In Ahmedabad, This time, the state administration is on the side of the prosperous Dawoodi Bohra community, who are enthusiastic supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A tiff over a road to a Muslim shrine takes on a communal tinge

Nitin Gadkari announces Rs 20,000-crore road projects for North-East

Agency : New DelhiMaking up for the lost ground, the Centre on Saturday said it will start Rs 20,000-crore road projects, besides devel-oping inland waterways, in the North-East by the end of this year to im-prove infrastructure in the region.“By the end of December this year, we will award road projects worth Rs 20,000 crore in the North-East. These will be spread across the region for improving the infrastructure, which will help the economy of the North-East,” Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Ni-tin Jairam Gadkari said at a press conference in Guwahati. The projects will have a long gesta-

tion period and will be implemented by public sector undertakings, be-sides private entities, in the public-private part-nership mode, he add-ed. “Of these, around Rs 6,000-crore projects will be in Arunachal Pradesh while projects worth of Rs 8,000 crore will be developed in Assam. The remaining will be for other parts of the region,” Gadkari said. Currently, Rs 31,025 crore worth of roads running into

over 3,700 km are un-der development, which are being constructed by 10 players through 104 projects. Gadkari, in the same breath, called upon north-eastern states to acquire land and secure necessary environmen-tal clearances before the Ministry of Road Trans-port and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) can go ahead with these proj-ects. He said the central government will encour-age local contractors in the region by awarding smaller sizes of road projects, thus provid-ing employment there. “These measures will ease the bottlenecks in establishing road proj-ects,” he added.

News BriefKKR post 111 for four against RCB

Bangalore, May 2 Put in to bat, Kolkata Knight Riders post 111 for four against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a rain-curtailed In-dian Premier League match here today. Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders: 111 for four in 10 overs (Andre Russell 45, Mitchell Starc 1/15).

Schatorrie says East Bengal not

taking BFC lightlyBangalore, May 2

East Bengal might have not lost to Bengaluru Football Club (BFC) in the previous games, but coach Eelco Schator-rie today said his team would not be taking the Bangalore outfit light-ly as “they are the best side” in the I-League. “Those were games played under a different coach with a different set of players. So to me, only tomorrow’s match is important and not how East Bengal fared previously. We have to give our best in every match,” he told report-ers on the eve of the I-League match against BFC, to be played at Kanteerava Stadium here tomorrow.

Rahane credits mental aspect for

successMumbai, May 2

Ajinkya Rahane to-day credited his mental preparation as the key to his success in Tests, ODIs and the ongoing Indian Premier League, in which he is the lead-ing run-getter till date. “It’s about mental ad-justment as the tech-nique remains the same. I focus on my mental as-pect. It’s important how you assess the ground and wicket conditions and adjust quickly,” the 26-year-old Rah-ane, who is represent-ing Rajasthan Royals in the IPL-8, told report-ers here. Rahane has notched up 339 runs at 48 plus per innings in nine IPL matches so far. In fact, his success in the shortest format has come after his resound-ing show for India in Tests in South Africa, New Zealand, England and Australia.

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadSituated in the Saraspur area of Ahmedabad is the beauti-ful tomb of the 32nd spiri-tual leader of the Dawoodi Bohras, who was executed for heresy in 1648 on the orders of the then gover-nor of Gujarat, Aurang-zeb. The structure is made entirely of white marble, with gilded finials topping its five domes. Just a few feet from it, though, span-ning the road which runs in front of the structure, is a rather ugly brick wall. It is quite apparent that the wall has been constructed recently and in haste, its bare grey bricks and craggy cement fillings providing a jarring contrast to the se-

rene whiteness of the tomb complex. The wall, built on April 17, represents the ful-filment of a five-year-old demand by the Dawoodi Bohras, a prosperous Shia Muslim sub-sect of traders, to take over a road which ran though their property, with religious structures on either side. This move

has, however, inconve-nienced the residents of the area, who resorted to stone pelting to vent their anger last Friday. Sajjad Heera, officer on special duty to the Dawat Property Trust, a body which manages the tomb, said that the location of this road had caused sig-nificant difficulties to the

visiting worshippers. “The area would get flooded since there was no govern-ment maintenance of the drains. Moreover, we have a mosque on one side and the tomb on the other side of the road. The heavy traffic on it was a hindrance to our visitors, who often needed to cross against heavy traf-fic,” explained Heera. As an alternative route to the now blocked road, the property trust has already constructed a new public road along its northern perimeter using its own land. “We have spent

Rs 2.5 crore constructing this new road and laying the drainage. Moreover, the land area we’ve donat-ed for this detour is twice the area we’ve received,” Heera said. The tomb is sit-uated in a low-income area with shanties all around, the main population of which consists of Dalits. The locals here claim that cutting the road off has greatly incon-venienced them. Poonam-bhai, a resident of the area, said that the “new road tri-ples the time that it takes our children to get to school and

it’s also unsafe for women at night since it’s quite de-serted”. “The Vohrajis have unfairly taken over a public road,” Poonambhai com-plained. “They are rich and have bought the road from the administration”. The act is approved by the govern-ment although Sajjad Heera dismisses any suggestion that road was bought. On April 16, Gujarat Chief Minster Anandiben Patel met the current leader of the Bohra sect, Mufaddal Saifuddin and approved the transfer of the road to the community. Within a day, a wall had been construct-ed and the road added as part of the tomb’s property. This comes in the backdrop of increasingly close ties between the ruling Bhara-tiya Janata Party and the Dawoodi Bohra commu-nity, after Narendra Mo-di’s victory in the General Elections of May 2014. The

Bharatiya Janata Party has reciprocated these feelers. In January 2015, Modi tweet-ed a picture of him meeting Saifuddin. Later on, in April 2015, the Modi government even made moves to award the Padma Shri to the pre-vious leader of the com-munity, who had passed away recently. The Bohra community, however, de-clined to accept the award. This rapprochement comes after the 2002 Gujarat po-grom, where Bohra busi-nesses were badly affected and distrust of the Bharatiya Janata Party was high. The then Dai, however, started to work towards a change of attitude. Reasons for this move include pragma-tism on the part of a largely business community which cannot afford to antagonise any government as well as a genuine belief that Modi’s pro-business policies will help the mercantile Bohras.

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Heat wave in Gujarat, scorching weath-er in Rajasthan and Maharashtra

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadGujarat, west Rajasthan and Maharashtra are the hottest regions in India at present. With max-imums crossing 40°C in most parts of these states, afternoon hours have become scorching and extremely uncom-fortable. Northern parts of Gujarat are witness-ing heat wave conditions with temperatures about 4°C above normal in Bhuj (44.2°C), Amre-li (43.6°C) and Rajkot (43.8°C). Ahmedabad has also crossed the 40-degree mark and re-corded 42.5°C as maxi-mum on Friday. People in Vidarbha and Rajas-

than are also reeling un-der severe hot weather conditions. In the absence of any significant weath-er, maximum tempera-tures in both the states are settling above normal by a couple of notches. In Rajasthan, Chittorgarh recorded 43°C as maxi-mum, which is 3°C above normal. The mercury

has risen above 40°C in Churu, Jaisalmer and Jaipur as well. Tempera-tures are also rising by the day in several plac-es in Maharashtra. With maximum around 45°C, Chandrapur has been acquiring the first posi-tion in Skymet’s top ten hottest places for the last couple of days.

Rahul Gandhi attacks government, calls real estate bill amendments pro-builders

Agency : New DelhiFiring yet another salvo at Narendra Modi gov-ernment, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed it had diluted provisions of Real Estate Regulato-ry Authority Bill making the legislation pro-build-ers from being pro-buy-ers. After meeting sev-eral NCR flat buyers on Saturday, the Congress Vice President, who has

been attacking the Cen-tre over land bill issue and the plight of farmers, said that he had learnt that it is not just farmers

and tribals but also the middle class people that are “suppressed” on mat-ters related to land. As-suring home buyers that

he would stand by them, Gandhi said that it was due to lack of transpar-ency, the buyers were left in a quandary. “They are told that you will get the flat on a particular day but for years they don’t get the flat. They are told the super duper area of the flat would be so much but what is delivered is dif-ferent,” he said. He said that someone was prom-ised that the flat will have a good view, but a few months after the flat was delivered, another build-ing came up and the view was blocked. He said the government was trying to destroy the Bill which Congress led UPA had brought to regulate the real estate sector. “Main dilution is that there was clear transparency. The carpet area that you sign is what would be given. They have diluted and from pro-buyer, made it pro-builder,” he said. At-tacking the government, he said, “What it is doing against farmers and trib-als, it is also doing against the middle class”. “I have assured them that the way I stand with farmers and tribals I stand with them also,” he told reporters.

Nepal earthquake: Facebook raises $10 million in relief funds

Agency : New DelhiHalf a million people have helped raise more that $10 million to support the In-ternational Medical Corps relief effort in Nepal, just two days after Facebook introduced their Donate button. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on his offi-cial Facebook page. In the same post he added, Face-book will be donating an additional $2 million to “lo-cal recovery efforts to help those in affected areas”. In 2014, Facebook launched

a ‘ Safety Check’ button, enabling users to inform loved ones and friends of their safety status and loca-tion during disasters. Since then, seven million people have marked themselves safe in the area. WhatsApp and Messenger are also

being used across Nepal. “Aid workers are using Groups to coordinate and figure out how to get to affected areas,” Zucker-berg stated in his post. The earthquake has killed more than 6, 000 people and left 70, 000 homeless.

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DAYPriyanka Chopra thanks Deepika Padu-

kone for song in ‘Bajirao Mastani’Agency : New Delhi

Bollywood divas Priyan-ka Chopra and Deepika Padukone will be seen dancing together for the first time on screen in the upcoming film Bajirao Mastani and the Mary Kom actress is thankful to her co-star for a suc-cessful shoot of the song. The film, also starring actor Ranveer Singh, marks the first time Pri-yanka, 32, and Deepika, 29, will be seen sharing screen space. “Thank u Sanjay sir @remodsou-za_1 @shampa_s Kruti @deepikapadukone and #TeamBajiraoMastani for an awesome song shoot. See u on set next schedule,” tweeted Pri-

yanka. The actress, who will be next seen in Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, is happy that she has finished the schedule of the movie, which she

describes as one of the toughest projects of her career. “Finally done... The bliss of finishing a momentous task is so re-lieving.

Gabbar Is Back review by Anupama Chopra: Blasphemous rebranding

Vai Raja Vai Movie Review

Agency : New DelhiIn Vai Raja Vai, the lead actors are named after themselves. Gautham Karthik is Karthik, Pri-ya Anand is Priya and Sathish is Sathish. We don’t exactly understand why, but maybe Aish-waryaa felt it’s a lot eas-ier to connect with the characters if their names are already known to us. It does work to an ex-tent and these are also the most common mid-

dle class names in Tamil cinema. Karthik is born with the power to fore-see immediate events in his life. He comes out of his mother’s womb with a smile and it takes him two months to cry for the first time. His father, quite naturally excited at seeing his son cry, lifts him and seconds later, the ceiling fan comes crash-ing down on the cradle. It’s the first hint of the boy’s superhero power.

Is Rahul banking on perpetuat-ing poverty to revive Congress?

From being caught snoozing in parliament to spend-ing time in a mysterious hideout to the current pho-to-ops with tillers of the soil, Rahul Gandhi has been acquiring a whole range of political experience. The problem with his present frenetic pace, however, is the question that is bound to be asked: How long he can keep it up? Any slackening will provoke scep-tics to reiterate the charge against him of being a part-timer. But it isn’t only his penchant to swing from one extreme to another — from absenteeism as a parliamentarian to speaking almost on a daily basis — which will be queried as his present com-bative political line. While his leftist tilt is evident, what may well be awaited is the extent to which he moves in this direction, which is at odds with his party’s ‘neo-liberal’ economics of the last quarter of a century. Of equal interest will be whether Rahul will be given a free hand in this matter by his party or whether he will be reined in after some time. For instance, will the Congress allow the heir apparent to continue his present tirades against businessmen since this will mean alienating a highly influential sector? In addition, there is the question of electoral funds for which most parties are dependent on the corporate czars. Besides, it is not the Congress’ style to be so aggressively Leftist or Rightist. Tradition-ally, the 130-year-old party has followed the middle path. Indeed, its characteristic moderation has been its USP although the party always had both Left-ists and Rightists in its ranks — such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel or Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai (before he left the Congress). For the present, Rahul’s main charge is that the Narendra Modi government is grabbing land from peasants to repay capitalists who allegedly bankrolled his election campaign. Such snide insinuations win applause at public meetings but the backroom boys of the Congress (and other parties) will be unhap-py about the fallout, especially during private in-teractions with the business community. There is another difficulty. In focusing on the agricultural sector, Rahul is venturing into a minefield where every point of argument has more than one coun-terpoint. Not surprisingly, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman slyly indicated that his party was waiting for the dauphin to slip up because of his simplistic approach to the subject and lack of in-tellectual ability. A hint that a gaffe is possible is available from the limited nature of Rahul’s ques-tion-and-answer sessions with media personnel where the only points which he makes are that the farmers are in distress and that an uncaring govern-ment is in the hands of capitalists. After that, it is ‘dhanyavad’ (thank you) and goodbye.

“The separatists are finding themselves to be irrelevant that is why they are raising such is-sues. People do not follow them and there were only a few hundred people at the rally. They have become irrelevant and they are doing this to seek the attention of general masses. They are trying to vitiate the atmosphere of J&K but they would not succeed in it,”

- Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today said

Editors’ Picks

Agency : New DelhiGabbar is a selective murderer. He only goes after the corrupt. Aided by a determined team of his former students, Gab-bar, who is otherwise a professor named Aditya, weeds out the rot in the

system. Director Krish, who goes by only one name, takes one of Hin-di cinema’s most iconic villains and makes him a hero. But the new Gab-bar even delivers the old Gabbar’s most memora-ble lines, including ‘Ab

tera kya hoga, Kalia?’ For Sholay lovers like me, it’s blasphemy. Gabbar Is Back is a remake of AR Murugadoss’s Ramanaa. I haven’t seen that film, but this one makes very little sense. Why is Gab-bar on a killing spree? A tragic backstory involves a forgettable cameo by Kareena Kapoor Khan and an unintentionally comical shot of buildings collapsing. Akshay glow-ers and roars; he’s sup-posed to be a lean, mean killing machine but he just looks exhausted.

‘Busy’ Sofia Vergara, Joe Mangani-ello already planning their wedding

Agency : Washington Sofia Vergara has ad-mitted that she and her fiance Joe Manganiello are already planning for their wedding and ha-ven’t forgotten about it in their busy schedules. The Modern Family star shared at the Hot Pursuit premiere that she and her 38-year-old actor fi-ance have hired a great wedding planner who is handling every little de-tail of their special day and has taken the stress away from the couple, E! Online reported. Vergara even gushed about her

fiance at the event saying that he was so hot and

she was just an old drag queen. Shraddha Kapoor’s dance mantra

Agency : New DelhiActress Shraddha Kapoor has found a new reason to smile -- the positive

response to the trailer of her forthcoming dance-based film ABCD 2. She says dance is all about a

feeling. The daughter of Shakti Kapoor took to micro-blogging site Twit-ter to share her excite-ment over the response to the trailer. “1 week, 3 million views for the #ABCD2 trailer... thank uuuuu and always re-member, if you can feel the music then...ANY-BODY CAN DANCE,” Shraddha tweeted on Saturday. ABCD 2 is a sequel to Remo D’Sou-za’s 2013 dance based 3D film ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance also features Varun Dhawan, choreog-rapher-director Prabhu-dheva and international dancer Lauren Gottlieb. It is slated to release on June 19.

Writing about Nepal quake not for publicity: Amitabh Bachchan

Agency : MumbaiMegastar Amitabh Bach-chan is furious with some social media users who have accused him of trying to garner publicity by writ-ing about the victims of Nepal’s devastating earth-quake on networking plat-forms. The 72-year-old actor has been active on micro-blogging website Twitter, social network-

ing website Facebook and blog, with appeals for help for Nepal relief. But to some, it has appeared to have been done with an agenda. This has infuriated Big B, and he took to his blog to post: “Some other in the other medium slith-er in the scum of incog-nito ed garbage, and wish to learn what I do in ca-pacity of help and care to

those that remain stranded and scarred, blemished by nature, as it shakes in its slumber. “They comment I write about it for comment and sympathetic public-ity. IDIOTS! They need to be sent to the tube for long hours of investigative procedures, and made to languish in that odoured ‘keechad’ that colours their insides.”

Love is togetherness, says Hema Malini on her anniversary

Agency : MumbaiThe union of Bolly-wood’s “Dream girl” Hema Malini and yester-year’s action hero Dhar-mendra turned a year

older on Saturday. On this occasion, the actress says love is all about spending time together. “Our anniv is today,” she shared further. Af-

ter giving a glimpse of their chemistry on screen through films like “See-ta Aur Geeta”, “Sholay” and “Dream Girl”, they got married in 1980. Post marriage, the couple was seen in movies like “Alibaba Aur 40 Chor”, “Baghavat”, “Samraat” and “Razia Sultan”. The actress also shared two photographs of the eve-ning with cakes around them. “Some exclusive pics just for u,” she post-ed.

Karan Johar Tweets Baahubali Post-er, Says ‘Proud to Present the Film’

Agency : New DelhiThe makers of upcoming two-part epic film Baa-hubali released the film’s

first poster depicting a a woman’s hand holding a crying baby above water. The film’s tag line says

that it is just the ‘begin-ning’. The S S Rajamou-li-directed film will be made in Telugu and Tam-il. The film will also be dubbed in Hindi (among other foreign languages) which will be presented by filmmaker Karan Jo-har. Baahubali, which is the story of two broth-ers and their fight for the kingdom, is touted to be one of the most expensive films being produced in the history of Indian cin-ema.

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IPL 2015: For us, play-offs have already begun, says MI’s Ambati Rayudu

Agency : Mumbai Mumbai Indians notched up their first back-to-back wins this season with a eight-run victory over Rajasthan Royals but their batsman Ambati Rayudu conceded that his side will have to play each game as a must-win to make it to the play-off stage of the IPL cricket tournament. “Our play-off has already started, to be honest. We need to take each game as such and try to go that extra mile (in every game),” said Rayudu who scored an 53 while coming in

at number five to help Mumbai beat Rajasthan by eight runs here last night. Rayudu featured in a partnership of 61 runs in just 30 balls with West Indian Kieron Pol-lard to pull Mumbai out of a mid-innings rut and post a winning score of 187. Mumbai had started the tournament with four losses on the trot before arresting the trend and yesterday’s win was only their third in eight games and the second at the Wankhede Stadium this season. They stared at a defeat when Rajasthan

wicketkeeper Sanju Sam-son was blasting away to a fine 76 off 47 balls be-fore New Zealand pacer Mitchell McClenaghan dismissed him and Karun Nair off successive balls in the 18th over to tilt the balance in favour of the home side. “It was defi-nitely Samson the way he batted. It was a brilliant innings. I am happy that we ended up on the win-ning side,” Rayudu said at the post-match press conference when asked at which point Mumbai thought they had wrapped up the game.

Shaky Hyderabad Face-off Against the Table-toppers Super Kings

Agency :Hyderabad At the half-way mark of the IPL, Hyderabad have more lost games than they have won. Their middle-order have collapsed far too often and their bowling hasn’t lived up to the hype. Even the ‘dream pair’ of Dale Steyn and Trent Boult haven’t been able to spur the Sunrisers on. The biggest worry for the Sunrisers is their falter-

ing middle-order. None of the batsmen have put in a decent performance and the over-dependence on their openers, David Warner and Shikhar Dha-wan, has got them no-where in the tournament. Chennai Super Kings, on the other hand, have been on the mark. They have won six out of their eight games and despite their loss against the Kolk-ata Knight Riders, MS

Dhoni’s men have looked formidable. The bowling has been spot on in most games and coupled with brilliant fielding, Super Kings have steam-rolled oppositions. The batting though, has a a couple of hiccups. Suresh Raina hasn’t been his usual self and Faf du Plessis haven’t had a decent dig till now. However, the biggest worry for Chennai is the injury to Ravichandran Ashwin. Pawan Negi is not as menacing as the Super Kings off-spinner and his absence means Super Kings losing con-trol during the middle overs. At the Rajiv Gand-hi International Stadium in Hyderabad, the home team need to get a move on to their campaign while the table-toppers would look to strengthen their perch at the top.

Nadal receives Spanish awardAgency : Madrid

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy awarded the Gold Medal for Mer-it to tennis star Rafael Nadal, who stated that “victory is accomplished through work”. The cer-emony was held at the Moncloa Palace here on Friday, which marked Labour Day, reports Efe. Nadal was one of the winners of this award, decided last June 13, but he could not pick it up at the ceremony in Novem-

ber because he was still recovering from his re-cent appendectomy op-eration. “It’s a real hon-our to receive this award that embodies the merits of working. Throughout my career, and since I was little I had a maxi-mum dedication to what I was doing. In everything I do I always try to give my best and certainly it has been one of the keys to my success,” said Na-dal. “I never imagined receiving such a medal.

I am grateful,” he added, hoping to overcome this period of ups and downs and be able to restore sta-bility and walk again in the path of victory.

Kotla wicket was tough to bat on: David Miller

Agency : New DelhiKings XI Punjab bats-man David Miller said it was “pretty tough” to bat on the Ferozeshah Kotla wicket as his side slumped to a nine-wick-et defeat against the Delhi Daredevils here. Miller top-scored with 42 but his side only

managed 118/8 in 20 overs, which the Dare-devils eased past in 13.5 overs on Friday. “It was pretty tough. The wick-et was a little bit up and down so it wasn’t easy. A lot of balls were keeping low and some were carrying and had a good bounce in it; so it

wasn’t easy,” “We didn’t do well in the first six overs. I don’t think the dismissals were reck-less shots at all. It was just one of those things; we just managed to get ourselves in trouble. The way it’s going at the moment, nothing quite went our way. It wasn’t too easy to bat out there but they made it look very easy.” Miller add-ed that it was not easy to cope with the pres-sure but was hopeful of a turnaround in Kings XI’s fortunes, who lie eighth and last in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings.

India start HWL semis prepa-ration with Japan Test series

Agency : BhubaneswarWith the FIH Hockey World League Semifinal (Men) 2015 around the corner, India’s prepara-tion for the tournament will start with the first Test of the four-match series against Japan at the Kalinga Stadium on Sunday. India would be

looking to keep up its momentum after having finished third at the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia last month. With a 24-mem-ber squad at his disposal, India’s chief coach Paul van Ass would look to try out new strategies and use new team com-

binations ahead of the Hockey World League Semifinal to be held in Antwerp, Belgium from June 20 to July 5. Going by the world rankings, India (9) will definitely start as favourites against 16th ranked Japan. But the hosts are not will-ing to take any chances and would look to utilize their full strength against the visitors. The last time these two teams met was in the 2013 AHF Asian Champions Trophy in Ja-pan, where India lost 1-2 against the hosts. India has recalled a few young players, such as forwards Lalit Upadhyay and Yu-vraj Walmiki and mid-fielder Pardeep Mor, in the team. Even though the two teams are miles apart in world rankings, In-dia’s chief coach Van Ass warned his wards against complacency. “In the present day international hockey, you cannot take any team lightly. Once The Netherlands team lost a match against Japan, just because they took them lightly and did not utilize their full strength,” Van Ass said on the eve of the series opener.

Bangladesh hold Pakistan to draw in 1st Test after Tamim Iqbal’s double ton

Agency : Khulna Tamim Iqbal scored a double century and Im-rul Kayes 150 in a record opening stand of 312 as Bangladesh overhauled a huge first innings deficit to force a draw with Paki-stan in the opening test at Khulna on Saturday. Ban-gladesh were 555 for six when the match conclud-ed after a rain-disrupted final day. The hosts, who trailed by 296 runs af-ter Pakistan’s mammoth first innings 628, will take huge confidence into the second test in Dhaka next week after rescuing

a draw from what had looked like an almost hopeless position just a day earlier. Tamim’s 206 was the highest score by a Bangladeshi batsman in test cricket while his stand with Imrul was the first triple century part-nership for the country in the longest form of

the game. The pair re-sumed on 273, trailing the visitors by 23 runs, and added 39 more runs before the stand was fi-nally broken when Imrul holed out in the deep off Zulfiqar Babar, one of seven bowlers Pakistan used as they tried to force a result. Tamim retained the aggression that had brought him such success on Friday and brought up his double century in some style, march-ing down the wicket and smashing Junaid Khan high and straight for his seventh six.

Yuki’s campaign ends at Taipei ChallengerAgency : Taipei

Yuki Bhambri’s good run at the Taipei ATP Chal-lenger event ended with a close semifinal defeat against Australian second seed Sam Groth on Satur-day. The unseeded Indian fought his heart out before losing the match 4-6, 5-7 in 67 minutes to world number 85. Yuki managed to break his higher-ranked rival in the opening set but lost his serve twice, while in the second set he did not

get any chance to break the Australian. Neverthe-less, it was a rewarding ef-fort for Yuki as he gained 35 points and is set to break into top-200 again. He also pocketed $3765 as prize money. “I worked hard and made changes to my game and it’s pay-ing off. I have always said that I just need to be injury free and just need to play consistently and as long as I am playing, result will take of itself,” Yuki said.

Mobile app Foodpanda raises $100 million from investors led by Goldman SachsAgency : New Delhi

Mobile food delivery app Foodpanda on Friday an-nounced raising of fresh funds to the tune of US $100 million (about Rs 635 crore) in a financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Existing inves-tors, including Rocket Internet SE, also partic-ipated in the round. The company will use the funds to expand its oper-ations and strengthen last mile delivery, especial-ly in emerging markets like India. “Last-mile delivery has been part of Foodpanda’s operations since the beginning, it will now accelerate its efforts to drive custom-er satisfaction, aiming to offer the most conve-nient way of ordering food from the mobile app and online,” Foodpan-da said in a statement. The investment will al-low the company build a leading mobile food delivery marketplace in emerging markets tar-

geting over three billion consumers, Foodpanda Group co-founder and CEO Ralf Wenzel said. “The emerging markets represent the largest op-portunity in online food delivery,” he added. Last month, the company had announced its foray into food delivery segment in the country and said it plans to offer the ser-vice to 10-12 Indian cit-ies by the end of the year. Foodpanda, which has a presence in 39 countries, has raised over US $310 million since its launch in 2012. Its investors in-clude Rocket Internet (52% stake), Phenomen Ventures, Investment AB Kinnevik and iMENA Holdings.

Govt shelves duty free im-port scheme for raw sugar

Agency : New Delhi The government has re-moved a duty free import scheme for raw sugar, a move aimed at curbing supplies from overseas. “Import of raw sugar under Duty Free Import Authorisation (DFIA) scheme is withdrawn with immediate effect,” Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification. The scheme has been withdrawn also to prevent leakages in

domestic markets. Un-der the scheme, refiners were allowed to import raw sugar, which had to be processed and then exported. To help cash-starved sugar mills clear dues worth Rs 21,000 crore to farmers, the government has recent-ly hiked import duty on sugar to 40 per cent from 25 per cent and scrapped the excise duty on ethanol made from molasses.

Gold skids below Rs 27k mark on heavy stockists selling

Agency : MumbaiGold prices plunged sharply and closed be-low the psychological Rs 27,000 benchmark on the bullion market here fol-lowing frantic unwinding by stockists and specu-lative traders marred by heightened global vola-tility. Silver also endured heavy selling pressure to settle below the Rs 38,000 level amid slug-gish industrial demand. Domestic sentiment turned extremely bearish and volatile after the yel-low-metal tanked to six-weeks low in worldwide trade as a slew of stronger than expected US macro data fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates sooner than expected.

The bullion market was closed on Friday for the ‘May Day’ holiday. Stan-dard Gold (99.5 purity) tumbled by Rs 370 to end at Rs 26,635 per 10 grams from Thursday’s clos-ing level of Rs 27,005. Pure gold (99.9 purity) also slumped by a similar margin to conclude at Rs 26,785 per 10 grams as compared to Rs 27,155. Silver (.999 fineness) tanked by Rs 585 to fin-ish at Rs 37,500 per kilo against Rs 38,085 previ-ously. On the global front, gold for June delivery crashed to settle at $1,174.50 an ounce on the Comex divi-sion of the NYMEX late yesterday, while silver July contract closed at USD 16.135 an ounce.

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Akshaya Patra’s first Food Safety and Quali-ty Control Lab opened in Ahmedabad

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadAkshaya Patra has opened its first Food Safety and Quality Con-trol Lab (FSQC Lab) in Ahmedabad. Aimed to evaluate food from farm to plate, the lab has been fitted with state-of-the-art equipment, and high-pre-cision testing instruments. Some of the technology featuring in the lab are the Atago make table top refractometer which will be used to analyse total soluble solids, fat pu-rity, adulteration of oil etc. Another interesting machine is the Shimad-zu make spectrophotom-eter which will be used to evaluate DNA/pro-tein concentration, ab-sorbance, transmittance and more. The highly

specialised lab has been fitted with the latest equipment for measur-ing microbial count by using a filtration tech-nique with pre steril-ized membranes of 0.45 microns. The lab is also equipped with imported Duran make glassware to undertake physical and chemical analysis with utmost accuracy. The lab has a fume hood

and exhaust systems in place to keep the en-vironment clean, and free of contamination. Adding to this, the lab has precision weighing scales of 0.0001g accu-racy to weigh chemicals for microbiological and chemical analysis. The results of all the tests concluded in the labora-tory are recorded in real time on the computer.

Hoisting of Pakistani flags: Mufti in Ahmed-abad promises action against Geelani

Agency : AhmedabadJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Muf-ti Mohammed Sayeed today promised action against those responsi-ble for waving Pakistani flags at yesterday’s rally addressed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani even as rightwing Hindu organ-isations held a protest demanding the separat-ist leader’s arrest. The Chief Minister also re-jected Geelani’s demand to curtail the duration of

the Amarnath Yatra to 30 days from the planned 59 days and said it will take place as scheduled. “Some people were in-volved in such activities. Action will be taken against those in-volved in such an act,” Sayeed told journalists in Ahmedabad, recall-ing how separatist lead-er Masarat Alam Bhat, who had himself raised pro-Pakistan slogans and waved Pakistani flags at a rally attended by Gee-

lani was put behind bars. “When Masarat Alam was released, he had al-ready spent five years under PSA (Public Safety Act). Then, I myself saw him with Pakistani flag. We then took immedi-ate action (against Alam, who was again arrested),” Sayeed, who is on a vis-it to Gujarat to promote tourism in his state, said, adding “law will take its course”. At the April 15 rally Pakistani flags were waved by Geelani’s sup-porters which led to filing of case against him, his close aide Masarat Alam Bhat and others on sedi-tion and other charges. Bhat was arrested the next day and booked un-der the stringent Public Safety Act a week later.

Padmashri Ram Sutar as design-er and sculptor of Statue of Unity

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadDelhi based Padmashri award winner sculptor 90-year-old Ram V Su-tar has been appointed the designer and sculptor for the Statue of Unity featuring Sardar Vallabh-bhai Patel. In his 40 years long career he has creat-ed over 40 monumental sculptures. Indian’s larg-est engineering and con-

struction company Lars-en & Toubro has been given the responsibility for design, engineering, procurement, construc-tion, operation and main-tenance of the Statue of Unity Project. A consor-tium comprising Turn-er Project Management India Private Limited, Meinhardt India Private Limited and Michael

Graves & Associates Inc. is providing the design, engineering, project management and con-struction management services for the Statue of Unity project. Many of the consortium mem-bers have been involved in the making of some of the world’s tallest struc-tures, including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Forest Officer briefs on Cen-sus of Gir Asiatic Lions 2015

Correspondent, JunagadhAs many as 2300 em-ployees of Gujarat Forest department have started lion census in forest and revenue areas of Sau-rashtra region of Guja-rat. According to Prin-cipal Chief Conservator of Forest Shri AC Pant, counting of lions takes place in Gir since 1936. Ongoing census is 14th in series. In 1936 there were 287 lions, in 2010 there were 411 lions. He said barring Surendranagar all areas of Saurashtra has presence of lions. Ac-cording to Deputy Forest

Conservator Dr. Sandeep-kmar, lions were in area of 16,000 sq km in year 2010, while the present census is going on in area covering 22,000 sqkm. 8 regions, 21 zones and 106 sub-zones and 625 census units are marked for counting. DCF and senior CCF level offi-cers are supervising the process. On Zonal lev-el, DCF level officers are guiding the cadre. 625 pelple have joined the process on 2nd May. They are well trained. For the first time, women are participating in cen-

sus process. 150 women including beatguard and forester are participating. Selected 250 volunteers out of 600 who were willing to offer their ser-vices are also participat-ing in census. Local team of two-three persons will accompany those partic-ipating in census. They are given a special kit for 24 hours stay in for-est. 18 medical teams are on stand by to offer their service. A control room and computer lab is sup-porting and coordinating this process according to CCF Dr. AP Singh. Lo-cation of lion will be en-tered through Global Po-sitioning System(GPS). It will be attached to a map. This process will result into a map repre-senting positions of lions. The mapping and coordi-nation process will take place on 4-5 May. This process will filter dupli-cation of migrated lions.

30 ft replica of Statue of Unity unveiled at Baben in Bardoli

Correspondent, BardoliGujarat Chief Minister today dedicated a 30 ft replica of Statue of Uni-ty featuring Sardar Patel at Baben in Bardoli area of South Gujarat. She launched a new web-site of Statue of Unity and released a book on ‘digital outreach pro-gramme – a case study’ on this occasion. She said the installation of gates over Narma-da dam will complete in year 2017. She said the state government will start tourist circuit connecting he places

associated with Sardar Patel’s life. Bardoli will be a part of that circuit, she added. A 30 ft high statue of Sardar Val-labhbhai Patel has been made in Noida in north India. It was brought to Baben in a truck. It was installed on island of a lake here through crane. The present version of statue is made from FRP. After seven days of dis-play, it will be brought back to Noida, and sim-ilar statue will be made in casting which will be later placed again on the island of lake in Baben.

You fail to book IRCTC e-ticket, because touts use softwareCorrespondent, Surat

Why you can’t book e-tickets on IRCTC site? The answer lies is in a specially made software that touts use. Anti tout-ing squad of Mumbai Railway Crime Branch and Navsari RPF team raided Master Mind school in Sachin area and caught Narsinh Ramolu Somaiya Das Hari and Suraj Narsinh Ramolu Das Hari who had a soft-ware to book 72 tickets in 1 minute on IRCTC website. Ramolu broth-ers who run school were active in this business for

last four years. Railway squad recovered 182 rail-way e-tickets purchased by Ramolu brothers through this software for 860 passengers. 12 rub-ber stamps, 60 hologram sheets, 2 CPU ad 1 print-er are also seized. This is not first such instance in Surat. Recently another tout was held using sim-ilar software. He had told Railway squad that he had purchased this soft-ware online from some Anand(central Gujarat) based unidentified person who used to communicate only through internet.

Daily bulletin on air quality index for 8 cities including Ahmedabad launched

Agency : New DelhiCentral Pollution Con-trol Board (CPCB) today launched a daily bulletin service to highlight air quality index in eight cit-ies namely Delhi, Chen-nai, Hyderabad, Ahmed-abad, Faridabad, Kanpur, Agra and Varanasi. The bulletin was launched on CPCB’s website and will provide a comparative data of air quality index on a daily basis in the cat-egories of moderate, sat-isfactory and poor, apart from giving the major

pollutant in that particu-lar area. The index will be calculated as an average of past 24 hours. The bulletin cov-ers eight cities in the country, which will be eventually increased, a senior Ministry of Envi-ronment, Forests and Cli-mate Change official said. “Initially, the important capitals and the millen-nium cities have been taken. More cities will be incorporated gradually,” he said. As per today’s bulletin, Delhi has the

poorest air quality while Chennai was marked as satisfactory. “The data is being collected from different air quality mon-itoring stations across these states. In case of a city with multiple moni-toring locations, average value is used to indicate air quality,” the official said. Delhi has ten air quality monitoring sta-tions, Tamil Nadu three and there is one each in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Faridabad, Kanpur, Agra and Varanasi.

Plastic cup/wrappers ban: AMC conducts raids

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadDepartment of Health, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) on 1st May seized 910 kg plastic cups/wrappers and collected Rs. 2 lakh administrative charge. AMC issued 150 notic-es and sealed 41 units in this connection. Chai shops, pan parlous, ven-dors of food items use

low quality plastic cups wrappers and plastic bags that block gutter and drainage lines and create nuisance. AMC had taken decision to ban usage of such ma-terials with effect from 1st May 2015. Accord-ingly raids were con-ducted mostly over pan and tea shops at number of place across the city.

Schools to reopen on 8 June after 35 days long summer vacation

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadPost Summer vacation, all primary and second-ary schools across Guja-rat will reopen on 8 June 2015 with new academic session. A 35-day long summer vacation is be-tween 4 May and 7 June. This announcement is for academic staff, as for stu-dents, the vacation period

has started much earlier after completion of their annual exam. Schools across Gujarat observe two vacations every year. One is Diwali vacation while the other is sum-mer vacation. In some Christian Missionary run schools, a portion of Di-wali vacation is replaced with Christmas holidays.

GSEC Ltd gets air cargo han-dling rights at Raipur airport

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadCity-based GSEC Ltd has got a license for op-eration and management of common user domes-tic air cargo terminal at Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur in Ch-hattisgarh form Airports Authority of India (AAI). GSEC Ltd currently han-dles air cargo (domestic

as well as international) at Ahmedabad airport. “The period of contract between AAI and GSEC Ltd for cargo handling at Raipur is for five years and may be extended for another two years depending on the performance,” said Samir Mankad, director, GSEC Ltd. GSEC Ltd will have to pay Rs 1.5 lakh license

fee per month to AAI. Since there are no inter-national flights in Raipur, the cargo handling will be completely domestic. In 2014-15, GSEC Ltd han-dled 28,036 metric tonnes (MT) of cargo at Ahmed-abad airport. The company is eyeing cargo terminals at other airports outside Gujarat for expansion.

Tourists from Gujarat switch itinerary after Nepal disaster

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadThe Himalayan region is a preferred destination for Gujaratis, who are look-ing for ways to get away from the scorching sum-mer months.However, tour operators are seeing cancellation in booking for north and north-east India after a massive earthquake shook Nepal and its neighbouring ar-eas. According to tour operators, over 70% of the domestic bookings for summer vacations by Gujaratis are for destina-tions in the northern parts of the country. The recent flood in Kashmir and the aftershocks of Nepal earthquake, have led to cancellations of summer holidays in the north for

the next two months. Tour operators as well as private airlines have begun offering refunds to the travellers and in many cases, rescheduling the itinerary by changing destinations. As least 3,617 people are known to have died when the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck on Saturday and the number is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue across the Hi-malayan region. “So far, we have given refund to over 250 people who were supposed to trav-el in next two months. The major destinations affected by the recent calamities include Kash-mir, Shimla, Uttrakhand

and other preferred des-tinations of north India. The tourists circuits in Nepal have completely closed down,” said Man-ish Sharma, managing director, Akshar Travels. Many tour operators are offering alternate pack-ages to destinations in southern India.Rachna Seth, who had planned a trip with her family to Nainital and Dehradun and Jim Corbett Nation-al Park, called her tour operator this morning for a change in destination. “I had a choice to ei-ther postpone my trip or choose another destina-tion during the same pe-riod. We are still consid-ering which destination to choose,” Seth said.