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News Brief Obama security: AWACS to be deployed on R-Day New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 For the first time, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) are likely to be deployed here on the Republic Day for vigil from the skies during the parade where US President Barack Obama will be the Chief Guest. The AWACS will monitor air space on and around Rajpath where the parade will be witnessed by Obama along with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of other dignitaries.
Scrap dealer killed in explosion Ghaziabad, Jan 21,2015 A scrap dealer was killed this morning when a television condenser exploded while he was sorting junk items in Alvi Nagar colony under Lonia Kotwali area, police said. Hashmat, a resident of Kolkata, was killed when the television condenser exploded as he going through scrap items in front of his house, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Arvind Yadav. A forensic team was summoned to examine the residual contents of the scrap, officer said.
BSF rescues abducted man in Meghalaya Shillong, Jan 21, 2015 A 65-year-old abducted man was rescued by BSF from the clutches of kidnappers when they were trying to shift him near Fakirako n a i n South Garo Hills district along the Indo-Bangla border, a BSF official said today. The incident took place when BSF challenged the abductors on the zero line yesterday. While fleeing they left behind former school teacher Robinson R Marak, he said. Marak had been kidnapped from his residence in Chambalgiri village on December 17 last.
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Delhi elections 2015: Over 900 candidates in fray New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 Around 916 candidates are in the fray for the February 7 Assembly election in Delhi and about 532 of them including BJP's chief ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Ajay Maken filed their nominations today. Bedi will contest from BJP stronghold of Krishna Nagar while Kejriwal will seek re-election from the prestigious New Delhi constituency where he had defeated three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit by over 22,000 votes last time. "Around 916 candidates, including Independents, have filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Assembly elections. However, we are now compiling the data to ascertain the exact number of candidates," said a senior official at the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer's office. Of the total, around 532 candidates today filed their nomination papers,
the official said, adding as many as 384 candidates had filed their nominations yesterday. Meanwhile, the official said a total of 117 FIRs has been lodged against different political parties till January 20 for violation of the Model Code of Conduct, which came into force on January 12. "Out of the 117 FIRs, 52 have been registered against AAP while 22 have been lodged against BJP. Twenty-six and 10 FIRs were lodged against Congress and BSP, respectively," the official said. Till yesterday, a total 10569 persons have been booked under various sections of CrPC/Delhi Police Act, and as
quite significant because it comes at a time when the RSS is learnt to be unhappy with the projection of Bedi as the BJP's CM nominee. Talking about her decision to join the BJP, Bedi said she did so to defeat the "confrontational politics" preventive measures 110 of Aam Aadmi Party's licensed arms were Arvind Kejriwal. deposited, 11 unlicensed arm and 1039 cartridges were seized. Delhi elections: For BJP's Kiran Bedi, RSS a 'very nationalist PARIS Jan 21,2015 organisation' that has kept Two weeks after one India united New Delhi: of the deadliest attacks Bharatiya Janata Party's ever to hit France, Prime chief ministerial candidate Minister Manuel Valls for Delhi Kiran Bedi on announced “exceptional” Wednesday lavished measures on Wednesday to praise on the party's fight terrorism and parent organisation the reinforce a package of RSS calling it a "very existing laws that are nationalist" organisation. already considered to be Bedi, who filed her among the strictest in nomination for the Europe. Mr. Valls made his Assembly election from Krishna Nagar announcements at a news constituency, said the conference after France RSS is a very nationalist formally charged and organisation that has kept detained four men accused of providing logistical India united. The statement is support to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three
improving ties with Japan and Vietnam, both locked in territorial disputes with Beijing, and contesting a port project in Bangladesh that could otherwise have been a cakewalk for China. The new robust diplomacy, which Modi calls “Act East”, has delighted Washington, which has been nudging India for years to dovetail with the U.S. strategic pivot toward the region. When President Barack Obama makes a landmark visit to India starting Sunday, he will be the chief guest at New Delhi’s showpiece Republic Day military parade, and rarely for a
made a U-turn to join the BJP, she said she got inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies. M e a n w h i l e , commenting on Bedi joining the BJP, Hazare said, "Politics is dirty. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to comment on Kiran Bedi." Ever since she joined
the BJP, Bedi had been trying to contact Hazare but has failed to do so. She has repeatedly called him up but has never been able to talk to him. On Wednesday, Hazare has made his displeasure by maintaining that he did not approve of party politics. In fact, this was the cause of the rift between and Kejriwal too.
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As Barack Obama visits, signs that India is pushing back against China New Delhi,Jan 21,2015 When Sri Lanka unexpectedly turfed out President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an election this month, it was the biggest setback in decades for China’s expansion into South Asia – and a remarkable diplomatic victory for India. Despite New Delhi’s protestations, diplomats and politicians in the region say India played a role in organising the opposition against pro-China Rajapaksa. His successor, President Maithripala Sirisena, has said India is the “first, main concern” of his foreign policy and that he will review all projects awarded to Chinese firms, including a sea reclamation development in Colombo that would give Beijing a strategic toehold on India’s doorstep. India has pushed back against China elsewhere in the region since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in May,
At one point in time, Bedi was Kejriwal's colleague in Team Anna and had launched agitation along with him. She broke away with him on the issue of forming AAP, saying that like their leader Anna Hazare she too was against party politics and electoral politics. However, after she
presidential trip, is not scheduled to visit any other country before returning to Washington. “What is appealing to me and my colleagues is the fact that Prime Minister Modi has undertaken to build from what has been a ‘Look East’ policy to an ‘Act East’ policy,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific Daniel Russel said in Washington last month. “He has shown in word and deed his interest in involving India in the thinking and the affairs of the broader region. That’s very much to be welcomed.” Washington made no
bones about its distaste for Rajapaksa, who critics accuse of war crimes, corrruption and nepotism. But until last year India was indecisive, perhaps afraid of pushing the hero of the war against Tamil separatists even closer to China. That changed in September, when Rajapaksa allowed a Chinese submarine to dock in Colombo, without informing India, as it was bound to under an existing agreement. “That was the last straw,” a senior Indian diplomat told Reuters. “He told Modi: “the next time I will keep you informed,”” the diplomat said, a promise that was broken when the submarine visited again in November. In the build up to the Jan 8 election, India played a role in uniting Sri Lanka’s usually fractious opposition, for which the station chief of India’s spy agency was expelled, diplomatic and political sources say.
gunmen involved in the three-day onslaught. François Molins, the Paris prosecutor, said at news conference that the four men, ages 22 to 28, were being formally investigated on charges of a “terrorist conspiracy to commit crimes against people.” One of them will face an additional charge of carrying weapons “in relation with an initiative to carry out terrorist acts.” The full names of the men, the first to be charged in the attacks in which 17 people were killed, were not released. A memorial near the
offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where a rampage that claimed 17 lives began.Paris Journal: At Sites Honoring Victims of Paris Attacks, Concerns About the FutureJAN. 20, 2015 Prime Minister Manuel Valls, center, in Paris after his address. He spoke as a n t i t e r r o r i s m investigations continued in Europe.French Premier Says ‘Apartheid’ Is Leaving Minorities on the Fringe JAN. 20, 2015 Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris on Jan.
9.Open Source: Paris Mayor Plans to Sue Fox Over False Reports of ‘No-Go Zones’JAN. 20, 2015 Mr. Valls said that France would provide an additional 425 million euros, or more than $490 million, and create over 2,500 new jobs to buttress the fight against terrorism and monitor the approximately 3,000 people the police consider surveillance targets. A bill aimed at updating the legal framework for intelligence and surveillance operations would also be introduced in Parliament in March, Mr. Valls said.
IMF growth forecast for India needs to be taken with a pinch of salt New Delhi,Jan 21,2015 Every bull market needs a story. In fact, different phases of the same bull market need different stories. The latest story to hit the Indian stock market is that India will grow faster than China in 2016. This economic forecast has been made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the World Economic Forum Outlook Update which was released yesterday (January 20, 2015). In this update, the IMF expects India to grow by 6.5% against China's 6.3%. This forecast is along the lines of another forecast made by the World Bank on January 14, where it said that India will grow by 7% in 2017-2018. It expects China to grow by 6.9% during the course of that year. The IMF offers reasons as to why it sees growth in China slowing down from 7.8% in 2013 to 6.3% in 2016. “Investment growth in
China declined in the third quarter of 2014, and leading indicators point to a further slowdown. The authorities are now expected to put greater weight on reducing vulnerabilities from recent rapid credit and investment growth and hence the forecast assumes less of a policy response to the underlying moderation,” the IMF states. For India, the IMF states that the “weaker external demand” will be “offset by the boost to the terms of trade from lower oil prices and a pickup in industrial and investment activity after policy reforms.” As far as justifications are concerned, you cannot get more general than this. Having said that, this bit of news drove the BSE Sensex to rally by 1.84% to close at 28,784.67 points on January 20. The foreign institutional investors who have been at the forefront of driving the Indian stock over the last few years, bought stocks
worth Rs 1275.59 crore. The domestic institutional investors, who on most days do the opposite of what the FIIs are doing sold stocks worth Rs 761.7 crore. With India likely to grow faster than China in the years to come, it is but natural that FIIs want to bet their money on India. Nevertheless, the question is, should the IMF forecast on India (or even their forecasts in general) be taken so seriously? IMF forecasts in general have a certain amount of optimism bias built into them. As Chris Giles wrote in the Financial Times in October 2014: “Between 2011 and 2014, these forecasts have averaged 0.6 percentage points higher than the outturn...In the very laudable exercise to examine what went wrong, the fund discovered about half of its errors came from predicting greater strength in Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – than occurred.”
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New address, same hardships In December 2013, shivering under a tarpaulin tent at a relief camp in Loi, Muzaffarnagar, Rahisa lost her five-year-old son, three months after she had fled her village following the September riots. In December 2014, four months after she bought land in a new colony for people displaced from her village, just opposite the original camp, she lost another son days after his birth. “It will be a month on January 20. My baby was just eight or nine days old. There was no time to take him to hospital,” says Rahisa, who hails from Kherad in Muzaffarnagar. “It is so cold and we are still living under tarpaulin structures. We spent all our money on the plot and there was nothing left for building a home.” Her three surviving children too have recurring fever and cough. “We have started building our home only now, for the children. It is the only way to save their lives,” she says. She has not taken her children to a hospital yet; a haqeem from adjoining Budhana is giving them medicine. These new colonies, one in Loi, one in Ahmednagar and a third, named Aman colony, in Kandhla, have come up near Muslim-majority areas, in the vicinity of the old camps. People bought the land from Muslim owners from September last year. But with no water or electricity, drainage systems or toilets yet, and the bulk of the compensation provided by the state spent in buying the land, life has not changed much for riot victims. Garbage is piled on the lanes, water stagnates in potholes, and mosquitoes hover around the colony. Pitch dark at night, the colony stands out from other parts of Loi village. Sharafat Ali lost his newborn daughter Ayesha nearly two months ago, a death he attributes to the winter. A year earlier, he had lost his first child in the camp in Loi. “Tell me, what has changed for us?” he says. “Till the relief camp was running, we had at least a structure of organised committees to fight for us. The children would get milk, and rations were supplied weekly. Now we are on our own, and there is no time to take the children to hospital,” says Ali, who too is staying in the new colony in Loi. Since the camps were declared closed in Muzaffarnagar, their residents say they have had to do without the help they were getting from the administration or from local political leaders who had set up relief committees; these were dismantled after the Lok Sabha elections. Mohammad Salim, part of a new four-member committee elected by colony residents, said the SDM came on his first visit on Friday. “There were reports of deaths, so the SDM came. We told him to first clean the lanes of garbage,” Salim says. “Yes, we have bought plots, but are we not entitled to basic facilities like other citizens? With such conditions here, obviously there will be more disease and death.” Village leaders who had been part of the committees in Loi don’t visit the colony, residents allege. “The pradhan is with the SP, and until the Lok Sabha polls he would come and take our problems to the administration. We bought land from him and this colony has come up. But after the polls, he has stopped coming,” says Irshad, from Fugana. People say residents of Loi have become hostile, even on matters like burying their dead in the village graveyard. “They tell us we should get our own graveyard, but where is the money to buy more land?” Saleem says. Abdul Jabbar, pradhan of Loi, says the committee was “automatically” dismantled after the camp closed. “When district authorities come, they still meet us, but we are not in touch with them regularly. We have helped them as much as we could. I sold them land cheap, and if someone comes for help we never turn him away,” Jabbar says. Muzaffarnagar ADM Indermani Tripathi, who was put in charge of the camps and supervised their closure last year, did not respond to calls and messages from The Indian Express. SDM (Budhana) J P Gupta, who went to the colonies last week, says meetings will be held this week to review the facilities. “We have done a preliminary survey and will share the details with senior district authorities,” he says. “The camps were closed last year, so obviously medicines and rations were stopped. When people moved and settled elsewhere, how can district authorities keep going to them?”
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Prime Minister Modi and the BJP’s victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was a victory of “Indianness”. Modi’s ascension to power marked the beginning of a “new period”. - Senior Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi said
Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu to Shah Rukh Khan Becomes Second Most Followed Indian Celeb On Twitter have a small, intimate wedding
Actors Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu have decided to have a low-key wedding at their house in Khar here. The bride is confident it will be special, while her mother and actress Sharmila Tagore says she's "very happy" for her daughter. Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu will tie the knot Sunday, and it will be a departure from the grand five-day celebrations at Soha's brother actor Saif
Ali Khan's wedding to actress Kareena Kapoor two years back. Photos: Aww! Soha Ali Khan kisses mother Sharmila Tagore "Our wedding will take place at our home, where Kunal and I stay. It will be a small wedding in the presence of our family members," Soha said here. The duo has been dating for quite some time, and they have been living together.
Soha Ali Khan got engaged to Kunal Khemu in Paris last year. The couple has worked together in the 2009 film "99". Sharmila Tagore says she's "very happy". "We are celebrating... What will happen that day (on wedding day), I don't know... I'll feel a little bit emotional that day," said the actress and wife of late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Bollywood’s King Khan, Shah Rukh has crossed 11 million followers on Twitter. ‘Happy New Year’ star Shah Rukh Khan has now become the second Indian to achieve so many followers on Twitter, after Amitabh Bachchan, who has 12.8 million followers. Recently, Big B was honoured with Social Media Person Of The Year Award. That’s about India, globally, ‘Happy New Year’ star Shah Rukh Khan stands on 90th position, whereas Amitabh Bachchan is on 70th position. It’s been 5 years since the superstar, Shah Rukh Khan joined Twitter on January 2, 2010. Now SRK has 8,163 Tweets so far. King Khan, Shah Rukh joined Twitter after director and his really good friend, Karan Johar insisted. “Being extremely shy, I never thought I would be here (on Twitter). But my friend Karan Johar insisted that I should learn to share my life,” SRK
posted after joining Twitter. Bigg Boss Season 8 house : Click Here For Breaking Updates, Photos Soon after the actor joined, he has been sharing his thoughts, quotes, pictures with his family and from his shoots on Twitter. In fact, King Khan shared the first picture of his son AbRam on Twitter. The other two Khans
of Bollywood, Salman and Aamir are not that far behind in the game. Aamir Khan has 10.8 million followers on Twitter and Salman Khan has 10.2 million. Other B-town celebrities who have quite good followers on Twitter are Deepika Padukone (9.13 million), Priyanka Chopra (8.51 million), Hrithik Roshan (8.22 million) and Akshay Kumar (7.27 million)
Sushant Singh Rajput celebrates Akshay Kumar to host special episode of Savdhaan India - Fight Back Now birthday with girlfriend
Mumbai: 'Kai Po Che' star Sushant Singh Rajput, who turned 29 today, celebrated his birthday with longtime girlfriend Ankita Lokhande. Sushant, who was last seen in 'PK', took to Twitter to thank his fans and colleagues for the wishes on his birthday. The actor even posted a picture with his actress girlfriend and wrote a line from the song 'Ruk Ja O Dil...' from 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'. "Ruk jaa O dil deewane, puchhu to main Zara... Haha.. Thank you everyone for your love and wishes..!! Love," Sushant posted on Twitter. Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who will be working with Sushant in his next film 'Paani', called him one of the "best young actors". "Happy Birthday to one our best young actors
The actor will be narrating an episode on eve-teasing and women safety - a story of a teenaged girl getting harassed and molested by her classmate, read a statement. Akshay has always been passionate about martial arts and attributes his life's success to it. He will host the "Savdhaan India..." episode from his The episode will air own training centre where on Friday on Life OK, on he teaches young girls today. Have a great day, upcoming film 'Detective martial art and self- which the actor had earlier Sushant!!," Kapur Byomkesh Bakshy'. hosted reality show "Dare defence techniques. tweeted. "Mystery Unravels "Yo byomkeshda... tomorrow...!! Excited," @itsSSR... Happy birthday Sushant wrote last dada... Can you please evening. After 'Detective solve this mystery of Byomkesh Bakshy', the migrating cars in bandra?," actor will be next seen in Stunt Silva is the now Yennai Arindhaal. Sujoy Ghosh tweeted. The MS Dhoni biopic, which On doing Ajith's day will also mark the will hit theatres on October man behind the stunning films continuously, Silva action sequences of trailer launch of Sushant's 22. Mankatha, Veeram and says, "It is more like a destiny. Director Venkat Prabhu introduced me to Ajith sir in Mankatha, my first film with him. The stunt sequences got scriptwriters Salim Khan and noticed. Then director Javed Akhtar for the “perfect Shiva got me into Veeram. The train fight script”. The movie, which got raving responses from revolves around two brothers every corner. I have a policeman and a criminal also worked with Gautham stars Shashi Kapoor in the lead. Menon in his last four “40 years! 40 years ago, projects. So he wanted this day, DEEWAR was the combo to continue. released!! 21st Jan 1975. Adding to this, Ajith sir Thank you Salim—Javed likes me very much." About the stunt Saheb for the most perfect in the Amitabh Bachchan- screens 40 years back and the script,” Big B tweeted on sequences upcoming Yennai starrer “Deewaar” hit the megastar has thanked its Wednesday.
2 Dance". The actor's film Baby is set to hit the big screen on 23rd January.
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Arindhaal, Silva says, "All the stunts were shot live. The train fight got raving responses from every corner. I have worked with Gautham Menon in his last four projects. So he wanted the combo to continue. Adding to this, Ajith sir likes me very much."We have tried to create like a real fight". He further adds, "Ajith always has a habit of getting us tensed by taking some scary risks. In one of the stunt sequences we had requested him to use regular glass panes that are used for stunt purposes but he broke a real glass pane with bare head".
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Congress unhappy over Sibal representing WB government in Saradha Scam New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 Congress made known its unhappiness over its senior leader Kapil Sibal representing West Bengal government in the multi-crore rupees Saradha scam in the Supreme Court, two days after its state unit expressed objection to it. "I fully endorse the views expressed by the West Bengal Congress," said C P Joshi, party general secretary incharge of the state, making clear the unhappiness over the Trinamool Congress. West Bengal former Union Minister appearing in the SC for Congress President Adhir the government of rival Ranjan Chowdhury, on
Monday said, "Sibal is a known face of the Congress and a former Union minister. He is
Coal scam: BJP welcomes 'questioning' of Manmohan Singh, seeks speedy probe New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 BJP today welcomed examination of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by CBI in connection with the coal block allocation case and demanded that political beneficiaries of the scam also be questioned expeditiously to restore public confidence in the country's governance system. BJP also attacked the erstwhile Congress-led UPA regime for "shielding" the political leadership, including the former Prime Minister, and hoped the investigating agency under the supervision of "BJP welcomes CBI's questioning of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who also held the coal portfolio when most of the irregularities in coal scam took place. CBI has
examined the former Prime Minister on the advice of the CBI Special Court judge...," BJP spokesperson G V L Narsimha Rao said. "We seek a comprehensive, unbiased and expeditious investigation... BJP expects a comprehensive enquiry covering all the actors private, public and political - involved in perpetrating the scam "The massive coal scam could
not have been scripted without strong political nexus between Congress leadership and allottees. There is circumstantial evidence in public domain to show the linkages between the allottees and the leadership of the ruling party at the time," he said. The CBI has so far registered around 36 FIRs in the coal scam and most accused are promoters of private companies and a few public officials.
representing the state government in the Saradha case in the Supreme court. We feel bad." Joshi said he has conveyed the sentiments of the state Congress unit to the party high command. At the AICC briefing, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Sibal, a prominent lawyer, should take note of the sentiments of the p a r t y u n i t i n We s t Bengal. Chowdhury, a former Union minister had said, "As long as I am the state Congress president, I can say that
Sibal will not be invited to any programme of the party here." Asked whether he informed the party high command about this, the WBPCC president had said, "It has been communicated to the AICC leadership informally." West Bengal and its ruling party Trinamool Congress on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into the multicrore rupees Saradha scam, alleging that the agency was acting as an "instrument" of the Centre and targeting the TMC leaders.
Delhi High Court to Centre: Remove freeze on foreign contributions received by Greenpeace India New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the government to remove the freeze on the IDBI Bank account of Greenpeace India, which has foreign contribution of Rs 1.87 crore from Greenpeace International. The court observed that the government had not brought any “evidence on record” to support its action of freezing the account. “According to me, there is no material on record to restrict the petitioner from accessing the bank account with the IDBI Bank in Chennai,” said the court of Justice Rajiv Shakdher. It said that the “amount in fixed deposited in the bank be unblocked and transferred to the NGO’s account”.
The court took note of the submissions made by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which had alleged that the “foreign funds” had been contributed by Greenpeace International, which was on its watchlist, but observed that the ministry’s directions to freeze the account had been given before any notice was issued to the NGO. “How do you respond to the NGO’s allegation. At least, you should say something. First you freeze the account then you investigate the case, which is very, very uncommon,” observed the court, adding that the ministry had not been able to show on record any evidence that the NGO had been engaged in activities that went against national interest.
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SPORTS ROUND For India's revival, Dhoni needs to go beyond his paintball theory Just before the start of the fourth Test between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Mahendra Singh Dhoni made his way to the Spartan tent and learnt the art of crafting a bat. A match was going to be played and he simply didn’t need to pay attention – he didn’t need to strategise or watch videos or offer advice. It was the kind of carefree act that Dhoni had not managed in the last decade. In a certain sense, he was finally free. He didn’t attend practices in the lead-up to the Test then he helped the team during practice on the morning of the Test – because he wanted to, not because he had to. In between, he met John Abraham and before he knew it – the ODI tri-series was upon us. Time flies when you are doing things you really want to. It feels just like yesterday that Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket and already, it is time to get
back to the grind… still, the effects of this break; of this unloading of responsibility should be felt now. Mentally, he should be refreshed and ready to go again – knowing that he is going to have time for himself; for his bikes; for family; for his many business interests and for a format that he truly enjoys. File photo of MS Dhoni with team-mates. Getty ImagesFile photo of MS Dhoni with teammates. Getty Images For all the criticism that Dhoni has received for his captaincy/batting/ tactics in Test cricket, there are few international cricketers who understand
the vagaries of the shorter format better than the Indian skipper. He knows when he needs to begin the final push or when to wait it out – but perhaps most importantly he knows how to win even when the going gets tough. Twenty wickets are not the key in ODI cricket – even ten wickets aren’t. It is all about runs and when you can narrow it down like that... Dhoni generally becomes lethal. But for the next three months – India will be playing Down Under, in conditions that don’t exactly cater to India’s strongest bowling suit – namely spinners.
Sania, Paes make it all-win day for India at Australian Open
Facebook users 'post' trouble for Kerala minister accused of corruption New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 Kerala's finance minister KM Mani, who is in the thick of corruption charges, is now facing a new form of protest. Angry netizens have started flooding him with money orders -- from Rs 5 to Rs 500 -- as they loosened their wallet in style for the 'poor minister'. In a day they doled out more than Rs 15,000. There were no online transactions, the money was sent directly to the minister’s address at Pala in Kottayam district. The postmen are in a tizzy on what to do with the milling money order invoices. The veteran minister, who has a political career spanning five decades was recently accused by bar owners of taking a Rs. 2 crore bribe to ensure a lenient liquor policy. The
activist B RP Bhaskar welcoming the new campaign. This is the first time Kerala's netizens have turned their ire against politicians. In recent years, they were buzzing during
state vigilance is now investigating the case. The social media campaign began with young south Indian director Aashiqu Abu, who is also a social activist, posting a message on Facebook: “We must collect some more crores for our Mani sir who does not have money to feed himself. Here’s my contribution of Rs 500.” He also posted on Facebook a money order receipt for Rs 500.
Kerala's geek army picked up the cue and created an exclusive page called ‘ente vaka 500,’ meaning ‘here's my 500’. The page had more than 9,000 likes in no time. To spice it up some wordsmiths coined new slogans and others added caricatures lampooning corrupt politicians. “It really shows the angst of our youngsters. I hope such campaigns will help open some eyes,” said veteran journalist and
the ‘kiss of love’ campaign against moral policing and the ‘pink chaddi’ campaign against Sri Ram Sene’s Pramod Muthalik. Minister KM Mani is yet to react to the ‘money order campaign.
Melbourne, Jan 21: India enjoyed an all-win day at the Australian Open tennis Grand Slam after Leander Paes and Sania
Mirza sailed into the second round of their respective men's and women's doubles events here today. Sania and her
Sharmila leaves for Nalgonda on Phase II of ‘Paramarsa Yatra’ New Delhi, Jan 21,2015 Y.S. Sharmila, sister of the YSR Congress President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy left here for Nalgonda on Wednesday morning on the Second Phase of her 'Paramarsa Yatra' to console the families of those who died of shock on hearing the news of demise of former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in the chopper crash in 2009.
She was accompanied by Khammam MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and the party's General Secretary of the Telangana State Committee K. Shivakumar. She is expected to visit the houses of atleast 32 families who lost a key member. It will begin at Devarakonda and end at Suryapet. On Wednesday, she left in a convoy of over a
dozen vehicles and on Day One of the second phase of her yatra she is scheduled to cover Madanapuram, Devaracharla Thanda and Guvvalagutta villages in D e v a r a k o n d a Constituency. In the Phase II that will last till January 30, she will cover 6 Assembly and 2 Lok Sabha constituencies. She had started the yatra in December last and visited 15 families across
Mahbubnagar district, much on the lines of her brother Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy's 'Odarpu Yatra'. The objective was to instill confidence among families who had lost a member and communicate the message that the party would stand by them. Keywords: Y.S. Sharmila, Khammam MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, 15 families across Mahbubnagar district
Chinese Taipei partner SuWei Hsieh, who are seeded second, defeated the Argentine-Swiss combine of Maria Irigoyen and Romina Oprandi 6-2 6-0 in just 48 minutes to advance. The Indo-Taipei team will now be up against the Canadian-Polish pair of Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska. File picture of Sania Mirza In the men's doubles event, 10th seeded Paes and his South African partner Raven Klaasen edged past the American duo of Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram 6-4 7-6 (6) to enter the second round. They will now face the winners of the match between Americans Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey and the Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.
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521 Leuva Patel couples to tie Morari Bapu to recite Ramkatha in Ahmedabad knot at biggest mass wedding to seek donations for Kidney Institute
Saying that politics had divided them, the Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today appealed the Kadva and Leuva Patel communities to unite. Rajkot, January 21, 2015 “Leuvas are descendants of Lord Ram’s son Luv and Kadvas are descendants of Kush and when they are descendants of Lord Ram, it the need of the hour that the community should get united for the better development of the society,” Patel said, while
attending a mass-marriage arranged by the Leuva Patel community at Khodal Dham temple near Kagvad. Construction of Khodal Dham temple, entailing expenditure of Rs 300 crore, is an ambitious project of Leuva Patel community, led by Rajkotbased businessman Naresh
Modi’s marital status: Court reserves order Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015 A sessions court on Tuesday reserved its order on a revision application filed against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for filing defective affidavit from Maninagar constituency in 2012 during assembly election. The order will be pronounced on February 7. The complainant Nishant Verma, a member of Aam
Adami Party, has filed the revision application alleging that Modi hid his marital status in 2012 which came to light only in 2014 when he filed his nomination for contesting general election from Vadodara seat. Verma has alleged that by leaving the marital status blank in 2012, Modi violated Representation of Public Act 125 (a).
Patel. “Politics has divided the Patel community in to two groups, but now the community should unite,” she said. The Chief Minister spoke about various development works undertaken by state government and also praised Naresh Patel and Kdhodal Dham Trust members for organising the mass-marriage. As many as 521 couples today got married at the function. Trust sources said they would be applying to Asia Book of Records and India book of Records for entering it in record book.
Ahmedabad,Jan 21,2015 Shri Morari Bapu will recite Ramkatha in Ahmedabad as a charity fund-raiser event for Ahmedabad-based world renowned kidney institute – Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences and Smt. Gulabben Rasiklal Doshi & Smt. Kamlaben Mafatlal Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Center. While both of the institutes aim to raise fund to the extent of Rs. 100 crore through the discourse, various donors have already committed donation of Rs. 30 crore even before the beginning of the Ramkatha. The Ramkhatha will begin at Sabarmati Riverfront, situated near Shri Vallabh Sadan & Sahitya Parishad Bhavan, on January 24, 2015 i.e. on the auspicious day of
Vasant Panchmi at 4 pm in the presence of Gujarat’s Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel, Ahmedabad Mayor Smt. Minakshiben Patel, Shri Dilipdasji Maharaj, Mahant of Jagannathji Temple and other prominent religious & social leaders. Thereafter, the religious discourse will continue from January 25 to February 1 between 9.30 am & 1.30 pm. Joyser Family is playing role of
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4-year-old abducted from Thane rescued in Ahmedabad AHMEDABAD: City crime branch rescued a four-year-old child abducted from Thane three days back and have handed over the abductor to Thane police. The accused had come to Vatva to take refuge at a relative's residence, said investigator. According to crime branch officials, Ashok Pande, a resident of Shubham Park in Kalyan, had registered a complaint with Mahatma Phoole Chowk police station in Thane about abduction of his youngest son
Rameshwar, from his residence. He had named Raju Pande, 38, a resident of Gauripada, Kalyan, as prime suspect. As the accused was not found in Thane by investigators, they approached other city polices where there were probabilities of his presence. M D Chaudhari, assistant commissioner of police (crime), told media on Tuesday that a team of inspector Kiran Patel and sub-inspector Rajesh Suvera were given the investigation to check on Pande's relatives in Vatva where he had come earlier.
Crime branch takes over Naranpura murder case AHMEDABAD, Jan 21,2015 The city crime branch has taken over the investigation of the murder of Vandana Prasad, 22, from Naranpura police. A s s i s t a n t commissioner of police (crime) MD Chaudhari said on Tuesday that they have got the papers from Naranpura police station. "We are checking various possibilities and are awaiting Birbal Prasad's statement to corroborate the theories," he said. The crime branch has started exploring the possibility of
involvement of more than one person in the crime. Vandana's boyfriend, 26-year-old Birbal, is the prime suspect in the case. He is recuperating at Civil Hospital. Investigators said that he might be questioned by the weekend, depending on his medical condition. On January 14, Birbal and Vandana were found with stab injuries in the bushes near Kapil Kunj Society adjoining the railway tracks in Naranpura. Birbal had dialed 100 to report Vandana's murder.
Ahmedabad, Jan 21,2015 Gujarat government has approved Mumbai like taxi service in Gujarat. Pilot project will kick off in Ahmedabad with running charge per km Rs. 12 and down charge Rs. 20. Grey color dress, compulsory GPS system, submission of details of driver to concerned department etc rules are finalized. According to Health Minister Nitin Patel, the Government of Gujarat has finalized 200 acre land near Rajkot and Vadodara for proposed AIIMS hospital. Central government team will arrive in Gujarat and visit both proposed sites. The Government of India will take decision on where to set up AIIMS. Research facility and hospital will also come up with AIIMS. A high level team of union health ministry will visit Gujarat for three days from tomorrow. The team will first visit Gandhinagar and hold discussion with state government. The team will later visit Vadodara and will also visit Rajkot site next day. Five Drone cameras
and 24 CCTV cameras are now keeping vigil over communal tension hit Hansot and Aliya bet areas of Bharuch district. -Gujarat Congress today attacked Bharatiya Kisan Sangh for compromise with the state government. Congress party in a statement asked why Kisan Sangh stopped its agitation against the state government over cotton
this, we are going to organize Ramkatha by Shri Morari Bapu in order to raise a good amount of charity fund. Morari Bapu’s Ramkatha will serve as a blessing for us.” It is worthwhile to mention that the kidney institute in Ahmedabad has been set up by Dr. H. L. Trivedi, who gave up his well-settled life in Canada just to serve patients in his homeland. The institute has achieved many milestones
since then. It is the only kidney institute in India having bed capacity of over 400 and the only public sector undertaking in the country to successfully do liver transplant. It also holds record of performing more than 400 transplantations in a year and is first one in the world to perform transplantation using stem cells. It has state-of-the-art stem cell lab and made significant progress in stem cell research.
Elderly craftsman found dead in Porbandar harbour Rajkot, January 21, 2015 An elderly craftsman working on a fishing trawler building yard, was found dead in his hut in Old Port area of fishing harbour in Porbandar early on Wednesday with police saying the man was murdered. The victim was identified as Lalji Khorava alias Jino alias Kodhiyo. Police said he was around 65-year-old and had been living away from his family for the last 20 years due to his addiction to liquor. A fishermen in his early life, Khorava, had been working as a craftsmancum-watchman on the yard of one Dilip Mistry, who builds wooden fishing
MSP hike when demands are not granted? Congress asked Kisan Sangh to reveal details of their settlement with the state government on this issue. A newspaper in Jamngar has been served Rs. 51 crore defamation notice over a news story that alleged connection between cricketer Ravindra Jadeja and land mafia Bali Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015 VithalPatil lost his job Dangar. in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) merely because he complained to the Prime portal in partnership with Minister about the poor 'Ecumen'- a leading treatment meted out to Ecommerce Consultancy water carriers in the and Digital Marketing department and said they Agency. While HOF will were denied weekly offs as create the products, Ecumen well. will get them across to Eighteen years later, people all over the country Gujarat high court ordered through ecommerce. CRPF to take Patil back in Sittingculture.com is a service on the ground that unique attempt to change his mistake wasn't grave one of the most basic human enough to deprive him of activities-Sitting. It offers his job. specialized ergonomic chairs Patil was recruited in in categories like Premium, the CRPF as a water Professional, and Students. carrier. Fed up with the job, This portal will make HOF particularly because water products available across carriers weren't even 70% of India through the allowed to rest on their tie-up with their logistic weekly offs during his partners FedEx.
Ahmedabad based furniture brand to sell chairs online Ahmedabad, Jan 21, 2015 'HOF'- city based premier furniture brand announced its venture into the booming e-commerce market here on Tuesday. Known to manufacture not only aesthetically pleasing but also ergonomically balanced chairs, HOF introduced its new age online portal'www.sittingculture.com' which was formally launched by Dr Vikram Shah, eminent orthoapedic surgeon and chairman of Shalby Hospitals and Vishal Mehta, CEO, Infibeam. HOF has entered the ecommerce space with this
host for the entire event of Ramkatha. While talking to media persons, Dr. Trivedi, Founder of the Institute, today said, “Our institute treats kidney patients from any section of the society without any discrimination and at a minimal rate. The number of patients coming for treatment is on the rise with the passage of the time and this impose a heavy financial burden on the institute. In view of
trawlers in Old Port area of Porbandar harbour. “One Pravin, who does round of Old Port every morning to feed stray dogs, found Khorava lying in a pool of blood in his hut on Mistry’s yard at around 8:20 am on Wednesday and informed police,” Chandu Patel, police inspector (PI) of Kirti Mandir police station in Porbandar, told the S U N V I L L A SAMACHAR. Khorava was taken to government-run Bhavsinji Hospital in Porbandar where doctors declared him dead on arrival. “The old man was hit by some unidentified person with a blunt object on his right hand. There
was also a five centimetres long cut on his head suggesting another blow. Doctors opined the death had occurred between six hours to 24 hours,” the PI, who is investigating officer (IO) of the case further said. Incidentally, Porbandar had hit headlines early this month after Indian Coast Guard intercepted a suspicious fishing trawler from Pakistan near the International Maritime Boundary Line, some 365 kilometres South-West of Porbandar. After the pursuit by Coast Guard, the occupants had blown off their trawler, alarming security and intelligence agencies of India.
18 years later, HC reinstates CRPF man who lost job over plaint to PM posting in Gandhinagar, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister in 1997 and complained about service conditions and that water carriers were made to work without holidays. He also complained that they were treated as low category employees in the department. The department suspended him for writing to the PM directly, without going through the proper channel. Patil refused to accept his suspension and was then dismissed from service. His legal battle lasted for 18 years. His lawyer, Ramnandan Singh, argued before the HC that the punishment was too harsh as compared to his mistake. A bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice
Sonia Gokani also observed that Patil was not educated enough to understand the procedural aspects and the proper channel for complaints regarding service conditions. The court order reads, "Main misconduct alleged against him was that he made a representation to the Prime Minister without routing it through proper channel. Misconduct it may be, it certainly would not warrant dismissal of an employee from service. This is one of the rare case, where the court would certainly come to the conclusion that punishment awarded was so out of proportion to shock the conscience of the court..
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