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Police team destroys opium crop Agency : Bhabhua, Mar 12
Police today destroyed opium crop from a village in Bihar's Kaimur district, an official said. Acting on a tip off, a police team raided Baruna village and destroyed opium crop grown on four acres of land. A farmer Rajan Singh was arrested for cultivating contraband substance, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Suresh Kumar said. The destroyed opium crop was valued at over Rs 4 crore in international market, he said.
Parliament approves longpending insurance bill Agency : New Delhi, Mar 12
Parliament tonight approved the NDA government's first major economic reform measure as the longpending bill providing for raising foreign investment cap to 49 per cent in insurance was passed by Rajya Sabha after main opposition Congress and some other parties came on board. The controversial Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which replaced an ordinance promulgated in December last, was passed by voice vote after walkout by Trinamool Congress and DMK.
Kejriwal responding to treatment well Agency : New Delhi, Mar 12
Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal, who is undergoing naturopathy treatment in Bengaluru, is responding well to medicines with his sugar level coming down, party sources said. Kejriwal, who is on a ten day break, will return to the national capital on Sunday and will resume work on Monday.
Pleasant weather in the national capital Agency : New Delhi, Mar 12
Delhiites experienced a pleasant day as the temperatures remained within comfortable levels and the sun shone bright throughout the day. The maximum temperature was recorded at 28 degree Celsius, normal for this time of the year, while the minimum settled at two notches below.
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Shah revamps BJP National Executive: Smriti, Shaina dropped Agency : New Delhi The first meeting of BJP's new national executive finalised today by party president Amit Shah is expected in the first week of April in Bangalore. Shah finalised the party's 111member national executive today, which includes top party leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former prime minister AB Vajpayee besides a host of top party leaders. All the eight chief ministers of BJPruled states and two deputy chief ministers, including that in Jammu and Kashmir where the party shares power with PDP, besides 24 former chief ministers and
three former deputy chief ministers are permanent invitees to the national executive. The BJP chief has also made 40 senior leaders from across the country special invitees to the national executive. The new list comes ahead of the party's national executive meeting and party's restructuring by Shah. Among those who are part of the new national body include party veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, besides Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Ananth Kumar,
Thawarchand Gehlot, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Kalraj Mishra, Narendra Singh
Sunanda Pushkar case: Delhi Police may quiz Pak journalist Mehr Tarar Agency : New Delhi Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar may soon be questioned in connection with the mysterious death of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar as Delhi Police widens ambit of its investigation in the highprofile case. Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said Tarar was a “relevant link” in the case and the Special Investigating Team probing Sunanda’s death may question her soon. A day before she was found
dead in a luxury hotel here in January last year, Sunanada had a spat with Tarar on microblogging website Twitter over the latter’s alleged affair with Tharoor. “If necessary, we will question her. We will try and get in touch with her because she is a relevant person who can throw some light into the case,” Bassi said when asked whether the investigators will examine her. Sources in the police said that a formal request is likely to be sent to her through “official
channels” asking her to join the investigations. On her part, Tarar said she was ready to answer questions if it would help the police piece together the sequence of events. “If they think there is anything that could help them to piece together the sequence of events, I would of course answer their questions,” she said. Bassi said investigators have also asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US to complete examination of Sunanda’s viscera as soon as possible.
Corporate espionage: CBI raids various ministries, private firms, recovers Rs 60 lakhs Agency : New Delhi The CBI on Thursday carried out searches at various ministries and offices of private firms in the national capital in the corporate espionage case. It has reportedly recovered Rs 60 lakh in cash in these searches from the residence of a chartered accountant in Delhi. The raids were conducted in six places in Delhi and Mumbai today to investigate the alleged sale of information by government officials. The probe by the CBI is separate from the investigation being carried out by the Delhi police regarding alleged sale of information by government officials. As per reports the new case relates to documents leaked from Union Finance Ministry. Reports also said that apart from cash, the CBI has also recovered several documents. Delhi Police had, on February 20,
arrested the five corporate executives from top energy firms alleging that they used to procure documents from other accused Lalta Prasad and Rakesh, and they used to pay them. These documents were then supplied to the companies by these officials to benefit the firm, the police had said. Five days later, Virender Kumar, a Defence Ministry staff member, was arrested for allegedly stealing an identity card of an auditor at Indian Defence Accounts Service and providing the same to one of the accused, Lalta Prasad, in the case. Besides them, the police had
also arrested Rakesh Kumar, Prayas Jain, Shantanu Saikia, Ishwar Singh, Asharam and Rajkumar Chaubey, who are also in judicial custody. In a separate FIR, the police had arrested three others - Lokesh Sharma, an employee of a Noida-based consultancy firm, Jitender Nagpal, PS to Joint Secretary in Forest and Environment Ministry and Vipan Kumar, PA to a UPSC member- and were sent to judicial custody till March 17. A total of 17 people have been arrested so far in connection with the two FIRs by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
Tomar, Harsh Vardhan, Bandaru Dattatreya and Radha Mohan Singh. However, HRD minister Smriti Irani and minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla are among the prominent faces who have
been dropped from party's national executive . Even Mathura MP Hema Malini and BJP's Mumbai spokesperson Shaina NC did not find mention in the list. Others include Yashwant Sinha, Vinay
Katiyar, CP Thakur, Jual Oram, SS Ahluwalia, Vijay K Malhotra, besides Hukumdev Narayan Singh, L Ganeshan, Lalji Tandon, O Rajgopal, Tathagat Roy, Gulab Chand Katariya and Subramanyam Swami. Ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Dharmendra Pradhan, Rajeev Pratap Rudy, Prakash Javadekar, (Gen) VK Singh, Suresh Prabhu, Birendra Singh, Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman are also part of the new executive. Other leaders like Varun Gandhi, Tapir Gaon, Vijay Goyal Satpal Maharaj, Vishnubhushan Harichandan, Vijay Mahapatra and PK Krishna Das, V Shanmughanathan, are also its members. Party's
firebrand leaders like Yogi Adityanath and Navjot Singh Sidhu are part of the executive, while another such leader Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti is a special invitee. All the BJP chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Raman Singh, Vasundhra Raje Scindia, Anandiben Patel, Raghuvar Das, Devendra Gandadharrao Fadnavis, Manohar Lal Khattar and Laxmikant Parsekar, besides deputy Chief Ministers Fracesco De D'souza and Nirmal Singh are also invitees. Besides, all Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council party leaders, state presidents of all states, all General Secretaries (Organisation) will be special invitees in National Executive.
Unseasonal rains lash Gujarat; crops hit Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Unseasonal rains lashed parts of Gujarat, causing severe damage to standing crops like wheat, groundnut, cotton and onion, particularly in the Saurashtra region of the state. The Meteorological Centre in Ahmedabad said, upper-air cyclonic circulation over South Pakistan and adjoining Kutch area has caused rainfall over Gujarat. "Moderate to heavy rainfall was reported in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Kheda and Vadodara districts of central Gujarat," the official release said. Amreli, Bhavnagar, Devboomi- Dwarka, Okha, Porbandar, Rajkot, Veraval and Gir Somnath districts of the state have also witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall. There was a light rainfall in Kutch region today, it said. The Meteorological Centre has also predicted rains at isolated places in Gujarat in next three days. The sudden showers have brought the mercury levels down and the state has witnessed chilly winds. Farmers in the state have suffered huge losses due to the unseasonal downpour. "There was a ready stock of pulses, groundnut and cotton put in various marketing-yards of Saurashtra. As far as Savarkundla Marketing Yard is concerned, it bears the loss of around Rs 25 lakh," former chairman of Savarkundla Marketing yard in Amreli district Mahesh Sudada said.
"Farmers had started shifting their wheat crops in marketing yard since last two weeks, but the untimely rainfall has damaged the ready crop and cost a loss of around Rs 1.50 crore in Kodinar marketing yard," Chairman of Kodinar Marketing yard in Gir Somanath district Subhash Dodiya said. Dodiya
added that the Gujarat government and the Centre should immediately come forward to buy the crops at minimum support price (MSP). "The unseasonal rainfall is also likely to affect the mango crop in Saurashtra region," he said. A farmer from Bhavnagar district, Mangalbhai Koli, said the
untimely rains damaged the onion crops in Mahuva taluka of the district. "Around 80 bales of onions, comprising 20 kg in each bale, got drenched in the rains, which caused a loss of lakhs of rupees. In such a situation, if the government does not help us, farmers will not able to survive," he said. Photo by : Rudani Dixit
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When ex-PMs brought embarrassment to Congress Congress is on sticky wickets yet again. Former Prime Minister Manmohan singh, known for his integrity and honesty helped Congress led UPA to attain power in two consecutive terms, is in the dock for his alleged role in the coal scam. On Wednesday he was summoned by Patiala House Court for offences of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act. Meanwhile, Congress leaders are crying foul saying that Singh is being implicated despite CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira Coal Blocks-II to Aditya Birla group's Hindalco in Odisha, 2005 when Singh held the portfolio of coal ministry. Showing solidarity with the leader, Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi thronged the streets of Delhi on Thursday. Attacking the NDA government for maintaining "studied silence", party termed the episode as "outrageous". Earlier, Manmohan Singh said that he will prove his innocence in a fair trial and truth will come out soon. "This is part of life. I have always said I am open for legal scrutiny... I am sure the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts," agonised Singh said when prodded about the issue. But this is not the first time when the grand-old-party's Prime Minister had to go through court proceedings. This wrangling with judiciary is not new for the dynasty party. In the past, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and political guru of Manmohan Singh Narshimbha Rao had to experience the same torment.She was the first Prime Minister of India who had to face this tough moment. In 1977, Gandhi had to appear in Allahabad High Court on a petition filed by a socialist leader named Raj Narain. Narain had accused Gandhi of corrupt electoral practices in Lok Sabha election (He had contested 1977 election against Gandhi as an SSP Candidate). Court on 12 June 1975 upheld the accusations and set aside the election of Indira Gandhi. Court also disqualified her to contest Lok Sabha election for next 6 years. Though, Supreme Court stayed the order but miffed Gandhi imposed emergency in the country. Indira Gandhi is still being hated for those emergency days which are termed as 'darkest days' in Indian democracy. Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, also had honest, corruption-free image till Bofors scandal cropped up in 1987. Rajiv's name emerging in the scandal resulted in a major defeat for his party in the 1989 general elections. The scandal which still haunts the party pertained to an illegal kickback paid in a US $1.3 billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors with the Government of India for the sale of 410 field howitzer guns, and a supply contract almost twice that amount. The CBI filed chargesheet in the case nine years after Gandhi's assassination in 1991. The investigating agency in 1997 had made Rajiv Gandhi as one of the several accused in the most notorious scandal in Indian history, though Gandhi didn't face trial as he was already dead by then.
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Aamir Khan apologises I want to be a nurse, but became a porn star! if PK has hurt anyone Agency : Mumbai Less then a week after its release, Aamir Khan Starer movie PK was in controversy as some rightwing Hindu outfits claimed that it was hurting the sentiments of Hindus. Aamir Khan did not react to the controversies that time. But now the star has come forward and apologised if PK had hurt someone's sentiments. Aamir Khan apologised to his fans during a function to launch the DVD of the movie PK. The star said that he had no intention to hurt anyone's sentiments. "The film has been loved by the majority. Personally I want to say I feel bad if I hurt a single person...That was not my intention at all. What we wanted to tell we told that because it was an important point. But I want to apologize if I hurt people,"
said Khan as reported by DNA.After its release on December 19 last year, the film made a record breaking collections at the box office. Aamir said that he had never expected such a great response to PK, but he felt overwhelmed with the response it got. "When we make a film with such effort and hard work and when people connect to the film emotionally you feel so good and fulfilled." The producer of the film
Vidhu Vinod Chopra and the director Rajkumar Hirani also attended the DVD launch event and said that it was a very emotional moment for the PK team to see that the film was doing so well. Talking about the DVD launch of the movie, Hirani said that the DVD was a treat for all the fans, as many scenes which were removed from the movie have now been included in the DVD.
is playing the role of Chandramukhi in Mishra's modern adaptation of Devdas. She was in town to attend a private function along with fellow actress Shazahn Padamsee. Aditi, whose filmography includes Delhi 6, Yeh Sali Zindagi, Rockstar to name a few, said she liked to be versatile on screen and is comfortable in handling intimate scenes.
Agency : Mumbai If you thought that the super sexy Sunny Leone always wanted to be in the adult film industry, then you are wrong. Sunny never had any plans of becoming a
porn star! In fact she wanted to be become a nurse when she was 16. Sunny used to work at a bakery when she was 15 and after that she worked at a tax and retirement center for a while.
But her heart was set on becoming a pediatric nurse. She studied hard to fulfill her wish of becoming a nurse by enrolling herself in a training institute. So she embarked upon an academic journey to become a pediatric nurse in Orange County. But a friend of her at the institute who was an exotic dancer introduced Sunny to a Penthouse magazine photographer and so her life took the turn toward the porn industry as we know it. Now she has established a foothold with her sex appeal and ‘desi look‘ in the Bollywood film industry and she is flooded with film offers! Sunny’s life-story will soon be documented by filmmaker Dilip Mehta and the ex-pornstar is nervous and excited about the same. She says, ” I am putting myself out there to the world in a way that I have never done before. I hope that when people watch it, they see the struggle and the triumphs I have faced. It has not been easy.”
Agency : Mumbai Let's start with the image. We absolutely love the playfully captured Kareena Kapoor and Karan Johar pictures in the special edition of Harper’s Bazaar India. The two of them share an enviable camaraderie and are known to be the biggest BFFs in Bollywood. As fabulous as they both look gracing the cover of this glossy, our attention seems to be drawn more towards some interesting remarks Karan Johar was known to have made in the story. Karan admitted, "I always feel if I were a man who would be interested, she would be the wife I wanted, or if I had a sibling, she would be the sister I never had, or if I was interested in dating women, she would probably be the woman I would want to date. Of course, she has her limitations and so do I." Interesting,
considering that the duo have created box office magic almost every time they have
collaborated. And we certainly want to know what those limitations are!
Birthday Special: Shreya Ghoshal turns 31 March 12 Kareena Would Be The Wife I Wanted: Karan Johar Agency : New Delhi Music industry's dedicated singer Shreya Ghoshal turned 31 on Thursday. With her silky voice, she carved out her own niche in the Bollywood and won laurels. She is known for her romantic, sensual and soulful numbers. She started her singing journey in reality show "Sa Re Ga Ma" when she was just 16 years old. Now she is among the topnotch singers in the industry. She began her Bollywood career with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Devdas for which she got National Film Award along with Filmfare Award. She has received numerous awards and nominations, including four National Film Awards for best playback singer, three State Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards, and seven Filmfare Awards South. Shreya had judged a TV show "Star Voice of IndiaChhote Ustaad" along with
singer Kunal Ganjawala and composer Pritam. She was one of the three judges in X Factor India with Sonu
Nigam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She also featured in Forbes’ list of the top 100 celebrities of India.
Amitabh Bachchan Says The South Film Industry Has Been Ahead Of Bollywood! Agency : Mumbai Bollywood actress Aditi Rao Hydari today said she had no inhibitions while facing camera. "Sudhir Mishra (filmmaker) had once told me though I have simple looks, I turn bold in front of camera... I love that I have no inhibitions... I like to be shameless in front of camera," Aditi told reporters here. The actress
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Agency : Mumbai Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan recently wore a 'mundu' to shoot for an ad with South film stars Prabhu, Shiva, Nagarjuna and Manju Warrior and took to his blog to gush about the experience. On his blog, the Big B wrote, ''There is a certain respect and cultural heritage in them all. The Industry itself has been
one that has functioned with utmost p r o f e s sionalism and discipline. Their modes of management and the contents of their creativity have always been ahead of the Industry in Mumbai. Though now the gap is slowly getting closed and the content and ethics of the two Industries has been on par almost. Marathi cinema for example is coming out
with some of the most prolific content in recent times. The artistry of their work, their story telling, their performances have all been exemplary.''
I may not direct Salman Khan Dabangg 3: Arbaaz Khan Agency : New Delhi Filmmaker Arbaaz Khan may not don the director's hat for the third venture in the Salman Khan-starrer Dabangg series. The producer had earlier taken to Twitter to announce he would direct Dabangg 3 but clarified on Wednesday that he is open to the idea of handing over the directorial duties to a capable person. "I did say that doing all three jobs can
get a little hectic. If there is any one job which can take the load off me will be direction. But I have to be confident enough to hand
over Dabangg 3 to some other director. If I feel I am confident about doing it without pressure I will do it myself," Arbaaz said.
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Karnataka down TN to clinch eighth Ranji title Agency : New Delhi India's industrial output growth accelerated to 2.6 percent in January, mainly driven by growth in the capital goods sector, government data showed on Thursday. Analysts polled by Reuters were expecting output growth to come in at 0.65 percent compared with a 1.7 percent growth in December. India plans to release industrial output data based on a new
methodology and use a different base year for calculating the index in the next few months, a senior government official at the statistics ministry told Reuters. The industrial output data with 2004/05 as base year has become less relevant now after the government changed the methodology as well as the base year for GDP calculations last month. The revised base year for GDP is 2011/12.
Xiaomi Redmi 2 arrives at Rs 6,999; Brings Mi Pad tablet at Rs 12,999
Agency : New Delhi At a time when it is becoming difficult for brands to differentiate in the budget Indian smartphone market, Xiaomi has managed to surprise us again with its Redmi 2. Not just that, the Chinese startup today also changed the budget tablet PC market in India with its Mi Pad. Priced at Rs 6,999, the Redmi 2 smartphone will go on sale only on Flipkart on March 24 at 2PM. Registrations for the same will begin on Flipkart from March 12 at 6PM. On the other hand, the Mi Pad tablet PC will be also available on Flipkart on March 24, however, no prior registrations are required. “We do not aim to sell cheap devices in India with great specification sheets.
We try to deliver the best value to our fans,” said Hugo Barra, VP, Xiaomi. The Redmi 2 not only offers the most in terms of hardware at this price but it has also given equal importance to the interface and overall user experience. The Redmi 2 smartphone sports a 4.7-inch 720p HD IPS fully laminated display (Sharp/AUO; 70% NTSC colour gamut, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 312ppi) along with AGC Dragontrail glass protection. Running Android 4.4.4 KitKat operating system sugarcoated with MIUI 6, the device comes with an 8MP BSI f/2.2 rear camera with 28mm wide-angle 5element lens and a 2MP BSI front camera with support for 720p video recording.
Govt asks PSU banks to step up lending to minorities Agency : New Delhi The government has advised PSU banks to step up lending to minorities with a view to ensuring that they get loans in proportion to their population. The decision to increase lending to the minorities was taken recently at a meeting called by Minority Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram with bankers. It was decided to increase the percentage share of lending to each minority community in proportion to their respective share in minority population. In term of population, Muslims constitute the largest
community, followed by Christians. Third largest minority group is that of the Sikhs. Besides, the RBI circular also mentioned Zoroastrians Buddhists and Jains as minority communities. The issue of minority lending had also came up for discussions in the meeting chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with heads of public sector banks yesterday. In order to ensure proportionate credit to minority communities, public sector banks are opening branches in minority concentration areas, sources said.
Agency : Hamilton Prolific left-handed opener Shikhar Dhawan was once again the most talked about Indian cricketer on Twitter, as his ton on Tuesday helped the dedending champions beat Ireland in a World Cup Pool B encounter at the Seddon Park. India chased down Ireland’s total of 259
runs with eight wickets and 79 balls to spare courtesy knocks from Dhawan (100) and Rohit Sharma (64). Right-hander Rohit was the second most popular ‘manin-blue’ on the social networking site, followed by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, according to a report from Twitter released on
Wednesday. The game saw a Tweet Live Impression of 25.1 million users. For Ireland it was their charismatic middle orderbat Niall O’Brien who was at the helm of the Twitter conversations, followed by their captain William Porterfield and powerhitting opener Paul Sterling.
Media barred from entering Team India's hotel in Auckland
Agency : Auckland The Heritage hotel in Auckland has barred media from entering the hotel under any circumstances. Stu Mason, the hotel security manager, told the media outside just now that they can't enter even to have coffee or dinner. They tried to stop media from shooting outside also. Security manager says this is from the instructions of the media manager Dr RN Baba and team director Ravi Shastri.
This is worse than what was the case in cities before this. One journalist was told that if he enters again he will be issued a trespass notice. Virat Kohli, was accused of abusing BCCI's journalist in what the star batsman claimed was a case of mistaken identity. The Team India management and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have decided against Kohli apologising personally to journalist Jaswinder Sidhu,
but the BCCI on Thursday issued a statement reprimanding the cricketer. "The player in question has been told to maintain the dignity of the Indian team at all times, and avoid any such behaviour in the future," it said. "The BCCI would like to request the concerned parties to move on, and focus on the Indian cricket team's campaign in the ongoing ICC CWC 2015," the statement added.
Indian Open Snooker: Higgins shows his class, Advani misses the bus Agency : Mumbai Former four-time world champion and world ranked no 12, John Higgins of England showed his class with a magnificent effort of an unfinished break of 136 in the sixth frame as he overcame Jamie Burnett of Scotland 4-2 in a first round match of the 64-player main draw in the 300,000 pounds prize money 2nd Indian Open Snooker World Ranking Tournament. Meanwhile, India’s brightest hope 29year-old Pankaj Advani misses out to make the cut as he faltered at the finish going down to Scotland’s Rhys Clark 4-3 in a tense and exciting wild card qualifying round match late
on Tuesday night. The 20year-old Clark snatched the crucial deciding frame on the re-spotted black ball to complete the victory which earned him a place in the tournament proper. Burnett stayed close with his illustrious opponent and managed to pocket the next two frames, but that was as far as he got. The 39-year-old Englishman finally seemed to have found his touch and unfurled a sensational run of 136 by polishing off the balls from the table. In an interesting first round matchup between two youngsters, 23-year-old Michael White of Wales and 24-year-old Chinese Cao Yupeng were engaged in a grim duel for
supremacy before the former with calculated lastditch effort managed to pulled through at 4-3. The world 23rd ranked Welshmen produced notable breaks of 97 (2nd frame), 96(4th) and 77 (7th) to complete a 14-66, 106(97)-0, 64-35, 96(96)0, 31-71(41), 61(46)69(40), 116(77)-13) victory and a set up a second round meeting with England’s 29-yearold Mathew Selt who brushed aside 20-yearold compatriot Joel Walker 4-0.
Agency : Mumbai Defending champions Karnataka clinched their eighth Ranji Trophy title today as they thrashed their southern opponents Tamil Nadu by an innings and 217 runs on the last day of the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament final at the Wankhede stadium. The Abhinav Mukund-led side always had the upper hand in the five-day encounter after bundling out Tamil Nadu for 134 in the first innings and then amassing 762 runs courtesy a triple century by middle-order batsman Karun Nair (338). Chasing an imposing 628, Tamil Nadu were shot out for 411 in 107.5 overs in the final session of the fifth day's play. Starting the day on 113 for three, Tamil Nadu saw resilient centuries from Vijay Shankar (103) and Dinesh Karthik (120) but the writing was on the wall after their departure. Leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal (4-126) wrecked the Tamil Nadu batting order with his four scalps. Skipper R Vinay Kumar, who became the joint leading wicket taker this season, ended with two wickets, along with Sreenath Aravind. But the real hero
for Karnataka was the 23year-old Nair, who deservedly got the man-of the-match award for his maiden triple ton in firstclass cricket. The innings also saw centuries from Lokesh Rahul (188) and R Vinay Kumar (105 not out) as Karnataka did enough to bat just once. For Tamil Nadu, wicketkeeperbatsman Karthik notched up his 23rd first class century and his 112-ball knock laced with 21 fours and a six, while Shankar made a fluent 103 (164b, 18x4). Earlier, overnight batsman Baba Aparajith (68) and Vijay Shankar looked poised for a big
score, as they batted sensibly. Tamil Nadu however lost Aparajith in the 21st over of the day thanks to a brilliant catch from wicketkeeper Robin Uthappa behind the stumps to get rid off him. The 20-year old added 32 runs to his overnight score of 36 and his 227 minutes at the crease produced 11 fours. He forged a 112run stand with Vijay Shankar for the fourth wicket. His departure brought Karthik to the crease, who set an aggressive tone to the Tamil Nadu innings only witness a sorry end to a brave campaign.
We wanted to play a good game of cricket, which we did: AB de Villiers
Agency : Wellington South Africa’s 146-run victory over UAE in their final World Cup Pool B clash on Thursday was exactly what the team needed heading into the quarter-finals, captain AB de Villiers said. (Full Coverage| Points table| Fixtures) De Villiers’ side have experienced an inconsistent campaign and were still to secure qualification for the last eight before the match at Wellington Regional Stadium. South Africa had displayed their best form when twice registering scores of more than 400 runs but also appeared vulnerable in losses to India and Pakistan, raising doubts over the side’s ability to shake off their ‘World Cup
chokers’ tag“I won’t say ‘yes that win has given us the confidence to believe that we are better than ever’ but those games need to be respected and the boys rocked up with a great attitude,” said man of the match De Villiers, who scored 99 runs in a 341 for six total. “We wanted to win. We wanted to play a good game of cricket. Which we did,” he added after UAE were dismissed for 195 with Fahad Alhashmi unable to bat after injuring his leg while bowling. “It was a good performance. Those are always tricky games. I thought they bowled pretty well up front and made it difficult for us (and)… they made us work for our runs. “Everyone bowled nicely. Very happy with the fielding
display as well. Those kind of opportunities will help us going into the knockout rounds.” De Villiers said South Africa probably had some selection issues ahead of their quarterfinal, likely to be against Sri Lanka in Sydney presuming the remaining PoolAmatches go as expected. Faf du Plessis, who did not play due to a back injury should be fit in time for next Wednesday’s clash with Rilee Rossouw, who scored 43 against UAE and pulled off three spectacular catches and Farhaan Behardien (64 not out) likely to be competing for a spot. Wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock, who scored 26, still had De Villiers’ support despite a lean spell of runs, in which he has totalled just 53 in six innings.
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Congress suspends two RMC Councillors who are facing arrest Rajkot Two Councillors of Rajkot Municipal Corporation were suspended today by opposition Congress party for corruption. Councillors Keyur Masrani and Pritiben Desai had demanded Rs. 21 lakh protection money from a person to allow construction of his building. Pritiben had taken Rs. 3 lakh as first installment. Bharatbhai Ishwarlal Parkeh who owns showroom of jewellery in Soni Bajar, in his police complaint stated that he started construction of building on undisputed plot of his family last year. In December when he was in his shop, Congress Councillor Pritiben’s husband Raju Desai arrived and asked to come and meet her wife who is Councillor at her home. Correspondent,
When Bharatbhai went to Rajubhai’s house, Pritiben was present there. Husband wife told Bharatbhai that construction of building in their ward will be possible only of Rs. 10 lakh amount is paid to them. After some bargaining Rs. 6 lakh amount was finalized. As per the talk, Rs.3 lakh were to be paid before construction, and Rs. 3 lakh after construction. Councillor Pritiben and her husband received an installment of Rs. 3 lakh on same day in evening. But the matter didn’t end here. After one and half month, two persons came to Bharatbhai’s office and asked him to come and meet another Congress Councillor Keyur Masrani at his office. When Bharatbhai visited Masrani’s office in the evening, Keyur Masrani demanded Rs. 11
lakh to allow building construction. After some bargaining, Masrani agreed to receive Rs. 8 lakh. Bharatbhai told Masrani that he had to visit Ahmedabad and Mumbai to attend wedding and he will meet him to pay money after coming back to Rajkot. On 28th February, Masrani came to Bharatbhai’s office with Ronak Rajani and said that promised money should be paid in four days. They said this is the last warning, and later they shall hit the target. Fed up by threats issued by two Congress Councillors, Bharatbhai filed police complaint against both. Both Councillors are untraced after complaint.
GSFC gets Centre’s nod to raise neem-coated urea production Correspondent, Vadodara Gujarat State Fertilisers Company Limited (GSFC) has secured the approval of central government for increasing production of neem-coated urea to 100 per cent from the current 35 per cent, a top official said today. “As per the notification issued by Government of India (GOI) in 2008, a company can produce and sell neemcoated urea equivalent to the maximum of 35 per cent of its total installed capacity,” said GSFC Chairman and Managing Director Sudeep Kumar Nanda, adding that he has raised the matter with government requesting it to remove the 35 per cent cap. Nanda said the Centre’s
move to increase production of neem-coated urea will stop diversion of urea fertiliser and prevent its misuse by industrial units that need Nitrogen and Ammonia for their manufacturing requirements. “GSFC, in collaboration with agricultural universities in Gujarat, has been regularly conducting frontline demonstrations at farmers’ fields and results show that farm yields have increased depending upon
crop and location,” he said. Nanda said by increasing the utility factor of Nitrogen (through neem-coated urea), the consumption of urea can be reduced. Urea imports have increased by 13 per cent to 78.43 lakh tonnes (LT) in AprilFebruary period of 201415, while it stood at 69.27 LT in the corresponding period of 2013-14. Imports in the entire previous fiscal were 70.88 LT, according to official data.
Five 1990 batch IAS officers HC gives clean chit to Chief Secretary promoted in Gujarat Pandian in land acquisition case
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Gujarat government has today promoted year 1990 batch Indian Administrative Service(IAS) officers to the rank of Principal Secretary. The officers benefited from this exercise are Kamal Kumar Dayani(Commissioner of Transport, Gandhinagar) , Manoj Kumar Das(Joint Managing Director, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Gandhinagar), Manoj Aggrawal(Settlement
Commissioner & Director of Land Records, Gandhinagar), Chandra Vanu Som(Managing Director, Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd, Gandhinagar) and A r u n k u m a r Solanki(Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Cow Breeding, Fisheries & Cooperation). The officers will continue to function on their existing posts with Principal Secretary status and promoted pay scale of Rs. 67000-79000(annual increment at 3%).
Unseasonal rains visit Gujarat again, may stay for two more days Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Parts of Gujarat today again received unseasonal rains due to western disturbances. One person was dead due to strike of lightening at Sarla village near Bavla. Hailstorm was experienced in parts of Nadiad town of central Gujarat and in parts of Tapi district of South Gujarat. Moderate rain was experienced in Mandvi in Kutch district. Entire coastal Saurashtra witnessed strong winds. At Anand in central GUjarat, hoardings broke down due to strong winds.
Dhari and Savarkundla belt of southern Saurashtra witnessed heavy rain. DhariKhambha state highway had to be closed due to felling of trees. Bhavnagar, Diu, Padra, Bharuch, Veraval, Mangrol, Dhandhuka, Vadodara are other parts of Gujarat that received showers. Jayant Sarkar, Director of Ahmedabad office of Indian Metereological Department(IMD) had predicted light rains at isolated places across Gujarat on 13-14 March.
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Gujarat High Court today gave clean chit to Chief Secretary DJ Pandian in Charnka Solar park land acquisition case and freed him from blame. The High Court observed that there was no loss to public exchequer in purchase of land. In December last year Gujarat government had submitted a report before the Gujarat High Court giving a “clean chit” to its Chief Secretary D J Pandian in an alleged land purchase scam. Advocate General Kamal Trivedi placed the report of the state’s Revenue department before the division bench. After going through the probe report, the High Court division bench said Gujarat government had given a “clean chit” to the Chief Secretary. On August 27 last year, the Gujarat High Court had directed a probe against the Chief Secretary for his role in allegedly paying excess compensation to acquire land for a solar park. “The investigation report shall indicate whether in addition to any irregularities in
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payment of compensation and pilferage of public funds, there is any element of involvement of any officers or individuals in commission of offence punishable under law,” the High Court order had said. Pandian was Managing Director (MD) of state-run Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) in 2011 when the land was purchased and was promoted as chief secretary in October last year. A local Congress leader Farsu Goklani had filed the PIL in 2012 alleging a small group of people had purchased a
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till date. Out of these expenses, Rs 5,777.6 crore has been spent on the Saradar Sarovar Dam, Rs 6,427.5 crore has been spent on the Narmada main canal and Rs 16,960 crore has been spent on the branch canal network, Chudasama stated. The minister also said that canals of 48,266 km in length are yet to be constructed, including 214.3 km of branch canals, 1590.7 km of distributaries, 8656.7 km of minor canals and 27,804.7 km of sub-minor canals. He added that work is going on in full swing and the government
is determined to complete the work as soon as possible. Replying to another question raised by Congress MLAs about the outstanding amount to be recovered from other states under the Narmada project, Chudasama admitted that a total of Rs 5,426.24 crore is yet to be recovered from three neighboring states. The minister stated that as on January 2015, Gujarat government is yet to recover Rs 3,547.90 crore from Madhya Pradesh, Rs 1,372.57 crore from Maharashtra and Rs 505.77 crore from Rajasthan.
Gujarat Chief Minister has in her reply to Congress MLA Gyasuddin Sheikh in Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday announced that all works for Ghogha-Dahej ro-ro ferry project will be completed by March 2016. Chief Minister in reply to another question said that there has been 48% physical progress achieved in this project till December 2014. She said the rates received for dredging work are under consideration at present while offers received for joint operations of terminal and ferry are under scrutiny. She said the government has spent Rs. 95 crore 38 lakh in this project till December 2014. She added that the government plans to complete the project by March 2016(after one year). Ro-Ro Ferry Service
Terminal in Ghogha, connecting Saurashtra with South Gujarat (Dahej) in the Gulf of Cambay aims to facilitate speedy passenger travel and smooth cargo movement through the sea route between Ghogha and Dahej by reducing the 360 km land-route to a 31 km sea-route. The special Ro-
Ro vessels plying between Dahej-Ghogha will have capacity to ferry 900 passengers and 100 vehicles in one trip. Then Chief Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for the project in January 2012. The project was targeted to complete in mid of year 2013.
large chunk of land in Charanka in Patan district just before issuance of a notification in 2011 that a solar park would be established near Charanka village. Later, GPCL purchased 918 hectares of land from those people within a year by paying them upto Rs 51 lakh though the last sale price of the same plot was merely Rs 1 lakh, the PIL alleged. The chunk of land was purchased by private owners between January 2010 and February 2011 while it was sold to Gujarat government in October 2011, the PIL said.
Naroda Patia massacre: Gujarat HC keeps final hearing on March 23
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Rs 47,202 crore spent on Narmada project: Gujarat government The Gujarat government admitted before the Assembly today that despite spending over Rs 47,000 crore on the entire Narmada project, canals of more than 48,000 km are yet to be constructed. During question hour, senior Congress MLA Punja Vansh raised questions related to the pending work of the Narmada canal network. Besides Vansh, some other Congress MLAs sought details about the expenses incurred for the project so far by the government. On behalf of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel who handles the Narmada department, Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama replied that Rs 47,202 crore has been spent on the entire Narmada project, including the dam,
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Gujarat high court has kept March 23 for final hearing on the appeals filed by former minister Maya Kodnani and other convicts in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case. The HC has decided to expedite the hearing on appeals filed against the verdict delivered by then special SIT judge, Jyotsna Yagnik in 2012. The trial court has convicted 32 persons including Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi to life imprisonment. While Kodnani has got 28 years' jail term, Bajrangi has been ordered for jail term till end of his life. A bench of Justice R R Tripathi and Justice R D Kothari had earlier ordered the HC registry put
an office note along with a Supreme Court order for quick hearing. The SC had ordered expeditious proceedings in this case while turning down a victim's appeal against the bail granted by the HC to Kodnani last year. On Thursday, special prosecutor furnished a list of total matters that are filed in this case. Lawyers appearing for various parties requested the court for a date and the HC has now kept final hearing on March 23. Ninety-seven persons were killed on February 28, 2002. Sixty-one persons were tried in this case and 32 were convicted by the special SIT court in 2011 while acquitting 29 others.
NSEL Scam: ED attaches Rs 278 crore oil factory of N K Proteins in Gujarat Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday attached a Gujarat-based castor oil extraction plant worth over Rs 278 crore of an accused firm in the multi-crore rupee NSEL scam under antimoney laundering laws. The factory is based in Kadi area of Mehsana district and has been identified by the agency to belong to a defaulting firm in the scam– Ms N K Proteins(Tirupati
brand cooking oil). “The estimated value of the attached oil plant is Rs 278.18 crore and attachment notices were served Thursday to the firm after orders in this regard were made on March 10 under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA),” ED officials said. This is one of the biggest single asset attachment made by the central agency in this case
so far and the accused firm is allegedly one of the largest defaulters in the scam pegged at Rs 5,600 crore. The firms’ liabilities stand to the tune of an estimated over Rs 900 crore. A top ED official in Mumbai, under which Ahmedabad zone falls, said “I don’t rule out the possibility of some more attachments.” In December last year, the agency had attached a commercial property of the same firm
worth Rs 14.22 crore which is based here. The agency, in the same case, also attached a rice mill in Ludhiana worth Rs 41 crore. The mill is owned by another accused firm involved in the scam. ED has so far attached total assets to the tune of over Rs 700 crore of defaulting firms in this case and is conducting a parallel probe alongside Mumbai Police and other investigative agencies.
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