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News Brief7 police

personnel injured in attack by gang

Agency | Bundi

Seven policemen, in-cluding the SHO of Hindoli police station, were injured after they were attacked by a gang of criminals in a for-est in Basni area here, police said today. SHO Ajeet Meghwanshi and six other police person-nel were injured when they were attacked by a gang of Kalbailiya tribe with sticks, iron rods and axes yesterday afternoon in Basni area where they had gone to nab the gang following a tip off, Bhushan Ya-dav, SP, Bundi said.

Learnt a lot about acting from Rekhaji: Aditya

Gold remains up on global cues,

jewellers’ buying

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Aditya Roy Ka-poor said he learnt a lot about craft of acting from veteran actress Rekha by merely ob-serving her during film “Fitoor”. Rekha was initially a part of the film and had shot some portions for the role of Katrina Kaif’s mother. However, things did not work out between direc-tor Abhishek Kapoor and Rekha.

Agency | New Delhi

Buoyed by positive global cues and sus-tained buying by jew-ellers at domestic spot markets, gold continued to rise for the fourth straight day by gaining Rs 100 to trade at Rs 27,400 per ten grams at the bullion market today. Silver recovered to reclaim Rs 35,000 mark by rising Rs 180 to Rs 35,050 per kg due to increased offtake by industrial units and coin-makers.

Rescue operations by specialized teams from Army and Air Force are underway“Avalanche in Siachen”

Search for 10 missing soldiers

Agency | Hyderabad

Bharat Biotech, a city-based vaccines and bio-therapeutic manufac-turer, today claimed to have achieved a break-through in developing a vaccine to fight the dreaded mosquito-borne Zika virus, which causes serious birth defects in children. Bharat Biotech is home to some of the most brilliant minds in the world and began work on the Zika virus a year ago, Krishna Ella, CMD Bharat Biotech, said here. “We believe we have an early mover advantage in developing the Zikavac and we are probably the first in the world to file for

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked Ma-harashtra government to give its opinion on a public interest litigation challenging the decision of Haji Ali Trust to ban the entry of women in the sanctum sanctorum of the historic Durgah in Mumbai. As the issue is sensitive, a bench headed by Justice V M Kanade asked Advocate General Srihari Aney to submit arguments on behalf of the state on February 9 stating whether women should be allowed into the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine. The Supreme

Agency | Srinagar

Rescue teams and heli-copters were searching on Wednesday for 10 soldiers who went miss-ing after an avalanche struck the Siachen Gla-cier in Jammu and Kash-mir, the world’s highest and coldest militarised zone. Army spokesper-son NN Joshi said sev-eral personnel from the Madras Regiment were buried under the snow deluge triggered on the northern side of the gla-

Agency | Bengaluru

Slamming Opposition for doing politics over the is-sue of strike by the MCD workers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said it’s a clear case of mismanage-ment of fund by the civic bodies and demanded a CBI probe into the mat-ter. Kejriwal announced a loan of Rs.551 crore for payment of salaries to striking workers of two municipal corporations in the national capital and urged them to call off

Agency | New Delhi

In a security lapse, a 20-year-old woman to-day broke barricades and threw a flower pot in Raj-path in the heavily guard-ed Raisina Hills area less than a minute before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy was to pass through. The woman identified as Neena Raw-al, a resident of Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh, was de-tained and questioned at the Parliament Street police station before she was taken for a medical check-up. The incident took place at around 2:10 PM when Modi’s convoy was leaving from South Block, leaving the secu-rity personnel in the area into tizzy. The woman was part of the crowd which was asked to clear

Hyderabad lab claims breakthrough in developing Zika vaccine

global patent for Zika vac-cine candidates. “We have two candidate vaccines in development. One of them is an inactivated vaccine that has reached the stage of pre-clinical testing in animals,” Ella said. Quot-ing a WHO report, he said Zika is now present in 23 countries and Brazil, the hardest-hit country, has reported around 3,530

cases of the devastating birth defect, called micro-cephaly, in 2015 that are strongly suspected to be related to Zika. “We hope to announce the arrival of Zikavac to the world as early as possible,” he said. Zika virus is spread by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, which can breed in a pool of water as small as a bottle cap

and usually bite during the day. The mosqui-to-transmitted infection is related to Dengue, Yel-low Fever and West Nile virus. “Considering that women of child-bearing age and pregnant wom-en are the prime target group for Zika virus vac-cine, we consider safety as the overriding factor in development of a new vaccine for this virus. The vaccine methods devel-oped early on, before the devastating consequences of the epidemics in Brazil came to light provided us a push to accelerate vac-cine development,” Dr Sumathy, Director, R&D, Bharat Biotech said.

Woman throws flowerpot at PM Modi’s convoy, detained by SPG

Bombay HC seeks govt’s view on women’s entry in Haji Ali by February 9

the road and assemble at a pavement near Vijay Chowk as PM’s convoy was to pass through the area. She became furious when police told her to move further aside, DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narw-al. The woman entered into an altercation with the security personnel and pushed down three barricades. By the time the police could stop her, she ran towards Raisina Hills where she threw a flower pot on the road,

less than a minute be-fore the convoy passed through, he said. Rawal was whisked away from the spot immediately and questioned. On being questioned, she told the police that some hooli-gans had tore her mark-sheet and harassed her at her native place, for which she had lodged a com-plaint there but the police allegedly took no action. She claimed that she had come here for justice, the police official said.

Court is seized of a mat-ter about entry of women in Sabarimala temple of Kerala. This is also for the first time that the state has been asked to give its views on women’s entry into a shrine. On Tues-day, when the PIL came up for hearing, the bench was told that the Advo-cate General was on his legs before another bench in some other matter.

Hence, the PIL on Haji Ali Durgah was posted for arguments on February 9 when the Advocate Gen-eral has been asked to ar-gue on behalf of the State. The HC had indicated last month that it would wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on entry of wom-en in Sabarimala temple in Kerala before deciding on the plea in the case of Haji Ali Durgah.

MCD strike: Arvind Kejriwal announces Rs 551 cr loan for civic bodies

demands CBI probe into

mismanagement of funds

their strike. Employees of Delhi’s three civic bodies — North Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Munici-pal Corporation — have been protesting against the non-payment of sala-ries, directing their ire at both the Delhi and cen-tral governments for the last eight days. “We are

giving Rs.551 crore to the north and east munic-ipal corporations as loan for payment of salaries of workers,” Kejriwal said in Bengaluru, where he is undergoing treat-ment at a naturopathy centre. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation will also be paid Rs.142 crore against the stamp duty bill. “It is with great

difficulty that we have been able to find this Rs.550 crore for loan. The Delhi government is facing Rs.3,000 crore value added tax short-fall,” Kejriwal said soon after he announced about the loan. The chief min-ister addressed a press conference over the issue in Bengaluru where he has gone for treatment. “An impression is being created as if Delhi Gov-ernment is responsible for the financial mess in the MCDs which have been ruled by BJP for the last 10 years. There are huge scams in MCDs. A situation is being creat-ed through the strike of the municipal workers to show that there is a crisis in Delhi.

cier early in the morning. “The post was manned by one junior commis-sioned officer and nine soldiers,” said another army spokesperson, Col SD Goswami. Situated

on the northern edge of the Himalayas in Kash-mir with altitudes reach-ing as high as 22,000 feet, the glacier is an icy desert and has become more prone to avalanch-

es after recent snowfall in the upper reaches of the Valley. Indian and Pakistani armies battling for the snow wastelands of Siachen since 1984 have lost more soldiers to adverse weather than combat. “Rescue op-erations by specialised teams from army and air force are underway to rescue the soldiers,” the defence ministry said in

a statement. On April 7, 2012 at least 130 Paki-stani soldiers and 14 ci-vilians were killed when a giant wall of snow crashed down on one of the neighbouring coun-try’s defence headquar-ters. While the Indian

Army was not able to provide fresh data, sta-tistics accessed by Hin-dustan Times earlier had revealed that a third of the total army fatalities in the Kashmir valley be-tween January 2007 and March 2012 were due to

avalanches. At least 242 soldiers were killed in the Valley during those five years, of which 180 lost their lives fighting militants. The rest were consumed by natural ca-lamities, mostly snow deluges. Last month, four soldiers of the 3 Ladakh Scouts battalion were killed when their patrol party was hit by a massive avalanche in the region. In April last year, four army personnel lost their lives when an ava-lanche struck the Chang La area of Siachen.

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYIs freedom of speech absolute and unconditional?

“Modi! Modi! Modi!” I looked around. Was I in a polit-ical rally? Or in Wembley or Madison Square Garden? What was this circus? It was, would you believe, the normally elegant debate held at the end of the Jaipur Literature Festival. Invited to participate to support the motion — Is freedom of speech absolute and uncondi-tional? — I had anticipated well articulated points by eloquent adversaries. The brilliant actor Anupam Kher was on to supporting that there should be restrictions on freedom of speech. His points: India is the greatest because we can say what we want. To prove that he let fly a string of Hindi gaalis that included your sister. Kher announced from the start that the drum to signal the speaker was over the time limit would not apply to him because he was going to speak as long as he wanted. However, he never had enough to say and fin-ished before even reaching that time. Periodically, the thousands of goons he had brought in shouted “Modi! Modi!” on Kher’s cue when he raised his arms. I have seen that many insecure stars like to travel with their own entourage of chamchas but this was stretching it. Kher encouraged them with fist pumping and blowing kisses to them. It was a pinnacle of rowdyism. It is a remarkable display of boxed in thinking that the BJP caught the ball that Nayantara Sahgal threw at the Sa-hitya Akademi. She objected to the Akademi’s silence over the killing of writers. Not to the BJP. Smart BJP strategy would have agreed that they were also against intolerance. That would have taken the wind out of the bag. But, the intolerance/tolerance ball was set rolling when any mention of freedom of speech or an intol-erant atmosphere was translated to anti-Modi, lack of patriotism and met with verbal lynching. In truth, it has been the Congress party that has been the most intol-erant and vindictive of dissent and criticism. Starting with Jawaharlal Nehru’s adding restrictions to freedom of speech (Article 19a) that included obscenity, vulgar-ity, etc, and banning of books, films and even people. It has the longest list of banned books and films. The now repealed Section 66A that threw people in jail for Face-book and Twitter posts was done by the Congress. Ac-cording to Section 295A in the IPC, any citizen can file a complaint of hurt sentiments and the person would be jailed. Section 295A was passed by the British in 1927. This was used to jail a puzzled comedian, Kiku Sharda, who acted out a spoof on godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Section 295A was also used to issue arrest war-rants to All India Bakchod, Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor. Members of the audience, Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt, also got arrest warrants.

“26/11 and Pathankot airbase attacks signify tectonic shift for India” - union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on

Wednesday targeted Pakistan for failing to curb export of terror to India.

Nostalgia: Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Fan’ will have a special surprise in store for all his fans

Agency | New Delhi

With a parallel career in both Bollywood and Hol-lywood, Irrfan Khan said: “India is only going to get bigger in the West. The American film industry is always looking for talent; they have the stories and are eyeing India.” He add-ed: “In the next five years, it’s only going to get big-ger.” Irrfan has wrapped Ron Howard’s Inferno with Tom Hanks, who has been recently voted Hol-lywood’s greatest actor, and Irrfan was in agree-ment saying: “Tom Hanks was an actor secure in his

space. He has no air and is so talented.”And believe it or not, Irrfan who was ap-proached for Steven Spiel-berg’s latest with Scarlett Johansson, turned down the film. “I didn’t feel the character offered to me gave me much scope. So I said ‘No’; though Scar-lett Johansson is an actor I would have loved to share screen space with,” he said. Irrfan, an actor who loves to surprise himself and his audience, is yet to sign another Hindi film. Isn’t it a scary situation for an actor? “Not at all,” he smiled nonchalantly.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Katrina Kaif, who will be seen in Fitoor, Baar Baar Dekho and Jagga Ja-soos this year, said that she gives a lot of impor-tance to love in her life. “It has been a while since I did a love story. This year, I have three love sto-ries that are different from each other. It is good that all these films are unique. I am lucky because the three directors have a different and unique vi-sion,” Katrina said. “You

can have beliefs and ide-als about love. I know it’s very important to me. I give a lot of importance to it in life. I have an ideal-istic view about it,” added Katrina. The 32-year-old actress, however, feels that it is difficult to de-scribe love. “The greatest poets like Ghalib and all could not define love. It is not precise how you want it and what it should be,” said Katrina. Katrina also said that her films which will release this year are completely different from

one another. “Fitoor is a classic, romantic, passion-ate love story. Jagga Ja-soos is quirky and unusu-al, and Baar Baar Dekho is a very surprising love story. It’s a new take on love,” she said. Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor, which is based on Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, will release on February 12. “This film is larger than life. It is a grand epic love story but the charac-ters and problems are re-latable. The celebration is grand,” she added.

Agency | Mumbai

Actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia Deshmukh, who are described by their friends as the “sweet-est” and most “adorable” couple in Bollywood, on Wednesday complet-ed four years since their wedding. Genelia says her husband is “the best”. A string of B-Town celebri-ties congratulated the cou-ple, while Genelia posted on her social media ac-counts: “Happy Anniver-

sary Riteish… Cheers to the world we made, which we call our own. Forever is a long time but I want it only with you. My hus-band is the best.” The 28-year-old also posted an image in which Ritiesh can be seen holding her with much love and care. Riteish feels lucky to have Genelia in his life, and posted: I must have definitely done some-thing right in my previous life. I better be good this

time because I want you in my next.” The couple have starred together in movies like “Tujhe Meri Kasam” and “Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya” and mar-ried in 2012. They also have a one-year-old son Riaan, while Genelia is said to be expecting a child again. Here’s what B-Town tweeted on their anniversary: Ken Ghosh: Happy Anniversary Genelia and Riteish, Live long and prosper!

Why Irrfan Khan Said ‘No’ to Spielberg Movie Starring Scarlett Johansson

Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma fallout: Celebs unfollow each other on Instagram

Katrina Kaif Gives a ‘Lot Of Importance’ to LoveRiteish Deshmukh, Genelia celebrate

their love on fourth anniversary

It’s time male stars play second fiddle to actresses: Shabana Azmi

Ooh! Alia Bhatt reveals her sexy side on Grazia India cover February 2016

Agency | Mumbai

After the first two teas-ers have brought in huge appreciation, it’s about time that Yash Raj Films launches the first theatri-cal trailer for Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan. And like we had already told you, Fan will have SRK in dou-ble roles- that of super-star Aryan Khanna and his fan Gaurav. While as a superstar, Aryan will mouth the same di-alogues that Shah Rukh did in his previous films, Gaurav will wear the same clothes. “The team of Fan has researched Shah Rukh’s films over

Agency | New Delhi

Known for her strong portrayal of women char-acters on screen, actress Shabana Azmi feels male stars in Bollywood should consider play-ing secondary character to actresses in movies. Azmi said as many ac-tresses are happy to be playing second fiddle to a hero, the same gesture should be reciprocated to make women-orient-ed cinema more viable. “I think for women cen-tred films to become even more viable, and be able to expand their budget, it’s time the big male stars also once in

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and her cricket-er boyfriend Virat Kohli sparked off rumours of a break-up by unfollowing each other on the photo and image-sharing site Instagram. Soon, how-ever, Virat’s fan club an-nounced that the cricketer was having some sort of a technical snag with his Insta account lately, which caused the following and unfollowing on several accounts automatically. The rumours of a break-up erupted after a fan noticed that the two celebrities had unfollowed each oth-er on Instagram. Rumours of a possible split start-ed spreading over social

Agency | New Delhi

Young Bollywood diva Alia Bhatt has shot for a very sexy cover this month. The Shaandaar actress has revealed her never-seen-before sexy side on the cover of Gra-zia India February 2016! The magazine cover shoot shows Alia show-ing ample cleavage, for those who thought she was still a kiddo. Alia is showing us that she’s all grown up now and left her Student Of The Year days behind! But of that, we were convinced right after we saw her in Imti-az Ali’s Highway. What a bold role for the young one! She later surprised us in 2 States and Hump-ty Sharma Ki Dulhania as well. Coming back to the cover of the fashion mag-

the years. And the cos-tume department has created identical clothes for Gaurav’s character.” He adds, “Gaurav is a lookalike of the superstar and hence is famous in his locality. His charac-ter will be seen wearing clothes that SRK wore in his earlier films.” And

it won’t just refer to the films he’s usually fa-mous for. “People love him as Raj and Rahul but Fan doesn’t just revolve around the superstardom of these characters. In-stead, Maneesh has made sure he gives equal focus on his lesser remembered films too.”

media like wild fire in no time. Meanwhile, various versions of the story were soon doing the rounds. One section of fans spec-ulated the so-called ro-mance was always a publicity stunt, and was being called off this way now that it had outlived its novelty. Others said a possible break-up had to do with the duo’s dif-

ference of opinion over marriage. A section of the grapevine suggested Vi-rat wanted to get married this year but Anushka ap-parently is not ready yet to settle down. The ru-mours were also fuelled by the fact that this has been Bollywood’s season of break-ups, with several glam couples facing trou-ble in paradise.

a while work in a role that is secondary as com-pared to the girl. This is something we need to encourage,” Azmi said. “Because so many girls, who are very important in their own right, are quite happy sometimes to also be playing second fiddle to the man, so why shouldn’t that gesture be

reciprocated. I think it’ll lead to a healthy atmo-sphere.” The 65-year-old actress, who last year worked in Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Jazbaa and will be next seen with Sonam Ka-poor in Neerja, believes actresses today are mak-ing brave choices in their roles.

azine, Alia is seen wear-ing a low-neckline top and camisole from design houses Rasa Jaipur and Anamika Khanna, and her shoes are the iconic Jimmy Choo. The girl is wearing accessories from Pipa+Bella, Bhane, Fendi and Minerali. The Heart-

break Kid: Alia Bhatt - as Grazia likes to call her – poses for inside pictures too, and there’s one where she is lying on a sofa in a skirt and top with a gui-tar on her one side and a retro style television set on the other. The effect is cool and casual.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPServices sector growth hits 19-month high in January: PMI

Microsoft to buy smartphone keyboard app maker Swiftkey

Auto Expo 2016: Hero Xtreme 200 S, Splendor iSmart 110 unveiled

Agency | New Delhi

India’s services sector activity touched a 19-month high in January driven by strengthening underly-ing demand and improved weather conditions, a monthly survey showed Wednesday. The Nikkei Business Activity index climbed to a 19-month high of 54.3 last month from 53.6 in December, pointing to a marked expansion of activity across the sector. The overall increase in services output was mainly driven by a seventh successive month-ly expansion of new business orders. “The services sector gained traction and posted its strongest monthly gain in activity for over one-and-a-half years,” Pollyanna De Lima, economist at Markit, which compiles the survey, said. Meanwhile, the seasonally adjusted Nikkei India Composite PMI Output index, which maps both manufacturing and services sectors, climbed from 51.6 in December

to an 11-month high of 53.3 in January.Agency | New Delhi

Under-fire India hockey captain Sardar Singh on Wednesday rubbished al-leged sexual harassment charges leveled against him by a British hockey player of Indian origin, saying even though he knew her they never got engaged as claimed by the woman. The 21-year-old woman has filed a written complaint with Ludhiana police, claim-

ing she has been engaged to Sardar for the past four years and alleged that he “mentally, physically and emotionally tortured” her. “I know her but it’s wrong to say that I assaulted her,” Sardar said. She also alleged that Sardar forced her to abort their child last year against her wishes and later refused to mar-ry her. Sardar said these are serious allegations and he will retort back at an appropriate time as he

is presently focussing on the ongoing Hockey India League, where he is cap-taining the Jaypee Punjab Warriors side. “Presently my full concentration in on the ongoing HIL. Af-ter last night’s match, I came to know about the allegations. Tomorrow I have a match again. It is a very serious allegation. I will look at the report and consult my lawyer. I will answer all questions but I need some time,” he said.Agency | New Delhi

Swiftkey, one of the most popular and effective key-board apps for the smartphone, is being acquired by Microsoft. This deal is pegged at the tune of $250 million. Back in the days when phones sim-ply had numeric keypads with group of letters near each number, typing messages was often a tedious task. Never mind entire paragraphs, even getting a few lines involved a frustrating amount of tapping. When the entire mobile phone experience moved to glass, it got a whole generation accustomed to tapping letters on a touchscreen. Which is where apps like Swiftkey have been trying to find ever easier and more intuitive ways to type faster on a smartphone screen. From being able to guess words based on sliding a finger across letters to literally being able to predict upcoming words using Arti-ficial Intelligence (AI) and Neural Network based approaches, Swiftkey has been continually pushing

the boundaries on this front.

Agency | Mumbai

Hero Motorcorp, the country’s larget two-wheeler maker, unveiled 4 new vehicles on the first day of the Auto Expo 2016. Similar to the earlier editions of Expo, the company has displayed some futur-istic concepts and some production/closer-to-pro-duction models besides its existing lineup. Out of all the Hero bikes being displayed at the bienni-al event, Hero Xtreme 200 S is the most exciting product that showcases the company’s renewed fo-cus on premium segment. The Hero Xtreme 200 S is a naked sportbike powered by an all-new 200cc, single-cylinder engine. Built on the strong dia-mond type chassis, this entry-level naked sportbike from Hero will fall in the fast growing 200-250cc segment and will lock horns with the KTM Duke 200, TVS Apache RTR 200, Bajaj Pulsar NS200, etc. The engine, powering the Hero Xtreme 200 S, is capable of developing a maximum power out-put of 18.5bhp at 8500rpm and a peak torque of 17.2Nm at 6000rpm. With these power figures, the Xtreme 200 S is as powerful as most of its rivals. This engine comes mated to a 5-speed gearbox.

Sardar Singh rubbishes sexual harrasment charge against him

New Zealand dismiss Australia in under 25 overs to sail to comprehensive 159 runs win

Federer undergoes knee surgery, will miss a couple of tourneys

Pro Kabaddi League: Nitin Tomar impresses as Bengal Warriors outplay telugu titans

Sunil Narine’s new action within limits: ICC

Indian team for Asia Cup, World T20 to be selected on February 5

Agency | Mumbai

The Indian squads for the upcoming Asia Cup T20 tournament in Ban-gladesh and the subse-quent ICC World Twen-ty20 championship in India are to be chosen on February 5 at Delhi by the national selection panel headed by Sand-eep Patil. “The meeting has been scheduled on February 5 at Delhi to pick the teams for the Asia Cup and World T20 events,” Cricket Board sources said on Wednes-day. India would play a three-game T20 series at home against Sri Lanka

Agency | Auckland

Trent Boult and Matt Henry shared six wick-ets to destroy Austra-lia’s top order and steer New Zealand to a 159-run win on Wednesday, taking a measure of re-venge for defeat by its trans-Tasman rival in last year’s World Cup fi-nal. In the opening game of the Chappell-Hadlee series, and the teams’ first meeting since the World Cup, New Zea-land scored 307-8 after being sent in to bat, and Australia was never in the contest after slump-ing to 41-6 before being bowled out for 148 in

Agency | New Delhi

Officials monitoring the remodelled action of the West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine say he is now bowling within lim-its stipulated by the Inter-national Cricket Council (ICC). Local match ref-eree Michael Ragoonath and cricket administrator Jeffrey Guillen both said they saw nothing to be concerned about while watching Narine’s new action in local matches over the weekend. Ra-goonath, who was ref-eree for two matches involving Narine, said he received no negative reports from any of the umpires who officiated. “I stood as match refer-ee for both games and the only way I can act is if a bowler is reported by the onfield umpires,” Ragoonath said here on Tuesday. “Sunil played in both games and the umpires did not report anything to me. What I did was to video tape his

Agency | New Delhi

Roger Federer will be out of action for up to a month after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery in Switzerland to repair a torn meniscus, his agent at TEAM8 Tony Godsick told Reuters on Wednes-day. The 17-times grand slam champion suffered the injury away from a tennis court the day after his Australian Open run ended in the semi-finals last week. Federer has withdrawn from the ABN

AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam and the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in February. “I am so disap-pointed to have to miss Rotterdam and Dubai as they are two of my favour-ite tournaments on the ATP World Tour,” said Federer, who is the reigning cham-pion in Dubai having won the title for the seventh time last March. “While this is an unfortunate set-back, I feel grateful that up until now I have remained

Agency | Visakhapatnam

Bengal Warriors, strengthened in attack by the inclusion of army man Nitin Tomar, gave an impressive display with a 25-17 win over Telugu Titans in the con-cluding tie of the first leg of the Pro Kabaddi in Vishakhapatnam on Tues-day. The Kolkata-based outfit hadn’t performed well last season and the home team was expected to put it across by riding on the crowd support. But Nitin dashed their hopes as he found an able ally in Mahesh Goud in at-tack. The duo turned the tide after the break when the two teams were tied

24.2 overs. Martin Gup-till set up New Zealand’s innings with 90, sharing in a rapid 79-run opening partnership with Bren-don McCullum, who was playing his last game at Eden Park. Henry Nich-olls scored a well-paced

61 as New Zealand raced to 182-3 after 25 overs, but failed to capitalize on that start as the tail fal-tered against some tight Australian bowling. “We pulled them back pretty well,” Australia captain Steve Smith said.

9-9. The match took a decisive turn after the defending pair of cor-ner men, Captain Nilesh Shinde and Girish Ernak struck a purple patch. For the home team nothing went right in all the de-partments. Rahul got only two points for a tally of four with two tackles in the match. Sukesh Heg-de was also nowhere near his usual self, scoring just a solitary point in a do-or-die raid. Girish who had

5 tackle points, teamed up so well with Nilesh (4 tackles) that within a space of two minutes the fate of the match was decided. From a slender 15-14 advantage in the 31st minute they went up 20-15. In the process they scored an all-out, the only one of the match in the 33rd minute of play. Nitin got rid of the dan-gerous Meraj Sheykh and Prashant Kumar Rai to register the all-out.

from February 9, ahead of the multi-nation T20 events. The Asia Cup is slated to be held from February 24 to March 6, after a four-team quali-fying event to spot one qualifier for the tourna-ment proper from Feb-ruary 19-22. India take on hosts Bangladesh in

the tournament opener at Mirpur followed by matches against arch-foes Pakistan (Feb 27), Sri Lanka (Mar 1) and qualifiers (Mar 3). This is the first time the Asia Cup is being played in the T20 format, in a change from the earlier 50-over competitions.

bowling to have a look at it and when we sat down and viewed the footage, we found him to be well within the limits allowed for bending of the arm.” Narine had not bowled competitively since be-ing forced out of the Ban-gladesh Premier League last November and was reported during the West Indies’ series against Sri Lanka. Subsequent tests showed that Narine’s ac-tion was exceeding the 15-degree level of toler-ance permitted under the ICC regulations. He has since undergone rehabili-tation on his action and is scheduled to be tested at the Loughborough Uni-

versity in England next month. “On the weekend, he looked good and is bowling quite well,” said manager of Queen’s Park Cricket Club, Guillen, af-ter Narine captured two for 37 in a 10-over spell to help his club Queen’s Park beat Clarke Road by 32 runs in the open-ing round of the 50-overs championship. “The issue I think would not be pass-ing the test, but getting ready for the World T20, which is major. We are confident that he would be ready, but at the mo-ment his ambition is to get past the test, which he should take in about two or three weeks’ time.”

mostly healthy throughout my career,” the 34-year-old Swiss added. “My doc-tors have ensured me that the surgery was a success and with proper rehabili-tation, I will be able to re-turn to the Tour soon.” The world number three has won two Rotterdam tro-phies among his 88 titles. Federer has rarely missed any tournaments for health reasons during his remark-able 18-year profession-al career. In 2005 he was out of action for six weeks while he recovered from foot injury and during 2008 he was troubled by a bout of mononucleosis and back problems. Federer had been expected to leap-frog British world number two Andy Murray in the ATP standings in Febru-ary while expectant father Murray takes a paternity break from the game.

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Correspondent | Bhuj

Vishwa Hindu Parish-ad (VHP) members to-day protested against the ongoing shooting of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Raees” in the district, for his earlier remarks on “in-tolerance”. Around 20-30 VHP activists on Tuesday handed over a memoran-dum to district officers and demanded withdraw-al of the permission giv-en for the shooting of the film. Today, they protest-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

There’s good news and some stale news. The good news is that the cen-tral government has as-sured the public of elec-tricity and water supply, sanitation, efficient public transport, security, health and education under the Smart City programme. The stale news is that this was promised in 2005 under a different name – the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The question is why should it make headlines at all? Are these not basic fa-cilities every city should provide to its citizens? When the Ministry of Urban Development, the nodal agency involved for setting up smart cit-ies, announced the first

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

As the talks to withdraw cases registered during the Patidar quota stir are a buzz in the power galler-ies, the cops have opined that the charges are of se-rious nature and the high court too has refused to drop the sedition charges. Most of the cases includ-ing the sedition cases lodged are against Patidar Anamat Andolan Sami-ti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel and some of his as-sociates. Highly placed sources in the police de-partment said that a com-promise could be reached by the government and Patidar leaders in some 74 cases which mostly are of

violation of notification. Senior police officials said however most of the cases registered against the agitators are of vi-olence and only proper scrutiny by law officials could lead to a compro-mise. It is noteworthy that more than 450 cases were registered across the state during the violence which erupted on August 25 af-ter Hardik Patel was de-tained by the police. The Patidar quota stir leaders had also demanded an inquiry and suspension of police personnels and officials responsible for alleged police atrocities during the Patidar quota stir.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The Gujarati film industry, popularly called as Dhol-lywood, which is riding high following the box-of-fice hits of some films with contemporary and socially relevant themes, got a shot in the arm from the Gujarat government Tuesday. The state gov-ernment announced its new policy for the pro-motion of quality Gujarati films. Under the policy, a gradation system has been introduced for providing financial assistance to Gu-jarati film producers that will range from Rs 5 lakh to 50 lakh. Apart from this, films which win na-tional or international ac-

Correspondent | Vadodara

The 10th anniversary cel-ebrations of MGNREGA Tuesday set off a political slugfest with the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Com-mittee (GPCC) lashing out at the “mindset of the BJP” at an event here. The party said that it’d imple-ment the UPA schemes in the party-run taluka and district panchayats in the state. Congress lead-ers referred to Monday’s Supreme Court rap on knuckles for the Gujarat government in a PIL re-lated to the implementa-tion of the Food Security Bill and NREGA. Former party MLA, Siddharth Patel said, “The BJP be-lieves that the country’s progress is based on the progress of industrialists, but the Congress believes that the country can prog-ress only when the poor also progress. The UPA brought the food secu-rity bill to ensure that a

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Amazon India today an-nounced the Amazing Week 2016, an initiative to celebrate the Amazon way of “work hard, have fun, make history” with associates and managers across all its Fulfilment Centers (FC - warehous-es). Aimed at creating a sense of pride and belong-ingness through apprecia-tion and recognition, the Amazing Week is a fun and engaging event during which associates will be recognized for their hard work and success, meet the leadership team, get to know more about the organization and above all participate in diverse activities and programs through the week. Con-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy was on Wednesday elevated as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court while 12 additional judges of the Allahabad High Court were made as permanent judges. Justice Reddy, a judge of the Andhra Pradesh/Telangana High Court, has been elevated as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court with effect from the date he as-sumes charge of his office, a Law Ministry statement said. He has become the first judge to be elevated as Chief Justice of a High

Court since April 13, 2015 when the government had brought into force the Na-tional Judicial Appoint-ments Commission Act, which had overturned the collegium system of appointing judges. “Col-legium recommendations for Chief Justices of Ra-jasthan, Patna, Gauhati, Meghalaya and Karnata-ka High Courts are under process. The notification is likely soon,” said a se-nior government official. Twelve additional judg-es of the Allahabad High Court were elevated as permanent judges based on the recommendation of the collegium.

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3rd February-2016, In-dia: In a pursuit to offer the dynamic and enthu-siastic Indian a product to boost the spirit of ad-venture, Isuzu Motors India unveiled India’s 1st “Adventure Utility Vehi-cle” the ISUZU D-MAX V-Cross at the 2016 Auto Expo, which began at the India Expo Mart, Greater Noida. Mr. Su-sumu Hosoi, Chairman & Representative Direc-tor, Isuzu Motors Ltd., and Mr. Naohiro Yama-guchi, Managing Direc-tor, Isuzu Motors India, unveiled the new range of ISUZU D-MAX pick-ups which include the commercial range also for India, at a press con-ference held at the Isuzu Year : 02, Issue : 34 “Sunvilla Samachar” (English) Daily Morning Newspaper Printed at “Sunvilla Samachar(Daily) Printing Press”, Survey No.: 1624-25-26, Final Plot No.F/P/537, urmila Compound, Opp.Ambica Estate, G.D. School Road, Saijpur Bogha, Ahmedabad -382340 and Published at A-24, Shardha Apartment, thakkarbapanagar Road, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad-382350. Mo.: 9687612324, by Owner, Printer, Publisher : Aksheshkumar S. Savaliya on date 04-02-2016 (thursday), Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara* (*Responsible for selection of News under the PRB act). RNI No. : GuJENG/2014/59629

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Motors India stall (Hall No 1, stall E2). The ISUZU D-MAX V-Cross will cater to the growing need for an ‘Adventure Utility Vehicle’ that pro-vokes the spirit of adven-ture with a combination of rugged and durable off-roading capability and passenger vehicle like comforts. There is growing interest amongst Indians to explore new

facets of life and the new ISUZU D-Max V-Cross will complement the dreams of adventurous The ISUZU D-MAX V-Cross comes with a 4WD (4X4) configura-tion, High Ride and a host of exciting features and can be registered as a “Personal Vehicle”. The ‘V-Cross’ badge is unique to the personal lifestyle vehicles.

ducted from the 1st to 5th of February across FCs, customized programs for associates are consistent-ly being executed at every site to ensure similarity in experience for all. Talking about Amazing Week, Akhil Saxena, Director Operations, Amazon India said, “Amazing Week is an initiative to recognize

and celebrate our associ-ates and managers who work tirelessly to ensure that we delight our cus-tomers. During the week we will have events to recognize our associates, have fun together and also learn more about the Am-azon Leadership princi-ples through planned team building activities.”

ed outside the district Collector’s office press-ing for the same demand. They shouted slogans. “From the Collector’s of-fice they wanted to go to the place where the shoot-ing is on, which is on the outskirts of the Bhuj city, but we have stopped them and dispersed them,” Po-

lice Sub-Inspector (PSI) M B Parmar said. “He should think, living in this country which gave him name, fame and rich-es; if he goes on speak-ing about on-existent in-tolerance, the VHP will never forgive,” Gujarat VHP general secretary Ranchod Bharwad said.

“Today there is news that a Hindu temple was at-tacked and vandalised in Pakistan. Why are they not giving any statement on the intolerance there,” he asked. In December last year, workers of right wing organisations had staged protest against Khan in Gujarat, Rajas-than states and called for a boycott of his film “Dilwale” on the same issue. Shah Rukh Khan had entered the ongoing debate on intolerance on November 2 last year by expressing that there was “extreme intolerance” in the country.

poor family get its one day’s meal and a scheme like NREGA to generate employment. The UPA government spent close to Rs 49,700 crore to implement the NREGA scheme. Then, the BJP govt arrived, positioning itself as the epicenter of development. But Modi had opposed NREGA as the Gujarat CM and at the centre he tried to do away with NREGA, but failed due to protest. Unfortu-nately, in the last one year, the Modi government has less than half the allocat-

ed budget for NREGA, giving employment only to 4.59 crore people as against the 8 crore figure of employed youth during UPA regime.” According to the Congress leaders, Vadodara has fared as the poorest district in terms of NREGA goals. Patel said, “Vadodara is the low-est scoring district of the state in terms of NREGA at 13%, due to the lack of interest in implementing of the scheme.” GPCC president Bharat Solanki questioned the intent of PM Modi regarding de-

velopment of poor and NREGA. Solanki said, “The BJP is not a party with a people-friendly mindset. When they were not in power, they made tall claims about reducing fuel prices, but today de-spite lower global crude oil prices, they have in-creased the duties and burdened the common man. They have snatched away employment from the hands of the poor. Once in a month, Modi airs a Mann ki Baat. But it cannot solve the crisis of farmers.

clamation at events like Oscar, Cannes Film Fes-tival, France Film Festi-val, Berlin Film Festival etc. will be given addi-tional award of up to Rs 5 crore. This comes three years after suspending its policy of giving Rs 5 lakh subsidy to Gujarati films. The old policy was dis-continued from August 31, 2013. Senior cabinet minister Nitin Patel an-nounced the new poli-cy at a press conference here. He said that with the new policy, the gov-ernment was confident that the number of films produced in Gujarat will

increase from present 35 films per year to around 100 films per year. The policy document says that through past experi-ences it was realised that the main intention of old policy had not been at-tained. “As a result, an image prevails that Guja-rati films are not quality products. And it used to attract a lot of criticism for this. And so, to in-crease quality of Gujara-ti films and to create an atmosphere that inspires more and more people to watch Gujarati films, the latest policy was under consideration,” it adds.

20 winners last week, Bhubaneshwar emerged with top marks at 78.83. Those that also made the cut include Pune, Ahmedabad, Kochi and NDMC (New Delhi Mu-nicipal Corporation). These cities will mobilise resources through pub-lic-private partnerships to fund their respective plans. If eyebrows were raised about the NDMC (perhaps the richest civ-ic agency in the country) being included in the list,

it’s apparently because they require funds to make Connaught Place pedestrian friendly and increase its ‘happiness quotient’. “At the end of the day, it’s not different from JnNURM. But this time they have criteria, a jury and a consultant list. It would be great if they could actually put out more affordable housing, one of the core elements of the Smart City infra-structure,” says architect Sanjay Prakash. R.S. Reddy new Chief

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