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News Brief Army jawan injured in militant firing in Kashmir Agency | Srinaga
An army jawan was injured today when militants opened fire on a patrol party in Shopian district of south Kashmir. “One army jawan was injured in militant firing on an army party at imam sahib Shopian at around 7.30 pm,” police said. Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched house to house searches to track down the militants, they said. Heavy rains trigger landslides in Himachal Agency | Shimla
Several parts of Himachal Pradesh were lashed by heavy rains today triggering landslides which caused damage to property even as a high alert has been sounded with the major rivers flowing above the danger mark. Five houses were damaged in Shimla and Kullu districts while a retaining wall caved in near central school here. Mahila Congress workers to gherao Parliament on Aug 8
“autopsy reveals”
Vyapam scam: As Madhya Pradesh Police decided to reopen the case of her death
Namrata Damor’s death was not suicide The doctors who conducted the post-mortem said they never mentioned in their report that it was a case of suicide
Agency | Ujjain MBBS student Namrata Damor, whose body was found near rail tracks in Ujjain district in 2012 after her name figured in the Vyapam scam, had died a “homicidal” death caused by “violent asphyxia as a result of smothering” and nail injuries were found on her face. As Madhya Pradesh Police decided to reopen the case of her death, the doctors who conducted the post-mor-
tem said they never mentioned in their report that it was a case of suicide. Earlier police had registered a “murder” case in this regard and later termed the incident as an “accident” and closed the case, a police official said. The post-mortem report, a copy of which is with describes Namrata’s cause of death, as “asphyxia (violent asphyxia)…as a result of smothering.” The findings were sug-
gestive of the death being “homicidal”, as per the autopsy report issued on January 9, 2012. The post mortem report was signed by Dr B B Purohit (Forensic Medicine), Dr O P Gupta (Medical Officer) and Dr Anita Joshi (Gynaecologist). That
South African President Jacob Zuma. “I expect positive outcomes in economic cooperation and cultural ties among the BRICS nations. The (BRICS) Summit in 2014 was productive and I am sure we will build on the ground covered during the last Summit,” Modi had said in a statement prior to his departure from Delhi on Monday.
Agency | New Delhi The statements of two CBI officers who had conducted searches at the office and residence of the accused in a coal scam case involving Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd (JIPL) and its two directors, were recorded before a special court today. The court recorded the testimonies of CBI inspector Vijay Chettiar, who had gone to Ranchi to carry out search at JIPL’s office,
and inspector Sanjay Sehgal who had participated in a search operation at the house of accused R S Rungta at Panchsheel Park in South Delhi. Chettiar told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that he had gone to Ranchi in March 2013 on the instructions of his seniors and carried out search at the office premises of JIPL at Ramgarh. A number of documents were recovered during the
search operation from the JIPL office, he said. During cross-examination by the counsel appearing for JIPL and co-accused R C Rungta, he denied the suggestions that no documents were seized from the office premises of the firm. “It is wrong to suggest that I did not visit Ranchi CBI office on March 11, 2013 or carry out any search operation as stated by me at Ramgarh at the office of M/s Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd. It is wrong to suggest that no documents were at all searched or seized by me at the office of M/s Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd at Ramgarh,” he said.
Agency | New York The New York Stock Exchange halted trading on all stocks this morning because of a technical problem, the company said, further roiling markets when stock values were falling over news from China and Europe. The halt, which started at 11:32 a.m., occurred on a “heavy volume day,” and could have a broad impact on markets if the exchange stays down for several hours, Randy Frederick, a managing director at Charles Schwab, told The Post. “The issue we are experiencing is an internal
technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach,” the company announced over Twitter. “We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue.” While NYSE, which is operated by InterContinental Exchange, was down, trading was still going on on the roughly 10 other exchanges, like Nasdaq. “It wasn’t like from my seat that all of a sudden you had to call the trading desk to get something executed manually,” one broker told The Post. “Everything
systems-wise is flawless.” It wasn’t the only glitch of the day. United Continental had grounded all their planes worldwide in the morning for more than an hour because of a “network connectivity issue,” the company said in a statement. Trading volume on United’s stock was lower than normal during the
outage, the broker said. US officials said there was no connection between the two. After the NYSE halted stocks, the Wall Street Journal homepage was also down for unconfirmed reasons. Stock trading continued on other exchanges and “dark pools,” with the Dow down 1.3 percent by noon at 17,548.95.
“the panel of doctors that conducted the post-mortem has never mentioned in their short PM report as well as the detailed PM report that it was a case of suicide.” “We also found nail injuries at three places on her face,” he said. When the body
PM Narendra Modi arrives in Russia; BRICS, SCO summits on itinerary Agency | Ufa
After visiting two Central Asian countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on Wednesday on a threeday trip during which he will attend the BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summits. Modi flew in from Kazakhstan, which was his second stop after Uzbekistan in his six-nation week-long tour. He will first attend
the summit of five-nation BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -which is expected to be dominated by discussions on enhancing cooperation in the economic area. With the BRICS Development Bank already set up, the summit could also look at the possibility of starting trade and credit facility in local currency. The first head of the bank is noted Indian banker KV Kamath.
Besides Modi and Xi, the BRICS Summit is being attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and
Rahul Gandhi expresses support for kin of missing Coast Guard Dornier
Agency | New Delhi
With Congress upping the ante against Modi government on issues including ‘Lalitgate’, and Vyapam, its women wing will hold a ‘gherao’ of Parliament on August 8 days before Monsoon session comes to an end. The decision was taken at a two-day national executive meeting of Mahila Congress, which will conclude tomorrow with an address by party Vice President Rahul Gandhi during which the roadmap of action by party’s women wing for next three months will be chalked out.
found near railway tracks under Kaytha police station limits in Ujjain. Her case came back to focus after the sudden death of TV journalist Akshay Singh in Jhabua district’s Meghnagar town recently after he interviewed Namrata’s father. Ujjain District’s Superinten-
dent of Police Manohar Singh Varma said, “We have ordered a review of the death of Namrata Damor. Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP), Tarana, R K Sharma will reopen the case.” Namrata was studying at the Government MGM Medical College in Indore and it was suspected that she took admission with the help of the racket involved in the high-profile Vyapam scam that is said to have claimed 45 lives so far.
was brought for postmortem, at that time it was unidentified, Dr Purohit said. The report also advised for “histopathological examinations to rule out any sexual intercourse prior to death.” The autopsy was conducted at district hospital in Ujjain. Namrata’s body was
Coal scam: Court records statements of two CBI officials
NYSE halts trading due to tech issue Agency | New Delhi Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday came out in support of the family of the three Coast Guard officials who are missing after their aircraft crashed a month ago. “One month on still no trace of missing #ICGDornier &its brave crew. My prayers are with the families,” Rahul, who is likely to meet the distraught family soon, tweeted. With no clue emerging about the whereabouts of the missing
Coast Guard aircraft and its three personnel onboard, the father of one of the officers has written an ‘open’ letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying they are “dying every second” and longing to get some bit of news about these men. The parents of Deputy Commandant Manoj K Soni (Navigator of the aircraft), who were till now in Chennai with their daughter-in-law, are now camping in Delhi to urge the Prime
Minister, the Defence Minister and other senior functionaries to seek international help in getting a clue about their son and his two colleagues. The Coast Guard Dornier plane, CG791, had taken off for a routine maritime surveillance sortie in coastal Tamil Nadu on June 8 and since then has been untraceable despite the CG and the Navy undertaking a massive search operation in the sea and the land areas.
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Police Reformer Of India Former Chief Justice of India Y.K. Sabharwal’s passing would be mourned, among others, by the country’s police fraternity. There are few people who really empathise with the police, understand its problems, and appreciate the need to improve its working conditions. Justice Sabharwal was one such person. He knew the police had to be insulated from extraneous pressures to be able to enforce the rule of law, and that without a professional police, the country could not have a stable democracy or achieve sustained economic progress. The petition for police reforms had been filed in 1996. It got an initial push from Justice J.S. Verma, but after that, with the exception of Justice S.P. Bharucha, no other judge took significant interest in the matter. The case meandered for almost 10 years — until it was taken up by Justice Sabharwal. He decided to clinch the issue. In a historic judgment delivered on September 22, 2006, Justice Sabharwal recorded that “having regard to (i) the gravity of the problem; (ii) the urgent need for preservation and strengthening of rule of law; (iii) pendency of even this petition for last over 10 years; (iv) the fact that various commissions and committees have made recommendations on similar lines for introducing reforms in the police set-up in the country; and (v) total uncertainty as to when police reforms would be introduced, we think that there cannot be any further wait, and the stage has come for issue of appropriate directions for immediate compliance so as to be operative till such time a new model police act is prepared by the Central government and/ or the state governments pass the requisite legislation.” The court’s directions included setting up three institutions: state security commissions to insulate the state police from extraneous pressures; police establishment boards to give autonomy to the department in personnel matters; and police complaints authorities to ensure better accountability of the force. The court also laid down a procedure for appointment of the DGP and gave him a fixed tenure of two years, mandated a two-year tenure for officers performing operational duties in the field, and gave directions for the separation of investigation from law and order in towns with a population of 10 lakh or more. The directions were to be implemented by December 31, 2006. The judgment caused a huge flutter. The states never expected such far-reaching directions. They mobilised the best lawyers to stall the reforms. The big question is: Will the SC remain a spectator to its directions on police reforms being trifled with by the state governments?
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the media is saying this. My leadership trusts me fully and that is something QUOTE “Only I am proud of. No one told me that you should request for a CBI probe. I felt it Earlier I did not ask for a CBI probe as court was monitoring the probe… OF THE myself. so what was the need?” DAY - Beleaguered Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today claimed that none in the party brass told him to ask for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam
Too young to judge a show, says Alia Bhatt Agency | New Delhi
Actress Alia Bhatt says as a viewer she likes reality shows, but feels she is too young to judge them as of now. “I don’t think judging is something I can do now as I am too young, I am still learning it. I can’t judge but creatively I will be part of singing and music stuff (shows),” Alia. “Whenever the time is right I would do it. When I am not doing films and have time, then may be I can do reality shows. But I also think I need to explore the singing space to be on a show and judge someone,” she said. Alia along with filmmaker Karan Johar will now be seen as co-curators of Viacom18’s English entertainment
channel Colors Infinity. When asked if she would be doing a show for the channel in near future, Alia said, “Not right now, but never say never, let’s see. For me reality television is something I get hooked on to…like ‘Bigg Boss’. I get attracted to it. So doing something like that will be a great idea on Colors Infinity.” Alia says people are wise enough to chose what they like to see and there are particular slots for bold shows. “I think there is a particular time slot for that. We all are wise enough to make our choices. There are some shows that will be very interesting for the children to see, like the superhero show and other shows,” she said.
Bhai is fine, tweets Arpita post Salman Khan’s health scare
- Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor Rangabati: Police files complaint against Sona Mohapatra
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In a new turn to the controversy surrounding the remix of cult Sambalpuri song Rangabati, the youth wing of BJP has lodged a complaint against Bollywood singers Sona Mohapatra and Rituraj Mohanty at a police station in Odisha’s Sambalpur district. “Our complaint is on two counts – first, they did not take permission from the original lyricist and
composer and, second, they have distorted the song hurting the feelings of millions of people in western Oridha,” said Aswini Majhi, district vice president of Bhartiya Janata Yuba Morcha. Sambalpur’s additional superintendent of police Sushil Panigrahi said: “We have received the complaint. We are examining the legal issue over copyright and take action accordingly.”
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Agency | New Delhi There was buzz that superstar Salman Khan has been advised bed rest due to backache, which sent his fans and well-wishers into a tizzy. But his sister Arpita Khan Sharma says Salman Khan is fit as a fiddle. Arpita, who is married to businessman Aayush Sharma, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share Salman Khan’s health update. “Salman Bhai is Fine, there’s nothing to be Alarmed about. Thank you for your love & concern as always,” Arpita Khan tweeted. The 49-year-old is caught up in the promotional activity of his
much-awaited film “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, which will hit the screens on July 17. The Kabir Khan directorial, which also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, will unfold the story of a man’s emotional yet thrilling journey from India to Pakistan. He is on a promotion spree for his film and has been shooting for the same back to back. So, the hectic schedule took a toll on his body. He was advised a two-hour break.” Salman is on his toes as he is visiting several TV shows’ sets like singing reality TV show “Indian Idol Junior” and “Yeh Hai Mohabbatein”.
Shraddha Kapoor’s special gift for someone special
Agency | New Delhi Shraddha Kapoor is on a roll after the success of her latest outing ‘ABCD 2′ and has managed to gain a lot of appreciation and love for her role in the film. Shraddha Kapoor, who had put a lot of hard work in the film, had thanked her “ABCD 2″ team for being so passionate and hardworking and her choreographer – director Remo D’Souza, for giving
her the opportunity of a lifetime. But apart from Remo D’souza, Shraddha Kapoor owes her success to her first dance teacher, who taught her the first steps of dancing in her school days. Shraddha feels that the basic foundation of the art was very important to reach this level of dancing and she handpicked a special gift for her guru to acknowlegde the teacher’s contribution.
Dausa Crash: Victim’s father hits back at Hema Malini, says the BJPMPhas ‘small soch’
Agency | jaipur The victim’s father Hanuman Khandelwal alleged that it was Hema’s Mercedes which was speeding above 100 kms per hour when his car was hit, leaving five persons injured near Dausa on July 2. “I feel very sad that Hemaji, an MP, has such a small ‘soch’ (thinking) that she tweeted that I was not following traffic rules”, Mahajan, who is convalescing in Trauma Hospital in the Pink City. Hanuman’s two-year-old daughter Sonam was killed while five others were injured including the actress when
Hema’s car collided with another car. “Big people can say anything from anywhere…If she has courage…she should come before me and say what she has to. I like to know from her one traffic rule that I violated…whether I was driving at very high speed, or whether I was on the wrong
side, or I did not give an indicator..or I did not put seat belt”, he said. “My mistake was that I was driving at a very slow speed and her car was at high speed”, he said, adding, “Why was her driver arrested and released on bail. We have filed the case with the Kotwali Police Station in
Dausa district”. Hanuman’s wife Shikha, five-year-old son and brother’s wife Seema have been admitted to a hospital here. In her tweet, Hema said, “My heart goes out to the child who unnecessarily lost her life and the family members who have been injured in the accident.
Agency | New Delhi The last time Govinda was in the news for Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos, wherein he said that he is walking out of the movie. The latest update on this versatile actor now is that he has greenlighted an untitled Marathi film and has even started shooting for the same. The said film is being directed by Devdatt Manjrekar. Reports state that Govinda plays a man
from the rural interiors in this out-and-out commercial film that should be wrapped up by September. While
TV actress Ketaki Palav will be seen playing Govinda’s leading lady in the film, the film’s makers have
also roped in Govinda’s ‘partner-in-crime’ for many years Johnny Lever to play an important role in the film.
Govinda to make his Marathi movie debut
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When Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner started at the company, she noticed something about the Friends icon on the site. She felt compelled to act, and has now spoken about how she went about changing the look of the icons. “As a woman, educated at a women’s college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in,” she says in a post on Medium explaining the change that has been made. The old logo on the left, and the new on
Winner has now flipped the position of the two silhouettes, as well as replaced the “Darth Vader-like” female outline by giving her a “slightly more shapely bob”. The move comes after a subtle re-design of the main Facebook logo last week, and also with the debate over the gender gap in the world of technology continuing. “Much to my dismay, not long into my tenure as a Facebook designer I found something in the company glyph (logo) kit worth getting upset about,” said Winner of discovering the problem.
47,000 Lenovo K3 Note smartphones sold on Flipkart registrations now
Agency | New Delhi phone with support The recently an- for 4G connectivity. nounced Lenovo K3 It sports a 5.5-inch Note smartphone was 1080p Full HD dissold out on Flipkart play along with a on July 8 seconds 13MP rear camera after the first online with LED Flash and sale kicked off at 3 a 5MP front camPM. Lenovo had re- era. t runs on a 64ceived 5, 38,096 reg- bit 1.5GHz Mediistrations for the first aTek MT6572 CPU flash sale, and sold with 2GB RAM and about 47,440 smart- 16GB internal storphones. For the next age which can be exsale on July 15, the panded up to 32GB. company is lining up It has one of the best a white version of the benchmarking scores Lenovo K3 Note as among smartphones well. The black ver- at the moment. Powsion will go on sale at ered by a 3,000 mAh 12 noon, followed by battery, the device the white at 3 pm on runs on Android LolJuly 15. The K3 Note lipop OS with Vibe is a dual SIM smart- UI.
www.sunvillasamachar.com Lord Patel becomes first British-Asian appointee to England and Wales Cricket Board Agency | London Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford, an OBE and a leading voice on health, social care and community cohesion in the UK, has become the first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour Peer and formerly worked for the Yorkshire Cricket Academy as a parttime coach. Last year, he served on the judging panel of the inaugural Asian Cricket Awards supported by ECB. He succeeds Lord Morris of Handsworth, who is stepping down after 11 years as an ECB Director. Commenting on his appointment, ECB Chairman Colin Graves said: “Lord Patel’s instinctive grasp of the role
cricket plays in uniting communities and crossing social barriers will be all important as we continue to change how we work as an organisation. Commenting on the unity that cricket can bring, Lord Patel said “Cricket has been a life-long passion of mine and this is a great honour for me. I am a huge advocate of what the sport can bring to the wider community – from instilling life-
skills like self-discipline and leadership to improving fitness and tackling wider issues like obesity.” Lord Patel moved to West Yorkshire at the age of one, and first played the game in the back-streets of Bradford. He subsequently joined a number of local club sides where he played alongside famous cricketing names in the Bradford League like Phil Sharpe and Geoff Cope.
after two matches. Iran, Turkmenistan and Oman are also part of the group. “We owe India an apology. We lost because we were very bad from the goalkeeper to the strikers. I have never seen something like that happen against a team of Guam’s ability in my time for India,” Chhetri. Chhetri also rued
losing to a penalty against Oman in the first qualifying match in Bengaluru, where he scored a stunning goal from the edge of the box to bring India level. India take on Iran on 8 September in what can be termed as a must-win encounter if they are to keep any hopes to qualify for the World Cup in 2018. India must finish in the top two to go through to the third round of qualifiers. “We don’t have the abilities of a Japan or Australia. There is no Neymar or Messi in our team. So, we can’t afford not to work hard,” Chhetri said.
Fantastic to play on natural grass this time: Antonio Habas
Apple plans record initial production of new iPhones: WSJ
Agency | California Apple Inc is asking suppliers to manufacture up to 90 million units of two new iPhone models with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays by Dec. 31, the Wall Street journal reported. The phones are also expected to feature Force Touch technology which
can distinguish between a light tap and deep press, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. The screen sizes are the same as in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Apple is also expected to maintain the screen resolution, the newspaper reported. The company could not immediately be reached for comment. Apple’s shares were down 1.5 percent at $123.84 in midday trading on the Nasdaq.
Agency | Kolkata Atletico de Kolkata head coach Antonio Habas, who is back with his ISL-winning team for a second season, is excited that they would get to play on natural grass at the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan here. The work for relaying of natural grass is almost over and
SPORTS ROUNDUP Indian women thump New Zealand to clinch ODI series win
Indian football team owes an apology to fans after Guam loss, says Sunil Chhetri
Agency | Bengaluru Indian striker Sunil Chhetri said that the football team owes the country an apology for their defeat against Guam in a World Cup qualifying match played last month. Guam, ranked 33 places below India, won on their home turf 2-1 — a result which left India bottom of their group
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ATK’s home ground would be ready when they return from Madrid after a two-week pre-season training in September. “It’s fantastic that the artificial turf is now a thing of past. Great to hear that they have changed the pitch to natural grass,” Habas said on Wednesday. The Spaniard has a reason to say so as
he felt this would silence the critics who had alleged that ATK got some advantage because of the artificial surface at the Salt Lake Stadium. “People talked last time that we had the advantage but let me tell you we had to struggle the most because we kept switching from artificial to natural in away matches.”
Agency | Bengaluru Indian women produced a clinical performance to crush New Zealand by nine wickets in the fifth and final ODI and won the series 3-2 on Wednesday. After the win, the BCCI announced a cash award of Rs 21 lakh for the team as they fought back from being 2-1 down to win the series. The final match turned out to be an anti-climax of sorts with New Zealand being shot out for 118 in 41 overs as seven of their batsmen failed to reach double digits. Suzie Bates top-scored with 42 while left-arm spinner Rajeswari Gayekwad had the best figures of 2/15. Jhulan Goswa-
mi, with 2/17, was as economical as ever while Deepti Sharma took 2 for 22. In reply, India surpassed the target in 27.2 overs with DT Thirush Kamini scoring 62 off 78 balls with 13 boundaries. Deepti showed her all-round prowess by scoring an unbeaten 44 off 78 balls with 8 boundaries. BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said: “Congratulations to our skipper Mithali Raj on leading the team with distinction and registering a series win against New Zealand. The team has shown remarkable character to come back from 1-2 to and win the series. BCCI would like to announce a
reward of Rs 21 lakh for the team.” Secretary Anurag Thakur stated, “On behalf of BCCI, I would like to congratulate the team on the series win. It was a dominant performance today (Wednesday) and they deserve all the accolades.” “This five-match ODI series proved to be competitive and was a wonderful showcase for the skill and class of women’s cricket. It augurs well for the future. I would also wish to congratulate Mithali for reaching yet another milestone in her illustrious career - of crossing 5000 runs. Well done once again for a stellar performance,” he added.
Agency | New Delhi Current Indian ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wished his former skipper Sourav Ganguly on the occasion of Ganguly’s 43rd birthday on Wednesday by posting on his Facebook page a poignant photo of the two shar-
ing a light moment during a Test match, while wishes poured in for ‘Dada’, as Ganguly is fondly known, on Twitter, with messages from Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, and others. On the eve of his birthday, Ganguly had said about his plans for the
occasion, “Nothing new... This time, I’m in Kolkata and will spend the time with my family.” Having represented the national cricket team in 113 Tests and 311 ODIs, Ganguly has been one of the most successful Indian captains. Leading the Men in Blue to the famous Natwest ODI series triumph in 2002, Ganguly was instrumental in instilling confidence and aggression in the Indian side -- a quality that was often perceived as being conspicuous by its absence until then. Sachin Tendulkar, arguably India’s favourite cricketer and Ganguly’s India teammate for several years, wished Ganguly.
Dhoni, Sachin, Kumble wish former skipper Ganguly on his birthday
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NIA closes Modasa blast case in Ahmedabad court allows abortion which Hindu extremists suspects of mentally challenged woman Gulam Mohammed Dholkawala, 51, remembers sitting on a scooter outside a mutton shop in Modasa’s Suka Bazaar when the locality was rocked by a blast. He could feel his cheeks burn and a loud ringing in his ears, which took weeks to go away. Almost seven years have passed since the September 29, 2008 blast, but the trauma still haunts the victims. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a closure report in the case, citing lack of evidence and the inability to trace the main culprits behind the blast, which claimed the life of
A sessions court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday allowed the application of state government seeking abortion of a mentally challenged woman who was found abandoned in the city sometime back. The 21-year-old woman is 14-weeks pregnant. 15-year-old Zainuddin Gori and left 10 injured in the month of Ramzan. The special NIA court closed the case on April 22. The 16-page final report named no suspects but only said that “the complainant is the victim of the blast and is fortunate enough to have survived”. The closure report comes at a time
when reports have emerged of a slew of cases, allegedly involving Hindu extremists, falling apart. On Monday, a key witness in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case turned hostile — the fifteenth so far to have turned hostile since June last year. There were striking similarities between the
Gujarat releases 70,000 turtle hatchlings Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
The state will add three hatcheries to the existing two to give a shot in the arm to the conservation of the endangered green turtle and Olive Ridley turtle in Gujarat. Currently, the state releases over 70,000 hatchlings into the Arabian Sea every year. The forest department runs two hatcheries in Madhavpur (Porbandar) and Okha Madhi (Jamnagar) where eggs are collected and brought to an enclosure to ensure their hatching. Three hatcheries will
be commissioned this October — in Kodinar (Gir-Somath), Jhalna (Amreli) and Chorwad (Junagadh). “Gujarat will have one of the highest numbers of hatcheries in India. Participation of locals has helped boost the conservation of turtles,” says Dinesh Goswa-
mi, spearheading the campaign along the Saurashtra coast. P T Siyani, range forest officer, Porbandar and in-charge of Madhavpur hatchery, said, “In 1990s, only one out of 1,000 eggs laid would survive. Over the past two years, 85% of collected eggs hatch.”
Modasa blast and the Malegaon bombing, which took place a day before. Both cases took place around the same time — 9.30 pm — and in both instances the explosives were concealed inside a motorcycle. Dholkawala, who trades in chilli powder, said he is not surprised by how this particular probe concluded.
take care of herself. The woman’s whereabouts is not known who was found pregnant during a medical check up after she was admitted in a hospital. She was found by Meghaninagar police station officials who got her admitted in a mental hospital. According to Brahm-
Special Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt confirmed the development and said that the court has allowed the application considering the state government’s stand that the woman wouldn’t be able to take care of the child. He said that the Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad woman herself needs A team of the Anround the clock watch ti-Terrorist Squad of as she is unable to Gujarat detained a These Gujarat-based companies 42-year-old alleged gave investors a pot of gold bootlegger, Masum Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad touch Rs 1,885.05 on Kalu Mahida, who eloped with a HinHad you invested Rs July 7, 2015 from Rs du girl half his age 5,000 to buy 1,000 5.09 a share on Janufrom central Gujarat shares of Symphony ary 3, 2005. The rapid town Nadiad. As Marise has catapulted its Ltd in 2005, your inhida already has two vestment today would promoter Achal Bakwives, the entire Nahave grown to Rs eri to the elite club diad town remained 18.85 lakh. The city- of billion-dollar busishut for two days to based air-cooler mak- nessmen in India this year. Other companies protest against the er is one of the few to have had a dream alleged incident of Gujarat-based comrun on the bourses love jihad. Later, a panies giving returns during the past de- video was released in excess of 1,000% cade include Cera from Mahida’s side to shareholders in the Sanitaryware, Vadilal and circulated on sopast decade. Sympho- Industries and Hitachi cial media in which ny is leading the pack Home and Life Solu- the girl belonging of best-performing tions India. The share to Patel community Gujarat companies in prices of these firms said that she left her terms of increase in rose by 5,163.10%, home on her own share prices. The stock 4,250.29% and wish and without any of the company has 3,830% respectively pressure. But even then the relatives of surged 36,934.38% to since 2005.
The heavy rains in the last week of June had resulted in increase in sowing activity. The activity was completed in about 50 per cent of the 85.53 lakh hectares of land. Contrary to past year, the sowing of groundnut was more than cotton. According to the sowing figures released, sowing of groundnut has been completed in 11.47 lakh hectares of area which was 83.77% of the total sowing area of 13.70 lakh hectares. Cotton crop usually has more sowing in terms of percentage, but this year groundnut sowing was around seven per cent more than cotton sowing. The sowing of cotton takes place in 27.27 lakh hectares while the sowing was only in 20.91 lakh hectares which was 76.70% of
the girl lodged a case against the bootlegger and alleged that the girl was forced to fall for Mahida. The police are now trying to track the girl and bring her to the police station for her statements. Mahida’s fate is depending upon her statements before the cops. However, the police said that even if Mahida gets released in this
case, he would be booked for the illicit liquor trade. Rightwing organisations like the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal supported the relatives of the girl. Local units of both the organisations have threatened to intensify their agitation if police fail to take action against Mahida and his aides.
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new law.’’ Patel said that rules regarding fine and other penal action against the defaulting voters will be announced shortly. Section 15A&B, 16A&B and 34A&B of the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws(Amendment) Act, 2009 makes it mandatory to vote in the local bodies elections which be almost equivalent to state assembly elections. The bill was passed twice during the tenure of Narendra Modi as state chief minister amid high voltage drama. Congress has been opposed to the move since day one.
Gujarat ATS arrests bootlegger for deceiving Hindu girl
Sowing sees 50 per Gujarat may no more acquire land cent rise in Gujarat for projects under new port policy Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
bhatt, all efforts to find the woman’s relatives right from Ahmedabad to Bengal have not yielded any results. Subsequently, the hospital authorities approached the concerned metropolitan court seeking permission to abort her pregnancy. The court rejected the ap-
plication stating that it can’t allow such action. Following this a revision application was moved in the sessions court. Brahmbhatt said that the medical reports have found that the girl is 14-weeks pregnant and abortion is permissible if the pregnancy has not crossed 20 weeks. He said that if she is allowed to deliver the baby it will have an adverse effect on the baby as well as the mother who is mentally unstable.
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the total area. The officials in the agriculture department said that the cash crop including Bajari, Millet, is still to pick up. The officials said that the sowing of Maize was only in 1300 hectares last year, while it was in an area of 1.85 lakh hectares this year. The officials said that sowing in the state last year was only in an area of 16.18 lakh hectares while this year it was in 42.41 lakh hectare this year. The officials said that the sowing was highest in Saurashtra region. OF the 36.30 lakh hectare where sowing takes place in the Saurashtra region, the sowing was completed in 30.56 lakh hectare area. Officials said that the sowing part from Saurashtra is yet top pick up in North, South and Central Gujarat.
Under new policy, private port developer would purchase the required land parcel directly from land owners.
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As Gujarat, which accounts for for 74% of the traffic by all non-major ports in the country and the longest coastline amongst maritime states in India (1,600 km), readies its new port policy, it might include a clause that the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB), an autonomous State Board which administers and regulates the 41 state-owned non-major ports of Gujarat, would no longer acquire land for port development. The private port developer would purchase the required land parcel directly from land owners. A K Rakesh, vice chairman and
chief executive officer of the GMB said, “We are working on fine tuning our existing port policy which is over two decades old. While we plan to retain the basic features of the policy, we are planning to make subtle changes. Like there is a plan to allocate the responsibility of buying land for a port project to the private developer.” Rakesh added that so far GMB has been acquiring
the land for port projects, but if this change was brought about, it would avoid litigations as well bring down delays in projects. The new policy is likely to come up by the end of the year. Gujarat had come up with a port policy in 1995, and had planned for an integrated portled development with focus on public-private-partnership projects. Rakesh informed that the build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) policy came up in 1997, and by 1999 the state came up with a model concession agreement which
governs the terms and conditions according to which the PPPs in ports would be regulated and monitored. GMB so far was undertaking the work of land acquisition for ports. As Rakesh said, “If land is purchased directly by the developer, it would avoid litigation, and hence subsequent delays in projects.” As for the new port policy, GMB is basically aiming to come up with a comprehensive port policy that would lay down the necessary policy framework for effective port led development in the state.
‘Compulsory voting notification after July 12’
State government has decided to issue the final notification, after July 12, making voting compulsory in the local bodies’ elections. Nitin Patel, state government spokesperson and the senior-most minister in the Cabinet, said, “As the elections in 690 gram panchayats are schedule on July 12, the state government has decided to announce the compulsory voting notification after the election process is over in these bodies. Right now, it is not possible to conduct these elections in sync with
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