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News BriefUS dollar ends

dearer against the rupee

Agency | Mumbai

The US dollar ended dearer against the rupee at 66.24/25 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished higher at Rs 101.17/19 per pound at the close of the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market today. Following are the Interbank Forex and RBI rates: (In Rs Per Unit) Unit Interbank RBI Reference US Dol-lar 66.24/25 US Dollar Rs. 66.2280 Pound Ster-ling 101.17/19 Euro Rs. 74.3343 Euro 74.37/39 Japanese Yen(100) 55.Punjab govt sets up special NREGA cell

No witch-hunt in land scams probe:

Hry govt

Agency | Chandigarh

A special National Ru-ral Employment Guar-antee Act (NREGA) cell has been set up here in Punjab with an aim to effectively implement it.An outlay of Rs 233 crore has been provided under this project, an official spokesman said today. He said that the centre has decided to fix the wage rate under the NREGA on the ba-sis of Consumer Price Index which will be implemented on April 1 every year and will be applicable for the whole financial year.

Agency | Chandigarh

Haryana government today said that alleged land scams of the pre-vious Congress regime in the State will be probed in a fair man-ner and there will be no witch-hunting. Finance Minister Abhimanyu assured the House that the Government will probe every single case in a fair manner and with full responsibility by carrying out in depth investigation wherever any wrong doing has been done which comes to its notice. He was responding to a supple-mentary question asked by Haryana Janhit Con-gress chief Kuldeep Bishnoi during Ques-tion Hour in the ongo-ing monsoon session of the state assembly here.

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Gujarat HC directs State to provide compensation to victims“Patidar quota stir”

The govt said that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the kin of those killed in the violence

CID to probe ‘police atrocities’

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when the entire nation was celebrating 69th year of independence, sev-en talented youngsters made the country proud by being the first Indians to participate and win the prestigious champi-onship. The dance troupe not just won the title but being the most popular among the crowd, they were even awarded the ‘Crowds Favorite’ tro-phy. Armed with the re-cent win, the troupe led

by Shantanu Mahesh-wari, Macedon Dmello and Nimit Kotian, visit-ed Ahmedabad and were absolutely pleased to see the love, affection and support they received from the people. What started as a dream, cul-minated into a team – Desi Hoppers that went on to represent India at the international mecca of dance – The World of Dance 2015. Comprising of seven members, Shan-tanu Maheswari, Mace-

don De’Mello, Nimit Kotian, Rohan Vyas, Viraj Pandya, Subhash Naidu and Niraj Lama, the boys are from varied backgrounds who got to-gether to live one dream – to represent their coun-try at the most coveted dance platforms. Hailing from Kolkata, Shantanu set out the hunt for his dream team with Mace-don and Nimit, who are not just Shantanu’s college friends but also based out of Mumbai.


The Gujarat government has entrusted the CID with the probe into al-leged “atrocities” com-mitted by police while tackling the Patel quota stir and declared com-pensation to those killed and injured in the vi-olence last week. The government said that an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh will be given to the kin of those killed in the vio-lence and Rs 2 lakh in the case of permanent dis-ability while the injured will be given compensa-tion of Rs 10,000 each. This was stated in an affidavit filed by the gov-ernment before the High Court today. “The state government has decided to conduct a thorough, fair and impartial inquiry at the highest level into the aspects (of police atrocities) and has conse-quently passed an order on September 2, 2015


Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat, today said he will start meeting legis-lators of his community soon to know where they stand on the reservation issue, which sparked vi-olence across the state claiming ten lives last week. “We will start meeting Patel MLAs from tomorrow and ask them to clarify their stand on whether they are with Patels on the is-sue of inclusion of com-munity in OBC category or with their respective parties,” Mr Patel told

Agency | Lucknow

Politicians have their own way of sending messages. Sharing or not sharing the dais in public is one of them. Behind every handshake and hug there is a hidden reason. So, when Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to keep away from Janata Parivar’s rally in Bihar on Sunday, he had sent a subtle mes-sage of not having any truck with any group that allies with the Congress. His politics has always been anti-Congress and anti-BJP notwithstand-ing his support to the UPA government in the past. Three days later he withdrew from the Janata

Staying away from the Gandhis: Real reasonf for Mulayam’s split

Desi Hoppers : The world of Dance Champions visit Ahmedabad

Parivar-- a formation of which he was the archi-tect -- protesting against a poor share of seats. With this, the six-party Janata Parivar that was formed to take on the resurgent BJP after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections stands all but demolished. It

will not impact his own political health as he has little stake in the neigh-bouring state. The fact is that Mulayam has always shied away from sharing the dais with the Gand-his despite their give-and-take relationship in elections. A senior leader

who spent his political life in SP before mov-ing to Congress said, “I don’t remember when they addressed a joint rally though they meet often.” Why? “Perhaps because SP’s entire pol-itics is founded on Lo-hia’s anti-Congressism.”

Rajkot: Rides start wheeling at Janmashtami fair after govt exempts them from tax

Correspondent | Rajkot

The mechanised rides, one of the main attrac-tions of the Janmashtami fair in the city, started wheeling as scheduled after local taxmen agreed to exempt their operators from enter-tainment tax on Thurs-day. Ride operators had on Wednesday threat-ened to stop rides at Goras, the five-day Jan-mashtami fair organised every year by the Rajkot district administration, if the government did not exempt them from pay-ing 20 entertainment tax on their ticket collection. But local tax officers had stuck to their demand of tax arguing that indi-vidual operators had set up more than one ride

on different plots but on the same fairground and therefore their effective ticket rates would exceed the exemption limit of Rs 20 and Rs 10. “We also requested Water Supply Minister Vijay Rupani to look into our demand

when he came to inaugu-rate the fair this morning. Eventually, tax officers told us that we shall not require to pay tax and therefore we started op-erating rides as the fair began,” Zakir Bloch, sec-retary of Gujarat Amuse-

ment Association, a body of mechnised rides op-erators of Gujarat, said. There are 54 mechanised rides at the fairground on Race Course. Oper-ators had approached tax officers on Thursday with a recent resolution of the state government exempting them from entertainment tax. How-ever, taxmen differed in their interpretation of the definition of plots for rides and fairground and said that those operators who had more than one ride in the same fair were liable for tax.

entrusting the inquiry to the CID (Crime),” the affidavit said. Following the submission given by government, the divi-sion bench of the HC, comprising acting Chief

Justice Jayant Patel and Justice N V Anjaria, dis-posed of a PIL filed by one Prakash Kapadia. Kapadia had sought the HC’s direction to gov-ernment for taking ap-

Hardik Patel Asks Patel Legislators to Clarify Stand Over Quota Row

reporters. There are more than 35 Patel MLAs in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, which include chief minister Anandi-ben Patel and seven of her cabinet colleagues. “I myself along with hun-dreds of my supporters will meet those MLAs and will give them a rose,” said Mr Patel, adding that the entire meetings with them will be videographed.

propriate steps against the police personnel who had unleashed atrocities on people after violence broke out in the state fol-lowing the arrest of Patel community leader Har-dik Patel on August 25. While filing the affidavit, the government stated

that it will compensate the kin of only those who were killed in police fir-ing during the violent stir but amended its stand after the HC sought an explanation over exclu-sion of injured persons from ex-gratia. The CID will investigate into the

“atrocities” committed by police from August 25 when the police had stormed the venue of the rally at GMDC Ground here and lathicharged people gathered there to press for their demand for reservation, stated the affidavit filed by Joint

Secretary (Home) Rahul Gupta. As per govern-ment, nine citizens and one policeman died in the violence, while 27 peo-ple and around 203 po-lice personnel sustained injuries while 20 of them are still in hospitals due to serious injuries.

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DAYAnimals caused Earth’s first mass extinction, not catastropheThe Earth’s first mass extinction event 540 million years ago was caused not by a meteorite impact or volcanic super-eruption but by the rise of early ani-mals that dramatically changed the prehistoric envi-ronment, a new study has found. “People have been slow to recognise that biological organisms can also drive mass extinction,” said Simon Darroch, assis-tant professor at Vanderbilt University in US. “But our comparative study of several communities of Ediacarans, the world’s first multicellular organ-isms, strongly supports the hypothesis that it was the appearance of complex animals capable of altering their environments, which we define as ‘ecosystem engineers,’ that resulted in the Ediacaran’s disap-pearance,” Darroch said. The earliest life on Earth consisted of singlecelled microorganisms. They ruled the Earth for more than 3 billion years. Some of these microorganisms evolved to capture the en-ergy in sunlight. The photosynthetic process that they developed produced oxygen as a toxic byprod-uct. Oxygen was poisonous to most microbes that had evolved in an oxygen-free environment, making it the world’s first pollutant. However, for the mi-croorganisms that developed methods for protecting themselves, oxygen gave them the added energy they needed to adopt multicellular forms. Thus, the Ediacarans arose about 600 million years ago during a warm period following a long interval of extensive glaciation. Ediacarans spread throughout the planet. They were a largely immobile form of marine life shaped like discs and tubes, fronds and quilted mat-tresses. They remained attached in one spot for their entire lives, feeding by absorbing chemicals from the water through their outer membranes, rather than actively gathering nutrients. After 60 million years, evolution gave birth to animals. During the 25-mil-lion-year period of Cambrian explosion, most of the modern animal families—vertebrates, molluscs, arthropods, annelids, sponges and jellyfish—came into being. “These new species were ‘ecological en-gineers’ who changed the environment in ways that made it more and more difficult for the Ediacarans to survive,” said Darroch. The researchers analysed the youngest known Ediacaran community exposed in Namibia, in a site called Farm Swartpunt, which is dated at 545 million years ago. “We found that the diversity of species at this site was much lower, and there was evidence of greater ecological stress, than at comparable sites that are 10 million to 15 million years older,” Darroch said.

“RSS-BJP meet demonstrates that remote control is now overt control. Modi may be PM but Bhagwat is the boss. BJP govt puppet of RSS and oligarchs, is the government accountable to RSS or people of India?”

- Congress leader Manish Tewari tweeted.

Agency | New Delhi

In the show, Priyanka plays the role of a half-In-dian, half-Caucasian FBI trainee named Alex Par-rish. Her character is born and brought up in the United States. The show revolves around group of FBI agents in training at Quantico Base. Priyanka Chopra is suspected of masterminding the big-gest attack on New York

City since 9/11. For all Bollywood fans, we’ll soon get to see Priyanka Chopra in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming pe-riod drama film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. The romance saga also stars Ranveer Singh and his alleged beau Deepika Padukone. Quan-tico’s premiere episode is all set to air on ABC Net-work and Star World India on September 27.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Shilpa Shet-ty says she has finished writing her book, and that it will release soon. “Amongst all the things that I multi-task with, I’ve already finished and completed my book on nutrition and it should be releasing very soon in November,” Shet-ty said in Mumbai on Wednesday. She says she will make a sepa-rate announcement about

the book, but shared a bit about it. “It’s a book on how you can stay fit. I’m not going to divulge the name, because that would be unfair. It is for all who are interested in living a more healthy life and I can assure you that you won’t be let down,” Shetty said. She has earlier released a DVD about yoga. Shetty hasn’t acted in a while but she’s not in a hurry to return to the big screen. “Re-

Kangana Ranaut is looking forward to motherhood

Priyanka Chopra All Set To Gun Down Her Audience With Quantico

Agency | Chennai

Actor Kiccha Sudeep turns 42 on Wednesday, 2 September, and to make his birthday more special for his fans, a teaser from his forthcoming movie “Mudinja Iwana Pudi” has been released. This is a bilingual movie simul-taneously made in Tamil and Kannada languag-es. While the title of the Tamil version has been revealed, the makers are yet to finalise the name of the Kannada version. It has been speculated that the movie will be called as “Kottigobba 2”, but nothing has been confirmed yet. The teaser is just 27-seconds long, which shows the hero in a stylish avatar. Sudeep will be seen fighting with his enemies in the teaser, but it does not give away any information about “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”. Kiccha Sudeep is foray-ing into the Tamil indus-

Agency | Chennai

Telugu superstar Ma-hesh Babu’s latest film Srimanthudu has cer-tainly charmed the audi-ence. The tale of a rich young man returning home to adopt a village for its betterment and, in turn, facing stiff op-position, has won many hearts. But the good news is it has also won

at the ticket windows worldwide. The Telu-gu film has grossed Rs 154 crore in its 25-day-run so far worldwide. “Srimanthudu gallops at the worldwide box office grossing Rs 154 crore in just 25 days! It continues its soaring success becoming the second highest grossing Telugu release this year after Baahubali,” read a

statement from Eros In-ternational, which dis-tributed the film global-ly. Directed by Koratala Siva, the film is about a young man who decides to adopt a village and the challenges he faces in the process. Also star-ring Shruti Haasan, Jag-apathi Babu and Rajen-dra, the film was jointly produced by Mahesh and Mythri Movies.

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Soha Ali Khan-starrer “31st Oc-tober”, her first film post marriage, may release alongside her husband actor Kunal Kemmu’s “Guddu Ki Gun” on Oc-tober 30. She says she is “not scared” of their box office “clash”. “I think it will be exciting. We have been married for six months, we need some excitement! The produc-ers have decided that they are going to release it (around that time). Octo-ber 31 is a sensible time to release our film because it’s called ‘31st Octo-

ber’ and Friday (October 30) is close to that date,” Soha. “I’m not scared by him (Kunal) or ‘Guddu Ki Gun’. I think that there is enough appetite in the in-dustry for both films and they are very different in genre,” she said. While “Guddu Ki Gun” is a comedy film, “31st Octo-ber” is a historical drama based on the aftermath of the 1984 riots. Soha, who has starred in “Rang De Basanti”, “Mumbai Meri Jaan” and “Midnight’s Children”, will be seen playing a “strong female protagonist” in “31st Oc-tober”.

Agency | New Delhi

Kangana Ranaut, 28, who is enjoying success in Bollywood with two back-to-back hits, says she wants to enjoy moth-erhood at some point in her life but right now is too busy to think about it. Kangana Ranaut spoke about motherhood while commenting on live-in relationships and marriage. “I think live-in relations are overrated. People should be giv-en their space. The way marriages are crumbling these days, I don’t have anything to say but I am looking forward to moth-erhood. I am 28 and my mother keeps saying, ‘Don’t you want a fami-ly or something’ and I tell her that may be at some point,” said Kangana

while promoting ‘Katti Batti’ in Mumbai. While actresses like Sushmita Sen have already become mother through adoption, Kangana rules out that op-tion. “I don’t think I will adopt. I would want to change diapers. It’s hard work and I would like to take that responsibility.” Professionally, Kanga-na is happy that success came calling late in her life. “The best part of my success is that came late. Had it happened when I was a teenager, I would have ended up like my character. Because at 28, you are very balanced as a woman and that affects your perspective to ev-erything. So I am happy that I am tasting success now as I am more mature now. You wouldn’t want

I’m not scared: Soha Ali Khan on ‘clash’ with Kunal Kemmu

to wish for success when you are very young. It can

be very hard to deal with,” explained Kangana.

‘Puli’ Actor Sudeep’s ‘Mudinja Iwana Pudi’ Teaser Released for his Birthday

Srimanthudu BO collection: Rs 154 crore worldwide in 25 days

try with a bang as a hero in “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”, which is said to be a sus-pense-thriller written and directed by KS Raviku-mar. The forthcoming movie marks the debut of ace filmmaker KS Ravi-kumar, who is known for some of the Tamil block-busters like “Padayap-pa”, “Dasavathaaram”, etc., in Kannada. Nithya Menen, who is basking

in the success of “Ok Kanmani”, has paired up with Kiccha Sudeep in “Mudinja Iwana Pudi”. Meanwhile, Sudeep is also getting ready for the release of Ilayathalap-athy Vijay’s “Puli”. He has played the role of antagonist in the movie, which has Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani and Sridevi Kapoor in key roles.

Shilpa Shetty finishes nutrition book

garding acting, I’m not doing it because I would be driven mad. Now

that Viaan [her son] has turned three, he demands a bit less time from me.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Virat Kohli is right: Aggression on the cricket field is vital for success

Suzuki says add ‘Quality’ to Modi’s Make in India

Sony Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z5 Premium First Impressions

IFA 2015: The biggest laptop trends

Agency | New Delhi

As India pushes to become a global manufactur-ing hub, Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman and CEO, Osamu Suzuki, stressed on the need for “Quality in India”, especially in auto components sector to become a top international supplier. “It is mentioned here Make in India, I’d like to add Quality in India,” Mr. Suzuki said while address-ing the annual session of ACMA here. Reiterating the need to focus on quality he said, “I believe if all suppliers follow Quality in India, then they will be able to overcome the US and China and they can acquire the number one position in global market.” “The global recall of more than one million units of vehicles has put the focus on quality,” he said. “Hence it doesn’t leave any doubt that quality is an important key to success and in this regard ev-eryone must have noticed that in today’s situation vendor selection on basis of quality is inevitable,” he added.

Agency | New Delhi

Sony unveiled its flagship smartphone lineup for 2015, and instead of the two variants that most were expecting, we got three - the Sony Xperia Z5, the Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, and the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium. At the pre-IFA launch event in Berlin on Wednesday, the Xperia Z5 Premium was mentioned almost as an afterthought as Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai took time to walk through the features of the Sony Xperia Z5 and its smaller sibling, the Z5 Compact. However, it was the Premium that grabbed most of the headlines for being the first smartphone with a 4K display. While we’ve seen the emergence of 2K displays on smartphones, most people we know are happy with full-HD resolution. In fact, the iPhone 6 isn’t even full-HD and still we’ve yet to come across average users who say that it has a “low resolution” screen.

Agency | New Delhi

Europe’s biggest tech show might not officially get underway until Friday but already a host of leading computer makers have unveiled their latest models which will be hitting the shelves before the end of the year The best way to describe the IFA is to say it’s like the International CES but with a greater chance of rain. In terms of size and tech repre-sentatives plus the opportunity for global gadget debuts, it is well on par with its Las Vegas-based counterpart. As such it is the venue for the world-wide reveal of the first computers built to take full advantage of both Windows 10 and Intel’s lat-est-generation processors. And if what’s on show from the likes of Lenovo and Toshiba this week is any indication of things to come, at the end of this year, computers with 4K resolutions, facial recog-nition capabilities and form factors that ape that of the Microsoft Surface are going to be high up on consumers’ holiday season shopping lists.

Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood may miss Bangladesh tour

Sachin Tendulkar now plans to own luxury waterfront villa in Kerala

After scaling ‘China wall’, Saina Nehwal aims to tame Carolina Marin

Agency | Dubai

When Australia were the best cricket team in the world between 1995 and 2010, they were also the most aggressive. When the West Indies were the best team in the world for the 15 years before that, they were also the most aggressive. The

connection is not acci-dental. To be the best is to be ruthless. No ath-lete or team rises to the top of their sport without the desire to crush those in their path. Former Australia captain Steve Waugh talked about the mental disintegration of his opponents. He didn’t want to just beat them on

Sachin Tendulkar was like God to all of us while growing up: MS Dhoni

India’s Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna advance in US Open

Agency | New Delhi

After giving Chinese shuttlers a tough fight over the years, top-ranked shuttler Saina Nehwal’s new challenge is to tame down neme-sis Carolina nemesis of Spain. The Spaniard re-cently beat Nehwal in two major finals -- All England Badminton and

World Championships. And as Japan Open is set to start, Nehwal is eager to take the revenge from the number two ranked shuttler, who has kept Nehwal at bay of late. “I would definitely be look-ing to beat her. That is one aim at Japan Open. She has defeated me twice in two major finals

Agency | New York

Indian tennis stars en-joyed a successful start in the US Open as veter-an Leander Paes entered the mixed doubles sec-ond round while Rohan Bopanna also won his opening tie in the men’s doubles competition. Paes, alongwith Martina Hingis, eased past the local pair of Taylor Har-ry Fritz and C Lui 6—2, 6—2 in the first round encounter on Court 4. The fourth-seeded In-do-Swiss duo took just about 46 minutes to win the match. Paes and Hingis will next take on the winners of the match between the Canadi-an-Australian combine

Agency | Kochi

Cricket icon Sachin Ten-dulkar plans to own a luxury waterfront villa in ‘God’s own country.’ The master blaster, who co-owns a soccer team called Kerala Blasters, has shortlisted one of the villas being developed on the bank of a scenic backwater area in Kochi, sources said. “Tendulkar has shortlisted a villa in Panangad in the city. He will be visiting the place to see the ‘Blue Waters Villa’ on Saturday,” an official at the private de-veloper Prime Meridian said. He, however, re-fused to say whether the Rajya Sabha MP has al-ready booked the villa. Speaking about the fea-tures of the villa, the offi-

Agency | Dubai

Describing Sachin Ten-dulkar as his role model, India ODI cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has said that icon-ic batsman’s humility and passion for the game was an inspiration for him and others. “When we were growing up, we used to watch Sachin (Tendulkar), he was like God to all of us. He had that aura around him,” Dhoni said while interacting with the Indian diaspora during a reception organised in his honour in New Jersey by Bihar Jharkhand Associ-ation of North America. Dhoni said Tendulkar is a “very good role model” since he’s successful but at the same time hum-

Agency | Sydney

Australian pace bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood could miss next month’s Test series in Bangladesh so they can rest ahead of a busy summer sched-ule. The Sydney Morn-ing Herald said Cricket Australia was intent on carefully managing their key quicks with a home series against New Zea-land and the West Indies to come from November. Australia also play a one-day series against India and two more Tests in New Zealand in the new year with selectors meet-

ing to discuss the tour of Bangladesh within the next few weeks. “There’s some important consider-ation that needs to be giv-en to managing our fast bowlers, not just in Ban-gladesh, but the full 10-Test season, and that will be part of the discussion,” CA’s team performance manager Pat Howard told the newspaper. “Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazle-wood are two players that have had heavy work-loads and need to be man-aged carefully if we are to give them the best chance of success throughout that entire period. “Neither

player has had a pre-sea-son to prepare for the Australian summer and we think that’s particu-larly important.” If John-son and Hazlewood are rested it would open the door for Peter Siddle to continue his renaissance after bowling impres-sively in the final Ashes Test against England at The Oval last month. It could also see the recall of either Pat Cummins or James Pattinson to partner Mitchell Starc, although the selection of two spinners is possible given sub-continental conditions.

of Eugenie Bouchard and Nick Kyrgios and the Ukrainian-Kiwi team of Elina Svitolina and Ar-tem Sitak. On Court 14, Bopanna combined with Florin Mergea to dis-patch the US duo of Aus-tin Krajicek and Nicho-las Monroe 6—3, 6—4 in the first-round encoun-ter. The sixth-seeded In-do-Romanian duo won the match in 1 hour and

7 minutes to ease into the second round. Bopanna and Mergea will be up against the Polish-Mex-ican pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santi-ago Gonzalez in their next match. Fyrstenberg and Gonzalez defeated the Polish combination of Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz 6—7 (5) 7—6 (3) 6—4 in their opening match.

the field, he wanted to reduce them to quivering wrecks. This is the atti-tude Virat Kohli wants to instill in the India team because Kohli wants to be the best. He doesn’t want to lose. He hates losing. He wants to win. And to win, you have to be aggressive. The irony is we applaud, or at least respect, this attitude in teams such as Australia, but choose to castigate Kohli and his players for their in-your-face display in the Sri Lanka series. A prime example is Ishant Sharma’s coach, Shravan Kumar, who told Mid-Day pinned the blame for Ishant’s behaviour on Kohli and Ravi Shastri for talking about aggres-sion too much.

cial said in addition to the water body in all the vil-las, there are two swim-ming pools -- one in the rooftop of the apartment and second an infinity pool in the waterfront of the project. A high resolu-tion CCTV camera inside

the project with recording to be viewed from the se-curity cabin, video phone to communicate with vis-itors and 24 hour manned security with intercom facility to communicate with each villa are some of the features, he added.

and it’s time to find ways to get past her. “I have beaten almost all the top-ranked Chinese players in last few months after shifting to Bengaluru and this time the effort would be to beat Marin,” Nehwal. Ace Indian shuttler is also looking for consistency in her game. “Everything is go-ing on fine at this stage. I am training well under Vimal sir and the results are also coming up. But the important part is to maintain the consistency and beat top players on regular basis. That way, you would get better at your game which is very important,” she added.

ble. Dhoni said when he started playing cricket, he saw “how he (Tendulkar) believed in the process.” “Every time he turned on the field, he wanted to im-prove as a cricketer. I felt he was an ideal person to look up to and that is what we did,” said Dhoni, ac-cording to a brief video of the event posted on the web portal the American Bazaar. Asked when he will return to the cricket

field, Dhoni said October is the “earliest you will see me on the field.” Dho-ni was accompanied by former Deputy Chief Min-ister of Jharkhand Sudesh Mahto at the event. On the 2011 World Cup win, Dhoni said it was “really big not only for the team, but for the entire country.” Asked how he defines suc-cess, Dhoni said it is very important to be “practical and honest” in life.

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The state may have been without internet for al-most a week last month but that did not stop Gu-jarat from becoming the first state in the country to record more than 150 crore e-transactions in last two years. Gujarat crossed 100 crore mark in e-transactions on Novem-ber 26 last year. Andhra Pradesh is closed second with 131 crore followed by Madhya Pradesh with 93 crore e-transactions. According to ‘eTaal’, a central government web portal that disseminates e-transaction statis-tics, Gujarat accounted for around 20.2% of all e-transactions (747 crore) recorded in all state gov-ernments’ services in the


Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat, today said he will start meeting MLAs of his community from tomorrow to know their stand on the reservation issue, which sparked vi-olence across the state claiming ten lives last week. “We will start meeting Patel MLAs from tomorrow and ask them to clarify their stand on whether they are with Patels on the issue of in-clusion of community in OBC category or with their respective parties,” Hardik, the convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, told reporters. Hardik was here to attend a condolence meeting of 32-year-old Swetang Pa-tel, who allegedly died in police custody in Ba-


There has been an un-precedented increase in the number of loans is-sued fraudulently on the basis of fake documents and other cheating cases from Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in Gujarat over the last three years, data available with the Re-serve Bank of India (RBI) suggests. In terms of amount involved, the rise in fraud cases of loan in PSBs has shot up 3440% in state. The norms for availing loans from PSBs may look stringent, but data with the RBI shows that fraud in loan cases is steadily rising in PSBs in Gujarat and such amount run into thousands of crores. According to the banking regulator, from April 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015, around 160 fraud cases of cheating and forgery (of Rs 1 lakh and

above) worth Rs 1602.74 crore have been registered in the state. In a written reply in Lok Sabha ear-lier this month, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha had revealed that PSBs do not report cases involving raising of loans on the basis of fake docu-ments separately. He fur-ther said that these cases are reported under the head ‘cheating and forg-ery’, which also include other types of fraud cases. Interestingly, in the few fraud cases reported by PSBs, role of some of the staff members was also found in issuing loans on the basis of fake docu-ments. Over the last three years, it has been found that in as many as five fraud loan cases worth Rs 1.9 crore, bank employ-ees’ role was found sus-picious and reported by banks.

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The Pune bench of Na-tional Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed a petition seeking ceasing of work on the Garudesh-war weir project for non-compliance of envi-ronmental norms. Stat-ing a technical reason, the tribunal said that the case was brought before it more than six months after the construction had commenced and was thus “barred by limitation” of time period. Following the judgment, the pe-titioners have said that they would now move the Supreme Court. The NGT stated in its judg-ment that the application was not filed within six months from the day the

work was allotted to M/s Ritwick Construction Pvt. Limited in 2012. The counsel of the applicants had argued that the lim-itation in the case was five years and not six months, which was rejected by the Tribunal while citing the provisions of the NGT Act, 2010. A group of environmental activists had approached the NGT on January 16, 2014, demanding an immedi-ate stay on the ongoing construction of the weir, which will be a part of the larger Statue of Unity project, because no envi-ronmental clearance was sought from the Minis-try of Environment, For-ests & Climate Change (MoEFC). The weir is to

come up around 12 ki-lometres downstream of the Narmada dam. It will have a storage capacity of 1 million acre feet of water that will be pumped back to the dam and sent through turbines for pro-duction of extra electric-ity. It will also serve as a tourist attraction as part of the ambitious Statue of Unity project. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL), Guja-rat government, MoEFC, Chairman of Environ-ment Sub-Group of Nar-mada Control Authority (NCA), Union Ministry of Social Justice & Em-powerment and Ministry of Water Resources were made respondents in the case.


Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel on Thursday would visit Mehsana, one of the worst affected districts during the last week’s widespread vio-lence following a Patidar rally for reservation in Ahmedabad, and attend a public event at the famous Bhachucharaji temple un-der a high-security cover. Sources in the Chief Min-ister’s Office said there were inputs from the In-

telligence Bureau that agitated Patidars might turn up in large numbers at the public event to reg-ister their protest against the alleged police atroc-ities on the community members. In this view, an open ground was not chosen as the venue for the Chief Minister’s func-tion to inaugurate infra-structure projects worth 21 crore, including a road and a dharamshala, they said. Around 600 security personnel have been de-

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Blaming ‘fault in stars’, Gujarat Congress to relocate chief’s office

CM Anandiben Patel to visit Mehsana, hotbed of Patidar stir


Eclipsed by the BJP in Gujarat, the Congress has decided to shift the office of its state president to fix what it calls “a fault in the stars”. Come Janmasht-ami and Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bharatsinh Solan-ki’s office, which is locat-ed in the state Congress headquarters in Paldi, will be shifted to Manav Mandir in Memnagar area of Ahmedabad. Some of-fice-bearers will also shift to the new office, which would operate out of the rented second, third and fourth floors of the Star Square building in Memnagar. The old of-fice, called Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, had undergone a major renovation 12 years ago. It is learnt that Solanki consulted a vas-tu shastra expert, who

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Gujarat becomes first state in country to record over 150 cr e-transactions

Gujarat HC’s 17-day delay rebuke comes 17 yrs later

suggested he shift the office.GPCC secretary Bhavin Vyas, who is also part of the party’s admin-istration branch, said the office was being shifted for two reasons — “to increase contacts in the western part of the city” and because “the current office has vastu dosh”. “There is some fault as per vastu shastra in the Paldi office. The seat-

ing arrangement is in the north-south direction. In the new office, we have kept the seating arrange-ment in east-west direc-tion,” Vyas said. “There is a friend of saheb (So-lanki), who helped him get the new office vas-tu-enabled,” Vyas said. Solanki did not respond to calls or messages seeking a comment. “The office is also being

shifted because of the practical purpose of in-creasing contacts in the western part of the city, which is expanding rap-idly. The Paldi office is almost on the banks of the (Sabarmati) river, so it is closer to the eastern part,” Vyas added. Paldi is adjacent to a Muslim neighbourhood, while Memnagar is a Hin-du-dominated locality.

Gujarat quota row: Hardik to start meeting Patel MLAs from tomorrow


Gujarat high court re-cently rebuked the state government for delaying the filing of an appeal since it had lost trace of a file for 17 days. Inter-estingly, the rebuke came a good 17 years after the appeal urging the HC to pardon the delay was filed in 1998. Hearing on the appeal took place for the first time recently in Au-gust 2015. In the appeal, the government had clar-ified that the delay was the result of a file that was untraceable for 17 days since a clerk in the state

social welfare department first went on casual leave and was transferred later. Refusing to pardon the delay after all these years, Justice G R Udhwani came down heavily for the “vague explanation”. “The rules contemplate handing over of the charge by the employee on leave to another employee so that public work does not suffer... The so-called loss of file for about 17 days is nothing but a negligent act and cannot be considered a good ground for con-doning the delay,” Justice Udhwani said. The case is

quite curious too. A special court in Mehsana ordered the social welfare depart-ment to pay compensation to a victim of caste atroc-ity. The trial completed in 1997 proved that the ben-eficiary was no victim of caste violence. The court ordered the government in July 1997 to recover the compensation amount from the beneficiary. After some delay in deciding, the state government filed an appeal arguing that nei-ther the department nor the victim was heard by the trial court before pass-ing the recovery order.


Five legislators from the constituencies around the Gir sanctuary have approached the Guja-rat high court raising objections to the newly formed eco-tourism pol-icy for the last abode of the Asiatic lions. Upon the HC’s directions, the state government came up with a uniform eco-tourism policy that has laid down norms for construction. Po-lice permit construction of low-rise buildings 1-2km from the sanctu-ary’s border. They also permit construction of non-commercial build-

ings for residential pur-pose in 2-5km periphery of the sanctuary. The permission for this has to be obtained from a committee comprising the district collector, a top forest official, DDO and SP of the district concerned. The legis-lators, Jawahar Cha-vda from Manavadar, Babubhai Vajha from Mangrol, Harshad Rib-adiya from Visavadar, Punjabhai Vaunsh from Una, and Jasha Barad from Talala, have sub-mitted in their petition that local people have begun facing problems due to the new policy.

ployed at the venue. While the Patidar agitation had first turned violent during a rally in Mehsana’s Vis-nagar town on July 16, a mob on the night of Au-gust 25 torched the houses ministers Rajnikant Patel, Nitin Patel and BJP MLA Jayshree Patel. Offices of Visnagar MLA Rishikesh Patel and Unjha MLA Naran Patel were also ran-sacked, and several buses and police chowikes came under attack. Anandiben too hails from Mehsana. “A good-strength security team, consisting of nearly 600 personnel, will be de-ployed. This includes SRP as well as a local police team under Deputy Su-perintendent of Police,” said an official from the Home Department. Me-hsana collector Lochan Sehra said: “The venue is Bahucharaji temple premises, which has been

recently developed by lo-cal body.” Claiming that only one open ground was available and it was now being used as helipad, the collector said, “The law and order situation is normal.” The sources, however, maintained that earlier the function was being planned at the open ground near the helipad, but the venue was changed due to security reasons. In her appeal to Gujarat cit-izens on eve of August 25 rally, Anandiben had rejected the Patidars’ de-mand for OBC status and reservation benefits, citing constitutional and legal provisions. On August 25, the government had re-jected Patidar leader Har-dik Patel’s ultimatum that Anandiben must visit the agitators at GMDC ground within 48 hours and give assurance in writing about the OBC quota.

punagar area of the city. “We will start meeting MLAs of Ahmedabad. I myself along with hun-dreds of my supporters will meet those MLAs and will give them a rose,” he said, adding that the entire meeting will be videographed. There are more than 35 Patel MLAs in the 182-mem-ber Gujarat Assembly. Hardik also gave Rs one lakh cheque to Swetang’s

mother Prabhaben Patel. The 22-year-old fiery Pa-tel leader said he had ear-lier donated Rs one lakh to Swetang’s family and today he gave another Rs one lakh to the bereaved family. He said his com-munity members will come forward to contrib-ute to the families who lost their kin and also to the persons who sus-tained injuries in “police atrocity”.

country in last 32 months. Gujarat’s share fell from 27% to 20.22% as other states have been aggres-sively adapting to e-gov-ernance. The portal set up by the department of information and technol-ogy receives transaction statistics from web-based applications periodically on near real-time basis. Gujaratis do it paperless and take to internet for all registrations be it land record or a new birth. Gu-jarat has recorded 151.09 crore e-transactions from Jan 1, 2013 to September 2, 2015 in the standard services provided under state government proj-ects. This year alone, over 39.84 crore e-transactions have been recorded in state. According to eTaal

(Electronic transaction aggregation and analysis layer), public distribution system, land revenue and utility and bill payments are the top three services which record the maxi-mum use, comprising of 70% or around 105 crore of e-transactions in state. Gujarat is next to only central government in terms of use of e-services for governance as cen-tral government projects recorded over 250 crore e-transactions since Jan-uary 2013. Gujarat gov-ernment currently offers more than 500 services through e-governance. The government is also implementing ‘mobile governance’ across the state as an extended arm of e-governance.

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