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News Brief Terminated IABF eyes revival, seeks meeting with Sonowal
“Peace agreement with Militant”
‘historic’ peace accord with NSCN(IM) It was not immediately clear whether the agreement meets the main demand of NSCN(IM) for integration of all Naga-inhabited areas in the North East across Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
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Rendered a pariah ever since it was terminated by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) has sought a meeting with Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to “end the administrative logjam that currently plagues the sport”. The IABF, which was terminated in 2013 by AIBA for manipulation in elections, was also suspended by the Sports Ministry.
Ricky Kej wants government recognition Agency | Bengaluru
Grammy-winning composer Ricky Kej is disappointed that even after winning the coveted award for his new age album “Winds of Samsara” in February this year, the government is yet to recognise his efforts and his art. “After receiving numerous awards and recognition all over the world, including the Grammy Award, I do feel incomplete when my own government does not recognise my efforts and my art,” the music composer.
160 mobile phones detected inside Bhondsi jail Agency | Gurgaon
In a major security breach, 160 mobile phones were being used inside the premises of Bhondsi jail here and prisoners had access to most of them, police said today. The police last week detected 160 mobile phones working inside the premises of the jail, located in Bhondsi village on the city’s outskirts, using its cyber technology, Police Commissioner of Gurgaon Navdeep Singh Virk said. It was identified that prisoners had access to most of the mobile phones, he said. “This information was passed onto the jail authorities following which they conducted search operations and seized some phones and sim cards,” the Commissioner said.
Modi govt signs peace accord with militant Naga separatists
Agency | Aizawl The government and the dominant I-M faction of Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) announced Monday the signing of a peace accord which should bring to an end the decades-old insurgency in the hills of Nagaland and districts in the adjoining states. Details of the agreement, signed between NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah and peace talks interlocutor R N Ravi in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were not announced immediately. An official statement spoke of “an honourable settlement” and a “framework agreement”, adding that “details and execution plan will be released shortly”. The announcement of the pact was made at the 7, Race Course Road residence of the Prime Minister where the I-M leadership — minus chairman Isak Chishi Swu who is ill and has been in and out of hos-
people,” he said. Muiv- a “new relationship” but be great.” “Let me assure ah said the government added that “beginning you that Nagas can be and Nagas were entering from now, challenges will trustworthy,” he said.
163 fishermen released by Pakistan to reach Gujarat tomorrow Agency | Aizawl
pital — Home Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit K Doval and Army chief General Dalbir Singh were among those present. For years, the NSCN (I-M) pressed for a Nagalim or Greater Nagaland which included the Naga-dominated districts of Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Senapati and Chandel in Manipur; Karbi Anglong, North Cachar Hills and parts of the districts of Golaghat, Sibsagar, Nagaon, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia in Assam; Dibang Valley, Lohit, Tirap and Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh;
and, even the merger of Kachin state and Sagaing division in Myanmar. With details of the agreement not made public, there was no immediate reaction from any of the state governments in the region. Describing the accord as “historic”, Prime Minister Modi said: “Today, we mark not merely the end of a problem, but the beginning of a new future. We will not only try to heal wounds and resolve problems, but also be your partner as you restore your pride and prestige.” “Today, to the leaders and the people of Nagaland, I say this:
SC upholds jail term of Chautala, son in teachers’ recruitment scam Agency | New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and others, challenging their conviction and award of 10-year jail term for the teachers’ recruitment scam. “We are not inclined to entertain any of these appeals and they are dismissed,” a bench of Justices FMI Kalifulla and Shiva Kirti Singh said. Besides 80-yearold Chautala’s appeal, the bench also dismissed the plea of his son Ajay Singh Chautala, 54, and others in the case saying that the Delhi high court verdict was a “reasoned one”. The court, however, said that the convicts may move the high court with their pleas seeking relief like parole on health ground. Chautala, his son and three others are serving a 10-year jail term in the case. A Su-
preme Court judge had on July 6 recused himself from hearing Chautala’s plea, saying he had appeared for some of the convicts in the case. The high court had on March 5 upheld the jail term awarded to Chautala, his son Ajay and three others, saying, “The overwhelming evidence showed the shocking and spine-chilling state of affairs in the country”. The father-son duo and 53 others, including two IAS officers, were convicted on January 16, 2013, by the trial court for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers in Haryana in
2000. Besides Chautalas and whistleblower IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, the then director of primary education, the high court had also awarded 10-year prison term to IAS officer Vidya Dhar, then officer on special duty (OSD) to the chief minister, and Sher Singh Badshami, then MLA and political adviser to Chautala senior. All 55 convicts have been sentenced under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 418 (cheating), 467 (forgery), 471 (using forged documents as genuine) of IPC and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
You will not only build a bright future for Nagaland, but your talents, traditions and efforts will also contribute to making the nation stronger, more secure, more inclusive and more prosperous. You are also the guardians of our eastern frontiers and our gateway to the world beyond. Equally, the rest of the nation will join you in shaping a future of dignity, opportunity and prosperity for the Naga
The fishermen will be handed over to a seven-member Gujarat government team, by Amritsar district collectorate officials on Tuesday, a senior Gujarat fisheries department official said. The 163 Indian fishermen released by Pakistan will be handed over to a seven-member Gujarat government team, by Amritsar district collectorate officials on Tuesday, a senior Gujarat fisheries department official said. Gujarat fisheries department superintendent K R Patani said on Monday that the seven-member Gujarat team would include fisheries depart-
ment officials as well as police personnel, who would escort the fishermen from Amritsar in Punjab to Veraval in Gujarat, where they will be reunited with their family members. While leaving for Amritsar from Ahmedabad on Monday, Patani said, “We will reach Amritsar on Tuesday afternoon and until
then, the custody of these fishermen will be with the Punjab government.” Pakistan released 163 Indian fishermen from Landhi and Malir jails in Pakistan on Sunday, as a goodwill gesture, after a recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in the Russian city of Ufa.
where online porn is illegal). These sites have just vanished into cyber ether and might never return. The non-availability of Internet porn is certainly not a crisis, but the surreptitious manner in which it’s disappearing, that too without an official ban, smacks of a dangerous extra-Constitutional threat to personal liberty. It is naive to assume that the ISPs acted of their own volition without being asked to do so by somebody in the government. When even the Supreme Court is reluctant to ban Internet porn because of insufficient justifiable circumstances, the government has been able to do it extra-judicially. It will nev-
er own up, but in effect, gets its way. There was no official ban, except a case against the book in a Delhi court, but the publishers (Penguin) got into an out-of-court settlement with the petitioner and pulped the book. The author was “angry and disappointed”, but Penguin couldn’t help it because it clearly knew the fright-
ful consequences of not backing down. This is the same extra-Constitutional authority exercised not only by governments, but also political parties with mob strength, that leads to the abduction of movies, paintings and other works of art from Indian public spaces. History tell us that this is called fascism.
Porn websites disappear without any govt ban: What happened to personal liberty? Agency | New Delhi The mysterious disappearance of popular Internet porn websites in India over the last couple of days is similar to the white van abductions of people in Sri Lanka at the height of the island’s civil war — people inconvenient to the government went missing, while the government claimed it didn’t know a thing. In India, what now greets surfers instead of these sites — that apparently had a cult following in the country — is white space. There is no message from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that the sites have been blocked under orders from the government (as happens in countries
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Power and electoral politics in India The Indian electricity sector remains in dire straits with consumers and firms having to suffer through frequent rationing and outages. Despite some improvements over the last three decades, deficiencies in the electricity sector have persisted, primarily due to the inability to increase production. For example, power generation in Uttar Pradesh (UP) in 2010 totalled 21 terawatt hours, a figure no higher than it was in 1995. As demand for electricity continues to grow, production shortfalls mean tight constraints on electricity supply. In India, as in many other developing countries, electricity is largely managed by utilities that are owned and operated by the government. It is hence plausible that the failures of India’s electricity sector are ultimately due to inefficiencies intrinsic to the country’s political processes. While political interference is believed to be a major problem plaguing the Indian electricity sector, there is little empirical research that credibly documents the existence of political distortions, nor is there evidence confirming that such distortions carry significant economic costs. This lack of empirical evidence makes it difficult to take an informed stance on recent debates about reforms of the electricity sector. In this context, we study and present empirical evidence that the Indian electricity sector suffers from political distortions that may carry large economic costs. (“Election cycles and electricity provision: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections”, forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics) Using a dataset on about 4,000 state-level assembly constituencies, this study explores whether state governments distort the supply of electricity for electoral purposes. More precisely, we leverage the unpredictable occurrence of by-elections to ask whether electricity supply increases as a result of electoral contests. Since no data on electricity supply is available at the level of state constituencies, we use as a proxy night lights data from the US air force’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS). The night lights data has several advantages over administrative data. As electricity must be supplied to a geographical unit for the satellites to detect any light at night, DMSP-OLS provides an objective and accurate indicator for electricity supply that is available at very low levels of geography. Electoral cycles in the Indian electricity sector are possible because the top managers of the electricity utilities are appointed by state governments and therefore have incentives to conform to their wishes. Electricity is also highly valued by consumers and firms, such that any increase may carry substantial electoral rewards.
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order, police, land and services fall outside purview of legislative assembly QUOTE “Public of the National Capital Territory of Delhi and consequently the Government of OF THE NCT of Delhi will have no executive power” Union Home Ministry has refused to give records related to notification issued by it on the jurisdiction of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor saying the matter is sub-judice DAY
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan makes a grand comeback on ramp
Agency | New Delhi Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to make her high-voltage comeback in Bollywood with San-
jay Gupta’s Jazbaa but the Bollywood diva says she does not understand the hue and cry about it. In fact, despite her five-
year absence from films, the actor says she never felt she was absent from Bollywood. The actor was the showstopper at a fashion event in Delhi on Sunday where she walked the ramp after a long time. The 41-yearold actor’s last movie outing was Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish in 2010. Aishwarya says she is enjoying being in front of the camera again and looking forward to the release of Jazbaa, which also stars Shabana Azmi, Irrfan, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Jackie Shroff. “So far the experience has been great. Sanjay has been so nice. The whole cast -- Irrfan, Shabana ji, Chandan, Jaggu Dada (Jackie) -everyone has been great. I am glad to be working with them. I do not feel like there has been any gap. I am really enjoying,” Aishwarya said. The actor also said that she never felt she had left Bollywood ever.
ed towards the Rs 300 crore mark at the box office. “Drishyam”, which also stars Tabu and Shriya Saran, is directed by Nishikant Kamat, who helmed the 2011 John Abraham-starrer “Force”. “Terrific word of mouth
translates into super growth in biz on Day 2. #Drishyam Thu pre + Fri 8.05 cr, Sat 9.40 cr. Total: 17.45 cr,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted. Adarsh also wrote that while “Drishyam” is registering growth, Salman Khan-Kareen Kapoor starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” is an all time blockbuster. “#BajrangiBhaijaan (Week 3) Fri 4.11 cr, Sat 6.80 cr. Total: 283.16 cr. All time blockbuster.” “Drishyam”, which released this Friday, is a remake of a 2013 Malayalam film of the same name, which starred Mohanlal and Meena.
awe-inspiring as ‘Thala’ the superstar.He knows how to overcome adversity: The proud son of a Sindhi mother and a Keralite father, Ajith had had very little exposure to Tamil as a kid. Perhaps that is why he faced a lot of difficulties during his first few years in the industry. In fact, the makers of ‘Amaravathi’ did not even let him dub his voice. Moreover, the actor was not offered too many lead roles during the initial phase of his career. However, being a
true fighter, Ajith refused to let adversity get the better of him. He soon picked up Tamil and floored audiences with his charismatic dialogue delivery.
Drishyam earns Rs 17 cr in 2 days, Bajrangi clocks Rs 283 cr
Agency | New Delhi Ajay Devgn-starrer “Drishyam” has raked in a total of Rs 17.45 crore in two days and is expected to pick up today while Salman Khan’s “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” seems head-
Ajith Kumarcompletes 23 years: Is ‘Thala’ the new ‘Thalaivaa’ for Tamil cinema? Agency | Mumbai
Agency | Mumbai Kareena Kapoor is one actress who has had the opportunity of working with all the A list actors of the industry. From sharing screen space with Salman Khan to Aamir, Shah Rukh and Ajay Devgn, Bebo has done it all. In an interview with DNA, when Kareena was asked who is her favourite costar, she candidly replied, “Salman, Aamir and Ajay
Devgn. I’ve shared brilliant films and wonderful times with them. I’ve done such diverse work with each of them.And I’ve grown up in front of them. They were all my sister (Karisma Kapoor) Lolo’s co-stars. Salman has given nine hits with Lolo. Ajay has done dozens of films with her and Aamir gave his career’s biggest hit ‘Raja Hindustani’ with Lolo. And I was there to see all these shootings.”
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It was nearly 23 years ago that Ajith Kumar entered the Tamil film industry when he essayed the lead role in ‘Amaravathi’. Back then, just about no one could have imagined that the then 21-year-old newcomer would soon redefine the very course of southern cinema, winning over countless dedicated and loving fans. Today, amidst cheers of jubilation from the actor’s supporters, we take a look at why Ajith the person is equally as
Indian girl stuck in Pakistan needs ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’
Agency | Karachi External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday asked TCA Raghavan, the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan, to go to Karachi to meet the Indian girl who is stuck in Pakistan for 14 years. Bollywood hit Bajrangi Bhaijaan may have been a work of fiction, but in Karachi it is a real life story of an Indian girl who can neither speak nor hear and stuck in Pakistan for 14 years with all efforts to trace her
family in India remaining unsuccessful. “The Punjab Rangers brought her to us some 14 years ago,” said Faisal Edhi of the social welfare group Edhi Foundation. “For years, we have been trying to locate her family or her hometown so that she can return,” Faisal was quoted as saying by the Express Tribune newspaper. First brought to an Edhi Centre in Lahore, the girl was shifted to the shelter in Karachi where Bilquis Edhi named her ‘Geeta’ and has become quite
close to the girl. Now 23-year-old, Geeta is believed to have mistakenly crossed into Pakistani territory as a child. “The only communication she has managed with the Edhi staff is recognising the Indian map on a mobile phone and breaking down into tears,” the paper said. “Sobbing silently, she frantically points first at the Indian state of Jharkhand and then at Telangana, trying hard to tell something of her past that may be a clue for them.”
Taylor Swift did not expect Apple Music to change their stance Agency | London
Taylor Swift wrote an open letter criticising Apple Music’s decision not to pay artists’ royalties for streams played while users were on a trial period. Pop star Taylor Swift admits she “never expected” Apple Music’s stance on paying artists’ royalties for music streamed on the service would change after she openly spoke against it. The 25-year-old ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker wrote an open letter criticising Apple Music’s decision not to pay artists’ royalties for streams played while users were on a trial period. “I had no idea what would happen but I just wanted to say something. I didn’t really expect anything to happen at all.” Following the publication of Swift’s letter last month, Eddy Cue, the Senior Vice-President of Internet Software and Services at Apple, vowed the company would change its policy. “#AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period. We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple. (sic),” he tweeted.
Taylor Swift admits she “never expected” Apple Music’s stance would change after she openly spoke against it
3 / Dt. 04-08-2015, Tuesday Pressure rising on RBI to cut rate Tuesday
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Bhajji and I are different bowlers, we have our own strengths: Ashwin
Agency | New Delhi Pressure is mounting on RBI to cut interest rate in its third monetary policy review of this fiscal on Tuesday while experts are divided over the issue, saying high retail inflation may hold it back from doing so. Most bankers and experts believe that the possibility of an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank on August 4 is very low as retail inflation remains high. However, India Inc is pitching for a rate cut because of low wholesale inflation and slowdown in industrial growth. Even the government wants the benchmark rate to be cut to prop up growth. “I am not expecting any rate cut,” SBI chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said. “WPI is (negative), but CPI has gone up a little though it is mainly on account of food prices. RBI has been benchmarking it to CPI numbers, I think it is unlikely,” she added. While retail inflation in June rose to an eight-month high of 5.4 per cent, the overall wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation was (-)2.4 per cent in the same month. RBI mostly tracks the consumer price inflation for its monetary policy decision.
The Rs 5,999 Micromax Canvas Xpress 2 goes on sale tomorrow
Agency | Mumbai If you’re in the market for an entry-level phone that is particularly good at playing music and creating large photos, the Micromax Canvas Xpress 2 is one of the few you’re likely to find. The phone goes on sale on Flipkart tomorrow, so if you haven’t registered already, today is your last chance. Especially interesting is the integrated Cirrus Logic Wolfson Stereo DAC, a particularly high-quality sound system that should result in better listening for your MP3 and even lossless music collection. On the camera front, there is a 13MP primary camera and a 2MP front camera that features user control over aspects of your photo such as ISO, White Balance and more. This 5-inch phone uses Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and a feature called ‘Native Damage Resistance’, which purportedly delivers an especially sturdy usage experience.
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Agency | Chennai There’s every possibility that R Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh will bowl together when India play Sri Lanka in the Test matches later this month. While Harbhajan was India’s No. 1 spinner in the first decade of the 2000s, it’s Ashwin who has taken over the mantle. The Chennai offie is respectful of his senior partner, but he doesn’t want to go into the details of how
the two would go about their job. “How do you plan to bowl with Harbhajan?” Ashwin was asked, and the latter shot back: “I can plan for my opposition and not for my partner. He is an experienced bowler and knows what he is doing.” Ashwin insists that even though they are off-spinners, their strengths are quite different. “He has his strengths and we are very different bowlers. I will try to do my job
and that’s what I can offer to the team,” Ashwin cut the discussion short. This will be Ashwin’s first Test tour to Sri Lanka and he will be happy to dismiss Kumar Sangakkara, who will retire during this series. “He is a legend. Sanga puts a high price on his wicket and it’s as simple as that. When you get Sanga out once, he ensures he doesn’t give you his wicket again. If I get his wicket, I will call you and say that was what I was looking for,” the offie said, laughing. He hasn’t spoken to his former Chennai Super Kings teammate Muttiah Muralitharan yet, but won’t mind discussing with the legend how to go about it in Sri Lanka. “It will be good to have a chat with him if I get the chance,” Ashwin said.
Bangladesh draw series against South Africa after final day washout Agency | Dhaka
The second Test between Bangladesh and South Africa was declared a draw Monday after play on the fifth and final day was abandoned due to a wet outfield after days of rain. The series was drawn 0-0 with both Tests washed out. Rain at the Shere Bangla National Stadium disrupted three straight days of play before umpires decided to abandon the match 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the fifth day. Bangladesh was 246-8 in its first innings with captain Mushifuqr Rahim topping the score with 65 runs on the first day before the rain set in. The first Test at Chittagong also ended in a draw after the final two
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SPORTS ROUNDUP Virat Kohli bats for five-bowler attack in Sri Lanka as a winning strategy
Agency | Chennai Indian Test captain Virat Kohli expressed his confidence in Ravichandran Ashwin’s batting abilities and said that there is no reason why the Tamil Nadu tweaker can’t be the all-rounder that the Indian team is looking for in longer version. “Ashwin, Bhuvi and Bhajji are all handy with the bat. Ashwin has a Test average of 40 and I cannot see that why he can’t be that all-rounder for us. That’s the challenge. Giving people goals and asking them to improve in certain aspects where
the team requires,” Kohli told mediapersons at the pre-departure press conference ahead of threeTest series in Sri lanka. Kohli again stressed that he would like to play five bowlers in order to give the team a chance to take 20 wickets and also that three spinners could be a reality during the series. “You need to play a stronger bowling side in order to win Test matches and it’s more exciting and satisfying as well. Yes, that’s a possibility (three spinners). The idea is to take 20 wickets. I strongly believe that you need
to your best bowlers to play in order to give your team a chance to do that. The whole idea of playing five bowlers is that the top six have to take more responsibility,” the skipper said. Kohli said that Sri Lanka series will give him proper chance to execute certain plans. “It is an opportunity to have certain plans to prepare for a particular series. Actually judge ourselves on the basis of those three Test matches and analyse how many times we were able to do things actually we wanted to do. I think in one-off Test matches you do not get that opportunity. “You prepare for a week or 10 days and that game gets over in five days and correct things and straight away go in to the second game. That is very exciting for me personally to play a full series as a captain and to be able to have the opportunity of executing certain things that we want to do as a team,” said Kohli.
Saina is tougher than her World Championship rivals, says coach Vimal Kumar
days were washed out. “(It is) one of the most bizarre Test series I have ever played,” South Africa captain Hashim Amla said. “I don’t think I have played a test series where, out of 10 days of cricket, six days have been rained off ... It is what it is, you can’t control the weather.” The outcome of the series did not impact the rankings of the two teams but South Africa lost five rating points while Bangla-
desh gained six. With the two tests being rained out, Amla objected to losing the points. “It’s a difficult one to understand really. You can understand if it’s a 1-1 draw where you have played enough cricket to make a true reflection,” Amla said. Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said the series was “an opportunity lost” but believed the result could have been in the hosts’ favor with better weather.
Arsenal can challenge for League title, feels Chelsea’s Cahill
Agency | London Saina Nehwal might be still recovering from a shoulder pain but coach Vimal Kumar is confident of her performance at the World Championships as he feels the Indian ace is “mentally
Championships,” Kumar said. Former chief national coach, Kumar said the World Championship will be an interesting and open battle because the Chinese girls, who were dominating the world stage, have not been successful for the last ten months. “This World Championship will be an open and interesting battle because the Chinese girls have not been successful for the last ten months,” he said. “In the last one year - after the tougher” than other girls Asian Games - majorwho are “unpredictable”. ity of the international “Her (Saina) rivals are games were won by four good players and very girls - Saina, Carolina unpredictable, but Saina Marin (Spain), Tai Tzuis mentally tougher than ying (Chinese Taipei) them. She also doing and Ratchanok Intanon physically well. These (Thailand) - these are factors should help her the four girls that really to do well in the World dominated,” he added.
Aditya Verma files new petition, asks SC to reveal names of 13 players involved in spot-fixing
Agency | New Delhi Bajaj Auto today registered a 3 per cent increase in total sales in July at 3,30,231 units against 3,19,292 in the same month of 2014. Bajaj Auto today registered a 3 per cent increase in total sales in July at 3,30,231 units against 3,19,292 in the same month of 2014. Motorcycle sales during the month rose 5 per cent to 2,82,433 units as against 2,67,841 in July last year, the company said in a BSE filing. Bajaj Auto’s commercial vehicles sales during the month stood at 47,798 units compared with 51,451 in the year-ago period, a decline of 7 per cent. Its exports in July this year came in at 1,64,690 units as against 1,69,755 a year ago, down 3 per cent, the company said.
Agency | London Chelsea defender Gary Cahill feels Arsenal could mount a strong challenge for the Premier League title, following the champions’ 1-0 defeat to their bitter rivals in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday. “They’ve started well, they’ve got a good squad and I think they’ll be one of many pushing at the top this season,” the 29-year-old
was quoted as saying on Chelsea’s website (www.chelseafc.com). Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s goal after 24 minutes was enough to seal a first win in 14 attempts for Gunners boss Arsene Wenger against counterpart Jose Mourinho. But according to Cahill, there was not much to choose between the London rivals. “Let’s be fair, the game’s been won on a piece of individual play
to smash it in the top corner, but chance-wise we had the majority of the play,” the England defender said. “I think in terms of possession we had the majority of the game but it’s the scoreline that matters and we’re disappointed with that,” he added. Wenger also gave an Arsenal debut to Chelsea legend Petr Cech, who switched between the clubs during the summer.
Agency | New Delhi Aditya Verma, secretary of the unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), on Monday filed a new petition in the Supreme Court asking the apex court to reveal names of 13 players who have been named in a sealed envelope by the Mudgal probe committee. Verma, who was also the petitioner in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, demanded that the report, which includes find-
ings of the Justice Mudgal Committee, should be handed over to Justice Lodha Committee for further inquiry. Verma earlier hailed Lodha committee’s
verdict, which suspended the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), and banned Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra from cricket.
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Gujarat: Patel rally in capital today BJP minority members from state set to canvass in Bihar Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Patidar community, in a bid to press for their demands for reservation in Other Backward Castes (OBC) quota, will take out rallies in different parts of Gujarat on Monday and Tuesday. Three rallies will be held in Gandhinagar, Sabarkantha and Amreli districts on Monday and the fourth in Vadodara district on Tuesday. “We will hold a rally in Gandhinagar Monday, where around 20,000 people from Patel community will take part to press for our demands for reservation under OBC quota,” Hardik Patel, member of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti said. “The other two rallies will be held in Himmatnagar town of Sabarkantha district and in Bagasara town of Amreli district Monday, where around 50,000
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and 10,000 people will take part in both the districts, respectively,” added Patel. In all the three districts, the community members will give a memorandum of their demands to the respective district collectors, he added. The rally at Gandhinagar will begin from ‘Gh-0’ area and will end at Chhavni area, he said. On Sunday evening, the Vadodara district Sardar Patel
Seva Dal (SPSD) group held a meeting of district village conveners of the community, in Bhayali. The meeting was held to discuss the strategy for the August 4 protest rally of the community and to urge the local leaders to gather people from villages to join the rally. In order to mobilise central Gujarat into the protest movement of the community that is demanding OBC status in
the state, the SPSD Vadodara District Committee has been created. The committee held its first meeting of Patidar leaders from various villages of the district to ensure their involvement in the “massive rally” planned on August 4. The Patidar community village heads from Atladara, Sevasi, Bil. Chapad, Bhayali, Samiyala and Sokhda among others, were part of Sunday’s meeting.
Aiming to cash in on the prevalence of peace in the state, the State BJP is sending teams of its minority community members to Bihar to campaign for the upcoming assembly elections. These teams will tour the Muslim-dominated districts in the poll-bound state and talk about how peace prevailed in the state post-2002. Around 100 active Muslim members will work under guidance from Sufi Mahboobali Bava Chishti, convener of Gujarat BJP Minority Morcha. “Our members will be divided into around 20 teams and will leave for Bihar when they will be given the green signal,” said Chishti. “These teams will tour Muslim-dominated districts and reach out to
old engineering student Shivam Dave, died on the spot; his 21-year-old friend Rahul Patel died a day later. Vismay’s father Amit Shah initially claimed that his driver
was at the wheel and was absconding. But a witness said the man who left the BMW spoke in English and was dressed in expensive clothes. The witness was a friend of the men on the motorcycle. All three were heading home after dinner together when the accident took place. After his conviction on July 13, Shah had filed a bail plea with the Gujarat High Court but the court had turned his appeal down on July 21. after today’s ruling, Ghanshyam Bhai Patel, father of one of the victims, said, “His (Shah’s) lawyer argued that he is young. But my son was also young who lost his life.”
local voters to explain them how peace prevails in Gujarat and there has been no curfew imposed for past 13 years, among other achievements under BJP rule in Gujarat,” he said. The voters there will be impressed upon the importance of their votes in favour of the BJP, he said adding, special emphasis would be laid on the prospect of vast opportunities people from Bihar
will have under a BJP rule and in an employment-inducing state of Gujarat. “Currently we are preparing route maps of touring in Bihar for our teams of workers,” he said. Chisti said it was not that special teams of Muslim workers would be sent but they would be part of a larger contingent of the party workers short-listed for going to work in Bihar election campaign. Sufi
Mahboobali Bava Chishti was recently appointed chairman of Gujarat State Minorities Finance and Development Corporation. He said he would take charge of office on Thursday. With Gani Qureshi being appointed vice-chairman, other members include Purshottam Harvani, Paramjeet Chhabra, Sarjiben Barish, Asif Salot, Aiyub Neki and Yusuf Varaiya.
Gujarat’s BMW Hit-And-Run Convict Gets Bail Promising start for AMC-backed Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Vismay Shah, who was awarded a five-year jail term by a court in Ahmedabad for killing two people with his car, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. Shah, 27, had challenged the ruling by a sessions court that had found him guilty and asked to pay Rs. 5 lakh each to the families of those killed, earlier last month. The Supreme Court today accepted arguments made by senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, who contended that Shah was young had already spent 13 months in prison. The son of a city-based eye surgeon, Shah was driving the car at a high speed
in February, 2013, when he first hit a motorcycle, flinging its two riders into the air, then crashed into a tree. He abandoned the car and ran away, according to an eyewitness.
Chilling CCTV footage from a shopping complex in the vicinity showed the collision and the bikers being thrown up several metres in the air. The man riding pillion, 25-year-
market for organic farm produce Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A two-day market every week for direct sale of organic vegetables and other farm items that informally started here on Saturday evoked considerable interest among local populace in these products. There was no formal inauguration for the market — sponsored by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) — on its plot opposite Vastrapur lake, but more than 2,000 buyers turned up on the first day. As many as 18 stalls were setup on the opening day and the turnout showed promise for opening more stalls,
said director of parks and gardens Jignesh Patel. The market will function on Saturdays and Sundays through the day, said Patel, justifying the venue which is a municipal corporation-owned plot. Parag Sheth, a resident of Ambawadi who came for the first time in such a market, said: “I don’t mind buying a little costlier farm products and vegetables instead of going for vegetables grown with use of pesticides and chemical fertilisers.” Sheth said he would buy vegetables for the whole week and then come again the next week. Ramanbhai Mahipatbhai Patel, coordinator of Mad-
hya Gujarat Sajeev Kheti Khedut Samaj from Kheda district, brought organic farmers from the district with their produce. Patel (75) said the objective was to popularise organic farm produce and bring people from junk food to organic vegetables and other products. “There have been food festivals at other places but this is first such platform to encourage consumption of organic vegetables and other farm products like syrups and grain,” he said.
Drunkards’ quarrel in With Modi as PM, will Centre echo Bail, Lengthy and Often, for Babu Gujarat opposition to shifting of lions? Gomitpur turns communal Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
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Is the Centre under NDA dispensation preparing to change its long-held position that Asiatic lions need a second home outside Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary, and instead tilting towards the view of the state government which has steadfastly opposed the idea? Sources in the ministry of environment and forests said the Union government is likely to present a fresh stand before the Supreme Court in response to a PIL filed against the relocation of a batch of lions to the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. How the Centre nuances its response before the court remains to be seen, particularly since the environment ministry, under previous regimes, was involved in conceptualizing and facilitating the relocation project. The
A minor altercation between four drunks at a liquor den in Gomtipur on Sunday afternoon turned communal and nearly disturbed the law and order situation in the city. Sources in the police said that after having liquor at a den near Maraim Bibi Chawl in Gomtipur, four drunkards took out playing cards and started gambling on the spot. “However, soon they were quarrelling with each other over a money dispute and accidentally dashed into people preparing food for a feast nearby,” said a source. As result of this, some people thrashed the drunkards, said police. Soon groups belonging to different communities began to gather on the road and started pelting stones at each other. Local sources said the situation deterio-
PIL, filed by Rajkot-based NGO Wildlife Conservation Trust, is the third legal challenge mounted against the Supreme Court judgment of April 15, 2013, in which the court had pronounced that the lion relocation plan was in the best interest of the species. “No state, organization or person can claim ownership or possession over wild animals,” the court had observed. Gujarat government, whose subsequent petitions against the judg-
ment were dismissed by the court, has exhausted its legal options in the case. The PIL, therefore, could well be the last legal challenge against the SC’s verdict. It is learnt that ministry officials, under guidance from the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), are preparing their response which may factor in the ‘sensitivities’ involved in translocating the big cats from Gir in Gujarat, the only place where free-roaming Asiatic lions are found
rated when rioters started attacking vehicles parked on the roadside, damaging about six vehicles. Police rushed to the spot along with teams from adjoining police stations and crime branch officials. “We had to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the warring groups,” said a police official from Gomtipur police station. “The situation was brought under control in about half-an-hour. We have arrested six people for %rioting.” Sources said the local police have been asked to intensify patrolling in the area and also carry out raids on liquor or gambling dens operating in the area. Senior police officials were worried as the incident could have taken an ugly turn. In February 2015, a similarly trivial incident had snowballed into major rioting near Idgah in Madhavpura.
Bajrangi, Jailed for Gujarat Riots
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Convicted for one of the worst massacres in the Gujarat riots, Babu Bajrangi, former leader of the right-wing Bajrang Dal, has returned to prison after a break that ran longer than three months. In 2012, former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani and he were among nearly 30 others found guilty of the Naroda Patiya massacre, the single bloodiest episode of the three-day riots that seared the state
in 2002. Babu Bajrangi, whose real name is Babubhai Patel, was sentenced to life in prison. He left the Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad in April to travel to Chennai to see an eye specialist. The three-month bail he was originally given on medical grounds for his problematic eyesight was followed by an extension from the Gujarat High Court after his doctors said he is fast losing vision. His lawyer, Anil Patel, refused to com-
ment on the controversy and criticism of his client’s lengthy bail, stating only that all directions to return to jail have been followed. Earlier, Babu Bajrangi was allowed to leave jail on four different occasions on grounds ranging from his niece’s marriage to attending to his unwell father. In the last few weeks, Bajrangi Babu had avoided the media, choosing to stay at home in Naroda Pitaya, where doctors visited him periodically to check on his eyes, according to sources. “For them, being inside or outside may not be a big deal, but for the riot victims it is... once out the convicts can be threat to the victims,” said Shamshad Pathan, who represents families devastated by the riots in Naroda Patiya.
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