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Petrol Price Up While Diesel Price Down
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Petrol Price Hiked by 64 Paise; Cut Diesel Price
Mehair’s PuneNashik flight launch Oil marketing companies today said they would hike the price of petrol by Rs 0.64 per litre and cut diesel prices by Rs 1.35 per litre, effective midnight June 16 postponed Agency | Nashik, Jun 15
Agency | New Delhi
The maiden seaplane service by Maritime Energy Heli Air Services (Mehair) to Nashik, which was to be launched today, had to be postponed owing to heavy rains in Mumbai last night that resulted in moisture in non-critical components of the Cessna 208A amphibian aircraft. “The regional air connectivity to be launched between Nasik and Pune had to be rescheduled owning to heavy rains in Mumbai last night which resulted in moisture ingress in some of the non-critical components of the aircraft,” Mehair Co-founder and Director Siddharth Verma said here.
Petrol price was on Monday hiked by 64 paise a litre, but diesel price was cut by Rs 1.35 per litre in line with trend in global oil rates. This is the third increase in petrol price since May. However, in case of diesel, the reduction has halted two consecutive increases during last month. The revision in rates will be effective
Sensex rises 161 pts on jump in factory output Agency | Mumbai, Jun 15
The benchmark BSE Sensex today rose 161 points to 26,586.55 on account of better-than-expected factory output data and steady inflation, while value-buying in beaten-down stocks also added to the upside. Besides, sentiment also turned positive on reports of steady progress in monsoon, traders said. Industrial production grew at a two-month high of 4.1 per cent in April, primarily driven by manufacturing sector, while retail inflation edged up to 5.01 per cent in May.
from midnight of 15 and 16 June. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 66.93 per litre from tomorrow instead of Rs 66.29 at present. A litre of diesel will cost Rs 50.93 per litre as opposed to Rs 52.28, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s largest oil company, said. On May 16, petrol price was hiked by Rs 3.13 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.71 per litre. However, on June 1, compa-
nies skipped raising rates by 30-40 paise that had become necessary due to rise in international rates. “Since last price change, there has been an increase in international prices of petrol while international prices of Diesel have shown a downward trend. “Indian rupee-US dollar exchange rate has depreciated during this period. Combined impact of these factors warrant an
Modi launches book on education of Muslims
ty considers knowledge to be of primary importance. Knowledge offers light & encouragement,” Narendra Modi said. The Prime Minister also gave reference to Quran and said, “After Allah, the second highest word that ap-
pears in the Quran is “ilm” (knowledge). So we have this information but we forget it.” Narendra Modi also emphasized on sharing information between South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries.
Congress stages walkout in assembly Agency | New Delhi
Congress members today staged a walk-out from West Bengal assembly when Speaker Biman Banerjee refused to admit an adjournment motion moved by CLP leader Mohd Sohrab on closed jute mills of the state. After the question hour, Banerjee said an adjournment motion was moved by Sohrab which cannot be admitted but allowed him to read it out. Reading the motion, Sohrab said there were more than 20 jute mills lying closed in West Bengal leaving thousands unemployed and the state government was making no effort to reopen them.
Former IPL chief Lalit Modi’s lawyer said on Monday his client could not be termed a fugitive or an offender, while pointing to a ‘political angle’ in a controversy over the granting of UK travel papers to him. At a press conference in Mumbai, lawyer Mehmood Abdi said the UPA government was after Lalit Modi since the time the former IPL commissioner talked about Sunanda Pushkar’s “sweat equity” on Twitter. In the buildup to the media briefing, Modi set the stage by taking to Twitter, where he promised a “kind of press conference” the media
15 for giving its verdict. A vacation bench also extended its order staying the declaration of the results that were to be originally announced on June 5. The court came down heavily on the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) as it opposed the cancellation of the AIPMT, contending there was no guarantee that mass cheating will not be repeated. The court said CBSE should have taken precautions
to stop large-scale copying. In response to the developments, HT reader Manoj said: “The delay is disappointing and it is not sure that all the culprits will be nabbed soon. The affected candidates in this case will be those who qualify but secure lower ranks due to the use of unfair means in the examination and hence they will be deprived of a seat. A retest for all the candidates is not justified and it will time consuming too.
Hence the solution could be to declare the results immediately and conduct an online retest for those who have secured above the cut off marks. The online test could prevent use of unfair means and enable quicker result compilation and declaration.” Another HT reader Kesavadas backed the CBSE and said, “It is true that conducting re-examination for more than 6 lakh students will be a difficult task. CBSE is right in expressing its difficulty. The following could be a solution. Identify a cut off for each category as is done every year. Allow all students above this cut off to write the re-examination. Call it AIPMT (Advanced) & conduct the examination online.
ground of parity with other accused who were granted the relief as well as on medical grounds, citing various age-related ailments. The investigating agency CBI had opposed their bail plea saying that both of them had shot Sadiq due to which they must not be given bail. Both of them were arrested by CBI in 2012 for their alleged involvement in Sadiq’s
encounter. In 2013, CBI chargesheeted eight policemen for their alleged involvement in the alleged “fake” encounter. Out of these eight policemen, five have been granted bail by the court before Parmar and Saiyad and only DYSP Tarun Barot is still behind the bars in this case. Sadiq Jamal, a resident of Bhavnagar, was killed in
an encounter by the Gujarat police in Naroda area of the city on January 13, 2003. The Gujarat High Court had ordered a CBI probe after a petition by Sadiq’s brother Shabbir Jamal. The agency investigated the case and filed a charge sheet in December 2012. In its charge sheet, CBI stated that the encounter was “staged” by the police.
Agency | New Delhi
Lalit Modi being hounded, Sushma Swaraj did nothing wrong: Lawyer on travel papers row
Agency | Kolkata, June 15
which is being passed on to the consumers with this price change,” IOC said in a statement. The
Ahead of Supreme Court ruling on AIPMT, HT readers suggest ways to resolve crisis
Agency | New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched on Monday a book titled ‘Education of Muslims: An Islamic Perspective of Knowledge & Education–Indian Context’. The book is written by former NCERT Director J S Rajput. Speaking at the event Narendra Modi stressed on knowledge and education and said that education leads to societies developing, coming to modernity and coming out of darkness. “In our country every communi-
upward revision in prices of petrol and a downward revision in prices of diesel, the impact of
consumers when global rates began to fall in August. In case of diesel, the reduction has partly restored the gains taken away in May. Stateowned fuel retailers IOC, Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) revise petrol and diesel prices on 1st and 16th of every month three hikes in petrol rates based on average importhave wiped away more ed cost and rupee-dollar than one-third of the exchange rate in the pregains that had accrued to vious for tnight.
will love. “My guess is the wrong people resignations are being asked. I can assure u now the storm is about to hit. Lots more resignations will be (sought),” he wrote on the micro-blogging site in the wake of opposition parties demanding external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj’s resignation for helping Modi. There was no such revelation at the press conference, however. When a journalist asked Abdi about Modi’s tweets, the lawyer said he should ask Modi. Swaraj triggered a storm on Sunday after she said she helped the axed Indian Premier League (IPL) chief get travel papers
in London on “humanitarian” grounds as his cancer-stricken wife was due to undergo surgery in Portugal. “Humanitarian help for Lalit Modi was no scandal at all. There was nothing wrong,” Abdi said. The lawyer denied that there was a Interpol blue corner notice against Modi or that his client had been declared a fugitive. He said there was nothing wrong in Swaraj’s husband and daughter giving legal advice to Modi, stressing there was no scam. “People who are drawing parallels between Lalit Modi and Dawood (Ibrahim) have lost their balance,” Abdi said.
The Supreme Court will on Monday give its order on petitions seeking the cancellation of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) 2015 held in May. report on a further delay in declaring the results on June 12, and the possibility of the test being cancelled evoked responses from a large number of students and those affected by the developments. Several readers even came up with ways to resolve the crisis. The petitions in the Supreme Court were filed by candidates who claimed that mass cheating during the examination had vitiated the process. The court reserved its verdict on Friday and fixed June
Gujarat High Court grants bail to two cops in Sadiq encounter case Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court granted regular bail to two police officials in the 2003 Sadiq Jamal encounter killing case here today. High Court Judge Z K Saiyed granted bail to J G Parmar and Irshad Ali Saiyad both of whom retired as Deputy Superintendents of Police (DYSP). It is alleged that both of them shot Sadiq Jamal in an encounter in 2003 when they were serving as police inspectors with the city crime branch. In their bail plea filed a month ago, Parmar and Saiyad had sought bail on the
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CM-LG face-off : Fighting To Win The enfant terrible of Indian politics, as Arvind Kejriwal is seen by many today, is trying to push the envelope to enhance the powers of the Delhi chief minister and move public discourse towards statehood for Delhi. He knows he will come a cropper without this, with a BJP-ruled Centre not likely to make things easy for him. The court will clarify the grey areas that the lieutenant governor and the ministry of home affairs tried to reinterpret through a notification, but Kejriwal could end up with “ladoos” in both hands. An adverse judgment will win him sympathy, with abridged powers giving him an alibi for failure to deliver on all promises. A victory, on the other hand, could once again make him the hero of Delhi, achieving what his predecessors could not, and its ripples will be felt outside the state. Positing the fight as one between the “Big Brother” Centre and the “poor little” state, Kejriwal has evoked sympathy from other leaders and state satraps, who are wary of an overbearing Centre nibbling into their powers. Leaders like Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav, Sitaram Yechury and Omar Abdullah have come out in his support. While he is clearly positioning himself as a Narendra Modi-baiter, Kejriwal may also be laying the foundations of a future partnership with other regional parties — he has struck a rare rapport with Nitish Kumar — though the contours of the new political lineup will become clear only after elections in Bihar later this year and in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. It was, after all, UP and Bihar that between them contributed a whopping 102 Lok Sabha seats to the BJP tally. In its present gambit, as in its career so far, the Aam Aadmi Party has not been like any other political outfit, though many of its disappointed sympathisers now see it like “any other party”. This was the first time in independent India’s history that a civil society movement against corruption spawned a political party every second Delhiite voted for, decimating the 130-year-old Congress and halting the Modi juggernaut. It was, after all, not so long ago that highly regarded activists would come a cropper in elections, whether it was someone like Arun Bhatia, who took on powerful interests in Pune, or leaders of the Jayaprakash Narayan initiated Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Vahini, whose work with the Musahar-Dalits in Bodh Gaya led to the redistribution of land in the name of womenfolk in 1980. When a Vahini leader stood for elections from his “karmabhoomi”, he lost. People did not believe that voluntary workers, dedicated as they were, could become successful politicians. The Asom Gana Parishad had also enthused the young people of Assam in the early Eighties and gone on to win two elections around the theme of Assamese subnationalism. But the AAP’s appeal cuts across caste, class, community. The Janata Party had also come out of the womb of the “JP” movement in 1974, also against corruption, rising prices, and for electoral reforms.
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QUOTE “The BJP government has totally commercialised the eduction sector in the state. Private schools are charging exorbitant fees, which is over Rs one lakh annually. OF THE But they are not at all in the control of the state government or follow any rules,” - State Congress chief Bharat Solanki told reporters in Ahmedabad. DAY Salman Khan hit-and-run case: Court adjourns conviction to July 1
Studly Kangana and boring Imraan in Katti Batti trailer Agency | New Delhi
Agency | Mumbai Salman Khan’s appeal against his conviction in 2002 hit-and-run case by a lower court was adjourned till July 1 by the Bombay high court. The sessions court had on May 6 convicted
the actor to five years’ imprisonment for various charges, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Salman appealed against the conviction in Bombay High Court which suspended his sentence
and subsequently granted him bail. The superstar has been convicted for ramming his car into a bakery in Bandra west, killing one pavement dweller and injuring four others, on September 28, 2002.
Do Lafzon Ki Kahani: Randeep Hooda Flaunts Clean Shaven Avatar In Kuala Lumpur
Yay! There’s another Kangana Ranaut film on the horizon. But oh, doesn’t Katti Batti look a bit like those tryingtoo-hard-to-be-quirky romances? You know, the kind which always has Imraan Khan playing the nice boy in love with a stud of a girl? Think Break Ke Baad, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, Ek Main Aur Ek Tu and Gori Tere Pyaar Mein. But let’s not get too anxious yet. Because Kangana Ranaut’s in the house guys! Ranaut plays Payal, an art student in Nikhil Advani’s film. Imran Khan plays Madhav Kabra, an architect. You’ll know Rananut is meant to play the free spirited, wild child in a heartbeat thanks to how predictable Bollywood’s styling can be. So Ranaut gets long blonde
streaked tress with bangs in a few frames, a posh, severe bob in another, and lose wavy tresses in yet another frame. Now open your book of Bol-
lywood stereotypes and it tell you, more than two kinds of hairtsyles in one film means the character in question is meant to be rebellious and cool.
film collected Rs. 5.04 cr on the first day of its reVidya Balan, Emraan lease (Friday), Rs. 5.15 cr Hashmi’s ‘Hamari Adhuon the second day (Saturri Kahani’ is moving at a day) and Rs. 6.30 cr on slow pace at the Box Of- the last day of the weekfice and has managed to end (Sunday). The movie collect a mere Rs. 16.49 revolves around Vasudha cr in its first weekend. The (Vidya Balan) who is the
mother of a little boy and the wife of a drunkard Hari (Rajkummar Rao). Her husband, who has a dark past is taken to by the police and she falls in love with a handsome business tycoon – Aarav (Emraan Hashmi).
Emraan Hashmi – Vidya Balan’s ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ collects Rs. 16.49 cr in first weekend
Agency | Mumbai Actor Randeep Hooda is busy shooting for Deepak Tijori’s directorial “Do Lafzon Ki Kahani” Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA)
Weekend and Awards attracted Bollywood celebrities galore earlier this month. The “Highway” actor took to micro-blogging website Twitter to share a glimpse from the upcoming venture. Randeep, who mostly sports a rugged look, was seen
flaunting a clean shaven look, wearing a white t-shirt and long tresses. The “Highway” star is also currently gearing up for Prawaal Raman’s directorial “Main Aur Charles”, a forthcoming biopic on Charles Sobhraj, the ‘Bikini Killer’ of the 1970s.
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Shah Rukh Khan reminisces his films with Kajol Jacqueline Fernandez sacrifices vacation for work Agency | Mumbai
Shah Rukh Khan, who is currently shooting for director Rohit Shetty’s ‘Dilwale’ in Bulgaria, got nostalgic about his costar Kajol with whom he worked in ‘Karan Arjun’, ‘Baazigar’, ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ among others. The 49-year-old star is reuniting with his hit costar after Kara Johar’s “My Name Is Khan” in 2010. He shared a collage of the two on Twitter, tracing their journey from 1993 to 2015. “Somedays it’s good to ponder over the journey... As you embark upon a new destination,” Shah Rukh captioned the picture. Kajol too posted a picture of the duo on her Twitter account, which
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Jacqueline
she earlier claimed was only for promoting social awareness about the benfits of hand washing. “Back in front of the camera with an old friend after a very long time. You might know him. @iamsrk.” Earlier, Shah Rukh had tweeted a picture of himself, Kajol and Rohit and called their
team “ageless.” “’Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears’- Lennon. By that maxim this team is ageless,” the star had captioned the photo, quoting John Lennon The comedy-drama, will be Shah Rukh’s second outing with Rohit after 2013 hit ‘Chennai Express’.
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dez who recently put up a spectacular performance at an award function, had to cut her trip short to attend the trailer launch of her upcoming film in Mumbai. Jacqueline, who is half-Malaysian was happy to reunite with her friends and family in Malaysia, and had planned on extending her stay there to spend quality time with them. However, the actress had to drop the plans due to her work commitments and immediately fly back to Mumbai to attend the trailer launch of Brothers with Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra. Says a source, “ The makers of the film had locked a date and informed Jacqueline. She immediately cancelled her holiday plans and flew down to the city to be present for the film’s first event.
ACTRESS JACQUELINE CANCELS FAMILY VACATION FOR TRAILER LAUNCH OF BROTHERS!
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Will discuss DRS usage SPORTS ROUNDUP with team: Virat Kohli Kumar Sangakkara might retire after first Test against India
Agency | New Delhi iBall on Monday launched its mSLR Cobalt4 smartphone in India. The handset will be available across the region in the coming weeks for a best buy price of Rs. 8,499. The smartphone’s highlight are the four detachable mSLR lenses that come bundled with the package. The bundles lenses included for the handset are zoom lens with 8x zooming power, fish eye lens with 175180 degree viewing angle, macro lens with 10x magnification and 1015mm minimum object distance, and wide-an-
gle lens with 130 degree viewing angle. A pouch for lenses and a cleaning cloth is also included. The dual-SIM dual-standby supporting iBall mSLR Cobalt4 smartphone runs Android 4.4 KitKat outof-the-box. The mSLR Cobalt4 comes with a 5-inch (540x960 pixels) qHD IPS display with a pixel density of 220ppi. The smartphone is powered by a 1.4GHz octa-core Cortex-A7 processor (unspecified) coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB).
Twitter private messaging characterlimit increased from 140 to 10,000
Agency | New Delhi Looks like, Twitter is betting big on private messaging. In its developer blog, the company has announced it would get rid of the 140-character limit on direct messaging. It will now allow users to send direct messages that are 10,000 characters long. Now, if you are wondering if your tweets will soon support more than 140-characters, then the answer is a clear ‘no’. “You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter.
Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today,” the company wrote in a blog. Needless to say, with the fierce competition in the messaging space with the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the company sure knows instant messaging will be a big deal in the future. However, the new changes won’t come until July. Moreover, Twitter has some recommendations to ensure that the apps and services can handle the longer messaging format.
India Test captain Virat Kohli said he is open to discussing the usage of the Decision Review System (DRS) with his team, even as the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) continues to oppose its employment in matches.
Agency | Fatullah India Test captain Virat Kohli said he is open to discussing the usage of the Decision Review System (DRS) with his team, even as the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) continues to oppose its employment in matches. The rain-marred one-off Test match between India and Bangladesh ended in a tame draw as the hosts finished at 23 for no loss in their second innings after being forced
to follow-on on Day 5 at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium here on Sunday. “You have to sit and analyse and ask the bowlers what they feel about it. Ask the batters what they feel about that,” Kohli was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo on Sunday. “We literally just came into this Test match with very less time on hand. So now that we have time, I am sure these discussions will take place.” India is the only team who insist
on not using the DRS in a series, but things appear to be changing. Last year, Kohli’s predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni had opened up on the possibility of India changing their mind about the DRS if it would assess an appeal independently and not try to “justify” the on-field umpire’s call. The situation has changed from when N. Srinivasan, then BCCI president, dubbed DRS “a faulty system” in October 2013.
Positive India aim for win against Guam Agency | Guam
The Indian football team will renew its quest to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a qualifying game against Guam at the Guam National Football Stadium here on Tuesday. This will be India’s second match of the second round of qualifiers. India and Guam are in Group D along with Oman, Iran and Turkmenistan for the preliminary league with the top two finishers progressing to the next phase of the competition. India lost their first match of the group 1-2 against Oman while Guam defeated Turkmenistan 1-0. India, 141 in the rankings will need to put their best
foot forward against the 174th-ranked Guam, as the visitors seek their first win not only in Group D but also in the Pacific region. Despite India’s loss against Oman, they offered hope for an improved performance and will be looking to take some aspects of that game on Tuesday. Guam coach Gary White said that they are looking forward to the game. “It’s likely to be a competitive one. Win or
perish - both teams would go out to get those three points. We have watched India’s match against Oman and must say that there seems to be a new life in the Indian team. They looked much organised and it will be difficult to break them down,” White said, in a release on Tuesday. India’s coach Stephen Constantine isn’t willing to read much into the rankings disparity between the two teams.
Telecom services provider Vodafone has increased pre-paid data tariff for 2G and 3G services in Delhi NCR by up to 47 per cent, while MTS hiked rates of post-paid data pack by 8 per cent. The increase comes in the aftermath of March spectrum auction wherein telcos had paid around Rs 1.1 lakh crore to acquire airwaves.
However, Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which operates under the MTS brand, did not participate in the March auction. Earlier, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular had increased the tariffs for mobile data. Vodafone has increased the price of its 3G pack of 10 GB data to Rs 1,847 with a validity of 28 days from Rs 1,255 earlier.
Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara is likely to retire from international cricket after the first Test against India in Galle later this year. Sangakkara has had a talk with SLC officials regarding his swansong Test and his willingness to play two Tests against Pakistan and the opening game versus India besides his county commitments with Surrey, reported ‘ESPNcricinfo’. The India series, which
is slated for an August 18 start in Galle, was already supposed to be Sangakkara’s final hurrah, but the left-handed batsman was expected to play all the three Tests against India. This means that Sangakkara will not be able to bid adieu in Kandy, but there is a chance that his farewell Test could be moved to his hometown. The 37-year-old former captain had originally intended to retire from all formats following the World Cup, but was con-
vinced to stay on for two more series by the former selectors and captain Angelo Mathews, among others. With 12,203 Test runs, 38 Test hundreds and an average of 58.66, Sangakkara will retire as Sri Lanka’s most successful Test batsman.Incidentally, another Sri Lankan great, Muttiah Muralitharan, had called time on his career after playing only the first Test of the series in Galle, in which the off-spinner completed a Test haul of record 800 wickets.
Sharad Pawar brings up Wankhede vs DY Patil stadium conflict as MCA elections loom
Ravi Shastri does not want any interference from high-profile advisory commitee: Report
Internet to cost dear as Vodafone, MTS hike data tariffs in Delhi
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Agency | Mumbai Former India skipper Ravi Shastri’s fate as Team India sDirector is yet to be decided but according to a report, in case if his contract is extended, he would not like any interference from the newly-formed high-profile BCCI advisory committee comprising the big guns of Indian cricket.
It is learnt that Shastri would not want anyone — not even the advisory panel of Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman — to interfere, according to a report. “Shastri felt that if he were given a twoyear contract, he would like to run the team his way and would obviously won’t want someone else interfering in policy deci-
sions.” “Shastri was very particular on having complete freedom and didn’t want any board matters to affect his role,” added the official. As per the report, it is also learnt that former all-rounder had informed the board before taking up the Bangladesh assignment to not consider his name if he was not in the scheme of things for a longer duration.
On Wednesday, 17 June Mumbai Cricket Association’s current President and NCP chief Sharad Pawar will be contesting an MCA election for the first time in over a decade. This time around Cricket First group’s Vijay Patil, backed by Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, is taking on Pawar for the post of MCA’s President. The field of contestants carries a mix of former cricketers and active politicians. There are multiple political angles to the election contest, with Patil’s group fielding two Shiv Sena leaders, Pratap Sarnaik and Rahul Shewale, for posts of vice president
and member of management committee respectively. BJP’s Mumbai chief Ashish Selar, meanwhile, is also contesting for the Vice President’s post from the Pawar-camp. With elections barely a couple of days away, both groups are busy ensuring the State’s political bigwigs are behind their respective candidates.Uddhav Thackeray, who Patil refers to a ‘cricket-lover’ who cares deeply about Mumbai’s cricket, was supposed to meet mediapersons on Sunday but could not. However, he spoke to the voters and requested them to back the Cricket First panel, reported the Times of India. The Sena chief
is expected to brief the media on Monday, the report added. Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on the other hand, met 16 members of the Sharad Pawar faction and some 20-odd members of government institutions who are eligible to vote. The Chief Minister’s decision to privately address select members of the PawarMahaddalkar group raised a few eyebrows, leading to questions of State throwing their weight behind one group. He added that the primary objective for his group his to restore to Mumbai cricket to its glory days and is glad to have the ‘blessings and support of Uddhavji.’
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Shoot those who hoist Pakistani flags in Kashmir: Togadia in Kutch Correspondent | Rajkot
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) president Dr Pravin Togadia today said those who hoist Pakistani flags in Kashmir must be “shot” with bullets on chest. “The way Pakistani flags are being hoisted in Kashmir is a matter of concern and now it is necessary to shoot people in their chest if they shout slogans in favour of Pakistan and hoist Pakistani flags,” Togadia told reporters in Kutch district of Gujarat. While answering a query about the current situation in Jammu and
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Kashmir, Togadia said, “The Union government has not taken stern action against pro-Pakistani separatists and so they are getting emboldened day by day.” He was answering a query about the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir, where
a seminar organised by the Hurriyat Conference was stalled by the state government for alleged anti-India activities. Several anti-India leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani have been placed under house arrest in Srinagar.
day, with water failing to recede into storm drains. Adding to the woes of the civic body that tried to pump out water from several areas, more rain was received on Sunday afternoon, again flooding several roads. Most key roads in the city, as well as streets in Waghodia Road, Ajwa Road, Harni-Warasiya Ring Road,
New VIP Road, Gotri, Alkapuri, Manjalpur, Makarpura, Subhanpura, Tarsali and other areas witnessed water logging after the first shower as drainage lines remained choked. Harni-Warasiya ring road remained inundated, while several residential societies too witnessed water logging. On Saturday, a couple in Danteshwar area was injured after a tree gave way, and two cows were electrocuted at Harni during the rains. VMC officials, who visited several sites after receiving complaints of overflowing drains, found it hard to placate residents who were furious over water logging.
Season’s first rain exposes VMC’s unpreparedness
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The onset of monsoon in Vadodara has exposed the unpreparedness of the VMC, with rainwater remaining stagnated on roads in most parts of the city. The city received an inch of rain on Saturday morning. However, puddles remained collected on sideways until Sun-
Gujarat BSF out-posts to shine with solar energy
Love Jihad: Central Gujarat town Nadiad observes total bandh
In an innovative effort to fight electricity crisis in forward areas, Gujarat Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) is all set to use solar energy for its out-posts located in remote border areas, where no electrification is possible till date. Union Minister of State for Home and top BSF officials confirmed that Gujarat frontier will soon set up a five mega watt solar energy plant and also separately electrify 20 Border Out Posts (BoPs) by solar energy. “Gujarat frontier BSF has given me a proposal about the solar power project. It will come up soon,” Haribhai Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs over phone. Chaudhary however did not divulged details like cost of the same project. “I can only tell about the cost aspects once I will reach Delhi on Tuesday,” the minister said. Inspector General of Gujarat Frontier of BSF Santosh Mehra said there are two projects on
solarisation, one is a five megawatt solar plant in Nadabet area in border district of Banaskantha and in another project 20 BoPs will be lightened up with solar energy. “In Nadabet area we are going to have about five megawatt solar plant. Some progress is there. The land has been identified and this solar plant will come up,”Mehra. “In another project, we have identified about 20 BoPs (in Banaskantha and Kutch districts),which will stand alone on solar power generation sys-
tem. No electrification has taken place in these BoPS. Only source of electricity over there is generator,” he said. BSF Gujarat frontier, which consists of three sectors namely Barmer in Rajasthan, Gandhinagar and Bhuj sectors, is securing an border area of 741 kms sharing with Pakistan. And unlike other frontiers of BSF, Gujarat frontier has three distinct types of topography like desert, marshy region and creek areas, due to which electrification has not become possible.
bers of Parikh had filed missing person report with Navrangpura police three days back. Police suspects that Parikh might have committed suicide three days ago. “On June 2, Parikh’s father Jagdishbhai, a retired bank officer, had approached police and had reported harassment by Vishal Nayak, a person involved in a number of criminal cases and at the moment absconding after jumping a parole, and others. As per the complaint, Devang had got Rs 10 lakh from Nayak
at the rate of 3% a month. He had paid Rs 1 lakh but had failed to repay the second installment,” said a Navrangpura police official. Investigators said that when Devang failed the deadline, Vishal and his accomplice Pratik had come to Devang’s house on May 29 and had beaten Devang up in front of his family members. After promise of paying money soon, Devang went to Mumbai with his mother. He had returned to the city after five days and had then disappeared on June 11.
Man jumps to death in Sabarmati River Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A 33-year-old man committed suicide by jumping in Sabarmati River after alleged harassment by moneylenders. The body was fished out on Sunday from Ellisbridge. Police are awaiting for the family to complete the last rites and then will question the family and probe the financial affairs of the deceased. According to Navrangpura police, Devang Parikh, was a resident of Govind Apartment near Navrangpura telephone exchange. Family mem-
Gujarat Congress seeks reforms in education sector, warns of stir Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Correspondent | Nadiad
Central Gujarat town Nadiad today observed complete strike against recent incident which has been largely identified as ‘Love Jihad’ in which a 20-year-old girl and 42-year-old bootlegger Masum Kalu Mahida have eloped togather. Locals are concerned about this incident because Masum has two wives at present. His age is double compared to a missing girl. Family of Hindu Patidar(Patel) girl fears that Masum may wed Hindu student girl and make her his third wife. Locals in Nadiad marched to Collector office and submitted memorandum in this regard. They also approached district police
chief. According to Ketanbhai Patel, local Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP) leader, Pij-road based Krushnanagar society resident and infamous bootlegger Masum Kalu Mahida trapped a Hindu girl in Love Jihad and eloped on 11th of June at around noon. Girl’s father has filed complaint against Masum Mahida. VHP organized Chintan Shibir in Mahadev Mandir campus of Pij road for action plan against growing incidents of Love Jihad. BJP leader Asmakhan Pathan who is from Nadiad said there’s apparent malafide intention of Mahida in this case as he has two wives and he is 43, and he has now fled with a girl who is in her 20s.
Accusing the BJP-led Gujarat government of commercialising education, the state Congress today threatened to launch an agitation to demand reforms in the sector. “The BJP government has totally commercialised the eduction sector in the state. Private schools are charging exorbitant fees, which is over Rs one lakh annually. But they are not at all in the control of the state government or follow any rules,” state Congress chief Bharat Solanki told reporters here. “We demand that the state government should regulate fees charged by private school or else middle class parents will not be able to educate their children,” he said. He alleged that the implementation of Right to Eduction in the state is
worse than the state Food and Civil Supplies Department, which distributes food-grain through ration shops. The state ranks 16th in primary education and 23rd in the secondary education as per the official figures. The higher education due to privatisation has gone out of reach of middle class students, Solanki said. “The pass percentage of class X and XII have gone down this year by 13 per cent even after the state education department gave grace marks to the students, which tell the overall scenario of education in the state,” he said. Highlighting other issues in education, the Congress leader said 4,000 government schools in Gujarat have just one room and around 10,000 posts of teachers in the tribal areas were lying vacant.
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BEd, MEd to be two-year course from this year Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The BEd and MEd programme will now be two-year course after the Gujarat Education Department decided to implement the 2014 NCERT notification that directs institutes to increase the BEd course period from one to two years. “However, the tenure of the integrated teachers course (graduation and BEd degree) at the teachers university — Indian Institute of Teachers Education (IITE) in Gandhinagar — would remain four years. This would not increase to five,” said GCERT Director Rajesh Purohit. The state offers more than 70,000 seats under various one to two-year BEd
and MEd courses. There are over 900 institutes affiliated to government, private as well as aided universities, that offer the courses. However, only 10 per cent of these seats are offered by the institutes affiliated to government universities, while the remaining 90 under private universities. This also results in variation in the fee structure as private institutes charge much higher fee than the government ones.
Raju lion was like his son to Suleman the Forester
The majestic nomadic lion, popularly known as Raju or playboys and Suleman Timan the Forester, in Gir had an amazing relationship. Raju who died recently was like Suleman’s son. He used to follow Suleman since he was young. Talk to Suleman and he has each and every minute details of Raju. “When he was a child, he had suffered injury and ever since then he became handicapped and use to limp while walking. Raju was like my son and when he was hospitalized, I use to frequently ask the doctor about his health. Being an forest employee we were not permitted to go to the hospital, but I used to get feedback regularly. Call it a mere coincidence, but I had often seen him following me wherever I went. When I was in Dedakadi he was
spotted there, when I was in Kamleshwar beat, he was there and when I was back in the core area of the sanctuary, Raju was there.” “I did not like anything for couple of days when I heard Raju passed away,” says Timan. Even forest officials says that it was an unbelievable relationship in-between a wild lion and a human. Raju passed away before a couple of weeks but his memories and genes will be there forever. Even while Raju was growing up, he loved solitude and lived as a nomad even as an adult. Raju the lion who, was usually seen within the Gir sanctuary area was popularly known as a ‘playboy’ among forest staff. Raju breathed his last at age 10, dying of weakness. He was suffering from paralysis and died as he wasn’t able to hunt anymore.
they noticed that Balaji Processors at Dungarpur village of Junagadh taluka was releasing effluent in a nearby stream. Acting on the complaint, the pollution watchdog of the state issued a closure notice. Owners of Balaji Processors said that after receiving the notice from the GPCB, they had closed their unit on March 3. However, the matter came to light only on Sunday. “The unit is just
500 metres away form Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary. It was discharging industrial effluent in a nearby stream and that posed a thereat to local eco-system. Therefore, we reported this matter to our top officers, who in turn approached the GPCB,” a forest officer of Junagadh said. GPCB confirmed it had served a closure notice to Balaji Processors. “Basically it’s a dyeing and printing unit.
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Dyeing unit near Gir forest closed
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A dyeing and ~~printing~~ unit has been shut down after the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) ordered its closure following complaints from the forest department that the firm was polluting eco-sensitive zone of Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary in Junagadh. Forest officials had lodged a complaint with the regional office of GPCB in Junagadh after
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