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Rajnath appeals to Muslims to ignore 2002 Gujarat riots, tries to touch hearts by love P 12
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Ball in Chinas court as US charges Snowden with espionage, asks Hong Kong to detain him P 26
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New Roads Opened Up For Evacuation As Forces Race To Beat Rains; 22,000 Still Out Of Reach

Militants kill 2 Srinagar cops ahead of PM trip

Three days before PM Manmohan Singhs Kashmir visit, suspected militants gunned down two J&K policemen at the bustling Goni Khan market in Srinagar on Saturday. Cops suspect the Hizbul Mujahideens involvement. P 12

Toll may cross 1,000, says Uttarakhand CM

Threat Of Epidemic Looms As Bodies Of Victims Start To Rot
Deeptiman Tiwary and Bharti Jain
TNN

TIMES VIEW
he government argues that the demand to immediately declare the tragedy in Uttarakhand a national calamity is based on the mistaken assumption that funds are being held up because such a categorization has not happened. It may be true that declaring the current situation a national calamity will make no difference to ofcial fund ows, but there is a larger picture the government is missing. When a tragedy is ofcially declared a national calamity, it also serves a signalling function, both for the government machinery and for the country at large. It helps channelize energies of both ofcialdom and civil society into dealing with the tragedy. If only for that reason, it needs to be done, and now.

Mandela unresponsive, vital organs failing

South Africas first black president Nelson Mandela has been unresponsive for days and his family may end treatment, say news reports. Mandela has been in hospital for 14 days and his liver and kidney seem to be failing. P 26

Modi in Rambo act, saves 15,000

Anand Soondas
TNN

Bihar boy, 13, youngest ever to crack IIT

Satyam Kumar, a 13-year-old child prodigy from Bihars Bhojpur district, has created history by becoming the youngest ever to crack the IIT entrance test. He secured an all India rank of 679. P 24

SOLSTICE PARTY: Some 16,000 yoga aficionados turned up at New Yorks Times Square on Friday to stretch Americas acceptance of the great Indian export | P 26

Lid off UK snooping programme:

Edward Snowden has spilled the beans on Operation Tempora, UKs snooping programme since 2010, the largest in the world. He claims eavesdropping agency GCHQ was handling 600 million telephone events a day and tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables. P 26

Brazil protesters calm down: A day after more than a million people came out on the streets to protest, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff unveiled a series of social welfare reforms on Friday night, a move that immediately restored peace on the countrys streets. P 26 Retd Army doc chops wifes body:
A retired Army doctor was arrested on Saturday for allegedly murdering his wife and chopping her body into hundreds of pieces over a fortnight ago. He had kept the body parts in 22 boxes in his bedroom. P 21

New Delhi: As daredevil pilots meandered their craft through unpredictable weather and soldiers slithered down choppers to help the stranded, hungry and sick, rain and flood-ravaged Uttarakhands chief minister finally conceded on Saturday that fatalities from the disaster could cross 1,000. The death toll is likely to be around 1,000, Vijay BahuguAfter Union home minister na said in Dehradun Sushilkumar Shinde said lack as rescuers stared at of coordination between relief gloomy skies and agencies was hampering more rain in the days rescue work in Uttarakhand, ahead, making the ex-home secretary V K Duggal task of ferrying to was made the nodal officer to safety the 22,000 pilfacilitate better synergy. grims and villagers Later, I&B minister Manish who remain out of reTewari played down Shindes ach more daunting. statement, claiming there Officials said the might have been some threat of fresh rain operational issues. P 12 and epidemic breakFULL COVERAGE: P 12 & 22 out loomed large. Bodies in Kedarnath were already stinking due to decay . On Saturday , bad weather and fresh destruction of newly-erected infrastructure impeded rescue. Security forces were unable to clear Kedarnath Valley and airlifted only 500 out of Badrinath where at least 8,000 are still stuck. According to the forecast with us, rain is likely on Monday and Tuesday . Even 3-4 cm of rain may hamper our work. Our choppers cannot navigate through the clouds in the valley, said Air Marshal S B Deo, chief of air operations. Much of Saturday was spent in re-establishing broken roads and bridges in the Badrinath axis, building helipads at Auli and Gaurikund and opening new roads, namely in Uttarkashi and Kedarnath. With the infrastructure in place, the forces hope to step up rescue work on Sunday.

Govt plays down coordination gap

An Army man with pilgrims rescued from ood waters on Saturday

Rescued so far Stranded

1,000 123 bodies found in Kedarnath SCALE Dead temple complex on Saturday 70,000 22,000 8,500 Army 1-day window for rescue
men on ground

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as rain expected on Mon, Tues

Dehradun: In the two days that Narendra Modi has been in Uttarakhand, he has managed to completely rile not just the Congress government of Vijay Bahuguna but also the administrative staff involved in rescue operations at Kedarnath, Badrinath and Uttarkashi. But above all, he has managed to bring home some 15,000 stranded Gujarati pilgrims. The Gujarat CM, who flew in on Friday evening, held a meeting till late in the night with his crack team of five IAS, one IPS, one IFS and two GAS (Gujarat Administrative Only for Gujaratis, P 20 Service) officers. Two DSPs and five police inspectors were also part of his delegation. They sat again with the nitty-gritty of evacuation in a huddle that a senior BJP leader said lasted till 1am on Saturday . Around 80 Toyota Innovas were requisitioned to ferry Gujaratis to safer places in Dehradun as were four Boeings. On Saturday , 25 luxury buses took a bunch of grateful people to Delhi. The efforts are being coordinated by two of the senior-most IAS officers of Gujarat, one currently stationed in Delhi and another in Uttarakhand.

Tragedy throws up heroes, villains

Anand Soondas
TNN

AN APPEAL

ITBP personnel rescue 500 from Gangotri, P 19

Dehradun: Tragedies bring out the best in human beings. And sometimes the worst. It transforms some into heroes and degenerates others into scoundrels. The Uttarakhand floods once again proved just that. Major Mahesh Karki of the 5/5 Gorkha Rifles was on leave from June 12 to July 7. He was driving from Dehradun to Badrinath with his wife, two kids and mother-in-law in his SUV when the terrible rains of June 15 caught him at Karnaprayag. They still went ahead and reac-

hed Joshimath the next evening. There, the road had collapsed and they were told to turn back. He had two choices. He could return home or do something for the 25 people stuck on the other side of the road. I just couldnt hold myself Sold at 10 times the MRP, P 20 back, he said on Saturday . Mujhse raha nahi gaya. So he asked his wife to wait with the children and braved the ravaged stretch to fetch the stranded lot, four at a time as carrying more in such bad weather was risky . Finally , he brought all of them to

safety at a point near Govindghat from where the Army took over. But you need to write this, Karki says. There are some who have lost all humanity . I saw hoteliers charging Rs 3,000 for rooms that cost Rs 500. There are a lot of people who are taking advantage of the situation. Everyone is so helpless that no one has the strength to fight. Renu D Singh, who runs Samadhan, an NGO that works with trafficked women, has set up monitoring centres across the state to spot and report homeless women, mostly those who have lost their husbands or fathers.

Give what you can

n enormous calamity has struck fellow IndiA ans, both locals and visitors, in Uttarakhand. Lakhs have been affected, tens of thousands stranded, fighting the elements and hunger. At a time like this, we must as a nation show the victims we care. We cant all physically go there to help, but we can contribute in other ways. We can send money to the PMs or CMs relief fund. The Times Group is appealing to all its employees to do so. We also appeal to you to contribute either to these funds or through donations in cash or kind to NGOs working on the ground. Over the next couple of days, TOI will put together a list of credible organizations doing such work. Do use that information to help those in distress.

80% of working women have no investment say

Partha Sinha
TNN

Mystery over city womans death in police custody

Dwaipayan Ghosh
TNN

AM SU N

New scheme for pregnant women:

Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday announced a new scheme for pregnant women under which they will get expenses for treatment, transportation and food at least six months before delivery date.P 23

Mumbai: Less than one in five single working women, excluding those divorced and widowed, take their own investment decisions, a recent all-India survey has found. They depend on family , friends and financial advisers when it comes to taking a call orking women in metros on where and how have greater aspiration much to invest. The reasons for than their non-metro counterthis behaviour vary parts, according to an all-India from risk aversion to survey on women. It showed insufficient finan- that just 18%, or less than one cial knowledge to in every five, of working even lack of freedom women from non-metro cities to take financial de- in India invest to become rich. cisions. The survey The figure in the metros is involving nearly 34%, almost twice. P 23

34% of city women invest to be rich

WEATHER
Max 40.6C(+3) /Min 31.2C(+3) Moonrise: Sunday 7.14pm Moonset: Monday 6.13am Sunset: Sunday - 7.22pm Sunrise: Monday - 5.26am Mainly clear sky. Maximum & min temperatures on Sunday will be around 39C & 29C . Max humidity on Saturday was 68% and min 31%

4,800 women invesCant invest, P 23 tors found that just 18% of single working women take their own investment decisions. The proportion of married working women taking investment decisions is even lower at 13%. In other words, an overwhelming majority of around seven in every eight married women, although working, dont decide where to put their money. Overall, 23%, or less than one in every four working women, take their own financial decisions about where and how to invest. This number may have been skewed a bit because 73% of the divorced and working women and 68% of the widowed and working women, took their own financial decisions.

New Delhi: Two weeks after a girl from south Delhi was found hanging at a Rohini police station, a 38-year-old woman died in police custody on Saturday after she was picked up along with her husband after a dispute between the two. The woman, Maya, had an argument with her husband, Tarakeswar Sharma, at their residence in Bharat Nagar in the morning. Her mother-inlaw panicked and called the police. Around noon, the couple was taken to Dwarka North police station in southwest Delhi where they were allegedly beaten up. Head constable Laxmi Singh then reportedly decided to drop Maya home. Cops claim that Laxmis bike was hit by an auto following which Maya was admitted to the ESI Hospital in Punjabi Bagh. She died around 2.30pm. Her family members questioned why Maya was taken to the police station and why she was admitted to the hospital in Punjabi Bagh instead of the assigned district government hospital, DDU. Police refused comment.

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