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News Brief Girls Grounded by Spicejet in Delhi Floored by Railways A group of 45 female students and staff from the MOP Vaishnav College in city, who were among the many left stranded at the Delhi airport after Spicejet cancelled their flights earlier this week, were floored by the hospitality provided by the Railway Ministry, which arranged a special coach for them to return to Chennai. The group consisting of 42 college students from the Food Science Department had left for Delhi on December 11 for a conference at National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) in Sonepat, Haryana. They were scheduled to return to Chennai on December 16 by Spicejet flight SG 309 at 7 PM that day, which, however, was first delayed and later cancelled. “Since we had no way out, we reached the Delhi railway station in the cold winter night on Tuesday and were pondering over travelling in an unreserved compartment up to Chennai,” said Usha Ravi, professor at the Food Science department of the college who headed the group. Meanwhile, she managed to source the number of Union MoS for finance and commerce, Nirmala Seetharaman, and told her of their travails. “She is a minister, woman and from Tamil Nadu. After I personally spoke to her, she made some calls and arranged for our lodging at a hotel where our every need was taken care of,” explained Ravi. Though the group desired a coach on the Grand Trunk Express on Tuesday night itself, the ministry could manage to send them only the next day in the Rajdhani Express at 4 PM. A three-tier AC bogie was attached to the train and the relieved group reached Chennai on Thursday night. “We paid `2,800 per head for all the facilities.
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PM Narendra Modi rules out privatisation of Railways Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ruled out privatisation of Railways and said that people must not be wary of foreign and private capital… Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ruled out privatisation of Railways and said that people must not be wary of foreign and private capital being utilised for improving infrastructure of the national transporter which, in turn, will help boost the country’s economy. On a visit to his constituency here, Modi recalled his childhood days when he had sold tea near a railway station, saying, “I have an association with Railways that is older than what most of Railway employees can claim to have. “There is a misunderstanding that Railways is being privatised. However, I want to make it clear that we are not privatising Railways. We cannot go in this direction. You don’t have to worry. It is neither our wish nor thinking,” he said, asking the unions not to pay heed to “rumours” in this regard. The Prime Minister made it clear that he planned to
utilise the enormous capital available with business establishments within the country as well as abroad for improving the infrastructure. “We need to understand and appreciate the potential of the Railways’ huge infrastructure which, if utilised properly, can transform the country’s economy,” he said. He was speaking at the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), on the outskirts of the city, where he inaugurated a project for expansion of the workshop and also dedicated to the nation a 4500 horse-power airconditioned passenger train engine. “We can take the example of a village where there is a railway station through which very few trains pass. Now the existence of the station would naturally result in good electricity supply. “If we construct a few rooms in the vicinity, we can use these for setting up skill development centres which can work wonders
for the unemployed youths in the village and nearby areas,” Modi said. Modi said Railways can be made an attractive career option for many talented young people. “For that we would need to bring in technological upgradation and better human resource management. It is for this purpose that we have decided to set up four Railway universities across the country,” he said. “At these universities, young men who have an interest in Railways and its operations can get bestpossible training before they get a job,” Modi added. The Prime Minister, who also inaugurated a project for expansion of the DLW workshop, said, “This project should be seen as an important part of my government’s Make in India campaign. “I feel proud to have dedicated to the nation the modern rail engine which, I am told, has 96 per cent of its components
indigenously built. “I have got an assurance from officials here that efforts will be made so that even the remaining four per cent are developed here. “We have come a long way since the days when we had to import foodgrains from other countries.” He said that the country has come a long way and the dream of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, of self-sufficiency in food, has been realised. “We must now dream of fulfilling all our needs on our own strength and leave behind the current times wherein we are importing all sorts of things from defence equipment to teargas shells,” Modi added. The Prime Minister, however, allayed fears over introducing private and foreign investment for improving railway infrastructure and said, “why must we increase the burden on common man’s pocket for improving services, upgrading technology and expanding infrastructure. “Why not
Pope Francis, in Christmas Address, Focuses on Children’s Plight Thursday used a traditional Christmas address to emphasize the plight of children in areas of conflict, pointing out their “impotent silence” that “cries out under the spade of many Herods,” a reference to the ancient king who slaughtered all the male newborns of Bethlehem, according to the New Testament. Vast numbers of children today are victims of violence, objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers, and they need to be saved, he said. “Children displaced due to war and persecution, abused and taken advantage of before our very eyes and our complicit silence,” the pope said. He singled out “infants massacred in bomb attacks,” including in the Middle East and in Pakistan, where 132 children were killed in a Taliban attack on a school this month.Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Pope Francis arrived to lead a special audience for Vatican employees at the
Vatican on Monday.Francis Uses Christmas Speech to Criticize Vatican Bureaucracy DEC. 22, 2014 Pope Francis, who helped broker the United States-Cuba agreement, received new ambassadors to the Holy See on Thursday.Under Francis, a Bolder Vision of Vatican Diplomacy EmergesDEC. 18, 2014 “So many abused children,” Francis said, in one of several off-the-cuff asides during the address, known as the “Urbi et Orbi” message — Latin for “to the city and the world” — that popes traditionally deliver to the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics on special occasions like Christmas. In calling for global peace and for an end to violence and conflict in the Middle East, Ukraine and parts of Africa, Francis went off script to denounce “the globalization of indifference” that permits suffering and injustice to persist. “So many men and women immersed in worldliness and indifference” are affected
by hardness of the heart, he said, calling for reflection and change, much as he chided the Vatican’s bureaucratic machine in another address this week for losing touch with its spiritual side in the pursuit of power. As Christians exchanged gifts and shared family meals, the pope’s thoughts were with the world’s dispossessed; refugees and exiles; those suffering “brutal” ethnic or religious persecution; and those held as hostages or killed because of their religious beliefs. Truly there are so many tears this Christmas,” Francis said from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica before thousands of faithful in the square below. The address was also broadcast live on the Internet. To underscore his closeness to those suffering religious persecution, a theme of his nearly two years as pontiff, on Christmas Eve, Francis spoke with displaced Christians who are in a tent camp in northern Iraq and told them that they were like Jesus. Many in the camps
have been forced to leave their homes by militants of the Islamic State. “You are like Jesus on the night of his birth when he had been forced to flee,” the pope told them in a telephone call broadcast live by an Italian Catholic television station. “You are like Jesus in this situation, and that means we are praying even harder for you.” The pope also denounced abortion, and his thoughts turned to “infants killed in the womb, deprived of that generous love of their parents and then buried in the egoism of a culture that does not love life.” In his message on Sunday, the pope said he hoped that the world would respond to the plight of the needy by increasing humanitarian aid, and he asked “that the necessary assistance and treatment be provided” for the victims of Ebola. Closing the address, he called on Jesus’ strength, to turn “arms into plowshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness.” In Britain, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. B
utilise the vast funds that is available with business groups be it here or outside the country”. “Please have no fear. If a foreign company contributes in improving
the condition of our railway stations and in the bargain erects a skyscraper in the vicinity, the country will be the ultimate gainer. “We need to look at novel ways to improve Railways.
That is why I have decided to use the funds at my disposal under the MPLAD scheme for the laying down more benches at the stations in Varanasi,” Modi added.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's fan travels from Bikaner to Delhi, shares 2037 pictures A fan of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has come all the way from Bikaner to Delhi with a photo album containing 2037 pictures of the BJP veteran. "I wish Vajpayee on his birthday and today he is getting Bharat Ratna, for that, I congratulate him. I had earlier shown this album to him in 2006 when it had around 1200 photographs, today it has 2037 photographs of the former prime minister published in various newspapers," said Rajesh Kumar Gehlot, who was seen outside Vajpayee's residence in the national capital.
He added that the album contains Vajpayee's photographs right from his younger days. He also showed to the mediapersons a letter which he had written to Narendra Modi when he had become the Prime
Minister and had demanded him to give Bharat Ratna to Vajpayee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier this month declared that 'Good Governance Day' will be observed on Vajpayee's birthday.
PM Modi to Open 102nd Indian Science Congress on Jan 3, 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Indian Science Congress’s 102 session which is scheduled to be held on January 3 in Mumbai to be attended among others many Nobel laureates and globally-renowned scientists with its central theme being ‘Science and Technology for Human Development’. The inaugural session and main sessions will be held at the Kalina campus of the Mumbai University, with an estimated 12,000 delegates, before its conclusion on January 7. The science congress was held In Mumbai last time in 1969.
The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) was born in 1914 with the initiative of two British Chemists Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P.S. MacMahon, who thought that scientific research in India might be stimulated if an annual meeting of research workers somewhat on the lines of the British Association for the Advancement of Science could be arranged.
From 1914, with 105 members and 35 papers presented at the first session, ISCA has grown into a huge fraternity of more than 10,000 members now. Symposia on relevant themes like the Women’s Science Congress, Children’s Science Congress and a science exhibition would be organised during the session, Mumbai varsity Pro-Vice chancellor Naresh Chandra said.
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Black money: India studying information given by Cyprus India will look at removing Cyprus from the blacklist of countries that do not share details about tax evaders after examining information given the island nation. India had blacklisted Cyprus last year for not sharing information about tax evaders. "They (Cyprus) have given some information. We are just examining whether information given by them is substantive ... if we are satisfied that the information provided is substantive, then matter (of removing Cyprus from Indian ggovernment's blacklist) will be looked at," the top official said today. The Finance Ministry had classified the island nation as a notified jurisdictional area on grounds that Cyprus was not providing information requested by tax authorities under the taxation treaty. Following the notification, all payments made to Cyprus attracted a 30 per cent withholding tax and Indian entities receiving money from there were required to disclose the source of funds. The notification also meant that "no deduction in respect of any other expenditure or allowance arising from the transaction with a person located in Cyprus shall be allowed unless the assessee maintains and furnishes the prescribed information". It had also added that if "any sum is received from a person located in Cyprus, then the onus is on the assessee to satisfactorily explain the source of such money in the hands of such person or in the hands of the beneficial owner, and in case of his failure to do so, the amount shall be deemed to be the income of the assessee". India and Cyprus had entered into an agreement for avoidance of double taxation of income and prevention of fiscal evasion in December 1994. In Budget of 2011-12, the Finance Ministry had inserted a clause - Section 94A - in the Income Tax Act to notify and guard against countries that do not cooperate in the exchange of information protocol. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in June last year had notified rules under which an entity based in a "notified jurisdictional area" will have to give an undertaking to share information in a prescribed format. India, as part of its efforts to counter the menace of black money and evasion of taxes, undertakes legal agreements like Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) and Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with other countries.
Research reveals how 'lung cancer spreads' Scientists have revealed the mystery behind spreading of lung cancer. The researchers at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute discovered that the ties which lash cells together controlled by a protein called TIAM1 - were chopped up when cell maintenance work goes wrong. Healthy cells routinely scrap old cell parts so they could be broken down and used again. But this process spiralled out of control in lung cancer cells, which scraped too many TIAM1 ties. Targeting this recycling
process could stop lung cancer from spreading by keeping the cells stuck firmly together. Lead researcher, Dr Angeliki Malliri, at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester, said that the research showed for the first time how lung cancer cells severed ties with their neighbours and start to spread around the body, by hijacking the cells' recycling process and sending it into overdrive. Targeting this flaw could help stop lung cancer from spreading.
Bigg Boss 8: Kapil Sharma to replace Salman Khan as BB host! Salman Khan will be missing from the Weekend Ka Vaar episode of Bigg Boss 8 this Saturday. Reason: it’s his birthday on December 27 and for the first time across all the seasons that Salman is hosting the reality show, he will not be shooting for an episode. Well, Bigg Boss has given him a day off to celebrate his birthday with close friends and family. Consequently, the nomination and eviction episode will be pushed by a day and will be shot over Sunday and Monday. The Saturday episode will see Kapil Sharma and Co taking over Bigg Boss. Kapil along with Gutthi, Palak and Dadi will be regaling the inmates with their comedy. In fact, from
9 – 11 pm the stand-up comedian and his team will endeavour to entertain the viewers. Salman who will be bringing in his 49th birthday will in all probability be celebrating
at his farmhouse in Panvel. In fact, the superstar will not be in Mumbai until after the New Year as he is juggling the shoot of Bajrangi Bhaijaan in Karjat and Bigg Boss in Lonavla.
Bollywood Celebrities’ Greetings on Christmas Day: Big B Leads the Flock Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher and Neha Sharma have reached out to family, friends and fans via the online medium to wish them a merry Christmas, love and happiness. While some stars are excited about the food and gifts, others have wished for peace and happiness. Here’s what the the stars have shared on microblogging site Twitter as well as on their blog. Amitabh Bachchan: Good night and love and X-mas and 2015 and all things bright and beautiful and the merriment of it …its contagious! Akshay Kumar: Merry Christmas everyone! Be someone’s real life Santa this year, nothing makes you happier than seeing someone happy because of you :) Stay blessed. Anupam Kher: Merry Christmas to all. Love,
Peace & Happiness always. :) Neha Sharma: Thank you guys for all the lovely Christmas wishes… so excited. Vivek Oberoi: Merry Christmas everyone! Hope Santa gifted you all you asked for. :) Enjoy today …eat, laugh and be merry! Abhishek Bachchan: Merry Christmas. Mandira Bedi: Merry Christmas lovely people. Ileana D’Cruz: Well I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I hope you get to relive those lovely childhood memories where Christmas only meant pressies (presents)! On that note… Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Mohit Chauhan: Merry #Christmas everyone! May there be peace, love and kindness everywhere in the world. Gul Panag: Goodbye network. Merry
Christmas. Happy Good Governance Day. Adnan Sami: Here’s wishing all my dear friends A MERRY CHRISTMAS with lots of love and duas. Neil Nitin Mukesh: Wish you all a very merry Christmas. Amrita Rao: Mom’s home baked Christmas chocolate cake is ready… Happy Christmas you all #jinglebell #aaleluya. Aditi Rao Hydari: Merry Christmas! Channelling my inner Santa Claus to spread more love, more joy… lots of happiness… #ChristmasSpiritAllYear. Diana Penty: Merry Christmas morning folks! Did Santa come aknockin’?! Nikhil Chinapa: It is now Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone! (This is not a drill.) Jaaved Jaaferi: Wishing all a peaceful and happy Christmas.(IANS)
Shraddha Kapoor waited for Not Ranbir Kapoor, but Hrithik Roshan, seven years to get good roles Aamir Khan and Saif Ali Khan were Model-actress Tejaswini Kolhapure says she is happy with the way her niece Shraddha Kapoor's career is shaping up in Bollywood. Tejaswini, 34, who was last seen in a small role in Mani Ratnam's Raavan, said the Ek Villain actress waited for seven years to get good roles. "I am proud of Shraddha because she has waited for seven years to get good roles. But the beauty of it was she never slipped and went in a different direction. She has always been very focused," Tejaswini, who is the sister of Padmini Kolhapure, told PTI. Tejaswini, who is expecting her first child with director husband Pankaj Saraswat, has teamed up with Anurag Kashyap again in Ugly. The actress began her journey in Bollywood with Kashyap's murder mystery Paanch, which never released. "The film is good and I don't know why it is not releasing. But it gave me the confidence as an actress that I have done something good. Anurag is the person who had courage and confidence to cast me. I owe my new lease of career to him," she said.
initially approached for 'Bombay Velvet' Director Anurag Kashyap approached actors like Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik Roshan for his ambitious period drama Bombay Velvet before it finally landed with Ranbir Kapoor. The director said he needed a big star to raise money for his big-budget film. Also, starring Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar, the film is currently in post production. Based on author Gyan Prakash’s book, Mumbai Fables, Bombay Velvet chronicles the story of how the city became a metropolis. The Bombay of 1950s and ’60s recreated in Sri Lanka. Anurag now plans to release it in May next year. “Bombay Velvet was expensive from the beginning. It is the most tight budget film of my career. It is a Rs 300 crore movie that we have made into Rs 90 crore. I wanted someone who was not only a good actor but also made it possible for me to raise that kind of money,” said Anurag. “My first choice when I wrote the film in 2006 was Saif Ali Khan. From there it went to Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan. This film has gone around before landing with Ranbir
Kapoor. We also tried to make it with Ranveer Singh but we could raise only Rs 40 to 50 crore,” he added. Anurag said Johar, who has so far done only brief appearances in films, will surprise with his fullfledged negative role in the story. “I feel directors make great actors. A director is the only guy who does not come asking for instructions as he knows where the camera is and what he is supposed to do. Karan will surprise everyone as there is no trace of Karan in his performance.” Anurag has a huge following in the young generation of cinemalovers who look up to him as someone who does not follow norms but the expectations sometimes work against
him. “If my films become successful, my fans think I have sold myself out while mainstream people think they should not put their money into my hands as I would sink it. So, it is like walking on a double-edged sword. “There are a lot of stories but people will know the truth only when Bombay Velvet comes out. It is still a very real film despite being expensive. I have not spent money on something where people fly through air. Nothing flies in my film except birds.” Anurag has come a long way from his troubled debut with Black Friday. He has the success of Dev D and Gangs of Wasseypur behind him but that has not made it easy for him to raise money for his projects.
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Move to celebrate Tipu Sultan's SPORTS ROUND Australia aim to 'box out' birth anniversary stirs a controversy beleagured India in Melbourne Test
The Congress government's move to celebrate the birth anniversary of the 18th century legendary king Tipu Sultan has stirred a controversy in Karnataka, with BJP alleging that it was an attempt by the ruling party to strengthen its vote bank. On December 22, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the government has decided to celebrate "Tipu Jayanti" and the date would be decided shortly. "There has been a lot of pressure from various quarters to celebrate Tipu Jayanti. We have decided to take this into consideration and will announce the date shortly," Siddaramaiah had said at the release of a book Tipu Sultan: A Crusader for Change by historian Prof B Sheik Ali. But this has not gone down well with the BJP,
with its senior leaders claiming that Tipu was a "tyrant" who committed forced conversions in Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts in Karnataka and the neighbouring Kerala. BJP leader Suresh Kumar said Tipu cannot be considered as a person whose birthday should be celebrated by the government, claiming that the erstwhile Mysuru ruler had committed
barbaric acts against people including Kodavas (in Kodagu district). "We (BJP) have our own viewpoint on Tipu Sultan about his administration, especially when you go to Coorg (Kodagu) and other places where people still remember the barbaric acts committed against Coorgis, who refused to oblige his dictates. So, Tipu cannot be considered as a person whose birthday
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should be celebrated by the state government," he claimed. Tipu was a ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore, who was considered an implacable enemy of the British East India Company. He was killed in May 1799 while defending his fort of Srirangapatna against the British forces. When pointed out that Congress considers Tipu as secular,Kumar said that party had its own definition of secularism which is not acceptable worldover. "Yes, Tipu Sultan was and has been as secular as the Congress leaders are because in the Congress dictionary and their viewpoint they have got their own definition of the word secular which is not acceptable the world over," he said. "Congress has felt that by projecting Tipu Sultan, their credentials among their votebank will get strengthened. Having
tasted defeats after defeats since parliamentary elections, it is resorting to the same step. I wish Congress good," he said. State Legislative Council Chairman and senior state BJP leader D H Shankarmurthy told PTI that the government has all the rights to celebrate Tipu's birthday, but the Mysuru ruler was "antiKannada." "Before Tipu ruled Mysuru, Kannada was the official language. He replaced Kannada with Persian, which was an alien language," he said. Moreover, Tipu was not a Kannadiga and he forced conversions in Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada and Kerala, he claimed. Countering Siddaramaiah's remarks that Tipu supported temples and gave money to construct them, Shankamurthy said no one can also ignore his acts of demolishing temples.
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Beleaguered budget carrier SpiceJet would submit a revival plan to the government tomorrow… Beleaguered budget carrier SpiceJet would submit a revival plan to the government tomorrow on the basis of a proposed investment of USD 200 million from founding promoter Ajay Singh and US-based JP Morgan Chase, official sources said today. “Based on this proposed investment, SpiceJet will submit a revival plan to the civil aviation ministry tomorrow,” a source said. The potential investors are likely to buy stake from current promoter Kalanithi Maran by infusing USD 200 million within a month to help the airline stay afloat. Besides Singh, a fund managed by JP Morgan Chase would also be one of the
investors, the sources said. The airline has already received Rs 17 crore from the investors, the sources said, adding that “it has wiped off all its dues to the oil companies”. The no-frill carrier’s dues to foreign and Indian vendors, airport operators and oil companies had grown from Rs 990 crore to Rs 1,230 crore between November 24 and December 10, as per data provided by the airline to the Civil Aviation Ministry. The airline’s dues to foreign vendors, including lessors of aircraft and maintenance, repairs and overhaul (MRO) facilities, had risen from Rs 624 crore on November 24 to Rs 742 crore on December 10.
Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today said the government was trying to be helpful on the SpiceJet issue and the airline needs to clean up its accounts if it has to survive in the market. “What SpiceJet is going through is its own financial problem. It has to clean up its accounts. We are only trying to be helpful,” he told reporters here after inaugurating the e-office governance in the Civil Aviation Ministry and single-window facility at the Airports Authority of India. Why should the government push or pull up any airline? What we need is more players, more airlines and more connectivity,” he said.
Year 2014: Sensex gains over 6,000 pts; gears for best rally in 5 years Riding high on the sentiments, the stock market is gearing up for its best performance in five years with a rally of over 6,000 points in the benchmark Sensex in 2014 — which also saw the investors’ wealth hitting Rs 100 trillion level for the first time in history. With just four days of trading left this year, the Sensex has rallied by nearly 29 per cent so far in 2014 with a gain of 6,038 points — the highest annual gain since the year 2009 when the
bluechip index had rallied by 7,817 points. Besides, the Sensex also has a chance to clock its second best ever annual rally this year, if it manages to end 2014 with a gain of over 6,500 points (recorded in the year 2007). In percentage terms also, the rally this year is the biggest since 2009 (81 per cent). The year also left behind a trail of bullish fervour even as market participants strongly feel that 2015 would belong to bulls with no major negative factor in sight and market driver
FIIs all set to pour in their investments in Indian equities. Experts attribute the rally in stock markets during 2014 largely to the thumping mandate given in general elections to Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre and the subsequent boost to the investor sentiments. The other benchmark index Nifty has also gained nearly 30 per cent, while both the indices crossed several milestones before turning sluggish towards the end of the year amid sale of shares by foreign investors.
'Boxing Day' test matches never cease to surprise. The third test between India and Australia at Melbourne on Friday, just like the previous two tests is expected to produce exciting, nail-biting moments. Picture this...Australia are 2-0 up in the four-match test series and have everything going their way, whereas MS Dhoni's India are struggling to exorcise mental demons, thanks to the close nature of defeats at Adelaide and Brisbane. If Adelaide saw Australia clinch a memorable win, thanks to a flurry of centuries and Nathan Lyon proving to be wrecker-inchief, Brisbane was all about the tail-enders pulling off a virtual coup over Dhoni's side. Are India falling apart? In contrast the Indians have been affected by reports of in-fighting in the dressing room, with Shikhar Dhawan and Kohli being embroiled in the midst of things. Kohli and Dhawan reportedly had a spat over
the latter's 'refusal' to take to field, on the fourth day of the Brisbane test, as the issue spiralled out of control. Thankfully things have cooled down now, as India look to put behind the Brisbane capitulation, and try and salvage something from the series. Amongst the batsmen, only Kohli and Murali Vijay have shined, with the duo scoring three centuries amongst them. Apart from Kohli's twin centuries at Adelaide and Vijay's supreme 144 at Brisbane, the other
batsmen have not done enough to supplement the duo, and a massive shift in form would be required if India's batsmen are to have runs flowing from their willow at Melbourne. The bowling has been haphazard to say the least, as India's pacers have been virtually taken to the cleaners by A u s t r a l i a . Pace...spin...nothing has worked against the rampage conjured up by Australian batsmen, and it won't be a surprise if the trend continues at Melbourne too.
NASA astronauts send Christmas greetings from space In a bid to make cooking gas (LPG) easily available to consumers, 5-kg mini LPG cylinders will now be available at select petrol pumps and neighbourhood grocery stores besides regular gas agencies in almost all major cities. Till now, cooking gas (LPG) was available for domestic use in 14.2-kg cylinders only from gas agencies. Consumers were entitled to 12 such bottles in a year at subsidised rate of Rs 417 in Delhi. Now the subsidised cooking gas will also be available in 5-kg packs. Those entitled to subsidised gas can buy 34 bottles of 5-kg each at Rs 155 per cylinder in Delhi. While the subsidised 5-kg mini LPG clinder will be available only at regular LPG distributor, marketpriced mini LPG cylinders costing Rs 351 can be bought across-the-counter without prior booking and minimal paper work at petrol pumps, gas agencies and select grocery stores. Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan used the 'Good Governance Day' to relaunch the scheme at more outlets across the country. "This is not a new scheme but we are now rebranding and relaunching
it with an elaborate marketing plan so as to make available environment friendly fuel to people," he said on the occasion. The sale of market-priced mini LPG cylinder, which was in March launched by the then Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily at a handful of petrol pumps that are owned and operated by state run fuel retailers, has now been expanded to other outlets as well as grocery stores. The market-priced LPG was being sold at 610 petrol in major cities and this list has been expanded now. It is available at additional 100 locations in the national capital alone, Pradhan said. "On the occasion of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday, which is being observed as Good Governance Day, our oil marketing companies have decided that the scheme will be relaunched," he said. Also, the 5-kg subsidised LPG cylinder which is available only in remote and hilly areas, will also be available in cities, he said. Pradhan said BPLcard holders will get new LPG connection at concessional rate.
WASHINGTON: NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have beamed their greetings to the Earth, wishing everyone a merry Christmas. Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA offered their thoughts and best wishes to the world for Christmas on the behalf of the crew aboard the space station on December 17. "This is definitely going to be a Christmas that we'll remember, getting a chance to see the beautiful Earth, and I hope that for you also it will be a
memorable Christmas this year," said Virts. They were joined by a Christmas tree complete with trimmings, floating between the two astronauts as they delivered their message to people on Earth, 'Tech
Times' reported. Aside from a floating Christmas tree, the astronauts also have Christmas stockings, allowing them to share in the gift-giving tradition despite being hundreds of miles away from their loved ones.
BJP holds 'veto power' in Jammu and Kashmir: Arun Jaitley
Asserting that it has several options in governmentformation in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP on Thursday said it holds the "veto power" in the state. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, BJP's central observer for J&K, told reporters in Jammu that the
party was actively in touch with independent and "unattached" MLAs. "Whoever forms the government, BJP must have a crucial role in it," he said. Jaitley said BJP now holds the "veto power" in the state. "Earlier, the veto power was in the hands of Congress and now it's in the hands of BJP," he said. Addressing the media after a meeting of newly-elected BJP MLAs, Jaitley said the legislators authorised
party President Amit Shah to decide the future course of action on government formation. "All options are open for us. The newlyelected MLAs of the party have decided that they will go with the decision of the party president Amit Shah who will take a decision which is good for the party, the state and the country," he said. "The central leadership of the party will decide where it wants to sit in the assembly or how to form the government," he said.
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Woman who filed rape case GLITCHES MAR Gujarat CM announces hike against Asaram goes 'missing' HOMESTAY ON DAY ONE in daily wages of labourers AHMEDABAD: A 33As the state government However, he faced year-old married woman, who had filed a case of sexual assault against selfstyled godman Asaram Bapu, is mysteriously missing for over a week along with her son and husband, police said today. "A victim of rape, who had accused Asaram of sexual assault, went missing along with her son and husband more than a week ago," Sub-Inspector N M Ahir of Kamrej Police Station in Surat city told PTI over phone. Police department had provided four Constables to the victim for her protection. On December 14, the victim informed our personnel that her family members were going to attend a marriage in Amroli area in the city where they did not require police protection," he said. The Constables remained posted outside her home but neither the
woman nor her son or husband returned. This led police to file a missing complaint on December 18, Ahir said .. Police later found that there was no marriage in the victim's social circuit in Amroli on that day. Their cellphones are switched-off, making it difficult to trace them, the Sub-Inspector said. A probe is underway to locate them, he added. Before disappearing, the Suratbased woman had filed an application in a court saying she wanted to
change her statement recorded under Section 164 of CrPC in the case. The statement recorded under the said Section is admissible at the stage of trial unlike the one recorded before police. However, the court in Gandhinagar rejected her plea last Monday. The women had last year filed a police complaint and accused Asaram Bapu of sexual assault between 1997 and 2006 when she was staying in his ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
Bharuch police nabs Pappu Khokhar Bharuch police got major success by arresting notorious Pappu Ibrahim Khokhar in Hansot. About 200 police men led by district police chief nabbed Khokhar from his home in early morning operation. Khokhar who is involved in number of crimes, was hiding from police for last few days. He is local panchayat member, while his wife Jamilaben Khokhar is Sarpanch of Hansot gram panchayat. After his arrest, Police has sent Khokhar to Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad under PASA. In another related development, one Vinod
Maganbhai Patel from Sajod village was allegedly attacked in his shop in Hansot by Pappu Khokhar ’s son Sajju Khokhar and three others with sword, hockey, stick and knife. Complainant claims that he was threatened him that people from Sajod village must not come to Hansot to do business. Vinod Patel was however rescued by neighboring shop keepers Raju Prajapati and Prakash Valand. Hansot police has filed complaint in this regard. In another development, Hansot based Ilyash Nisar Sheikh filed complaint against 13
prominent Hindus of taluka for damaging a cabin which belongs to a Muslim. Bharuch district is witnessing communal tension for last few week following a Whatsapp message that hurt sentiments of a few Muslims. A large group of Muslims held rally in Bharuch shouting slogans of ‘Allah Akbar’ in Hindu locality a few days back to protest Whatsapp message. Due to rumors spreading fast on mobile phones through messages and applications, police had put ban on internet service for a day.
MP and Actor Paresh Rawal, the cleaning hospital in Ahmedabad Dixit Rudani
Ahmedabad East MP and Actor Shree Paresh Rawal was conducted by the cleanup campaign at Shardaben Hospital Bapunagar. Paresh Rawal Shardaben Hospital arrived in the morning with the workers were cleaning the hospital together with others MLA and Corporators. Sanitation workers and hospital staff after he was administered the oath.
gears up for a grand Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and Vibrant Gujarat meets, its homestay proposal got off to a false start with the contact number advertised for it remaining nonoperational through the day. Interested parties tried hard to get to the number for hours, but in vain. When Mirror contacted the officials concerned, they evaded a reply but accepted that there was some technical error. On Wednesday, several newspapers contained half-page or q u a r t e r - p a g e advertisements inviting visiting delegates for homestay. The advertisement was issued by Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited (TCGL) and depicted photos of the chief minister and other important ministers of the state. The ad contained a number which interested people were asked to contact for information on homestay offer. However, the phone number, 18002005080, was simply not reachable. It either did not ring or elicited a recorded response: "You are important to us, please stay on line, we will transfer your call." After that, there was no response. Paresh Shah, who owns a bungalow in Gandhinagar, was interested in being a part of the government's homestay scheme.
hardship. "We started calling up at 10 am. We kept on calling after some interval till 3.30 pm but were unable to reach the officials concerned. Sometimes the phone simply did not ring and at other a record played, which did not actualise," he said. Mirror too conducted its own trial. For several hours, the number could not be reached. Around 15 attempts were made through the hours. It became operational only after 6.30 pm. When finally the call went through, a person who identified himself as Vishal Goswami picked up the phone. Initially, he denied that there was any problem but later admitted there were some technical issues. When Mirror insisted on speaking to his team leader, the call was directed to Lalit Aswani. Aswani accepted that there were technical problems but refused to share further details. Incidentally, Minister of State for Tourism Jayesh Radadia was unaware of the problem. "I am not aware of it. I will check and tell the officials concerned to act," he said. Attempts to contact TCGL Managing Director Sanjay Kaul failed as his phone was switched off. TCGL Manager Nirav Munshi said, "We have given the responsibility of this toll-free number to an agency. We will speak to them. The number has already started working."
Biting robber, dogged braveheart AHMEDABAD: A 52year-old man, Navin Thakkar, working at a petrol pump, battled a robber who tried to snatch a bag containing Rs 2.93 lakh in Khadia on Wednesday morning. Thakkar managed to catch the robber but suffered multiple bites inflicted on his hand by the robber. The owner of the pump Sanjay Thakkar told TOI that Navin, a resident of Ramol, worked there for 10 years and regularly carries cash to a nearby bank. Khadia police sources said that as part of his routine, Navin was walking to a bank to deposit Rs 2.93 lakh. "Ramesh Solanki, resident of Dholka intercepted him
and asked him about a local address," added Khadia police officials. A moment later, Solanki pounced on Navin and tried to snatch the bag with the cash. "Navin confronted him and raised the alarm. Solanki, desperate to decamp with the bag, inflicted several bites on Navin's hand holding the bag. Navin not only endured the bites, but held on to Solanki until locals rushed to his help," said Khadia police officials. Solanki was handed to Khadia police. "We came to know that Solanki hails from Dholka town of Ahmedabad district. We also suspect him to be involved in other such incidents," said a police source.
Ahmedabad In her address at Shramik Kalyan Mela in Ahmedabad today, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel announced hike in daily wages of laborers in Gujarat in range of 27% to 30%. She said a daily laborer will get hike in range of Rs. 60 to Rs. 65 with this decision by the state government. “Gujarat govt has taken an important decision to
increase daily wages by 27% to 30%. With this, daily average increase in effect will be Rs. 60-65,” she said. She said the state government has divided
laborers in three categories which are – skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled. Kushal(skilled) laborers in zone-1 will get daily payment of Rs. 293 while in zone-2 it will be Rs. 284. Ardh Kushal(semi-skilled) laborers in zone-1 will get Rs. 284, while in zone-2 Rs. 276. Bin Kushal(unskilled) laborers in zone-1 will get Rs. 276 while in zone-2 they will get Rs. 268.
WHY AMC OFFICIALS LOVE TO GO ON PICNIC IN OFFICIAL VEHICLES When it comes to travelling in a hired vehicle, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation officials are a blessed lot. Even privileged. For, they can travel to any destination for personal reasons in government four-wheelers. For these fun, frolic and sometimes pilgrimage trips, they have to pay an apology for a rental for four-wheelers: 75 paise a km. Cheaper than what even a twowheeler ride would cost. And it is all legal. Officials have travelled thousands of kilometres and the municipal corporation has subsidised it by lakhs of rupees collected from the tax-payers. The fact came to light
following an application under the Right to Information Act by Pankaj Bhatt in October. The president of Ahmedabad RTI Association had asked the central office of AMC for details of the travels by the officials while they were on leave. The answers he got are shocking. The civic officials have visited different destinations on different days but the amount they paid is less than the kilometres they travelled. For example, when M D Modia was deputy municipal commissioner in New West Zone, he went to different destinations and logged 11,603 km. He paid Rs 9,752 towards the rental. "If
one considers market rate of around Rs 10 a km, he should have paid Rs 1,16,030, but he paise a fraction of the cost," Bhatt told Mirror. According to the answer of the RTI, I K Patel, who has taken the charge of DyMC after his transfer during Lok Sabha elections, has logged the highest number of kilometres by an official. He took his government vehicle to different places totaled 12,736 km. Similarly, S M Khatri travelled 4,078 km and paid Rs 3,776 while U C Padia paid Rs 7,328 for the 7,858 km he covered. Interestingly, technically these officials did nothing wrong, for they followed the rule and paid the rental prescribed.
Rajkot mayor tells girls not to wear jeans, to avoid tight-fitting clothes Rajkot, 25 December, 2014
Girls should not wear jeans as that was “not our culture and if they want to wear it anyhow, they should wear long tops with them”, Rajkot city mayor Raksha Boliya advised while speaking at a seminar on marriage abroad, here on Tuesday. “I notice that most of you area wearing jeans. You shouldn’t be wearing jeans as that is not our culture and if you want to wear it anyhow, you should wear long tops with it. But you should avoid wearing tight-fitting clothes,” Boliya, who was guest of honour at the seminar, said while addressing college girls. The seminar was organised by Guajarat State Non-resident Gujarati Foundation (NRGF), a state government body set up to act as a link between Nonresident Gujaratis (NRGs), to raise awareness among girls over issues of marrying youths living abroad. This is the second such session after the NRGF held a similar event on Monday in Ahmedabad where a
police station for NRIs was proposed. These events are being held as a build-up to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to be hosted at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on January 7-9. Frauds in marriages with NRIs are rising in Gujarat too, after Punjab. Leelaben Ankoliya, the chairperson of the state commission for women in Gujarat had said at the Ahmedabad edition of the event that she received 125 complaints of such frauds. The mayor reasoned that NRGs prefer Gujarati girls for a variety of reason. “They know that you (Gujarati girls) will respect culture and and will also remain loyal to the family. So, respect the culture of the country you immigrate to but do not be swayed
by it. You should also make the Gujarati culture stand out,” Boliya added. Other experts at the seminar advised girls to conduct background checks and stick to some fundamental rules while marrying to youths living abroad. “Rather than rushing into marriage with youths living abroad, you should conduct enough background check. Those going abroad on dependent visa area are not eligible for work permit. So, women remain dependent on their husband after marriage. But you have to keep your immigration and educational documents handy all the while so that in the event of a marital discord, you have enough held available,” said Bhavna Joshipura, a citybased advocate. The advocate said that in case of marital discords, laws of the country where the marriage ceremony takes place, apply. “But the best way to remain out of trouble is to remain on guard all the while. There is a domestic violence Act in the US too.
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