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March 28, 2016, Monday
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Ultimately, on Sunday, wilting under public pressure and sporadic stone pelting, Gomtipur police registered an FIR, against ‘unknown’ cops for alleged torture of Dhruv Parmar, 14, who committed suicide on Saturday night at his residence in Ramanpura Chawl. The victim, a class IX student, belongs to the dalit community and is the son of a home guard jawan, Bharat Parmar
Gujarat may offer limestone mines for non-captive use Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
In the wake of lukewarm response to the recent auction of limestone mines, Gujarat government is now mulling on a proposal to offer these mines for non-captive use. If okayed, mineral trading companies may be allowed to participate in the auction of limestone blocks. The move is aimed at attracting more players and maximizing output. Gujarat was the first state to auction limestone mines in India when it put five mines on the block in December last year.
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In dramatic and fast-paced political developments, Uttarakhand was placed under central rule on Sunday just a day before the beleaguered Harish Rawat government was to face a crucial trust vote in the state assembly on Monday . President Pranab Mukherjee’s assent follows deliberations of the Union Cabinet late on Saturday night when it was decided that the situation in Uttarakhand constitu tes a “breakdown of constitutional machinery”
and the assembly should be placed under suspended animation while imposing central rule. The Cabinet felt the passage of the state budget on March 18 was itself deeply vitiated as the opposition of nine Congress rebels and BJP MLAs had reduced the government to a minority. Uttarakhand assembly speaker Govind Sin gh Kunjwal on Sunday disqualified nine rebel Congress MLAs from the House under the antidefection law.The development came hours after the
state was brought under President’s rule, and a day before the Congress government was supposed to prove its majority in the assembly. “I am consti-
tutionally empowered to disqualify these nine rebel MLAs... I was not satisfied with the explanations they presented through their solicitors on Saturday and
75 killed, 300 injured in Easter blast in Lahore Agency | Islamabad At least 75people were killed and more than 3 00 people, including women and children, injured in a powerful blast triggered by a suicide bomber in a crowded park in Lahore on Sunday, where Christians had gone to celebrate Easter, officials told news agencies. The blast occurred in a parking lot at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, one of the largest publics paces in Lahore,
said police officer Haider Ashraf. The park, he said, is frequented by residents and visitors to the city alike, and is especially popular with families. “It was a soft target. Innocent women and children and visitors from other cities have been targeted,” Ashraf told agencies. “It seems like a suicide attack.” No terror organization has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Eye witnesses said they saw scattered body
Sunday in response to the showcause notices issued to them,“ Kunjwal added. The disqualified Congress legislators are former CM Vijay Bahuguna, Harak Singh Rawat, Amrita Rawat, Shailarani Rawat, Pradip Batra, Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion, Subodh Uniyal, Shailendra Mohan Singhal and Umesh Sharma `Kau’. Their suspension reduces the effective strength of the assembly from 70 to
61. Before the disqualification, Congress had 36 MLAs and the support of six legislators of Progressive Democratic Front. The strength of BJP is 28. The rebel MLAs had on March 18 joined BJP members to demand a division of votes on the appropriation bill that could have posed a threat to the survival of the Harish Rawat government. The demand was turned down by the speaker leading
to a furore in the House. The rebel MLAs accused the speaker of acting like a secretary to Rawat and said they would challenge the decision in the high court. The Centre on Sunday justified the imposition of President’s rule in Uttarakhand, saying the Harish Rawat government was “unconstitutional“ since March 18 when “failed“ appropriation bill was shown as passed.
with the caption ‘How dare they (raise) slogan to break India within JNU campus’. Two giant LED screens telecast the videos. Senior BJP leaders said the decision to play the videos was taken by the state party executive, ahead of the BJP’s planned campaign on “nationalism”. Leaders present at the venue said the videos were “special-
ly arranged in a sequence” to allow the grassroots to “understand” the current situation of “threat to the pride of the country”. At one point, the video focused on a placard with a picture of Afzal Guru that read, “Ghar Ghar se Afzal niklenge”. In her own address, Anandiben Patel focused on the efforts of her government to help farmers.
BJP plays videos of Umar Khalid, Afzal at Gujarat farmer rally Correspondent | Vadodara
parts spread across the blood-splattered site of the explosion. “We took the injured to hospitals on rickshaws and taxis,“ one eye witness said, adding that the crowd was “unusually large“ because of Easter holidays. A bomb disposal squad of ficial
said that 10 to 12kg of explosives were used in the attack. Muhammad Usman, Lahore’s senior administrative official, said that the head of the suicide bomber has been recovered. He claimed that ball bearings were also found at the site.
IT was meant to be a rally to address farmer problems, held on the premises of Vadodara’s Agriculture Produce Market Committee. However, for about 20 minutes on Saturday, before Chief Minister Anandiben Patel arrived, the farmers assembled from five districts for the BJP rally were shown replays of a Zee video of JNU student Umar Khalid, who has been charged with sedition, defending himself in a discussion, as well as a video “confession” of Afzal Guru, who was hanged over the Parliament terror attack. The Khalid video ran
Attack on witnesses: Acted at Asaram’s behest, says shooter to cops
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An alleged shooter involved in killing three Sunvilla News | Kagvad witnesses in the rape The 33-day Patidar Ekta case filed against Asaram Yatra ended on Sunhas confessed to having day on a stronger note fired on the witnesses on at Kagvad, 60km from the spiritual leader’s “inRajkot city, with leaders struction”, the Detection of the Patidar Anamat of Crime Branch (DCB) Andolan Samiti (PAAS) said while seeking the Asaram in Ahmedabad. A children at Asaram’s ashtraining guns on Prime shooter’s further remand. metropolitan court grant- ram in Motera, In the apMinister Narendra Modi Earlier this week, the ed four days remand, plication, the DCB states, and his close aide BJP DCB had sought 10-day which ends on Sunday. “Kartik has confessed to national president Amit remand of the shooter, Chandak has named having fired on the comShah. They likened Kartik Haldar, who was Asaram in the FIR, alleg- plainant on the directive Shah to `General Dyre’ arrested in a joint oper- ing that he was attacked of Asaram. He has also (of Jaliyanwala Baugh ation by DCB and Guja- “at the behest of Asaram” confessed to having been massacre) for ordering a rat Anti-Terrorism Squad for speaking against him helped by two more aclathicharge on Patidars from Chhattisgarh in before the Justice D K cused — K D Patel and at the GMDC ground on connection with the 2009 Trivedi Commission, Pankaj, alias Arjun SindAugust 25 last year after attack on Raju Chan- appointed to probe the hi — who are yet to be the Patidar Maha Sabha. dak, a former follower of mysterious deaths of two arrested.” 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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Uttarakhand crisis: The strong arm
The imposition of President’s Rule in Uttarakhand, just a day before a scheduled trust vote in the state assembly by the Harish Rawat-headed government, brings back memories of the widespread misuse of a constitutional provision whose invoking had become refreshingly rare in recent times. A cynical way of looking at it is the Congress — which frequently employed Article 356 to dismiss opposition-ruled state governments while in power at the Centre — being paid back in its own coin. But such subversion of democratic principles is most unfortunate, when it comes from a dispensation under a prime minister who has made “cooperative federalism” a cornerstone of his governance approach. Moreover, it goes against the grain of the current times when fiscal, administrative and implementation powers in most areas are being increasingly devolved to the states. Nobody would know this better than Narendra Modi, who, as the Gujarat chief minister in a 2012 Republic Day-eve blog, voiced concern over the “systematic disruption” of the country’s federal structure “merely to suit the whims and fancies of the rulers in Delhi”. The Modi government has justified bringing Uttarakhand under Central rule by holding that the Rawat government has lost majority, rendering its continuation “unconstitutional and immoral”. But it is a settled law — based on the principles laid down by the Supreme Court in its landmark 1994 S.R. Bommai judgment — that the majority enjoyed by any government has to be tested on the floor of the House. In this case, Uttarakhand Governor K.K. Paul had even set a date (March 28) for the conduct of the floor test. It is not clear what prompted him to send a report that formed the basis for imposing Central rule a day before the vote was to be held. The Governor has apparently cited possible pandemonium during the scheduled trial of strength. But could that mere apprehension have qualified as “breakdown of constitutional machinery”, which was the main criteria laid down in the Bommai ruling for invoking Article 356? There seems no convincing evidence of such a breakdown having taken place in Uttarakhand. But the more worrying implication of the dismissal of the Congress government in Uttarakhand, which comes on the back of a similar imposition of President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh, is a breakdown in cooperation between the BJP and the main opposition party at the Centre. At a time when important legislation, especially those relating to the economy, need to be passed and the ruling coalition does not have the required numbers in the Rajya Sabha, such unnecessary confrontation does no help. The latest confrontation was all the more unnecessary, as it has involved invocation of an article in the Constitution that ought to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
- Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor Kangana Ranaut: I have a knack of choosing wrong people
Agency | New Delhi Taking a swipe at her former boyfriend Hrithik Roshan and their controversial legal tussle, actress Kangana Ranaut on Saturday (March 26) said that she does not understand why people have to approach lawyers to resolve the differences in their relationship. Kangana and Hrithik have been embroiled in a nasty spat since the former called her “Krrish 3” costar “a silly ex”, prompting the 42-year-old star to slap her with a legal notice asking her to apologise and clear the air about their affair which he firmly refutes. A defiant Kangana,
28, had said she was not a “dim-witted” teenager and refused to apologise. She instead shot off a counter-notice to Hrithik warning him to take back his notice or face a criminal case. Sharing her view on marriage and relationships during a session at the CII-Young India in Delhi, Kangana said, “In today’s world marriages have different meaning. We don’t depend on a man for money or social standing. Women are fairly independent, seeking somebody who can treat them nicely. But I still don’t understand the whole legality of this process.
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QUOTE “It is not compulsory in this country to raise a slogan (of Bharat OF THE Mata ki Jai). But it became an issue only when somebody said I take objection and I will not raise it,” - The FM Jaitley said in an apparent DAY reference to a declaration made by Asaduddin Owaisi. Amitabh Bachchan to appear as Gul Panag’s James Bond on magazine cover husband back Amitabh Bachchan will fromAgency Brussels replicate the | Mumbai stylish and suave spy James Bond for a magazine cover
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shoot early morning for a magazine where they inAmitabh Bachchan will tend to replicate a certain replicate the stylish and Mr Bond… Surroundsuave spy James Bond for ed by a bevy of beauties a magazine cover, which which I may add seems will see the megastar sur- far too incongruous than rounded by a “bevy of any situation. “But what beauties”. Bachchan, 73, the heck… Let’s face it… said people of his age It is not too often that a hardly get such opportu- 74-year-old shall get such nities. “There is a photo opportunity… so IN-
DULGE !!!,” he posted on his blog. The “Piku” star, who is active on social media, was awake till 4am to write the blog for his fans, whom he addresses as “extended family (ef)”. “Much to the disappointment of many Ef who, if I may say, have reached some conclusion that I have gone to sleep without putting out the Blog or the Twitter or the FB .. here I am .. alive and kicking at approximately 4 in the morning!.”
Actress Gul Panag has heaved a sigh of relief as her pilot husband, who was stuck at the Brussels airport following recent bomb blasts in the Belgian capital city, is back home. Her husband Captain G.S. Attari was member of the crew of one of the two Jet Airways flights which landed at the Brussels airport from India just a little before the twin bomb blasts rocked the Brussels airport and a Metro station on March 22. The actress shared the news of her husband’s return with her fans and followers on Twitter. Gul also shared a photograph, which gives a glimpse of a airline uniform with golden stripes. Gul Panag has heaved a sigh of relief as her pilot husband, who was stuck at the Brussels airport following recent bomb blasts in the Belgian capital city, is back home
Audience wants good films, language no bar, says Tamannaah Bhatia Agency | Mumbai
“Baahubali: The Beginning” actress Tamannaah Bhatia says today language is not a barrier for those audience members Tamannaah who want to watch good films. “Gradually, cinema is becoming a global affair. ‘Baahubali…’ has been accepted Bhatia widely amongst Hindi cinema-goers. So this shows says today that language is becoming less important. Audience wants to watch good films even if it is dubbed in language is not another language,” Tamannaah said at a special a barrier for screening of southern film “Oopiri”. She is sure the movie will be remade in Hindi soon “because it has those audience got the potential and language can’t be the barrier members who for such stories”. The actress, who was seen in Sajid Khan’s “Himmatwala”, is juggling between her career want to watch down south and in Bollywood, and has some interesting projects in her kitty. She will be seen sharing screen space good films with ace choreographer-actor Prabhudheva in an upcoming thriller and is currently filming for “Baahubali: The Conclusion”, as well Tamil film “Dharma Durai”.
Adele plans five-year break? Agency | London
Oscar-winning singer Adele is reportedly planning another hiatus once her tour wraps up in November as she wants to spend time with her three-year-old son Angelo. The “Hello” hitmaker has only just return from a three-year hiatus but is keen to step away from the limelight yet again, reported Femalefirst. “She has told her closest pals she will step away from the limelight for five years before she next brings out an album. She’s still very new to motherhood and doesn’t want to miss out on Angelo growing up. It will be a hard thing for fans to hear,” a source said. However, the 27-year-old singer had recently teased fans about the possibility of a new release by the end of the year. Speaking to her fans during her first gig at Belfast’s SSE Arena in Northern Ireland earlier this month, she said: “There may be a new song towards the end of the shows.” Oscar-winning singer Adele is reportedly planning another hiatus once her tour wraps up in November
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ICC Women’s World T20: Mithali Raj evades SPORTS ROUNDUP questions on her poor form after India exit Agency | Mohali
Her poor form has been one of the primary reason for Indian eves’ disastrous campaign in the ICC World T20 but skipper Mithali Raj decided to dodge the tough questions after team’s unceremonious exit from the marquee event. Mithali’s painfully slow batting against Pakistan and England which fetched 16 of 35 balls and 20 off 33 balls was the primary reason for India’s defeat but her explanation wasone can’t be consistent in this format. “Maybe, this tournament wasn’t as great as expected, but
in T20 format, you can’t really be very consistent. The ups and downs are part of this format. I guess, in these three games, the batting unit was not well
co-ordinated,” Mithali’s answer at the post-match conference was not at all convincing. The Hyderabad girl blamed it on poor fielding at crucial junc-
tures. “As a fielding unit, we were inconsistent, I would say because at crucial times when I thought we were squeezing them for runs, we let those slip-
their poor results in ICC events. “It has been disappointing. We had opportunities we have not backed up batting and bowling to be in semis,” he added. Amla said their batting
and bowling never clicked in a game together and that hurt them badly. “We have not played our best cricket throughout this tournament. We did not have a game where where our batting and bowling clicked at the same time. We were not consistent enough.” Asked about the team combination and using Dale Steyn sparingly in the tournament, Amla backed captain Faf du Plessis and coach Russell Domingo’s decisions.
South Africa vs Sri Lanka: South Africa will surely grab an ICC trophy soon, says Hashim Amla Agency | New Delhi
Tired of explaining their long- standing jinx at ICC events, a desperate Hashim Amla on Sunday said South Africa will surely grab an ICC trophy soon and next year’s Champions Trophy could be that tournament. Yet again South Africans have made an early exit from an ICC event, failing to qualify for the semifinals of the World Twenty20 after losing two of their three matches. “We are asked
this every ICC tournament. This team will win World Cup or an ICC tournament at some stage. We won in 1998 in England and it’s quite a while back,” Amla said when asked about
ups,” she said. She however did agree that most of the batswomen failed to play a significant knock, scoring in 20’s. “Some stood up scoring those 20s, but we didn’t have somebody who could take the team along. That is something we need to work on. Though we could not make it to the semi-final, the way the last three games have gone, each time there were challenges, they (bowlers) got the team back in the game,” she tried to put up a brave defence. She feels that youngsters will gain a lot from this series.
Afghanistan skipper Asghar Stanikzai hails players for historic win Agency | Nagpur
Afghanistan skipper Asghar Stanikzai on Sunday hailed his team members for defending a modest total of 123 to script a historic win against the 2012 champions West Indies in the World T20 cricket tournament in Nagpur on Sunday. Min- to post a consolation win nows Afghanistan beat in their final group league encounter to sign off the the Windies by six runs tournament on a memoThose who alleged that I faked injury rable note. “We were 15 are sick people: Mohammad Hafeez runs short, we knew the conditions but the bowlers and fielders played very well,” said Stanikzai at the post match presentation ceremony. Stanikzai said it was an important victory for his team, considering that they had missed out narrowly on two previous occasions Agency | Karachi
A furious Mohammad Hafeez on Sunday hit back at the critics who had alleged that he had faked injury to skip the last two matches of the ICC World T20, terming them as “mentally sick people”. The top-order batsman was ruled out due to knee injury in the matches against New Zealand and Australia. Pakistan lost three matches to get ousted in the group league stage. “Only mentally sick people can think like this or talk about groupings in the team which is totally wrong. have always played for Pakistan and I am true patriot,” Hafeez told the media on his return from
Javed Miandad refuses to attend meetings of fact-finding committee
India. “I have MRI reports to prove to everyone that my injury was a genuine one due to which I couldn’t play. People spreading baseless rumors should first look at those reports,” he said. Hafeez was Pakistan’s top scorer in the first World Cup match against Bangladesh scoring a half century but was then surprisingly sent in to bat at number seven in the match against India last Saturday. The Pakistan media manager Agha Akbar had announced in a press release that Hafeez had bone contusion/ edema in the right knee and there was also minimal amount of fluid in the knee joint.
Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has refused to attend meetings of the fact-finding committee of the Cricket Board to probe into the national team’s poor performance in the Asia Cup and World T20. “Every time we do badly in a big tournament, the board
The meeting is part of the BJP strategy to win back the farmers who seemed to have been drawn away from it in the local elections last year. The BJP leaders and workers had been given responsibility to bring large number of people in the farmers meeting. Shah will later share the stage with CM Anandiben Patel in Ahmedabad at the inauguration of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation bus station in Ranip area of Ahmedabad. The Surat police and intelli-
gence branch officials are also on their toes to keep a watch on the activities of the Gujarat Khedut Samaj and Patidar Patel leaders or Tiger Bhilistan Party. Strict security arrangements have been made on the route to Kadodara. The local police and intelligence branch officials have been given the task to get information on the people behind probable protest and its location. On Saturday, the farmers’ body had circulated a four-page letter among the farmers and BJP leaders, demanding that the government answer the issues faced by the farmers of Gujarat. Surat District Superintendent of police Mayur Chavda said, “We have laid strict security arrangements on the route and at the event venue and our staffers are deployed at various places on the route.”
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Ahead of Amit Shah’s Sunday rally, farmers’ association seeks clarity on land acquisition
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A day before BJP national president Amit Shah addresses a farmer’s meeting in Surat, the Gujarat Khedut Samaj Saturday put forth a list of issues, seeking clarity on land acquisition for various projects, like the bullet train, and water shortage. BJP national president Amit Shah, along with Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and state BJP president Vijay Rupani will address a huge farmers’ meeting at Kadodara in Surat district on Sunday afternoon.
during the Super 10s. “The win was very important as we missed out on two other chances to win,” said the captain. He said playing in World T20 enabled the Afghanistan team gain valuable experience. “We know about our team’s strong points, we have experienced so much at this World T20.” West Indies captain Darren Sammy said his team needed to find a way to chase down small totals.
carries out this charade of appointing a probe committee,” Miandad said. “Why should I go running to attend their meetings on a call from a secretary. I have already said what I had to say in the media. First and foremost the top people in the board should step down,” he added. Miandad, who has been extremely critical of the state of affairs in Pakistan cricket and the team’s dismal show, said nothing comes out of such inquiries. “Nothing will happen. It is an eye wash because these committees are appointed by the same people who are responsible for the sorry state of affairs,” said Miandad. The former captain is among a string of players invited to appear before the fact-finding committee to help in its inquiry. Some of the cricketers invited include Mohsin Khan, Hanif Muhammad, Tauseef Ahmed, Abdul Qadir among others. Interestingly, the committee is meeting at a time when two important members are not available. Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq is out of the country while senior batsman Younis Khan has apparently once again refused to be part of the proceedings although both were named on the committee by the PCB.
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