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News BriefMarried woman raped by relative

in UP

Agency | Barabanki

A 30-year-old married woman was alleged-ly raped by her distant relative in Satrikh area here, police said today. The woman in her po-lice complaint, which was lodged yesterday, alleged that the accused, who has been arrested, came to her house when she was alone and raped her on Tuesday night, the police said.

2015 a special year for me:

Bipasha Basu

Rupee pares early losses to rule

stable

Agency | Mumbai

Though it was not a fulfilling year for Bi-pasha Basu profession-ally, thanks to her only release “Alone”, the actress says personal-ly she was in a happy zone. The 36-year-old actress said she has be-come understanding and loving over time. “2015 has been a very spe-cial year. It’s made me more content, patient, understanding, loving, trusting and above all happy,” she posted on Twitter.

Agency | Mumbai

The rupee cut down its initial losses to stabi-lise at 66.39 against the American currency in late-morning deals on bouts of dollar sale from banks and importers amid stronger equities. The rupee resumed lower at 66.45 as against over-night closing level of 66.39 at the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange (forex) market. It slid further before quoting at 66.39 at 1030 hours. The domestic unit moved in a range of 66.45 and 66.39 during the morning deals.

Narendra Modi’s new year gift to our indian youth“Govt Job from Jan.1”

No interview for Grade 3, 4 jobs

Agency | New Delhi

A day before the odd-even policy for private vehicles comes into effect across the capital, several senior bureaucrats in the Delhi government have decid-ed to go on mass leave, a move that could spell se-rious trouble for the AAP government. Members of the DANICS (Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service) Officers’ Association de-cided to go on leave to protest the suspension of two senior DANICS officials Monday. The two officials — Subhash Chandra, special secre-tary, prisons, and Yashpal Garg, special secretary, prosecution — had been suspended by the AAP

Agency | Noida

With effect from January 1, there will be no interviews for central govern-ment jobs in Class-III and IV catego-ries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced, terming it as a “New Year Gift” to the youth and a major step to curb corruption. “From tomorrow, in-terviews for government jobs in Class-III and Class-IV categories will be

abolished. This will help curb corrup-tion,” he tweeted. His tweet came soon after he talked about the issue at an event in Noida, while laying founda-tion stone of a 14-lane expressway con-necting Delhi with Meerut. Addressing a public meeting there, he said, “Today is December 31, the last day of 2015 and from tomorrow, 2016 will begin... We are going to give a unique gift to

Agency | New Delhi

Both the President of India, Pranab Mukher-jee, and Vice President Hamid Ansari have ex-tended their warm greet-ings and best wishes to all the citizens on the advent of the New Year 2016. President Mukher-jee, in a message said, “On the joyous occasion of New Year, I convey warm greetings and good wishes to all my fellow countrymen in India and abroad. I wish everyone a happy and prosper-ous New Year.” “May the New Year be an oc-casion to make a fresh beginning and renew our resolve for individ-ual as well as collective growth. Let us inculcate in ourselves love, com-passion, tolerance and

Agency | Dubai

Off-spinner Ravichan-dran Ashwin on Thursday became only the second Indian, after the legend-ary Bishan Singh Bedi, to be ranked as the No.1 bowler in Tests in the lat-est International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings released on Thursday. Ashwin achieved the top spot for the first time in his career after injury prevented South African Dale Steyn from bowling more than 3.5 overs in England’s second innings in the Durban Test. Even though the fast bowl-er bagged four wickets in the first innings, it wasn’t enough for him to end the year as the No.1 bowler for the sixth time since 2009, and the posi-

Agency | Chennai

With all eyes on ruling AIADMK’s electoral strategy for 2016 Assem-bly polls, party Gener-al Secretary and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said she will fi-nalise it at the appropriate time, factoring in the pre-vailing situation. There is no set or specific strat-egy to face the hustings, Jayalalithaa said in her address at the meeting of the party’s Executive and General Council, its key decision-making bodies, here. “There is no specif-

Odd-even rule: 2 colleagues suspended, DANICS officials plan mass leave day before

Will finalise electoral strategy for Tamil Nadu assembly polls at appropriate time: Jayalalithaa

Ashwin ends 2015 as No.1 ranked Test bowler

government as they had allegedly refused to sign two cabinet notes. The move will also affect a ‘coordination meeting’ called by the government to finalise last-minute preparations for odd-even trial period. There are over 200 DANICS offi-cials in Delhi; a majority of them are sub-division-al magistrates (SDMs) and additional district magistrates (ADMs).

Once the odd-even policy is implemented, SDMs will have the task of su-pervising civil defence volunteers and ensuring that those violating the policy are penalised. The DANICS officials have received support from the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, Union Territories) IAS Cadre Association, which extended “support to the DANICS resolution” and

tion went to the Chennai man. Steyn had started the Durban Test leading Ashwin by four points and now trails the Indi-an tweaker by the same margin. The 29-year-old Ashwin has become the first Indian since Bedi in 1973 to achieve the milestone of finishing the year as No.1. In fact, Bedi, an ICC Hall of Famer, is the only Indian

to ever top the Test bowl-ing table while Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Kapil Dev and Anil Kumble peaked at No.2 during their careers. Ashwin fin-ished 2015 as the most successful bowler with 62 wickets in nine Tests and this is reflected in his ranking after he start-ed the year in 15th and slowly but surely moved to the top.

said, “it was jointly re-solved to convey the con-cerns and anguish of both the associations to vari-ous government authori-ties concerned”. In their letter to the MHA, DAN-ICS officials claimed that Chandra and Garg had been suspended “illegal-ly”. “The two senior offi-cers of DANICS, namely Yashpal Garg and Sub-hash Chandra, both work-ing as special secretary, Home, GNCTD, have been illegally suspended for refusing to sign the notification which was not approved by the com-petent authority regarding grant of higher pay scales for the staff of prosecution department and prisons department,” they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Congress has more responsibility to ensure the functioning of Parliament as they

had “enjoyed power” for over six decades.

“Bye Bye 2015”“Well - Come

2016”

ic strategy to face polls. For instance, we aligned with some parties for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and some parties for the 2011 Assembly polls,” she said in an apparent reference to joining hands with the Left and also DMDK later. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the par-ty faced the elections by itself sans an alliance and has “emerged as the third largest party” in the Lok Sabha with 37 MPs, af-ter the ruling BJP (282) and Opposition Congress (then 44), she said. “Like that, I will take the right decision (at the appro-

priate time) according to the (prevailing) situa-tion for the 2016 Assem-bly elections,” she said even as the party earlier authorised her to take all election-related deci-sions. The Chief Minis-ter, citing her pro-people welfare measures, how-ever, expressed confi-

dence that the party will capture power for the seventh time riding on performance and that AIADMK’s “victory is a foregone” conclusion. Because of her social welfare initiatives, the state was forging ahead in health and education indicators, she said.

New Year 2016: President and Vice President of India greet the nation

work towards creating an inclusive society where peace and harmony pre-vails. This is the time to reinforce the civilisa-tional values that bind together the complex diversity of modern-day India and promote them among our people and the world,” he added. He urged the people to work in the year 2016 ‘towards preserving the symbiotic relationship between man and nature. Let us strive to make our country clean

and green and the envi-ronment pollution free’. Vice President Ansari in his released message said, “I convey my warm greetings and best wishes to all our citizens on the advent of the New Year 2016. On this joyous oc-casion, let us collectively resolve to dedicate our-selves towards building a peaceful, prosperous and harmonious society. May the New Year bring peace and happiness in our lives.”

the youth, such a unique gift which will free the youth from corruption, it will free the youth from being compelled to de-pend on anybody.” He said the government has taken a decision, which will be implemented from January 1, that there will be no inter-views for Class-III and IV jobs. “Interviews are

seen as a means to get a job by using somebody’s influence. And those de-serving are deprived in the process. That is why the government has de-cided that from tomor-row, the New Year gift is that for Class-III and IV jobs, there will be no interview,” the Prime Minister said. “Through technology and on the

basis of merit, if any-body deserves a job, the offer will reach his house,” he said. Attack-ing Congress yet again over disruptions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the party to take a New Year resolu-tion to allow Parliament to function for the sake of development. He said having “enjoyed pow-er” for over six decades it has no right to destroy its functioning for “po-litical reasons” and hold back the country’s devel-opment. “Tomorrow is January 1. When you are going to celebrate New Year, you should take a vow to allow Parliament

to run and do its work and not pose hurdles for the country’s develop-ment,” Modi said. “This is the misfortune of In-dia, Parliament where laws are made is not be-ing allowed to function. Those who have been rejected by people seized its functioning. “They do not allow Parliament to run. I request all these political parties not to do so. Since I have not got an opportunity to speak in Lok Sabha, I am tak-ing the opportunity to air my views in ‘Jan Sabha’. People have sent us to Parliament to debate, discuss and decide,” he said.

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYThe BJP appeared poised for the politics of ideas in 2015

Democratic politics takes place before our own eyes and yet often deceives us as to the real contestations. A casual look at competitive politics during 2014 would thus tell us that this was a year of setbacks for the BJP. This assessment, of course, would not be wrong. Af-ter all, the BJP failed to win both Delhi and Bihar. In Delhi, it had been the major opposition for the past de-cade and a half, and given its parliamentary sweep in Delhi, it was all set to come to power there. In Bihar too, Narendra Modi had dented the image of Nitish Kumar during the parliamentary elections a year ago and annexed smaller parties as allies. Yet, in both elec-tions, the BJP failed to gain a majority. But let us look at it from a different angle. Elections are crucial to a party’s existence and prospects, but electoral victories constitute only one part of the ambitions of parties like the BJP. Gaining governmental power is not the end it would be satisfied with. It nurtures the larger ambition of shaping a new hegemony. The Hindutva project in general, the RSS as an organisation and Modi’s 2014 electoral campaign, all represent this larger ambition. The catchy slogan of “Congress-mukt Bharat” has not been adequately understood by Modi’s critics (and much less by the Congress itself). That slogan repre-sented the ambition — not merely to replace the Con-gress but to constitute a new public reason. So, electoral upsets notwithstanding, how did the BJP move towards this larger goal? This year could easily be described as the year of the ideological offensive by the BJP. Only by doing so can we make sense of the various disparate developments and understand the implicit link between the maverick extremist fringe and apparently sober el-ements of Hindutva. Four seemingly unconnected de-velopments during the outgoing year represent the of-fensive. The year was dominated by the cow and beef issue. This closely followed the emphasis on yoga and occasional demands to promote the Gita. From Gita to gaumata, each scripted a new set of cultural mores. Each one was marshalled to raise the Hindu conscious-ness with all the ambiguities involved in the complex network of religion and civilisation. It is not that the BJP and Hindutva organisations have discovered the cow only now, but that at the current juncture, we wit-ness an effort to popularise new cultural mores, make them dominant through these symbols and markers. At one end, there is intimidation against the consumption of beef; at another, there is a shaping of the new culture that determines and dictates what to eat or wear, what and how to celebrate, and so on. Thus, for the so-called fringe, the debate was literally about cow and beef.

“Everyday through the media, they keep creating controversy. Like human beings can’t live without oxygen, AAP government can’t live without controversy,” - Taking a dig at the AAP government, Union minister

Kiren Rijiju today said the city government can’t live without controversy.

Fresh legal woes for Salman? Khan market traders split over dispute

Agency | Mumbai

Aashiqui 2 co-stars Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur have been roped for the Hin-di remake of Mani Rat-nam’s Tamil hit O Kadhal Kanmani. The upcoming movie is being produced by filmmaker Karan Jo-har and will be directed by Shaad Ali, who has earlier helmed “Saathi-ya”, which was the Hin-di remake of Ratnam’s Alaipayuthey. “Honoured to collaborate with Mani

Ratnam on the recre-ation of his labour of love....directed by Shaad Ali....@DharmaMovies..cast coming up,” Johar tweeted. The filmmaker further revealed the cast of the film, whose mu-sic will be composed by AR Rahman. “Mani Rat-nam... Gulzarsaab...AR Rahman...Shaad and us present ADITYA ROY KAPUR and SHRAD-DHA KAPOOR in the official recreation of #ok-kanmani.”

Shraddha, Aditya Kapur to star in ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’ Hindi remake

Kriti Sanon on working with Sushant Singh Rajput in Dinesh Vijan’s new film

Tarantino faces copyright infringement suit over Django Unchained

Agency | New Delhi

They have yet to begin shooting for filmmak-er Dinesh Vijan’s next, but actress Kriti Sanon already feels her chem-istry with Sushant Singh Rajput is special. The duo will be seen shar-ing screen space in the untitled project for the first time. The Dilwale actress said after en-acting a scene from the upcoming film with Su-shant, she felt they had an instant spark. “Dinesh asked us to do a scene from the movie. We were sitting on the sofa and did it impromptu. There was something special, something you can’t de-scribe in words. There was a connect, a spark, s o m e chemistry be-tween me and Su-shan t e v e n though that was the first time we met. “So, that kind of thing coming out in the first

Agency | Los Angeles

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has been named in a law suit that alleges the premise of 2012 hit Django Unchained was lifted from a script called Freedom. Tarantino, who has been named in the copyright infringement lawsuit alongside bosses at The Weinstein Com-pany and Columbia Pic-tures, might be facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the issue. Variety reported that the Pulp Fiction filmmaker allegedly stole the prem-ise of the 2012 film from the script written by Os-

Agency | Mumbai

The Maharashtra govern-ment on Tuesday allotted a prime plot in Andheri to actor and BJP Member of Parliament (MP) Hema Malini at a nominal price to set up a classical dance school and a cul-tural complex. The land, measuring 2,000 square metres and estimated to be worth more than Rs 20 crore as per the ready reckoner rates, is situated in the western suburbs. It

has been allotted to Natya Vihar Kala Kendra char-ity trust headed by the actor. The decision to al-locate the land came after 19 years as Hema Malini had applied for the land to the Maharashtra govern-ment back in 1996. State revenue minister Eknath Khadse announced the decision on Tuesday. He even handed over the or-der copy to the actor at his official residence. Ac-cording to Vinod Sampat, president, Registration

Fee and Stamp Duty Pay-ers’ Association, the total cost of the land would be around Rs21 crore. “As per the current ready reckoner rate, the cost of the land in Ambiva-li, Andheri, works out to around Rs1,01,400 per square metre. Going by this, the total cost of the land works out to around Rs21 crore,” he said. But, the charitable trust does not have to pay the cost of the land as per the exist-ing ready reckoner rates.

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Salman Khan’s controversial decision to name his online venture khanmarketonline has split traders at Delhi’s posh Khan Market down the middle, with some shopkeepers backing the Bollywood star and oth-ers fuming over a sup-posed attempt to benefit from the high-profile des-tination’s reputation. Cel-ebrating his 50th birthday last week, Salman Khan unveiled his new retail portal, calling it a gift to his fans, but a section of the traders allege the Bol-lywood star was trying to gain mileage out of icon-ic central Delhi market, a city landmark and one of the most expensive shop-

car Colvin, Jr and Tor-rance J Colvin. “Before Django Freeman (Jamie Foxx’s character), there was an escaped slave named Jackson Freeman who desired to purchase his family’s freedom from a malevolent plantation owner,” reads the court papers, filed in a feder-al court in Washington,

DC. “Before Dr Schultz (Christoph Waltz’s char-acter), there was Samson, another white man, who would assist Mr Freeman in his efforts to rescue his loved one(s) from slav-ery.” They also branded Tarantino an “admitted thief”, quoting him as stating, “I steal from every single movie ever made.”

ping spaces in the world. “We are an internation-ally recognised market established in 1950. Sal-man Khan is neither part of the market, nor has he approached anyone here. He cannot use the name,” says Khan Market Trad-ers’ Association president Sanjiv Mehra. But repre-sentatives of a rival group say the outrage is mis-placed and as Khan is a common surname, no one

can stop people from us-ing it in private business ventures. “We do not sup-port this allegation which the other association has raised. Personally, I think they are just blowing things out of proportion. The market has a reputa-tion of its own for years and nothing has been able to spoil it till now,” Ans-hu Tondon, president of Khan Market Welfare As-sociation, says.

Maha govt gives Hema Malini a 2,000sqm plot in Andheri

Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur promote Airlift on stand-up roast show Comedy Nights Bachao

Agency | New Delhi

Akshay Kumar gives re-alism a suave twist in the upcoming biggie Airlift, and the superstar gave a glimpse of his all-new avatar when he arrived on the set of the popu-lar stand-up roast show Comedy Nights Bachao, to shoot a special episode to promote the film. Ac-companying Akshay was

co-star Nimrat Kaur, who returns to the Hindi screen after her much-feted role in The Lunchbox. Nim-rat shed the middle-class homemaker image she portrayed in that globally awarded film, and opted for a pretty glam make-over in a printed dress. The show is known for its irreverent humour and a rich stock of talented co-medians who love taking

the mickey out of the in-vited guests. The episode to promote Airlift was no different. In sync with the theme of the film, a make-shift set denoted the inte-rior of an aircraft. While Akshay and Nimrat took to the hot seat, the array of comedians arrived one by one to crack jokes -a few on Akshay and Nim-rat and a lot on them-selves.

meeting was very differ-ent and unique for all of us. The film has a beau-tiful script. It is some-thing which we three are very passionate about and there is some great energy between three of us,” Kriti said. Without divulging details about the film, the 25-year-old actress said it will pres-ent a different side of her to the audience. “It is about love, dreams, des-tiny... I feel it will show a different side of me to the audience. It is different from what I have al-ready done. I will be starting Feb end-March beginning. Su-shant would be done with ‘Dho-

ni...’ by then. “After that we will go into a lit-tle prep and then begin shooting. I remember the first time I met Dinesh a few months ago, it was for something else and while talking, he narrat-ed me this script. Sushant was already involved with it. I went back home and it stayed with me for days and after some time I met Dinesh and told him that I would love to do the film.” She is

just two-film-old and though aware of

the competition around, Kriti is

in no hurry to sign

films.

Shraddha Kapur and Aditya Roy Kapoor are all set to romance once again in the remake of the famous

Tamil romantic film ‘OK Kanmani’.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPGoogle doodle makes you wait till New Year to see what’s in store

New study reveals why eating without hunger can harm your health

Deportation row: Govt issues new advisory to Indians travelling to US

Agency | New Delhi

True to form, Google has a special doodle for New Year’s Eve today — but this one keeps you wait-ing. As soon as you type Google in your address bar, five colourfully decked up birds will appear on your screen sitting next to an egg that’s almost ready to hatch. But the wait’s not over yet. You’ll have to come back tomorrow to check what 2016 has in store for you. The egg will crack tomorrow! “Happy New Year’s Eve! Check back tomorrow to see what will hatch in the new year,” says Google. Adding interest to that, clicking on the link will tell you where is the city partying tonight. So, you if you haven’t planned already, let Google doodle help you. This feature varies from region to region. Google also makes you reminisce about what 2015 was all about — from Chennai Floods and Paris

attacks to Star Wars mania and ban on Maggi.

Agency | Washington

In the modern times, where potato chips, choco-lates and bacon double cheeseburgers are waiting to lure the taste buds, people often gobble on food without being hungry. In contrast to people in tradi-tional societies, who are far away from such temp-tations, people in contemporary societies often eat not on account of hunger, but because tasty food is available and beckoning at all hours of the day. In a recent study, researchers found that the tendency of today’s consumers to eat when they are not hungry might be less advantageous for health than eating when they are hungry. The results of the study that involved 45 undergraduate students showed that in-dividuals who were moderately hungry before the meal tended to have lower blood glucose levels af-ter consuming the meal than individuals who were not particularly hungry before consuming the meal. These findings suggest that it might be healthier for individuals to eat when they are moderately hungry

than when they are not hungry.

Agency | New Delhi

The government on Wednesday issued a new ad-visory to all Indians travelling to the US following the deportation of a number of Indian students for providing information “inconsistent with their visa status”. “The US government has conveyed that the decision to deny entry to these (Indian) students is not because of the corresponding institutions being ‘black-listed’ but based on the assessment made by the US immigration authorities of individual applicants,” the external affairs ministry said in a statement. “According to the US government, the deported persons had presented information to the border patrol agent which was inconsistent with their visa status,” it added. Earlier this month, 14 Indian students who had gone to join the Silicon Valley University at San Jose and Northwestern Polytechnic University at Fremont -- both in Cal-ifornia -- were deported by the US authorities. In a statement, national carrier Air India said it re-ceived a communication on December 19 from the Customs and Border Protection that the two uni-versities were under scrutiny and the students who arrived in San Francisco were not allowed to enter the US and were deported back to India.

Virender Sehwag was hurt when dropped mid-series without communication

Sri Lanka beat New Zealand in third ODI, keep series hopes alive

South Africa select pacer Hardus Vijjoen for second Test after Kyle Abbott injury

Kohli to be honoured with Polly Umrigar award at BCCI Annual Awards 2014-15

Laxmi Ratan Shukla Hailed by Cricket Association of Bengal for his Contribution

Agency | Nagpur

Showering praise on the retired Bengal all-round-er Laxmi Ratan Shukla, the CAB on Wednesday described the veteran all-rounder as a great am-bassador of the sport. “He has been a crisis man for Bengal cricket, a great ambassador of the sport in the state. He has con-tributed to the cause of Bengal cricket on innu-merable occasions. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours,” CAB joint secretary Avishek Dalmiya said. Meanwhile the CAB has drafted in batsman Abhishek Das as a replacement for Shukla in the 16-member squad to play the Syed Mush-taq Ali Twenty20 tour-nament in Nagpur. The most capped Ranji player for Bengal, Shukla, an-

Agency | Mumbai

The year 2016 brings Olympics with it and India’s chief national badminton coach Pulle-la Gopichand said Saina Nehwal’s bronze medal in London 2012 was the best thing to have happened to Indian badminton. “For me personally, the medal we won in London was one of the biggest mo-ments for Indian badmin-ton. To better it (in Rio de Janeiro) would be great.

Even otherwise, to have a bigger contingent gives us a chance of a medal be-cause I believe all of our players who qualify will stand a (good) chance to win a medal,” Gopichand said here on Wedenesday. Gopichand, however, re-fused to comment on the kind of pressure Saina might be facing as she gears up for Rio Olym-pics. “I don’t want to re-ally comment on that. She has a different coach and I would let them handle

that,” said Gopichand. Gopichand guided Saina to India’s lone badminton medal in Olympics till date but since the second half of 2014, the world No. 2 women’s singles player has shifted base from Hyderabad to Ben-galuru to train with Vimal Kumar at Prakash Padu-kone Badminton Acade-my. He added that while there is still time for the Olympics, it would not be wise to take any medal for granted.

Agency | New Delhi

Legendary opener Viren-der Sehwag on Wednes-day admitted that he was “hurt” after being dropped in the middle of the 2013 Test series against Austra-lia without any “commu-nication from team man-agement or selectors.” Sehwag was dropped after the second Test against Australia in Hyderabad but the ‘Nawab of Najaf-garh’ felt that selectors should have given him an option to play two more Tests and retire in an In-dia jersey. “I hadn’t scored runs in two Tests against Australia. So, I was think-ing I would get a couple

Agency | Cape Town

Uncapped fast bowler Hardus Viljoen was add-ed to South Africa’s test squad on Thursday after Kyle Abbott felt tight-ness in his left hamstring during the team’s defeat in the first test against England on Wednesday. “With a short turnaround between the first and sec-ond tests, we’ve included Hardus in the squad as a precautionary measure to cover all our bases,” said Cricket South Africa con-vener of selectors, Linda Zondi. Viljoen complet-ed a second 10-wicket in South African domestic provincial competition on Wednesday, taking match

of more opportunities to perform well in the last two Tests (of the series) and then get dropped if I didn’t perform. If the se-lectors would have giv-en me that option to play two more Tests and say that you play the two matches and then retire, I would have thought about it,” Sehwag told ESPN

Cricinfo today. Asked if the communication was lacking from BCCI and team management’s end, Sehwag agreed. “Abso-lutely, nobody called me from the team manage-ment, selectors or BCCI. I got to know about it from newspaper, that hurt me then but I am fine with it now,” Sehwag said.

Agency | Nelson

A cracking 91 by Til-lakaratne Dilshan set Sri Lanka up for an eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the third ODI in Nelson on Thurs-day to keep their hopes in the five-match one-day series alive. Sri Lanka knocked off their 277-run target with 22 balls to spare in a remarkable

turnaround after being outplayed in the first two matches. New Zealand now lead the series 2-1. In addition to Dilshan’s he-roics, Lahiru Thirimanne cracked an unbeaten 87 and Danushka Gunathila-ka made 65. Dinesh Chandimal was not out 27 at the end as the match followed the same formu-la as the first two where the team that lost the toss

Agency | Mumbai

India’s Test captain Virat Kohli will be presented Polly Umrigar Award, given to the cricketer of the year, at the Annu-al BCCI Awards Ceremony in Mumbai on January 5, 2016. Kohli, for the sec-ond time Kohli will be honoured with Polly Umrigar Award, after winning it in 2011–12. The previous two winners of the prestigious award are pacer Bu-vneshwar Kumar (2013-14) and spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (2012-13). Apart from Kohli, former India wicket-keep-er, Syed Kirmani, will be presented the Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement

Award. Karnataka State Cricket Associa-tion has been chosen as the state associa-tion of the year for achieving the treble of winning the Ranji Trophy, Irani Cup and Vijay Hazare Trophy in the 2014-15 sea-son. Mithali Raj will be presented M.A. Chidambaram Trophy for Best Woman Cricketer of 2014-15 in the senior cate-gory while Devika Vaidya in the junior category. Robin Uthappa will be award-ed Madhavrao Scindia Award for high-est scorer in the Ranji Trophy (2014-15) while R Vinay Kumar and Shardul Thak-ur will be presented awards for taking highest wickets in the said season.

nounced his retirement from all forms of cricket in a surprise announce-ment bringing the curtain down on his career which he began in the 1997-98 season. Instead of Eden Gardens, Shukla chose his club Mohun Bagan tent to announce the re-tirement and he said he would like to continue playing for Mohun Ba-gan.Incidentally, Shukla

bowled a match win-ning over in their win pre-quarterfinal win over Rajasthan Club in the JC Mukherjee Twenty20 tournament in club crick-et. The decision came as a shock as two days ago he was named in the Twen-ty20 squad and in the middle of the domestic season with Bengal due to play the Ranji Trophy quarters in February.

batted second and domi-nated. Batting first in the opening matches on faster wickets in Christchurch, Dilshan, Thirimanne and Gunathilaka posted a to-tal of 43 runs from their combined six innings. But they were more at home on the accommo-dating Saxton Oval where Dilshan took 92 balls for his 91 and stood in part-nerships of 98 with Gu-nathilaka and 111 with Thirimanne. New Zea-land strike bowlers Tim Southee and Adam Milne were belted out of the at-tack in five overs. Doug Bracewell was brought on in the sixth over to ar-rest the onslaught only to have Gunathilaka smack his first ball for six to bring up Sri Lanka’s 50.

Saina Nehwal’s medal in London Olympics is biggest moment in Indian badminton: Pullela Gopichand

figures of 10-123 for the Highveld Lions against the Warriors at the Wan-derers in Johannesburg. The 26-year-old has 295 first class wickets at an average of 25.65. South Africa are already expect-ed to lose their number one bowler Dale Steyn to a shoulder injury and on Wednesday had called up Chris Morris as cover.

They also added wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock on Wednesday. There are now 16 players in the squad for the test at New-lands after 13 had origi-nally been named for the opening two Tests. South Africa were beaten by 241 runs by England in the first test at Kingsmead. The second test in Cape Town starts on Saturday.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

Barely two days after a sensational mob attack on a traffic constable in the city, two drunken youth including an NRI today beat up another traffic constable on duty for stopping their car here. The act of the culprits identified as Krutrarth Pandya ( an NRI from Australia) and his friend Toshal was recorded in the CCTV camera. Police

said that both have been arrested. The duo in their Volkswagen car bearing registration number GJ 06 HD 1483 was trying to cross the Alkapuri under-pass which was closed for maintenance work. When traffic constable Vijay Singh tried to stop them, they beat him up. Krutarth even threatened him tak-ing the name of a former minister claiming him to be his close relative.

Correspondent | Rajkot

Swiss ambassador to In-dia, Linus von Castlemur visited on Wednesday and confirmed selection of Rajkot for CapaCI-TIES project for sharing knowledge and techni-cal know-how through agencies for sustainable and low-carbon devel-opment of the city. Cas-tlemur held an hour-long meeting with munici-pal commissioner Vijay Nehra and confirmed selection of Rajkot by Swiss Agency for Devel-opment and Cooperation (SDC) for its CapaCI-TIES project. “We were discussing the proposal for the last six months

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A prominent farm activist has called upon the Maha-rashtra government to pro-vide immediate relief to Vidarbha’s cotton growers by emulating the ‘Gujarat model’ and declaring bo-nus for the produce sold through Cotton Corpora-tion of India centres. The Gujarat government re-cently declared a bonus of Rs 650 per quintal on the produce sold through CCI centres. “Cotton-pro-ducing farmers are already facing an economic bur-den due to crop failure for the last two years. On top of it, market rates of cotton are also sluggish, nearing the minimum support price (MSP) lev-el,” Kishor Tiwari, who has now been appointed director of the state gov-ernment’s Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swavlamban Mission (VNSSM), said. “Thus, the state govern-

ment, as a healing touch to these farmers, should declare a bonus for them, taking cues from the Gu-jarat government.” Tiwari said he has written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, stating that the condition of farmers in Maharashtra is worse than in Gujarat, asking him to consider giving a bonus on the lines of an advance bonus payout for cot-ton, which existed before 1997. He cautioned that by the time results of gov-ernment flagship schemes like ‘Jalyukt Shivar Abhi-yan’ and loan waiver of farmers make their mark at the ground level, it might be too late. He suggested that the government can at least help cotton farm-ers with temporary relief until the long-term mea-sures bear fruit. The exer-cise could benefit one lakh cotton growers and is esti-mated to cost the govern-ment around Rs 300 crore.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Karuna Pandey, who is currently wooing audi-ences in Zindagi’s first ever original fiction show – Bhaage Re Mann, has fallen in love on the sets.

No, it’s not her co-stars or crew but the stray ani-mals on location that have won our Padmini’s heart! Karuna reveals that she has always been an ar-dent animal lover, but the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Soon after the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, chief minister Anandiben Patel reprimanded min-ister of state for home Rajnikant Patel, state law minister Pradeepsinh Jadeja, and additional DGP (intelligence) Pra-mod Kumar, for having no intelligence inputs on Patidars regrouping to hold programmes in sup-port of arrested PAAS leaders. Sources said the CM was harsh to the min-isters and the additional DGP. Anandiben asked them how come the state machinery had no infor-mation on Patidars re-grouping in Ahmedabad, Surat and other places when reports about this appeared daily in the newspapers. The chief minister also pulled up the ministers and ADGP

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

fety of women during New Year’s celebrations would be the prime con-cern for city cops. “We have deployed wom-en police personnel in plain clothes to ensure safety of women during New Year’s celebrations. These women police of-ficials will be posted in party venues and hotels to nab rogue elements,” said a senior police official. About 26 hotels and party plots have been permitted to host parties by the city police. On Wednesday se-nior police officials were also instructed not to ha-rass families or people who are not violating laws and instead concentrate on people who are ine-briated or those who are misbehaving. “We have met with management of hotels that are organiz-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat has seen severe decline in Kankrej Cat-tle breed since last few years. In order to save this breed, for the first time in Gujarat ‘Kankrej Cattle Revolution Rally’ is going to be organized. This ral-ly would spread a social message - “Kankrej Cat-tle at Our Home” all over the Gujarat. Rally would get kick start on 4th Jan-uary at Ambaji. This rally is organized by a Rajkot based JanKranti Trust. Around 11 lakh milkman to participate in this rally. Starting from Ambaji, ral-ly would cover different cities/districts of Gujarat like Sabarkantha, Arval-li, Ahmedabad, Gandhi-nagar, Mehsana, Patan, Surendranagar, Banas-kantha and finally it will reach to Kutch Koteshwar where it will end. During this 10 days rally, organiz-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Around Two months af-ter the state government announced its Ravi Kri-shi Mahotsav 2015, the state-wide agricultural festival is finally all set to begin from Kutch, the arid district arguably cul-tivating the least amount of winter crops in the state, from Thursday. With Kutch more known for its cattle-breeding, the festival will be dominat-ed by animal husband-ry with special focus on camels. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will in-augurate Ravi Krishi Ma-hotsav 2015 from Vekaria Rann or desert of Vekaria, some 28-km west of Bhuj town. Patel will hand over Rs 2.5 crore worth of aid

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat Second-ary and Higher Second-ary Education Board (GSHSEB) has released the results of HSC Se-mester exams on its offi-cial website. The exam-ination was conducted on October/November 2015. The Gujarat Secondary & Higher Secondary Edu-cation Board (GSHSEB) was constituted in 1972. The GSEB conducts two main examinations, in-

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Anandiben to open Ravi Krishi Mahotsav today

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and it had already been approved in-principal. However, the Swiss am-bassador wanted to as-certain leadership here. He was especially con-cerned about citizens’ consultation and partic-ipation. He was satis-fied with our efforts and after our meeting today, he formally confirmed selection of Rajkot for

the project,” Nehra said after the meeting at headquarters of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC). The three-year project is aimed at evolv-ing low-carbon devel-opment strategies, effi-cient transport facilities, disposal of solid waste and sewage and knowl-edge-sharing. “In next couple of weeks, RMC

The three-year project is aimed at evolving low-

carbon development strategies, efficient transport facilities,

disposal of solid waste and sewage and knowledge-

sharing.and SDC will sign formal memorandum of under-standing for the project. By March 2016, SDC is likely to shortlist agen-cies for implementing the project and identify broader focus areas for Rajkot. We expect exe-cution to start from April 2016,” Nehra further said.

to Sarhad Dairy to set up a cattle-feed plant in the district at the Krishi Mahotsav on Thursday. Since the area is desert, hardly any agricultur-al activity takes place there. But cattle-breeding flourishes. Therefore, the focus of the event is cat-tle-breeding. “Originally, the event was planned as camel show and the Chief Minister was to at-tend it. The camel show is featuring camel race, competition for healthi-

est camel, camel yielding largest amount of milk and decorating camel. Due to the race event, we had chosen Vekaria Rann as the venue of the show. However, the govern-ment later decided to club Krishi Mahotsav event with the camel show,” Kailash Brahmkshtriya, deputy director of animal husbandry in Kutch said on Wednesday. Inciden-tally, the government had announced on October 19 that Ravi Krishi Mahotsav

will run from October 26 to November 7. However, Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel was arrested the previous day, leading to protests in some parts of the state. There was no official announcement from the government on its postponement but the agricultural festival did not begin as per the schedule. In the subse-quent local body polls in November, the ruling BJP suffered heavy defeats in Saurashtra region.

cluding four-semester type examinations. They are — the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam for Standard 10 and the Higher Second-ary (School) Certificate (HSC) sem-1,sem-2,sem-3,sem-4, the exam for

Standard 12 students in Gujarat. Around 1.33 lakh students had giv-en the exams this year. Around 98 per cent have cleared the exam. Please confirm the result with your actual marksheet also.

• Rally to kick start on 4th January• 10 days rally to cover cities starting from Ambaji to

Koteshwar Kutch• Around 11 lakh Milkman to participate in this rallyers will organize around 37 cattle convention in different villages of all the cities. On 6th January ral-ly will take a small hault at Sola Bhagwat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad and a conven-tion will also be organized 8:30 in morning. Mr. P K lehri(Managing Trustee, Somnath Trust) along with some senior state’s jour-nalists, social workers will attecd this event. Shar-ing more about this rally, Mr. Mansukhbhai shared,

“With around 18 thousand villages, there are many farmers and cattlemens living in Gujarat. Kankrej breeds play major role for milk production in Gujarat and decline in its number is a major issue. This ral-ly will witness a historic pledge of coming up with almost 11 lakh Kankrej breed cattles which will produce approx 12 to 25 litre milk on a daily ba-sis and 2500 – 6000 litre yearly.”

ing parties and told them to ensure that no rogue element including drunk-ards should sneak into their premises. We will conduct surprise checks and if such elements are found then punitive ac-tion could be initiated against the hotel manage-ments,” added a senior police official. Vehicles have been barred from commuting on CG Road and SG Road as revellers are expected to throng these roads to celebrate on the night of December 31. “Cops have been di-rected to be on alert from 6 pm till the celebrations end. We have also direct-ed police jawans not be harsh on celebrators and not to chase them away soon after midnight.”

Kumar for having no idea about the law and order crisis that could result because of the re-grouping of Patidars for reservation stir. She also expressed her displeasure regarding lack of intelli-gence inputs on the Con-gress rally planned for January 6. Sources said the CM was also annoyed because the ministers and state intelligence chief had no information on possible demonstrations by Patidars during Kri-

shi Mahotsav scheduled to start from December 31. Earlier too the state intelligence bureau was caught napping when the Patidar rally at GMDC grounds on August 25 led to riots across the state. Sources in the police said that later in the evening additional DGP Pramod Kumar held a meeting with his subordinates and directed them to gather intelligence on the future plans of the leaders of Pa-tidar quota stir.

The lead actress of Bhaage Re Mann loses her heartfour-legged friends on the sets of Bhaage Re Mann have a special place in her heart. Not only does she spend as much time as she can with them – be-fore, after and in-between shots, she also brings food for them from her home everyday! “Animals are great companions and I love spending time with my pets. I have fallen in love with the stray dogs on set...they are adorable. And my favorite thing to do on sets, besides shoot-ing, is to spend time with them,” says the power-house of talent. Her con-tagious passion and love for animals has the entire cast and crew ensuring that they are nice to the animals on the set, in fact thanks to Karuna’s strong advocacy the entire cast and crew have become animal friendly and en-sure that they only eat vegetarian food on the sets and follow Karuna’s example of living healthy lifestyles. Needless to say, with her immense talent and beautiful heart, Karu-na gives us many reasons to fall in love…with her!

Another attack on traffic cop in Vadodara, 2 including NRI youth held