Ernst and Young, was in favour of the government's move. "The SEZ approvals are given based on the backgroud and business plan of the promoter. However, developers are trying to enter into trading mode due to the liquidity cruch," Raj said. "I welcome the government's move because this is a standard norm in all infrastructure projects where the promoters must hold a minimum required stake in the project. This will not impact SEZs as government is still allowing them to sell up to 49% stake."
The country's tax-free enclaves have attracted FDI of over Rs10,900 crore in the past three years, junior commerce minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told the Rajya Sabha recently.
The commerce ministry has also notified norms to simplify procedures for SEZ developers. They will no longer have to approach the BoA to transfer in-principle or formal approval of an SEZ if there is no change in the shareholding pattern of the original developer, or if the approval is transferred to a wholly owned subsidiary of the developer company.
The ministry has also laid down guidelines for an administrative structure and process for clearing cargo in ports built within an SEZ. It has directed that the port must be located in the non-processing area of the SEZ and separate entry and exit routes should be secured for movement of SEZ cargo and domestic tariff area cargo. Domestic tariff area means an area within India which is outside an SEZ.
The ministry has also notified an earlier decision taken by the government to cap the size of all multi-product SEZs at 5,000 hectares. This will impact big SEZ projects like the Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone, promoted by Mukesh Ambani and his close associate Anand Jain, which is proposed to be built on an area of 10,000 hectares. Exports from SEZs are likely to grow by about 10% to Rs1,10,000 crore in the year to March, Scindia told Parliament recently.
In 2008-09, SEZ exports were worth Rs99,689 crore.
July 30: A Trinamul Congress worker died in South 24-Parganas when police opened fire to break up a clash that followed a pattern of bloody turf battles in areas where the CPM is losing ground.
Bhangar, about 60km from Calcutta where the clash broke out between marching CPM cadres and Trinamul workers gathered for a meeting, is part of the Joynagar Lok Sabha seat that the SUCI holds.
South 24-Parganas was in the Left's grip till the panchayat elections. But now, all four Lok Sabha seats are held by Trinamul and its allies — a cause of worry for the CPM.
Local CPM MLA Abdur Rezzak Mollah accepted this when he said: "The main purpose of the march was to encourage party supporters who were disheartened by the dismal performance in the Lok Sabha polls."
Yesterday, CPM goons hacked the heels of two Trinamul supporters and speared a villager in an area of Burdwan where the party seems to be losing its grip.
What started today's clash is not clear. A police officer said 32-year-old Sabbar Khan Chowdhury who got killed had a bullet wound near his heart and gashes in the abdomen caused by a sharp weapon. Sabbar was a known Trinamul worker in the area.
The police initially did not accept Trinamul's charge that the force's firing caused the Sabbar's death. But late in the night, home secretary Ardhendu Sen said: "When the mob attacked the police for the second time, the police fired and one person was killed."
Sen said a CPM procession was attacked by Trinamul supporters, sparking the exchange of bombs and bricks. "The procession was attacked twice. The police opened fire in self-defence," he said.
But Abdul Hakim, Trinamul block president in Bhangar-I, said party workers were holding a meeting in Shaksahar village when CPM supporters hurled bombs at them. "The CPM took out a march in the area and while passing our meeting spot, they hurled bombs at us," he said.
Abdur Rezzak Mollah, who is the land and land reforms minister, said the opposite. He said that around 12.30pm, some Trinamul supporters threw bombs and fired at the CPM procession. "Trinamul supporters hurled bombs at the procession of the CPM. They also fired shots."
The police said a team of about 10 personnel was escorting the CPM supporters.
When the clash broke out, the policemen baton-charged. It failed to disperse the mob and reinforcements were sought from Bhangar police station. Twenty minutes later, a bigger force and Rapid Action Force jawans reached the spot and resorted to a lathicharge again. They burst tear gas shells and fired four rounds. One bullet hit Sabbar.
Midnapore, July 30: Maoists dragged a CPM leader out of his home in West Midnapore in the wee hours today and shot him dead in a marketplace.
Police said the killing of Sagar Masanto is the first Maoist attack in the village of Makli in Goaltore, which is about 35km from Lalgarh.
SP Manoj Verma said: "We are investigating which Maoist squad did it."
Sagar's wife Bidya said the family was asleep around 1am when some people with guns yelled for Sagar outside their two-storeyed house.
"My husband did not respond so they kicked the door open and held my in-laws at gunpoint," said Bidya. Sagar, a member of CPM's Amlashuli local committee, was left with little choice but to surrender.
"They dragged him towards the marketplace," said Bidya. Half an hour later, two shots rang out. Villagers found Sagar's body in the marketplace.
In another incident, Moloy Mahato, a CPM branch committee member in Salboni, was abducted by Maoists. The family was having dinner when some people called Moloy. "He went out with them but did not return," Moloy's father said.
Lalgarh, July 30: Two police constables were reported missing after they left Lalgarh for a camp 10km away, less than a week after Maoists kidnapped an assistant sub-inspector.
Kanchan Giri and Sahib Mollah of the state armed police, deployed for the Lalgarh operation, have not been traced since this afternoon. The two had reached Lalgarh town from their camp in Dharampur on a motorcycle to collect petrol.
After reaching Lalgarh, they reported to the police station there, collected the petrol and left for Dharampur around 3pm. They were last seen by villagers in Brindabanpur, 4km from Lalgarh.
"The constables took 10 litres of petrol and looked for a mechanic," said an officer of Lalgarh police station. "The generator at the Dharampur camp has broken down and a mechanic was required."
"People in Brindabanpur told us that they saw two men riding by on a bike around 3.30pm," an officer said. "It must have been them."
The police said the two were on a red Hero Honda. They were in civilian clothes and unarmed. ASI Dipak Pramanik, who was kidnapped on July 24, was also in plainclothes and unarmed. But Pramanik was released the next day.
Manoj Verma, the West Midnapore SP, said that "most likely", Giri and Mollah had been kidnapped by Maoists. He added that they could have been taken to Tarkilata forest, 8km away.
Calcutta, July 30: Calcutta High Court has told the parents of a girl who died after a teacher slapped her to start a case against the teacher under non-bailable sections and lodge a criminal case against police for filing milder charges.
Justice Sanjib Banerjee said the parents of Iftesham Chowdhury had the liberty to to start a case under Section 304 of IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the accused teacher.
They may lodge a complaint against the police before the trial court saying they had tried to protect the teacher and the school by charging her under the "milder" Section 304 A of the IPC (death because of negligence), the judge said.
Section 304 A of the IPC is bailable section. The accused can be given a two-month prison term. But Section 304 is non-bailable under which the accused can be given life imprisonment.
The next date of hearing is September 16.
Chowdhury Mansur Rahman and Nazneen, the parents of eight-year-old Iftesham, had approached the high court on March 18 and sought a CBI probe into the girl's death.
Hinting at collusion between the school authorities and the police, the parents sought to know why the accused yoga teacher, Anita Das, was booked under a bailable section, instead of being slapped with the more stringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (Section 304).
On November 27 last year, Das had slapped Iftesham so hard that her head rammed against a wall. Her parents said the girl was crying in pain but Das forced her to do yoga.
Staff Reporter
Mumbai: In a major blow to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) court on Friday revoked the application of MCOCA in the Malegaon blast case of September 29, 2008.
However, the ATS has obtained a stay on the order, ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshi told The Hindu. "We have obtained a stay of four weeks. We are going to challenge the order in the High Court," he said.
The operative part of the order states that the case will be transferred to the sessions court (in Nashik), Mr. Raghuvanshi said.
Advocate Shrikant Shivade who represents the alleged mastermind Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit told The Hindu that all the 11 accused in the case have been discharged from MCOCA.
"If the court comes to the conclusion that MCOCA is not applicable, then all the accused can be discharged even if they have not applied for bail," Mr. Shivade said.
He said the court's order was in response to two bail petitions of accused Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar.
MCOCA was applied in the case on the basis of two charge sheets against Rakesh Dattaram Dhawde, for his involvement in the Nanded and Parbhani blasts.
At the time of taking cognisance of the charges under MCOCA, Mr. Shivade had held that the two charge sheets were filed after the Malegaon blast.
Secondly, cognisance on one of the charge sheets was taken after the application of MCOCA in the Malegaon case on November 20, 2008.
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (Bengali: ???? ????????) ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born 8 July 1972) is a former Indian test cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. As of October 2008, he was India's most successful Test captain to date, winning 21 tests out of 49 tests he captained[1] and leading India into the 2003 World Cup finals.[2] An aggressive captain, Ganguly is credited with having nurtured the careers of many young players who played under him.[3][4]
The left-handed Ganguly was a prolific One Day International batsman, with over 11,000 ODI runs to his credit.[5] Despite ODI success, his Test place was often lost to younger players towards the later stages of his career. On October 7 2008, Ganguly announced that the Test series against Australia starting that month would be his last.[6][7] Ganguly played his last first-class match on 21 December 2008.[8]
The youngest son of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly, Ganguly was born on 8 July 1972 in Kolkata.[7] His father ran a flourishing print business and was one of the richest men in Kolkata.[9] He had a luxurious childhood and was nicknamed the Maharaja.[10] Though he was asked to concentrate on his studies and not to play cricket, he was inspired to do so by his brother Snehasish Ganguly,[11] an accomplished left-handed batsman for Bengal.[9] Though he was actually right-handed, he batted left-handed so that he could use his brother's equipment.[11] After he showed some promise as a batsman, he was enrolled in a cricket academy.[11] An indoor multi-gym and concrete wicket was built at home for him and his brother, and he would often watch cricket videos, especially those of David Gower, whom he admired.[9] After he scored a century against the Orissa U-15 side,[11] he was made captain of St Xavier's School's cricket team,[10] where several of his teammates complained against what they perceived to be his arrogance.[12] One anecdote was that during a tour with a junior team, it was Ganguly's turn to be the twelth man, a substitute who can only field and whose role is usually to raise morale by supporting the playing XI by organising their spare equipment and drinks, and ferrying messages from the dressing room to the players. Ganguly purportedly refused to do such tasks as he considered it beneath his social status to assist his teammates in such a way.
Following a prolific Ranji season in 1990-91,[13] Ganguly made his One Day International debut for India against West Indies in 1992,[7] and scored three runs.[14] He was dropped immediately since he was perceived to be "arrogant" and his attitude towards the game was openly questioned.[15] He toiled away in domestic cricket, scoring heavily in the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons[16][17] Following an innings of 171 in the 1995–96 Duleep Trophy,[18] he was recalled to the national side for the tour of England in 1996 amidst intense media scrutiny.[15] He played in one ODI,[19] but was omitted from the team for the first Test. However, after Navjot Sidhu left the touring party citing ill-treatment by the then captain Mohammed Azharuddin,[20] made his Test debut at Lord's alongside Rahul Dravid, in what was umpire Dickie Bird's last Test.[21] He scored a century, becoming only the third cricketer to score a century on debut at Lord's, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire. Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior have since accomplished this feat, but his 131 still remains the highest by any batsman on his debut at Lord's.[22] In the next Test match at Trent Bridge he made 136, thus becoming only the 3rd batsman to make a century in each of his first two innings (after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharran). He shared a 255 run stand with Sachin Tendulkar, which became at that time the highest partnership for India against any country for any wicket outside India.[23]
In 1997 Ganguly scored his maiden ODI century, opening the innings he scored 113, in his side's 238, against Sri Lanka. Later that year he won four consecutive man of the match awards in the Sahara Cup with Pakistan, the second of these was won after he took 5/16 off 10 overs, his best bowling in an ODI. After a barren run in Test cricket his form returned at the end of the year with three centuries in four Tests all against Sri Lanka two of these involved stands with Sachin Tendulkar of over 250.[citation needed]
In January 1998, in the final of the Independence Cup at Dhaka, against Pakistan, he scored 124 as India successfully chased down 315 off 48 overs, winning the Man of the match award. In March 1998 he was part of the India team that defeated Australia, his biggest impact came in Calcutta as he took three wickets having opened the bowling with his medium pace.[citation needed]
In the 1999 World Cup Ganguly scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton, Somerset in England. The innings took 158 balls and included 17 fours and 7 sixes. It is the second highest in World Cup history and the highest by an Indian in the tournament. His partnership of 318 with Rahul Dravid is the highest ever in the World Cup and is the second highest in all ODI cricket.[citation needed]
In 1999/00 India lost Test series to both Australia and South Africa in the five Tests. Ganguly struggled scoring 224 runs at 22.40, however his ODI form was impressive, with five centuries over the season taking him to the top of the One Day Ratings for batsmen.[24]
In 2000, after the match fixing scandal, Ganguly was named the captain of the India team. In the Champions Trophy of that year he scored 2 centuries but his second in the final was in vain as New Zealand won by four wickets. In 2003 under his captaincy India reached the World Cup Final, where they lost to the Australians.
While he has achieved significant success as captain, his individual performance deteriorated during his captaincy, especially after successes in the World Cup, the tour of Australia in 2003 and the Pakistan series in 2004. Following indifferent form in 2004 and poor form in 2005, he was dropped from the team in October 2005. He remained active on the first-class cricket scene in hopes of a recall, but his performance was a mixed bag - he hit a couple of centuries in domestic cricket, but his English county stint in 2005 and subsequent appearances in the Challenger Trophy were failures.[citation needed]
Having been nominated and rejected in 2001 when the game suffered a tarnished reputation due to match fixing scadals,[25] Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004, one of India's highest awards.[26]
In his tenure between 2000 and 2005, Ganguly became India's most successful Test captain. He led his team to victory on 21 occasions – 7 more times than Mohammad Azharuddin with the second most wins – and led them for a record 49 matches – twice more than both Azharuddin and Sunil Gavaskar.[27] Compared to his batting average of 45.47 when not captain,[28] Ganguly's Test batting aerage as captain was a lower 37.66.[29] The pressure of captaincy detracting from Ganguly's batting is also reflected in his ODI batting averages: 38.66 as captain compared to 43.16 when playing as a specialist batsman.[30][31] In ODIs, he captained India 146 , emerging victorious on 76 occasions, second only to Azharuddin in both number of wins and number of matches as captain.[citation needed]
Following India's poor batting display in the ICC Champions Trophy 2006[32] and the ODI series in South Africa, in which they were whitewashed 4-0,[33] Ganguly made his comeback to the Test team.[34] Wasim Jaffer, Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble had earlier been selected for the one-day squad,[35] in what was seen as an indictment of coach Greg Chappell's youth-first policy.[36] Coming in at 37/4, he scored 83 in a tour match against the Rest of South Africa, modifying his original batting style and taking a middle-stump guard,[37] an innings that set up a victory for India.[38] In his first Test innings since his comeback, against South Africa in Johannesburg, he scored 51 in a low scoring game, an innings that helped India win a Test match in South Africa for the first time.[39] Though India went on to lose the series, he topped the run scroing charts for his side.[40]
After his successful Test comeback he was recalled for the ODI team, as India played host to West Indies[41] and Sri Lanka[42] in back to back ODI tournaments. In his first ODI innings in almost 2 years,[43] he scored a matchwinning 98.[44] He performed creditably in both series, averaging almost 70[45] and won the Man of the Series Award against Sri Lanka.[46]
Following his good performance, Ganguly was named in the squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. He was the leading scorer for India in their first round defeat against Bangladesh.[47] After India were knocked out of the tournament in the group stage, there were reports of a rift between certain members of the Indian team and their coach Greg Chappell. Ganguly, allegedly, ignored instructions from the team management to score quickly.[48] After Sachin Tendulkar issued a statement saying that what hurt the team most was that "the coach has questioned our attitude", Chappell decided not to renew his contract with the Indian team.[49]
On 12 December 2007, Ganguly scored his maiden double century of his career while playing against Pakistan in the first innings of the third and final Test match of the series. He was involved in a 300 run partnership for the 5th wicket along with Yuvraj Singh - a much needed partnership that saved India which was struggling at 61 for the fall of four wickets. He later went on to score 239 before being dismissed by Danish Kaneria.
On 18 April 2008, Ganguly led the Kolkata Knight Riders team owned by Shah Rukh Khan in the IPL Twenty20 cricket match to a 140 run victory over Bangalore Royal Challengers led by Rahul Dravid and owned by Vijay Mallya. Ganguly opened the innings with Brendan McCullum and scored 10 runs while his partner Brendan McCullum remained unbeaten blasting his way to a record 158* runs in 73 balls. On 1 May in a game between the Knight Riders and the Rajasthan Royals, Ganguly made his highest score of the season and his second T20 half century, scoring 51 runs off of 39 balls at a strike rate of 130.76. In his innings, Ganguly hit four 4s and two sixes, topping the scorers list for the Knight Riders.
Ganguly has been prolific in both Test and ODI cricket in the year 2007. He scored 1106 Test runs at an average of 61.44 (with three centuries and four fifties) in 2007 to become the second highest run-scorer in Test matches of that year[50] after Jacques Kallis. He is the fifth highest rungetter in 2007 in ODIs,[51] where he scored 1240 runs at 44.28.
On 7 October 2008, Ganguly announced that the Test series against Australia starting in October 2008 would be his last[6] and stated "to be honest, I didn't expect to be picked for this series". Ganguly played in every game of the four-Test series, repaying the selectors faith in him by amassing 324 runs at an average of 54.00.[52] In his last innings, he was dismissed for duck off just one ball. India won the series 2-0, and in the final match, with India needing one wicket to secure a victory, the India captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, allowed Ganguly to lead the side in the field one last time.[53]
Sourav Ganguly was a left-handed batsman whose runs came primarily from the off-side. Throughout his career, he played off-side shots such as the square cut, square drive and cover drive with elegance and complete command. Early in his career he was not comfortable with the hook and pull, often giving his wicket away with mistiming such shots. He was also criticized for having difficulty in handling short pitched balls and bouncers, notoriously exploited by the Australians and South Africans. However, after his comeback in 2007, he worked upon these weaknesses to a large extent. He used to hit powerful shots to the off-side on front and back foot with equal ease.
In One Day Internationals, where he usually opened the innings, he used to try to take the advantage of fielding restrictions by advancing down the pitch and hitting pace bowlers over extra cover and mid-off. He was also notorious for attacking left arm spin bowlers. Due to excellent hand-eye coordination, he was noted for picking the length of the ball early, coming down the pitch and hitting the ball aerially over mid-on or midwicket, often for a six. However, he did have a weakness in running between the wickets and judging quick singles. There were many instances where Ganguly's batting partner was run out due to Ganguly's calling for a run, and then sending him back while halfway down the pitch. Ganguly was also an unagile player, and compounded this with a reputation for lazy running between the wickets. In one ODI against Australia, he took a single when on 99, but he coasted and did not ground his bat. Although it was past the crease, it was in the air and he was run out.
Ganguly was a right arm medium pace bowler. He could swing and seam the ball both ways and often chips in with useful wickets to break partnerships. Despite not being very athletic as a fielder, Ganguly has taken 100 catches in one-day Internationals. However, his ground fielding, especially his slowness in intercepting the ball to prevent runs is the subject of much derision.
On 7 July 2008, news reports circulated that Ganguly is being projected as a candidate for the post of President of the Cricket Association of Bengal against his former mentor Jagmohan Dalmiya. Reports also suggested that he could run for the post of BCCI President in 2014 as East Zone's representative. Ganguly himself did not deny the reports and did not rule out any such move either. [54]
Ganguly's County cricket career in England was not a success. In "The Wisden Cricketer" [2] it was described as follows: "The imperious Indian - dubbed 'Lord Snooty' - deigned to represent Lancashire in 2000. At the crease it was sometimes uncertain whether his partner was a batsman or a batman being dispatched to take his discarded sweater to the pavilion or carry his kit bag. But mutiny was afoot among the lower orders. In one match Ganguly, after reaching his fifty, raised his bat to the home balcony, only to find it deserted. He did not inspire at Glamorgan or Northamptonshire either. At the latter in 2006 he averaged 4.80 from his four first-class appearances." His Lancashire teammate Andrew Flintoff thought him to be aloof and compared his attitude to that of Prince Charles.[12]
His dispute with then-coach Greg Chappell resulted in many headlines during 2005 and early 2006. Greg Chappell emailed the BCCI stating that Ganguly was unfit to lead India and that his "divide and rule" behaviour was damaging the team. This email was leaked to the media and resulted in huge backlash from Ganguly's fans. Eventually due to his poor form and differences with the coach he was stripped of his captaincy and dropped from the team. However, 10 months later, during India's tour to South Africa, Ganguly was recalled after his middle order replacements Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif suffered poor form.
During the final match of the 2002 Natwest Trophy held in Lords after a stunning performance by team mates Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif, Sourav Ganguly took off his shirt in public and brandished it in the air to celebrate India's winning of the match. He was later strongly condemned for tarnishing the gentleman's game image of cricket and disrespecting Lords protocol. Ganguly said that he was only mimicking an act performed by the English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff during a tour of India.
Ganguly is an aggressive player and has often attracted controversy. He has attracted the wrath of match referees quite a few times, the most severe of which was a ban for 6 matches by ICC match referee Clive Lloyd for slow over rates against Pakistan and therefore his tour to Sri Lanka for the Indian Oil Cup 2005 was uncertain. These circumstances led to Rahul Dravid being made captain for the tour. Later, Justice Albey Sachs reduced the punishment from 6 matches to 4, and this permitted Ganguly to join the team, but as a player and not captain. In his opening match he made the highest score of the side (51 off 110 balls).[3] He was again named captain for the Zimbabwe tour of August-September 2005. With this, he has captained India in the highest number of Tests (49).
During the 2003 World Cup final against Australia, Ganguly won the toss and decided to field. This decision raised eyebrows but Sourav remained confident that there would be moisture on the pitch that would help his bowlers; however the bowlers flopped and Sourav performed poorly with the bat. India went on to lose by 125 runs, a staggering defeat.
Ganguly's performance in the last couple of seasons after that were extremely poor. This put his place in the Indian team under pressure. In the tour of Zimbabwe, in which he was newly reinstated as skipper, Ganguly ground out a painfully slow century, against what is regarded as one of the weakest bowling attacks in international cricket. During the match he told reporters that newly-appointed coach Greg Chappell had asked him to stand down as captain — a comment which Chappell later played down. However, forty-eight hours after saying that he respected the Indian captain and looked forward to working with him in the future, Chappell sent an email to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Both Ganguly and Chappell were summoned to a BCCI board meeting in which they agreed to work together for the good of the team. Rahul Dravid was appointed captain for the series against Sri Lanka and South Africa after Ganguly was not selected for the opening games due to injury. When the two series were over, Rahul Dravid was asked to continue as skipper.
On 22 November 2005, Ganguly stepped down as captain of Bengal cricket team after being replaced as captain of the India Test team. He played in the first two Test matches in the three-Test series against Sri Lanka. However, on 14 December he was controversially dropped for the third Test at Ahmedabad, to make way for Wasim Jaffer, an opening batsman for Mumbai. Jaffer was picked by the selectors as they wished to build up a player selection pool with sufficient experience to succeed at international level. Despite this, in December 2005 he retained his A-grade contract from the BCCI.
Following the drop, fans blocked roads and railway tracks in Kolkata, burning effigies of chief selector Kiran More and Indian coach Chappell, and the urban development minister of West Bengal, Asoke Bhattacharya, said Ganguly was a victim of the internal politics of the BCCI.[55] Cricinfo editor Sambit Bal wrote in a commentary that this was "in all probability ... the end of the road for him."[56] However, it was announced on 25 December 2005 that he was selected as part of the Indian team to tour Pakistan. Kiran More cited his experience as the key reason, with Mohammed Kaif being dropped.[57] He was in the playing XI in the Lahore and Karachi Tests, but was dropped for the Faisalabad match. He was unable to play in the England home series and the West Indies tour. He was also not selected for the following tri-series in Sri Lanka. However, he was chosen amongst 30 probables for the ICC Champions Trophy after being left out in the dark for almost close to a year. Ganguly failed in the Challenger Trophy, however, managing less than 30 runs in two games, and so the chances of recall to the ODI side look bleak.
Ganguly later sent an email hitting out at his one time mentor saying that Jagmohan Dalmiya did not deserve to become CAB president as he had played with his career and that Ganguly was a victim of internal politics within the BCCI. This was in the backdrop of the CAB elections which Jagmohan Dalmiya won.
Ganguly is the seventh Indian cricketer to have played 100 Test matches.[58] He is currently the 4th highest overall run scorer for India in Tests.[59] He is the fourth Indian to have played in more than 300 One Day Internationals.[60] In terms of overall runs scored in ODIs, Ganguly is the second among Indians after Sachin Tendulkar (who has the highest ODI runs in the world) and the fourth in the world.[61] Ganguly has scored 16 centuries in Test matches and 22 in ODIs. He is one of only seven batsmen to score more than 10,000 runs in ODIs.[62] Ganguly has 22 centuries in ODIs, in terms of number of centuries in ODIs, he is only behind[63] Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting. Sourav, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed by far the most successful opening pair in One Day Cricket, having amassed the highest number of century partnerships (26) for the first wicket. Together, they have scored more than 7000 runs at an average of 48.98, now with Sachin he is a world record holder for creating most no. of 50 run partnership in the first wicket(44 fifties).[64]
Ganguly is the fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs and third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest in ODI history, after Sachin Tendulkar. He also reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in the fewest number of matches. Sourav can bowl medium-pacers as well, taking 31 wickets in 99 matches, at an average of 52.47. As of 2006, he is the only Indian captain to win a Test series in Pakistan (although two of the three Tests of that series was led by Rahul Dravid). He is also one of the 3 players in the world to achieve amazing treble of 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODI cricket history, the others being Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.
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By Nilima Pathak, CorrespondentPublished: July 31, 2009, 22:58
Published: July 31, 2009, 22:58
New Delhi: Senior leader Sitaram Yechury is one of the most pleasant faces of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M). Member of the party's politburo, he is among the most influential of the younger leaders in the party.
Not one to look for scapegoats, Yechury has nevertheless come clean on the recent controversy over the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) first raised by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani."The Left is not implying that it lost [the Lok Sabha elections] because of the EVMs. But it has been brought to our notice by some competent technical people how the machines can be manipulated. They demonstrated the possibility of tampering. It is not that the machines were tampered with, but if they can be, it is not good for democracy. Many countries in the West have reverted to ballot papers. We have to seriously consider this experience because it is alarming."
In an exclusive interview, Yechury spoke to Gulf News on how after the poor show in the general elections, his party intends turning things around.
GULF NEWS: There are long-standing differences within the CPI-M wherein the Kerala lobby has always dominated the West Bengal lobby? What is the main bone of contention?
SITARAM YECHURY: Kerala is the largest unit of our party, but it does not dominate. The problem is factionalism within the party born out of parliamentary opportunism. People wanting to become ministers, MPs and MLAs is eroding the basic communist ideology. All this is reflecting itself in groupism.
Despite the poor performance in the recent Lok Sabha elections, there has been no change in the party's leadership either in Kerala or West Bengal. Then how do you expect things to change?
In a communist party, things do not change with the leader. That happens in non-communist parties, where the decisions are of the leader and not of the collective. In parties where the leader is supreme and takes the decisions, this question becomes more relevant.
Valued at one time, your party's image has fallen in the eyes of the people. What ails the CPI-M?
We have done a lot of introspection and analysed a great deal. Our conclusion is that the manner in which we tried to create an alternative government to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliances in the Lok Sabha elections, that effort was neither credible nor viable.
India is such a diverse and pluralistic country that there is a need for a non-Congress and non-BJP political alternative. But the way it was projected, it did not evoke confidence. The drive for an alternative government that was planned at a national level by us on the basis of understanding with some regional parties went wrong, apart from the specific factors that are there in Kerala and West Bengal.
Are the doctrines flawed in some manner ?
It is not the doctrines, but our tactics that were at fault. It is not as if we are fossilised in some philosophies, which are no longer relevant. In fact, our whole approach and understanding is that it (communism) is a creative science and has to keep changing with the situations. It means concrete analysis of concrete conditions, which, as we say, is the essence of our philosophy.
You have admitted that distancing from the people and issues concerning them have been the party's undoing.
In both Kerala and West Bengal we have won 32 successive elections. There have been some issues that we have taken up in West Bengal, which had created certain apprehensions in the minds of the people, particularly the agriculture sector, that there land is going to be taken over for industrialisation. Though the facts of the matter are different, the perception is something that we were not able to allay the peoples' fears on it. Our links with them became weaker and that is why we could not convince them. Now we have to rectify that.
In all these decades all sorts of wrong alien trends and tendencies have crept into the party organisation. We need to correct those.
The stage where the party has reached, there will be very less time between now and the next elections to turn things around. What is the party's strategy?
One could say, it is both a short time as well as adequate time and we hope to turn the short time into an adequate time.
It is going to be a two-pronged strategy. First, we will have to win back the confidence of the people. That will have to be through a process of rectification of our leaders at various levels and strengthening their links with the people.
Second, at the level of the governments in Kerala and West Bengal, we will have to re-orient the policies towards being more people-oriented then they presently are. It is important to pick up issues that are actually affecting the daily life of the people.
Do you think it would do some good if there were a merger between the CPI and the CPI-M?
The unity among the Left parties has been improving and the merger can happen in two ways. One, by way of a handshake between the leaderships followed by the announcement of the merger. The other through a process that can come from the bottom, where all our mass organisations, trade unions and student youth organisations can start working together.
That is the manner in which we feel unity will be sustainable.
Of late, there have been instances when major decisions were taken by the Politburo while you were away. Were these timed deliberately?
I agree it has happened on two-three occasions, but there was nothing deliberate. I travelled on the basis of the party decisions and some major decisions took place while I was away.
Were you consulted before the decisions?
No, in our party, the normal practice is all those who are available at that time take a decision.
One of the decisions was regarding former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. Don't you think the party has wronged by 'driving out' a veteran leader, from the organisation?
It is unfortunate that he is no longer with us. But I will not say that the party had driven him out. The situation was such that he took a position which was not tenable with the party's position. I wish such a situation had not arisen.
What are your personal ambitions in the party?
Personal ambitions do not drive me. There are larger social ambitions. I sincerely believe positions come to you only when you do not seek them. My ambitions are of changing the society and having a more egalitarian society.
Profile: Long journey from Hyderabad to the corridors of power - August 12, 1952 Born to Kalpakkam and Sarveshwara Somayajulu Yechury in Hyderabad.- Early education at the All Saints High School, Hyderabad. - 1969 Moved to Delhi. - 1970 Stood first in the All India merit list in Higher Secondary. - 1973 BA (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. - 1975 M.A. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University.- 1974 Joined the Students Federation of India (SFI). - 1975 Joined CPI-M and was arrested during the Emergency. - 1972-78 President of the JNU Students Union. - 1978 All India President of SFI. - 1984-85 Joined the Central Committee of the CPI-M. - 1992 Elected to the Politburo. - 2005 Elected member of the Rajya Sabha. - Currently a Politburo member.
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Study by St. Jude, Washington University points to genetic causes of dangerous form of leukemia
A rare but often-deadly form of childhood leukemia can be triggered by the fusion of two genes that normally remain separate, according to a new study involving scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Nearly 30 percent of the cases of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) were traceable to a genetic misstep on chromosome 16, one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes present in nearly all human cells, according to a paper by researchers at St. Jude and Washington University in St. Louis. In the process, the chromosome becomes rearranged, bringing together pieces of two genes and resulting in the production of an abnormal protein.
The protein, in turn, switches on genes that tell immature blood cells to proliferate uncontrollably, leading to leukemia.
The finding, published this week in the journal Cancer Cell, was the latest of several derived from the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, a three-year, $65 million effort by St. Jude and Washington to decode the genetic alterations that lead to cancer.
The discovery of the genetic alteration should help in the development of new therapies to treat the disease, said Dr. Tanja Gruber, assistant member in St. Jude's department of oncology, who was lead author of the study.
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Dr. James Downing, scientific director at St. Jude and corresponding author of the paper, said in addition to helping develop new therapies, the new findings will let doctors know that patients with the fused genes won't respond well to traditional treatment. "You need to try something different," he said.
AMKL is a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia, the disease afflicting about 40 new patients to St. Jude each year. About 10 percent of acute myeloid leukemia patients have AMKL.
Some types of patients with AMKL have a good prognosis. But for the nearly 30 percent of them who contract the disease because of the protein created by the fused genes, the outlook is grim. Studies showed only 34.3 percent of them were alive five years after diagnosis.
"It is a very rare disease, but it is a disease that has a very poor outcome, so that is why we focused on it," Downing said.
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Since those heady, halcyon days of 2004, when mages began to walk to wilds of Azeroth and players were introduced to their glass cannon awesomeness, the topic of mage healing has from time to time emerged, poking its strange and intriguing head up into the mage conversation and usually disappearing just as quickly. The idea has precedence. Healers in Final Fantasy lore are called White Mages. More recently, Dragon Age has its Spirit Mages. Archetypal wizards have had access to magical healing in one form or another throughout fantasy gaming and literature, though rarely is it their strongest focus.
And just lately, the idea has been gaining some unprecedented traction among the WoW mage community. Recently, I've seen the concept presented with consideration and clarity on the official forums, among my own contemporaries in-game, and even right here in the comments section of this very column. It bears thinking about. Though the idea is extremely unlikely to ever be implemented, its increasing popularity and the improving practicality with which its proponents conceptualize it warrant attention. Mage healing, whenever it is brought up, is immediately interesting and always at least a little bit tantalizing, even for its most vehement opponents.
Like me.
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I believe this with every fiber of me, and I'll be happy to explain why, although I suspect that in your magely heart of hearts, you already know.
The most common proposal for mage healing these days seems to be some variation of the following: The arcane tree is boring to play, and mages don't need three separate specs that perform the exact same function anyway. Fire's our pure DPS tree, and frost is our top PVP tree, so where does the arcane tree fit in? It was a support tree back in the days when you could mix talent trees, but now all it seems to be good for is occasionally swapping places with fire on the raid DPS hierarchy.
So let's make arcane the healing tree. Thematically, it could work. You make the healing spells time-based, add in some mana return and increase talents, sprinkle in enough utility spells to make the spec competitive with other healing specs, and voila, you have a mage healer. Mages who are sick of the long queue times that come with being a pure DPS class can dual spec into the healing role, the class gets a long-overdue facelift, the game gets a fresh infusion of new healers, and everybody's happy.
The idea's definitely intriguing, no? And I'd be lying if I said I didn't catch myself mulling it over just a little every time I see somebody present a cogent argument for mage healing. But when I'm done toying with it in my head, I always come to the same mental barrier: Mages, for all of our awesomeness, are just not healers.
The whole idea, for me, just carries with it an inherent, implacable sense of wrongness that I simply can't ignore. If I wanted to be a healer, I'd be a priest, a druid, a paladin, a shaman, or that apparently unkillable death knight I fought the other day in Tol Barad who I seems to have been able to heal himself by punching me in the face. Or maybe I'd just roll a warlock so I could run around draining my opponents' health like a douchebag. But I most certainly would not roll a mage, because mages are for blowing things up, not for putting things back together.
It's as simple as that, really. Not every class needs to be a hybrid. We already have four perfectly good healer archetypes in the game. The mage archetype has been clearly defined from the start. We are the glass cannons. We are the first foe you want to kill because we will absolutely eff you up if you let us live. We are DPS.
If you want a healer, look elsewhere.
Let's talk about a few other random things.
Thanks guys, really. Now that so many of you have pointed out the fact that our new tier 13 helm looks like the head of a chicken, one where we're looking out through its gaping beak and presumably exhorting passersby to eat at a nearby chicken restaurant, I can't stop seeing the chicken head. Damn you. I really liked that tier set.
I will now spend the remaining time before patch 4.3 comes out trying to train my eyes to look past the chicken head and see only the sweet steampunk parts of the set that I loved, so that when I finally get my hands on that gear I'll feel like I look like a kickass, time-traveling techno-wizard instead of a guy handing out flyers in front of Los Pollos Hermanos.
All you'd need to do is swap the color palette, Blizzard. Some nice blues and blacks, maybe. Just saying.
There's a new trinket you should probably snatch up
Brewfest is going on, I've heard tell, and since I have space left, I figured I ought to just point out that there's a fairly nice caster DPS trinket available in the loot table of one Coren Direbrew. It's not the best trinket out there, to be sure (all that crit is nice, I guess, but I want trinkets with intellect, thank you very much), but it's not the worst either, and it's so easy to get. If you have been itching for a quick stand-in for one of your trinket slots, you could do a lot worse than grabbing up the new and improved Mithril Stopwatch before it goes away again.
It's quite literally the only piece of loot he drops for mages, so get in, get your trinket, and get on with your lives.
I'm out of things to say this week, but feel free to post your own thoughts on mage healing or anything else mage-related in the comments below. I'm against mage healing. But that doesn't mean I don't still have a good time considering the possibilities. Am I wrong? How wrong am I? Or ... could I be right? No. Probably not.
Every week, Arcane Brilliance teleports you inside the wonderful world of mages and then hurls a Fireball in your face. Start out with our recent beginner's guide to being a mage, then check out our three-part State of the Mage columns on arcane, fire and frost. Don't forget to look at some of the addons your mage should probably be using.


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Wando senior Rachel Torlay has been a key figure in two Class AAAA soccer state championships.
In 2010, Torlay had Wando's lone goal in regulation against Mauldin, scoring on a penalty kick in the 51st minute. Wando went on to win, 2-1, in an epic 11-round penalty-kick shootout.
In 2011, Torlay scored from seven yards in the 22nd minute against Mauldin as the Warriors repeated as state champs with a 1-0 victory.
Today, Torlay plays in her final game as a member of the Wando team. The Warriors go after their third state title in four years in a 7 p.m. showdown against J.L. Mann at Gilbert High School.
"Obviously, it is really important to go out with a win," said Torlay, a two-time all-state selection. "Hopefully, we'll play well together and finish with a win.
"I definitely don't mind playing in pressure situations, but we win because it takes a team effort. I couldn't do it without the help of my teammates."
Wando received a scare last week in the second round of the playoffs. Torlay was injured when she collided with an opposing player in the Warriors' 1-0 victory over Dutch Fork. She missed the next game — a 4-0 victory against South Aiken.
That made coach Shannon Champ contemplate life without Torlay, who will graduate in two weeks.
"I don't know how I replace her," Champ said. "I don't know if I would use the word 'worried,' but I was concerned when she wasn't out on the field."
Torlay has been on the varsity team for four years and has enjoyed great success, helping the Warriors post a cumulative 87-4 record. She has played soccer at all levels, including micro, recreation, club and premier. She has played in many all-star games and showcase events.
In July, she will play in The Clash of the Carolinas, an all-star game that features the top seniors from South Carolina against their counterparts from North Carolina.
While many players suffer from burnout after years of competition, Torlay said she still loves to play the game.
"I enjoy it so much," she said. "I have fun every time I step onto the field. I play basketball, but I enjoy soccer more."
Torlay will attend the University of South Carolina in the fall and plans to pursue a career in nursing. Champ has encouraged Torlay to talk to Gamecocks coach Shelley Smith about joining the team as a walk-on.
"I plan to play in college, even if it is just for fun," Torlay said. "It might be intramural or club. I don't know at what level, but I do know it will be fun."
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