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News BriefCongress

responsible for unemployment in

country

Terror outfits set up, sustained to target

Indian interests

Agency | Ballia

Holding Congress responsible for un-employment in the country, Union Minis-ter Giriraj Singh said Narendra Modi gov-ernment will fulfill its promise to provide jobs to the youth “very soon”. “Congress is re-sponsible for the seri-ous unemployment in the country..Modi gov-ernment will start the work for providing jobs to the unemployed and fulfill the promise made to the youth at election time”, Singh told re-porters last night here.

1 killed, six injured as container hits

truckAgency | Kanpur

A 31-year-old labourer was killed and six oth-ers injured when a con-tainer hit a stone laden truck in Bidhnu area here, police said today.Ashamati was killed on the spot in the mishap, while returning from Hamirpur with her fam-ily members, they said.The injured, including the truck driver Sand-eep, were rushed to a nearby hospital, they said, adding, he was lat-er transferred to the city Medical College. The driver of the container is absconding and efforts are being made to nab him, police said.

Agency | New Delhi

India faces threats on a regular basis from “hos-tile neighbourhood” as well as from interna-tional terrorist organi-sations, which are used by some countries as “instruments” of their foreign policy, a top in-telligence official said today. “Our neighbour does it, they have been doing it for a long time. The threat that we face almost on a regular ba-sis is from hostile neigh-bourhood.

Agency | Kolkata

Five officials of the Hy-derabad-based construc-tion firm were detained on Friday in connection with Thursday’s flyover collapse in the city even as three more bodies were pulled out of the debris taking the toll to 24.“We have detained a five officials of the con-struction company IVR-CL. We are taking action against them,” Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar said. Po-lice had registered a case on Thursday against the

Agency | New Delhi

CNG price in the nation-al capital was on Friday cut by Rs 0.60 per kg and piped cooking gas by Rs 0.65 per standard cubic meters following a 20 per cent slashing in natural gas rates. Conse-quently upon notification of government reducing the prices of domesti-cally produced natural gas, Indraprastha Gas Ltd announced revision in the selling prices of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Piped Nat-

Natural gas prices cut by 20% in delhi“National Capital ”

CNG, PNG become cheaper

Love India, but only one God in Islam: Deoband’s fatwa against Bharat Mata Ki Jai

Kolkata flyover tragedy: 5 IVRCL officials detained, death toll rises to 24

Agency | New Delhi

Uttar Pradesh-based Darul Uloom seminary in Deo-band has issued a fatwa against the chanting of the controversial nationalist slogan, Bharat Mata Ki Jai, saying there is only one God in Islam. “We love our country, but it is not our god. In Islam, we be-lieve in only one God and hence it is against the faith of a Muslim to chant the slogan,” the fatwa issued by the Deoband seminary said. The fatwa against the slogan, being promoted aggressively by the BJP and its ideological men-tor the RSS, was passed following a two-day long deliberation in Darul Ifta, an eight-member panel of Islamic scholars from all

Agency | Washington

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi will on Friday engage with top world leaders including from Canada, Britain, Japan in a series of bilaterals here on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Sum-mit, where he would out-line India’s roadmap and

measures taken to ensure nuclear security. He is ex-pected to start the day with a bilateral meeting with Canadian counterpart Jus-tin Trudeau, which would be Modi’s first meeting with Trudeau after he was recently elected as Canada’s Prime Minister. This would be followed

Narendra Modi to meet top leaders of Canada, UK, Japan at bilateral summit

over the country. “In the past too, a similar con-troversy emerged about the chanting of Vande Mataram in schools. That song was made mandatory for students. Now, Bharat Mata Ki Jai is being made compulsory. Both the is-sues are the same,” it said. “India is without doubt our country. We and our ancestors were born here. We love our country, but we do not think it is our

God,” Darul Ifta said in its statement.Islam, unlike Hinduism, is a monothe-istic religion, i.e. it be-lieves in the idea of one God whose idol or picture cannot be made. “Bharat Mata, according to a sec-tion of Hindus, is a god-dess and they worship her. For Muslims, participating in the worshipping of that goddess would be apostasy and against Islam,” it said in its resolution.

Washington : Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the dinner hosted by the President of United States of

America (USA), Barack Obama, at the White House, in Washington D.C. on Thursday.

by back-to-back meet-ings with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentinian President Mauricio Macri. Cam-eron is meeting Modi at a time when he is facing the prospect of job loss to some 20,000 people after India’s Tata Steel decided to sell its loss-making UK businesses. After the three bilaterals, Modi would participate in the three sep-arate sessions of the Nucle-ar Security Summit, which kicked off with a White House dinner last night. The sessions are on nation-al actions to enhance nu-clear security, international and institutional actions to strengthen nuclear security and scenario-based poli-cy discussion. “The Prime

Minister will be outlining India’s roadmap, India’s vision and the measures In-dia has taken to ensure nu-clear safety and security,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup told reporters. Later, Modi is scheduled to meet Swit-zerland President Johann N Schneider-Ammann. He would conclude his two-day trip to Washington by meeting his close friend and Japanese Prime Min-ister Shinzo Abe. Modi ar-rived in the US yesterday morning for the Nuclear Security Summit being convened by US President Barack Obama and attend-ed by leaders from more than 50 countries, with heads of state from over 20 nations.

Correspondent | Surat

MoS for External Af-fairs General V K Singh Thursday said diamonds sold in the name of Su-rat would not fetch as much value in Antwerp. Speaking to business leaders, Singh, who was in Surat attend a private programme, said, “Surat has a big name world-wide in diamond cutting and polishing, but in An-twerp market (Belgium), the seller does not say that the diamonds have come from Surat, India, or the value of diamond

MoS for External Affairs General V K Singh Thursday said diamonds sold in the name of Surat would not fetch as

much value in Antwerp.goes down.” Surat Dia-mond Association pres-ident Dinesh Navadi-ya, however, said, “The statement of V K Singh

is baseless. I am doing business in Antwerp where I sell the polished diamonds, saying these diamonds are cut and

polished in Surat. There are many diamond mer-chants and exporters in Surat who sell diamonds abroad and clearly tell the buyers that they are cut and polished here in Surat.” While attending a meeting of local busi-ness leaders at South-ern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singh said, “We have formed a new depart-ment called states in the External Affairs Minis-try. The officials of the department will ensure that the interests of the states with foreign coun-tries.”

construction firm un-der sections 304, 308 and 407 of the IPC and sealed its local office. Around 90 people were injured in the collapse and the condition of sev-en of them was stated to be “very critical”. Agen-cies engaged in rescue work said that there was a possibilty of a person being trapped inside a truck which is still under

a girder. Armymen along with Kolkata Police, di-saster management team, NDRF and fire brigade personnel engaged in res-cue work throughout the night, pulled out three more bodies from under the rubble of concrete, a police officer said. ”No-body alive has been res-cued... Two mangled au-torickshaws apart from a few other vehicles have been pulled out. One lor-ry is still stuck inside... Whether there is any-body trapped inside can-not be certain,” he said.

ural Gas (PNG) in NCT of Delhi, Noida, Great-er Noida and Ghaziabad

with effect from Friday midnight. IGL said CNG price in Delhi has been

cut by Rs 0.60 per kg and by Rs 0.70 per kg in Noida, Greater Noi-da and Ghaziabad. “The new consumer price of Rs 36.60 per kg in Delhi and Rs 41.90 per kg in Noida, Greater Noida & Ghazia-bad would be effective from midnight of 1st/2nd April 2016,” IGL said in a statement. “The price of CNG in Delhi remains lowest in the entire coun-try.” With the objective

to boost CNG refueling during non-peak hours, IGL will continue to offer a discount of Rs 1.50 per kg in the selling prices of CNG for filling between 12 am to 5 am at select outlets. The consumer price of CNG would be Rs 35.10 per kg in Delhi and Rs 40.40 per kg in Noida, Greater Noida & Ghaziabad during 12 am to 5 am at 230 CNG sta-tions across the region. IGL has also announced reduction in its domestic PNG prices from Satur-day. The consumer price of PNG to the households in Delhi has been reduced

by Rs 0.65 per standard cubic meter from Rs 24.65 to Rs 24 per scm.Due to differential tax structure in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the appli-cable price of domestic PNG to households in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad would be Rs 25.50 per scm, which has been reduced by Rs 0.65 per scm from existing Rs 26.15 per scm. IGL is supplying PNG to over 6,30,000 households in the region. Government had on Thursday cut nat-ural gas price by 20 per cent to USD 3.06 per mil-lion British thermal unit.

Surat diamonds do not have much value in Antwerp, says V K Singh

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYThe Congress party has lost its way as Indian politics’ prime player

We want a Congress Mkt Bharat,” thundered Naren-dra Modi in the 2014 general election campaign, a slogan echoed repeatedly BJP president, Amit Shah. The declared goal was not just to win an election, but to “eliminate” the Congress from the country’s na-tional political map. Two years later, the Modi-Shah duo’s ambition is on track. If at the start of 2016, the Congress was ruling in nine states, it is now in charge in just seven states after its governments were dis-missed in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. By May, it could lose two more — Assam and Kerala — where it is facing a tough battle to retain power. Just five states —Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka (four of them with less than 10 MPs between them) — may then remain within the Congress umbrella. Is India slowly becom-ing ‘Congress Mukt’ then? Undoubtedly, the BJP has replaced the Congress as the principal pole of Indian politics. It has also embraced the Congress “culture”: the party with a difference is now a re-gime which wields absolute power with ruthless ef-ficiency at the Centre. Both in Arunachal, and more especially in Uttarakhand, the BJP has shown that is ready to use the politics of “saam, daam dand, bhed” to topple elected governments. Could the central government, for example, have not wait-ed for a floor test in Dehradun before “flooring” the Harish Rawat government? To suggest that a sting operation or the act of a speaker in disquali-fying defecting MLAs are reason enough to claim a “constitutional breakdown” smacks of a partisan interpretation of the law: the Bommai judgement has given primacy to a floor test. In a sense, the BJP has become “Congressified” since it is the Grand Old party which had originally misused Article 356 to reshape Centre-state equations. Finally, there is now a question mark over the future of the First Family, the glue that still holds the Congress to-gether. Sonia Gandhi has increasingly looked like a leader in semi-retirement, keen for her son to take over. Rahul Gandhi in the year since he went off on a mysterious leave of absence has been far more visible but still hasn’t made the transition from activist to 24x7 leader. Taking up a range of issues from JNU to net neutrality, agrarian distress to Dalit rights has energised his public profile but still doesn’t offer a road map for rehabilitating a comatose party apparatus. Indeed, the Uttarakhand MLAs while quitting the Congress claimed that they had attempted to meet Mr Gandhi for a month without success. “He can meet Kanhaiya Kumar, but not us,” one of the MLAs claimed.

“It is the fundamental duty of the state to protect the findamental rights of women. In order to ensure that policy and purpose of the Act is fully carried out, the state will issue guidelines to all district collectors in Maharashtra,”

- The Bombay High Court Friday observed it isthe Fundamental Duty of the stateto protect the Fundamental Rights of women

Agency | New Delhi

The trailer of Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff star-rer Baaghi has already been on the watch list of many ever since it re-leased. The stunts that the duo have indulged in are jaw dropping. The duo are true dare devil’s as they pulled off all the scenes without any ropes or har-ness. A lot of hard work has been put into the mak-

ing of Baaghi and the ac-tors have brought out ev-ery bit of heroism in them by taking it to themselves to perform all stunts and action during the shoot-ing. Sajid Nadiadwala’s Baaghi is a rebellious Love story which will fea-ture Shraddha and Tiger going against all odds for love. Directed by Sabbir Khan, the Shraddha Ka-poor, Tiger Shroff starrer will release on April 29.

Agency | New Delhi

I count amongst some of my best friends, house husbands. Or let’s put it in a slightly more nuanced way, men who like to stay home, take charge of the household, be the prima-ry caregiver for parents and children. They know that they come in for more than their share of good- humoured ribbing as well as nasty jibes, and they have learnt to take it in their stride because they are supremely comfort-able doing what they do. Oh, and before I forget,

their wives go to work, are great at their demanding jobs, and get in the lolly. With ‘Ki and Ka’, Bolly-wood has got to the point of being able to place a man willing to be home, knuckle down to dull do-mestic chores, and wave the flag for ambitious women and progressive men. So hurrah for Ka and Ki and Balki? Yes, but only up to point. The film is fun when it is setting up the roles. But the execu-tion, as it goes along, gets rocky. Much of it stays ep-isodic, and starts reinforc-

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan recently shot for a major pre-cli-max action sequence for Ali Abbas Zafar’s Sultan. It features a kite-running sequence which involves parkour and Salman will be seen running, climb-ing, swinging, vaulting, jumping and rolling on the streets and from terrace to terrace — all by himself without a stunt double as the scene had to look au-thentic and raw.Says a source close to the film, “Salman plays a wrestler from Haryana. All the ac-tion sequences are very stylised, yet raw and real. While Salman had learned parkour earlier for Ek Tha

Agency | New Delhi

Ever since the epic fan-tasy film Baahubali: The Beginning hit the screens last July, everyone is eager to know more about the great director who made this masterpiece. While SS Rajamouli is an icon in Tollywood, the rest of the country knows little about him. So here is a little vid-eo where he talks about some interesting aspects of the film. And yes, he also answers why Kattap-pa killed Baahubali.When asked about the toughest and scariest moment on set, the director revealed that it was not a single mo-ment but a series of mo-ments. Remember the epic scene where Shivudu, that is Prabhas, finally climbs up the steep mountain against the waterfall? Yes,

Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan gets no love from censors, receives 7 cuts

Kung Fu Panda 3 review: Hope you’re hungry for more awesomeness, and Po

Salman Khan doesn’t want a stunt double for major action scene in Sultan

Baahubali director SS Rajamouli reveals his scariest moment on set involving Prabhas

Deepika Padukone overwhelmed with National Award wins of ‘Piku’, ‘Bajirao Mastani’

Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff performed stunts in Baaghi without harness

Ki and Ka movie review: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor starrer’s execution gets rocky

•Hirpara Kapil (Editor)•Rudani Chirag (Dy. Editor)•Patel Bharat (Photographer)•Rudani Dixit (Reporter)•Makani Dhruvil (Sub Editor)•Patel Prakash (Reporter)

Agency | New Delhi

Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan has fallen foul of the Censor Board of Film Certifica-tion and has met the same fate as James Bond’s last outing Spectre, Priyan-ka Chopra’s Jai Gangaa-jal and Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool. A day after di-rector Maneesh Sharma managed to bag the U/A certificate claimed that the film has undergone at

least seven cuts, including one visual cut. Friday that a scene was cut short as it showed “prolonged police brutality”. Shah Rukh, who plays the obsessive star stalker Gaurav Cha-nana, is being thrashed in lock-up while the star Ary-an Khanna (also played by SRK) urges the cops to continue the merciless thrashing. “The scene of prolonged violence in a

Agency | New Delhi

What was my first reac-tion after watching Kung Fu Panda 3 with its A-list voice cast (Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Bryan Crans-ton, JK Simmons, Dustin Hoffman blah blah), vi-sual splendour, stunning 3D effects and the bum-bling world saviour Po? That I wanted dumplings, and noodles, and soup. But mostly dumplings. For those who came in late, Kung Fu Panda 3 is the third coming of Po, a food-loving panda who is destined to become the dragon warrior but sim-ply can’t believe it. No sir, three films down and he is still to come to terms with it. This is his charm and his impediment – others have

Agency | Mumbai

Film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is on cloud nine. He has won the National Award for Best Director for his magnum opus, Ba-jirao Mastani (2015).Here, Bhansali talks about the film, how such awards en-courage film-makers to do better work, and more. The National Award is the jew-el in the crown. I was try-ing to make the film for 12 years. I felt this time, Ba-jirao and Mastani’s souls blessed the film, and that’s why the movie happened. I guess their blessings came to us, which is why the right casting happened, budget came on, the infrastructure was in place and I shot the most difficult scenes, ef-fortlessly. I feel the 12 year delay was a test of my vi-sion. I didn’t lose sight of my goal all through my three attempts of making

seen his greatness but he wants to stick to what he can do rather than what he is capable of. A little bit like all of us, and telling us that we can own the world only if we could be both-ered to strive and believe. In this profound moral lesson for kids and parents alike, where do dump-lings figure? You heard us mention Po loves his food but his relationship with dumplings is on a much

deeper level – he uses them as training incentive and ammunition. His ad-opted dad, the goose Mr Ping (James Hong), uses them as filial reinforcers and his biological father, Li (Bryan Cranston), teaches him that a pan-da never uses chopsticks while eating dumplings.For why eat one dumpling with chopsticks when you can shovel down four with your paws?

ing the very stereotypes it set out to negate. And so much of the writing is so explicatory that you begin wondering if the filmmak-ers really take their view-ers for People Who Do Not Understand Anything Unless It Is Underlined Thrice Over. Kia (Karee-na Kapoor) and Kabir (Ar-jun Kapoor) get past their meet-cute in a tearing hurry, and jump into an exchange of garlands and glands. All is hunky-dory to begin with : Ka rolls out of bed, picks up after his office-going wife and mum-in-law (Swaroop Sampat ; good to see her back on screen), lays out steaming hot `khana’ ; Ki cracks open her Mac, and delivers smart campaign ideas to her advertising agency colleagues ( great excuse for lots of product placements, yo), and goes up the corporate ladder.

lock-up where one Shah Rukh Khan urges the cops to beat up the other Shah Rukh was found to be unnecessarily prolonged. The censor board has asked for the sequence to be reduced by 50%.” The film has received six ver-bal cuts, including Hindi and English cuss words and abuses. The film re-volves around a fan, who is a doppelganger of his favorite star, Aryan Khan-na. SRK plays a double role and at least one of his characters displays shades of grey. At the launch of Fan anthem, SRK was asked about the similarities between his psychotic obsessive roles from Darr and Anjaam, and Fan. He said.

Tiger, the one in Sultan is more realistic and compli-cated. It’s centred around a kite-running event and Salman not only trained for it but also lost 12 kgs for the scene. Kite-running or patang baazi is a common sport in India where people compete with each other about how high their kites

can go till they get cut. Ali Abbas has incorprated a stylised parkour sequence in the chase scene.” Park-our requires a certain athe-letic body type and weight balance and Salman had to leap from one terrace to another without the help of any cables, which is dan-gerous.

the film. So many people tried to make the movie be-fore me. There must have been something inexpli-cable that the film didn’t work out then. Yes, abso-

lutely. Devdas (2002) and Mary Kom (2014) won Best Popular Film Provid-ing Wholesome Entertain-ment.while Black (2005) won the Best Feature Film.

the one which involved a whole lot of breathtaking jumps by the actor. It turns out that these scenes were really hard for Rajamouli. Prabhas had recently re-covered from a shoulder injury for which he had undergone a surgery. So the director knew that one mishap and he could risk the lead of his film. So that was a really scary time for Rajamouli. He also got candid about many other

things regarding the film. When asked about who is the prankster on the set, the director revealed that it was our very own Bhallaladeva, that is Rana Daggubati. And then he finally answered why Kat-tappa killed Baahubali, but don’t get your hopes up, because the mystery is still intact. Rajamouli laughed and simply an-swered that because he asked him too.

A lot of hard work has been put into the making of Baaghi as Shraddha Kapoor

and Tiger Shroff performed all stunts on their own without any harness

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SPORTS ROUNDUPTata Steel eyes buying parts of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp

New vaccine regimen shows promise against Chikungunya virus

Microsoft announces new free development tools for developers

Agency | New Delhi

searchers, including one of Indian-origin, have de-veloped a novel vaccine regimen that produces rap-id and long-term protection against Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) that is transmitted through mosqui-toes and causes fever and joint pain that can some-times become severe and disabling.Outbreaks of the virus have already occurred in Asia, Africa and Europe, and, in late 2013, the virus was first seen in the Americas with the number of cases dramat-ically increased.No vaccine to prevent or treat this virus currently exists, the study pointed out.“The vaccination regimen we tested in this study provid-ed stable, persistent responses against a virus with

rapidly increasing global incidence.

Agency | Frankfurt

Tata Steel, which has announced it is putting its troubled British business up for sale, is in talks over the possible purchase of parts or all of ThyssenK-rupp’s European steel operations, a German news-paper reported on Friday. The speculation of a tie-up with Tata Steel appeared to appeal to investors with ThyssenKrupp shares the biggest gainers on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Friday, shooting up more than 6% in a generally softer market. The regional daily Rheinische Post quoted German gov-ernment sources as saying that talks were already at an advanced stage and that a number of different options were being considered. The favourite option is not a straightforward purchase, but a joint venture with the possibility of increasing Tata Steel’s stake

later on, the newspaper said.

Agency | New Delhi

Technology giant Microsoft has unveiled new free development tools for its developers including those in India to help them easily build apps and reach the largest possible number of customers.On the second day of its annual developers’ conference ‘Build 2016’ here, Microsoft announced the new free development tools which include new cloud services, developer tools and productivity exten-sions, to help every developer more easily scale their apps for every platform and reach the largest possible number of customers. ”Microsoft is the only cloud vendor that supports the diverse needs of every organisation and developer from core infra-structure services to platform services and tools to software-as-a-service for any language, across any platform,” Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise Group Scott Guthrie said. India’s developer community of over a mil-lion is among the largest in the world for Micro-soft. ”With 30 regions worldwide, more than every major cloud provider combined, Azure’s massive scale means developers and businesses alike can focus on creating the next generation of amazing applications, not their underlying cloud infrastruc-ture. This makes our cloud the de facto choice for enterprises of today and tomorrow,” Guthrie said.

World T20: India v/s West Indies - heartbreak at Wankhede

Boxer Shiva Thapa makes Rio Olympics 2016 cut World T20: Bangladeshi cricketer

Mushifiqur apologies for trolling India

WT20: England back at Eden, where a reverse sweep cost them the ‘87 WC

Miami Open: Former champions Azarenka and Kuznetsova to clash in final

Why was Ravichadran Ashwin’s services not utilised by MS Dhoni?

Agency | Mumbai

West Indies match-win-ner Lendl Simmons said he felt jittery going into Thursday’s World Twen-ty20 semi-final against India at the Wankhede Stadium. The 31-year-old was only called into the squad on Tuesday as a replacement for injured all-rounder Andre Fletch-er. “When I went out to bat I had a clear mind what I wanted to do be-cause we had a plan,” Simmons told reporters after his hard-hitting 82 not out helped West Indies reach their target of 193 with two balls to spare. “Before the game I was a bit nervous ... I felt a bit of pressure on myself but it was good we had a target to chase.” West Indies had batted second in all their previous four matches in the tournament, losing just one game against rank out-

Agency | New Delhi

On Thursday, by beating Kazakhstan’ Kairat Yer-aliev to reach the ban-tamweight finals of the Asia and Oceania Olym-pic qualifiers, Shiva Tha-pa became the first Indi-an boxer to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Standing in his corner, a tired Gurbax Singh Sand-hu says he breathed a huge sigh of relief. On Wednes-day night, in his room in Quianán, China, Sandhu, coach of the Indian box-ing team had slept fitfully. “I was walking back and forth and simply couldn’t relax and lie down,” said Sandhu. What was bother-ing Sandhu was his team’s results thus far at the Asia and Oceania Olym-pic qualifiers. India had sent a thirteen member

Agency | Kolkata

That reverse sweep is part of the Eden Gardens folk-lore. Allan Border will never forget that, and cer-tainly not Mike Gatting. Batting has improved by leaps and bounds now, and thanks to Twenty20 cricket, the reverse sweep isn’t a big deal now. But 29 years ago, it was. So it might pass as mere co-incidence that England re-sorted to the same shot to blaze into the World T20 final that is to be held at a venue where it had shot down their chances of winning the World Cup.Few batsmen dared to re-verse sweep back in 1987. Cut from a different cloth though, Gatting dared to first sweep past India in the semi-final before his belligerence got the bet-

Agency | New Delhi

Bangladesh wicketkeep-er-batsman Mushfiqur Ra-him has issued an apology for taking swipe at India after their seven-wick-et defeat at the hands of West Indies in the World T20 semifinal clash at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. After the hosts were knocked out of the T20 format’s pin-nacle event, Rahim post-ed a picture of skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni speaking during the post match press conference on his Twitter page and wrote, ‘Happiness is

Agency | Miami

Two-time Grand Slam champions Victoria Azarenka and Svetla-na Kuznetsova reached the women’s final with straight-set triumphs at the ATP and WTA Mi-ami Open. When Serena Williams made an early exit, the next generation of women’s tennis wasn’t quite ready to fill the void. Instead it will be former champions Kuznetsova and Azarenka in the fi-nal Saturday. Eight-time champion Williams was beaten by Kuznetsova in the fourth round, and then the Russian just kept win-ning. In the semi-finals Thursday, she erased 12 of the 14 break points she faced in a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Timea Bacsinszky. Kuznetsova, 30, is back in the final 10 years after she won the tournament. “It means I’ve been a lot of times out here in front of you guys,” she told

Agency | Mumbai

This should be termed as the rarest of rare instance when Indian skipper Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni un-derused Ravichandran Ashwin’s services in the crucial semi-final clash against West Indies in the ongoing T20 World Cup. No matter what happens, or how many runs Ash-win leaks, MS Dhoni has always looked upon him in crunch situations to get the team out of dan-ger. But this time around he wasn’t able to produce the results expected from him, thanks to a rare no ball from Ashwin that turned the game around, which gave Lendl Sim-mons a second chance to

siders Afghanistan. India went into the game bank-ing on their wily spinners to keep the explosive West Indian batsmen quiet but the evening dew wrecked their plans.Ravichan-dran Ashwin bowled just two overs, giving away 20 runs, while left-armer Ravindra Jadeja conced-ed 48 in his four overs.“It was a bad toss to lose,” said Dhoni. “There was a considerable amount of dew which meant the spin-ners couldn’t bowl how they would have liked. “It

was coming on nicely and the ball was getting wet so that was the difference between the first and sec-ond innings.”Dhoni has often used Suresh Raina’s part-time off-spin to get through the middle overs but the conditions on Thursday meant he could not turn to him this time.Earlier, West Indian Sam-uel Badree, the world’s top-ranked T20 bowler, kept the home batsmen quiet with his accurate leg-spin as he claimed one for 26 in four overs.

wreak havoc on Wank-hede pitch. He wasn’t brought back to the at-tack after getting struck for a six by ‘lucky’ Sim-mons post the no-ball. At the end of the match Ashwin’s bowling fig-ures read 20 for 0 in 2 overs. Yes, he was ex-pensive but that includes a free hit, also keeping in mind the dew factor. He almost removed the dan-

ger man Simmons who edged one to short third man, only to be caught by the diving fielder Jas-prit Bumrah. That no ball proved lethal as Sim-mons went onto become the Player of the match for his quick fire and ex-tremely lucky innings of 82 in 51 balls. In spite of the no-ball drama Ash-win could have got them a wicket once again.

this’.!!! ha ha ha..!!!! In-dia lost in the semifinal.’ The 27-year-old, howev-er, soon deleted the tweet and apologised to the na-tion after his comments sparked outburst among the fans. ‘Sorry to all of you guys...as I am a big West Indies supporter but

anyway sorry again for some harsh words...!!!!,’ he tweeted.With the win, 2012 champions West Indies have set up a sum-mit clash against 2010 champions England to be played at the Eden Gar-dens in Kolkata on Sun-day.

While Shiva Thapa was the top seed in the bantamweight (56kg) division his outsized

confidence wasn’t entirely justified.

squad to the tournament. As of Thursday morning, only three had the chance to book a place for Rio. “Frankly the results we had got so far had been disappointing. Boxing in India has been facing a lot of problems with the lack of a federation but at the same time, how would I be able to explain that we had gone with a 13-mem-ber squad and hadn’t had

a single member qualify-ing for the Olympics so far,” said Sandhu. “Vi-kas Krishan lost a very one sided bout in his first match. Mandeep Jangra, from whom we had a lot of hopes too lost early. Yesterday Sarita lost a very close decision. So we were wondering what we could do to finally get some good news,” Sandhu adds.

ter of him in the summit clash. Chasing 253, En-gland were cruising at 135/2 after 31 overs when Aussie skipper Border de-cided to bowl his left-arm spin in front of a packed Eden Gardens. His first ball was going down leg, prompting Gatting to at-tempt a reverse sweep. But he only got a top edge that ballooned to be caught by wicket-keeper Greg Dyer. With that evaporated En-

gland’s hopes of winning the World Cup, in their sec-ond final. In three decades, the reverse sweep has been mastered, improvised and infused with more power courtesy the thick blades being used these days. And England have shown that the shot is now ingrained in their T20 repertoire, as displayed by Jason Roy, Jos Buttler and then Joe Root in the semi-final against New Zealand.

the crowd with a laugh. Kuznetsova hadn’t en-joyed much success at Key Biscayne in recent years, but she won four consecu-tive three-setters to reach the semifinals. At No. 19, she is the lowest-ranked women’s finalist in the event since No. 38 Kim Clijsters earned the 2005 championship. “I’m hap-py I could hang in there,” Kuznetsova said. “I ha-ven’t been feeling my best, but I’ve been fight-ing with every ball and trying to run as much as I could.” Azarenka ad-

vanced by beating No. 2-seeded Angelique Ker-ber, 6-2, 7-5. Azarenka, who won the tournament in 2009 and 2011, has yet to drop a set in this year’s tourney and is bidding to become only the third woman to win Indian Wells and Key Biscayne in the same year. Against Kerber, Azarenka broke serve seven times, hit 29 winners and committed only 16 unforced errors. “I stayed very strong in the end,” Azarenka said. “She’s such an amazing player.

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