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News BriefFour-year jail for

govt official in bribery case

Agency | New Delhi

A special court has awarded four- year jail term to an assistant commissioner in Delhi government’s Food and Supplies Department for demanding and ac-cepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 from a Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealer. The court held Vinod Attal, a resident of Dwarka, guilty of demanding bribe from complainant Shiv Shankar as a re-ward for saving his FPS by not creating trouble in the future.

Rupee sinks 12 paise vs dollar in

early trade

Advani finds budget ‘one of the

best so far’

Agency | Mumbai

The rupee weakened 12 paise to quote at 68.74 against the dollar in early trade at the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange (forex) market today on month-end demand for the American cur-rency from importers and banks. A firm dol-lar against some global currencies overseas and a lower opening of the domestic equity market weighed on the rupee, dealers said.

Agency | New Delhi

Veteran BJP leader L K Advani was today all praise for the Union Budget as he termed it “one of the best so far” and said it shows that the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister have adopted an approach that promises to make India stronger and more prosperous. “I have seen many budgets being pre-sented in Parliament. The one that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented in Parliament today is certainly one of the best so far, for which I heartily commend him.

Budget is pro-village, pro-poor, pro-farmers : PM Modi“Union Budget 2016-17”

Agency | New Delhi

Minutes before Alok Ku-mar Verma took charge as Delhi Police chief, the Commissioner’s office on Monday witnessed high drama as a woman alleg-ing corruption by police officials scurried into a lobby full of media rep-resentatives waiting for a briefing by the new top cop. The woman, carry-ing a two-month-old child in her lap, apparently un-aware of what was going on in the police headquar-ters on Monday, made her way into the lobby out-

Agency | New Delhi

Petrol price was on Mon-day cut by Rs 3.02 per li-tre, but diesel rates were hiked by Rs 1.47 a litre- the second increase this month in line with glob-al trends. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 56.61 per litre from midnight tonight as against Rs 59.63. A litre of diesel, however, will cost Rs 46.43 a litre as compared to Rs 44.96 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the na-tion’s largest fuel retailer. This is the 7th straight re-duction in price of petrol. Petrol price was last cut on February 18 by 32 pai-sa a litre. On diesel, this is the second increase in rate this month. The price

Agency | New Delhi

India on Monday an-nounced it would spend Rs 2.58 lakh crore on defence in 2016-17, a marginal hike of 9.7% over last year’s revised estimates of Rs 2.33 lakh crore. The military spending does not in-clude defence pensions that would take up the budget to nearly Rs 3.41 lakh crore compared to last year’s Rs 2.93 lakh crore. The pension com-ponent of the budget is huge at Rs 82,332.66 crore, with the outgo towards implementing the one rank-one pen-sion scheme contributing to the financial burden. The revised estimates for pensions stood at Rs 60,238 crore in 2015-16. The allocation for mil-

Agency | New Delhi

India unveiled a fire-fight-ing budget on Monday that seeks to win back support among rural voters for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and sustain growth against a grim global backdrop - all without borrowing more. Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley’s second Union Budget statement marked a strategic shift by ad-dressing rural distress in a country of 1.3 billion, where two-fifths of fam-ilies rely on farming and are reeling from two years of drought. “We have a shared responsibility to spend prudently and wise-ly for the people, especial-

ly for the poor and down-trodden,” the 63-year-old finance minister told law-makers in his 100-minute address. India holds sever-al state elections this year, including in the farming state of West Bengal, with the country’s most popu-lous state, Uttar Pradesh, going to the polls in 2017. A strong showing will be

‘I-T slabs remain unchanged’

side the Police Commis-sioner’s office, scream-ing that her in-laws were trying to kill her and the child. She told security officials there that she wanted to meet the police chief and report how offi-cials in southeast Delhi’s

Jamia Nagar allegedly took bribe and gave a clean chit to her husband. The woman, who identi-fied herself as Arifa, is a native of Bangladesh and lives here with her in-laws in southeast Delhi’s Batla House area. She

waved a police complaint as she screamed, alleg-ing corruption by police officials. In no time, se-curity officials whisked her away. She later ap-proached the media and narrated her ordeal on camera. Around 12.15 PM, new commissioner Alok Kumar Verma and his predecessor Bhim Sain Bassi came to the lobby, where the latter addressed media persons and left the police headquarters with the entire top brass bid-ding him farewell near the front lawn.

Petrol price cut Rs 3.02/litre; diesel costlier by Rs 1.47

were hiked by 28 paisa a litre last time. Prior to that revision, fuel rates were revised on February 1 when petrol price was cut by a marginal 4 paise a li-tre and diesel by 3 paise a litre after the government raised excise duty to take away most of the benefit arising from fall in inter-national oil prices. The government had raised excise duty on petrol by

Re 1 a litre and that on diesel by Rs 1.50 to mop up additional Rs 3,200 crore during the remain-der of the current fiscal. This was the fifth hike in excise duty since No-vember that cumulatively gave the government Rs 17,000 crore in addition-al revenue. The five levy hikes total to Rs 4.02 per litre on petrol and Rs 6.97 on diesel.

Just before Alok Kumar Verma takes over from BS Bassi, woman creates drama in Commissioner’s office

A litre of diesel, however, will cost Rs 46.43 a litre as compared to Rs 44.96 per litre, according to Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s largest fuel retailer

itary modernisation in the budget stands at Rs 87,209.63 crore. If the hike in the defence out-lay is calculated against the budget estimates of 2015-16, it works out to only 1.16%. Finance minister Arun Jaitley made no mention of In-dia’s defence allocation in his Budget speech on Monday. The defence ministry failed to spend Rs 11,595 crore of its capital budget earmarked for buying new weapons

and systems last year, be-sides over Rs 6,700 crore of the expenditure bud-get remained unspent. The budget for 2016-17, excluding pensions, ac-counts for 1.7% of the country’s gross domestic product. Experts believe India’s military spend-ing should be around 3% of the GDP to counter China’s rapidly grow-ing military might. If the pensions are counted, the allocation accounts for 2.2% of the GDP.

Union Budget 2016: Marginal hike of 9.7% in India’s defence budget Following is a list of items that

will turn costlier:> Cars> Cigarettes, cigar, tobacco, paper rolled beedis and gutaka> All services like bill payments, eating out, air travel> Ready made garments and branded apparel of more than Rs 1,000> Gold and Silver; jewellery articles excluding silver> Water including mineral water, aerated water containing added sugar or sweetening matter> Goods and services above Rs 2 lakh in cash> Aluminium foil, > Air Travel> Plastic bags and sacks, > Ropeway, cable car rides> Imported imitation jewellery> Industrial solar water heater, > Legal services> Lottery tickets, > Traveling by hiring stage carriage> Hiring of packers & movers> E-reading devices> Instruments for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)> Imported Golf Cars, > Gold bars

Following is a list items that will turn cheaper:

> Footwear> Solar lamp> Router, broadband modems and set top boxes, Digital video recorder and CCTV cameras> Hybrid electric vehicles> Sterilised dialyser> Low cost houses with less than 60 sq mt carpet area> Hiring of folk artists for performance> Refrigerated containers> Pension plans> Microwave ovens> Sanitary pads> Braille paper.

vital to Modi’s chances of a second term. De-spite commanding a large majority in parliament’s lower house, Modi’s gov-ernment has failed to pass several key measures since sweeping to power almost two years ago, raising doubts over the impact of its reform agenda. Jaitley called Asia’s third-largest economy a bright spot in a gloomy global landscape, and reiterated a forecast that it would grow by 7.6% in the fiscal year that is drawing to a close. Budget is pro-village, pro-poor, pro-farmers : PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Budget is pro-village, poor and farmers with focus on bringing about qualita-tive change in the coun-try and alleviate poverty through a slew of time-bound programmes. Com-menting on the Budget 2016-17, he said special attention has been paid to agriculture, village infra-structure, healthcare, em-ployment generation and Dalit entrepreneurship. “This Budget is pro-vil-lage, pro-poor, pro-farm-er. The main focus is to bringing about qualitative change in the country,” Modi said, adding “there

will be a big change in the lives of common peo-ple.” He said the Budget has laid a roadmap to al-leviate poverty in a time-bound manner. “Several

steps have been taken for the farmers. The most im-portant is Pradhan Mantri Krishi Yojana,” he said. Noting that electricity and roads are crucial for vil-

lages, the Prime Minister said by 2019, all villages of the country will be con-nected by roads, while all of them will be electrified by 2018.

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DAYBudget 2016: low on vision but abundant in minutiae

After years of investment stasis and a marked reluc-tance to steer a course independent of government in-terventions, India’s corporate sector didn’t have much of a wish list ahead of Budget 2016. In its Pre-Budget Corporate Expectations Survey 2016, advisory firm Grant Thornton stated that after the finance minister’s announcement in last year’s budget, there was high expectation that the government would announce a re-duction in corporate tax rates, amendments to simplify tax laws and procedures and clarifications on certain provisions with a view to minimise litigation. Also wished for were amendments to allow reversal of ser-vice tax in case of bad debt and exclusion of penalty amounts from mandatory pre-deposit for filing appeal.That many of these didn’t happen will certainly be a dis-appointment, but of bigger concern will be the absence of an unambiguous vision that corporate chieftains can take to their next planning meet. There is just too much of a bit of this and a bit of that, all of which might make for good politics, but will only end up confusing the larger markets already reeling from the increase in the dividend distribution tax and securities transaction tax. Thus, costs for airlines will go up as the budget doubles excise duty on jet fuel which makes up half the cost of airlines. This is sought to be offset by some sops for aircraft maintenance and remote airports, a promise to develop 10 of 25 non-functional airstrips besides of course the continuing bailout for Air India. There is a Rs.3,000 crore boost for nuclear power generation at a time when solar seems to be the clear way forward for India’s energy security. Then again, the finance minis-ter announced that foreign investment up to 49% in the insurance and pension sector would be allowed under the automatic route, obviating the need for investors to approach the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to increase their stakes. But considering how the govern-ment’s earlier liberalisation of these sectors didn’t bring in the expected investment, the latest sop seems like a weak attempt to recover lost ground. Even on the real game-changer, the GST Bill, which remains in political limbo, corporate leaders were hopeful that in the run-up to its introduction, the existing mechanism of allowing input credit would be further liberalised. But all of these do seem like nit-picking since it is debatable whether all or any of these would have made much of a difference to the fortunes of Indian business. The plain facts were laid out ahead of Jaitley’s budget by the Economic Survey for 2015-16 released last week which placed the clear and eminent danger to the economy in these terms: “If the world economy lurches into crisis or slides into fur-ther weakness, India’s growth will be seriously affected, for the correlation between global and Indian growth has been growing dramatically.”

“Budget has made limited progress in fiscal consolidation and it only modestly reduces the vulnerabilities associated with the low per capita income and weak public finances,” - S&P credit analyst Kyran Curry said

in a note issued shortly after the Budget presentation. ..

Agency | New Delhi

Jr NTR, who received criti-cal acclaim as well as com-mercial success with Nan-naku Prematho, is teaming up with Koratala Siva for Janatha Garage. Saman-tha and Nitya Menon are playing the female leads and the film is produced by Mythri Movie Makers. Devi Sri Prasad is scoring the music for this movie. As per sources, Jr NTR will be seen as a mechan-ic and is rumoured to be playing a student from IIT in the flashback sequence. Sai Kumar is playing the role of Jr NTR’s father

while Malayalam Super-star Mohanlal is going to be Sai Kumar’s brother. Veteran actress Devayani is paired opposite him as his wife. The movie is go-ing to be a family enter-tainer about two brothers who have certain issues. The brothers are played by Sai Kumar and Mohanlal. The story revolves around how Jr NTR resolves the issue and reunites the fam-ily. The regular shooting of this film started a week back. Jr NTR is expected to join the shoot in the first week of March. This film is scheduled for a world-wide release on 12 August.

Agency | New Delhi

Priyadarshini Chaterjee, a student from Delhi Uni-versity, has bagged the fbb Femina Miss Delhi ti-tle. She will now compete at the fbb Miss India 2016 finale, which will be held in Mumbai in April. The Femina Miss India Delhi 2016 pageant wrapped up at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel here on Saturday, read a state-ment. Other shortlisted contestants from vari-ous cities including In-dore, Bhopal, Lucknow, Dehradun, Chandigarh, Jaipur participated in the pageant, which was judged by celebrities like former Miss India and now a Bollywood actress Esha Gupta, Dino Morea, Fashion Design Council

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actress Pri-yanka Chopra made her debut at the Oscars 2016 red carpet and our desi girl looked stunning in a white Zuhair Murad strapless gown. Priyanka Chopra looked like a pro as she walked the red carpet and she said the red carpet is not different from the one

back home. But she also said that the Oscars red carpet was ‘ginormous’. The former Miss World, who rose to fame last year when her ABC thriller, “Quantico”, premiered, pulled her hair back into a subtle pony — with a center part. The 33-year-old actress also rocked a very light, golden brown

smokey eye. Diamond accessories were an inte-gral part of her wardrobe as Chopra sported big, chunky drop earrings and rings. Priyanka, who has taken USA by storm post Quantico and is now busy with her first Hollywood film presented the Best Film Editing Oscars along with Liev Schreiber.

Agency | New Delhi

On her 112th birth anni-versary, Bharatnatyam exponent Rukmini Devi Arundale is honoured by Google, which designed a doodle on the danseuse. The doodle features a de-piction of Rukmani Devi in traditional dance at-tire with flowers in her hair holding up a mudra

amidst trademark letter-ing of the search giant in trailing pink. Rukmani Devi, who passed away in 1986, five days before what would have been her 82nd birthday, is con-sidered the most import-ant revivalist of Bharat-natyam from its original ‘Sadhir’ style prevalent among Devadasis (temple dancers). Born in Mad-

urai, the danseuse honed her dancing skills under the watchful eyes of My-lapore Gowri Amma and perfected her technique under the guidance of Pandanallur Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai. In 1935, Rukmini Devi gave her first public performance at the Diamond Jubilee Convention of the Theo-sophical Society.

Agency | New Delhi

We had told you that while everyone’s think-ing that Fan is about a superstar and his look-alike fan’s adulation, it’s way more than just that. A thriller of sorts, Fan will have Shah Rukh Khan essaying two of the primary characters- the superstar Aryan Khan-na and his doppelganger Gaurav Chandana. And surprisingly, both will be against each other in the film. Gaurav, who’s been a huge fan of Aryan since childhood is not the usual fan you thought he would be. It’s not just a story

Agency | Los Angeles

Indo-British filmmak-er Asif Kapadia won the best documentary Oscar for “Amy”, a poignant examination of singer Amy Winehouse’s life and her tragic death at the age of 27. Kapadia, who had already won the Golden Globe and Bafta awards for the doc-umentary, paid tribute to Winehouse, who died in 2011 following a battle

with drug and alcohol. “Thank you the Academy for showing love to the film. We wanted to show who Amy really was, a funny intelligent, witty and a special girl,” Kapa-dia said. Producer James Gay-Rees said the award was for all the fans and followers of Winehouse, whose support she al-ways wanted. Kapadia’s documentary saw off competition from “Cartel Land”, “The Look of Si-

lence”, “What Happened Miss Simone?”, “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”. The film has been critics favourite since making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festi-val last year. Though the singer’s father Mitch dis-tanced himself from the documentary, calling it a disappointment. Kapadia, 44, is known for direct-ing “Senna” in 2012 and Irrfan Khan-starrer “The Warrior” in 2003.

Agency | Los Angeles

Hollywood hits the Os-cars red carpet Sunday for its annual show of glitz and pageantry hon-oring cinema’s finest - with a broiling row over diversity an awkward guest at the party. Tin-seltown’s elite are look-ing forward to the usual sparkling night of cel-ebration, with survival epic The Revenant lead-ing the charge for golden statuettes and a panoply of rivals snapping at its heels. But controversy over the “whitewashing” of nominations - there

Jr NTR plays an IIT student in ‘Janatha Garage’

Oscars 2016: Priyanka Chopra stuns in Zuhair Murad gown on red carpet

Google celebrates Rukmini Devi Arundale’s contribution to art

New poster of Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan: Welcome back the psychotic, obsessive loverboy!

Oscars 2016: Leonardo diCaprio’s The Revenant Leads Charge

Delhi Univesrity student to compete for Miss India 2016 title

of a fan’s undying love and adulation. It’s more about how Gaurav’s ad-miration towards his su-perstar slowly turns into a lethal obsession. Re-member how Shah Rukh Khan had played the psy-chotic loverboy in Yash Chopra’s Darr? He had given us the chills and

perfected the act. At a time when everyone was choosing the usual ro-mantic and action roles, SRK tried to be different. And picked risky roles like in Baazigar, Darr and others. 23 years lat-er, the same banner YRF is planning to revive the same SRK from Darr.

Oscar 2016 winner: Asif Kapadia wins best documentary Oscar for “Amy”

are no ethnic minority nominees in the acting categories for the second year running - threatens to steal the limelight. An audience expected to number several hundred

million around the world will be hanging on every word uttered by black co-median and actor Chris Rock, who is hosting de-spite calls for him to join a boycott.

of India president Sunil Sethi, ace designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil. The event also saw a perfor-mance by musician duo Amaal Mallik and Ar-maan Malik. Bollywood actress and dancer Lauren Gottlieb also shook a leg on stage with choreogra-phers Punit Pathak and Deepak Singh. The final-

ists were seen sashaying in glamorous evening gowns designed by Nam-rata Joshipura. Various sub contests like fbb Miss Fashion Icon, fbb Miss Talented, Ruparel Realty Miss Lifestyle and many more were held to give the 15 contestants a taste of competition awaiting them at the finale.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Pakistan vs UAe Asia Cup Twenty20 Live Cricket Score, Latest Updates: A Battle Between Unequals

After Mahendra Singh dhoni and Mohammad Azharuddin, film on Yuvraj Singh in the offing

Sindhu, Srikanth lead challenge at German Open

Agency | Mirpur

They play a lot of inter-national cricket at their second ‘home’ in Dubai, Sharjah and Riyadh, but Pakistan are expect-ed to be ruthless when they take on United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a Asia Cup Twenty20 match on Monday. Catch live crick-et scores and the latest updates here. After suf-fering a 45-run humiliat-ing defeat against India, Pakistan face a must-win situation against Asia Cup qualifiers UAE at Mir-pur’s Sher-e-Bangla Na-tional Stadium. The two-time champions will start overwhelming favourites but Pakistan must guard against complacency and more importantly, the pro-pensity to disintegrate for

Agency | New Delhi

The company has a track record of making sever-al sports-based movies like The Rookie (2002), Miracle (2004), Invin-cible (2006), Secretariat (2010), Big Shot (2012), Gigante (2013), Million Dollar Arm (2014). “I have always believed in our company’s philoso-phy of bringing aspira-tional stories from the world to you characters who overcome adversity, stories that inspire minds. Yuvraj’s story is not just a cricket story, it’s a hu-man interest story. Peo-ple like to watch great-ness. He is an inspiration to a billion Indians and cricket fans globally, the way he faced odds in his life and career, the way

Agency | DerRuhr

With Saina Nehwal miss-ing another event due to fitness issues, P V Sind-hu and Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead the Indian challenge at the $120,000 German Grand Prix Gold starting with the quali-fiers in Mulheim an der Ruhr on Tuesday. World No 2 Saina, who had in-jured her ankle last year, is yet to play an interna-tional tournament this year as she is trying to achieve full fitness ahead of the prestigious All En-gland championship. In her absence, onus will be

It’s Pakistan vs United Arab emirates (UAe) in Asia Cup Twenty20 on Monday and both teams are looking for their first points in the five-team round-robin league championship. Catch live cricket scores and the latest updates from Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Bangladesh, here.

no rhyme or reason. They have played three ODIs before, but this will be the first T20 internation-al between Pakistan and UAE. Man-for-man, there is no doubt why Pakistan is a much superior side. In Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Ak-mal and skipper Shahid Afridi, Pakistan have a formidable batting line-up

but what gives the former Asia Cup champions the cutting edge is their pace bowling unit. after five years in exile. He even won Virat Kohli’s praise when the left-arm pacer wrecked the Indian top order on Saturday. Had Pakistan scored 30 runs more - they managed a poor 83 - they would have pushed India for sure.

he survived cancer and the way he fought back to earn his place in the Indian team. His story is worth telling and that’s why we are extremely thrilled to have got this chance,” Mark Ciardi, president and co-founder of Apex Entertainment said. ”The USA has a sizeable Indian popula-tion who follow cricket. A superstar like Yuvraj Singh is widely followed especially after he came

to the US for cancer treat-ment. It was one of our common friends Ash Va-sudevan (Apex co-found-er) who helped us con-nect with Yuvraj last year where he told us that he quite liked Invincible and Miracle which were pro-duced by us and he would like a film made on his life as well. I am happy that he gave us the rights and we would do our best to not disappoint him,” Ciardi further added.

on Sindhu to lead India’s campaign in women’s singles. Sindhu, who clinched the Malaysia Masters early in the year, has been going through a rough patch lately as she lost to young com-

patriot Ruthvika Shivani Gadde in the South Asian Games, before suffering losses to Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara and Korea’s Ji Hyun Sung in the Bad-minton Asia Champion-ship.

Indian paddlers sail into third round

India vs Sri Lanka, Asia Cup 2016, Match 7 at Mirpur: Sri Lanka’s likely XI

Agency | MirpurBoth India and Sri Lanka are geared up to battle it out in the seventh match of the Asia Cup 2016 on March 1 at the Sher E Bangla National Stadi-um, Mirpur, Dhaka. India have remained unbeaten so far in the series playing against hosts Bangladesh and arch-rivals Pakistan while Sri Lanka has a

win-loss ratio of 1-1, beat-ing United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first match but receiving a loss from Bangladesh in their last fixture. While India would like to maintain their win-ning streak defeating the Lankans’, the latter will have to turn the match to a victory if they want to remain in the series. On the context, Paulami

Agency | Manchester

Arsene Wenger chal-lenged Arsenal to respond in this week’s crucial fix-tures after watching his team waste a glorious opportunity to close the gap at the top of the Pre-mier League in Sunday’s 3-2 loss at Manchester United. Arsenal, seeking their first league title in 12 years, were bidding to stay within two points of surprise leaders Leices-ter City ahead of a home fixture against Swansea on Wednesday and a cru-cial visit to Tottenham looming on Saturday. But

the loss at Old Trafford, against an under-strength United side that enjoyed another stunning two-goal display from teenage forward Marcus Rash-ford, has left serious ques-tion marks over Arsenal’s ability to capture the ti-tle. ”We have lost three points,” said Wenger. “You have to show you are up for the fight and give absolutely every-thing in our next game. Things can change quick-ly, but only if you keep going, keep believing. “We are in a fight where we can show we have

Agency | New Delhi

India’s men and wom-en teams advanced to the third round of the World Table Tennis Team Championships after notching up contrasting wins in the second round, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. After winning their first Second Divi-sion against Vietnam on Sunday, the Indian men’s team ran into Turkey on Monday morning and it was a quiet affair in the second round. Achanta Sharath Kamal was in his best form when he took on Ibrahim Gunduz, win-ning the opening rubber 11-5, 11-5, 11-7, Soumy-ajit Ghosh, who was play-ing his first match, then

beat Gencay Menge 11-8, 11-6, 11-7 in the second singles. National cham-pion Anthony Amalraj after losing the first game brushed aside his rusti-ness and overcame Ab-dullah Yigenler 11-3, 11-4, 11-6, 11-7. The Indian men’s squad will take on Nigeria on Tuesday in the third round. As for the women’s team, ex-cept for Mouma Das who went down in the first sin-gles, both K Shamini and Madhurika Patkar took control of the match to put India on road to recovery and emerge winners over Puerto Rica. Mouma, sur-prisingly, disappointed when she opened it for In-dia against Adriana Diaz.

The top Puerto Rican, de-spite losing the first game, steadied herself before taking a firm grip over the diminutive Mouma. Adirana was not only de-ceptive but also very quick as she finished off the sec-ond game, allowing just two points to Mouma. In the end, Adirana notched up a 5-11, 11-2, 11-7, 11-9 win over Mouma to put her team in the lead. How-ever, Shamini, playing her role to perfection, neutral-ized their rivals’ advan-tage to beat Melaine Dias 12-10, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5 and the Madhurika, play-ing her first match, easily downed Daniely Rios 11-4, 11-9, 11-7 to keep In-dia’s hopes alive.

ePL 2015-16: Arsene Wenger challenges Arsenal to rebound from Manchester United setback

Chakraborty lists the XI players that the Sri Lan-ka team can opt for. The Lankan top order is quite strong, considering the fact that they have experi-enced Tillakaratne Dilshan to open the batting with immensely talented wick-etkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal. Chandimal, in the last two matches of the series, has been in form scoring a half-century in their series opener while Dilshan is yet to play any heroic innings. If the lat-ter gets going and the two provide a head start to the team, the next in Milin-da Siriwardana can take things further looking at his capability to play good bowlers with ease.

great character, great mentality and respond on Wednesday (against Swansea). That’s what we have to do. “Let’s not go overboard. They had still a few millions on the pitch from (David) de Gea to the midfield. They spent a lot on (Memphis) Depay, he is not a player from the academy. “The player who was surpris-ing for me talent-wise was Rashford, the timing and intelligence of his movement was great. He could be a very positive surprise for Man Unit-ed. ”We struggled to be dangerous because they defended very well and I will analyse the game again to see why. But of course there is time to pull the points back. It is still possible but the an-swer will have to come quick and strong.”

Oral bacteria may be a cause of esophageal cancer: Study

Government hikes import tariff value on gold, silver

Infertility is big health issue butnot an issue of Anxiety

Agency | New Delhi

The government on Monday hiked import tariff value on gold and silver to $399 per 10 grams and $495 per kg, respectively, taking cues from glob-al market. For the first fortnight of this month, the import tariff value on gold was fixed at $388 per 10 grams and on silver was $487 per kg. The import tariff value is the base price at which the customs duty is determined to prevent under-in-voicing. It is normally revised on a fortnightly basis. The change in tariff value of these precious metals has been notified by the Central Board of Excise and Customs. The import tariff value of gold and silver has been changed taking into ac-count the price trend in the global market and ru-pee situation. Globally, gold added 0.4 per cent to

$1,228.65 an ounce in Singapore.

Agency | New York

Gum diseases are linked to many health problems. A type of bacterial species responsible for gum disease may also be a cause of esophageal cancer, finds a new study. The findings, published in the journal Infectious Agents and Cancer, showed the bacteria Porphyromonas gingival is present in 61 percent patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). “These findings provide the first direct evidence that P. gingivalis infection could be a novel risk factor for ESCC and may also serve as a prognostic biomarker for this type of cancer,” said Huizhi Wang from the Universi-ty of Louisville’s school of dentistry in the US. “These data, if confirmed, indicate that eradication of a common oral pathogen may contribute to a reduction in the significant number of people suf-fering with ESCC,” Wang added. The esophagus is a muscular tube, critical to the movement of food

from the mouth to the stomach.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Women and men just aren’t the same, particularly when it comes to their health risks. Women expe-rience unique health issues and conditions, from pregnancy and Menopause to Gynaecological con-ditions, such as uterine fibroids and pelvic floor disorders. Now a days, one of the most common & biggest health issue faced by women is Infertility, which is the inability to reproduce by natural means. With the aim to reach & help as many as couple,Ak-shar IVF &Rosemaarry Women’s Hospital is going to organize a free medical check-up camp for wom-en starting from 1st March 2016 to 15th March, 2016 at Akshar IVF &Rosemaarry Women’s Hos-pital mansi complex vastrapur Ahmedabad at 5:00 pm to 9:pm. During the formal announcement of this free medical check-up camp,Dr. Bharat Parikh (Gynaecologist, Akshar IVF &Rosemaarry Wom-en’s Hospital) shared, “In country like India, within 2 years of marriage, couples usually get asked ques-tions about family planning and pregnancy from their relatives and friends.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Alleging that the question paper was leaked, about 100 candidates boycotted the examination for the se-lection of talati mantris in Veraval town of Gir Som-nath district on Sunday. The authorities said that they were inquiring into the matter. The exam was conducted simultaneously in the entire state Sunday for the second time after the previous test in 2014 had to be cancelled by the state government due to alleged malpractices.

About 100 odd candidates left their examination halls on KV Savaniya Educa-tion Campus in Veraval after candidates of Block No.15 complained that the seal of envelope contain-ing question papers was broken and it was resealed with a plastic tape. The matter came to light when the invigilator of the block opened the seal and sought the signature of two can-didates to testify as wit-nesses that the seal of the envelop was opened in their presence. “Not only

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

India is the strongest growing ceramics market worldwide. Today, India is among the top three countries in the field of tile production and its fur-ther development is pro-ceeding by giant strides. More than 70% of the country’s entire ceramics production takes place in the Indian Federal State of Gujarat situated in the country’s north-western part. Therefore, Gujarat’s capital Ahmedabad is the ideal venue for the co-lo-cation of Indian Ceramics and Ceramics Asia and the key to the Indian ce-ramic industry. Some 230 exhibitors from India, China and from around the globe will present their products and solu-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Union Budget pre-sented by Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley on Mon-day announced a string of tax sops for India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) being built at GIFT City at Gandhinagar. Tax ben-efits announced by the minister “to facilitate setting up of the IFSC in India” include complete exemption from dividend distribution tax, securi-ties transaction tax, long term capital gain tax and commodity transaction tax. “The companies lo-cated in IFSC shall not be liable to dividend dis-tribution tax. Minimum Alternate Tax shall be charged at the rate of nine percent from units locat-ed in IFSC,” states the minister in the annexure to part-B of the budget speech. This reduction in MAT that currently stands at 18.5 percent provides a competitive tax regime to IFSC at GIFT City. The transac-tion in foreign currently of solar of equity share or units of equity oriented funds or units of a busi-ness trust taking place on a recognised stock exchange established in IFSC shall not be liable to securities transaction tax. The budget also pro-poses that the gains aris-ing from transfer of such long term capital asset shall be exempt from tax. Similarly, the transaction in foreign currency of

sale of commodity de-rivatives taking place on a recognised association established in IFSC shall not be liable to commod-ity transaction tax. These tax sops are in addition to those announced by the Gujarat government on February 23, where the state finance minister Saurabh Patel announced a Stamp Duty exemption for share-broking trans-actions of share brokers who establish their reg-istered share broking office in GIFT City and also operate and trade from the same place. Re-acting to these tax sops provided in the Union budget, Ajay Pandey MD & Group CEO of GIFT City said, “We welcome the Union Budget’s im-portant regulations for development of IFSC in India. These incentives could not have come at a more opportune time than this as India stands out as the only bright spot in the world with a GDP growth rate of over seven percent even as the rest of the world is facing vary-ing levels of slowdown.” “The recent announce-ment of IT/ITeS policy and waiver of stamp duty on share broking trans-actions in GIFT City by the Government of Gu-jarat, along with today’s announcement for IFSC in the Union Budget will further boost the devel-opment of India’s first IFSC at GIFT City,” he added.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Differences among the Patidar quota agitation leaders once again came to fore Sunday. Laljibhai Patel, president of Sardar Patel Group (SPG), re-signed from his post after he was not allowed to go on the stage of the Ma-hila Sashaktikaran Ma-hasammelan (Women’s Empowerment Confer-ence) in Mehsana. Lalji faced the ire of mem-bers from another outfit, Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Sami-ti (PAAS), when he ar-rived at the meeting’s venue, about 65 km from Ahmedabad. Efforts by sitting MLA Nalin Ko-tadia to intervene turned

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

During the National Sci-ence Day celebrations in Ahmedabad on Sun-day, senior educationists and scientists called for a change in the existing ed-ucation system, especial-ly in the science stream. The day also saw the in-auguration of science ex-hibition centre at Physi-cal Research Laboratory (PRL) in the city. “The Indian science system is suffering from a bacteria of favouritism. People are counting research papers to evaluate a researcher rather than reading these. Number has become more important than the qual-ity. Today, we are teach-ing our students the tech-niques and facts, but not what is behind these. This is the biggest challenge to our education system,” said director Indian In-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The sagging morale of Gujarat BJP workers af-ter the loss in local body polls and the Patel quota agitation has worried par-ty president Amit Shah, who feels that it could be a serious impediment for fighting the state As-sembly elections in 2017. BJP is a cadre-based party which is dependent on its workers for its victories in elections. Even as Shah accepted that there is “dis-appointment” among the party workers, the task cut out for the BJP is huge. Shah, on Saturday, had or-ganised a big party work-ers meet where he gave a pep talk accepting that sit-ting in Delhi, he could see the dampening morale of Gujarat BJP workers. He had also said publicly that

Correspondent | Mehsana

The Patidar women have taken up the cudgels to press for quota demand. At the Patidar Mahi-la Mahasammelan held at the upscale Modhera road in Mehsana on Sun-day, women’s sound and fury were on full display. Geetaben, wife of Patidar leader Chirag Patel, said, “I am rajdrohi (rebel) Chirag’s wife and proud

of this title as it was also given to Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. My husband was an RSS worker. How can he be a deshdrohi (rebel)? Those who are in jail will come out some day, but what about those who have died. If they don’t free our men, then we must become Ahalyabai and Rani Laxmibai. Today, Kadva, Leuvas and Meh-

sana Patels have united to become one. Every revo-lution in India has sprung from Gujarat. In the same way, a revolution in India will come from Patidars of Gujarat. ” About one-and-a-half lakh people, mostly women, took part in the rally. Incidental-ly, a Surat court will be hearing the bail plea of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) conve-

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National Science day: experts call for change in education system in Gujarat

The Ceramic Industry in India Continues BeingAttractive for International Companies

Union Budget benefit Gift City & MSMes in Gujarat; taxes Ahmedabad metro

Worries ahead of elections: BJP’s losses in Gujarat, Patel quota stir are on Amit Shah’s mind ahead of state polls

hardik speech played at rally, women vow to become Ahalyabai & Laxmibai nor, Hardik Patel, facing sedition charges, today. Amidst the cries of “Jai Sardar, Jai Patidar”, an audio tape of Hardik was also played at the venue. In the tape, Hardik called the alleged violence against Patidar women by the police “a shameful act”, terming the situa-tion “mini emergency”. He also spoke of “lok-shahi ki hatya” (death of democracy) after the BJP government alleged-ly jailed many Patidar youths, charging them with sedition (rajdroh). “Our family is going through tough times in the absence of my father, who is in jail for four months, but I am proud of him as we believe it is a sacrifice for the Patel Samaj,” said.

SPG chief Lalji Patel booed, not allowed to

go on the stage.

futile as angry workers did not agree on anything short of Lalji leaving the place. Lalji has not only quit SPG post, he has also announced that he would not be associated with other activities of the SPG in future. PAAS and SPG are the two organisations which are leading the ag-itation for reservation to Patels in jobs and educa-tion in Gujarat under the OBC category. As Lalji reached the meeting ven-

ue, organised by the com-munity’s women, some PAAS members shouted slogans against him and an announcement was made that he should not be allowed on the stage. Feeling slighted, Lalji immediately left the ven-ue. “This is the biggest insult I have faced in my life and I have decided to tender my resignation from the post of President of SPG,” an angry Lalji later told reporters. “If I

am insulted in this way then I have no right to be a leader of Patel quota agitation. I have spent 17 years of my life serving the people of the com-munity,” he maintained. Kotadia, who was pres-ent at the venue, said. “It (quitting) is Laljibhai’s personal decision which we hope to convince him to withdraw… his resig-nation has not been ac-cepted.” “I am sure this is the handiwork of the government to create a rift among the Andolan leader and thus break it,” Kotadia added. Laljibhai was busy, but his aide who took the phone call, said he had announced to quit. “But our core com-mittee has not accepted the resignation,” he said.

The job aspirants also alleged that the campus management tried to cover up the incident.

that, when the invigilator counted the question pa-pers, they were 29 against 30 candidates in the block. The paper meant for the candidate of seat number 26 was missing. More-over, the candidate with the same seat number was absent. So, we suspected foul play and walked out of the examination hall. In all, around 100 candidates boycotted the exam,” said Neeta Ram, a candidate. The job aspirants also alleged that the campus management tried to cover up the incident. “When we drew the attention of lob-by in-charge and campus management to this issue, they told us it will be taken care of and asked us to go take the examination and thus tried to cover up the issue. But we protested as we suspect that it was not a mere coincidence, but an attempt to use unfair means,” said

The day also saw the inauguration of science exhibition centre at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in the Ahmedabad.

stitute of Technology (IIT)-Gandhinagar, Dr Sudhir Jain, addressing students and teachers at the PRL. He added, “We need to teach students to create and solve prob-lems than asking them to prove science formulas in laboratories that have al-ready been proved years ago. Knowing about something is not import-ant, but the capacity to know and learn and the ability to synthesise these facts is more important.

School and colleges need to introspect whether we are teaching right values and attitude to a student.” The existing pressure to crack competitive exam-inations was doing no good to students, he said. “They are completely de-void of physical activi-ties, reading habit, music, painting, communication skills due to a self-cen-tered mode of study, val-ues and ethics and ability to deal with the societal issues.

BJP cannot afford to lose Gujarat as it is a “labora-tory” of ideology of Sangh Parivar. In his pep talk, he called on party workers to leave behind all “dis-appointments, infighting and work collectively” for the 2017 polls. Shah said that as the 2012 state elections was the stepping stone for 2014 Lok Sabha win, in the same way 2017 victory will pave the way for win in 2019 national elections. Patel, a numeri-

cally and socially influen-tial caste in Gujarat, are up in arms against the state government for the last six months demanding quo-ta. Agitation had turned violent killing 10 people and damaging public and private properties worth crores of rupees. Acting tough against the lead-ers of quota agitation like Hardik Patel and his team, the state government has put them behind bars in sedition cases.

The two strongest ceramics trade shows of India, namely Indian Ceramics and Ceramics Asia, will be held concurrently at the Gujarat University exhibition Centre in Ahmedabad for the first time from March 2 to 4, 2016.

tions at the trade show. They represent the full array ranging from clas-sic ceramics to raw ma-terials through to digital printing. China, which occupies an exhibition space of 2,000 square meters, accounts for one of the largest national pa-vilions. With some 100 exhibitors, the country has nearly decupled its participation. However, European exhibitors also boast strong representa-tion, as for example Italy with a large joint pavil-ion organized by ACI-MAC, the Association of Italian Manufacturers of Machinery and Equip-ment for the Ceramics Industry. All Chinese, Indian and European key players will get together on an exhibition space

that has been enlarged by 3,000 square meters. The following compa-nies, among others, will be represented: Astron Zircon, B R Steel, Beral-mar, Cleia, Colorobbia, Cretaprint, Dorst, Eirich, Esmalglass-Itaca, Hän-dle, H&R Johnson, HLT Press, Imerys, Modena, Monte Bianco, Netzsch, Rex Tone, Sabo, SAC-MI, Saint Gobain, Sibel-co, SITI B&T, Smaltic-eram, Smaltochimica, System, Torrecid and Verdes, Vidres. An ad-ditional hall offers more space for presenting state-of-the-art technol-ogies and innovations. The expected 6,000 vis-itors will benefit from a stronger international presentation and a wider range of products.