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News BriefFarmer dies after lightning strike

Agency | Kaushambi

A 40-year-old farmer was killed after being struck by lightning at Malak Pinjari village in Manjhanpur area here, police said today. The incident took place yes-terday when Jajatpal Raidas was working in his field and lightning struck him, they said. He died on the spot, po-lice added. The body of victim has been sent for post-mortem.

Modi is most focused PM on

J&K so far: Mufti

8,400 allottees surrender DDA

flats: Govt

Agency | Jammu

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed to-day said as compared to his predecessors, Narendra Modi is the “most focused” Prime Minister on the state so far. “From the day one (since government for-mation) there is full fo-cus of Prime Minister on J&K. I have seen Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gand-hi and V P Singh as Prime Ministers but the Prime Minister Modi is focused more than any-body else,” Sayeed told reporters here today.

Agency | New Delhi

Nearly one-third allot-tees of Delhi Develop-ment Authority (DDA) flats under Housing Scheme 2014 have sur-rendered their flats, the Urban Development Ministry said today. Among the reasons pro-vided for surrender of the flats were that al-lottees did not like the location or flats or did not find the built-up area sufficient, Minister of State for UD Babul Supriyo told the Rajya Sabha. The development agency, however, has informed that it did not receive any complaint of poor construction or quality, he added.

Army rescues 5,000 people : PM Modi reviews Chennai relief“Chennai floods”

The rains have virtually broken a 100-year record with one day’s rainfall covering a month’s average1,000 cr for Tamil Nadu flood relief

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minis-ter Anandiben Patel to-day took a decision for allotment of govt land to AMPCs, Agriculture related cooperative so-cieties, milk producing cooperative societies and district-taluka kha-rid vechan sanghs at nominal rates. 30% of such land will have to be used for godown to store fertilizers, seeds, pesticides for the bene-fit of farmers. According to the spokesperson of Gujarat govt and senior minister Shri Nitin Patel, the government accepted the recommendations of a committee led by state Health minister and liber-alized the present policy of allotment of govt land. The government will al-lot about 6,000 acre land worth Rs 5,667 crore for the benefit of farmers and pashupalaks as per this decision.

Agency | New Delhi

The Islamic State in its new manifesto - Black Flags from the Islamic State - has said that Na-rendra Modi is a ‘right-wing Hindu nationalist’ who ‘worships weapons’ and is ‘preparing his people for a future war against their number one enemy - Muslims’. Ac-cording to a report pub-lished in The Indian Ex-press, the Islamic State has vowed to expand its fight to India. “The Is-lamic State would now

Agency | New Delhi

The judicial custody of underworld don Chhota Rajan, who was arrested by CBI in an alleged fake passport case, was today extended till December 15 by a Delhi court. Ra-jan was produced before special CBI judge Vinod Kumar through video conferencing from Ti-har jail during a closed door proceeding and ac-cording to court sources, the judge extended his judicial custody till De-cember 15. He was not produced physically in the court for the remand

Agency | New Delhi

Senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Ti-rath Singh Thakur, who delivered important ver-dicts including on BCCI reforms and Saradha scam, was today sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pra-nab Mukherjee. Born on January 4, 1952, Justice Thakur will have a tenure as CJI for 13 months and would retire on January 4, 2017. He took over from Justice H L Dattu who re-tired yesterday. 63-year old Justice Thakur hit the spotlight following his judgement on reforming cricket controlling body Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the wake of allegations of betting and spot-fix-ing scandal in the Indian Premier League. He had

Agency | Chennai

Chennai on Thursday turned into a vir-tual island and coastal areas of Tamil Nadu were marooned after unprecedent-ed rains in 100 years pounded the city, its suburbs and neighbouring districts destroying road and rail links, shutting the airport and rendering thousands

homeless. Late on Wednesday night, the Airport Authority of India announced that Chennai airport will remain shut till December 6 in the wake of the battering downpour and predictions of more rains in the next 72 hours. Chennai, which re-ceived 49 cm of rain and Chembaram-bakkam, where the reservoir surplussed about 25,000 cusecs of water into Adyar

Agency | Bloemfontein

South Africa’s top ap-peals court ruled on Thursday that paralympi-an Oscar Pistorius’ con-viction be scaled up to murder from culpable ho-micide for killing his girl-friend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. “Guilty of murder, with the accused having crimi-nal intent,” judge Lorimer Leach told the court. “The matter is referred back to the trial court to consider an appropriate sentence.” Last year a judge gave Pistorius a five-year jail sentence for “culpable homicide” of Steenkamp, but prosecutors argued that the “Blade Runner” should be convicted of murder. He now faces a 15-year prison sentence, the minimum punishment

‘Hindu nationalist’ Narendra Modi preparing for ‘war against Muslims’: Islamic State

Oscar Pistorius guilty of murdering girlfriend: South Africa court

Court extends judicial custody of underworld don Chhota Rajan

expand beyond Iraq and Syria; it would now ex-pand into India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan (and several other coun-tries),” the manifesto said. This is the first time when the terror outfit has

cited an analysis of the Indian political scenario. A movement of Hindus is growing who kill Mus-lims who eat beef. Islam-ic State in its manifesto has alleged that Modi is preparing his people for

war against their number one enemy - Muslims. “President Narender Modi (sic) is a right-wing Hindu nationalist who worships weapons and is preparing his people for a future war against Mus-lims,” the manifesto said. “They have a political wing for the propaganda to get more recruits, and armed militia who can start a terror campaign against their number 1 enemy - the Muslims.,” it added. The manifesto was released online on some jihadist platforms.

for murder in South Af-rica. Pistorius, 29, had been convicted of culpa-ble homicide last year, for shooting Steenkamp through a toilet door in his home early on Valen-tine’s Day 2013. Prose-cutors said Pistorius shot Steenkamp during an argument, while the de-fence said Pistorius killed Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was an in-truder. The former track star was put under house arrest at his uncle’s man-

sion in a Pretoria suburb on October 19 after serv-ing one year of a five-year prison sentence, in line with the guidelines of South Africa’s correction-al services department. In November , prosecutors argued at the Supreme Court of Appeal, which is in Bloemfontein city, that the judge at Pistorius’ murder trial in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria made errors when she acquitted him of murder.

proceedings after the CBI had moved an ap-plication, saying due to serious threat perception to Rajan from his rivals, it would be “extremely unsafe” to produce him in the open court. Rajan was sent to high-security Ti-har prison in judicial cus-tody on November 19 in connection with the case.

Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year-old gangster, whose real name is Ra-jendra Sadashiv Nikalje, was remanded in judicial custody in connection with the fake passport case. Rajan, once a close aide of fugitive terror-ist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been brought to the coun-try to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smuggling in Delhi and Mumbai. After his arrest in Bali on Octo-ber 25, India had pressed for his early deportation.

river, received 47 cm of rains in the last 24 hours that flooded the city and the suburbs, uprooting people from their homes. Earlier in the day, the Prime Min-ister had met with urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu and defence minister Manohar Parrikar to review the ground reality. The meteorological de-

partment had predicted that rains would continue till Friday, but with decreased severity. “There will be no respite,” Lax-man Singh Rathore of the India Meteo-rological Department told reporters on Wednesday, raising fears among those affected in Tamil Nadu. President Pra-nab Mukherjee expressed his grief and

Justice T S Thakur Sworn in As CJI

also ordered probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam in eastern India, also known as Saradha scam. Justice Thakur took oath at a brief ceremony in the imposing Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bha-van which was attended

by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his cabi-net colleagues and former Chief Justices, among others. His mother Saras-wati Thakur and other family members were present at the function.

condolences over the loss of life in a message to Tamil Nadu’s Governor, K Rosaiah, conveying his “prayers and good wishes during this difficult time”.Gujarat Govt land

allotment to APMCs at cheaper rates

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DAYThe Minister Vs IPS Officer spat underlines the need to build trustThe public spat between Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij and the lady IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia has generated considerable debate. Most people have come out in support of the police officer. There is no doubt that the minister was boorish in his behaviour. He had no right to ask the officer to “get out” of a meeting where the performance of the district police in dealing with the sale of spurious liquor was being questioned. Another mistake committed by the min-ister was to talk harshly to the officer not only in pub-lic but also in the presence of the subordinate staff, thereby undermining her authority. The earlier gen-eration of politicians would always talk to officers in private whenever they felt like giving them a piece of their mind. But times have changed. Politicians have become loud-mouthed and arrogant. However, the police officer’s behaviour was equally truculent and confrontational. She showed her immaturity by unnecessarily arguing with the minister, who is after all the people’s representative and had every right to listen to public grievance. In this case, an NGO had complained that the police was not doing enough to prevent the sale of spurious liquor. Instead of asking the NGO why it brought the complaint before the minister, the officer should have tried to explain the actions taken in this regard. Instead, she indirectly blamed the government’s policies. Sale of spurious liquor is an important concern not only for the pub-lic but also for every state government. There have been many incidents in different states, where the sale of illegal liquor has caused deaths and the po-lice officials have been found complicit in allowing the sale. Much like in every other state, the Hary-ana Police Act of 2007 — Section 24, to be precise — gives the superintendence over the police to the state government. Further, this section allows the state government to “intervene in the exercise of the powers of administration” by the police officers “in accordance with the prescribed rules, regulations or in exceptional circumstances involving urgent pub-lic interest”. As such, the minister had the authority to exercise superintendence over the police and to ask the head of the district police to explain their actions. He was not giving an illegitimate order. The state government did what all state governments do in such cases — transfer the officer. It was puerile on the part of the state government’s representative to defend the transfer as a routine administrative de-cision. The transfer was nothing but a slap on the wrist, a warning to the officer to behave.

“We are the largest producers of methane – we, china and Brazil. yet we do not think about methane. Methane is 26 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in creating climate change,”

- Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday contradicted him saying the country is one of the main players in destroying the climate.

Angry Indian Goddesses review: A fun ride that ends in cliches

Sanjay Dutt to do a cameo in a biopic on him starring Ranbir Kapoor

Anushka Sharma uncovers the dark side of Bollywood

Hrithik Roshan to romance Kareena Kapoor in Sanjay Gupta’s next?

Sonali Bendre is a progressive mother: Vivek Oberoi

Check out the first poster of ‘Tere Bin Laden 2’

Agency | Mumbai

Actor-producer Farhan Akhtar wants a sequel for his 2011 hit film Zinda-gi Na Milegi Dobara. “I would like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara to be tak-en ahead. I think it will be great fun,” Farhan said. The Zoya Akhtar-directed film also starred Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Katrina a Kaif and Kalki Koechlin in lead roles. The film followed the journey of three friends on a trip to Spain and how they overcome problems to rediscover themselves.

Hrithik, who played the role of an investment banker in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, had ear-lier expressed that there should be a sequel to the film. Currently, Farhan is working on the sequel of Rock On!! that marked his debut in Bollywood as an actor. On turning Rock On!! into a franchise, Far-han said: “That time will tell. Right now let Rock On 2 be made.” Rock On!! , a musical drama directed by Abhishek Kapoor, also starred Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai.

farhan Akhtar Thinks Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Sequel Will be ‘fun’

Agency | New Delhi

After making audiences roll on their stomach in 2010, director Abhishek Sharma is back with the sequel of Tere Bin Lad-en, Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive. The first look of the film, which is pro-duced by Phantom Films and Walkwater Media, was recently released. In the poster, Osama Bin Laden’s doppelganger is seen sitting on a rocket with a newspaper in his hand that bears a head-line, Bin Laden Dead. Producer Pooja Shetty Deora says, ‘’Tere Bin Laden is a very special film for us and we are happy to announce the release of its sequel - Tere Bin Laden-Dead or Alive on Feb 19th, 2016. It is difficult to imagine a sequel of this franchise because of the nature of the original,

Agency | Mumbai

After many speculations surrounding the biopic of controversial star San-jay Dutt, Rajkumar Hi-rani recently announced that he will soon be kick starting the film starring Ranbir Kapoor. And now, we hear that Sanjay Dutt will be making a special appearance in this biopic based on him. It is be-ing said that the entry of Sanjay Dutt in the film is being planned towards the end and that the makers are currently working on the details of the same. As of now, Sanjay Dutt is busy serving his sentence at Yerawada jail. How-ever, the actor is expect-ed to be out of prison in 2016. From what we hear,

Agency | Mumbai

Anushka Sharma has boldly opened up about the horrible sexism that exists in the Bollywood industry. In an interview with film critic Anupama Chopra, Anushka said that women in Bollywood are only required to look good and ?interesting? in a film, The Express Tribune reports. How-ever, she said that once an actress lose her looks, she loses contracts for the films, which is not the case with male ac-tors. The gutsy actress revealed that it is more difficult for an actress to enter films compared to actors also that men are paid more than women.

Agency | New Delhi

It’s been 12 years since Hrithik Roshan romanced Kareena Kapoor on the silver screen. The once-upon-a-time popular on-screen pair teamed up to-gether for Yaadein (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon (2003). But since then two have never worked together. Buzz has it that the two fell in love on the sets of Subhash Ghai’s Yaadein but since Hrithik was already married, the two decided to part ways amicably. However, if things go well, the two

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Vivek Oberoi says his “India’s Best Drame-baaz” co-judge Sonali Bendre is a great mother in real life. Vivek, Sonali and director Sajid Khan will be judging the sec-ond season of the Zee TV talent hunt. While Vivek, 39, and Sonali were part of the first season as well, Sajid replaces director

Anurag Basu as the third judge. “We usually advice the kids, but Sonali being a progressive mother, consistently talks to the mothers… Those mothers who take pressure. They are nervous and you can see. But she has made it a point to tell them that if they take pressure, their kids will too. From last season till now, the attitude of parents has

Agency | New Delhi

Womenfolk of the coun-try, it is time to rejoice: India’s ‘first female bud-dy film’ hits theatres this Friday. For most parts, Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses is indeed an Indian version of Sex and the City, (of course much less sex, this is India with the censor board, remem-ber?) and surprisingly, a good one! Angry Indi-an Goddesses follows a group of seven women: Frieda (Sarah-Jane Dias), a photographer, invites her college friends over to her family home in Goa. The diverse bunch includes CEO Suranjana (Sandhya Mridul), aspir-ing ‘Katrina Kaif-like’ actor Joanna (Amrit Ma-ghera), struggling singer Madhureeta (Anushka

Manchanda), social ac-tivist Nargis (Tannishtha Chatterjee) and ‘trophy wife’ Pam (Pavleen Gu-jral). Laksmi (Rajshri Deshpande), the maid, takes care of the house and Frieda’s friends. The opening credits are a brilliant start for a film celebrating womanhood and friendship. It is a montage of sequences from the lives of these

eight women fighting against misogyny in their different worlds: From struggling to be heard in a male-dom-inant film industry to facing the many lecher-ous looks while walk-ing down a street, the prelude sets the pace for what’s in store -- women fighting gender inequal-ity through the various phases of their lives.

but Abhishek Sharma’s imagination will make this an enjoyable ride’’. The film features Manish

Paul, Pradhuman Singh and Sikandar and is all set to release on Febru-ary 19, 2016.

Sanjay Dutt is equally in-volved in the making of the film and considering that Rajkumar Hirani is also a close friend of Dutt, he will be getting all the required permissions and will also be showing the rushes to the actor and his

family. It has also been learnt that the Sanjay Dutt biopic is an unabashed portrayal of the actor’s life which will touch upon areas like his relationship with his father, his three marriages and his connec-tion with the underworld.

changed,” Vivek told re-porters at the launch of the show. When asked if being a mother will help her judge the chil-dren on the show, Sonali said, “First of all I don’t like the word ‘judge’, because you can’t judge children. Kids are kids and everyone is an in-dividual.” “We call it judging, but we try not be judgemental about it. I try to tell them some-thing constructively. They are small and they have their whole life in front of them,” she said. The 40-year-old actress said only those kids take pressure whose parents worry too much about the results.

She said that if any ac-tress does a film, in which her role is superior to the male actor?s, none of the guys will do that role. On the other hand, the Bom-

bay Velvet actress did say that male actors also have to face a lot of pressure in Bollywood as they are under pressure to make 100 crore films.

will yet again unite for a film. Kareena and Hrithik will reunite for Rakesh Roshan’s next home pro-duction. The film is set to be a love-cum-revenge drama and is set to be helmed by Sanjay Gupta. A source close to the ac-tor was quoted as telling

the daily, “Yes, the mak-ers have approached Ka-reena and she has liked the script. It is a daringly different and challenging role. She’s good friends with Hrithik and keen to pair up with him but she has yet to sign on the dot-ted line.”


SPORTS ROUNDUPfacebook activates ‘Safety Check’ for Chennai floods

former Microsoft CEO Ballmer Insists Windows Phone Needs Android Apps

Mercedes to hike vehicle prices by up to 2 per cent from January

Agency | New York

Facebook activated the “Safety Check” feature for its users in Chennai early on Thursday to pro-vide them with a way to reassure loved ones that they are safe in the flood-hit city, a media report said. As the torrential rains in Chennai entered its fourth straight day, with power and telephone lines down in many areas owing to flooding, Facebook’s Safety Check feature would allow people to mark themselves as “safe” from the floods, Time report-ed. The feature, which debuted in October 2014, al-lows Facebook to ask users whether they’re safe if located near a natural disaster. A click or tap on the “I’m Safe” button lets friends and loved ones know straight away. Users can also check to see whether their friends are safe too. Facebook’s Safety Check feature has now been deployed on several occa-sions, the most recent being last month’s terrorist

attacks in Paris.

Agency | New Delhi

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s ongoing big initia-tive to save Windows Phone won’t work, believes Steve Ballmer. The former chief executive, who is also the biggest individual shareholder in the firm, said in an interview with Bloomberg that the struggling mobile operating system needs Android apps to survive. At company’s annual stakeholder meeting, Satya Nadella touted Universal Windows Platform, the company’s initiative to let developers quickly turn their desktop apps into their mobile counterpart (and its vice-versa) reusing most of the code, as a feature that benefits Windows Store over rival’s app stores. “The powerful concept of Win-dows and Windows 10 is that it is one application platform, one store for developers, that then should attract developers to build once and have them run across all the Windows,” Nadella said addressing concerns of a disappointed stakeholder who want-ed to know why his Windows Phone doesn’t have

all the apps.

Agency | New Delhi

Mercedes-Benz India will increase prices of its ve-hicles across all models by up to 2 per cent from January 1, 2016, to offset rising input cost. “The price increase would be up to 2 per cent, varying across the model range. The rising input cost is in-strumental in the price revision of Mercedes-Benz products,” the company said in a statement. The German carmaker sells a range of 24 models in India, starting with the A-Class, priced at Rs 27.5 lakh, going up to Rs 2.7 crore for the S63 AMG coupe (all prices ex-showroom, Delhi). Mer-cedes-Benz India Managing Director & CEO Ro-land Folger said, “With rising input costs, we are compelled to make some price adjustments to our product range to protect the investment of our cus-tomers in the brand, maintain our premium brand positioning in the market and sustain a profitable business.”

India v/s South Africa 4th Test Day 1 Match Commentary: Rahane takes hosts to 231-7 at stumps

I will try to achieve the best in 2016 Rio Olympics: Saina Nehwal

Ranji Trophy: Dinda takes four as Bengal bowl Assam out for 125 after scoring 444/6

Sania Mirza clarifies position, says request for private jet due to tight schedule

ISL: NorthEast beat Pune, await other results to know semis fate

Virender Sehwag to sons: Break my record, I will present you a Ferrari

Agency | New Delhi

Welcome to the fourth and final Test between India and South Africa, being played at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. This is Day 1 of the Test match. This is also the last game of SA’s 2 and a half month long tour of India. India lead the 4-Test series 2-0, and have thus already cap-tured the Gandhi-Man-dela trophy. South Africa will play for pride, but a victory looks difficult if the pitch turns out to be another spinner’s para-dise. India have won the toss and chosen to bat. The Nagpur pitch attract-ed a lot of controversy, with the ICC rating it as poor. Indian Test captain Virat Kohli angrily de-

Agency | New Delhi

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal feels the current year is one of the best of her career but rued that a series of injuries affected her chances of winning more titles. “I was well set to win more tourna-ments but injuries didn’t leave me the whole year. When you are fit and fine then progress comes au-tomatically,” Saina said. “Out of three import-ant finals (All England, World Championship and China Open), I was a runner up in three tour-

Agency | Guwahati

Bengal took complete control of their final Ran-ji Trophy group league encounter, in Guwahati on Thursday, bowling out Assam for 125 after scor-

ing 444/6. Senior speed-ster Ashoke Dinda had wreaked havoc against Assam with a devastating two-over spell taking four wickets without conced-ing a run on Wednesday evening. After putting up a

Agency | New Delhi

Retiring legend Viren-der Sehwag on Thursday thanked his former India captains Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kum-ble along with Sachin Ten-dulkar for their guidance during his illustrious inter-national career. The BCCI on Thursday formally fe-licitated Sehwag before the start of the fourth Test match against South Afri-ca with secretary Anurag Thakur presenting him

with a glittering trophy for his achievements. Sehwag was accompanied by his mother Krishna Sehwag, wife Aarti and two sons Aryavir and Vedant during the short ceremony. In his brief farewell speech, Se-hwag thanked everyone from BCCI to DDCA to his first coach AN Sharma and Satish Sharma, who first picked him for Delhi U-19s. “I want to thank my father for allowing me to play the game of crick-et and give me freedom

to do whatever I wanted to. All my coaches, es-pecially A.N. Sharma for making me the cricket-er I am,” the 37 year old said. He also had words of gratitude for his close friends, including Delhi U-19 coach Raju Shar-ma. When it came to the captains, Sehwag said: “I want to thank my first cap-tain Ajay Jadeja and other captains Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kum-ble. I want to thank Sachin Tendulkar.”

Agency | New Delhi

Sania Mirza’s agency has issued a detailed statement about the “unacceptable” demands made to attend the annual sports awards hosted by the Madhya Pradesh government. The demand list, according to the sports department, in-cluded a chartered flight and an expensive make-up kit. The agency has clarified that the demand for a private jet was made because of Sania’s tight schedule, and long com-mercial flights Bhopal. “As the official Agency,

KWAN, managing Miss Sania Mirza’s account, this is in response to the recent comments made in the media which have been attributed to cer-tain officials from Mad-hya Pradesh. We wish to clarify our position. We had been directly dealing with the concerned per-sons in order to facilitate Miss Mirza’s visit for the event in which she was very keen to participate. It was to take place in Bho-pal on 28th November, 2015 and we were well acquainted with the ne-

Agency | Guwahati

‘Defending be damned, let’s go and get some goals’ was the formula NorthEast United FC had to follow. “I will send out a team that I think can win the match” was what Pune coach David Platt had said on Tues-day. Cesar Farias’ side ended the first half 3-1 ahead on Wednesday. In their final league game of the season, the high-landers needed a win and hope for other results to

go their way to qualify for the last four. Judging by the atmosphere, the 27,108 fans in attendance knew what was at stake, and in the fifth minute, the team showed they did too. Nicolas Velez ended a fine counterattacking move, with the midfield-er finishing off an inch perfect low cross from the right, put in by for-ward Victor Mendy. Pune had their own hopes in the balance. Win the last two to go through. In the eighth minute, former

Derby County midfield-er, James Bailey — still only 27 and once tipped to be the next Robbie Savage — scored the equaliser. NorthEast’s goal came in the 18th minute. Velez turned creator, crossing for Di-omansy Kamara, who tapped in from close. Pune left back Nicky Shorey, 34-years-old and a veteran in England’s top-flight, was out of po-sition for both goals. An-dre Bikey added a third before the end of the half.

fended the wicket, while former Australian play-er Matthew Hayden and Ravi Shastri engaged in a heated exchange. Dale Steyn will not be playing this game as he

is still out with an inju-ry. Umesh Yadav comes in for India, while Amit Mishra has been left out. This may indicate that the pitch is not a rank turner.

naments while the winner in two (All England and World Championship) was Carolina and in third (China Open) the winner was Li Xuerui.” Saina dished out some superb performances this year to win the Syed Modi Grand

Prix Gold and India Open Super Series, before con-quering the world No. 1 ranking and reaching the finals of World Cham-pionships, All England Championships and Chi-na Open Super Series Premier.

gotiations that were under way. There was never any demand of Rs 5 lakhs on this occasion made by the Agency, as suggested by media reports. As Miss Mirza already committed to participate in an event in Goa on 29th November, and since the commercial flights were taking her 7 hours (including the stop-overs) to fly from Bhopal to Goa, it was practically impossible to her to be physically present for both these events unless she was accorded the facili-ty of a private jet for fly-ing from Bhopal to Goa. Hence, the request for a private jet had to be made for just the outgoing flight from Bhopal to ensure that Miss Mirza could honour her commitment in Goa – a commitment that had been made more than a month ago.

commendable first innings score of 444 for six, riding on Shreevats Goswami’s (112) maiden first-class ton and Pankaj Shaw’s well-compiled 99, Bengal send Assam reeling at 1/4 in four overs with another 290 runs required to avoid follow-on. Dinda’s aston-ishing figures read 2-2-0-4. The 31-year-old veteran also completed a personal milestone of 300 first-class wickets on Wednes-day -- only second pace bowler from the state af-ter current bowling coach Ranadeb Bose (317) to ac-complish the feat. This is his 85th first-class match.


Correspondent | Vadodara

Opposition Congress made a big comeback to the po-litical scene in rural Guja-rat on Wednesday by win-ning a sizeable number of seats in both the district and the taluka panchayats. The trends showed that Congress was winning 19 of the 31 district pan-chayats. In the terms of number of seats, the mar-gin appeared even bigger with Congress winning 568 seats and BJP securing only 360 seats (final figures were yet to come). In the 2010 local body polls, BJP won over 540 seats, while around 240 seats went to Congress. BJP, however, managed clear victories in six district panchyats — Kutch, Porbandar, Panch-

mahal, Navsari, Surat and Valsad. In Gir-Somnath, two Independents held the key to the tie between the two parties having 13 seats each. In Bharuch, Narma-da and Dev Bhoomi Dwar-ka, it would either be can-didates of other parties or Independents who would decide the political fate of the district panchayats. Though, the final break-up of the number of taluka panchyats won by the two parties were still awaited, trends showed that a large section of rural voters have opted for Congress. So far, Congress has won on 2,455 seats, while BJP emerged victories 1,953 seats. In 2010, BJP had 2,460 seats in the taluka panchayats, while Congress managed only 1,428.

Correspondent | Rajkot

In a shocking result for the BJP in Saurashtra, Congress on Monday won nine of the 11 dis-trict panchayats and most taluka panchayats in the region. The ruling party managed to withstand the onslaught only in urban areas. Riding on the an-ti-BJP sentiment prevail-ing among the Patidars, who dominate the region, Congress defeated the rul-ing party in Rajkot, Mor-bi, Jamnagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Junagadh, Am-reli, Bhavnagar, Bo-tad and Surendranagar district panchayats by big margins. In Rajkot, considered a BJP forte, Congress bagged 34 of the total 36 seats. Morbi, which was the epicentre

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel yester-day said the BJP will have to analyse the reasons for its poor performance in the local body polls in the rural areas of the state. “Though we have done well in municipal corpo-rations and municipali-ties, it is also a fact that the results in district and taluka panchayat bodies are not up to the expec-tations,” Patel admitted while addressing the par-ty workers outside BJP office in Khanpur area here. “We have been do-ing several developmen-tal works across Gujarat. We have also undertaken an exercise to strengthen the party organisation. Still we have to now anal-yse what went wrong. We will find out and ad-dress these problems,”


Seven wards — Nikol, Gota, Vadaj, Asarwa, Bapunagar, Navrangpu-ra and Thaltej — turned out to be clinchers for the state BJP’s city unit in Ahmedabad which erupted in celebrations late Wednesday morn-ing, after the party regis-tered win in these “critical wards”, the strongholds of the Patidars. Incidental-ly, the 36-seat Viramgam municipality, which is home to Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel, saw BJP better its tally of 16 seats clocked in 2010. Congress, which fought the polls on the party symbol for the first time in a decade, won at least 11 seats, as results con-tinued to trickle in. In


Delivering a message of inclusiveness at a time when Parliament is de-bating the Constitution and the issue of intol-erance, President Pra-nab Mukherjee Tuesday called for an “intense effort” within the coun-try to “cleanse minds” of views that divide so-ciety. Addressing a gath-ering after inaugurating the new archives and research centre at Sabar-mati Ashram, a day after arriving in Gujarat on a three-day visit, Mukher-jee said, “The real dirt of India lies not on our streets but in our minds and in our unwilling-ness to let go of views that divide society into


The brother of fugitive underworld don Javed Patel alias Chikna and one his accomplices were arrested from Gorakh-pur near the Indo-Nepal border by Gujarat Po-lice on Wednesday. Abid Dawood Patel, wanted in connection with the mur-der of two BJP leaders in Bharuch in November, and his associate Salim Ganchi were nabbed by a joint team of the Guja-rat Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Ahmedabad. Abid is said to be holding UK citizen-ship. The Patel brothers, according to police, have links with underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and Chhota Sha-keel. “We have arrested them from Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) in a joint operation,” said Guja-

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The Ministry of Environ-ment, Forest and Climate Change of the union government has given environmental clearance to the ambitious Dhol-era International Airport proposed to be set up at Navagam village in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat in three phases at an estimated project cost of Rs 1712 crore. The Defense ministry had already given its no objection certificate per-taining to construction work while the Civil Avi-ation ministry had given site clearance for the pro-posed world class airport to be set up in sprawling 1426 hectare area last year. The Dholera Inter-national Airport Compa-ny, made by the state gov-ernment for the purpose, will construct the airport in three phases. As per


Independents appear to hold the key to forming local governments in Un-jha and Visnagar towns of Mehsana district, which was one of the worst af-fected parts of Gujarat during the violence in August after a Patidar rally in Ahmedabad over the quota issue. Elections in Mehsana were closely watched as it is the home district of Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and several state minis-ters. Many district pan-chayats in north Gujarat, including Gandhinagar and Sabarkantha, went to BJP, but Ahmedabad was a close contest with Congress in the lead. BJP had been winning the

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Saurashtra: Congress rides on anti-BJP sentiment, gains big

Gujarat civic polls: Independents hold the key in Unjha, Visnagar

Murder of BJP leaders in Bharuch: Javed Chikna’s brother, aide arrested

Gujarat civic polls: We must analyse setback in rural areas, says Anandiben Patel

Real dirt is not on our streets but in minds: President Pranab Mukherjee

In Ahmedabad, lotus blooms in Patel bastions

of the Patidar quota stir, saw a complete reversal of fortunes as BJP lost the district panchayat, one municipality and all five taluka panchayats to Con-gress. The only consola-tion for BJP came from Wanakaner Municipality, which it managed to re-tain. The saffron party

failed to open account in Tankara taluka panchayat in Morbi, and Manava-dar and Visavadar taluka panchayats in Junagadh. Congress bagged all the seats in these local bodies. Congress also blew away BJP from Amreli, another district dominated by the Patidars, and won Amreli

and Savarkundla Munic-ipalities, Amreli district panchayat and eight of the 11 taluka panchayats. Dhari taluka panchayat, home to BJP MLA Nalin Kotadiya who openly supported the Patidar stir and exhorted people to defeat his party, was also won by Congress.

Unjha Municipality elec-tion for the past two de-cades. Mehsana district panchayat, meanwhile, voted out BJP by giving it only nine seats. As many as 33 went to Con-gress. Similarly, of the 17 seats in Unjha talu-

ka panchayat, BJP won only one, while 12 went to Congress and four to Independents. Mehsana district has four munic-ipalities of which Con-gress won 12 seats in Visnagar, another town affected by the Pati-

dar violence, and BJP won seven. Seventeen seats went to Indepen-dents. Kadi Municipali-ty, home to BJP minister Nitin Patel, remained with the party, while Mehsana Municipality was won by Congress.

the 20-member taluka panchyat, both the par-ties won10 seats each. Nikol turned out to be the most decisive ward with all four BJP candi-dates winning. The vic-tory was keenly watched at the BJP headquarters at Khanpur Wednesday, owing to the sporadic Pa-tidar violence witnessed in the ward. Results of other wards that are dominated by minorities, Patidars, OBCs and SCs,

like Ghatlodiya, Gota, Dani Limda and Asarwa, also drew interest at the office. At BJP’s Khan-pur office, next to the BJP president’s room, was the poll room that saw BJP vice-president and former state cabinet minister I K Jadeja, city unit president and El-lisbridge MLA Rakesh Shah, BJP state spokes-person Harshad Patel sitting glued to the TV screens around 10 am.

them and us, pure and impure.” The President also referred to the Swa-chh Bharat Mission, which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Gandhi Jayanti last year, to reiterate the point. “We must make a success of the laudable and welcome Swachh Bharat Mission. Howev-er, this also must be seen

as just the beginning of a much larger and intense effort to cleanse minds and fulfil Gandhiji’s vi-sion in all its aspects,” he said. The President went on to quote Gand-hi to say that as long as untouchability or “the dehumanising practice of carrying night soil persists, we cannot have real Swachh Bharat”.

rat Director General of Police P C Thakur. He refused to give more information about the operation. Abid is con-sidered to be a big catch. He allegedly planned the double murder in a bid to “avenge atrocities on Muslims”. Ganchi, who is said to be from Mumbai, was helping Abid escape the coun-

try, police said. Gujarat Police had sought an NIA probe into the mur-der of Shirish Bangali (60), former president of BJP’s Bharuch unit, and Pragnesh Mistry (32), a general secretary with the party’s youth wing, citing links between the Patel brothers, Chho-ta Shakeel and Dawood Ibrahim.

Rural Gujarat: BJP loses some strongholds too

Environmental clearance to Dholera International Airport

the Airport Authority of India’s report the cost on the first phase would be Rs 716 crore. Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for the environmental clearance, Gujarat Chief Minister Mrs. Anandi-ben Patel today said that along with the Special Investment Region (SIR) in Dholera people from areas like Vadodara, Ra-jkot, Bhavnagar, Nadiyad and Aanand would also benefit from the airport. Now certain ‘in princi-ple’ approvals from the Civil Aviation Ministry remains to be obtained which in all likelihood will be given by January next year.

she said. The Chief Min-ister received a grand welcome at Khanpur office as the BJP has re-tained the six municipal corporations: Ahmed-abad, Bhavnagar, Surat, Jamnagar, Vadodara and Rajkot. The Chief Min-ister, though, expressed some disappointment for not surpassing the pre-vious tally of 151 at the

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. “We have won in all the six cor-porations with a thump-ing majority....of the 56 municipalities we have captured 40, while eight went to Congress. People used to say that BJP will get only 80 to 90 seats in AMC (of the total 192), but we have captured 142,” Patel said.

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