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News Brief We don’t chop and change the team: Bravo Agency : New Delhi, May 13
Chennai Super Kings have been a dominant side in the IPL over the years and all-rounder Dwayne Bravo feels the reason for their success is that they have stuck to a core set of players without much chopping and changing. Two-time champions CSK, who lost their previous game to laggards Delhi Daredevils, have won eight of their 13 matches to stay atop the points table so far. Bravo said the team has always been ready for challenges. “The most important thing is that we don’t chop and change the team. The management is doing a very good job, whether it’s in the auctions or selecting a playing XI. They try and stick to a core of players.
Two killed in road mishap in Hardoi
Agency : Hardoi, May 13
Two persons were killed when the bike on which they were riding was hit by a truck in Taduyanwa area here, police said today. Shivakant (25) and his nephew Sonu (18) were going on a bike last night which was hit by a truck killing them on the spot, they said. The truck driver fled from the spot leaving the vehicle which has been seized. An FIR has been registered in this connection and efforts are on to nab him, they added.
Criminal shot dead inside hospital
Agency : Bhopal, May 13
A history-sheeter was shot dead allegedly by his friend inside the Bhind district hospital here in the wee hours today after a minor scuffle, police said. Vimlesh Upadhaya aka Daua (28) was shot dead by one Dharmendra Bhadoria near the maternity ward of district hospital, Bhind Superintendent of Police (SP) Vineet Khanna. The problem began after Vimlesh, Dharmendra Bhadoria and Sanju Bhadoria drank together last night. They returned to their homes later but after some time Vimlesh and Sanju entered into a heated argument on the cell phone over some minor issue, he added.
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Modi govt’s one year: Many hits and some misses The Narendra Modi-led government is set to complete one year in office later this month. Here is an interactive timeline that highlights his achievements and failures.
Agency : New Delhi On May 26, the Narendra Modi government, which was voted to power last year on the back of a commanding majority, will complete one year in office. As leader of the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has certainly showed a marked shift in leadership TIMELINE IN TEXT May 26, 2014 – Sworn to Power – After landslide elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. May 27, 2014 – Hand to Pakistan – The first day of PM Modi in office was marked by a meeting with Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif and a handshake that was splashed across next day’s newspapers. June 14, 2014 – Thrust on Military Might – The Prime Minister dedicated India’s largest warship –
and style of governance compared to the earlier UPA regime but there are areas such as health and education where the administration is yet to show sustained progress. Electorally, 2014 may have been a successful year with victories in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir, but INS Vikramaditya — to the nation and pitched for making the country self-reliant on manufacturing defence equipment. June 15, 2014 – The Bhutanese Bond – As part of his first foreign visit, the Prime Minister chose Bhutan, a land-locked Himalayan country that has always been a great friend of India. In Bhutan, PM Modi stressed that a happy neighbour is integral for India’s progress. July 14, 2014 – BRICS
2015 gave a rude shock to the ruling BJP with a in Brazil – PM Modi’s diplomatic efforts got a boost as he met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of the BRICS Summit in Brazil. August 3, 2014 – Road to Kathmandu – The Prime Minister made his first visit to Nepal in August in further indication that SAARC countries remain his focus when it comes to extending India’s foreign policy boundaries. August 15, 2014 – In-
humiliating defeat in the national capital of Delhi. voking the ‘Pradhan Sevak’ – Making his first Independence Day speech after becoming India’s premier, Narendra Modi made a pitch for a ‘Swacch Bharat’ and exhorted countrymen to make efforts to educate the girl child. August 28, 2014 – Jan Dhan Yojana – PM Modi formally launched a massive financial inclusion programme named ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’ that aims to help provide a bank
Light Rains Bring Some Respite From Heat Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabadis today got some respite from the intense heat following light rains in different parts of the city. Residents were reeling under the extreme heat for last few days with maximum temperatures hovering above 40 degree Celsius and touching 42.6 degree Celsius on May 9. After a cloudy morning, the city was hit by a dust storm accompanied by light showers. “A dust storm with wind speed of 80 kms per hour hit the gujarat major cities,” said an official of Meteorological department. The minimum temperature settled at 27.5 degree Celsius, which was two notches above normal. The department’s official said that humidity level was recorded as 61 per cent till 8.30 am in the morning. Yesterday, Ahmedabad recorded a day temperature at 42 degree Celsius which was one notch below normal, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 26 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal. The city of Ahmedabad today again witnessed unseasonal shower. While some pockets of city experienced drizzle, some
account for every household in the country. January 26, 2015 – The Obamas in attendance – India’s Republic Day Celebrations this year had a high-profile guest – US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. As the elephants trumpeted and camels walked on the majestic Rajpath, the Obamas sat under a rain-drenched canopy admiring the parade. February 28, 2015 – Prabhu’s Rail budget – Modi’s techno-minister Suresh Prabhu, the Railways Minister, presented his first budget announcing no increase in passenger fares but at the same time desisting from announcing new services as well.
March 22, 2015 – Man ki baat with Kisaan – As his government battled extreme heat over the controversial land acquisition bill, PM Modi spoke to thousands of farmers over the radio, trying to dispel rumours that his policies are anti-farmer. He assured the farmers that his government would do nothing to upset farmers. April 14, 2015 – Yemen crisis – External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced on Twitter that the Indian embassy in Yemen was being evacuated in light of the war there. The tweet put an end to a massive rescue operation that the government had earlier launched in the war-torn country to save thousands of Indians flee-
ing Yemen. April 17, 2015 – Three-nation tour – PM Modi undertook a three-nation tour to France, Germany and Canada exhorting industralists and CEOs to contribute to the ‘Make in India’ programme of the government. April 25, 2015 – Himalayan earthquake – The Modi government’s swift and quick response to the Nepal earthquake that flattened hundreds of buildings and killed more than 7,000 people was highly praise-worthy. Within forty minutes of the first tremors, Modi had sent out his first tweet responding to the disaster. May 7, 2015 – Historic land swap – Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj got a round of applause from all quarters in the Parliament as members across treasury and opposition benches came together to pass a constitution amendment bill for a historic land boundary agreement with Bangladesh.
of the doors on to the concrete. “As the gunmen climbed on to the bus, one of them shouted, ‘Kill them all!’ Then they started indiscriminately firing at everyone they saw,” a wounded woman told a television channel by phone. Police superintendent Najib Khan said there were six gunmen and that all the passengers were Ismailis,
a minority Shi’ite Muslim sect. Pakistan is mostly Sunni. Qadir Baluch, a security guard at a nearby building, said he heard the gunshots and saw at least one of the militants wearing a police uniform. The attack riddled the bus with bullet holes, but its wounded driver still could drive it to a nearby hospital, said Mohammad Imran, a guard there. Imran said when he got on the bus later, he saw blood still seeping across its seats and floor. Blood stained Imran’s own hands and uniform. “I hardly saw any survivor,” he said. Militant group Jundullah, which has attacked Muslim minorities before, claimed responsibility.
‘Kill them all’: Gunman shouted before killing 45 on board Karachi bus
other pockets witnessed light shower. After sunny morning and early afternoon, the city witnessed sudden change in atmosphere first with
arrival of dark clouds and later with roaring sky and drizzle. But the most distinct feature in today’s atmosphere was sand storm with strong
winds that continued for over an hour. There are reports of rainfall in areas like Dholka, Patan, Chanasma, Vatva and Savarkundla.
Agency : New Delhi In a major overhaul of child labour laws, the Cabinet today approved a complete ban on employment of children below 14 years, except for some family businesses, entertainment and sports activities, while raising the punishment for violations to up to three years of jail. Making child labour a cognizable offence, the fine has also been increased to up to Rs 50,000 for the employers. The children can be employed only in non-hazardous family enterprises, TV serials, films, advertisements and sporting activities (except circus) with a condition that they would be made to do these jobs after school
Agency : Karachi Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan’s volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 47, officials said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. The pink bus was hours. A new definition same punishments as ap- pockmarked with bullet of adolescent has also plicable to the employer holes and blood saturated the seats and dripped out been introduced to fur- of the child. ther prohibit employment of those aged 14-18 years in hazardous jobs, a government statement said. The amendments to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act has, however, relaxed the penal provisions for parents or guardians, who were earlier subjected to
Cabinet approves changes to child labour laws
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Is Modi’s dream of a China-like high-speed rail model worth it?
With Prime Minister Modi all set to land in Xian, the home town of Chinese President Xi Jingping, all eyes are on the major outcomes from this visit. The Railways is expected to be the most important driver of this visit. The two countries are expected to sign a major memorandum on expanding cooperation in the building of a high speed rail corridor between Delhi and Chennai. India Today Group’s Rahul Kanwal boarded a high speed train from Beijing to Xian to assess the advantages and disadvantages of adopting China’s high speed rail model. This is an India Today Group exclusive. For the People’s Republic of China, building the world’s largest super-fast rail network has been closely linked to the country’s booming global ambition. In the early 1990s, the average passenger train in China ran at a speed of only 48 kilometres per hour. The roads were badly congested and the people were forced to fly even for short journeys. It was in 1999 that China began building its first high-speed rail corridor. Within 15 years, China has already built a national network that is bigger than all the high-speed corridors of the world put together. On the other hand, at the time of Independence, India’s rail network was nearly 54,000 km, while China’s rail network was only 27,000 km - half of India’s rail network. But since then, China has nearly quadrupled its rail network to about 1,10,000 km; India on the other hand has barely added 11,000 km of tracks in the same period. Ironically, back in the late 19th century, the Indian Railways was laying tracks in different parts of Africa and even surveying potential rail routes to China through Burma. But now the Chinese have left us far behind and the Indian railways has been left with a lot of catching up to do. When PM Modi announced his quest for a high-speed rail corridor linking India’s biggest cities, questions were asked about whether it was worth spending the kind of money that is required to fund this expensive dream. Even in China, a hot debate had raged over whether or not it was worth investing huge sums of money on a project that could not be afforded by a majority of the people in the country. According to conservative estimates, the total cost of funding China’s high speed rail corridor has been upwards of a whopping $300 billion in the past decade and a half. China’s early high-speed trains were imported or built under technology transfer agreements with foreign train makers such as Alstom, Siemens, Bombardier and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Chinese engineers then re-designed the internal train components and built indigenous trains with the ability to reach operational speeds of up to 380 kmph. The average speed on these trains at present is 200 kmph.
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QUOTE “We have come across documents, there are several proofs of wrong-doings during the 10-year Congress rule. We are soon going to hand over the OF THE entire matter to a commission headed by a retired judge of the Supreme - Said Ram Bilas Sharma, a senior minister in the Haryana government. DAY Court,” Casting coup: John Abraham and Anil Kapoor finalised for Aankhen 2
Agency : New Delhi Akshay Kumar, who has enough on his plate right now, could not accommodate this sequel and John Abraham has stepped in. While director Vipul A Shah gives way to director Anees Bazmee as well. Anil Kapoor will
play a character specially written for him in Aankhen 2. The three protagonists in the original 2002 film were blind, but Anil won’t be. “Anil’s character is a new one. John and the two other heroes are playing blind characters.” Anil and Anees
built a rapport during the shooting of Welcome and Welcome Back. “He has the energy level of a 24year old. I had to have him in Aankhen 2,” says Anees. The film’s producer Gaurang Doshi is also trying to rope in two new heroines for Aankhen 2 as Sushmita Sen and Bipasha Basu, who featured in the original, won’t reprise their roles. After Singh Is Kinng, AK will be part of Singh Is Bling. He was part of Housefull, Housefull 2 and will be seen in Housefull 3 with Abhishek Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh He wasn’t part of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, but featured as the lead star of the sequel. Over the years, AK has featured in several Khiladi films, but none a sequel of the last.
Agency : Chennai International singing sensation Zayn Malik, who was recently in headlines for quitting his famous boy band ‘One Direction’ over personal issues will reportedly be seen crooning for a Bollywood film. Well, don’t be surprised as yet. According to a leading daily, Zayn is not going to sing a solo number in Hindi. This international singer will
reportedly sing a duet with ‘Baby Doll’ singer Kanika Kapoor. This interesting mix of West and East will be seen in a Hindi song, reports suggest. Incidentally, superstar Shah Rukh Khan had sometime back posted a picture with Zayn on Twitter, captioning it as: “This kid is so cool. May Allah bless him. Dinner time at the Asian Awards.”
Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Quantico’ trailer out
Agency : New Delhi The trailer of the much anticipated American television show ‘Quantico’ featuring Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra in the lead role has been revealed. The actress will be essaying the role of a FBI agent, Alex Parrish. The show ‘Quantico’ is based on the life of FBI agents. The show deals with some FBI recruits and their
journey, filled with mystery and thrill – how one of the recruits turns out to be a sleeper terrorist responsible for the most devastating terrorist attack on the US. In the trailer, it is being shown that the character of Alex, played by Priyanka Chopra is arrested for being the mastermind begind the biggest terror attack on New York since 9/11. Things
were all the very normal before the attack but after the attack things get completely disturbed in the New York City. Priyanka Chopra will be sent in the jail, who is said to be behind the attack. But, PC somehow escapes and will try to find the real person responsible for the attack. Number of Bollywood celebrities have been going gaga over the trailer.
Priyanka Chopra As IPS Abha Mathur In ‘Gangaajal 2’ Aishwarya Rai to unveil first Agency : New Delhi Glam girl Priyanka Chopra has donned a khaki uniform in Prakash Jha’s upcoming film ‘Gangaajal 2’. Recently the makers of the movie released the first look of Priyanka as police officer Abha Mathur. ‘Gangaajal 2’ is the sequel to 2003 hit Gangaajal, starring Ajay Devgn, Gracy Singh and Mukesh Tiwari in pivotal roles. Fan club of Piggy Chops took to twitter to share her new look. Here’s the picture revealing Ms Chopra’s new look. In the first look, PeeCee is carrying a full
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attitude and expressions of a policewoman and looks extremely promising. Chopra is currently busy shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Bajirao Mastani’ along with Deepika Padukone and
Ranveer Singh. She has garnered rave reviews for her role of Ayesha Mehra from Zoya Akhtar’s multi-starrer flick ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’. The movie will hit theatres on June 5.
Ranbir and I share a special Are you ready for Zayn equation: Deepika Padukone Malik’s Hindi song?
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Agency : New Delhi They make news whenever they pair up on the big screen but actress Deepika Padukone says no media speculation comes close to explaining the relationship she shares with former boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor. The actors, who broke up after one year of dating, were last seen in Ayan Mukherjee’s ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ in 2013. While the media tried decoding their bond during the film’s promotions, the audiences were all praise for their onscreen chemistry in the movie. The two are working together again in Imtiaz Ali’s upcoming romantic-drama ‘Tamasha’ and the 29-year-old actress is prepared to be under scrutiny again.
Agency : Mumbai Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gears up for Cannes International Film Festival. Along with style, the diva will also flaunt her acting prowess. The former beauty queen who is making her comeback after a hiatus will unveil the first look of her comeback film, ‘Jazbaa’ directed by Sanjay Gupta at the prestigious Cannes film festival.
Well, only counted days are left when the die-hard fans of the actress will get a glimpse of the first look of the much anticipated film of 2016. Highly excited Sanjay Gupta tweeted about unveil of ‘Jazbaa’ first look.WOW... Just 3 days to go before we reveal the first glimpse of our labour of love JAZBAA at Cannes. Accord-
ing to the latest report, the first look of the film will be unveiled on 16th May. Unveiling ‘Jazbaa’ at Cannes was discussed by a panel which includes a list of some elite Hollywood celebrities like Salma Hayek, Adele Exarchopoulos, Christine Vachone and Elizabeth Kushel and finally after discussion a day has been finalized.
for five days. The Bombay High Court recently suspended the actor’s fiveyear sentence in 2002 hit and run case pending appeal which will be heard in June. An action-packed
romantic drama ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ reunites Salman with Kareena Kapoor his co-star from films like ‘Bodyguard’ ‘Kyon Ki’ and ‘Main Aur Mrs.Khanna.’ It is the actor’s second film with Kabir Khan after the 2012 blockbuster ‘Ek Tha Tiger.’ The principal photography of ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ began In Delhi last year in November. The actors also shot the film with school students in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district.
Salman resumes film shoot in Kashmir “No matter how much we move on in our lives and no matter how comfortable we keep telling people we are working with each other, the question will keep coming up. But the point is, it was, is and will always be a very special equation that we share. Something that one can’t explain and describe in too many words,” Deepika. “Our work is an example of
that. We did ‘YJHD’ together and it was a super success and people gave us so much love for that film and then we have finished another film (‘Tamasha’) in less than two years. I think that’s amazing,” Deepika said. The actress, who is currently riding high on the success of ‘Piku’, said a film with Ranbir and Imtiaz was on her wishlist since she saw ‘Rockstar’.
Agency : Mumbai Superstar Salman Khan has begun filming the final leg of his upcoming Eid release ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ in Kashmir. Salman will shoot in the Valley
3 / Dt. 14-05-2015, Thurseday HSBC cuts India to ‘underweight’ Agency : New Delhi In the first major downgrade for Indian markets in the past one year, global brokerage HSBC on Wednesday changed its stance on the country to “underweight”, saying corporate earnings may remain muted, monsoon could be weak and odds are against further rate cuts. HSBC further said that India has become the second most expensive and one of the most over-owned markets in Asia, after a strong rally on the back of reform optimism generated by the Modi government over the past one year. It upgraded its stance on markets like The Philippines and Hong Kong. “We lower our equity market weighting for India from overweight to underweight. Also, we
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raise The Philippines to overweight from neutral and Hong Kong to neutral from underweight,” HSBC said in a research note. The downgrade comes at a time when Indian markets are already under acute pressure, primarily because of foreign investors turning heavy sellers on concerns related to the controversial MAT levy and delay in the ambitious indirect tax (GST) and land reforms. “Indian equities rallied and with lack of momentum in other markets, both global and regional mutual funds built historically high overweight positions in this market by the end of 2014,” HSBC said, adding that “we now challenge this position and recommend investors to underweight India (from our prior overweight position)”.
Agency : Bengaluru A lacklustre Bengaluru FC suffered another 1-3 loss at the hands of Indonesian club Persipura to end second in Group E of the AFC Cup football tournament at the Shree Kantirava Stadium on Wednesday. Starting from a 1-3 deficit in their away game in March, Bengaluru, who have booked their last-16 berth, once again faltered against the table-toppers, whose attack was just too good on the day. By the virtue of topping the group, Persipura will now host Bengaluru in the single-leg pre-quarterfinals clash. The Blues did draw first blood via an Udanta Singh strike in the 23rd minute but the visitors soon gained ground and kept up the pace.
Flight 370, said the debris was not from the jet. “But it’s given us a great deal of confidence,” Mr. Kennedy said in a telephone interview from the search vessel, the Fugro Discovery. “It shows we are able to find small pins and small pieces of metal on the seafloor, a long way down. Pieces from MH370 would be roughly 10 times as big
as that.” The jet, carrying 239 people on what was supposed to be a routine flight to Beijing from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, disappeared on March 8 last year. Analysis of flight data, signals picked up from the plane and an unanswered satellite phone call from ground staff to the plane indicate the flight tracked south over the Indian Ocean, over the sea off the coast of Western Australia, where investigators believe it fell into the water after running out of fuel.
Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Uncovers Shipwreck’s Remnants
Agency : Sydney Search crews looking for a Malaysia Airlines jet believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean have found the remnants of a shipwreck — including an anchor and possibly a ship’s bell — resting on the seabed almost two and a half miles down. It is not what searchers were hoping to find. Paul Kennedy, search director for Fugro Survey, a division of a Dutch company hired by the Australian government to look for wreckage from Malaysia Airlines
Cabinet Approves Stake Sales in Indian Oil, NTPC
Agency : New Delhi The government has approved the sale of shares in state-run oil refiner Indian Oil Corp and power producer NTPC as part of its plan to raise $11 billion (around Rs 69,500 crore) from asset sales this financial year. New Delhi will sell a 10 per cent stake in the oil refiner and 5 per cent in the power producer, a top government official told reporters after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, asking not to be named. The planned share sales could fetch $2.17 billion at current market prices. The official did not say when the shares would be sold. The proceeds from the asset sale programme are critical for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s plan to narrow the fiscal deficit to 3.9 per cent of gross domestic product in fiscal year 2015-16 that began in April. So far, the government has only raised about $250 million, after
offloading a 5 per cent stake in Rural Electrification Corp (REC) last month. Targets for revenue from partial privatisations have been missed for the past five years, so this year the government aims to spread the stake sales out rather than bunch them up towards the end of the fiscal year, as normally happens. However, a sell-off in Indian shares could pose a challenge for the asset sale programme. The Nifty has fallen as much as 12.3 per cent from the record high hit in March amid worries over the slow pace of reforms as well as a controversial tax imposed on foreign investors. Still, Aneesh Srivastava, chief investment officer at IDBI Federal Life Insurance, expects the share sales to get a good response if priced right. “Pricing is key for divestment,” he said. “At the right price, these issues should go through.”
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Argentinean midfielder Robertino Pugliara answered by finding the net in the 29th minute as the two sides went into halftime at 1-1. But the second half completely belonged to Persipura, who after a barrage of attacks found success in the 73rd minute when Indonesian medio
Imanuel Wanggai took the team ahead. Defender Ruben Karel Sanadi then cut through the Begaluru defence four minutes later to take the game away from the hosts. On the other hand, East Bengal scored twice in the fag end to hold Kitchee SC 2-2 away from home.
Agency : New Delhi Micromax’s Yu, which entered the Indian smartphone market with the launch of Yureka smartphone in December 2014, is unveiling its second Cyanogen-based smartphone – the Yuphoria – in India today. Micromax’s Yu has launched the all new Yuphoria, a successor to the Yureka in India.
company’s second Cyanogen-based smartphone and claims to bring features seen in a flagship device at an affordable price. Micromax Co-Founder Rahul Sharma at the launch revealed that the Yu Yuphoria went through a number of processes including pre-bending, stamping, welding, laser etching, sandblasting, and polishing. Sharma claimed that the Yu team achieved sleek matte finish after extreme cycles of sandblasting which they learnt from the automobile industry.
of India’s (SAI) Special Area Games Water Sports Centre in Alappuzha last week, one athlete died and three others are serious and undergoing medical treatment. The incident shows the urgent need to strengthen SAI’s training system and government was looking into the recommendations made by SAI Director General who
enquired the matter, Minister of State for Sports Sarbananda Sonowal told the Lok Sabha in a statement. “The shocking and tragic incident that occurred at SAG Water Sports Centre, Alappuzha does point out an urgent need to strengthen the SAI training system,” the statement, read out by his ministerial colleague Rajiv Pratap Rudy, said. Noting that several external probes are currently underway including police investigation, preliminary enquiry conducted by the district administration, enquiry by State Sports Secretary and enquiry by State Human Rights Commission, it said “hence it would not be appropriate to make any specific comment in this regard.”
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Government assures early action in SAI athlete suicide incident
Agency : New Delhi Government on Wednesday termed as “shocking and tragic” the recent incident at a water sports centre in Kerala where four young female athletes attempted suicide and asserted that urgent action would be taken to prevent such happenings in the future. In the incident, which happened at the Sports Authority
Agency : Calcutta Chennai Super Kings pacer Ishwar Pandey put up a brave performance against Delhi Daredevils after his team could manage only 119 for 6 in 20 overs, and the young medium-pacer says he backs his strengths and sticks to them. “I try and bowl to my strengths, which is the outswinger,” Pandey told the official IPL website. “I back myself. I have a natural outswinger and I am working more on that. I have also
developed a slower one but I haven’t needed that yet because you can’t bowl slower ones in the beginning.” Pandey, who led the CSK attack on Tuesday in the absence of Ashish Nehra, picked up a wicket in his second and third over but was smacked for 20 runs by Yuvraj Singh and Shreyas Iyer in his last. Pandey also credited Chennai skipper MS Dhoni for supporting him at every juncture and backing him. “He is very good.
He doesn’t put any pressure on you. When you are hit for boundaries, he still backs you; he’ll walk up to you and say, if you don’t get hit, how will you learn?”Pandey told. When asked about opening the bowling attack and his preparation for the Powerplay overs, he said, “I have a very simple ‘funda’. I don’t think too much about what the batsman will do or will not do. I just try to bowl my best and according to the wicket.”
Agency : Raipur The incident reportedly saw Kotwali police officials storming the hotel, where the girls were staying, and questioning them for around 60 minutes. That the police did not have any raid warrant and called it a “routine check”. The hotel staff labelled it as “strong-arm tactics” without “any evidence”. The cheer girls belonged the Chennai Super Kings franchise that played an IPL match against Delhi Daredevils at Raipur. Most of them belong to England and Australia. In shock seeing police in their rooms, the cheer girls rang up the event management company that arranged their asso-
ciation with IPL. The raiding officials didn’t even spare the guests and media covering the IPL, who were staying in the hotel. Police knocked at their rooms to check for the cheerleaders. “They could have contacted our event manager directly rather than rushing straight
to our rooms. We all have work permits and we have been associated with Bollywood. We have never had such a bad experience in India,” she added. Since the IPL spot-fixing controversy broke out, cheer girls stay in a different hotel and not the same where the team they represent is lodged.
he isn’t as conservative as many feared he would be. There’s still much for Strauss to do if he is to restore the fortunes of English cricket, with an Ashes series less than two months away. England has never had an Australian as coach but that could be about to change just in time for the Ashes. Former Australia paceman Jason Gillespie is the
favorite to replace Moores after leading Yorkshire from the second tier of the English county game to champions in three years. Two more Australians, Justin Langer and Tom Moody, are potential candidates, while the current temporary England coach, Paul Farbrace, could also come into contention if he impresses in the upcoming two-test series against New Zealand. Strauss says the new coach English or foreign will have an “over-arching” role in charge of both the Test and ODI teams, and a philosophy that needs to be aligned with Strauss and “the best interests of English cricket.”
Raipur Police raids IPL cheer girls in ‘routine checking’
What’s on the tray for Andrew Strauss - besides Kevin Pietersen
Can’t compare Ronaldo and Messi: Del Piero Agency : Turin Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero on Wednesday said choosing between Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is like deciding your favourite parent. Messi and Ronaldo have won the FIFA Player of the Year award (Ballon d’Or) seven times between them in as many years and have broken all goal scoring records. I think that one of them makes the
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other want to better him, like all great rivalries in sport,” “They are the two players who fight to be the best, like John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Who’s
the best? That’s like asking whether I like mum or dad more! I’d prefer not to say,” said Del Piero who turned up for Delhi Dynamos last year in the Indian Super League (ISL).
Agency : London Three days into his job as director of English cricket and Andrew Strauss has already showed he won’t be afraid to make huge decisions to shake up the country’s troubled national game. By firing head coach Peter Moores and keeping Kevin Pietersen banished from the England team, Strauss is demonstrating
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Nitin Patel joins a meeting chaired by PM
Agency : New Delhi Gujarat Minister Nitinbhai Patel on Tuesday attended a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi in Delhi. The meeting discussed upcoming Agriculture Policy. Nitinbhai’s role in the meeting was mainly limited to discussion on new crop insurance scheme. Gujarat had proposed a new type of crop insurance scheme when Congress-led UPA was in power. The state had protested then Sharad Pawar led Agriculture Ministry’s new Crop Insurance scheme. Success of Gujarat’s drip irrigation, soil health card
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Sand mining blocks auctioned Amul elections in Kheda district: in some districts of Gujarat Ramsinh Parmar continues his hold
Gujarat Minister Saurabh Patel today said that Mining department of state government has taken a decision of auction of sand mining blocks and has identified 167 such blocks, of which 50 are already auctioned, which has earned the state govern-
ment Rs 48 crore beyond royalty. Patel said that sand mining block auction process has completed in Bhavnagar, Botad, Tapi, Surendranagar and Sabarkantha districts and in upcoming days, rest of the blocks are to be auctioned.
Police said it was a blind murder until they found two Ajmer-Ahmedabad tickets from Mustaq’s pocket. “This helped us to believe that there was another person travelling with Mustaq from Ajmer,” said a senior police official. Crime branch sleuths, who are assisting local police in the probe, then scanned the route of the bus from Ajmer. “We went through CCTV footage from two high-
way hotels in which the deceased was seen with another man. It confirmed our doubt that Mustaq was not alone on the trip,” the official added. Police then tracked down family members of Mustaq from phone numbers stored in the cellphone found from him. “The family rushed to Ahmedabad but could not provide any clue to us about his dealings or threat to his life,” added the official.
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not be okay if the in-laws don’t have a toilet at home. Inspired by the Swachch Bharat Mission launched by PM Narendra Modi and Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel’s thrust on toilets, Punsari sarpanch Himanshu Patel has started a new initiative where every prospective wedding of a daughter is notified with the panchayat which then undertakes the task on ensuring that the prospective in-laws have a toilet at their place.
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scheme, annual Krushi Mahotsav was also discussed in this meeting which went on for two hours. Union home minister Rajnath Singhji, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singhji, Radhamohan Singhji and top officials were part of the meeting. Nitin Patel has been appointed as the member in the national committee for consultation on the proposed policy.
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Kashmiri youth’s murder: Cops probing drug trafficking angle
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Naroda police are probing drug-trafficking angle in Kashmiri youth Mustaq Ahmed murder case. Mustaq’s body was found from a luxury bus in Naroda Patia on May 4.
Jamnabai Narsee School set for inauguration at GIFT-City
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Gujarat’s dairy cooperative unions. Congress has retained it. Only two BJP inspired candidates could see victory, while one independent has been successful. The election was a small one with less than 1,000 voters, but it was in discussion because Amul involves Rs 4,000 crore management. There were total 27 candidates in fray. Polling took place across 11 polling stations. Amul
Chairman and Congress MLA Ramsinh Parmar enjoys support of most of the 900 odd members as he is in this field for long time. BJP’s efforts were not enough. Ramsinh Parmar had moved all Congress MLAs of this region to ensure victory. Parmar had organized a tour of voters so that BJP side can not contact them. The voters were brought back from the tour just before polling started.
The missing person cell of the city crime branch is now exploring begging Mafia and kidney racketeers involvement in the kidnapping four minors with learning difficulties. “In a recent meeting held with the City Police Chief Shivanand Jha, the issue was discussed. We are investigating such cases with possibilities of different gangs luring or kidnapping such minors
for sexual exploitation, running Kidney racket or Mafias running begging racket,” said a senior police official of city crime branch. City police Chief Shivananad Jha has mentioned in the dossier given to the city crime branch to conduct thorough investigations in cases regarding missing of such minors and check whether they are being misused or not. Out of the total 70 missing minor
in the city, four are minor with learning difficulties and the investigations of all such cases have been handed over to the city crime branch. Crime branch sources said Kalidas Mulji 15 went missing on 19 March 2014 whereas Dilip Parmar 17, and Chintan Kalidas 11, both resident of Gaekwad Haveli area and minors went missing on 2 January 2013 and have not been found yet.
Agency : New Delhi Achal Kumar Jyoti, a former Chief Secretary of Gujarat during Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister, on Wednesday took over as the new Election Commissioner, filling one of the two vacancies in the three-member body. “Jyoti took charge today at the Election Commission of India,” a senior official said. Jyoti is a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who retired as state Gujarat Chief Secretary in January 2013. He served in the top post in Gujarat when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Chief Minister. Jyoti (62) had also served as the state Vigilance Commissioner and worked in various capacities in his cadre including as Chairman of the Kandla Port Trust between 1999 and 2004 and Managing Director of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam
Ltd (SSNNL). Born on January 23, 1953, Jyoti will have a tenure of nearly three years as ECs demit office at the age of 65. An EC or a CEC has a tenure of six years in office or till he or she attains the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. After V S Sampath demitted office in January, H S Brahma was elevated as CEC. But after Brahma demitted office, two posts of ECs
in the three-member body have remained vacant. Between April 19, when Nasim Zaidi took over as the CEC till today, he was the only member in the poll body. The government is soon expected to appoint one more Election Commissioner to fill up the last vacancy. Jyoti has also worked as Secretary in the Industry, Revenue and Water Supply Departments.
Thasra MLA Ramsinh Parmar has retained his hold over Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union – popularly known as Amul Dairy with victory of 10/13 candidates in election, polling for which took place a day before yesterday. Parmar is Congress MLA and Chairman of Amul. Kheda district is considered the last bastion of Congress among
Village elders vet grooms: Begging Mafia and kidney racketeers No toilet, no wedding involvement probed in missing minors
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Narsee Monjee Educational Trust is set for the grand inauguration of Jamnabai Narsee School, at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, on Thursday. Strategically located in GIFT City, Jamnabai Narsee School (proposed ICSE and IGCSE) will be fully functional from June 2015 for grades nursery to six. The school will introduce high quality education with an emphasis on physical education, extra-curricular activities and exploratory courses. Sharing the legacy of the Narsee Monjee Educational Trust over the last four decades, Jairaj C. Thacker, Managing Trustee, Narsee Monjee Educational Trust,
said, ‘We aim at bringing the world class educational programmes to our students in Gujarat that will not only serve as the model of academic excellence but also provide experiential co-curricular cultural experience for them. While we have developed a rich history in the field of education in Mumbai, we always wanted to sow the seeds of knowledge in Gujarat, come back to our roots. The GIFT city campus is our dream come true, a dream to provide global quality education in Gujarat.” “The school with state-of-the-art technology, quality infrastructure and a unique circular design is spread over
an area of 1,60,000 sqft. We plan to accommodate over 2,000 students from grades nursery to six. In the urban times of space crunch, when 70% of the schools do not even have a small playground, we have a two-acre playground on our GIFT city campus.
Punsari village, around 100 km from Ahmedabad, is a textbook case of development with CCTV cameras, water purifying plants, air-conditioned schools, WiFi, biometric machines. You name it and the village has it all. But what happens when the daughters of this village get married outside this village? While the village elders are okay if the daughter does not get Wi-Fi, but they have decided that they will
A 26-member delegation of Gujarat on China and Hong Kong visit
Training for medical officers to foolproof sex-test cases
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A dismally low conviction rate of doctors and others violating the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act has prompted the state government to educate over 300 health officers and supervisors of Gujarat. The state health department with Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU), has formulated a two-day training programme under which officials will be trained on the procedure for collection of evidence. According to census 2011, for every 1,000 males, Gujarat has 919 females - much below the national sex
ratio of 940. For the age group 0-6 years, it is even lower, at 886. Officials want to curb sex determination which is primarily used to identify and abort female fetuses. “The process began started in January with batches having between 33 and 41 officers each every week. However, the outbreak of swine flu forced us to take a break so as not to burden the health officials already busy with work. We are happy that all the concerned officials responsible for enforcing PCPNDT Act will be properly trained by the end of May,” said a health department official.
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A 26-member delegation of Gujarat led by state Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will leave for China and Hong Kong on Thursday 14th of May. The delegation will have captains of industries and senior government officials. The delegation will start its China visit from Beijing and will later visit Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Gujarat delegation will hold meetings with top Chinese government officers, investors and commerce and industry associations with aim to make Gujarat-China economic and cultural ties stronger.
During the visit, MoUs will be signed between Gujarat government, Gujarat based industrial houses, Chinese government and Chinese companies. Chief Minister’s China visit will start on 15th May with her participation in launching function of Indo-China States/Provincial Leaders Forum at Great hall of people in Beijing in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This forum includes Prime Minister/premier of both nations, Chief Ministers/ provincial chiefs and Mayors. Gujarat Chief Minister will participate in a session on ‘Role of states and provinces in
Indo-China relations in the area of developmental partnership.’ The Chief Minister will focus on manufacturing, engineering, textile, MSME, financial services and technology, renewable energy and skill development, construction to form partnership with China. She will showcase Gujarat’s GIFT city, Dholera, Dahej, Smart Cities, Statue of Unity, Surat Dream city and auto hub status. MoUs signed between Gujarat and China in presence of Chinese President and Indian Prime Minister in Ahmedabad in September 2014 will also be discussed in various meetings.
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Former Gujarat Chief Secretary Achal K Jyoti takes over as new Election Commissioner
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