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News Brief Katju booked for sedition for comments on Bihar
(H.S.) | Patna As the row over his remarks on Bihar raged on, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju has been booked on sedition charge following a complaint by a JD(U) MLC againt his online post that Kashmir should be offered to Pakistan on the condition that it takes Bihar too. Another complaint was also filed today in the district court against Katju, who hit back at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
1 killed as army vehicle hits motorcycle (H.S.) | Srinagar
A 35-year-old man was today killed and another injured when their motorcycle was allegedly hit by an army vehicle in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, police said. The army vehicle allegedly hit the motorcycle driven by Fayaz Ahmad Wani near JIC Khanabal, 55 km from here, resulting in the death of his pillion rider Nizam Rehman on the spot, a police official said. He said Wani, a resident of Kelem village, was injured in the accident and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Dengue: Two more deaths, toll rises to 21
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The SAARC summit of 2016 will be cancelled, a senior diplomatic source in Kathmandu told The Hindu. The confirmation from Nepal, the current SAARC Chair, came hours after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan followed India’s decision to stay away from the November summit to be held in Islamabad. “There is no question of holding the summit if four countries declare their unwillingness to participate. As the current SAARC Chair, Nepal has the responsibility of seeking a solution to such pre-sum-
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The summit is automatically postponed or cancelled even if one member country skips the event
mit disputes but under the current circumstances nothing much can be attempted. We will do the due formalities and will declare the summit of 2016 should be cancelled
due to non-participation of member states,” said a Kathmandu-based diplomatic source. The source, however, pointed out that Nepal has not taken any decision on the summit as
it is the current SAARC Chair. “We wish that a diplomatic breakthrough could be found with a possible change of venue but no one can guarantee success of such steps as four
countries have already declared their inability to attend the summit without seeking an alternate venue,” he said. The atmospherics for the cancellation began building up after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan sent formal official communications to Kathmandu on September 27 almost immediately after India expressed inability to participate in the summit due to “prevailing circumstances” and stepped up diplomatic pressure on Pakistan after the September
18 attack on the military base in Uri. Like India that cited “cross-border terrorist attacks in the region” as a reason for boycotting the summit, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan too expressed concern about the same issue in their official notes to Kathmandu. “The growing interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh by one country has created an environment, which is not conducive to the successful hosting of the 19th SAARC summit in Islamabad in November 2016.
Bangladesh, as the initiator of the SAARC process, remains steadfast in its commitment to regional cooperation, connectivity and contacts but believes that these can only go forward in a more congenial atmosphere,” stated a communication from Dhaka to Nepal which was shared with the media by a source. A high-level diplomatic source from Bangladesh also confirmed to The Hindu that the formal declaration of the cancellation of the summit is imminent.
PM Modi should chair meeting of CMs India races up 16 rungs on on Cauvery, not Uma Bharti: DMK global competitiveness index (H.S.) | New Delhi
DMK on Wednesday accused Union Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti of backing Karnataka in the Cauvery issue and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should chair the proposed meeting of Chief Ministers to break the impasse on water release to Tamil Nadu. In a statement here, DMK President M Karunanidhi said reports in a section of media opined that Bharti should chair the meeting of Chief Min-
isters of the two states, being convened by the Centre as per a Supreme Court suggestion. He said Bharti had recently aired views “fully supporting” Karnataka over the impasse on release of Cauvery water by that state to
Tamil Nadu and doubts would arise about the outcome of the meeting if she chaired the deliberations. “Instead of the participation of the Union Minister, the meet should be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi him-
Senior bureaucrat B K Bansal accused CBI officials of pushing his family to suicide (H.S.) | New Delhi
A tainted top government official, who committed suicide along with his son yesterday, blamed CBI officials probing the corruption case against him for the decision to end their lives. In the wake of the allegations against its officials, CBI Wednesday constituted an internal inquiry to look into them. In suicide notes purportedly written by former Corporate Affairs Director General B K Bansal and his son Yogesh, the official has alleged that a CBI DIG, two women officers and a “fat” Havaldar of the agency had tortured his wife and daughter after which both had committed suicide in July. New agency today received two suicide notes, a seven-page note purportedly written by Bansal and a two-page
Two more deaths due to dengue, including that of young boy, have been reported in Delhi, which took to 21 the number of fatalities due to the vector-borne disease in the national capital. The total number of dengue cases in Delhi has gone up to to 1,692 with 921 of them being reported this month, according to a municipal report. Both the deaths occurred recently, one at Safdarjung Hospital and the other at Lok Nayak Jaiprakash (LNJP) Hospital. Sub Editor: Dhruvil Makani
self so that an amicable solution arises from it,” he said recalling the reported remarks of Bharti. The apex court had on Tuesday asked Karnataka to discharge 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu till Friday despite its assembly resolution, but called for a political solution to the impasse by convening of a meeting of Chief Ministers of the two states and the Centre. Karunanidhi said water was required for irrigation till January 28 for the samba crop, but the present storage in Mettur dam would suffice only till November 5.
The Narendra Modi government’s initiatives to improve the business and policy environment received thunderous validation from the World Economic Forum, which recorded India’s ascendance by 16 ranks to the
goods market effciency, business sophistication, and innovation,” said the report, prepared by the WEF. India is now the second-most competitive country amongst the five-nation BRICS bloc, behind China, which is at the 28th spot. The WEF’s acknowledgement of India’s global competitive39th spot in the Global ness comes barely days Competitiveness Index after the rating agency in 2016-17. India, which Moody’s raised concerns ranked 55th last year, over the health of the registered the sharpest country’s banking sector improvement among 138 and the insufficient evcountries assessed. “In- idence of “tangible” redia’s competitiveness forms, and said that a rathas improved across the ing upgrade must await a board, in particular in year or two.
writ petition later filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking directions to police to present him in the court. However, Hardik himself appeared before the court, which reprimanded him for going to the media first instead of the court. In this case, police is likely to go to Udaipur, where Hardik is currently stationed on exile, to “complete just
exposed its false claims that dozens of cases had been withdrawn against the agitating Patels. “About two-three months ago, the BJP government had announced that it had withdrawn over 90 per cent of cases but this is an eyewash as these arrests show. Where is the sympathy for the Patidars the government claims?” “They want to keep the Patels entangled in police and legal formalities for long,” Hardik said in a video message circulated on social media. Meanwhile, a police official said that the “arrest would only be a formality, but he is making an issue of it”.
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note purportedly written by Yogesh dated September 26, 2016, a day before their bodies were discovered in their flat here. CBI Spokesperson RK Gaur said the agency has received a communication from Delhi Police in which the suicide notes have been attached. He said an inquiry has been ordered to look into the allegations and the court will be informed. In the note purportedly signed by Bansal, it is alleged that that his wife and daughter had shared the details
of “torture” with friends and neighbours before taking the extreme step. He alleged that the CBI DIG also claimed that he was close to a politician of the ruling party and dared Bansal to do whatever he wanted. Bansal alleged that the women officers slapped his wife even as the DIG abused her over phone and threatened to torture Bansal who was in CBI custody. He said, “even if I was at fault in the case, why were my wife and daughter pushed to suicide by CBI officials.”
The Gujarat Police on Tuesday arrested Dinesh Bhambhania, a close associate of Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel, for holding a protest rally a year ago without allegedly seeking adequate official permission. The Aravalli district police is likely to pick up Hardik Patel on the same charges for holding the public meeting organized by his Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) at Tenpur town on September 22, 2015. This was the same meeting from where Patel had gone mysteriously missing when police was after him and a habeus corpus
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the formality of arresting him since it is a bailable offence”, a police official said. Already, over 35 persons, charged under Indian Penal Code’s Section 188 (disobedience of order duly promulgated by public servant), have been arrested and subsequently released. Patel however used it take a dig at the BJP government saying that this only
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Samajwadi Party: The power struggle within weakens a party
Recent weeks have witnessed an acrimonious power struggle within the Samajwadi Party between the older and younger generation. It is a dynastic party experiencing generational change. While Mulayam Singh Yadav established the party, there is now a tussle for control between father and son with uncle, Shivpal Yadav, and “outsider”, Amar Singh, supporting Mulayam. This has prevented Akhilesh Yadav, a young, educated and forward-looking leader, from creating a modern, development-oriented party free from the casteist and corrupt politics of the old guard. While it was hoped that Mulayam Singh would settle affairs quickly, he has given greater control over the party to his brother and Amar Singh, leaving his son acutely embarrassed. The entire episode is surprising as the state assembly election is due in early 2017, and the main contest, many argue, is between the ruling SP and BJP. While the media has focused largely on the dramatic events, two significant concerns require consideration. More immediately, will the tussle between the two groups within the party affect the SP’s fortunes in the forthcoming assembly elections? More fundamentally, what does this unseemly wrangling for power tell us about the SP, the decline of parties and party politics in UP and its impact on the functioning of our democracy. The real problem for the SP today is that despite winning elections and forming the government in UP three times, its ideology and social base is in deep trouble. The party has three major sources of political sustenance: The socialist politics of Ram Manohar Lohia, the agrarian politics of the Green Revolution under Charan Singh and the backward caste movement in the state since the mid-1960s. However, social and political change has been very rapid in UP and the party has not been able to consolidate any of these foundational strands. Mulayam Singh named his party “Samajwadi” and has always stressed on its socialist character, but this strand was swiftly replaced by identity politics in the 1980s. The SP itself was part of this shift, moving to being a largely caste-based party. Agrarian politics lost importance after the death of Charan Singh in 1987, but also because of the agricultural decline resulting in the rich peasantry losing its pre-eminent position in state politics. Consequently, under Mulayam Singh, the SP has largely been a party representing the interests of the backward castes. Reservations under Mandal, it was felt, could unite this large, heterogeneous grouping, providing the SP a strong social base. However, Mulayam’s efforts throughout the 1990s to weld them into a cohesive, political community, met with little success. Class-based changes due to education, urbanisation, satellite TV, exacerbated existing divisions such as sub-caste rivalries, rural/urban and poor/ affluent. While the better-off sections drifted towards the BJP, the most backward castes moved towards the BSP contributing to its victory in 2007. Today, the SP is a party of mainly the Yadavs, who are perceived by the other backwards as being the prime beneficiaries whenever the SP has been in power. Two other developments have weakened the SP and fuelled the conflict. The support given by the SP to the Muslim community during the Babri Masjid dispute and after, led to it being viewed as a secular party and “Maulana” Mulayam as the protector of the community.
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“While we were always aware of the demand-supply mismatch in train travel, the scale of surplus demand, as brought out by this study, has been an eye opener for us,” - A recent study by RailYatri.in reveals that over 10 Lakh people fail to travel daily due to unavailabity of train tickets, says Manish Rathi, CEO & Co-founder RailYatri.in.
Lata Mangeshkar won’t celebrate 87th birthday, says ‘jo shahid hue hai unki yaad karo kurbani’ (H.S.) | Mumbai
Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar won’t celebrate her 87th birthday today (Wednesday) as 18 Indian soldiers recently died “so brutally in Uri”. She is saddened by the darkness all around, including the deteriorating relations with Pakistan. But she hopes they stay happy and live in peace. The September 18 terror attack left 18 Indian soldiers dead at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir. So, this year Lata won’t celebrate her birthday. “Not when our soldiers have died so brutally in Uri. My sincere request to my well-wishers, please don’t waste money buying me flowers. Instead send money to the bereaved family of martyrs. Jo shaheed huey hain
unki zaraa yaad karo qurbani,” she said. There is hatred everywhere, especially between India and the neighbours. What is her message to her fans? Lata said: “Everything has changed. Human beings and even the climate is now unpredictable. Extreme weather conditions play havoc with our lives. I am deeply saddened to see children suffer in natural calamities and during war.” So what according to her, is the solution to the current crisis in man-
kind’s existence? “I don’t know if I am qualified to comment on such matters. But yes, I do wonder why nations don’t keep their own house in order instead of creating havoc in others’ domain. Why hurl bombs at nations? Hatred kills. Why not work on making our own country beautiful?” She cites the example of Switzerland as an idyllic state of existence. “Switzerland is considered the most peaceful country in the world. Why? Because
Maharashtra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena said, “We had given Pakistani artists 48 hours to leave the country. Today not a single Pakistani artist is in the country. Whether they have gone back to Pakistan or Dubai, what matters is they are not in India. Our protests are not yet over. I respect Zee’s Subash Chandraji for stopping all Pakistani serials on Zindagi channel. I also thank Pahlaj Nihalani for his support and Colors channel for agreeing not to take any Pakistani artists in Com-
edy Nights Bachao and Bigg Boss. I thank Radio Mirchi for supporting us and stopping Atif Aslam’s program. The day Pakistan stops terrorist attacks only then will we extend our hand of friendship. After the attacks, none of these Pakistani actors condemned it. We are not protesting against art and cinema, we are protesting against Pakistani actors.” Remaining firm on their earlier stance of stalling the release of every movie starring Pakistani artists, Amey said, “We have no enmity with either Karan Johar or Shah Rukh Khan. Our issue is with the Pakistani artists. Pakistani actors condemned and expressed sympathy when Paris attacks happened. But what about Uri attacks? We will protest every Indian film that has Pakistani actors in it.
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they’ve concentrated on making their own country better and more developed and they do not look at other countries to harm them. We never hear of violence perpetrated by the Swiss.” Her message to her fans in Pakistan? “Woh khush rahen shanti se rahen (I hope they stay happy and stay in peace). Aur humen bhi khushi aur shanti se rehne den (And let us also live in peace and be happy). I know the people there are just like us. They want peace. Only some elements don’t want peace.” On a more cheerful note, Lata Mangeshkar has been conferred West Bengal’s highest civilian honour – the Banga Bibhushan. And Lata, who has received India’s highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna, is ecstatic.
Udta Punjab faces plagiarism allegations; Anurag Kashyap ‘shocked’
(H.S.) | New Delhi Months after its release, plagiarism allegations against Udta Punjab, a film on widespread drug abuse in Punjab, seem to have come as much of a bolt from the blue for the producers as well as the viewers. “I don’t have anything to say. I am completely shocked by the same, haven’t read the book,” Anurag Kashyap, one of the producers, said Kashyap earlier lead from
the front in the film’s battle against the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). A recent media report pointed out High Society, a 2002 novel by Ben Elton, as a possible inspiration for the film and an article in a news website nailed it further by detailing the striking similarities between certain characters, situations, plot points and devices used in the novel and consequently in the film as well.
found a friend to chat up with and it happened to be none other than heartthrob Ranveer Singh. The duo greeted each other warmly and were also seen sharing a few laughs. While we certainly would love to see this talented and beautiful pair together in a film, wonder what Deepika Padukone has to say about this new-found friendship between Ranveer and Kangana. Kangana also spoke about how she felt when oth-
ers looked up to her for inspiration as a fashion icon. Kangana was modesty personified and said, “I think this is a big surprise to me also but there are a team of people who work with me and lots of credit goes to them as well.” While she may be an inspiration to many, the actress herself doesn’t draw inspiration from any particular figure. “There is no inspiration as such. I just tend to get inspired with places, fashion runaways and people.” For those interested in fashion and knowing the current trends, Kangana said, “I think people are lot more aware than I am. They follow so many designers on Instagram and other social media that they are aware of all current trends.”
2007. She played the vulnerable daughter of Tulsi aka Smriti Irani and went on to become one of the main leads of the show. One look at her pictures and you’ll know why she best suited the role of a girl-next-door. She is a trained Kathak dancer. No wonder her love for dancing keeps oozing out every now and then. After KSBKBT, her very next project was being a par-
ticipant on dance reality show Zara Nachke Dikha. And while she turned out to be a surprise package, she became a regular on several dancing shows and stage performances. Her most noted participation was in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 where she finished second. She even attained the tag of television’s Madhuri Dixit. Now, that’s some achievement.
Salman Khan didn’t meet Raj Thackeray, Kangana Ranaut turns heads at all Pakistani actors have left India: MNS award nite, bonds with Ranveer Singh
(H.S.) | Mumbai Maharashtra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena,the film wing of the Raj Thackeray-led MNS, on Wednesday made it clear that there will be no let up in their earlier hardliner stance and they will stall the release of every film that has Pakistani actors in it. The party also denied reports of Salman Khan calling up MNS supremo Raj Thackeray and termed the rumours as false. Addressing a press conference, Amey Khopkar, President of
After MNS threat, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story boycotted in Pakistan (H.S.) | New Delhi
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Days after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena asked Pakistani actors to leave India, Pakistani distributors have decided not to release MS Dhoni biopic, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story. The film starring actor Sushant Singh Rajput as the Indian cricket captain is releasing this Friday. According to reports, IMGC Global Entertainment, a Pakistan-based distribution company, has backed out of releasing the film in Pakistan. Its chairman was quoted as saying in
the report, “Amid current tension between the two countries, we have decided not to release the film.” Pakistan is the third highest overseas market for Bollywood and the ban will affect the box office of MS Dhoni biopic. The film has not been featured on the to-release list of film theatres in
the country. In the aftermath of Uri attack in which 18 Indian soldiers were killed, MNS had given an ultimatum to Pakistani actors to leave India. The Raj Thackeray-led organisation had also announced that films starring Pakistani actors will not be allowed to release in India.
(H.S.) | Mumbai Kangana Ranaut was quite the head turner at the red carpet of the 8th edition of GQ Men of the Year award on Tuesday evening. Dressed in a deep neck off-shoulder, the lady again proved why she is celebrated for both her acting chops and a keen sense of style. At the awards, Kangana spent time catching up with her industry colleagues. And she soon
Mouni Roy birthday: From Krishna Tulsi to Naagin, Mouni’s journey cannot be missed (H.S.) | New Delhi
Mouni Roy has changed the way we look at television actresses. Call it her oomph factor or acting prowess, Mouni has revamped the image of an Indian bahu in soap operas. The way she carries herself both onscreen and off it are enough proof that Mouni knows her way and she is here to stay. As she turns 31 today, we take a look at her nearly decade-long career, all the highs and lows, and how she attained the tag of television’s most sultry siren. Mouni bagged a role in Balaji’s epic family saga Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi while she as still studying in
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Agency | New Delhi Festive shopping is an exhaustive affair. The shopping list remains long and you have to visit a host of different outlets to get your hands on everything that you want, before it runs out. Online shopping portals provide the solution with thousands of options at the click of a button. In the run up to the festive month featuring Navratri and Diwali, online shopping majors like Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, Snapdeal and Shopclues are ready with lucrative offers and discounts. Flipkart will hold the third edition of its Big Billion Days sale from October 2-6. Over the same duration, Snapdeal will hold its Unbox sale with special Snapdeal Diwali packs. Amazon will hold the Great Indian Sale from October 1 to October 5. Online shopping’s convenience factor clubbed with massive discounts and a swathe of product offerings has slowly captured India’s large urban offline shopping community, even during festival season.
By Jupiter! Proof of water plumes on moon
Agency | Miami More evidence of possible water plumes erupting from the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has been spotted using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the U.S. space agency said Monday. Europa, one of more than 50 moons circling the gas giant, is considered by NASA as a “top candidate” for life elsewhere in the solar system because it is believed to possess a massive, salty, subsurface ocean that is twice the size of Earth’s. The latest finding has given scientists fresh hope that a robotic spacecraft could one day fly past these potential plumes and learn about their contents without having to drill kilometres deep into the moon’s icy shell. “Today, we are presenting new Hubble evidence for water vapour plumes being expelled from the icy surface of Europa,” William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore told reporters on a conference call.
Jim Yong Kim gets second term as World Bank President
Justice R.M. Lodha Committee on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to direct the “immediate” supercession of current Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) office-bearers for violation of the July 18 judgment of the court directing them to implement the panel’s recommendations for transparency in cricket administration. “BCCI thinks they are a law unto themselves. They are wrong. You behave like lords. Fall in line or else we will make you,” a Bench led by Chief Justice of India T.S.Thakur warned the cricket body. The court gave the BCCI time till October 6 to respond to the apex court-appointed committee’s request to remove the top BCCI administrators from their posts and bring in a new crop who will “ensure the smooth transition from the old to the new system recommended by the committee.” In a 79-page report submitted in the Supreme Court on Wednesday,
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the committee sought th court to declare all decisions taken by the BCCI found contrary to the court verdict of July 18 to be “declared non est and inefective”. It conveyed to the court that the BCCI has put “impediments” in the path of the implementation of the Lodha panel recommendations. The focus of the status report is the annual general meeting (AGM) held by the BCCI on September 21 at its headquarters. The Lodha report said that the minutes of the meeting were not handed over to the committee. The panel has found violations in several decisions taken at the meeting, including
the unanimous election of Ajay Shirke as secretary of the BCCI for the remaining term; the appointment of the all India senior selection committee (men and women); the authorisation of BCCI president and secretary to appoint the ombudsman for 2016-17, as Justice A.P. Shah’s term has come to an end. The panel report has found fault with the meeting’s decision to let Mr. Thakur represent the BCCI in the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Asian Cricket Council and the nomination of Mahashtra politician Sharad Pawar as alternate director in ICC meetings.
Hope to return to courts by end of October, says Saina Nehwal
(H.S.) | Hyderabad Her recovery from a knee injury going ahead smoothly, India’s star shuttler Saina Nehwal is hoping to return to the courts by the end of next month. “Not before end (of) October, so I will miss tournaments till that time. I am world No.8 at present, it may go down further,” Saina said. “We have already done six weeks of rehab and still five to six more weeks are to be put before I go to courts for practice”. The 26-year-old shuttler,
who won a bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics, hopes to play tournaments scheduled for November if she is match-fit by then. “May be tournaments slated in November if everything goes well,” she said, when asked which event she planned play next. Her rehab programme, following a surgery to the right knee at a Mumbai hospital last month, has been going on smoothly, she said. “I am fine; the rehab plan is working nicely under the guidance
of Heath Matthews, Head Sports Medicine, Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital Mumbai. I am highly thankful to them and Ms Chandan Poddar, physio, for the help,” she said. Saina had sustained an intra-articular injury (inside the joint) to her right knee and a small fragment of bone has separated from her patella (knee cap bone), the doctors who treated her had said. Saina sustained the injury early August and it got aggravated during the Rio Olympics. She had lost in the Group stage after suffering a straight game defeat against Ukraine’s Marija Ulitina in the second match in the world event. Observing that badminton can improve further in the country, she said academies with good coaches can produce bright talent.
After his inclusion in India’s Test squad against New Zealand due to injury to KL Rahul, Gautam Gambhir has acknowledged the selectors and supporters who prayed for his return to international cricket. KL Rahul, who was part of India’s historic 500th Test in Kanpur, injured his right hamstring while running between the wickets. Thus needing a change in personnel for the subsequent matches in Kolkata and Indore. Gambhir took to Twitter to acknowledge his fans as he was recalled into the Test team after two years. “Excitement of a debutant, certainty of experienced, nervous-
ness of a novice…am feeling it all. Eden here I come loaded with ambitions,” said Gambhir in the tweet. The left-handed batsmen, who leads Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League, also showcased his excitement of being selected for the home series. “Nothing beats playing again for d [the] country. Test cricket, whites, red ball and India cap again.
Thanks BCCI, thanks to all for the prayers.” added the veteran. Gambhir was picked after showing good form in the Duleep Trophy, the domestic first-class tournament featuring the top-performing players in the country. He scored 356 runs in the competition from five innings at 71.20, and was dismissed only once without getting to a half-century.
said. “We played a good game in attack and defense and it was a great effort from everyone. We played the game we wanted. At the end, the same (draw) again, it’s the third match. I’m frustrated for the players because it’s undeserved.” Dortmund’s equalizer came in the 87th minute, when Madrid appeared in control. One of the positives that came out of the result was that Zidane got a much warmer handshake from Ronaldo, who created a bit of turmoil after going on a little rant because of his substitution in the league setback
at Las Palmas on Saturday. He didn’t even look at Zidane while reaching for the coach’s extended hand on the sidelines. After scoring Madrid’s first goal in Dortmund, he immediately pointed to the bench and rushed to celebrate with his teammates. He also exchanged a moment with Zidane, apparently trying to erase doubts about any problems in their relationship. Ronaldo and his teammates have been struggling to put together the type of top-notch performances that led them to the European final last season, failing to capitalize on scoring opportunities and being unable to put games away. “We need one more goal. When you are only one goal in front, things like this can happen,” Zidane said. “We are in a slump but we will keep working, and we will change things soon.”
the neighbouring country two and half months back,” Punjab Kabaddi Association, President Sikandar Singh Maluka said on Tuesday. “Given the current situation prevailing in the country
post Uri terror attack, I do not think the players of Pakistan will be granted visas by the government of India,” said Maluka who is also a minister in SAD-BJP led government in the state.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane at peace, but Real Madrid still not winning
(H.S.) | Madrid Real Madrid solved one of its problems during its trip to Germany in the Champions League: Cristiano Ronaldo made peace with coach Zinedine Zidane. Now it needs to find a way to start winning again. The 2-2 draw at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday was the third consecutive for Madrid in all competitions, raising questions about the team’s potential to repeat as Champions League champion, and to end a four-year title drought in the Spanish league. “I am frustrated,” Zidane
Punjab invites Pakistan to Liverpool’s many goalscorers a result particpate in World Kabaddi Cup
Agency | Washington Jim Yong Kim has been re-appointed for a second five-year term as World Bank president, beginning July 1, next year, the bank announced. “Humbled to have the honour of serving a second term as the head of this great institution. I would focus on building a more inclusive world free of poverty,” Kim said in a statement. He said the starting point for his work when he joined the Bank in 2012 was the setting of two ambitious new goals for the institution: to end extreme poverty by 2030, and to promote shared prosperity by boosting the income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population in every developing country. “In order to deliver these goals, the Bank had to accelerate, become bolder and more agile, and reposition itself. We did this so that we could increase support for countries and deliver better results more quickly. “I believe we are well on the way to achieve these important aims,” he said.
of attacking style, says Jurgen Klopp (H.S.) | New Delhi
Liverpool’s wide range of goalscorers this season is a direct result of their attacking style, according to manager Jurgen Klopp. The Merseyside club have scored 16 goals in six Premier League games this season, with Philippe Coutinho, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane and James Milner scoring three each. Midfielders Roberto Firmino and Jordan Henderson have also found the back of the net in the top flight this season, while strikers Dan-
iel Sturridge and Divock Origi yet to open their account. Klopp would not fuss over who scores the goal as long as the team keep winning. “It’s a result of our style. We need to have different players in and around the box. When the players make these movements,
go these ways, they are in a (scoring) situation,” Klopp told the club’s website (liverpoolfc.com). “In this moment, they score – very nice. I don’t care, actually, who scores the goals – if there’s one player who scores 50, I have no problem with this as long as we win.”
(H.S.) | Chandigarh
Amid growing tension between India and Pakistan following Uri terror attack, Punjab has invited Pakistan along with other countries to participate in the 6th World Kabaddi Cup starting from November. However, Punjab Kabaddi Association which is organizing the event is not hopeful of granting visas to Pakistan players by the Centre in the wake of recent terror attack. “We have invited Pakistan to participate in 6th World Kabaddi Cup. But the invitation was given to
4 / Dt. 29-09-2016, Thursday Complain against Navsarjan Trust; minister asks Amreli police to look into
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Social Justice and Empowerment minister Atmaram Parmar has recommended Amreli district police chief to look into the complain against Martin Macwan led foreign-funded Navsarjan Trust. The minister has acted after he received complain from Amreli District Dalit Adhikar Ladat Samiti’s Ravjibhai Madhad claiming that Navsarjan Trust has siphoned off crores of Rupees fund raised in name of Dalits. The report says Ravjibhai has also given some evidences in his complain in which he has said that Navsarjan manages to get crores of Rupees of foreign fund. It had also received Rs 30
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UNESCO team in town, how Ahmedabad Jailed suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma gets temporary bail from High Court tried to stay presentable during strike Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
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crore foreign fund post Kutch earthquake. Trust had started its project offices in Amreli, Babra and Lathi talukas in which Rs 1.5 lakh sum was approved in year 2000. Rs 17,000 amount was promised as interest for education fund. Ravjibhai was one of field workers who was not paid promised amount and relieved from work. As many as 250 small workers across 11 district had started fast in protest at Nani Devti village to get the money they were promised. Some workers were given Rs 1.5 lakh as compromise amount but others were not. A police complaint was filed in Amreli. Even the Gujarat High Court had ordered probe.
SAFAI kamdars of Ahmedabad’s “New West” Zone called off a month-long strike Tuesday, providing some late relief to AMC, the city’s municipal corporation, which is trying to present a face attractive enough to merit the status of a UNESCO heritage city. The strike was called off hours before a team from ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) arrived on a visit. The focus of the visit is the 600-year-old walled city, part of Central Zone, and it is from there that AMC had been borrowing most of its manpower — 30 out of 100 — and machinery while trying to meet New West Zone’s daily demands. For fear of assault, police and later 110 home guard personnel had been escorting vehicles on sanitation work.
The Gujarat High Court today granted two day’s temporary bail to suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, who is in jail in an alleged money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate. A special PMLA court in Ahmedabad had on September 15 refused to grant a five-day temporary bail to pay homage to his late mother during the ‘shraddh’ season, on the ground that he might tamper with evidence if let out of jail. Sharma had moved High Court which today granted him two day’s bail from Septmeber 29 (tomorrow) to 30 on the condition that he would not be allowed to leave Ahmedabad. Earlier in the special PMLA court Sharma’s lawyer had prayed for temporary bail between September 18 and September
rat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said at a gathering in Gandhinagar. Three APMC’s of Gujarat were linked with e-NAM in April by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when the portal was launched. Now all the 40 APMC’s in the state linked to the online platform. “This is one initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which will help eliminate middleman and farmers can procure good price of their produce,” Rupani added. The Chief Minister said his government
has started a comprehensive planning to give proper irrigation, electricity and agriculture related inputs to farmers so that the call of Prime Minister to double the income of farmers by 2020 can be achieved. “Under the e-NAM scheme launched by the Prime Minister on April 14, 240 APMC’s of the country were to be linked through this portal,” Rupani said. E-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC’s to create a unified national market for agriculture commodities. The NAM portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals and prices, buy and sell trade offers, provision to respond to trade offers, among other services.
37 APMC’s of Gujarat linked to e-NAM
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
In a move that will help farmers sell their products online, 37 Agriculture Produce Market Committee’s (APMC’s) of Gujarat were today linked to e-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), a pan India electronic trading portal. “We have today linked 37 APMC’s of Gujarat to e-NAM, to facilitate farmers to sell their produce online, to keep them aware of existing rates of agri produce and enable them to get good return,” Guja-
Panjab University economics dept gears up to welcome Manmohan Singh (H.S.) | Chandigarh
SITUATED ON the second floor of a red sandstone building in the north campus of Panjab University (PU), the department of economics is upbeat about the possibility that one of its most illustrious alumnus, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, may return to the department as a visiting teacher or at least for an interaction or two with students. A parliamentary panel recently clarified that Dr Singh, an MP from Assam, will not lose his Rajya Sabha membership if he heads the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair at his alma mater. Many in the university have taken that as a sign that Dr Singh,
whose fame as an economist predates his political career, is considering the option seriously. “We are awaiting a communication from the former PM’s office about his visit. He had initially expressed interest in a seminar format, followed by an interactive session with students. It is his prerogative, whichever way he wants it. The complete programme will be planned after the date is finalised from his office,”
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says Prof Upinder Sawhney, chairperson, department of economics. Apart from the Jawahar Lal Nehru Chair, the department also has a Dr Manmohan Singh Chair. While Dr Singh is the first economist to be nominated for the Jawahar Lal Nehru Chair, Dr Manmohan Singh Chair was occupied by the late Prof Ajit Singh, from University of Cambridge, who had been a student of Dr Singh.
Ahmedabad, nominated to the smart city list, also needs to meet sanitation targets for the Swachhata Mission anniversary on October 2. Sanitation is a key qualifying aspect for the heritage list, for which AMC is making a second pitch. AMC made peace by partially conceding the demands of the 800 contract workers on strike since August 22. Better organised since the Dalit movement, the workers had found support from 1,000 Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service employees, mostly conductors, who
had declared Monday they would join the strike. “We managed to run 600 of the 800 buses,” said municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar. The workers are demanding regularisation, which AMC did not concede Tuesday, but it agreed to withdraw the 46 police complaints filed against them and reinstate the 20odd whose contracts had been terminated. Following a meeting with workers, mayor Gautam Shah declared a consensus has been reached and workers would report back to work Wednesday.
AAP gets nod to hold rally in Surat on Oct 16
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The Surat police Tuesday granted the permission to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to hold a rally on October 16. The rally is scheduled to be addressed by Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal. The police informed the single-bench of Justice Sonia Gokani that it had granted the permission and hence the petition should be disposed. Sub-
sequently, AAP withdrew its petition. AAP, through its spokesperson Harshil Nayak, had moved the petition seeking permission for the rally which, it said, was not being granted by district administration, nearly a month after the party had applied for the same on August 19. Justice Gokani had issued notice to Surat police, among others, to decide on the application. Nayak had moved the petition
Car of Visnagar BJP MLA attacked, complaint against Congress corporator Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The car of Visnagar MLA in Gujarat from the ruling BJP, Rushikesh Patel was allegedly attacked by a group of unkown masked assailants after which the leader, whose office was also ransacked in July last year during a pro-patidar quota rally, lodged police complaint in this connection. In his FIR lodged in the Visnagar police station late last night the MLA has alleged that local Congress corporator Paresh Patel and four othes inclduding Raju Patel, Ravi Patel, Sandeep Patel and Kaushik Patel had in the morning came to oppose a function he had participated in. Later in the evening at around 930 pm a group of around 25
to 30 persons with their faces covered, seemingly a gang which was trying to terrorize the local people to take control of the area, pelted stone and buring objects on his car with an intention to kill him. Police said that it has lodged the FIR and investigation was on. Mr Patel today said that some anti social elements pelted stones over his car near ITI crossing in Visnagar last night while he was returning from a function in the Dental college. ‘Many of the stone pelters had their faces covered while some were known to me,’ the MLA said adding that a local congress corporator and his aides might have hatched the conspiracy to eliminate him.
through senior lawyer Anand Yagnik, contending that there were two reasons behind moving the application before the police two months before the event. One was for arranging the event to the “satisfaction of the district magistrate and Surat police commissioner keeping in mind the magnitude of the meeting”. And the second reason was the past experience in which the public meeting, which was supposed to be addressed by Kejriwal, was cancelled as the authorities denied the permission for the same. The court had last week issued notices to the district administration and Additional Home Secretary, Surat Police Commissioner and Collector.
22, and submitted that he will stay in Ahmedabad during this period. The court, however, had refused to grant bail upholding the public prosecutor’s argument that he had in the past not cooperated with the ED investigating charges against him, and could even use his freedom to tamper with the evidence. Sharma was arrested by the ED on August 1 this year under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, days after the Supreme Court vacated an interim stay on his arrest. He was sent in judicial custody on August 8 and is currently lodged at Sabarmati Central Jail. The case
pertains to the sanction of government land in Bhuj for industrial use to M/s Welspun India Limited and its group companies, Welspun Power and Steel and Welspun Gujarat Style Roharan, as part of a suspected quid pro quo. Sharma sanctioned land to the company in 2004 when he was the collector of Kutch and chairman of the District Land Evaluation and Pricing Committee, which allegedly caused loss to the government exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.2 crore. Against this favour, he allegedly received gain to the tune of Rs 22 lakh in the name of his wife Shyamal P Sharma, the ED probe report said.
Gujarat govt misusing public money, says Shankersinh Vaghela
The Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Shankersinh Vaghela Tuesday said that while public debt on the state had increased to Rs 1,65,742 crore over the years, the BJP government in the state was misusing the public money since 2002 by holding non-productive programmes like “Patangotsav”, “Ranotsav”, “Gunotsav”, “Navratri” and other programmes. In a statement issued Tuesday, Vaghela said that BJP leaders seemed to be not worried about
accumulating public debt on the people of the state and the rising inflation and that was why they were every year holding programmes that did not bring any good to the people of the state. “It is because of the immature leadership and corrupt administration that the state has now slipped to 18th position in extending Panchayati Raj benefits to the people of the state,” alleged Vaghela. He said that while the state government claimed to spend huge amounts in “krishi mahotsav’ annually, the condition of the farmers in the state had not improved. Kits given to the farmers at “krishi mahotsav” events were not of good quality.
so far, just 141 of the total 4,041 cities and less than a sixth of the total 6.08 lakh villages have been declared as ODF. Under the urban component, just 22,000-odd public toilets have been built till date — about 9 per cent of the target of 2.55 lakh public toilets for the five-year mission period. As for commu-
nity toilets, 76,744 seats have been constructed, or 30 per cent of the target. Another stated aim was to achieve 100 per cent waste management in the 4,041 urban areas. On this front, only a handful of cities and towns have 100 per cent door-to-door collection and transportation, while not a single one has managed 100 per cent disposal and processing of waste. Under the urban mission, it was initially announced that by October 2019 a total of 1.04 crore individual household toilets would be constructed. In the first year of the scheme, only 4.6 lakh toilets were constructed.
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Two years after launch, Swachh Bharat a long haul
(H.S.) | New Delhi The Union government has flagged off an intensive campaign ahead of the second anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission on October 2, but the mission lags far behind its stated aim of making India open defecation-free (ODF) by end 2019. Data shows that
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