Quotes of the day - 17 Sept 2012

1. "BCCI was compelled to hold an emergency meeting of the IPL governing council late Friday evening to discuss certain developments due to Deccan Chargers' default."  ref : ET 
2. "The BCCI intends to invite tenders for new teams for cities like Ahmedabad, Vizag (Visakhapatnam) and Coimbatore. No new tenders are going to be called for Deccan Chargers now."  ref :  ET
3. "Conditions for a new bull market are getting slowly satisfied. The yield curve has stopped flattening, liquidity is improving, valuations appear supportive and profit margin expansion is a growing possibility in the coming months. " ref :  RM
4. "I saw some stupid stories saying that India was insisting my voiceover narration be taken off the film so that it could be shown - and that's just garbage."     ref :  FIRSTPOST 
5. "There's no other idea in the world that demands protection. If ideas are strong, they can stand criticism."  ref :  FIRSTPOST
6. "The fact that Ramanujan's essay was removed from Delhi University syllabus, the attack on Rohinton Mistry's novel, which was immediately removed from the Bombay University syllabus, this attack on the cartoonist for his perfectly okay cartoons....I don't think India is that haven of creative thinking any longer."  ref :   FIRSTPOST 
7. "What has now developed is a harsher Islam, partly because of the spread of Wahabi ideas. Many of these countries are economically very disadvantaged and the jihad seems to give the youth direction, a purpose, a sense of self-importance."   ref :  FIRSTPOST 
8. "Anna Hazare has said it is fortunate to go to jail for the sake of your country. I had gone to jail to remove corruption from the country and hence there was no reason to repent or be afraid of."  ref : ET
9. "We need to be better organized to work more efficiently and change the depletion of our environment. The workshop will hopefully help us make ourselves more visible and get better funding for our projects."  ref :  TOI
10. "Often these NGOs do not get enough funding. Also, recruitment of the right and skilled personnel for research and managerial work is important to effective functioning. We are trying to inculcate these skills so that these NGOs can get better results from their efforts."  ref :  TOI
11. "Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Government established by law in India, shall be punished with imprisonment...."  ref :  FIRSTPOST
12. "You cannot arrest anyone on frivolous grounds. You arrest a cartoonist under sedition and detain and breach his liberty. Have you read 124A [of the IPC]?."  ref :  FIRSTPOST
13. Why didn't you apply your mind before charging him with sedition and arresting him? Today you arrested a cartoonist. Tomorrow it will be a filmmaker or a screenplay writer. We live in a free society and enjoy freedom of speech and expression. Sedition is a pre-independence [law].REF : FIRSTPOST 
14. The state government is working out new laws and initiatives that will strengthen this momentum.REF : TOI 
15. The procedural resemblance and analogous use of language to that in the Lok Sabha was astonishing.REF : TOI 
16. Today's students are the future leaders of our country and it is our responsibility to expose them to our constitution and governing system. The Youth Parliament is a concept which was born out of this thought; its aim is to give an opportunity for today's youth to actually experience a behind the scenes look at what a day in Lok-Sabha entails.REF : TOI 
17. “We will demand of scrapping these tribal schools in remote forest areas so that all students could be accommodated in hostels near talukas where they could be educated along with mainstream students. This will also save costs and be a result oriented solution, instead of tribal schools which have been earning politicians crores.” REF : TOI 
18. The march was to culminate in a gherao at the nearby Petroleum House, but we got information that it was closed.REF : ET 
19. As expected, Ranbir reached Guldev Sagar around 11pm at night. He left at 12.45am. Trying hard to dodge the paparazzi, he quickly sat in his car and left.REF : TOI 
20. Bihar is progressing at a faster pace than the nation for the last 6-7 years, so now people should think about what they want to do with their savings.REF : TOI 
21. Considering the nature of offence and the intention of the applicant to resolve the issue by paying compensation to the wife of the deceased, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail, during pendency of the case. REF : TOI 
22. The state government will also issue a circular to all police stations on what they can do and cannot in complaints lodged before them.. REF : TOI 
23. It is not the business of the police to ask the opposite party to forcibly hand over the children to the complainant party. REF : TOI 
24. It disallows builders from issuing tax invoices to consumers..REF : TOI 
25. This levy, too, is against the provisions of the law as it includes the land cost. Land is an immovable property that cannot be charged as VAT. Neither the government nor developers are spreading awareness about this aspect.  ref :  TOI
26. "The act provides for a 5% levy on the contract value, meaning purchase of the goods and not agreement value, as the developers are claiming. "  ref :  TOI
27. "It is not the business of the police to ask the opposite party to forcibly hand over the children to the complainant party ... The police should have advised the wife to take recourse to remedy permissible in law. We hope and trust that such conduct will not be repeated by any other police officer of Maharashtra police.."  ref :  TOI
28. "Such conduct inevitably impinges upon the rule of law. It is nothing short of abuse of police powers."   ref :  TOI
29. "You will face the consequences for breaching the court's order. The commissioner is the servant of the system. You are not some overlord. The attitude has to change now. You are not living in some colonial era.  "ref :  TOI
30. "Why is your commissioner not meeting them? Are they untouchables? You don't have time." REF : TOI

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