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News Brief Attack on Nigerian student; two held Agency | Hyderabad
Two local youths have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Nigerian student this week even as police today asserted that the allegation that the foreigner was “racially abused” has not been established. Expressing solidarity with the Nigerian student and seeking justice for a Tanzanian girl student (who was allegedly attacked in Bengaluru), a group of around 70 students under the banner of African Students Association and other organisations held a peaceful protest at Indira Park.
Indians sweep all gold on offer in cycling
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India today grabbed both the gold and silver medals on offer, establishing early dominance in the cycling competition of the 12th South Asian Games here today. Indians finished first and second each in both the men’s 40km individual time trial and women’s 30km individual time trial finals to begin the cycling competition on a high.
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Negi gets Rs 8 cr, Yuvraj goes to SRH for Rs 7 cr; Watson fetches Rs 9.5 cr
Negi, Watson emerge biggest millionaires The latest auction witness 351 players going under the hammer and that includes 230 Indian and 121 overseas players Agency | Bengaluru Shane Watson emerged the biggest of purchases from the 2016 IPL player auction in Bangalore, finding his second franchise in Royal Challengers Bangalore who forked out Rs 9.5 crore for his services, but the real head-turner of the day was uncapped Indian allrounder Pawan Negi. A day after he was named in India’s squad for the Asia Cup and ICC World Twenty20, the 23-yearold found his IPL value skyrocket from a base price of just Rs 30 lakh to a whopping 8.5 crore with Delhi Daredevils putting in the highest bid. That made Negi the most
expensive Indian player, surpassing the likes of Yuvraj Singh (7 crore) and Mohit Sharma (6.5 crore) on a day in which 136 crore was spent on 94 cricketers across the eight IPL franchises. Noticeable among those
to fetch multi-crore paychecks were South African allrounder Chris Morris, who went for Rs 7 crore to Delhi Daredevils (14 times his base price), Ashish Nehra (5.5 crore) and Deepak Hooda (4.2 crore) to Sunris-
ers Hyderabad, Mitchell Marsh (4.8 crore) and little-known Tamil Nadu spinner Murugan Ashwin (4.5 crore) to Rising Pune Super Giants, Sanju Samson and West Indies allrounder Carlos Braithwate for 4.2 crore each
concrete. Among the nine people killed when the apartment complex collapsed were a 10-day old baby girl and two other children, the National Fire Agency said.
The other two victims were killed in different parts of the city by falling debris, the agency said. Officials say they are unsure how many residents may still be inside, but media reports estimated at least 30 could be trapped. Around 800 troops have been mobilised to help the rescue effort, with sniffer dogs also searching through the rubble. Residents at the felled 16-storey Weikuan Building told of their terror as the quake hit, with survivors pulled bleeding and crying from the ruins, some just in their underwear. “I saw buildings shake up and down and left and right,” said one resident.
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A powerful earthquake in Taiwan felled a 16-storey apartment complex full of families who had gathered for Lunar New Year celebrations today , with at least eleven dead and more than 30 feared trapped. The death toll was rising in the historic city of Tainan, which bore the brunt of the 6.4-magnitude quake, as rescuers scoured rubble for survivors. An entire
residential complex of four buildings containing almost 100 homes toppled, left on its side with twisted metal girders exposed and clouds of dust rising from the jumbled
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to Daredevils. Negi, who two seasons ago had been signed by the suspended Chennai Super Kings, saw new IPL franchise Pune, led by his former CSK captain MS Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming, engage in a bidding war with Daredevils. In the end, the GMRowned franchise put in the highest bid. That gave the Delhi cricketer the
second highest price tag of the day after Watson. The Australian, who for eight seasons has represented Rajasthan Royals until their suspension last year, attracted heavy bidding from RCB and Mumbai Indians, but it the Vijay Malya-owned franchise nabbed his services from a base price of 2 crore. Watson recently scored the second-high-
est individual score in Twenty20 internationals, and apart from his allround value he also offers RCB a strong leadership role. The third highest earners were Yuvraj, who went to Sunrisers, and Morris. After an initial moment of inactivity around the auction room in Bangalore, Sunrisers and Mumbai started a bidding tussle for Yuvraj, which eventually ended at 7 crore. From the pool of allrounders, the most bidding was for Morris, with Mumbai and KKR chasing the South African eagerly until the paddle went down at a huge Rs 7 crore by Daredevils, in their first bid of the round. At 6.5 crore, Mohit Sharma was Kings XI Punjab’s biggest spend, from his reserve price of 1.5 crore.
crater, occurred near the Bharatidasan Engineering college complex at Natarampalli with eyewitnesses claiming that the object fell from the sky. A driver working in the college lost his life after the object fell near him as he was walking past the building. Three gardeners suffered inju-
ries and were admitted to a local hospital. According to the principal of the college, Bhaskar, all the students who were there in their classes at the time of the incident were safe. The explosion damaged many glass planes of the college buildings, official sources said. It also created a small crater near the building complex. The police is looking into the incident, sources said. According to eye witnesses, the object fell from the sky though there was no official confirmation.
Tamil Nadu: Explosion at engineering college kills one, several injured
Agency | Vellore One person was killed and three others were injured when a mysterious heavy object fell close to the building complex of a private engineering college near Vellore in Tamil Nadu, causing an explosion. The explosion, which created a
Thirty nine senior IPS officers have been transferred, including four Agency | Bengaluru of the 2001 batch - S K RCB Director Amrit Dave, J R Muthaliya, Thomas today said the MA Chavda and DN Pafrom the opposite side. Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad franchise team was in- tel - who were awarded “The bus was running The death toll in the misterested in buying back long due promotions to at a high speed when it Yuvraj Singh, who was the rank of DIG by the train carnage probe of module of terror outfit hap involving a Gujarat had to take a sharp turn eventually snapped up state government on Fri- 2002, was shunted to the Indian Mujahideen, al- State Road Transport to avoid collision with a (GSRTC) by Sunrisers Hyder- day evening. These four post of ADGP Armed legedly responsible for Corporation vehicle coming from the abad for Rs. 7 crore in officers have waited for Units at Gandhinagar. the July 2008 serial blasts bus at Navsari in South other side and the drivthe IPL players’ auc- promotions even as their However, Ahmedabad in Ahmedabad. Bhatia Gujarat has gone up to er lost control over the tion here. “I don’t agree batchmate, Ishrat Jahan police chief Shivanand is replaced by DGP P P 41, police said on Satursteering. It hit the railing (that Yuvraj did not encounter accused G L Jha, who it is speculat- Pandey as Director ACB. day. Among the dead are of the bridge and broke evoke interest among Singhal, was promot- ed is in the race to be- 1984 batch IPS officer 21 women, five children bidders). If you look ed last year. Certain IPS come Delhi police com- Tirth Raj has been post- and 15 men, they said. Anandiben Patel was vis- village,” said Navsa- it to plunge into the rivat the bidding we were officers of the 1989 and missioner along with ed at Pandey’s place. J K The Gujarat government iting Navsari on Saturday ri rural Police Inspector er,” said Sheikh. The bus very interested, but is- 2012 batches are still Asthana, continues to Bhatt, of the 1993 batch, announced a compensa- afternoon to meet the 27 and investigating officer was on its way to Ukai sues of bidding and waiting for their promo- lead the city police. An- got his expected posting tion of Rs 4 lakh to the injured, who are admitted in the case S B Sheikh. from Navsari last eveprice ceiling issues, did tions from IGP to Addi- other much-talked-about as joint commissioner next of the kin of each of in four different hospitals According to police, the ning when it fell 20 feet not allow us to go for tional DGP and ASP to transfer is ADGP Ashish of police Ahmedabad the deceased. The gov- there, the collector said. accident occurred when down into the Purna rivhim. He is really a mar- SP respectively. Among Bhatia, who has replaced city crime branch. The ernment will bear the en- “Death toll has risen to the bus took a sharp turn er. A total of 68 persons quee player and hope he important transfers, Su- Asthana as Surat police post was vacant for eight tire cost for the treatment 41 in yesterday’s mishap on a bridge with a width were travelling in the bus plays for us sometime rat police commissioner chief. Bhatia being as months after ADGP A K of the injured, Navsari where a Gujarat State of 23 feet while trying and of most of them were in the future,” Thomas Rakesh Asthana, who JCP crime branch was Sharma went to the CBI collector Ramiya Mo- Transport bus plunged to avoid collision with daily commuters on the said told reporters here. once headed the Godhra credited with busting a on deputation. han said. Chief Minister into Purna river near Supa a four-wheeler coming route, Sheikh said. Corpo. Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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MGNREGA does not help poor, any proof required..?
India has suffered two droughts in a row, and there is obvious concern about rural incomes, especially incomes of the poor. To alleviate poverty, Indian governments have experimented with various schemes, and two that have survived the test of time are the public distribution system (PDS) and the MGNREGA. Many programmes and institutions last a long time, but that does not mean they should be persisted with. I have consistently maintained that out of the four most corrupt institutions in the world, three are in India. My ranking of corrupt institutions is as follows. First place to the world football body, Fifa. Not far behind is the Indian cricket body, the BCCI. Third place to the PDS and fourth place belongs to the MGNREGA. In terms of corruption per se, both poverty reduction programmes are equally bad, but the PDS is a much larger corrupt programme and has been there for longer. It is heartening to note that the first two are now universally recognised as corrupt, and acknowledged as such by many judicial systems. The other two, while involving unbridled corruption, have escaped censure for two reasons. First, the programmes are targeted to the poor, and so are “noble” in intent, if not in execution. Second, in a large, diverse country like India, there will be some states where corruption is low and scheme performance is high. This leads the defenders to cite the exception as the rule. From a policy point of view, we should be interested in the efficiency of transferring incomes to the poor. What is the goal of the MGNREGA? To provide income support to any family that seeks jobs that entail “back-breaking” work like digging ditches, construction of roads, etc. The primary target of this programme is very, very poor families. But how well has it succeeded in this objective? Not very, and indeed it is just as good (or, more realistically, bad) as the PDS. How do we know how well the MGNREGA, or for that matter any poverty alleviation programme, is working? Why, by looking at what the government says on the matter. This love and respect for what the government of the day says is so sweet only because it is so rare to hear it from the left intellectuals whose fondness for “in the name of the poor” programmes is only exceeded by the fondness of the Hindu right for preventing people from making choices about their life and what they eat. The average poverty gap (difference between average incomes of the poor and the poverty line) is Rs 1,700 a year. The government spends, via the MGNREGA alone, Rs 32,500 a year or 19 times (32,500/1,700) what is needed to make an average poor person non-poor.
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QUOTE “IPLscheduling has nothing to do with Lodha recommendations. OF THE We are going ahead with our schedule and everything,” DAY Ghayal Once Again review: Singer Shan Johnson, 29, found This one can injure your brain dead in her Chennai apartment - IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said that IPL is scheduled to begin on April 9 this year but if India play the final of the World T20 on April 3, it will be a straightaway violation in case the recommendations are implemented in toto.
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to go before thrashing at least 500 people. What we finally have is a film still stuck in the ‘90s. Tell us, what’s more amusing: A badly animated helicopter destroying a mansion or foreign bodyguards creating mayhem in Mumbai because they have access to the city’s CCTV system? There is a third option, one that I found more hilarious: Om Puri calling Sunny Deol ‘beta’. So Mehra is still coping with the loss of his wife and child in an
Singer and music composer Shan Johnson, daughter of late music director Johnson, was found dead in her apartment in Chennai on Friday, police said. They said her mother and another close relative went to her flat in Ashok Nagar this morning after she did not respond to repeated phone calls on her mobile and found her dead. Police said Shan (29) had come to her flat after completing a recording session and was scheduled to go for another assignment Friday morning. Other details were not known immediately. Shan, a trained Carnatic and western musician, had rendered songs for Engeyayum Eppothdum and Paravai
accident. Dr Riya (Soha Ali Khan), his neuroloSunny Deol’s Ajay Mehgist, loves to flaunt him ra hasn’t been healthy to other potential patients off-late (read mentally). with a candid: “Ab aap Well, he never was. Who Ajay ko hi dekhiye, pekills so many people in hle isse bhi nightmares one go? Still, we loved aate the lekin ab ye bilkul him in Rajkumar Santheek hai, kyon hain na toshi’s Ghayal (1990) for Ajay? (Ajay used to have taking Balwant Rai and nightmares, but he is fine his dogs to task. We knew now).” Mehra’s expresonly he could do this, but sions are even more enwhat we didn’t know was tertaining. Whatever hapthat he would be returnpened to medical ethics! ing with a sequel 26 years But Mehra is also a fearAgency | New Delhi later. He does so with a less journalist, and also The identity of Neerinto ethical hacking. hangover which refuses ja Bhanot was just confined to the small tube in the 80s, when she was a model. Her face was plastered on newspapers and Agency | New Delhi TV because of the various A lot of talks with respect commercials she modto actresses being paid less elled for. But her life took than actors has become a turn when she boardthe centre of debates. The ed the Pan Am Flight 73 ladies of B-Town feel that to New York in the wee there are gender disparihours of September 5, ties with respect to remu1986. A model by choice neration. Actresses like and a flight attendant by Kangana Ranaut, Anushprofession, Neerja was ka Sharma, Deepika Padulike any other 22-yearkone, have all raised their old girl. Little did she voice over this issue and know that her extraordipointed out the fact that nary courage, that made even when the ladies are source, “Katrina is senior been paid more than what her stand tall between the the ones running the show, to Aditya Roy Kapur. So his lead pair was paid: 10 passengers and terrorists they should be given just it was felt she should be crore! Says a trade insidon that fateful flight, will as much as their male co- paid on par with Adi. In er, “Wonder what qualimake her a real-life hero stars. But looks like the fact, the actor should fied Abhishek for the 10 and earn her the title of Fitoor team decided to put have been paid much crore fee that he has de- the Hijack Heroine. Neeran end to this hassle. Next less. Since he is producmanded and got for Fiweek’s big release Fitoor er Siddharth Roy Kapur’s seems to have solved the brother, he got the kind of toor. Rock On!! and Kai pay-parity issue. Appar- money that he wouldn’t Po Che were hardly the ently, both Katrina and have otherwise demanded kind of raging successAgency | London Aditya were paid 4 crore and got.” The Fitoor direc- es that would justify that Hollywood star Matt Daeach for the film. Says a tor, Abhishek Kapoor has kind of remuneration.” does not think he deVisaranai quick review: Thrilling ode by Vetrimaaran! mon serves the best actor OsAgency | New Delhi car. In just a few weeks’ Helmed by Vetrimaaran, time, Hollywood’s elite the movie starring Dinesh, will be honoured at the Aadukalam MuruAcademy Awards, with gadoss, Samuthirakani Oscar-winner Damon and Kishore has created a once again in the running storm with its raw effect. for a statue for his perforCheck out the quick review mance in The Martian. He of the movie: The story reis pitted against Leonardo volves around four friends DiCaprio for The Revepolice. The boys get acsundry. The vicious web who run away from their nant, Bryan Cranston for homes. Striving for better cused and beaten up in re- of the basic system that Trumbo, Michael Fasslife and jobs--kicking off turn. Kudos to the Nation- engulfs you and the help- bender for Steve Jobs, their real struggle in life. al Award-winning director lessness makes the movie and Eddie Redmayne for Beginning with menial Vetrimaaran for portray- look more real. A gripping The Danish Girl. All four jobs and toiling hard, they ing the movie well. Con- film that is backed well by stars portray real life peoform a routine until they centrating on the harsh the music leaves a never ple. “Oh, I think there are witness a life changing realities of life, the movie ending impression with its other performances that day of being taken by the won the hearts of all and intensity. might deserve it more.
(both Tamil), Praise the Lord and Thira (Malayalam), among others. She had also composed music for a Malayalam film, His Name is John. Shan’s father Johnson, fondly known as Johnson Master, was a renowned and respected music composer in Malayalam film industry. He passed away on August 18, 2011. In Feb-
ruary 2012, his son Renn Johnson (23) was killed in a motorbike accident. “When we broke open the door, she was lying on the bed. There were no signs of a suicide. She has been suffering from health problems and was under medication. That could also be a reason for the sudden death,” sources said.
ja, now soon to arrive on the big screen, is the story of an ordinary girl with extraordinary courage. And first-time director Ram Madhvani has roped in actor Sonam Kapoor to bring the incredible story of Neerja Bhanot on 70mm. Ram Madhvani’s Neerja is slated for a February 19 release. The filmmaker says there couldn’t have been a better choice than Sonam to play the role of Neerja.
“Sonam was actually our first choice for the film. Only after she would have said a no, would we have approached some other actor for the titular role. We had Sonam very much in mind while writing the script of the film because Neerja has certain qualities that Sonam also has. Both the women are family-minded. Moreover, there is a certain kind of energy about Sonam.
Maybe it will finally be the turn of five-time nominee Leonardo? Leo’s my buddy,” he said. He went home a winner at this year’s Golden Globes, but his nomination in the comedy category for sci-fi drama The Martian didn’t sit well with some, reported Independent online. As well as Oscars aspirations and acting,
DiCaprio and Damon are both big on charity work. Damon has invested a lot of his time into helping the poorest parts of the world have access to clean water with his charity water.org, starting the campaign #buyaladyadrink. “I don’t want to speak for Leo, but I imagine that he’s like me,” he started.
Sonam Kapoor was our first choice for Neerja, says director Ram Madhvani
4 crores! That’s how much Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur got paid for Fitoor!
I don’t deserve Oscar, may be Leonardo DiCaprio will win: Matt Damon
Agency | New Delhi Actor Manoj Bajpayee, who will feature in the short film, “Taandav”, says that he went to numerous producers for a film on the subject but was spurned by all, and is now stern that the film will be made. “My honesty with regards to the project (film) is such that we are pursuing it since two years. And all the producers that I have gone to, would run away after the narration. They would call me and say that if there was anything else, they would be keen but not this one because they could face issues,”
Bajpayee said at the launch of the film directed by Devashish Makhija. “There is a fear which is completely understandable, since a person who is ready to put in money, does not want to take risks. And I am completely sure that this film will be made definitely and I am very stern about it,” the actor stressed. Filmmakers Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sudhir Mishra and Anurag Kashyap were present at the launch. Considering the fact that all three are producers, Manoj was asked if he wants them to produce the feature.
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Agency | New Delhi Taking a long vacation can increase the risk of weight gain in adults, a US study warns. Researchers from University of Georgia found that adults going on a one- to three-week vacation gained an average of nearly 1 pound. They examined 122 adults in the ages group of 18 to 65 years who were on vacation for one to three weeks. They found that 61% of the participants gained on an average 0.7 pounds while on vacation, while in some cases weight gained throughout the entire study averaged 0.9 pounds. Researchers feel increased calorie intake during the vacation is one of the key factors leading to weight gain. The study was published in the journal Physiology and Behaviour. Meditation and music can help ease anxiety, fatigue and pain in women undergoing biopsies for breast cancer, a study suggests.
Call drop: Most telcos failed Trai’s test, improvement seen in Delhi
Returning from a prolonged layoff, defending champion Tarundeep Rai produced his best along with country’s Olympic hope Deepika Kumari to top their respective qualification rounds as India reigned supreme in recurve archery competitions of the 12th South Asian Games in Shillong on Friday. India also topped in the compound section with Abhishek Verma and Purvasha Shende claiming the honours in men’s and women’s sections respectively at the Polo ground. Following the Asian Games protocol, two archers from each country made the cut into the elimination round as India’s Olympian archer Jayanta Talukdar made an exit with promising Army archer Gurucharan Besra (666 points) making the last-
No relation between IPL schedule and Lodha Panel, says Shukla 16 along with topper Tarundeep, who logged 676. The next best was Bangladeshi Sojeb Shiek who had a score of 653 to finish third in the men’s recurve. Having finished top two, the Indian duo will get a bye into the quarters as they also topped the team event along with Jayanta Talukdar as the hosts will get a bye into the semifinals of the team event which has a draw of eight. In the women’s recurve event, former world number one Deepika lived up to her expectation to finish top along with Bombayla Devi
Laishram with scores of 668 and 646 respectively as Laxmirani Majhi, who had won the national ranking here in January, failed to make the cut. Laxmirani with scores of 632 joined Deepika and Bombayla in the team event as India also topped in the women’s recurve section. However, there was disappointment for reigning champions India as they had to be content with a goalless draw against lower-ranked Maldives in the women’s football competition, the only other discipline that kicked off the Shillong leg of the SAG here.
Find Lodha panel recommendations baffling, says MCA chief Shirke Agency | New Delhi
Agency | Mumbai Most of the telecom operators, including state-run MTNL, failed random drive tests conducted by the regulator Trai to check the quality of their network and services as part of its efforts to rein in call drop menace.As per the test report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today, none of the telecom operators showed improvement in call drops in Mumbai, Pune and Bhubaneswar. As per the test report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today, none of the telecom operators showed improvement in call drops in Mumbai, Pune and Bhubaneswar. Telecom operators, however, questioned the tests conducted by Trai. Airtel, Idea and Vodafone asked Trai not to publish the report as they claimed there was huge variation between tests conducted by Trai and their reassessment done by them. The regulator conducted drive tests during December – January this fiscal on selected route of seven cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Bhubaneswar and Indore — and shared the findings with telecom operators.
Tata Sky, Videocon d2h to launch Internet browsing apps on set top boxes
Agency | Mumbai Direct-to-home (DTH) players like Tata Sky and Videocon d2h are bringing Internet browsing applications on their set-top boxes (STB), which will enable subscribers to browse and interact with certain applications. “This launch of gennext HD Smart Set Top Box demonstrates our unrivalled expertise and innovation in creation, delivery and execution of technologically advanced products,” Videocon d2h Executive Chairman Saurabh Dhoot said in a statement. “This product promises to make your existing TV into a smart TV and ensure connectivity with the world. We are enabling the convergence of TV, DTH and Internet all in one place,” he said. Tata Sky in a statement said the service will be available at no additional cost to Tata Sky subscribers in the coming months.
The Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) President Ajay Shirke has said that he finds the recommendations of Lodha Committee baffling and not very well researched. At the session, Shirke pointed out at several shortcomings from the report. “In the committee, there is a recommendation to install astro turf on the pitches so that the cricket stadiums are accessible to other sports like tennis and hockey, which will generate revenue for the state associations. How does one implement that? If a centre does it, the next day, the Inter-
IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla today said that the scheduling of the league has not been related to Lodha Pnael recommendations about having a 15day gap between start of the cash-rich league and India’s national calender. The IPL is scheduled to begin on April 9 this year but if India play the final of the World T20 on April 3, it will be a straightaway violation in case the recommendations are implemented in toto. “IPL scheduling has nothing to do with Lodha recommendations. We are going ahead with our schedule and everything,” Shukla told reporters during the IPL auctions today. IPL’s
Chief Operating Officer Ratnakar Shetty said: “I am sure that when we prepare the schedule for the season, there are several factors that are taken into account and the best possible window that are available to BCCI for the IPL is concerned. I am sure we will be able to put across our views to the committee.” Replying to another query, Shukla said the mushrooming
cricket leagues across the globe, are no match to the IPL. “No league is near to IPL. So let them run their leagues, but I don’t think they can really compete with IPL and match with it,” he said. “Everybody is entitled to launch its own league, we can’t prevent them, but IPL stand alone is doing very well, and as I said before IPL 9 will be bigger than the previous editions,” he said.
the reporter run out of the room to transmit a news break. As it happen with winning teams, Patil and his colleagues didn’t tamper much with the squad that had blanked Australia Down Under. Apart from the addition of leftarm spinner Pawan Negi, who was also included in the three T20I series against Sri Lanka as well, there wasn’t any decision that merited deliberation.
Among those that toured Australia, the names of Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were duly struck out, harrowing as their experiences had been in Australia. However, Negi’s inclusion was slightly surprising, but not entirely shocking. Surprising because he is pure green in the international circuit.
chased down New Zealand’s 281-9 with 21 balls to spare. After New Zealand won the first match by 159 runs, the series will now go to a decider in Hamilton on Monday. Both sides suffered middle-order batting blues, but Australia had better padding with Warner and Usman Khawaja in a 122-run opening stand. Warner’s 98 came off 79 deliveries and included
eight fours and four sixes, while Khawaja batted at a run-a-ball for his 50. They made it clear at the start of the innings they would attack New Zealand’s strike bowlers Trent Boult and Matt Henry. Khawaja hit the first and fourth balls he faced in Boult’s opening over to the boundary while at the other end, Warner also smacked Henry’s first delivery for four.
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national Cricket Council will strike off that venue as an international match centre. I don’t understand how such recommendations get into such a well-researched document ,” asked Shirke. He also pointed out at the advertisement-free television recommendation in the report. “If you stop advertisements, the whole revenue comes to
an end. There will be a net loss of over Rs 1,000 crore. How do you recover that amount, how do you pay the cricketers? The whole argument that fans are deprived of cricket during ads and it is their right to see what happens between overs is not right . There is so much chaff that it is hard to pick wheat,” said Shirke.
Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League: U Mumba emerge victorious over Dabang Delhi Agency | Bengaluru
On Friday in a match against Dabang Delhi, defending champions U Mumba made a strong comeback in season 3 of the Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League in Bengaluru. Dabang Delhi KC suffered their fourth successive loss in season 3 of the PKL. U Mumba, who had recently lost to the Jaipur Pink Panthers cruised to a comfortable win against Dabang Delhi by 30-17. Their clinical performance on Friday has placed them at the fourth spot in the PKL points table. Dabang Delhi are reeling at the last and eighth spot with a solitary point. The match was set up in favour of U Mumba in the ninth minute with Anup conducting a raid to acquire three points. U Mumba’s defence joined the party
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For the chairman of selectors, Sandeep Patil, this must have been among the more peaceful post-team-announcement press conferences he had. For most past of the media interaction, it was BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, sitting next to him, who was getting grilled. Finally, after Thakur had answered a series of Lodha report queries, Patil got a chance to justify his selection. He would start with a smile on his face. “Fortunately, no eyebrows were raised,” he said. It was true, when Thakur had announced the squad for the Asia Cup and World T20 there was no gasps in the room, nor did
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with Surender Nada and Rishank Devadiga guarding the territory. Dabang Delhi’s South Korean player Seong Ryel Kim lost his cent, gifting two more points to U Mumba. The losing team did not get any respite after they lost raider Kashiling Adake and the star defender Ravindra Pahal
to injuries. Dabang Delhi could manage just one raid point in the first half which left them trailing at 7-16. Going by the current form of Delhi, this slender lead proved too much for them. With the scores reading 28-12 in favour of U Mumba in the 34th minute, the writing was on the wall.
Propped up by a knock of 98 by David Warner, Australia held their nerve to win the second ODI in Wellington by four wickets on Saturday, sending the series to a decider. After Warner’s dismissal, Australia were still 90 runs short of their 282-run target with an unbeaten 69 from Mitchell Marsh and John Hastings not out on 48, getting them over the line. Warner was nudging his sixth ODI century when he was undone by New Zealand’s match ace Mitchell Santner, but by then he had done enough to ensure the world champions were in a dominant position. Australia lost six wickets as they
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Congress targets PM Modi over Gujarat deals with Anar Patel’s business partners Correspondent | New Delhi
Congress targeted PM Narendra Modi Friday over reports of land dealings in Gujarat involving CM Anandiben Patel’s daughter Anar Patel. The party demanded that the land deals be probed by an SIT under Supreme Court’s supervision and sought Patel’s resignation to ensure a fair probe. The party said it would raise the issue in Parliament. a business associates of Anar Patel, Dakshesh Shah and Amol Shripal Sheth own Wildwoods Resorts and Realties, which was allotted 400 acre near Gir Sanctuary. Of this, 250 acre was given away at an official rate of Rs 15 per
sq m. “Filings with the Registrar of Companies, accessed by ET, show a number of transactions between her (Anar) and her business partners that started when the Gujarat government allotted 250 acres of public land to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties,” he said. Congress leader Anand Sharma said, “Shocking revelations in public domain make it clear that
PM Narendra Modi, as Gujarat CM, allowed nepotism, conflict of interest and brazen plundering of public land to promote commercial interests of entities closely connected to the kin of then Revenue Minister and present Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel…The PM must come clean. He and his colleagues said, ‘Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion’. Here
Review of Gujarati movie Sambandho Ni Sonography
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
One needs special talent to create a good film. But one needs more special kind of talent to create such a horrible film. This new Gujarati release named ‘Sambandho Ni Sonography’ is such an example of bad film. This film should be shown to budding movie makers, to teach them how NOT to make a film. Dr. Jayram Palanpuri (Jaykrushna Rathod) is a widower and a retired man who comes to Ahmedabad from Palanpur to live with his son Dipak (again, Jaykrushna Rathod in a double role). His son and daughter in
law are rude and mean to him for no reason. They do all sort of bad things to his father you can imagine. One day, our Mr. Unhappy Palanpuri meets a happy go lucky retired man named Hasmukh ‘Chhatri’ (Hasmukh Bhavsar). Accord-
ing to Hasmukhbhai, he lives with his big happy family of three sons, their wives, and grandchildren. Jayram rediscovers the joy of life in the company of Hasmukh. But some twists and a secret is waiting for him to jump in.
Fire in flats in Ahmedabad, womanson killed, 40 vehicles gutted
the King himself is there, he was Gujarat CM,” he said. He said allotment of 250 acre of government land next to Gir lion sanctuary “without any valuation or price determination for a pittance” was made when Modi was CM. He said the land was given to Wildwoods Resorts & Realties Private Limited at Rs 15 per sq m. “That means Rs 60,000 per acre. The estimated market price of this land was to the tune of Rs 50 lakh per acre i.e. a total of Rs 125 crore for 250 acres,” he said.
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Indian Coast Guard detains Pakistan boat off Gujarat coast
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Indian Coast Guard detained a Pakistani boat with 11 crew members on Saturday. The boat will be brought to Jakhau later in the day. Further details are awaited. In the country’s anti-terror crackdown, one more person suspected to be working for the Islamic State (IS) has been arrested from Delhi by the capital’s special cell police on Friday. Mohsinh Ibrahim Sayyed, who hails from Mumbai was arrested from Delhi’s Kashmere Gate ISBT
area. He was found to be in possession of Rs 85,000. Ahead of Republic Day, the NIA has arrested 13 suspected ISIS sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts
IPL 2016 Auctions: Pune and Gujarat Most Active Buyers
of the country. Of the 14 suspects detained yesterday, 13 have been arrested, according to a Home Ministry spokesman. The arrests were made following simultaneous search-
es and raids conducted at 12 locations in six cities--Bangalore, Tumkur, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow on Saturday with the support of local police forces.
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Gujarat’s top companies and industries associations have made a written representation before the Gujarat Government and demanded reduction in the electricity duty, water charges and waterfront charges on the state owned ports in the coming state budget. In a pre-budget representation before chief minister Anandiben Patel and finance minister Saurabh Patel, they demanded reduction in electricity duty, water charges and
port waterfront charges. It also demanded putting a stop to undue harassment from commercial tax and other authorities in the state. The top companies represented included Reliance Industries Ltd, Essar Group, Arvind Mills Ltd, Wespun Ltd, Ambuja Cement, Nirma Ltd, Sanghi Industries Ltd, United Phosp horus Ltd, ABG Shipyard, Tata Chemicals and several other industry associations, which submitted a joint representation to the state government over key industrial issues.
the challenge with a dedication that never left him. We talked news and cartoons a lot. Myself from Delhi and he from Bikaner were both lost souls in the mangled urban wilderness of Bombay, struggling to put ourselves into its machine-like routines. We both would squeeze into the Harbour Line local train from the King’s Circle station. We simply could not get into the Central Line. Inside the crowd, we would discuss everything under the sun, but his passion for cartooning was often a theme. Later, we both shifted to the Delhi of-
fice of the same company. Being a cartoonist for Navbharat Times, he had the luxury of a corner cabin, where we would meet for quiet lunches from our tiffin boxes. It was during those days that he announced he wanted to create a character resembling Laxman’s Common Man. “Hum usko journalist banate hain, jholewala,” he said. So a jhola journalist was born in his cartoons as an observer of the world around him. As it turned out, he fashioned it after Sushil, one of his goatee-bearded journalist friends who used to drop by.
Gujarat industries pay highest electricity duty, water charges
Agency | Chennai
The 2016 Indian Premier League auctions got off to an exciting start with big bids involved and two new franchises — Rising Pune Supergiants (RPSG) and Gujarat Lions making their presence felt. Australian all-rounder Shane Watson, who had a base price of Rs 2 crore, attracted the highest bid from the Vijay Mallya-owned Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The only player to twice win Player of the Tournament went for Rs 9.5 crore. The former Rajasthan Royals star was the subject of intense bidding from RPSG, before Mumbai Indians (MI) joined the race. However, RCB won the race for his signature. Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh remained in the list of most expensive players after he
was sold for Rs 7 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). He was joined by 36-year old Ashish Nehra, who was snapped up for Rs 5.5 crore. Both Yuvraj and Nehra are members of the India’s World T20 squad. The two new franchises snapped up a few high-profile names in Saturday’s opening rounds. Kevin Pietersen, who has done well in the recently concluded Big Bash League, went to the Pune franchise for Rs 3.5 crore. He was joined by
Gujarat University staff to use public transport twice in a month
Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma for Rs 3.8 crore. The Intex-owned Gujarat Lions opted for West Indian T20 specialist Dwayne Smith, who they bought for Rs 2.3 crore. They also added South African paceman Dale Steyn for Rs 2.3 crore. Wicket-keepers were highly sought after this time around. Young keeper Sanju Samson, who impressed for his state Kerala in the national T20 meet, was snapped up by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.2 crore.
Remembering Sudhir Tailang, cartoonist with passion for life Correspondent | New Delhi
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
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A woman and her son died and two others injured while around 40 two wheelers gutted in a fire that broke out in a multi storied building near GST crossing of the city late last night. Additional Chief Fire Officer Rajesh Bhatt today said
that the fire started from the basement of block D of the Sanket flats at around 2 am. It engulfed the building quickly and reached the fourth floor. ‘Most of the residents of around 34 flats of the building evacuated but one Ninaben Shah and her son Shreyansh died. Two injured have been
admitted to hospital,’ he said. The most likely reason behind the accident is either self ignition in an overheated vehicle in the parking area or short circuit in the electric wires of the building, he said adding the fire was controlled after two hours of operation by four fire fighting vehicles.
The Gujarat University and its affiliated colleges’ academic staff and employees have decided to use bicycles or public transport for commuting to the colleges or the university twice every month on first and 15. Mayor Gautam Shah said that a couple of principals had already started using bicycles as they had cycled their way to the meeting on Wednesday. He said that a couple of principals have already implemented it and they had come for the meeting on Wednesday on their cycle. The Mayor said that the
principals have been observing cleanliness in the college and even convincing their students to observe two days in a month as a no vehicle day. Shah said that this is to ease of congestion on the road and divert majority of the students to mass transport as they have to reach their college or school only for studies. The mayor said that the principals have been asked to maintain cleanliness on the campus of their colleges and convince their students to observe two days in a month as ‘no vehicle day.’ Shah said the move was aimed at easing vehicular congestion on roads.
We shared many things: A Mumbai local train, jokes and mirchi-wali roti. But I am sad that I could not meet Sudhir Tailang in his last year of life, despite his being only a mile away from where I lived. We met in the training room of the Times of India, Mumbai, then Bombay. He had joined six months earlier as a trainee journalist in Hindi, while I was an English language trainee. As it turned out, his cartooning skills were so good that the establishment suggested he become a Trainee Cartoonist. I don’t recall there ever being another trainee cartoonist anywhere. He took to the task with delight--and the task of being a “Hindi” cartoonist (Do cartoons have language?) in the same company and floor as the venerable R K Laxman was a daunting one. But Sudhir took up
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