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News Brief Market down for 4th straight day; Sensex sheds 102 pts Agency | Mumbai
The benchmark BSE Sensex fell for the fourth straight session today by 102.15 points to 27,459.23 as realty and auto shares dropped on receding hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank and mixed bag of corporate earnings. After resuming in the positive zone, the BSE barometer gave up all of its gains as investors preferred to remain on the sideline ahead of the RBI’s policy review on August 4.
NHRC finds anganwadi food substandard
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NHRC has found that the food supplied in anganwadis and government-run primary schools in Kendrapara district was substandard, their sanitation condition “pathetic” and has sought an action-taken-report from the district administration. An NHRC team had during field inspection detected the presence of insects in uncooked food grains earmarked for cooking food for children. The rights panel also expressed deep concern over the poor sanitation in the government-run schools and Anganwadi centres.
Ganguly recalls receiving Padma Shree from Kalam Agency | New Delhi
Condoling the death of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, ex-India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly today recalled his meetings with the former President and said he was honoured to have received the Padma Shree from the great scientist. The 11th President of India, Kalam served the nation in various capacities and was known as the ‘Missile Man’ after playing a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in the nation’s PokhranII nuclear tests in 1998. Ganguly remembered the legend for his downto-earth demeanour. “I have put it (Kalam’s picture with himself) on my WhatsApp.
“Heavy rains in Gujarat”
Parts of Gujarat record 3 digit rainfall in the last 24 hours
11 killed as heavy rains lash Gujarat The downpour since on Monday disrupted normal life even as the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Reserve Police (SRP) teams were dispatched to Banaskantha in North Gujarat in the view of flood-like situation
jkot and Patan districts each and one from Sabarkantha. According to the official, six teams of NDRF were dispatched to Banaskantha district and deployed at Tharad, Lakhani and Dhanera talukas. Meanwhile,
three persons were killed when a tree fell on their car near Rajkot’s Chotila town on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, said Chotila taluka police station sub inspector B H Posatar. The deceased were identified as Asad Pathan
(35), Gautam Hirpara (25) and Kanti Makwana (52). As per the data given by the State Emergency Operation Centre, Banaskantha, which remains the worst affected district, received 318 mm rainfall since yesterday. A team of Ahmedabad Fire brigade was also sent to Banaskantha district. While Kutch and Patan districts each received 171 mm rainfall, Morbi district (134 mm) in Saurashtra region recorded the highest rainfall, followed by Surendranagar (67 mm), Botad (37 mm) and Rajkot (33 mm). In Central Gujarat, good rainfall was witnessed in Ahmedabad (63 mm), Chhota Udepur
hours of car drive to IIM Shillong. For these two legged trip of five hours we talked, discussed and debated. These were amongsthundreds of the long flights and longer
drives we have been together over the last six years. As each of them, this was as special too. Three incidents/discussions in particular will be “lasting memories of our
last trip”. First, Dr. Kalam was absolutely worried about the attacks in Punjab. The loss of innocent lives left him filled with sorrow. The topic of lecture at IIM Shillong was
Creating a Livable Planet Earth. He related the incident to the topic and said, “it seems the man made forces are as big a threat to the livability of earth as pollution”.
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ecution, scheduled for Thursday, and hence no formal effective order was passed. Instead, the Chief Justice of India has been urged to list the matter for hearing on Wednesday, on an urgent basis. Justice Dave, while referring to Memon’s counsel, said, “I hope you know who are you arguing for..who are you trying to protect,” suggesting that he found no merit in the convict’s plea. Justice Dave further recalled Sanskrit shlokas on a King’s duty to punish sinners; ‘danda’ to be used to punish cruelty. Justice Joseph, however, said, “Law is not help-
less and this court is not powerless to protect right to life.” The petition first came up for hearing on Monday, when the Supreme Court questioned the procedure by which it had dismissed Memon’s curative petition examining his final legal remedy. The bench, had on Monday, questioned why
all the judges who had heard Yakub’s review petition were not part of the bench, which rejected his curative plea on July 21 even though all such judges were available. If Memon fails to secure a stay on his death penalty, he will hang on July, 30 at the Nagpur Central Prison.
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Incessant rains lashed Gujarat today, causing death of 11 persons in various rain-related incidents, affecting normal life and prompting the MeT Department to issue warning to fishermen against venturing into sea. The downpour since yesterday disrupted normal life even as the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Reserve Police (SRP) teams were dispatched to Banaskantha in North Gujarat in the view of flood-like situation. As per the information given by the Disaster Control Room and police, of the 11 deaths
due to rain-related incidents, four were reported from Banaskantha district, three each from Rajkot and Patan districts, and one was from Sabarkantha. “At least four persons were killed in Banaskantha district
when the jeep in which their were travelling was washed away in heavy flow of rain water,” State Disaster Control Room official Bhavesh Varshaj said. He said three rain-related casualties were reported from Ra-
(104), Anand (69 mm), Vadodara (69 mm) and Panchamahal districts today. The Meteorological Department has issued warning to fishermen against venturing into sea for the next 24 hours. “Due to steep pressure gradient, markedly squally weather (is) likely to prevail off North and South coast. Wind will be 35-45 kmph from Southwesterly direction (and) wind speed in gust/ squall may temporarily reach 50 kmph,” the MeT Department stated in the warning. “Sea will be rough with waves from Southwesterly direction. Fishermen are advised not to go into sea during next 24 hours,” it added.
APJ Abdul Kalam’s final words to his aide: ‘Funny guy! Agency | New Delhi What I will be remembered for.. my memory of the last day with the great Kalam sir… It has been eight hours since we last talked – sleep eludes me and memories keep flushing down, sometimes as tears. Our day, 27th July, began at 12 noon, when we took our seats in the flight to Guhawati. Dr. Kalam was 1A and I was IC. He was wearing a dark colored “Kalam suit”, and I started off complimenting, “Nice color!” Little did I know this was going to be the last color I will see on him. Long, 2.5 hours of flying in the monsoon weather. I hate turbulence, and he
had mastered over them. Whenever he would see me go cold in shaking plane, he would just pull
down the window pane and saw, “Now you don’t see any fear!”. That was followed by another 2.5
Yakub Memon death plea: SC bench differs on execution, refers case to larger bench
With the two judges disagreeing on the point of law, the Supreme Court on Tuesday referred to a larger bench a petition by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon challenging his death warrant. While Justice Anil R Dave chose to dismiss Yakub’s plea after finding it without merit, Justice Kurian Joseph said there was a procedural flaw in dismissing Yakub’s curative petition. The two judges also did not agree on a common order so as to stay the execution of Yakub’s ex-
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A.P.J. Abdul Kalam redefined the Indian Presidency
Former A.P.J. Abdul Kalam redefined the Indian Presidency. When he came to the office as the 11th president in July 2002, the head of state was seen to be the titular head who drew attention to himself and his office only when sombre Constitutional questions were thrown up in the aftermath of an uncertain electoral verdict. For the rest, the President of India was to be wrapped and enclosed in dignified and ceremonial hauteur. The year 2002 had also been a particularly fraught year. The Gujarat violence had exposed deep communal faultlines in the nation. In that divided political moment, in a masterstroke, the Atal Behari Vajpayee government selected Kalam as its presidential candidate, the Congress lent him its support and Kalam was elected with just a little less than 90 per cent of the valid votes. Barely a month after assuming office, President Kalam visited riot-ravaged Gujarat over the objections of the government of the day. And almost from Day One he began to open up the presidency to the people. He was the Thiruvalluvar-quoting scientist who became head of state, opening wider the possibility of the non-politician, and the outsider to the political system, presiding over it. Long before discontent with the political class would spill on to the streets of the nation’s capital in the form of the Anna movement and become the propulsive force for the meteoric rise of the Aam Aadmi Party, it was Kalam, perhaps, who answered the need, in cynical times, for the role model who had no axe to grind. He could quote from the Gita as from the Koran. He spoke directly, with child-like enthusiasm, to the young, many years before it had become fashionable to invoke and refer to India’s “demographic dividend”. He embodied a positive solution-centric approach that made people believe that despite the hurdles, the prejudices and the political turbulence, greatness was at hand — it just needed ignited minds and a Vision 20:20. In 2005, in Moscow, in the dead of night, President Kalam unquestioningly approved the Union Cabinet’s decision to impose President’s rule in Bihar. That was a low point in his presidency, which his then secretary would later record in his memoirs, almost led him to resign. A year later, in 2006, President Kalam returned a controversial bill, expressing concern over the lack of “unambiguous” definition of what constitutes an “office of profit”. He signed it later after it was sent back to him but he had made his point. The “people’s president” was someone who had an acute sense of the moral authority his post vested in him even though it gave him only limited powers. To maximise the synergy between the grids, leading to maximisation of the GDP and productivity, there is a need for inter-grid connectivities, which may be called the societal grid. Knowledge-sharing, utilisation and reuse is vital by all constituents of the society for promoting non-linear growth.
- Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor Big B, Naseeruddin Said No to Role Muzaffar Ali Cast Himself in
Agency | New Delhi Director Muzaffar Ali is all set to exhibit his acting skills in Jaanisaar, which has also been directed by him. However, he has revealed that he wanted to cast Amitabh Bachchan and Naseeruddin Shah for the role, which he eventually did himself. “According to the demand of the script, we required a person
who somewhat resembled me. We were thinking about Naseeruddin and Amitabh, but both of them didn’t have the time. That’s according to us, but according to them, we would have perhaps got their time only after two years,” he said. The Umrao Jaan director said that his son Shaad prompted him to do the film.
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Drashti in love with her life post wedding Agency | New Delhi
TV actor Drashti Dhami, who tied the knot with Mumbaibased businessman Neeraj Khemka earlier this year, says that she’s in the happiest phase of her life. “This is a really happy time in my life. I love spending time with my husband and my in-laws. They also watch my shows at times, and are very supportive of my career decisions,” says the 30-year-old, who was last seen as the host of a dance reality show in 2014 and is currently seen on TV serial Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani on Zee TV. Talking about her wedding, Drashti says that she wanted to keep it private. “It was a hush-hush affair, and that is how I wanted it to
be. But of course, it is tough to keep it like that. I still feel like I did a good job and managed to keep quite a lot of it hidden. But there were things that came out,” she says, adding, “But I am not complaining. I really love all my fans and I think that they bring out the best in me.” Although the actor is back to work with her show Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, she says that a break is very important in an actor’s life. “I feel it is crucial to take it easy for a while. Playing the same character can get tiring for any actor. So, taking some time off always helps,” says Drashti, adding that she really enjoyed herself during her break. “I travelled, relaxed and spent time with my friends,” she adds.
Watch: Akshay-Sidharth ‘No dating’ clause for Sooraj face-off in Brothers’ anthem Pancholi and Athiya Shetty? Agency | New Delhi
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Director Karan Malhotra’s film Brothers is making all the right noise. Starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra, first the film’s song Mary intrigued us. And now, the makers have released another song: This one is called the Brothers’ Anthem! Composed by Ajay and Atul, and sung by Vishal Dadlani, the song is about the film’s leading characters, David and Monty Fernandes
Many a times, you see sparks flying on the film sets between the lead stars. But seems, the industry is opening up to newer diktats now. Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty who make their glitzy debut with Salman Khan’s production venture Hero have signed a ‘No Dating’ clause for the film. Wonder what’s that? Well, according to sources, the actors had to sign the clause which means that they won’t be seeing each other during the making of the film, or during promotions of the film post the shoots. Now, you know why we won’t be hearing or seeing too much of Sooraj and Athiya together. It was a decision taken by
(played by Akshay and Sidharth). The song is picturised around the two brothers training for their life’s biggest fight, against each other. Brothers is a remake of 2011 Hollywood film
Warrior which starred Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy in the lead roles. The film, set to hit the screens on August 14, also stars Jacqueline Fernandez in an important role.
Celebs tweet to celebrate Huma Qureshi’s 29th b’day Agency | Mumbai
Actress Huma Qureshi, who turned 29 on Tuesday, has been wished a year full of happiness by her friends and colleagues from the Hindi film industry. Huma worked as a theatre actor and model before beginning her film career. She made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the 2012 crime drama “Gangs of Wasseypur”, where she played the character of Mohsina, the love interest of Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character Faizal Khan. Huma’s performance earned her several nominations in the Best Supporting Actress and Best Female Debut category. She got noticed for her portrayal of a range of characters, including a witch in the 2013 horror film “Ek Thi Daayan”, a RAW explosives expert in the action spy thriller film
the makers which the parents of both the actors too echoed. Sooraj’s parents were also against the idea of their son dating anyone because of the numerous problems he’s faced in the past for being involved with late actress Jiah Khan. Also, he’s too
young and his parents don’t want him to start a relationship right at the beginning of their career. But we believe the actors are following the new diktat with utmost care. Yet we hope to see more of the stars soon during the Hero promotions.
doesn’t fall into that category. Recently, Hrithik took to Twitter to praise the latter’s performance in her 2014 film, Desert
Dancer, and added that she doesn’t answer his phone even though the purpose of his call was to compliment her.
Freida Pinto doesn’t pick my phone: Hrithik Roshan complains
“D-Day”, and the promiscuous companion of a Begum in the 2014 black comedy thriller “Dedh Ishqiya”. On the silver screen, the actress was last seen in Sriram Raghavan’s “Badlapur”,
which also starred actors Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Huma is currently busy shooting for a remake of the Hollywood film “Oculus” alongwith her brother Saqib Saleem.
Agency | Mumbai While most people would be happy to get a call from a star like Hrithik Roshan, it seems that Freida Pinto
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Agency | New Delhi Indian budget airline SpiceJet Ltd reported on Tuesday a net profit of 718 million rupees ($11.2 million) for the three months ending June, after cutting costs and flying more passengers. SpiceJet made a net loss of 1.24 billion rupees in the same quarter a year earlier. India’s second biggest budget carrier by market share, which last quarter made its first profit since 2013, is in the midst of a recovery plan after it almost collapsed late last year. Under new
chairman Ajay Singh, the airline has cut routes - its capacity is down a third since last year - and costs. It said on Tuesday that its load factor - the percentage of an airline’s carrying capacity it has filled - rose to 89.8 per cent in the quarter, a rise of almost 15 per cent from last year. Sustained profitability has eluded most of India’s airlines for the last few years amid fierce competition for fares and high operating costs, despite the country’s aviation market growing at one of the fastest rates worldwide.
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On BCCI’s transparency, Sreesanth and IPL: What Anurag Thakur says and what we hear Agency | New Delhi
Since taking over as BCCI secretary six months ago, Anurag Thakur has been in the thick of things. He’s been in the BCCI administration since 2000 and has climbed up the ranks steadily. After being joint secretary for the last three years, Thakur defeated Sanjay Patel - a N Srinivasan loyalist - to take over the secretary post. While Srinivasan continued to work in his own ways despite the arrest of his son-in-law in the IPL corruption scandal, it was Thakur who showed first signs of opposition against the former BCCI chief and made the battle a personal one as he asked Srinivasan in an open let-
Agency | Mumbai Facebook plans to scale up its service to offer free basic Internet on mobile phones, an executive said, after introducing the application in 17 developing countries over the past year. In a blog post released to mark the first year of the initiative, Facebook said it will open a portal allowing any mobile operator to offer the service under its Internet.org platform. Facebook currently partners with specific operators to launch the service
in different countries. Internet.org has brought over 9 million people online over the past year, Mr Chris Daniels, vice president of product for Internet.org, told Reuters today (July 27). Facebook developed the platform with six technology partners to bring an estimated 4.5 billion unconnected people online, mainly in Latin America, Asia and Africa. It offers pareddown web services for free to users, along with access to Facebook’s own social network and messaging services.
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ter to share the details of bookies not only with BCCI but also his family members whose involvement in betting had been proved. Thakur spoke at length about the changing face of BCCI, IPL, his relation with Srinivasan and the banned trio of Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila to
ESPNCricinfo. Here are three takeaways from the interview. “We have taken over when there is a great challenge, but I see a lot of opportunity. In the last few years, certain decisions have been taken for which the board has had to pay a price and the image of the board has been tarnished.
group stage matches. The 33-year-old also won the Cypriot Cup and the Cypriot Super Cup.
Mumbai City FC have announced the signing of Tunisia’s Selim Benachour for the Indian Super League’s (ISL) second season. A statement from the club said that the attacking midfielder suits the team’s ‘style of play and work ethics’. Benachour started his career with Paris
Saint-Germain in 2001 and stayed with the French club till 2005. His other high profile moves include a stint with Spanish La Liga side Málaga and Cypriot club APOEL. While in Cyprus, he helped APOEL win the 2012– 13 First Division title and also appeared in two UEFA Europa League
Benachour strength’s are his wide range of passing and vision which he showed for Tunisia during the World Cup in 2002. “I am extremely happy to join forces with my former teammate, Nicolas Anelka. I am also very excited to be a part of Mumbai City FC in the ISL and all that this league has to offer. I heard a lot about the ISL and Mumbai City FC last year, and I cannot wait to start training with my new team mates,” Benachour said. Anelka-managed Mumbai City FC start their campaign against FC Pune City on 5 October.
Hoping to get better Chepauk strip than 1st game: Cheteshwar Pujara
Google bids adieu to its social network Google Plus Agency | Houston Google is bidding adieu to Google Plus, an awkwardly named social network that the American search engine had launched four years ago hoping it would become a serious rival to Facebook. Google has spent the last several months chopping up Google Plus’s most useful pieces and making them separate services as it moves away from making Google Plus the central hub for all Google-related activity. Yesterday, the company announced its most drastic step for breaking up Google Plus. Google has announced more sweeping changes for Google
Plus over the next few months as it ‘restructures network’into two distinctly separate products: streams and photos. Previously, many tasks within Google products (such as, say, commenting on a YouTube video) required a Google Plus profile, but that won’t be the case moving forward. “People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier,” Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of photos and sharing, wrote in a company blog.
Agency | Chennai Cheteshwar Pujara knows very well that his primary goal is to get back his place in the playing XI of the Indian Test side and for that he is now gearing up to open the innings when India A take on Australia A in the second unofficial ‘Test’ on Wednesday. Pujara in fact has opened for senior India against Australia during the 2013 home series but now with KL Rahul being rested, the
SPORTS ROUNDUP Four Tests, five ODIs, three T20Is: Fixture list of Proteas’ longest tour of India yet
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Saurashtra right-hander is desperate to show the national selectors that he is ready to bat at any position.“KL Rahul is not here and has been rested. I will be opening in place of Rahul,” Pujara told reporters on Tuesday. Pujara knows that Test captain will also be keenly watching India A captain’s performance and he feels that Virat Kohli’s presence will help all the boys. “Virat wanted to have practice before Sri Lanka tour and that’s why
he is here. I was named the skipper before the series and I’m leading the team. Obviously, when I play for India A or India, it’s important to score runs. With Virat here, we have had a chat and discussed about the game how things are going on. “It will be good for me as well as for all the youngsters. They can talk to Virat and learn from him. Virat can share his ideas and how he prepares. It is a good platform,” Pujara said.
The fixture list for South Africa’s tour of India has been announced. The tour will run from the end of September to the beginning of December, 2015. In all, the tour will last for 72 days and consists of four Tests, five ODIs and three T20Is. It also includes a couple of tour matches. The BCCI had earlier announced the venues for the tour: Ahmedabad, Delhi, Nagpur and Bangalore will host the Tests. The ODIs are set to be held in Chennai - which will be hosting an ODI match after a gap of almost three years - and Kanpur, Indore (MPCA), Rajkot and Mumbai. The T20Is will be played in Kolkata, Mohali and Dharamshala. “I am delighted to confirm, together with the BCCI, the Proteas’ itinerary for our tour of India later this year,” commented CSA
Chief Executive, Haroon Lorgat. “This will be the longest tour that we have undertaken to India and the first time we will play a four-Test series. Both countries are now working to develop this into an icon series. Another first is that we will be playing our first T20 International match against India in India.” “Of note will be the second Test match to be played in Bangalore where the Castle Lager Proteas previously secured our only ever Test Series win over India in
India in 2000. If all works out this will be AB de Villiers’ 100th Test match and it could not be a more appropriate venue as it has become AB’s second home through his involvement with the Royal Challengers Bangalore.” “Being a landmark tour in the young history of Cricket South Africa, Ï wish to thank the BCCI for all the hard work that has been put in to scheduling this tour and I now look forward to the Test series becoming an iconic one,” Lorgat added.
mar. Commenting on the deal, Neerav Tomar, MD & CEO IOS Sports & Entertainment said, “I am really excited about signing the deal with Suresh Raina. We were in touch with each other for a longtime and finally we have signed the deal. “I am sure we will have a great partnership working together. Raina has been very consistent in all formats of the game and has the flexibility to adapt and play as the situation demands. “We already have our plans in place for managing Suresh Raina. Initially we will be doing his
brand imagery. Also, we will be looking at brands that suits his image and fits his profile,” he added. IOS, which is also celebrating 10 years of successful operations, works closely with more than 20 other sports stars including shuttler Saina Nehwal, shooter Gagan Narang, Indian men’s hockey captain Sardar Singh, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, shooter Heena Sidhu, hockey stars Sandeep Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh, archer Deepika Kumari, and India’s No. 1 squash player Sourav Ghoshal.
Raina leaves Rhiti Sports, signs 3-year deal with IOS group Agency | New Delhi
Indian cricketer Suresh Raina signed a three-year deal with leading sports management group, IOS Sports and Entertainment on Tuesday, leaving Rhiti Sports, his current player management agency. IOS will now manage Raina’s endorsements and brand associations, corporate profile, patents and digital rights, images, visibility on social networking sites and merchandise. “I was in touch with Neerav from past few months and we had several rounds of dialogues. I have been observing his company doing very interesting work for Olympic Sportspersons,” Raina said. “I believe IOS had all requisite credentials I needed, importantly they have a passionate and dedicated team who understands the space and comfort that a sportsperson needs. “I am very happy to be represented by IOS and I am also elated that I would be working with the company that has produced results in the recent past,” said Raina, who is celebrating 10 years of his international debut on July 30. Raina is the first cricketer IOS has signed. IOS manages some elite sportspersons such as Olympic medallists Vijender Singh, boxer MC Mary Kom, and wrestler Sushil Ku-
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Godhra train burning: Suspect Over 35,000 children in Gujarat of the absconding for 13 years arrested age group 10-14 are married: Census Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
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A man wanted for 13 years in connection with the burning of Sabarmati Express at Godhra in 2002 was arrested Monday from Dahod railway station by officials of the Ahmedabad Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). ATS officials arrested Kasam Ibrahim Bhameri when he was waiting for a train to visit his home town Godhra. This is the third arrest in the case this month, even as 12 accused are still absconding. ATS inspector B M Desai said Bhameri was being tracked since last one month, and found to be hiding at different locations in Madhya Pradesh. “We
received a tip-off that he was planning to visit his family in Godhra, and when was on the way to his home town, our team arrested him from Dahod railway station,” Desai said. Bhameri, a resident of Signal Falia in Godhra, stayed in
Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain and other places in Madhya Pradesh to evade arrest. “We will hand him over to the Special Investigation team (SIT) in Gandhinagar, which is investigating the 2002 riots cases,” Desai said. On Thursday last week,
Godhra crime branch arrested one Hussain Sulaiman Mohan, an accused in the case, from Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh. The crime branch officials on July 16 had arrested Kadir Abdul Gani, another accused in the case.
According to the 2011 Census data on Marital Status of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes released on Monday, there were over 35,000 children who were married when they were between 10 years and 14 years of age. The instances of child marriages, as per this data, is higher among Scheduled Tribes where 25,508 persons in the 10-14 year age group are married (9,878 Males and 15,630 females). Among them 1009 are widowed, 526 are separated and 285 are divorced. While the problem seems to be more widespread in the rural areas of Gujarat, the 2011 Census figures show that the issue is more serious in some of the local tribes like Bhils,
Dhodia, Halpati, Gamit, Kokna, Nayaka, Rathawa and Varli. For instance, among Bhils — who constitute 40 percent of the total tribal population of the state who largely reside on “poorvi paati” or the eastern belt, stretching from Banaskantha in the North to Dangs in the South — the number of married persons in this age group is over 11,500. The presence of many married persons in this age bracket is in violation of the Prohibition of the Child Marriage Act, 2006, which lays down the minimum age for marriage for all Indian citizens, as 21 years for men and 18 years for women. “It is surprising to know that there are so many married tribals in this age bracket in Gujarat. Normally, some of the tribals of the
state, especially in the southern parts, tend to get married when they are between 16-18 years,” said Satyakam Joshi, senior sociologist and director of Centre for Social Stud-
ies, a Surat-based autonomous social science research institute supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and the government of Gujarat.
day. This meant 22,745 seats in 125 degree engineering colleges are still vacant. However, there is no vacant seat in six government engineering colleges. The vacancies are only in self-financed institutes (SFIs), mostly in remote areas. ACPC representative M Y Patil said that only 57,000 candidates applied this year for admission to engineering courses and out of them 55,000 were found to be eligible. Of them, only 40,103 students completed ad-
mission formalities and participated in the admission process. Patil said this indicated that students were not much interested in engineering education and might be looking for other options. Former ACPC
member-secretary and currently vice chancellor of Gujarat University M N Patel said that sharp increase in fee in SFIs might be one of the reasons keeping students away from engineering education.
Gujarat notifies compulsory No taker for 22,745 engineering seats voting in local body elections Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar
Gujarat became the first state to have a provision for compulsory voting with the state government on Monday putting out a notification in this regard. Besides making voting mandatory in the local body elections, the communiqué, backdated to July 17, reserves 50 per cent seats for women in municipal corporations, municipalities, and village panchayats. With the government notifying the Gujarat Local Authorities Act (Amendment) 2009, a voter in the state would now invite punitive action in case he or she fails to vote in the local body elections without any acceptable reason. The local body polls in the state are likely to be held in September and October. However, the notification has not specified what punishment would be meted out those who fail to exercise their franchise. The notification issued by the Urban Development
and Urban Housing Department, however, led to confusion given that on July 22, the government had announced that it would come out with an ordinance within the Act for a further amendment. “We had announced on July 22 for first bringing out an ordinance for inclusion of a clause on disqualification of office bearers if they fail to vote without a valid reason, and then notification. But the notification, which is out now, however, has a date prior to the ordinance
announcement,” said government spokesperson and Health Minister Nitin Patel. Patel said: “The Governor has also cleared the ordinance. So, whether a common man or an elected councillor, everyone will now have to compulsorily vote.” An elected member of a local body or an office bearer, according to the ordinance, wound stand disqualified in the event he or she does not vote. This ordinance is likely to be made part of the Act through another amendment in the up-
Around 36 per cent or 22,745 seats are lying vacant in the state’s degree engineering courses this year, despite the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) relaxing norms for allowing students from outside Gujarat to take admission in tech colleges. ACPC member-secretary G P Vadodaria said that only 4,01,03 students were allotted seats during the coming Monsoon session, final round of admisslated for the next month. sions that closed MonState Election Commission secretary Mahesh Joshi said, “We have received the communication from the government for the Act coming into effect from July 17. Rules for Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad the amended Act, however, are yet to out.” The The Gujarat High Court BJP government had to on Monday adjourned wait for five years for get- the hearing of a petition ting the Bill cleared from challenging the clean chit given to Prime Minthe Governor’s office. Inister Narendra Modi and troduced first in 2009, the others in the 2002 riots Bill was cleared by the case till August 4, when Governor only in Novem- it will decide whether ber 2014. the plea can be heard on
HC decision on daily hearing on Zakia’s plea on August 4
3 teens held for youth’s murder Gujarat High court tells AMC At that time, the teenager to issue 819 new sealing notices Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad A team of Ahmedabad rural police’s local crime branch (LCB) caught three persons, including a 15-year-old boy, for killing a 25-year-old youth on July 23. On July 23, Jatin Vaniya, a resident of Modasar, a village near Sanand, had confronted the accused teenager near Lodariya village’s outskirts as the teenager was harassing his cousin over phone for past few days. Vaniya slapped him and threatened him of dire consequences if he continued the harassment.
had called up his friends. “Sensing trouble, Vaniya had called up his friends, including deceased Mihir Jadav. While passing from the road to Lodariya, the teenager and his friends attacked them with lathis. While Vaniya survived the blow, Mihir was hit in the head after which he lost balance and fell on side of the road. He along with another friend was then beaten up as Vaniya fled from the spot. When they returned after some time, Mihir had sustained severe injuries.
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Gujarat high court on Monday asked Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to issue fresh notice for sealing of 819 buildings that are illegally used for commercial purpose in the Walled City. The civic body sealed 165 buildings in and around Manekchowk area and issued show-cause notice to 254 people giving them a 30-day period to explain why the buildings shouldn’t be sealed in case they fail to establish legal use of the structures
by furnishing all documents. To such showcause notice, the petitioner’s counsel Amit Panchal raised objections and argued that the show-cause notices were issued with oblique reasons to grant more time to violators. The civic body had gathered data on these buildings a couple of years ago when similar notices were issued. Some of them were sealed, some given warnings and the rest had even given undertakings to change the use of the buildings.
a daily basis. The prayer was made by the lawyers representing the Supreme Court-appointment Special Investigation Team. The hearing was adjourned after petitioner Zakia Jafri’s lawyer MM Tirmizi sought time for submitting additional documents. The move was objected by the SIT lawyers, stating that the court should not allow submission of any additional documents since all relevant materials in the case have already been given to the petitioner. Justice Sonia Gokani asked Tirmizi that what additional documents he
wants to submit as the case pertains to revision of a lower court’s order and she will rely only the documents which are part of the court. Tirmizi replied his senior counsel wants to prepare a chart to brief the court about the facts of the case in a nutshell. On July 24, Tirmizi had moved an application before the HC registrar seeking more time to submit additional documents. In the application, he had mentioned that due to a CBI raid on activist Teesta Setalvad, “it was a bit difficult for the lawyers to prepare a charts and other additional documents”. Justice Gokani, during the brief arguments, asked Tirmizi about the details of the CBI raid on Setalvad. When the application was objected by the SIT lawyers, Tirmizi told the court that he didn’t want to press for the application. Following this, the
The hearing was adjourned after petitioner Zakia Jafri’s lawyer MM Tirmizi sought time for submitting additional documents
court disposed of the application and adjourned the hearing till August 4. SIT lawyer RS Jamuar requested the court to conduct the matter on a daily basis from August 4. The court replied it would consider on the next date. Zakia Jafri, whose husband ex Congress MP Ahsan Jafri was among
69 persons killed in the Gulberg Society massacre during 2002 riots, moved this petition last year, challenging the order of a magisterial court that upheld the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012, giving a clean chit to Modi, who was the then chief minister, and 58 others.
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