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PM Modi to visit Ajmer on May 31
Agency | Jaipur Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ajmer on May 31 and address a public meeting. “Modi will be visiting Ajmer on May 31,” Rajasthan government’s Chief Protocol Officer Sunil Bhati said today. He said further details of his visit are awaited.
Assam House inaugurated in Shillong
Agency | Guwahati Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today inaugurated the refurbished Assam House in Shillong. The three-storeyed building sprawling in an area of 12 bighas has 30 rooms, including six VIP suites and two VVIP suites, an official release said here. The state of the art Assam House has facilities like conference hall, office space, lobbies, foyers, dining hall and a dormitory and the total project cost involved in the construction is Rs 10.36 crore.
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Modi makes big promises with eye on UP polls next year
‘Development is the solution to all problems’ Addressing the first of his four public rallies in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Modi reached out to the electorate, calling himself a “UP wala” who cared for the farmers
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that a mood of development and hope pervaded the country replacing hopelessness that prevailed under the UPA rule as he pitched his government as one dedicated to the poor and farmers which prevented the “loot” of public money. Addressing the first of his four public rallies here in Uttar Pradesh,
which will have assembly polls next year, to mark the second anniversary of his government, Modi reached out to the electorate, calling himself a “UP wala” who cared for the farmers. He said his government had taken a series of measures to help repay the dues of sugarcane farmers, a politically important constituency in the region, while other governments were not concerned about them.
Recalling that in his address after he was elected the leader of the BJP-led NDA following the Lok Sabha win he had promised his government
would be dedicated to the poor, Modi said every decison he had taken ever since was in that direction. “If you look at my work of two years,
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serving under states or the central dispensation, he said. “There is a shortage of doctors. In government hospitals, their retirement is 60 years in some states, 62 in some others. If adequate number of medical institutes were there, then we would have more doctors and would not feel the shortage. It is difficult to make doctors in two years but poor families cannot be forced to live
without doctors. “Therefore from Uttar Pradesh, I want to announce this to my countrymen that this week our government’s Cabinet will take a decision and the retirement age of our doctors, whether in states or government of India, would be made 65 years instead of 60 or 62,” he said. It will allow doctors to serve patients and provide education for a longer period, he said, adding that his government is also working fast to have more medical colleges to have more doctors in the field.
you will see one decision after the other was taken to empower the poor to fight poverty, to strengthen the poor against poverty so that they could defeat it. No poor man wants to bequeath poverty to his children. I have always tried to work for the common man,” he said. Development, he said, was the solution to all problems and all other talk was meant to win elections and cater to vote bank politics. With
the NDA dispensation facing criticism over alleged intolerance, Modi said his government’s “conscience was clear” and it wanted to develop all sections of society. Citing Swachh Bharat initiative, Mudra loan scheme, Prime Minister crop insurance scheme, free LPG connections to poor and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, he said these programmes were meant to serve everybody, irrespective of
caste and religion, while schemes launched earlier were made keeping in mind castes and vote banks. Without naming the UPA government, he attacked it over alleged corruption and flagged his government’s “honest” credentials. “How much money was looted. Now I am in government and I am shocked over it as whether people are given chair to loot public money. I had pledged to stop this.
BJP’s closest rival — a statement that could well be to deflect from the political buzz around the BSP, a year ahead of Assembly polls in the crucial state. He sought to downplay any urgency for a Cabinet reshuffle, saying that the charge of the Sports Ministry had already been given to
Jitendra Singh. He also reiterated his old complaint against the Delhi media, saying, “Our government’s good work has reached the people of the country, but it is yet to reach Lutyens’ Delhi.” Asked if the Centre was going on an overdrive to celebrate the NDA’s two years, with 200 rallies and programmes across India, he said, “Not at all. It is our tradition to present the report card directly to the people. Yeh desh bahut bada hai. Two hundred rallies sound big in numbers, but this country is too big to cover.”
Govt doctors retirement age Amit Shah nuances ‘Congress-mukt to be raised to 65: PM Modi Bharat’: expression against ‘avyavastha’ Agency | Saharanpur
Citing shortage of doctors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced raising the age of retirement of government doctors to 65 years and said the Union Cabinet will give its nod to the decision this week. In a rally to observe the second anniversary of his government, Modi said there is a need for more doctors across the country but it was not possible to fill the gap in two years of his government. The decision will cover all government doctors whether
BJP president Amit Shah said on Wednesday that “Congress-mukt Bharat” is a “misunderstood phrase”. At a media interaction to mark two years of the NDA government, Shah, referring to the phrase he has often used, said, “It is an expression against the avyavastha (disorder) under the Congress rule of decades where, for selfish interests of the party, Congressmen ignored national interests. We want India to get rid (mukt) of the system nurtured
under Congress rule.” Union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, M Venkaiah Naidu and Suresh Prabhu were also present at the event. BJP national general secretary Ram Lal shared the stage with them. Shah emphasised that in Uttar Pradesh, the incumbent Samajwadi Party is the
HC stays Haryana govt’s decision to give Second Italian marine Girone too 10% quota to Jats, 5 other communities can return home: Supreme Court Agency | Chandigarh
marines after the shootThe Punjab and Haryana ing death of two Kerala high court on Thursday fishermen on February put on hold the Khattar Tigress dies in 15, 2012 strained ties begovernment’s move to tween the two countries, Maharashtra zoo give 10% reservation to with Italy demanding Jats and five other comthe sailors be released. munities in government “We confirm our friendjobs and education. The ship with India, its peostay came on a petition by ple and its government,” a Bhiwani resident Murasaid Renzi, who has been Agency | Aurangabad ri Lal Gupta, who argued under pressure to secure A-15-year-old tigress that the Haryana governthe provisional liberty today died following a ment had violated the baof both marines. “And brief illness at the Sid- sic structure of the Conthe case was on, the court we say welcome back to Agency | New Delhi darth zoo here, officials stitution. The stay doesn’t March 29 unanimously itation for job and educa- was extended under the The Supreme Court on said. The Centre backed seaman Girone who will said. The Yellow tigress come as a surprise. A day passed the Haryana back- tion benefits turned vio- new act drawn on the baThursday allowed Italian the marine’s plea, saying be with us on June 2.” named Dipti was not after the assembly passed ward classes (reservation lent, causing loss of life sis of the justice KC Gupta marine Salvatore Girone, he should be granted relief A vacation bench of jusconsuming any food the bill, HT wrote that the in services and admis- and extensive damage to commission report,which accused of killing Indi- on humanitarian grounds. tice PC Pant and justice since the last two days move would run into legal sions in educational insti- property. As the Supreme was quashed by the court. an fishermen off Kerala Girone will be home next DY Chandrachud asked and she died this morn- trouble. To extend the ben- tutions) act, 2016, carving Court had already ruled The government’s deci- coast, to go home, agree- Thursday -- Italy’s Re- the Italian ambassador to ing inside the zoo, its efit, the government had a new backward classes that Jats could not be sion amounted to revising ing to relax his bail condi- public Day, Prime Minis- give an undertaking that Director Vijay Patil said. relied on a report trashed category to extend quota treated as backward, the a judicial order, which tions. The second accused ter Matteo Renzi tweeted. the Girone would return Dipti was brought to the by the Supreme Court and benefits to Jats, Jat Sikhs, assembly had no right to could not be done by the in the case returned to It- Out on bail, the marine to India within a month zoo in 2005 from Ma- that was argument made Mulla Jats, Bishnois, Rors pass the law, petitioner’s legislature. Only judiciary aly in 2014. Girone could has been living in the of an order from the UN’s hendra Chaudhry Zoo- by the petitioner as well. and Tyagis. It came weeks lawyer Mukesh Kumar was allowed to revisit its return to Italy while inter- embassy complex in Del- permanent court of arbilogical Park in Punjab. The state assembly on after Jat community’s ag- Verma said. The benefit decisions. national arbitration into hi. The arrest of the two tration in The Hague. Sub Editor: Dhruvil Makani Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 98250 98053
2 / Dt. 27-05-2016, Friday Editors’ Picks friday, may 27, 2016 Packaging laws for tobacco products can’t be restricted to rich nations
In the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR), nearly 1.3 million people die every year due to tobacco usage. That’s 150 deaths per hour. Nearly 246 million adults smoke this cancer-causing agent while 290 million consume its smokeless forms. One of the most powerful ways to curb tobacco use is to opt for plain packaging. This means that logos, colours, brand images or promotional information are removed from the product packet. Instead, tobacco packaging features blackand-white or other contrasting colour combinations, a brand name, a product name and/or a manufacturer’s name and most importantly, graphic health warnings on it. The net result: The product will be less appealing. Australia is the pioneer of the plain packaging initiative since December 2012. Research shows that plain tobacco packages have diminished appeal and have resulted in declining rates of tobacco use. Today, Australia’s daily smoking rate among in the 14+ age group has declined from 15.1% to 12.8% (2010-13). At present, France, Britain and Ireland are following the Australian example. The passage of plain-packaging legislation has been limited to high-income countries. This needs to change. While tobacco consumption is on a downward trend among these countries, the opposite is true in low- and middle-income countries. The developing economies of SEAR remain key markets for tobacco companies, who will fight to retain influence, brand loyalty and expand their markets. The cost of allowing this will be disastrous: Economies will be less productive; health care costs will increase; and the tobacco-poverty cycle will become entrenched. Important steps have been taken to control tobacco use across the SEAR. Ten of the region’s 11 member countries are parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and they have implemented tobacco control legislation in line with the Convention’s provisions. Nepal, for example, has decided to have health warnings cover 90% of the principal display area of tobacco packs, while in Thailand health warnings cover 85% of cigarette packs on both sides. India recently increased the size of warnings from 40% on the front to 85% on both sides of all tobacco products packs. But there is considerable room for improvement. Children, youth and adults in countries across SEAR continue to be subjected to pro-tobacco messages in media. This must stop. The Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP7), hosted by India in November 2016, will be an opportunity to do that.
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“Therefore from Uttar Pradesh, I want to announce this to my countrymen that this week our government’s Cabinet will take a decision and the retirement age of our doctors, whether in states or government of India, would be made 65 years instead of 60 or 62,” - Citing shortage of doctors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced raising the age of retirement of government doctors to 65 years and said the Union Cabinet will give its nod to the decision this week.
Festival praise no guarantee for box office success of Indian films cles doesn’t help the box
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sive. The movie has only Aishwarya Rai-starrer notched up collections of Sarbjit had two market Rs.18 crore in its first five screenings on the first days in India. The recent weekend of the pres- biopic may not technicaltigious Cannes Film ly have been part of the Festival where it won festival screenings but applause, but its perfor- history shows that tourmance at the box-office ing the festival circuit or has been less than impres- praise within those cir-
office collections of Indian films. Neeraj Ghawyan’s much-acclaimed Masaan, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, besides winning two awards, made a little over Rs.3 crore. Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Miss Lovely, which competed in the same category at Cannes in 2012, besides being screened at Toronto and Rotterdam, managed about Rs.49 lakh. All box-office figures in this article have been sourced from movie website Bollywood Hungama.
Rewarding to have two of my films releasing in June: Diljit Dosanjh
Diljit Dosanjh finds it rewarding that two of his films Udta Punjab and SardaarJi 2 is set to release in June Agency | Mumbai
Actor Diljit Dosanjh finds it “rewarding” that two of his films “Udta Punjab” and ” SardaarJi 2″ is set to release in June. “It’s rewarding to have two of my biggest films releasing this June in a weeks gap. I am hoping both the films find tremendous success and audiences should like the work we have put in for both these projects,”
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Ajay Devgn’s ‘Shivaay’ lands in legal hot waters
Agency | New Delhi A complaint has been filed against actor Ajay Devgn in connection with the poster of his upcoming movie Shivaay for allegedly hurting Hindu community’s sentiments. The complaint has been filed in Delhi’s Tilak
Nagar police station. The complainant says the poster of the movie shows Devgn climbing Lord Shiva’s figure with shoes on, which hurts the sentiments of the people having faith in Lord Shiva and Hinduism. The new poster of the movie was released on May 22
and it depicts Ajay holding a ‘trishul’ (Lord Shiva’s weapon) made of ice. The actor recently took to Twitter to share the blue-tinted poster, which gives a hint of the storyline of his forthcoming film. The movie will hit the theatres on October 28, 2016.
nails, run in heels, wear Spanx, pout will talking, focus on dilating the pupils, and listen attentively. I crumbled under the pressure like a wrecking ball had hit me,” Ms Chadha said. Eating disorders are the film industry’s “best kept secret,” Ms Chadha said, calling bulimia the ‘Big B.’ “Anyone know
what that is? It’s when you consistently hate what you look like, and compulsively induce vomiting, throw up all the food you eat, accompanied often by binge eating, general anxiety and sadness and believing basically that you are unworthy,” Richa Chadha said in her TEDx Talk.
beautiful India is at a crossroads right now. You can be stuck in the colonial past or enter the modern world. Prepare to embrace that we are all born equal and we should all be treated equally. That’s the future Mahatma Gandhi dreamt to see.” Actor Sonam Kapoor added, “Hopefully one day it’ll just be called a film festival and everyone will be just human beings. “Kashish celebrates freedom of the
spirit, as festival director Sridhar Rangayan put it. “It has been a challenging journey. In 2010, when we started in a 123-seater PVR and now we are here at Liberty with 1,400 seats. We hope it’ll only grow.” The audience comprised members of the gay community, supporters, McKellen fans and those who were all of the above. “We wanted to be a part of the queer ambience and meet new people.
For Richa Chadha, Vomiting Her Food Became Daily Post-Lunch Routine Agency | Mumbai
Diljit said in a statement. Diljit is marking his Bollywood debut with “Udta Punjab”, which also stars Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor Khan. The Abhishek Chaubey directorial highlights the issue of rampant drug abuse among the youth in Punjab. Shahid Kapoor is seen essaying the character of a high-ondrugs, long-haired rockstar Tommy Singh who
sings with glee and abuses with impunity. Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Phantom Productions, “Udta Punjab” is set to release on June 17. On the other hand, “Sardaarji 2” is directed by Rohit Jugraj and produced by While Hill Productions. It is slated to release on June 24 this year. The film also has Sonam Bajwa and Monica Gill playing important roles.
Nithiin, Samantha starrer A...Aa to release on June Salman, Anushka-starrer Sultan trailer gets over 5 million views in just 24 hours
Actress Richa Chadha has revealed that she battled bulimia and has spoken out about feeling pressured to look a certain way for her film roles. In a TEDx Talk, the 29-year-old star of films like Masaan and Gangs of Wasseypur said that her “confidence began to evaporate” when she was asked to “gain weight, then lose weight, fix my nose and inflate my lips.” “I was told I should gain weight, then lose weight, fix my nose and inflate my lips, get a b**b job, lose the puppy fat, grow my hair out, or cut it, get highlights, or fake eyelash extensions, squat for a bigger b**ty, get fake gel
Ian McKellen inaugurates Kashish film festival Agency | Mumbai
The movie stars Nithiin, Samantha and ‘Premam’s Anupama Parameshwaran plays the other female lead in the film Agency | Chennai
The Telugu romantic drama A...Aa starring Nithiin and Samantha Ruth Prabhu will release on June 2. The Central Board of Film Certification film cleared the film with a ‘U’ certificate on Wednesday following which the makers announced the release date. The film has been directed by Trivikram Srinivas. This is the first time Samantha has being paired with Nithiin. The film’s music has been done by Mickey J Meyer while Natarajan
Subramaniam and Dudley have taken care of the cinematography. This the third time Samantha and Trivikram are working together, having done Attarintiki Daredi and S/O Satyamurthy before. The film is said to have a gripping screenplay and the dialogues by Trivikram are said to be good. The fun elements in the movie and the song are also said to be highlights in this movie. There is a lot of positive feedback from censor board officials and the movie is said to be a good family entertainer.
Agency | Mumbai The trailer of Salman Khan’s most-awaited flick ‘Sultan’, which was released on May 24, has amassed five million views on You-Tube in just 24 hours. The official Twitter handle of Yash Raj shared a movie’s poster with words “Sultan trailer fastest five million views” written on it and captioned
it as, “That’s his power. The SULTAN power. SultanTrailer.” Interestingly, the hashtag SultanTrailerFastest5MViews has been trending on the social media with twitterers going all gaga over it. One user wrote, “SULTANTrailerFastest5MViews This movie will definitely spread awareness of Indian KUSHTI among all world.” Anoth-
er wrote, “5 million + hits on YRF’s YouTube channel and more than 91K thumbs up. That’s SULTAN for you! SULTANTrailerFastest5MViews.” The highly-awaited trailer was launched at the film city in Mumbai. The film, which also stars Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda and Amit Sadh, is slated to be released on Eid this year.
The seventh edition of the Kashish queer film festival was inaugurated by legendary British actor Ian McKellen — sporting a cheeky red T-shirt — at Liberty cinema on Wednesday. ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It’ the tee declared, as McKellen — who, incidentally, turned 77 on Wednesday — lit the inaugural lamp and declared the five-day fest open. Cheers and applause greeted the gay icon as he took off his white blazer, walked on stage and pointed to the shirt. “This reminds me of the early days of the gay rights fight in the UK,” he said, referring to the fact that homosexual sex is still a criminal act under the Indian Penal Code. “Beautiful,
3 / Dt. 27-05-2016, Friday LANXESS raises guidance for 2016 after strong first quarter Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad Following a good first quarter, specialty chemicals company LANXESS has raised its earnings forecast for fiscal 2016. The company now expects to achieve EBITDA pre exceptionals within a corridor of EUR 900 million and EUR 950 million. Previously, LANXESS had assumed earnings of between EUR 880 million and EUR 930 million. “We started fiscal 2016 with a good first quarter and the second quarter has begun well. For this reason, we are raising our guidance for the full year,” said LANXESS Chairman of the Board of Management Matthias Zachert. EBITDA pre exceptional’s climbed by around 14 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to EUR 262 million, compared with EUR 229 million in the prior-year quarter. This positive development was largely attributable to increased volumes, higher capacity utilization, positive currency effects and the absence of the ramp-up costs incurred in the first quarter of 2015 for the new rubber plants in Asia. The EBITDA margin pre exceptionals rose to 13.6 percent from 11.2 percent a year earlier and was thus at a good level.
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Facing flak for postponing the joining dates of students hired from IITs and IIMs, Flipkart has offered Rs 1.5 lakh as an additional joining bonus to all campus recruits to ease their “financial burden” in case they are to pay back loans. Bengaluru-based Flipkart has cited restructuring of its businesses as the reason behind the deferring of joining dates for campus recruits from June this year to December. However, it did not disclose the number of campus offers made this year. There are, however, reports that suggest the move to defer the joining of recruits comes as a part of Flipkart’s efforts to cut costs amid funding crunch and falling valuations. “As we work on redesigning this programme, we have taken a decision to postpone the joining of new recruits by a few months. Instead of June 2016, the new recruits will now be part of the improved campus program in December 2016,” Flipkart has said in a blogpost.
Lyf Flame 3 With VoLTE Support Listed Online at Rs. 3,999
With an aim to reduce injuries and enhance performance of the country’s pacemen, Australian cricket team have been using the ‘torpedo technology’, which is more commonly used in military settings, for their upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. According to the Guardian, sports scientists at Australian Catholic University’s School of Exercise Science have developed the revolutionary algorithm as the current method of reporting of professional cricketers’ workloads, which only measures the number of deliveries bowled and not the intensity and effort required to do so,
IPL 2 was inadequate. The scientists have, instead, recommended in the British Journal of Sports Medicine that coaches should use missile-guiding microtechnology implanted in newly-developed wearable devices, which would run the so-called ‘smart algorithms’. According to sports scientist and co-author Dr Tim Gabbett, the same technology is used to navigate sub-
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis entered the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals of the French Open with a straight-set win over Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah. Paes and Hingis, winners of three Grand Slam titles last season, won 6-4 6-4 against the German-Colombian team. After breaking each other once, the two pairs were level 2-2 when Paes and Hingis broke again and held their own to nose ahead 4-2. That lead stayed with them as the two pairs managed to hold serve after that and Paes and Hingis served out the opening set comfortably in the 10th game. In the second set, Paes and Hingis again broke early --in the third game
-- for a lead. They staved off two break chances in the eighth game to keep the advantage with them. Groenefeld and Farah kept fighting hard and had two more opportunities to break their fancied rivals when they were serving for the match but Paes and Hingis had enough experience to save those points and finish the match in their favour. They next
Reliance Retail’s Lyf brand seems to be gearing to launch the Flame 3 smartphone in India, which is now listed on a third-party online retailer. Priced at Rs. 3,999, the Lyf Flame 3 is currently ‘out of stock’ from the online retailer. At the time of writing, the Lyf Flame 3 was not listed on the company’s site. We can expect the handset to be available from the company’s site soon. The Lyf Flame 3 listing comes merely a few weeks after the launch of the Flame 2 and Wind 4 smartphones. The biggest highlight of the Flame 3 smartphone is it supports VoLTE (voice over LTE) with HD voice call compatibility. It supports both 4G LTE bands in India - FDD-LTE Band 3 (1800MHz) and TDD-LTE Band 40 (2300MHz). The dual-SIM Lyf Flame 3 smartphone features a 4-inch WVGA (480x800 pixels) display and runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. The company says both SIM slots are 4G enabled; though, at one time only one SIM can use 4G while the other will work on 2G. The handset is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor clubbed with 512MB of RAM. It packs 4GB of inbuilt storage and supports expandable storage via microSD card (up to 32GB). The Lyf Flame 3 sports a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash along with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
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Kolkata Knight Riders Got It All Wrong vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
marines, guided missiles and spacecraft. Reflecting more on this technology, fellow ACU sports scientists Dean McNamara said that measuring bowling intensity for individual balls or sessions will provide context for the acute and chronic workload of the individual bowler, and ultimately the preparedAgency | New Delhi ness of the bowler for the maximal workload of the Kolkata Knight Riders immediate competition. missed an impact player in their IPL eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Delhi’s Kotla on Wednesday night. Gautam Gambhir’s ‘home’ advantage came to nothing as the two-time champions failed to chase down a modest target (163) in innocuous batting conditions and lost by 22 runs. KKR’s reputation as a ‘solid’ team lay in tatters after Gambhir’s team missed a special player, who like Royal Challengers Bangalore’s AB de face winners of the other first round match between the fourth-seeded pair of Yaroslava Shvedova and Florin Mergea and LucAgency | Moscow ie Hradecka and Marcin Matkowski. Later in the The Russian Tennis Fedday, Sania Mirza will also eration (RTF) has named open her mixed doubles dope offender and suscampaign with partner pended star Maria SharaIvan Dodig. The second pova among four tennis seeds face local pair of players, who will comMathilde Johansson and pete in women’s singles at the 2016 Rio OlymTristan Lamasine. pics. Apart from Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavliuchenkova, and Darya Kasatkina were named, reports Tass. The regulations for the Games say countries can enter four women players having the biggest points in international ratings. However, there is still uncertainty about Sharapova’s participation. Sharapova was suspended from competitions as of March 12 after testing positive
Andre Russell’s absence in a crucial game left KKR in the lurch. The West Indian all-rounder, who was expected to play against SRH, was not on the playing XI. Gambhir said injured Russell’s absence hurt his team. “When you lose someone like Russell, it is difficult to replace,” said Gambhir in a post-match chat. Russell’s firepower down the order and his ability to pick wickets have been big positives for
KKR this season. KKR’s team selection was questionable. Choice of Jason Holder over Shakib Al Hasan backfired and R. Sathish hardly justified his selection. Yet 160 wasn’t an impossible total to get on a pitch that wasn’t a minefield. Gambhir agreed. “I thought it was a very good wicket to bat on, 160 was chaseable. I thought Colin (Munro)’s run-out was a turning point,” Gambhir explained. Knockout games like the one between KKR vs SRH expose big match temperament and ability. While Yuvraj Singh proved his class with a robust 30-ball 44 at No. 4 for Hyderabad, KKR missed a man who could play the role of an anchor. Gambhir, Manish Pandey spurned good starts, Yusuf Pathan did not turn up on a big day and Jason Holder proved he is no AB de Villiers.
for banned substance ‘Meldonium’ and the International Tennis Federation has not considered her case yet. The president of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpishchev, earlier said the issue of endorsing her participation in Rio would be decided during
the French Open. Russia are expected to apply for her participation in the Games before June 6 and it is important to understand now if there will be an opportunity to put another player into the list of competitors if Sharapova is not permitted to perform at the Games.
enie Bouchard 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round Timea Bacsinszky’s love of the French Open. A affair with Roland Gar- semi-finalist last year ros continued on Thurs- where she lost to eventuday when she swept aside al champion Serena Wilstruggling Canadian Eug- liams, the Swiss eighth
seed trailed 1-4 in the first set before she took control, winning 10 games in a row to serve for the match at 5-0 in the second. Bouchard, a French Open semi-finalist in 2014, the year she rose to fifth in the world, staved off defeat by winning that game and she saved a match point on her own serve to pull back to 5-2. The fight-back continued with another break of serve and a hold to get to 5-4, but Bacsinszky finally held firm on her serve at the third time of asking to seal the win.
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Villiers did not have the caliber to steer the former champions over the line.
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Former world number one Heena Sidhu missed out on qualifying for the final of women’s 10-metre air pistol event by just one point on the concluding day of the ISSF World Cup here on Wednesday. At the Olympic Shooting Centre, Heena finished 12th out of 104 shooters in the eventual standings but would have been pleased at having shot a higher score than 384 ahead of the all-important Rio Olympics. The eighth finalist from Serbia , who eventually won the gold, made it through with a score of 385 and had less inner 10s than Heena. Shweta Singh and Shri Nivetha Paramanantham , the other Indians in the event shot 378 and 377 to finish 47th and 52nd respectively. Serbia’s Bobana Velickovic won the gold in the event, while Sonia Franquet of Spain bagged the silver and China’s Mengxue Zhang
Timea Bacsinszky Downs Eugenie Bouchard at French Open
won the bronze medal. In the other event of the day Chain Singh, in the men’s 50-metre rifle 3 positions, shot 1170 in qualification to finish at 38th spot. Chain had shot a 1174 a day earlier in his elimination relay in the same event. Former Olympic champion Matthew Emmons of the USA bagged the gold, while Serbia’s Milenko Sebic won the
silver and the bronze went to Gernot Rumpler of Austria. The ISSF World Cup stages next move to San Marino for the third leg of the Shotgun World Cup. India has won two medals in World Cups this year so far. China stamped their authority in the sport once again, heading the Munich medals tally with three golds for a total of seven medals.
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Impacts of Centre’s decision on doubling of rail track to Rajkot Correspondent | Rajkot
For last several years, Rajkot section of Saurashtra region of Gujarat was unable to get a single new passenger or goods train due to overloaded single railway track. At last the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(CCEA) led by Prime Minister Shri Nrendra Modi has approved a long-pending proposal of doubling of Surendranagar – Rajkot railway track, operation of new trains will be possible in future. According to Divisional Railway Manager of Rajkot Division of Western Railway Smt Anuradha Mukhedkar, estimates for double and electrification project are prepared and works will start from Digsar and Chamaraj stations of Surendranagar district. On 116 km route there are 12 stations and 6 over
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bridges including 2 major over bridges at river Machhu and Aaji. With doubling work, all station buildings and platform level will also undergo change. Some old residential staff quarters and colonies will need to be shifted and therefore 125 new quarters will be constructed. Rukhadia railway station which is in very poor shape at present will go. Mukhedkar said due to overloaded
Rajkot section, no new passenger or goods train could be announced, but after completion of this project, the situation will change. Not just new trains will be allocated but punctuality of rail traffic will increase and time will be saved. At present two trains run on opposite direction and crossing procedure wastes lot of time. After doubling work crossing will not be an issue.
CM wants research on Centre and State govt schemes
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has advocated that college students should be asked to carry out research and thesis on topics of various state welfare schemes and programmes. Earlier, the state government had dictated a list of 82 topics for doctoral theses. Speaking at a workshop organized by the state education department at Mahatma Mandir, Patel said that college students should be roped in for survey of the various schemes of the Centre and state government. She said this will help the government learn more of their weaknesses, and where they can be improved. She said that in Ahmedabad district, several students
western gowns. “Designwise, depicting India’s history and culture, whether be it the grandeur of a Mughal wedding or the eternal love of Radha Krishna is something that I have tried to imbibe the artisans of Bhuj with. The colour combination of the fabric and design was also
part of their syllabus,” the designer said. The products are now being sold online as well as through the brick and mortar stores. The designer plans to get her artisans to work on Bengal weaves like tussar, motka, silk at first and then bring Bengal stitches like Kantha into play.
itively, the government has taken this important decision,” it added. Salt producers had earlier threatened strike demanding complete roll back on VAT, which was imposed for the first time in the state. They said 5 per cent VAT on industrial salt, introduced in the 2016-17 budget, is full of technical complexities which expose them to harassment from VAT inspectors. Bachubhai Ahir, who led agitation against imposition of VAT, welcomed the decision saying that the move was positive and salt producers have been saved from major hassle.
Modi’s call in 2014 for a Congress-mukt Bharat would then become a virtual reality before the next General elections in 2019. The Congress’s predicament is such that it is wilting under the weight of anti-incumbency where it is in power and it is not able to bounce back to power where it is in the opposition. It is a predicament that is symptomatic of a death-wish. For the Con-
gress, it is turning out as if electoral decimation is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Is the decline of the Congress an irreversible process or is it that it is just a temporary blip for the century-old party and will it come round to its winning ways sooner rather than later? Those who have already written down the obituary of the Congress would tend to agree with the first assumption.
mega container terminal, the official added. In the first stage, APSEZ-led consortium had won the contract in June 2012 to set up a bulk terminal at Tuna. The terminal with
a capacity of 20 MMTPA was commissioned in February 2015. “Kandla Port Trust has proposed to develop new oil Jetty at old Kandla, multipurpose cargo terminal at Tuna Tekra (Stage II) and few other projects for strengthening and upgrading existing facilities at Kandla Port,” states the environment assessment report filed with MoEF.
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have carried out such researches and the input received had helped the government. The research would have a positive effect on these schemes and programmes, she said. She urged for holistic quality and teachers’ preparedness to bring Gujarat to the top position in the country. The CM said that the work is necessary to give smart shape
to schools in this smart era. She further said that the education department is playing a blame game instead of working in a coordinated effort. The kindergarten section does not think of colleges and primary sections, while the management in colleges and universities do not play any role in shaping the children in schools, she said.
showed 73.50% students in classes II to V were able to read, but only 70.30% students were able to write. These had been 67% and 64.10%, respectively in Gunotsav V. There was no change in the quality of education in class VI, while in class VII there was a minor improvement in the quality. But in class VII, there was a drop of 1.3% in students able to read and write. The results, which were tabled before the CM, has
revealed that there was a improvement of 12% in number of schools in B, C and D category. In Gunotsav-V, the number of schools in B, C and D grade was 29,811, while in Gunotsav-VI this dropped to 26,235. At the same time, results revealed that there was an increase of 80% in the number of A+ and A grade schools. This year, 8,004 schools got A+ and A grade, against 4,426 schools in Gunotsav-V, last year.
Marginal improvement in quality of education in Gujarat: GUnotsav Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Gunotsav VI results have revealed that while there was a marginal improvement of 12% in quality of primary education, standard of education in classes 6-8 failed to improve much. The results showed that of the 740 schools (658 D-grade and 82 C-grade in Gunotsav V) handed over to NGOs till now, 69 schools got A+ and A grade, while 269 improved to B grade. Of the 658 D-grade schools, only 98 still remained in D-grade with the rest moving up to better grades in the span of a year. Highlighting some improvement, the report
A group of 50 rural artisans from Gujarat are now being trained as fashion designers by training them to do hand embroidery on Bishnupuri and Murshidabad silk saris, western gowns and other outfits. Kolkata-based young designer Kuheli Bhattacharya said she is training the women artisans in the eight Kutch villages of Padhar, Lakhpat, Dhori, Dhaneti, Jhikri, Bhujodi, Bhachau, and Sumrasar. “These women are very talented but were exploited so far. They were given only embroidery work but since the last few months I am training them to prepare different designs,” Bhattacharya said. She said the artisans had never ventured into hand embroidery on silk saris and
The Gujarat government has rolled back 5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed on industrial salt in 2016-17 budget. The move comes after opposition from salt manufacturers for the imposition of VAT. A decision to this effect was taken at the Cabinet meeting held yesterday. “Keeping the interest of salt producers in mind, the government has decided to completely roll back 5 per cent VAT that was imposed on industrial salt during this year’s budget,” an official release said. “The government received representation from salt producers who highlighted difficulties in differentiating industrial salt and salt producers cannot properly maintain record. Taking their representation pos-
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Having launched the central government’s Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (Ujala) scheme to distribute LED bulbs to electricity consumers in Gujarat on Thursday, the state government now expects to save 6.5 billion units of electricity per annum through the same. Executed by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), an organisation under the Ministry of Power, Government of India, the scheme was launched by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel at Vadodara. Similar launch programmes were conducted in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Bhavnagar districts as well. “In Gujarat, we are aiming to disburse 120 million LED bulbs under Ujala. We are
‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ has become a buzzword for political discourse in the country after the state election results earlier this month saw the Congress party lose its government in two of the three major states (out of the 20 such major states in the country) that it had held till recently. Now it is left with just Karnataka till 2018, when the elections are due there. If anti-incumbency catches up with this southern state – given the Kannadigas’ recent electoral preference to throw out the incumbent government after five years – then the wash-out of the Congress would be, more or less complete. The party would be then left with a couple of tiny north-eastern states to draw its sustenance from. Narendra
expecting that this will save 6.50 billion units of electricity and it will give relief worth Rs 2,500 crore to consumers,” said Anandiben Patel, while urging people to apply for Ujala scheme and contribute in energy saving. The state currently has around 1.21 million electricity consumers. “I am requesting people to apply for Ujala scheme to not only make their houses energy efficient but also contribute in saving energy resources,” she said.
Major port Kandla bets big on container, liquid cargo business Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
In a bid to ease pressure on its existing berths, the Kandla Port Trust (KPT) has set the ball rolling to increase its dry and liquid cargo handling capacity. KPT has chalked out a plan to set up a multipurpose cargo terminal and a mega container terminal at Tuna Tekra, where Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone
Ltd (APSEZ) already operates a bulk terminal. As part of its capacity expansion drive, KPT plans to establish multipurpose cargo handling terminal with a capacity to handle 18 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) involving an estimated capital cost of Rs 1,400 crore. KPT has already approached the Ministry of Environment and Forests for its
approval. “The terminal will be developed as part of the second-phase development of Tuna Tekra,” said a senior KPT official. Plans are also afoot to develop a
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