News BriefMedium sugar

gains on sustained demand

Agency | Mumbai

Medium sugar gained further at the Vashi wholesale market here today due to sustained demand from stockists and retailers. Howev-er, small sugar ended mixed owing to alter-nate bouts of buying and selling. Medium sugar (M-30) moved up by Rs 6 per quintal to Rs 2,546/2,682 from Monday’s level of Rs 2,540/2,682. Small sug-ar (S-30) was quoted at Rs 2,446/2,592.

Nana Patekar’s temper is justified:

John Abraham

Books at throwaway prices at Delhi Book

Fair

Agency | Mumbai

Nana Patekar is known for his short temper but his “Welcome Back” co-star John Abra-ham says he would not blame the senior actor for getting angry as he is an honest person. “I believe he (Nana) is the most honest person in the industry... He is the most transparent man. I would not blame him for getting angry as he shows his anger when someone does wrong. So, I don’t blame him. He is a fantastic human being,” John.

Agency | New Delhi

Visit the Delhi Book Fair and you may get books as cheap as Rs 20. The second-hand books are a hit at the annual fair here, giving competition to the tradi-tional Sunday market at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj which is famous for books at cheap rates.

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govt expects minimal impact“Strike over labour reforms”

Essential services like banking and public transport may be impacted tomorrow with ten central trade unions going ahead with their one-day nationwide strike, even as the government appealed to them for calling off the agitation

Bharat Bandh call by ten unions today

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Agency | New Delhi

Essential services like banking and public trans-port may be impacted to-morrow with ten central trade unions going ahead with their one-day na-tionwide strike, even as the government appealed to them for calling off the agitation, which BJP-backed BMS and NFITU decided to boycott. While these ten unions claim to have a combined mem-bership of 15 crore work-ers in public and private sector, including banks and insurance companies, several outfits represent-ing informal sector work-ers also today announced their support to the strike. Labour Minister Banda-ru Dattatreya, however, said he expects the im-pact to be minimal. “I don’t think essential ser-vices will be affected by the strike. I feel that the impact will not be much. I appeal them to call off strike in the interest of workers and nation,” Dattatreya told reporters here. The union leaders, however, said the strike will affect the functioning

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Hardik Patel’s allegation that caste reservation in admissions to medical colleges in Gujarat deals a grave blow to the pros-pects of aspiring doctors from his Patel commu-nity, does not seem to hold up to a scrutiny of data. The 22-year-old has alleged in hard-hit-ting speeches that those on quota lists with even 45 per cent marks in en-trance tests have made it to medical colleges, de-priving many Patel can-didates with much high-er marks of a place. But statistics suggest that the Patels have done well. Out of the 4,200 seats in medicine, dental surgery and nursing courses this year, over a 1000 went to

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

From sending money over internet to filing in-come tax return or shop-ping on e-commerce website during the fes-tive season, people had a tough time in assessing utility services across the state as internet on mo-bile phones and dongles continued to remain shut. Operations of industrial units as well as corporate houses, e-commerce, cab services, banks and ho-tels among others were hampered. Corporate companies faced diffi-culties in business deal-ings, foreign and domes-tic transactions, payment and sending dispatch orders. The e-commerce websites, app-based cab services, net banking ser-vices saw drop of more than 90% in transactions

Hardik vs Statistics on Admissions in Gujarat Medical Colleges

Mobile internet shut down cripples industry in Gujarat

Patel candidates, shows data from Gujarat’s Ad-mission Committee for Professional Medical Ed-ucational Courses (ACP-MEC). Also, the differ-ence between the cut-off marks for students in reserved categories and those from the general category, which includes the Patels, has been no more than about 6% in the last three years. So this year, while aspirants

from the general category had to score 95 per cent to get admission to a medical college, those from Other Backward Castes (OBC), who get the benefit of res-ervation, had to score 91 per cent and those from the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, 89 per cent. The pattern was much the same in the last two years, with the cut-offs never go-ing below the 84 per cent for any student.

and bookings. “During past few days, many of our customers in import-ant cities of Gujarat have not been able to shop us-ing our app based festival offers due to unavailabil-ity of internet,” said Gir-ish Huria, Head of Com-munications, eBay India. The losses ran into sever-

al thousand crores across various sectors as indus-tries looked for alternate options to continue their daily businesses. “I had to shift to our Mumbai of-fice for a couple of days to ensure the transactions were smooth. The author-ities should allow mobile internet services to be

functional on at least cor-porate telecom accounts as business has come to a standstill due to the suspended internet ser-vices,” Piruz Khambatta, chairman, CII National Committee on Food Pro-cessing. According the officials of the Depart-ment of Telecommuni-cations (DOT), telecom companies, which also provide internet services, also incurred losses to the tune of Rs 30 crore till August 31. Commu-nication through internet is the crux of business nowadays and this has hampered business trans-actions adversely. We are cut-off from international market completely,” said Bipin Patel, senior vice president, Gujarat Cham-ber of Commerce and In-dustry (GCCI).

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Banks across the state suffered losses of over Rs 7000 crore as mobile internet and sms shut down hugely impacted services such as net and mobile banking. Peo-ple were left helpless as transactions through internet could not be done as banks send one-time password on mo-bile numbers but sms services were also shut. According to industry

experts, around 30% of transactions in the banks in Gujarat takes place through internet and mo-bile banking. “On an av-erage, every day trans-actions worth Rs 5,000 crore take place in banks across the state. Due to the net shutdown banks suffered losses of more than Rs 7,000 crore in six days,” said K V Bar-ot, general secretary, Maha Gujarat Bank Employees Association (MGBEA). Since SMS

service was also shut, people were unable to get One-Time Password (OTP) on their mobile phones, several banks offered alternate options to customers. Deepak Sharma, executive VP, Digital Initiatives, Ko-tak Mahindra Bank said, “Gujarat accounts for around 13% of our net & mobile banking trans-actions. We proactively informed our customers to use Voice OTP as an alternative.”

Mobile internet shut down: Over Rs 7000 crore losses to banks in Gujarat

94 employees of Gujarat HC issued show cause notices, face terminationSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In a significant develop-ment, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued show cause notices to 94 of its employees recruit-ed in July this year ask-ing them to explain why their services should not be terminated. The no-tices state that the ap-pointments were made “without using public advertisement” and “no selection procedure was undertaken.” The affect-ed employees have been given 11 days time to respond back to the ad-ministration of the court, failing which the ad-ministration would take

“appropriate decision”. These employees were hired during the time of Acting Chief Justice V M Sahai, who retired last month, provoking sev-eral questions in his last days in office during a hearing on a public in-terest litigation (PIL) related to land allotment of 27 sitting and retired judges of the high court. The current Acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel was also among the 27 judg-es who served notice on the basis of this PIL. Ad-vocate General Kamal Trivedi in open court had then mentioned about the alleged irregularities

in the manner in which recruitment for class-III and class-IV categories took place. This had led to heated arguments be-tween the bar and the bench. Justice (retired) Sahai had also remarked that there are several oth-ers scams, but he didn’t want to open up a “Pan-dora’s box”. One of the notices, a copy of which is with this paper, signed by Registrar General B N Karia states, that the show cause notice has been issued following the directions of a spe-cially constituted com-mittee comprising five judges.

of essential services like banking, transport and supply of power, gas and oil. Countering this claim, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) said that power, oil and gas supplies will not be affected as a large number of public sector workers in these areas would not participate in the industrial action. As

many as 12 central trade unions had given this strike call over a 12-points charter of demands, in-cluding withdrawal of the proposed changes in the labour laws and stopping the disinvestment and pri-vatisation of PSUs. While as many as ten central unions have decided to go ahead with the strike after

their talks with a group of senior ministers last week failed to yield desired re-sults, the BMS pulled out saying the government needed to be given time to fulfill its promises on the basic demands. The National Front of Indian Trade Unions (NFITU) will also stay out. The government also indicat-

ed that the talks with trade unions will continue even if they go on the strike tomorrow. On impact of the strike, Dattatreya said,

“The BMS and NFITU are not in the strike. Be-sides there are 2-4 organ-isations (unions) which are neutral.” He did not

reveal the names of the ‘neutral’ trade unions. He further said, “We don’t want any confrontation with trade unions.

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Editors’ Picks

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYThe good word ‘development’It is hard to deny the importance of something that goes by the name “development”. But we are begin-ning to resort to “development” as a rhetorical nar-cotic: An all-purpose solution to all problems. Lack of development is a diagnosis that can explain every problem, from agitating Patels to rampaging males. And the coming of development will solve most problems. The prime minister sees development as a solution to problems; intellectuals will generally point to failure of development as a root cause for nearly everything. Development has become the theodicy of contemporary politics. Development and the things associated with it — overcoming pov-erty, jobs, education, infrastructure — are undeni-ably important. They are forces for social churning. And we feel safer with a politics focused on these, rather than bloodlusts of identity politics. But our re-sort to development as a catch-all hope has become a symptom of our lack of imagination, our refusal to see the inner conflicts that development itself generates. Two kinds of conflicts regarding devel-opment are well recognised. First, there are conflicts over how the process of development is imagined, and we still cannot seem to get adequate consensus on where we want to head. Second, that develop-ment has victims: For all its potential as a liberator, the process can impose horrendous costs on some groups and individuals. But more subtle tensions, in-ternal to our imagination of development, also need to be recognised. If one were forced to define the morals of contemporary India in a phrase, then “hy-per-instrumentalism” is as good a candidate as any. Any activity that produces material advancement is good, untethered to any sense of piety. For a soci-ety that was rigid and ritual-oriented, a prisoner of form and absolutism, this instrumental attitude can itself have overtones of rebellion, elevated to a new cultural form. Ekta Kapoor’s serials or their real-life correlate saga of the Mukerjeas, with their ultimate instrumentalisation of that last bastion of piety, the family, are more acute sociological barometers of hy-per-instrumentalism than most sociology tomes. But we should also remind ourselves of the joke about pragmatism — that it does not work in practice. For this hyper-instrumentalism has also corroded all the fixed points. Institutions and norms have also be-come transactional. The economist’s language of incentives has not just narrowed our understanding of human motivation; its institutionalisation as a common sense of development discourse can often corrode other forms of intrinsic motivations our so-ciety needs.

“The GDP under the Government of India is falling. Sensex has fallen. I think he is definitely disturbed otherwise why should a Prime Minister speak like ‘Nitish cheating Bihar’,” - Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was

quick to respond by saying that the prime minister is disturbed...

Agency | Mumbai

With Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab, Kareena Kapoor will revisit the dark zone, a space that saw her deliv-ering some of her career’s best roles be it Omkara, Chameli or Talaash. The multi-starrer, where Ka-reena is paired opposite Punjabi heartthrob Diljit Dosanjh, looks closely at the drug problems in the state’s youth. Kare-ena, 34, will be playing the role of a doctor in the movie, which also stars Shahid Kapoor and Alia

Bhatt. “It is very gritty, very real and the whole space is very dark. It is very exciting. I have done this kind of mov-ies and getting back to that atmosphere is great. Udta Punjab’s world is totally different,” Kare-ena. In her other upcom-ing film, R Balki’s Ki and Ka, the actress will romance her longtime friend Arjun Kapoor and she said she is having a great time shooting with the 2 States star, who is a self-confessed fan of Kareena.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Ranveer Singh, who suffered an inju-

ry due to a fall from a horse while shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood’s chocolate boy Shahid Kapoor, is currently chock-o-block with his busy schedules for his back-to-back up-coming films. The ‘Haid-er’ actor who has geared up with the promotions of his upcoming film ‘Shaan-daar’ opposite Alia Bhatt, will be seen in Vikramad-itya Motwane’s next. Ac-cording to the latest buzz, Shahid’s next upcoming project is titled as ‘AK Vs SK’. Also earlier, we had reported that its Mot-wane’s next first and not Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Ran-goon’ for the actor. Ap-parently, ‘AK’ and ‘SK’ are the initials of the male and female leads of the film. Assuming that one of the initials would be of Shahid’s character in the film. Reportedly, the female lead of the film is yet to be finalized. The story of the film re-volves around a boy and girl who are adversaries. No confirmation regard-ing who are AK and SK

Agency | Mumbai

Over the past few weeks, rumour mills have been buzzing overtime with the news that the stork has visited Rani Muker-ji, who tied the knot with filmmaker Aditya Chopra on April 21, 2014, in an extremely private cere-mony in Italy. Rani, who has always been guard-ed about her personal life, refused to comment on the pregnancy. How-ever, Mirror has learnt that the actress is in her second trimester and the baby is due in January. Rani’s sister-in-law, Jyo-ti Mukerji, a popular TV actress, accidentally con-firmed the news saying, “Yes, Rani is pregnant.” A source close to the ac-tress revealed that she

Agency | Mumbai

Despite ban in Pakistan, Kabir Khan’s directorial Phantom, starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif seems to be doing well at the domestic box-office, as it has cashed-in Rs 33.18 crores in its opening weekend. According to sources, the action thrill-er, which was released on August 28, collected merely Rs 8.46 crores on its opening day, how-ever, the collections rose up on the very next day on account of the Raksha Bandhan and grossed Rs

Baahubali Star Anushka Shetty Returns in October’s Rudhramadevi

Hrithik Roshan, Sonam Kapoor Star in Honey Singh’s Version of 1990 Hit Dheere Dheere

After slow start, ‘Phantom’ collects 33 crore in its opening weekend

Kareena Kapoor: Glad to Revisit Gritty Genre With Udta Punjab

Agency | New Delhi

Telugu historical dra-ma Rudhramadevi will be released on Octo-ber 9 globally by Re-liance Entertainment and Abhishek Pictures. The Gunasekhar-direct-ed film, produced by Abhishek Nama, will

also be released in Hin-di, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. The film is a based on a third centu-ry queen of the Kakatiya dynasty. Anushka Shet-ty plays the protagonist. Besides Anushka, Rudh-ramadevi also co-stars Allu Arjun, Rana Dag-

gubati, Vikramjeet Virk, Prakash Raj, Krishnam Raju, Nithya Menon, Baba Sehgal and Cather-ine Tresa. Its soundtrack and background score have been composed by Ilaiyaraaja, while the costumes have been de-signed by Neeta Lulla.

Agency | Mumbai

After a romantic com-mercial together for Oppo, Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor are back with the reprise

version of Aashiqui’s fa-mous “Dheere Dheere Se” number. The music video was unveiled on Hot Star on Tuesday and both Sonam and Hrithik

Is It AK Vs SK Next For Shahid?

Good News! Rani Mukerji to turn mom in Jan 2016

Ranveer Singh Was ‘Treated Like an Athlete’ After Falling Off Horse

is made yet, but one of them is definitely the initial of Shahid’s char-acter. Apart from this, Shahid will be seen in Abhishek Choubey’s ‘Udta Punjab’ starring

Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor Khan. Recently, filmmaker Milan Luthria who is known for giving a new look to the char-acters of his film, had roped in Shahid Kapoor.

look sizzling together. From their screen pres-ence to their chemistry, the two actors seem to make a perfect match for screen. While the video tells a story and doesn’t have the stars dancing or grooving to the beats, ex-cept for once scene where Hrithik breaks into an impromptu jig, we hear that Duggu turned a tan-go teacher for Sonam on the sets. Now the world knows that Hrithik is an amazing dancer. From hip hop to contempo-rary, this man has shown all his moves in different variations of dance. On the sets too, Hrithik de-cided to teach Sonam to do the Tango.

12.78 crores on Saturday and Rs 11.94 crores on Sunday. After releasing on 2600 screens, the film has also performed well at the overseas box of-fice with an approximate

collection of Rs 6.62 crores in just two days. Produced by Sajid Na-diadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur, the film is an adaptation of the novel Mumbai Avengers.

is presently travelling with Aditya and is out of the country. The cou-ple took off to London at the end of July and Rani was spotted by a fan at a spa getting a pre-natal

massage. “They returned to India last week after travelling in the UK for over a month but have taken off again, no one knows where,” added the source.

Bajirao Mastani, is now back at work. Ranveer plays the role of Peshwa general Bajirao I in the film. In May, Ranveer’s injury had forced the ac-tor to rest for nearly two months, read a statement. Determined to make a full recovery, Ranveer focused on healing and physiotherapy extensive-ly. Earlier, the movement of his shoulder after sur-gery was restricted, and physiotherapists worked on increasing the range of his shoulder’s move-ments.

Serena Williams

begins US Open

campaign with a 6-0,

2-0 win after her opponent

Vitalia Diatchenko retired

due to injury

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

India clinch third Test to win series in Sri Lanka after 22 years

China, euro zone weaken despite world awash with cash

Xiaomi Mi 4c specifications, launch date leaked

Law firm targets Google foes for private damages claims

Agency | New Delhi

China’s giant manufacturing industry contracted while British and euro zone growth eased in Au-gust, rattling markets and reinforcing expectations interest rates may fall again or stay near zero for longer. Manufacturers across the world struggled, a series of surveys showed on Tuesday. It came as the People’s Bank of China loosened policy for the second time in two months last week and amid 60 billion euros a month of European Central Bank stimulus. World stocks and commodity prices fell as the poor Chinese data intensified already ram-pant fears about its economic health. [MKTS/GLOB]

Agency | New Delhi

While all eyes are on Xiaomi to launch its next flag-ship smartphone Mi 5, the company has been less than clear about its launch plan. The latest word on the grapevine is that the Chinese manufacturer will launch another variant of Mi 4 in the meanwhile to keep its lineup fresh. The upcoming model, named Mi 4c, will be announced on September 24 and hit the market on October 3, according to a report by technology website Xiaomi Today. Moreover, Xiaomi will reportedly plans to sell only 1,00,000 units of the smartphone, priced at 1,299 yuan (ap-prox $204). Additionally, Weibo user JetaimeTech, (via GizmoChina) has posted an image of the Xiaomi Mi 4c retail box that reveals a few more features of the upcoming smartphone. The hand-set will reportedly have a 5-inch Full HD screen, 1.8GHz hexa-core Snapdragon 808 chipset, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, and 3,080mAh battery.

Agency | New York

U.S. law firm and class action specialist Hausfeld launched a platform on Tuesday to help pursue claims against Google, posing a potential head-ache for the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine amid its regulatory troubles in Europe. Hausfeld has coordinated various high-profile class action cases, including for companies affected by an air cargo pricing cartel, investors impacted by curren-cy-rigging by banks and firms fighting fees levied by MasterCard and Visa Europe. The law firm said the Google Redress & Integrity Platform (GRIP) is aimed at those affected by alleged anti-competi-tive behavior by Google in Europe. It said the plat-form would build on the European Commission’s April charge sheet, which accuses Google of un-fairly promoting its own shopping service to the disadvantage of rivals. “GRIP offers corporations, consumers and other entities harmed by Google’s anti-competitive business practices in Europe a mechanism to evaluate their potential claims,” Michael Hausfeld, chairman of Hausfeld, said in a statement. Google, which has criticized the EU accusations as unfounded and incorrect, declined to comment on GRIP.Public affairs consultancy Avisa Partners, which is helping French Internet search firm 1plusV in its EU complaint against Google, will jointly manage the platform.

Mumbai win Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy

Won’t shy away from playing my shots: Rohit

Agency | Colombo

India clinched their first Test series victory in Sri Lanka in 22 years after cashing in on debutant Kusal Perera’s rush of blood to turn a match that was hanging in the balance in their favour, pulling off a fighting 117–run victory in the deciding final Test on Tuesday. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin’s perseverance paid off when Perera (70), en-gaged in a brilliant fight-back with skipper Ange-lo Mathews, needlessly reverse-swept to give a

catch to Rohit Sharma at point. The dismissal end-ed a 135-run sixth-wick-et partnership that had not only raised hopes of Sri Lanka salvaging a draw but even pulling off an improbable victory on the final day. India’s only previous series win in Sri Lanka had come in 1993, when they won 1-0. It was India’s first away series triumph since Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni’s team defeated West In-dies 1-0 in 2011. It was Sri Lanka’s second suc-cessive home series de-feat in a row, having lost

1-2 to Pakistan. Mathews (110) scored his seventh Test century, and sec-ond of the series, to lead Sri Lanka’s fightback in one of their strongholds after another top-order collapse. However, the big setback close to tea left India eyeing victo-ry. Ishant Sharma, In-dia’s standout bowler, trapped Mathews leg before with the third de-livery after tea with the second new ball as the visitors were left to take the tail-enders to seal the triumph, which they did six overs after tea.

Agency | New York

Even before Serena Williams set foot in Ar-thur Ashe Stadium on Monday night, her path through the U.S. Open to complete a true Grand Slam became a lot easier thanks to losses by other top women. And when it was the No. 1-seeded American’s turn to play her first-round match, she was not tested one bit by a woman who appeared overwhelmed by the opponent, the occasion and, to make matters worse, an injured left foot. So Williams moved a step closer to tennis’ first cal-endar-year Grand Slam since 1988 without much of a workout, reaching the second round when 86th-ranked Vitalia Diatchenko of Rus-sia stopped play-ing while behind 6-0, 2-0. Wil-liams was out there for only 27 minutes and took 32 of the 37 points

Skipper Morgan glad to justify Fraser’s faith after Australia win

US Open 2015: In 27 minutes, Serena Williams moves into second round

Agency | Colombo

Even as his crucial half-century helped his team set a 386-run tar-get, it also made him India’s second-highest run scorer with 202 runs. “One more job and we are through,” was how Rohit Sharma described what India needs to do on the final day of the Test as it finds itself on the verge of a historic series win. “Batting on

the fifth day and having a target of 380-plus is never easy for any oppo-sition,” he said. “I guess we will just have to come out tomorrow and have to do what we did at P Sara.”Even as his crucial half-century helped his team set a 386-run target, it also made him India’s second-highest run scor-er with 202 runs. Kohli is top with 288 runs. Asked if media criticism has any effect on him, he re-

plied in the negative. “As long as I am enjoying my cricket nothing can stop me.You cannot score a hundred everytime. Any sort of contribution that can help your team is more than enough for me.” He has often giv-en the impression of one who throws his wicket away. When asked if he was guilty of that again, trying a pull in the last over before lunch, he didn’t agree.

Agency | Cardiff

England Twenty20 captain Eoin Morgan thanked his county boss Angus Fraser after mark-ing his return to crick-et with a fine 74 in his side’s five-run win over Australia in Cardiff on Monday. Morgan had been struggling for runs at domestic level earlier in the season, averaging 26 in Twenty20, 10.16 in first-class cricket and just 6.66 in the 50-over cup. He came into the county season having had a busy period where he led England in their woeful 50-over World Cup campaign in Aus-tralia and New Zealand before heading to the

Agency | Mumbai

Opener Akhil Herwadkar and captain Aditya Tare shone with the bat as Mumbai beat TNCA Dis-tricts XI by six wickets and clinched the Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy in the All India invita-tion cricket tournament

here today. Herwadkar (108) and Tare (53) add-ed 98 runs to help Mum-bai score 166 for four in 45.2 overs against TNCA Districts, who made 163 all out in 74 overs yes-terday in the annual tournament conducted as a season’s opener by the Tamil Nadu Cricket

that were played. “It was definitely different and bizarre,” Williams said. “But at the same time, I was still focused. I kept thinking: Just stay focused; don’t lose it. You never know

what can happen.” The 33-year-old American told the crowd she appre-ciates the support she is receiving “on this jour-ney and this milestone that I’m trying to take one match at a time.” Diatchenko, who wore a walking boot to her news conference, said she hurt herself running sprints before the match and that she felt “sharp pain” chasing a backhand during a point. When she was drawn to face Williams, Diatchenko was happy to finally get a chance to meet a

p l a y e r she grew up admir-

ing, but the experience turned out to be “terri-ble.” “So painful, ev-ery step,” Diatchenko said.

Twenty20 Indian Pre-mier League. It led him to ask Fraser, his boss at Middlesex and also an England selector, if he could take some time off from playing for the Lord’s-based county in a bid to get himself in the

right frame of mind for England duty. The result was Monday’s innings and a stand of 135 in just 75 balls with fellow left-hander Moeen Ali (72 not out) that was the centrepiece of England’s 182 for five.

Association. Resuming at the overnight score of 40 without loss in 20 overs, Herwadkar and Tare held on gamely for 14.3 overs this morning making another 58 runs between them before off-spinner Sakthi clean bowled the former for 46. Mumbai were one for 98 in 34.3 overs and soon in three overs later, Tare too was out caught at point by Talaivar Sar-gunam of medium pacer Abhishek Tanwar for 53 (110b, 7x4). Abhishek Nayar (12) did not stay longer as he stepped out to Sakthi for a big hit but ended up landing a straightforward catch at long off to Anand Subra-manian.

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Correspondent | Junagadh

Bhikhabhai Papat, 55, a resident of Mangrol in Ju-nagadh district, has sown groundnut this year, but plans to also sow wheat on his five-acre field this winter too. Papat earlier grew only one crop a year, but for the past two years has been harvesting two. This was possible because of the well sealing project he took up on in his field. “Rainwater earlier flowed out on to the street, but with the help of the Coast-al Salinity Prevention Cell and Agakhan Foundation, I constructed a small 1.5 foot boundary wall along the field in such a way that the water gets channelized into the well,” says Papat. To ensure that rainwater doesn’t mix with brackish water, Papat has sealed the bottom of his 70-foot well with cement concrete and also lined the well. Rainwater in the field is collected in the well and is used to water the khar-if groundnut crop. In Oc-tober, when the water is

exhausted, farmers use the brackish groundwater for sowing wheat. “Wheat is grown with the brackish water,” says Papat. Gov-indbhai Lakhabhai, 60, says because of the water harvesting, he has been able to take two crops annually for the last two years and this increased his income. “I borrowed money from the local moneylenders, but have already repaid the loan.” He says that because of the sealing the bottom, the stored water doesn’t seep into the ground from the well. “The ground water here is very brackish and if the rain water is allowed to seep in, it also be-comes saline.” Lakhabhai doesn’t reveal his total in-come but says that he has bought two heads of cat-tle, worth Rs 50,000, also from the additional in-come. Ramesh Makwana, the programme coordina-tor at the Gadu office says: “The trust has financed 50 such wells in nine villages along the coast.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar agitation, on Monday announced a campaign to gather “27 crore signatures” from the Gujjars and the Kur-mis on a plea that would be submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press the demand for quota. The 22-year-old convener of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti announced the campaign after returning from New Delhi, where on Sunday he laid out a nation-wide plan for the Patidar ag-itation and addressed a gathering of Kurmis

and Gujjars, calling for a united front. Speaking to mediapersons, Hardik claimed support from various community out-fits such as Gujjar Vikas Parishad, Akhil Bharati-ya Kurmi Kshatriya Ma-hasabha, Akhil Bhara-tiya Chaudhary Anjana Samaj, Loh Purush Yuva Sangthan (Gujarat), Yuva Gujjar Manch and Rash-triya Gujjar Manch (Mad-hya Pradesh). “We have got support from them,” he said. He said the Pati-dar agitation would con-tinue to be “operated” from Gujarat. “…people from across the country have supported us and

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The home department officials and the state po-lice had recommended to restore Internet services in Ahmedabad at a meet-ing on Monday night. However, at a meet-ing with Chief Minister Anandiben Patel later, it was decided that the ban should continue. The fi-nal take on the matter will be taken on Wednes-day after reviewing the situation. “Ban on inter-net in Ahmedabad will continue for another day. This is a precautionary measure. On Tuesday we shall review the situ-ation,” said Ahmedabad police commissioner Shivanand Jha. Several people from Ahmedabad

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‘Custodial’ death: Gujarat HC directs CID for ‘fair’ probe, but refuses to monitor it

Gujarat Patel Agitation: Ban on Mobile Internet, WhatsApp Lifted in Ahmedabad?

Patidar agitation: Hardik Patel says 27 crore Gujjar, Kurmi signatures campaign next step to press OBC demand

Anil Group’s different businesses to be brought under flagship listed entity

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Monday directed the CID (crime) for a “fair and transparent”probe into the alleged custodial death of 32-year-old Shwetang Pa-tel, but refused to monitor the investigation. Dispos-ing of the plea filed by the victim’s mother, the court said the case does not need its monitoring unless there was a serious com-plaint, and added that the CID (crime) should probe it in a manner that reposes faith of the public at large in the police department. Following the petition, the single bench of Justice J B Pardiwala ordered a fresh post-mortem by a penal of four doctors. The ear-lier report revealed that

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Rs 1,200 crore plus Ahmedabad-headquar-tered food and agri major, Anil Group has undertak-en a major restructuring initiative to create much greater value creation for the shareholders of the group’s flagship and only listed entity, Anil Lim-ited. This re-structuring will make Anil Ltd. the main holding company and all unlisted and other group companies will be brought under the fold of this main listed company. According to this restruc-turing plan, the corn wet milling business of Anil Limited and the bio-in-dustrial business of Anil Bioplus Limited will be brought into Anil Life-sciences Limited, which

already has the corn wet milling operations of Ch-hindwara, MP under it. Anil Nutrients Ltd, a pro-moter held company will be converted into a 100% subsidiary of Anil Ltd and the feeds business of Anil Ltd will be brought into Anil Nutrients Ltd, which also has an oil seed processing and feed business. Speaking about this re-organisation plan, Amol Sheth, Chairman & MD of the Anil Group said, “The proposed re-alignment will bring synergies between sim-ilar businesses thereby putting them on an ac-celerated growth path. This exercise will also bring value addition for all the related businesses and the stakeholders. We

have consolidated busi-nesses under one roof to build value for the busi-nesses and stakeholders. Through this restructur-ing, we will be able to get more focused leadership and dedicated manage-ment, which will help us in achieving operational and managerial efficien-cy.” Explaining further the strategy behind this restructuring, Sheth said “We will leverage the strength of the R&D and the fermentation tech-nology to get into a wide range of high value added starch products, bio-in-dustrial products, feeds and agri-nutrients. We want to create avenues for each business to stand and grow on its own might.”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad With 10 new cases being registered in August and with the death of a five-year-old boy on Sunday, the city health department is bracing it-self for a fresh onslaught of the deadly H1N1 virus. This season, cases of both swine flu (caused by a strain of the H1N1 virus), and dengue have been ris-ing. In just four months since January, Ahmed-abad city alone saw 2,156 being affected by swine flu; 129 citizens lost their lives to the virus. The swine flu virus spread to 1,500 individuals in February and claimed 73

lives within the Ahmed-abad municipal limits. In March, nearly 600 peo-ple in the city were in-fected and 42 individuals succumbed to the viral disease. “Our aware-ness activities regarding swine flu will begin in the coming days in the city,” says a senior health of-ficial of the AMC. “The weather right now is one of the main reasons for the spike in the swine flu cases.” The swine flu outbreak has exposed the hollowness of the public health system in the state, especially in the matter of preparedness, and mon-itoring of drug stocks.

Shwetang died of shock and subarachnoid hemor-rhage due to head injuries. Justice Pardiwala noted that “the autopsy per-formed makes one thing very clear of course pri-ma facie that the case is of homicidal death”. The court ordered the police to lodge an FIR and transfer the case to CID (crime) for investigation. Public prosecutor Mitesh Amin informed the court that the case has already been

transferred to the CID and it was being investigated by Deputy Superintendent of Police V M Jadeja, who was present in the court. Amin said on Sunday statements of the petition-er and other relatives were recorded. While dispos-ing the petition filed by Shwetang’s mother Pra-bhaben, Justice Pardiwala cautioned the petitioner’s lawyer to ensure that the victim’s family stays away from “undesirable ele-

ments”, who might try to capitalise on the incident. The police had detained Shwetang last Tuesday night following the vio-lence erupted during the Patel reservation stir and he died in custody. His mother Prabhaben, a resi-dent of Matru Shakti So-ciety, India Colony Road, Bapunagar, had moved the court to lodge an FIR against the policemen al-legedly responsible for her son’s death.

mentioned on Twitter that mobile Internet ser-vices had not been re-stored in their areas as yet and they were unable to access Facebook and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the ban has been lifted in Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Botad and Morbi districts. Howev-

er, the authorities are still skeptical about allow-ing access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Youtube and Twitter. These social media and multimedia platforms will remain blocked until 2 Spetm-ber midnight. The deci-sion to resume Internet services in Surat will be

taken after reviewing the situation on 1 September. “Concerned city police commissioners and dis-trict collectors have been asked to review the sit-uation and decide upon social media services,” said chief secretary Gan-ga Ram Aloria. The state authorities had suspend-ed mobile Internet ser-vices and put a ban on WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter after “rumours” started spreading late on Tuesday, 25 August. The state authorities claimed that the rumours fuelled the violence that had erupted in Ahmedabad over the arrest of Hardik Patel, who was released within a few hours.

very soon a rally would be carried out from Luc-know in support of this.” “Till now, we used to have support from within Gu-jarat. Now, people from outside Gujarat will also support us. There are 27 crore Gujjars and Kurmis in the country. There will be signatures on an appli-cation… 27 crore signa-

tures will be given to the Prime Minister,” the Pa-tidar leader said. On the future course of action, Hardik said it would be announced Tuesday after meetings of the Samiti members in various ta-lukas and districts. Surat unit convener of Samiti Alpesh Katheriya said that during a meeting

with Hardik, it was decid-ed to ensure that the ag-itation remains peaceful. “This time we are coming up in a different and well-planned way. We will disclose our future steps after organising press conference in Surat on Tuesday afternoon,” said Katheriya. Meanwhile, over 1,000 women gher-aoed Visnagar police sta-tion in Mehsana district, demanding release of eight persons arrested in connection with the last week’s violence. Claim-ing that police picked up innocents, the women laid a siege to the police station.

Ahmedabad braces for fresh swine flu onslaught

For the first time in Guja-rat’s epidemic history, the state had - on March 18 - registered the maximum number of swine flu cases and deaths in the country. Gujarat had overtaken Rajasthan, with swine flu cases reported from Jan-uary 1 touching 6,226. Rajasthan had 6,209 cas-es in the same period. Gujarat and Rajasthan together account for more than half of all swine flu deaths in the country. When the state govern-ment first released data compiled till mid-March, when the total swine flu cases in Gujarat were 5,800, it was found that 2,646 patients were men while 3,158 were women. More deaths were record-ed among women (197) compared to men (156). It was also found that 10 districts reported over 90% of the infections. Senior citizens were the worst affected with near-ly 50% deaths.

Well sealing boon for state farmers, doubles their incomes

Maharashtra OBC group against reservation for Patels, Marathas

Agency | Mumbai

The Maharashtra Other Backward Class (OBC) Organization has op-posed reservation status to Patel and Maratha communities. Professor Shravan Deore, president of Maharashtra OBC or-ganization recently met BJP MP Dr Subhash Bhamre who is the mem-ber of OBC MP Forum in this regard. The OBC outfit has urged Bhamre to raise the issue of OBC in Parliament. Deore said the Maratha communi-ty in Maharashtra, Jats from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and Patel com-munity from Gujarat are demanding to be includ-ed in the OBC category, when they already be-long to the upper class. “These communities are upper class landlords and rulers as they have been in power since last sev-eral years. Hence, almost

all commissions includ-ing Mandal commission had suggested that these communities should not be given reservation,” Deore said. He added that OBCs have no prob-lem in giving these com-munities reservation in the ‘Kshatriya’ (fighter Class) category sepa-rately without disturbing

the existing OBC quota. He further said that M P Sudarshan Nachiappan committee in 2005 had recommended the Par-liament to break the cap of 50 per cent to reserva-tion. “If the suggestion of this committee is ac-cepted, all ‘Kshatriyas’ can be given reservation as well,” he said.

Professor Shravan Deore, president of Maharashtra OBC organization recent-

ly met BJP MP Dr Subhash Bhamre who is the member of OBC MP Forum

in this regard