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Pepsi back as BCCI sponsor

Agency | New Delhi

Beverage major Pep-siCo, which pulled out as title sponsors of the BCCI backed IPL in October, today entered into a four-year part-nership with the apex cricket body as an asso-ciate sponsor for all its international matches at home. This would make PepsiCo as BCCI’s official partner for re-freshment, snacks and drinks besides grounds right where the bever-age firm would have visibility on the field.Former minister’s

brother found dead in Goa

Man framed in rape case

acquitted

Agency | Panaji

Former Goa BJP min-ister Ramrao Dessai’s brother Rajesh was found dead today at the family farmhouse in a village near here, police said. “We found the body of Rajesh at his farmhouse. The in-vestigations are on. The cause of the death has not been ascertained till now,” police inspector Ravi Dessai said. The Dessai-family owned farmhouse in Cur-chorem village, about 60 kms from here, where Rajesh’s body was re-covered was in news after Sameer Mapari who worked as a driver with the family, was also found dead in a river in 2007 in the same place.

Agency | New Delhi

A local court here has acquitted a man of rape charges after the alleged victim said she lodged a false complaint on the advice of her counsel in order to retrieve Rs 3 lakh borrowed by the accused from her. Additional Ses-sions Judge Sanjiv Jain, while freeing the man, referred to the testimony of the complainant before the court in which she said she made false rape allegations on the ad-vice” of her lawyer who said it was the only way to get the money back.

‘I have learned to live with criticism,’ says PM Modi in Lok Sabha“Modi vs Rahul in LS”

Agency | New Delhi

Home Minister Ra-jnath Singh said politics shouldn’t be played over secularism and called upon all political parties to join hands in protecting India’s unity and integri-ty. While responding to a calling attention motion on alleged inflammatory speeches by union minis-ters and elected represen-tatives in violation of the Constitution and oath of office, the Home Minister told the Rajya Sabha that India is the world’s most secular country. While putting forward govern-ment’s stand in the Upper House, the Union Minister

Agency | New Delhi

A Delhi government-ap-pointed magisterial probe did not find any evidence of JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar raising anti-India slogans at a controver-sial event in the univer-sity, allegations based on which he was slapped with sedition charges by police. According to the probe report, anti-national slogans were shouted at the campus and JNU ad-ministration has already identified “few faces” who were “clearly” heard raising them. The probe panel said their where-abouts must be found out and their role must be

Agency | New Delhi

A day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took on the BJP govern-ment over a host of issues including jobs, participa-tory governance and black money. In his reply to the President’s address to both of Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thought it right to address the constant dis-ruptions in Parliament by targetting the Congress party using its own lead-ers – former prime minis-ter Rajiv Gandhi. “When Parliament sessions are

not functional, the nation suffers and more than that the MPs suffer be-cause they can’t discuss issues… House is a place where debates are to take place, but if boundaries are maintained during a debate then it’s fruitful,” PM Modi said, adding that it was not his words but that of Rajiv. “I ap-peal the Opposition to help pass important bills in both Houses of Parlia-ment,” Modi said, once again saying it was Rajiv who had said those words during his tenure in Parlia-

ment and not him. On the opposition hitting out at the government’s Make In India scheme, PM Modi said: “We make our image as that of a beggar in front of the world,” once again quoting a Congress lead-er – former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s speech at IP college in 1974. In a veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi said: “Kuch logon ki umar toh badhti hai, lekin samajh nahi badhti (some people grow in age but their abil-ity to understand does not increase).” “Parliament

Agency | New Delhi

Students and staff of Modern School in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar were evacuated on Thursday after a caller claimed that a bomb had been planted in the school which later turned out to be a hoax. According to Delhi Fire Services officials, the call was received around 1.15 PM following which teams were sent to the school and students and teachers were evacuated. Bomb disposal squads in-spected the premises thor-oughly. Around 2.50 PM, Delhi Police declared it a hoax call. Police were

Agency | New Delhi

With banks going af-ter him to recover un-paid loans given to the long-grounded Kingfish-er Airlines, beleaguered businessman Vijay Mal-lya remains defiant and says the “only regret” he has is that the carrier is not flying when the oil price has dipped so low. “I have no regrets as such. Perhaps the only regret is that Kingfisher Airlines is not flying today when the oil price is so low,” Mal-lya said. Global crude oil prices have fallen by al-most 75% from the peak seen in mid-2014. While airlines in India still

some people grow in age but don’t mature

said, “We consider anyone in this country to be a na-tionalist. Terrorism has no colour, caste or religion.” Taking part in a debate in Rajya Sabha, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said, “A sin-gle party cannot protect India’s unity and integrity, we all will have to make collective efforts for that.”

While giving a clean chit to Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria over al-leged provocative speech, the Home Minister said, the video of Katheria has been examined and noth-ing objectionable was found. “I heard Katheria’s speech and I made others hear it. We all agreed there is nothing inflammatory

in the speech,” he said. Katheria had on Sunday attended a condolence meeting held for VHP worker Arun Mahaur, who was shot dead in Agra on Thursday. At the meeting, he said: “This conspiracy that is being hatched against the Hindu community, we have to be be alert to recognise it and strengthen ourselves.” Katheria represents Agra constituency in the Lok Sabha and is minister of state in the Human Re-source Development (HRD) Ministry. BJP MP from Fatehpur Sikri, Babu Lal had also attended the condolence meeting.

Bomb hoax at south Delhi school, students evacuated

Vijay Mallya’s only regret: Kingfisher not flying when oil is cheap

trying to trace the caller. A police source said that the call was received on one of the landlines, fol-lowing which the school authorities informed the police. Soon, the school was locked down and stu-dents evacuated through one gate. “A bomb call was received regarding

modern school vasant vihar. ACP & SHO with staff at school. All evacu-ated with help of teachers and students. Anti-sab-otage check being un-dertaken to trace device if any. So far situation is normal (sic),” DCP (South Delhi) Prem Nath tweeted around 2.30 PM.

Rajnath Singh rules out action against Ram Shankar Katheria, says India world’s most secular country

JNU row: Delhi government probe gives clean chit to Kanhaiya, says Umar Kahlid’s role should be investigated

complain that the fall in crude prices has not got translated fully in the aviation fuel prices, their fuel cost has still come down by 30%-40%. Most airlines reported better financials in the last quarter on account of low oil prices. Mal-lya, widely known as the ‘King of Good Times’ in

his heydays, quit recent-ly as chairman of Unit-ed Spirits -- a company founded by his family in which he sold majority stake to UK-based liquor giant Diageo. As part of the deal that also ended a year-long boardroom battle at United Spirits, Diageo has agreed to pay Mallya $75 million.

investigated. The report said “nothing adverse” could be found against Kumar and that no wit-ness or video was avail-able to support allegations against the JNU students union president. Kumar was granted interim bail for six months in the case by the Delhi high court on Wednesday. It said sev-

en videos of the event on February 9 to protest Afzal Guru’s hanging were sent to a Hyderabad-based fo-rensic lab and out of them, three were found to be doctored including one clipping of a news chan-nel. The probe headed by New Delhi district mag-istrate Sanjay Kumar said Umar Khalid was visible

in many videos and that his support for Kashmir and Guru was known. He was the organizer of the event and his role should be further investigated, it said. Umar and anoth-er JNU student Anirban Bhattacharya had surren-dered before police on the night of February 24 and they were subsequently arrested in connection on sedition charge. Police had also questioned twice Ashutosh Kumar, another JNU student. The probe was ordered by the city government on February 13 following massive out-rage over Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition.

is not allowed to function due to inferiority complex of opposition leaders,” PM Modi added. In his re-ply to the President’s joint address to both Hous-es of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit back at the Opposition, alleging that they were unable to accept his government’s performance and were only out to miscredit his government. Modi urged opposition leaders to let the House function so that the voice of the nation be represented rightfully.

Here are his top quotes: * Accountability needs to be increased. And I can’t do this by myself. I am new, you (opposition) are experienced and I need your support. * It is necessary that executives need to be accountable. No one is less than the Prime Minister * In 14 years, I have learned to live with criticism * Mai kaise keh sakta hoon rail maine shuru ki? Aap keh sakte hain, aap toh kuch bhi keh sakte hain ( How can I say

I started the rail? You can tell, You can tell anything).* Opposition doesn’t let us speak out of an inferiority complex, so that the nation can’t see our views and skills.* Kharge ji ne kaha ki MNREGA mein bahaut bhrashtachaar hai, mai unse 1000% sehmat hoon (Mr. Kharge said MNREGA has corruption and I am 1000% agreeable to it). * ‘Make In India’ is being mocked by few people. ‘Make in India’ is for India

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FRIDAY, MARCh 04, 2016

QUOTE OF THE

DAYCentral allocations for agriculture are less important than the state budgets

I took the night train to Delhi to participate in bud-get-day discussions and my co-passenger, who boarded the train in ravaged Punjab, asked me a simple question: “50 farmers are committing suicide everyday; will the budget end farmer suicides?” My answer was — and still is — “No.” The Union bud-get is just the government’s bookkeeping exercise to balance revenue and expenditure. It is not the policy document it is projected to be. Central budget allo-cations for agriculture are far less significant than the collective budgets of the states because agricul-ture is a state subject. While giving Aadhaar legal sanctity and linking it to welfare programmes is Par-liament’s prerogative, it is in the states that imple-mentation will actually take place and where every sharecropper and tenant’s name has to be recorded in the land records. These — and not the budget — will be the tipping points to achieving transfor-mative rural change. The time for universally appli-cable, pan-India policy has passed. Less than 100 districts have 80 per cent of India’s poor and most of these are drought-prone. Funding has to be struc-tured keeping this in mind. More than the budget, it’s the executive decisions of the government tak-en in the normal course of work that pose a clear and present danger to the hopes of farmer prosper-ity. Take one such instance: 65 per cent of maize is consumed by the poultry industry and much of the rest by the starch industry. At their behest, India al-lowed duty-free import of 5,00,000 tonnes of subsi-dised maize. Consequently, the February spot price of maize fell by over Rs 400 and, for June deliver-ies in the futures market, to Rs 1,172, way below the MSP. The average maize yield is 25 quintals per acre. Farmers will suffer a loss of Rs 10,000 for each acre of maize sown. India has over 200 lakh acres under maize cultivation. That translates to a collec-tive loss of Rs 20,000 crore for maize farmers alone. Now compare this to the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare allocation of about Rs 20,000 crore.Additionally, when maize prices fall below the MSP, as in the recent past, government does not initiate purchases. We farmers, too, seek international trade agreements and realise the need to ensure cheap food for consumers. But when this subdues farm produce prices, then the government must fully compensate farmers in more ways than it claims to do.

“Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ (hail mother India). It should be real, spontaneous and part of all-round development of the youth,”

- Without making any reference to the JNU controversy RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said this is necessary as “some forces” are telling the youth not to say “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”...

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood’s beautiful damsel Alia Bhatt, who will turn 23 on 15 March, will ring in her birthday with a new house that she is going to gift to herself. In an interview with Vogue magazine, the 22-year-old actress revealed that the house is only few minutes away from her parent’s resi-dence. She also revealed that the the interior of her new abode is done by Richa Bahl, who previ-ously designed Kangana Ranaut’s place in Bandra. Expressing her excite-ment, the ‘Student of the Year’ actress said that the

vibe is that of a New York loft, really cosy and not too modern. “The walls are all exposed bricks and the windows are boxy. I’m trying to get a retro Smeg refrigerator and a lot of neon signs for the wall, so it will have a cool vibe.” Sidharth Malhotra and Alia recently made head-lines for showing their sizzling chemistry on the Vogue magazine’s latest cover. On the cover, the 31-year-old bare-chest-ed Sidharth, who sported swimming trunks for the sexy shoot, flaunted his toned body and muscles, while Alia looked hot in blue crop top and orange knickers.

Agency | New Delhi

If Akshay Kumar’s first look in his upcoming film Rustom made you sit up and take notice, then the poster of the film will definitely up your curios-ity quotient. The 48-year-old actor, who plays a naval officer in Rustom, has given a sneak-peek into the murder mystery with the release of its first poster. Akshay, who took to Twitter to unveil the first poster of the film, up the intrigue level, when he wrote, “3 shots that shocked the nation and changed his life! Find out what happened with #Rustom this August 12, 2016.” A decorated offi-cer, a woman hugged by another man and a news-paper headline, the poster of Rustom is enough to make heads turn. Buzz has it that the film is based on Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a naval officer, who killed his wife’s lov-er by firing three shots in 1959. He later surren-dered himself to the po-lice and got a reputation as the “honourable kill-

Agency | Chennai

Actor Satyam Rajesh, who has mostly played comic roles in his de-cade-long career, stunned everybody when he donned khaki and played a no-nonsense character in Telugu suspense drama “Kshanam”. “I’ve worked in about 350 films. Never did I imagine I could play such a character. In fact, nobody believed that I was capable of play-ing such a serious role.

‘Kshanam’ has changed all that for me and has given me the confidence to experiment,” Satyam said. When he was ap-proached for the project, he assumed he was ex-pected to play the hero’s friend. “When Sesh (writ-er) told me I have to play a cop, I wasn’t sure if he was serious, because I was mentally prepared to play the hero’s friend. But when I heard the story, I was so thrilled,” he said, adding that the makers had

originally planned to ap-proach actor Sampath Raj for the same role. Since the release of “Kshanam”, Satyam has been inundat-ed with appreciation calls. “People who called me were surprised that I could play such a character. Some of them liked my performance so much that they told me the industry has finally found another talented character artist,” he said, and added that a very popular producer has offered him villain’s role.

Agency | Mumbai

The entire country missed Kapil Sharma as Krushna Abhishek took over his time slot with a new show on Colors TV. Though our favourite comedian will soon be back with a new show, The Kapil Sharma Show. He says that he did watch Krushna’s Come-dy Nights Live and said it was different from his show. “Yes, I did watch it. They’re doing it in a different way; it’s not like how we did it. We then got busy with our show. If we keep looking at oth-ers, when will we do our work,” he said at the un-veiling of his new show. Comedy Nights Live, hosted by actor-comedian Krushna Abhishek, has replaced Kapil’s popular show after Kapil fell out

Agency | Mumbai

In a novel way of cele-brating Women’s Day, actress Shruti Haasan has come up with a new single album “My Day In The sun”. The singer-actress is all geared up for the release of special single “My Day In The sun” on the occasion of Women’s Day this year, in collab-oration with music direc-tors, Ehsaan and Loy. The “Welcome Back” actress has also penned the song. “While writing this song, my main focus was giving a voice to all women. It is about our time, as women, to shine, to be strong and to epitomise the kind of woman we each want to be,” Shruti said in a state-ment here. “I was really glad to be able to write and sing this song. Musically, it really goes back to the roots of what I’ve always loved…very rock and roll and something you can sing from the heart,” she said. Shruti said she was excited to collaborate with Ehsaan and Loy for the song. “I’ve grown up listening to them (Ehsaan and Loy) and to collabo-rate with them was won-derful,” she adds. Besides penning the lyrics herself, the 30-year-old actress has also worked with Ehsaan and Loy on composing the music for the track. “Shru-ti is a fantastic songwrit-er. We’ve come up with a song which is very con-temporary and hard-hit-ting both musically and

Alia Bhatt’s birthday gift to herself: A new house!

‘Kshanam’ has given me confidence to experiment: Satyam Rajesh

Rustom: Akshay Kumar ups the curiosity quotient with the first poster

Shruti haasan comes up with song for Women’s Day

with Colors channel offi-cials due to various rea-sons. But after weeks of speculation, Kapil is out with The Kapil Sharma Show on channel Sony. About the controversy created by the whole in-cident, Kapil said, “What do you call a controver-sy? I feel that when you are working and people love you a lot, any news related to you becomes a news. I don’t think I cre-ated any such controver-

sy, or that I had any such intention.” “There is no competition as such; our purpose is to make peo-ple laugh; the team is the same, everything else is the same. If we keep those things in mind, then we won’t be able to work; we are making the show in a very positive way. Hard work is there in our blood; we do it day and night, so we’ll do it for this show as well. So ob-viously, it will be good.”

er”. Akshay plays a Par-si, Rustom Pavri, in the romantic thriller which is inspired by real-life in-cident. Rustom is said to be a murder mystery with a romantic plot. A source was quoted as telling the website, “Rustom will not just have a strong roman-tic plot but also a thrill-

ing murder mystery. It’s a beautiful story that the au-dience will connect to and the puzzling murder will keep you riveted with in-teresting twist and turns.” Directed by debutant Tinu Suresh Desai, the film also stars Ileana D’Cruz. Rus-tom is set to hit the screens on August 12.

In a novel way of celebrating Women’s Day, Shruti haasan has come up with a new single album “My Day In The sun”

lyrically,” Ehsaan and Loy said. The audio track will be released first on March

8 and then release the vid-eo will be out after a cou-ple of months.

Watched Krushna Comedy Nights Live, it was different: Kapil Sharma

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SPORTS ROUNDUPCall Drops: SC Agrees to hear Telecom Operators’ Plea

LeEco sells 2,00,000 units of ‘superphones’ Le 1s, Le Max in 30 days

honda Amaze facelift launched at starting price of Rs 5.29 lakh

Agency | New Delhi

Chinese handset maker LeTV, which recently got renamed as LeEco has said that it sold 200,000 superphones in just 30 days. LeEco’s two super-phones - Le 1s, the flagship killer and the premium Big and Bold, Le Max have been in news lately for the unprecedented response they’ve got from con-sumers and industry alike ever since they went on sale, February 2nd and February 16th respectively. The company has created several industry leading milestones since its inception in India and has suc-cessfully established itself as a significant player in the smartphone industry. “The superphones are powered by our string ecosystem of multiple de-vices, content, cloud and platform. The incredible response from our consumers is very humbling and it re-affirms that our proposition of breakthrough technology, comprehensive ecosystem and sus-tainable disruptive pricing is being well received by our consumers,” said Atul Jain, COO, smart

electronic devices, LeEco India.

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea of two cellular operator associations challeng-ing Delhi High Court order upholding Trai’s deci-sion making it mandatory for them to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1, 2016. The plea of the associations was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur seeking urgent hearing on the matter. The bench also comprising Justice U U Lalit asked the associations “Why don’t you correct the system?” Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the telecom associa-tions, said that this matter required urgent hearing as Delhi HC has upheld the Trai order, after which the bench agreed to hear the plea on Friday. The high court had, earlier this week, upheld the Octo-ber 16, 2015 RPT 2015 decision of Telecom Reg-ulatory Authority of India (Trai) making it manda-tory for cellular operators to pay consumers one rupee per call drop experienced on their networks,

subject to a cap of Rs. 3 a day.

Agency | New Delhi

Honda Cars India has launched the updated version of its compact sedan Amaze priced between Rs 5.29 lakh and Rs 8.19 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The Amaze facelift gets changes to the front fascia and completely new interiors. Inside the cabin, the dash-board is all new and two-tone, while push buttons are replaced by touch buttons. The car comes with various features, including a Bluetooth-enabled au-dio system, automatic air conditioner and a multi-in-formation display. The Amaze facelift will get dual airbags on all its variants, including the base vari-ant. The company will open bookings from May. The company said that it will soon be equipping all its upcoming models with dual airbags, starting in April. By 2017, the company is looking to fit its exiting model line-up with dual airbags too. Honda Cars India President and CEO Katsushi Inoue said, The Amaze “has been a significant model for HCIL. Over two lakh units of the model have been sold since it’s launch in April 2013, contributing 40% of the cumulative sales in the country.”

Agency | New Delhi

Coming into the Asia Cup, Pakistan’s batting was the bigger of their concerns but they were banking their hopes on the bowling effort to guide them to the trophy. But on Wednesday in Mirpur, it was the bowl-ing that came undone in their 5-wicket loss to Bangladesh. In the bat-ting department, Paki-stan’s lackluster showing continued. Their last four innings have produced: 101, 83, 131 (batting sec-ond) and on Wednesday 129 – that is an average

Agency | Miami

West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell could face a suspension under an-ti-doping rules after miss-ing three drug tests in the past 12 months, reports in Jamaica said Wednes-day. Russell, a member of the West Indies squad for next week’s World Twen-ty20 championship in In-dia, could be banned for up to two years if found guilty, the Jamaica Glean-er reported. The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commis-sion (JADCO) declined to comment when con-tacted by AFP to confirm the report. Russell, 27, also could not be reached for comment. Failing to be available for a test is regarded as the equiva-lent of testing positive for

Agency | Melbourne

Michael Hussey was ap-proached by former India batsman VVS Laxman for the post of Indian team’s head coach, the ex-Aus-tralian cricketer has re-vealed in his latest book. Laxman had approached Hussey during the last IPL, barely a month be-fore the Indian cricket-er was inducted by the BCCI into its three-mem-ber advisory panel that was assigned with find-ing India’s head coach in place of Duncan Fletcher, who departed following the 2015 World Cup. “The former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawar-dene rang me a while ago to ask if I would be interested in being an as-sistant coach of Sri Lan-ka with a view to taking over as head coach a few months further down the

Agency | Mirpur

In February, when India announced their squad for the Asia Cup and World Twenty20, there were quite a few surpris-es. While old warhors-es Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh returned, uncapped all-rounder Pawan Negi was also picked. Six matches later, Negi and Harbhajan are yet to get a game. Negi, who grabbed the headlines after his selection, cashed in im-mediately by bagging the highest bid for an Indi-an at the Indian Premier League auctions. The Delhi Daredevils paid an astounding Rs 8.5 crore for the 23-year-old. His brush with fame though has done little to expe-

Agency | Durban

South Africa and Aus-tralia will be seeking to find their best combina-tions when they meet in three Twenty20 interna-tionals, shortly before both sides travel to India for the World Twenty20 tournament. Australia appear to have the most uncertainties. They were beaten 3-0 at home by India in their most recent T20 series and the selec-tors made several signif-icant changes in picking

a squad for South Afri-ca and the global event. Steve Smith was hand-ed the captaincy, mak-ing him the leader in all three formats, while the squad includes three players who have yet to play in a T20 inter-national - wicketkeeper Peter Nevill, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and leg-spinner Adam Zampa. While Nevill has established himself as Australia’s Test wick-etkeeper, Agar, Zampa and fast bowler Andrew

Agency | Wellington

Described as New Zea-land`s finest batsman, Martin Crowe`s cricketing life was defined by one in-nings, one tournament and one seriously damaged knee. Tributes flowed for Crowe on Thursday af-ter he lost a second bat-tle with lymphoma. He was 53. Crowe was born into the game. His father Dave was a stalwart of the Cornwall cricket club in Auckland, while his elder brother Jeff followed him into the New Zealand side. Fluent at the crease with all the time in the world to play shots, he broke into the Auckland team as an 18-year-old where he scored 51 in his first in-nings against Canterbury. Crowe`s precocious talent was rewarded 12 months later when he made his test debut against an Aus-tralia side containing the snarling menace of Jeff

Pakistan undone by their ‘strength’ at Asia Cup 2016

SA v Aus: Proteas, Aussies gear up for world tournament

Andre Russell faces suspension following 3 drug tests miss in past 12 months

VVS Laxman asked me if I would be interested in coaching India: Michael hussey

Asia Cup: UAE game last chance for India reserves to prove utility

Martin Crowe: Cricket robbed off New Zealand’s greatest ever Test batsman

track,” Hussey wrote in ‘Winning Edge’, his third book that was re-leased recently. “A week later the ex-India bats-man VVS Laxman asked me if I would be interest-ed in coaching India. My initial answer to both of them was no because at the time I did not want to be on the road 10 months a year; I wanted to be at home with my family and make up for some lost time from the previous few years. But, probably more relative to them, I said to each

that I did not think I was ready to become the head coach of an international cricket team,” he added. Since Fletcher’s exit, former India all-rounder Ravi Shastri has played the caretaker’s role in his position as team director. The term of Shastri, who took over as the team di-rector in August 2014, along with the trio of as-sistant coaches — Sanjay Bangar (batting), Bharat Arun (bowling) and R Sridhar (fielding) — will expire after the World Twenty20.

of 111. No surprises then that Pakistan have lost 7 out of their last 10 T20Is. It looked like the cumu-lative might be pushed further down against Bangladesh but for Sar-faraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik who put together 70 runs for the fifth wick-

et. Thereafter the onus was on the ‘asset’ to get the win. But a collection of poor bowling, em-barrassing fielding and somewhat questionable captaincy on Shahid Af-ridi’s part let Mahmud-ullah slide on the field in euphoria.

dite his entry into the XI. MS Dhoni has refrained from using him, instead banking on the in-form Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and part-time spinners Yu-vraj and Suresh Raina. Harbhajan has been a different story. The for-mer spin spearhead has stayed on the bench for the last nine T20Is. The 35-year-old off-spinner is unlikely to get a game in the World T20 unless

Ashwin is injured. Same is the case for Negi, who bowls left-arm spin. He is likely to be brought in only if Jadeja loses form or suffers an inju-ry. Ajinkya Rahane is the only batsman to be given a prolonged run, when Virat Kohli was rested for the Sri Lanka series. Bhuvneshwar Kumar might also be required if Mohammed Shami does not recover in time for the World T20.

Tye are virtual novic-es at international level. Agar has played in two Tests and two one-day internationals, famously hitting 98 at number 11 on Test debut in the 2013 Ashes. Zampa made his debut and played in two one-day interna-tionals in New Zealand last month. Tye played in only two T20 inter-nationals against India. Australia have a strong batting line-up, however, although this too could be problematical in terms of deciding on the best combination. South Afri-ca won two T20 interna-tionals against England last month and will be strengthened by the re-turns of fast bowler Dale Steyn and wicketkeep-er-batsman Quinton de Kock.

West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell could face a suspension under anti-doping rules after missing three drug tests in the past 12 months

a performance-enhancing substance, meaning Rus-sell faces a long spell on the sidelines if his viola-tion is confirmed. Rus-sell has played only one full Test for the West In-dies, against Sri Lanka in 2010, but has carved out a cricket career as a sought after all-rounder in ab-breviated versions of the game. He has regularly

played in the West Indies one-day squads and has also enjoyed stints with various T20 sides in In-dia, Australia and Paki-stan. If Russell’s doping sanction is confirmed, it would spell further dis-ruption to the West Indies World T20 preparations, which has been dogged by a series of withdrawals and a bitter pay dispute.

Thomson and Dennis Lillee. The experience of being a batting prodi-gy would leave him with mental scars, however, and he later wrote in the second of his autobiogra-phies “Raw” in 2013 that being thrust into the lime-light as a teenager had not allowed him to mature. He said he also struggled with doubt and emotional in-stability in his early years, which left him feeling “scared and bewildered”. Crowe returned to the national side in 1983 and had a brilliant season for

Somerset the following year, scoring 1,870 first class runs. He was named one of Wisden`s Cricket-ers of the Year in 1985 and his 188 against Australia in November that year established him as one of New Zealand`s best bats-men. His finest hour with the bat, however, came in 1991 when he combined with Andrew Jones in a stand of 467 runs to save the first test against Sri Lanka, scoring 299 before being caught behind from the slow medium pace of Arjuna Ranatunga.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

A young constable of the B-division police station in Rajkot was murdered in cold blood by some history-sheeter goons in the city late last night, police said today. Joint Commissioner of Police D S Bhatt today said that Bharat Gadhvi (28), a bright young duty bound constable was attacked by four drunk goons near his residence in Kotha-ria road area under Ta-luka police station while he was on his way back to home and was still in his uniform. Gadhvi had an altercation with them

Correspondent | Surat

Leaders of Patidar Ana-mat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) Wednesday met jailed quota spearhead Hardik Patel as they threatened to resume agi-tation if the Gujarat gov-ernment did not grant reservation to Patel com-munity within 10 days. They also announced that a protest demonstration will be held in New Delhi on March 11. The Sardar Patel Group (SPG), led by Lalji Patel, will hold a mega meet in Surat Sun-day. After the meeting, Surat PAAS co-convenor Dharmik Malaviya said, “Hardik advised us that we should not settle for reservations on the lines of Haryana and Rajasthan governments. The gov-ernment should include the community in OBC, release all Patidar youths from the jail, and pay Rs

Correspondent | Junagadh

The famous five day Bhavnath fair, held ev-ery year at the Bhavnath Mahadev temple in the foothills of Girnar (Gir-nar Taleti) around 8 km from Junagadh and which culminates on the Mahshivratri day with great show of devotion-al and festive energy by Naga sages, started today with the performance of the traditional ritual of religious flag hoisting (Dhawjarohan) amid ve-dic chants. Mahant of the main temple, Hari Giriji Maharaj along with other saints performed the ritual among chanting of Vedic mantras. Collector Alok Kumar was also present on the occasion. After the main temple dwaja-rohan was also done in Juna, Aavahan and Agni Akhadas, Annaksheet-ras and other places. The

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

A day after he had a verbal clash with Congress MLA from Dehgam, Kamini-ba Rathod, in the House, senior cabinet minister in Anandiben Patel govern-ment, Nitin Patel, Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology before the state Assembly. He termed the episode a “rare” inci-dent. Patel called his own words “unnecessary” and “excessive” while ten-dering the unconditional apology. Interestingly, Patel’s apology followed a written complaint by Rathod to the Assembly Speaker Ganpat Vasava on Monday, seeking per-mission to lodge a police complaint against Patel for criminal intimidation and attack on her char-acter. On Monday, Patel had a verbal spat with Ra-

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Correspondent | New Delhi

Taking a dig at the Oppo-sition for linking Adani group with the govern-ment, Union Minister Ni-tin Gadkari on Thursday said state-owned Kandla port was more efficient than Adani’s Mundra port, both of which are in Gu-jarat. Gadkari’s remarks

Correspondent | New Delhi

External Affairs Minis-ter Sushma Swaraj today said the issue of Indian fishermen straying into Pakistan’s waters would be resolved soon with the installation of GPS in fishing boats and marking of the maritime boundary. Responding to concerns raised by her party col-league during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha, she said the issue of fishermen crossing over to Paki-stani waters would soon be resolved as GPS navi-gation system were being installed on fishing boats to guide them. Besides, the international maritime boundary could be clearly marked by floating poles and lights to warn fish-ermen not to go beyond them, she said, adding that marking of the mari-time boundary should be

‘Verbal clash’ in Gujarat assembly house: Minister Nitin Patel offers apology

Patidar leaders plan to hold protest in Delhi on March 11

Steps to check fishermen from straying to foreign waters: Govt

Policeman in uniform murdered in cold blood by inebriated goons in Rajkot

Bhavnath fair begins in Girnar foothills

NOVA CINEMAS, UFO Moviez’ New Venture to Intensify Gujarat Movie Screen Count

exciting opportunity to budding entrepreneurs who aspire to get into movie-exhibition services and a better cinematic experience for the local cine-goers. The concept of NOVA emerged from the fact that India has one of the lowest screen counts in the world. With 9500 screens serving a population of more than 1.2 billion which amounts to only 8 screens per mil-lion heads as compared to 117 screens per million in USA and 30 screens per million in China. There is a huge potential for ex-hibition business to grow

in semi-urban and rural areas of Gujarat. With growth in rural incomes and fast paced urbaniza-tion, there is a definite set of potential customers waiting for newer expe-rience, translating into better exhibition-business prospect. NOVA aims to increase the Box-of-fice pie for the overall Film Industry. It will en-courage local populace to set-up movie theatres in their respective areas. As per the arrangement, the franchisee shall own the cinema and make the necessary investments for setting up the theater and

shall be responsible for day- to- day operations of the same, while NOVA shall be responsible for putting up of the theatre at a competitive cost, pro-viding complete branding support and taking care of programming of films at the theatre. NOVA shall also take care of deploy-ment of the theatrical technologies i.e. digital cinema & online ticket-ing at its own cost and part of the theatre set up cost attributable to screen, speaker systems, seats and acoustics. As a result each NOVA screen will provide hi-end cinema going ex-perience with digital pro-jectors and sound, modern ambience with comfort-able seats, decent quality food courts, and hygienic rest rooms. To sum it up, NOVA CINEMAS will become the social and community hub, provid-ing a multiplex-like expe-rience at affordable cost in Gujarat.

fair commences from the Hindu calendar date of Magh Vad 11 which coincided with March 3 this year. Attended by around a million devotees and sages the fair culmi-nates on Mahashivratri (March 7 this year) when it is believed that in the moonless night Lord Shiva performed his tan-dava, the cosmic dance of destruction, a maha-puja is performed. This

ritual begins at midnight on Mahashivaratri every year, when naga bavas, or naked sages, seated on elephants and decked in ornaments, arrive holding flags and blowing conch shells, tungis, and tur-is, the sounds of which reverberate through the entire space. Devotees believe that Lord Shiva himself visits the shrine on this occasion. Girnar is said to be the abode of

the nine immortal nathas, and eighty-four siddhas, all of whom also visit the temple in their invisible spirit forms during Ma-hashivaratri. Offerings are made to the deities, and the festive energy is expressed through per-formances of dance, mu-sic and traditional bhavai theatre. Before going to the fair, many pilgrims visit the holy hills of Gir-nar. Visitors are served free meals by the orga-nizers which is called ‘Harihar’ locally. Special stalls sell idols, rosaries brought from Ayodhya and Mathura, and delec-table sweets. The evening leading up to the midnight ritual of Mahashivaratri, at the wrestling grounds, or akhada, next to the temple, the naga bavas gather for a ritual involv-ing a blend of dance and martial arts.

thod when the latter was speaking on the motion of thanks on Governor’s address to the Assembly. Rathod was criticising the alleged unnecessary expenses incurred on the

DGPs and IGs meet in Dhordo when Patel had intervened, asking the former to be careful when talking on issues of na-tional security. This was followed by some per-

sonal arguments between Patel and Rathod which were later removed from the record of the House by the Speaker. However, the issue snowballed into a controversy when Op-position demanded apol-ogy from Patel. Around 45 Congress MLAs were suspended by the Speaker from the House for a ses-sion and the rest staged a walkout on the issue. Subsequently, following a meeting with the Speaker, chief whips of Congress and BJP, Patel and Rathod, the two had “withdrawn” their words. Following the incident, Congress work-ers had burnt an effigy of Nitin Patel in Dehgam.

when he questioned as to what they were do-ing in highly inebriated state so late in the night (at around 2 am). One of them Shakti alias Penda, who was a noto-rious criminal accused in several cases includ-ing torching of vehicles, became angry at it and

started a fight with the constable.Later they at-tacked him with rod and stone and injured him se-riously. Injured Gadhvi was taken to civil hospi-tal and later to a private hospital but succumbed. Police has caught the four culprits. The matter was being investigated.

PAAS leaders give 10-day ultimatum to govt, SPG to hold mega meet in Surat

15 lakh compensation to the families of those killed during the quota agitation.” “There is no question of compromise until our demand for res-ervation is met. We have given 10-day ultimatum to the government. If our demands are not met we will take out a rally from Rajpipla to Karamsad, the birth place of Sardar

Patel,” Malaviya said. Nilesh Asodarya, Surat city convenor of SPG, said, “The mega sam-melan will be held at Sardar farm in Puna area. It will be addressed by SPG president Lalji Patel, vice-president Gaurang Patel and other leaders of SPG. We have also invit-ed the Surat PAAS team for this programme.”

done in a way so that it is easily identifiable by the fishermen. “They (fishermen) want us to help them with informa-tion about the maritime boundary. The issue in re-lation to Pakistan would be soon resolved. We will install GPS and mark the maritime boundary line so that neither Pakistanis come to our side, nor

do Indians stray to the other,” she said. Earlier, BJP’s Mansukh Lal Man-davia raised the issue of 117 Gujarat fishermen being arrested by Paki-stan. He said fishermen from Tamil Nadu were also arrested by Sri Lan-ka. Swaraj said the issue was not of Gujarat or Tamil Nadu, “they are In-dian fishermen.”

Kandla port more efficient than Adani’s port: Gadkari

came during Question Hour in response to TMC member Saugata Roy who mentioned the name of the Adani group when the Minister was replying to supplementaries relating to ports. “You always link the name of Adani with the government. It is for the first time that Kandla Port increased its efficien-cy by 1.44 per cent while Adani’s port went into minus. We have increased our business and they are in the minus,” the Ship-ping Minister said. He said “we are getting more business, we have got more turnover and more profit and we are com-paring with the Adani’s port with a 1.4 per cent increase”. TMC leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay wondered whether induc-tion of representatives of private ports in port trust advisory boards would damage the interests of government ports. In re-sponse, Gadkari said if there is a conflict of inter-est and “we will definitely take your suggestion and act on it”.