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News Brief Teachers sacked for being absent from duty for long time Indore, Four female government school teachers have been served termination notices for being absent from duty for long time. After a probe found them guilty, the School Education Department's Joint Director Kaushal Kishore Pandey served termination of service notices to all four of them. Long unauthorised absence from duties is considered a serious matter under Madhya Pradesh Civil Services Conduct Rules, an official of the department told PTI.
HC directs petitioner to approach Censor Board Madurai, The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today directed a petitioner, who sought a direction to stay the release of the Dhanushstarrer "Anegan", to approach the Censor Board and seek relief. The petition was dismissed as withdrawn by Justice B.Rajendran who said the prayer sought by the petitioner could not be entertained by the court as a writ petition.
Campaigning for Panaji bypoll draws to a close Panaji, The campaigning for the Panaji Assembly seat byeelection came to an end this evening. The bypoll was necessitated following the resignation of former chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who took up assignment as Union Defence Minister. "The preparations for the Panaji bye-election are in the final stage. All the candidates have been asked to stop their campaigning this evening," Joint Chief Electoral Officer Narayan Navti told reporters here.
Top India archers to take part in NRAT Hyderabad, Top Indian archers, including Olympian Deepika Kumari will be competing in various categories of the Tata National Ranking Archery tournament (NRAT), commencing here tomorrow.
AAP to Kiran Bedi: Don’t blame 'fatwa', introspect reasons for loss NEW DELHI AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Wednesday said that BJP leader Kiran Bedi should introspect on the reasons of her loss in the recently held Delhi assembly polls, rather than blaming Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari's alleged 'fatwa' for it. Chadha was reacting to Bedi, in an interview with mediapersons, blaming the 'fatwa' issued by the Shahi Imam. The former IPS officer also called for the Election Commission to conduct an inquiry into the same. "Kiran Bedi has lost the election from an assembly constituency which was considered a stronghold of the BJP. Now
that she has lost that constituency, she needs to introspect rather than putting the responsibility of her defeat on such factors," Chadha told ANI. Chadha also accused the BJP of 'propping' up the Shahi Imam, claiming that they were attempting to malign the image of the AAP. "As far as the 'fatwa' controversy is concerned... they have tried everything to malign the
AAP' image," he said. A day after the BJP suffered a rout in the Delhi assembly elections 2015, party's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi shot off a letter to the Election Commission saying fatwas impact the freedom of choice to vote. "These fatwas have an impact as they mean a direction. Should EC allow such last moment directions, is it good for democracy?" she said. "I
was told voting for me in Krishna Nagar dropped in places where fatwa was given. I want it to be inquired," she added. Kiran Bedi appeared to blame a "fatwa" by Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, appealing to Muslims to support AAP, for her defeat in BJP's traditional stronghold of Krishna Nagar in East Delhi and sought a probe into it by the Election Commission. She said the Election Commission should inquire the issue to know whether the Shahi Imam's appeal to Muslims a day before the polls had any impact on the electoral outcome. Bedi claimed that though she was leading in the vote count, her
SpiceJet ‘Cheaper Than Train Fares’ sale priced at Rs 599 decoded; save Rs 3,700 on Mumbai to Delhi flight
On the day Spicejet announced its ‘Cheaper Than Train Fares’ offer for both domestic and international flights, where the airline sale proffers one-
way fares priced at a starting point of just Rs 599 allinclusive for domestic flights, Cleartrip broke down the jargon and showed where the money is. This Spicejet
offer is also available for international flights (except Colombo, Kabul and Dubai-Ahmedabad-Dubai sectors), at fares starting at just Rs. 3,499 all-in. Reacting to the Spicejet offer, Samyukth Sridharan, Chief Operating Officer, Cleartrip said, specifically, in the current promotion, a family of 2 booking a roundtrip flight from Mumbai to Delhi, that is 90
Bihar: Setback for Nitish, Patna HC stays his election as JD(U) legislature party leader
Patna The Patna high court on Wednesday stayed Nitish Kumar’s election as head of the JD-U’s legislature party hours before he was to meet the President to claim majority in the assembly, dealing a setback to his efforts to make a comeback as chief minister and giving the governor a crucial role in Bihar’s political crisis. A bench comprising Chief Justice L Narsimha Reddy and Justice Vikas Jain stayed the Bihar Vidhan Sabha secretary's letter, issued on the instruction of the assembly speaker, declaring Kumar the JD-U legislature party leader in place of chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi.
The judges said the letter would not be operative. The high court observed the letter from the secretary, Hare Ram Mukhiya, had "no legal consequences at this stage." The bench said: "We intend to examine the legal implication of the letter issued by in-charge Secretary of Assembly so that the letter should have no legal consequences for a decision by the Governor.” The court – which issued the order in response to a PIL filed by JD-U legislator Rajeshwar Raj, who is in Manjhi’s camp – said it would hear the matter again next Wednesday. Legal experts said the court’s order had
opened the door for Bihar governor Keshari Nath Tripathi to play a key role in the standoff between Kumar and his one-time protégé Manjhi. Senior advocate Vinod Kanth said the ruling meant the "order of the speaker's secretary could not be acted upon until decided by the governor". He added: "Even if the word stay is not there and the court (gives) no sanctity to the speaker's office’s recognition to a new JD-U legislature party leader, the ball remains in the governor's court." Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap too said the ball remained in the governor’s court and he would have to take a call. “A chief minister is appointed by the governor and holds office during the time he enjoys his pleasure. The governor has to decide it, nobody else,” he said. The high court’s ruling came a day after Kumar took the battle for the post of chief minister to New Delhi.
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vote share started dropping when counting of votes in a Muslim-dominated area of her constituency was taken
up. A day ahead of the polls on February 7, Bukhari appealed to Muslims to vote for AAP but the party
promptly rejected the offer. Though it was an appeal by Bukhari, several BJP leaders called it "fatwa".
Pilot and co-pilot killed in Army helicopter crash in Kashmir Two people were killed when Army's ALH Dhruv helicopter crashed in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Wednesday evening. "The dead apparently include the pilot and copilot of the Army Aviation Unit," SHO Ajas Tariq Ahmed said. He said that they were yet to identify the personnel as they have burned completely. The helicopter crashed and immediately caught fire in the Laman (Safapora) forests in
Saderkoot area on Wednesday evening, police said. Rescue teams of the army, police and fire tenders rushed to the spot. Two bodies were recovered and efforts were on to find out if there were other occupants in
the helicopter. Witnesses said that the helicopter belonging to 13 RR was flying in the sky as per routine when it crashed near Laman forest in the area. "Every evening the helicopter takes rounds above the area.
Delhi poll: 91 with criminal background, 186 crorepatis lost
New Delhi, MLAs with pending criminal cases and 44 crorepatis will be part of the new Delhi government. An analysis of the criminalfinancial background conducted by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) gives a picture of the what the new Delhi assembly will look
like. More importantly 91 candidates with a criminal background out of the 673 candidates who contested the elections lost. 186 candidates who had declared their total assets worth more than Rs 1 crore lost the 2015 Delhi elections. Out of the 70 MLAs, 24 (34%) have declared criminal cases against themselves. 23 (34%)
AAP MLAs out of 67 MLAs have declared criminal cases while 1 (33%) out of 3 BJP MLAs has declared criminal cases. Out of 70 MLAs in the Delhi Assembly elections in 2013, 25 (36%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves and in the 2008 Delhi Assembly Elections 29 (43%) out of 68 MLAs analysed had declared
criminal cases. There were no MLAs who declared heinous criminal cases like murder, attempt to murder, crimes against women etc which is a welcome change and is unusual as compared to the rest of the country. 91 out of 673 candidates with criminal cases, including 60 candidates with serious criminal cases like murder, attempt to murder, crimes against women etc lost the Delhi Assembly Elections, 2015. Candidates with criminal cases who lost the elections include 21 INC candidates, 26 BJP candidates, 12 BSP candidates and 1 AAP candidate. The chances of winning for a candidate with no criminal cases against him/her in the 2015 Delhi Assembly Elections is 8%. This has increased from 7% chances of winning for a candidate with a clean record in 2013 and 6% chances of winning for a candidate with a clean record in 2008.
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BJP grassroot workers hope Delhi loss will teach a lesson to Modi, Shah “The BJP needed to be defeated this time. It’s good that it has happened. It is time the BJP leadership, both in government and in the party, realised its follies and took corrective measures,” said a middle-ranking RSS member to Firstpost. He, of course, did not expect (or even wish for) the defeat to be so humiliating for the BJP. He said people had been turning to AAP day-after-day, including some who had earlier turned to him, for sundry favours or guidance. This leader is no fringe element of the Sangh Parivar. He is known for clarity of thought and the work that he does for the Sangh’s ideological expansion. Nor is he the only one who made this resentful remark during the course of the election and after the results were declared. Many people, from Union ministers down to senior leaders from both centre and states, intermediatelevel leaders and foot soldiers were simply unconvinced about what Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, the party’s two supreme leaders, were telling them about the Delhi elections. The BJP’s strike rate in Delhi hit rock-bottom (a four percent success rate, with just three wins out of 70 seats) and is indicative of the turnaround from the 100 percent strike rate achieved during the Lok Sabha polls, when the party won all seven seats. The party failed to convince voters of the merits of its political position. From the perspective of Modi and Shah, the problem is serious as they simply failed to get their own party workers excited about Delhi. Clearly, the top of the party was not in sync with the average worker, either in thought process or action. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s famed credentials as a backroom campaign strategist is also being questioned, even mocked, by a section of party workers. These murmurs are surfacing even as the BJP more or less maintained its December 2013 assembly poll vote share. This failed to benefit the party due to the near doubling of the AAP vote share from 29 percent to 54 percent. “Overconfidence” is the word most commonly used to explain away defeats when the reason for failure is not so obvious. But in this case party leaders, workers and Sangh sympathisers are using terms like “arrogance” and “smugness” repeatedly. It should worry Modi and Shah. Most of the people who used these words said they were not doing so out of any sense of malice or ill-will towards the Modi-Shah duo. They said the leadership must change its style of functioning and course-correct. Some of the leaders even recalled the bygone era of Vajpayee and Advani, when the duo functioned as a team with a certain degree of humility. Worse, some BJP sympathisers also drew negative comparisons with AAP. “This election presented a unique situation where we picked up all the bad things that were associated with Arvind Kejriwal in December 2013, including running a negative personal campaign,” said one leader. “On the other hand, Kejriwal picked up all the good things that were associated with us, including running a positive campaign. We both learnt a few lessons from each other but he clearly proved to be smarter.” This candid statement reflected a mix of grudging admiration for Kejriwal and a sudden rising unease with his own party leadership. The disquiet in the Delhi BJP, however, did not begin with the recent assembly elections. “A party which used to function as a parivar has unfortunately been stressing individualism and banking too much on Modi’s persona.
MSG- THE MESSENGER gets a ‘Nameover’
Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan’s controversial film has been renamed from MSG- MESSENGER OF GOD to MSG-THE MESSENGER in a recent development. This past Saturday, he posted on a micro blogging site about it, clarifying the fact that the movie is cleared by the censor board and with a new name. The movie has been produced by Hakikat Entertainment Pvt. ltd., co-directed by Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Sing Ji Insan & Jeetu Arora Insan and music directed by Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Sing Ji Insan. The film MSG - THE MESSENGER is set to release 13th February, 2015.
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"any deviation from the principles and provisions embodied in the Constitution would weaken the democratic fabric of the country and asked Governors of all states to follow the letter and spirit of the Constitution." - President Pranab Mukherjee
Salman Khan Hit And Run Case: A Theft at Sonam Kapoor’s New Evidence By The RTO Officer Salman Khan’s hit and run case which is now in its final stages has got a new evidence in the case. The Mumbai Police on Tuesday produced the statement of the RTO officer before the special CBI court. After checking all the records, RTO officer found that Salman Khan had no driving license in his name when the incident of hit and run occurred in 2002. RTO officer’s statement is been recorded by the Bandra Police station who has been handling the case currently. After the investigation on the statement the case will move on to another stage. During the last week hearing, the court had asked the
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prosecution to record the statements of the additional witnesses before submitting their application to the court. Also, according to the prosecution, other than the previous allegations that Salman Khan was driving under the influence of alcohol, it was said that Mr. Khan was driving without a
valid license. To prove the same, the RTO officer has been questioned and examined. Salman Khan in September 2002 had allegedly rammed his car into pavement dwellers who were sleeping outside a bakery in Bandra, killing a person and injuring four others.
'Ab Tak Chhappan 2' trailer: Nana Patekar returns as encounter specialist The film’s story is set in the present times. Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) has gone into retirement and Mumbai faces the threat of a terrorist attack. Behind this dastardly plot are two underworld dons: Rawale who operates from Bangkok and Rauf Lala who operates from Mumbai. In the face of this serious threat, the Home Minister and the Chief Minister need a capable officer who can take charge of the Mumbai Encounter Squad. The obvious choice is Sadhu Agashe, the capable, strong, incorruptible, and ruthless encounter specialist.
Sonam Kapoor and her mother Sunita Kapoor has registered a complaint at the Juhu police on February 5 after she found a diamond necklace worth Rs 5 lakh went missing from the drawer of her bungalow. The complaint of theft was
booked under Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code. In her complaint, Sonam said that on February 4 after attending a party in Bandra kept her necklace and other jewellery in the drawer of her room. The next day, she found it missing. Sonam
Kapoor got the six boxes of jewellery from a renowned jeweller for an endorsement and it cost around crores. The actress realized that her jewellery went missing when the jeweller's representative came to collect it. Police said that the necklace was approximately worth Rs 5 lakh. The Juhu police have started investigations by questioning the domestic help of the actress. They have found that none of the help had left on the night of February 4. "We are investigating from all angles. We are also looking into whether Sonam dropped the necklace in the party she had attended," said an officer from the Juhu police station. The police will also check the CCTV footage of the party to confirm whether Sonam was wearing the necklace when she attended the party.
‘Ek Paheli – Leela': Sunny Leone in Dual Role
At the trailer launch of TSeries’ & Paperdoll Entertainment's “Ek Paheli – Leela” Feb. 6 at Cinemax Infiniti, Sunny Leone, looking
traditionally Indian in a saree, candidly stated, “There is only one Aishwarya Rai Bachchan!” when asked what she thought of reprising Rai’s hit “Dholi Thaaro” from “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam” in this film. She also added that she had to learn a bit of Rajasthani for her (dual) role in the film that also stars Jay Bhanushali, Rajniesh Duggal, Mohit Ahlawat and Rahul Dev. Clearly, the film merges two established genres — a thriller set in the countryside with the Leone brand of
erotica! This is the third of the T-Series productions set to release in 2015 and is “different” from the kind of roles done by Leone so far — well, almost. Written and directed by Bobby Khan (best known as Sunidhi Chauhan’s exhusband), it is produced by his choreographer-director brother Ahmed Khan and his wife Shaira Khan with Bhushan and Krishen Kumar of T-Series. Ahmed Khan, in turn, who began as a child artist, is best known as Shahid Kapoor’s buddy.
Arjun Rampal wiser after his Saira Banu’s grand-niece personal experiences last year
Sayesha signs Telugu film Veteran actress Saira Banu’s niece Sayesha Saigal is set to make her Telugu debut in a yetuntitled film with actor Akkineni Nagarjuna’s younger son Akhil, who is also being launched through this project. Sayesha is the daughter of yesteryear actors Shaheen and Sumeet Saigal. “Finally v found our heroine opp Akhil. Sayesha Saigal. Wishing both my actors all the good luck. Shoot starting soon (Sic), the film’s producer Nithiin Reddy posted on his Twitter page Tuesday. To be directed by V.V Vinayak, the lead actors of the film will be launched at an event here Saturday. “Excited to see all the fans on 14th. Having a big launch and we are all set to shoot from 16th. Vinayak garu is very confident and so am I (sic),” tweeted Akhil. Sayesha
Saigal has already been signed for Ajay Devgn’s
upcoming home production “Shivaay”.
Professionally, Arjun Rampal has been lying low for more than year. He has had no release for more than a year. However, he has been constantly in the news for various off screen activities and controversies. The actor, last seen in Prakash Jha's Satyagraha, for the first time, reveals the turmoil that he has gone through. He states, "While the media has been writing about other things, I was busy nursing two ailing parents last year. I
eventually lost my father and my mother who has been diagnosed with cancer is now healing, touch wood." He admits it's not been an easy time. "You learn to cope with what life gives you. When the problems arrive unannounced you have no choice but to deal with them as best as you can. No one can help you get out of your problems." Wiser, Arjun Rampal returns to the screen in debutant director Vikramjit directed Roy after a longish hiatus.
Sighs the suave actor, "The last film I was seen in was Prakash Jha's Satyagraha. And that was a good 18 months back! In our film industry, that is a long time to stay off screen. But I am not insecure. There was no tension for attention. There were things in my life that needed my attention. Luckily, my new film Roy is just the kind of film that I'd want to be seen in after such a long break." In Roy, Arjun gets to play an ultra-cool retro-guy. "He's a fascinating character.
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National Games Day 10: Akhil Sharma Claims Gold
Indrajeet Singh from Haryana took gold (20.14 m) , thereby relegating national champion Om Prakash Karhana from Haryana to a bronze (17.95 m) in the Shot Put event. UP’s Satendra Singh took silver (18.24 m). In the men’s long jump event, Madhya Pradesh’s Ankit Sharma eclipsed National champion Premkumar Kumaravel’s valiant attempt, taking gold with his 8.04m covering leap.
Kumaravel took silver (7.68 m) for Tamil Nadu, while Karnataka’s Samsheer S E took bronze on National Games Day 10. In the women’s 1500m event, Uttar Pradesh’s Monika Chaudhary clocked 4:22.01 seconds to clinch gold, while Sini Markose added another silver into the host’s kitty (4:23.03 seconds). Haryana’s Sushma Devi took bronze (4:24.01 seconds).
Cricket: Black Caps give SPORTS ROUNDUP ICC WORLD CUP-2015 COUNT-DOWN SA a serious spanking New Zealand gave South Africa a serious spanking in their final World Cup warmup at Hagley Oval today. Having won the toss, New Zealand rattled up 331 for eight in their 50 overs then rolled South Africa for 197 to win the unofficial game by 134 runs. At one point South Africa were 31 for four from which there was no comeback. The departure of captain AB de Villiers and Wayne Parnell in Dan Vettori's second over reduced them to 62 for six and the innings ended in the 45th over. The South African chase was undermined from the start, chiefly through left armer Trent Boult, who whizzed through Rilee Rossouw, Faf du Plessis and David Miller inside his first
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four overs, his opening spell producing three for 27 off six overs. Boult finished with five for 51. The only bright spot for South Africa was 80 from JP Duminy, who put on 121 with Vernon Philander for the seventh wicket. New Zealand looked sharper in the field and with the ball than South Africa, who clearly treated the game as a middle wicket practice. Kane Williamson top scored in the New Zealand innings with an impressive 66 in 53 balls.
Openers Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill put on a brisk 57, captain McCullum making 59 off 45 balls. McCullum and Williamson added a bracing 70 in 8.4 overs, Williamson at one point taking top class seamer Vernon Philander for boundaries in three successive balls. Every New Zealand batsman reached double figures, apart from Tim Southee, who came in during the final over.
Gold price eases on low demand, global cues India look back in form for Pakistan, but good practice for us: Mohammad Nabi
Gold prices declined by Rs 50 to Rs 27,830 per ten gram at the bullion market on Wednesday as demand from jewellers and retailers eased at prevailing levels amid a weak global trend. However, silver held steady at Rs 38,100 per kg on scattered demand from industrial units. Traders said slackened demand from jewellers and retailers at existing levels and a weak trend overseas mainly led to the fall in the yellow metal prices. In the national capital, gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity were down by Rs 50 each
to Rs 27,830 and Rs 27,630 per ten gram, respectively. It had gained Rs 90 on Tuesday. Sovereign followed suit and shed Rs 100 at Rs 23,800 per piece of eight gram. On the other hand, silver ready held steady at Rs 38,100 per kg on some support from coin makers, while weekly-based delivery declined by Rs 60 to Rs 37,655 per kg. Silver coins, however, spurted by Rs 1,000 to Rs 62,000 for buying and Rs 63,000 for selling of 100 pieces on upsurge in the wedding season demand.
Facebook launches Internet.org in India
and-a-half back with six other founding partners, including Samsung and Qualcomm. The service has already been launched in Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Colombia and Ghana. Facebook’s 30-year-old founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the development on his social network. He posted, “More than a billion people in India don’t have access to the internet.
Kolkata Defending champions India have the best batting line-up and they should not lose heart after a winless buildup to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, feels former speedster Javagal Srinath, who also urged the bowlers to make a difference in the megaevent. “We’ve the best batting line-up in MS [Dhoni], Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. They’re all absolute match winners and big match players. It’s a great line-up that we have,” the cricketer-turned-match referee . Having landed in
Australia in the last week of November in 2014, India are yet to win an official match and it took a ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 warm-up game against Afghanistan on Tuesday to taste their first success. India lost the four-match Test series against Australia 0-2 and then crashed out of the tri-series also involving England without a win, but Srinath said the past results would count little. “We must understand that it’s a not a bilateral or a tri-series. Every match is like a final. It’s a mega event, the whole world will be watching and irrespective of their
performance, they would strive to do well. You’ve to do well on the given day,” the three-time World Cupper said. “All the top teams will see to get through to the quarters and semifinals first. That will be the main target.” Prescribing a mantra for India’s success in the event, Srinath, who was part of the Indian team in the 1992 World Cup in Australia, said Indian bowlers would have to make the difference. Putting the onus on the under-fire Indian bowlers, the 45-year-old added, “If we’ve to win the World Cup, the bowlers will have to make the difference.
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Afghanistan have played 45 One-Day Internationals in the past six years, and have won 24 of them. But only six of those matches have come against the fullmember countries, four of them at the Asia Cup in Bangladesh last year. The gulf in standards between the established nations and the associates was there for all to see during Afghanistan's warm-up match against India at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday (February 10). Afghanistan started brightly with both ball and bat, but couldn't maintain consistency in either facet as India eased to a facile 153-run win. "It's
quite different playing against associate members and full members," said Mohammad Nabi, the Afghanistan captain, after the game. "The associates have weaknesses, the full members not the same weaknesses. They are full of strong bowling attacks, spinners and batsmen, and their fielding as well. Associate teams have problems with not having the same good bowling or spinners, and just one or two quality batsmen. That's the difference." By the end of four overs, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli were back in the pavilion, undone by pace and hustle from Hamid
Hassan and Dawlat Zadran. "It was quite a good start for the first six overs, Hamid and Dawlat are both attacking bowlers," pointed out Nabi. "After that, the pitch became more of a batting track and also our bowlers couldn't bowl in the right places. That is why they scored 364." Nabi was hopeful that his pace bowlers would acquit themselves far better in more helpful conditions. "We've seen in the last match, India playing against Australia on that same pitch, they also scored 370 runs against India on what was totally a batting track," he said.
World Cup 2015: India and Dhoni have an innovation problem Facebook on Tuesday announced a tie-up with Reliance Communications to launch Internet.org in India, bringing to the land of a billion-plus people a service that the social media giant says helps affordable Internet access but whose critics disapprove its restrictiveness. India now becomes the sixth destination for Internet.org, a Facebook-led initiative envisaged about a year-
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As Glenn Maxwell was hammering India’s bowlers to all parts of the ground during the first warm-up game, the commentators told an interesting story. "Xavier Doherty told us about how for the best part of 30 minutes [in the nets], Maxwell tried to reverse sweep every ball that was bowled at him. The length didn't matter and neither did the line," the commentator said. The story shows Maxwell, who can be unstoppable when he gets going, doesn’t do everything
by the spur of the moment. He does the hard yards to ensure that he can innovate in the middle and manipulate the field with his shotmaking. AB De Villiers is at the opposite end of the stick. He moves around in the crease, creates new angles, plays the scoop, the reverse sweep, sweeps the fast bowlers but he doesn't
practice those shots at all. It works for him -- as was evident during his stunning 31-ball century against the West Indies recently. De Villiers was recently asked if he practised those shots in the nets so that they became automatic once he was out in the middle but his reply was an emphatic 'no'. He said it was pure instinct and gut feel. England skipper Eoin Morgan made his name as a batsman with a 360 degree view but he acquired it in different way to the other two.
Jacques Kallis, Muthiah Muralidaran, Kevin Pietersen, Brian Lara, Wasim Akram and Sachin Tendulkar. Arguably the best players their respective nations have produced in the past 23 years and all played in a major global tournament on home soil. The same cannot be said for Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist or whoever you were to choose as Australia's best player of that
period. When the World Cup was last held in Australia and New Zealand 23 years ago, of that group only Warne had entered the international arena, with his involvement restricted to a solitary Test earlier that summer. The other three Australian champions all made their international debuts after the 1992 tournament, and all retired before this one. Ponting's international career spanned 17 years, but for all he was
able to achieve, merely playing in a World Cup in Australia was not one of them. Since 1992, five World Cups, five World Twenty20 championships and seven Champions Trophies have all been staged. Sri Lanka has hosted four outright or as a co-host. There have been three at least partly played in each of England, India, South Africa and Bangladesh. The hosting duties have even involved Kenya twice.
India meet Nepal as 2018 football WC qualifiers kick off in Asia The world's lowest ranked soccer team, Bhutan, will take on Sri Lanka next month, while sleeping giants India face Nepal in the first qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup. Tuesday's first round draw by the Asian Football Confederation, who are yet to find out from FIFA how many places they have been granted in Russia, also pitted
Yemen against Pakistan, while East Timor will face Mongolia. The two-legged ties will be played on March 12 and 17, with Taiwan up against Brunei and Cambodia taking on Macau.
Bhutan, at 209 the worst ranked side in world football, haven't played since losing 5-2 to Sri Lanka in a South Asian Football Federation Championship match in Kathmandu in September 2013. Brunei, ranked 198th and under the management of former Blackburn Rovers boss Steve Kean, are taking part in a World Cup.
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Modi temple in Gujarat draws supporters
Rajkot, People of Rajkot city thronged a temple dedicated to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. The temple in Kothariya village is drawing supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party
Gujarat govt to hold workshop on proposed ‘Cow sanctuary’ Junagadh The Government of Gujarat has organized a workshop to discuss execution of proposed ‘cow sanctuary’ project on 19th of February in Junagadh Agriculture University. The workshop will be held at Gandhinagar VBIP guest house. It will be inaugurated by state Agriculture Minister Babubhai Bokhiria. It will be attended by all four Agriculture Universities of
Gujarat and also by Kamdhenu University’s Vice Chancellor. Senior scientists involved in related field, senior officials of state Animal Husbandry department will also attend this workshop for brainstorming on the idea of ‘cow sanctuary’. Decision on unique ‘cow sanctuary’ project was taken in the last budget presented by Finance Minister Saurabh Patel.
Deepak, Meenu are A N College champs PATNA Students Deepak Kumar and Meenu Kumari emerged overall champions at the two-day sports event at A N College which concluded on Tuesday. Several track and field events such as long jump, high jump and relay race etc were held during the event. College's officiating principal Lalan Singh congratulated the students and distributed medallions. The event was coordinated by sports council president Ajay Kumar and others, including Radhe Shyam, Chandan Bhaskar and Surya Dhar. The winners of different events were: Vishal Kumar Singh, Manish Kumar, Aniruddh Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Chandan Kumar, Nitesh Kumar, Bishal
Kumar, Anshu Kumar, Subodh Kumar Pandey, Abhsishek Kumar, Pintu Kumar, Dheeraj Ranjan, Avinash Kumar, Surendra Murmu, Priya Bharti Gupta, Namita Kumari, Pooja Kumari, Shalini, Nivedita, Shweta, Saraswati Kumari, Smriti Kumari, Meenu Kumari, Khushboo Kumari, Durga Mishra, Manisha Kumari, Kriti Kumari, Sonali Raj, Prity Sinha, Neha Kumar and Aditi. Tarang 2015: Several qualifying matches and games were held on the second day of 'Tarang' Bihar sub-junior sports meet 2015, a state-level sporting event which includes games such as relay race, volleyball, long jump, high jump, race, kabaddi apart from painting, quiz and music contests.
HK Arts sex harassment case: 1 more lecturer records statement AHMEDABAD A woman lecturer with HK Arts College recorded her statement with the probe committee appointed by the college to investigate sexual harassment charges, on Tuesday. The questions were related to the incidents preceding the alleged sexual harassment, said an official. The further hearing would take place on February 14. A woman lecturer had registered a complaint against a fellow lecturer Ganpat
Desai for sexual harassment in December with the state women's commission and Navrangpura police station. Desai had recently surrendered to police after getting anticipatory bail from the court. Desai, earlier elusive to the committee hearings, has started cooperating to the probe, said the officials. A clerk with the college was questioned by the representatives of both the lecturers to ascertain a few facts, sources said.
(BJP) from neighboring villages also. It took around two years to build the temple and initially had a photograph of Modi. It rose to prominence after Modis win in general elections last year. Ramesh Undhad, who donated funds for temple building, said it took nearly four years to get Modis idol made. Undhad added that fans considered Modi as second Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of Indias most looked-up statesmen. Meanwhile, village head, Mansukh Thumar, said that everyday prayers are conducted in the temple.
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AMC Commissioner Inland waterways bill to be introduced in Parliament: Gadkari to visit Japan Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner of Ahmedabad, D Thara will be visiting Japan during 3-7 March to participate in ‘ICT for next generation ITS’ workshop, organized by Japan’s International affairs and Communication Ministry in Tokyo. Japan government will bear the expenses of Commissioner’s travel and halt. No other official or elected representative is going to attend the workshop with Thara. Kankaria zoo transfers some animals/ birds to Surat
Kankaria zoo in Ahmedabad has transferred 4 Nil Gai, 4 dears, 4 pelican, 4 parrots and 2 jackals to Sarthana nature park in Surat. 18 pieces of animals/birds arrived at Surat zoo on Tuesday. Kankaria zoo is likely to transfer two while black bucks and more pelicans in near future.
Cotton output at 397 lakh bales in 2014-15 season: CAI
Kutch Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said today that the Centre would introduce the Inland Waterways Bill to convert 110 Indian rivers into transport channels during the forthcoming Parliament session. “We will develop inland waterways through a public-private partnership (PPP) model. Like national highways have been built, we want to work on the Pradhanmantri Jal Marg Yojna,” Gadkari said at a function, while commissioning the Tuna Tekra Bulk Terminal at the
Adani Group-run Kandla Port in Kutch district today. “In the next parliament session, we will pass a bill to convert 110 rivers of India into inland waterways. It will also increase tourism. We want to transform Indian rivers into ports,” Gadkari said. “There are five inland waterlanes which we would like to develop on a PPP basis next year. One is Ganga, which flows from Gangotri to the Bay of Bengal via Haldia. The other is Mahanadi of Orissa, which is in a coal mining area. The third is Brahmaputra. The fourth is Buckingham
Canal which links Tamil Nadu with Andhra Pradesh and the fifth one is in Kerala,” Gadkari said. Gadkari said that waterways would cut transport cost by 30 per cent. He said that the first inland waterway port would be inaugurated at Varanasi. “Inland waterways which we plan to build will be like Ahmedabad and Mumbai airport. It will have shops, cafeteria, shops of handlooms and handicrafts. People can also live there. The first such water port will be in Varanasi and we will inaugurate it very soon,” Gadkari said.
Kutch Rann Utsav hosts Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mumbai Total cotton production is estimated at 397 lakh bales for the ongoing crop season – which began on October 1, 2014 – due to a decline in productivity in the central region, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) said today. The total cotton production stood at 407.25 lakh bales (of 170 kg each) during the 2013-14 season, according CAI data. Total
crop in the central region in January is estimated at 219.25 lakh bales compared to 235.75 lakh bales last year. The central region includes Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The projected balance sheet drawn by the CAI for the year 2014-15, estimates total cotton supply at 468.90 lakh bales while domestic consumption is
estimated at 306.00 lakh bales, thus leaving an available surplus of 162.90 lakh bales. Earlier, in its December estimates CAI had put the cotton production at 400.25 lakh bales. CAI further said that Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is procuring cotton from the farmers and providing them with the necessary price support on a timely basis.
Act against illegal hotels around Gir sanctuary:HC to Gujarat govt Ahmedabad The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to take action against the illegal establishments operating in the buffer zones of Gir wildlife sanctuary, the sole home of the Asiatic lions. Admitting a representation made by one Anil Chudasama as a PIL, a division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and S H Vora yesterday directed the state authorities to take necessary legal action by March 5 against 128 such establishments that are being operated illegally in the 2-km buffer zone around the Gir sanctuary. The High Court acted on a report of the Gujarat government which said that there are 128 such units, including hotels and resorts, that are being illegally run around the sanctuary. Additional Advocate General P K Jani submitted before the bench that the
Bhuj Union Tourism and Culture Minister Dr. Mahesh Sharma was on visit to Kutch Rann Utsav on Tuesday. He had night halt in tent city of Dhordo. Rann Utsav is one of the top tourism festivals organized by Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited(TCGL) every year. It was initiated by Shri Narendra Modi when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat. Now when Shri Modi is Prime Minister, it is believed that he suggested Dr. Sharma to visit and study this initiative. Dr. Sharma was accompanied by a team of MPs representing Tourism committee. Senior officials of tourism ministry including additional secretary KK Mittal, Girish Shankar,
Additional Director Usha Sharma, Sharad Saxena etc also are part of this visit. The entire group is likely to pay visit to ‘Gandhi nu gam’ handicraft village and border
post at Vighokot. It should be mentioned here that recently, the Vice President of India Dr. Hamid Ansari also had paid visit to Kutch Rann Utsav.
Rebates spur Rs 2,500 crore inquiries at PlastIndia state will take action against the encroachers in Gir. The conservator of Gir forest has intimated Gir-Somnath district Collector’s office regarding the illegal establishments, Jani said before the High Court. The state forests and environment department had on February 2 submitted a report before the High Court containing a list of 66 private establishments around the sanctuary, saying that the owners are running these hospitality units in the form
of restaurants, hotels and resorts, which is prohibited. The state government had yesterday filed another report before the HC and said that there are 128 establishments spread over the three districts of Amreli, Junagadh and Gir-Somnath. The High Court acted on the PIL based on the representation of Chudasama, who alleged that the local authorities had prevented him from carrying out agricultural activity on a plot purchased by him.
AHMEDABAD Gujarat government's move to offer rebates on purchase of machinery at the Plastindia 2015 trade show in Gandhinagar seems to have worked, as machine manufacturers saw business inquiries worth more than Rs 2,500 crore. Interestingly, the previous edition of Plastindia held in Delhi three years ago saw business transactions estimated at Rs 1,800 crore. Enthused by the industry response, Plastindia Foundation, has decided to host the next edition of Plastindia at
Gandhinagar again, in 2018. The world's third largest plastics exhibition, which was held outside Delhi for the first time, ended on Tuesday. The state government offered a rebate of 5% on purchase of machinery from Gujaratbased companies participating at the 9th International Plastics Exhibition and Conference (Plastindia 2015). Also, a 3% rebate was offered on purchase of machinery from companies outside the state, during the exhibition period. Local companies like
Windsor Machines, Mamta Machinery, Kabra Extrusion Technik and international firms such as Cincinnati Milacron and Japan Steel Works received substantial inquiries. According to officials of Plastindia Foundation, Gujarat government's initiative to announce a rebate was a big boost to business at the trade show. Specific country pavilions were set up, including those for the UK, Austria, France, Poland, Germany, China and Taiwan.
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