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News Brief Akshay Kumar likes his action star image
“Two militants of (LeT) killed”
J&K govt orders probe into death of youth in protest rally
India forces kill 2 militants in Kashmir Indian soldiers killed on Tuesday two ‘suspected separatists’ in occupied Kashmir after police and troops battled scores of stone-throwing residents who were trying to help them escape, police claimed the area, injuring 26 of them, Prabhat said. The troops fired tear gas and live ammunition in the air to disperse the protesters. In a separate incident, the protesters threw stones at a vehicle of the paramilitary Border Security Force passing by the area. The soldiers opened fire, wounding one protester who later died in a hospital, police said. The area is 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-held portion of Kashmir. Many residents
Agency | New Delhi
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar, who will be seen doing a lot of stunt in his upcoming film “Brothers”, says he likes his action star persona. The 47-year-old actor belives the film is the best when it comes to showing stunts in Hindi cinema.
US dollar ends dearer against the rupee
Agency | Mumbai
The US dollar ended dearer against the rupee at 64.19/20 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished higher at Rs 100.01/03 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 64.19/20 US Dollar Rs. 64.1732 Pound Sterling 100.01/03 Euro Rs. 70.3595 Euro 70.84/86 Japanese Yen(100) 51.
Decomposed body of woman found in city house Agency | Kolkata
The decomposed body of a middle-aged woman was recovered from a house in the southern part of the city, the police said today. The decomposed body of Nandini Roy Chowdhury, aged around 43 years, was recovered from her house at Rammoni Bagan under Survey Park Police Station of Santoshpur in southern part of the city, they said. Acting on a missing complaint of Chowdhury’s brother, the police went to the Survey Park house to found her decomposed body on a bed in her room.
Agency | Shinagar India — Indian government troops killed two militants in a prolonged gunbattle that also wounded one police officer in the Indian-ruled portion of Kashmir, an official said Tuesday. A
protester died in a separate incident. Senior paramilitary officer Nalin Prabhat said the gunbattle began Monday after security forces cordoned off some houses in Ratnipora village. Shooting resumed Tuesday with
the militants slipping into nearby rice fields under the cover of darkness and continued for about eight hours. Also Tuesday, hundreds of young people chanting pro-independence slogans hurled stones at Indian troops in
Sexually harassed Punjab girl immolates self, dies at Chandigarh Agency | Chandigarh
Fed up of being sexually harassed by four youth from the Jat community, a 16-year-old Dalit girl from a village in Sangrur town of Punjab set herself ablaze on Saturday and succumbed to 70% burns at Chandigarh’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Tuesday morning. The daughter of a brick-kiln worker put up with the harassment for 20 days at Kal Banjara village of this district before taking the extreme step on Saturday. Police registered the case only on Monday as they were reportedly busy with se-
curity arrangements for chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s visit to Sangrur on Sunday. The girl named four youth from the Jat community – three from her village and the fourth from neighbouring Khadewal – for stalking her and making lewd gestures and comments for the past 20 days. The youth had been telling her to accept a mobile phone to take their calls. All
four are absconding and efforts are on to arrest them. A few days ago, one of them, Mani, slapped her in public when she objected to his indecent behaviour. “I was shocked. I feared that if my parents came to know about the harassment, they would pull me out of school. I thought it better to burn myself to death,” she said told a judicial magistrate from the hospital bed.
rections to the government regarding the same. SC had earlier referred the matter to a bench of 5 judges after the government said that Right to Privacy is not a fundamental right under the Constitution. The Centre
has so far maintained that there is no maintainability to the plea that demands the scrapping of the Aadhaar scheme on the ground there is violation of the right to privacy. The apex court had earlier reserved its verdict on Centre’s plea that petitions challenging government’s ambitious project to grant Aadhaar cards to all citizens be referred to a Constitutional bench.
SC rules Aadhaar card not mandatory Agency | New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Aadhaar card is not mandatory and should be used only to disburse LPG, food grains and other subsidies. The apex court has said that no personal information of Aadhaar card holders shall be shared by the concerned government authorities. The SC has given 4 di-
in the Himalayan region or merger with Pakistan. region’s insurgency and oppose Indian rule over More than 68,000 people subsequent Indian miliit and favor independence have been killed in the tary crackdown.
2 held at Ahmedabad airport for traveling on fake passport Delhi-based man and woman were held on Tuesday for travelling on fake passport at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport. Anil Kumar Lamba and Rajveer Kaur were to travel to Germany via Dubai before they were detained by immi-
gration officials at the international terminal. The bureau of immigration after questioning the duo for hours filed a complaint with Sardarnagar police. The police has detained the duo and are further investigating the case. “Anil Lamba lives in Germany and he was taking
Rajveer Kaur with him. They both had fake arrival and departure stamps on their passports of Bathinda airport. They were supposed to board Emirates early morning flight to Dubai before they were detained,” said V R Patel, senior police inspector, Sardarnagar.
Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said Swami Aseemanand continued to remain in jail as he “could not comply with the conditions of bail specified” in the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court last August. The certified copy of the said order was issued by the court on May 1, 2015. “The NIA examined the feasibility of filing a Special Leave Petition and decided that there were no grounds to challenge the order in Supreme Court,” the Minister said. In a related development, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday in which a plea has been made seeking an ap-
propriate “writ, direction or order appointing an advocate of eminence and reputation having high standards of integrity as the Special Public Prosecutor for conducting the trial in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case.” Seeking a court-monitored investigation into the case, the
PIL also wanted a direction to the CBI for registering a case against NIA officials. Four Improvised Explosive Devices were planted on Samjhauta Express, the only rail link between India and Pakistan, on February 18, 2007, in which 68 lives were lost.
ty supporting its disruptionist program,” he said. “We appeal to the Congress party to see reason and come on a path of cooperation particularly in relation to policies they themselves at one stage proclaimed.” He accused the Congress party of reneging on its promise
on GST. “The Congress mooted the proposal in 2006 and introduced GST in 2011, they failed to bring a consensus. In less than a year, Prime Minister Modi’s NDA brought about a consensus,” he said. He enlisted the ways in which the tax reform will help the Indian economy and said GST with its many special features and advantages will be able to create a uniform market in the country. “It will eliminate corruption, eliminate harassment to the entire trading community and will be to the advantage of consuming states.
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NIA not to challenge Assemanand’s bail: Govt. Agency | New Delhi
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided not to oppose the conditional bail granted to Swami Assemanand, chargesheeted in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case, as it did not find any grounds for it. The Government has also declined to grant permission to challenge a bail order granted to two other accused in Mecca Masjid blasts case — Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma — on the “grounds of parity” since bail had been granted to Bharat Mohal Lal and Tejaram Parmar which had not been challenged by the prosecution. Minister of State for Home
Govt introduces GST bill in Rajya Sabha as Cong protests continue Agency | New Delhi
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday came down heavily on the Gandhi family, saying it has not been able to accept the fact that someone else can also rule the country as the government efforts to push for the GST bill did not take off over Congress’ refusal to allow a discussion in Rajya Sabha. “Unfortunately, the Congress is in a self-destruct mode. But in the process it wants not only to disrupt India’s Parliament but also create obstacles in the path of national growth,”
the finance minister told reporters outside Parliament. He said the policies of the Congress were a liability on the economy of this country when it was in power and now it continues to be same when it is in the opposition. “It stands today isolated with almost no political par-
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Naga insurgency, India’s oldest, really ended?
The signing of the agreement between the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), or the NSCN-IM, and the Central government had all the drama of a reconciliation ceremony. But the details remain shrouded in secrecy. There appears to be much less to it than meets the eye. The ceremony had the telltale signs of a pseudo-event. Pseudo-events are occurrences designed to generate press coverage. Their relationship to reality is uncertain. But it is their inherent ambiguity that explains public interest in them. Ambiguity has marked all official pronouncements about the ceremony. The Press Information Bureau headlined it as the prime minister having witnessed the signing of a “historic peace accord.” However, it referred to it later as a “framework agreement”. The news took key stakeholders by surprise. Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh of Manipur said that he did not know what the agreement says and reiterated his government’s position that it will not accept any accord that disturbs Manipur’s territorial integrity. The demand for the integration of all contiguous Naga-inhabited areas has been a highly contentious subject, nowhere more so than in Manipur. But the protracted Assam-Nagaland border dispute is also part of the same faultline. The structural flaws in the design of the Naga peace process have been obvious for a while. The format — bilateral and secret meetings between NSCN-IM leaders and the government’s interlocutor — leaves out critical stakeholders. It is unlikely to produce a durable settlement. NSCN-IM leaders have said from time to time that they are not asking for greater or smaller Nagaland, but only for the integration of areas where Nagas live. The formulation is clever, but it does not resolve the fundamental contradiction. The Central government is expected to make territorial concessions that evoke intense emotions in neighbouring states over the heads of popularly elected state governments. However, there has been significant movement in this area in the course of the negotiations. Public statements that both parties recognise each other’s “compulsions” and talk of a solution that accepts “contemporary realities” point in that direction. But the structural flaw of the peace process becomes painfully apparent in what an unnamed official source told The Hindu about the procedures that will be followed. Apparently, the interlocutor to the Naga talks will prepare a draft note for the home ministry. The views of relevant Central government ministries and state governments will be elicited. Following that exercise, a draft bill will be presented to the Central cabinet. Once the cabinet approves it, the bill will be submitted to Parliament.
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QUOTE “I agree with her (Patel). If I had chosen to be in BJP, sir OF THE (Modi) may not have become the prime minister and Patel our - Senior Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela, (Gujarat) chief minister,” who is the Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly, said. DAY
Salman and Abhishek reminisce ‘Sholay’ 40 years later Agency | Mumbai
Salman Khan watched Sholay in his school uniform while Abhishek Bachchan was not even born when it released but the movie, which turns 40 this month, was a defining part of their childhood. Salman’s father Salim Khan co-wrote the script of the cult movie with Javed Akhtar, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Jai, Dharmendra as ‘Veeru’, Hema Malini as ‘Basanti’, Amjad Khan as the dreaded ‘Gabbar’ and Sanjeev Kumar as ‘Thakur’ in the Ramesh Sippy-directed movie, which released on August 15, 1975. Recalling his earliest memories about the film, Salman said he attended the premiere with brother Arbaaz in Minerva theatre. “I remember we went to see the premiere of Sholay. Arbaaz and I were in Scindia school, so we were dressed in our school blazers when our father took us there,” Salman said, adding “the film surprisingly for two weeks was a huge disaster. Apparently, they went back to shoot the climax to make Bachchan Saab relive in the movie but after two weeks, it just took it
to the next level.” Sholay has some of the most memorable dialogues ever written in a Hindi film be it “Kitne aadmi the?” by Gabbar, or “Tumhara naam kya hai Basanti?” by Bachchan and Dharmendra’s “Basanti, in kutton ke saamne mat naachna”. Salman, 49, said this is one film where informatory lines b e came hit di-
alogues. The actor said he always wanted to get lines like Sholay in his films. Abhishek, who was in Delhi to promote his upcoming film All Is Well, said he was actually in his mother’s stomach when he went for the premiere of Sholay. “The thing I love about Sholay is even
Agency | Lahore
Jacqueline Fernandez has had a very colorful life, and her list of boyfriends is impressive and long. Of course, the name that comes to mind immediately is that of Salman Khan. But that came as a whiff of fresh air and passed away with Kick. Then the news of her affair with Arjun Kapoor was also doing the rounds. The two
if you see it today, it’s very contemporary. A lot of films age, I feel Sholay is ageless. It is as close to what we can get to a perfect masala potboiler that we have. Even if you see it today, it’s very
believable. It’s an iconic film,” Abhishek, 39, said. “My entire childhood has been full of hearing stories of Salim-Javed uncle, Ramesh uncle, my parents and those were such wonderful stories. I
Agency | Chennai
Controversial love affairs of Jacqueline Fernandez
have not confessed anything in public. News of her teaming with Sajjid Khan was also being reported. Sajjid happens to be her ex boyfriend, with whom she was very close. It is also rumored that Sajjid was totally shattered when Jacqueline called it quits. Before that she was said to be in love with a very rich sheikh of a Gulf country.
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believe the film was shot over three years. There were great anecdotes. Rohan, Ramesh’s son went school with me and we did films together as well. Sholay is the greatest film we have ever made and
we are very happy that it is here, 40 years down the line. To make a film that today’s youth can connect with, I think that would be something all of us would aspire to do at some point.”
Saeed says Phantom a threat, Dhanush to act in Kaaki Sattai director’s next film Pak court seeks govt reaction
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Agency | Mumbai
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A day after JuD (Jamaat-ud-Dawa) chief and alleged Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed pleaded a ban on the release of Kabir Khan’s Phantom, a Pakistani court has issued notices to the federal and Punjab government as well as the censor board asking them to reply to the petition. Lahore high court Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan heard the petition and asked the Pakistan censor board and the federal and Punjab governments to furnish a reply on Saeed’s petition on August 13.
During the hearing, Hafiz Saeed’s counsel AK Dogar requested the court to issue a stay order but the judge refused. “It is necessary to hear the respondents first,” the judge observed. Dogar also told the court that “there is a direct threat to the life of the petitioner (Saeed) and his associates emanating from the content of the trailer of Phantom.” He said the grievance of the petitioner is that Phantom has been advertised to be exhibited in Pakistan. “It is obvious that dialogues coming out of the lips of the different Indian actors and
Tamil actor Dhanush will soon be working with director RS Durai Senthil Kumar of Kaaki Sattai fame. The two will work in the yet-untitled Tamil film after Dhanush is done with new Tamil he currently filming with director Prabhu Solomon. “The official announcement is yet to be made but Dhanush has already given his nod in principle. actresses will poison This project, which also the minds of Pakistani public and will portray Hafiz Saeed as terrorist even though JuD has not been declared as a proscribed organisation,” Dogar said. “The United Nations has also admitted that the JuD is a charitable organisation and is working not only in Pakistan but also outside the country,” he argued in the court. Dogar said the movie is scheduled to be exhibited in India and Pakistan on August 28. “The govAgency | Mumbai ernment should be restrained from allowing It was an usual day for exhibition of this movie the people of the city in Pakistan,” he said. here until they spotted
features comedian Satish in an important role, would go on floors later this year,” said a source privy to the development. Interestingly, it was Dhanush, who launched the career of Durai by producing two of his earlier films Ethir Neechal and Kaakai Sattai. The team will soon start the casting process. Dhanush currently awaits the release of Tamil actioner VIP 2, also soon expected to a sequel to his last year’s team up with Raanjhanaa blockbuster VIP. He is direct Anand L Rai again.
An anaconda pops out of pot hole in Bengaluru!
become a series of attempts to embarrass the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and force them to take a swift action over the quality of roads, a civic group in the city has installed an anaconda in a pot hole in Yeshwanthpur area here. Notably, the impact of something very strange the anaconda is such that over the street which it can scare the hell out broke the crowd into of someone caught unfrenzy. In what has now awares.
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Kashyap, Prannoy warm up with easy victories at World Championships
Google to be part of new holding company, ‘Alphabet’
Agency | San francisco Google, which has been expanding far beyond its original business of Internet search advertising, is changing its operating structure by creating a new holding company called Alphabet. The company says its new structure will give more independence to many of its wide-ranging and ambitious projects.Under the plan announced Monday, Alphabet will be comprised of the core Google business — including Internet search, mapping and YouTube — along with newer businesses that will be managed separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.Google CEO Larry Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his co-founder Sergey Brin serving as president. Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai, who has taken on increasingly important roles at the company in recent years, will be CEO of the core Google business.
Yamaha launches sports bike ‘YZF-R3’ at Rs. 3.25 lakh
Agency | New Delhi Yamaha Motor India Group today launched its new 321cc engine sports bike ‘YZF-R3’ priced at Rs. 3.25 lakh (ex-showroom price Delhi). “With all-new engine and chassis designs, the YZF-R3 sports a solid combination of class-leading power and a lightweight body that achieves high levels of riding performance and styling worthy of the ‘superbike’ moniker,” Yamaha said in a statement. The team had put all their engineering skills and passion into developing this model and achieved especially notable results in areas like high-speed performance, passing acceleration and thoroughly enjoyable performance on winding roads, Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt Ltd Managing Director Masaki Asano said. The company said the new R3 model being launched in the country will be assembled at India Yamaha Motor’s plant from the completely knocked down (CKD) sets.
SPORTS ROUNDUP Excited about leading team in first full series: Kohli
Agency | New Delhi Social networking giant Facebook has distributed benefits worth $20 million to developers in India, its second largest market globally to help them build and monetize apps. Under its FbStart initiative that was started last year, the US-based firm has provided free tools and services worth $50 million to help developers in the Asia Pacific region. “Developers are an important part of our ecosystem. We have grown from a small size and we know the hurdles that developers can face while developing products,” Facebook director product platform partnerships Ime Archibong. Through this initiative, Facebook wants to help take care of certain aspects, so that the developers can focus on building world-class products, he said. Archibong added that India is an important market since the country has the second highest number of developers after the US under the FBStart initiative.
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Agency | Hyderabad Parupalli Kashyap and HS Prannoy got off to a fluent start registering straight game victories in the men’s singles first round of the BWF World Championships in Jakarta on Monday. Women’s doubles pair of Pradnya Gadre and Sikki Reddy, men’s doubles duo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar joined the two men’s singles shuttlers in the second round while two other doubles teams - Tarun Kona/Sikki Reddy and Arun Vishnu/Apar-
na Balan - bowed out of the event. Kashyap made short work of Erik Meijs of the Netherlands 2117, 21-10 while Prannoy eased past Alex Yuwan Tjong of Brazil 21-12, 21-18. Though he took some time to get off the blocks Kashyap looked quite comfortable once he got his range. The World No.10 toyed with his opponent from the 15th point of the first game and was even more dominant in the second game. He started with a 7-1 lead and gave no chance for his rival. He will now face Tien Minh Nguyen
of Vietnam in the second round. Despite having a 4-4 record against the veteran, Kashyap is the overwhelming favourite. Eleventh seed Prannoy faced no fitness issues as he rolled over Alex Yuwan Tjong of Brazil 21-12, 21-16 in just 31 minutes. Prannoy, who is playing his first match after recovering from injury, will get more time to get into the groove as he will face world No. 137 Edwin Ekiring of Uganda, who downed Dmytro Zavadsky of Ukraine 21-18, 21-17 in the first round.
Ailing South Africa ‘A’ players force rescheduling of matches in tri-series in Chennai
been too impressive. “I have been reminded of that quite a few times and I know that now,” he said, about India’s poor record. India’s preparations, however, suffered a blow as their prematch practice session was washed out owing to heavy rains, and even on Monday, their session had been disturbed by the rain, leaving the three-day tour match in Colombo as the only proper workout before this first Test.But Kohli doesn’t seem to be too worried about it.
and discus thrower Vikas Gowda for the prestigious award. Sania also won the gold medal and the bronze medal in the mixed and women’s doubles categories in the 2014 Asian Games. Sania had received the Arjuna award in 2004 while two
years later she was awarded India’s fourth highest civilian honour -- Padma Shri. Sania has also won the mixed doubles titles at Australia Open (2009), French Open (2012) and US Open (2014) and is currently the world’s No. 1 ranked doubles player.
(Azerbaijan) on Monday. This was Narang’s first ISSF final in 10m after winning bronze in the London Games in 2012. Narang has been competing in the air rifle event at World Cups at his own cost, as only two Indians - Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput - have
managed to fulfill the stringent selection criteria set by the national federation (NRAI), leaving the third available spot vacant. That scenario is set to change as the Hyderabadi shot 626.7 in qualification and 144.5 in the eight-man final to finish fifth.
Agency | New Delhi
since having been discharged from hospital requested for one day’s rest tomorrow,” read Dr. Baba’s WhatsApp message yesterday. Later Dr.Baba that extending a day’s rest on Tuesday was based on the South African team’s request as all 10 Proteas players were discharged around noon yesterday. The
changes in match schedule would mean that Tuesday instead of 13 August, would be a ‘rest day’ and there would no cricket activity in respect of the tri-series. South Africa A’s one-day match against Australia A, who have already booked their final berth, has been postponed for the second time.
Sindhu, Srikanth advance in World Championships Agency | Jakarta
Top Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth earned contrasting wins in their respective categories to advance at the World Championships being held at the 9000-seater Istora Senayan on Tuesday. Coming back from a long injury layoff, 11th seed Sindhu had to work hard for 50 minutes to move past Danish Line Kjaersfeldt 11-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the women’s singles second round. Though the two-time
the areas that need improvement. As a captain, you always need more time with the team, more games to play and better chances of creating an environment that you require the team to be in. So I am very excited. It’s an opportunity not only for me but all of us for a new Indian team. We are all pretty early in our careers and it’s exciting,” he added. India haven’t won a Test series in Sri Lanka since 1993 when they won the three-match rubber 1-0. But the visiting team’s record hasn’t
Sania Mirza to be conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Agency | Chennai In view of the illness of 10 South African players, the schedule of the cricket triangular series has been reworked with the South Africa A and Australia A match to be held on Wednesday, while the final league game will be played on August 13 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Chennai. The rescheduling was done at the last moment as Media Officer of the BCCI in Southern India Dr. Baba informed about the changes and confirmed that the final would happen on August 14, a day after the India A-South Africa A clash. “All the South African players
“It’s a great opportunity to create some momentum knowing it’s a three-Test series, having some plan in mind, having the opportunity and time to execute them.” India skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said he was excited at the prospect of leading the team in his first full series as captain and would like to create the right momentum when they clash against Sri Lanka in the first Test here on Wednesday. “It is my first full series. It’s a great opportunity to create some momentum knowing it’s a three-Test series, having some plan in mind, having the opportunity and time to execute them,” said Kohli at the pre-match press conference. “Even if it’s an off day, you still have time to re-group and think about what went wrong. If it’s a good day, you can learn from it — the positives and
Sania Mirza is all set to become the first woman tennis player to be conferred India’s highest sports award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Times Now reported on Tuesday. Sania is only the second tennis player to get the coveted award after Leander Paes in 199697. Earlier this month, the Sports Ministry had recommended the Wimbledon doubles champion for the award but had also made it clear that the final decision rests with only the Awards Committee. Sania won her career’s first ever women’s doubles Grand Slam title with Swiss partner Martina Hingis in July. She also became world number one before winning the Grass Court major. Sania, who has won three mixed doubles Grand Slams in her career, was reportedly competing with squash player Deepika Pallikal
Fifth-place finish is a boost for Gagan Narang Agency | Pune
World Championship bronze medallist lost the first game, she found her rhythm to bounce back and win the next two games. In the third round, the 20-year-old
faces a tough task as she will go up against reigning Olympic champion and third seed Li Xuerui. The Chinese has a 2-1 advantage over Sindhu in career meetings.
London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang, who was out of the 10m air rifle squad for nearly 18 months, announced his comeback in the event with a fifthplace finish in the ISSF World Cup in Gabala
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27 judges, sitting & retired, get High Court notice for plots they got from Gujarat govt Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A bench of the Gujarat High Court, led by outgoing acting Chief Justice V M Sahai, today issued notices to 27 judges (both sitting and retired) of the court; the state Revenue Department; and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation among other government agencies, seeking their replies on the 2008 allotment of residential plots to sitting and retired judges. The judges, to whom notices have been sent, include eight sitting Gujarat High Court judges, Chief Justices of Bombay and Orissa High Courts and a sitting judge of Supreme Court. The court took suo motu no-
tice of two letters written last month by retired judges Justice B J Sethna and Justice K R Vyas alleging irregularities in the allotment and took these up as a PIL. These plots constitute Neetibaug Cooperative Housing Society and are located in the Sola and Gota areas which have emerged as plush neighbourhoods in the city. Justice Sethna, who
Canon on Gujarati society finally gets global audience Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The mammoth Gujarati classic looks at society in it’s entire complexity and is literally a cultural text on Gujarat. It deals with the idea of a state, family, individual and looks at a then modern married couple in the context of a then-prevailing social reform — widow remarriage. “If you were to understand the shaping of modern Gujarati sensibilities, you cannot escape the canonical text of Saraswatichandra. Even before Gandhi, Govardhanram was the most important cultural influence
in Gujarat,” says Tridip Suhrud. Very few literary works, according to Suhrud, come anywhere close to the Saraswatichandra in terms of scope of the text and reach. Sociologist Achyut Yagnik says, “If you were to understand Gujarati culture, its joint family system and the idea of an ideal nation, you must read this epic novel by Govardhanram Tripathi. For more than a century no one attenmpted an English translation just because it was such a complex novel. Now it is finally ready for a global audience.”
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was appointed chairman of commission of inquiry for polarisation of population on the basis of different religions, in 2009, had sought a 400 sq m plot, saying his appointment equated him with a sitting High Court judge and, therefore, he was entitled to one. His letter of July 3, 2015 claims there were 48 plots in this society.
In Gujarat local body polls this October, vote or else Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009, was notified last month, six years after it was tabled by the government of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.When does compulsory voting come into effect? This October, during the elections to 300-odd local bodies, including municipal corporations, municipalities and panchayats. Why has the law been enacted? To ensure greater participation in the electoral process. Local body elections have rarely seen the turnout cross 60 per cent. What is the punishment for not voting?
If you are a registered voter, do not feature in the “exempted” list, and fail to vote, you will be liable to be fined Rs 100. Who are exempt from compulsory voting? 10 categories of voters. (1) Those who are physical incapable due to illness; (2) those in hospital for medical treatment; (3) those with 75% or greater physical disability; (4) those who are taking an entrance or employment examination on voting day; (5) those who have a job interview; (6) persons aged 75 or above; (7) those attending social events like a wedding or funeral, or who are faced with a medical emergency in the imme-
Gujarat again leads in power discom ratings, Jharkhand comes last
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The four Gujarat state power distribution utilities have for a third year in a row emerged as top performers in the country. Punjab is in the same top ‘A+’ bracket as Gujarat, with the utilities of Maharashtra and Uttarakhand closely following with an ‘A’ rating. According to the ‘Integrated rating for state power distribution utilities’ done by the ministry of power, 10 of these got a rating of ‘B+’ and 13 were rated ‘B’. Eight got ‘C+’ and two – Jharkhand State Electricity Board and Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam in UP — got the lowest, a ‘C’ rating. The methodology for this rating was developed by the ministry in 2012. It covers 40 state utilities and no private ones. The
diate family; (8) those who are out of the state or country on voting day; (9) those who have migrated six months before polling day; and (10) employees of the central or state government, or of a board, corporation or company owned by the
state government, or of the private sector who have been transferred prior to the election date. What proofs are needed to claim exemption? Hospital invoices, doctor’s certificate, travel tickets, photographs of social events, etc. The
election officer can crosscheck details and dates of weddings, funerals, etc. ‘Immediate family’ includes parents, grandparents, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-inlaw, husband, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
heavy police presence and surrounded by lawyers from the prosecution, victims and defence, special judge Desai spent nearly 45 minutes. He went to the house of Jafri and inspected all the sites mentioned in the court records-the entrance, first floor and its terrace. The society, situated in the Chamanpura area of Meghaningar police station, was abandoned by its residents following the massacre. “It is not a liveable place anymore but the AMC sweepers cleaned up everything ahead of
the judge saheb visit. I saw such a mehfil (gathering) for the first time after several many years,” said Rafiq Mansuri, a riot survivor whose family was the last to abandon the society. But Mansuri and his father still use the house as a godown and rest room. The father-son duo run a small cotton factory in the nearby area. A picture of Rafiq’s mother is hung at the entrance who was killed during the riots. Rafiq said he himself lost one of his eyes after he was attacked by the rioters.
police officer said. The rape victim was admitted to Surat civil hospital after the parents lodged an FIR against Halpati
for rape. “We will also file FIR against those involved in killing Halpati. Further investigations are on,” added Soni.
2002 Gujarat riots: Special Judge visits Gulberg Society Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Central Electricity Authority, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Power Finance Corporation, Rural Electrification Corporation, distribution utilities and credit rating agencies CRISIL, ICRA and CARE are involved in the exercise. The methodology is given final shape in consultation with the department of financial services (ministry of finance), Indian Banks’ Association and major public sector banks. Fi-
nancial performance has a weightage of 60 per cent. This covers subsidy, cost coverage ratio, aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, financial planning and the likes. Efficient regulatory practices hold the second best weightage of 15 per cent. The report noted the absolute subsidy dependence for most states remained high, mostly due to the subsidised nature of rates, particularly for agricultural consumers.
Veteran Gujarat Congress leader Dalsukh Prajapati quits party
Correspondent | Vadodara
Veteran Congress leader and chairman of the Gujarat Congress OBC Committee for the last one decade, Dalsukh Prajapati Tuesday quit which have emerged as the party that he served Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad mosquito breeding areas. for nearly five decades, The rising number of Mostly in the western even though he denied dengue cases are becompart of the city. We have joining BJP. Prajapaing a concern for the civic mapped these areas and ti, 76, who has served health department. This will begin our anti-vector as the Vadodara mayor week alone there were activities,” says a senior and MLA of Sayajaigunj 37 new cases, taking the AMC health official. The constituency in Vadodara total number of dengue health department has in the past, said he decases to 327 since Jan- also started surveys of cided to quit Congress uary. These are just cas- dengue cases detected by because of the party’s es that belonging to the various private hospitals “anti-poor” stand, statcity. The civil hospital to confirm dengue cases. ing that the party has not of Ahmedabad reported “Most of these hopsitals been putting up good a number of cases from have been using import- fight before Gujarat’s surrounding talukas of ed rapid dengue test kits BJP government against Ahmedabad as well. Last which are not applicable its “anti-poor policy deyear there were a total to Indian conditions and cisions.” “I have served of 1,180 dengue cases in blood types and hence the party for forty eight the entire year while in there are more dengue years, but over the last 2013 there were 1,575 cases being reported from three years, the party dengue cases. “There are private hospitals,” adds has been behaving like certain pockets in the city the health official. anti-poor, showing lit-
Ahmedabad
Special judge PB Desai who is hearing the Gulberg massacre case, visited Monday afternoon the society where 69 people were killed in the post Godhra riots on February 28, 2002, closely examining every nook and corner especially of Bungalow number-19, home to Congress’s exMP Ahsan Jafri, who was among those killed that day. Many of the victims had taken shelter in Jafri’s house thinking it was the safest place considering Jafri’s status as a leader. The society which is covered with thick brush, was abandoned by all residents soon after the riots. Ahmedabad Municipal corporation authorities cleaned up and sprayed the premises with bleaching powder ahead of the judge’s visit. Amidst
Villagers lynch rape-accused in Navsari district of Gujarat Correspondent | Navsari
tle concern for poor citizens and their plight. It has not been putting up good fight against ruling BJP over issues that adversely affect the poor, such as land acquisition policy, to name one,” Prajapati said at a press conference. Prajapati joined Congress in 1967, then went on to serve as Congress councilor in 1987 and Vadodara mayor between 1989-1992. He then served as deputy mayor from 1992. He spent 18 years at different positions in the civic body, during which the
party offered him ticket to fight by-election from Sayajigunj constituency in 2002. For five years, between 1995-2000, he served as the leader of opposition in the Vadodara Municipal Corporation. Without elaborating much on the reason of his resignation, Prajapati said he was going to remain active in politics, without committing to join BJP. “I have not talked to anybody in the BJP, nor have I heard from them. BJP has made me many offers in the past but I refused to join them.
A 40-year-old man, accused of raping a twoyear-old girl, was beaten to death at Amalsad village in Navsari district of Gujarat on Monday. Mangal Halpati, a farm labourer, lured the twoyear-old girl to his house this afternoon and raped her, sub-inspector, Gandevi station, D S Soni, said. When villagers got to know about it, they stormed into his house and rescued the girl, he added. Halpati fled to escape the villagers and jumped into a pond. “But eventually he was captured by the angry mob. They thrashed him mercilessly and he died shortly after being admitted to a hospital in Navsari,” the
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