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News BriefInd vs WI, Semis: Kohli’s unbeaten

89 powers India to 192/2 at Wankhede

Agency | Mumbai

Virat Kohli ends the innings in style. India reach 192/2 after 20 overs. This is a massive total. West Indies’ hopes rest on Gayle. India take on West Indies in the second semi-final of the ICC World Twenty20 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thurs-day. Two teams have won three and lost one in the Group Stages of the tournament. An ex-citing contest is on the cards as two star-stud-ded contest lock horns in what promises to be a run-feast. India are peaking at the right time in the World T20 clash while the West Indies aim for their second fi-nal. You can trust Kohli and Dhoni to run a three at the Wankhede stadi-um. Of course, it helped that there was an over-thrown. But, what ener-gy! Bravo does his best not to give any pace. Still, India ekes out 12 of that over. India makes 192 at the end of 20 overs.SYL will never become reality:

BadalAgency | Kauli

Upping the ante, Pun-jab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said Sutlej-Yamu-na Link (SYL) would never become a reality and accused successive Congress governments at the Centre of doing “grave injustice” to the state. According to Badal, Punjab doesn’t have a single drop of spare water for anybody and SYL agreement was a “grave injustice done by the successive Con-gress governments with the state.”

Trapping hundreds underneath giant steel frames and concrete slabs“Kolkata tragedy”

Kolkata flyover collapse: 18 dead

Chemistry re-exam cancelled after paper leak in Karnataka

Amitabh Bachchan on Bofors: Me and my family were painted with the darkest colours ever

Some neighbours’ don’t understand that issues can be resolved with talks: PM Modi

Agency | Bengluru

The II Pre-University chemistry re-examina-tion that was scheduled on Thursday has been cancelled following a question paper leak. Of-ficials in the Department of Pre-University Educa-tion (DPUE) have advised students to not come to the examination centres. The Chemistry exam that was first scheduled on March 21 was cancelled and postponed after a II PU science student alert-ed the authorities about the question paper leak. Following protests by students and parents, the state government hand-ed over the investigation to the CID. Nearly 1.74

Agency | Raipur

The CRPF believes that information regarding the movement of its troops, killed in a deadly land-mine blast in Dantewada, was “leaked” and it has begun a probe to find out the mole who could be from “within or outside” the paramilitary. “It is cer-tain that the information about their movement was leaked. Somewhere or at some stage this has happened.The boys were doing a surprise non-op-erational movement and hence were in mufti. We are looking into it,” CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad said. Seven CRPF

Agency | Mumbai

Megastar Amitabh Bach-chan said his existence was questioned when he and his family were ac-cused in Bofors case and it took them 25 painful years to emerge out of the scandal despite their inno-cence. “When my family and I were loaded with the accusations of the Bo-fors Scandal, they painted every aspect of our ex-istence with the darkest colours ever… 25 years later, the prosecutor on the event, makes public the truth – the name of the Bachchans were ‘plant-ed’!! 25 years later…!!,” he wrote in his blog. The

Agency | Brussels

In a veiled dig at Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said “some neighbours” don’t understand that issues can be resolved peacefully by talks as he cited the exam-ple of Bangladesh with which decades-old dis-putes, including bound-ary question, were solved. While talking about how disputes with Bangla-desh were solved, he said, “We presented an exam-ple before the world that by talking, issues can be resolved with neighbour-ing countries. (But) some neighbours do not under-stand this. Now, how can we change our neigh-

Agency | Kolkata

At least 18 people have been killed and around fifty injured after an un-der-construction flyover collapsed in North Kolk-ata near Ganesh Talkies (Girish Park), Thursday afternoon. Several are still trapped under the debris. The location of the bridge is in a densely populated locality in BarraBazar. West Bengal Chief Min-ister Mamata Banerjee arrived at the flyover col-lapse site after cancelling a political rally for the upcoming state Assembly polls. Rescue operations are currently under-way and eye-witnesses at the site feared at least a 100 people could be trapped

Dantewada attack: Info on troop movement was leaked, says CRPF

men were killed Wednes-day in a deadly landmine blast carried out by Nax-als that also left a mas-sive four-feet deep crater on the road in the worst Maoist violence-affected Dantewada district. The DG reached Chhattisgarh late last night and will travel to the blast site near

Melawada village in the said district where Nax-als blew off a Tata-709 mini-truck being used by the CRPF men to go from one camp to the other. A senior CRPF official said that apart from a Court of Inquiry instituted into the incident, the force is also probing the role of

a “suspect mole who can be from either from with-in the force or outside. DG Prasad, who rushed to the state from a tour of Maharashtra, said they are working on the leak theory due to a number of facts visible in the in-cident. “The men were travelling in normal, non-force vehicle and were not going for any opera-tion. There has been no attack on that road and hence no advance road opening party used to be deployed there. But, information got leaked about their movement. We are looking into all the aspects,” he said.

lakh PU students across the State were supposed to write the Chemis-try re-exam today. The re-examination of the II PU Chemistry paper has now been scheduled to April 12. According to a statement issued by Min-ister of Primary and Sec-ondary Education Kim-mane Ratnakar here on Thursday, a three-mem-ber committee has been

constituted to oversee the smooth conduct of the examinations, including Transport Commission-er Ramegowda and State project director of Sar-va Shiksha Abhiyan P.C. Jaffer. The statement said that around 40 officials of the exam section of the Department of Pre-Uni-versity Education have been suspended with im-mediate effect.

“Piku” star, 73, feels accu-sations are easy to make in the age of technology and people don’t alway bother to check facts. “Contro-versy has the speediest vehicles .. and the belief in them, with the con-veyance of the trillions of content through delicate fibres under the sea, or above through the satel-

lited skies, an unstoppable desert storm that blinds not just the eyes of vi-sion, but destroys the very foundation of civility and space…” The Swedish whistle-blower in the case gave Bachchan a clean chit in 2012 but the actor said he had to live under the burden of “deceit and lies” for a long time.

He did not name Pakistan but was apparently referring to this country with which there are several disputes and India

wants these to be resolved through talks

bours? They will also un-derstand, some day they will also understand.” He did not name Pakistan but was apparently referring to this country with which there are several disputes and India wants these to be resolved through talks. “Sometimes we wonder whether there can be solu-tions to problems with neighbours….There was a land dispute with Bangla-desh since that country was born in 1971. Since then, the question was pending. One issue was about wa-ter sharing, another about demarcation of boundary in the sea and third about land boundary,” Modi said addressing a gathering of

Indian diaspora in Brus-sels. “You would be hap-py to know that after our government came, without firing any bullet, without any fight, by just sitting with Bangladesh, the bor-der dispute was ended. “Whoever had to come to India, they came, whoever

had to go to Bangladesh they went, the border was demarcated and now fenc-ing work is going on there. The disease of infiltration will also end and both the countries will live peace-fully and happily. Water dispute has also been re-solved,” Modi said.

under debris. The Indian Army and teams of the NDRF have been pressed

into service. Eyewitness said they heard a loud ex-plosion and then a crash-

ing sound. “A cloud of smoke emerged from the collapse,” they said. Au-thorities rushed 500 army men and National Disas-ter Response Force per-sonnel to help local police rescue passengers from buses and taxis under the debris. “Shocked & sad-dened by collapse of un-der construction flyover in Kolkata. Took stock of the situation & rescue op-erations,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted. West Bengal chief min-ister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the spot and sought to shift the blame for the disaster to the erst-

while Left Front that was in power when construc-tion began in 2009. “Con-struction began on fly-over during CPI(M) time, not our time. We have cancelled all our election meetings, and have come here. The guilty will be given strict punishment,” she said. The government announced a compensa-tion of Rs.5 lakh to the families of the dead, Rs.2 lakh for those critically injured and Rs.1 lakh for those who suffered minor injuries. But opposition parties weren’t convinced and blamed the ruling Tri-namool Congress for the

incident that is expected to influence the assem-bly polls less than a week away. “The construction work was carried on in an unscientific manner. The state administration did not take any lesson even after the collapse of Ultadanga flyover three years ago,” said Union minister of state for ur-ban development and BJP MP Babul Supriyo. The Congress demanded the arrest of state urban development minister Firhad Hakim and ac-cused the police of being lax in starting rescue op-erations.

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DAYIndia has found itself a new hero in Virat Kohli

“Incredibly fantastic,” exclaimed the original little master after India beat Australia in the T20 league match (NDTV 24×7). Make that “after Virat beat Australia” and forgive Sunil Gavaskar his double superlative: Kohli was incredible and fantastic so who cares about grammatical niceties? So incredible and so fantastic that news channels just couldn’t re-sist: They simply had to compare him with the little master-blaster: “Is Kohli better than Sachin?” (CNN IBN), “Is Virat the new Sachin?” (NDTV 24×7). They hurled statistics at their panelists like bounc-ers. The likes of Gavaskar, “Deano” Jones (NDTV) and Sourav Ganguly, Nasser Hussain (India Today) weaved and ducked out of harm’s way by repeating in their own words what K. Srikkanth said in his in-imitable style: Sachin Tendulkar is Sachin Tendulkar, Gavaskar is Gavaskar and Virat is Virat — which no-body can deny! (CNN-IBN). Cricket commentators during the match — Harsha Bhogle, V.V.S. Laxman, Shoaib Akhtar, Kapil Dev and others were confronted with the same googly and patted it out safely, just like the other cricketers (Star Sports). Since this was ex-tremely tedious for viewers and not what they want-ed to hear at all, the question was tweaked: Okay, is Virat the better finisher of a game? They all heaved a sigh of relief (phew!) and said, he was the best fin-isher in the game. But that wasn’t the end of it — we still had to hear from the man himself. When Sachin T was asked to comment on Virat K, he met it with that straight bat of his: He lavished Kohli with praise without anointing him his successor and carefully praised the entire team for its efforts (India Today). Dead ball. After Kohli’s one-man rescue act, news TV went ga-ga: Aaj Tak even replayed him dancing Gangnam style during an earlier show to prove that he was fun and very much today’s man. No praise was too extravagant for the Delhi cricketer: Superla-tives flew off tongues like fours off Kohli’s bat. As we have discovered, cricketers-cum-commentators can be loud, colourful characters. None more so than Very Very Special Laxman. On Sunday, he appeared on the analysis show after India had beaten Australia wearing a pink polka dot shirt under a blue and white check blazer, an orange kerchief peeking out of its pocket, with dark blue trousers, brown shoes and a gold watch. Such magnificence cannot be matched so Akhtar was dressed discreetly in black and white. Meanwhile, Deepak Chaurasia (India News) seems to have taken our advice of last week when we sug-gested that stuffy TV news anchors should lighten up a little in this season of T20.

“I am surprised that the committee of ethics has chosen to take cognizance of a complaint that is not in order. This is an endeavour to malign my good name…I have never at any stage sought or acquired British citizenship. My identity is that of an Indian.”

- Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today denied the allegation that he once held British citizenship terming the charge as a ‘political conspiracy’ to tarnish his image

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Sonam Kapoor, whose last film “Neerja” was widely appreciated, has not signed any new project after the mov-ie’s release. And this, she says, is stressing her out.Asked if she has taken on anything new, Sonam said : “No, I haven’t signed anything and it’s stressing me out that I haven’t.” In “Neerja”, Sonam played a real life character — a flight attendant who dis-plays bravado on a hi-jacked plane to save the lives of passengers by risking her own. Sonam admits that the portray-al of women in films has

become stronger over the years, but she still feels that in terms of remuneration, discrimination against ac-tresses exists. she said: “It is slowly changing, but it’s a far way off despite the numbers that ‘Neerja’ has done and despite the numbers my films have done.” “I have been a part of female-centric films but we are still only opening to 700 screens.” “It’s not about what the industry is paying you… It’s about whether the audience wants to see the film or not. If my film is going to open at Rs.6 crore, is it okay for the producer to pay me that money or not,” she said.

Agency | Mumbai

The Mumbai police are in the process of sending a Letter Rogatory (LR) to a US-based court in con-nection with a complaint lodged by actor Hrithik Roshan earlier about a fake email address. The police will issue the LR, a formal request from an Indian court to a foreign court, to seek details of the fake e-mail address from the e-mail service provider headquartered in USA. The police reg-istered an FIR last week after the actor alleged a person posing as him was communicating with a “young lady fan” using an ID (hroshan@email.com) that did not belong to him. An officer said they

Agency | New Delhi

For someone who knew about cricket as much as an average Indian would, actor Emraan Hashmi has been making news for his close resemblance to for-mer Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin. The teaser that released last year got Emraan much praise for adopt-ing the gait and body language of the cricket-er-turned-politician. And now when the first look of the film sees him sitting on a bench, with a bag of money at his feet, a meta-phor for the match-fixing scandal. Talking about it,

Agency | New Delhi

Malayalam actors Prithi-viraj Sukumaran and Neeraj Madhav have re-acted to reports of them campaigning for the up-coming Kerala Assembly election. In separate posts on their own Facebook pages the actors rubbished rumours that they were supporting or campaign-ing for any political par-

ty in the state. Prithviraj slammed “closet genuis-es” spreading rumours of his political affiliations. Ahead of state polls, the BJP has been tapping star power in Kerala. The party has roped in actor Suresh Gopi to campaign for it in the state while fielding cricketer Sree-santh from Thiruvanan-thapuram. The election is due on May 16. Prith-

viraj wrote on Facebook, “Although I do have my own clear perspective on our socio-political sce-nario, I would like to put it out that none of these have actually been said by me..and they belong to some closet genius/ge-niuses who think online anonymity is a license to use anybody’s name for any propaganda that suits their convenience.”

Ranveer Singh to team up with Rohit Shetty for an ad film?

Ali fazal, Mandana Karimi support Gen Next at LfW 2016

It’s a huge responsibility to play Azhar: Emraan Hashmi

This picture from Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees’ suggests it’s going to be an insane action flick

Ahead of Kerala polls, actors Prithiviraj, Neeraj Madhav rubbish rumours of supporting any party

Sonam Kapoor has no new film post ‘Neerja’, feels ‘stressed out’

Hrithik gets legal notice for ‘Pope’ remark: Is Kangana Ranaut behind the new mess?

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Agency | Mumbai

Ranveer Singh has come a long way ever since he made his debut with Band Baaja Baaraat. He has evolved as an actor and are impressed every-one with his powerful performances one after another. His latest stint as Bajirao in Sanjay Leela Bansali’s magnum opus has earned him lot of ac-colades. Bajirao Mastani not only received raving response from the view-ers but bagged quite a few awards this year. Ranveer Singh actor has his hands full with movie offers at the moment. He, recently, wrapped up the shoot of Aditya Chopra’s Befikre and is in talks with other filmmakers

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Ali Fazal and for-mer “Bigg Boss” con-testant Mandana Karimi turned showstoppers for the young and upcom-ing designers on the day two of Lakme Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016.Five talented de-signers Aqdus Saleem, Chirag Nainani, Naveem Naaz Shaikh, Agrima Batra and Sohaya Mis-ra– showcased their de-signs at INIFD Gen Next Show. Fazal, 29, who was dressed in Naveem’s denim creation looked comfortably handsome.The “Furkey” actor said he was amazed with the talent these young de-signers have and also ex-Agency | Mumbai

Shah Rukh Khan is al-ready making news with his latest to-be-released film ‘Fan’ where fans are actually waiting for the film to release. Amidst all that craziness, SRK revealed a picture from the sets of his next film ‘Raees’. And believe us, Shah Rukh is flying - lit-erally. SRK took to In-stagram to share a new photo from Raees which shows an intense action sequence from the mov-ie. And he is not even at-tached to any wires. He is seen holding a gun - in air. SRK captioned the picture, “Action Director Ravi sir & Cinematogra-phy team of Mohanan sir is making me fly. Filter yes...Wires No!” Directed by Rahul Dholakia, Raees is slated for released on Eid 2016. By preponing the release date for the film, Shah Rukh Khan has avoided a clash with Sal-man Khan-starrer Sultan

for other projects. We hear that Rohit Shetty has approached the actor with a project recently and Ranveer has given a nod for the same. The ac-tion director has in plans of directing an ad film with the Gunday actor. The ad film will take off soon in Hyderabad and Rohit will direct Ranveer for a high-octane action sequence. An entertain-

ment website reported that, “The project kicks off in Hyderabad with a high-powered action se-quence. Rohit and Ran-veer coming together is exciting because they have very different en-ergies, which lends itself to creativity. Ranveer, under Shetty’s guid-ance, will be performing stunts, like he’s never done before.”

pressed his desire to have a fashion line in future.“I love what I am wearing. Naveem has designed this specially for me. I loved her work. This is the second season for me to walk the ramp at LFW. Let’s see if I ever come up with my own fashion line someday,” he said.Kurtas, midis, checked unstructured coats, un-usual saris paired with

shirts and pants were highlight of Naveem’s collection.“Denim is usually considered not very comfortable for summer, so I have tried and make it high school and comfortable. My only moto is to put peo-ple in something they want to wear. I have used lots of lazer and child like characters,” Naveem said.

which will release on July 8, 2016.Rahul Dholakia, Raees is slated for re-leased on Eid 2016. By preponing the release date

for the film, Shah Rukh Khan has avoided a clash with Salman Khan-starrer Sultan which will release on July 8, 2016.

would need at least one of the e-mails sent from the fake ID to investigate where the mail had orig-inated, and track down the accused. In his com-plaint, the actor said that a “young lady fan” had told him she was com-municating with him on hroshan@email. The ac-tor told her that the email address did not belong to him. The police have asked Roshan to provide

details about the fan so they could approach her and get the emails she received from the fake address. “Since he him-self has not received any e-mails from the imper-sonator, we told him to give us details of this person who received the emails. We can then try to find where the e-mails originated from and that will help us track down the sender, said an officer.

Emraan says, “When my friends and family saw this picture, they were shocked. This will shock a lot of people as the sto-ry is controversial. Right from the beginning, peo-

ple have been following Azhar’s life – from the 80s and 90s, when he was on the top of his game to the match-fixing contro-versy that shook the na-tion.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPOla to Make Wi-Fi Facility Available Across Categories Soon

Smartphones can help diagnose ear infections

SBI revises lending rates based on new methodology

Agency | London

Scientists have developed a new cloud-based soft-ware that can quickly and accurately diagnose ear infections using a smartphone.Researchers at the Umea University in Sweden and the University of Pretoria in South Africa have developed a method that simplifies the diagnosis of ear infections (oti-tis media), something which annually affects half a billion children worldwide.The software-based method automatically analyses images from a dig-ital otoscope and enables highly accurate diagno-ses.“Because of lack of health personnel in many developing countries, ear infections are often mis-diagnosed or not diagnosed at all. This may lead to hearing impairments, and even to life-threatening complications,” said Claude Laurent, researcher at Umea University.“Using this method, health per-sonnel can diagnose middle ear infections with the same accuracy as general practitioners and paedia-

tricians,” Laurent said.

Agency | New Delhi

Transportation app Ola will soon extend Wi-Fi services to users across segments including Mi-cro, Mini and even autorickshaws.The Benga-luru-based firm currently offers in-car Wi-Fi services to users of its Prime category. Ola on Thursday announced the launch of Ola Wi-Fi that will allow users to auto connect to Internet in an Ola cab without having to enter credentials every single time. “Users with a one-time authentica-tion on their phones, can use Ola Wi-Fi on their devices without having to key in login credentials and passwords in subsequent rides, staying con-nected with Ola’s secure network whenever they take a ride,” Ola Head of Categories and Chief

Marketing Officer Raghuvesh Sarup said.

Agency | Mumbai

State Bank of India has revised lending rates based on marginal cost of funds, a new method-ology that will take effect from Friday. The new interest rates vary from 8.95% for overnight to 9.35% for 3 years, SBI said in a document post-ed on its website on Thursday. The base rate or the minimum lending rate of the bank is 9.3%. The other lending rates are 9.05% for one month, 9.10% for three months and 9.15% for 6 months, it said. For one year loan, the interest rate would be 9.20% while for two years it is going to be 9.3%. Reserve Bank had asked banks to price fixed rate loans of up to three years based on their marginal cost of fund from April 1. All banks will follow Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR) system, a new uniform methodolo-gy which will ensure fair interest rates to borrow-ers as well as to banks from tomorrow. Currently, most banks decide lending rates based on average cost of funds.

Australia messed around with team selection too much: Shane Warne

Australia vs England: Australia script a great escape, make fourth final on the trot

Dhoni to pay Rs 1.5 lakh for registering Hummer, fine yet to be decided

ICC World T20: England looking forward to incredible Eden experience, says semi-final hero Jason Roy Indian Open 2016: Challenge ends for men, but

Saina, Sindhu march on after easy wins

WT20: Pandey, Rahane may come in for Shikhar, Yuvraj in semis vs WI

Agency | Melbourne

Australian spin leg-end Shane Warne has slammed coach Darren Lehmann and selector Mark Waugh for keep-ing out Aaron Finch and John Hastings of their playing XI at various points during the ICC World T20. “Our selec-tion was wrong … we messed around with it too much rather than stick-

ing with what’s been a proven formula,” Warne said. “Because we had so much talent in our team and so much skill, they [the selectors] thought ‘it doesn’t matter what the combinations are we’re still going to do OK’.” India knocked out Aus-tralia by six wickets in a last-over thriller, rid-ing on a Virat Kohli’s epic innings at Mohali

Agency | New Delhi

England all-rounder Na-talie Sciver was yet to get off the mark when she shuffled across the stump with the aim of playing a paddle stroke. Austra-lia’s pacer Elysee Perry seemed to have read Sciv-er’s mind as bowled full and straight. The stumps were shattered and so were England’s hopes. It was a crucial wicket, a vital blow, which stifled

England’s run chase in the semi-finals of the World T20. In pursuit of Austra-lia’s 132, England were now 42 runs adrift with five overs remaining. They had seven wickets in hand but England’s middle order had looked brittle in this tournament. Two overs later, when Sarah Taylor reverse swept a pretty innocu-ous delivery from Farrel to keeper Elyssa Healy,

Agency | New Delhi

Opener Jason Roy, the hero of England’s semi-final win against New Zealand, says the team is improving with every game and they are excit-ed to play the ICC World T20 final at the iconic Eden Gardens on Sun-day. Roy fired England to a seven-wicket win over New Zealand with a whirlwind 78 off 44 balls here last night, his maid-en fifty in the format. He said it is great to be in the final, especially after the loss to the West Indies in the first game. “It sounds pretty cool (being final-ists). After the first game it seemed pretty far away.

After that, the amount of effort we put in has paid off,” said Roy. Asked to rate his match-winning effort, Roy said: “Yeah, that’s right up there. It is pretty special for me. To get this group to the fi-nal, obviously the bowlers played their part as well. Their skill set was amaz-ing in the death overs. “Today was good as it gets in a T20 game. There are obviously few things we need to work on but credit to the boys for dragging it back. The mo-mentum we carried from the end of their innings to our innings was outstand-ing,” said the attacking batsman. The 25-year-old hopes the team gains

Agency | Mumbai

For the players, the most interesting activity on match eve is the team management’s meeting. Usually, it happens at the team hotel. Interestingly, on Thursday, MS Dhoni & Co chose to conduct the meeting at the ground itself. And, this is the first time in the tournament that the think-tank has to make a change in the play-ing XI. Most eager about the outcome were Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey and Harbhajan Singh. All three are in the running.

Agency | Ranchi

Team India captain Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni will pay Rs 1.5 lakhs as 15-year registration fees for his imported Hummer H2 vehicle valued at Rs.43 lakh, the Ranchi trans-port department said on Wednesday. But officials didn’t announce how much fine the cricketer will have to pay for his Hummer being ‘mistaken-ly’ registered as a Scorpio by the transport office in his home town Ranchi.As the Hummer costs at least thrice the price of a Scor-pio, the registration value went up, district transport officials said. “The current value of the car is about

Agency | New Delhi

Defending champion Saina Nehwal entered the pre-quarterfinals but it turned out to be a di-sastrous day for the men with all of them, includ-ing reigning champion K Srikanth, failing to cross the opening hurdle at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super Series bad-minton in New Delhi on Thursday. World No. 10 Srikanth, who had defeat-ed Tian Houwei during the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Febru-ary, played out of his skin before losing 13-21 21-17 22-24 to the All England finalist from China in a hard-fought match that lasted one hour and 23 minutes. Srikanth, who has not crossed the second round of any Super Series event ever since his India Open win last year, will lose a lot of ranking points and it might put his Olym-pic qualification in dan-ger as he will slip down the ladder when the BWF ranking list is released on April 7. Indian challenge

last Sunday. Warne be-lieves Finch, who is the best T20 batsman in the world according to the ICC’s rankings, and Da-vid Warner would have been a better choice to open the batting for Aus-tralia. Finch had played the pool games against Pakistan and India but was left out for matches against New Zealand and Bangladesh, with selec-tors selecting Shane Wat-son and Usman Khawaja instead at the top. Warne didn’t agree with the de-cision to leave out Finch, who had opened the bat-ting with Warner in 12 T20s and 24 ODIs, in-cluding last year’s World Cup triumph on home soil.

In the cues from the nets, Pandey looked to be the front-runner to replace the injured Yuvraj Singh. But, then on his way out,

chief selector Sandeep Pa-til whispered something in Rahane’s ears. Such whis-pers are generally consid-ered good news.

England began to panic. They needed 30 runs from another 16 deliveries. On a slow pitch, the Aussies bowled tight lines and mixed their pace cleverly. Barring Katherine Brunt, none of the English bat-ters managed to clear the infield. She smacked a six and four to bring the equation down to 17 off 10 deliveries. Howev-er, she would depart im-mediately and Australia, the three-time champi-ons in World T20s, once again prevailed over their arch-rivals. In the high profile fixture, billed as the match of the tourna-ment, England would fall agonisingly short of the finish line, bowing out by a mere five runs.

more supporters post the effort last night as not many gave them a chance of doing well in the bien-nial event. ”With that sort of side, we had lot of neg-ative feedback from a few people. To be in a World Cup final now, hopeful-ly we will get few more people on our side.” He can’t wait to turn up at the Eden Gardens and play in front of a huge crowd, not 100 thousand any-more now but it can still be overwhelming with the screams of around 67,000 people. “We are getting better with every game but we take the fi-nal as just another game of cricket. It just happens to at the Eden Gardens in front of hundred thousand people. It is going to be an incredible experience but we go out and play our natural game.“All the boys today were extreme-ly chilled out before the semifinal. We know we will have bad days and good days. It has gone our way in the last few games and we are hugely excit-ed. It is mind blowing,” reckoned Roy.

Rs.43 lakh. The payment of Rs.1,59,804 would give lifetime registration to Dhoni’s vehicle,” said Ranchi district transport officer Nagendar Paswan.The exact dues could not be calculated due to a link failure, Paswan said. On March 21, Dhoni’s rep-resentative handed over the invoice, registration

card, insurance papers and owner manual of the vehi-cle to the district transport office. However, the cus-toms papers of the vehi-cle were missing, which delayed the process, said Paswan. The transport de-partment received the cus-toms papers on Wednes-day and proceeded with the calculations.

ended in men’s singles af-ter H S Prannoy and Sour-abh Verma also suffered defeats in the opening round at the Siri Fort sta-dium. World No. 6 Saina, P V Sindhu and unherald-ed Rituparna Das, howev-er, advanced to the second round of the USD 300,000 event. Olympic bronze medallist Saina thrashed compatriot Tanvi Lad 21-7 21-13 in a lop-sided 34-minute match, while Rituparna defeated com-patriot Anura Prabhudesai 21-18 21-15 in another women’s singles match. P V Sindhu too reached the pre-quarterfinals after making mincemeat of Ita-ly’s Jeanine Cicognini 21-8 21-8 in just 18 minutes. Saina will next face Thai-

land’s Nitchaon Jindapol, Rituparna will meet for-mer All England champion and fourth seed Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand, while two-time World Champi-onship bronze medallist Sindhu will be up against Thailand’s Busanan Ong-bumrungphan. Even be-fore the fans could recover from the defeat of Srikanth, Prannoy, who had won the Swiss Open last week, went down fighting 21-23 21-18 13-21 to Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk of Thai-land and Sourabh, who is trying to make a comeback from a series of injuries, was hit by a tornado called Lin Dan of China. The 23-year-old from Dhar lost 18-21 9-21 to the two-time Olympic champion.

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Correspondent | Surat

Over 50 Patidar youths of Palanpur and Mehsa-na will get their heads tonsured on April 6, the foundation day of the BJP, to protest against the state government which, they say, have failed in fulfilling their demands.Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) Gujarat spokesperson Ketan Patel announced that Patidar youths of Palanpur will assemble at a fixed destination on April 6 as a part of the ongoing agitation. The decision was taken at the meeting of PAAS con-venors of Ahmedabad and Palanpur to make the agitation more effec-tive in the coming days, added Ketan Patel. The compromise formula

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The computerised draw for Haj 2016 was held at Haj House here on Wednesday in the presence of Gujarat Haj Committee chairman Mohammadali Kadri. The highest number of 52,384 applications were submit-ted from Gujarat for this year, out of which Gujarat was allotted 7,044 seats, the highest in the coun-try, said Kadri. Commit-tee secretary Usman Patel said that out of the quota of 7,044, as many as 926 seats were allotted to pilgrims who are over 70 years

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday upheld the order of a trial court which had dropped criminal pro-ceedings against Asgar Ali and Mohammed Abdul Rauf in connection with the 2003 alleged “ISI or jihadi Conspiracy” case to avenge the 2002 riots. Asgar, originally from Hy-derabad, had been convict-ed in BJP leader and for-mer minister of state for home Haren Pandya mur-der case as a main accused but subsequently got ac-quitted.The state govern-ment had moved the High

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) against the office of Governor (Raj Bhawan) for imposing conditions for booking Mehdi Nawaz Jung Hall, widely used by civil rights organisations, saying the direction for a written undertaking that there would be no “polit-ical activity” against the

government does not vi-olate “freedom of speech and expression of any cit-izen”.“It is clear from the material placed on record also that the hall can be booked for talk/ lecture/ seminar or any political subject. What is prohibit-ed and for which purpose the hall cannot be booked is any political activity tar-geting the State or Central government. In that view

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Correspondent | Mumbai

Wind energy solutions provider Suzlon Group today said it has bagged an order for development of 197.40 MW wind pow-er project from a leading private sector power utili-ty in Gujarat. Suzlon will install its S97 suite of wind turbine generators (WTGs) with 120m and 90m hub height and rated capacity of 2.1 MW each, the company said in a re-lease issued here. “The or-der win from the leading power utility underscores our commitment and fo-cus on the domestic mar-ket. The customer faith and trust in our technol-ogy, new products and end-to-end capabilities is truly encouraging,” Su-zlon Energy Chief Sales

Correspondent | gandhinagar

The Gujarat govern-ment is expected to table a Bill in the Assembly Thursday to bring crucial amendments to the 2013 land acquisition Act, in-cluding relaxation of the clauses of social impact assessment and need for consent of land owners. It has proposed around 10 key changes in the orig-inal Act — The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Ac-quisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, enacted by the pre-vious UPA government at the Centre — on the

ground that the law has made land acquisition “a very lengthy and difficult proposition”. The pro-posed amendments seek to exempt projects under five categories from so-cial impact assessment and food security provi-sions, and also bring in a deadline for possession and compensation, fail-ing which the acquisition would lapse. The Bill also proposes changes in pro-vision in the central Act that imposed penalty — imprisonment of the land acquisition officers — if the land was not acquired within a stipulated time.

Correspondent | gandhinagar

Diluting the stringent provisions of the Centre’s Land Acquisition Act 2013, the BJP govern-ment in Gujarat today se-cured the passage of a bill in the Assembly dowing away with social impact assessment and consent clauses for acquisition of land for public purposes and industrial corridor. ‘Right to Fair Compen-sation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Re-habilitation and Resettle-ment (Gujarat Amend-

ment) Bill 2016’ was passed in the Assembly in the absence of the op-position Congress MLAs, who were suspended for two days by the Speaker yesterday. One of the key provisions of the bill is doing away with Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for projects related to De-fence and social sectors, such as building air base, defence manufacturing units, schools, roads, ca-nals, affordable houses, etc.The other key change is that SIA will not be

carried out for land acqui-sition for industrial corri-dor.Another key amend-ment is doing away with the provision of consent of affected parties. As per the original central Act, 80 per cent of land owners must give their nod for the acquisition of land. As per the new bill, these provisions will not be followed if the land is acquired for public pur-pose. However, it will remain in place for acqui-sition related to industrial development.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The pen is mightier than the sword, and if this inci-dent is anything to go by, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s well-wishers are starting to realise that al-ready. When the Gujarat state board exams began early this month, Class X and XII students of many Ahmedabad schools were reportedly gifted pens emblazoned with an im-age of Modi alongside the

Lotus – the BJP’s elec-toral symbol. The writing instruments – wrapped in saffron packets – were “donated” by Today’s, a private manufacturer. the pens were accompanied by a letter from the com-pany, contending that they were being gifted after obtaining the Gujarat Sec-ondary and Higher Sec-ondary Education Board’s permission. A senior offi-cial, however, denied the company’s claim.

Gujarat HC: Ban on events against govt at Jung hall doesn’t violate freedom of speech

Jihadi case: Gujarat HC upholds acquittal of two accused

The Mehdi Nawaz Jung hall has been widely used as a venue for meetings by different NGOs and

civil societies for the past several decades

Gujarat government to table Land Bill today

Ahmedabad students get ‘I Love Modi’ pens to write board exams

Patidar youths to shave heads on April 6 to push for quota

Gujarat Dilutes Land Act; Discards ‘Consent’ Clause on Acquisition

Draw for Haj: Highest quota goes to Gujarat

Suzlon bags 197.40 MW wind power project in Gujarat

of the matter it cannot be said that by such condition imposed for using the hall, freedom of speech and ex-pression of any citizen is violated. Such restrictions are reasonable restrictions within the meaning of Ar-ticle 19(2) of the Constitu-tion of India,” said the di-vision bench led by Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy. The hall has been widely used as a venue for meet-ings by different NGOs and civil societies for the past several decades. It was used as a venue to raise dissent on the issues pertaining to the 2002 ri-ots, among other issues, by several NGOs in the

past. However, on May 26, 2015, a decision was taken by the governor’s office that the hall can’t be used for “any political ac-tivity targeting the state or central government”. The Indian Express had wide-ly reported the imposition of an “oral decision” by Governor OP Kohli, us-ing information through RTI. The petitioner Praful Desai, president of Jagte Raho Party, said authori-ties had denied permission to his group when they sought to book the hall for a meeting, also to be attended by expelled AAP leader Yogendra Yadav, on May 25, 2015.

Asgar Ali and Mohammed Abdul Rauf were earlier acquitted in the murder case

of BJP leader Haren Pandya Court in 2008, following the order of a sessions court which discharged Asgar from “ISI Conspir-acy” case on the ground that the evidence against them were identical to Ha-ren Pandya murder case, in which the two were already convicted. The sessions court dropped the case against Asgar and Rauf under section 300 of the criminal procedure

code (CrPC) under which “a person convicted or ac-quitted can’t be tried for the same offence.” “Asgar Ali and Mohammed Rauf had already been convict-ed in Haren Pandya mur-der case in which they were later acquitted. The police had booked them in the ISI conspiracy case, but there was no new material against them. The evidence the police

had produced in conspir-acy case were identical to what they had in Har-en Pandya murder case. This amounted to double jeopardy under section 300 of CrPC and on this ground the sessions court dropped the proceedings against them,” said lawyer Chandrashekhar Gupta, who appeared for Asgar Ali.The division bench of Justices K S Jhaveri and G B Shah confirmed the order of the sessions court while dismissing the state government’s appeal. Spe-cial pubic prosecutor J M Panchal said, “The bench held that the trial court had rightly dropped the pro-ceedings against Asgar Ali and Mohammed Rauf.” In the “ISI conspiracy” case, a POTA court had convict-ed 22 persons and acquit-ted 22 accused in 2010.

Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) Gujarat spokesperson Ketan Patel announced that Patidar

youths of Palanpur will assemble at a fixed destination on April 6 as a part of the ongoing

agitation between Gujarat PAAS convenor and Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and Gujarat gov-ernment, with BJP MP Vitthal Radadiya as me-diator, has not yet yield-ed results. Hardik had given 27 points to Rada-diya and demanded that if the state government

agrees on this points, the entire agitation will be stopped. Radadiya had addressed mediapersons in Surat Tuesday, stating that the state government was working on the pos-itive directions of the 27 points raised by Hardik Patel, but till now noth-ing has been done.

The Bill also proposes changes in provision in the central Act that imposed penalty imprisonment

of the land acquisition officers if the land was not acquired within a stipulated time.

The pilgrims have been told by the Gujarat

Haj Committee that it is mandatory for the

pilgrims this year to get vaccinated, only then

would they get the visa.

of age were confirmed without drawing the lots, leaving 6,366 seats for draw. Out of the 6,366 wait-listed pilgrim for five years, 6,118 pilgrims have been confirmed this year through draw, leav-ing a fresh waiting list of 248 for pilgrims who are waiting for their turn for five years. Patel said the wait-listed pilgrim could see their names in the list uploaded on the website of Haj Committee of In-

dia. Expressing gratitude to the Central Govern-ment, chairman Kadri said, “The highest pilgrim quota is granted to Guja-rat despite cut in overall number by the Saudi au-thorities and cut in quota of other states in India by the government.” Com-mittee secretary Usman Patel clarified that there was nothing like VIP quo-ta and that no government officer or anybody could confirm VIP allotment.

Officer Ishwar Mangal said. The projects will be located across three sites in Kutch and Bhavnagar districts of Gujarat. The project will be commis-sioned in phases with complete execution scheduled by March 2017. Suzlon will exe-cute the entire project on a turnkey basis and will

also provide compre-hensive operation and maintenance services for the complete project life-cycle. The company is credited with build-ing one of Asia’s largest wind parks located in Kutch, Gujarat and has contributed 1,742 MW of wind energy installa-tions across the state.