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How Univ. showed him the door From July, the university stopped paying Rohith his monthly stipend of Rs 25,000 (excluding HRA), with friends alleging that he was targeted for raising issues under the banner of Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) Agency | Hyderabad
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Actress Nimrat Kaur, who shot to fame through her internationally acclaimed role in Bollywood film “The Lunchbox” and American TV show “Homeland”, says her journey in showbiz has been like a “fairytale” till now. A face that found fame through the world of advertisements, Nimrat started her tryst with acting via music videos.
UP cabinet gives nod for tourism policy Agency | Lucknow
To showcase newer tourist destinations in the state and woo more tourists, Uttar Pradesh cabinet today gave its assent to the Tourism Policy 2016, under which new tourist spots and concepts will be identified. The state cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav resolved to identify new tourist destinations and concepts for the tourists, a government spokesperson here said.
10 injured in DTC-school bus collision
On January 30, Rohith Chakravarthi Vemula would have turned 27. Yesterday, the Dalit research scholar, suspended from Hyderabad Central University over a political dispute, told his friends that since his stipend was on hold, he was unable to give them “even a small treat”. Hours later, he hanged himself. Today, the suicide of the second-year PhD student of Life Sciences inside a hostel room sparked protests across the country and led to an FIR being filed against local BJP MP and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya under the SC/ST Act and on charges of abetment to suicide. Last August, the minister had written to the HRD ministry accusing the university of being “a mute spectator” after a group of Dalit students, including Rohith, clashed with an ABVP leader. While the HRD Ministry has decided to
send a fact-finding team to “look into the matter”, spoke to Rohith’s friends and faculty on campus, police and officials to piece together the sequence of events in the run-up to his death. It shows how Rohith was steadily isolated by campus authorities and his appeals — many of them anguished and sometimes cloaked in irony — went largely unheard. The day after, at the mortuary of Osmania Hospital, Rohith’s mother cried out: “I used to proudly tell everyone in my village that my son was doing PhD at Hyderabad University. Today, I have come to collect his dead body.’’ Hailing from Gurazala near Guntur, Rohith’s father Manikumar works as a security guard at a private hospital while mother V Radhika is a tailor — he had an elder sister and a younger brother. “After the stipend was stopped, his family was struggling to support him. He borrowed Rs 40,000 from a friend and was liv-
ing frugally. Almost every day, he used to say that his money was stuck,’’ said Velmula Sankanna, a fellow PhD scholar and one of the five suspended. “In December, Rohith wrote an angry letter to the V-C, sarcastically asking him to
provide euthanasia facilities for Dalit students. Since then, he was scared to go to the administration building and ask about his stipend. He became silent and withdrawn. He said that he was falling into depression because he
was being defeated by the system at every turn. He blamed himself, his caste, and the circumstances around him. He did not take much interest in anything except studies,’’ said Sankanna, a close friend. When contacted, an official from the V-C’s office said, “His stipend was stuck due to lapses in processing the paperwork. On many occasions, the funds arrive late and are disbursed in lump sums,’’ the official said. In the “suicide note”, Rohith wrote that he was expecting Rs 1.75 lakh in arrears from the university.
PM arrives in Sikkim, will declare it a total organic state Agency | Gangtok
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Sikkim on Monday on a two-day visit of Sikkim, which he is slated to declare as the first organic state in the country. He was received at the Libing army helipad by Governor Srinivas Patil and Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, his Cabinet colleagues and top state officials. Modi also inspected a Guard of Honour by the Black Cat division of the Indian army and personnel of Sikkim
police. The PM’s entourage then proceeded to Chintan Bhawan where he will officially inaugurate the National conference on Sustainable Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. Carrying flowers and waving
the tricolour, people lined the road leading to the venue of the conference. The PM’s first day visit will conclude with a musical and cultural extravaganza at Manan Kendra later in the evening.
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Around 10 persons, including two women, who were passengers in a DTC bus, were injured when it collided with a school bus, returning after dropping children at a private school, at outer Delhi’s Kanjhawla area today. Three persons, the driver of the DTC bus, identified as Rajvir, its conductor, Sultan Singh, and the driver of the chartered school bus, identified as Mulai Ram, suffered severe injuries, while the others were discharged after a while, said police. 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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The government’s new initiative: ‘Start-up India’ is overdue
The government’s new initiative for start-ups promises swift approvals for starting enterprises, easier exits, tax and fiscal incentives, faster registration of patents and protection of intellectual property rights. It signals a possible end to the inspector raj that has sapped the energy and spirit of many young entrepreneurs in the country. Unlike India’s large business groups, small entrepreneurs find it difficult to navigate the complex bureaucratic and regulatory maze. From that perspective, these supply-side reforms are welcome. What makes this initiative especially welcome is the fact that start-ups hold the potential of creating more jobs at a time when the manufacturing sector is facing a slump that may last longer given global economic prospects and the slowdown in China, which has been one of the engines of global growth. And with growing automation, the manufacturing sector may no longer be in a position to create jobs. The fact is that there is a fundamental problem of demand and the real challenge for the Indian economy now is to fund several large projects — be it roads, highways or railways. That’s why it is heartening to see the government attempting to provide an enabling policy environment for start-ups, which are job creators much like the large number of self-employed who form a significant part of the country’s labour force. But should the government, which says it wants to be more of a facilitator, get into the funding of start-ups? There has been enough capital chasing start-ups in India, including e-commerce firms, with a predominant share coming from overseas investors, unlike in the US or China, which are ahead of this country in terms of the number of new-age firms. Tax breaks do help, but global experience shows that what is more critical is an enabling regulatory and business environment that will foster innovation and have a cascading impact on entrepreneurship. Indian policymakers appear to be grasping this imperative but the funding now on offer could perhaps be directed more towards entrepreneurs who find it tough to raise capital in segments such as food processing, rather than mobile-based applications or e-commerce firms, for whom raising money isn’t a major problem. The government’s approach of targeting start-ups to power growth over the next decade is well judged. But the easing of rules and creation of a conducive policy environment should not be restricted just to start-ups. It should be extended to all businesses. That will be the real test, along with getting more Indian firms domiciled overseas because of rules here to move back. Otherwise, the losers will be the government and local investors.
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QUOTE “A brand ambassador promotes a brand. People will come to India and tourist flow will increase only if the brand ambassador of ‘Incredible India’ promotes the country as ‘incredible’, But if OF THE the brand ambassador says India is intolerant, he surely is not working as brand ambassador,” DAY - Defending the exit of Khan from the campaign, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP),
Amitabh Kant said the actor, by terming India an ‘intolerant country’, worked against his role as that of a brand ambassador.
Sonakshi Sinha on date hunt for ‘Haseena’ Agency | Mumbai
Sonakshi Sinha was compelled to come out of her Twitter hiatus to clear the air surrounding her project “Haseena” hitting a roadblock. The actress says she is trying to squeeze out time and dates to shoot for the film. The “Lootera” star, who also has Abhinay Deo’s “Force 2” up her sleeve, took to the micro-blogging site to share the update on the film, which is based on the life of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar. “Just an update on ‘Haseena’, am trying to work out the dates. This film is very special to me and I’m trying my best to clear the date clash. Back on break,” shared Sonakshi, who is essaying the titular character in the Apoorva Lakhia directorial. Several reports suggested that the biopic is facing production issues with a producer and financier yet to come on board. The film will bring alive 40 years of Haseena’s life and is said to be an emotional saga of a woman and what it meant to be Dawood Ibrahim’s sister. Haseena Parkar, the elder sister of Dawood, died in July last year. She shot to fame after some rival gangsters led by Arun Gawli gunned down her husband Ismail Parkar in a gang war in 1991 which led to a spate of brutal retaliatory killings from the Dawood gang at that time. Subsequently, Haseena was reportedly acting as the don’s Mumbai business head. Though officially she was not directly implicated in any underworld activities, it is believed that in parts of south Mumbai, nothing moved without her nod.
IIFA Utsavam to be held from January 24-25 Agency | Hyderabad
The first edition of IIFA Utsavam, which was postponed due to the Chennai deluge last year, will now be held here on January 24-25. The proceeds from the ticket sales and donations from the event will be used for providing relief to the deluge victims. The event, which was initiated to celebrate south Indian cinema, has launched a campaign ‘Be one for Chennai’ to garner support and funds for the Chennai flood victims, read a statement from the organisers. The IIFA
Utsavam awards presentation ceremony will take place at the Gachibowli Outdoor Stadium here, and the route for donations via http://www. iifautsavam.com/be1forchennai was opened on January 14. The gala aims to bring together
four southern film industries — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam — and promises a stellar line up of performers. Stars like Shivrajkumar, Chiranjeevi, Tamannah Bhatia, Shriya Saran, Priyamani, Akhil Akkineni and Adah Sharma
will groove at the event, while celebrities like Kamal Haasan, Mahesh Babu, Namrata Shirodkar and Naga Chaitanya will mark their attendance. Andre Timmins, director, IIFA Utsavam, said: “We are confident south India will have never have witnessed a greater celebration than what we have planned with IIFA Utsavam.” Kamal also lauded the effort by the management at IIFA, which stands for International Indian Film Academy that hosts a Bollywood IIFA extravaganza at a foreign destination every year.
R Madhavan’s ‘Saala Khadoos’ to be specially screened for female Indian boxers
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jkumar Hirani. “As the The makers of the forth- movie revolves around coming sports drama boxing, the makers have film “Saala Khadoos”, decided to organise a spestarring R. Madhavan cial screening for boxers and boxer Ritika Singh, across India. Also, Rihave planned to host a tika will be inviting her special screening for In- friends who are boxers dian women boxers here. for the screening,” said Ritika, who is a boxer in the film’s spokesperson. real life, will be inviting The screening will take her friends for the screen- place in the week when ing of “Saala Khadoos” the film will release. It is which is the second pro- slated to hit the screens duction of filmmaker Ra- on January 29.
It was a dream to see myself on hoardings: Akshay Kumar
Agency | Mumbai Actor Akshay Kumar, who has become one of the biggest stars of Bollywood, says his dream was to feature on the hoardings in the country. Recently while shooting for the TV show “Yaar Mera Superstar” he said, “It feels very good to see yourself on the hoarding. It was a dream which I am living now. I still remember my first hoard-
ing was put up in Juhu and I stood there for minutes just looking at it.” The 48-year-old actor does not have a film industry background but is enjoying the stardom. When he began his acting career in the 1990s, he starred in action films and later he also did romantic and comedy movies. Currently Akshay is busy promoting his upcoming film “Airlift” that releases this Friday.
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Hyundai Launches Happy Move– ‘Save Our Heritage’ CSR initiative
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Agency | Melbourne Mahendra Singh Dhoni doesn’t usually take digs at his fielders but after the third consecutive loss against Australia, the Indian captain pointed the finger of blame at them. On a tour where the batsmen have been good but not good enough to produce that extra 30 runs that could make the difference, and his bowlers haven’t shown the imagination and craft required to cope with the flat tracks, Dhoni
would have at least hoped that his young team won’t let him down in the fielding department. This was supposed to be a the great young team, filled with great fielders but instead, they have let their captain down at crucial junctures. Dhoni didn’t hide his disappointment at the end of it all. “Today, I felt on and off the bowling was decent. We did let ourselves down with our fielding. The best fielders in our group actually left quite a few deliveries.
Hyundai Motor India Ltd, the country’s second largest car manufacturer and the largest passenger car exporter today launched global CSR campaignHappy Move in India. Hyundai Motor India in association with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will spread awareness on the Indian heritage monuments. Hyundai Motor Group’s CSR is centred on 4 main pillars -“Safe Move, Happy Move, Green Move and Easy Move”. Happy Move is an integral part of Hyundai’s efforts to create a safe and happy world. The theme of Happy Move program this year is “Save Our Heritage” and in this
program Hyundai will conduct awareness drive (Jan11- 21, 2016) with 100 Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers (80 from Korea and 20 from India) at the heritage sites of Safdarjung Tomb, FirozshahKotla, QutubMinar and Old Fort. At these heritage sites, the volunteers will undertake activities to upkeep the amenities, maintenance of gardens and will conduct awareness activities to educate the visitors
on the value of heritage. Further to spread the message amongst children, volunteers will also conduct school contact programme at Sarvodaya schools at Chanakya Puri, Daryaganj, Mehrauli and INA colony. As part of the initiative volunteers will undertake school premises cleaning, school wall designing, maintenance of gardens and design competitions for a positive and conducive study environment.
Steve Finn likely to miss fourth Test against South Africa
Agency | Johannesburg England seamer Steven Finn appears likely to miss the fourth Test against South Africa, which starts on Friday in Pretoria, because of a side strain, team officials confirmed on Monday. Finn felt tightness in his left side during England’s series-clinching victory at the Wanderers and was sent for scans on Sunday, the day after England’s dramatic seven-wicket win put the tourists 2-0 ahead with one Test to play. However, head coach Trevor Bayliss remains pessimistic about his chances of playing in the final Test, paving the way for Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan or Mark Footitt to vie for a starting role at Centurion as England target an em-
phatic 3-0 success. “To be honest I doubt very much whether he’ll be available for the next Test,” Bayliss said. “We’ll have to wait and see how bad it is and make a decision on the one-day and Twenty20 series (following the Tests). “But at this stage it looks like we have to make a replacement there heading into the last Test,” Bayliss added. “That’s unfortunate because I thought he was probably our most dangerous bowler in the first two Tests.” Woakes played in the first Test in Durban when England’s record wicket-taker James Anderson sat out with a calf strain while Jordan and uncapped Footitt did not feature in any of the first three matches of the series.
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RAM Animation Education starts a new center in Ahemdabad
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A classic example of leading developer in 3D animations, Ram Animation Studio Pvt. Ltd. Starts a new center in Ahmedabad. This is the second center in City and 8th center in Gujarat. This second center in city is situated in Satyam Mall at Satellite. Today with grand inauguration ceremony, this center was opened. Shri Manharbhai Gadhvi, (Ex. Dy. Secretary, Government of Gujarat and current Member of CDRF and Advisor Mahavir Education Trust inaugurated this new center. Ramshi H. Bamrotiya ,CEO and Founder of
RAM Animation Studio Pvt.Ltd., says tha to give best carrier opportunities in Animation Industry, we starts our new education center in Ahmedabad. Our program for the students is the best as we have developed relations with our students which keep everyone under the same page. The students are challenged at every phase of the course to
flush out their idea of creativity, later concreting the basic fundamentals of art and animations. In Gujarat RAM Animation has 6 centers in different Cities, like Modasa, Himmatnagar, Palanpur, Patan and Gandhinagar. In Ahmedabad First Studio facility and Education Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad center at C.G.Road. All Beginning on 12th Febcenters are fully equipped ruary 2016, this 10 day and advanced. event will bring forth an opportunity to experience the colourful customs and rich traditions of Madhya Pradesh through art, craft, folk music, dance and cuisines. For the adrenaline junkies, this will be one action-packed joyride taking them from one villages. Chief Minister thrilling adventure sport Devendra Fadnavis held a to another. For the art meeting with Union Water nomads, on offer would Resources Minister Uma be the cultural treat and Bharti. The Centre has in enigma. So gear up for principle given its consent this truly distinct festivfor the project. However, a ity of India! Keeping the meeting between represen- significance of water in tatives of the three states mind and to cleanse the and the Ministry of Water mundane boredom and Resources is expected at revitalize the spirits, the Government of Madhya the end of this month.
Maharashtra seeks Centre intervention in Tapi river irrigation project Agency | Mumbai
The state government has sought the Centre’s intervention in taking ahead the Rs 6,000-crore Tapi River Recharge Irrigation Project which involves the three states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The project, touted as Asia’s biggest water recharge project, is being pursued by Maharashtra to address the water scarcity. The project, to be undertaken by the Tapi Irrigation Development Corporation (TIDC), is being pushed
as a suitable alternative to big dams that would require displacement of villages which is more complicated. This project will emphasise on percolation of underground water and maximising the use of surplus water, which runs into the Arabian Sea to increase water tables in drought-stricken
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Pradesh is initiating a truly unique and mega annual event, Jal Mahotsav. “The principal objective of this Event is to showcase the cultural heritage of Madhya Pradesh and spark festivities that become a tradition across generations. This ethnic and unique celebration will also serve to reinforce Madhya Pradesh, as one of the most sought after travel and leisure destination in India”, shares Mr.Vivek Mathur, General Manager Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation Limited. The mega event is steadily gaining form in the oasis of tranquility at Hanumantiya in the Khandwa District.
Surya Roshni is a nationally and internationally accepted Brand and holds pre-eminent position in the Indian lighting industry. The Group which has until recently concentrated only on traditional channels to target consumers has entered into a strategic alliance with Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace. This tie-up initiates a disruptive trend in energy conservation by making LED bulbs affordable and within reach of millions
of people in tier 2 and 3 areas who otherwise would have found LED bulbs inaccessible and unaffordable. Surya’s eco-friendly and energy saving LED bulbs will be available for sale on the E-commerce website from January 2016. This alliance reflects the
thrust the Group places on “social causes” – production and sale of environment-friendly products being one of them. Mr. B. Raju, Managing Director - Surya Roshni Limited, said, “LED is widely acknowledged as the future of ‘lighting technology’.
Amazon.in Announces the ‘Great Indian Sale’ Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
There couldn’t have been a better start to the year! Get ready to shop more and save big in the new year with the ‘Great Indian Sale’ on Amazon.in. Starting 12am (midnight) on January 21st to 11.59 pm on 23rd January, Amazon.in will organize a 72 hour deal marathon with amazing discounts offered by sellers and never before deals every hour across hundreds of categories and crores of products. Customers can access the deals from their PCs, mobile phones or mobile app. And there’s more excitement to the event this time around As there are 40+ internation-
Enjoy Amazon.in’s amazing 72 hour deal marathon between January 21st – 23rd, 2016
al brands, launched over last 6 months on Amazon.in across categories, available upto 30% off. Apart from limited time deals on brands like GoPro Cameras, ME Electronics, Ravensburger Puzzles etc., there are exciting seller discounts of upto 30% on the entire range of international toys , upto 35% off
on international baby brands and upto 20% off on the international Home & Kitchen brands. Talking about the Great Indian Sale, Samir Kumar, Vice President Category Management, Amazon India said, “We are very excited to host the Great Indian Sale-a 72 hour deal marathon from the 21st – 23rd January.
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