Confessions
of a star
Shah Rukh Khan on
why he could never
become a fan
KARISHMA UPADHYAY
in Mumbai
M
ORE than two decades ago,
while he was stuck in a
traffic jam in Delhi, Shah
Rukh Khan (left) realised that
strangers had started to recog-
nise him.
“I was in a rickshaw near
Panchsheel in Delhi. There
were two ladies in the next au-
to. They were slumped over…
almost like the weight of the
world was on their shoulders.
They looked really morose.
And, then suddenly their fac-
es lit up. I didn’t even realise
that they were shouting Abhi
Abhi… (the character Abhi-
manyu Rai Shah Rukh played
in the TV show Fauji).
“It was very awkward. Both
the rickshaw drivers were try-
ing to figure out what’s happen-
ing and in that moment the traffic
lights changed and we drove off. I
wasn’t used to being called by a
character’s name, so for about 10
minutes after we moved, I didn’t re-
alise they were calling out to me.”
Today, Shah Rukh is one of the most
recognisable men in the world. So the
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Gurgaon is now Gurugram
THE change in name was
announced by Haryana’s Manohar
Lal Khattar government, which
said it was giving in to the demand
of the residents. A government
spokesperson said that Gurgaon
was where Dronacharya, the guru
of the Pandavas in Mahabharat,
had his ashram. “Gurgaon was a
great centre of learning, where the
princes were provided education.
For a long time, the locals have
been demanding that Gurgaon be
renamed as Gurugram,” he said.
The government also renamed
Mewat district to Nuh.
Driverless trains
for Delhi Metro
DELHI Metro has unveiled its
fully-automated trains, saying that
these faster and driverless trains
will run on the upcoming two lines
– Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar in
north Delhi and Botanical Garden
in Noida and Janakpuri West in
west Delhi. They will be operated
by drivers for a year before the
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
(DMRC) declares the driverless
trains safe. Senior DMRC official
H.S. Anand said the new trains will
be 10 per cent faster and 20 per
cent more energy efficient than
current ones. They can also carry
more passengers.
Goa third in attracting
those using e-tourist visa
GOA ranks third in a list of Indian
states which have attracted foreign
travellers with the newly-launched
e-tourist visa. According to
statistics released by the state
information and publicity
department, Goa cornered
11.11 per cent of the total foreign
tourist arrivals in India using the
e-visa in March. For Delhi, the
figure was 46.76 per cent while
Mumbai ranked second at
18.75 per cent. A total of 115,677
tourists visited India in March using
the e-tourist visa.
Kerala bans fireworks
displays at night
THE Kerala High Court has banned
high-decibel fireworks displays
between 6pm and 6am. This comes
days after a fire broke out in the
Puttingal Devi Temple complex
killing 111 people on April 10. The
court came down heavily on the
local police for failing to prevent a
fireworks display at the temple. It
had used extremely powerful
explosives even after the district
administration had denied it
permission to organise such a
display
.
Rs2,000 fine for misuse of
water in Chandigarh
TO CURB water misuse during
summer, the
municipal
authorities in
Chandigarh will
fine those who
wash their cars or
water plants from
5.30am to 8.30am
Rs2,000. The
authorities have
also formed 18
teams to check on water wastage
during a special drive in the city
from April 15 to June 30.
Kolkata police commissioner
stripped of position
KOLKATA police commissioner
Rajeev Kumar has been removed
from his post after the Election
Commission received complaints
about him by opposition parties in
West Bengal. Additional
director-general of police Soumen
Mitra has been asked to replace
him. The Bharatiya Janata Party
and Congress asked for Mr Kumar’s
removal as they claimed that he
was close to West Bengal chief
minister Mamata Banerjee. They
also accused him of “snooping” on
opposition leaders, bureaucrats
and journalists
.
Cow survey in Rajasthan
RAJASTHAN’S animal husbandry
department will conduct a survey
to count the number of stray cows
and cows which are owned. The
survey will help the department to
keep a record of cows owned by
farmers and if they abandon the
cows, it will be easier for the
government to trace them. The
state government will also develop
a sanctuary for cows in each of its
seven divisions. Abandoned cows
and those rescued from traffickers
will be kept at the sanctuaries.
Biker Veenu Paliwal
dies in accident
ONE of India’s well-known bikers,
Ms Veenu Paliwal, died after her
Harley-Davidson motorcycle
skidded into a drain at a sharp
turn in Vidisha district in Madhya
Pradesh on April 11. The
44-year-old mother of two, known
as “Lady of the Harley”, was on a
motorcycle trip from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari with a friend. The
two, on Harley bikes, were on their
way to Vidisha near Bhopal after
refuelling in Sagar when the
accident happened. An autopsy
revealed that the “impact ruptured
her liver and she died of internal
bleeding”.
More solar power
for Delhi airport
TO REDUCE its carbon footprint,
the Indira Gandhi International
Airport in Delhi has expanded its
solar power plant’s capacity from
2.14MW to 7.84MW (below).
Airport officials said the plant will
help save up to Rs12 crores per
year or about 5 per cent of its
current power bill of nearly
Rs230 crores. The airport consumes
about 220 million units of power
annually and the plant will help
generate 12 million units every
year. CEO of Delhi International
Airport Prabhakara Rao said the
airport will upgrade the capacity
to 20MW by 2020.
Water train for parched Latur
A “WATER train” carrying 550,000 litres of water, dispatched by
Indian Railways, reached the parched Latur district in Maharashtra
on April 12 (above). The offloading of the water began at a
dried-up well belonging to a local farmer near the railway station.
It was then transported to a filtration plant and sent to remote
villages in tankers, where villagers were waiting in long queues
with plastic and steel buckets, pots and pitchers to collect the
water. Another train was also being filled up to supply more water
to the people in Latur.
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SITHARA DORIASAMY
I
N A candid exchange of views,
Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minis-
ter Tharman Shanmugaratnam
and Reserve Bank of India’s governor
Raghuram Rajan had some 250 busi-
nessmen, industrialists and policymak-
ers glued to their seats for more than
an hour.
The two were part of an interactive
session at the Singapore Symposium
2016 held in Mumbai on April 7.
Themed Partnering for Growth in Un-
certain Times, the symposium was or-
ganised by the Institute of South
Asian Studies (ISAS), National Univer-
sity of Singapore.
In his opening address, Mr Thar-
man noted that Singapore and India
could do a lot more together. Mr Thar-
man, who is also the Coordinating
Minister for Economic and Social Poli-
cies, listed the following areas of fur-
ther collaboration – productivity and
finance; air connectivity; education
and skills training; and smart cities de-
velopment.
“It frankly gives me confidence in
India, not just based on what’s been
happening in the last few years – GDP
growth being about 7 per cent – I have
confidence that this is now a new jour-
ney, and a journey that we in Singa-
pore want to be part of, want to con-
tribute to and want to benefit from at
the same time.”
Singapore and India share a close bi-
lateral political and economic relation-
ship. Recent collaborations include de-
veloping two townships and setting up
a skills centre in the northern state of
Rajasthan and helping southern And-
hra Pradesh state to build its new capi-
tal city. In the past 10 years
Singapore’s investments in India grew
from $653 million to $12.2 billion.
At the interactive session later with
Mr Rajan, Mr Tharman called for
greater coordination against exchange
rate volatility. “We can’t keep hoping
that the US Fed will postpone normali-
sation of interest rates,” he said.
The Singapore Symposium series
provides a platform for Singapore
leaders to engage with Indian politi-
cal, business and academic communi-
ties. The first two series were held in
Delhi in 2009 and 2012. The inaugu-
ral Singapore Symposium was helmed
by Singapore’s first Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew and the second by
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The
Singapore Symposium 2016 is the
fourth edition of the series in India
and fifth in the South Asian region.
The Confederation of Indian Industry
was the co-partner in Mumbai.
Book launch
On the same evening, DPM Tharman
launched a commemorative book in
Delhi along with India’s minister of
state for power, coal, new and renewa-
ble energy Piyush Goyal at The
Growth Net Summit 2016.
The book is to mark 50 years of dip-
lomatic relations between India and
Singapore. Titled, Looking Ahead: In-
dia And Singapore In The New Millen-
nium, the book is a joint publication
by ISAS and Ananta Aspen Centre in
Delhi. Historian and board member of
ISAS Professor Tan Tai Yong is co-
editor of the volume, together with
Mr A.K. Bhattacharya, from India.
Sithara Doriasamy is head of
communications and strategic events
at ISAS, NUS
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India, S’pore
can do a lot more together
Says DPM Tharman at
Singapore Symposium
in Mumbai
Engaging India... Mr Tharman (far left) and Mr Rajan at the symposium in Mumbai. (Above from left) Growth Net Summit 2016
chairman N.K. Singh; Mr Goyal; Prof Tan Tai Yong; Mr Tharman; Mr Bhattacharya and Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing chairman of the
board Jamshyd Godrej at the book launch in Delhi.
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