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News Brief5 arrested in

Tanzanian woman attack case

Agency | Bengaluru

Amidst the outrage over the alleged assault and stripping of a 21-year-old Tanzanian wom-an here, the Karnataka government today said five persons have been arrested in connection with the incident but denied that she was pa-raded naked. As the in-cident on Sunday night took a serious diplomat-ic turn, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, “Case has been registered, five of them (accused) have been ar-rested.

Rail track monitor system

goes online

Want everything to go well for Katrina:

Tabu

Agency | New Delhi

Focussing on informa-tion technology, rail-ways is developing modules to monitor rail temperature and bridge water level online as part of the Track Man-agement System (TMS) across the country. Web enabled Track Manage-ment System has been fully implemented in all railway divisions in the country to monitor track maintenance-related ac-tivities on a real-time basis, Railway Board Member (Engineering) V K Gupta said at a seminar here today.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Tabu says she always wants everything to go well with Katrina Kaif as she is one of the most hardworking actors she has ever met. Tabu, who will be seen working with Kaif in “Fitoor”, feels the effort the “Phantom” star puts in her performance is en-dearing.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hopeful of GST Bill“Union Budget : 2016-17”

Correspondent | Rajkot

Indian all rounder Ravin-dra Jadeja is going to get engaged to city-based mechanical engineer Re-eva Solanki, tomorrow.

Reeva has completed her engineering degree at Atmiya College and is now preparing for UPSC examination in Delhi. Her mother Prafulla-ba Solanki is an Indian

Railway employee while her father is a business-man. The ring ceremony will be held tomorrow at Jadeja’s restaurant. Naina Jadeja, cricketer’s elder sister confirmed the news.

Budget session to begin on Feb23

Agency | Jammu

The chances of finding 10 Indian Army soldiers trapped under snow in the Siachen Glacier “are very remote”, the defence ministry said, as search efforts entered the second on Thursday. The oper-ation was intensified on Thursday with the induc-tion of specialised teams, sniffer dogs and equip-ment to trace the army personnel trapped at a high-altitude post after an avalanche. “Specialised equipment was flown in to Leh today (Thursday) morning,” the spokes-person said. He said that blocks of snow had fall-en on the post. “To clear

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday told the BCCI it has to accept retired Chief Justice RM Lodha’s report to reform Indian crick-et and it “won’t get a second innings” to do this. The court gave the board time till March 3 to “mull over the report” but warned that there was no “rationale not to accept it.” “There is no second innings--it’s all over,” said the court. The panel headed by re-tired chief justice Lodha

Agency | New Delhi

Karnataka Home Min-ister G Parmeshwara on Thursday said that a Tan-zanian woman student – who alleged that she was attacked and her car was burnt by a mob – was not stripped and parad-ed naked in Bengaluru. Facing a volley of ques-tions at a press confer-ence, Parmeshwara said those responsible for the attack will not be spared

Agency | Mumbai

Maharashtra governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Thurs-day gave sanction to Cen-tral Bureau of Investiga-tion to prosecute former chief minister and state Congress president Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society case, days after the BJP-led state gov-ernment recommended action against him. Cha-van, who resigned from his post after the scam surfaced in 2010, was one of 12 who were charge sheeted by the investiga-

Chances of finding soldiers trapped in Siachen snow ‘very remote’: Govt

Maharashtra governor sanctions CBI prosecution of ex-CM Ashok Chavan

the same is a very diffi-cult task,” he said. Snow cutters and special equip-ment have been put to use to clear and cut the ice blocks. The avalanche hit the post situated at 19,600 feet in the Northern Gla-cier sector in the Ladakh region on Wednesday. The missing personnel were attached to the Ma-dras battalion stationed at

the post. The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force teams are battling harsh weather conditions and difficult terrain to trace the missing soldiers. Av-alanches and landslides are common in Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both entirely. The nations also dispute the undemarcated bor-

der through the Siachen Glacier at an altitude of nearly 19,000 feet (5,800 meters). Thousands of In-dian and Pakistani troops are stationed on the freez-ing Himalayan terrain, where more troops have died from the gruelling conditions than from hostile fire. Last month, four Indian soldiers on foot patrol were killed by an avalanche in the same region. In 2012, an avalanche in the Paki-stan-controlled part of the glacier killed 140 people, including 129 soldiers. The two countries have discussed ways to demili-tarize the Siachen Glacier without success.

Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to get engaged tomorrow

SC to BCCI: Accept Lodha panel report, you won’t get a second innings

was appointed by the apex court in 2015 in the wake of a sport-fixing scandal in Indian Pre-mier League (IPL), the biggest crisis to hit the cash-rich sports body in the country. In January, the committee recom-

mended barring ministers and government officials from holding office in the BCCI (Board of Con-trol for Cricket in India )and legalising betting in sweeping measures to clean up the scandal-rid-den sports body.tion agency for allegedly

grabbing land meant for war veterans and widows and building a residential complex on it. In 2013, during the previous Con-gress-NCP regime, gov-ernor Rao’s predecessor K Sankaranarayan had

turned down the CBI’s request to prosecute Cha-van. However, as the government changed in both the state and centre, the CBI sought permis-sion again. “Maharashtra governor C Vidyasagar Rao today gave his sanc-

tion to CBI to prosecute former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ashok Cha-van, under section 197 of CrPC, for offences under sections 120-B (conspira-cy) and 420 (cheating) of IPC in the Adarsh Coop-erative Housing Society case,” an official in the Governor’s office said.

Agency | New Delhi

The Budget Session of Parliament will com-mence on February 23 that will focus largely on the financial business of the government, which will present the gener-al budget on February 29. But there will be no curtailment of the ses-sion or the recess period on account of Assembly

elections in five states due shortly. This was decided at a meeting of

the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Af-fairs, chaired by Home

Minister Rajnath Singh. “The budget session of parliament will com-mence on February 23. The Rail Budget will be presented on February 25, the pre-budget eco-nomic survey on Febru-ary 26 and the General budget on February 29. “The first part of Bud-get session will end on March 16 and the second part will be convened from April 25 to May 13,” Parliamentary Af-fairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters af-ter the meeting of CCPA.

He said there were sug-gestions for curtailing the recess period due to assembly elections in five states but the gov-ernment as well as polit-ical parties wanted a full session. “In 2011, the then government had de-cided not to refer bills to Standing Committees in the budget session when

states were going to polls and there were demands to curtail the session. But the government today decided that bills will be referred to standing com-mittees for examination during recess period,” Naidu said. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hoped that the op-position parties will “see

reason” and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is held up in Rajya Sabha, will become a re-ality soon. “It (GST) has been supported by most political parties and I am sure others will also see reason and this law will become a reality very soon,” the minister said at an event in New Delhi.

Tanzanian woman was not stripped, paraded naked: Karnataka Home Minister

and that the case has al-ready been transferred to the crime branch. “Some more arrests are going to be made depending on the inquiry. The case has been transferred to the Central Crime Branch for inves-

tigation,” he said, adding that there was no racism behind the attack and it was ‘just a response’ to an earlier accident. “Ben-galuru doesn’t have such kind of an attitude,” Par-meshwara said.

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DAYThe economy is best served by lowering interest rates..?

In its monetary policy announcement on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to keep the poli-cy interest rate unchanged. One of the implications of this decision is for the rupee. High interest rates have helped in keeping the rupee strong in recent years. It appears policymakers wish this to continue. But the recent slowdown in China and the depreciation of the yuan means India’s external environment has changed significantly. While two years ago it might have seemed like a good idea to prevent the rupee from weakening, a rethink is now warranted. There are two ways to look at the latest monetary policy re-view by the Reserve Bank of India. On the face of it, Governor Raghuram Rajan did not press any of the buttons he could have. The benchmark rates, such as the repo rate and the cash reserve ratio, remain un-changed. But the view that since the RBI did not do anything, it was a non-event, would be missing the sophisticated proposition Rajan laid out for the Nar-endra Modi government, especially Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who will present the Union budget later this month. Rajan’s assessment offers two key take-aways. One, irrespective of the sharp fall in global commodity prices, especially crude oil, the inflation faced by consumers in India continues to remain high and sticky. As such, Rajan, known for his single-mind-ed approach to curbing inflation, made it clear yet again that he will stay the course, even though there is always pressure on him to cut interest rates in or-der to fuel growth. “The Reserve Bank continues to be accommodative… while awaiting further data on the development of inflation,” he said. Rajan has ef-fectively chosen to predicate future monetary poli-cy action (read rate cuts) on the fiscal policy actions (read fiscal rectitude) of the government. “Structural reforms in the forthcoming Union budget that boost growth while controlling spending will create more space for monetary policy to support growth, while also ensuring that inflation remains on the projected path of 5 per cent by the end of 2016-17.” That, in a nutshell, is the challenge for Jaitley. The Indian econ-omy has been widely seen as “a beacon of stability”. Yet, as several analysts, including the government’s own mid-year review, noted in December, for the cur-rent growth to sustain, investments need to pick up. The second related takeaway is about the limits of in-terest rate cuts in promoting such an investment-led growth. For one, estimates by the RBI and the NIPFP show that interest rate costs are just 2 to 3 per cent of the total production costs.

“Pakistan is the country which can do the most in terms of influencing the Taliban’s attitude, I think Pakistan has the most influence,” - Afghanistan CEO Abdullah Abdullah says India is a ‘trusted friend’ of his country

Shah Rukh, Aamir will fear talking due to scary reactions: Sonam Kapoor

Agency | New Delhi

After releasing Rishi Kapoor’s look in the up-coming film Kapoor and Sons, the makers are out with the first poster of the much-anticipated film. Sidharth Malhotra, who plays one of the lead ac-tors in the upcoming ro-mantic comedy, took to Twitter to share the per-fect family moment. The Brothers actor posted the first poster of the film and wrote, “Our fam-ily that parties togeth-er,loves together n even fights together (sic).” Directed by Shakun Ba-tra, Kapoor and Sons

also stars Alia Bhatt, Fawad Khan, Rishi Ka-poor, Ratna Pathak Shah and Rajat Kapoor. While Rishi Kapoor will play the role of a 90-year-old grandfather in the film, the characters of others actors have been kept un-der the wraps as of now. After a gap of four years, Alia and her rumoured boyfriend Sidharth will share the screen space. The two were last seen together in Karan Johar’s 2012 film Student Of The Year. The film, which is produced by KJo, is set to hit the screens on March 18.

Agency | New Delhi

Here’s some good news for all Kapil Sharma fans. If reports are to be believed, Indian TV’s funniest showman, Ka-pil Sharma will be back on the small screen by mid 2016 with a brand new show. The show, to be aired on Sony, will be called Comedy Style, and have Dadi, Gutthi and Palak return as well. Last weekend, Colors aired the first episode of Comedy Night Live with Krushna Abhishek in the lead. The show replaced Comedy Nights With Ka-pil but a lot of viewers are not very pleased with the

Agency | New Delhi

One day, one show, two exes. The recently-es-tranged couple, Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor, were in Delhi on Wednes-day to be a part of the on-going Auto Expo. How-ever, both made a point of staying away from each other and never came face-to-face despite being present at the auto show in the same time frame. Katrina arrived at 11:30 am and stayed for an hour. Ranbir walked in at noon. However, their schedules were planned in such a way that they never crossed paths at any point. Strict instructions were given that the duo should not cross paths. While Ranbir flew in from Barcelona, Katrina was in

Agency | Mumbai

Saina Nehwal is likely to return to competitive badminton at the All En-gland Badminton Cham-pionships to be held in Birmingham from March 8-13. Nehwal, who is re-covering from a foot inju-ry and also a viral infec-tion that she caught during the Premier Badminton League last month, is cur-rently undergoing reha-bilitation at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru under the watchful eyes of her coach U Vimal Ku-mar. This means that the 25-year-old Padma Bhu-shan awardee will miss the South Asian Games in Shillong (February 6-10) and the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Hyderabad (February 15-21). The injury has

Agency | Mumbai

In one of his most ac-claimed films Saaransh, Anupam Kher had por-trayed an aged man devas-tated by the loss of his son yet with enough courage and conviction remaining to take on the systemic rot and injustice. 60-year-old Kher, one of India’s most prolific and respect-ed actors, has taken upon himself to stand up against what he sees as discrimi-nation and injustice in real life as well. Last year, when writers, film-makers and intellectuals gave up their government awards to protest what they said was rising intolerance, Kher and his supporters took out a march to Rash-trapati Bhavan from India

Agency | Mumbai

Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have both faced severe backlash after their comments on intolerance. Actress Sonam Kapoor said on Wednesday that both the superstars will be afraid to talk on issues due to the negative reactions their comments lead to. “Just imagine the way we are reacting to someone like

Agency | Chennai

Films about police bru-tality have been a hit with the masses, harassed and humiliated as they are by the men in khaki. And this was one important reason why a movie like Mohan-lal starrer Drishyam in Malayalam and its Tamil remake, Kamal Haasan starrer Papanasam were applauded and appreci-ated. I saw how an es-sentially Tamil audience went into raptures every time Mohanlal’s charac-ter outwitted the cops. Vetrimaaran’s Visaara-nai, coming as it does in a climate such as this, is bound to strike a chord with the ticket-paying

Kapoor and Sons first poster

Visaaranai review: Vetrimaaran shows realism at its harshest best

How Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor avoided each other at Auto Expo

Your battle is so much better in reel life, Mr Anupam Kher

Saina is in no position to play in competitive tournaments this month: U Vimal Kumar

Kapil Sharma and gang will soon be back with a brand new comedy show

Shah Rukh Khan or Aamir Khan (their comments). They will be afraid to say or talk about things because of the negative reactions. We should be supportive of people who have opinions -- good, bad or ugly. Everybody should have a right to speak,” said Sonam at the launch of her song, Ankhian Mi-laayenge Darr Se from the film Neerja. Shah Rukh’s comments on intolerance in the country saw some sections slamming him,

while some also vandal-ised theatres screening his film Dilwale, protesting the same. Aamir high-lighting his wife’s fear due to certain incidents in the country also sparked a widely-discussed con-troversy. Sonam termed the reactions to the issues as “scary”. She is always known to have an opinion, and quips that’s the reason she gets called to speak at conclaves, since the or-ganisers “know she will make good copy”.

public. Premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Visaaranai or Interrogation is a pow-er-packed work about police high-handedness on four hapless Tamil daily-wage earning la-bourers who have made the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh their home. In fact, they do not even have a hut, a

makeshift tent in a pub-lic park serving as one. Based on the true and horrific experience of a Coimbatore-based au-torickshaw driver, M Chandra Kumar -- who wrote a book, Lock Up, narrating his nightmarish 13 days in a small prison cell in Andhra Pradesh -- Visaaranai veers though a bit in its plot.

Delhi to promote her up-coming film, Fitoor. Earli-er, reacting to the reports of her split with Ranbir, Katrina had said, “Many times, you want to come out and speak your heart openly and just want to say exactly what you feel at the moment. But from my personal experience, it is better to not speak much about your personal

life and speak about your profession.” The latest buzz also suggests that the Bollywood couple’s break up might affect the final schedule of their film, Jag-ga Jasoos. According to an English daily, the team of the Anurag Basu film was supposed to fly to Moroc-co at the end of January, but the schedule has now been pushed to March.

forced the World No. 2 to withdraw from a host of tournaments including last week’s Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold and the Thailand Masters GPG in Bangkok from February 8-13. “Saina is undergo-ing a rehab programme and has also started play-ing. She is still in the training phase with on-court sessions. She needs to get that on-court en-durance,” coach Vimal told dna on Wednesday. “She will take time to im-prove. She will be fully

fit by February end and hence is not in a position to play in competitive tournaments this whole month,” he added. Miss-ing some tournaments, especially in an Olympic year, may hamper the 2012 London Olympics bronze medallist’s chanc-es of qualifying. “Saina had to miss out on certain tournaments like Syed Modi, where she was the defending champion. She entered Thailand Masters thinking she can gain fit-ness but had to withdraw.

Gate in a counter-protest to what was mockingly dubbed as ‘award wapsi’. “It is very important for all of us to feel patriotic,” Kher had said then. Two days ago, the ‘patriotic’ Kher -- whose wife Kir-ron is a sitting Lok Sabha MP from Chandigarh – kicked up another row by slamming fellow-actor Nandita Das as an “agent of Pakistan” in a TV show for raising questions over

his claims that he was denied a Pakistan visa to attend a literary fest in the neighbouring coun-try. After the controversy broke about Islamabad’s alleged denial of visa, Pa-kistan high commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit called Kher the next day and offered a visa. But it was, apparently, too late. The actor tweeted that he had “given away those dates now”.

new content and comedy, and are asking for Kapil to return on social media platforms. Sunil Grover, who played Gutthi and several other characters on the show, even shared a picture of himself on Twitter with caption “I want to wear make up soon. See you soon. Be-fore monsoon.” Guess

that should leave little to doubt that the gang is in-deed coming back. Com-edy Nights With Kapil revolved around a talk show format where dif-ferent celebrities (most-ly Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone) are invited each week where Kapil took interviews of them.


SPORTS ROUNDUPCredit Suisse announces 4,000 job cuts amid big Q4 loss

Google search chief Amit Singhal to quit, will be replaced by AI head

Fitbit gets fashionable, launches Alta band at Rs.12,999

Agency | Geneva

Credit Suisse is cutting roughly 4,000 jobs to re-duce costs after announcing a massive pre-tax loss in the fourth quarter that includes “substantial charges which are not reflective of our underlying business performance,” the bank said Thursday. The Swiss banking giant posted a net loss of 5.83 billion Swiss francs ($5.8 billion), compared to a net profit 691 million francs a year earlier. It re-ported a pretax quarterly loss of 6.4 billion, includ-ing a 3.8-billion-franc impairment charge linked to its acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment bank in 2000. CEO Tidjane Thiam, who took over in the summer, said the job cuts will represent savings of 1.2 billion francs per year. In October, Credit Suisse outlined plans for staff re-ductions as part of targeted total cost savings of 3.5 billion francs, but Credit Suisse had not spec-ified the number. Part of those savings will come through “the rightsizing of the bank’s London

presence,” the earnings report said.

Agency | New Delhi

Google parent Alphabet Inc said Wednesday that Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will retire. As one of Google’s earliest search pioneers steps down and the compa-ny’s leader in artificial intelligence takes his place, analysts say the move signals the company’s de-sire to make its search engine more sophisticated. Singhal will be replaced by John Giannandrea, the vice president of engineering who heads its efforts in machine learning, the process in which com-puters improve performance by analyzing users’ actions. He joined Google in 2000, two years af-ter the company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. During his tenure Google developed Adwords, the technology that targets ads based on users’ searches and one of its biggest moneymak-ers. His last day is Feburary 26. In a blog post an-nouncing the move, Singhal said he will spend the next 15 years giving back to “people who are less

fortunate.”

Agency | New Delhi

Fitbit, an American company that makes fitness products, has launched a fitness wrist band called Alta at Rs.12,999 in India. Fitbit’s fitness watch called Blaze, which was unveiled at CES2015, had received mixed reactions. While some people called it fancy looking many found it to be bulky and ugly. With its new fitness wrist band, the com-pany has tried to make its band a lot more fash-ionable to compete with the offerings from Misfit etc that make better looking bands. Aimed at dai-ly wearers, Alta has a satin finish, stainless steel body and features a line of stylish interchangeable bands in multiple colors so that users can find the right style for every occasion. Fitbit Alta comes equipped with features like reminders to move, SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition, week-ly exercise goals and all-day activity and automatic sleep-tracking. “Alta features the everyday track-ing Fitbit is known for, along with innovative and purpose-built features that push users to do more.

HIL 2016: dabang Mumbai halt Ranchi Rays’s march in 12-goal thriller

World T20: Manish Pandey, Rahane compete for No 7 spot in India’s lineup

Australian women’s cricketer banned for betting on men’s match

Ravi Shastri says Virat Kohli reminds him of a great West Indian batsman

South Asian Games to begin tomorrow after several rounds of delay; India favourites

Few surprises expected in Indian squads for Asia Cup, World T20

Agency | Mumbai

Till that moment, nobody really knew Nilakanta Sharma was actually on the Mahindra Stadium pitch. There’s nothing essentially eye-catching about the 20-year-old’s style of play. He’s not often embroiled in gal-lant charge with the ball. Nor does he have the habit of taking on oppo-sition defenders, teasing and taunting them with mesmerising stick-work. And then he’s not the most prolific of goalscor-ers. But in the 41st min-ute of the match between Dabang Mumbai and Ranchi Rays, Sharma made his presence felt. A powerfully struck first-

Agency | New Delhi

The clean sweep in the T20 series against Aus-tralia has lessened their dilemmas but selectors will debate whether new find Manish Pandey is better-suited than Ajink-ya Rahane for the num-ber seven spot when they name the Indian squads for the World T20 and the Asia Cup, on Friday. While most of the play-ers select themselves af-ter the triumphant show Down Under, there is only one selection puz-zle -- that of the seventh specialist batsman. In-dia’s No 1 batsman Virat Kohli has been rested against Sri Lanka with

Agency | New Delhi

In awe of Virat Kohli’s meteoric rise, Indian Team Director Ravi Shastri to-day said the swashbuck-ling batsman seems like a mirror-image of West Indian great Viv Rich-ards and “wields his wil-low like a fencer does to his sword.” “Some of his (Kohli) batting reminded me of Viv -- like the way the great man dominated all formats of the game he played. He is an in your face kind of batsman,” Shastri said as he anal-ysed the present Indian team ahead of the World T20 at home next month. The comparison cannot

Agency | New Delhi

It is a matter of great pride for selectors when the side they pick is at the top of its game, and the national selection committee is hardly expected to make any changes when it meets on Friday to pick the Tweny20 squads for the Asia Cup in Bangladesh and the World Twenty20 to be hosted in March-April. Sandeep Patil’s panel will also be re-

lieved it will not have to sit down so soon to pick a one-day interna-tional combination, after India failed to convert its strong batting perfor-mances into a series vic-tory in Australia. The 1-4 defeat particularly ex-posed the inconsistency among pacers on pitches tailor-made for batsmen. The 3-0 sweep in the T20 series in Australia would have convinced the se-lectors that it need not

worry about the batting unit. Virat Kohli, rested for the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka, will return while they may consider adding seamer Mohit Sharma, who missed the Austra-lia tour due to injury. The selectors named the T20 squad for the three-match series against Sri Lanka only on Monday, and hardly any major change is expected from that side.

Agency | Melbourne

An Australian female cricket player has been banned for six months for placing bets on a men’s test match between Aus-tralia and New Zealand. Piepa Cleary, a 19-year-old player contracted to the Perth Scorchers in the women’s Twen-ty20 Big Bash League, received a fur-ther 18-month suspended sentence after admitting placing the bets totaling 15.50 Australian dollars ($11) on the third test last November. She is the second female player in Australia to be sanctioned re-cently for betting on men’s matches. An-gela Reakes, a legspinner for the Sydney Sixers, received a two-year suspended

sentence for wagering $9 on the 2015 World Cup final. Head of Cricket Aus-tralia’s integrity unit, Iain Roy says “We take a zero tolerance approach to any form of gambling on cricket by players.” Cricket Australia said there were “aggra-vating factors” in Cleary’s case, includ-ing that she had received face-to-face anti-corruption training two months be-fore she placed the bets. “Bets totalling $15.50 might seem small but it doesn’t matter,” Cricket Australia Integrity Unit boss Iain Roy said. “We take a zero tol-erance approach to any form of gambling on cricket by players in order to protect the integrity of the game.”

Agency | Guwahati

Postponed several times due to a variety of rea-sons, the much-delayed but the biggest South Asian Games ever begin in Guwahati on Friday with hosts India expected to stamp their superiority in the regional spectacle. The 12-day Games, fea-turing 2,500 athletes from eight SAARC countries, will be declared open by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a glittering in-augural ceremony at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium on Friday. The multi-sporting event, be-ing held under the aegis of South Asian Olympics Council, is happening af-ter a delay of four years. The 12th edition of the Games was to be held in 2012 in New Delhi but was postponed due to As-sembly elections in the national capital. After that,

the Indian Olympic Asso-ciation was suspended by the International Olympic Committee between De-cember 2012 and Febru-ary 2014, leading to fur-ther delay. After the IOA’s suspension was revoked by the IOC, Kerala was tipped to host the Games but the event was handed to Guwahati and Shillong last year before another round of postponement. The two cities thus got the opportunity to host India’s third South Asian Games -- after Kolkata (1987) and Chennai (1995) -- and the biggest sporting spec-

tacle ever in the North Eastern part of the coun-try. But, just a day before the opening ceremony, the organisers suffered a jolt when basketball was derecognised from the Games by the sport’s world body FIBA. Par-ticipating countries have been told not to take part in the discipline which is scheduled to be held here from February 11-16. FIBA took the decision on account of the interference by the government and In-dian Olympic Association in the conduct of the disci-pline in the Games.

time shot from inside the Ranchi shooting circle gave Mumbai the lead at 5-4. Before that, Shar-ma had quietly and effi-ciently been going about his business – a feat that has won him the moni-ker ‘silent killer’ within his Western Railway do-mestic team. His play-ing style is largely of the ‘by-the-book’ type. In-stead of tricks and flicks,

he looks to make a short, simple, yet effective pass. Nonetheless, he is a clever dribbler. A low centre-of-gravity helps him swivel with speed, and he uses the skill to make space for himself and give teammates time to open up to receive a pass. Defensively, his stamina helps him effi-ciently mark opposition strikers.

in-form Manish Pandey getting a look-in for the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka. But when Kohli rejoins the squad for the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, at least one among the 15 se-lected for Lanka series will get the axe from the big-ticket event that is to follow in March-April. Since the team for World

T20 is being selected on Friday, it will be unfair to drop Pandey without even having a look at him during the Lanka series that starts February 9 in Pune. With Rohit Shar-ma, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni being automatic choices, the spotlight will certain-ly be on Rahane.

be too off the mark given that Richards himself has stated that he sees a bit of himself in the flamboyant Indian, a praise that Kohli finds surreal. The right-hander sizzled with half centuries in all three T20 games, to go with two hundreds in the preceding ODIs. Shastri feels Kohli, combined with the equal-

ly devastating Rohit Shar-ma and the revived Shi-khar Dhawan, make for the “best top three in the world”. The top three were the prime reason Australia were blanked and suffered a never-before low in their proud cricketing history and Shastri was willing to look at each of them indi-vidually.


Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat State Road Trans-port Corporation (GS-RTC) today launched first phase of Global Position-ing System (GPS) based Bus Tracking and Moni-toring in its express cat-egory buses. First phase launched today covers all express buses of Ahmed-abad division. Location of a bus, expected time of arrival etc details are to be received through this system by control room. There are five buttons fixed in buses. They are for brake fail, engine fail, accident, immediate con-tact and spare bus allo-cation. Whenever driver will push a button, con-cerned divisional control room will get message. The GPS system will also help the officials in getting updates every 20 seconds and monitor if the bus is taking a detour or was stopping at unau-thorized spots. Divisional depot manager and other officials will be able to


Two days after Gujarat government issued a cir-cular asking its police not to lodge FIR against public servant in haste, a Congress leader on Thursday moved the high court challenging the cir-cular on the ground that it is contrary to the code of criminal procedure (CrPC) and also against the law laid down by the Supreme Court. The pe-tition has been moved by Indravijaysinh Gohil who is a general secretary of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC). Go-hil has challenged the circular issued on Febru-


Sacked IPS officer Sami-ullah Ansari has recently shot back a rejoinder be-fore the Central Admin-istrative Tribunal (CAT) alleging that the Gujarat government indulged in “mud-slinging with mala fide intentions” against him by claiming that he “defrauded $18,000”, an amount which he never took. Ansari produced a letter from the central government, which he claimed, proves that no such amount was ever re-


Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) has sealed a newly opened underwater restaurant in Bopal area of city for not having Building Use(BU) permission. The AMC team has asked the restau-rant management to pro-duce evidence that it had applied for BU permis-sion. The restaurant which is India’s first underwater restaurant opened on 1st February but shut down its operation a day after. The restaurant owner had said the restaurant had been closed due to unexpected number of visitors and it will reopen on February 6, but another version said that the restaurant had been closed due to water seepage. The latest development is sealing by AMC today, as with-out BU permission the restaurant is considered unauthorized. The restau-rant also lacks Gumasta dhara permission. Owner


Gujarat high court has granted conditional bail to two persons - Ritesh Bansal and Paresh Bha-tia , who were arrested in connection with the multi-crore IPL betting racket last year. The Enforce-ment Directorate arrested them along with others and slapped charges of money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), which has stringent bail rules. A special PMLA court denied bail to the due last year. The HC or-dered on Wednesday to release them on bail on condition of furnishing a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of Rs 50,000 each in each of the cases.

They have been asked not to leave Gujarat and Ma-harsthra borders without prior permission from the court. They will have to mark presence before in-vestigators too on every Monday for first three months and later they will have to appear before IO once in the first week of every month. The betting racket was busted by ED sleuths from Vadodara and police made arrests from Gujarat, Mumbai and Delhi. This was the first cricket betting case ever in which PMLA has been invoked. Gujarat police first arrested Kiran Mala, Tomi Patel, Chi-rag Parikh and Dharmin Chauhan after ED raided a farm house in Vadodara in March last year.


Eight months after 23-year-old Hardik Pa-tel emerged on Gujarat’s horizon leading an ag-itation for reservations for his high-caste Patidar community in govern-ment jobs and education under the OBC category, the Anandiben Patel-led government is flounder-ing on how best to move forward. The otherwise nonchalant BJP in the state, standing on the firm ground laid by Narendra Modi, has not only been unable to handle the Patel agitation that unexpect-edly cost it dear during the recent local elections but is also watching with dismay the rising confi-dence of the opposition Congress for the first time in many years. Af-


A Metropolitan court Wednesday granted bail to Suresh Langado in a marital rape case lodged by his wife. Langado, convicted to life impris-onment in Naroda Pa-tiya massacre case, has been accused of rape by his wife, who has also filed divorce against him. Langado had hit head-lines last month when he allegedly assaulted a woman journalist who had gone to interview him. He was out on a month-long parole grant-ed by the Gujarat High Court, but was arrested by Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch follow-


In its 2003-2010 tourism policy, Gujarat govern-ment had promised that it will develop water sports facilities at Narmada dam canal reservoir (situated between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar) to make the place a tourist attrac-tion. “This will include rover boats, scooter boats, jet boats and also offer kayaking and ca-noeing facilites with pro-posals for diving sports,” the policy document had said. It had also proposed eco-tourism sites on and around Narmada dam but very few tourism facili-ties have been developed so far. In 2003, Narendra Modi had just become Gujarat chief minister for the second time and plans for cruise boat travel, ad-venture sports, tribal, vil-lage and and eco-tourism were among his popular announcements. In the

new tourism policy an-nounced in September 2015, the Gujarat gov-ernment seems to have ignored its earlier plans for Narmada tourism. In-stead it has just proposed ‘Narmada Parikrama’, mainly focused on cov-ering the pilgrimage sites along the river. N Shri-vastava, managing direc-tor, Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL) said that due to security concerns and because of technical reasons, facil-ities like cruise and boat services are not possible on Narmada dam and canals. “However, we are developing several other facilities on and around Narmada dam,” said Shrivastava. S.S.Ra-thore, chairman and man-aging director of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL) said that the development of tour-ism is the role of the state tourism department.

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Congress moves HC against Gujarat govt circular asking police not to lodge FIR in haste

In rejoinder before CAT, ex-IPS officer accuses state govt of ‘mud-slinging’

Hardik Patel is in Jail, and the Gujarat Government is Feeling Jittery

Launching of first phase of GPS based GSRTC bus tracking and monitoring system

Underwater restaurant closed a day after inauguration, sealed today

‘Marital rape’: Suresh Langado gets bail

ter its initial confusion and procrastination over the sudden rise of the Pa-tel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) lastJuly and August, the Anandiben Patel Govern-ment decided to get firm to stop the young turn in his tracks. From the un-abashed use of the po-lice machinery and then holding him on the seri-ous charge of sedition in October, the government used all the weaponry

in its arsenal. Now, four months after Patel and his associates were thrown into jail, the Anandiben government continues to be jittery. With Hardik’s Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) threat-ening to revive the agi-tation, thereby exerting pressure to withdraw all police cases against the leader and his supporter the government is now trying to negotiate peace with them.

Bhatt said the restaurant had FSSAI and police permissions, but admitted it had not BU permission. The restaurant has 20 ft underground construction in which 1,60,000 liter

water is stored to create aquarium housing 4,000 fishes at present. The restaurant has 32 seat ca-pacity. Average lunch or dinner prize per person is around Rs 1,000.

Gujarat HC grants bail to two persons in IPL cricket betting racket

ary 2 directing police au-thorities not to lodge FIR against any public servant in a hurry and without properly verifying the al-legations. The home de-partment notification has stated that police should verify the facts before lodging the formal FIR. It said that such FIR af-fects the moral of the

public servant and also damages the image of the government. The petition mentions that the circu-lar is “ex-facie illegal, arbitrary, ultravires and contrary to the provisions contained in section-154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Be-sides, Gohil has also cited Supreme Court judgment

saying that “it is bounden duty of the police officer to record FIR when he re-ceives information which discloses commission of cognizable offence.” Go-hil has mentioned in the petition that the state gov-ernment can’t change the judicial mandate given by the apex court. Therefore, the circular which is il-legal and unconstitution-al. The petition goes on to say that if the circular survives it will lead to “anarchy.” The petition is likely to come up for the hearing next week.

leased in his favour. An-sari also sought to with-draw a petition filed by his father-in-law, retired IAS officer SK Saiyed, on his behalf months be-fore the Centre passed an order dated December 31, 2015, terminating his service as “deemed to re-signed.” The former IPS officer had moved the tri-bunal seeking voluntary retirement after the state

government refused to do so on the ground that he did not complete 20 years of service to be qualified for the VRS. Ansari ar-gued that following his termination order by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), his petition for voluntary retirement has become infructuous. He said he filed the rejoin-der because some claims made by the state gov-

ernment in its affidavit “are not true and made intentionally with mala fide motives with a view to scandalise the entire issue raised…” The re-joinder said after learn-ing about the allegation Ansari sent an e-mail to MHA officials, seeking their clarification. In re-sponse, P K Pattnaik, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Personnel and Training, replied that no fund was released in Ansari’s favour. His re-ply read, “However, as per the provisions of this scheme, the first year of the programme is treated as ‘on duty’ and the officer is entitled to draw full sal-ary during this period.” A copy was marked to Nikh-il Bhatt, under secretary in Gujarat government’s Home Department.

The High Court had granted him interim relief on the ground that he had to find his “missing” daughtering the alleged assault case. Despite the bail, he will remain in jail since he violated the condition by indulging in a crimi-nal case. The High Court had granted him interim

relief on the ground that he had to find his “miss-ing” daughter. He is among the 31 convicted for their role in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots that claimed 97 lives.

do monitoring round the clock. Central control room covering entire state and all divisions will be located at Naroda facility of GSRTC. GSRTC plans to install GPS system in all its express buses by the end of the month of April this year. The data received through the sys-tem will also be recorded when needed. Under the passenger system, each division will have LED system which will show-case timetable, arrival and departure time etc de-tails. According to Pankaj Kumar, the vice-president and managing director of GSRTC, the move aims

to modernize the public transport facilities in the state and aid drivers on a need-basis. If success-ful with the express bus-es GPS will be installed on regular buses too. Of the total around 9000 ST buses around one fourth are from express cate-gory. GSRTC came into existence on May 1, 1960 on formation of Gujarat. From a modest begin-ning of 7 divisions, 76 depots and 7 divisional workshops and a fleet of a little over 1750 buses it has gone to 16 Divisions, 126 Depots, 226 bus sta-tions,1,554 pick up stands and around 9000 buses.

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