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Nickel and copper recovers on fresh

demandAgency | Mumbai, Jun 2

Nickle and copper prices recovered at the non-ferrous metal mar-ket here today on sus-tained stockists buying amid renewed demand from industrial users. While, tin and zinc pric-es eased further on mild offtake from consumer industries. In overseas markets, the industri-al metal Copper prices held near USD 6,000 a tonne in early today, as bleak global factory growth data indicated a muddy outlook for metal consumption over what is typically the stronger quarter of the year for seasonal de-mand.Police a “service”

not a “force”: PaulAgency | Dehradun, Jun 2

Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul today said po-lice is a “service” not a “force” whose biggest priority should be to provide assistance to the public and win their confidence. Speaking at the inaugural session of 15th Vertical Interaction Course for IPS officers held in Nainital, Paul said instilling a sense of confidence among peo-ple should be the goal of every police department functionary. Good po-lice-public relations can prevent many potential problems on the law and order front, he said.

Nickel and copper recovers on fresh demand

Agency | Mumbai, Jun 2

Nickle and copper prices recovered at the non-ferrous metal mar-ket here today on sus-tained stockists buying amid renewed demand from industrial users. While, tin and zinc pric-es eased further on mild offtake from consumer industries. In overseas markets, the industri-al metal Copper prices held near USD 6,000 a tonne in early today, as bleak global factory growth data indicated a muddy outlook for metal consumption over what is typically the stronger quarter of the year for seasonal de-mand.

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India downgrades monsoon forecast from 93 to 88 per cent, stokes drought fears

Agency | New Delhi

India’s June-September monsoon, the lifeblood of Asia’s third-largest economy, will most like-ly be “deficient” this year with the met department downgrading its forecast from 93% to 88%, earth sciences minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday. The India Meteorologi-cal Department’s (IMD) revision -- which had forecast “below normal” monsoon in April -- will potentially toughen chal-lenges for the Narendra Modi government already battling a farm crisis trig-gered by unseasonal rains

in March-April this year. The arrival of the mon-soons has already been delayed in the country’s southern tip, Kerala, by about four-five days and large parts of the country experiencing a searing heat wave which has left near 2000 people dead. “Let’s pray to God that the revised forecast does not come true,” Vard-

han said, implying how much the annual rains mean for the government and the country already spooked by fears of the weather phenomenon, El Nino. El Nino, meaning ‘little boy’ in Spanish, is caused by a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, triggering dry spells in southeast Asia. Rainfall of less than

90% is considered to be a drought year. The lat-est prediction, however, has an error margin of 4 percentage points either way. The government ex-pressed concerns about a below-par monsoon af-ter the Reserve Bank of India, taking advantage of subdued inflation, cut interest rates for a third time this year on Tues-day. “Prices of essential commodities have al-ready started rising and they will rise further if the monsoon remains de-ficient as forecast by the government,” said Harish Galipelli, head of com-modities and currencies at Inditrade Derivatives and Commodities. “It’s not good news for the farming community that is under distress. Last year, their harvest was affected by poor rainfall and unseasonal rains. This year’s drought will deepen their problems.” Anger is growing in the countryside after unsea-sonal rain and hailstorm ravaged farms earlier this year, pushing many debt-laden farmers to sui-cide.

RBI Rate Cut to Spur Housing Demand: Realty firms

Agency | New Delhi

The Reserve Bank’s de-cision to cut key interest rates is likely to reduce borrowing cost for both home buyers as well as developers leading to increase in housing de-mand, realty firms and consultants said today.They sought further cut in interest rates as well as policy reforms for the growth of realty sector, which is facing a huge demand slowdown in last few years. RBI today cut interest rate by 0.25 per cent for the third time this year to spur invest-

Agency | New Delhi

The doctor who con-ducted the post-mortem on Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress law-maker Shashi Tharoor, has written to Health Minister JP Nadda al-leging that he was pres-sured to give a false re-port of natural death and was “victimised by the previous government,” when he refused to do

Agency | Chandigarh

The Kerala government clamped down on sales of Maggi noodles in state-run supermarkets and Haryana ordered sample testing at laboratories fol-lowing allegations of laps-es in food safety standards by the makers of the pop-ular instant snack. In an-other development, Delhi government on Tuesday decided to initiate a case against Nestle India for selling “unsafe” Maggi noodles, according. Ear-lier, the Delhi government had said lab testing re-ports showed Maggi sam-ples were found unsafe in the national capital, add-ing to the woes of Nes-tle India after its popular two-minute noodles were subjected to tests at sev-

Agency | New Delhi

The ongoing power struggle between Lieu-tenant Governor Najeeb Jung and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inten-sified on Tuesday after reports emerged about the AAP government ap-pointing police officials from Bihar in Delhi’s anti-corruption bureau (ACB). In a terse press note, Jung made it clear that the ACB “functions under the authority, con-trol and supervision of the Lt Governor” and that he had not received any proposal from the Kejri-wal government for dep-utation of officials from

Agency | New Delhi

As the BJP and the Con-gress battle for the leg-acy of B.R. Ambedkar, chairman of the drafting committee of the Con-stitution, the competi-tion acquired a higher pitch on Tuesday with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi flagging off the party’s year-long commemoration of the Dalit icon’s 125th birth anniversary next April 14 from his birthplace in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow. This came a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to bring the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities (Amendment)

ments and growth. “Its a good move. Banks should now pass on the benefit to boost demand. Inter-est rate on home loans should be 9-9.5 per cent,” DLF’s whole-time direc-tor Rajeev Talwar. Re-altors’ apex body CRE-DAI President Getamber Anand termed RBI’s de-

cision as good step but too less. “Market was ex-pecting bigger reduction. Banks should pass on the benefits immediately as per RBI direction,” he added. Parsvnath chair-man Pradeep Jain hoped that banks would now pass on the benefit to the cus-tomers thereby stimulating

the overall demand. “Such liberal moves coupled with policy reforms are neces-sary for the revival of the real estate sector in our country,” Mr Jain added. CREDAI (NCR) President Manoj Gaur said the move has come as a breather for the real estate sector. He expected another 25 ba-sis points cut in next 3-6 months. Property consul-tant JLL India chairman & country head Anuj Puri said the downward revi-sion in RBI’s repo rate will positively impact the senti-ments surrounding the real estate market.

“outside Delhi police”. Jung’s rebuttal came in response to media reports which said that at least six officers from Bihar have already joined the Delhi ACB though they are yet to be assigned responsi-bilities. The development comes in the midst of a high-octane power tus-sle between Jung – the

Centre’s representative in the city-state – and Kejriwal which erupted last month after the Lt Governor appointed se-nior IAS officer Shakun-tala Doley-Gamlin as the acting chief secretary despite the chief minis-ter’s objections. The ap-pointment was for just 10 days.

Jung fumes after Kejriwal govt gets Bihar cops in Delhi anti-graft branch

Was Asked to Term Sunanda Pushkar’s Death Natural, Says AIIMS Doctor Who Conducted Her Autopsy

so. In his letter - which the Health Ministry said it is yet to receive - Dr Sudhir Gupta, former fo-rensic director of the All India Institute of Med-ical Sciences or AIIMS has alleged a “tacit un-derstanding” between AIIMS director MC Mishra and Mr Tharoor, who was a minister in the previous Congress-led UPA government, “for making a tailor-made

post-mortem report.” “I was asked by Dr Mish-ra to give a post-mortem report of late Sunanda Pushkar as natural death, which was contrary to the findings,” Dr Gupta writes, and adds, “But I did not succumb to pres-sure and gave the faculty report as an upright offi-cial.” NDTV has access to a copy of the letter. Dr Gupta had moved the Central Administra-tive Tribunal with sim-ilar allegations after a move to replace him as the forensic director. In March this year, the tri-bunal quashed his plea and he moved the Delhi High Court. An AIIMS spokesperson said Dr Gupta’s allegations are “baseless.”

Rainfall of less than 90 percent is considered to be a

drought year.

Maggi curbs widen: Delhi to file case against Nestle, Kerala stops sales in govt shops

eral places in the country for reportedly containing high levels of lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG). The news came amid media reports that live larvae were alleged-ly found in the compa-ny’s baby milk powder in Tamil Nadu, prompt-ing the Tamil Nadu Food Safety Wing to declare the sample unsafe. Amid the growing controver-sy, a Bihar court order on Tuesday directed police

to register an FIR against two officials of Nestle India and Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta, who have promot-ed the two-minute snack in advertisements. The court in Muzaffarpur said they may be arrested if re-quired. Nestle India said it had shared with authori-ties test results that con-clude its products, which have long been a market leader, are safe to eat.

Congress, BJP battle for Ambedkar’s legacy

Bill to Parliament in the monsoon session, point-ing out that it had been promulgated as an Or-dinance by the previous UPA government shortly before it demitted office to strengthen the imple-mentation of the original Act. The context for her letter was a recent spate of atrocities against Dalits, the most chilling the one

that took place on May 14 in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district when a long standing land dispute led to 17 Dalits being mowed down by a tractor, driv-en by a largely Jat mob. This came on the heels of Ms. Gandhi directing all Congress units to organ-ise commemorative func-tions through the year to honour the Dalit icon.

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Is Tuesday’s market fall overdone?Investors in India’s stock markets are visibly edgy. At first look, the 2.37% drop in the Sensex looks overdone, based on the fresh information that emerged on Tuesday. Although, of course, keeping in mind where valuations were and the possibility of further earnings downgrades, this may well be the beginning of a sharp correction. Traders in the equi-ty derivatives market built substantial fresh short po-sitions in rate sensitive stocks such as banks, as well as in infrastructure stocks such as Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Is all of this an overreaction? Based only on Tuesday’s developments, it certainly looks like one. The central bank’s decision to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) was largely in line with expecta-tions, and so was the hawkish tone of its policy state-ment. What really upset the markets, it seems, was the downgrade of the monsoon forecast. Needless to say, two successive years of below-par monsoon will be a tough situation to handle, and could end the cycle of rate cuts. Even so, according to an analyst with a domestic institutional brokerage, checks with private forecasters such as Skymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd suggest that their forecasts continue to dif-fer from that of the government agency, India Me-teorological Department (IMD). Skymet’s chief ex-ecutive officer Jatin Singh told Mint two weeks ago that El Nino is not likely to have an adverse impact on the monsoon this year. His firm expects rainfall to be at 102% of the long-term average, compared with 88% for the government agency. Of course, this is not to say that normal monsoon can be taken as a given; although it does look like investors disregard-ed data from other forecasters, and may have to do a rethink when trading resumes. But at the same time, it must be noted that before Tuesday’s correction, the Sensex traded at a hefty valuation of 18 times one-year forward earnings, at a time when earnings declined marginally in the just concluded fiscal year. At the beginning of the fiscal year, analysts at Ko-tak Institutional Equities had estimated earnings per share of Sensex stocks at Rs.1,490. Actual earnings turned out to be 12% lower at Rs.1,313. Estimates for 2015-16 have seen similar cuts already; although even after the cuts, estimates suggest a healthy 19-20% earnings growth rate. But as Kotak’s analysts point out, further downgrades can be expected in infrastructure-related sectors, as the market recon-ciles to a slower-than-expected recovery in the in-vestment cycle. One silver lining from Tuesday’s data was that foreign institutional investors weren’t big sellers. They sold shares worth Rs.594 crore in the cash market, far lower than the huge purchas-es they had made just last Friday in both the cash and derivatives segments. Some market analysts are hopeful of strong foreign flows, especially with the US Federal Reserve now expected to delay its rate hike plans.

Sidharth Malhotra has been shooting in Coonoor for ‘Kapoor & Sons’

“He neither believes in politics which seeks to divide people on communal lines, nor will he ever speak communal language”.

Agency | Hyderabad

The trailer of S.S. Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘Baahubali’ was screened in select theatres here on Monday and the response has been phenomenal. “The trailer was screened at 10:30 a.m. for free to audiences across 300 theatres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. An unprecedented number of people flocked to the cin-ema halls to watch the trailer,” a source from the film’s unit. Balaji M, an ardent fan of Rajamouli, said the trailer was mindblowing. “The visuals were breathtak-ing. The trailer was worth the long wait and deserves to be called an epic. It blew me away,” Balaji. Some theatre owners, according to sources, had to seek police protection to control the crowd. The trailer will be released for all online later on Monday evening via Youtube. Directed by Rajamouli, the film narrates the story of two brothers who fight for a kingdom.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Stopped at Cannes? Rubbish, Say Reps

Agency | New DelhiA representative from FIC-CI has denied that actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was kept waiting for some 20-odd minutes before being allowed into the In-dia Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival last month. India Pavilion is joint-ly run by FICCI and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Samir Kumar, deputy director of FICCI’s media and en-tertainment division, said in a statement: “The story that has come out in the media about Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s entry to the India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival is quite baseless. There is no substance in it. As I was present at the ven-ue to manage the affairs at the India Pavilion, I would like to inform you that the entry of Mrs Bachchan to the venue

Agency | New DelhiThe young actor has been exploring the city on a cycle. Sidharth pre-fers outdoor sports rath-er than working out in a gym and while he is in the hills, he has taken to cycling. The actor in fact cycles to sets which is about 15- 20 minutes away from the hotel. It’s a curvy road which goes uphill and then down-hill and it was extreme-ly tough when he did it initially. However, after about a week he got into rhythm. He quite enjoys cycling and in fact has started timing himself also. Sidharth is in an intense shooting sched-ule where he is shooting for 10 hours odd. Cy-cling to sets also helps him save on time as it compensates for cardio in a sense. Says Sidharth “I prefer exercising out-doors than in a gym. We

Agency | New DelhiShe is known for speak-ing her mind, advocating a positive body image and always taking crit-icism in her stride. And as we caught up with ac-tor Sonakshi Sinha, who turns 28 on , she kept her characteristic smile on. When asked about the criticism she faced for ‘looking photoshopped’

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Vidya Balan was conferred with a Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa degree by an Ahmed-abad-based institute Rai University to appreciate her contribution to In-dian cinema and for her efforts to empower wom-en. Overwhelmed by the honour, the actress said she hopes to live up to the honour. “It is truly hum-bling and overwhelming

to receive this honour. What makes this even more special is that I complete ten years in the film industry this year. “There can be no bigger compliment for any actor than to have done work that has made a signif-icant mark and also to be looked upon as a role model by young India. I hope to live up to the ti-tle,” Balan said in a state-ment.

Agency | Mumbai

In today’s special doo-dle, Google is commem-orating the 86th birth an-niversary of Indian film actress, Nargis Dutt. Born as Fatima Rashid in Kol-kata, but known by her screen name, Nargis, she is renowned for her mem-orable roles in movies in-cluding the Oscar-nomi-nated rural drama Mother India, Barsaat, Awaara

People appreciate how I look: Sonakshi Sinha

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said

on the cover of a fash-ion magazine that aimed to celebrate her curves, the birthday girl was quick to say that it was wrong to point a finger at her. “You should ask the magazines that question because we really don’t have much say in what goes into print. We are there for the shoot, and I was there for the curves special cover of that mag-

Vidya Balan gets honorary doctorate

Actor Leena Paul and her partner Chandrashekhar arrested in cheating case

are currently shooting in Coonoor and I go cy-cling in the mountains whenever possible. In

fact,I even cycle to sets which is about 15 min-utes away from our ho-tel. “

‘Baahubali’ trailer launched in theatres

was quite smooth and she was warmly received and she had a very fulfilling session at the pavilion.” Aishwarya, attending an event for her comeback film Jazbaa on the side-lines of the film festival, was reported to have been stopped at India Pavilion on May 19 because her car lacked a security clearance

document called a ‘blue pass.’ The 41-year-old ac-tress’ publicist Archana Sadanand, who was also at Cannes, described the re-ports as ‘ridiculous.’ Aish-warya, who just made her 14th appearance at Cannes as the face of LOreal, was photographed at the India Pavilion in claret Oscar de la Renta.

azine. If you ever get the chance, take it up with the editor!” she says. Talking about always being com-fortable in her skin, she adds, “It’s just how I am. It’s not necessary or even correct for anyone to dic-tate terms on how anyone should look. It’s not that I am unhealthy! People appreciate the way I look, or so I’ve been told.” Ask her if she has found a spe-cial someone in her life, and Sona shares that she finds it difficult to find a partner. “Why do you think I am still single? It’s because I am nitpicky and it’s hard to find tall boys for a tall girl like me. Or let’s just say, my standards are high!” she laughs. It is a working birthday for Sona this year, too. She’s known for always preferring to work on her special days. The actor is currently busy shooting for her next with director AR Murugadoss, and will also be rehears-ing for her act at the IIFA 2015 award ceremony this weekend.

Arms case: Salman’s trial to resume on July 20

Agency | Jodhpur

Salman Khan’s trial un-der Arms Act in the court of Chief Judicial Magis-trate (CJM) here has been put off till July 20 in the wake of the actor chal-lenging the lower court’s verdict in the High Court.Khan was supposed to present his side in the court today but his coun-sel H M Saraswat moved an application seeking deferment in the wake of stay on the trial granted by the High Court until the petition was decided.“We had moved a crim-inal miscellaneous pe-tition in the High Court seeking permission to call 5 prosecution witnesses

for re-examination. The court allowed the same on May 28 and stayed the hearing in the trial court,” said Saraswat. Hearing will now take place in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (Jodhpur dis-trict) on July 20 subject to decision of the petition in the High Court, where the matter has been list-ed for July 8. Salman

had appeared in the trial court for recording of his statements on April 29, where he had pleaded in-nocence. The court had then given him a chance to produce evidence on May 4. But before this could happen, the Ses-sion Court had stayed the trial after Khan’s petition seeking permission to call 5 prosecution witnesses.

and Shree 420. Nargis made her first film ap-pearance in Talashe Haq when she was six years old. However, her act-ing career began in 1942 with Tamanna. Nargis married her Mother In-dia co-star Sunil Dutt in 1958 and started appearing infrequently in films during the 60s. Along with her husband, she formed the Ajanta

Arts Cultur-al Troupe, which in-

v o l v e d several

leading actors and sing-ers of the time and held stage shows at border ar-eas.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPI want to see Indian team dominate for next 5 years: Kohli

Agency | New Delhi

India’s new Test captain, Virat Kohli, laid out his ambitious vision for the Indian team on Tuesday, saying that he wants to create a side which can dominate world cricket for the next five years. Kohli, who was handed the Test captaincy after Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement following the third Test of the four-match series against Australia in Janu-ary, said that he wants to create strong friendship in the team. “I strongly want to see the Indian team

dominate for at least five or six years,” Kohli told ESPNcricinfo’s digital magazine in an interview which will be published on the Cricket Monthly site. “We certainly have the talent. We certainly have the ability. All that it will take is how you man-age that and keep them to-gether,” he added. Laying down his vision for the side, Kohli said: “I want to create strong bonds. I want to create strong friendships in this unit,” “We live 250-280 days a year together so I want to create such an atmo-

sphere where in the next ten years watching it from outside you would get to know this team is a unit-ed team,” “This team is a strongly knit unit. They want to play for each oth-er. They don’t want to play for themselves. That is my vision.” Kohli said. A firm believer in playing aggressive cricket, Kohli said that he wants to free his team of doubts or inse-curities. We like playing the same brand of crick-et,” Kohli said of the team he resumes taking charge of with the tour to Bangla-desh later this month.

The BCCI’s new Tendulkar-Laxman-Ganguly committee smells like a publicity gimmick

Agency | New Delhi

India loves a committee. If there is a problem or a crisis, the solution is always the same: form a committee to consider the issue. It doesn’t matter if a committee already ex-ists – it is always possi-ble to form a super-com-mittee (or an empowered group of ministers). Espe-cially if you stack it with high powered names. The BCCI has stayed true to form in appointing Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Gan-guly and VVS Laxman to an “advisory committee” that will presumably be responsible for things the board’s 30 (yes, 30) other committees don’t already do. You would think that

the BCCI would have worked out all the de-tails before appointing former cricketers of such stature but what we don’t know about the commit-tee far exceeds what we do know. We aren’t the only ones confused ei-ther, Ganguly has said he has no idea what the committee is supposed to do (though that did not stop him from being part of it). And what was stop-ping the BCCI from hav-ing them on one of their existing committees? After all, Anil Kumble is chairman of the technical committee. It all makes you wonder whether this is a marketing gimmick as much as a construc-tive effort. The BCCI has

been battered by negative publicity over the last two years, no matter what for-mer BCCI president N Srinivasan’s might have said to the contrary. Lest we forgot, the Supreme Court is currently inves-tigating how the BCCI functions and could well make changes that let a little more light into the corridors of powers. The BCCI’s new leadership, led by president Jagmo-han Dalmiya and secre-tary Anurag Thakur, have admitted the board needs some image polishing. And what better way to do that then inducting Tendulkar, Ganguly and Rahul Dravid – oops, Laxman will do - into the board.

Agency | Zurich

FIFA denied on Tuesday that the top lieutenant of its President, Sepp Blat-ter, or any other member its senior management made $10 million in bank transactions that are cen-tral to a bribery investi-gation against the world soccer body. Secretary general Jerome Valcke had no role in the pay-ments, which were au-thorised by the chairman of FIFA’s Finance Com-mittee, it said in a state-ment. The chairman of the committee at the time of the payments was Ar-gentina’s Julio Grondona, who died last year. “Nei-ther the Secretary Gener-al Jerome Valcke nor any other member of FIFA’s senior management were

involved in the initia-tion, approval and imple-mentation of the above project,” FIFA said. As new questions arose in the FIFA scandal, more officials were arrested, suspended or banned on Monday, and countries were weighing a World Cup boycott amid con-troversy over the re-elec-tion of Blatter on Friday. A source close to the in-vestigation said on Mon-day that U.S. prosecutors believe Valcke made the $10 million bank transac-tions. Valcke is described in an indictment filed in federal court in Brook-lyn, New York, as an un-identified “high-ranking FIFA official” who in 2008 transferred the sum to another FIFA official,

Jack Warner. Valcke’s al-leged connection to the case was first reported by The New York Times. It said Valcke had written in an email to the newspa-per that he neither had au-thorized the payment nor had the power to do so. FIFA’s said in its state-ment that, in 2007, as part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the South African Government approved a $10 million project to support the African dias-pora in Caribbean coun-tries. FIFA was asked to process the project’s funding by withholding $10 million from the lo-cal organising commit-tee’s (LOC) operational budget and using that to finance the diaspora leg-acy programme.

Agency | New Delhi

Former captain Ravi Shastri was on Tuesday retained as Director of the Indian cricket team for th e tour of Ban-gladesh starting June 10 as the BCCI contin-ued its search for a new permanent coach to suc ceed Duncan Fletcher. Shastri, who served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup earlier this year, is a stop-gap arrangement for the short trip. Fletch-er’s tenure had ended earlier this year after the World Cup. “The BCCI wishes to inform that Mr. Ravi Shastri, former India Captain, has been

Computex 2015: Asus reveals ZenWatch 2, Zenfone Selfie with 13MP camera

Agency | New Delhi

The Asus Zenfone Selfie sports a 5.5-inch screen with a 1920×1080 resolution along with a 403 ppi. It is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor. The new smartphone will come in two RAM variants – 2GB RAM and 3GB RAM. It also comes with an option to choose between 16GB or 32GB of inbuilt storage and can be further expanded up to 64GB via microSD card. Of course, the biggest highlight of the smartphone is its camera. It sports a 13MP camera, both on the rear as well as on the front. The rear camera features a large f/2.0 aperture lens and laser

auto-focus technology. Additional features include low light mode, Selfie Panorama mode, backlight (HDR) mode, enhanced beautification mode, manual mode, and zero shutter lag. The front facing camera comes equipped with flash as well. The ZenFone Selfie runs on Android Lollipop along with the company’s Asus ZenUI on top. In terms of connectivity, the smartphone features Bluetooth 4.0, GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, GPS/ A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, and Micro-USB. It will be available in Pure White, Chic Pink, Aqua Blue, Glacier Gray, Sheer Gold, and Glamour Red colour variants.

HC allows Xiaomi to send back over one lakh unused Redmi Notes

Facebook Can Now Send Notification Emails With End-to-End Encryption

Agency | Sydney

Following a disappointing Australian Open, lead-ing Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Sri-kanth will look to bounce back at the Rs. 5.1 crore ($800,000) Indonesia Open Superseries Premier starting at the Istora Ge-lora Bung Karno Stadium on Tuesday. World No.1 Saina, who has won here in 2009, 2010 and 2012, has been seeded second in the women’s singles category, while world No.4 Srikanth is seeded fourth in the men’s singles competition. Apart from the duo, two-time World Championships bronze medallist P.V. Sindhu, Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, 2011 World

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi High Court has now passed an or-der, allowing Xiaomi to send back its Redmi Note 3G handsets, the sale of which has been banned in India after Ericsson filed a case stating patent vio-lation. A vacation bench of Justice Mukta Gupta is allowing Xiaomi to re-turn over one lakh hand-sets to Hong Kong, after the Swedish telecom firm, Ericsson, agreed to the ar-rangement. The court has directed Xiaomi to main-tain an inventory of the

Agency | New York

Facebook has announced a new ‘experimental’ feature that allows end-to-end en-crypted notification emails from the social giant to user accounts. Facebook is using OpenPGP, which it says is “one of the most popular available standards for protecting email with public key encryption.” The new feature is targeted to enhance the security of emails sent by Facebook to its users, including no-tifications about messag-es, password changes, and other notifications related to the user’s Facebook ac-

count. The company be-lieves that encryption will help ensure no one but the user can intercept the mes-sages without the keys. The new experimental feature is rolling out to users and allows Facebook users to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile. Users can opt-in to get encrypted no-tifications from Facebook. The feature can be found in the “About Me” section of Facebook profile. Nota-bly, the Facebook’s imple-mentation of end-to-end encryption via OpenPGP public keys is accessible in India, and users can add a public key to their profile.

FIFA says Jerome Valcke not involved in $10 million payment

Badminton: Saina, Srikanth look to bounce back at Indonesia Open

Shastri to continue as Indian Team Director for Bangladesh tour

appointed as Director of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangla-desh, starting on 10 June 2015,” BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement. “Mr. Sanjay Bangar, Assistant Coach (Batting), Mr. B. Arun, Assistant Coach (Bowl-ing) and Mr. R. Sridhar, Assistant Coach (Field-ing), will assist Mr.

Shastri during the tour. Mr. Biswarup Dey will be the Administrative Manager. Mr. Rishikesh Upadhayaya has been appointed as Logistics Manager for the tour,” he added. Thakur said Shastri’s appointment was a stop-gap arrange-ment and the Board will name a permanent coach later.

Championships bronze medal-winning women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gut-ta and Ashwini Ponnappa are also getting ready for the challenge. Other In-dians competing in the event are Manu Attri, B. Sumeeth Reddy, Pranaav Jerry Chopra, Akshay Dewalkar, H. S. Pran-noy and Ajay Jayaram. In men’s singles round one, Kashyap faces Thailand’s Tanongsak Saensomboon-suk, whereas Srikanth fac-

es Denmark’s Hans-Kris-tian Vittinghus -- both have won one match each in head-to-head record. In the women’s singles event, Sindhu faces Hsu Ya-Ching, while London Olympics bronze medal-list Saina faces Thailand’s Nichaon Jindapon against whom the Indian has won all her three meetings. If both the Hyderabadi girls win, they will be up against each other in the second round.

handsets, currently lying unused with e-commerce site Flipkart, through which the Chinese com-pany sells its phones under an exclusive ar-rangement. Advocate Ajit Warrier, appearing for the Chinese firm, said its phones like Redmi Note 3G, which run on a Me-diatek processor, have been prohibited from sale in India by the high court. He said the company was only allowed by the court to sell its Qualcomm chipset-based phones and thus, the other variety are gathering dust with Flip-kart. The court, on De-cember 16 last year, had permitted Xiaomi to sell its Qualcomm chipset-based devices on a ‘pro tem’ (temporary) measure till the issue of patent in-fringement was heard and decided by a single-judge bench of the high court.

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Gulberg: court rejects plea to make four former cops accusedSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The special court conducting the trial in the case related to 2002 Gulberg Society riots in which 69 persons were killed during post-Godhra riots today rejected the survivors’ plea that four former police officers be made accused for alleged negligence in duty. Special judge P B Desai rejected the petition seeking arraignment of the then Ahmedabad Police Commissioner P C Pandey, Joint Commissioner of Police M K Tandon, Assistant Commissioner of Police P B Gondia and Assistant Police Commissioner S S Chudasama. Advocate S M Vora, petitioners’ lawyer, aruged that these officers did not react in time to stop the mob

Gujarat: 19-yr-old girl tied with iron chain to prevent her from eloping; father arrested

Correspondent | Vadodara

A man was arrested by Naswadi police in Gu-jarat’s tribal-dominated Chhota Udepur district for tying up his 19-year-old daughter with iron chain so as to prevent her from eloping with her lover, after she re-fused to go to the family of the man with whom she was married by her relatives. Police arrested Vasantbhai Rathwa from Simol village Tuesday afternoon after it came to light that he had alleged-ly wrongfully confined his daughter by using iron chain and locks to tie up her feet to a wood-en log inside their hut. Naswadi police said that the girl’s father and rel-atives had arranged her

marriage to a person in Talsar village not far from their own village. She was married to this person a month ago. The girl, however, refused to acknowledge the mar-riage as she was already in love with another per-son and instead stayed back at her father’s place. Instead of going to her husband’s place, a few days ago, she managed to elope with her lov-er. “The girl’s relatives

started searching for her and soon found her out from a nearby village. She was brought back but not let to go out. The girl’s mother is no more so her father decided to confine her in such a way that she does not succeed in again eloping with her lover. So on Monday, her father locked her legs us-ing an iron chain in such a way that she could not move,” said Naswadi PSI BD Shah.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Seasoned food bloggers, home bakers and food connoisseurs recent-ly met at Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad for some tongue tickling food over unique gastro-nomic stories. In a first for Ahmedabad, Court-yard by Marriott played hospitality partner to an innovative invite-based “Foodies Meet” orga-nized by Askme.com in association with Fooda-holics in Ahmedabad, that let the nuances of food do the talking. The event also saw executive chef Ramakant Mish-ra presenting new and interesting ways of cre-ating and plating food alongwith some tricks and tips on how to better every meal. “The event showcased that food has evolved from a bite that is grabbed in between a casual banter among

Court seeks SIT officer’s reply on missing CD

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A court hearing the Naro-da Gam post-Godhra riots case today queried the in-vestigating officer of the SIT on a “missing” CD containing call records of important state function-aries in connection with the riots. The special trial court judge P B Desai to-day directed investigating officer Himanshu Shukla to give details whether the original CD, that has gone missing as per the claim of the accused, was in the possession of P P Pandey, Joint Commis-sioner of Police in 2002, or it was with former IPS officer Rahul Sharma. The court has fixed the next hearing for June 8. Shukla, who is present-ly the Superintendent of Police in Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the state, was present before the

special court today after summons were issued against him last month in connection with a plea filed by 65 accused per-sons to prosecute Sharma for allegedly misplacing the CD containing im-portant call details related to the riots. On March 7, the accused had filed the plea and sought action against a former investi-gator of the case and IPS officer P L Mall for not taking any action against Sharma. The plea was moved by defence lawyer Chetan Shah, who had submitted that Sharma had misplaced the orig-inal CD containing the call details of state func-tionaries during the riots, and submitted a duplicate version before the panel headed by retired justice G T Nanavati which was probing the riots.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Sloth bears in the state will soon be offered the highest level of conservation pro-tection, which is current-ly accorded to the Asiatic Lion of Saurashtra and the Wild Ass of Kutch. The estimated sloth bear pop-ulation in Gujarat is 293. The animals are found in five sanctuaries: Balaram Ambaji and Jessore in Banaskantha district; Jam-bugodha (Panchmahal); Ratanmahal (Dahod); and Shoolpaneshwar (Narma-da district). Principal chief conservator of forests C N Pandey said that the state government has initiated a new scheme, ‘Sloth Bear Landscape Management’, which covers the sloth bear corridors in Gujarat. The sloth bear landscape in the state lies north of the Tapi in the hilly eastern and north-ern parts of the state. Pan-dey said that the landscape management was required as one-third of the popu-lation of bears, about 100, was sighted outside the pro-tected sanctuaries. The pro-tected areas are connected by natural corridors which pass through revenue areas

and private lands. These passages make it necessary to give the animals the high-est protection. Sloth bears use these corridors to mi-grate from one part of their habitat to the other. “We have increased protection for sloth bears by bringing their supervision under the Wildlife Wing of the de-partment and under the chief wildlife warden,” Pandey said. “This will help the forest department provide special focus to conservation.” As a part of landscape management, the forest department will mitigate man-animal conflicts, and undertake educational and commu-nication activities for lo-cal stakeholders, among other initiatives. Officials said it is generally seen that man-animal interac-tion takes place on the in-terface of protected areas when the animal strays in search of water or food. It has been proposed to cre-ate water-points in the en-tire sloth bear landscape in such a manner as to mini-mize man-animal interac-tion and reduce conflicts.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A stationery store in Am-bawadi was targeted by thieves who decamped with Rs 1.10 lakh in cash and 43 high-end pens worth Rs 5 lakh. Police have started investigation on the basis of the CCTV footage found from the spot. According to Ellis-bridge police, Sanjay Patel, a resident of Maulik Villa Row Houses in Jodhpur, has filed a complaint for theft at Raj Stationers on Nehrunagar-CN Vidyalaya

Road. The complaint said that the theft took place between 10pm on Sun-day and 9am on Monday. The thieves broke the locks on the shutter and stole the cash from the cash counter and pens from a cabinet on the first floor. “The CCTV footage shows a group of three men came on two ve-hicles, cut the locks with a cutter, and entered the shop at 2.30am. They were ac-quainted with the floor plans so we suspect an insider’s involvement in the theft.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Bandish Parikh of Ahmedabad made his parents proud by garnering Interna-tional Ranks in the Olympiad Awards organized by Science Olympiad Foun-dation (SOF) in Delhi recently. About 40 lakh students, more than 31,500 schools from 1,400 cities across In-dia and 19 countries participated in the Olympiad exams during 2014-15. With international ranker to its credit, Ahmedabad proved its mettle all the way again. Apart from international rank, 15 students got state rank and were awarded with medal along with

the certificate. The top 10 principals and top 40 teachers, whose students put up an exceptional performance at inter-national level, were also felicitated with cash awards, mementos & citations. SOF is the world’s biggest organiz-er of Olympiad exams and have been conducting olympiads since the past 18 years. Mahabir Singh, founder and ex-ecutive director of SOF, said that about 24,000 students from 3,500 schools have been awarded for achieving top state-level ranks. In addition, close to 6,00,000 students have been awarded medals of excellence for achieving top rank in their respective schools.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

As many as 50 children have been struck by measles in Mithi Rohar village of Gandhidham taluka in Kutch this year, sending healthcare ex-perts into a tizzy. Four deaths in 2011 following measles shots had scared the families in this village from vaccinating their little ones. Currently, eight children, including seven of one family, are

suffering from measles in the village. Dr Rajesh Maheshwari, president of Indian Academy of Paedi-atrics, Gujarat, said: “Even more than four years af-ter the tragedy, villagers are scared of getting their children vaccinated. Also, a lot of myths and super-stitions are associated with the disease. Measles, in most areas, is called as ‘Mata’. Villagers feel the goddess will get furious if they prevent measles

through vaccination.” “As many as 50 children were infected with measles in Mithi Rohar this year. Some have been cured while some are still under treatment,” he added. Ma-heshwari said several chil-dren were also down with measles in nearby Khari Rohar village. Surprising-ly, the highly contagious virus that cannot survive in peak summer months was active in May this year.

which went on a rampage inside the Society and killed 69 persons, mostly Muslims, including formrer Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. But the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team submitted that the plea should be rejected as it had

found no material evidence against the four officers. Special Public Prosecutor R C Kodekar said that roles of Pandey and others had been probed thoroughly on the application of Ehsan Jafri’s wife, Zakia Jafri, but nothing incriminating was found.

Foodies Meetup at Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad

friends to unite multiple interests. It is best expe-rienced when a platform is created and thoughts are allowed to flow. Food traverses passion, profes-

Sloth bears get VIP security jungle kings enjoyed

Ahmedabad students shine at Olympiad Awards 2014-15

Ahead of Rath Yatra, Ahmedabad based Jagannath Mandir (Jagdish Mandir)today held ‘Jal Yatra’ procession.

Jal Yatra procession of Jagannath Mandir, Ahmedabad

(Photo by : Habibkhan Ashrafi)

sion and simple gastron-omy. When all come to-gether, it can only ignite minds letting loose an electrifying atmosphere that leaves you wanting for more. Courtyard by Marriott is happy to asso-ciate with this meet,” said Gaurav Singh, general manager, Courtyard by Marriott Ahmedabad.

Measles strike 50 kids in Kutch this yearPens worth Rs 5 lakhs stolen