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News Brief Alia, Parineeti not approached for Farah’s next film
Deputy Editor : Chirag Rudani
“Rain Wreaks Havoc”
Director Farah Khan has refuted reports of actresses Alia Bhatt and Parineeti Chopra being roped in for her next film. Gossip mills were abuzz that the two actresses would be seen in Farah’s next directorial venture, to be produced by superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
More family films should be made: Sooraj Barjatya
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Director Sooraj Barjatya, who is known for his high-entertaining family dramas, feels more people should be encouraged to watch such films today. Sooraj’s filmography includes “Hum Aapke Hai Kaun”, “Hum Saath Saath Hai” and “Vivah” among others. He is also happy with the response to his latest venture “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”.
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Heavy rains batter Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu; over 80 dead
Six killed in rain-related incidents in AP Naidu said two National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) helicopters from Chennai have arrived in Chittoor and Nellore districts to rescue people stranded in flood waters Agency | Vijayawada
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Incessant rain - caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal near the Tamil Nadu coast - inundated Chennai city and threw normal life out of gear in Chittoor, Kadapa and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh on Monday. Chennai city woke up to overflowing canals,
overcast skies and roads that resembled Venice’s well-contoured waterways on Monday. Perhaps, the only good news was that the low pressure system was moving towards the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh. In Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, 72,000 flood-hit people were shifted to shelters.
Atleast 71 people have died due to rain related incidents in the state. The death toll in Cuddalore district rose to 43 on Monday. Meanwhile, all rivers, rivulets and canals in Rayalaseema and south Coastal Andhra were in spate on Monday and lakes, tanks and other water bodies started overflowing. With
VHP founder Ashok Singhal: Engineer turned Hindutva warrior Agency | New Delhi
A metallurgy engineer, Ashok Singhal metamorphosed into a Hindutva warrior who as VHP chief played an adequate foil in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement when the BJP led the political campaign in the late eighties and later. The 89-yearold right-wing firebrand leader dedicated his life for the Hindutva cause adopting an aggressive style and played a key role in mobilising support for the Ram Janambhoomi as well as the Ram Setu movements. It was under his stewardship that the international branding of VHP was conceptualised for which
the low pressure system heading towards south Andhra, places in north coastal TN and adjoining
Gogarbham, Kalyani are full. Around 100 houses were inundated near Railway Kodur in Kadapa district, while 20 houses were washed away. A woman was drowned in Maditadu tank of the district. The rivers are in spate and the road connectivity between Railway Kodur in Kadapa district and Tirupati has been cut off. In Nellore city, traffic was affected and the main RTC Bus Stand was inundated with four feet water.
extended the term of the panel in August by four months to December. Its recommendations will also have a bearing on the salaries of the state government staff. Government constitutes the pay commission almost every 10 years to revise the pay scale of its employees and often these are adopted by
states after some modifications. As part of the exercise, the commission holds discussions with various stakeholders, including organisations, federations, groups representing civil employees as well as Defence services. The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission are scheduled to take effect from January 1, 2016. Besides Chairman, other members of the commission are Vivek Rae, a retired IAS officer of 1978 batch, and Rathin Roy, an economist. Meena Agarwal is secretary of the commission.
7th Pay Commission likely to recommend 15% average hike in salary Agency | New Delhi
he recruited supporters and established offices abroad. The VHP got immense contribution from outside India for its campaign. Singhal was instrumental in the “kar sewak” campaign that led to the bringing down of the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. Born in Agra on October 2 in 1926, Singhal has a Bachelor’s degree in
Metallurgical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University Institute of Technology in 1950. Having been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since 1942, he became a full-time pracharak after his graduation. He worked in various locations around Uttar Pradesh, becoming a prant pracharak for Delhi and Haryana.
The 7th Pay Commission is likely to recommend an average 15 percent hike in salary which is due for implementation from January 1, 2016. The Commission will submit its final report to the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday (November 19) recommending increase in remuneration of central government employees as well as pensioners. “We are ready with the report and will submit it on November 19,” the Commission’s Chairman
Russia confirms bomb attack brought down plane in Egypt; Putin vows revenge Agency | Moscow
Rayalaseema and Andhra will receive fairly widespread rainfall on Tuesday, said the Met depart-
ment. In Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, the flood gates were lifted and water was released at 17 minor irrigation projects. Two flood gates of the Kalinga reservoir were washed away. Four villages were inundated by the flood water from the Kalinga reservoir. Kalinga and Krishnapuram reservoirs are filled beyond capacity. For the first time in the last 15 years, all the water bodies in Tirumala, including Akasa Ganga,
Justice A K Mathur. The Commission was set up by the UPA government in February 2014 to revise remuneration of about 48 lakh central government employees and 55 lakh pensioners. The pay panel was asked to submit its report within 18 months of its formation. However, the Union Cabinet had
Toddler gets head stuck in Hyderabad’s Star Kids School lift, dies
Agency | Hyderabad President Vladimir Putin vowed vengeance as In a tragic incident in the Moscow on Tuesday concity, a nursery girl student firmed that a bomb attack died after her head got brought down a Russian stuck in the lift of a school Agency | Mumbai passenger jet over Egypt building in Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad on Tuesday In his cinematic jour- last month, killing all 224 people on board. Putin morning. The child, Syeney spanning nearly 52 da Zainab Fatima Jaffery, years, Sachin Pilgaonkar pledged to ramp up Mos(4-year old)) had come to with few students was occurred, whose mistake has been a part of various cow’s bombing campaign the Star Kids Premium going from ground floor it is, whether that of mancritically acclaimed proj- in Syria in response to the ects but the actor con- attack but stopped short Sinai is among the blood- said. The confirmation ing tourists back from School in the morning. to the third floor of the agement or the teacher acsiders his latest Marathi of blaming any one group iest crimes in terms of of the attack - the dead- Egyptian resort Sharm The tragic incident in Hy- school. “The girl’s head companying the students. film “Katyar Kaljat as the country’s securi- victims. We will not wipe liest against a Russian el-Sheikh on October 31 derabad sparked protests got stuck on the low- Stringent action will be Ghusali”, a career defin- ty agency announced a away the tears from our target since the Beslan was brought down short- by her shocked family er side of the grilled lift taken against those who ing movie. Directed by USD 50 million reward soul and hearts. This will school massacre by Is- ly after take-off over Si- members and outraged and she was crushed to committed the mistake,” debutant Subodh Bhave, for information leading stay with us forever but lamist rebels from the nai peninsula by a home- public. A case under IPC death,” Hyderabad Dep- he said. The school has the film stars Sachin as to capture of those re- will not stop us finding North Caucasus in 2004 - made bomb containing section for causing death uty Commissioner of Po- been closed for now. The singer Khansaheb Aftab sponsible. “It is not the and punishing the crim- comes days after a chain explosives of “foreign by negligence has been lice (East Zone) A Ravin- District Education OffiHussain Bareliwale. “I first time that Russia inals,” he said in com- of attacks claimed by production” with a force registered against the der said. “We will further cer has been summoned started working when I confronts barbarous ter- ments released today. the Islamic State group equivalent to one kilo of school management, Hy- investigate the matter and by the police. It will be was five-year-old. In my rorist crimes”, Russian “We will search for them killed at least 129 peo- TNT. “We can say un- derabad police said. As what are the lapses, that examined whether the career of nearly 52 years, President Vladimir Putin anywhere they might ple in Paris. Russia’s equivocally that this was per the preliminary inqui- also will be brought on school management had more than being simply said in a meeting with hide. We will find them security chief Alexander a terrorist attack,” Feder- ry, the incident occurred record. A thorough inqui- got the necessary permisproud, I feel privileged his security chiefs. “The in any part of the world Bortnikov told Putin that al Security Service (FSB) at around 9.15 AM when ry is underway to deter- sion (to run the school), murder of our people in and punish them,” he the passenger jet carry- head Bortnikov said. to get a film like this. a school teacher along mine on how the incident the DCP said. Corpo. Office: A/41, Madhav Chamber’s, Shaktidhara Colony, Opp-Sayona Arcade, L.B.S. Road, Toll Naka, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
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13/11 & 26/11 were strikingly different, But India has learnt since
Terror struck Paris once again with chilling horror on 13/11, when alleged Islamic State (IS) terrorists struck at six spots simultaneously, shooting innocent citizens and blowing themselves up. Over 120 persons have been killed and many more injured. This attack comes after the one on the offices of Charlie Hebdo a few months ago and has raised several questions on the way the threat from the IS should be countered the world over. Paris is a symbol of Europe. It is a city that inspires and is the cultural capital of the world. Tourists fall in love with its architecture, museums, fashion, art and the general ambience. An attack on such an important international city has more shock potential than a strike on any other. Comments on foreign news channels have brought out two important points: First, Germany, which has far more immigrants than any other country in Europe, has not been attacked and, so, immigrants have nothing to do with the terror strike. Many of the residents of these countries are returning after having visited Syria and Iraq and, perhaps, having fought there. Many others are being influenced by IS propaganda on the internet and getting radicalised. Second, it is virtually impossible to protect society against such attacks. Parallels have been drawn to the 26/11 attack on Mumbai in 2008. Attacks on multiple targets by different teams, and the use of the AK series of rifles and explosives remind us of that barbaric attack on Mumbai. It is being said that what distinguishes 13/11 from 26/11 is the response of the forces and police. But the forces and police in India, too, are much better prepared now to face such a strike. Many Indian states have raised counter-terror forces to respond to such situations. National Security Guard hubs have been created in several cities to reach the scene of a possible terror attack faster. However, we still lack a well-thoughtout counter-terrorist doctrine and strategy. A counter-terrorism strategy consists of four strains: Prevent, pursue, protect, and prepare. The first strain, or “prevent”, is the one that needs to be focused on. The IS has, as a matter of strategy, flooded the internet with carefully crafted publicity material meant to attract and appeal to young minds. The advice from the IS is: You needn’t come to the theatre of war; you can indulge in spectacular attacks wherever you are. Australian security forces are learned to have neutralised a module that was set up in accordance with this directive. The module was hoping to seize and behead foreign tourists in public places.
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QUOTE “We’re going to look for them everywhere wherever they are OF THE hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them.” - All 224 people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed in the October 31 crash. President Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack. DAY Amitabh Bachchan writes poem on Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur granddaughter Aaradhya’s fourth birthday starrer ‘Airlift’s first poster out
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Agency | New Delhi Akshay Kumar revealed the first poster of his upcoming movie ‘Airlift’ in which the actor will be seen sharing screen space with ‘The Lunchbox’ fame actress Nimrat Kaur. The actor, who has been shooting for the movie in Rajasthan, had been tweeting pictures
and anecdotes of the Gulf War in Kuwait. He had also revealed on the social networking site that the film’s teaser will release on Wednesday, November 18. The first look of the movie was released earlier this year where we saw Akshay in a professional look in a white suit, while Nimrat is perched next to him.
This time, Akshay revealed the poster of ‘Airlift’, and wrote, “Mark the date guys… @AirliftFilm releases on 22nd January, 2016” Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, ‘Airlift’ is said to be based on the Indians who were stuck in Kuwait during the Gulf War. The film will release on January 22, 2016.
Pregnant Rani Mukherji has been advised complete bed rest Agency | Mumbai
B Town’s beauty Rani Mukherji who is soon going to be a mommy has been advised a complete bed rest. As per reports,” Diwali celebration has made Rani extremely tired and the doctor strictly asked her to take rest. She was also admitted to the hospital as the doctor felt she needed to rest for some days under medical supervision. Rani was being discharged but she chose to rest in the hospital for few more days as the baby’s room is being prepared at home and she wanted to be away from
dust and noise.She is perfectly fine and is well”. As per buzz, “ Rani’s mom Pamela Chopra is taking intense care of hr
daughter in law and has kept two nurses for her to took after her throughout the day”. All we have to say take care Rani!
and resembling Aamir has gained extra kilos avoiding the health hazards. The shooting of the film is currently taking place in Punjab. The shooting schedule had already completed its 40 days and the scheduled was supposed to be wrapped in approximately three weeks. Aamir who has been working out constantly is also facing health
hazards due to his constant shifting of weight. The news of Aamir’s injury on the sets of the film spread like wild fire. Calming everyone down, Aamir Khan took to the micro blogging site Twitter and tweeted, “Hey guys its not such a major injury. My back muscle has gone into a spasm. A week of rest and I will be back on shoot.”
Aamir Khan Tweets About His Injury On Dangal Sets!
Known to pen down his thoughts in beautiful writings on his blog, Amitabh Bachchan poured his heart out about children and their sensitivity coupled with innocence on his blog. The reason for Amitabh Bachchan to touch upon this topic may have been that the actor’s
granddaughter, Aaradhya who is the daughter of his son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, turned four on Monday, November 16. Amitabh Bachchan wrote about children being ‘our future and our present … they are now .. we are then ..’ ‘They are the world … they are the ‘being’ that beckons for all that is
known and unknown .. for all that needs attention and concern .. for all that has been looked upon as sensitive and of gift of nature .. they are the new born .. they are the toddlers … they are the frocked and panted little geniuses .. they are our future and our present … they are now .. we are then ..
wife and mistress came together to dance we expected sparks to fly all across the screen, just as when the two women in Devdas’s life Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixithad clashed for Dola re dola 13 years ago. But Deepika is comparatively thanda in the dance competition in Bajirao Mas-
tani. Where is that ball of fire we saw gliding across the screen in meteoric motions inSanjay Bhansali’s Goliyon Ki Raaslila Ram Leela? In her stead we have a repressed morose and distracted-looking Mastani sharing the dancefloor with a woman who is as swift as a lightening.
hero, David who plays the baddie in the latest James Bond film, ‘Spectre’ narrowed down on Varun Dhawan for his challenge. The former WWE fighter released a video asking Varun if he accepts his challenge for
a pull-up match which we’re guessing is going to be quite a fight! Varun has not yet given his answer, however, the ‘Dilwale’ actor tweeted that he will post his reply today. Seems like we have an exciting day ahead.
Priyanka Chopra Completely Overshadows Deepika
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No point in beating around bush. The truth is , Priyanka completely out-dances Deepika in the Pinga item!! How did that happen? What was Deepika thinking? And if her excuse for not lookingMaharashtrian enough in the song is her unfamiliarity with traditional Maharashtrianculture then let me remind the beautiful Padukone that Priyanka is Punjabi. Put in a traditional Maharashtrian nine yards and given to shakeand sway to lavnistyled dance steps Priyanka sizzles on the dance floor. Wasn’t Deepika supposed to have the author-backed role? When Bajirao’s two women ,his
Varun Dhawan challenged to a pull-up match by former WWE star David Bautista
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Agency | Mumbai Although Bipasha Basu has constantly maintained there is no truth in her dating Karan Singh Grover, but their pictures have always spoken otherwise! They holiday together, workout together, party together and some say the couple even livesin together! Well, we dunno what’s the actual bond they share but looks like Bips is all set to make the next big move! She just tweeted, hinting towards marriage! Yes! It
all started with her congratulatory tweet to newly engaged, Yuvraj Singh! While her good wishes to him was sweet enough! It was Yuvi’s reply that got a surprising twist in the tale. He wrote, “Thanks Bips Kumari now ur turn! And for the first time Ms Basu nodded in agreement to this shaadi talk saying, “Soon mera number bhi aayega” with an addition of too many smileys! Aww! Does this mean Bipasha is finally ready to settle down?
The perfectionist of the Bollywood industry Aamir Khan recently suffered from an injury while shooting for his film ‘Dangal’. The actor, who believes in getting into the shoes of the character by breaking all norms, injured his muscle while shooting for a particular sequence in the film. According to reports, Aamir was shooting for an action scene which required loads of extra takes. The mind blowing actor has gained weight for the film ‘Dangal’ where he will be seen in the role of a wrestler. The film ‘Dangal’ is inspired by the life of a Haryana based wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat. In order to look realistic
Agency | Mumbai Former MMA and WWE star, David Bautista has challenged Varun Dhawan to an open fitness test. After a long search for a the perfectly fit and strong Bollywood
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Delhi govt recommends suspension of DDCA, replacement by interim body
Oil & gas block auction policy to be ready by FY16: Dharmendra
Agency | New Delhi In mounting trouble for the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA), a Delhi Government-appointed probe panel on Tuesday recommended suspension of the capital’s cricket administrator by the BCCI for alleged irregularities and said an interim committee of professionals should be appointed to replace it. The report of the pan-
el came when the DDCA was struggling to meet BCCI’s deadline to get all required clearances from authorities by Tuesday to host the fourth Test match between India and South Africa commencing on December 3. The probe committee recommended appointing a professional body of cricketers to run cricket administration in the city and said a commission of inquiry
should be set up to probe various alleged irregularities, including financial bunglings, in DDCA, government sources said. They said the three-member committee, headed by Chetan Sanghi, Principal Secretary of Vigilance Department, also recommended bringing the cricket administration under the Right to Information Act to ensure transparency.
Mitchell Johnson announces retirement from international cricket
India’s first all-electric car expedition flagged off in Srinagar
Agency | New Delhi Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., on Monday (November 16, 2015), flagged off India’s first all-electric car expedition christened ‘Mahindra Reva Goodness Drive – Kashmir to Kanyakumari’. The ‘Mahindra Reva Goodness Drive – Kashmir to Kanyakumari’ will see three expedition ready, all-electric, zero emission Mahindra e2os being driven to Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu), covering the entire length of the country in a month. The drive was flagged off by Arvind Mathew, Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Reva, in the presence of Aravinda De Silva, Former International Cricketer from Sri Lanka. Pitched as a drive for a better tomorrow, the e2o convoy will pass through 52 locations within the country and traverse a distance of over 5,000 kilometers.
Agency | Bengaluru Rain and wet ground conditions continued to hold up the second Test match between India and South Africa in Bengaluru on Tuesday, resulting in play being called off for a third successive day without a single ball being bowled. The second and third day already washed out due to bad weather, the fourth day was also called off
after the match officials were forced to cancel play till lunch and then take an early call for stumps. The umpires inspected the ground thrice after a rain-free morning raised hopes for some play. However, the damp conditions coupled with a steady drizzle did not allow the resumption of proceedings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The play was officially
called off at 2.30pm. With the weather forecast for the next few days also remaining the same, there is no possibility of a result. India were 80 for no loss in reply to South Africa’s first innings score of 214 on the opening day. Shikhar Dhawan (45) and Murali Vijay (28) are at the crease. Weather permitting, the match will resume at 9.15am on Wednesday.
main priority in the closing weeks of the season is Great Britain’s attempt to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 in their first final since 1978. Britain face Belgium in the final on clay in Ghent next week and Murray had initially suggested he might pull out of the Tour
Finals to fine-tune his preparations for the Davis Cup. After learning of potential sanctions from the if he withdrew, Murray settled for spending most of last week practising his clay-court game across London at Queen’s Club before arriving at the O2 on Friday.
have been handed one of the toughest draws as Sindhu will be up against top seed and world champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the opening round. Sindhu had defeated the All England champion at the Denmark Open last month but she has a 2-3 overall record
against the Spaniard. Sixth seed Srikanth, who had reached the semifinals of Hong Kong Open last year, has been pitted against world No. 10 Chinese Tian Houwei, who has beaten the Indian four times in as many meetings -- all defeats coming this year.
World Tour Finals: Murray, Nadal begin campaign with convincing wins
Agency | New Delhi Government expects to finalise the new policy for auction of oil and gas blocks during the ongoing financial year, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. “We have brought this consultation paper and suggestions will come in by November 30. We will make the policy after considering all the views and take it to the Cabinet. It will be our endeavour to make the policy during this financial year only,” Pradhan told reporters on the sidelines of Bio-Energy Summit 2015 organised by CII here. Yesterday, Oil Ministry had issued a paper on new fiscal and contractual regime for award of hydrocarbon acreages with a view to revive investor interest in oil and gas exploration by simplifying rules. It proposes to free natural gas pricing as well as replace the controversial Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with simpler revenue-sharing regime for all future field auctions in the backdrop of low gas prices not attracting investors in exploration and production sector.
SPORTS ROUNDUP India vs SA Bengaluru Test: Play called off for third straight day
Agency | New Delhi Last week, Facebook started allowing Google to “crawl and index its mobile app” in its mobile search results to show publicly available information. This means Facebook for Android users would now be able to directly jump to the relevant page inside the app from Google mobile search results. “When people search for public Facebook content on the mobile web, those who use Facebook for Android can now click through and go straight to the Facebook app,” said a Facebook spokeswoman to The Wall Street Journal, news that was also confirmed by an Alphabet spokesperson to the publication. Google had introduced App Indexing earlier this year for Android apps, then later this year for iOS apps. This allowed users to access information from search results and ‘deep links’ within apps that had been indexed by Google. While the service initially began with only a few app partners, it was soon opened out to all developers who wanted their apps indexed.
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Agency | New Delhi Regarded as one of the best left-arm pace bowlers of his generation, Aussie Mitchell Johnson on Tuesday announced his retirement from international cricket. He will wear the baggy green for the last time today in the fifth day of second Test between Australia and New Zealand today. Johnson, 34, said before the start of the fifth and fi-
nal day’s play at Western Australian Cricket Association ground, “I feel now is the best time to say goodbye. I have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful career and enjoyed every moment of playing for my country. It’s been an incredible ride. But the ride has to come to an end at some point and to do so here at the WACA is very special.” Yesterday, former
Australia captain Mark Taylor hinted at the possibility of Johnson hanging his boot, obviously referring to the bowler’s comment made before the start of the Test. Townsville-born Queenslander added, “I’ve given the decision a lot of thought. Beyond this match, I’m just not sure that I can continue competing consistently at the level required to wear the baggy green (cap).”
Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal produced emphatic performances to silence their critics as they kicked off their World Tour Finals campaigns in dominant fashion on Monday. Murray silenced the doubters who claimed he was distracted by dreams of Davis Cup glory with a gritty 6-4, 6-4 win over David Ferrer, while Nadal, beset by problems during the worst year of his career, showed he isn’t finished yet with a 6-3, 6-2 thrashing of French Open champion Stan Wawrinka. Former Wimbledon champion Murray has made it clear his
ISL: FC Goa looking to maintain top rank, take on Mumbai City FC PV Sindhu, K Srikanth face challenge, Agency | Margao Saina Nehwal skips Hong Kong Open
FC Goa would be looking to maintain their top position when they take on Mumbai City in an Indian Super League match on Tuesday at the Nehru Stadium. FC Goa, along with FC Pune City and Delhi Dynamos have 15 points, but have played one match less than them. On Tuesday, the side would be looking to avenge their 0-2 away defeat. With five rounds to go, the place for the semifinals is heating up as only five points separate the top and bottom placed team. In fact, all the eight teams have a chance to qualify for the semis. Mumbai City, who were among the top-four
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at one stage after their resounding 5-1 win over North East United, have managed to garner only two points from their last three games to occupy the sixth position. Mumbai coach Nicolas Anelka knows how important it is to win on Tuesday as it will take his side to 15 points the same as the
home team and move to top on better goal difference. With Sunil Chhetri and Sonny Norde absent, the visitors lacked creativity in attack in their last match but now that Chhetri is back in the side, Anelka is looking for a win on Tuesday to push themselves on top of the chart.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal will be missing in action at the Hong Kong Open due to an injury and in her absence P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian charge at the USD 350,000 Super Series event starting here tomorrow. The 25-yearold Saina finished runners-up last week at the China Open Super Series Premier but during her final clash against China’s Li Xuerui, she felt severe pain in her leg and was forced to withdraw from the year-ending Hong Kong Open, a tournament she won in 2010. Indians
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Anandiben Patel woos migrants and OBCs Congress election office set on fire in Surat cult to say anything. Let Surat the police carry out into offset Patidar anger in tough Gujarat polls The temporary office of vestigations. We suspect Correspondent |
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“Gujarat’s first woman chief minister…” proclaim the opening lines on most election banners across constituencies in cities, towns and talukas due to elect their local governments on the coming Sundays (November 22 and 29). To kick off her campaign Chief Minister Anandiben Patel chose Bapunagar – the neighbourhood worst hit by the Patidar riot in Ahmedabad — on Dhanteras last week, marking the beginning of the Diwali festival in Gujarat. Her tone was cautious as she invoked the Gods and said, “they are with us”, to instill confidence in her party workers. She also confessed that the elections
would be a tough test, given that the elections to the municipal corporations and panchayats were being held together. (The BJP has always preferred that municipal corporation elections precede rural elections, given its hold over urban voters). Signs that the BJP is nervous had become apparent weeks earlier when the state government had issued an ordinance to postpone the local elec-
The Gujarat High Court Monday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to further promote the option of none of the above or NOTA among the voters in the coming local body polls after the SEC filed an affidavit in the court stating that all the measures are being used to promote its use. “…Various modes have been adopted for such awareness, including television, radio, news papers etc,” the affidavit filed by the SEC stated. It said that it will produce audio/ video television script etc. The affidavit was filed following a petition by lawyer K R Koshti seeking compliance report from the commission on the order of the court dated October 30. Koshti through the petition sought SEC report on the measures taken to educate the voters about the option of
NOTA on electronic voting machine. On Sunday the vacation court directed the commission to file an affidavit. The commission in the affidavit has strongly objected the petition by saying, “the applicant is in habit of asking relief after relief as an after thought.” “The court has asked the SEC to further promote the use of NOTA and create public awareness among the voters,” Koshti said adding that the matter will be heard on November 24. Koshti has filed a series of petitions, including against the state legisla-
the Congress set up in a tent was burnt by some unidentified persons in Pandesara area in Surat late on Sunday night, police said. Three bikes parked outside the tent were also set on fire. Rakesh Mishra, a trader and Congress worker, who had given his house to the Congress to put up the local election office, lodged a complaint at the Pandesara police station Monday morning about the arson. Mishra stated that the party had opened its temporary office outside his house in
tions and had told the Gujarat high court that a “caste war” like situation prevailed which would not allow the free conduct of elections. The election notification had also kept the None of the Above (NOTA) option out. But with the HC coming down Tourism in Gujarat set to get major heavily on the ordinance boost from Diu fest , Rann Utsav not only would votes of Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad this month. This is for all the elections be countthe first time that two ed on one day, the voters With leisure vacationing large scale tourism feswould get back the NOTA taking over pilgrimage, tivals are being held in choice. Although the law tourism in Gujarat is set the same region simultato get a major boost as neously. Tour operators two major tourist festiand travel agents believe vals are beginning in the that instead of eating into next fortnight. Gujarat each other’s share, these government’s flagship two festivals will bring tourist festival `Rann in more tourists. In fact, Utsav’ in Kutch is in for tour operators have resome competition from worked their tour packinternational beach fes- ages covering both the tival in union territory destinations - Diu and of Diu slated to begin Kutch. Though Diu is a from December 1. The union territory, it gets a union territory of Diu major share of tourists will be hosting the first from Gujarat. “Both the ever 75-day internation- festivals have brought a tion which made the vot- al festival `Festa Di Diu’ boom time for tourism ing compulsory. Follow- (in Portugese), which is industry. Although there ing his petition, the High likely to go on till Feb- will be competition beCourt stayed the law ruary 2016, while Kutch tween the two, it will and the matter is pend- is expected to play host benefit the tourism in ing. Koshti also sought to over two lakh tourists the state at the end of the court’s intervention to during the three-month day,” said Manish Sharkeep NOTA as an option long `Rann Utsav` be- ma, chairman, Tourism for the voters which the ginning by the end of Development Society. SEC was not implementing in the upcoming polls for six municipal corporations – Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad slated to be held on No- Gujarat Pipavav Port , vember 22 and polls for part of APM Terminals, 31 district panchayats, today said it has launched 230 taluka panchayats another weekly 1,015-km and 56 municipalities to rail service to transport be held on November 29. cargo to container depots in Haryana. “APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd), one of western India’s fastest growing gateway ports, has commenced a new Sakura I dedicated double weekly double stack rail stack rail service is operservice to the industri- ated by NYK, exclusively al centre in Faridabad of for containers being imHaryana,” the company ported by Maruti Suzuki said in a statement. The India Ltd,” it said. The dedicated double stack inaugural service was operations, which can flagged off from Pipavav carry two containers one Port by Keld Pedersen, above the other in spe- Managing Director of cially-designed rail cars, APM Terminals Pipavav, area of the town by bike- will be put into motion in and Yasuhiro Ishi, GM, borne masked assailants. partnership with Gateway NYK Line, along with Almost a week later, the Rail and NYK India, it other senior officials of Gujarat Anti-Terrorism said. “Known as ‘Sakura APM Terminals Pipavav Squad (ATS) arrested sev- II’, the service will oper- and GatewayRail. Peden accused and revealed ate between Pipavav Port ersen said, “We are very that the murders were the and ICD-Faridabad (Pi- pleased with this partnerresult of contract killing yala)/ICD-Garhi Harsa- ship with NYK Line, and perpetrated allegedly by ru, covering a distance Gateway Rail, providing fugitive gangster Javed of 1,015 km, exclusively fast, consistent just-inChikna and his younger for Japanese NYK Ship- time cargo delivery while ping Line. The existing reducing transportation brother Abid.
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has taken care of leader of the Patidar movement Hardik Patel and his key associates, keeping them safely out of the BJP’s way in jail under sedition charges, the anger in the community remains. Which is why in Unjha town, of Mehsana district home to the current BJP top brass, the party has not given tickets to any candidate to contest on its symbol for the municipality elections. Instead, it has fielded independents who can be later co-opted in the local body.
Avirbhav society at Pandesara for the upcoming municipal corporation elections. “Late Sunday night, when all the Congress workers left, three unknown motorbike-borne youths poured some inflammable liquid at different places in the tent and set it on fire. They also burnt three parked bikes,” the complaint said. The incident
The Bharuch police, probing the double murder of BJP leaders, invoked the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against the accused persons Monday. They sent their report to the Director General of Police (DGP) praying to hand over the case to the National Investigating Agency (NIA). The police investigation has revealed that the two leaders were allegedly murdered “to avenge atrocities against Muslims.” The Gujarat police suspect that the murder was an outcome of a “terror module” which may have been used in other parts of the
country because of which NIA should probe it further. On November 2, Shirish Bangali, former Bharuch district BJP president and organisational leader, and Pragnesh Mistry, general secretary of the Bharuch BJP youth wing, were shot dead at the former’s Surya printing press in Panchbatti
than that ever undertaken by the two agencies,” said Alok K Chatterjee, Mission Interface Manager and Launch System Engineer of NISAR project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA. Chatterjee pointed out that ISRO will be providing the “spacecraft bus”, S-band SAR payload and the launch vehicle, while NASA will be providing the L-band SAR and the
engineering payload for the mission that will cost over USD one billion. It is expected to be launched in 2020. Chatterjee was in Gujarat Science City for an “outreach event” with other US-based scientists associated with the project — including NISAR project scientist Paul A Rosen, Mark Simons, Ian Joughin, Scott Hensley, Paul Siqueira and Piyush Agram.
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legally bring in cigarettes in the state. Since March 2015, around 4.96 crore cigarette sticks worth Rs 37.29 crore have been seized by DRI and Customs in Gujarat with over 90% of the hauls coming from Mundra port. In last fortnight, in two different seizures, around 86 lakh cigarette sticks worth Rs 6 crore has been seized by the Ahmedabad zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). Last month Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy (CASCADE) had claimed that the illicit trade of tobacco is rapidly growing in Gujarat. “Gujarat is one of the fastest growing markets for illegal cigarettes and auto components in the country. The supply of legal cigarettes shows a decline, the illegal players have taken over this market and is growing at a higher rate,” said PC Jha.
‘NISAR mission biggest collaboration of ISRO and NASA’
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The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission will be the biggest collaboration between the two space agencies yet, said a senior scientist from NASA on Monday. The mission involves building a 2,600 kg satellite that will “effectively make a timelapse movie of the earth” while keeping a close eye on disturbances in the ecosystem, ice-sheet collapses and natural hazards. “In 2011 we started talking to ISRO and prior to that NASA was thinking of doing it (the mission) all by itself or in collaboration with Germany or Canada. It is a much bigger collaborative effort
Gujarat Pipavav’s 2nd weekly rail service starts rolling
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came to light late in the night, and Mishra immediately called fire brigade officials and police. Several people tried to douse the fire before the fire brigade’s arrival. The fire officials doused the fire in half hour, Mishra said. The Surat city Congress president Hasmukh Desai said, “The fire erupted in ward no. 27 Congress office. At present it is diffi-
that this might be aimed to threaten the Congress candidates given the huge support the party is getting.” Pandesara police inspector N R Gohil said, “We suspect that some notorious elements are behind the incident. The CCTV cameras fixed outside a general store behind the Congress office were also burnt and damaged. The accused might have done that intentionally. We have started taking statements of the Congress leaders and workers who were taking care of the office, to find out clues.”
costs, pollution and roadway congestion through dedicated double stack rail service.” The company said the double stack rail movement was pioneered in India by APM Terminals and the Indian Railways in 2006, with the service rolled out from Pipavav to Jaipur. Gujarat Pipavav Port is part of the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network of 62 operating ports, terminal facilities and 135 inland services, employing 20,600 professional across 60 countries around the world. APM Terminals designs, builds and operates ports and inland services.
High in demand foreign brand cigarettes fuelling smuggling
The lure of puffing a foreign brand cigarette is now not only limited to metros but also in small cities people want to have it leading to high demand. This demand is being fuelled by cigarettes brought illegally in the country. These foreign-made cigarettes are in high demand among youngsters, especially girls in the metros. These cigarettes are sold to the wholesalers on the profit margin of around 45% on the import value. Cigarette of different brands like Malimbo Superslims, Marso Superslims, Mond Superslims, Richman Superslims, Gudan Garam, Luvin Fresh and Djarum Black are in huge demand in the country and are also the most smuggled. Huge margin, increasing demand in local markets and high customs duty has led to exponential increase in cigarette smuggling in last few months. Gujarat is fast becoming a transit point for smugglers to il-
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