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‘I have learned to live with criticism,’ says PM Modi in Lok Sabha
some people grow in age but don’t mature
Agency | New Delhi Beverage major PepsiCo, which pulled out as title sponsors of the BCCI backed IPL in October, today entered into a four-year partnership with the apex cricket body as an associate sponsor for all its international matches at home. This would make PepsiCo as BCCI’s official partner for refreshment, snacks and drinks besides grounds right where the beverage firm would have visibility on the field.
Former minister’s brother found dead in Goa Agency | Panaji
Former Goa BJP minister Ramrao Dessai’s brother Rajesh was found dead today at the family farmhouse in a village near here, police said. “We found the body of Rajesh at his farmhouse. The investigations are on. The cause of the death has not been ascertained till now,” police inspector Ravi Dessai said. The Dessai-family owned farmhouse in Curchorem village, about 60 kms from here, where Rajesh’s body was recovered was in news after Sameer Mapari who worked as a driver with the family, was also found dead in a river in 2007 in the same place.
Man framed in rape case acquitted
Agency | New Delhi A day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took on the BJP government over a host of issues including jobs, participatory governance and black money. In his reply to the President’s address to both of Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thought it right to address the constant disruptions in Parliament by targetting the Congress party using its own leaders – former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. “When Parliament sessions are
not functional, the nation suffers and more than that the MPs suffer because they can’t discuss issues… House is a place where debates are to take place, but if boundaries are maintained during a debate then it’s fruitful,” PM Modi said, adding that it was not his words but that of Rajiv. “I appeal the Opposition to help pass important bills in both Houses of Parliament,” Modi said, once again saying it was Rajiv who had said those words during his tenure in Parlia-
ment and not him. On the opposition hitting out at the government’s Make In India scheme, PM Modi said: “We make our image as that of a beggar in front of the world,” once again quoting a Congress leader – former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s speech at IP college in 1974. In a veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi said: “Kuch logon ki umar toh badhti hai, lekin samajh nahi badhti (some people grow in age but their ability to understand does not increase).” “Parliament
is not allowed to function due to inferiority complex of opposition leaders,” PM Modi added. In his reply to the President’s joint address to both Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit back at the Opposition, alleging that they were unable to accept his government’s performance and were only out to miscredit his government. Modi urged opposition leaders to let the House function so that the voice of the nation be represented rightfully.
Here are his top quotes:
* Accountability needs to be increased. And I can’t do this by myself. I am new, you (opposition) are experienced and I need your support. * It is necessary that executives need to be accountable. No one is less than the Prime Minister * In 14 years, I have learned to live with criticism * Mai kaise keh sakta hoon rail maine shuru ki? Aap keh sakte hain, aap toh kuch bhi keh sakte hain ( How can I say
I started the rail? You can tell, You can tell anything). * Opposition doesn’t let us speak out of an inferiority complex, so that the nation can’t see our views and skills. * Kharge ji ne kaha ki MNREGA mein bahaut bhrashtachaar hai, mai unse 1000% sehmat hoon (Mr. Kharge said MNREGA has corruption and I am 1000% agreeable to it). * ‘Make In India’ is being mocked by few people. ‘Make in India’ is for India
Vijay Mallya’s only regret: Kingfisher JNU row: Delhi government probe gives clean chit to Kanhaiya, says Umar Kahlid’s role should be investigated not flying when oil is cheap Agency | New Delhi
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With banks going after him to recover unpaid loans given to the long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines, beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya remains defiant and says the “only regret” he has is that the carrier is not flying when the oil price has dipped so low. “I have no regrets as such. Perhaps the only regret is that Kingfisher Airlines is not flying today when the oil price is so low,” Mallya said. Global crude oil prices have fallen by almost 75% from the peak seen in mid-2014. While airlines in India still
A Delhi government-appointed magisterial probe did not find any evidence of JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar raising anti-India slogans at a controversial event in the university, allegations based on which he was slapped with sedition charges by police. According to the probe report, anti-national slogans were shouted at the campus and JNU administration has already identified “few faces” who were “clearly” heard raising them. The probe panel said their whereabouts must be found out and their role must be
complain that the fall in crude prices has not got translated fully in the aviation fuel prices, their fuel cost has still come down by 30%-40%. Most airlines reported better financials in the last quarter on account of low oil prices. Mallya, widely known as the ‘King of Good Times’ in
his heydays, quit recently as chairman of United Spirits -- a company founded by his family in which he sold majority stake to UK-based liquor giant Diageo. As part of the deal that also ended a year-long boardroom battle at United Spirits, Diageo has agreed to pay Mallya $75 million.
Rajnath Singh rules out action against Ram Shankar Katheria, says India world’s most secular country Agency | New Delhi
investigated. The report said “nothing adverse” could be found against Kumar and that no witness or video was available to support allegations against the JNU students union president. Kumar was granted interim bail for six months in the case by the Delhi high court on Wednesday. It said sev-
en videos of the event on February 9 to protest Afzal Guru’s hanging were sent to a Hyderabad-based forensic lab and out of them, three were found to be doctored including one clipping of a news channel. The probe headed by New Delhi district magistrate Sanjay Kumar said Umar Khalid was visible
in many videos and that his support for Kashmir and Guru was known. He was the organizer of the event and his role should be further investigated, it said. Umar and another JNU student Anirban Bhattacharya had surrendered before police on the night of February 24 and they were subsequently arrested in connection on sedition charge. Police had also questioned twice Ashutosh Kumar, another JNU student. The probe was ordered by the city government on February 13 following massive outrage over Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition.
Bomb hoax at south Delhi school, students evacuated
in the speech,” he said. Agency | New Delhi Katheria had on Sunday Home Minister RaAgency | New Delhi attended a condolence Students and staff of jnath Singh said politics meeting held for VHP Modern School in south A local court here has shouldn’t be played over worker Arun Mahaur, Delhi’s Vasant Vihar were acquitted a man of rape secularism and called who was shot dead in evacuated on Thursday charges after the alleged upon all political parties Agra on Thursday. At the after a caller claimed that victim said she lodged to join hands in protecting meeting, he said: “This a bomb had been planted a false complaint on the India’s unity and integriconspiracy that is being in the school which later advice of her counsel in ty. While responding to a hatched against the Hindu turned out to be a hoax. order to retrieve Rs 3 lakh calling attention motion borrowed by the accused on alleged inflammatory said, “We consider anyone While giving a clean chit community, we have to be According to Delhi Fire from her. Additional Ses- speeches by union minis- in this country to be a na- to Union Minister Ram be alert to recognise it and Services officials, the trying to trace the caller. modern school vasant ourselves.” call was received around A police source said that vihar. ACP & SHO with sions Judge Sanjiv Jain, ters and elected represen- tionalist. Terrorism has no Shankar Katheria over al- strengthen Katheria represents Agra 1.15 PM following which the call was received on staff at school. All evacuwhile freeing the man, tatives in violation of the colour, caste or religion.” leged provocative speech, referred to the testimony Constitution and oath of Taking part in a debate in the Home Minister said, constituency in the Lok teams were sent to the one of the landlines, fol- ated with help of teachers of the complainant before office, the Home Minister Rajya Sabha, the senior the video of Katheria has Sabha and is minister of school and students and lowing which the school and students. Anti-sabthe court in which she told the Rajya Sabha that Bharatiya Janata Party been examined and noth- state in the Human Re- teachers were evacuated. authorities informed the otage check being unDevelopment Bomb disposal squads in- police. Soon, the school dertaken to trace device said she made false rape India is the world’s most (BJP) leader said, “A sin- ing objectionable was source allegations on the ad- secular country. While gle party cannot protect found. “I heard Katheria’s (HRD) Ministry. BJP MP spected the premises thor- was locked down and stu- if any. So far situation vice” of her lawyer who putting forward govern- India’s unity and integrity, speech and I made others from Fatehpur Sikri, Babu oughly. Around 2.50 PM, dents evacuated through is normal (sic),” DCP said it was the only way ment’s stand in the Upper we all will have to make hear it. We all agreed there Lal had also attended the Delhi Police declared it one gate. “A bomb call (South Delhi) Prem Nath House, the Union Minister collective efforts for that.” is nothing inflammatory condolence meeting. a hoax call. Police were was received regarding tweeted around 2.30 PM. to get the money back. Corpo. Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
2 / Dt. 04-03-2016, Friday Editors’ Picks friday, march 04, 2016 Central allocations for agriculture are less important than the state budgets
I took the night train to Delhi to participate in budget-day discussions and my co-passenger, who boarded the train in ravaged Punjab, asked me a simple question: “50 farmers are committing suicide everyday; will the budget end farmer suicides?” My answer was — and still is — “No.” The Union budget is just the government’s bookkeeping exercise to balance revenue and expenditure. It is not the policy document it is projected to be. Central budget allocations for agriculture are far less significant than the collective budgets of the states because agriculture is a state subject. While giving Aadhaar legal sanctity and linking it to welfare programmes is Parliament’s prerogative, it is in the states that implementation will actually take place and where every sharecropper and tenant’s name has to be recorded in the land records. These — and not the budget — will be the tipping points to achieving transformative rural change. The time for universally applicable, pan-India policy has passed. Less than 100 districts have 80 per cent of India’s poor and most of these are drought-prone. Funding has to be structured keeping this in mind. More than the budget, it’s the executive decisions of the government taken in the normal course of work that pose a clear and present danger to the hopes of farmer prosperity. Take one such instance: 65 per cent of maize is consumed by the poultry industry and much of the rest by the starch industry. At their behest, India allowed duty-free import of 5,00,000 tonnes of subsidised maize. Consequently, the February spot price of maize fell by over Rs 400 and, for June deliveries in the futures market, to Rs 1,172, way below the MSP. The average maize yield is 25 quintals per acre. Farmers will suffer a loss of Rs 10,000 for each acre of maize sown. India has over 200 lakh acres under maize cultivation. That translates to a collective loss of Rs 20,000 crore for maize farmers alone. Now compare this to the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare allocation of about Rs 20,000 crore. Additionally, when maize prices fall below the MSP, as in the recent past, government does not initiate purchases. We farmers, too, seek international trade agreements and realise the need to ensure cheap food for consumers. But when this subdues farm produce prices, then the government must fully compensate farmers in more ways than it claims to do.
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Alia Bhatt’s birthday gift to herself: A new house!
Agency | Mumbai Bollywood’s beautiful damsel Alia Bhatt, who will turn 23 on 15 March, will ring in her birthday with a new house that she is going to gift to herself. In an interview with Vogue magazine, the 22-year-old actress revealed that the house is only few minutes away from her parent’s residence. She also revealed that the the interior of her new abode is done by Richa Bahl, who previously designed Kangana Ranaut’s place in Bandra. Expressing her excitement, the ‘Student of the Year’ actress said that the
vibe is that of a New York loft, really cosy and not too modern. “The walls are all exposed bricks and the windows are boxy. I’m trying to get a retro Smeg refrigerator and a lot of neon signs for the wall, so it will have a cool vibe.” Sidharth Malhotra and Alia recently made headlines for showing their sizzling chemistry on the Vogue magazine’s latest cover. On the cover, the 31-year-old bare-chested Sidharth, who sported swimming trunks for the sexy shoot, flaunted his toned body and muscles, while Alia looked hot in blue crop top and orange knickers.
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QUOTE “Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ (hail mother India). It should be real, spontaneous and part of allOF THE round development of the youth,” - Without making any reference to the JNU controversy RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said DAY this is necessary as “some forces” are telling the youth not to say “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”... Rustom: Akshay Kumar ups the ‘Kshanam’ has given me confidence curiosity quotient with the first poster to experiment: Satyam Rajesh Agency | New Delhi
Agency | Chennai Actor Satyam Rajesh, who has mostly played comic roles in his decade-long career, stunned everybody when he donned khaki and played a no-nonsense character in Telugu suspense drama “Kshanam”. “I’ve worked in about 350 films. Never did I imagine I could play such a character. In fact, nobody believed that I was capable of playing such a serious role.
‘Kshanam’ has changed all that for me and has given me the confidence to experiment,” Satyam said. When he was approached for the project, he assumed he was expected to play the hero’s friend. “When Sesh (writer) told me I have to play a cop, I wasn’t sure if he was serious, because I was mentally prepared to play the hero’s friend. But when I heard the story, I was so thrilled,” he said, adding that the makers had
originally planned to approach actor Sampath Raj for the same role. Since the release of “Kshanam”, Satyam has been inundated with appreciation calls. “People who called me were surprised that I could play such a character. Some of them liked my performance so much that they told me the industry has finally found another talented character artist,” he said, and added that a very popular producer has offered him villain’s role.
Shruti Haasan comes up with song for Women’s Day Agency | Mumbai
In a novel way of celebrating Women’s Day, Shruti Haasan has come up with a new single album “My Day In The sun”
In a novel way of celebrating Women’s Day, actress Shruti Haasan has come up with a new single album “My Day In The sun”. The singer-actress is all geared up for the release of special single “My Day In The sun” on the occasion of Women’s Day this year, in collaboration with music directors, Ehsaan and Loy. The “Welcome Back” actress has also penned the song. “While writing this song, my main focus was giving a voice to all women. It is about our time, as women, to shine, to be strong and to epitomise the kind of woman we each want to be,” Shruti said in a statement here. “I was really glad to be able to write and sing this song. Musically, it really goes back to the roots of what I’ve always loved…very rock and roll and something you can sing from the heart,” she said. Shruti said she was excited to collaborate with Ehsaan and Loy for the song. “I’ve grown up listening to them (Ehsaan and Loy) and to collaborate with them was wonderful,” she adds. Besides penning the lyrics herself, the 30-year-old actress has also worked with Ehsaan and Loy on composing the music for the track. “Shruti is a fantastic songwriter. We’ve come up with a song which is very con- lyrically,” Ehsaan and Loy 8 and then release the vidtemporary and hard-hit- said. The audio track will eo will be out after a couting both musically and be released first on March ple of months.
If Akshay Kumar’s first look in his upcoming film Rustom made you sit up and take notice, then the poster of the film will definitely up your curiosity quotient. The 48-yearold actor, who plays a naval officer in Rustom, has given a sneak-peek into the murder mystery with the release of its first poster. Akshay, who took to Twitter to unveil the first poster of the film, up the intrigue level, when he wrote, “3 shots that shocked the nation and changed his life! Find out what happened with #Rustom this August 12, 2016.” A decorated officer, a woman hugged by another man and a newspaper headline, the poster of Rustom is enough to make heads turn. Buzz has it that the film is based on Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a naval officer, who killed his wife’s lover by firing three shots in 1959. He later surrendered himself to the police and got a reputation as the “honourable kill-
er”. Akshay plays a Parsi, Rustom Pavri, in the romantic thriller which is inspired by real-life incident. Rustom is said to be a murder mystery with a romantic plot. A source was quoted as telling the website, “Rustom will not just have a strong romantic plot but also a thrill-
ing murder mystery. It’s a beautiful story that the audience will connect to and the puzzling murder will keep you riveted with interesting twist and turns.” Directed by debutant Tinu Suresh Desai, the film also stars Ileana D’Cruz. Rustom is set to hit the screens on August 12.
with Colors channel officials due to various reasons. But after weeks of speculation, Kapil is out with The Kapil Sharma Show on channel Sony. About the controversy created by the whole incident, Kapil said, “What do you call a controversy? I feel that when you are working and people love you a lot, any news related to you becomes a news. I don’t think I created any such controver-
sy, or that I had any such intention.” “There is no competition as such; our purpose is to make people laugh; the team is the same, everything else is the same. If we keep those things in mind, then we won’t be able to work; we are making the show in a very positive way. Hard work is there in our blood; we do it day and night, so we’ll do it for this show as well. So obviously, it will be good.”
Watched Krushna Comedy Nights Live, it was different: Kapil Sharma
Agency | Mumbai The entire country missed Kapil Sharma as Krushna Abhishek took over his time slot with a new show on Colors TV. Though our favourite comedian will soon be back with a new show, The Kapil Sharma Show. He says that he did watch Krushna’s Comedy Nights Live and said it was different from his show. “Yes, I did watch it. They’re doing it in a different way; it’s not like how we did it. We then got busy with our show. If we keep looking at others, when will we do our work,” he said at the unveiling of his new show. Comedy Nights Live, hosted by actor-comedian Krushna Abhishek, has replaced Kapil’s popular show after Kapil fell out
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Andre Russell faces suspension following 3 drug tests miss in past 12 months Agency | Miami
Agency | New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea of two cellular operator associations challenging Delhi High Court order upholding Trai’s decision making it mandatory for them to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1, 2016. The plea of the associations was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur seeking urgent hearing on the matter. The bench also comprising Justice U U Lalit asked the associations “Why don’t you correct the system?” Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the telecom associations, said that this matter required urgent hearing as Delhi HC has upheld the Trai order, after which the bench agreed to hear the plea on Friday. The high court had, earlier this week, upheld the October 16, 2015 RPT 2015 decision of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) making it mandatory for cellular operators to pay consumers one rupee per call drop experienced on their networks, subject to a cap of Rs. 3 a day.
LeEco sells 2,00,000 units of ‘superphones’ Le 1s, Le Max in 30 days
Agency | New Delhi Chinese handset maker LeTV, which recently got renamed as LeEco has said that it sold 200,000 superphones in just 30 days. LeEco’s two superphones - Le 1s, the flagship killer and the premium Big and Bold, Le Max have been in news lately for the unprecedented response they’ve got from consumers and industry alike ever since they went on sale, February 2nd and February 16th respectively. The company has created several industry leading milestones since its inception in India and has successfully established itself as a significant player in the smartphone industry. “The superphones are powered by our string ecosystem of multiple devices, content, cloud and platform. The incredible response from our consumers is very humbling and it re-affirms that our proposition of breakthrough technology, comprehensive ecosystem and sustainable disruptive pricing is being well received by our consumers,” said Atul Jain, COO, smart electronic devices, LeEco India.
Honda Amaze facelift launched at starting price of Rs 5.29 lakh
West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell could face a suspension under anti-doping rules after missing three drug tests in the past 12 months, reports in Jamaica said Wednesday. Russell, a member of the West Indies squad for next week’s World Twenty20 championship in India, could be banned for up to two years if found guilty, the Jamaica Gleaner reported. The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) declined to comment when contacted by AFP to confirm the report. Russell, 27, also could not be reached for comment. Failing to be available for a test is regarded as the equivalent of testing positive for
Pakistan undone by their ‘strength’ at Asia Cup 2016 Agency | New Delhi
a performance-enhancing substance, meaning Russell faces a long spell on the sidelines if his violation is confirmed. Russell has played only one full Test for the West Indies, against Sri Lanka in 2010, but has carved out a cricket career as a sought after all-rounder in abbreviated versions of the game. He has regularly
played in the West Indies one-day squads and has also enjoyed stints with various T20 sides in India, Australia and Pakistan. If Russell’s doping sanction is confirmed, it would spell further disruption to the West Indies World T20 preparations, which has been dogged by a series of withdrawals and a bitter pay dispute.
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Honda Cars India has launched the updated version of its compact sedan Amaze priced between Rs 5.29 lakh and Rs 8.19 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The Amaze facelift gets changes to the front fascia and completely new interiors. Inside the cabin, the dashboard is all new and two-tone, while push buttons are replaced by touch buttons. The car comes with various features, including a Bluetooth-enabled audio system, automatic air conditioner and a multi-information display. The Amaze facelift will get dual airbags on all its variants, including the base variant. The company will open bookings from May. The company said that it will soon be equipping all its upcoming models with dual airbags, starting in April. By 2017, the company is looking to fit its exiting model line-up with dual airbags too. Honda Cars India President and CEO Katsushi Inoue said, The Amaze “has been a significant model for HCIL. Over two lakh units of the model have been sold since it’s launch in April 2013, contributing 40% of the cumulative sales in the country.”
of 111. No surprises then that Pakistan have lost 7 out of their last 10 T20Is. It looked like the cumulative might be pushed further down against Bangladesh but for Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik who put together 70 runs for the fifth wick-
et. Thereafter the onus was on the ‘asset’ to get the win. But a collection of poor bowling, embarrassing fielding and somewhat questionable captaincy on Shahid Afridi’s part let Mahmudullah slide on the field in euphoria.
dite his entry into the XI. MS Dhoni has refrained from using him, instead banking on the in-form Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and part-time spinners Yuvraj and Suresh Raina. Harbhajan has been a different story. The former spin spearhead has stayed on the bench for the last nine T20Is. The 35-year-old off-spinner is unlikely to get a game in the World T20 unless
Ashwin is injured. Same is the case for Negi, who bowls left-arm spin. He is likely to be brought in only if Jadeja loses form or suffers an injury. Ajinkya Rahane is the only batsman to be given a prolonged run, when Virat Kohli was rested for the Sri Lanka series. Bhuvneshwar Kumar might also be required if Mohammed Shami does not recover in time for the World T20.
a squad for South Africa and the global event. Steve Smith was handed the captaincy, making him the leader in all three formats, while the squad includes three players who have yet to play in a T20 international - wicketkeeper Peter Nevill, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and leg-spinner Adam Zampa. While Nevill has established himself as Australia’s Test wicketkeeper, Agar, Zampa and fast bowler Andrew
Tye are virtual novices at international level. Agar has played in two Tests and two one-day internationals, famously hitting 98 at number 11 on Test debut in the 2013 Ashes. Zampa made his debut and played in two one-day internationals in New Zealand last month. Tye played in only two T20 internationals against India. Australia have a strong batting line-up, however, although this too could be problematical in terms of deciding on the best combination. South Africa won two T20 internationals against England last month and will be strengthened by the returns of fast bowler Dale Steyn and wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock.
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track,” Hussey wrote in ‘Winning Edge’, his third book that was released recently. “A week later the ex-India batsman VVS Laxman asked me if I would be interested in coaching India. My initial answer to both of them was no because at the time I did not want to be on the road 10 months a year; I wanted to be at home with my family and make up for some lost time from the previous few years. But, probably more relative to them, I said to each
that I did not think I was ready to become the head coach of an international cricket team,” he added. Since Fletcher’s exit, former India all-rounder Ravi Shastri has played the caretaker’s role in his position as team director. The term of Shastri, who took over as the team director in August 2014, along with the trio of assistant coaches — Sanjay Bangar (batting), Bharat Arun (bowling) and R Sridhar (fielding) — will expire after the World Twenty20.
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Coming into the Asia Cup, Pakistan’s batting was the bigger of their concerns but they were banking their hopes on the bowling effort to guide them to the trophy. But on Wednesday in Mirpur, it was the bowling that came undone in their 5-wicket loss to Bangladesh. In the batting department, Pakistan’s lackluster showing continued. Their last four innings have produced: 101, 83, 131 (batting second) and on Wednesday 129 – that is an average
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Martin Crowe: Cricket robbed off New Zealand’s greatest ever Test batsman
Described as New Zealand`s finest batsman, Martin Crowe`s cricketing life was defined by one innings, one tournament and one seriously damaged knee. Tributes flowed for Crowe on Thursday after he lost a second battle with lymphoma. He was 53. Crowe was born into the game. His father Dave was a stalwart of the Cornwall cricket club in Auckland, while his elder brother Jeff followed him into the New Zealand side. Fluent at the crease with all the time in the world to play shots, he broke into the Auckland team as an 18-year-old where he scored 51 in his first innings against Canterbury. Crowe`s precocious talent was rewarded 12 months later when he made his test debut against an Australia side containing the snarling menace of Jeff
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VVS Laxman asked me if I would be interested in coaching India: Michael Hussey
Michael Hussey was approached by former India batsman VVS Laxman for the post of Indian team’s head coach, the ex-Australian cricketer has revealed in his latest book. Laxman had approached Hussey during the last IPL, barely a month before the Indian cricketer was inducted by the BCCI into its three-member advisory panel that was assigned with finding India’s head coach in place of Duncan Fletcher, who departed following the 2015 World Cup. “The former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene rang me a while ago to ask if I would be interested in being an assistant coach of Sri Lanka with a view to taking over as head coach a few months further down the
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Thomson and Dennis Lillee. The experience of being a batting prodigy would leave him with mental scars, however, and he later wrote in the second of his autobiographies “Raw” in 2013 that being thrust into the limelight as a teenager had not allowed him to mature. He said he also struggled with doubt and emotional instability in his early years, which left him feeling “scared and bewildered”. Crowe returned to the national side in 1983 and had a brilliant season for
Somerset the following year, scoring 1,870 first class runs. He was named one of Wisden`s Cricketers of the Year in 1985 and his 188 against Australia in November that year established him as one of New Zealand`s best batsmen. His finest hour with the bat, however, came in 1991 when he combined with Andrew Jones in a stand of 467 runs to save the first test against Sri Lanka, scoring 299 before being caught behind from the slow medium pace of Arjuna Ranatunga.
In February, when India announced their squad for the Asia Cup and World Twenty20, there were quite a few surprises. While old warhorses Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh returned, uncapped all-rounder Pawan Negi was also picked. Six matches later, Negi and Harbhajan are yet to get a game. Negi, who grabbed the headlines after his selection, cashed in immediately by bagging the highest bid for an Indian at the Indian Premier League auctions. The Delhi Daredevils paid an astounding Rs 8.5 crore for the 23-year-old. His brush with fame though has done little to expe-
SA v Aus: Proteas, Aussies gear up for world tournament
Agency | Durban South Africa and Australia will be seeking to find their best combinations when they meet in three Twenty20 internationals, shortly before both sides travel to India for the World Twenty20 tournament. Australia appear to have the most uncertainties. They were beaten 3-0 at home by India in their most recent T20 series and the selectors made several significant changes in picking
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Bhavnath fair begins in Girnar foothills ‘Verbal clash’ in Gujarat assembly house: Correspondent | Junagadh
The famous five day Bhavnath fair, held every year at the Bhavnath Mahadev temple in the foothills of Girnar (Girnar Taleti) around 8 km from Junagadh and which culminates on the Mahshivratri day with great show of devotional and festive energy by Naga sages, started today with the performance of the traditional ritual of religious flag hoisting (Dhawjarohan) amid vedic chants. Mahant of the main temple, Hari Giriji Maharaj along with other saints performed the ritual among chanting of Vedic mantras. Collector Alok Kumar was also present on the occasion. After the main temple dwajarohan was also done in Juna, Aavahan and Agni Akhadas, Annaksheetras and other places. The
fair commences from the Hindu calendar date of Magh Vad 11 which coincided with March 3 this year. Attended by around a million devotees and sages the fair culminates on Mahashivratri (March 7 this year) when it is believed that in the moonless night Lord Shiva performed his tandava, the cosmic dance of destruction, a mahapuja is performed. This
ritual begins at midnight on Mahashivaratri every year, when naga bavas, or naked sages, seated on elephants and decked in ornaments, arrive holding flags and blowing conch shells, tungis, and turis, the sounds of which reverberate through the entire space. Devotees believe that Lord Shiva himself visits the shrine on this occasion. Girnar is said to be the abode of
the nine immortal nathas, and eighty-four siddhas, all of whom also visit the temple in their invisible spirit forms during Mahashivaratri. Offerings are made to the deities, and the festive energy is expressed through performances of dance, music and traditional bhavai theatre. Before going to the fair, many pilgrims visit the holy hills of Girnar. Visitors are served free meals by the organizers which is called ‘Harihar’ locally. Special stalls sell idols, rosaries brought from Ayodhya and Mathura, and delectable sweets. The evening leading up to the midnight ritual of Mahashivaratri, at the wrestling grounds, or akhada, next to the temple, the naga bavas gather for a ritual involving a blend of dance and martial arts.
Minister Nitin Patel offers apology
Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
A day after he had a verbal clash with Congress MLA from Dehgam, Kaminiba Rathod, in the House, senior cabinet minister in Anandiben Patel government, Nitin Patel, Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology before the state Assembly. He termed the episode a “rare” incident. Patel called his own words “unnecessary” and “excessive” while tendering the unconditional apology. Interestingly, Patel’s apology followed a written complaint by Rathod to the Assembly Speaker Ganpat Vasava on Monday, seeking permission to lodge a police complaint against Patel for criminal intimidation and attack on her character. On Monday, Patel had a verbal spat with Ra-
Policeman in uniform murdered in cold Kandla port more efficient blood by inebriated goons in Rajkot than Adani’s port: Gadkari Correspondent | Rajkot
A young constable of the B-division police station in Rajkot was murdered in cold blood by some history-sheeter goons in the city late last night, police said today. Joint Commissioner of Police D S Bhatt today said that Bharat Gadhvi (28), a bright young duty bound constable was attacked by four drunk goons near his residence in Kotharia road area under Taluka police station while he was on his way back to home and was still in his uniform. Gadhvi had an altercation with them
when he questioned as to what they were doing in highly inebriated state so late in the night (at around 2 am). One of them Shakti alias Penda, who was a notorious criminal accused in several cases including torching of vehicles, became angry at it and
Correspondent | New Delhi
started a fight with the constable.Later they attacked him with rod and stone and injured him seriously. Injured Gadhvi was taken to civil hospital and later to a private hospital but succumbed. Police has caught the four culprits. The matter was being investigated.
Taking a dig at the Opposition for linking Adani group with the government, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said state-owned Kandla port was more efficient than Adani’s Mundra port, both of which are in Gujarat. Gadkari’s remarks
in semi-urban and rural areas of Gujarat. With growth in rural incomes and fast paced urbanization, there is a definite set of potential customers waiting for newer experience, translating into better exhibition-business prospect. NOVA aims to increase the Box-office pie for the overall Film Industry. It will encourage local populace to set-up movie theatres in their respective areas. As per the arrangement, the franchisee shall own the cinema and make the necessary investments for setting up the theater and
shall be responsible for day- to- day operations of the same, while NOVA shall be responsible for putting up of the theatre at a competitive cost, providing complete branding support and taking care of programming of films at the theatre. NOVA shall also take care of deployment of the theatrical technologies i.e. digital cinema & online ticketing at its own cost and part of the theatre set up cost attributable to screen, speaker systems, seats and acoustics. As a result each NOVA screen will provide hi-end cinema going experience with digital projectors and sound, modern ambience with comfortable seats, decent quality food courts, and hygienic rest rooms. To sum it up, NOVA CINEMAS will become the social and community hub, providing a multiplex-like experience at affordable cost in Gujarat.
NOVA CINEMAS, UFO Moviez’ New Venture to Intensify Gujarat Movie Screen Count
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
UFO Moviez India Limited, India’s largest digital cinema distribution network and in-cinema advertising platform in terms of number of screens, today, launched a franchise brand NOVA CINEMAS under its subsidiary Valuable Digital Screens Private Limited (VDSPL). Over the next 5 years, UFO Moviez intends to create a network of 1,000+ NOVA Screens across India and increase the screen count of Gujarat by up to 10%. NOVA CINEMAS, an asset-light franchisee model, shall leverage UFO Moviez’ existing strengths in industry relationships and its unmatched ability to seamlessly distribute film content in remote areas, eventually bridging the entertainment divide. Through this initiative, NOVA will offer an infrastructural boost to the Indian film industry, an
exciting opportunity to budding entrepreneurs who aspire to get into movie-exhibition services and a better cinematic experience for the local cine-goers. The concept of NOVA emerged from the fact that India has one of the lowest screen counts in the world. With 9500 screens serving a population of more than 1.2 billion which amounts to only 8 screens per million heads as compared to 117 screens per million in USA and 30 screens per million in China. There is a huge potential for exhibition business to grow
thod when the latter was speaking on the motion of thanks on Governor’s address to the Assembly. Rathod was criticising the alleged unnecessary expenses incurred on the
DGPs and IGs meet in Dhordo when Patel had intervened, asking the former to be careful when talking on issues of national security. This was followed by some per-
sonal arguments between Patel and Rathod which were later removed from the record of the House by the Speaker. However, the issue snowballed into a controversy when Opposition demanded apology from Patel. Around 45 Congress MLAs were suspended by the Speaker from the House for a session and the rest staged a walkout on the issue. Subsequently, following a meeting with the Speaker, chief whips of Congress and BJP, Patel and Rathod, the two had “withdrawn” their words. Following the incident, Congress workers had burnt an effigy of Nitin Patel in Dehgam.
Patidar leaders plan to hold protest in PAAS Delhi on March 11 leaders give 10-day ultimatum Correspondent | Surat
Leaders of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) Wednesday met jailed quota spearhead Hardik Patel as they threatened to resume agitation if the Gujarat government did not grant reservation to Patel community within 10 days. They also announced that a protest demonstration will be held in New Delhi on March 11. The Sardar Patel Group (SPG), led by Lalji Patel, will hold a mega meet in Surat Sunday. After the meeting, Surat PAAS co-convenor Dharmik Malaviya said, “Hardik advised us that we should not settle for reservations on the lines of Haryana and Rajasthan governments. The government should include came during Question the community in OBC, Hour in response to TMC release all Patidar youths member Saugata Roy who from the jail, and pay Rs mentioned the name of the Adani group when the Minister was replying to supplementaries relating to ports. “You always link the name of Adani with Correspondent | New Delhi the government. It is for External Affairs Ministhe first time that Kandla ter Sushma Swaraj today Port increased its efficien- said the issue of Indian cy by 1.44 per cent while fishermen straying into Adani’s port went into Pakistan’s waters would minus. We have increased be resolved soon with our business and they are the installation of GPS in in the minus,” the Ship- fishing boats and marking ping Minister said. He of the maritime boundary. said “we are getting more Responding to concerns business, we have got raised by her party colmore turnover and more league during Zero Hour profit and we are com- in Rajya Sabha, she said paring with the Adani’s the issue of fishermen port with a 1.4 per cent crossing over to Pakiincrease”. TMC leader stani waters would soon Sudip Bandyopadhyay be resolved as GPS naviwondered whether induc- gation system were being tion of representatives of installed on fishing boats private ports in port trust to guide them. Besides, advisory boards would the international maritime damage the interests of boundary could be clearly government ports. In re- marked by floating poles sponse, Gadkari said if and lights to warn fishthere is a conflict of inter- ermen not to go beyond est and “we will definitely them, she said, adding take your suggestion and that marking of the maritime boundary should be act on it”.
to govt, SPG to hold mega meet in Surat
15 lakh compensation to the families of those killed during the quota agitation.” “There is no question of compromise until our demand for reservation is met. We have given 10-day ultimatum to the government. If our demands are not met we will take out a rally from Rajpipla to Karamsad, the birth place of Sardar
Patel,” Malaviya said. Nilesh Asodarya, Surat city convenor of SPG, said, “The mega sammelan will be held at Sardar farm in Puna area. It will be addressed by SPG president Lalji Patel, vice-president Gaurang Patel and other leaders of SPG. We have also invited the Surat PAAS team for this programme.”
done in a way so that it is easily identifiable by the fishermen. “They (fishermen) want us to help them with information about the maritime boundary. The issue in relation to Pakistan would be soon resolved. We will install GPS and mark the maritime boundary line so that neither Pakistanis come to our side, nor
do Indians stray to the other,” she said. Earlier, BJP’s Mansukh Lal Mandavia raised the issue of 117 Gujarat fishermen being arrested by Pakistan. He said fishermen from Tamil Nadu were also arrested by Sri Lanka. Swaraj said the issue was not of Gujarat or Tamil Nadu, “they are Indian fishermen.”
Steps to check fishermen from straying to foreign waters: Govt
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