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News Brief US dollar ends dearer against the rupee Agency | Mumbai
The US dollar ended dearer against the rupee at 66.24/25 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished higher at Rs 101.17/19 per pound at the close of the Interbank Foreign Exchange market today. Following are the Interbank Forex and RBI rates: (In Rs Per Unit) Unit Interbank RBI Reference US Dollar 66.24/25 US Dollar Rs. 66.2280 Pound Sterling 101.17/19 Euro Rs. 74.3343 Euro 74.37/39 Japanese Yen(100) 55.
Punjab govt sets up special NREGA cell Agency | Chandigarh
A special National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) cell has been set up here in Punjab with an aim to effectively implement it.An outlay of Rs 233 crore has been provided under this project, an official spokesman said today. He said that the centre has decided to fix the wage rate under the NREGA on the basis of Consumer Price Index which will be implemented on April 1 every year and will be applicable for the whole financial year.
No witch-hunt in land scams probe: Hry govt Agency | Chandigarh
Haryana government today said that alleged land scams of the previous Congress regime in the State will be probed in a fair manner and there will be no witch-hunting. Finance Minister Abhimanyu assured the House that the Government will probe every single case in a fair manner and with full responsibility by carrying out in depth investigation wherever any wrong doing has been done which comes to its notice. He was responding to a supplementary question asked by Haryana Janhit Congress chief Kuldeep Bishnoi during Question Hour in the ongoing monsoon session of the state assembly here.
“Patidar quota stir”
Gujarat HC directs State to provide compensation to victims
CID to probe ‘police atrocities’ The govt said that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the kin of those killed in the violence
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat government has entrusted the CID with the probe into alleged “atrocities” committed by police while tackling the Patel quota stir and declared compensation to those killed and injured in the violence last week. The government said that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the kin of those killed in the violence and Rs 2 lakh in the case of permanent disability while the injured will be given compensation of Rs 10,000 each. This was stated in an affidavit filed by the government before the High Court today. “The state government has decided to conduct a thorough, fair and impartial inquiry at the highest level into the aspects (of police atrocities) and has consequently passed an order on September 2, 2015
propriate steps against the police personnel who had unleashed atrocities on people after violence broke out in the state following the arrest of Patel community leader Hardik Patel on August 25. While filing the affidavit, entrusting the inquiry to Justice Jayant Patel and the government stated the CID (Crime),” the Justice N V Anjaria, disaffidavit said. Following posed of a PIL filed by the submission given by one Prakash Kapadia. government, the divi- Kapadia had sought the sion bench of the HC, HC’s direction to govCorrespondent | Rajkot comprising acting Chief ernment for taking apThe mechanised rides, Hardik PatelAsks Patel Legislators one of the main attracof the Janmashtami to Clarify Stand Over Quota Row tions fair in the city, started Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad wheeling as scheduled Hardik Patel, leader of after local taxmen the Patel quota agitation agreed to exempt their in Gujarat, today said he operators from enterwill start meeting legistainment tax on Thurslators of his community day. Ride operators had soon to know where they reporters. There are more on Wednesday threatstand on the reservation than 35 Patel MLAs in ened to stop rides at issue, which sparked vi- the 182-member Gujarat Goras, the five-day Janolence across the state Assembly, which include mashtami fair organised claiming ten lives last chief minister Anandi- every year by the Rajkot week. “We will start ben Patel and seven of district administration, if meeting Patel MLAs her cabinet colleagues. “I the government did not from tomorrow and ask myself along with hun- exempt them from paythem to clarify their dreds of my supporters ing 20 entertainment tax stand on whether they will meet those MLAs on their ticket collection. are with Patels on the is- and will give them a But local tax officers had sue of inclusion of com- rose,” said Mr Patel, stuck to their demand munity in OBC category adding that the entire of tax arguing that indior with their respective meetings with them will vidual operators had set up more than one ride parties,” Mr Patel told be videographed.
“atrocities” committed by police from August 25 when the police had stormed the venue of the rally at GMDC Ground here and lathicharged people gathered there to press for their demand for reservation, stated the affidavit filed by Joint
Secretary (Home) Rahul Gupta. As per government, nine citizens and one policeman died in the violence, while 27 people and around 203 police personnel sustained injuries while 20 of them are still in hospitals due to serious injuries.
on different plots but on the same fairground and therefore their effective ticket rates would exceed the exemption limit of Rs 20 and Rs 10. “We also requested Water Supply Minister Vijay Rupani to look into our demand
when he came to inaugurate the fair this morning. Eventually, tax officers told us that we shall not require to pay tax and therefore we started operating rides as the fair began,” Zakir Bloch, secretary of Gujarat Amuse-
ment Association, a body of mechnised rides operators of Gujarat, said. There are 54 mechanised rides at the fairground on Race Course. Operators had approached tax officers on Thursday with a recent resolution of the state government exempting them from entertainment tax. However, taxmen differed in their interpretation of the definition of plots for rides and fairground and said that those operators who had more than one ride in the same fair were liable for tax.
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by Shantanu Maheshwari, Macedon Dmello and Nimit Kotian, visited Ahmedabad and were absolutely pleased to see the love, affection and support they received from the people. What started as a dream, culminated into a team – Desi Hoppers that went on to represent India at the international mecca of dance – The World of Dance 2015. Comprising of seven members, Shantanu Maheswari, Mace-
don De’Mello, Nimit Kotian, Rohan Vyas, Viraj Pandya, Subhash Naidu and Niraj Lama, the boys are from varied backgrounds who got together to live one dream – to represent their country at the most coveted dance platforms. Hailing from Kolkata, Shantanu set out the hunt for his dream team with Macedon and Nimit, who are not just Shantanu’s college friends but also based out of Mumbai.
that it will compensate the kin of only those who were killed in police firing during the violent stir but amended its stand after the HC sought an explanation over exclusion of injured persons from ex-gratia. The CID will investigate into the
Rajkot: Rides start wheeling at Janmashtami fair after govt exempts them from tax
Desi Hoppers : The world of Dance Champions visit Ahmedabad
Staying away from the Gandhis: Real reasonf for Mulayam’s split Agency | Lucknow Politicians have their own way of sending messages. Sharing or not sharing the dais in public is one of them. Behind every handshake and hug there is a hidden reason. So, when Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to keep away from Janata Parivar’s rally in Bihar on Sunday, he had sent a subtle message of not having any truck with any group that allies with the Congress. His politics has always been anti-Congress and anti-BJP notwithstanding his support to the UPA government in the past. Three days later he withdrew from the Janata
Parivar-- a formation of which he was the architect -- protesting against a poor share of seats. With this, the six-party Janata Parivar that was formed to take on the resurgent BJP after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections stands all but demolished. It
will not impact his own political health as he has little stake in the neighbouring state. The fact is that Mulayam has always shied away from sharing the dais with the Gandhis despite their giveand-take relationship in elections. A senior leader
who spent his political life in SP before moving to Congress said, “I don’t remember when they addressed a joint rally though they meet often.” Why? “Perhaps because SP’s entire politics is founded on Lohia’s anti-Congressism.”
when the entire nation was celebrating 69th year of independence, seven talented youngsters made the country proud by being the first Indians to participate and win the prestigious championship. The dance troupe not just won the title but being the most popular among the crowd, they were even awarded the ‘Crowds Favorite’ trophy. Armed with the recent win, the troupe led
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Animals caused Earth’s first mass extinction, not catastrophe
The Earth’s first mass extinction event 540 million years ago was caused not by a meteorite impact or volcanic super-eruption but by the rise of early animals that dramatically changed the prehistoric environment, a new study has found. “People have been slow to recognise that biological organisms can also drive mass extinction,” said Simon Darroch, assistant professor at Vanderbilt University in US. “But our comparative study of several communities of Ediacarans, the world’s first multicellular organisms, strongly supports the hypothesis that it was the appearance of complex animals capable of altering their environments, which we define as ‘ecosystem engineers,’ that resulted in the Ediacaran’s disappearance,” Darroch said. The earliest life on Earth consisted of singlecelled microorganisms. They ruled the Earth for more than 3 billion years. Some of these microorganisms evolved to capture the energy in sunlight. The photosynthetic process that they developed produced oxygen as a toxic byproduct. Oxygen was poisonous to most microbes that had evolved in an oxygen-free environment, making it the world’s first pollutant. However, for the microorganisms that developed methods for protecting themselves, oxygen gave them the added energy they needed to adopt multicellular forms. Thus, the Ediacarans arose about 600 million years ago during a warm period following a long interval of extensive glaciation. Ediacarans spread throughout the planet. They were a largely immobile form of marine life shaped like discs and tubes, fronds and quilted mattresses. They remained attached in one spot for their entire lives, feeding by absorbing chemicals from the water through their outer membranes, rather than actively gathering nutrients. After 60 million years, evolution gave birth to animals. During the 25-million-year period of Cambrian explosion, most of the modern animal families—vertebrates, molluscs, arthropods, annelids, sponges and jellyfish—came into being. “These new species were ‘ecological engineers’ who changed the environment in ways that made it more and more difficult for the Ediacarans to survive,” said Darroch. The researchers analysed the youngest known Ediacaran community exposed in Namibia, in a site called Farm Swartpunt, which is dated at 545 million years ago. “We found that the diversity of species at this site was much lower, and there was evidence of greater ecological stress, than at comparable sites that are 10 million to 15 million years older,” Darroch said.
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Kangana Ranaut is looking forward to motherhood Agency | New Delhi
Kangana Ranaut, 28, who is enjoying success in Bollywood with two back-to-back hits, says she wants to enjoy motherhood at some point in her life but right now is too busy to think about it. Kangana Ranaut spoke about motherhood while commenting on live-in relationships and marriage. “I think live-in relations are overrated. People should be given their space. The way marriages are crumbling these days, I don’t have anything to say but I am looking forward to motherhood. I am 28 and my mother keeps saying, ‘Don’t you want a family or something’ and I tell her that may be at some point,” said Kangana
while promoting ‘Katti Batti’ in Mumbai. While actresses like Sushmita Sen have already become mother through adoption, Kangana rules out that option. “I don’t think I will adopt. I would want to change diapers. It’s hard work and I would like to take that responsibility.” Professionally, Kangana is happy that success came calling late in her life. “The best part of my success is that came late. Had it happened when I was a teenager, I would have ended up like my character. Because at 28, you are very balanced as a woman and that affects your perspective to everything. So I am happy that I am tasting success now as I am more mature to wish for success when now. You wouldn’t want you are very young. It can
I’m not scared: Soha Ali Khan on ‘clash’ with Kunal Kemmu
Agency | New Delhi Actress Soha Ali Khan-starrer “31st October”, her first film post marriage, may release alongside her husband actor Kunal Kemmu’s “Guddu Ki Gun” on October 30. She says she is “not scared” of their box office “clash”. “I think it will be exciting. We have been married for six months, we need some excitement! The producers have decided that they are going to release it (around that time). October 31 is a sensible time to be very hard to deal with,” release our film because it’s called ‘31st Octoexplained Kangana.
ber’ and Friday (October 30) is close to that date,” Soha. “I’m not scared by him (Kunal) or ‘Guddu Ki Gun’. I think that there is enough appetite in the industry for both films and they are very different in genre,” she said. While “Guddu Ki Gun” is a comedy film, “31st October” is a historical drama based on the aftermath of the 1984 riots. Soha, who has starred in “Rang De Basanti”, “Mumbai Meri Jaan” and “Midnight’s Children”, will be seen playing a “strong female protagonist” in “31st October”.
Srimanthudu BO collection: Rs ‘Puli’ Actor Sudeep’s ‘Mudinja Iwana Teaser Released for his Birthday 154 crore worldwide in 25 days Pudi’ Agency | Chennai
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Agency | Chennai Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu’s latest film Srimanthudu has certainly charmed the audience. The tale of a rich young man returning home to adopt a village for its betterment and, in turn, facing stiff opposition, has won many hearts. But the good news is it has also won
at the ticket windows worldwide. The Telugu film has grossed Rs 154 crore in its 25-dayrun so far worldwide. “Srimanthudu gallops at the worldwide box office grossing Rs 154 crore in just 25 days! It continues its soaring success becoming the second highest grossing Telugu release this year after Baahubali,” read a
statement from Eros International, which distributed the film globally. Directed by Koratala Siva, the film is about a young man who decides to adopt a village and the challenges he faces in the process. Also starring Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu and Rajendra, the film was jointly produced by Mahesh and Mythri Movies.
Actor Kiccha Sudeep turns 42 on Wednesday, 2 September, and to make his birthday more special for his fans, a teaser from his forthcoming movie “Mudinja Iwana Pudi” has been released. This is a bilingual movie simultaneously made in Tamil and Kannada languages. While the title of the Tamil version has been revealed, the makers are yet to finalise the name of the Kannada version. It has been speculated that the movie will be called as “Kottigobba 2”, but nothing has been confirmed yet. The teaser is just 27-seconds long, which shows the hero in a stylish avatar. Sudeep will be seen fighting with his enemies in the teaser, but it does not give away any information about “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”. Kiccha Sudeep is foraying into the Tamil indus-
Shilpa Shetty finishes nutrition book Agency | Mumbai
Agency | New Delhi In the show, Priyanka plays the role of a half-Indian, half-Caucasian FBI trainee named Alex Parrish. Her character is born and brought up in the United States. The show revolves around group of FBI agents in training at Quantico Base. Priyanka Chopra is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York
City since 9/11. For all Bollywood fans, we’ll soon get to see Priyanka Chopra in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming period drama film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. The romance saga also stars Ranveer Singh and his alleged beau Deepika Padukone. Quantico’s premiere episode is all set to air on ABC Network and Star World India on September 27.
Actress Shilpa Shetty says she has finished writing her book, and that it will release soon. “Amongst all the things that I multi-task with, I’ve already finished and completed my book on nutrition and it should be releasing very soon in November,” Shetty said in Mumbai on Wednesday. She says she will make a separate announcement about
the book, but shared a bit about it. “It’s a book on how you can stay fit. I’m not going to divulge the name, because that would be unfair. It is for all who are interested in living a more healthy life and I can assure you that you won’t be let down,” Shetty said. She has earlier released a DVD about yoga. Shetty hasn’t acted in a while but she’s garding acting, I’m not that Viaan [her son] has not in a hurry to return doing it because I would turned three, he demands to the big screen. “Re- be driven mad. Now a bit less time from me.
try with a bang as a hero in “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”, which is said to be a suspense-thriller written and directed by KS Ravikumar. The forthcoming movie marks the debut of ace filmmaker KS Ravikumar, who is known for some of the Tamil blockbusters like “Padayappa”, “Dasavathaaram”, etc., in Kannada. Nithya Menen, who is basking
in the success of “Ok Kanmani”, has paired up with Kiccha Sudeep in “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”. Meanwhile, Sudeep is also getting ready for the release of Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s “Puli”. He has played the role of antagonist in the movie, which has Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani and Sridevi Kapoor in key roles.
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After scaling ‘China wall’, Saina Nehwal aims to tame Carolina Marin
Agency | New Delhi Agency | New Delhi As India pushes to become a global manufacturing hub, Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman and CEO, Osamu Suzuki, stressed on the need for “Quality in India”, especially in auto components sector to become a top international supplier. “It is mentioned here Make in India, I’d like to add Quality in India,” Mr. Suzuki said while addressing the annual session of ACMA here. Reiterating the need to focus on quality he said, “I believe if all suppliers follow Quality in India, then they will be able to overcome the US and China and they can acquire the number one position in global market.” “The global recall of more than one million units of vehicles has put the focus on quality,” he said. “Hence it doesn’t leave any doubt that quality is an important key to success and in this regard everyone must have noticed that in today’s situation vendor selection on basis of quality is inevitable,” he added.
Sony Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z5 Premium First Impressions
Agency | New Delhi Sony unveiled its flagship smartphone lineup for 2015, and instead of the two variants that most were expecting, we got three - the Sony Xperia Z5, the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, and the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium. At the pre-IFA launch event in Berlin on Wednesday, the Xperia Z5 Premium was mentioned almost as an afterthought as Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai took time to walk through the features of the Sony Xperia Z5 and its smaller sibling, the Z5 Compact. However, it was the Premium that grabbed most of the headlines for being the first smartphone with a 4K display. While we’ve seen the emergence of 2K displays on smartphones, most people we know are happy with full-HD resolution. In fact, the iPhone 6 isn’t even full-HD and still we’ve yet to come across average users who say that it has a “low resolution” screen.
After giving Chinese shuttlers a tough fight over the years, topranked shuttler Saina Nehwal’s new challenge is to tame down nemesis Carolina nemesis of Spain. The Spaniard recently beat Nehwal in two major finals -- All England Badminton and
World Championships. And as Japan Open is set to start, Nehwal is eager to take the revenge from the number two ranked shuttler, who has kept Nehwal at bay of late. “I would definitely be looking to beat her. That is one aim at Japan Open. She has defeated me twice in two major finals
and it’s time to find ways to get past her. “I have beaten almost all the topranked Chinese players in last few months after shifting to Bengaluru and this time the effort would be to beat Marin,” Nehwal. Ace Indian shuttler is also looking for consistency in her game. “Everything is going on fine at this stage. I am training well under Vimal sir and the results are also coming up. But the important part is to maintain the consistency and beat top players on regular basis. That way, you would get better at your game which is very important,” she added.
Sachin Tendulkar was like God to all of us while growing up: MS Dhoni Agency | Dubai
Describing Sachin Tendulkar as his role model, India ODI cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has said that iconic batsman’s humility and passion for the game was an inspiration for him and others. “When we were growing up, we used to watch Sachin (Tendulkar), he was like God to all of us. He had that aura around him,” Dhoni said while interacting with the Indian diaspora during a reception organised in his honour in New Jersey by Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America. Dhoni said Tendulkar is a “very good role model” since he’s successful but at the same time hum-
ble. Dhoni said when he started playing cricket, he saw “how he (Tendulkar) believed in the process.” “Every time he turned on the field, he wanted to improve as a cricketer. I felt he was an ideal person to look up to and that is what we did,” said Dhoni, according to a brief video of the event posted on the web portal the American Bazaar. Asked when he will return to the cricket
field, Dhoni said October is the “earliest you will see me on the field.” Dhoni was accompanied by former Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand Sudesh Mahto at the event. On the 2011 World Cup win, Dhoni said it was “really big not only for the team, but for the entire country.” Asked how he defines success, Dhoni said it is very important to be “practical and honest” in life.
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SPORTS ROUNDUP Virat Kohli is right: Aggression on the cricket field is vital for success
Agency | Dubai When Australia were the best cricket team in the world between 1995 and 2010, they were also the most aggressive. When the West Indies were the best team in the world for the 15 years before that, they were also the most aggressive. The
connection is not accidental. To be the best is to be ruthless. No athlete or team rises to the top of their sport without the desire to crush those in their path. Former Australia captain Steve Waugh talked about the mental disintegration of his opponents. He didn’t want to just beat them on
the field, he wanted to reduce them to quivering wrecks. This is the attitude Virat Kohli wants to instill in the India team because Kohli wants to be the best. He doesn’t want to lose. He hates losing. He wants to win. And to win, you have to be aggressive. The irony is we applaud, or at least respect, this attitude in teams such as Australia, but choose to castigate Kohli and his players for their in-your-face display in the Sri Lanka series. A prime example is Ishant Sharma’s coach, Shravan Kumar, who told MidDay pinned the blame for Ishant’s behaviour on Kohli and Ravi Shastri for talking about aggression too much.
of Eugenie Bouchard and Nick Kyrgios and the Ukrainian-Kiwi team of Elina Svitolina and Artem Sitak. On Court 14, Bopanna combined with Florin Mergea to dispatch the US duo of Austin Krajicek and Nicholas Monroe 6—3, 6—4 in the first-round encounter. The sixth-seeded Indo-Romanian duo won the match in 1 hour and
7 minutes to ease into the second round. Bopanna and Mergea will be up against the Polish-Mexican pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santiago Gonzalez in their next match. Fyrstenberg and Gonzalez defeated the Polish combination of Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz 6—7 (5) 7—6 (3) 6—4 in their opening match.
cial said in addition to the water body in all the villas, there are two swimming pools -- one in the rooftop of the apartment and second an infinity pool in the waterfront of the project. A high resolution CCTV camera inside
the project with recording to be viewed from the security cabin, video phone to communicate with visitors and 24 hour manned security with intercom facility to communicate with each villa are some of the features, he added.
India’s Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna advance in US Open Agency | New York
Indian tennis stars enjoyed a successful start in the US Open as veteran Leander Paes entered the mixed doubles second round while Rohan Bopanna also won his opening tie in the men’s doubles competition. Paes, alongwith Martina Hingis, eased past the local pair of Taylor Harry Fritz and C Lui 6—2, 6—2 in the first round encounter on Court 4. The fourth-seeded Indo-Swiss duo took just about 46 minutes to win the match. Paes and Hingis will next take on the winners of the match between the Canadian-Australian combine
Sachin Tendulkar now plans to own luxury waterfront villa in Kerala Agency | Kochi
Agency | New Delhi Europe’s biggest tech show might not officially get underway until Friday but already a host of leading computer makers have unveiled their latest models which will be hitting the shelves before the end of the year The best way to describe the IFA is to say it’s like the International CES but with a greater chance of rain. In terms of size and tech representatives plus the opportunity for global gadget debuts, it is well on par with its Las Vegas-based counterpart. As such it is the venue for the worldwide reveal of the first computers built to take full advantage of both Windows 10 and Intel’s latest-generation processors. And if what’s on show from the likes of Lenovo and Toshiba this week is any indication of things to come, at the end of this year, computers with 4K resolutions, facial recognition capabilities and form factors that ape that of the Microsoft Surface are going to be high up on consumers’ holiday season shopping lists.
Agency | Sydney Australian pace bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood could miss next month’s Test series in Bangladesh so they can rest ahead of a busy summer schedule. The Sydney Morning Herald said Cricket Australia was intent on carefully managing their key quicks with a home series against New Zealand and the West Indies to come from November. Australia also play a oneday series against India and two more Tests in New Zealand in the new year with selectors meet-
ing to discuss the tour of Bangladesh within the next few weeks. “There’s some important consideration that needs to be given to managing our fast bowlers, not just in Bangladesh, but the full 10Test season, and that will be part of the discussion,” CA’s team performance manager Pat Howard told the newspaper. “Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood are two players that have had heavy workloads and need to be managed carefully if we are to give them the best chance of success throughout that entire period. “Neither
player has had a pre-season to prepare for the Australian summer and we think that’s particularly important.” If Johnson and Hazlewood are rested it would open the door for Peter Siddle to continue his renaissance after bowling impressively in the final Ashes Test against England at The Oval last month. It could also see the recall of either Pat Cummins or James Pattinson to partner Mitchell Starc, although the selection of two spinners is possible given sub-continental conditions.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar plans to own a luxury waterfront villa in ‘God’s own country.’ The master blaster, who co-owns a soccer team called Kerala Blasters, has shortlisted one of the villas being developed on the bank of a scenic backwater area in Kochi, sources said. “Tendulkar has shortlisted a villa in Panangad in the city. He will be visiting the place to see the ‘Blue Waters Villa’ on Saturday,” an official at the private developer Prime Meridian said. He, however, refused to say whether the Rajya Sabha MP has already booked the villa. Speaking about the features of the villa, the offi-
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Blaming ‘fault in stars’, Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel to visit Congress to relocate chief’s office Mehsana, hotbed of Patidar stir Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Eclipsed by the BJP in Gujarat, the Congress has decided to shift the office of its state president to fix what it calls “a fault in the stars”. Come Janmashtami and Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bharatsinh Solanki’s office, which is located in the state Congress headquarters in Paldi, will be shifted to Manav Mandir in Memnagar area of Ahmedabad. Some office-bearers will also shift to the new office, which would operate out of the rented second, third and fourth floors of the Star Square building in Memnagar. The old office, called Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, had undergone a major renovation 12 years ago. It is learnt that Solanki consulted a vastu shastra expert, who
Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Thursday would visit Mehsana, one of the worst affected districts during the last week’s widespread violence following a Patidar rally for reservation in Ahmedabad, and attend a public event at the famous Bhachucharaji temple under a high-security cover. Sources in the Chief Minister’s Office said there were inputs from the In-
telligence Bureau that agitated Patidars might turn up in large numbers at the public event to register their protest against the alleged police atrocities on the community members. In this view, an open ground was not chosen as the venue for the Chief Minister’s function to inaugurate infrastructure projects worth 21 crore, including a road and a dharamshala, they said. Around 600 security personnel have been de-
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suggested he shift the office.GPCC secretary Bhavin Vyas, who is also part of the party’s administration branch, said the office was being shifted for two reasons — “to increase contacts in the western part of the city” and because “the current office has vastu dosh”. “There is some fault as per vastu shastra in the Paldi office. The seat-
ing arrangement is in the north-south direction. In the new office, we have kept the seating arrangement in east-west direction,” Vyas said. “There is a friend of saheb (Solanki), who helped him get the new office vastu-enabled,” Vyas said. Solanki did not respond to calls or messages seeking a comment. “The office is also being
shifted because of the practical purpose of increasing contacts in the western part of the city, which is expanding rapidly. The Paldi office is almost on the banks of the (Sabarmati) river, so it is closer to the eastern part,” Vyas added. Paldi is adjacent to a Muslim neighbourhood, while Memnagar is a Hindu-dominated locality.
ployed at the venue. While the Patidar agitation had first turned violent during a rally in Mehsana’s Visnagar town on July 16, a mob on the night of August 25 torched the houses ministers Rajnikant Patel, Nitin Patel and BJP MLA Jayshree Patel. Offices of Visnagar MLA Rishikesh Patel and Unjha MLA Naran Patel were also ransacked, and several buses and police chowikes came under attack. Anandiben too hails from Mehsana. “A good-strength security team, consisting of nearly 600 personnel, will be deployed. This includes SRP as well as a local police team under Deputy Superintendent of Police,” said an official from the Home Department. Mehsana collector Lochan Sehra said: “The venue is Bahucharaji temple premises, which has been
recently developed by local body.” Claiming that only one open ground was available and it was now being used as helipad, the collector said, “The law and order situation is normal.” The sources, however, maintained that earlier the function was being planned at the open ground near the helipad, but the venue was changed due to security reasons. In her appeal to Gujarat citizens on eve of August 25 rally, Anandiben had rejected the Patidars’ demand for OBC status and reservation benefits, citing constitutional and legal provisions. On August 25, the government had rejected Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s ultimatum that Anandiben must visit the agitators at GMDC ground within 48 hours and give assurance in writing about the OBC quota.
work was allotted to M/s Ritwick Construction Pvt. Limited in 2012. The counsel of the applicants had argued that the limitation in the case was five years and not six months, which was rejected by the Tribunal while citing the provisions of the NGT Act, 2010. A group of environmental activists had approached the NGT on January 16, 2014, demanding an immediate stay on the ongoing construction of the weir, which will be a part of the larger Statue of Unity project, because no environmental clearance was sought from the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFC). The weir is to
come up around 12 kilometres downstream of the Narmada dam. It will have a storage capacity of 1 million acre feet of water that will be pumped back to the dam and sent through turbines for production of extra electricity. It will also serve as a tourist attraction as part of the ambitious Statue of Unity project. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL), Gujarat government, MoEFC, Chairman of Environment Sub-Group of Narmada Control Authority (NCA), Union Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and Ministry of Water Resources were made respondents in the case.
country in last 32 months. Gujarat’s share fell from 27% to 20.22% as other states have been aggressively adapting to e-governance. The portal set up by the department of information and technology receives transaction statistics from web-based applications periodically on near real-time basis. Gujaratis do it paperless and take to internet for all registrations be it land record or a new birth. Gujarat has recorded 151.09 crore e-transactions from Jan 1, 2013 to September 2, 2015 in the standard services provided under state government projects. This year alone, over 39.84 crore e-transactions have been recorded in state. According to eTaal
(Electronic transaction aggregation and analysis layer), public distribution system, land revenue and utility and bill payments are the top three services which record the maximum use, comprising of 70% or around 105 crore of e-transactions in state. Gujarat is next to only central government in terms of use of e-services for governance as central government projects recorded over 250 crore e-transactions since January 2013. Gujarat government currently offers more than 500 services through e-governance. The government is also implementing ‘mobile governance’ across the state as an extended arm of e-governance.
Lending bending: Fraud Gujarat quota row: Hardik to start Activists allege green norms violation: NGT junks plea against Garudeshwar weir plan loans eat into state’s banks Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of loans issued fraudulently on the basis of fake documents and other cheating cases from Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in Gujarat over the last three years, data available with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggests. In terms of amount involved, the rise in fraud cases of loan in PSBs has shot up 3440% in state. The norms for availing loans from PSBs may look stringent, but data with the RBI shows that fraud in loan cases is steadily rising in PSBs in Gujarat and such amount run into thousands of crores. According to the banking regulator, from April 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015, around 160 fraud cases of cheating and forgery (of Rs 1 lakh and
above) worth Rs 1602.74 crore have been registered in the state. In a written reply in Lok Sabha earlier this month, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha had revealed that PSBs do not report cases involving raising of loans on the basis of fake documents separately. He further said that these cases are reported under the head ‘cheating and forgery’, which also include other types of fraud cases. Interestingly, in the few fraud cases reported by PSBs, role of some of the staff members was also found in issuing loans on the basis of fake documents. Over the last three years, it has been found that in as many as five fraud loan cases worth Rs 1.9 crore, bank employees’ role was found suspicious and reported by banks.
Five MLAs move high court against eco-tourism norms
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Five legislators from the constituencies around the Gir sanctuary have approached the Gujarat high court raising objections to the newly formed eco-tourism policy for the last abode of the Asiatic lions. Upon the HC’s directions, the state government came up with a uniform eco-tourism policy that has laid down norms for construction. Police permit construction of low-rise buildings 1-2km from the sanctuary’s border. They also permit construction of non-commercial build-
ings for residential purpose in 2-5km periphery of the sanctuary. The permission for this has to be obtained from a committee comprising the district collector, a top forest official, DDO and SP of the district concerned. The legislators, Jawahar Chavda from Manavadar, Babubhai Vajha from Mangrol, Harshad Ribadiya from Visavadar, Punjabhai Vaunsh from Una, and Jasha Barad from Talala, have submitted in their petition that local people have begun facing problems due to the new policy.
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat, today said he will start meeting MLAs of his community from tomorrow to know their stand on the reservation issue, which sparked violence across the state claiming ten lives last week. “We will start meeting Patel MLAs from tomorrow and ask them to clarify their stand on whether they are with Patels on the issue of inclusion of community in OBC category or with their respective parties,” Hardik, the convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, told reporters. Hardik was here to attend a condolence meeting of 32-year-old Swetang Patel, who allegedly died in police custody in Ba-
punagar area of the city. “We will start meeting MLAs of Ahmedabad. I myself along with hundreds of my supporters will meet those MLAs and will give them a rose,” he said, adding that the entire meeting will be videographed. There are more than 35 Patel MLAs in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly. Hardik also gave Rs one lakh cheque to Swetang’s
mother Prabhaben Patel. The 22-year-old fiery Patel leader said he had earlier donated Rs one lakh to Swetang’s family and today he gave another Rs one lakh to the bereaved family. He said his community members will come forward to contribute to the families who lost their kin and also to the persons who sustained injuries in “police atrocity”.
Gujarat HC’s 17-day delay rebuke comes 17 yrs later Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Gujarat high court recently rebuked the state government for delaying the filing of an appeal since it had lost trace of a file for 17 days. Interestingly, the rebuke came a good 17 years after the appeal urging the HC to pardon the delay was filed in 1998. Hearing on the appeal took place for the first time recently in August 2015. In the appeal, the government had clarified that the delay was the result of a file that was untraceable for 17 days since a clerk in the state
social welfare department first went on casual leave and was transferred later. Refusing to pardon the delay after all these years, Justice G R Udhwani came down heavily for the “vague explanation”. “The rules contemplate handing over of the charge by the employee on leave to another employee so that public work does not suffer... The so-called loss of file for about 17 days is nothing but a negligent act and cannot be considered a good ground for condoning the delay,” Justice Udhwani said. The case is
quite curious too. A special court in Mehsana ordered the social welfare department to pay compensation to a victim of caste atrocity. The trial completed in 1997 proved that the beneficiary was no victim of caste violence. The court ordered the government in July 1997 to recover the compensation amount from the beneficiary. After some delay in deciding, the state government filed an appeal arguing that neither the department nor the victim was heard by the trial court before passing the recovery order.
The Pune bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed a petition seeking ceasing of work on the Garudeshwar weir project for non-compliance of environmental norms. Stating a technical reason, the tribunal said that the case was brought before it more than six months after the construction had commenced and was thus “barred by limitation” of time period. Following the judgment, the petitioners have said that they would now move the Supreme Court. The NGT stated in its judgment that the application was not filed within six months from the day the
Gujarat becomes first state in country to record over 150 cr e-transactions Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The state may have been without internet for almost a week last month but that did not stop Gujarat from becoming the first state in the country to record more than 150 crore e-transactions in last two years. Gujarat crossed 100 crore mark in e-transactions on November 26 last year. Andhra Pradesh is closed second with 131 crore followed by Madhya Pradesh with 93 crore e-transactions. According to ‘eTaal’, a central government web portal that disseminates e-transaction statistics, Gujarat accounted for around 20.2% of all e-transactions (747 crore) recorded in all state governments’ services in the
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