Egypt has extended the state of emergency by another two months. The night long curfew in 14 Governorates or states will continue to be in place. Egyptian President Adly Mansour’s office said that the step has been taken in the wake of continuing turmoil in the country and the assaults on public and private property, as well as, killings by extremist groups. Emergency was clamped last month in the country after hundreds died during the clearing of protest camps in support of the ousted President, Mohammed Mursi. The Egyptian Government has, by and large, been able to contain the violence in the recent past, but a failed assassination attempt on the Interior Minister and attacks by the Islamist militants in Sinai over security forces, has raised concerns about the security situation in the country.

UN envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi to join US Secretary of State, John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov in Geneva today. They will explore the feasibility of another round of Geneva-II peace conference for a larger political solution to the Syrian crisis.

US and Russian leaders accompanied by a team of experts will hold a second round of negotiations on ways and means to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal after it promised to hand them over under international control. The talks are likely to continue over the next two days. US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Geneva that the international community is watching how Syria delivers on its promise. He said that the action has to be real, comprehensive, verifiable, credible, timely and warned that there will be consequences if it doesn’t take place.Mr. Kerry also rejected the stand by the Syrian President that Syria will hand over the data on its stockpiles of chemical weapons after 30 days of signing the treaty. He said the standard procedures are not relevant in this case since the chemical weapons have already been used. In an interview to a Russian television,

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad had said that his government intends to hand over its chemical weapons under international control provided the US stops threatening to attack Syria. the documents from Syria to sign the Chemical weapons convention which bans the development, production, stockpiling and use of the weapons of mass destruction.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has confirmed that it has received the documents from Syria to sign the chemical weapons convention which bans the development, production, stockpiling and use of the weapons of mass destruction.

Forest Hills Golf Resort, Karoran, Mohali, September 12, 2013: NoidaⳊArjun Singh Chaudhri claimed his third professional title with a remarkable come-from-behind victory at the Forest Hills Golf Resort in Karoran situated in Mohali district of Punjab. Chaudhri posted a one-over-71 in the third and final round to total three-under-207 at the third event of the 2013 PGTI Feeder Tour season. DelhiⳠHoney Baisoya carded an even-par-70 on Thursday to finish as the runner-up at one-under-209.

Arjun Singh Chaudhri (65-71-71), who enjoyed an overnight three-shot lead, had a terrible start to the day as he bogeyed the second, fifth and eighth due to some poor hitting. He thus conceded a two-shot lead to Honey Baisoya at the end of nine holes. The 34-year-old Chaudhri then rallied with a birdie on the 10^th and a good par-save with a chip-putt on the 12^th. Arjun was back on level terms with Baisoya after the latter three-putted for bogey on the 13^th.

Chaudhri, the 2011 PGTI Feeder Tour Order of Merit champion, hit a purple patch on the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th to establish a two-shot lead. He made an excellent chip-putt from 50 yards for a par-save on the 15^th and then landed his approach from 200 yards to within two feet for birdie on the 16^th. Arjun all but sealed the title after converting a 10-feet birdie putt on the 17^th. Baisoya title hopes were dashed when he hit it Out of Bounds (OB) on the 18^th and bogeyed the hole. Although, Chaudhri also bogeyed the last hole, he cruised to a comfortable two-shot win at the end.

Arjun has now won two out of three events staged in the 2013 Feeder Tour season so far. He currently enjoys a lead of over Rs. 50,000 on the Feeder Tour Order of Merit for 2013. Chaudhri now also has the maximum number of wins (3) to his credit on the PGTI Feeder Tour along with Maniram Sharma of Karnal.

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I would like to thank and give credit for my win to one of my closest friends, fellow professional and coach Mr. Shyam Vijay. Weⶥ put in a lot of work together towards improving my game,䠳aid Chaudhri.

Rookie Honey Baisoya (71-68-70), who was overnight second, enjoyed a two-shot lead at the turn but failed to capitalize on the back-nine and finally finished two strokes behind the winner in second position. His round included three birdies and three bogeys. Baisoya is currently second on the Feeder Tour Order of Merit.

Akshay Sharma of Chandigarh and KapurthalaⳠAshbeer Saini were tied third at two-over-212. PuneⳊMoniuddin Malak was a further shot back in fifth place.

ChandigarhⳠRajinder ended up sixth with a four-over-214 total while another Chandigarh golfer Ranjit Singh claimed tied seventh place along with Angad Cheema of Panchkula at six-over-216.

Harmeet Kahlon of Chandigarh secured tied 29^th position with a three-day total of 15-over-225.

Babubhai Bokhiriya Challenges Congress’ lies meant to instigate the farmers in Gujarat

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AgricultureMinister Babubhai Bokhiriya today took strong exception against the blatant lies spread by the Congress leadership against the BJP government of Gujarat. Enumerating various instances of atrocities unleashed by Congress Chief Ministers and governments of past on the Gujarat farmers he said that Congress government had even resorted to firing on the farmers which resulted into loss of lives of severalinnocent farmers. Farmers can never forget how pitiful conditions the Congress governments caused for the innocent farmers who raised voice against the government for poor state of farmers and farming. 

Challenging the opposition Congress leader and the Congress spokespersons the agricultureministersaid the farmers were living under miserable conditions during Congress rule. But the government of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi, since past 12 years, is taking care of even minutest issues that are in interests of farmers and farming.

He said, “The presentstategovernment has organized Vibrant Gujarat GlobalAgriculture Summit for the first time in the country and provided platformto the farmers all 543 districts of all the states of India. Thousands of progressive farmers have thronged the summit responding to the invitation of BJP government.”   

Mr. Bokhiriya said the unprecedentedvolume of farmers and the trust they have put on the BJP government have spoiled the sleep of Congress. Farmers of Gujarat gave theirmandateto the ChiefMinister Narendra Modi and made him win for four continuous terms which has devastated Congress utterly in Gujarat. “Similarly, now by making the Vibrant Gujarat GlobalAgriculture Summit a success the farmers have given a signal that they will do the same to Congress across the country. Congress is toiling in vain to save itself from this disappointment”, he said.

Minister Mr. Bokhiriya one by one exposed the blatant lies spread by the Congress leadership to instigate farmers. He said that congress ruled central UPA government have delayed payments of monsoon (Kharif) crop insurance scheme of Gujarat farmers and trying to disgrace the state government by creating impediments in the payment of farmer’s money.

All the crop insurance scheme related details including premium subsidy details have already been sent to the concerned agriculture insurance company. Chief Minister Narendra Modi led government has already made provision of Rs. 963 crore in this year’s budget under as a duty of state to pay crop insurance for the farmers. But, without any discussion or consent of the state government, the Congress government at Centre had disposed of the case taking one-sided decision of by imposing area discrepancies factor. This decision was against farmer’s interest and thus it is not agreeable to state government. It is the duty of the Centre to reconsider this case and to see to it that crop insurance money is paid to the farmers with immediate effect. So many letters have been written by the agriculture minister in this regard but Centre has not taken it seriously, Mr. Bokhiriya said.    

With challenging the blatant lie of the Opposition that the numbers of farmers are decreasing in Gujarat, Mr. Bokhiriya said that as per the Census 2011 of Government of India, the number of registered farmers in Gujarat has increased from 42,39,242 in year 2001 to 47,38,188 in 2010-11. He said, “Is the Opposition trying to prove Central government data wrong?” In reality, as per the numbers declared by the Central Government, 2,500 farmers are quitting farming and this is because of the anti-farmer policies of the Congress ruled Centre, the minister said.

Referring the famine periods of Gujarat and ills done by the then Congress rule, Mr. Bokhiriya said, “Congress is guilty of selling off state’s pastoral lands. The documented information is clear that from 1985 to 1990, Congress rule had given away 94% of pastoral land as against total uncultivated land. Of this, 32% of pastoral land belonged to farmers and reserved for animals belonging to Maldhari community, which was snatched away from them.” Congress has destroyed pastoral land in the state by giving it away for some other objectives, said the minister, adding that as against this Mr. Modi’s government has been able to increase the pastoral land by 6800 hectares during year 2001 to 2012.

 Minister Mr. Bokhiriya said, “It was Congress governments who took away the fertile land from farmers in the name of industries. How come the sowing areas of 92.96 lakh hectares in year 1980 become 37 lakh hectares during Congress rule? In last 12 years, the sowing area has increased by 37 lakh in Gujarat.” Under chief minister Narendra Modi’s leadership for developing agriculture sector, farmers have put total faith in with schemes like Krushi Mahotsav and water management and it has made possible agriculture growth over 10% for last one decade.” State’s agriculture produce has increased from Rs 14,000 crore to 1,11,000 crore and it has duly been accepted by Planning Commission and received praise from well-known agriculture experts.

Furthermore the agriculture minister said that opposition leaders in Gujarat are misleading the farmers spreading lies and ignores to admit that it was Congress under whose tenure the dark-zone were imposed. He said, “BJP government has lifted such dark zones and thus the water management has become turning point. Water harvesting has increased ground water table by 13 meters and Narmada canal and Sujalam Sufalam scheme has taken the irrigation waters to interior farmlands.” This fact has been recognized by present Congress government at Centre. It will be surprising of the Opposition is unaware of Congress rule of decades that wasted water letting it go into sea and it is Mr. Modi’s  government which has made good use of water by implementing comprehensive management system.

“If gates are put on Narmada dam, 75% of its water could be used for the irrigation purpose. But Prime Minister of Congress ruled government at Centre is delaying the permission despite being aware of this fact. It is being deliberately done so that the present BJP government in Gujarat is deprived of its success and subsequent credit. The delay in granting a technical permission for the gates at Narmada dam is done at the cost of farmer’s interest. The ongoing construction of canal work on a war footing basis in Saurashtra was stopped under the pretext of assembly election code of conduct despite the fact that work was undertaken by the state government because of the delayed monsoon”, said Mr. Bokhiriya. He said farmers are not going to forget these sins of Congress.

The agriculture minister said, “From year 1960-2000 the number of agriculture electricity connections given were 6.65 lakh. For last 12 years, this government has given 3,87,273 new connections for agriculture sector, which becomes almost two fold of those 40 years work.” Year 2011-12 saw granting of new connections of 70,000 while year 2012-13 witnessed approval of 97,459 connections and till July 2013, government has given another 23,000 new connections.

Mr. Bokhiriya said, “Farmers of Gujarat are not going to be carried away by the false propaganda of Congress trying to instigate them using power connection issues. Congress rule in the state had charged 58 paisa per unit of electricity supply and today Centre’s wrong power policies has made electricity cost touch Rs 4.41 but Gujarat is providing electricity to farmers at 49 paisa per unit.” Gujarat farmers know the truth and will never believe these lies of Congress, said Mr. Bokhiriya.