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News Brief “Startup India launch” State govt tranfers 38 IPS officers
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In a late night notification on Saturday, the state government announced the transfer of 38 IPS officers across the state. Noteworthy among these are Shobha Bhutada, superintendent of police, Bharuch, who has been transferred to SRPF Jamnagar. She will be replaced by Himanshu Shukla, who was SP, Operations-ATS. Those in the know of things claim the double murder case in Bharuch necessitated this transfer. Shukla will be replaced by Mayursinh Chavda who has worked with him earlier.
US, Iranian envoys eye end of sanctions against Iran Agency | Vienna
The end of Western sanctions against Iran loomed on Saturday as Iran’s foreign minister suggested the UN atomic agency is close to certifying that his country has met all commitments under its landmark nuclear deal with six world powers. Iranian minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a series of meetings with his European Union and US counterparts — including US secretary of state John Kerry — on implementing the accord.
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PM Modi announces Rs 10,000 crore dedicated fund for start-ups
India Starts Up, Modi has a plan Prime Minister Narendra Modi spelt out the salient features of the action plan for startups
Agency | Mumbai Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch ‘Startup India’ movement on Saturday at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi with an agenda to foster growth for entrepreneurship in India. The first session kick started Startup India at 9:30 am with the topic ‘21st Century Calling: Why is innovation important for India?’
which was addressed by Finance Minster Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman, Onno Ruhl, Country Director, World Bank and Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Biotechnology. A unique Question and Answer (Q&A) session titled ‘Face-to-face with Policy-makers’ was also organized wherein
Secretaries of key government Ministries and Departments answered questions on how government will be creating an enabling ecosystem for Start-ups. The objective was to reinforce commitment of the government towards creating an ecosystem that will be conducive for growth of Start-ups. This session included various government decision makers
agement students in suburban Vile Parle here. “There’s a huge contradiction in saying I want start ups but I will be intolerant,” the Congress leader said. “You will fail on the economy and start up front if you are intolerant,” he said. “Start ups require free movement of ideas. If I say you are a woman and your place is in the kitchen, I am curbing your freedom,” he said. He also charged that the BJP categorises people. “The BJP has
categories: There’s a Hindu for them, a Muslim for them, a woman for them. I don’t categorise. That’s the difference between us and them,” he said. Rahul asked students not to put labels on people, things and industries. “Saying this is a Hindu, this is a Muslim, this is a woman…hides values,” he said, adding, “When Steve Jobs was asked what was the most important class you took, he said: Japanese calligraphy”.
Startups and intolerance can’t go together: Rahul Gandhi Agency | Mumbai
As the Centre’s ambitious start-up mission got underway, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday trained his guns on the Narendra Modi government, saying there is a contradiction in pushing for start-ups and being “intolerant”. The Congress Vice President also said that the RSS has a very “rigid vision” for India and that start ups require free movement of ideas. “The ruling dispensation, particularly the RSS, has a clear idea on what the world should look like. They have a vision for India which in my opinion is a very rigid vision. This country requires flexibility, openness and movement of ideas,” Gandhi said, during an interaction with man-
such as Hasmukh Adhia, Secretary, Revenue, V S Oberoi, Secretary HRD, Tapan Ray, Secretary Corp Affairs, Shaktikanta Das, Secretary, DEA, Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Science & Tech, K Shivaji Chairman & MD, SIDBI, J S Deepak, Secretary, Department of Electronics & IT, Anup K Pujari, Secretary,
MSME and Prashant Saran, Member, Sebi. The topic of discussion in this session was how the government will create an enabling system for startups. The sessions following that was conducted by various start-ups and experts from India as well as international speaking about the startup environment in India
and the requirements to foster further growth. The last session was on ‘How to capitalise entrepreneurship’, which was moderated by Minister of State Finance, Jayant Sinha. The panel members included, Sreedhar Prasad, Partner KPMG, sachin Bansal, Founder of Flipkart, Naveen Tewari, Founder of In-
Mobi, Radhika Agarwal, Founder of Shop Clues, Ritesh Agarwal, Founder of OYO Rooms, BJ Arun, CEO of July Systems. The launch event is aimed at celebrating the entrepreneurship spirit of country’s youth, and was attended by CEOs and founders of top start-ups from across the country and abroad. The Prime Minister is present at the exhibition along with Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to interact with start-up entrepreneurs. He will release the Start-up Action Plan, and address the gathering.
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Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will fix over 700 accident black spots on the National Highways (NH) and has asked people to bring to their notice more black spots or accident-prone sites all over India. “We have identified 726 black spots on NHs and will be rectifying them by spending Rs11,000 crore. These spots are accident prone and several incidents have taken place. Thus, the need to improve them,” said union minister Nitin Gadkari of MoRTH at an event on Road Safety Week 2016 on Wednesday. Corpo. Office: A/41, Madhav Chamber’s, Shaktidhara Colony, Opp-Sayona Arcade, L.B.S. Road, Toll Naka, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024
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2 / Dt. 17-01-2016, Sunday Editors’ Picks sunday, JANUARY 17, 2016 The new crop insurance scheme may entail a cost that’s worth paying The Narendra Modi government’s new Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is worth commending for bringing crop insurance centrestage. Farmers, unlike most other economic agents, are exposed to production (weather) as well as price (market) risks. Given the extent of risk involved in growing any crop — ranging from prolonged dry spells and pest attacks to price crash at the time of harvesting — no insurer would normally want to enter this segment. Even if they do, most farmers cannot afford to fork out the huge premiums based on actuarial or statistical risk assessment. There is a case, therefore, for the government to subsidise crop insurance premiums that will ultimately also encourage farmers to invest in productivity improvements and new technologies. Such subsidy is any day preferable to those on fertiliser, electricity or water, which only promote inefficient resource use. The fact that even farmers in a country like the US pay just 35 per cent of the average premium on crop insurance policies — entailing annual federal subsidies of $10 billion — only proves the point. Under the PMFBY, farmers would pay only 2 per cent premium for all kharif crops, while it would be 1.5 per cent for rabi and 5 per cent for horticultural crops. The gap between the premiums they would pay and actuarial rates will be met by the government without any upward limit on this subsidy. From a farmer’s perspective, this represents significant improvement over the existing Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme. Under the latter, the government subsidised a maximum of 75 per cent of the actuarial premium. Moreover, the premium rate on which the sum insured was calculated was itself capped, so as to limit both the farmer’s claim and the government’s outgo. But now, there will be no such indirect capping of the sum insured. The question that naturally arises is, what would be the fiscal implications of the new scheme? The Modi government is planning to launch it from the coming kharif season, which, going by statistical probability, should be relatively better for agriculture, following two back-to-back monsoon failures. But in a drought year like the current one, the outgo from the PMFBY — assuming it is implemented in the manner proposed — may not be small. That price may still be worth paying for a country where only a fifth of farmers have crop insurance coverage. Subsidised premiums and prompt claims settlement enabled by remote sensing and GPS technology — as opposed to patwaris and crop-cutting experiments — should help substantially expand coverage.
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QUOTE “That an agitation is launched when an opponent is in the government, But government of “our brother” (Narendra Modi) at the Centre, there is OF THE with no need for VHP to start any movement or agitation” - Vishva Hindu Parishad’s national working president Pravin Togadia Friday said...... DAY Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Jr NTR’s ‘Nannaku Prematho’ rakes Navya Naveli Nanda enjoys beach holiday in over Rs.30 crore in three days Agency | Mumbai
Navya Naveli Nanda, the granddaughter of Amitabh Bachchan, is enjoying a beach holiday abroad. In a couple of pictures doing the rounds of social media, 18 year-old Navya Naveli Nanda is seen on the beach in a bikini. The picture seems to be a Aryan Khan. While Aryan it is not clear yet if Navya candid shot. The teenager may make his Bollywood will choose films as a cais friends with SRK’s son debut sometime in future, reer option.
Kangana Ranaut wants to write book on her struggles Agency | Mumbai
Actress Kangana Ranaut intends to write a book on her struggles in her life, which includes the period before she came to the film industry as well as her stint in it. “The way I dealt with my failures has been very heavy and I would like to write a book about that, how success will never teach you anything” said Kangana at the launch of journalist Barkha Dutt’s book, “The Unquiet India” here. “So I’ve been through struggle for 10 years, and I think that’s what shaped me up as a person today. I don’t know how much a success people see me as – that is very external aspect of one’s growth – but I think I’m a very successful person on a very personal level. And when you lose something or face failure, it’s about how you deal with it and not lose your self-respect
Agency | Chennai Actor Jr NTR’s Telugu drama “Nannaku Prematho”, an emotional drama between a father and son, has grossed over Rs.30 crore worldwide in the first three days since its release. “Despite mixed reviews, the film managed to collect over
Rs.30 crore in the first three days worldwide. It is expected to gross over Rs.50 crore in the opening weekend,” trade analyst Trinath said. Directed by Sukumar, the film, which released on January 13, also stars Rakul Preet Singh, Rajendra Prasad and Jagapathi Babu in
important roles. The film is inching close to the $1 million mark in the US. “It has raked in over Rs.4 crore ($717,763) in just two days. It’s performing extremely well and is running to packed houses,” Sanjay of CineGalaxy Inc, the overseas distributor of the film said.
his family, the actor said: “It is an honour to be nominated alongside my idol Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.” He won the Best Actor (Male) Award in the crit-
ics category for his work in “Piku”, while Deepika Padukone, his co-actor in the film bagged the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award at the event.
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while Deepika Padukone grabbed the Best Actress Award for her role of a doting daughter in “Piku”. Kangana Ranaut won the Critics’ Choice Best Actor (Female) Award for “Tanu Weds Manu Returns”, and megastar Amitabh Bachchan won the Critics’ Choice Best Actor (Male) award for “Piku”. “Time is short…so Best Actor Critics’ at Filmfare for ‘Piku’…happy and content,” tweeted Amitabh. The Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) honour went to Priyanka Chopra for “Bajirao Mastani”, while Anil Kapoor took home the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) Award for “Dil Dhadakne Do”.
Ranveer Singh ‘honoured’ to compete with Big B for award Agency | Mumbai
and self-worth,” she said. “Ten years of humiliation, rejection, embarrassment could’ve made me believe what the whole world thought about me – like if they thought about me as a loser, but I didn’t think of
myself as that or as what the world or my parents thought of me. That’s why I could do what I did in my life… Not just in India but all over the world, winning and success in so overrated,” she added.
Actor Ranveer Singh, who bagged the Best Actor in a Leading Role Award at a recent award ceremony, says he felt honoured to have been nominated in the category with megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Ranveer walked off with the black statuette for his role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial “Bajirao Mastani” wherein he portrays the role of Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao I. Dedicating his award to
Sooraj Pancholi wins Best Debut Award, thanks fans for support
Sooraj Pancholi, who forayed into Bollywood with superstar Salman Khan’s production “Hero”, is elated about receiving the Filmfare Best Debut (Male) Award. He has thanked his fans for the “support”. “I thank all the people who have supported me! Each and everyone of you! I coudn’t have done this without you,” tweeted Sooraj after winning the award on Friday night. The event saw actress Bhumi Pednekar bag the Best Debut (Female) for her film “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”. Ranveer Singh won the Best Actor Award for his role as 18th century Maratha Peshwa Bajirao I in “Bajirao Mastani”,
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In Mumbai, Hardik Ind vs Aus: Trailing 0-2, MS Dhoni Pandya brings his A game may make India chase in third ODI
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Agency | Mumbai HE was of the swanky hairdo, the shiny stud sparkling from the left ear-lobe, the swag and even an accent buoyed by rubbing shoulders with the IPL’s who’s who. Recently, he also received the tag of being a member of the Indian squad. And on Friday at the Wankhede Stadium, Baroda’s Hardik Pandya produced that awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping knock— of T20 proportions anyway — that will now become his trademark and will keep getting referred to
every time anyone wants to talk up his credentials with the bat in the shortest format. Pandya had smashed a breath-taking 81 not out in his previous match — the league encounter against Delhi where he hit 34 runs in a single over — but here against Vidarbha, he not only produced the fireworks, the lanky righthander also took his team home from a potentially dire situation, and he did so in style, scoring an unbeaten 46-ball 86 as Baroda won by seven wickets.
Back-to-back one-day defeats in Perth and Brisbane have forced India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to rethink his strategy of opting to bat first against Australia, who have taken a 2-0 lead in the fivematch series by chasing down 300-plus targets. Dhoni won the toss in both matches and after India posted scores of 309 and 308 and watched as the hosts reeled them in with powerful displays at the crease. There was also a suggestion of a lack of discipline about India’s bowlers, who leaked 23 wides in the two matches. Ahead of Sunday’s third one-dayer, Dhoni wondered if chasing a target was a better option for In-
dia. “I feel even if we cut down the extras we will have to score more runs,” said Dhoni. “There are two options: either put pressure on the batsmen and score 330, or chase down the score, give them the batting first. We will have a look and decide what suits us the best.” While Rohit Sharma burnished his reputation in limited-overs cricket with a second successive century in Brisbane, skipper Dhoni said he was seek-
ing even more from his batsmen. “As a team we have to win, irrespective of which department is not doing well, and for that we have to score 2030 more runs,” he added. “That will put a lot of pressure on the batsmen, because the moment you take your guard right from the first ball, on the back of your mind would be ‘we have to get 330340 odd runs to be on the safer side’ and that would put a lot of pressure.”
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Shreyas Iyer powers Mumbai to win
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overs (Shreyas Iyer 86, Shreyas Iyer’s 51-ball Aditya Tare 41; Ravi 86 run blitzkrieg helped Thakur 2-32). Mumbai sail past a tall Delhi outplay Vidarbha total to notch Jharkhand up a five-wicket win in outplayed the Super League phase Delhi of the Syed Mushtaq Jharkhand by five wickAli T20. Chasing Vidar- ets for their first win in bha’s score of 181 for the Super League stage four, built mainly around of the Syed Mushtaq Ali opener Jignesh Sharma’s T20 Trophy, riding on punishing knock of 56 Nitesh Rana’s unbeatoff just 30 balls, Mumbai en half-century to pull cantered home in 18.5 things back after being overs to register their precariously placed at second straight victory in one stage. Brief scores: as many days in the tour- Jharkhand 134-7 in 20 nament, at the Wankhede Overs (Virat Singh 45, Stadium. Brief scores: Ishank Jaggi 42; ParvinVidarbha 181/4 in 20 der Awana 3-28, Manovers (Jitesh Sharma 56, an Sharma 2-28) lost to Akhil Wankhede not out Delhi 138-5 in 18 Overs 36, U Patel not out 31; S (Nitish Rana 60*, Dhruv Trivedi 2 for 44) lost to Shorey 30; Varun Aaron Mumbai 182/5 in 18.5 3-27)
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In Saurashtra rejig, BJP Gujarat to announce new Gujarat CM meets startup fund in state budget BJP chief Amit Shah favours Patidars as party chiefs Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
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On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a new start-up policy, Gujarat government said Saturday it will soon launch a brand new “fund” for supporting startups in the state. “We have studied the funding issues connected with start-ups very minutely and so we are proposing to come up a fund for start-ups with innovative ideas that are struggling for funding. We are still working on it. We are at advanced stages of discussion and probably it might come out in this (state) budget,” said Mamta Verma, Industries Commissioner, Government of Gujarat while speaking at session organised here by FICCI
on “Start-up India, Standup India”. Addressing a number of entrepreneurs, funding agencies connected with start-ups in the state, the official said the state government’s new fund will function “more like a grant” without seeking any “equity” in the start-up venture. “This will very different from the venture funds and it is definitely in our pipeline,” Verma said adding that the new fund set up in association with GVFL (Gujarat Venture
Finance Ltd) seeks to fill the existing gap in funding structure for start-ups. Talking about the state government’s new Industrial Policy 2015 where a “scheme for assistance for start-ups and innovation” came into force from January 1, 2015, the official said Gujarat has provided Rs 10,000 as “sustenance allowance” for a period of one year for any innovator recommended by 11-odd nodal accelerators or incubators that are functional in the state.
Modhera Sun Temple Uttarardh Festival today/tomorrow Modhera
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Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Friday met BJP President Amit Shah in the backdrop of ongoing organisational elections in the state unit of the party and its poor showing in the just-concluded Panchayat polls. The meeting, at Shah’s residence here late this evening, took place at a time when Gujarat BJP is in the process of appointing district and city unit Presidents after
the party’s poor show in late last year’s Panchayat elections. Patel and Shah held parleys for almost 40 minutes, party sources said, adding Minister of State for Health and Urban Development Shankar Chaudhary was also present. Shah landed here on January 13 for a threeday visit and is expected to leave for New Delhi tomorrow. BJP is in the process of selecting its new State President as the term of current chief R C Faldu has expired.
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A two-day long Uttarardh Mahotsav which showcases classical dances and music on the backdrop of over 1,000 years old Modhera sun temple in north Gujarat. This festival is celebrated since 1992. Earlier it was a three-day long festival, a two-day festival. With but for last few years it special permission of Arhas been converted into chaeological Survey of
India(ASI), the temple is decorated with lights on this occasion.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will launch pulse polio drive at Gandhinagar on Sunday, January 17. As many as 85 lakh children in 0-5 age group will be given pulse polio dose through 1,58,000 health workers.
In the first part of its exercise to overhaul its state cadre, Gujarat BJP Friday changed its district leadership in all the units of Saurashtra where they had lost badly in the recently concluded local body polls. Notably, Patidar community has been given much prominence, with at least 13 of the 25 leaders belonging to the community, which is considered to be the backbone of the Gujarat BJP’s vote bank. On Friday, the party declared the names for 25 district/
city party chiefs from the Dangs, Navsari, Bharuch, Narmada, Chhota Udepur, the Panchmahals, Mahisagar, Anand, Gandhinagar, Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Patan, Banaskantha, Kutch, Jamnagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Ra-
jkot, Morbi, Gir Somnath, Porbandar, Bhavnagar, Botad and Surendranagar districts. In districts where the party suffered severe blows from the Congress in the local body elections, the leadership has been changed.
the Appellants, as litigation costs and bear their own costs among other things. The tribunal has also instructed the collector, to demolish the construction over 25 Ha and restore the land In case on non-compliance. Following a complaint filed by Hazira Machchimaar Samiti before NGT it was revealed that the
document of environment clearance granted to Hazira port in year 2013 was not valid. Construction work was started by company without approval. As per a pact signed with the Gujarat Maritime Board in April – 2002, the company had to plant mangrove in 550 hectare land but plantation was not done.
NGT orders action against AdaniHazira Port and Hazira Infra PVT Ltd Correspondent | Surat
National Green Tribunal(NGT) bench comprising of Justice V.R. Kingaonkar (Judicial Member) and DR. Ajay A Deshpande (Expert Member) has ordered Adani-Hazira Port and Hazira Infrastructures PVT Ltd to deposit an amount of Rs. 25 Crore (Twenty-Five Crore) with the Collector, Surat, within four weeks, which shall be kept in Escrow Account till further directions for utilization thereof, may be towards compensation and restoration to pay costs of Rs. 2 Lakh (Rs. Two Lakhs) each, to
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