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More Than 100 Whales Wash Up On The Beaches Of Tamil Nadu
45 whales die in Tamil Nadu A team of top officials of the fisheries department have rushed to the spot to conduct a probe Agency | Chennai
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A 21-year-old woman delivered a child in a suburban train here while she was on way to hospital. Namrata Kini, who was in advanced stage of pregnancy, was heading to a hospital at Virar in the Bhoisar-Diva local train along with her husband Yogesh Kini when she started experiencing labour pains yesterday.
Anant Shet elected as Goa Assembly Speaker Agency | Panaji
BJP legislator Anant Shet was today elected as the Speaker of Goa Assembly defeating his rival Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco by 28 to 9 votes in the 40-member House. The election for the Speaker’s post, which had fallen vacant after resignation of BJP legislator Rajendra Arlekar following his induction in the Laxmikant Parsekar Cabinet, was held after the Question Hour in the ongoing Assembly session.
Music composer Anirudh appears before police Agency | Coimbatore
At least 45 whales died after they washed ashore overnight on a beach in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, officials said on Tuesday, with experts attributing the deaths to a possible underwater disturbance like an earthquake or volcano. Helped by local fishermen, workers of the Tamil Nadu fisheries department, police and the administration managed to save 36 whales of the pod -- or group -- by towing them back to sea on Tuesday, officials said. While beaching of whales and other aquatic animals is common around the world, experts said it was rare to find such a large number of whales washing
up ashore and hinted at the mammals being disoriented by underground activity. Officials said that the pod of 81 shortfinned pilot whales had
beached near Mandapu village since Monday evening. The area is around 600 km south of Chennai. “It appears the whales are in shock. It
conference was organised to commemorate his 150th birthday in 2012. It was an impressive breakdown of the ancient philosophy of Hinduism — delivered with crisp logic and scientific insight. The speech made him a hero in the US. His opening lines “Sisters and brothers of Ameri-
ca!” earned him a 2-minute long standing ovation. Just imagine what effect the rest of his speech would’ve had. Here are a few excerpts from his speech that will convince you why celebrating the National Youth Day on his birth anniversary is so apt. He finished his speech with the appeal, “Upon the banner of every religion will soon be written — in spite of resistance — ‘Help and not Fight’, ‘Assimilation and not Destruction’, ‘Harmony and Peace, and not Dissension’.”
National Youth Day: Why the world needs Swami Vivekananda now Agency | New Delhi
Long before Shashi Tharoor made us proud with his speech claiming India to be the rightful owner of the Kohinoor, and TED Talks became the new bastion for discussing and spreading radical new ideas, there was a man who did us proud on a world platform. Swami Vivekananda’s speech at the first Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in Chicago, is considered among his most significant contributions to the world — so much so that a three-day world
mainly happened due to unusual activity deep inside the sea,” said a scientist with the Chennai-based Central Marine Fisheries Institute. A team of experts have also rushed to the village for an on-the-spot assessment of the cause. Pilot whales – known to be among some of the most social aquatic mammals -- are so named because they are led or ‘piloted’ by a leader in their search for food or breeding grounds. A forest department official who had visited the beach said there were injury marks on the dead whales which indicated “high intensity” underwater activity. “This may have happened hundreds of kilometres away and the whales may have been washed to the coast because of the tide,” said the official who did not give his name. Rescue workers and fishermen
worked through the day to pull the whales -each weighing between 1 tonne to 1.5 tonne and measuring between 8 feet and 10 feet -- back into the sea. Ten fishing boats and one mechanised fish-
ing made several sorties, each ferrying one whale at a time to sea and returning for more on the shore. Local residents said that the last time they
saw such a large number of whales beaching was way back in 1973 when 140 whales had washed ashore. Many of them had died.
carried out by a suicide bomber of Syrian origin,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech in the capital Ankara. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said most of the dead were foreigners, but did
not give details on their nationality. He identified the bomber as a Syrian national born in 1988. Speaking in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that German nationals were “probably” among the victims.
Syrian suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul’s tourist heart Agency | Istanbul
Ten people, mostly foreigners, were killed today when a Syrian suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul’s busiest tourist district, in the latest deadly attack to hit the country. Images showed several mutilated corpses lying on the ground close to the iconic Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Sultanahmet, a district which is home to Istanbul’s biggest concentration of historic monuments. “I strongly condemn the terror attack which was
Lawyers, petitioners laud Supreme Court’s stay on ‘Jallikattu’
Music director Anirudh Ravichandran, Agency | New Delhi Nadu. Last week, the Cenwho has allegedly comtre had lifted the ban on Lawyers and petitionposed the controversial the sport circumventing a ers, who fought for the ‘Beep’ song sung by Supreme Court ruling of quashing of ‘Jallikattu’, actor Simbu, appeared May 2014. The apex court on Tuesday expressed before police here in has also issued notices to happiness over the Suconnection with a case Agency | Batala the Centre, Tamil Nadu preme Court’s order to registered against them. and other states, where schoolchildren stay the Centre’s notificaAnirudh appeared be- Three ‘Jallikattu’ is played. The tion of lifting the ban on fore the inspector of the were killed and around Centre’s notification that the traditional bull-fightRace Course Road po- twenty four injured when ing sport of Tamil Nadu. Sowmya Reddy, Radha the apex court, which ear- sought to lift the ban on Jallice station here around a school bus fell into a “The SC has issued notice Rajan and People for the lier prohibited Jallikattu. likattu during the festival 11 PM yesterday and ditch at Fatehgarh Chuto all state governments Ethical Treatment of An- Basically, the cruelty in of Pongal in Tamil Nadu submitted a two-page rian town, 25 km from and the Centre. We had imals (PETA), said the the sport cannot be pre- was challenged in the Sustatement, reiterating Batala in Gurdaspur disasked for the notification Centre’s notification was vented, which is inherent preme Court on Monday. his stand that he was trict, on Tuesday mornto be quashed, and the completely faulty on legal in the sport itself,” one The petitions were filed by not the composer of the ing. The bus carrying song, police said. In a students of the Captain taken to a nearby hospi- Fatehgarh Churian town court stayed that notifica- and ethical grounds. “We of the petitioners Gauri Animal Welfare Board of WhatsApp message, School of Excellency was tals including, hospitals in Gurdaspur. The local tion. So, no bullfight or are extremely happy, be- Maulekhi told ANI. The India, (PETA) India and Anirudh said, “As re- hit by a gypsy and fell off in Amritsar for first aid police have also ques- bullock-cart race will take cause the notification was Supreme Court on Tues- a Bangalore-based NGO. quired I have reported the bridge after the driv- and treatment. The acci- tioned the principal of the place now,” lawyer Apar- completely faulty on legal day suspended the Centre’s The four-year-old ban on to the police in Coim- er lost control. All three dent took place when the school ,Capt. Harinder na Bhatt told ANI. Gauri and ethical grounds. Le- notification, lifting the ban holding of Jallikattu was batore in person and students died on the spot bus was coming from a Singh in connection with Maulekhi, who was one of gally, because there was on jallikattu, the traditional lifted on January 8 by the given my statement.” and other injured were village near Amritsar to the accident . the petitioners, along with a comprehensive order by bull-fighting sport of Tamil Centre with some riders. Corpo. Office: A/41, Madhav Chamber’s, Shaktidhara Colony, Opp-Sayona Arcade, L.B.S. Road, Toll Naka, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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2 / Dt. 13-01-2016, Wednesday Editors’ Picks wednesday, JANUARY 13, 2016 Politics over Jallikattu: Animals must be treated in more humane ways The Centre last week issued a notification which makes it possible to legally organise jallikattu, a popular bull-taming sport patronised by farming communities in Tamil Nadu. This reverses a 2011 decision of the UPA government, which, by placing bulls in the list of animals that shall not be deemed as performing animals, had effectively banned the sport. In 2014, the Supreme Court endorsed the Centre’s decision when it upheld the view that jallikattu, and other sporting events like bullock-cart racing, violate the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. Animal rights groups have now sought the apex court’s intervention in the matter while the political class in Tamil Nadu, in a rare show of unanimity, has welcomed the Centre’s decision. Jallikattu and other such sports are a part of agrarian culture. They give play to expressions of masculine violence, but they also showcase the prowess of cattle breeders and rearers and the skills of farm hands in managing cattle. Rural communities involved in these sports see legislative and judicial attempts to ban them as an assault on their tradition and cultural rights. While it is also true that culture must not be seen to be frozen or fixed in time, bans or unilateral legal intervention may not be the best way to bring in reform. The concerns of cruelty towards animals raised by the activist community in the context of jallikattu are valid and there is a case for more humane treatment of farm animals. Over the years, debates on the ethics of the use of animals, not just in sport but also in other fields of entertainment like the circus, have helped in sensitising society to animal rights. But the shift from an anthropocentric vision to ecocentric wisdom can be achieved only through education and negotiation. Blunt instruments like bans only polarise the debate and may eventually cause a breakdown of the law. On jallikattu, political parties seem to be driven only by the populist impulse. Jallikattu patrons are politically influential in rural Tamil Nadu and the state is headed for elections this year. The political calculus also explains the double standard of the BJP, which seeks to take credit for liftng the ban on jallikattu in Tamil Nadu even as it sings paeans to the cow elsewhere. Banned by the Supreme Court in 2014, Jallikattu made a brief comeback last week when the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests issued a notification citing culture and tradition to allow the sport, despite the bull being on the list of animals which are prohibited from being used as performing animals. The Animal Welfare Board of India, the original petitioners in the SC, challenged the Centre’s notification in the apex court on 11 January.
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Don’t think about stardom anymore: Akkineni Nagarjuna
Agency | Chennai Actor Akkineni Nagarjuna says he’s at a position in his career where he doesn’t bother about stardom anymore. Instead, he says he would concentrate on doing good films, even if it means waiting for over a year for a release. Nagarjuna’s “Soggade Chinni Nayana”, which releases worldwide on Friday (January 15), is his first release since 2014 Telugu drama “Manam”. “I don’t think about stardom anymore. I’m way past that phase. The only thing that matters to me now is doing good films.
I may not have had a release in 2015, but the wait has paid off with ‘Soggade…’, which has come out really well,” Nagarjuna said. Directed by debutant Kalyan Krishna, the film also stars Ramya Krishnan and Lavanya Tripathi in important roles. Talking about the film in which he plays dual roles, he said: “I play the father and son. This is a fun film with a ghost angle. I also come as a ghost, but I won’t be scaring anybody. This is not your regular horror film. It’s a lovely story of a father returning as a soul to help his son”.
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QUOTE “The last time he contested the election to the Lok Sabha was from Amritsar as a BJP candidate in 2014. Despite the success of the BJP this plaintiff lost by a margin of more than 1,00,000 OF THE votes. Indian democracy has never accepted his claim of public character.” - Arvind Kejriwal responded to Arun Jaitley’s defamation suit with a stinging reply in which he taunted the Union Finance Minister... DAY Will Priyanka Chopra play villain in Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s ‘Baywatch’? Agency | Los Angeles
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is in talks to join Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in Baywatch, which would mark her Hollywood film debut. The 33-year-old actress is already creating waves internationally with her maiden American TV series Quantico. She also won her first international honour recently, People Choice Award for the best actress in a new TV series. Baywatch is Paramount’s bigscreen take on the 1990s television series about California lifeguards. Seth Gordon is directing the feature, which is paddling
toward a shoot with Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach also suiting up, said The Hollywood Reporter. The movie centres on the leader of an elite group of lifeguards (Johnson), who is forced to team up with a young, hotshot
former Olympian (Efron) to save their beloved bay. Scheduling conflicts with the film’s shoot and Priyanka’s American show Quantico still need to be worked out, but if signed, the actress would play the story’s villain.
Anushka starts training for her deglam role of a wrestler in Sultan
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star is set to play a wresBollywood actor Anush- tler in the film. Anushka ka Sharma has said she will sport a “realistic and is excited to work in the de-glam” look for Sultan. upcoming film Sultan as An international prosher role in the Salman thetics expert, who will Khan-starrer is something be working on Salman’s that she is eagerly waiting character, will also help to “dig my teeth into”. “I create Anushka’s definite am training to be working look. “The role is somewith Salman (in Sultan ). thing that I am just waitI am really excited about ing to dig my teeth into,” the film and my role,” the she added. The 27-yearactress said on the side- old, who has also worked lines of Britannia Film- with Shah Rukh Khan fare Awards, held over and Aamir Khan in the the weekend. The NH10 past, is all praise for the
Dabangg star . “There is nobody like him because of his persona,” she said. Speaking about the pairing, director Abbas Ali Zafar said. “We wanted to cast a great actor opposite Salman. That was the main criterion. Anushka is a terrific actress and a star in her own right. She can pull off a film effortlessly. But the biggest plus point is that she is athletic, she understands the language and the mannerisms and it will be easy for her to get into the skin of the character. Also, she has previously romanced Shah Rukh and Aamir Khan. Now, it’s Salman. They look great together. Once the look is out, you will see.” Produced by Aditya Chopra, Sultan is slated to release on Eid this year.
Sunny Leone’s naughty ‘Ande Ka Funda’ ‘Mastizaade’ motion poster
Agency | Mumbai Milap Zaveri’s ‘Matizaaade’ is turning out to be one of the most awaited films of the month! The sex comedy starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sunny
Leone and Vir Das in lead roles has a new motion poster to offer to the audiences. The teaser, trailer and songs of the film have been a huge hit among admirers of adult humour.
The film will see Sunny Leone playing a double role. So this winter, enjoy the double dose of Sunny Leone as she hits the silverscreen this month end with her ‘Mastizaade’.
Ritika told reporters at an event. Filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani is co-producing the film, which releases on January 29. “It was a dream come true as in my first film I have Rajkumar Hirani as the producer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?” Ritika said. When asked her about facing competition in the industry, she
said, “I am not an insecure person. Thanks to my training in martial arts I have it in me to appreciate good work, say wow and say ‘You deserve it’.” Ritika’s father, who was present at the event, is proud of his daughter and her achievements in life so far. Ritika shared she is inspired by American mixed martial artist-actress Ronda Rousey.
earlier this month, sharing several pictures that captured the Arjun-Kareena’s onscreen chemistry on his Instagram account. Sharing his experience on working with Balki for the movie, Big B wrote on his blog last year, “I work... I work with the wife... I work for R Balki... for his new film that he makes with Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor... called Ki and Ka... and if you know
anything about Balki, you will realise that his titles are most fascinating..This is a guest appearance, where we play ourselves, in our own home.” While this is the first time Jaya and Balki have teamed up for any film, Amitabh has worked with the director before in Cheeni Kum, Paa and Shamitabh. He also had a guest appearance in Balki’s wife Gauri Shindey’s directorial debut English Vinglish.
Boxer Ritika Singh of Saala Khadoos wants to continue acting Agency | Mumbai
Boxer-turned-actress Ritika Singh wants to balance both her training in boxing as well as acting in films. Ritika, a national-level kick boxer, is well-versed with mixed martial arts and karate. Now she is making her debut in Hindi films with actor R Madhavan in “Saala Khadoos”. “I would love to do films as it is a different experience. I am open to do all kind of films. I want to try something else as I can’t do action. I have got beaten up and beat up people. I will continue to train whenever I have fights. I have a knee injury… hope it gets well soon,”
Ki and Ka motion poster: Where Sanjay Dutt will be a free man on February 25 Arjun Kapoor wears the mangalsutra Agency | Mumbai Sanjay Dutt will be out of Yerwada jail on February 25 after serving the five-year term after being convicted for his involvement in 1993 serial blasts. The actor has got the remission of more than eight months for his ‘good conduct’ and the work hours he contributed to in the jail. A press statement issued by actor’s publicity agency has clarified the matter and confirmed the date of his release. HT was the first to report about the date of the actor’s release and him getting remission of 105 days. The statement stated, “Dutt, who has been serving the remainder of his five-year term in Yerwada will finish his term on February 25th, contrary to the media reports that have been stating various dates of his
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release.” Sanjay Dutt got fullest remission despite controversy over ‘misusing’ leaves on furlough and parole. “There were reports of misuse of the exemption given under furlough and parole to the actor. But, according to us, he had taken the leaves he was entitled to,” said a home department official. The actor has spent threeand-half years in jail, in-
cluding the period spent as an undertrial. Dutt was convicted for illegal possession of an automatic assault rifle, a part of cache of arms and ammunition that landed ahead of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people were killed. Meanwhile, a petition was filed in the Bombay High Court on January 7 seeking restrain Dutt’s early release.
Be it Cheeni Kum or Shamitabh, R Balki’s film title always have a zing. And, to match upto the zing of Ki and Ka , the motion poster of the upcoming film featuring Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor is role reversal in the most interesting way. Amitabh Bachchan shared the first motion poster of Ki and Ka on his Facebook page. The film features also has guest appearances by Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. In the 48-second long video, Kareena, who plays an ambitious career-woman in the film, is seen putting a mangalsutra on Arjun’s neck, who plays her house-husband. Ki and Ka is set to hit theatres on April 1. Arjun Kapoor had unveiled the first look of Ki and Ka
3 / Dt. 13-01-2016, Wednesday Google celebrates story-teller Charles Perrault’s 388 b’day
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Agency | New Delhi We all owe are childhood to Charles Perrault as without his fairytales it would have not been so beautiful. Be it the glass slipper and the pumpkin that turns into a carriage or the princess who falls into a deep sleep when she pricks her hand on a spindle, Perrault has filled magic in everyone’s life. And to celebrate the French author’s 388th birthday, Google has created a special doodle. The doodle features scenes from stories such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Mother Goose and Puss in Boots. Perrault, an academic from Paris spent most of his life in the court of King Louis XV in the 17th century. He passed away in 1703. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.
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FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale feels sorry for Sepp Blatter, the banned president of soccer`s scandal-plagued governing body, and has described his work as a “monument.” Sexwale, a South African businessman and politician, is one of five candidates standing to replace Blatter, who has been banned for eight years along with European soccer boss Michel Platini by FIFA`s ethics committee. “I feel very sorry for him,” Sexwale told Sky Sports. “He is a friend. I`ve spoken on the phone to Blatter and Platini, and they are leaders so they have to deal with
Fan pays Shahid Afridi’s bill after cricketer forgets to change currency at airport Agency | Karachi
it. “They have to face their mistakes, but let`s not bury the good that they have done.” Blatter was FIFA president from 1998 until December, and had previously been Secretary General. The Swiss had prided himself on promoting football development around the world and being head of FIFA when South Africa became the first African nation to host the World
Cup in 2010. “Blatter`s work is a monument that stands for itself. It is a mountain that cannot be moved,” said Sexwale. “It is up to the ethics committee what happens. The damage done is for posterity but it is not like they`ve murdered or committed genocide. “It is a game. We are there to understand and carry on their good work and learn from their mistakes.”
Lionel Messi wins Ballon d’Or for fifth time, Arsene Wenger unhappy Agency | London
Agency | Mumbai Private sector lender IndusInd Bank Ltd on Tuesday said its net profit for the quarter ended 31 December 2015 jumped 30% on strong growth in its core operating income and other income. Net profit for the quarter stood at Rs581.02 crore compared to Rs447.19 crore—an increase of 29.9%. A poll of 22 Bloomberg analysts had pegged net profit at Rs579.10 crore. Net interest income, or the core income from lending businesses, rose 36.23% to Rs1,173.42 crore in the October to December quarter compared to Rs861.37 crore in the yearago period. Other income, which includes earnings from fee-generating businesses, rose 29% to Rs839 crore from Rs649 crore in the year-ago quarter. Asset quality at the bank remained largely steady although the bank increased provisions during the quarter. Gross non performing assets (NPAs) at the end of the quarter were at 0.82% of total loans compared to 0.77% in the July-September quarter and 1.05% in the year-ago period.
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Lionel Messi reclaimed the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the world player of the year on Monday from his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo who had walked off with the award for the previous two years. The Barcelona and Argentina forward took 41.33 percent of the votes followed by the Portuguese and Real Madrid forward (27.76 percent), with Brazil and Barcelona forward Neymar third (7.86 per cent). “It is a very special moment for me to be back here on this stage, winning again another Ballon d’Or after being there in the audience watching Cristiano win,” said Messi as he accepted the award at the end of
Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi was saved of much embarrassment when a fan stepped in to pay for his meal at a fast food joint in Auckland after the flamboyant cricketer realised that he was not carrying local currency. The Pakistan team is in New Zealand for a limited-overs series starting January 15. Afridi and teammate Ahmed Shehzad had gone to buy meals at a McDonald’s restaurant inside the Auckland airport on Monday. The players, however, were carrying US dollars instead of local currency with them. And after the restaurant
did not accept the money offered by the them, a fan — Waqas Naveed — paid Afridi’s bill. Afridi told the Pakistani media that he and Shehzad had forgotten to change their US dollars into New Zealand currency before going to the restaurant. “There was this young man behind us in the line and he offered to pay for us insisting it was his
way of welcoming us to New Zealand,” Afridi said. But the all-rounder said he was disappointed that the entire episode was recorded by someone in the restaurant and the media had been playing it. “Had us dollars which they wasent taking at nz airport:) but glad 1nce again our media entertaining all of u,” he tweeted.
Dixit has now decided to ‘auction’ off his kidney to pay for his campaign for next month’s South Asian Games. Dixit has posted on social media that he wants to sell his kidney and asked interested buyers to bid for it. “I have been playing squash for the last 10 years. Even after winning so many medals and representing India so many times, I
do not get any support to take my squash to the national and international levels,” Dixit said. “Dhampur Sugar Mill has supported me but how long will they continue to support me? Next month, the games are starting in Guwahati and I am representing India. To prepare for the tournament, I am training in Chennai but I have not been able to arrange enough money to fund my campaign for the games. I have lost my determination. I am ready to sell my kidney. If anyone needs a kidney, they can contact me. The price of my kidney is Rs 8 lakh,” he said in a Facebook post on Sunday.
where one run can mean the difference between a win and loss. “This is the most unbelievable, ridiculous cricket I’ve ever seen,” said former Australian Test skipper Ricky Ponting. “Sometimes in cricket and in life you get what you deserve, and he got what he deserved there. “What sort of message does that send to the boys on the
sideline?” Gayle was dismissed the next ball when Fawad Ahmed took a catch off Clint McKay. He had scored 28 off 20 balls. The burly West Indian declined to be interviewed about the incident after the match. Normally batsmen would only refuse an easy single if they were attempting to keep the strike and protect a lesser batsman.
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a drawn-out 90-minute ceremony. “It’s incredible this is my fifth.” Barcelona’s Luis Enrique was voted coach of the year while United States World Cup winner Carli Lloyd, who scored a hattrick in the final against Japan, was named women’s player of the year. Initially started as the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991, it became known as the
Ballon d’Or after merging with France Football’s European footballer of the year award in 2010. The award, shared exclusively between Messi and Real Madrid’s Ronaldo since Brazilian Kaka won in 2007, has been heavily promoted by FIFA and was broadcast to 190 countries with 1,100 guests including players and coaches attending the ceremony.
Sania-Martina eases into second round of Sydney International Sania Mirza is atop the list with 11395 points while Martina Hingis has 11355 points in her kitty.
Agency | Perth What do you do when you are a squash player who’s won a gold medal at the Asian Junior championship, but have no money even to travel? This is the story of Ravi Dixit, a 20-year-old squash player who won gold in the 2010 Asian Junior championship. According to a news daily,
Chris Gayle under fire for BBL no-run controversy
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Agency | Mumbai The bank is proposing to raise Basel-III compliant Tier-II Bonds amounting to Rs 1,000 crore by way of private/public placement, cited the company statement. Bank of Maharashtra, a leading public sector bank, on Tuesday, said it will raise Rs 1,000 crore by issuing Basel-III compliant bonds on a private placement basis. “Bank of Maharashtra has informed the BSE that the bank is proposing to raise Basel-III compliant Tier-II Bonds amounting to Rs 1,000 crore by way of private/public placement,” it said in a regulatory filing. At 1437 hours, the shares of Bank of Maharashtra were trading down 0.64% or Rs 0.20 at Rs 31.10 per scrip intraday on the BSE. According to a Fitch Ratings report, Indian banks need $140 billion (nearly Rs 9.34 lakh crore) capital to ensure full compliance with the Basel-III norms by 2018-19. The Basel-III norms are aimed at bolstering banks resilience. Basel-III capital regulations are being implemented in India with effect from April 1, 2013, in a phased manner.
Agency | Sydney The seemingly unstoppable duo of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis eased past Anastasia Rodionova and Arina Rodionova in the opening round of Sydney International to extend their winning streak to 27 matches in Sydney on Tuesday. Rohan Bopanna too won his opening round alongside Romanian partner
Florin Mergea to enter the quarterfinals of the concurrently held ATP event. The fourth seeds had to dig deep to beat Denis Istomin and Henri Kontinen 6-7, 6-3, 108. Doubles world number one Sania and Swiss great Martina mauled the Rodionova pairing, representing Australia, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quarters. Sania and Martina
began 2016 by winning the Brisbane International last week for their sixth title in a row. Their 27-match winning run is the longest since Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won 25 in a row in 2012. Sara and Roberta had won five titles in a row, at Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, the French Open and ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
West Indies star Chris Gayle was again at the centre of a controversy on Tuesday for his actions in Australia’s Big Bash League, days after a storm over his sexist comments to a female television presenter. Gayle, who made headlines after attempting to flirt with Network Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin during an live interview, was savaged by commentators for refusing to take what appeared to be an easy single for his Melbourne Renegades team against Sydney Thunder late Monday. He was criticised by the match commentators for turning back his fellow opening batsman Tom Cooper, who was keen to take a run in a format
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Etawah Safari: Uttar Pradesh Two acquisitions that lapsed because grapples with dying lions, rising cost Gujarat delayed taking possession
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When Mulayam Singh Yadav’s “dream project” was envisioned in 2005, Etawah Lion Safari was estimated to cost the Uttar Pradesh government Rs 5 crore. By the end of September 2015 — only two years after work on the project eventually started with the Samajwadi Party supremo’s son at the helm of affairs, the government has, as per its own records, spent Rs 53 crore so far. Close to Rs 1 lakh is spent every month on food and the upkeep of each pair of the animal. The safari’s breeding center, at present, houses four such pairs — four li-
ons and as many lionesses. The government has also created a corpus fund of Rs 100 crore for the safari’s maintenance. The figures were released in response to an application filed by The Indian Express under the Right to Information Act. The data shows that the government, each month, spends lakhs in arranging the
facilities not just for the creatures but in the several works it keeps undertaking to make the project a success. Among the works undertaken by the government include veterinary hospital, breeding centre, houses for animals, quarantine, post-mortem, overhead tank, substation, pump house, deep tubewell pump, and facilities
Fisheries scam: Gujarat High Court stays warrant against minister Solanki Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court on Monday granted relief to BJP minister Purushottam Solanki against non-bailable warrant issued by a special anti-corruption court in connection with the multicrore fisheries scam. The High Court stayed the warrant till the second week of February, a day before special court was to hear the case in Gandhinagar. On a plea moved by Solanki, a single judge bench of Justice J B Pardiwala stayed the warrant issued by special judge R A Ghoghari. Solanki’s lawyer Virat Popat told the High Court that despite police report stating “no case is made out against Solanki, a non-bailable warrant was issued by the special court”. The court stayed the warrant and ordered
to take up the case in the second week of February. In September last year, the High Court had stayed the trial in this case against former minister Dilip Sanghani, who was also allegedly involved along with five retired government officers. In this case Solanki, who was the then minister of state for fisheries and currently state minister for animal husbandry and cow protection,
granted fishing contracts for 58 reservoirs to his alleged favourite parties, bypassing the mandatory auctioning process. The matter came to light after Ishaq Maradia, a Banaskantha-based fishing contractor, approached the High Court accusing Solanki and others of irregularities in awarding contracts for fishing in 2008. Maradia moved the court after he was denied the contract.
for visitors and staff. Besides regulation of temperature with the help of heaters during winters and coolers in summers, RO-purified water and disinfected meat for the animals have become permanent arrangements. All efforts, however, have fallen short because ever since the spate of deaths began in October 2014, two lionesses, one lion and two cubs have died. Three more cubs were stillborn. Lioness Kunwari is reportedly ill for the past few weeks. The deaths have left the experts flummoxed and the officials with nothing but the illnesses to talk about.
Before the Reliance Industries petition challenging the validity of a key clause in the 2013 land Act, there have been at least two cases in which Gujarat High Court has declared land acquisition lapsed because possession had not taken or compensation not been paid within a time-frame of five years prior to enactment of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013. The Act came into effect in January 2014. In both cases, the court invoked section 24(2), which sets the time-frame of five years for land that had been ac-
Gujarat HC issues notices on school children being crammed in auto Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court today issued notices to various state government authorities while hearing a PIL seeking a directive on the issue of school children being crammed in autos. This is being is termed as gross violation of fundamental rights of children by the petitioner. After hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), filed by Vadodara based advocate Biju Nair, who appeared as party-in-person, High Court bench comprising acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and justice V M Pancholi issued notices to Gujarat government, the state Transport Commissioner and the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. Since the Gujarat High Court had taken up this matter suo motu in 2006 and asked the government to frame rules and regulation in this re-
gard at that time, it also asked the state transport department to submit those rules and regulations before the court on January 28. To substantiate the case, the petitioner has attached several photos showing 15 to 16 children crammed inside one auto. According to the petitioner, such practise is going on in major cities like Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat. The PIL contended that as per Motor Vehicle Act, a maximum of six children in the age group of 4 to 12 can be accommodated in one auto. Citing a past judgement of the Gujarat High Court, the PIL also stated that the limit was later on raised to 8 in Gujarat. However, the petitioner alleged that no rules are followed by auto drivers to maximise their profit as the autos can be seen cramped with 12 to 15 children.
quired under the previous Land Acquisition Act of 1894. In July 2014, the court held that the acquisition of 16,064 square metres in Jahangirpura, Surat, by the state-owned Gujarat Electricity Transmission Corporation Ltd had lapsed on the ground that GETCO did not take physical possession of the land within the fiveyear time-frame. A single judge bench of Justice
On Monday, a Gujarat High Court division bench of acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and Justice N V Anjaria set January 25 as the date for hearing a special civil application by Reliance Industries against the standing law on land acquisition. The matter has arisen out of land acquisition for Reliance’s special economic zone in Jamnagar. The wider significance of the case, across infrastructure projects, is about if and when acquisition made under an old law lapses under the current one. At the centre of the debate is section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013. It says if land was
tries in the past five years. He said the minister has assured that a CPCB team will visit Ankleshwar next week. The industrial region, which comprise Ankleshwar, Jhagadiya and Panoli, was in January, 2010, earmarked under ‘critically polluted’ category by the CPCB, thus, banning the setting up of new units and expansion of the existing factories. The decision was taken
after a review of the zone, which has several chemical units, where pollution levels were found to be high. He said they have submitted a memorandum to Javadekar in this regard. “Industries in the last five years have invested Rs 800 crore to install pollution control equipments, and took steps to control air pollution,” one of the delegates, NK Navadia, said.
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minute-long video clip captured by an unidentified person showed the accused policeman ‘groping and indecently touching’ girls and women while walking at the Kankaria Carnival held in the last week of December. The Kankaria Carnival is a week-long festival held around Kankaria lake premises in the city, where cultural, art and social events are organised. Hundreds of police personnel are deployed at the Carnival for security purposes.
Ankleshwar industry players seek review by CPCB Correspondent | Vadodara
A delegation of Ankleshwar Industries Association (AIA) has urged Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar to review the status of the industrial zone, which currently falls under the ‘critically polluted’ zone. The industrial zone in Bharuch district, around 100 kms away from here, was earmarked under “critically polluted” category by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2010. Secretary of AIA Jashubhai Chaudhary told PTI that a delegation met Javdekar yesterday in Bharuch and sought review of the current status of pollution level in the zone, which they claim has fallen due to the effective measures undertaken by the indus-
Why all eyes are on the ZERODHA ANNOUNCES Reliance’s land acquisition case ZERO BROKERAGE FEE Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
R D Kothari passed the judgment, pointing out that the government had acquired the land in 1987 under the provisions of the 1894 Land Acquisition Act but did not take possession, hence it had lapsed as per the provisions of the new Act. In October 2015, a division bench comprising Justices Akil Kureshi and Mohinder Pal, ruling on a set of petitions moved
by 13 farmers of Otala village of Morbi district, decided in favour of the farmers. The land here was for Bangwadi Irrigation Project; farmers’ land was acquired in 2008. The group of farmers who filed the petition, however, had voluntarily forgone their right to compensation. Their land was going to be submerged only for a month in the monsoon when the dam was filled to capacity, they pointed out, saying they could farm there for the rest of the year. When the compensation award for farmers was declared in 2008. the government agreed not to acquire the land of this group of farmers, and possession stayed with them.
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Policeman ‘groping’girls at Kankaria Lake Front in Ahmedabad identified
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acquired under the earlier 1894 Act five years or more before the new Act came into effect — this happened on January 1, 2014 — and if physical possession was not taken or compensation not paid, then the acquisition will be deemed lapsed. In 2008, it was under the 1894 Act that the land was acquired for the Reliance SEZ. In 2014, a group of farmers moved the court seeking that the acquisition of their land be declared lapsed because they
are still in possession of it. Reliance has now challenged the constitutional validity of section 24(2). The 2013 Act was passed during the UPA regime. The current NDA regime has been seeking to amend the Act by modifying the way the five-year period is calculated — it proposes that the period of any court stay or injunction be excluded while computing the five-year window. The amendment, however, has not yet cleared Parliament.
ZERODHA, India’s leading online brokerage firm, today announced ZERO brokerage on all equity investments. There will be no upfront fees, no minimum volume, no special terms and conditions, no clauses, no strings attached. It also announced the launch of its web based trading portal KITE in Gujarati language. ZERODHA currently has support offices in Ahmedabad and Surat, with plans to expand in Rajkot by this month. The support offices will help in offering superior localise services for its clients and also to educate them on innovative initiatives regularly from ZERODHA. The awareness for stock mar-
ket participation in India is very low and to attract the 65% of Indian population who are below 35 years of age, ZERODHA has taken significant initiatives including ZERO brokerage and KITE in Gujarati. KITE is a minimalistic web based trading platform that adapts to mobiles and tablet. It also offers everything a traditional platform does, and a lot more, through a very minimalistic interface.
The interface is so simple and self explanatory, anyone with basic knowledge can login and start trading without training. Speaking more on this significant development, Nithin Kamath, Founder & CEO – ZERODHA said, “The investment culture has to be nurtured, and we intend to do this not just by offering a zero brokerage investing platform, but an extremely easy user experience with KITE Gujarati.
Ahmedabad Police today identified and held a policemen groping groping girls and improperly touching women at a recently held Kankaria Carnival festival at Kankaria Lake Front in city. A video clip purportedly showing a policeman groping girls and improperly touching women at a recently-held festival here, had gone viral on social media, following which the city police had ordered an inquiry into the incident. Around a
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