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“Gujarat local body polls” News Brief Army jawan killed in road mishap in Kashmir Agency | Srinagar
An Army jawan was today killed and three others injured when their bullet proof jammer vehicle skidded off a road and fell into a deep gorge in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, officials said. The mishap took place at Khooni nallah near Kralpora, about 120 km from here, when the driver of the hi-tech vehicle lost control while negotiating a blind curve, the officials said.
Gang of bike thieves busted, 3 held Agency | Mumbai
With the arrest of three persons, the city police today claimed to have busted a gang involved in bike thefts in Bhandup area, and recovered six motorcycles from them. “Sleuths from Bhandup police station arrested three people and recovered six motorcycles from them,” DCP (Detection) Dhananjay Kulkarni said. The accused are identified as Ajay Suravde, Yogesh Kene and Nilesh Bhoisar.
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“Today’s results are a stepping stone for a Congress victory in 2017,” said Ahmed Patel
BJP retains urban, Rural gives Congress In the urban centres, the BJP won in the Patidar constituencies, though its ward-wise tally, compared to 2010, was down in the municipal corporations : Congress making an impressive comeback in rural Gujarat Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Surging ahead in 19 of 31 district panchayats of Gujarat, the Congress looked set to make a comeback in rural areas of the state while the ruling BJP held on to the urban centres as trends of elections to the local bodies polls continued to come in Wednesday. Decimated from every tier of the power structure in Gujarat after going down to the BJP in election after election in the state during Narendra Modi’s
tenure as chief minister, the Congress called it a “verdict against the BJP government”. The outcome of the election was being closely tracked by both parties given the backdrop of the Hardik Patel-led Patidar agitation for reservation. For Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, this was the first political test since she took charge from Modi last year. Urban Gujarat voted the BJP back to power with the party winning in all six municipal corporations, and many municipalities.
But in rural areas, people voted for change, giving a chance to the Congress which won in most districts and was leading in the taluka panchayats. In the urban centres, the BJP won in the Patidar constituencies, though its ward-wise tally, compared to 2010, was down in the municipal corporations. The Rajkot municipal corporation saw the closest fight with the BJP winning 38 and the Congress winning 34 wards. A Muslim candidate on a BJP ticket was among the winners
We must analyse setback in rural areas: Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Wednesday said the BJP will have to analyse the reasons for its poor performance in the local body polls in the rural areas of the state. “Though we have done well in municipal corporations and municipalities, it is also a fact that the results in district and taluka panchayat bodies are not up to the expectations,” Patel admitted while addressing the party workers outside BJP office in Khanpur area here. “We have been doing several developmental works across Gujarat. We have also undertaken an exercise to strengthen the party organisation. Still we have to now analyse what went wrong. We will
find out and address these problems,” she said. The Chief Minister received a grand welcome at Khanpur office as the BJP has retained the six municipal corporations: Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Surat, Jamnagar, Vadodara and Rajkot. The Chief Minister, though, expressed some disappointment for not surpassing the previous tally of 151 at the
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. “We have won in all the six corporations with a thumping majority… Of the 56 municipalities, we have captured 40 while eight went to Congress. People used to say that BJP will get only 80 to 90 seats in AMC (of the total 192), but we have captured 142,” Patel said. “In the last election we won 151 seats. I wished
we would surpass that, but we could not. This is not a big issue. Some seats sway here and there. Overall we have done well in all the six corporations,” she said. Though the counting is not yet over, Congress was leading in 18 of the 31 district panchayats. In 230 taluka panchayats with a total of 4,778 seats, it was leading in 2,204 while BJP was ahead in 1,798 seats.
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while in the Ahmedabad municipal corporation, the BJP’s Muslim candidates, contesting for the first time, were defeated. The BJP won municipalities in 25 of 29 districts while the Congress won in the districts of Amreli, Mehsana, Patan and
Vadodara and the contest was close in Anand, Morbi and Surendranagar districts. The verdicts in Amreli, Morbi and Vadodara were being attributed to the say the Patidars have. The Patidar unrest and anti-incumbency seemed to have largely reflected
in the district panchayats and taluka panchayats. The Congress was winning 19 of 31 district panchayats, covering huge ground by winning 568 seats, while BJP trailed with 360 seats. In the October 2010 elections, the BJP won over 540 seats.
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Rajali Naval air station near Arakonam, about 70 km from Chennai, will operate as a civilian airport. “Chennai Aerodrome has been closed up to 12 noon of the December 6, 2015. The situation is being closely monitored and any further action will be taken subject to review for resumption of services as soon as possible,” the AAI, which runs the airport, said in a statement. Life remained
crippled in Chennai on Wednesday as fresh downpour worsened an already disastrous flood situation, posing danger to thousands of people in low-lying areas. The financial loss may exceed Rs 15,000 crore, an industry lobby body has said.
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The submerged Chennai airport will remain shut till Sunday in the wake of battering rains that have left the facility unusable, Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced on Wednesday. The AAI’s decision also follows prediction by the IMD that there will be more rain for the next 72 hours over Chennai and its suburbs, with the next 48 hours being “very crucial”. The
Nato invites Montenegro to join alliance, defying Russia Agency | Brussels
Nato foreign ministers welcomed tiny Montenegro into their fold on Wednesday in the alliAgency | New Delhi those children would not ance’s first expansion be burned or compared to since 2009, defying RusCongress vice-president dogs. Our Prime Minister sian warnings that enRahul Gandhi launched a cannot see the contradic- largement of the US-led blistering attack on Prime Agency | Mumbai tion in having Mr. Singh bloc further into the BalMinister Narendra Modi, continue as Minister,” kans was a “provocation”. Actor Sharman Joshi, accusing him of maintainhe said. On the return of In a scripted session at Na- Moscow does not have a months for a country to who stars in “Hate Sto- ing silence on the killing of awards by writers and art- to’s headquarters in Brus- veto on Nato’s eastwards formally join. Nato dipry 3”, says he enjoys writer M.M. Kalburgi and ists, he said: “On the one sels, Montenegro’s for- expansion, even if Geor- lomats say membership watching adult come- the lynching of Mohamhand, the Prime Minister eign minister Igor Luksic gia’s membership bid has is likely to be cemented dies. “Comedy is my mad Akhlaque in Dadri in talks of raising the growth strode into the imposing been complicated by its at the summit of alliance forte but I want to try ev- Uttar Pradesh as the Lok rate of the country, on the conference hall to loud 2008 war with Russia. leaders next July in Warerything. Adult comedy Sabha debated the issue other, members of his party applause from his peers After Albania and Croatia saw. Moscow opposes any is something I find over of intolerance on Tuesday. talk of packing off Bolly- as Nato chief Jens Stol- joined Nato in 2009, only Nato extension to former the top. But I do enjoy “Today, protest has bewood artists to Pakistan.” tenberg declared: “This Serbia, Russia’s closest communist areas of eastwatching such films..It come sedition in India,” he sibility for his protection is State for External Affairs “I request the government, is the beginning of a very ally in the Balkans, is not ern and southeastern Eushould have substance. said in a speech marked by The treatment has to strong words. Referring to with the Prime Minister Gen. (retd.) V.K. Singh, please do not learn the beautiful alliance.” Nato actively pursuing mem- rope, part of an east-west be mature,” Sharman. the lynching of Akhlaque, who remained silent.” He comparing two Dalit chil- wrong lessons from Paki- diplomats say the decision bership of the alliance. struggle for influence over Sharman will be seen whose son is employed in attacked the Prime Minis- dren killed in Haryana to stan. Be tolerant. Listen to to invite the Adriatic state While Montenegro has former Soviet satellites playing a business ty- the Indian Air Force, he ter for keeping mum on the dogs. “Ambedkar spent your people, embrace your of 650,000 people sends now been invited to join that is at the centre of the said: “The ultimate respon- statement of Minister of his whole life so that own people. coon in “Hate Story 3”. a message to Russia that Nato, it can take up to 18 crisis in Ukraine. Corpo. Office: A/41, Madhav Chamber’s, Shaktidhara Colony, Opp-Sayona Arcade, L.B.S. Road, Toll Naka, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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Home minister’s speech trivialised the fight for gender justice and against caste hierarchies
On November 30, 1949, four days after the draft of the Constitution was finalised, the RSS’s Organiser wrote, “The worst about the new Constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bharatiya about it… Manu’s laws… excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing”. It would seem that decades later, the dreams of the RSS to turn India into a theocratic state ruled by the laws of Manu or those laid down by the Vedas are alive and kicking, as revealed by none other than Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the opening speaker on behalf of the government in the discussion on the Constitution on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. He was there to pay tribute to Ambedkar, but his words ended up paying tribute not to the Constitution or its founders, but to what his parent organisation wished for India. How else can you explain his atrocious attack on the very concept of secularism? It was not just a debating point on the “misuse of the word secularism”. He charged that this very misuse has led to “difficulties in the maintenance of social harmony”. So here is a new justification: Dadri occurred, other incidents of violence related to manufactured rumours of cow slaughter occurred, provocative statements by ruling party leaders threatening to send “beef-eaters” to Pakistan were made, all because of the misuse of the word secularism. This is not the “fringe” speaking, this comes from the very top. A home minister who is mandated to take seriously every attempt to destroy constitutional rights instead uses the floor of Parliament to blame the very concept of secularism for the attacks on social harmony. The RSS does not believe in a secular India, and the echoes could be heard in the home minister’s speech. His understanding of democracy also has its roots in the Manusmriti, not the Constitution. For him, democracy was inherent in ancient India. He asked “could there be any greater democrat than Bhagwan Ram?” He explained: “A person on the last rung of the social ladder raised a question and Ram made Sita, more beloved than his life, go through the agnipariksha”. The home minister believes in replacing history with mythology but even within this framework, he is saying that the notion of “dharma”, as laid down by the scriptures, is real democracy. For Rajnath Singh, Sita’s travails were immaterial. The scriptures lay down that a woman is subordinate, an appendage of the male and, therefore, if she is treated as though she is not human, then that is the highest democracy, because it helps the ruler uphold “dharma”.
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QUOTE “We have been doing several developmental works across Gujarat. We OF THE have also undertaken an exercise to strengthen the party organisation,” - Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Wednesday said the BJP will have to analyse the reasons for its poor performance in the local body polls in the rural areas of the state. DAY
SRK on intolerance: Actors can also say what they want Agency | London
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has stressed that actors, like all other professions, are free to speak their mind despite a spate of recent controversies. Asked about his views on the impact of recent social media uproar around certain comments made by Aamir Khan, the Chennai Express star said that it was important to be able to talk about things. “I think there is no issue about actors saying what they want or any profession saying whatever they feel like. I think we should talk about things and it’s nice to talk... And sort things
out,” Khan said. “Freedom of expression means that you say something, somebody else says something which may be contrary and you discuss it. I personally believe most of the stuff that is talked about, instead of
taking a radical point of view, it should be seen as a platform for discussion – not for decision or derision or giving a final comment on it,” he added. Khan, 50, who had also been on the receiving end of some negative
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Ranbir Singh and Deepika Padukone may have been together a few years ago but the past is firmly in the past now. So much so, Deepika’s now-boyfriend Ranveer Singh is happy to praise Ranbir, calling him an “inspiration and a stellar performer”. Praising Tamasha and its lead pair, Ranveer said, “Tamasha is absolutely brilliant, extraordinarily fabulous and exceedingly nuanced. Ranbir, Deepika pairing is extremely special. They truly up their game. Whenever they come on screen they make the film delightful.” The three
were seen together at a party to celebrate Tamasha’s success. Ranveer said about Ranbir, ”Ranbir is a stellar performer. He inspires me, words are not enough to explain his talent. I really look up to him.” The film narrates
the story of internal conflict. It is about two individuals, who meet while on a holiday and decide to make-pretend during the trip, but problems erupt when they return to their real life. Tamasha released on November 27.
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After proving her mettle in a solo role in Tamil horror-thriller “Maya”, actress Nayanthara has bagged another heroine-centric film in the language. This yet-untitled project will be produced by filmmaker A. Sarkunam. According to a statement issued by the makers, the film will be directed by Sarkunam’s erstwhile assistant Dass Ramaswamy and will go on floors soon.
It will be a crime-thriller laced with comedy, the statement read. With three back-to-back hits, Nayanthara is currently the most sought after actress in the southern film industry. She will soon start working with actor Vikram in a yet-untitled Tamil project with director Anand Shankar and will also await the release of romantic-drama “Idhu Namma Aalu”. In Telugu filmdom, she’s all set to start working on project with actor Venkatesh.
comments on social media after an interview last month, said, “We have social media where you can discuss stuff, it’s not meant to be the end of all. Things should not be taken as the ultimate truth... Most of the social media
is about discussion, not passing a judgment. As soon as we realise that then you overlook the idiots who pass judgments.” The entire star cast of the Rohit Shetty directed film Dilwale, including Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti
Sanon are in London this week to promote the film. Dilwale, which is set for a worldwide release on December 18, has been produced by Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment and distributed by UTV Disney.
Time and again, Sunny Leone has made her mark as one of the strongest proponents of condom use and safe sex in the country. She has often spoken about the importance of safe sex. Ahead of World Aids Day, she released a video with her Mastizaade co-stars Vir Das and Tusshar Kapoor asking people to wear condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS. The actress also put up a video on Facebook, where she urged everyone to wear condoms to prevent HIV/ AIDS. The actress, who is also the brand ambassador of ManForce Condoms, has earlier spoken about the importance of using condoms, and why it is a better contraceptive than oral pills. She was quoted by a leading daily as saying, “I am promoting safe sex and unwanted pregnancies. If a family isn’t ready to have a baby, it’s
a good method of contraception as it doesn’t affect a woman’s health, as compared to birth control pills, which affect a woman’s body, mind and hormones. I don’t see it as a bad thing.” She isn’t wrong, condoms are the best bet against HIV/AIDS. While they’ve been around for 400 years,
they mainly gained popularity in the 1930s. When used properly, condoms have a 97% success rate in preventing pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases and unlike other birth control methods like oral pills, they don’t have any side-effects like hormonal imbalance or weight gain.
feature Hollywood biggie Arnold Schwarzenegger as the villain. The actor has apparently demanded a whopping US $20 million (around Rs 120 crore) for the role. The film will have superstar Rajinikanth in the lead. The actor was in the US to undergo a make-up test for the role. Weta Workshop, the team that designed different looks for Vikram in his movie I, will handle Raji-
ni’s look in Robot 2. The much-appreciated Srinivas Mohan, who was the VFX supervisor for Baahubali, will be the VFX specialist for the project. Rajinikanth is currently busy with the shooting of his upcoming gangster film Kabali in Malaysia. As per reports, the work on Enthiran 2 will commence with an elaborate pooja on Rajinikanth’s 65th birthday in December this year.
Deepika Padukone-Ranbir Kapoor World AIDS Day: Thank you Sunny Leone for promoting condom use and safe sex pairing delightful: Ranveer Singh Agency | New Delhi
Nayanthara signs another When Salman Khan sent special video message for differently-abled children heroine-centric film
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Bollywood star Salman Khan on Tuesday sent a special video message for differently-abled children who watched his comedy drama ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ at the first International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities (IFFPwD), saying that despite all odds, such people should be provided all facilities at theatres. Though Salman, who is currently busy shooting for ‘Sultan’, was not able to attend the screening, ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ director Kabir Khan and child actress Harshaali Malhotra, who played the role of deaf and dumb girl Munni, were present at the venue. In the video message, the ‘Dabangg’ actor said: “I should have been a part of this festival, but due to my packed shooting schedule for ‘Sultan’, I couldn’t be there physi-
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cally. “But from my heart and soul, I am always up for such causes. To start a film festival especially for differently-abled is a really noble thought. Salman further said cinema was a big part of Indian culture, so the differently-abled should not be neglected from watching films. The 49-year-old said: “Cinema, movies or entertainment are a big part of Indian culture, but I don’t see differently-abled getting a chance to view films in theatres as most of them (theatres) don’t have wheel chairs and other facilities. “I don’t under-
stand why the differently abled people should be left out of this. I feel very fortunate to have all my senses. But there are many who can see but not hear and some who can hear but not see, they all should go and enjoy and should be provided with the necessary facilities.” During a question-answer session, Kabir Khan said that while he was making ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, he never thought of focusing on the issue of differently-abled people, but in the whole film, everyone treated Munni like a normal person.
Filmmaker Shankar’s new film Enthiran 2 (Robot 2), a sequel to the 2010 superhit Enthiran (Robot), could end up being India’s most expensive film ever. According a report in Firstpost, the director has apparently told his producers, London-based Lyca Production, that he cannot make the film in anything less than Rs 250 crore. The article goes on to say that the film will cost anything in the range of Rs 250-300 crore. The most expensive film made in India till now is SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali, the two-part magnum opus which was made at the cost of Rs 250 crore. If all goes well, Enthiran 2 will
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Djokovic pulls out of IPTL Season 2, replaced by Murray, Wawrinka
Facebook Plans First AsiaPacific Data Centre in Taiwan
Agency | New Delhi Facebook Inc is evaluating the possibility of investing TWD 10 billion (roughly Rs. 1,995 crores) to build its first data centre in the Asia-Pacific region in Taiwan, joining Google, an official said on Wednesday. The centre would require 6 acres (2.43 hectares) of land, with the possibility to expand to 20 acres in the future, according to Magistrate Wei Ming-ku of Changhua County in central Taiwan. “We’ve made all-out efforts to ensure sufficient supply of water and electricity ... We hope they will come,” Wei said. Google has built a data centre in Changhua County, partly in hopes of tapping fast-growing Asian markets. Facebook, the world’s largest online social media network, said no decision had been made. “As a global company working to connect billions of people around the world, we are always evaluating potential sites for new data centres, but we don’t have anything to announce at this time,” a Facebook spokeswoman said in an email.
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Agency | Japan World number one Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), commencing in Japan on Wednesday, citing fatigue, and he has been replaced by Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka in his team, the OUE Singapore Slammers. While World No. 2 Murray will be returning for the second season, Wawrinka will be making his debut in the five-nation tennis league, the only one of its kind in the world. Murray was a part of the Manila
Mavericks (re-christened Philippine Mavericks in season two) in the inaugural edition. Murray and Wawrinka join fellow teammates Nick Kyrgios, Belinda Bencic, Karolina Pliskova, Dustin Brown, Carlos Moya and Marcelo Melo in the Singapore side for the event, which will run until December 20. Djokovic played for the UAE Royals in the inaugural edition, and was drafted by the OUE Singapore Slammers for the second edition. On his non-participation, the Serb said, “I had a great
experience in the inaugural edition of the IPTL and was eagerly looking forward to playing in the second season, especially in front of the home crowd in Singapore. “It’s been a long year for me and my body needs some extra time to recover. I wish the team the very best and will join them next year.” Wawrinka and Murray join a formidable array of tennis superstars that include Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Kei Nishikori, Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic and Nick Kyrgios, among others.
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If your idea of luxury is having a plumber in a red shirt and blue overalls on a watch, your dream has come true. Swiss luxury watchmaker Romain Jerome has unveiled its collaboration with Nintendo, a limited edition mechanical watch featuring the titular character of Super Mario Bros, on the 30th anniversary of the original game released for the NES. This isn’t the first time the watchmaker has gone the arcade game route, though. It has previously collaborated with other 8-bit franchises such as Space Invaders, Tetris, and Pac-Man to produce modern watches with retro game characters. The new watch is called RJ Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Bros-themed watch is the latest timepiece in this tradition, featuring a 46mm wide case carved out of black titanium. The back of the watch has a grainy texture and bears the Super Mario Bros medallion.
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dran Ashwin has been named as the 12th man in the Test team. The teams were chosen by a specially appointed selection panel chaired by the ICC’s Cricket Committee chairman and former India captain, Anil Kumble. The qualification period ran from September 18, 2014 to September 13, 2015 and the selection panel included past greats of the game -- former
West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop, ex-England batsman Mark Butcher, former Australia women’s captain Belinda Clark and G Viswanath, Deputy Editor of The Hindu & Sportstar. The winners of the individual awards will be announced later this month. Alastair Cook has been named as captain of the side that includes three English cricketers in Stuart Broad and Joe Root. This is the fifth time since 2009 that Broad has been selected in the ICC Test Team of the Year having previously been included in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014. For Cook, this is his fourth selection and his second as captain having achieved that feat in 2013. Steven Smith is one of three Australian players selected alongside opener David Warner, for the second successive year, and pace bowler Josh Hazlewood.
No Indian cricketer figured in the ICC’s Test team of the Year 2015, while pacer Mohammad Shami was the lone representative from among the ‘Men in Blue’ to find a place in the ODI Sania Mirza’s demands to be chief guest include team of the Year, which were announced by the chartered plane, expensive make-up kit world body on Wednesassistant after the star ac- day. However, Indian cepted the invitation. The off-spinner Ravichanstar or any of her aides are yet to react to the contro- India vs South Africa 2015: Criticising pitches is versy. If the sports departtaking credit way from spinners’ brilliance ment is to be believed, Agency | Nagpur the demands made on Sania’s behalf included When the World No. 1 the make-up kit, a char- Test team South Africa tered plane to ferry her to were wobbling against Agency | Bhopal Tuesday when the sports Bhopal and back and five an unplayable Indian business class tickets for spin attack in the recentIf Sania Mirza was not department dropped the her assistants. It’s unclear ly concluded 3rd Test at present as the chief guest idea of inviting her and how much money she Nagpur, cricketers from of Madhya Pradesh gov- settled for badminton demanded as fees. “We across the globe exernment’s annual sports coach Pullela Gopichand pay for economy class pressed their opinions awards, blame it on her instead. MP Sports Min- air ticket, accommoda- (read concerns) as to formances of both the Amla, AB de Villiers and make-up kit worth Rs ister Yashodhara Raje tion in a star hotel and how a rank turner was teams. But it hard to fath- Faf du Plessis have failed 75,000 and a chartered told reporters that she re- local transport,’’ a sports ruining the beauty of om, how South Africa terribly in whites on this plane, neither of which spected the tennis player department official said Test cricket. Though the were bowled out for 79 tour. It is praiseworthy to was provided to her. The but found her demands adding Gopichand agreed Nagpur Test finished in- runs in the first innings, see none of the South Afaward function original- unacceptable. The de- for this and so did Saina side three days, I won- on a pitch where India rican players or officials ly slated for Saturday mands were reportedly Nehwal who attended the der how it had anything piled 219 runs. What we blame the pitch for their had to be rescheduled to made by Sania’s personal function in the past. to do with a ‘poor’ pitch should be criticising and debacle, but bafflingly, as stated by the ICC. discussing is the rea- cricketers from across When there are demons son why South Africa’s the world had plenty to in a pitch, it affects per- veteran trio of Hashim say against Indian tracks.
PCB calls meeting after Pak debacle in T20, ODI series against England
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SPORTS ROUNDUP Mohammad Shami lone Indian to find place in ICC ODI team of the Year
Agency | Chennai Chennai has been hit by one of the worst rains in several years causing floods and disrupting normal life. One of the country’s biggest telecom providers, Airtel, is now aiding its subscribers in the city by offering auto approved talk time, free Airtel-to-Airtel calls, and free data, among other initiatives. Airtel subscribers in Chennai will get auto approval for ‘talk time’ credit up to Rs. 30 (the talk time offer is only for Airtel prepaid subscribers). The company will also provide credit of 10 minutes for Airtel-to-Airtel calls for prepaid customers with a validity of two days. Free credit of 50MB mobile data for Airtel prepaid customers with a validity of two days is also being offered. For Airtel postpaid and fixed-line subscribers, the company is extending time to make payments whose bills are due to be paid immediately.
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Shaken by Pakistan’s defeats to England in the ODI and T20 series in the UAE, the selectors of the national cricket team are seeking answers from head coach Waqar Younis and his support staff over what went wrong in those matches. Pakistan lost the one-day series 1-3 and was swamped 3-0 in the T20 series, sliding down from number two to six in the ICC rankings. The team is already languishing at number nine in the ODI rankings. An official source in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that a meeting will be held on Friday in Lahore, in which the performances of the team would be reviewed.
Injured Dale Steyn to miss final test against India Agency | New Delhi
“The significant aspect of the meeting which will be chaired by the board chief Shaharyar Khan and will also be attended by Najam Sethi and Chief Operating officer Subhan Ahmad is that Waqar, assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed and chief selector Haroon Rasheed have also been called for the meeting,” he said. According to the source, the meeting has been arranged on the
request of Rasheed, who is not happy with the way the team management experimented with the available players in the series against England. “Haroon wants some things sorted out with the team management in the presence of the board chairman as the selectors are not satisfied that the best combinations were tried out in the limited over matches,” the source said.
South African speedster Dale Steyn will miss the fourth and final test against India with a lingering groin injury that has limited his participation in the four-match series to a solitary contest in the series-opener in Mohali. With the series already lost and a home series against England looming, few expected the 32-yearold to return to the squad even as his team bid for a pride-salvaging victory at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium. “I can confirm that Dale Steyn is not going to be fit. Dale is not playing in this game,” visiting captain Hashim Amla said at the prematch news conference
on Wednesday. Currently the number one test bowler, Steyn will finish the series having bowled only 11 overs, during India`s first innings at Mohali. The turning tracks in India had already taken much of the sting off the Proteas attack and Steyn`s injury meant he and Morne Morkel, who missed the Mohali contest with a quad strain, never bowled in tandem in the
series. The visitors were also unlucky as a third cog in their pace attack, Vernon Philander, sustained an ankle injury after the first test to be ruled out of the remainder of the series. South Africa were beaten inside three days on rank turners in Mohali and Nagpur, while India dominated whatever little play was possible in the rained-out second test in Bangalore as well.
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Patidar quota agitation: Gujarat High Court President Pranab Mukherjee offers prayers at Somnath temple, pays tribute to Sardar Patel calls reservation an ‘amoeboid monster’
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Refusing to quash sedition case against five key leaders of Patidar reservation agitation movement, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday observed that “reservation” and “corruption” are the two things which have “destroyed or rather not allowed the country to progress in the right direction.” The court has opined that “reservation has only played the role of an amoeboid monster” and “it is shameful to ask for reservation after 65 years of independence.” Pronouncing the judgment, Justice J B Pardiwala upheld the charges under section 124 A (sedition) and section 121A (conspiracy to
wage war) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) lodged against Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener Hardik Patel and four of his key associates by Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch. The court, however, quashed charges under sections-121 (waging war against government), 153 A (spreading enmity among communities) and 153 B (imputation and assertions prejudicial to
Three crew injured as fire breaks out in ship at Gujarat’s Kandla port
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Three crew members of a foreign cargo vessel received burn injuries after fire broke out in the engine room of a ship at Kandla port in Gujarat on Tuesday night, official sources said. “The incident happened after the vessel with a Malta flag had emptied timber and was on its way back out of the port carrying salt,”
Kandla Port Trust officials said. The injured were rushed to Gandhidham hospital located about 12 kilometres from the port. “Two Filipinos and a Sri Lankan were among the crew who were injured,” officials said adding that the injuries were not of a serious nature. The traffic at the port has not been affected and the affected by the incident, sources added.
national integration). Justice Pardiwala stated in the judgment that it was difficult to hold conspiracy to wage war against government of Gujarat but “prima facie case of conspiracy to overawe by means criminal force, or the show of criminal force against the government is made out. The court held that persons who attacked police stations can’t be held guilty of waging war but can be
guilty of “mammoth rioting.” “Prima facie, the persons who attacked the police stations, damaged public property are guilty of mammoth rioting, and if the Government authority charges them instead of waging war against the Government, it is incumbent upon the Government to show that there is insurrection and not a riot and the insurrection is that the accomplishment of an object of a general nature. The prosecution, in my opinion, has not been able to make out a prima facie case of insurrection. When I am talking about insurrection, I mean, a violent uprising against an authority or Government,” the judgment states.
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Faced with big losses to the Congress in rural areas, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday sought to blame the patidar reservation protests for its unimpressive show in the Gujarat civic polls. “The BJP has done work
in rural areas. But with the kind of social engineering done by the Congress of late, the results for the BJP are below expectation, BJP vice-president I K Jadeja said referring to the quota stir. With counting in its final stages, the Congress was
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the Hon’ble President Of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee who officially inaugurated the festival and was handed over a souvenir in the form of a charcoal portrait of his good self. The evening ended on an aesthetic firework display while hundreds of wishing lanterns lit up the sky marking the beginning of an auspicious journey. Shri Pranab Mukherjee ap-
President Pranab Mukherjee offered prayers at Somnath Temple and paid floral tribute to Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel on the temple premises on Tuesday even as veteran BJP leader L K Advani could not make it to Somnath due to the ill health of his wife. Winding up his engagements in Ahmedabad, the President flew to Rajkot through a special plane in the afternoon. After a brief stopover at the Rajkot airport, Mukherjee boarded an IAF helicopter to fly to Somnath near Veraval town in Gir Somnath district. After having his lunch at Sagar Darshan Atithigruh of Shree
marking the completion of the temple and realisation of the resolve to rebuild the temple. It was on December 1, 1995 that the construction of the temple was completed and it was inaugurated by the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Correspondent | Vadodara
day comments in the Upper House on his official Facebook account. He stated, “With due respect to her, as the Vice Chairman of Dwarka Mandir Vyavasthapan Samiti, I would state that I have not come across any such incident where a devotee has felt insulted. There is nothing humiliating in a Tirth Panda asking about the caste of a devotee to find out his/her ‘Gotra’ (family root).” Nathwani, posted his comments on the social media site along with a picture of the Dwarka temple captioned, “Dwaka is an ancient Holy Shrine: Asking caste is customary, not humiliating”. Nathwani’s post further stated: “Like we have family doctors, fam-
ily lawyers, etc. in modern days, having family priests is also a tradition among Hindu families. Pandas have records of their clients’ generations of certain castes on which they have the right of Dakshina (remuneration of Brahmin for performing pooja, etc.). Even if one Panda attends a client of other caste, he will pass on the ‘Dakshina’ to the Panda who holds the right. This is a normal practice at all major Hindu shrines & pilgrim places.
compromise called as ‘compounding of offenses’. Under this new system of compounding of offenses, workers can arrive at compromise with the employer without approaching court. For this, government will charge upto Rs 21,000 as penalty from the employer and give 75 per cent of that penalty money to the affected employee or employees. However, this compounding of offenses will be only implemented if both the parties agree to it, as per the
Bill. The Bill says that this provision has been introduced to reduce legal cases. An industrial unit can take benefit of it three times only, it said. “The state government has considered it necessary to strike a balance of interest between the industries and the workers and create an environment which is conducive for both through this Bill. The Bill has many pro-labour changes also,” State Labour minister Vijay Rupani said.
Gujarat civic polls: BJP blames Patel RS MP Parimal Nathwani says asking stir for poor show in rural areas caste in holy shrine customary
Hon’ble President Of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee Inaugurates Asia’s Longest Beach Festival, Festa De DIU
In an endeavor to promote Diu as a foremost vacationer hotspot, the U.T. Administration of Daman & Diu; Government of India formally launched the first look of its signature indigenous property amidst much fanfare and allure. The evening attended by Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, along with the Administrator, UT of Diu, Daman and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Shri Ashish Kundra, and other officials commenced on a high pitch note with a Ganesh Vandana Bharatnatyam followed by an elaborate folk dance by Siddhi Dhamal that was seamlessly amalgamated with ace classical musician Shubha Mugdal’s performance who vowed audiences with her soulful renditions. The highlight of the evening was
Somnath Trust (SST), the charitable organisation that manages the temple, Mukherjee took part in the mahapooja in Somnath temple at 4 pm. The half-an-hour-long mahapooja was organised to mark the sankalp siddhi day or the day
“It’s indeed a great place of solace and prayer. Seeing and experiencing Somnath Temple is invigorating and exhilarating. I was most delight to have such great Darshan,” Mukherjee wrote in the visitor’s diary. The President also offered floral tribute to the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the temple premises before taking off for Diu. “We had planned the mahapooja to mark the sankalp siddhi day. The temple was inaugurated by the then President in 1995 after offering mahapooja. It is a coincidence that Mukherjee also happened to visit Somnath today,” SST secretary Pravin Laheri said.
Correspondent | Rajkot
plauded the efforts taken by the UT Administration to conceptualize a one of its kind festival and also the fact that Diu would become the first city in the country to be 100% solar powered. The Hon. President was observant to congratulate the UT Administration for keeping Diu clean and green and the effort to modernize the fishing harbor. This will
boost the two primary sectors of local economy - fishery and tourism Shri Ashish Kundra, Administrator, UT of Daman, Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli stated, Festa De Diu 2015 will be held from 01 December 2015 – 15 February 2016 and is part of a national publicity campaign launched recently to promote Diu as a preferential tourist destination.
Click by : Bharat Patel leading in most of the district and taluka panchayats, while the BJP was set to make a comeback in all the six municipal corporations. The patidars led by 22-year old Hardik Patel, who is in jail on sedition charges, have been agitating over the last few months demanding inclusion of the community in the OBC reservation list. Ahead of the local body elections, patidar leaders also appealed to members of the community to vote for the Congress. But this appeal did not have much effect in the cities , with the BJP set to sweep all the municipal corporations including Surat which was the centre of the patidar agitation. The BJP is winning in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar. In Hardik’s home area, ward number 2 of Viramgam nagarpalika, the BJP won all the four seats. Latest figures showed the Congress ahead in 14 and the BJP in 13 district panchayats out of a total of 31 in the state. The Congress was ahead in small towns as well, leading in 18 nagar palikas as against the BJP’s 12, in the first major elections in the state after Anandiben Patel took over from Narendra Modi as chief minister.
A day after Congress MP Kumari Selja caused an uproar between the ruling party and the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha when she claimed that she was “asked about her caste” on her visit to the Dwarka temple in Gujarat as Cabinet minister, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said that Selja’s remarks were “surprising and astonishing” as it is “customary” to ask about caste in a “holy shrine” and not “humiliating” Nathwani, who is a second-term Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand is also the Vice Chairman of Dwarka Mandir Vyavasthapan Samiti. Nathwani posted a reply to Selja’s Mon-
Prez assent to Gujarat labour law with contentious provisions Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The President gave his assent to the The Labour Laws (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2015 which provides for “compounding of offenses” wherein industrial employee(s) can arrive at a compromise with the employer without moving court. The Bill proposes a total of 14 amendments to various labour laws. “We have received the Presidential assent for the The Labour Laws (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2015,” C J Gothi Parliamentary Secretary of Gujarat government said today. “The assent was received in September but we are yet to notify the Bill in the gazette to start its enforcement,” he said. The Bill has a provision where both the parties (workers and industry) can end their dispute through
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