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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit, in Ufa, Russia on July 10, 2015.

India projected to grow at 7.5% for 2015 and 2016 : IMF

According to IMF’s World Economic Outlook (WEO), global growth projection in 2015 is projected to be marginally lower than in 2014, with a gradual pickup in advanced economies and a slowdown in emerging market and developing economies. However the global growth is expected to strengthen in 2016.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recent publication of World Economic Outlook (WEO), July 2015, has projected India to grow at 7.5% in 2015 and 2016, thereby leading the growth charts. Amongst BRICS economies, China is projected to grow at 6.8% in 2015 and 6.3% in 2016, followed by South Africa with growth rates projected at 2% in 2015 and 2.1% in 2016. Brazil is projected to grow at (-)1.5% in 2015 and 0.7% in 2016, and Russia at (-)3.4% in 2015 and 0.2% in 2016. The global growth is projected at 3.3% in 2015 and 3.8% in 2016. The growth projection reflect to an important extent an unexpected output contraction in the US , with attendant spillovers to Canada and Mexico . One-off factors, notably harsh winter weather and port closures, as well as a strong downsizing of capital expenditure in the oil sector contributed to weakening U.S. activity. Outside North America , positive and negative surprises were roughly offsetting. Growth in output and domestic demand in emerging market and developing economies broadly weakened, as expected. World economy so far  GDP (World Output) Y-O-Y Growth (%) 2014 Y-O-Y Growth (%) Projections1 2015 2016 World2 3.3 3.3 3.8 Advanced Economies 1.8 2.1 2.4 USA 2.4 2.5 3 Euro Area3 0.8 1.5 1.7 Japan -0.1 0.8 1.2 United Kingdom 2.9 2.4 2.2 Emerging and developing Economies4 4.6 4.2 4.7 Russia 0.6 -3.4 0.2 China 7.4 6.8 6.3 India5 7.3 7.5 7.5 Brazil 0.1 -1.5 0.7 South Africa 1.5 2 2.1 World Trade Volume 3.2 4.1 4.4 Consumer Prices Advance Economies 1.4 0 1.2 Emerging Economies6 5.1 5.5 4.8 Source: PHD Research Bureau, compiled from IMF Note: (1) Difference based on rounded figures for both the current and April 2015 WEO Update forecasts. (2) The quarterly estimates and projections account for 90 percent of the world purchasing-power-parity weights. (3) Excludes Lithuania , which joined the euro area in January 2015. (4) The quarterly estimates and projections account for approximately 80 percent of the emerging market and developing economies (5) For India, data and forecasts are presented on a fiscal year basis and GDP from 2011 onward is based on GDP at market prices with FY2011/12 as a base year Advanced Economies In advanced economies have been projected to grow at 2.1% in 2015 and 2.4% in 2016. Amongst advanced economies, growth is being led by Spain at 3.1% in 2015, followed by U.S. at 2.5% in 2015. The unexpected weakness in North America , which accounts for the lion’s share of the growth forecast revision in advanced economies, is likely to prove a temporary setback. The underlying drivers for acceleration in consumption and investment in the US , wage growth, labor market conditions, easy financial conditions, lower fuel prices, and a strengthening housing market, remain  intact. The economic recovery in the euro area seems broadly on track, with a generally robust recovery in domestic demand and inflation beginning to increase. In Japan , growth in the first quarter of 2015 was stronger than expected, supported by a pickup in capital investment, however, consumption remains sluggish. Emerging markets and developing economies In emerging markets and developing economies are projected to grow at better growth rates of 4.2% in 2015 and 4.7% in 2016. In case of emerging markets and developing economies, growth is being led by India at 7.5%. The slowdown reflects the dampening impact of lower commodity prices and tighter external financial conditions—particularly in Latin America and oil exporters, the rebalancing in China , and structural bottlenecks, as well as economic distress related to geopolitical factors—particularly in the Commonwealth of Independent States and some countries in the Middle East and North Africa . In 2016, growth in the region is expected to pick up, largely on account of the projected improvement in economic conditions in a number of distressed economies, including Russia and some economies in the Middle East and North Africa . Risks to outlook The distribution of risks to global economic activity is still tilted to the downside. Near-term risks include increased financial market volatility and disruptive asset price shifts, while lower potential output growth remains an important medium-term risk in both advanced and emerging market economies. Lower commodity prices also pose risks to the outlook in low-income developing economies after many years of strong growth. Policy decisions At policy front, in many advanced economies, In advanced economies, accommodative monetary policy should continue to support economic activity and lift inflation back to target. Efforts at implementing structural reforms remain urgent across advanced economies, both to tackle crisis legacies and to raise potential output. In emerging market, macroeconomic policy space to support demand is generally more limited but should be used to the extent possible. Structural reforms to raise productivity and remove bottlenecks to production are urgently needed in many economies. Warm regards, Dr. S P Sharma Chief Economist & Director-Research

JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST-EVER U.S. EVENT

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The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the free literary festival, travels to Boulder, Colorado Sept. 18-20 to host their first-ever U.S. event, the Jaipur Literature Festival at Boulder (JLF@Boulder).

JLF@Boulder will feature more than 100 notable writers, thinkers, poets and performers in a three-day edition of what has been declared “the greatest literary show on earth.” There will also be a number of events leading up to the three-day festival.

“We at JLF are looking forward to a stimulating and inspirational edition in beautiful Boulder, Colorado,” said Namita Gokhale, author and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Boulder is known for its highly educated, professional population of more than 100,000; for its deep interest and leadership in social, technical and environmental innovation and for fitness and natural health and healing.

Some of the speakers confirmed for the festival include international best-selling author Jung Chang, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Vijay Seshadri, Morroccan-American essayist and novelist Laila Lalami, Israeli journalist, political commentator and author Gideon Levy, Chinese-American best-selling author Anchee Min, and journalist, historian and award-winning author Simon Sebag-Montefiore. The updated list of speakers for JLF@Boulder can be viewed here.

“Boulder is a long way from Jaipur, and we are proud to erect our literary ‘Big Top’ in town and to bring the energy, sparkle and brilliance of Indian writing to a very different world,” said William Dalrymple, author and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

The program for JLF@Boulder will consist of interviews and panel discussions, along with audience Q&A, addressing timely themes of local and international importance each led by two to four authors. Themes will cover diverse subjects including migration; politics and conflict; environmental concerns like fracking, famine and water conservation; the poetic imagination and Native American voices.

JLF@Boulder will include a focus on Native American, Latino, African American, Asian American and regional literature. The festival will bring together Indian-American, Asian and Latin American authors to explore a variety of literary topics and themes of local and international interest.

The Festival will be held Sept. 18-20 at the Boulder Public Library and Civic Lawns (1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO). A week of lead-up activities is also scheduled at the Boulder Public Library, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Naropa University, the Denver Public Library, the Denver Art Museum and other venues. For more information, please visit: http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/boulder.

Founded in 2008, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is co-directed by authors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, and is produced by Sanjoy Roy and Teamwork Arts, a pioneer in the performing arts space.

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Mr Prime Minister, what you say must carry weight.“From what the people of India and I remember, our PM had said, which I would like to reiterate, ‘na khaoonga, na khane doonga’ (will not engage in corruption myself, nor allow others).
Why are you allowing corruption in Rajasthan? What are you doing to bring back Lalit Modi? Why are you not acting against Shivraj Singh Chouhan,”
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Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana released the study on State profile of Haryana: Bolstering Industrialization Starting from Left: Dr. S P Sharma, Chief Economist & Director Research, PHD Chamber; Mr. Rudra Shriram, Executive, DCM Shriram; Mr. Saurabh Sanyal, Secretary General, PHD Chamber; Mr. Alok B Shriram, President, PHD Chamber; Shri Rao Narbir Singh Yadav, Cabinet Minister, Government of Haryana for Department of Public Works (B&R) and Public Health engineering; Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana; Mr. Gopal Jiwarajka, Vice President, PHD Chamber; Mr. P K Jain, Former President, PHD Chamber and Mr. Mohit Jain, Director, The Malt Company. PHD Chamber’s senior members delegation led by Mr. Alok B Shriram, President, PHD Chamber, Mr. Gopal Jiwarajka, Vice President, PHD Chamber, Mr. P K Jain, Former President, PHD Chamber, Mr. Rudra Shriram, Executive, DCM Shriram, Mr. Saurabh Sanyal, Secretary General, PHD Chamber and Dr. SP Sharma, Chief Economist, PHD Chamber met Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana, Government of India on Sunday, 5th July 2015, and released a report on State Profile of Haryana: Bolstering Industrialization prepared by PHD Research Bureau, the research arm of PHD Chamber. The report provides several suggestions for bolstering the Industrial sector and analyse the latest socio-economic developments in the state. This study pertains to analyse the current state of economy, infrastructural developments and performance of various social and economic indicators in Haryana.  The report analyses the impact of various policy measures on the economic growth and development of the state. While interacting with senior members’ delegation from PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri Manohar Lal Khattar said that the state is coming up with big bang industrial reforms for the ease of doing business and to put industrial growth trajectory on high road. The Hon’ble Chief Minister appreciated the Chamber’s efforts to enhance socio-economic development in states and the work undertaken by the Chamber in the recent times in the state of Haryana. Shri Khattar appreciated the Chamber for organizing Agri leadership Summit 2015 in Gurgaon, state level workshops on Energy Conservation and management and workshops on skill development in Haryana. The hard copy is available with us for Rs 700/- for members and Rs 1000/- for non members.

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M6.5 – SOLOMON ISLANDS

Preliminary Earthquake Report

Magnitude	6.5
Date-Time	10 Jul 2015 04:12:41 UTC 10 Jul 2015 15:12:42 near epicenter 10 Jul 2015 08:12:41 standard time in your timezone
Location	9.325S 158.448E
Depth	10 km
Distances	155 km (96 mi) SSW of Dadali, Solomon Islands 165 km (102 mi) W of Honiara, Solomon Islands 470 km (291 mi) SE of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 877 km (544 mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 887 km (550 mi) E of Alotau, Papua New Guinea
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 7.0 km; Vertical 1.8 km

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Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan
Houses Demolished Not the Spirit
Struggle for Hosuing Right Will Continue

(An update from the day of demolition to till date)

Mumbai | 10th July, 2015: On 30th June at Mandala-Indira nagar, Mankhurd village, Police bandobast started increasing as the day began outside Satyagrah site. They stopped everybody from entering into the land where Satyagarhis recently had built their houses. Public witnessing the scenario over there reported to have felt a curfew like situation. Close to thousand were inside the newly built Mandala and half of them were sitting under the Pandal. Around 10:15 am, people sitting under the Pandal could hear the grumble of JCBs and trucks entering in.

Six JCBs and 7-8 trucks were there as informed by those who were stopped outside. Police personnel kept on encompassing the Pandal as the demolition started. After some time, a local police inspector Mr. Hazare came to the Pandal who informed the Satyagrahis that the agitation should continue peacefully and that Pandal wouldn’t be demolished but their houses, also that there was no need to panic. It was heartbreaking for the people who were seeing their houses being demolished in front of their eyes for the third time! Some of them tried to rush to save their belongings but it was not their day, none was allowed. A woman started crying when she knew that she wouldn’t be allowed to even save a holy book kept in her Jhopdi.

Tehsildar, along with some senior police officials visited the Pandal after they heard the loud slogans being shouted out by the Satyagrahis present in the Pandal. The Tehsildar Mrs. S.K. Telure assured the Satyagrahis that she would organize a meeting with the Collector that day only and whatever be the decision had come out would be followed. When Shriram, who was leading the struggle at that time, requested that the Satyagrah should be allowed to continue, the Tehsildar then assured that it was possible provided he hand over her a request letter. The same was agreed by the all Satyagrahis as well. But what followed next proved a betrayal to Satyagrahis by the Tehsildar (in the past as well, when the Awas Haq Satyagrah was launched on May 26th, 2015, Mrs. Telure arrived Mandala and requested to withdraw the Satyagrah giving an assurance of getting back with a response from the Collector in two day but she remained unsuccessful in fulfilling her assurance). Shriram was called by some Police officials immediately after he finished his talk with the Tehsildar. He managed to go back to the Pandal and informed fellow Satyagrahis that he had sniffed a conspiracy by the Police to arrest key leaders of the Satyagrah including him. A Police Inspector, Shivaji Wade came running after him asking him to go back to the Police. Shriram did not go back saying that he would come after he get the photocopy of the request letter which he had sent to be done from a nearby shop and that should come back in a short while, so he should be given that much time. Mr. Wade returned to his colleagues and came back immediately in the Pandal announcing that everybody present in the Pandal would be arrested. The Satyagrahis protested arresting but later announced that it was possible and they would voluntarily get arrested. Since the Satyagrahis had themselves agreed to get voluntarily arrested it should have been done very peacefully but a strange haste in arresting the key leaders left everybody in shock. Mr. Wade ruthlessly tore the banner of the movement-Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan- which was supposed to symbolise the ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr BR Ambedkar. Police cracked down on Shriram, women standing near him protested that act which became the reason of chaos created then. Whoever protested complained to have been manhandled by the Police. A total of 16 MLCs are there of all those who succumbed to injuries due to Police manhandling on the day of demolition.

Presently the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. S.P. Nishandar has been investigating into complaints of Police manhandling on instruction from the Additional Commissioner of Police, Mr. Manoj Lohia. The higher officials of the police acted on it when the report of police manhandling came in print media. This also to be noted that the around 200 Satyagrahis were detained under section 149 of CrPC which deals with preventive detention for cognizable offences. As per the Senior Police Inspector who was the in charge at that time, the Satyagrahis were being held for the offence of encroachment. It must be noted that encroachment is not classified as a cognizable offence. When this was pointed out to the officials, it was first denied and when the relevant laws were shown to them, they had no answers for the same. All of them were released on the same day in the evening with a notice under section 149.

Mandala evictees held a big morcha before the Collector office on 6th July led by social activist Medha Patkar condemning the unjustified act of demolition.

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In the dialogue with the Collector, Mr. Shekhar Channe, it was found that he was unaware of the ground reality. He was noted saying that “only 100 houses were built there (in Mandala)”. Had the Collector paid a visit to the Mandala to hear the plea of the Satyagrahis, who had been inviting him since the beginning of the Satyagrah, he would have came to know the actual number of houses built on the whole of approx. 13 acres of Mandala land. Sadly, that did not happen, he never visited Mandala! The Collector was shown black flags by Mandala evictees and by other slum dwellers from across the city of Mumbai who had joined them in solidarity on 6th July.

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There was no prior notice given before the demolition, this surprise act of demolition had risked the life of thousands of people present over there. No announcement was heard before the eviction which would have allowed the people to save their belongings. This huge eviction and subsequent destruction of household goods kept in the houses caused heavy loss to the poor adding to their misery.

Such is the story at Mandala in the age of PM Modi’s claim of housing all till 2022! Those who demand housing right, faces detention, becomes the victim of red-tapism, manhandled by the police, treated like criminals and so on. Maharashtra administration was able to demolish the houses of the poor who had built their houses from the money they had saved after cutting on their daily requirements but have not been successful in breaking their spirit which they have held high and will continue to be remain so until they get housing right. The evictees of the Mandala are looking forward for an urgent meeting with the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Devendra Fadnavis who has just returned from US and are expecting some fruitful dialogue.

Buttun Nissa Anwari Shriram Baddruzaman

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• Gujarat model of using state machinery against adversary is in full swing in Delhi.
• People of Delhi are enraged by the insult done by BJP and its agencies to its overwhelming mandate for AAP.

Continuing with its vendetta politics and efforts to score revenge with the people of Delhi for drubbing BJP in the assembly elections, Delhi Police under Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrested Aam Aadmi Party MLA Manoj Kumar. The party strongly condemns the action and terms it as below the belt politics of BJP losing ground support in Delhi and elsewhere in the country.

“Narendra Modi’s Gujarat model of vendetta politics is in full swing in Delhi. With mandate slipping away Modiji is resorting to what he is best at, using state machinery to silence the opposition. Delhi police is now working in the lines of Gujarat Police,” senior party leader Sanjay Singh said.

While Delhi Police under Narendra Modi deemed it fit to arrest a sitting MLA from Delhi under alleged charges of forgery, it has sees no harm in having ministers with rape charges and FIRs of various heinous crimes continuing in its ministry, he added.

“The allegation against Manoj Kumar is that he used some forged documents in a land sale and it is a case more than a year ago. This is height of shamelessness of Delhi Police and it acting as a political agent. We can understand from Gujarat experience how Police have been used as a political tool to harass, kill and do espionage on women,”  party MLA and party’s Delhi  incharge Saurabh Bharadwaj said.

The people of Delhi are observing the developments with much concern and would give a befitting reply to the Narendra Modi establishment at the opportune time. The mandate and will of the people of Delhi has been dishonored and laughed at by the BJP, which is unfortunate for a party which claims to be part of the democratic system.

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