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CAD, Pulgaon is located at about 115 Km from Nagpur, in Maharashtra. The depot is spread over an area of more than 7000 acres and is an important ammunition depot of the Indian Army

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News BriefThe “Devdas” that Bollywood

missed

Agency | Thane

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 42-year-old neighbour in whose care the vic-tim’s mother had left her, police said today. The accused and the victim’s family lived in Banere village of Kaly-an taluka and they knew each other well.

Agency | Varanasi

BJP chief Amit Shah today had a meal with a Dalit family in Jogi-yapur village in Sevap-uri Assembly segment in Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi’s Varanasi Lok Sabha constituen-cy. Shah, who was on his way to Allahabad to address a farmers’ rally, took a brief halt at Jogi-yapur village and had lunch with the family of Girjaprasad Bind and Ikbal Bind, who belong to the Dalit community, Sanjay Bharadwaj, BJP media-in-charge said. The BJP chief sat on the ground with the family members and shared the meal with them, he said.

Agency | Pune

Few Hindi movie buffs know that the Bolly-wood missed produc-tion of one more “Dev-das” which would have featured veteran actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini in it, depicting the tragic theme that has continued to appeal film makers over decades.

16 dead at ammo arms depot, Nagpur

Minor girl raped by neighbour

Amit Shah breaks bread with Dalit

family

Deeply pained at the loss of lives, says Manohar Parrikar“Fire at Army’s depot”

Dadri lynching: Lab report says meat in Mohammed Akhlaq’s home was beef

Agency | New Delhi

The meat in Dadri lynch-ing victim Mohammad Akhlaq’s home has been found to be beef, reports The Hindustan Times. Fif-ty-two year-old Moham-mad Akhlaq and his son Danish were attacked by a mob in Bisada in Dadri over rumours that they had slaughtered a cow and kept beef in their home. A fast track court had per-mitted the lawyers of the suspects in the case to get a copy of the forensic re-port which was submitted

Agency | New Delhi

The fight for Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana got interesting with media baron Subhash Chandra filing nomination as an independent candidate for the second Upper House seat falling vacant from the state. The Congress has not fielded any candi-date for the seat but former Congress MP and lawyer R K Anand also filed his nomination as an indepen-dent candidate. As, Tues-day was the final day for filing of nominations to the biennial Rajya Sabha elections. The elections to 57 seats that are fall-

ing vacant from across 15 states will be held on June 11. Chandra claimed that he had support of BJP leg-islators and could drum up support across party lines. On Monday, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had expressed hope that Indian Nation-al Lok Dal (INLD) and BJP could reach a con-sensus to elect candidates on both seats unopposed. However, Om Prakash Chautala-led INLD, the main opposition party in the Haryana assem-bly, queered the pitch for Chandra by announcing its support for Anand.

Agency | Nagpur

Sixteen people, including two Army officers, died in a fire at the Army’s big-gest ammunition depot in Pulgaon, Maharashtra, on Tuesday. Seventeen peo-ple, including two Army officers and nine person-nel, were injured in the accident, which occurred at 1 am. The cause of the fire has not been ascer-

tained so far. “Actions to assess the damage are in progress. An inquiry has been ordered by the Army,” said Lt General Ranbir Singh, Director General of Military Oper-ations. Central Ammuni-tion Depot (CAD), Pulga-on, located about 115 km from Nagpur, is spread over an area of more than 7,000 acres and stores a

Agency | New Delhi

India cemented its pole position as the world’s fastest-growing major economy, with March quarter GDP (gross do-mestic factor) growth ac-celerating to 7.9 per cent versus a revised 7.2 per cent in December 2015. The latest data is much better than consensus es-timates of 7.5 per cent growth in Q4 and coin-cides with Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi’s gov-ernment completing two years in office. “Momen-tum is building up fast-er than anticipated, and there is demand pick-up in the horizon. This defi-nitely spells out a positive story that there will soon

to the court in April. In the final result section of the report, signed by the Joint Director of the Forensic investigation Laboratory, Mathura, states, “On the basis of chemical analy-sis the sample belongs to

cow or its progeny.” This is contradictory to the pre-liminary reports which said that the meat was that of a goat. The incident had sparked a nationwide debate over intolerance, with the opposition parties

launching a full-fledged attack on the ruling gov-ernment over the alleged growing intolerance in the country. In Decem-ber 2015, the documents submitted by the Uttar Pradesh Police as part of the first chargesheet of the case revealed that ac-cording to preliminary re-port submitted by Dadri’s Government Veterinary Hospital, the meat con-fiscated by the authorities from Akhlaq’s home on the night of the murder was that of a goat.

GDP Grows At 7.9% In More Birthday Cheer For Modi Government

be a recovery in private sector capex,” said Sub-hhda Rao, chief econo-mist with Yes Bank. India maintained its lead over China, the world’s second largest economy, where GDP growth slowed to a seven-year low of 6.7 per cent between January and March 2016. Growth in the March quarter was driven by a rebound in farm output, an improve-ment in mining and a sharp

pickup in electricity pro-duction. The farm sector grew by 2.3 per cent from a year ago compared with a 1 percent contraction in the December quarter. Mining grew 8.6 per cent in the March quarter, up from 7.1 per cent in the previous quarter. Elec-tricity, water and gas pro-duction growth jumped to 9.3 per cent from 5.6 per cent in the December quarter.

Media baron Subhash Chandra hopes BJP support for RS entry

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat government to-day said the details re-garding upcoming ‘World Yog Day’ celebration in Gujarat will be available from a dedicated online source which is www.sgsu.edu.in. Details re-garding Yog performance, related pamphlets etc will be available from this website which belongs to Swarnim Gujarat Sports University. District Col-lector Avantika Singh shared this detail in pres-

ence of representatives of volunteer organizations, universities and colleges. She said proper training schedule has been final-ized for training of those participating in Yog Day celebration in Gujarat. It should be mentioned here that the United Nations had last year on request of Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi de-clared 21 June as World Yog Day. This year Gu-jarat and the world will celebrate second World Yog Day.

Details on Gujarat part of World Yog Day to be available online

Correspondent | Vadodara

Mobs of slum dwell-ers in Vadodara today pelted stones over police men and torched police chowky along with at least one rifle, State Re-serve Police(SRP) force tent, local public bus run by private operator VIT-COS and 10 two-wheel-ers while protesting against demolition drive conducted by Vadoda-ra Municipal Corpora-tion(VMC). 8 tear gas shells were lobbed by po-lice to control the crowd during the incident. Police has detained 30 in con-nection with this incident. The protest took place ear-ly in the morning in ille-

Violent protests in Vadodara against demolition drive

gal slum pocket Sulemani Chawl near Panigate af-ter VMC teams joined by city police and fire bri-gade started demolition task. Road connecting Vaghodia road-Ajwa road triangle and Suryanagar Garba ground was closed for traffic on one side and Ajwa road Mahavir hall stretch on other side. Over two dozen buses were pulled back from service in this area for precaution-ary measure. The VMC teams continued demoli-tion task and demolished

nearly 100 units. Power connections were also disconnected. Demolition of illegally constructed mosque has been post-poned however. Accord-ing to VMC officials, no-tices were issued and all prior procedures including High Court permission were completed before starting today’s demoli-tion task. The VMC has initiated demolition drive for last two months in var-ious area. This particular locality involves 30-year old illegal constructions.

variety of ammunition and explosives in a large number of sheds. The CAD comes directly un-der the Army headquar-ters and is responsible for the all-India supply of ammunition and ex-

plosives, after receiving them from Ordnance fac-tories and other sources. The CAD then supplies these items to various ammunition depots and field ammunition depots for replenishing their

stocks. The fire started in one of the sheds at 1 am and the Quick Reaction Teams and Fire Fighting Teams restricted it to that one shed. In the initial ef-forts to douse the fire, two Army officers, one Army jawan and 13 civilian firefighting staff lost their lives. The shed where the fire started contained highly sensitive ammuni-tion, sources said. They said that another four sheds were in the range of the one that caught fire. According to sources,

these shed contain ammu-nition for artillery guns and anti-tank land mines. Army officially refused to comment on the what was

kept in the sheds. Two Army officers, nine Army jawans and six civilian firefighting staff were in-jured and evacuated to a multi-speciality hospital in Wardha, 35 km from Pulgaon. The Army has moved its special med-ical teams from Pune to provide attention to the injured.

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DAYif Robert Vadra is guilty, why isn’t he behind bars?

Dear BJP, Why are the members of Gandhi family roaming free?. Given all the scams they are suppos-edly involved in, they should be in prison by now. As the citizen of a fair country one has reason to be wor-ried. Criminals, in whatever hue they come, need to be punished. It is immaterial whether some of them are politically influential. Television channels have been updating us on the latest scandal by the family at regu-lar intervals and those connected with the government have been busy working the decibels up over these, but the fact remains that the Gandhis, including Robert Vadra, are still out, going about their business without much fuss. As Vadra dominates the prime time space yet again, here’s something to ponder. There’s some-thing intriguing about the corruption charges against the Gandhis. If the government and the BJP were ac-tually serious about pursuing the cases against them, they would not stop at anything if they had proof of wrong-doing. Given the public show of acrimony to-wards the Gandhis from several senior BJP leaders, it is assumed that they would not miss even half a chance to put them behind the bars. It’s possible there’s no ev-idence at all to nail them and the effort is only to put them under a cloud of suspicion. Or is it, like Arvind Kejriwal would say, a case of mutual understanding between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gand-his? The latter, he had said in one of his Twitter posts, were privy to some secrets of the prime minister and “...That’s why Modi ji will never be able to act against any member of Gandhi family.” It’s easy to dismiss this remark as wild allegation, but what have all the charges against the Gandhis proved to be, at least so far, oth-er than wild allegations? It could be true that Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has benami property in London which he owns by proxy in the name of a controversial arms dealer. It’s possi-ble corruption is involved, and coming not long after the AgustaWestland deal controversy rocked the nation it opens up scope for interesting speculation. Will the government pay heed to Sonia Gandhi and initiate a probe? Not likely. Vadra has been involved in contro-versies earlier too, the most important being his land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan. Both the states have BJP governments for a considerable period of time, yet we have got nothing more than noise. There’s an apparent sense of urgency in raking up issues and throwing muck at the Congress’ first family, but its absence in follow-up action is surprising. Expect the AgustaWestland case all others to drag on till a few years, till it is milked fully for political advantage.

“Sixteen lives have been lost, they sacrificed their lives to ensure that the fire doesn’t spread I am deeply pained at the loss of lives, they sacrificed their lives and managed to contain fire. The fire has been doused but we’re monitoring the monitoring the situation,”

- Manohar Parrikar about the massive fire that broke out of Asia’s biggest ammunition depot in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon that houses the largest stockpile of weapons in the country.

Premam girl Sai Pallavi likely to romance Varun Tej

Agency | Chennai

If all goes well Premam girl Sai Pallavi will soon be seen in film-maker Sekhar Kammu-la’s yet untitled Telugu film which also stars Varun Tej. The actor is yet to formally sign the papers though. “Palla-vi has been approached but she’s yet to officially sign on the dotted line. Having recently gradu-ated as a doctor, Pallavi is ready to take up acting full-time. Hence, offers

have started pouring in,” said a source from the film’s unit. Kammula’s project, which is about an NRI falling in love with a girl from Telanga-na, is expected to go on the floors from August or September. Having made her cinematic debut with Malayalam blockbuster Premam last year, Pal-lavi has also worked in Malayalam film Kali. If Pallavi signs the project, it will mark her Telu-gu debut. Dil Raju will bankroll the film.

Agency | Chennai

A complaint has been filed against Tamil super-star Suriya in an alleged case of assault, where he has been accused of attacking a youth who was having an alterca-tion with a woman. The complainant is a first division football player named Premkumar, who has claimed that he and his friend were travelling on a bike, when the car in front of them stopped suddenly, which made

them lose control and slam into the rear end of the car and fly into the air upon impact. The driver of the car, who was a woman, came out and began scolding them for rash driving, follow-ing which some people also reportedly came in support of the youth, the complaint further said. Premkumar has filed a complaint at the Shas-tri Nagar police station and an FIR is yet to be registered in the matter.

Surya, who was driving by, reportedly stopped by and intervened in the altercation which fur-ther heated up the situ-ation and resulted in the actor allegedly slapping the youth, asking why was he fighting with the youth. The actor has however denied attack-ing the boys and has claimed that he saw the boys manhandling the women, which is when he tried to rescued her and intervened.

Agency | New Delhi

Who can match Salman Kahn’s unique dance moves! The Dabangg actor is back with Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai song from Sul-tan to woo his fans and film’s heroine Anushka Sharma, and going by the looks of it, it’s going to be a major chartbuster this year. The song is com-posed and voiced by Vishal Dadlani. Shalmali Khol-gade, Ishita and Badshah are his co-singers, while Irshad Kamil has penned

Agency | New Delhi

Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaqueline Fernandez and Lisa Hay-don had a blast promot-ing their upcoming film Housefull 3 on the sets of the popular reality music show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge recently. The multi-starrer slapstick is slated to open this week-end, and the cast has been aggressively promoting their film across various reality shows on television over the past few weeks. Nargis Fakri, the film’s third heroine, was absent at the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa promotions, fuelling the recent rumours that the starlet has fallen out with the makers of Housefull 3 and is therefore reluc-

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Hrithik Roshan said that he has evolved as a person and in spite of experiencing highs and lows in his life, he has still “soldiered on.” “I con-stantly believe in evolv-ing as a human being, an actor and a performer. As I look back, I see myself as an evolved person who has seen great highs and lows and still soldiered on,” Hrithik told agen-cy in an email interview.

Recently, Hrithik made headlines for his legal battle with actress Kanga-na Ranaut. When Hrithik was asked how his good or bad times have influ-enced him as an actor or as a human being, he did not answer the question. However, he said that while everybody wants to change something about their life, they compro-mise with situation and time. “I believe if you are not rediscovering your-

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Priyanka Chopra returned home for 10 days after wrapping her Holly-wood film Baywatch and television series Quan-tico and may decide on her next Hindi film in this

duration. “We have com-pleted filming Baywatch. We have packed up. The film is complete and will release in May next year. The shooting of Quanti-co season 1 is complete. I have come home for 10 days and will go for Quan-

Agency | New Delhi

With one a few weeks left for Shahid Kapoor’s film Udta Punjab to hit the screens, the filmmakers have a plan for city-mu-sical promotional tours. Marketing head of Zee Music, Kirthi Rai con-firmed to Deccan Chroni-cle, “Yes we are planning a few music activities with the lead actors across a few cities to promote the music of the film.”

But Shahid won’t be a part of it and the reason is Mira Rajput. Rumour has it, the Haider actor will not be part of the pro-motional campaign and spend the time with wife Mira Rajput instead, who is a few months pregnant. Shahid’s spokesperson said he won’t be available for the tour when Udta Punjab team approached him. However, Aman Gill, the CEO of Balaji

Priyanka Chopra to Decide About Her Bollywood Projects in 10 Days

Salman Khan woos Anushka Sharma in Baby ko bass song from Sultan

udta Punjab: Shahid Kapoor to skip promotions for Mira Rajput?

Cast of Housefull 3 on sets of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for promotions

Tamil star Suriya accused of ‘assault’, actor denies charges

Hrithik Roshan Dodges Question on Kangana. Here’s what he Said Instead

it. In the song, Sultan Ali Khan (Salman) gatecrash-es a wedding to get Aar-fa’s (Anushka) attention. The colourful and peppy number is picturised in the backdrop of a wedding,

which adds a rustic charm to it. Sultan, that is slated to hit theatres on Eid, also features Randeep Hooda and Amit Sadh in pivotal roles. The film is directed by Abbas Ali Zafar.

tico season 2 in July,” said Priyanka. Priyanka made her debut on tele-vision with the American thriller Quantico and she plays the lead character of Alex Parrish in the show. Priyanka has not decided yet about the films which she will do. “Now that I have returned, I’ll decide what films I’ll do. I ha-ven’t decided yet,” said Priyanka. In Bollywood, Priyanka was last seen in Prakash Jha’s Jai Gan-gaajal. Reports suggest that Priyanka will star in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films - Gustakhiyaan and a period drama on Rani Padmavati.Motion Pictures has de-

nied this news, and told the leading daily, “It’s ab-solutely baseless. In fact, Shahid has been there for all the promotional activ-ities across and continues to promote as we speak. Unlike other films, with Udta Punjab, we are be-ing very selective with the GEC shows that we visit, owing to the content of the film.” Shahid’s Udta Punjab, recently, has also landed into trouble with Censor Board for exces-sive use of abusive lan-guage. The Censor Board has demanded 40 cuts in the film. There were ru-mours that the film has been banned but producer Anurag Kashyap has clar-ified that the film is under the process for clearance and has not been banned.

tant to promote the film. Meanwhile the film’s oth-er two heroines, Jacque-line and Lisa, were seen in a merry mood. Jacqueline sportingly showed off her skills with the hula hoop as the studio audience applauded. Singer Mika, who also accompanied the cast, joined Jacqueline in trying out a few hula hoop tricks. Shooting for the special episode along with the film’s stars were

also Pritam and Wajid, who have composed the songs of the film. Togeth-er, they joined the stars in singing and jiving to the film’s popular dance number, Tang uthake. The studio audience and a few of the contestants of the show also joined them. This is the third film in the Housefull franchise, which has already seen two very successful mon-ey-spinners in the past.

self and pushing bound-aries, then you are not alive. Everybody wants to change something about their life but they are either too afraid, too lazy or too comfortable with the way things are,” said Hrithik. Hrithik said that his ability to reinvent himself “in new roles resonates with a brand’s image to constantly inno-vate, making it a perfect fit.” But at the time when some senior actors are facing criticism for choos-ing wrong brand endorse-ments, Hrithik said that he only works with those brands that inspire him. “There is a high focus placed upon the impor-tance of choosing a reli-able, trustworthy celebri-ty to endorse or sponsor a company’s product while still balancing the celeb-rity’s power to influence their consumers.

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RIL exits Africa oil retail biz, sells entire 76% GAPCO stake

Trai sets the stage to define net neutrality

Oppo F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edition with 18K gold-plated club insignia launched

Agency | New Delhi

Reliance Industries has sold its stake in African fuel retailer GAPCO to Total SA of France for an undisclosed sum. Total, which is already a lead-ing retailer of petroleum products in Africa, will acquire Gulf Africa Petroleum Corporation’s (GAPCO) assets in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, sources said. RIL had in September 2007 bought a clutch of fuel stations and storage facilities in one of the fastest growing regions in Africa. Gulf Africa Petroleum Corporation is a holding com-pany incorporated in Mauritius with affiliates in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. RIL’s overseas arm Reliance Exploration & Production DMCC owns 76 per cent stake while Fortune Oil Corporation, Mauritius has the remaining. Total has acquired two logistical terminals in Mombasa, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as well as a retail net-

work of around 100 service stations.

Agency | Mumbai

India is on course to join an ever-increasing list of countries that will clearly define what ‘net neutral-ity’ is and its binding principles. Telecom Regula-tory Authority of India (Trai) has come out with a pre-consultation report on net neutrality, following the department of telecommunications seeking the regulator’s views. The issue of net neutrality is an important one as the country currently has over 331 million internet users and 94 per cent of these are wireless. Like the voice telephony market changed in the late 1990s, data is also set to transform the manner in which Indians do things. The internet is fast redefining how Indians socialise, consume in-

formation and entertainment, and transact online.

Agency | New Delhi

Oppo has announced the F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edi-tion which comes in blue-and-red color scheme, an 18K gold-plated club insignia and an FCB-themed UI. The phone will be available in mid-June. The F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edition also comes with a blue protective case, laser-printed with the signatures of Lionel Messi, Neymar, Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic and Andres Iniesta. “The F1 Plus is all about snap-piness, style and speed, so there’s no better partner for it than the phenomenal FC Barcelona,” said Sky Li, OPPO Vice President and Managing Director of International Mobile Business. Oppo had previous-ly announced the Oppo F1 ICC WT20 limited edi-tion exclusively for the Indian market. The product was particularly marketed as a ‘selfie-expert’ during the cricket T20 world cup and was priced at Rs 17,990. The Oppo F1 Plus is a large screen version of Oppo F1, which we really liked in terms of the camera features. Oppo F1 Plus FC Barcelona Edi-tion should ideally be seen as a must-have thing for

every die-hard Barcelona fans.

Alastair Cook deserves accolades, but consistency questionable

Mustafizur Rahman has no plans of stopping, still eager to learn

Ravi Shastri, Sanjay Bangar, Bharth Arun to re-apply for coaching jobs

Don’t expect Shehzad, Akmal to be like Kohli, AB: Afridi

Against IK Start in Norway, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu starts new journey

I-League champions Bengaluru FC, head coach Ashley westwood part ways

Agency | Mumbai

Ending months of spec-ulation, I-League cham-pions Bengaluru FC an-nounced on Tuesday that it has parted ways with its successful head coach Ashley Westwood “by mutual consent”. The severing of ties between the club, winners of the I-League crowns twice in the last three years as well as the Federation Cup once (in 2014), has brought to an end “a suc-cessful three-year asso-ciation”, the club said in a media statement from Bengaluru. “The Blues have also made the quar-terfinals of the AFC Cup this season under West-

Agency | Dhaka

Bangladesh’s bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman has said his feet are still on the ground despite earning all-round praise for his impressive bowling in the recent Indian Premier League (IPL). He returned to Bangladesh on Monday after a successful IPL campaign. The 20-year-old was accorded a rau-cous reception in Shahja-lal International Airport. ”I am still young. I want to learn more. There were many players from many countries in the IPL…I’ll try to give something bet-ter if I get a chance next time,” he said at the air-port. Mustafizur said his playing in the English county cricket for Sussex now depends on Ban-

Agency | New Delhi

Former Team India Director Ravi Shas-tri along with his support staff which in-clude Sanjay Bangar, Bharath Arun and R Sridhar are all set to re-apply after BCCI advertises national coaching positions in the next couple of days. A senior BCCI offi-cial confirmed that Shastri, along with batting coach Ban-gar, bowling coach Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar will send their applications. “All the three coaches (Arun, Bangar, Sridhar) along with Shastri are applying as they have got positive feel-ers from the top brass of the BCCI. Since there will be a format of application that each applicant will have to follow, they

are waiting for the advertisement to be published,” a senior BCCI official privy to the development, told agencyon the condition of anonymity. According to the BCCI source, just days before An-

urag Thakur was elected as the President, the support

staff had met him in Delhi and the discus-sions were said to be “positive” as he had praised their work. “The BCCI presi-

dent had made it clear that anyone with prop-

er credentials can apply. Also Thakur has praised the

work done by ‘Team Shastri’ in the last 18 months. The young team has enjoyed a fair bit of success overseas. It is only fair that they get equal chance like other appli-cants,” said the source.

Agency | Chester-le-Street

In 2010, he became the second youngest af-ter Sachin Tendulkar to 5,000 runs in Test crick-et, and on Monday, it was fitting for more than one reason to see Alastair Cook eclipsing the bat-ting legend and the great Rahul Dravid, as he com-pleted 10,000 runs. Test cricket is the only for-mat the 31-year-old plays in, and as someone who established himself as one of the best ever long ago, Cook deserves to be praised richly for his feat.

Agency | New Delhi

The Soer Arena in Kris-tiansand isn’t a venue that pops into your head when you think of Eu-ropean football. It’s a modest 14,000-odd seater stadium in a touristy city, and has been sold out just twice — when home team IK Start played their inaugural match there in 2007 and then again for an Elton John concert a few months later. For Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, however, the stadium will

hold special significance. For two years now he warmed benches while travelling with his club, Stabaek, across Norway for league matches. But it would change on Sunday. During the team meeting an hour before kick-off, Stabaek manager Billy McKinlay broke the news to him that his name was first on the team sheet. It was a moment Sand-hu had been waiting for the last two years. Af-ter returning from the

pre-match warm up, the 24-year-old sat alone in the dressing room, re-flecting on his journey from Kolkata, where he began his professional career, to Kristiansand. Sandhu’s thoughts were interrupted by McKin-lay, who dropped in for a quick word. “You don’t need to prove me you are the best goalkeeper,” the Scot told Sandhu. “Just be yourself, back your-self up and make good decisions.”

Agency | Karachi

Flamboyant all-rounder and former captain, Sha-hid Afridi believes that Pakistan cricket think-tank has erred by having too many expectations from out of favor bats-men, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal. “I don’t know but it was wrong to expect them to be like Virat Kohli or AB de Villiers and perform like them,” Afridi said on Geo

News channel on Mon-day. Shehzad and Umar, who are considered to be two of the country’s best young batting talent, have been axed for the tour to England on disciplinary grounds and were not called for the training and skills camps set up by the cricket board. PCB Chair-man, Shaharyar Khan made it clear on Sunday that it was the decision of the new selection com-

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wood and will look to go a step further when the continental competition resumes in September,” said the release, refer-ring to the club’s 3-2 win over Kitchee of Hong Kong under the guid-ance of Westwood. “The Englishman was at the helm of affairs since the club’s inception in 2013

where the Blues went on to stun Indian football by winning the I-League in its debut season. 2014 too was a successful season where Bengalu-ru won the Federation Cup, finished second in the League and made the knock-out stages in the AFC Cup,” the club said in its statement.

mittee to sideline the two youngsters. Afridi said there was no doubt that Shehzad and Umar need-ed to work hard on their cricket and approach. “I also agree there should be no compromise on dis-cipline. But I think it is best if we stop expecting too much from them and just let them be and let them play the way they do. With more experience I am sure they will be much better,” he added. “But don’t expect them to perform like Kohli or de Villiers. Don’t make such comparisons.” Afri-di, who had stopped short of officially announcing his retirement from T20 cricket, said he has giv-en himself another two years.

gladesh Cricket Board physician’s report after the injury he had sus-tained in the IPL. “I felt a little pain in my leg be-fore the final match. I’ll go and visit the physio and speak to the cricket board (Tuesday). Things be known then,” he said. He said he missed his par-ents most during the IPL stint. “I missed everyone, the country in India.” The whippy left-armer also said he could not learn

much English in India because everyone want-ed to learn Bangla from him instead. “Everyone praises me. I know some cricket language though,” he said. Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport Arif Khan Joy and BCB CEO Nizam Uddin Chowd-hury welcomed him back at the airport. His uncles came to take him home. Mustafizur claimed the Emerging Player of the IPL award for his efforts.

Six centuries at home in last 5 years certainly do not tell how

prolific scorer he is, but still he has got close to 5,000 runs in this span

One can only envy how rich his career has been, as apart from the lows which never kept him out of place for long, Cook has had Ashes wins home and away, to a historic win in India. Cook’s ca-reer has only been replete with success, but one still wonders if he would have been the first England cricketer to 10,000 runs had Kevin Pietersen been not cast away. In an era where batsmen reap rich benefits of carrying their short-format success and lessons into longest for-mat, Cook remains Test

cricket’s most obedient student. He works hard on his fitness, his individual game and on his chances as a captain. Yes, the ob-vious benefit of knowing English conditions way better than his contem-poraries makes him the best batsman in England. On an individual basis, there is no one better than him who has potential to achieve success on some of the toughest pitches and conditions to bat in. Talent is not everything, many of the modern day batsmen lack application and Cook has it in abundance.

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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Indian Institute of Tech-nology Gandhinagar (IITGN) will offer free counselling for students who appeared for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2016 to help them choose engi-neering branches in IITs. The institute will do this through its JEE Open House sessions to be held on June 5 and June 18. After clearing JEE Advanced, students get many choices of differ-ent engineering branch-es in different IITs. This opens up multiple com-binations of branches in different IITs making it difficult for the students to make the best choice. Apart from this, parents get curious about the IIT Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Sidharth Malhotra, Tour-ism New Zealand’s brand ambassadorfor India took Ahmedabad by stormto-day as he re-lived the un-forgettable experience of his recent New Zealand journey. Steven Dixon, Tourism New Zealand-Regional Manager, South and South East Asia, joined Sidharth at a me-dia event where he shared his fascinating account of hisNew Zealand expe-rience. The Bollywood star spent a week in New Zealand last October, and avideo encapsulating his experiences captivated

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat government’s de-cision to grant 10% quo-ta to economically back-ward classes (EBC) was questioned before Gujarat high court on Monday. Justice Paresh Upadhyay issued notice to the state government and sought its reply on constitutional validity of the reservation provisions on basis of in-come of a family. Further hearing is kept on June 22, when the government is asked to file its reply.

The petition was filed by a Rajkot-based writer and social worker Jayantibhai Manani who has urged the HC to strike down the May 1 notification by the state government by which it provided for 10% EBC quota. Manani’s advocate Vijay Nangesh said that the notification is in vio-lation of Article 169(4) of the Constitution, which is against such reservation to a class of people on basis of economic backward-ness. He said that they have raised a contention

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A local BJP leader in Gujarat has been arrest-ed after a 13-year-old girl complained that he physically harassed her on a flight from Goa to Ahmedabad on Friday last. The 41-year-old BJP leader, Ashok Makwana, is a vice-president in the Gandhinagar unit of the BJP, Gujarat’s ruling par-ty. He was arrested this morning and has been booked under the Pro-

tection of Children from Sexual Offences (POC-SO) Act. The minor’s parents said in the police complaint that the pas-senger seated next to her on the flight had molested her. The police said they got records from the air-line and found that the seat next to the teen was booked in the name of Mr Makwana’s friend. The two men had exchanged seats after boarding the flight, the police said.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

One Ashok Makwana, a building contractor from Gandhinagar has been ar-rested by the Sardarnagar police in Amhmedabad in the case of alleged moles-tation of a 13-year-old girl aboard an Indigo airline Goa-Ahmedabad flight on May 28. Police said that Ashok G Makwana was sitting next to the girl on the flight. On Sunday, the parents of the girl filed a complaint alleging that their daughter had been molested by a co-passen-ger. Police had registered an FIR and had laun ched an investigation under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The girl was seated in row 2 of the flight. Earlier in the day,

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

A few days ago in Dahod union Petroleum and Nat-ural Gas minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan made announcement of 40 lakh new gas connection for Gujarat. Another Union Minister Nirmala Sitara-man visited Surat and heard citizen’s concern about air connectivity very sincerely. She returned to Delhi and ensured Air In-dia’s regular connectivity to Surat, announcement for which was made yes-terday from Delhi by Air India. Yesterday Union minister Nitin Gadkari committed Rs 2 lakh crore works under his ministry in next three years in Gu-jarat during his speech at Somnath. As part of out-reach programme of Modi government on comple-

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Suzuki’s first wholly owned plant in India to be operational by 2017

One held in Goa – Ahmedabad alleged inflight molestation case

Gujarat BJP Leader Arrested For Allegedly Harassing 13-Year-Old On Flight

IndiGo provided police with the list of passen-gers on the flight. The Goa flight on which the girl was travelling had taken off around 1.15 am on Sunday and reached Ahmedabad at around 2.50 am. Accord-ing to the complaint of the girl, a male passenger sit-ting next to her had inde-cently touched her during the flight. The girl had also complained that the male passenger had asked

for her mobile number by using various gestures. Af-ter arriving in Ahmedabad aboard flight 6E-948, the girl went home along with her father who had come to pick her up. The complaint was filed the next morn-ing after she told about the incident to her parents. Makwana is vice president of Gandhinagar town BJP unit. He had went to Goa with BJP city unit gener-al secretary Ruchir Bhatt and other friends. Makwa-na maintains that his hand might have touched the girl while in sleep in that early morning flight. Ruchir too denies possibility of any indecent act on Makwa-na’s part. Ruchir said the seat originally belonged to him but he vacated it for Ashok before the girl came to the seat.

Agency | Tokyo

Japanese automaker Su-zuki Motor Corp on Tues-day said its wholly owned car plant in Gujarat, where a total investment of Rs 18,500 crore has been en-visaged, will begin opera-tions from next year. The Gujarat facility is also Su-zuki Motor’s first wholly owned car plant in India and being set up bypass-ing its Indian unit. This plant will supply vehicles and components exclu-sively to Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. India is its big-gest market. “As planned, operations will start in 2017… Our plan is go-ing accordingly,” Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki told re-porters after meeting Fi-nance Minister Arun Jait-

ley. Suzuki Motor owns 56 per cent of Maruti Suzuki India -the coun-try’s biggest automaker controlling nearly half of the market. It expects the bulk of its growth to come from India, which is pro-jected to overtake Japan and Germany by 2020 to become the third-biggest market in the world after China and the US. In the first phase, the Gujarat factory will have a capac-ity to make 2,50,000 ve-

hicles annually, and will start operations in 2017. Suzuki’s car production in India will reach 2 mil-lion units by 2022 from the 1.4 million at present. Asked about the perfor-mance of the India unit, 86-year-old Suzuki said, “When it comes to Maruti Suzuki, the performance is going up very well. I am sure Maruti Suzuki has been loved by the In-dian people. So I am very much satisfied.”

Sidharth Malhotra shares his New Zealand memories in Ahmedabad

— Sidharth recountsthe

diverse range ofactivities

experienced in New Zealand

the audience. It featured Sidharth indulging in the best New Zealand has to offer, including doing a Sky Walk in Auckland, meeting the Prime Min-ister and Minister for Tourism Rt. Hon. John Key in Wellington, en-joying a hot air balloon ride in Queenstown, playing cricket on a gla-cier with ex-Blackcap Stephen Fleming and visiting a sacred tree in Northland. Speaking at the event, Steven Dixon said,“We are thrilled to have Sidharth on board to showcase the best of New Zealand to those considering visiting our

country.Sidharthis the perfect fit for New Zea-land and his trip creat-ed great conversations about the destination, not just in India but in New Zealand too. Our coun-try experienced the im-pact of Bollywood when Sidharth was surrounded by fans everywhere he went. He was enthusias-tic and eager to explore New Zealand’s offerings, immersing himself in ad-venture, food and wine and Maori culture.” He further added, “India is a growing visitor mar-ket for New Zealand. To year-end April 2016, we saw 23,440 holiday ar-rivals from India, which is an increase of16.4per centon the previous year.

IITGn to offer counselling sessions for JEE advance

system and what their children would be going through for the next four years at the institute. The Open House at IITGN aims to counsel both the students and parents re-garding such concerns. Talking about the objec-tive of JEE Open House at IITGN, a student co-ordinator of the event, Rushil Vispute said, “It is common for students to get confused wheth-er to go for a branch of his lesser choice in an institute of his higher preference or vice versa. Interaction with IIT fac-ulty and students who are already in IIT will help such students clear their confusion and make the best choice. This is what JEE Open House is going to do.”

HC moves against Gujarat govt’s 10% EBC quota

that granting such quota is also against the provisions of equality guaranteed in Article 14 of the Consti-tution. The petitioner has cited the Supreme Court order in the Indra Sawh-ney case, which was a challenge to the OBC quo-ta on recommendation of the Mandal commission

in early 1990s. By citing this, the petitioner has also highlighted that granting reservation in govern-ment jobs and education more than 50% of seats is against the decision of the apex court. Moreover, ad-vocate Nangesh said that the provision in the recent notification that the can-

didates belonging to the Scheduled Caste, Sched-uled Tribe and OBCs have been excluded from availing benefits under this 10% EBC quota is also objectionable. The petition also took an ex-ception to the quota pro-visions on the ground that the state government last year had come up with a scheme - Yuva Swavlam-ban Yojna - by which it has pledged scholarships and fee waivers for stu-dents who do not belong to any reserved category.

tion of two years in pow-er, more union ministers are going to visit Gujarat. Each of them will mostly take night halt in Gujarat as per party’s order(even Prime Minister Shri Na-rendra Modi as MP vis-ited Meghalaya and had night halt there under outreach drive). As per the programme shared by BJP sources which may

change in some cases, number of ministers are going to attend ‘Vikas Parv Sammelans’ in Gu-jarat at different places during 27th May to 15 June. Union Environment and Forests minister Shri Prakash Javdekar will be visiting Valsad on 4 June along with Shri B.S. Ye-diurappa and Parshottam Rupala.

At least 13 union ministers may visit Gujarat in next 15 days