This week the Thursday quiz is flush with success, having been part of a team that won a pub quiz at the weekend. The quiz didn’t feature Kate Bush or Sparks, but there was a Doctor Who question, so victory had clearly been written in the stars. Will you be so lucky? You face 15 questions of varying degrees of topicality, stupidity and impossibility. Unlike at the weekend, when the Thursday quiz walked out of the pub an entire £9.50 richer, there are no prizes because this is just for fun. But let us know how you got on in the comments.
The Thursday quiz, No 105
If you think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email martin.belam@theguardian.com but remember the quiz master’s word is final, and this week he is a quiz champion and his team have won the league and he will have no truck with your nonsense.
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New Delhi: As the Delhi Police questioned Rahul Gandhi over his “women still being sexually assaulted” remark, the Congress on Sunday took a jibe at the government, saying “Savarkar samjha kya… naam Rahul Gandhi hai”.
Law Minister and BJP leader Kiren Rijiju responded on Twitter urging not to “insult” the great personality (Veer Savarkar). “I request with folded hands,” the minister said.
The Congress tweeted a photo of the former party chief in the driver’s seat of a car, and said, “Savarkar samjha kya… naam- Rahul Gandhi hai (Have you considered him Savarkar?… the name is Rahul Gandhi).”
Reacting to it, Rijiju said, “Kripya mahan atma Veer Savarkar ka apmaan na karen. Haath jod kar vinti karta hun (Please don’t insult great personality Veer Savarkar. I request with folded hands)”.
A Delhi Police team on Sunday questioned Gandhi at his residence here over his remark made during the Bharat Jodo Yatra that “women are still being sexually assaulted and asked him to provide information about the “victims” to take up their complaints, officials said.
SRINAGAR: In anticipation of imposing property tax being on Jammu and Kashmir from fiscal 2023-24, the administration has literally posed a quiz – how to calculate property tax.
This is the main Srinagar city called the down-town where congested housing is the norm. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
The order issued said that five per cent of the taxable annual value (TAV) will be charged as property tax in residential structs and six per cent in the case of residential structures. But how to calculate the TAV? For this, the notification has offered a formula, which is being discussed almost everywhere, especially in Srinagar.
The formula is:
Taxable Annual Value (TAV) = MTF x LVF x ARF x FF x UTF x CTF x AGF x SF x OSF
But calculating the individual parameters in the complex multiplication is also challenging. It looks more like an inorganic chemistry chain reaction rather than a mathematical calculation.
The order has given details about what these terms are and how much of value should they be carrying. Here it is:
MTF is Municipality Type Factor. Its value shall be entered in the formula as follows:
Municipal Council – 0.75
Municipal Committee – 0.5
LVF is Land Value Factor. It is one-tenth of the unit area value of land in Rs lakh per kanal of land as notified under J&K Preparation and Revision of Market Value Guideline Rules, 2011 as on 1st April of the base year of that block of three years. e.g. for the first block from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2026, if the per kanal value of land as on 1st April 2023 as per the aforementioned value guidelines is Rs 60 lakh, it be entered as 6 in the above calculation and shall continue to be entered as 6 during the three financial years of the block.
ARF is the Area Factor. It is the built area or the vacant area in respect of which the tax liability is being calculated, as the case may be, in square feet. In the case of Property tax on built area, it refers to the total covered area of that floor in square feet. In case of areas with winter snowfall, the area of the attic shall not be counted in the built-up area. In the case of Property tax on vacant land not appurtenant to a building, the area of the vacant land in square feet shall be entered. In the case of Property tax on vacant land appurtenant to a building, the area to be entered in the formula shall be the area, in square feet, in excess of two times the built-up area of the ground floor.
FF is Floor Factor. For calculating the liability of different floors and vacant land abutting the building, the floor factor shall be entered in the formula as follows.
Residential buildings including flats:
Other buildings: 1
Ground floor 1
First floor 0.8
Second floor 0.7
Third floor and above 0.5
Vacant land 0.1
Basements for all types of buildings: 0.5
UTF is Usage Type Factor. For vacant land appurtenant to a building, it shall be the same as that of the building itself. Where different portions of a building are put to different uses, property tax for the built-up area as well as the taxable vacant appurtenant area shall be separately calculated, proportionately, for each area under a particular use. The value to be entered in the formula for different usage types shall be as follows:
Residential apartment/ flat 2
Residential House 2.5
Industrial (Manufacturing) 5
Institutional/Public/Semi-Public 7
Commercial, except 3-star and above Hotels: 12
towers & hoardings
3-star and above hotels, 15
towers & hoardings.
CTF is the Construction Type Factor. Its value shall be entered in the formula as follows, based on the predominant and substantive nature of the construction:
RCC construction 1
Pucca (without RCC) construction 0.9
Prefabricated structure 0.8
Kuccha/Bamboo/Wood/Tin Structure 0.6
AGF is Age Factor. The value for this factor shall be entered in the formula as follows:
a.
0-20 years old
1.00
b.
20-30 years old
0.90
C.
30-40 years old
0.80
d.
40-50 years old
0.70
e.
50-60 years old
0.60
f.
More than 60 years old
0.50
SF is Slab Factor. The value of slab factor shall be entered in the formula as follows based on the total built-up area calculated as indicated at 3 above.
Residential houses/ apartments
i. Upto 1000 sft – 0
ii. Above 1000 sft upto 1500 sft. – 0.75
iii. Above 1500 sft upto 2000 sft – 1.0
Above 2000 sft upto 2500 sft – 1.15
Above 2500 sft upto 5000 sft – 1.30
Above 5000 – 1.5
Other usage types
Upto 100 sft – 0.50
Above 100 sft upto 250 sft – 0.75
iii. Above 250 sft upto 500 sft 1.00
Above 500 sft upto 1000 sft 1.15
Above 1000 sft upto2500 sft 1.30
Above 2500 sft upto 5000 sft 1.5
VII. Above 5000 sft 2.0
OSF is Occupancy Status. The value of this factor for built-up properties shall be entered in the formula as follows:
Mumbai: A three-member team of Mumbai Police on Thursday met the family members of Darshan Solanki, a student of IIT-Bombay who ended his life on the Powai campus on February 12 – and recorded their statements, a family member said.
The police called on Solanki’s family members at their home in Maninagar on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on Thursday morning and posed various questions pertaining to 18-year-old Solanki’s sudden death.
Simultaneously, several student bodies in Gujarat will hold a peace procession which will culminate with a candle-lit march to pay homage to Solanki, the relative told IANS, but declined to be quoted.
The procession and candle march will be held in Ahmedabad and several other cities of Gujarat between 6.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, he added.
A day before, the distraught family had expressed suspicions of foul play behind the extreme measure taken by Solanki – who hailed from a Dalit family – shocking the educational circles all over the country.
The police had earlier recorded the family’s initial statements and are now questioning other students and hostelites on various aspects, including allegations of caste discrimination, which the IIT-B management has officially denied.
A student body on the campus, Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle-IITB, had issued a detailed statement last Monday pointing at alleged caste discrimination, which the IIT-B has rejected outright.
Meanwhile, Dalit leader and Congress MLA from Vadgam, Jignesh Mevani, on Thursday demanded an investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the death of Solanki.
Mevani told the media in Ahmedabad that the tragic incident involved a Dalit student who got into IIT Bombay after clearing the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) with flying colours.
The Maharashtra government should set up an SIT to probe the incident because the family suspects foul play, Mevani said. The Dalit leader also demanded that the government should pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the deceased student’s family.
Solanki’s father, Ramesh Solanki, has alleged that his son was harassed by the other students because “we are Dalits”.
“When he visited us during Makar Sankranti, he had complained to his aunt that the other students were harassing him, taunting him that ‘because you are a Dalit, you got an opportunity to study free of cost’,” Ramesh Solanki said.
In a related development, the students of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalay in Wardha have sent a memorandum to President Draupadi Murmu urging the Centre to enact a ‘Rohith Vemula Act’ to safeguard students from marginalised communities in nationally important institutions of higher learning and end the suicides that are being reported from there, citing the two cases – one each at IIT-B and IIT-Madras this week – and an attempted suicide case in IIT-Madras.
The Thursday quiz hopes that Valentine’s Day was everything you dreamed it would be, and that today’s quiz will not give you nightmares. You face 15 questions of varying degrees of topicality, difficulty, and sensibility. There are no prizes, it is just for fun. Let us know how you got on in the comments.
The Thursday quiz, No 95
If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email martin.belam@theguardian.com, but remember the quizmaster’s word is final, and he is actually in Oxford today visiting the Knossos exhibition at the Ashmolean so won’t read them.
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