HYDERABAD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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NO TO VANZARA RESIGNATION
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U.S. COURT SERVES SUMMONS ON SONIA

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Raghuram Rajan Kiran continues lobbying starts with a bang

Sandeep Joshi
NEW DELHI: Hectic parleys con-

CM meets Shinde in Delhi; Antony panel may visit State after Parliament session
tinued in Delhi over the Telangana issue as Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday called on Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde besides meeting Congress MPs from Seemandhra, who are opposing the creation of new State. On the other hand, the Congress high-level committee, headed by Defence Minister A.K. Antony with Union Minister Veerappa Moily, party general secretary Digvijay Singh and senior leader Ahmed Patel as its members, is likely to visit Andhra Pradesh soon after the monsoon session of Parliament, which has been rocked by persistent protests by MPs from Seemandhra region. Sources said in his talks with Kiran Kumar Reddy Mr. Shinde, Mr. Reddy reiterated his stand against bifurcation and explained how the Congress would suffer serious setback with this decision. On Wednesday, during his meeting with Mr. Singh, Mr. Reddy spoke against the creation of Telangana. Later, the AP Chief Minister also met President Pranab Mukherjee. The Antony committee, that has been meeting various stakeholders to reach some amiable solution is all set to visit Hyderabad and places in the Seemandhra where protests are continuing against the government decision. This is being done to speed up the official process of creating the new State that will begin with the Home Ministry sending a note on the same to the Cabinet. Late on Tuesday, a delegation of Congress MPs, including Union Ministers M. Pallam Raju, Panabaka Lakshmi, J.D. Seelam and D. Purandeswari, met the committee members and demanded an all-party committee be set up to evolve a consensus on controversial issues or else the party would suffer major political set back in Seemandhra region, sources said. They also expressed their displeasure over Mr. Shindes statement on the Cabinet note and said how it could be done by this monthend when the committee was yet to submit its report. They feared that such statements would further deteriorate the situation in the Seemandhra region. Congress MPs from Seemandhra region have threatened to intensify their stir if their interests were not protected while bifurcating the State. We will not shy away from any actionPeople of Andhra Pradesh are on the roads. They are agitating without any political support, without any leaders support, Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal said.

Sets out a bold reformist vision for central bank VIBRANT AGENDA

SHORT TAKES
Milk price hiked
HYDERABAD: The AP Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Limited (APDDCFL), which markets the popular Vijaya brand milk products, has increased the price of sachet milk by Rs. 2 per litre on toned milk and other varieties, while the price of whole milk is hiked by Rs. 4 per litre, with effect from September 5. The price of toned milk per litre is hiked from Rs. 32 to 34; and whole milk per 500 ML from Rs. 22 to 24. The AP Dairy general manager said that the increase became inevitable due to steep increase in overall input costs.

Special Correspondent
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of Indias 23rd Governor, Raghuram Rajan, has started with a bang. In a seven-page statement read out at a press conference after markets closed, Dr.Rajan set out a bold, reformist vision for his tenure at the central bank. Included in it are measures to deepen securities markets, improve nancial inclusion including for SMEs, support and push for the rupee as an international currency and a warning for corporate defaulters of ination targeting, he said loans. the primary role of the central bank is ensuring Sound economy monetary stability by susDeclaring that he would taining condence in the preserve the value of the value of the countrys currency, Dr. Rajan said money. ` Ultimately this India is a fundamentally means low and stable exsound economy with a pectations of ination, bright future. Our task whether that ination today is to build a bridge to stems from domestic the future, over the stormy sources or from changes in waves produced by global the value of the currency, nancial markets. High- from supply constraints or lighting the importance of demand pressures.

Dr.Rajan said that a panel of experts under Deputy Governor Urjit Patel will come up with suggestions in three months on what needs to be done to revise and strengthen the monetary policy framework.
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Earth is warming up but not as rapidly as predicted

New IPCC report raises questions over global warming
Nitin Sethi
NEW DELHI: The climate has

SC not to review ruling on convicted MPs/MLAs

J.Venkatesan
NEW DELHI: The

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not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the latest report of the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be released September-end, is going to say. The report is also going to

accept that carbon dioxide gas concentration in atmosphere may not be as potent in causing global temperature increases as was believed earlier. The Hindu accessed the reports Summary for Policy Makers a precise guide for political leaders and negotiators on what the latest science of climate change is indicating. The report says: The rate of warming over the past 15 years (from 1998-2012) at 0.05 degree Celsius per decade is smaller than the trend over the longer period 19512012 which stands at 0.12 degree Celsius per decade. This means that in the last 15 years, the rate of warming has been 40% slower than in the period 1951-2012. But the facts do not take

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The rate of warming over the past 15 years at 0.05 degree Celsius per decade is smaller than the trend over 1951-2012 which stands at 0.12 degree Celsius
away from the reality of anthropogenic climate change. They instead suggest that the understanding of the emissions-temperatures-nature linkages is being revised and that the level of seriousness of the issue is being revisited by science as well as policy-

makers. The IPCC is the apex body of U.N., providing guidance to countries on what is best, latest and the most authentic science available on climate change. The summary is in the form of a nal draft, which is going to be ne-tuned before being released on September 27. But it is almost certain that sudden dip in global warming often called the hiatus is going to become the most controversial and key element of the report. The last time the IPCC brought out
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Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review its July 10 judgment, holding that MPs and MLAs, convicted of criminal offences, will be immediately disqualied from membership of the House without three months for appeal. Dismissing a review petition, a Bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and S.J. Mukhopadhaya, however, said: Parliament is free to amend the law if it does not agree with [the] interpretation of law given by the SC . Parliament frames laws in the manner they like. If we make [an] interpretation of law and if it is not accepted by it [Parliament], it is again for Parliament to enact a law. Justice Patnaik told Additional SolicitorGeneral Paras Kuhad: You [the government] accepted the judgment.

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