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Nobody will hang for Gulbarg massacre, 11 get life
“Darkest phase of civil society” Life term for 11, 10-year for one and 7-year for 12 : Zakia Jafri ‘dissatisfied’
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Agency | Bangalore Vani Kapoor clinched the eighth Leg of the Hero Women s Professional Golf Tour, her fourth title of the season, after carding a superb four under 68 in the final round, here. Gursimar Badwal finished second with a total score of 222 and was followed by Amandeep Drall and Neha Tripathi in tied third position at 224 at the Eagleton Golf Resort.
Emraan Hashmi turns producer
Agency | Mumbai From being a successful actor to turning author with his book, Emraan Hashmi now embarks on a new journey as producer with his home banner, Emraan Hashmi Films. The actor, 37, has roped in his “Azhar” director Tony D’Souza to direct his first film for his own company, a statement said.
Declining to treat the Gulberg Society case pertaining to 2002 Gujarat riots as a ‘rarest of rare’ incident, a special court here today did not pronounce capital punishment for its convicts and awarded life sentence to the 11 convicts held guilty for murder during the massacre
which had seen the killing of 69 people including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri on Februay 28, 2002 a day after burning of a coach of Sabarmati express in Godhra. The court sentenced 10 years of jail term to the sole convict held guilty of attempt to murder and seven years each to the remain-
ing 12 including the VHP leader Atul Vaidya. The court of Special Judge P B Desai had completed the hearing on quantum of punishment on June 10 and pronounced it today amid tight security in and around the court premises. All the accused were present in the court. SIT counsel R C Kodekar
later said that an appeal would be filed against the lower court order in the High Court. He said that it was henious crime where neighbours had stabbed neighbours and the court in its observation has also called the fateful day
PM Modi pitches for greater commercial engagement between India, Thailand Agency | New Delhi
Asserting that a diversified commercial engagement between India and Thailand would greatly benefit both the economies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said ample avenues for manufacturing and investment exist between both nations, which can pave way for regional economic prosperity. Addressing a joint statement with his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha, Prime Minister Modi said trade and commerce
flows are an important lifeline of the interdependent world and raised the pitch for business stakeholders to take lead in tapping the emerging business opportunities in both countries. “Excellency and I agree that a
more diversified commercial engagement between us would not only benefit both our economies. It would also enable greater regional economic prosperity. In this context, we welcome the first meeting of the India-Thailand
Indigenous Trainer Aircraft HTT-40 Makes Inaugural Flight Agency | Bengaluru
Joint Business Forum to be held later today,” he said. “Alongside trade, there are also ample avenues for greater manufacturing and investment linkages. We see a particular synergy between Thai strengths in infrastructure, particularly tourism infrastructure, and India’s priorities in this field. Information Technology, pharmaceuticals, auto-components, and machinery are some other areas of promising collaboration,” he added. Prime Minister Modi called for an early conclusion of a balanced Comprehensive Economic and Partnership Agreement and dubbed it as a ‘shared priority’ between India and Thailand.
as black day. But as the punishment is somewhat linient an appeal would be filed in the higher court. One of the defence counsel Abhay Bhardwaj said that the court has completely rejected the allegtions of prosecution. Meanwhile Mrs Jakia Jafri, widow of Ehsan Jafri, expressed dissatisfaction over the verdict and said that she would again start her legal battle against it. ‘Every convict should have been punished. They left half of them and now only 11 have got lifer. Its not fair. I would fight it,’ She said. Mr. Kodekar during course of argument had sought capital punishment or at least life term for the 11 convicts held guilty of murder
terming it a rarest of rare incident. The defense on the other hand had sought leniency from the court on two main grounds; the incident being allegedly provoked by firing by Late Mr. Jafri in which one person died and 15 injured and the convicts not being professional criminals. The court had
held 24 of the total 66 accused guilty on June 2 while acquitted the remaining 36. Six had died during the trial. The court conducted a separate hearing on the quantum of punishment from June 6. Of the 24 convicts 11 are held guilty under various charges including that of murder while one is guilty of attempt to murder and remaining 12 including VHP leader Atul Vaidya are guilty under lesser charges like rioting and unlawful assembling. The court had dropped the charges of criminal conspiracy under section 120 B in the case. The Gulberg Society case, which took place in Meghaninagar area of the city.
India’s indigenous basic trainer aircraft, Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40), today made Yoga Day event at its inaugural flight in 7 places in Delhi Bengaluru in the presence of Defence Minister Agency | Meerut this situation,” Mr. Yadav Agency | New Delhi Manohar Parrikar. The said. Shamli District MagProhibitory orders have International Yoga Day two-seater aircraft deistrate Sujit Kumar said will be celebrated at sev- signed and developed by HTT-40 was launched in fidence they had infect- been enforced across prohibitory orders have en different locations the Hindustan Aeronau- August 2013 with HAL’s ed me also. They had Shamli district in Uttar been enforced across the in the national capital, tics Limited was flown by internal funding and was promised me within one Pradesh and borders of district, including Kairana including Connaught Group Captain C Subra- completed in May 2015. year they will fly the air- Kairana sealed even as town, and any march or Place, which will host maniam and Group Cap- From then, it has taken 12 craft. I’m happy that they BJP MLA Sangeet Som yatra with political leadthe largest gathering of tain Venugopal for about months to fly the first pro- have kept the assurance.” on Saturday suspended ers would not be allowed approximately 10,000 10 to 15 minutes at the totype. While the HTT-40 According to HAL, the his march to the town without permission. Mr. people. Diplomats and HAL Airport in Bengal- programme was almost team behind HTT-40 pro- that is caught in a migraSom said he postponed bureaucrats are likely to uru. Aimed at being used junked during the UPA gramme is “young” with tion row and gave a 15at the border of the town from Sardhana town limhis ‘Nirbhay’ rally after take part in events at Neh- for the first stage training rule, Mr Parrikar pushed an average age of 29 when day ultimatum to State keeping in mind the situaits, he said. “As a preprohibitory orders were ru Park and Lodhi Gar- for all flying cadets of the both IAF and HAL to it started. The programme government to bring back den. NDMC is in-charge three services, HTT-40 ensure development of aims to achieve its opera- those who had allegedly tion, Meerut District Col- cautionary measure, the enforced. “We’ve given a of preparations at four made its maiden flight the trainer. Compliment- tional clearance by 2018, migrated. Mr. Som start- lector Pankaj Yadav said. police and the PAC have 15 days ultimatum. Either venues, which include on May 31. Indian Air ing the HTT-40 team for and towards this the com- ed his rally to Kairana A rally by Samawadi Par- been stationed in heavy the government gets back Connaught Place, Lodhi Force is expected to pro- the accomplishment, he pany will be manufactur- from his house in Sardha- ty (SP), led by party lead- numbers. Section 144 is in the people who’ve migratGarden, Nehru Park and cure 70 HTT-40 aircraft. said, “when I came here ing three prototypes and na with thousands of fol- er Atul Pradhan, was also force. No one will be al- ed, or we’ll have to take to Talkatora Stadium. Detailed design phase of in March 2015 the con- two static-test specimens. lowers, but was stopped stopped some distance lowed to break the law in the streets,” he said. Sub Editor: Dhruvil Makani Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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Aviation policy will help industry regain lost altitude..?
Eighty-four years after JRD Tata heralded the birth of civil aviation in India by operating the maiden flight to Mumbai from Karachi via Ahmedabad; 63 years after government assumed ownership of Air India and Indian Airlines; and 25 years after private airlines were allowed to operate in Indian skies, the country finally has a national civil aviation policy (NCAP) — approved by the Narendra Modi government on June 15. Intriguingly, in a country that operated its first international flight on June 8, 1948, when most airlines now dominating the Indian skies did not even exist, the delay is inexplicable. It is difficult to surmise as to why the country functioned all these years without a defined national aviation policy. Was it lack of vision? Or, was it driven by the socialist philosophy that aviation, deemed as an elitist industry till not long ago, deserved no attention? The political masters overlooked the fact that by not creating an environment conducive for the aviation industry’s growth through clearcut policies they had put India to a great disadvantage even though global experiences had shown that the aviation industry acted as a catalyst for economic development. The early-starter advantage that JRD Tata had provided India had been frittered away by our political masters. Whatever be the cause, in retrospect, one can only assess and rue the humongous harm the procrastination has caused because even after the need for a national policy was realised in the early 1990s, the policy had remained in the works for 25 long years. The biggest setback has been in the global standing of India in the industry because the only reason why India receives attention from foreign carriers is for exploitation of its burgeoning market and not for any significant contribution. It wouldn’t also be incorrect to say that our market has to a large extent been responsible for fuelling the growth of several carriers in the Gulf and South East Asia. In a marked reversal of mindset, the NCAP now seeks to make air travel affordable by aiming to have 300 million domestic passengers by 2022 from the present 80 million to become the third-largest civil aviation market in the world. The NCAP, as an indirect bonanza, will also achieve a larger objective of ending the ad hocism that has existed in the sector. The contentious 5/20 rule (five years of domestic operations and a fleet of 20 aircraft to become eligible for international operations) which delayed the NCAP announcement has been one example of ad hoc policy-making to benefit a particular airline. As a compromise, the NCAP has replaced it with 0/20, doing away with the need for the five-year stipulation to be eligible because all older private airlines were aggressively campaigning against its total abolition. Even if some aviation analysts may fault the NCAP by identifying areas left unaddressed, it is a praiseworthy effort because it encompasses all major operational facets, particularly the concept of regional connectivity and development of Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO). Both these areas have enormous potential waiting to be exploited. Considering India’s geographical spread and fast-growing economy the huge potential for business and leisure travel in tier two and three cities has remained unharnessed because most airlines have largely concentrated on main cities because of high traffic density and higher fares.
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“I am not satisfied with the order as all the convicts should have gotten life imprisonment. The battle is still on and we will fight till we get justice, I am the person who had seen the heinous killing of innocent people, not the court….They (the mob) came well-prepared and attacked innocent people,” - Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ahsan Jafri, said she was not happy with the quantum of sentencing announced by the special designated court in the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre.
Dhanak movie review
Agency | New Delhi A little boy, who has lost his eyesight, and his sister Pari set out across Rajasthan on foot. Their mission, spearheaded by Pari’s determination, is to restore Chhotu’s sight. It’s hard not to be moved by these kids and their heart-warming story. Kukunoor clears the biggest hurdle by lucking into the right performers for his young pair — both
the little boy (Krish Chhabria), a die-hard Salman Khan fan (he wears the agate-stone bracelet on a wrist just like his beloved Bhai) and the slightly older girl (Hetal Gadda), who plays the SRK-loving sister, make us believe that they are indeed, siblings. If Chhotu had been asked to look straight ahead, instead of keeping his head constantly cocked to one
side, and had been a little more loosened up while delivering his lines, it may have served the character better. But still, this is a real boy, and the interactions between the children lend the film real charm. The other problem, and this is the bigger one, is exotic Rajasthan being peddled in the name of naturalism — the ‘leheriya safas’ are too pristine, the clothes are too ‘costumey’, the huts the children live in are too constructed, they look like sets. A female bandit who looks like she’s walked straight off the ramp fiddles with a pretty pistol. The Rajasthani accents are mixed up too, and really, not everyone has to have a “sa” added to their names. Blame it on those TV serials.
‘Neruppu Da’ teaser shows Rajinikanth at his electrifying best in ‘Kabali’ Agency | Chennai
We imagine that people — no, superstars — of Rajinikanth’s stature need a theme song. The song would possibly blare out magically every time they entered or exited a room, or generally did anything superstar-like. And Neruppu Da from Kabali is just the song we’d have picked to be Thalaivar’s theme song in real life too! The full song audio was uploaded on YouTube on 11 June by Think Music and we were blown away by the hardcore rock riffs and those few glimpses of Rajinikanth in his suave Kabali avatar. The score by Santhosh Narayanan was all kinds of exciting. But then the Kabali team
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Great Grand Masti trailer: Riteish, Aftab, Vivek back with sex comedy
Agency | New Delhi The first trailer of Great Grand Masti, the third installment of the adult comedy franchise Masti, has been released. With this, the trio – Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani and Vivek Oberoi are back with their sexual humor and double meaning jokes. While the Masti series has retained its three leading men, the makers have roped in
Miss Universe 2015 contestant Uravashi Rautela to raise the oomph factor along with three more hotties Shraddha Das, Mishti and Pooja Chopra. This time the movie takes the trio of – Ritesh, Aftab and Vivek into a small town where they encounter a ‘femme fatale’ in the form of Urvashi Rautela, who slowly turns out to be their worst nightmare. Urvashi is everything they had dreamt of but
their Masti comes to an end when they realize she is actually a ghost. Masti, which released in 2004, was one of the first adult comedy film in Hindi cinema. It gave an insight into the lives of three men who are keen to have an extramarital affair to spice up their lives. After nine years, the makers followed it up with Grand Masti. Directed by Indra Kumar, the film will be releases on July 22.
debut with ‘Baywatch’. The actress is yet to announce her next Bollywood film. There are several speculations of the
actress being approached for a Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Zoya Akhtar, but an official announcement is yet to be made.
tells his powerful, sinewy story with great dramatic flair, but he never ventures too far away from the harsh reality of the nexus between the drug kingpins and the state’s politicians. In one scene, a lawman mockingly describes the current situation as Green Revolution Part Two, drawing attention to the link between the drug menace and Punjab’s worsening agrarian crisis. If the film’s keen sense of the times that we live in is impressive,
the way it etches out and develops the key characters in the drama is no less commendable. Three of the film’s four principal characters are utterly imperfect, but they are, pretty much like Punjab itself, not beyond redemption. When self-realization kicks in, they are all ready to give redemption a shot. It is their journey from gloom to hope that Udta Punjab tracks without the slightest concession to overt sentimentality.
Priyanka Chopra celebrates her mother’s birthday in London Agency | Mumbai
released a visual for the song as well on Thursday, 16 June — and boy, were we awestruck! It wasn’t even a full visual — just a 35 second teaser to the song, but revealing a lot more of Rajinikanth’s scenes in Kabali. We see him in three stages in this teaser — first as a young man, then a little older,
and finally, in the snowyhaired avatar that has graced most of Kabali’s so-far-unveiled posters. Alongside Thalaivar, we also see Radhika Apte, Dhansika and Winston Chao (the Taiwanese actor who plays the villain in Kabali) in various sequences from the movie, in the Neruppu Da teaser.
Priyanka Chopra, who has been juggling between several projects at once, is constantly flying in and out of the city. Priyanka took some time off from her work commitments to celebrate her mother Madhu Chopra’s birthday in London. On the work front, Priyanka is currently shooting for the second season of ‘Quantico’. She will also be making her Hollywood
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Agency | New Delhi Salman Khan’s Eid release this year is Sultan. The sports drama with a tinge of romance also stars Anushka Sharma, who plays the love interest of Khan. The trailer has come out and looks pretty intense and impressive. The soundtrack of the film might turn out to be the biggest album this year, looking at the
love it is already receiving from fans. Salman had released his own rendition of the songs which are massively popular amongst Bhai fans. A new poster of the film has been released and it throws more light on the phases of Sultan’s life. Salman plays Sultan in the film, a guy next door, who takes up wrestling to impress the girl of his dreams Aarfa who is a
wrestler herself. Eventually wrestling becomes Sultan’s life. His dream becomes to represent India in the Olympics. A few years later, he has lost his way according the trailer. He has quit wrestling and has moved on in life and Aarfa. But…something motivates him to take up wrestling again. all this that is shown in trailer is almost visible on the new poster.
Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab is littered with standout scenes, but none matches the sledgehammer impact of the climax. Sudden, quick on the draw and stunningly to the point, it brings the curtains down on a profane, dystopic vision of a state that was once India’s bread basket but is today burdened with a whole slew of problems, not the least of which are the horrific repercussions of narco-terror. Chaubey
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Droom Vroom with Scooter Looter Sale!
Agency | Ahmedabad If buying a scooter has been on your wish list for long, you are in for a treat! Droom, India’s pioneering online automobile transactional marketplace will be drooming with its Scooter Looter Sale from June 18 to June 21, 2016. The sale which can be accessed through Droom’s web and mobile platforms – promises to have the largest collection of verified and inspected scooters on sale, making it an opportunity that should not be missed! More than 2800 pre-owned scooters from leading two-wheeler manufacturers such as Honda, Suzuki, Hero and TVS will be available for sale at jaw-dropping prices under Droom’s Scooter Looter Sale. The sale will be open to users from over 30 cities across India including major markets such as Delhi/NCR, Pune, Bangalore, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chennai.
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Grieving Croatia ‘need’ victory over Czech Republic to reach top 16
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Rocked by a second family bereavement in three days, Croatia will be determined to seal a last-16 berth when they meet the Czech Republic in their Euro 2016 Group D clash on Friday, defender Domagoj Vida said. Following the death of captain Darijo Srna’s father on Sunday during Croatia’s 1-0 win over Turkey, the team’s media officer Tomislav Pacak said goalkeeping coach Marijan Mrmic’s father had also died during Tuesday night. Srna, accompanied by coach Ante Cacic, went to his father’s funeral on Monday and returned to the team’s Deauville base camp in northern France ready to face the Czechs. Vida, a tough-tackling centre
Formidable India sets sight on another whitewash Agency | Hahare
The ODI series proving to be a stroll in the park, Mahendra Singh Dhoni would look to finish his current season with another dominant performance when he leads India in the three-match Twenty20 series against a hapless Zimbabwe, starting in Harare on Saturday. Riding high after inflicting a 3-0 whitewash on the hosts, Dhoni and his boys will try to do an encore in the shortest version as well. The likes of Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, who toured here last time, will do well to remember that the T20 series in 2015 ended in 1-1 draw after the Ajinkya Rahane-led side lost the second game. But the world’s most experienced T20 skipper
back personifying Croatia’s willpower in the face of adversity, said the team would go the extra mile for their skipper and Mrmic, who travelled home early on Wednesday. “We all mourn when someone here suffers a loss because we are one big family,” Vida told a news conference on Wednesday. “We will
be galvanised to play for our captain and put him straight back on the rails. He is a great character and I am totally convinced he will be at his best on Friday.” “If we perform like we did against Turkey and show the same fighting spirit we should come out on top, although the Czechs are tougher opposition.”
could not pick the ball under lights. But they had to adapt to it,” Jones said an an event in Kolkata on Thursday, where he was flanked by Indian legends Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman. “Now the lights have massively improved and pink ball cricket will be a reality everywhere. Pink ball is here to stay. It is a matter of getting used to it.”
“It is not that pink-ball will save Test cricket but it will be a catalyst,” he added. Jones said the first ever day-night Test which was held at Adelaide last November between Australia and New Zealand witnessed huge footfall and believes the new innovation will be a success. “The Test was brilliant. On an average there are 1.8 million followers of an Australian Test match. But during the day-nighter there were 3.7 million followers,” Jones said. Jones further said that he wanted to see Agency | New Delhi an even contest between the bat and ball with the At the London Olympics, pink ball swinging and the Lee Valley hockey spinning more. park was a depressing venue for most of India’s travelling journalists to cover. It was where the Indian team remarkably disintegrated – the players’ infighting resulting in the team’s worst-ever Olympic performance. Four years on, it is ironical that the site of India’s Olympic nightmare has
Pink ball will prove to be a ‘catalyst’ in saving Test cricket: Dean Jones
in-charge and a team which has 14 out of the 15 players (save Faiz Fazal) with IPL contracts, India again are runaway favourites to decimate a Zimbabwe side which at times has looked inferior than many of the lower-rung first-class Indian sides. With the gulf between the two teams being so huge, Dhoni would ideally like to shuffle his batting or-
der a bit and also try out some of the benchwarmers like Mandeep Singh, Jayant Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, who will also be itching to get a game under their belt. However, Dhoni would ideally like to start the T20 series with another resounding win and having found a winning combination, he will ideally not like to tinker with it.
turned into a realm of hope. Later tonight, India will take on world champions Australia in the final of the Champions Trophy. It’s been a mixed tournament for the boys in blue. They beat hosts Britain and Asian rivals South Korea, held reigning Olympic champions Germany to a draw but also lost to Belgium and Australia. Eventually, a pulsating 3-3 draw between
Britain and Belgium on Thursday night ensured India finished second in the round robin stage, which paved the way for its first-ever appearance in the final of Champions Trophy. While it is a major step forward for Indian hockey, it is necessary to hold the horses. For most teams, including India, the Champions Trophy this year was more of a hindrance. The tournament is being held merely 50 days before the Olympics and most of the teams have rested some of their key players. Even India have given break to a few important members of the team, including captain Sardar Singh, striker Ramandeep Singh and drag-flicker Rupinderpal Singh.
vehicle during safari,” a chief forest conservator A.P. Singh said. “Since it is against the rule to get down (from) the vehicle in jungle, we have ordered a probe into the matter,” he said, adding that the penalty would be determined after investigation. In one of the photos on Instagram, the
left-arm spinner is seen smiling and pointing at a pride of big cats resting behind him with a caption “family photo, having good time in Sasan (Gir)”. The photos were taken just days after the Gujarat forestry department advised tourists and locals against taking selfies with lions.
India vs Australia, Champions Trophy final: It is necessary to hold the horses
Agency | New Delhi The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that India will launch 20 satellites in a single mission on June 22. According to ISRO, at 9.25 am on June 22, the Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh with 20 satellites. The whole mission will get over in around 26 minutes. While the rocket’s main cargo will be India’s 725.5 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation, the other 19 satellites weighing around 560 kg are from the US, Canada, Germany and Indonesia as well as one satellite each from Sathyabama University, Chennai, and the College of Engineering, Pune.
Aishwarya Sakhuja to play a boxer in the first story of ‘Khidki’
Agency | Ahmedabad Aishwarya Sakhuja will be seen playing a very pivotal role in the first story of SAB TV’s new show ‘Khidki’. The actress will make a comeback to fiction after a brief hiatus and the character that she will be portraying will be completely different from what her previous roles. Aishwarya will be essaying the role a boxer named Anju. The first story titled ‘Anju ki shaadi’ is the story of Rajeev Mehta and Lubna Salim who are playing typical gujarati parents of three girls and young boy. Like every Indian parent, they too want to see their daughters get married and settled. Their biggest struggle is to get Anju (Aishwarya Sakhuja) the eldest daughter married so that the rest can follow suite. Aishwarya Sakhuja who will be seen as Anju said, “My character Anju is a tomboy who loves her boxing gloves and is passionate about boxing. Anju is a very simple girl and the character is very unique in terms of looks. This is the first time that I am attempting something of this sorts and I hope that my fans will like the character.”
Agency | Kolkata Former Australian all-rounder Dean Jones feels that the pink-ball will be a ‘catalyst’ that will help Test cricket survive and will eventually be accepted by the players and the audience. “When the first ever daynight one-day was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) a lot of players said how they
Rafa Nadal set for Toronto return before Rio 2016 Olympics Rafa Nadal will miss Wimbledon after failing to recover from the wrist injury which also forced his early withdrawal from the French Open last month Agency | Madrid
Rafael Nadal is on track to make the Olympics and plans to return from a wrist injury at the Toronto Masters at the end of July, days before the Games begin, his coach said Thursday. “The plan is to play in Toronto because that’s what suits us,” Toni Nadal, who is also Nadal’s uncle, told a press conference in Mallorca, adding the 14-time Grand Slam title winner could start training on court again in two weeks. “It’s follow-
Ravindra Jadeja faces probe over lion selfie at Gir wildlife sanctuary Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
ing the normal recovery schedule and now he has to strengthen the wrist and the arm again,” said Toni Nadal. “(Nadal) will arrive in form in Rio. It will give him time to prepare.” Nadal, 30, will miss Wimbledon after failing to recover from the wrist injury which also forced his early withdrawal from the French Open last month. He pulled out of the French Open, where he has been champion on nine occasions, after injuring a tendon in his left
wrist after just two rounds. Nadal, the world number five, is keen to play at the Rio Olympics after being unable to defend his gold medal at the 2012 London Games because of a knee injury. He had been scheduled to be Spain’s flag-bearer at the opening ceremony. The Spanish federation announced earlier Thursday that Nadal and Garbine Muguruza will lead Spain’s charge for Olympic tennis glory and could play together in the mixed doubles.
Forestry officials in Ahmedabad have ordered an inquiry after cricketer Ravindra Jadeja posted several photos on social media of him and his wife posing with endangered Asiatic lions. Officials from Gujarat state’s Gir wildlife sanctuary ordered the probe late Thursday after photos showing the couple in front of a pride of lions during a safari earlier this week went viral on social media. “The Gir National Park and Sanctuary is a protected area and people are not supposed to get down (from) their
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MEP Infra JV bags Rs 604.68 Lady of Nigerian cheating racket crore road project in Gujarat nabbed by Ahmedabad Police Correspondent | Mumbai
MEP Infrastructure Developers, in a joint venture, has bagged a contract to build and operate a road project in Gujarat for Rs 604.68 crore, the company said in a statement Friday. MEP Infrastructure Developers holds 60 per cent while Sanjose India Infrastructure & Construction holds the balance 40 per cent in the joint venture. The project will be developed under the hybrid annuity model. It entails four laning of Mahuva to Kagavadar section of National Highway-8E under NHDP Phase IV. The bid project cost is Rs 604.68 crore and the first year operat-
ing and maintenance bid is for Rs 8.46 crores. The construction period is two years and six months from the appointed date and the concession period is 15 years excluding the construction period. “The company now has a basket of six hybrid annuity model projects in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat totaling to
Rs 3836.99 crore.” “This project is a continuation of the Talaja-Mahuva stretch awarded to us last month, thus enabling us to optimize our resources and complete these projects in a stipulated time frame,” said Jayant D Mhaiskar, vice-chairman and managing director, MEP Infrastructure Developers.
Solar power to help city airport save 1 lakh units every month Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The city airport is set to enter a power-saving mode. In a bid to bring down operational expenses by saving on power costs, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has installed solar panels on the roof of the domestic terminal at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport. According to AAI officials, the electricity generation capacity of the solar panels installed is 750 kilowatt (KW) per panel. “The monthly power consumption of Ahmedabad airport is 22 lakh units. These solar panels will help save around 1 lakh units per month,” said a senior AAI
official. The Rs 4.6-crore project took one year to put into place. Ahmedabad airport’s current consumption is 25,500 megawatt per year, which on costs around Rs21 crore. “With the solar power initiative, we aim to save Rs 1 crore- Rs 1.5 crore every year. The energy savings will increase once panels are put on the
roof of the international terminal,” added an AAI official. According to officials, after rooftop, AAI will also go installing solar panels on unused land in the airport premises. Besides installing solar panels, AAI is installing LED lights, solar-powered streetlights, and energy appliances with five star ratings.
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The cyber cell of the Crime Branch of Ahmedabad police has nabbed a lady member of a cheating racket run by Nigerians which has swindled Rs 13.20 lakh from a visa contractor of Ahmedabad
in the name of delivery of a parcel containing 25 thousand pound. PSI of crime branch T R Bhatt and H D Valia nabbed the lady from New Janakpuri area of Delhi while she was talking to the victim, a resident of Paldi area of Ahmedabad. An origi-
Vishwa Prani Kalyana Mandal protests against animal sacrifice
Minister of State for Health Shri Shankarbhai Chaudhary today clarified that he had wrongly spelled elephant on school black board today and asked students to find out mistake in the spelling. He said he spelled it wrongly to create understanding among students that where they are most likely to place alphabet ‘e’ instead of ‘a’. Chaudhary said this was one of the examples through which he was making his point.
He said he had wrongly spelled the name of north Gujarat town in Gujarati to making same point. Shri Chaudhary had today during his visit to a school in north Gujarat town spelled ‘elephant’ as ‘elephent’. Section of media alleged that Shankarbhai committed mistake in spelling and posted news criticizing Chaudhary. However Chaudhary when noticed this row, clarified in the evening that the details in media were incomplete. He said
he had even showed example of his own town name Disa and spelled it wrongly in Gujarat, again to tell students that where exactly they
Western Railways to revise porterage rate from July 1
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Western Railway has after long time taken a decision to revise porterage rates. Passengers availing the services of licensed porters at railway stations will now have to shell out more as Western Railway has taken decision to make upward revision in porterage rates from July 1. The revision has been carried out with an aim to dissuade the coolies from “over charging” and in view of the inflationary trend. As per the revision, passengers with luggage weighing up to 40 kg per will be charged Rs 50 at all A-1 class stations. For B category stations
this charge will be Rs 45 while for other stations it will be Rs 40. Rs 80 per trip will be charged for carrying upto 160 kg luggage over trolley. Charges have also been revised on availing wheel chairs for carrying sick persons. In case of major stations, it has been revised to Rs 80 if two coolies are perform that job jointly. For 4 coolies, the charge will be Rs 130 per trip. This charge will be effective for upto 30 minute service, beyond which waiting charge for A-1 and A category stations will be Rs 45, B and C category Rs 45 and other stations Rs 40.
Gujarat: Protest during CM speech, Hardik’s parents detained
During the CM’s speech some women, sitting in the front row, suddenly stood up and shouting slogans like “(Release Hardik, release Hardik)” be threatened. He said Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad Representatives of Vish- that he then went with and “Jai Sardar, Jai deliver her speech on the among the audience be Patidar” wa Prani Kalyana Man- some supporters to creoccasion. Some women, deterred by this and redal, Bangalore, who met Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel and chief secretary Gangaram Aloria has requested the government to stop animal sacrifice at the Babadev Temple in Chelvada near Pavagadh. Swami Dayananda, president of the VPKM, said that while he was in Vadodara, he was informed of the ritual of animal sacrifice and he went to the area only to
ate awareness and found that several hundreds of animal were being sacrificed in the temple. Swami said that he had taken up a campaign in Karnataka to save such animal sacrifice. “I had the impression that Gujarat practised non-violence and spirituality, but when I came to Vadodara my dreams were shattered when I found animal sacrifice practice even in Gujarat.”
were likely to do mistake in Gujarati ‘ee’ and ‘i’. Chaudhary said he wrote ‘elephent’ on black board and later asked students to find spelling mistake.
It should be mentioned that along with the annual school enrollment drive, this year, the state government is also simultaneously holding ‘Gunotsav’ which is school inspection drive under which ministers, bureaucrats and other government staff during their visits to schools directly converse with students and assess their progress including the details pertaining to whether they can read, write and count correctly.
Details in media reports incomplete, I had asked students to find mistake in spelling: Shankarbhai Chaudhary
Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
nal resident of Deemapur in Nagaland, the lady P Motibemla is in a live-in relationship with a Nigerian, also a member of the gang. The gang had given a call to the contractor regarding arrival of a parcel from UK containing 25000 British Pound on May 30. Later through various calls and fake documents of the RBI they fooled him to deposit a total of Rs 13 lakh 20 thousand in various accounts in the name of refundable processing fees. The crime branch caught the lady during the investigation and were trying to nab the other members of the gang.
Ahmedabad
Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
Twelve people, including seven women, were detained on Thursday following protest at Shala Praveshotsav — attended by Chief Minister Anandiben Patel — in Viramgam, the home town of incarcerated Patidar stir leader Hardik Patel, even as police kept his parents confined to their house till event was over. The function was held at Viramgam Taluka Primary School in the morning. The protest was reported when the chief minister began to
sitting in the front row, suddenly stood up and started blowing whistles and shouting slogans like “Hardik ne chhodo, Hardik ne chhodo (Release Hardik, release Hardik)” and “Jai Sardar, Jai Patidar”. Following the incident, Viramgam town police immediately detained 12 people under provisions of the Bombay Police Act. During the commotion, Anandiben stopped her speech, but stood firm on the stage. One of the organisers announced that nobody
quested all to keep calm. Within five minutes, the chief minister resumed her speech in which she also referred to the protest and said that the protesters were becoming “handles” of some other forces. “I have to say this with grief that these people are becoming handles (of some other forces)… And by doing so, they are ruining the future of youths,” she said, adding that it was an educational event and such protests should not have any place in it.
After Flipkart, Amazon too challenges entry tax in Gujarat
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the state government on a petition filed by Amazon India against the
While issuing the notice, the division bench of the high court led by Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy tagged the case along with an identical petition moved by another e-commerce company Flipkar state government’s notifi- posed on goods brought cation levying 6 to 21 per into Gujarat through othcent entry tax on goods er modes of sale. They that are being purchased have said that they only through the e-commerce provide an online sale portal in the state. While platform to manufacturissuing the notice, the di- ers, traders and buyers vision bench of the high but the firms themselves court led by Chief Justice are involved in selling R Subhash Reddy tagged any product. From April the case along with an 1, any goods being puridentical petition moved chased online are being by another e-commerce subject to 6 to 21 per company Flipkart. The cent entry tax. specified bench will hear the cases goods are subject to up together on June 20. Both to 21.6 per cent tax, with the firms have challenged majority of goods being the Gujarat Tax on Entry levied around 12 per cent of Specified Goods into tax. The government had Local Areas (Amend- amended a 2001 Act, with ment) Bill, 2016 passed the aim to cover e-comon March 31. The peti- merce transactions in its tioners have claimed that ambit, as the government the tax is discriminato- felt this was adversely afry as no such tax is im- fecting local traders.
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