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BJP ruling by proxy in U’khand: Surendra Kumar
Agency | Dehradun Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s media advisor Surendra Kumar today alleged that the change in Uttarakhand’s excise policy soon after the imposition of President’s rule was done at the behest of the party and meant to benefit the liquor syndicate. It seems the liquor policy was immediately changed after the imposition of President’s rule as a reward for the liquor syndicate, he claimed. Insisting that Rawat’s excise policy was aimed to benefit the farmers, he said, “The sudden change of that policy after imposition of President’s rule in the state would only benefit the liquor syndicate and harm the interests of horticulturists and farmers in the state.”
RCB to miss Gayle, Pollard available for MI Agency | Mumbai Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman Chris Gayle will miss at least the next two IPL games as he has gone back to the West Indies to be with his partner Natasha Berridge and new-born son, while Kieron Pollard of Mumbai Indians is now fit for tomorrow’s match. Gayle will miss tomorrow’s away game against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium here and also the next game against Rising Pune Supergiants in Pune on Friday. RCB face Gujarat Lions on Sunday in Rajkot.
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Buses set on fire, police station attacked during protest
After Protests, Govt Withdraws New PF Agency | Bengaluru
Thousands of garment factory workers in Bengaluru blocked traffic and set vehicles on fire on Tuesday to protest against changes in provident fund rules that are perceived to puncture the only social safety net for Indians. Police fired warning shots after the protesters threw stones at the Hebbagodi police station and lathicharged the workers, mostly women, in clashes that damaged property worth crores and injured hundreds. The violence came on a day Union labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced that the government put off
for three more months the move to bar withdrawal of employer’s contribution to the provident fund corpus until they turn 58. The announcement came amid protests by labour unions in several parts of the country. India’s information technology capital has been tense since Monday when garment workers went on a snap strike and blocked several highways. According to trade union leaders, the police started using force to evict the agitators from the highway. This triggered a violent response from them, Meenakshi Sundaram, a trade union leaders told reporters. He
urged the protesters to return to work and said, “The police should not be provoked. We don’t know who is leading this agitation. The leaders should come forward and participate in talks with us.” “The agitators should know that the state government has nothing to do with this change in PF rules,” he said. Police said they had to resort to lathicharge and fire teargas shells to disperse the violent protesters in Bengaluru. There are over 12 lakh garment factory workers in the city. At least two Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses and one of Benga-
luru Metropolitan Transport Corporation were torched, a police officer said. Incidents of vehicles being attacked were reported from other parts of the city. Traffic jams were reported at various entry and exit points to the city. City police commissioner NS Megharikh said the situation was under control, but there
moving forward “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the state government to fulfil aspirations. “People of the state have lot of love and affection for Atal Bihari Vajpayee who used to talk about taking Jammu and Kashmir forward on the pillars of Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat and Jamhooriat. We have
to fulfil his dream by taking everybody along and ensuring development of all,” he said. He hoped the formation of the new government “led by a young and energetic leadership will usher in a new era of development” across the state. “Mehboobaji does not talk about weather. She always talks about bridges, roads and development. When the leadership is so dedicated to the cause of development, then development becomes imminent,” he said. Jammu and Kashmir, he said, can do a great service to the country with tourism.
“are some issues” on the city’s outskirts. “...we are at work, our officers are at the spot, reinforcement has already gone there. The situation is being brought under con-
trol,” he said. Police said other workers, too, have joined garment workers in the protest against the change in PF rules. People have also launched online campaign against the decision, which was to be implemented from
February 10 but was later put on hold till April 30. Around 15,000 women garment workers had on Monday staged a massive demonstration on the outskirts of Bengaluru, protesting the change in the Provident Fund Act.
revenge on people. Yet, thanks to the facelessness of the mob, it is difficult for the law enforcement agencies to pinpoint blame on individuals or indeed those who incited the mob in the first place. In this context, the Gujarat high court’s ruling that anyone in a mob is guilty of the misdemeanours of the gathering holds out some hope. The ruling was in a 13-yearold case of mob dacoity in the Shah-e-Alam area
of Ahmedabad where innocent commuters were looted and harmed. We have had some high profile arrests of those in mobs, notably Jagdish Tytler in the Sikh riots of 1984 and Maya Kodnani in the fateful Gujarat riots of 2002. But there have been numerous instances of those in power having encouraged mobs with their statements — the late Balasaheb Thackeray would often say that he was not responsible for the conduct of his ‘boys’ if anyone tried to besmirch the fair name of the Shiv Sena. Rajiv Gandhi, unwittingly or wittingly, seemed to justify mob violence when he talked of the earth shaking when a great fell, a reference to his mother Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
All in a riot mob equally guilty, Gujarat high court rules
PM Narendra Modi asks Jammu and Kashmir youth to share ‘growth India story’ Agency | Kakriyal
Invoking Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s vision of Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat and Jamhooriat for development of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said development alone was the answer to all problems. “Whether it is Kashmir or Kanyakumari, Kutch or Kamrup, balanced and all-round development is the answer to all our problems,” Modi told a public rally after inaugurating a super specialty hospital and a sports stadium in Kakryal. “The country needs modern infra-
structure, schools, colleges, roads, power and development to improve normal life.” Referring to the Rs 80,000-crore package announced for development of Jammu and Kashmir when Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was chief minister, Modi said the Centre, with all its resources, was
After telling SC Kohinoor not stolen, govt says will try to bring it back Agency | New Delhi
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The dictum that there is strength in numbers has been used to chilling effect by mobs in India. Add to this anonymity and hardly anyone has to pay for the violence unleashed by mobs whether it be in communal riots or caste and class wars. We have seen numerous riots in which frenzied mobs have destroyed public property and visited murder and mayhem in the name of religion, caste or just
Afghanistan: 30 dead, hundreds injured as Taliban truck bomb tears through Kabul
that might jeopardise a Agency | Kabul gest blow to Ghani’s govfuture attempt to bring ernment since NATO-led The government said on back the diamond or A Taliban suicide car forces ended their combat Tuesday it will make all other treasures that once bomber attacked an office operations at the end of efforts to bring back the belonged to India. It told of Afghanistan’s main na2014. Gunfire rang out Kohinoor diamond “in the government to take tional security agency in for more than 30 minutes an amicable manner”, six weeks to reconsider Kabul on Tuesday, killing after the blast, accordsaying it had not yet its position before the or wounding several peoing to Reuters witnessconveyed its views on court decides whether ple, the first assault in the es at the scene. Pictures the diamond to the Su- the British as compensa- to dismiss the petition. capital since the group showed windows blown preme Court “contrary tion for help in the Sikh On Tuesday, the govern- declared their new spring out at the front of an ofto what is being misrep- Wars. The Kohinoor is ment said the factual po- offensive a week ago. fice that houses a Nationresented” in the media. not a stolen object,” he sition is that the matter is President Ashraf Ghani al Directorate of Security On Monday, reports said told the Supreme Court. sub-judice at present and condemned the attack (NDS) unit The Taliban the government had told The court was hearing a the public interest litiga- “in the strongest possi- which struck at the height annual spring offensive, said on their Pashto-lanthe apex court it won’t petition filed by a rights tion is yet to be admit- ble terms” in a statement of the morning peak hour, although the capital has guage website that they request the return of the group asking it to or- ted. “The Solicitor Gen- from the presidential pal- the palace said. Fight- been relatively quiet since had carried out the suicide 106-carat Kohinoor dia- der the government to eral of India was asked ace, only a few hundred ing has raged around the the April 12 announce- bombing on “Department mond, which is now part seek the return of the to seek the views of the metres away from the symbolically important ment. Kunduz, Afghan- 10”, an NDS unit, which of the British crown jew- diamond. The two-judge government of India, scene of the blast. Sev- northern city of Kunduz istan’s fifth-largest city, is responsible for protectels. “It was given volun- bench said it did not which have not yet been eral people were killed in the week since the fell briefly to the Taliban ing government ministers tarily by Ranjit Singh to want to issue a ruling conveyed. and wounded in the blast, Taliban announced their last September in the big- and VIPs. Corpo. 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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Swachh Bharat mission needs a people’s push There are 2.5 billion people in the world who still defecate in the open, of which Indians comprise 630 million. The recent findings of the National Family Health Survey for 2015-16 show that there is a discrepancy: Only a quarter of households in Bihar use a toilet while 78% do so in Goa. At a South Asian sanitation conference in Dhaka recently, the Bangladesh government announced that it has eradicated open defecation. This places a big question mark on how a country, which is otherwise seen as “backward”, has stolen a march over its South Asian neighbours, including India. This, all the more so when India fares better than Bangladesh in many other human development indices. In the 2015 Human Development Report, India at 130 is higher up the ladder in its indices than Bangladesh, at 142. If educational standards are looked at, India also does better with 63% of adults being able to read and write, as opposed to 59% in its neighbour. However, when it comes to infant and under-five mortality rates and child malnutrition, which leads to stunting, Bangladesh fares better. There is an umbilical link between better sanitation and nutrition, since a child who is suffering from chronic diarrhoea is unable to retain food and this also has a bearing on her physical development. However, the connection between the two is seldom realised. When a community defecates close to its habitation it is, to put it bluntly, eating its own waste. The question that also needs to be asked is how the neighbouring state of West Bengal doesn’t display the same sanitation indices. According to the National Family Health Survey, only half the households in the state have toilets. Some of these may have fallen into disuse, are not used or put to other purposes like storing goods. The problem is that for too many decades, and even in the ongoing Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the emphasis is only on building toilets. Under the programme, India needs to build 12 lakh toilets by 2019, but has so far only constructed a tenth of this number. In recent years, it has become evident that even rural families which can afford the cost of a modest toilet do not see the need for one because they consider defecating in the fields more hygienic and a traditional practice. They do not understand that by doing so, they are polluting overground and underground water bodies and exposing themselves and their children to debilitating diseases. The Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank often cites the case of a farmer in Haryana who proudly reports how he packs his family into his Maruti every morning in order to perform their ablutions in the nearest available fields. Obviously, cost isn’t a factor for such families, but they simply don’t perceive the need for a toilet.
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‘Dumb’ Rajinikanth fans can’t tell I complimented him: Ram Gopal Varma
Agency | Mumbai King of controversies, director Ram Gopal Varma is trying to clear the air about the comments he made on Rajinikanth recently. He says fans of Rajinikanth will “kill” him if he tries to make a movie with him, after the director tweeted as to how can “somebody with his looks” become a superstar. Varma, in a series of tweets on Sunday, wondered ‘how a man who looks like this can be superstar’. His tweets were met with extreme
reactions from the fans who took offence over his views. “I think some of those Rajini fans are so dumb they didn’t even understand I was complementing him. If a very handsome man becomes a big star what’s the big deal, it happens all the time. But Rajinikanth looking (like) that becomes a big star.. that is a compliment,”said. “God favours him much more than anyone else. That’s what I meant. But dumb guys didn’t understand,” he added.
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QUOTE “There have been queries from the media regarding my being brand ambassador for ‘Atulya Bharat’. I wish to state that I have not been OF THE formally approached for this position,” - Actor Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday said in DAY a statement the he has not been “formally approached for this position”. Sunny Leone’s ‘One Night Big films help bring more audience for small projects: Swara Bhaskar Stand’ release date postponed Agency | Mumbai
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Sunny Leone is set to appear in “One Night Stand,” which was supposed to be released on April 22, but it has been recently reported that the release date has been postponed. The Jasmine D’Souza directorial also features Tanuj Virwani and Nyra Banerjee. The release date of “One Night Stand” has shifted to May 6, according to Deccan Chronicle. Fans are eagerly waiting for this movie as Sunny looks different in this film. “One Night Stand” is an erotic thriller and is not like her previous flicks like “Mastizaade” and “Ek Paheli Leela.” The first look of “One Night Stand” showed Sunny hugging a man, wearing a mysterious gaze in her eyes. The teaser showed how a one night of passion changed the life of the characters. In the sensual romantic thriller, Celina and Urvil (played by Sunny and Tanuj) are two strangers who end up having a one night stand. Nyra will be seen in the character of Urvil’s wife Simran. Produced by Furquan Khan and Pradeep Sharma, the film will have a number of steamy scenes, but at the same time will have a serious plot.
Ajay Devgn braves hypothermia while shooting for ‘Shivaay’
Agency | New Delhi Ajay Devgn, who is currently shooting in Bulgaria for Shivaay, his second directorial venture, shared with his fans the challenges he is
facing during the shoot. Posting a small video on his Twitter account, the Bollywood star tweeted, “When the going gets tough, tough get going! Heartfelt thanks to fan-
tastic TeamShivaay for an Extreme Bulgaria shoot.” The two-and-ahalf minute long video shows snow-covered mountains where Ajay has been shooting. The actor-director can be heard saying, “I love the cold but not while working.” Shivaay, a high-octane action-drama, will see Dilip Kumar’s grandniece Sayesha Saigal making her Bollywood debut. Abigail Eames, Erika Kaar, Ali Kazmi and Jabbz Farooqi also feature in the movie that is slated to hit the theaters on October 28, 2016.
Actress Swara Bhaskar, who has been striking a fine balance between commercial and small films, says her roles in mainstream films help her draw audiences’ attention towards independent projects. Swara has acted in small films like “Listen Amaya”, “Machli Jaal Ki Rani Hai” and commercial films like “Ranjhaana”, “Tanu Weds Manu” and “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”. Now, she will be seen next in “Nil Battey Sannata”. “It’s important that small films get a better platform. Like ‘Ship of Thesus’ got attention due to Kiran Roa and same was the case with ‘The Lunch Box’ (which) had Karan Johar. Our film ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ has Anand L Rai and Eros International so it’s a positive thing for you,” Swara said. The 28-yearold actress says she feels lucky to have got meaty characters in commercial films. “People today know me more because of commercial films like ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, ‘Tanu Weds Manu’. It is important to do commercial films for longevity.
Due to my presence in commercial films, audience will come to see my work in other small and independent films. “People today know me more because of commercial films like ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’, ‘Tanu Weds Manu’. It is important to do commercial films for longevity. Due to my presence in commercial
films, audience will come to see my work in other small and independent films. I work equally hard on both commercial and small films,” she said. Directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, “Nil Battey Sannata” is a family entertainer which revolves around a mother and daughter and their quest to reach their dreams.
rubbished her marriage reports stating, “This is a false news, I am not getting married. The day I get someone in my life, i will let the world know about it first. I am currently busy
shooting for Prabhu Deva’s next and few south films.”That’s not all! The actress who is massively popular down South also went on a Twitter rant clarifying the same.
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The logo of Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 3 unveiled
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Agency | New Delhi The makers of the much-awaited movie Housefull 3 unveiled the logo of the film on Tuesday April 19, which is the third installment of the comedy franchise Housefull. Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment tweeted the Housefull 3 logo from their offical Twitter handle this afternoon, which is the production banner
owned by the film’s producer Sajid Nadiadwala. The logo shows the title of the movie in black with bold letters having a plain rose red background along with the name of the producer and the director written on it.The makers have also planned a grand trailer launch of the film which will be showcased in over 100 cities on the big screens at the
same time. The ensemble star cast, Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nargis Fakhri, Lisa Haydon, along with the directors and producers of the film will be present in Mumbai for a big launch event. Directed by Farhad-Sajid, Housefull 3 is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and Eros International.
So everyone was taken by a huge surprise this morning as reports of Tamannaah Bhatia’s marriage made headlines. A couple of online portals carried the report stating how the actress has found the love of her life and also plans to quit films, post marriage. Definitely something that was surprising and equally shocking. But calm down guys. Before you take this story any further, here’s an official clarification coming right from Tamannaah. Yes! The actress has
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PCB disappointed after West Indies refuse to play in Pakistan
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Agency | Mumbai Google may have the answer to Apple’s 3D-touch feature that the latter launched in the fourth quarter last year. Google has rolled out its update of Android N preview to developers with a peculiar feature that is very reminiscent of Apple’s 3D-touch. Google has also confirmed that the new OS will support pressure-sensitive screens. The new feature reportedly called ‘Launcher Shortcuts’, will allow users to hard-press an App to bring out a drop down menu and then add custom shortcuts so that users don’t need to boot an app every time they want to use a specific function. Google says the new OS will have the potential to “define shortcuts which users can expose in the launcher to help them perform actions quicker.” A video on YouTube has an Android blog called Phandroid, tinkering around with the new feature -- have a look below.
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The Pakistan Board (PCB) is disappointed at the refusal of the West Indies cricket board to play a couple of limited over games from their full series in Pakistan later this year. West Indies, who recently won the World Twenty20 title in India, have turned down a request from the PCB to play in Pakistan a few matches of the full series that will be played in the UAE in September-October. ”The West Indies board have informed us they prefer to have the full series in UAE because of security reasons,” a top official of the board said. ”It is disappointing because we are trying our best to convince other boards that security conditions in Pakistan are improv-
ing with time and they need to support us even by playing a few games of a home series that is played in,” he said. He said the West Indies board had conveyed that their players still had security concerns over playing in Pakistan. Pakistan will host the West Indies for two Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 inter-
nationals in September and October this year. Since militants attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in March, 2009 all top Test teams have avoided touring Pakistan because of security concerns.The PCB had tried to convince the West Indies board to play a couple of limited over games of the coming series in Pakistan.
Mumbai Indians have lost three of their four matches in 2016 Indian Premier Mumbai Indians, after a nightmarish start to their League, but their fast bowler Tim Southee Indian Premier campaign, said they need to look forward to succeed
A DNA study of more than 380,000 people has uncovered a rather surprising role for human genes: helping to determine the age at which you first have sex. Factors such as family stability, peer pressure, and personality type are all known to influence whether teenagers choose to engage in sex young, or abstain until adulthood. Now a huge gene trawl has revealed that “genes have a substantial influence” too, according to study co-author Ken Ong of the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge. Genetic factors, he said “explain around 25 percent of the differences in the age when people start to have sex”. The genes likely influence such factors as the age at which puberty hits, and whether or not you possess a risk-taking personality.
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Indian Premier League: Mumbai Indians Need to Leave Past Behind, Says Tim Southee
notwithstanding, Mumbai Indians are counting on the positives and would look to focus on the upcoming matches of the tournament instead of looking back, said the team’s New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee. Southee said without indulging in postmortem of their third loss out of four matches this season, Mumbai India need to look ahead. ”It’s a team effort. It’s a long tournament. I think we cannot get too down. I think we leave that (the losses) and look forward to the next game,” Southee said after Mumbai India lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets here.“You cannot sort of hang on to
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performances that have gone otherwise. You got to learn and push the side in the course to the next one,” he said in the postmatch press conference. Stating that the team has got quality players, he hoped it is a matter of time before they came up with good performances in the ongoing
IPL. Southee appreciated Sunrisers captain David Warner, whose unbeaten knock of 90 powered the hosts to a comfortable win last night while chasing a modest 143-run target. “That was not an ideal result (for Mumbai). It was nice to contribute but, may be, nice to contribute to a winning performance.
Australian all-rounder John Hastings has been ruled out of the rest of the Indian Premier League with an ankle injury, raising concerns about his fitness for the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Hastings played two matches for his IPL side Kolkata Knight Riders before flying back home after picking up the injury during a practice session. “He bowled through a fair bit of pain during the game (last week against the Mumbai Indians),” Simon Katich, Kolkata Knight Riders assistant coach, told reporters late Monday. Fellow Australian Katich said Hastings
flew back to Australia after undergoing scans on his ankle. “It’s a shame to see his campaign end prematurely. He had fitted in really well into the group and had performed well in a couple of games. ”Unfortunately he’ll be doing a lot of rehab instead and working towards getting fit for the West Indies tour,” Katich
said. Hastings has been named in the Australian one-day squad for the tri-series in West Indies in June. The 30-year-old fast bowler and strong lower-order batsman has played just one Test for Australia, but he has slowly gained a footing in the limited-overs team since making his ODI debut in 2010.
that contains reigning champions Guangzhou Evergrande of China, three-time winners Pohang Steelers and Urawa. “Overall the game’s a lot quicker now and Asia’s become stronger… it’s credit to Sydney FC and the way we’re playing, and shows the A-League itself is amongst Asia’s elite,” he told reporters. Graham Arnold’s side may have big hopes for their campaign, but they
first must focus on getting past Urawa on Wednesday. Urawa eased to a 2-0 victory when the two teams met in February, and while Carney concedes that the Japanese outfit are much more disciplined in comparison to when he faced them back in 2007, the year in which they won the AFC Champions League, he is confident that his side can rise to the challenge this time around.
receiving the proposals covering the three Tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 International set to be played between the teams from May 19 to July 5. “We have received the proposals but we haven t decided yet,” De Silva told Reuters by telephone. “We ll discuss it in our next board meeting and announce our de-
cision in a week or two,” said the official, declining to elaborate, saying he had not gone though the details yet. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) introduced the points-based scoring for the women s Ashes in 2013, awarding six points for every Test victory, while two points were on offer for a one-day or Twenty20 International victory. For the women s Ashes last year, ECB and Cricket Australia (CA) decided Test wins were worth four points, while a draw earned the teams two each. The pointsbased system is aimed at injecting more excitement into the tour and add context to matches that otherwise maybe of merely academic interests.
Sydney FC’s Carney wary of Urawa’s tactical prowess Agency | Sydney
Carney will turn out for Sydney FC against Urawa Red Diamonds on Wednesday as they look to book their spot in the knockout stages for the first time. It’s a far cry from wining the tournament, but Carney believes that the success of the Sky Blues and Melbourne Victory in this year’s competition is a positive sign for Australian football. The 32-year-old, who turned out for Sydney when they first played in the continental competition in 2007, feels that the standard of football in Asia has improved since then, and that Australia is making that step up too. That’s reflected in the fact that Sydney top a group
Dale Steyn takes his ‘first IPL England, Sri Lanka mull points wicket’ in Mumbai gully cricket system to add meaning to series Gujarat Lions’ Dale Steyn stepped down to the streets of Mumbai to play cricket with local kids.
Agency | New Delhi Nestle India Ltd on Tuesday said Maggi noodles has regained 50% share in India’s Rs.2,000-crore noodles market, about six months after it relaunched the popular snack. The company has based its claim on a report by market researcher Nielsen. The local arm of the Swiss packaged food company relaunched Maggi noodles on 9 November. Nestle India was not able to sell Maggi noodles for six months in 2015 after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India on 5 June imposed a ban after some samples of the snack were allegedly found to contain excess lead and monosodium glutamate. “Over the past 33 years, Maggi has become the most trusted and valuable food brand in India. I am also happy that we have gained month on month and we continue to lead the noodles category with over 50% market share,” Suresh Narayanan, chairman and managing director, Nestle India, said in a statement. Maggi masala noodles were relaunched in November 2015 and the chicken variant in February. Nestle India is now bringing back the popular variants—Maggi vegetable atta and Maggi oats noodles.
Agency | New Delhi South African fast bowler Dale Steyn is known for his lethal bowling attack, as also for his off-thefield quirks too.Though he has been out of form, and sometimes even out of the playing 11 due to his injuries, the ‘Steyn Gun’ definitely is not out of his jolly mood. While in Mumbai for Saturday’s IPL match against Mumbai Indians, the Gujarat Lions-pacer took to a lo-
cal ground and played some “street cricket” with the Mumbai kids. He posted a video on Instagram of him taking a wicket during the “gully cricket”, as it is known in India, with a cheeky caption: “Little bit of street cricket in Mumbai, my 1st wicket of the Ipl”. Last July, when the Proteas had toured Bangladesh, Steyn had tweeted his wish to play in the rains with Bangladeshi locals in Chittagong, af-
ter the day’s play of the Test with Bangladesh had washed out. And eventually, he let himself out of the hotel room and went to play on the wet field, and a video later made rounds of social media. One of the most dreaded pacers of world cricket, Steyn has been running out of form for a while and has been sitting in the Gujarat Lions’ dugout during all three matches his team has played and won in the season 9 so far.
Agency | New Delhi England have attempted a minor shake-up of the largely conventional world of Test cricket by offering to use a pointsbased system to determine the winner of their home series against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) secretary Mohan de Silva confirmed
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Ishrat Jahan fake encounter accused: Where are they now?
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Days before the Gujarat government prematurely moved out its police chief DGP PC Thakur, Prithvi Pal Pandey, the senior most DGP after him who replace him as the in-charge DGP, was at the Gandhinagar town hall among those rolling out the red carpet for DG Vanzara, the retired IPS officer, accused in the fake encounter cases. They were celebrating his return from Mumbai, after his bail conditions were relaxed. This was on April 8. DGP Pandey, Vanzara’s co-accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake en-
counter case described him as a “Rajashri” (king turned sage) and spoke for 20-minutes in his praise to a crowd mostly from the Vanzara community, and retired or in-service
policemen. He described the day as “Vijay Dashmi” and said, “The time to win over all demonic forces which tried to trouble Gujarat, has already begun a long time ago but
Apollo Hospitals Towards New Expansion In Gujarat SETU PR | Ahmedabad
Joint Managing Director, Ms. Sangita Reddy addressed the press conference on 19th April at Ahmedabad and informed the media that, “It is a proud moment for all of us at Apollo that we have achieved another milestone by launching the Google’s new health cards in Knowledge Graph.” Google’s Health cards are the novel way of bringing out the authentic information to those in need; it is a perfect knowledge sharing platform. The first result of any medical terminology/disease typed in Google will be sourced from Apollo Hospitals now. Ms. Sangita Reddy actively participated in the inception of Apollo Hospitals, and formally
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“Healthcare Market in Gujarat is expanding at a tremendous pace and we at Apollo are equipped to keep pace with it”: Joint Managing Director joined the Group in 1983 healthcare initiatives. She as a management trainee. is also the Chairperson of Two years later, she as- Apollo Knowledge, the sumed the role of an Ex- education vertical of the ecutive Assistant to her fa- group. “Healthcare Marther, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, ket in Gujarat is expanding Chairman, Apollo Hospi- at a tremendous pace and tals Group. Ms. Sangita we at Apollo are equipped is actively spear heading to keep pace with it”, Joint the Apollo’s thrust on re- Managing Director Ms. search, innovation and Sangita shared.
today is the day when it will actually start.”Seven days later, Pandey was appointed the in-charge DGP replacing Thakur, contrary to the strong buzz that the government was keen to appoint Gujarat’s first woman IPS officer Geetha Johri as the full-time police chief. She was promoted to DGP after being discharged in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. This is probably a first in Gujarat when a top police officer facing a murder charge and out on bail, is also the part-time police chief.
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Patidar Bandh call in Gujarat: Mixed response, minister’s house torched in Mehsana Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Mehsana remained on the boil for the second consecutive day on Monday even as the Gujarat bandh call by the Patidar groups evoked mixed response in the other parts of the state. Surat too remained tensed after a Patidar youth allegedly committed suicide and witnessed stray incidents of violence. Soon after curfew was lifted in Mehsana, a mob attacked the house of state’s junior home minister Rajnikant Patel. In August last year too, his house was torched by a mob during the quota violence. According to Gandhinagar Range IG
According to Gandhinagar Range IG Manoj Shashidhar, some miscreants threw burning rags inside the minister’s house which is not occupied currently
Police have lodged eight FIRs against dozens of people, but in one of the FIRs, they booked Sardar Patel Group chief Lalji Patel and 36 others for attempt to murder. Lalji Patel, who was leading the ‘Jail Bharo’ stir in Mehsana, had sustained injuries on his head during the clashes on Sunday. Late in the evening a fresh clash between police and a mob was reported for Visnagar in Mehsana. The police had to use tear gas shells to disperse the mob targeting policemen deployed there for maintaining law and order. In a bid to control spread of rumours, mobile data services remained suspended in top towns of the state like Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Mehsana. The ban has now been extended till 6 am Tuesday.
Manoj Shashidhar, some aminations scheduled for miscreants threw burning Monday. Police have regrags inside the minister’s istered 18 FIRs across the house which is not occu- state in connection with pied currently. Incidents the violence on Sunday. of torching of vehicles Interacting with the mewere also reported from diapersons, Mehsana SP and stone-pelting Chaitnya Mandalik said: Gujarat govt grants exemption Surat, was witnessed in Rajkot. “The district remained from VAT to small salt producers In view of the violence, peaceful, but some anH e m c h a n d r a - c h a r y a ti-social elements targeted Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar production or cooperaNorth Gujarat University the house (of Rajnikant Gujarat government to- tive groups of salt pro- at Patan cancelled all ex- Patel) and set it on fire.” day made announcement ducers are also exempted Hollywood Actress Dylan Penn’s Oscar Party Earrings that it has taken a deci- from tax. Salt producers sion to exempt small salt who sell entire salt they by Narayan Jewellers to be auctioned by Saffronart producers from industrial produce to only edible a conical structure. The salt VAT. As per this de- salt manufactures are stylised conical termialso exempted from VAT. cision, the state governnal is set with calibratment has given exemp- Such small salt producers ed baguette diamonds tion from tax to those are exempted from regisin a concentric formation salt producers who have tration, form filling and with a diamond-set tip, given land on lease. In tax paying process under mounted in gold. Along addition to this, salt pro- VAT. These details were with Diamond Ear Penducers having plot small- shared by Finance minisdants, Narayan Jeweler than 10 acre for salt ter Saurabh Patel lers is also auctioning their Diamond Necklace. The elaborate necklace fron Art on 19th and 20th consists of an articulate SMS PR | Ahmedabad The stunning Diamond April, 2016. Diamond cluster of a diamond-set ear Pendant designed by Ear Pendants consist of paisley motif centered Ketan and JatinChokshi, a stylized triangular head on a full-cut diamond Narayan Jewellers, Va- with two tiers of full-cut with a two-tier surround dodara, which was worn and baguette diamonds, of full-cut diamonds. by the beautiful Holly- centered on a full-cut di- The off-centre piece is wood actress Dylan Penn amond. This surmount connected with sixteen at the Elton John AIDS suspends another full- white gold chains joined Foundation Oscar party, cut diamond with a di- by a similarly designed is being auctioned by Saf- amond-set surround and white gold clasp.
CM hands over housing units to beneficiaries in Vadodara
Dalit doctor assault case: Gujarat HC refuses to stay Amreli MP’s conviction
Gujarat: Universities, colleges outsourcing invigilators for exam due to shortage of staff Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Most of the colleges and university faculties in Gujarat are outsourcing invigilators for examination duty. One of the main reasons for outsourcing is the shortage of enough staff available to these institutions. Another reason is that many teachers refuse to do invigilation duty saying that it is not a part of their job. Officials in the examination department of the Gujarat Universty (GU) said that 80 per cent of invigilators on duty during the ongoing examinations for semester VI in BA, B.Com and B.Sc and semester IV for post-graduate examinations were from outside. The principal of H K Commerce College in Ahmedabad Gopal Pathak, when questioned, said: “We need a large number of invigilators as we do not have adequate staff in our col-
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lege. Hence, we have to hire people on a temporary basis from outside”. Bhikhabhai Chaudhary, principal of the Navjivan Arts and Commerce College in Dahod, said, “We have 70 examination halls and there are only 22 teachers. With this strength, it is not possible to conduct examinations without hiring staff from outside”, said Chaudhary, adding: “We have hired 45 invigilators from outside and also put some of the clerical staff on invigilation duty”. But MG Science College in Ahmedabad is having a different reason for outsourcing
invigilators. Its principal, B K Jain, said: “Many of the teachers in my college refuse to do examination duty on the ground that it is not a part of their duty”. “These teachers sit idle during examinations but also draw their salaries for this period without any work”, remarked Jain. This is despite the fact that the state higher education department in March 2008 had issued a circular that it was compulsory for teachers to do examination duties if allotted by the university and colleges “But some of the teachers are defying it using their own arguments”, said Jain.
Gujarat Chief Minister Mrs. Anandiben Patel today handed over 1,092 houses to the beneficiaries under Mukhya Mantri Gruh Yojna at Tarsali-Manjalpura area in Vadodara. The earthquake proof buildings have been built by Gujarat Housing Board at a cost of Rs. 163 crore. On the occasion Mrs. Patel said that the state government has planned to construct housing with all modern facilities for the people and government is moving ahead with faster pace to implement the scheme. Over 5 lakh houses have been handed over to the common people with proper planning, she added. Mrs. Patel stated that the government
has launched housing schemes in various categories to provided affordable housing to the people of different income group. Gujarat Government has paid special attention on human development index, she Alongside, Mrs. Patel laid foundation for six developmental works of Vadodara Municipal Corporation worth Rs. 178 crore including storm drainage system works and said that construction work of the projects will be completed soon. On the occasion MP Mrs. Ranjanben Bhatt, Mayor Mr. Bharatbhai Dangar, MLAs Mr. Yogeshbhai Patel, Mr. Jitubhai Sukhadiya, Rajeshree Trivedi, Mrs. Manishaben Vakil, VUDA Chairman Mr. Naranbhai and others were present.
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat High Court on Monday refused to stay the conviction of BJP MP from Amreli Naran Kachhadiya, who is facing disqualification after he was sentenced to three years imprisonment last week for assaulting a Dalit doctor at a government hospital. Kachhadiya had approached the High Court through advocate Devang Vyas, who is also assistant solicitor general in the Gujarat High Court, seeking stay
on the conviction till the disposal of his appeal, and also suspension of his sentence. The High Court allowed his suspension of sentence, granting him to remain on bail, but refused to stay the conviction. The BJP MP is facing disqualification from holding the membership of Lok Sabha. As per a Supreme Court ruling, convicted members of Parliament should be disqualified immediately. However, senior counsel Nirupam Nanvati who argued for Kachhadiya
said: “Though the MP is facing disqualification, it can be intervened by the Supreme Court if he approaches there.” A special court in Amreli had found Kachhadiya guilty of assaulting Dr Dhanji Dabhi at Civil Hospital in the district on January 1, 2013. The court also held Kachhadiya’s driver Ramesh and three others — Kirit Vamja, Madhuben Joshi and her son Ravi Joshi — guilty of illegal assembly and sentenced them to six months of imprisonment.
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