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News Brief Two minor sisters feared drowned in Ganga Agency | Lucknow
Two sisters are feared to have been drowned in river Ganga today while crossing it in Bijnore district, police said here. The incident took place when three persons, including the sisters, were crossing river Ganga and slipped into the deeper end in Mandwar area of Bijnor, they said. The sisters have been identified as Sangita (13) and Shivani (12), while the third person is Lokesh Devi (25), police said. Devi was saved by the locals, they said, while police are still trying to search the two minors.
Rising sea level poses threat to Bengal Tiger: IUCN Agency | Kochi
Rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten to wipe out Sundarbans? a large mangrove forest area shared by India and Bangladesh --and thus world’s beautiful Bengal tigers, according to a leading conservation organisation. “Without mitigation efforts, projected sea level rise?nearly a foot by 2070?could destroy nearly the entire Sundarbans tiger habitat,” International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said quoting a WWF study on the occasion of International Tiger Day today.
Rajinikanth remembers ‘mahatma’ Kalam Agency | Chennai
Superstar Rajinikanth feels “blessed enough” to have lived during a time that had a “mahatma” like former president A P J Abdul Kalam. Paying tribute to Kalam, Rajinikanth today said the scientist inspired millions of people with his life and achievements. “I did not have the privilege of seeing our mahatma Gandhiji, Kamaraj or Barathiyaar but was blessed enough to live amidst mahatma Kalamji,” the actor tweeted. From humble beginnings Abdul Kalam ji rose to great heights but continued to live humble and simple.
“Yakub Memon Hanging”
Govt advises President to reject Yakub Memon’s mercy plea
Countdown for Yakub Memon’s hanging starts Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon is likely to be hanged on Thursday as the Supreme Court today rejected his plea against the death warrant Agency | Nagpur With the Supreme Court rejecting relief to Yakub Memon, the countdown for the hanging of the only death-row convict of 1993 Mumbai blasts case tomorrow has started at the Nagpur Central Prison here. Memon is all set to be hanged to death as per the TADA court’s order tomorrow on his 53rd birthday. All the preparations were complete, prison sources said. Top police officials today visited the prison to supervise the security. Additional Director General of Police (prisons) Meera Borwankar arrived from Pune to oversee the preparations.
She is being assisted by deputy inspector general of prisons Rajendra Dhamne and jail superintendent Yogesh Desai. Desai had overseen the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab at Yerwada jail in Pune during his stint there. Commissioner of Police S P Ya-
dav, Joint Commissioner of Police Rajwardhan and zonal deputy commissioner Ishu Sindhu visited the jail in the evening. A Quick Response Team (QRT) of police has already been deployed near the premises. Though no intelligence inputs have been received about any
Amitabh Bachchan tunes in to “Chaalo Gujarat 2015”; Unveils a postage stamp dedicated to the event Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A postage stamp depicting the spirit behind “Chaalo Gujarat 2015”— the World Gujarati Conference—has been unveiled by Bollywood megastar Shri Amitabh Bachchan in a symbolic gesture just prior to the beginning of the threeday conference in New Jersey, USA. The soft launch in India is sure to stimulate a tempo for the extravaganza that is to follow where a grand launch awaits. Between July 31 and August 2, the fourth edition of the largest congregation of the non-resident Gujarati community in a foreign shore will be organized by the Association of Indian Americans of North America (AIANA). This will see the celebration of art, culture, color, vig-
or and exuberance of the state of Gujarat which they represent and are so ingrained in their way of life. It is for the first time that the Bollywood icon has extended his personal endorsement to an event of the Gujarati community. But despite displaying an eagerness to attend the conference, a tight schedule did not permit him to do so. “My best wishes to the entire team of Chaalo Gujarat 2015. A busy schedule
does not allow me to travel this year to attend the conference in New Jersey. I hope to be present in the next edition,” said Mr. Bachchan. A commercial roll out of the stamps is expected after the conclusion of the mega event. For AIANA, its true style guided by the principles of Atra-Tatra-Sarvatra (Here-There-Everywhere) gets typified in an innovative move that will be for keeps.
possible incident, police are not taking any chances, sources said. Section 144 of CrPC prohibiting assembly of five or more people has been imposed in the area around the prison. Memon’s brother Suleman and cousin Usman arrived here today. “We have faith in Allah,”
was all they said when accosted by reporters outside the hotel. According to the jail manual, Memon will be woken up early in the morning, allowed to take a bath and offered some light refreshment. He would be given religious books to read or recite prayers. A
team of doctors will examine Memon before the hanging. Chief Judicial Magistrate M M Deshpande is likely to be present and she will be reading out the operative part of the trial court’s order to Memon. Memon had not yet seen the ‘Fansi Yard’, where the hanging would
take place. The hangman is supposed to pull the lever after a signal from the magistrate. The body should be kept hanging for half an hour, the manual says. The doctor will then check the body and declare him dead, and an autopsy would be conducted in the jail itself.
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mysterious circumstances.” Rumours of Omar’s ill-health and even death have regularly surfaced in the past, but the latest claims just two days before peace talks with the insurgents mark the first such confirmation from the Afghan government. Sediqi’s statement comes after unnamed government and militant sources told media, including AFP, that the one-eyed leader died two or three years ago. “He was bur-
ied in Zabul province (in southern Afghanistan),” said the senior official, citing Afghan intelligence sources. The insurgents have not officially confirmed the death of the supreme leader of the Taliban, who has not been seen publicly since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban government in Kabul. If confirmed, Omar’s death would mark a significant blow to an almost 14-year in-
surgency, which is riven by internal divisions and threatened by the rise of the Islamic State group in South Asia.
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, showed they started from Shakhargarh tehsil of Pakistan and entered India from Tash area along the border, sources said. “The coordinates were fed in the GPS devices on July 21 somewhere deep inside Pakistan. We have sought help from the US
to pinpoint the location and further analyse the devices,” a government official said, requesting anonymity. If the inputs are proved correct, this would be the first strike by Lashkar in Punjab, which battled a Sikh insurgency in the 1980s and 90s. After Tash, they crossed the Ravi, moved
south to Makoura in Punjab and then Marara in Gurdapur tehsil before entering Dinanangar, which is 18km from the border.“As per their GPS system, they first planted bombs on railway track before snatching a car from a civilian and then gained entry into the police station,”
Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Died Two Years Ago in Karachi: Afghan Intelligence Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago in Karachi, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said today. The comments came after unnamed government and militant sources said earlier that he had died. “Mullah Omar is dead,” Sediqi, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, told AFP.“He died in a Karachi hospital in April 2013 under
Gurdaspur attack: Recovered GPS systems reveal trail of terrorists Agency | Gurdaspur
The three men who struck terror in Punjab’s Gurdaspur on Monday may have sneaked into India from Pakistan on Sunday night after crossing the Ravi river and had two more targets marked, data from their GPS devices has revealed. Three heavily-armed men dressed in battle fatigues left seven people, including a senior police officer, dead in Dinanagar town of the border district before they were killed in a daylong gun battle that ended the siege of the local police station. The two global positioning system found on the men, suspected to be from
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Remembering APJ Abdul Kalam, the problem-solver
My association with A.P.J. Abdul Kalam began in 1967 when I joined the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Thiruvananthapuram. Through the years, he had been my guide and mentor. I learned about the technology behind rockets and project management from him. We worked together for nearly 20 years — first at Thumba and later on the satellite launch vehicle (SLV-3) project. I owe all my achievements to this great personality. Kalam was a real taskmaster and used to set impossible targets. At the same time, he used to be our motivator and facilitator. He used to check that we were on the right track and if any mistakes occurred, he would help us analyse and resolve the issues. He saw to it that we achieved success in the shortest possible time. Kalam never blamed anyone for a mistake or failure. He used to encourage people to put in their best. One of his biggest contributions was seeing through the successful progress of the SLV 3 programme in the 1970s. When we got into the SLV programme, we had only been launching small rockets that would go to an altitude of 10 km. Kalam envisioned launching a huge 20-tonne rocket with a spacecraft that would orbit the earth. We had no hope of getting this technology from outside. It was Kalam’s leadership that enabled this to happen. The basic technologies in a rocket system are complex and elements are integrated into future missions. The technology for the rocket, control system, navigation system, etc that were developed during the SLV 3 time have formed the foundation for Isro’s PSLV and GSLV systems. One of the remarkable things about Kalam was his intuitive decision-making. He had a knack for spotting trouble well in advance. We encountered many failures in the SLV programme and he always used to say that failure is the stepping stone to success. Today, Isro’s project management system stands out as one of the most purposeful in the world because of his efforts. After leaving the space programme, he took up the challenge of providing a missile shield for the country. Prithvi, Agni, Akash, etc are his brainchildren. Later on, he worked on weapons systems. When the weapons system was realised, I asked him why we were developing it and he said that only strength can draw the respect of others. He looked at the entire thing as a deterrent. I will not classify Kalam as a pure scientist. He was not the kind of person to write a thesis or solve equations and things like that. But he knew the critical issues in development programmes, whom to tap — a senior scientist, technician or professor. He had high respect for the professors and teaching staff at our leading science institutions and always used to tap their wisdom. He was able to synthesise the knowledge of hundreds of people to solve a single problem. There is practically no other person who has successfully completed so many missions in such a short time.
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QUOTE “A.P.J. Abdul Kalam backed the nuclear deal India inked with the United States in 2005 and it is a “total canard” that the then president (Kalam) OF THE was reluctant to appoint Sonia Gandhi as the prime minister” - Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said. DAY Khallas Girl Isha Koppikar Making On Sanjay Dutt’s Birthday,Wishes a Comeback With This Film on Twitter From Celeb Friends Agency | Mumbai
Agency | New Delhi Actress Isha Koppikar, who is best known for her item number Khallas and was missing from Bollywood for four years, is now all set to make a comeback with a drama titled Assi Nabbe Pure Sau. The film also co-stars Chashme Baddoor actor Divyendu Sharma. The first look of the film was revealed on Tuesday. At the press conference, when Isha asked about the reason for choosing this as her comeback film, she said,
“If I have chosen a film after four years, then it is this one (Assi Nabbe Pure Sau) because it has a fantastic script.” The film has been directed by Ankur Bhatia. About the director and script, she said, “First of all, when a director gives a narration, from that you come to know of his vision and potential. In the last one and half years, whatever scripts that I had shortlisted or was considering, certain issues cropped up due to which I thought I don’t want
Actor Sanjay Dutt turned 56 on July 29 and the film fraternity, including Anil Kapoor and his All The Best: Fun Begins co-star Ajay Devgn, are waiting for him to come out of jail. The Khalnayak star, who has given hits like Munna Bhai MBBS, Vaastav: The Reality and Saajan, is currently serving jail term in Pune’s Yerawada jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts. On his birthday, some of the celebrities took to the microblogging site Twitter to wish the actor: A very to do the film. For this happy bday to my elder film, there were no such brother, waiting for you issues. “The script is of to come. today, it is youth-centric and a hardcore drama. It is a different script and it rang a bell for me. There was a lot to perform and it had everything. There is revenge, romance and story spanning across five decades.” Isha’s last notable venture was the Ram Gopal Varma-produced Shabri which released in 2011. She then made her debut in Marathi films with 2013’s Maat.
Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty not allowed to date?
Happy Birthday Dhanush: Bollywood’s Raanjhanaa turns 31
Agency | Mumbai Every time a new film releases, we get to hear stories about the “alleged” relationship between the lead pair. The actors are often spotted in each other’s company and give feelers to being in “love”. However, that’s not the case with Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty. the
- Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor Akshay, Sidharth together in ‘Brothers Anthem’
The film, which also stars Jacqueline Fernandez, Jackie Shroff and Shefali Shah, is slated to release on August 14.The song showcases the training the lead characters undergo to test their strength and prepare for the final fight.The number is crooned by Vishal Dadlani and composed by Atul-Ajay. As soon as
the song was released online, #BrothersAnthem started trending on Twitter.Directed by Karan Malhotra, the film is an official Hindi adaptation of the Hollywood film ‘Warriors’ and tells the story of two estranged brothers.Before releasing the video, a few stills of Akshay and Sidharth from the song were unveiled.
two young star kids have not been allowed to date each other. They were apparently strictly asked to maintain a professional relationship and not get emotionally involved with each other in due course. Both Sooraj (son of Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab) and Athiya Shetty (daughter of
Suniel Shetty) will make their film debut in Salman Khan’s ‘Hero’, an official remake of Subhash Ghai’s 1983 namesake blockbuster starring Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Sheshadri. Directed by Nikhil Advani, the film is slated to release on September 11, 2015.
ogy. It was my personal joke with Huma on her birthday. If people took umbrage to it and some abuse just for the sake, I retract the same.” But a sweetheart Huma, took the tweet sportingly and
asked fans to take a chill pill. She wrote: Thank you to one of my fave costars the ever amazing @chintskap for bday wishes and love.. Guys , it was a joke ... take a chill pill yaar
“Take a chill pill” – Huma reacts to Rishi Kapoor’s tweet
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Born as Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja, this talented two-time National Awardee popular as Dhanush is not just an actor, but also a producer, lyricist, and singer who has gained popularity in both south and Bollywood film industries. He first made his onscreen debut in his father, Kasthuri Raja’s directorial venture, ‘Thulluvadho Ilamai’ in 2002, after which he featured in 25 films over the next decade. Dhanush is married to superstar Rajinikanth’s elder daughter, Aishwaryaa
and the couple have two sons – Linga and Yatra. Dhanush, who made his Bollywood debut with ‘Raanjhanaa’, celebrates his 31st birthday today, July 28. The twitterati are flooding his feed with birthday wishes and the actor has been trending with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayDhanush. Dhanush has had a fairly successful career down south thanks to films like ‘Kadhal Kondein’, where he played a mentally disturbed boy and ‘Polladhavan’, which is based on ‘The Bicycle Thieves’. His other memorable performance
was in ‘Aadukalam’, where he portrayed the role of a local cockfighter. The film did well both commercially and critically, earning Dhanush the National Award for Best Actor. While the actor was considerably popular down South, it was only when he sang ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’ in 2011 that Dhanush shot to fame in Bollywood. The song, which was a soundtrack to his wife Aishwaryaa’s directorial debut, ‘3’, became the most searched video in India and gained wide popularity across Asia as well.
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Humar Qureshi, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, received birthday wishes from fans and Bollywood actors. Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor too tweeted wishing the actor and made a personal joke on the actor by posting a pic which read: The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap.. Stay safe.. Eat cake! And this post definitely didn’t go down well with Huma’s fans as they thought Rishi Kapoor is making fun of the birthday girl’s weight. Rishi Kapoor, soon retracted the tweet and apologised for the comment saying, “Apol-
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Ban on Sreesanth, Chavan, Chandila to stay: Anurag Thakur
decision to pick him for the first time in two years. The captain’s departure for 10, having been comprehensively bowled by a Finn yorker, extended his barren run of form. In his 15 innings since his courageous 161 not out in Cape Town in March last year, when he withstood a fractured shoulder caused by a buffeting from South Africa’s Morne Morkel, he as only once reached 50: in last summer’s Adelaide Test, when he made 128 in his first innings since the death of Phillip Hughes.If Clarke does not score at least 48
before his next dismissal his average will fall below 50 for the first time since Australia’s April 2012 tour of the West Indies. Because of the poor start Australia were given more cause to be grateful Chris Rogers recovered sufficiently from his head blow at Lord’s to retain his place at the top of the order. But even he was not immune to the threat posed by England’s bowlers. He almost nicked the first ball of the match, and later cut a Stuart Broad delivery just out of reach of Ben Stokes at backward point.
Kohli’s arrival generates a buzz around second unofficial Test
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu, after launching its MX5 handset last month, has now introduced a successor of its M1 handset, Meizu m2. The entry-level smartphone has been launched in China at CNY 599 (roughly Rs. 6,200) in Blue, Pink, Grey, and White colour variants. The Meizu m2 smartphone sports a polycarbonate unibody and
runs the firm’s proprietary Flyme UI 4.5 that’s based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. It bears a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) resolution display covered by AGC Dragontrail protective glass with pixel density of 296ppi, and is powered by a 64-bit quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor clocked at 1.3GHz, clubbed by 2GB LPDDR3 RAM and Mali T720 GPU.
Agency | New Delhi Rivalry between two Odisha sprinters — Sarbani Nanda and Dutee Chand is expected to gain more credence now and that could see them
The BCCI on Wednesday made it very clear that it was not having second thoughts on revoking the ban on former India pacer S Sreesanth, Mumbai spinner Ankeet Chavan, and Rajasthan off-spinner in the wake of a Delhi Court dropping all charges against them in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case. All the 36 accused persons including Sreesanth, Chavan and Ajit Chandila were discharged in the IPL 6 spot-fixing case by the Patiala House Court last week but the Indian board had refused to lift their ongoing ban.
The Kerala Cricket Association had made a plea to the BCCI for allowing Sreesanth to play again but Thakur said there will be no rethink on the life ban of the two cricketers. Earlier on Wednesday, it was reported that Chavan had written a letter to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), requesting his ban be revoked and he be allowed to resume his cricket career. The MCA was set to meet on August 2 to discuss the request. “The earlier decision of BCCI’s disclipinary commitee ban on this case will stay on,” Thakur told reporters. “Disciplinary proceedings are
different, criminal proceedings are different. The action taken in the past were based on the disciplinary action for the indiscipline of these players, reports submmitted by the the anti-corruption unit. So the same decision of ban will continue on these players,” he added. All the three accused cricketers had to spend time in jail during the course of investigation. Of the three, Sreesanth and Chavan are currently serving life bans imposed by the BCCI after the scandal shook the high-profile league, while Chandila’s hearing is still on.
World Twenty20 in India just eight months away, both sides have blooded new players to give them experience in the nuances of T20 cricket. Sri Lanka’s 15-man squad includes five uncapped players in batsmen Shehan Jayasuriya, Dasun Shanaka and Dhananjaya de Silva, fast bowler Binura Fernando and leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay. Test and one-day regulars Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne have been
omitted, but seasoned seamer Nuwan Kulasekara has been recalled after being ignored for the one-day series. “We need to get the younger brigade in the stream so that we have a gradual transition leading up to the next World T20 and the 50-over World Cup beyond that,” Sri Lanka’s chief selector Kapila Wijegunawardene was quoted as saying in local media. “We need to put them on the ground and see how they perform.”
Sri Lanka seek comeback in Twenty20s after losing Test and ODI series to Pakistan Agency | Colombo
the likely nature of the brainstorming session involving Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav, who are in the squad for Sri Lanka, and their just-arrived Test captain, Mhambrey said: “I’m sure Virat will have his own plans. The way I look at it is that you have young fast bowlers who are clocking speeds of 140 and above. “They are wicket-taking bowlers. At times, they’ll go for runs. But as long as they come
in and do the job required — that’s bowl fast and pick wickets — as a captain, I think he’ll be happy.” He reflected on the plight of the pacers in the first match saying: “There wasn’t enough purchase for the seamers. The ball wasn’t coming on, and it was pretty hot out there.” “In terms of the way we bowled, I think they played their roles. That’s what we wanted, and I’m pretty happy with that.”
Sprinters Nanda and Chand hope to qualify for Rio Olympics
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raised hopes. The day after a landmark judgement of Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) allowed Chand to compete in international events after overruling a hyperandrogenism case against her, Chand has her eyes firmly focused on the upcoming achieve the Rio Olym- national meet in Septempic Games qualification ber. Last year, Chand was mark of 23:20 seconds in at the peak of her perthe women’s 200m. Both formance. She clocked Chand and Nanda have 23:57secs in 200m during clocked below 24secs the junior Asian meet in in the past and this has Chinese Taipei.
Sri Lanka will look to prevent a clean sweep by Pakistan on the current tour when they clash in two Twenty20 internationals in Colombo tomorrow and Saturday. Pakistan won the preceding Test series 2-1 and also clinched the one-dayers 3-2 to earn a double triumph in the island nation for the first time since 2006. But Sri Lanka, the reigning World Twenty20 champions and the top-ranked side in the shortest format, get a chance to salvage pride in the two end-of-tour games at the Premadasa stadium. Both sides wear a fresh look under new captains, with sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga leading Sri Lanka and veteran Shahid Afridi taking over at the helm for fifth-ranked Pakistan. While Malinga has retired from Test cricket and played in four of the five one-dayers, Afridi has quit the other two formats and will make his first appearance on the tour. With the next
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14 killed as heavy rain lashes northern parts Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
At least 14 persons died after heavy rains battered several districts of north Gujarat on Tuesday, throwing normal life out of gear, cutting off power supply to over 2,900 villages, shutting down schools and leading to rain-related accidents. Lakhni taluka of Banaskantha received a phenomenal 21 inches of rain during the day. Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Reserve Police (SRP) and Border Security Force (BSF) were deployed for rescue operations. Twelve victims who died are from
Banaskantha — one of the worst-affected districts — while two others died in rain-related incidents in Ahmedabad and Kheda districts. “Twelve persons have died in Banaskantha district,” said Banaskantha resident additional collector N D Mistry on Tuesday evening. Six bodies have been recovered while the authorities are searching for others who went missing in the flooding caused due to heavy rains in Dhanera, Lakhni and Vav talukas of the district. “Banaskantha district received 15 inch rainfall overnight since Monday, of which Lakh-
ni alone had a rainfall of 21 inches,” Mistry added. In Ahmedabad, Ranjitsinh Thakor (30) died when a tree fell on an auto-rickshaw opposite Nobel Nagar police station around noon on Tuesday. Chief minister Anandiben Patel held a high-level meeting to take stock of the situation in the north. Last month, a flash flood claimed nearly 70 human lives in Amreli. It also claimed a dozen lions and hundreds of blue bulls. In the meeting, it was decided to keep the schools and anganwadis in these districts closed for 2-3 days. The chief
APJ Abdul Kalam wanted Gujarat to take lead in becoming the green energy corridor Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Even as the nation mourned the loss of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who passed away on Monday evening while delivering a lecture at IIM Shillong, his ties to Gujarat and many of its institutions endeared him to the state, which he visited frequently over the years. Speaking about Kalam’s penchant for Gujarat, IIM-A gold medalist and adviser to Kalam for six years, Srijan Pal Singh, says, “Few people know that Kalam’s tryst with Gujarat began with his fascination with state’s agricultural growth at 8.9 %. In fact, during my MBA at IIM-A, I had made a presentation to him on the ‘Gujarat model of agriculture’. The book Target 3 billion that I co-authored with him has 14
pages on Gujarat’s agrigrowth model as well. Kalam, while speaking to the industry at Bharuch almost six months back, said he wanted Gujarat to take lead in becoming the green energy corridor for the nation. He had also spoken of a huge plan for solar power (generation) at Kutch during the Chintan Shibir headed by then CM and now PM Narendra Modi back in 2009.”
Singh, a mechanical engineer and an IIM-A alumnus did a two-month-long internship with Kalam after graduating from IIM-A, before joining him full time as an adviser. Singh, who graduated from IIM-A in 2009 and was with Kalam in his final hours, recalls, “I happened to briefly meet him during my MBA course in 2008 when he asked me to use my education
to transform the lives of the needy. His words inspired a lot of us to get into this area as Kalam had this quality to inspire in you, things greater than yourself. Many of us will continue to work in missions started by him like ‘India 2020’ and Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA). He was like the sun and we were all planets orbiting around him.
Patels take out peaceful rally at Vijapur Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Despite heavy rain, Patidar community members trickled to Vijapur in Mehsana district on Tuesday morning to take out a rally demanding reservation for Patels in government jobs and education. The rally was peaceful and ended after a memorandum was submitted to Vijapur mamlatdar. On the ground, leaders threatened that peaceful protests will turn violent if administration attempts to intimidate Patidar leaders or police attempt to arrest them. Hardik Patel, convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, Gujarat, said, “Our peaceful protests will turn violent if any of our taluka or district leaders are threatened or police attempt to arrest any convener of the stir. Gujarat will see never-witnessed-before violence for which the party in power (BJP) and opposition (Congress) will be responsible.”
Amrita Puri Makes Her Television Debut With The EPIC Channel Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The EPIC Channel, India’s first segmented Hindi entertainment channel recently launched ‘Stories by Rabindranath Tagore’ recreated by the acclaimed director, Anurag Basu. The show focusses on strong women protagonists who pushed boundaries and defied society in 19th century
attributed the spike in the number of patients to intermittent rain, doctors said this is only the beginning as the monsoon has just gained momentum in the city. “We’ve seen 50 dengue cases this month,” said Jayesh Trivedi, MD, internal medicine. “The conditions have become conducive for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. In fact, there will be more cases once rain activity subsides as mosquitoes will breed in stagnant pools of water.” Not only has there been a sharp rise in the cases, but dengue is also more virulent this time.
fected after rain water flooded power sub-stations in the region. Four teams of NDRF and two companies of SRP have been sent to Banaskantha which is one of the worst
affected. One team of NDRF and two teams of BSF have also been positioned in Kutch. About 10 mobile dispensaries have also been kept on standby in Gandhinagar.
The sting of the mosquito is already getting sharper with the rising number of dengue cases stoking fears of a possible outbreak in the coming weeks. Since July 1, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run VS, LG, and Shardaben hospitals have together registered 92 dengue cases, against only 16 last year. Various private hospitals in Gurukul, SG Highway, Thaltej, Rakhial, Sola and Memnagar registered 190 cases this July. Even as the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
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working on it. But the first sofa I made weighed around 175 kg, which was way too heavy,” Patel. “Then I heard of ‘Design Clinic Scheme’ of MSME ministry and I approached them. They provided me a designer who modified the design and changed the material, reducing the weight to 35 kgs,” Patel said. The design clinic scheme of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is being run in collaboration with NID since 2010, said Kumar-
pal Parmar, Project Executive at the institute. It was Ankit Vyas, an NID alumnus, who helped Patel make his innovation
lighter and affordable. Patel said he will launch the sofa in the market with a price tag of Rs 1-1.25 lakh.
against their conviction by the special SIT court for their role in the killing of 97 persons, mainly women and children on February 28, 2002. The Supreme Court-appointed SIT has sought enhancement in punishment and also challenged the acquittal of 29 persons. The witnesses, too, have questioned the acquittals. Earlier attempts to hear the appeals had attracted controversy after three judges declined to hear them while a former judge’s willingness to hear them despite the opposition of some witnesses, took the matter to the Supreme Court.
On a complaint filed in the apex court by the SIT and the witnesses against the hurried manner in which Justice R R Tripathi was conducting the hearing by taking up Kodnani’s appeal solely, the Supreme Court stayed the proceedings
for two months. Later, three judges - Justice G B Shah, Justice M R Shah and Justice K S Jhaveri — recused themselves from hearing the matter. Two judges even complained that some accused had tried to approach them.
in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Water level in Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada River touched the mark of 120.72 meters on Tuesday, just a meter away from the dam height of 121.92 meters, the release
said. As per the government figures, three of the 137 dams in Saurashtra region, four out of 20 in Kutch region, one out of 17 in central Gujarat region and one out of 13 dams in south Gujarat have filled to the brim. With the continuous inflow of water, 17 dams were put on high-alert, while 10 others on alert, as they have filled up to 80 to 90 per cent, the release added. Apart from these 27 dams, nine other dams are filled up 70 to 80
per cent of their total capacity, while the remaining 166 dams are having less than 70 per cent of water of their holding capacity, stated the release. With this recent spell of showers, Gujarat’s average rainfall for the season now stands at 51.67 per cent, in which, Kutch received 82.17 per cent, north Gujarat 68.22 per cent, east-central region 39.94 per cent, Saurashtra 58.33 per cent and south Gujarat received 42.35 per cent, the release said.
Gujarat mechanic designs ‘AC sofa’ with help from NID alumnus
A repairman from Gujarat has successfully designed ‘an AC sofa’ which can be used even at outdoor events and consumes less electricity than the tower air-conditioners. Gandhinagar resident Dashrath Patel, who repairs ACs, came up with the idea some years ago. He was helped by the National Institute of Design in developing the product. “I first thought of installing air-conditioner in a sofa in 2008 and started
HC begins hearing of Naroda Patia appeals Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
A division bench of Gujarat high court comprising Justice Mohinder Pal and Justice R D Kothari on Tuesday began hearing the appeals in the 2002 Naroda Patia massacre case. Refusing to give preference in hearing to the appeal filed by former minister Maya Kodnani, the bench said it would hear appeals filed by all the accused, the SIT and the witnesses together, and move ahead with the proceedings step by step. Thirty-two convicts, including Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi, have appealed
9 Dams in Gujarat Filled to Brim Due to Incessant Rains
The Actress Enacts‘Charulata’ On Anurag Basu’s ‘Stories by Rabindranath Tagore’
Bengal through songs, cultural references and newfound political and social manifestations. The strong, confident actress, Amrita Puri takes on the role of ‘Charulata’ in a Tagore story titled, ‘The Broken Nest’ as her television debut
Spike in dengue cases, outbreak fears rise
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minister also announced Rs 4 lakh compensation to the kin of those who have died in rain-related accidents. Power supply to over 2,929 villages in this region have been af-
Ahmedabad
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With continual rains lashing parts of Gujarat, so far nine of the total 202 small on The EPIC channel. and large dams and resThis episode will air on ervoirs in the state have August 3 at 10pm on filled to the capacity, a government release said The EPIC Channel.
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