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Modi says his government is ready to fix anything in the ordinance that is against the farmers
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Refined palmolein recovers on good demand Agency :Mumbai, Feb 27 Refined palmolein recovered smartly in an otherwise listless Vashi oils and oilseeds wholesale market here today on good demand from retailers. However, groundnut oil slipped owing to reduced offtake from stockists and retailers. In the non-edible section, castorseeds bold and castor oil commercial and linseeds oil maintained a stable trend in the absence of any worthwhile buying activity.
I am not against minorities: Togadia Agency :Rourkela, Feb 27 Denied permission by Odisha government to visit communally sensitive Kandhamal district, VHP President Praveen Togadia today clarified that he was not against the minorities but would continue to speak in favour of his Hindu brothers and sisters. "I am not against the minorities, but I'll certainly speak on the interest of my Hindu brothers and sisters," Togadia told reporters, adding that he was, however, against the illegal entry of Bangladeshi Muslims.
Air quality in Delhi violates prescribed norms: CPCB Agency :New Delhi, Feb 27 Amid growing concerns over deteriorating air quality in the capital, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said that air quality in Delhi is seriously violative of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. CPCB stated before the National Green Tribunal that Delhiites are inhaling highly contaminated air in comparison to neighbouring places like Faridabad, Gurgaon and Ghaziabad.
2 killed in lightning in UP Agency : (UP), Feb 27 Two persons were killed after being hit by lightning in Baghira area here, police said today. Jitendra (26) and Shriram (30) were killed when they were struck by lightning in Nandaur village late last evening, they said.
PM Modi seeks consensus on land bill Agency : New Delhi The government is ready to make changes in an executive decree it had issued to make it easier for businesses to buy farm land for infrastructure and industry, prime minister Narendra Modi told lawmakers on Friday. “We are ready to fix anything (in the ordinance) that is against
farmers,” he said. While the ordinance is aimed at unlocking hundreds of billions of dollars worth of projects stuck for want of land, opposition parties and rights activists say it discriminates against farmers. The ordinance is a temporary order and needs the approval of both houses of Parliament to take permanent
effect. It will lapse if Parliament does not ratify it in this session. Modi, in his speech before the House, also denounced communalism and asserted that his government stood for unity wherein all religions prosper within the framework of the Constitution. “My government’s only religion is ‘India first’, my government’s
only religious book is ‘Indian Constitution’, our only devotion is ‘Bharat Bhakti’ and our only prayer is ‘welfare of all’,” he said in the Lok Sabha while replying to a debate on President’s Address. He declared that as the Prime Minister, it was his “responsibility” not to allow “ridiculous comments in the name of religion.” “Nobody
Railway Budget 2015: On the right track for a long journey, says Sharekhan Agency : New Delhi The Union Railway Budget for 2015-16 aims to achieve the dual objectives of improving the financial health of the Indian Railways and significantly increase the capital expenditure (capex) on modernisation, expansion and improvement of customer amenities & services of the railways at the same time. The new rail minister’s mantra for improving the financial health of the railways is to improve the operational efficiencies and customer experience through better management, transparency and accountability. On the other hand, the minister has
increased the planned expenditure by 52% to over Rs1 trillion in 2015-16 for an aggressive network expansion plan including 16,400km of new lines, gauge conversion, doubling/ tripling of lines, electrification and freight corridor. What’s more, the government has come out with a five-year plan that envisages capital investment of Rs 8.5 trillion.
The aggressive capital outlay would boost the morale of the domestic industry especially with a five-year visibility of possible business opportunity spelt out. It is also a step towards reviving the industrial activity and the investment cycle in India. In this regard, the government is also going to release a vision document outlining investments to be made till
2030. A marginally negative step from the corporate standpoint is the revision done in the freight charges that would increase the freight cost for cement, coal, steel, urea and some other commodities. Moreover, there are questions regarding the government’s ability to raise financial resources to fund the aggressive capital investment plan outlined in the rail budget. However, the positive takeaway is that the government has shown a clear intent to considerably increase the capital outlay for infrastructure projects and we could see a similar policy push in the Union Budget for 2015-16.
J-K: Mufti to head 25-member cabinet;Modi to attend swearing-in
Agency : New Delhi PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will head a 25-member cabinet, half of it from BJP, in Jammu and Kashmir and the swearing-in ceremony on Sunday in Jammu will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With the PDP-BJP deal sealed after ironing out differences over contentions issues like Article 370 and AFSPA, 79-yearold Sayeed, who will be sworn in as Chief Minister, met the Prime Minister on , capping two-month long hard negotiations between the two parties on government formation.
According to highly-placed sources, Sayeed will be heading a 25-member cabinet which will have 12 BJP MLAs including a Deputy Chief Minister post. This is the first time that BJP is in the government in the state. Accompanied by chief interlocutor of PDP Haseeb Drabu, Sayeed had a nearly one-hour long meeting with Modi during which he extended invitation to the PM for attending the swearing-in ceremony at Jammu on March one. Modi and Sayeed were all smiles as they hugged and posed for cameras with their photographs trending on
social networks within minutes. "I have extended invitation to the Prime Minister for attending the ceremony and he has agreed," Sayeed told reporters after the meeting at PM's official residence at 7, Race Course Road. He refused to answer any specific questions on controversial issues like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) or Article 370 and said the Common Minimum programme (CMP) will be announced at 3pm on Sunday. He said a lot of discussions have taken place for the past two months to forge a common ground, a common agenda. He equated the PDP-BJP coalition with "bringing together of North Pole with South Pole". "The mandate of election is clear that PDP is the choice of people in Kashmir and BJP in Jammu. So we decided that we will unite together to give a government which will give all round development
to all the regions in the state," he said. We have to do all this (hame karna padta hai)...All this will come in the Common Minimum Programme which will be announced after the swearing-in."
has the right to discriminate on the basis of religion. No one has the right to take the law
into his hands,” Modi said. His statement assumes significance as the
government has been under attack over certain communal remarks made by some BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders. Recalling his election rally in Patna in October 2013 which was rocked by serial bomb blasts, Modi said he had then “asked who should Hindus fight with: Muslims or poverty? “I had asked Muslims, do you want to fight with Hindus or poverty. We have fought enough. Now let us unite and fight against poverty.” Modi also said he sought the cooperation of the opposition also for the benefit of the country.
The store that dresses Prime Minister Modi
Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Long before Narendra Modi became the prime minister of India and his monogrammed suit, which was recently auctioned for Rs 4.3 crore, hogged the limelight, it was the ‘Modi kurta’ that was the talk of the town. JadeBlue, the Ahmedabad-headquartered retail clothing chain that handles the prime minister’s wardrobe, was given the rights to use the label of ‘Modi kurta’ in 2012 by Modi when he was the chief
minister of Gujarat. The outfit refers to the cotton, half-sleeve kurtas that the prime minister is fond of wearing. But Modi’s association with JadeBlue is much older than that. Bipin Chauhan, who runs JadeBlue along with his brother, Jitendra Chauhan, has been styling Modi since 1989. He is also the man behind the pinstripe bandhgala suit that Modi wore during his meeting with US President Barack Obama at Hyderabad
House in New Delhi in January. Life for the Chauhan brothers has changed after tailoring Modi’s suit, that had his name, “Narendra Damodardas Modi”, woven all over it. It made news worldwide. It’s difficult to get the brothers to speak when the matter concerns Modi. After much coaxing, Bipin Chauhan finally agrees to meet at their store located on the Chimanlal Girdharlal Road in the heart of Ahmedabad. “The suit,” he says, “has changed JadeBlue’s image. It has given more mileage to our brand than anything else ever has.” Enquiries, he adds, have spiked across all the brands that the store houses. “It has brought us the limelight we could have never managed on our own.”
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QUOTE “HRD policy is a very important part of Railway restructuring. We are focussing our full attention on improvising resource management and upgrading the skills SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015 OF THE of our employees, Four centres of excellence are being set up next year and we The best way to fix DAY will ensure proper utilisation of staff,” - Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday said... India is to fund its states For all the attention being showered on the Indian budget Kareena Kapoor Khan: I am proud to Huma Qureshi: I was in two set to be unveiled on Saturday, there are limits to what any national leader—even one as powerful and be 34 and I think ageing is wonderful! charismatic as Prime Minister Narendra Modi—can accomplish in sprawling India. Several of Modi’s reforms have already run aground in the upper house of Parliament, which his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not control. More importantly, on several of the issues of most concern to voters—education, health, sanitation, irrigation—responsibilities are constitutionally shared between the national and state governments. In practice, much of the burden falls on the states, which are most directly involved in delivering public goods and services. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. At least one study shows that state spending boosts gross domestic product more than spending by the central government. According to researchers at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a 1% increase in central spending generated a 0.04% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) whereas a similar increase in spending by states raised GDP by 0.11%. Most of the gains are attributed to better implementation, since state politicians are generally more answerable to voters. In this vein, the most encouraging news to come out of the budget process may already have been revealed. Earlier this week, India’s finance commission— a nonpartisan body that decides every five years how national tax revenues should be divided between the central government in New Delhi and India’s states— made a radical suggestion. The commission recommended raising the share of revenues handed out to the states by a full 10 percentage points, from 32% to 42%. Governments traditionally accept the body’s suggestions, and Modi was quick to endorse the generous new formula. As the former longtime chief minister of Gujarat, Modi should understand better than anyone how important it is to give states more financial autonomy. Grand, national schemes—announced with great fanfare in New Delhi but then left up to poorly funded local leaders to implement—have generally fared poorly. The problems are twofold: First, India’s states are diverse, at different stages of development and therefore have quite different priorities. The needs of industrialized Gujarat needs are quite different from those of highly educated Kerala, which are in turn different from those of poverty-stricken Orissa. One-size-fits-all policies are doomed to failure. Second, India’s public delivery systems are rife with corruption and leakages. According to consultants McKinsey, as much as half of government spending on basic services doesn’t add up to real benefits for citizens. The problem grows worse when schemes are directed from distant Delhi, with little accountability for outcomes. The BJP has already talked about forging ahead with land and labor reforms—difficult to pass in Parliament—in the states it controls, although progress has been slow. The party would be smart to press all states to focus on finding more innovative ways to deliver government services. For instance, government-run schools are a disaster almost everywhere.
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Agency : Mumbai Usually, women don’t like disclosing their but Kareena Kapoor Khan isn’t one of them. She is not only proud of her age but Bebo doesn’t even shy away from talking about it. While talking about aging, at a recent event the Bajrangi Bhaijaan actress
said, “I think one should age gracefully. I am proud to be 34 and I think aging is wonderful. I hate it when I look at somebody and know that they have tried to cover the lines.” That’s not all! This leggy beauty is against the nip-and-tuck trend as well. Instead she
believes one should keep their lines as they are. “I find men with lines on their faces more intelligent and sexy. Even for women, I think Maharani Gayatri Devi was very graceful. The way she aged with the grey hair – that is elegance.” We kinda agree with that! The Udta Punjab heroine further added, “I don’t want to be an 18-year-old or a 22year-old girl. I am just done with that phase of my life. That is why I don’t even try to be 22. I’m 34 but I’m still endorsing an ice-cream, which people enjoy from an age of 6 to 60. That is an achievement in itself.” Well, Ms Khan has never followed any trends, she is one actress who has in fact created her own trend so we aren’t surprised that she is openly speaking about her age and all because she is one babe who has always been comfortable in her own skin and now we know she extremely comfortable with her age as well!
from the city. He does household chores, cooks, goes fishing and spends time with his son. Since the top encounter cop left the force crime is on a high back in Mumbai so the politicians want him back. He doesn't get convinced till his son says some encouraging words and then there is no stopping him or his gun.
Agency : Mumbai Huma Qureshi started her Bollywood journey by starring in edgy, unconventional films but even she had doubts about signing Sriram Raghavan's 'Badlapur' as the actress felt it was "too dark" and "hardhitting". "The only reason I said yes was because of the team and how everybody believed in it. I was the third actor to join the movie and I was really scared. We had a big discussion about should I, shouldn't I or will it be too much or too dark. I have been a part of edgy films earlier but 'Badlapur' was quite hard-hitting," Huma told in an interview. Huma, 28, is one of the four actresses in the Varun Dhawan-Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer revenge drama. Though her presence is limited to 5-6 scenes in the movie, Huma has earned a lot of praise for her performance. The
actress said film's success has come as a big relief for everyone involved in the project, but particularly for Varun Dhawan, who shed his romantic image to play anti-hero. "The next big risk was definitely Varun playing something like this. It was an unfamiliar territory for him. We used to think whether the audience will accept him as this guy or not. It was a
bigger risk for him than anyone else. He has done a fabulous job in pulling it off. "Initially, we all were apprehensive about the film but with time as people started coming in, we started becoming more confident. Hats off to Sriram that at no point he thought of softening the content because of our doubts," she said.
Fire on the sets of Varun Dhawan, The double life of Anushka Sharma opposite Shah Rukh Khan, a superstar older than her Shraddha Kapoor’s 'ABCD 2' by at least 20 years, in Yash
Agency : Mumbai The incident happened at Goregaon Filmcity around 4.30pm on Thursday, when a dance competition sequence was apparently
being filmed. The studio was packed with about six hundred to seven hundred junior artists. Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor were rehearsing their moves.
According to Mumbai Mirror, the fire started when a light bulb overhead blew off. The butter paper which is used to soften the light caught fire and the flare spread around fast. The crew naturally panicked and started vacating the premises. Thankfully, there was no stampede and the evacuation was done in an orderly way. Reports say Varun Dhawan and other senior crew members helped everyone evacuate. No one was injured in the fire accident, but the set was reportedly gutted by the time fire brigade arrived. The shooting was called off for the day.
for the "Dum Laga ke Haisha" team for panning out a heart-melting love story and presenting it on the big screen sans Bollywood clichés. Prem Prakash Tiwari (Ayushmann Khurrana) is a man-child whose hatred for English and love for Kumar Sanu makes him somewhat a good-for-nothing nutjob. What follows next is a super
diluted "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" in which Taani partner and Surinder Sahni/ Raj Partner explore one another as they prep for a dance competition. Although the race has been wrapped up quick in the Sharat Katariya directorial, what the script holds in much deeper than what the Shah Rukh KhanAnushka Sharma starrer gave us. Shot in Haridwar and Rishikesh, cinematographer Manu Anand captures the unpolished beauty of the 90s incredibly well, and Meenal Agarwal's production design needs a special mention for transporting the viewers to the cassette-tape recorder times.
Movie review: Ab Tak Chappan 2 misfires 'Dum Laga ke Haisha' Movie Review: Relive the Unpolished 90s
Agency : Mumbai Ab Tak Chappan 2 is a sequel to the 2004 release Ab Tak Chappan. Yes it does start where the previous film ended and follows the life of encounter specialist Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar). His wife was shot and now he has left the police department and is living a peaceful life with his son by the sea far away
minds about doing Badlapur
Agency : Mumbai Technology might have made it easier to reach out to a friend these days, but an STD/PCO booth had a charm of its own. Sure, advancements in science and tech have made the world a better place, but there was something heartwarming about socialising offline over cups of tea. Congratulations are in order
Agency : Mumbai Stardom is a mercurial business. And an unavoidably public one. Her lips aren’t the best way to start a piece on the talented and beautiful actor Anushka Sharma, but the cosmetically plumped lips are inescapable if we are to understand her stardom. It’s a stardom built on a foundation of solid acting work, but incomplete without the gift of plastic beauty. Her public
appearances after the lip enhancement got her attention, even taunts and some phoney feminist critiques in the media. “She is a good actor, already pretty, why a lip job?”—that seemed to be the consensus. Sharma is waifish and porcelainskinned, her straight hair in hues of brown; her physical look more manufactured than, perhaps, what it was seven years ago—about 20, and in a bit-ticket debut
Raj Films’ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Sharma’s screen presence was electric. Two years later, continuing a three-film agreement that she signed with Yash Raj Films, her “middle-class, north Indian girl” IPO matured with Band Baaja Baaraat (2010). Her Shruti Kakkar was a personification of adrenalin that, Hindi cinema would make us believe, is Punjabi womanhood. One thing was clear after that film: Sharma is not a bimbo; she can act. Her five roles thereafter have cemented that persona, stripped of feminine docility on one hand, and nuance on the other. Among India’s new heroines, all known to take calculated risks and yet not lose sight of the mainstream orbit, Sharma is quite firmly entrenched.
Rajkummar Rao: Patralekhaa and I Are Too Young For Marriage
Agency : Mumbai Actor Rajkummar Rao, who is known for his versatility, said that someday he'll go behind the camera and sit on the director's chair. "One day,
I would like to direct and create something new. But at the moment, it's too early to talk about it. Direction is certainly at the back of my mind," said the actor. The
National Award winning actor has featured in movies like Love, Sex Aur Dhokha, Ragini MMS, Shaitan, Shahid, Kai Po Che, Queen, CityLights and recently in Dolly Ki Doli. Talking about working with his girlfriend and CityLights co-star Patralekhaa, he said that if they get a good script, they will co-star again. "If we get a good script, we will work together. We do discuss our scripts," the 30-yearold said, and added that they're "too young" for marriage as of now.
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Tatas, L&T shortlisted World Cup : Strong work ethic for Defence project paid off, says Shikhar Dhawan the development phase will
Agency : NEW DELHI The Defence Ministry has shortlisted a consortium of Tata Power-Strategic Electronics Division (SED) and Larsen & Toubro for the battlefield management project, the order value of which in the production phase may be as much as Rs 50,000 crore. As per the requirement of the procurement procedure, both the selected parties will -- after finalisation of the system specification -- be tasked with development of "prototype systems" for which purpose 80 per cent cost will be funded by the government, L&T said. The expected amount involved in
be clear only after the system specifications have been finalised but is expected to be around Rs 800 crore, it said. The total order value in the production phase could be between Rs 40,000 crore and Rs 50,000 crore, it added. "L&T formed a consortium lead by Tata Powerstrategic electronics division... After an extensive evaluation of the different 'expressions of interest'...two parties have been shortlisted as development agencies-one being the Tata Power-SED + L&T Consortium," L&T said in a filing to the BSE. At the end of this development phase, which may spread over more than two to three years, the two independently developed prototype systems will be subjected to necessary evaluation and tests by the Defence Ministry, it said.
Better Earth Observation Satellites From ISRO On The Cards
Agency : Perth Attributing his brilliant World Cup form to a 'calm mind and hard work', Indian batsman Shikhar Dhawan on Friday said he managed to come out of a 'lean patch' by sticking to his 'strong work ethic'. Dhawan scored 77 and 137 against Pakistan and South Africa respectively, after a poor run of form in the Test and ODI tri-series Down Under. Asked about what's that changed for him at the start of World Cup, the affable opener replied with a smile, "Just staying calm and working hard and keeping my work ethic strong." "Of course, in international cricket, it's always a learning curve. I enjoy the journey rather than the destination, I think. So I was enjoying that phase of my life too and I learnt a lot," Dhawan said on the eve of the match against UAE at the WACA on Saturday. The flashy lefthander said he only made a few minor changes to his technique, something which might not even be noticeable
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Indian coach Fletcher flies back to South Africa, to miss UAE game
to the naked eye. "I changed a few things, but not anything major. Just a few little things here and there. Maybe, you won't be able to see it. It's that little something. The main thing is to enjoy the batting," said Dhawan. Having been back among runs, Dhawan knows that he will be carrying extra confidence going into the game against UAE, although any batsman at the start of an innings is circumspect. "Yeah, of course, when you play
back-to-back good innings, you get that extra confidence or edge when you go into the third innings. I feel it's a very normal thing. "Whenever a batsman is going to start his innings, he always feels some hesitation. That's a very natural thing. I feel it all the time. It's a very normal thing," added Dhawan. Just like some of his teammates, Dhawan also spoke about the impact that Team Director Ravi Shastri has had on the team.
Agency : Perth, Indian cricket team?s chief coach Duncan Fletcher today left for his home in South Africa following the death of his father-in-law
and is set to miss team's next World Cup game against UAE on Saturday."Duncan today left for Cape Town after receiving the news of the death of his father-in-
improvement of the operational constellation of satellites, 2. Sustained observation of all climate variables and 3. Global cooperation for comparing observation data. While that was being shared at the conference, a French space agency president raised concerns about climate change and urged everyone to pool resources and coordinate space missions so as to study and research by space-based observation of the rapidly changing climate. Another issue that needs immediate attention is disaster management, which can be better controlled with specific managers and shortterm training programmes for existing staff.
Agency : Kolkata India’s premier batsman Virat Kohli may get close to breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s forty nine ODI centuries report however the batting maestro’s one hundred International centuries milestone would keep protected eternally, feels former India captain Sourav Ganguly. “Virat Kohli I assume will get close
to him one-day cricket. He has reached 22 centuries, he nonetheless has 28 extra to get to 50 in ODIs. He has to play in all probability for 10 extra years for that, we could have to wait and see,” the previous cricketer stated throughout a ebook launch perform. At a time when each different batting document is damaged, Ganguly stated, “It’s very
very protected. I do not assume anyone will ever give you the chance to break that report.” Heaping reward on India’s turnaround within the World Cup, Ganguly stated, “Their type within the latelyconcluded Tests and tricollection and that within the World Cup is an enormous revelation. “Nobody predicted that India would beat South Africa by one hundred thirty runs. It’s very unpredictable however India’s type has been a revelation for all of us.” But come knockout levels, it might be a anyone’s recreation Ganguly stated refusing to decide a ultimate line-up. “If you need a biased reply it might be Australia and India. But if you need a sensible reply then I do not know as a result of anyone can beat anyone. It’s very very unpredictable.”
Agency : Mumbai Defending champions Karnataka need just four wickets to book their second consecutive berth in the final of the Ranji Trophy, with Mumbai struggling at 277 for six at stumps on the third day on Friday. Chasing a target of 445, Mumbai still need 168 runs with just four wickets in hand and two full
days play remaining. Siddhesh Lad (41) and Abhishek Nayar (2) were at the crease when stumps were drawn. Karnataka bowlers made good use of the two-paced wicket as they did not let the visitors go on the offensive. Mumbai batsmen were kept on a tight leash by Karnataka captain R Vinay Kumar and Abhimanyu Mithun, with good support from pacer Aravind Sreenath and leggie Shreyas Gopal. Mithun was outstanding as he troubled the Mumbai top-order including skipper Aditya Tare, who was the top-
scorer for the visitors with 98 off 207 balls, and inform Shreyas Iyer (50 off 66). Mithun ran in hard and bowled his heart out, finishing with figures of three for 49 in 27 overs. Vinay, Gopal and Sreenath picked up one wicket each. Mumbai's batsmen had two sessions in their name but could not turn the heat against the hosts as they found scoring runs difficult on the two-paced wicket. Tare played a captain's knock, pacing his innings to perfection but unfortunately missed a century by just two runs.
Agency : melbourne Due to the ICC’s infatuation with interminable world cups, the tournament’s scheduling has presented some quirks. With Brisbane’s nefarious weather causing havoc, Australia’s match against Bangladesh was abandoned meaning they haven’t played since the World Cup’s opening day on February 14. It’s probably best to delve into the rabbit hole of the ICC’s scheduling
another time, but it is ludicrous that Australia – or any team for that matter – should only be earmarked to play once a week during the opening stages of the event. Anyway, Australia are bracing to be awoken from their slumber when they face an imposing and in-form New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday. It’s a New Zealand team who played three games within the first six days of the event but have not played since. Again, the
recommended an interim dividend of Rs 20.70 for 2014-15. Government last month raised around Rs 22,000 crore from offer-for-sale (OFS) by diluting 10 per cent stake in Coal India, bringing down its stake down to 79 per cent.
scheduling stinks. The game has been deservedly hyped, with many believing the matchup is a preview of the World Cup final. Recent indicators confirm both teams are indeed the two best in the world, as they are flushed with explosive depth and bat and ball match-winners. The co-hosts are relishing playing in their home conditions. Despite the profound anticipation, the match doesn’t have major ramifications for either team’s World Cup winning prospects for a loss would merely be a minor stumble during the marathon. Bigger picture, the match seems the dawning of an exciting and highly competitive TransTasman rivalry. Australia versus New Zealand has never been one of the marquee spectacles in international cricket because of the lopsided nature of the contests.
BCCI wins appeal: Competition Commission of India's abuse-of-position verdict set aside
Coal India Declares Rs Ranji Trophy: Mumbai hang on at 20.70 Interim Dividend 277 for 6 post Day 3 proceedings
Agency : Kolkata State-run Coal India today declared an interim dividend of Rs 20.70 per share for 2014-15. With this, government stands to gain Rs 10,414 crore. The company today informed bourses that the audit committee
law. He won?t be available for the UAE game as he has a funeral to attend. But he is expected to be back before India?s next match against the West Indies on March 6," team?s media manager Dr RN Baba Till Fletcher is unavailable, the three assistant coaches Bharath Arun, R Sridhar and Sanjay Bangar will handle the training sessions with Ravi Shastri overseeing the tactical parts. The coach is expected to re-join the team for the match against the West Indies on March 6.
The ideal time for Australia and New Zealand to rehash their rivalry
Kohli may break Sachin's record of 49 ODI centuries: Ganguly Agency : New Delhi We recently told you about the upcoming projects planned by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and how the new chairman plans to execute the various missions. Well, adding another feather to space organisation's cap, the new chairman Mr. AS Kiran Kumar has revealed that India will soon have better satellites capable of earth observations. While speaking at the International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Management at Kovalam, the Chairman said that the future of earth observation relies on following key points - 1. Continuity and
Ahmedabad
Agency : New Delhi Competition Appellate Tribunal has set aside a CCI order against cricket governing body BCCI for alleged abuse of dominance, saying the regulator relied on "legally unsustainable" information downloaded from internet for nailing the Board. In its order passed in February last year, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed a penalty of Rs 52.24 crore on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after finding it guilty of
indulging in anti-competitive practices in organisation of Indian Premier League (IPL). Stating that BCCI had abused its dominant position, the CCI had also directed it to "cease and desist" from any practice in future that denies market access to potential competitors. The order had followed a complaint filed by an individual against BCCI way back in November 2010. BCCI later challenged the CCI's directive before Compat, which has now set aside this order and remitted
the case to the Commission "for fresh disposal". "The finding recorded by the Commission on the issue of abuse of dominance is legally unsustainable and is liable to be set-aside because the information downloaded from the net and similar other material do not have any evidentiary value and, in any case, the same could not have been relied upon by the Commission without giving an effective opportunity to the appellant (BCCI) to controvert the same," Compat said. Earlier in its order, CCI had said that "the abuse by BCCI was of a grave nature and the quantum of penalty that needs to be levied should be commensurate with the gravity of the violation." Among others, BCCI was accused of alleged irregularities in the grant of franchise rights for team ownership, media rights for coverage of the league and award of sponsorship rights.
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Masks everywhere due to swine flu scare
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There’s scare of swine flu everywhere, added to this the district collector has made is mandatory to distribute masks to participants in public functions. At public gathering, people are seen wearing mask as protection against possible infection of swine flu in 10 to 40% range. However in NRG function held at
Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry almost all people were seen wearing masks. In school function at Tagore hall held in presence of Chief Minister, Mayor and others majority of people were seen wearing masks. In Governor’s function on Gandhian theme in Rajkot, fewer people were wearing masks as the function was held in open. At sports
festival of differently abled people in Ahmedabad, couple of women participants were seen wearing masks. Actually, any surgical mask doesn’t serve purpose. There needs to be special masks for protection, but people miss that point. Also disposal of mask is important. In many cases, people keep handkerchief for protection.
Swine flu claims 40 more lives, death toll reaches 1000
Agency : New Delhi Swine flu deaths have breached the 1,000 mark with 40 more people succumbing to the H1N1 virus while the number of those affected crossed 18,000 today with the government admitting that it was facing a shortage of laboratories for testing of the disease. According to
Health Ministry, the total number of deaths due to swine flu has reached 1,005, while the number of those affected was 18,105 till yesterday. Responding to questions on the issue in the Lok Sabha, Health Minister J P Nadda said, "We have 21 laboratories for testing swine flu. But that is not enough. We are planning to
set up H1N1 testing laboratories in every state of the country and financial provisions are being made for it." Meanwhile, eight more people have succumbed to swine flu in Rajasthan in the past two days, raising the toll to 251 in the state, a health department official said. The number of deaths in Gujarat till yesterday was 247, while 3,950 were affected. The Centre has sent one 1,000 Oseltamivir to Assam government to deal with possible outbreak of the seasonal influenza virus and these have been sent to the relevant treatment centres, a senior health official said.
Ahmedabad
After an accident in which a repairer boy suffered injury on his hand in which his three fingers were cut while repairing aero bridge at domestic terminal of
Sardar Patel airport in Ahmedabad, the Director General of Civil Aviation has ordered closure of all three aero bridges at domestic departure terminal. Due to this, for
Internet voting a possibility in future: CEC
Agency : NEW DELHI Chief election commissioner HS Brahma on Friday said voting by internet could be a possibility in the future and the first step in this direction is the EC's plan to make electoral rolls "totally error free". "Voting by internet is the next stage. The first step in the direction was the Election Commission's ambitious plan to make the electoral rolls totally error free," the CEC said. He, however, did not give a time frame for it. "We need funds, infrastructure and some training. India can do it ..." Brahma said, adding, young voters think that internet voting can save a lot of time, resources, and energy. "When I was standing in queue to cast vote in the
Facets of Gujarat's traditional handicrafts fascinate global sourcing firms at first International buyer-seller meet "GURJARI - 2015"
Delhi assembly polls, five young voters standing in front of me said casting vote takes a few seconds but standing in queue for two hours is a difficult task ..." he told a news conference here. However, on Thursday, law minister DV Sadananda Gowda had informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply that there are no plans to introduce internet voting. The Election Commission (EC) will launch National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) between March 3 and August 15. As part of the programme, EC will link electoral photo I card with UIDAI number to ensure there is no duplication. He said that 10 to 12 per cent entries in electoral roll are duplicate. There are 85 crore electors in the country as per the latest EC data.
last three days all flights are operated through gate number 5 and 7 on ground floor. A repairer boy’s three fingers were cut due to accident between a plane and one of three aero bridge. As all passengers are asked to asked ground floor based gates, the upper floor stays unoccupied. This has caused rush on the ground floor. A plane had sufferred some damage due to this accident. DGCA has acted after cpmplain by airline about lack of proper maintanance of aero bridges following accident.
Struggling to keep date with its academic calendar, the admission committee for professional courses has decided that the procedure for admission in technical colleges will be started before the HSC science results are declared. Officials said that the registration process, including distribution of forms and PIN numbers, will begin from first week of May. In a related development, the technical education board has decided to allow students who have not appeared in the mandatory entrance test to be admitted against seats left vacant after the regular admission process is over. The decision was taken at a meeting between representatives of SFIs and the director of technical education. Students who have been unable to pass or appear in the joint entrance
exams for professional courses can also apply for admission against the vacant seats, though these seats are unlikely to be available in premier institutes. They could well be in colleges located away from urban centres, said a source. Educationists say this will benefit 'self-financed institutes' (SFI) which have had to bear the burden of empty classrooms for the last couple of years. More than 15,000 seats were vacant in engineering colleges in 2014 alone. This decision will impact admissions in degree and diploma engineering and pharmacy colleges, along with colleges offering Master in Business Administration, Master of Computer Application, Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Engineering, Master of Technology and Master of Pharmacy courses.
Naroda Patia massacre: HC grants bail to second convict
SunvillaNews, Ahmedabad
Gujarat high court on Thursday granted bail to a second convict in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case, Kripalsingh Chhabda, who sought release citing former minister Maya Kodnani's bail. Chhabda was Kodnani's assistant and was accused of distributing weapons on the day of
massacre. A bench of Justice R R Tripathi and Justice R D Kothari suspended sentence of 24 years and granted bail to Chhabda on furnishing bail of Rs 25,000 and on two sureties of equal amount as well as on other conditions including not tampering with evidence. The court had earlier refused
bail to him, but now this bench concluded that Chhabda has got more than an arguable case. This bench analysed evidence and observed that the weakness of two witnesses, who have implicated him in this case, could not be highlighted during the arguments last time. The court also said that the prosecution could not point out how release of Chhabda on bail would change any consequences in this case. Moreover, he has been in jail for more than last five years. The HC also took into consideration that the witnesses had not named Chhabda in 2002, but took his name first time six years after the incident, particularly when the probe was handed over to SIT by the Supreme Court.
India and Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri are set to dazzle Ahmedabad Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad
"GURJARI - 2015", an International Buyer-Seller Meet for Handloom & Handicrafts Products of Gujarat organized by Gujarat State Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd. (GSHHDC), was today inaugurated by Shri Saurabhbhai Patel, Hon'ble Minister for Energy & Petrochemicals, Mines &
Minerals, Cottage Industry and Labour& Employment, Government of Gujarat in the presence of Shri Tarachand Speaking at the inaugural function, Shri Patel said, "Just like existence of the Gujarati Diaspora everywhere in the world, handloom and handicrafts products made by Gujarati artisans have enormous potential to tap global markets. Since the
production of such articles is not possible on large scale, most of the artisans are working as a small scale unit. Therefore, this meet aims to provide them the gateway to the global market. Apart from connecting them to souring companies from across the world, the meet will also help them make their products compatible to the trends prevailing at the international level and also gain the knowledge required for various procedures required for exports. I am
hopeful that this meet will go a long way in promoting products from Gujarat." Over 150 exhibitors from Gujarat are participating in the three-day meet, being held at Gujarat University Convention Center, Ahmedabad, under the aegis of Gujarat State Handloom and Handicraft Development Corporation Ltd (GSHHDC), Government of Gujarat and in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).
Forevermark and Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ- The Original) two stalwarts of the jewellery world in India recently came together at the TBZ Ltd store in Ahmedabad to showcase the latest diamond jewellery collection designed by TBZ crafted with fine Forevermark Diamonds at a glittering evening. Gracing the occasion was well known actress Ms. Prachi Desai. The guests present on this occasion were captivated with the new collection of exquisite diamond jewellery on display, combining the superior quality and unique designs. The evening saw,
some of the elegant masterpieces showcased by a spectacular model walk. However the piece de resistance was the enchanting set worn by Prachi Desai which left the crowd spellbounded. Sachin Jain, President, Forevermark India, who was present at the event said, “We are pleased to strengthen our association with TBZ-The Original to further augment the essence of Forevermark in the beautiful city of
Ahmedabad. Forevermark and TBZ Ltd share a mutual passion for diamonds and they too believe in the Forevermark promise of providing their valued customers a promise of beautiful diamonds without having to worry about the quality, integrity and authenticity”. Talking at the event Mr. Prem Hinduja, CEO, TBZ- The Original said, “We at TBZ, have constantly been enriched by the aesthetics of our patrons
and the virtuosity of our craftsmen. It is an honour to carry forward our association with Forevermark and like always we aim to continuously offer our esteemed clientele access to unique Forevermark diamonds in exquisite designs and settings.”
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