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News Brief Six in fray for Assembly bypoll in U'khand Agency : Haridwar, Apr 3
With BSP and Samajwadi Party choosing to stay out of the fray, a straight fight between the Congress and BJP appears to be on the cards for Bhagwanpur Assembly seat in Uttarakhand where a bypoll will be held on April 11. A total of six candidates are in the fray for the bypoll to the reserved SC seat?including ruling Congress's Mamata Rakesh, BJP's Rajpal Singh and four Independents -Gurmel, Darshana Devi Rathore, Dipak Surya and Pritam Singh.
MP crush Andhra by 9 wickets Agency : Bhubaneswar, Apr 3
Madhya Pradesh today thrashed Andhra by nine wickets in a group A Super League encounter of the National T20 Championship for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, here Friday. Opting to bowl, MP skittled out Andhra for a paltry 58 in 16.4 overs and then knocked off the runs in only 6.4 overs.
Janata merger not to be announced on April 5: Nitish
Agency : Patna, Apr 3
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday said merger of six parties of the erstwhile Janata Parivar was on course but denied any dates for the announcement of the unification. According to the media reports, the six parties of the erstwhile Janata Parivar were likely to announce their merger on Sunday (April 5) following a meeting in which the name of the new political entity and its symbol will be decided. "April 5 has not been finalised for announcement of the merger of the Janata Parivar parties. The date will be decided by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, authorised to see modalities of the merger," Kumar said in a function at the Jagjivan Ram Research Centre here.
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UPA did not have right intentions, says Modi We are giving importance to digital India & are moving to mobile governance. Digital India enhances accountability:PM Agency : BENGALURU Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the country has emerged out from its decade of despair and now an era of hope has set in. ccusing the previous Congress-led UPA regime of not having right intentions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that his government was taking quick decisions to ensure faster economic development of the country. Addressing a rally here on
the first day of the Bharatiya Janata Party's national executive meeting, Modi said sometimes the
BJP Clear on Mission Kashmir: Amit Shah Agency : BENGALURU BJP President Amit Shah Friday said that mission of integration of Jammu and Kashmir was BJPs top priority. Shah was addressing party’s National Executive members at Bengaluru, who had gathered from across India. Shah avoided taking the responsibility of Delhi’s defeat, however, he projected a brave front over party’s alliance with the PDP in Jammu & Kashmir. “The unity and integrity of the country are article of faith for us. We are very clear about our
mission of integration of J&K. National Interest is our top priority (in Kashmir) and not remaining in power,” Shah said. Terming 2014 as the “year of celebration” for the party for its stellar electoral performances at the national as well as state level (Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir), the BJP president conceded Delhi defeat as a “setback” but called on party cadres not to get demotivated and expressed confidence over party’s victory in Bihar assembly elections later this year.
intentions of a government were more powerful than its policies. Without naming the Congress, Modi said his government had been facing
team and bringing a bill in parliament on illegal money stashed abroad. "There was an atmosphere of
disappointment for years. Open the papers, see the TV and you will see news of some scam or the other.
Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah at the party's National Executive Committee meeting in Bengaluru on Friday
You recall there used to be sense of disappointment, every day new scam, youth was disheartened," Modi said in his address at the BJP national executive meet in Bengaluru. "The world had turned away from India. The world had changed the way they saw India. It was as if India has lost the ability to script a new future, India has lost its way," Modi said. "We will fulfill your hopes and aspirations. From my 10month experience I can tell you there is no reason why India must stay behind," Modi said.
Iran's Zarif Bridged Worlds to Secure Preliminary Deal Union minister Smriti Irani spots CCTV in Agency : BEIRUT Ecstatic crowds welcomed Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif back to Tehran on Friday after he led Iranian negotiators to an initial nuclear agreement that could profoundly improve Iran's standing in the world after years as a pariah state. Iran and world powers reached a framework agreement on Thursday on curbing Iran's nuclear program for at least a decade, a step towards a final pact that could end 12 years of brinkmanship, threats and confrontation.
Air India to fly out of Sana’a with 550 Indians Agency : New Delhi In a big relief for Indians stuck inside Yemen, the government on Friday received permission to fly its nationals out of the capital city of Sana’a. The two Air India Airbus-321 planes on standby in Muscat were pressed into service and evacuated around 550 stranded nationals to Djibouti from where they will be flown to India, officials said. Significantly scaling up evacuation efforts, the armed forces plan to bring back around 850 passengers to India by early hours on Saturday in two C17 Globemasters and an Air India Boeing-777 aircraft. Confirming the news to The Hindu, Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs Gen (Retd) V.K. Singh said that the two flights will try to make at least two trips to transport passengers from Sana’a to Djibouti, where he is overseeing and
criticism that it was following policies of the previous United Progressive Alliance government but he sought to debunk this perception. "Whatever your policy, your intention was not right, ours is. Hence we have gone ahead in the race of development," he said. Accusing the opposition of spreading falsehoods on the issue of black money, he said his government had taken several initiatives to curb black money including forming special investigation
Zarif, 55, a fluent English speaker whose studies in the United States culminated with a doctorate in international politics at the University of Denver, was perfectly placed to lead Iran into the talks against the wishes of Iranian hardliners who saw them as a capitulation to Western pressure. In many ways, it is a role the career diplomat has been preparing for his whole life. Among his Washington contacts are Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and both Republican and Democrat national security officials. "Zarif's ability to bridge different worlds is very unique," Karim Sadjadpour, of the Carnegie Endowment for International peace, said before the deal.
Goa FabIndia store's trial room, four detained Agency : New Delhi Union minister Smriti Irani spotted a camera in the trial room of an apparel store in Goa on Friday, sparking a debate over privacy concerns at such facilities in the tourism-dependent coastal villages in the state. Irani, on a two-day visit to Goa, came across the camera when she was at a FabIndia showroom at Candolim village, 20km north of state capital Panaji, to buy clothes. She immediately alerted her husband, businessman Zubin Irani, said superintendent of police (North) Umesh Gaonkar. Irani then called BJP legislator Micheal Lobo, who lodged an FIR on her behalf. “When we went and switched the camera on, the
entire video was recorded... This is mischief... Somebody has been watching the recordings," the MLA said. Calangute police found a CCTV camera installed in the ventilation unit of the room. "The camera was installed outside the changing room, but it seemed to have a view of the inside," said police inspector Nilesh Rane. SP
Gaonkar said four staff members of the showroom were detained and that objectionable images were seen from the recordings of the hidden camera that was seized by police. Irani could not be contacted. Lobo, who represents Calangute in the state assembly, said the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government was taking the matter seriously.
Congress attacks AAP for 'total failure' in first 49 days
coordinating their return to India. “We have been stuck for two days because of the lack of permission to land in Sana’a,” He told The Hindu, “If all goes well, we hope to bring atleast 500 more Indians out of Yemen Friday.” Djibouti has become the nodal point for all Indian evacuation efforts. Due to lack of a safe passage by road out of Sana’a all nationals will be moved to Djibouti by air and then flown to India, officials informed. According to Air Force officials, in addition to the two Air India A-321 aircraft another Air India aircraft, a
Boeing 777 long range plane that can typically carry between 300 and 450 passengers has been sent from Mumbai to Djibouti. The two Air India planes have been on standby at Muscat airport, waiting for clearance from Saudi Arabian authorities, who control the airspace over the capital and have been conducting regular airstrikes on Yemen. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud earlier this week, but permission had been held up while the bombing continued.
Agency : New Delhi As AAP government completes 49 days in office -- the tenure of its first stint, Congress on Friday mounted a blistering attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of "total failure" in governance due to "excessive" focus on containing dissidence in the party. Delhi Congress Chief Ajay Maken said the entire city was suffering due "absence of governance" and particularly hit out at Kejriwal for "deteriorating" financial position of the government. "The internal fight in AAP has seriously affected governance in Delhi. The Chief Minister is only focussing on party affairs. There is a total absence of governance. Kejriwal has totally failed to deliver,"
Maken said. The former Union Minister also accused Kejriwal of failing to "rein in" private power distribution companies and said instead of giving around Rs 1,670 crore to the discoms per annum under the power subsidy scheme, government should have ensured transparency in the sector and passed on the benefits to consumers. "There is a deficit of Rs 4,500 crore in the financial year 2014-15. There has been a huge shortfall in revenue collection. The situation is very worrying. The development scenario in Delhi is really scary," Maken said. He also slammed Kejriwal for not releasing adequate financial assistance to municipal corporation, saying fund crunch has
severely affected garbage removal and other operations of the civic bodies. The DPCC Chief also took pot shot at Kejriwal for removing AAP's internal Lokpal L Ramdas, a former Navy Chief. "The AAP was formed following the Lokpal movement and now see how the party's own Lokpal was removed. There is no internal democracy in the party. The party is in shambles." Maken
said removal of Ramdas has "proved" that "AAP does not want a want a 'majboot' (strong) Lokpal but they want a 'majbur' (helpless) Lokpal." The DPCC chief alleged that the AAP government was fighting with the Lt Governor, Haryana Government and municipal corporations on a range of issues rather than providing governance to the people of the city.
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In 2050, India’s Muslim population will be largest globally India will overtake Indonesia as the country with the largest number of Muslims in 2050 while Hindus will become the world’s third largest population by that time, according to a new study by a US think-tank. According to the Pew Research Center’s religious profile predictions assessed data released yesterday, Muslims are projected to grow faster than the world’s overall population and that Hindus and Christians are to roughly keep pace with worldwide population growth. “India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia,” the Pew report said. According to Pew in 2011, Indonesia had a Muslim population of about 205 million as against India’s 177 million. “Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion,” it said. The report predicted that by 2050 there will be near parity between Muslims (2.8 billion, or 30 per cent of the population) and Christians (2.9 billion, or 31 per cent), possibly for the first time in history. There were 1.6 billion Muslims in 2010, compared to 2.17 billion Christians. “The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world,” the report said. If the trend continues, Islam will be the most popular faith in the world after 2070, it said. By 2050, Muslims will make up about 10 per cent of the Europe’s population, up from 5.9 per cent in 2010. The Hindu population is projected to rise by 34 per cent worldwide, from a little over 1 billion to nearly 1.4 billion by 2050. By that time, Hindus will be third, making up 14.9 per cent of the world’s total population, followed by people who do not affiliate with any religion, accounting for 13.2 per cent, the report said. The people with no religious affiliation currently have the third largest share of the world’s total population. Over the same period, the number of Hindus in Europe is expected to roughly double, from a little under 1.4 million (0.2 per cent of Europe’s population) to nearly 2.7 million (0.4 per cent), mainly as a result of immigration, the report said. In North America, the Hindu share of the population is expected to nearly double in the decades ahead, from 0.7 per cent in 2010 to 1.3 per cent in 2050, when migration is included in the projection models. Without migration, the Hindu share of the region’s population would remain the same. According to projections, the proportion of the British population identifying themselves as Christian will reduce by almost a third by 2050 to stand at just 45.4 per cent, compared with almost two thirds in 2010. The predictions confirm analysis from the most recent UK census which saw the number of children growing up as Muslims in the UK almost double in a decade. If the projections, which are based on official population figures, birth rates and immigration estimates from around the world, are borne out, it could amount to the most significant religious realignment in Britain since the arrival of Christianity. It would mean that by 2050 Britain would have the third largest Muslim community, as a share of the population in Europe, overtaking France, Germany, Belgium and a handful of other countries.
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“Today we have evacuated 700 people from Sanaa. The effort is to evacuate around 1,100 people tomorrow by sea route. They are expected to board the ships tomorrow,” - Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday said the evacuation mission named Operation Rahat launched in the strife-torn nation could be completed in two days.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy: I researched for 150 days, says Sushant
Furious 7 movie review
Agency : New Delhi Dibakar Banerjee says he was 12 when he was introduced to the world of the Bengali detective, Byomkesh Bakshi. Ever since, he says he’s wanted to retell the story. No wonder then, sitting across us, in the HT — Fever 104 FM office, isn’t just the
Agency : New Delhi An air of impending alarm hangs over ‘Furious 7'. Every time the late Paul Walker is on screen, you wonder if this was the last scene he shot, and even the cruelty of watching it now given the circumstances of his death. Paul Walker, the non-bald, non-bicep-flexing hero of this franchise, died in a car crash midway through shooting. The film later used previous footage, body doubles (including Walker’s brothers) and some tech wizardry to
seasoned, acclaimed director, but an excited man all pumped up about his dream project. In one of our most intense On-Record @ Café sessions in recent times, Dibakar took over the conversation — romanticising about Kolkata of the 1940s, talking about rebuilding it in the city of
today, revealing why, for the film, he chose indie musicians over mainstream ones, and why he can’t make commercial moneyspinners — even as lead actor Sushant Singh Rajput chipped in with his take on ‘method acting’, and why ‘becoming your character’ as an actor is really a myth.
Confirmed! Kangana Ranaut to play Meena Kumari in biopic, shooting to start in 2016 Agency : New Delhi It has been confirmed now that Kangana Ranaut will be part of a biopic on Bollywood actor Meena Kumari but because of her tight schedule she will not be able to start with the film before mid 2016. Kangana will be busy with a project with Sujoy Ghosh and another film with Hansal Mehta. "Yes, I have been offered a film on Meena Kumari and I hope things work out," Kangana said on Thursday at a "Meet & Greet" session of a campaign done by a popular website. "But before that I
film's story is set against Mumbai. Suriya will start shooting for 24 from April 8 onwards here for a month," said a source from the film's unit. Samantha is paired with Suriya in the film, which will be produced by the latter's home production 2D Entertainment. Double Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman will compose tunes for 24.
would be doing Sujoy Ghosh and Hansal Mehta's films, so I won't be able to start with Meena Kumari's biopic before mid-2016. But that's happening," she added.Meena Kumari, best known for her work in films
like "Chhoti Bahu" and "Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam", was an iconic star of Hindi cinema as well as a poet of great flair. Her personal life was full of pain and sorrow and she died of cirrhosis of liver in 1972. She was 39.
Why is Shahid Kapoor hiding his new look?
Agency : Mumbai Shahid Kapoor was apparently stuck at a salon in Mumbai for two hours past midnight to shield his new look of 'Udta Punjab' from the paparazzi. Shahid Kapoor's midnight haircut for his upcoming film, 'Udta Punjab', set the paparazzi swarming outside a suburban salon in Mumbai
complete his scenes. It’s a smooth exercise, ensuring that the actor with the unquestionable charm is a constant presence. However, while this may be enough to get Paul Walker and F&F fans to ‘Furious 7', even the diehard ones will be hard pressed to find anything new in its chases, crashes and collisions. Except that cars don’t just frequently drive off cliffs and other such heights, they also airdrop down to Caucasus mountains, and race off one tower at Abu Dhabi to land
inside another, and then another. The last is a quizzical choice, given that some may see traces of 9/ 11 in the episode. But chances are — and new director James Wan (The Conjuring) and old scriptwriter Chris Morgan realise this — the audiences of ‘Furious 7' are not the discerning type. Otherwise, Azerbaijan’s mountain mayhem and the United Arab Emirates’s penthouse pandemonium may not pass muster with nary a diplomatic row.
'Court', a poignant and touching story: Aamir Khan
Tamil actor Suriya's 24 to go on floors on April 8
Agency : Mumbai Tamil actor Suriya's next project, a Tamil thriller called 24, will roll from April 8 in Mumbai. The film is being directed by Vikram Kumar. The actor is currently busy with a horror flick titled Masss and a children's film called Haiku. The team plans to shoot a month-long schedule in the city before heading to other locations. "Most of the
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for hours. Consequently, the actor was stuck there for almost two hours. A source says, "Shahid had gone for a haircut on late Wednesday night and on stepping out of the salon, he saw a group of photographers waiting outside, ready to click him. He rushed inside and had to wait for two hours till the
paparazzi left." A source at the salon confirms the story, saying: "It's a new look for his film and he wants to keep things under wraps. So, he had no other option but to stay back at the salon till he was sure that no shutterbug was around." Before getting the haircut, Shahid had been spotted roaming around Bandra in a hooded shirt.
Agency : Mumbai Actor Aamir Khan was moved after watching the National FilmAward winning film ‘Court’. He found it
relevant and poignant. "I found it very moving and very poignant. It touches your heart and I loved this film a lot. My
congratulations to the entire team. Every artiste and the director has done wonderful work," the 50-year-old said here on Thursday during the screening of the film. Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, ‘Court’ is about a trial which unfolds in a lower court, where the hopes and dreams of the city's ordinary people play out. It was named the National Film Award winner in the Best Feature Film category for 2014.
Akshay Kumar starts filming 'Singh Is Bliing' Agency : Patiala Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar is all set to bring ‘Singh’ back with his next film titled ‘Singh is Bling’ directed by actor, director and dance choreographer, Prabhudeva and produced under Akshay Kumar and his business partner Ashvini Yardi’s production banner, Grazing Goat Pictures. The first day shoot took place in Punjab today, 3rd April and Akshay took to his Facebook page to give a special message to his 14.6 mn Facebook fans. The film has already been the ‘talk of the town’ since it was first announced and marks Akshay Kumar’s first ever lead role in his co-owned production banner after his cameo role in OMG! Oh My God. The film sees the super hit combo of Akshay Kumar and Prabhudheva unite once again on screen after their smash hit ‘Rowdy Rathore’. The film features Akshay
Kumar in the lead role and also stars Amy Jackson, a British model who made her acting debut in Bollywood in 2009 and Lara Dutta, who’s
making her comeback after two years. Singh is Bling is scheduled for release internationally on 2nd October 2015.
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WCL reports growth Star Cricketer Suresh Raina gets after a gap of five years engaged with Priyanka Chaudhary Agency : Nagpur Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) today reported 3.6 per cent growth in coal production at 41.15 million tonnes (MT) during 201415 as against 39.73 MT in the previous financial year. WCL, the city-based miniratna central PSU and a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), also recorded an increase in offtake of coal, after a span of five years, in the last fiscal, the company said in a statement. WCL dispatched 41.25 MT coal, registering a growth of 3.3 per cent over 39.95 MT in the corresponding period. The last growth in coal production over corresponding year was
recorded in 2009-10 and since then, the production was in the negative zone. WCL, which posted operational loss in last three consecutive fiscals, recorded operational profit on strength of its physical performance, the company said without disclosing figures. The firm also set up three new coal projects of seven MT per annum capacity during 2014-15 and has set a target to establish 10 new coal projects of 16.62 MT per annum capacity during 2015-16, it said. The overburden removal of 122.91 million cubic metres (mcm) during FY14 was 2.36 per cent over last year's 120.08 mcm.
Agency : New Delhi 28-year-old Star India cricketer Suresh Raina got engaged to his childhood friend Priyanka Chaudhary in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, April 1. It was a private ceremony for both the families and only close friends and relatives were invited. The simple engagement ceremony took place at Raina's decoratedresidence in Raj Nagar Extension, Ghaziabad. Taking a break from their busy lives, Cricketer Virat Kohli along with his girlfriend and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma graced the occasion with their presence. It is learnt
registering a whopping 67.3% rise over the same period last fiscal. In the Budget 2015-16, the government has opened up the possibility of increasing import duty for finished and semi-finished steel to 15% from 10%, designed to shielding home-grown firms from rising imports. The Commerce Ministry has already recommended an anti-dumping duty of up to $316 per tonne on imports of a certain variety of steel from China, Korea and Malaysia. However, Minister of State for Steel and Mines Vishnu Deo Sai had earlier clarified that the government is not planning a ban on steel imports.
that Priyanka's family members from Meerut reached Raina's residence at around 2.30 pm. By 5.15 pm, the rituals of engagement were completed. Soon after exchanging the rings, Raina reportedly left for Chennai. Raina came out of his apartment twice during the
WLF seeks larger pictorial warnings on tobacco packs
Agency : New Delhi The World Lung Foundation on Thursday asked India to dismiss misinformation being spread by the tobacco industry and implement large graphic health warnings on tobacco packs without further delay. The implementation of the warnings would be a fitting tribute to the bravery of cancer patient Sunita Tomar, who died on Wednesday, the foundation said. The central government has decided to rescind its decision to increase the pictorial warnings on tobacco products to 85 percent. Tomar was the face of antitobacco warnings. After a diagnosis of tobacco-related
oral cancer and major surgery at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Tomar - with the support of her family agreed to tell her story in a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to raise awareness about the harms of tobacco and to help prevent others from suffering her fate. The foundation, in a statement, said large graphic warnings, like hard-hitting mass media campaigns, have proved to be highly effective in warning people about the health harms of tobacco. Large graphic warnings also transcend language barriers in countries like India, where different languages and dialects are used across a large national population.
function, but kept himself aloof from the prying eyes of media-persons. Even though the media was not allowed at the extremely private affair, some media-persons were seen in front of Raina's residence, in a hope, to catch the glimpse of soon-to-bemarried couple.
Royals seek to replace Bengaluru at No. 2 spot
Agency : BENGALURU Royal Wahingdoh’s dream run makes a crucial pitstop at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium where it takes on Bengaluru FC (BFC) in an I-league fixture here on Friday. Wahingdoh’s maiden season in the I-League could not have gone any better. The side is in third-place — tied on points with BFC, but
behind on head-on-head and goal-difference — and is coming off hugely impressive wins over Pune FC and East Bengal. “Those two matches, against powerful clubs, were mindblowing! If the players do exactly what the coach says, what more can you ask for,” said coach Santosh Kashyap here on Thursday. “I think
our Federation Cup campaign was very important. Our players were given exposure to top-level football just before the ILeague began. This gave them tremendous confidence. We have a very talented squad; they adapt to situations very well. We’ve played brilliant football,” Kashyap said. BFC, of course, is regarded a perennial heavyweight threat. Three fine shows — two scrappy 1-0 wins against Warriors FC in the AFC Cup and Salgaocar, followed by a 4-1 rout of Sporting Clube de Goa — point to a team easing into top-gear. Three points for either of these form sides will be invaluable as they focus all energies on the ILeague crown.
Kamal’s resignation from ICC will not affect cricket ties with India, says BCB chief Agency : Dhaka Hassan spoke to journalists about Kamal’s resignation and the future of the cricketing ties between the two countries on Thursday. Hassan said Kamal stepping down from the top post of the game’s governing body was ‘unfortunate’ and that it would have been better had it not happened. Kamal was critical of ‘controversial’ umpiring decisions in the Bangladesh-India match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He had called the ICC an ‘Indian Cricket Council’ and said he would step down as president, if needed, after the match. Then a massive spat erupted between Kamal and ICC Chairman Narayanaswami
Agency : New Delhi IOC President Thomas Bach will visit India this month amid speculation of a bid for the 2024 Olympics by New Delhi or the western city of Ahmedabad. Indian Olympic Association President Narayana
Ramachandran says Bach is expected to visit in the last week of April, but the dates are yet to be finalized. Indian media say Prime Minister Narendra Modi is exploring the possibility of bidding for the games, and is keen on Ahmedabad, the biggest city in his home state of
Gujarat. India has until September 15 to join Boston, Rome, and Hamburg, Germany, who are the declared 2024 candidates so far. The International Olympic Committee will choose the host city in 2017 in Lima, Peru.
IPL 8: Simon Taufel to hold two-day workshop for match officials in Mumbai
Agency : Mumbai Taufel, a former member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and five-time winner of the ICC Umpire of the Year
Award, is presently the ICC's Umpire Performance and Training Manager. Twenty six match officials, including umpires and
referees at this season's Indian Premier League will be taking part in a two-day workshop, conducted by Simon Taufel and organised by the BCCI, on April 4 and 5 at Mumbai. A wide range of topics from clothing regulations to on-field player behaviour and the overall playing conditions, would be covered during the workshop. Taufel, a former member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and five-time winner of the ICC Umpire of the Year Award, is presently the ICC's Umpire Performance and Training Manager.
Why Is Jwala Gutta angry again?
Srinivasan, who violated the ICC practice and presented the World Cup to winners Australia at Melbourne last Sunday. Normally, ICC presidents hand trophies, but Srinivasan used Kamal's outburst against poor umpiring in the IndiaBangladesh match to sideline him. He got others to support his decision to present the trophy at the
presentation ceremony. Kamal quit his position in the ICC on his return to Dhaka. Many think the cricket ties could take a hit because of the incident. Hassan, however, ruled that out. “I can’t find any reason (for this to rupture the relations between India and Bangladesh)… We are not complaining against any specific country.
Saina Nehwal reaches Malaysia Open semifinals Agency : New Delhi Newly crowned World No. 1 Saina Nehwal continued her rampaging run with a win over China's Sun Yu to reach the semifinals of the Malaysia Open Super Series Premier on Friday. Saina defeated Yu 21-11, 18-21, 21-17 in 1 hour and 11 minutes to set up last four clash with world no. 2 Li Xuerui of China. Xuerui
SPORTS ROUNDUP ThomasBach to visit India amid speculation of 2024 Olympics bid
India might increase import duty to curb China's steel 'dumping' Agency : New Delhi Alarmed by the "dumping" from China, the steel ministry today pressed for raising the import duty to protect the domestic industry. "The steel industry and the government, both are worried over dumping from China. We have discussed increasing the import duty with the Finance Minister, and we hope that we will get favourable results," Steel and Mines Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told a press conference here. The steel imports from China in April-January 2014-15 rose to 2.9 million tonnes (MT) against 1.08 MT for the entire 2013-14. During the same period, carbon steel imports from the neighbour stood at 1.52 MT while stainless/alloy steel imports came in at 1.37 MT. Steel imports went up cumulatively to 8.38 MT in April-February 2014-15,
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Agency : New Delhi India's premier women's doubles shuttler Jwala Gutta on Thursday lashed out at the Indian government after finding herself left out of the scheme to fund the country's top prospective medal winners at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Jwala's doubles partner Ashiwni Ponnappa -- 2011 World Championships bronze medallists -- was also left out of the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme of
the sports ministry that is supposed to fund prospective medal winners. Badminton has become the first sport to benefit from the scheme. The ministry of youth affairs and sports signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), a company under the finance ministry, to provide financial support to badminton on March 30. According to the MOU,
IIFCL will contribute Rs.30 crore (Rs.10 crore each year for three years) to the scheme under its initiatives for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Jwala came down hard on the government for its decision to exclude the duo from the important scheme. "So, I just read news aboutAshwini and my names not being there in top scheme. The only support we had was of the Govt. of India...and now that also seems bleak," Jwala wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday. "The players who are already having lot of corporate support are in the list...and Ash and me not considered. Dont know what more to be done...Kinda tired...kinda disappointed. And if we speak its called cribbing...and if we dont we will be just left out." Jwala said that inspite of all the hardships faced by the doubles players in the country, they had still won laurels and were looking towards the government for support in order to sustain their performance at international events.
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Late historian’s library to be donated to Junagadh University Correspondent, Junagadh There is great excitement about upcoming new university proposed to be opened in Junagadh city. Proppsed university will cover colleges of nearby Amreli, Junagadh, Gir Somnath and Porbandar districts that are at present connected to Saurashtra University, headquarters of which is located in Rajkot. Junagadh University is one of two new univeraities proposed to be opened in this financial year by Gujarat government. The pthee university proposed will
come up in tribal belt of Gujarat at Godhra. Family of late histotian of Junagadh Shri Shambhuprasad Harpradad Desai has announced that rich collection of books of late Desai will be donatwd to proposed Narsinh Maheta University in Junagadh. Shambhuprasad had penned down several books on history of Junagadh, Somnath and Girnar mountain in last century. Family of Desai has also suggested chair in the name of Desai for research in history.
A rare celestial treat in sky:Shortest Education dept plans English-medium Eclipse of Century to show a blood Moon primary schools to increase enrollment
Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
This Saturday is a full moon night and it will bring the first partial lunar eclipse for the year 2015 but would be shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century. The total eclipse of the full moon on
Housing row: VMC reaches out to displaced families, promises quick solution
Correspondent, Vadodara
A day after The Indian Express reported about the suspension of draw of allotment for JNNURM housing scheme flats for residents displaced due to demolition drives at Kalyannagar and Kamatipura slums — most of them are Muslims — Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) assured the representatives of the displaced families that they would soon have a home to call their own. Although non-committal about a time frame, owing to the lack of communication from Mayor Bharat Shah, corporation officials assured representatives pushing the families’ case that the matter would be resolved “at the earliest”. Municipal Commissioner H S Patel, who had refused to meet the
representatives on Wednesday evening, sent executive engineer of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) Housing department F J Charpot to meet Prof J S Bandukwala, who has taken up the cause of the evicted, at his Vadodara residence on Thursday. The VMC official handed out a list of families that need to be settled in civic housing projects after their homes were razed in November to Bandukwala. Shaukat Indori, one of those fighting for the evicted families, said: “The engineer met Bandukwala with a list of 481 families of Kalyannagar alone. In addition, nearly 170 families of Kamatipura settlement who have not been rehabilitated are also awaiting their turn. Bandukwala has also requested VMC to resolve
the matter of 268 other families that have been temporarily put up in Maneja.
4th April 2015 will last less than five minutes, making it the shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century. It’s perfect for short attention spans! The total lunar eclipse will be visible from western North America, eastern Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. From the world’s Eastern Hemisphere – eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia – the greatest eclipse takes place after sunset of 4th April. In Gujarat and Ahmedabad the Lunar eclipse will begin at 2.31 pm and will be completed at 8.29 pm. The maximum eclipse will be visible at 6.59 pm. The entire duration will be 5 hours 58 minutes. The sunset time in Ahmedabad on Saturday is 6.56 pm and the full moon will rise at 6.55
have reported 100% collection and transportation of municipal solid waste. In the construction of community toilet seats, Odisha was ahead of others having constructed 740 seats during 2014-15. Andaman & Nicobar Islands reported construction of 200 and Karnataka has built 100 community toilet seats. A total of 1,222 community
pm. So due to the sun set the moon will appear in dark red colour during the eclipse time and will give a rare celestial treat in the sky. Many people around the world called this moon as blood moon. The most spectacular part of the eclipse will be the totality phase, when Earth’s shadow completely covers the moon and turns it an eerie red. The moon will only skirt the deepest and darkest part of Earth’s shadow, or umbra, and totality could last anywhere from nine to twelve minutes. During a lunar eclipse, Earth comes between the moon and the sun, casting a shadow. This lineup doesn’t happen every time the moon makes its monthly trek around Earth, though, because the orbit is tilted and usually keeps the moon out of Earth’s shadow. Total lunar eclipses, known as blood moons, are even more rare. They happen only during a full moon, and only when the sun, Earth, and moon are precisely aligned so that our planet’s shadow completely blankets the moon’s disk.
Two men held with gold worth Rs 86 lakh hidden under aircraft seat Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Customs on Thursday held two men for smuggling 3.2 kg gold worth Rs 86.43 lakh at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport. In a new modus operandi being used by smugglers, the said gold bars were hidden under the seat of SpiceJet Flight SG-016 which had arrived from Dubai late night on Wednesday. "The same flight was to go to Chennai converting into the domestic flight SG-501 and two passengers Parvez Alam and Rafeeq Ahmad managed to take the gold from beneath the seat where it was hidden
during international flight," said Customs official. it seems that both the passenger had some internal connivance and were seating on two different seats in the flight. Both the passengers have been arrested and will be produced in local court on Friday. The smugglers have adopted this modus operandi after Cuustoms officials stepped up vigilance at Ahmedabad airport. Sources further said that customs is also probing the role of any airport official's involvement in the smuggling. In the similar fashion, AIU recovered 3 kg gold worth Rs 80.32 lakh hidden beneath a seat
Gujarat leads in implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission Agency : New Delhi The state of Gujarat has led others in the implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission during 2014-15. Out of the 2,70,069 household toilets constructed during the last financial year, Gujarat alone accounted for 60% of them having built 1,65,376 household toilets. Madhya Pradesh has constructed 99,151 household toilets followed by Karnataka with 4,697. In promoting Solid Waste Management also, Gujarat led others having reported 100% collection and transportation of municipal solid waste in 120 of the 195 towns in the state. Odisha has done so in respect of 107 towns and Karnataka in 40 towns. In all, 329 of the 4,041 statutory towns
Ahmedabad
toilet seats have been built during 2014-15. Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on October 2, 2014 with the objective of ensuring cleanliness in all the 4,041 statutory cities and towns of the country by October 2, 2019 which marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi who had emphasized the importance of cleanliness soon after his
return to India from South Africa. The five year Swachh Bharat Mission is to be implemented at a total cost of Rs. 62,009 cr with a targeted construction of 1.04 cr household toilets, 2.51 lakh community toilet seats and 2.55 lakh public toilet seats besides assisting 37 cr urban people in solid waste management. Construction of toilets is accorded priority under the Mission to enable ‘open defecation free’ urban areas. During 2014-15, a total of about Rs.900 cr has been sanctioned by the Union Ministry of Urban Development and an amount of about Rs.700 cr has been released to States/ UTs based on proposals received under Swachh Bharat Mission.
in a SpiceJet flight SG-016 on late Saturday night last week. After all the passengers had got down, the flight crew found something suspicious beneath seat no 28. Since January 2014, around 73.67 kg of gold, worth Rs 19.28 crore has been seized at the airport by customs and DRI and 78 smugglers have been detained.
Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
The Gujarat education department is planning to open English-medium primary schools from the new academic session, scheduled to begin from June. The matter will be discussed during the review meeting of district education officers and administrative officers, chaired by education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, in Gandhinagar on April 9. The move aims at achieving
enrolment targets in government schools. A similar proposal was made in a five-member committee report on improving the standards of primary education, submitted to the education minister in July 2014. In order to improve the quality of government schools and compete against private schools, the report had stressed on English as the medium of teaching from Class I onwards. The Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation School Board has already implemented the idea of English-medium public schools from pre-primary classes (starting from junior kindergarten level) in the academic session 2013-14 from the city’s walled areas of Shahpur. This year, the AMC school board is opening two more Englishmedium municipal schools, one each in Ambawadi and Kankaria areas, for which over 125 applications have already been received. Two such schools were opened in Danilimda and Dariyapur areas during the 2014-15 academic session. Thus, in three years (including 201516), the AMC school board has come up with five new English-medium schools starting from Junior KG.
Ahmedabad trader stuck in Yemen for 20 days Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
A Maninagar-based businessman is stuck in Yemen for the last 20 days and is waiting for help from the Indian government. Pankaj Khorasiya, 44, went to Taiz in Yemen on March 12 for work and has been stuck in the same place since the crisis erupted in Yemen. Khorasiya's brother on Thursday approached the NRG centre of GCCI, asking for help as Pankaj suffers from a blood pressure condition and kidney stone problems. Yemen is caught in a Houthi rebel uprising and has been declared a no-fly zone. The Indian government, through the Navy and Air Force, is carrying rescue operations since March 30 and has so far evacuated over 400 Indians working in Yemen.
Khorasiya and his brother run a company, A P Control Panels, which is based in Vatva GIDC. Khorasiya's company supplies control panels to NAROTO Machines and Moulds India which is also located in Vatva. "My brother had gone to Taiz in Yemen for installation of electrical machines manufactured by NAROTO. He was to return in five days but all flights were cancelled because of the conflict," said Alpesh Khorasiya. Khorasiya further said that his brother's medication has been exhausted and his health will worsen if he doesn't return soon. "Pankaj's brother met me on Thursday evening. We wrote to the Indian embassy in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. We
requested the embassy to prioritize Pankaj's evacuation as he has health problems," said K H Patel, chairman of GCCI's NRG centre. Bhavin Vasavda, a manager with NAROTO said, "We are in constant touch with Pankaj by phone. He is in Taiz and is safe right now. We are concerned about his health as he has run out of medicines." On Thursday, INS Sumitra rescued 349 Indians from Yemen.
Dengue-like virus rears its head in Ahmedabad Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Even as swine flu is receding because of rising temperatures, dengue seems to be raising its head in Ahmedabad. Civil Hospital alone has recorded 30 cases, including one death, in the past three months. Interestingly, doctors say that the dengue-like virus does not test positive to dengue. Since 1st of January this year, 1196
patients with the unidentified virus have come to Civil Hospital, VS Hospital, LG Hospital, Shardaben General Hospital and urban health centres. The symptoms of an infection by this virus are similar to those of dengue, including severe joint and muscle pain, swollen lymph nodes, headache and fever. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's records
Vyara to host state level function of 1st May Gujarat Divas Correspondent, Vyara
Gujarat government will hold state level celebration of 1st May, foundation day of Gujarat in tribal dominated Tapi district in south Gujarat. Guardian minister of district Nanubhai Vanani speaking at district headquarters Vyara on Thursday said that entire state government including Governor and Chief Minister will be coming to Tapi and their presence will be inspiring for the district. He said the ministers will
inaugurate Rs. 237 crore development projects from 15 April onwards. He said events like women’s convention, labour convention, mega exhibition on development, police parade, arms exhibition, felicitation of distinguish local personalisities are will be held on 30th April and 1st May. Vanani held meetings with district administration, leaders of women’s, cooperatives and political organizations.
indicate that 1,257 patients had so far approached various hospitals with dengue-like symptoms. Of these, only 61 had tested positive to dengue. Doctors are treating to several patients with dengue-like fever which does not test positive to mosquito-borne disease. In January alone, there were 419 cases of dengue-like fever, of which 37 were confirmed. In February, this increased to 545 with 13 positive cases. Emergency and critical care specialist Dr Jigar Mehta said: "There's a huge possibility of a mystery virus
that is causing symptoms similar to dengue. When patients suspected of dengue infection are tested, their reports turn out to be negative. This is quite baffling." He also blamed faulty sample collection for causing all the confusion. "At times, tests are negative in the first examination. When a patient's condition deteriorates and second tests are performed, they come out to be positive," said Dr Mehta. Another critical care specialist Dr Pratibha Dileep said: "Virology is a broad terminology.
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