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News Brief

SAIL rapped for poor RTI

handlingAgency | New Delhi

The Central Informa-tion Commission has pulled up premier steel manufacturer SAIL over its grievance han-dling system, saying it was “quite ineffective and regretful”. Hear-ing the plea of RTI ap-plicants whose queries were not responded to in a timely manner, Information Commis-sioner Yashovardhan Azad said the corre-spondences placed on record by SAIL indi-cated vague and am-biguous replies, none of them addressing the main query about the application for mutu-al transfer filed by the firm’s employees.

Declined Arunachal CM’s

post: Rijiju

Salman shoots with kids for

‘Sultan’

Agency | Itanagar

Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today said he was of-fered the post of Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh but he declined as he did not want to get involved in state politics. “Chief Minister Kalikho Pul offered me the post first but I declined...He wanted me to lead the new government but I did not want to switch at this point of time be-cause I have been given a mandate to represent people of the state in Parliament and I am do-ing my duty,” he said.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actor Sal-man Khan has shot with children for his upcom-ing wrestling-drama “Sultan”. The 50-year-old actor, who is train-ing hard with real wres-tlers for the Ali Abbas Zafar-directed movie, posted a picture on Twitter with a group of kids. “Sets of ‘Sultan’. Shot with these kids,” Salman wrote in the caption.

Poll schedule in 5 states, counting day is May 19 “EC announces poll”

Agency | New Delhi

India is set for a quan-tum leap in infrastructure and concerted efforts are being made to bolster growth in highways, I-ways and railways, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi said on Friday. Launching an ambitious Rs 50,800-crore Setu Bharatam project to en-sure highways without railway crossings by 2019 and overhaul of 1,500 British-era bridg-es, the Prime Minister said his government is committed to speeding up all projects related to infrastructure. “Our en-deavour is for a quantum

Agency | New Delhi

India has defended its decision to deny visas for a US government delegation charged with monitoring international religious freedom. The delegation from the US Commission on Interna-tional Religious Freedom was scheduled to leave for India on Friday for a long-planned visit with the support of the US State Department and the US embassy in New Delhi. “As a pluralistic, non-sectarian, and dem-ocratic state, and a close partner of the United States, India should have the confidence to allow our visit,” USCIRF chair-

Agency | New Delhi

The election commission announced dates for as-sembly polls in West Ben-gal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Friday, a 42-day long pro-cess where the BJP will lock horns with regional satraps and the Congress to expand its national footprint. The polls will kick off from April 4 and results of all contests will be announced on May 19. A total of 17 crore voters will exercise their franchise across 824 con-stituencies. West Bengal will spend the maximum time—six-phase poll-

Agency | Mumbai

Moving sideways throughout, the bench-mark Sensex managed to close the session with a paltry gain of about 40 points at a one-month high of 24,646.48 on heightened chances of RBI delivering a policy rate cut sooner than lat-er. On a weekly basis, the Sensex rallied 1,492.18 points, or 6.44 per cent, and Nifty zoomed 455.60 points, or 6.48 per cent — their biggest weekly gain in more than four years. Traders said there is con-siderable improvement in risk appetite after the gov-ernment kept its deficit target for the next fiscal at 3.5 per cent of GDP in the Union Budget 2016,

Agency | Kuala Lumpur

Families of 12 passen-gers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 today sued the carrier and the govern-ment, ahead of a filing deadline next week on the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 flew far off course for unknown reasons af-ter leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014. An ongoing search of the southern Indian Ocean has found no trace of the plane, though a wing part from the aircraft washed ashore on Re-union Island last year. A global aviation agreement sets a two-year deadline for lawsuits by next-of-kin over air accidents. Lawyer

Elections in 5 states begin on April 4

jump (in infrastructure), for a breakthrough, for fast-tracking projects. Infrastructure plays the same role for the nation as arteries play in a hu-man body and thus, mak-ing it sound is quintes-sential,” Modi said at the launch. Lauding Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari

for “pioneering work” in infrastructure, Modi said infrastructure plays a pivotal role in the coun-try’s growth and a com-prehensive integrated approach has been initi-ated. He added that the government’s emphasis is not just on “highways, but on I-ways (Informa-tion ways) and railways”.

Normally, governments are in the habit of doing incremental work only, but the approach of the current one is differ-ent, Modi asserted, add-ing that it is driven by long-term growth and is working to satisfy the long-felt aspirations of people. Under the Setu Bharatam project, a total of 208 railway crossings will be replaced by rail over bridges (ROBs) by 2019 at an estimated cost of Rs 20,800 crore while 1,500 bridges of the British era will be over-hauled at an estimated expenditure of Rs 30,000 crore across the country.

Sensex gains 40 points, posts best weekly gain in 4 years

India Denies Visas To US Delegation That Assesses Religious Freedom

MH 370: Families of 12 passengers on Flight 370 file lawsuits

raising hopes of a reduc-tion in the policy rate. The 30-share barometer started on a strong foot-ing before settling higher by 39.49 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 24,646.48, a level last seen on Febru-ary 1. Intra-day, it slipped into the negative zone and hit a low of 24,531.80. Higher levels could not be sustained as partici-pants locked in gains in blue-chips. The gauge had

gained 1,604.99 points in the previous three consec-utive sessions. The gains were led by BHEL, SBI, Coal India, Tata Motors, Cipla, ONGC, Bajaj Auto, Dr Reddy’s, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, HDFC Ltd, Tata Steel, Infosys, Hero MotoCorp, M&M and Hindustan Unilever. The NSE Nifty after recaptur-ing the crucial 7,500-mark closed at 7,485.35, up 9.75 points, or 0.13 per cent.

PM Modi launches Rs 50,800-cr Setu Bharatam project to ensure highways without railway crossings by 2019

man Robert George said in a statement. The Indian Embassy in Washington retaliated by stating, “We do not see the locus stan-di of a foreign entity like USCIRF to pass its judg-ment and comment on the state of Indian citizens’ constitutionally protect-ed rights.” In its 2015 report, the bipartisan US-CIRF said incidents of

religiously motivated and communal violence had reportedly increased for three consecutive years. It said that despite its sta-tus as a pluralistic, secu-lar democracy, India had long struggled to protect minority religious com-munities or provide jus-tice when crimes occur, creating a climate of im-punity.

Sangeet Kaur Deo, who is representing 10 families, said the lawsuits involve a passenger from Rus-sia, one from China and the rest from Malaysia. Apart from the airline, the lawsuits also named the

government and the then heads of the civil aviation department and the navy as defendants. Sangeet said her clients were en-gaged in settlement ne-gotiations with the airline earlier.

Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo, who is representing 10 families, said the lawsuits involve a passenger from Russia, one from China and the rest from Malaysia

ing spread over seven days—to elect its new 294-member assembly. Assam will go to the polls in two phases while the two southern states – Tamil Nadu and Kerala -- and Puducherry will elect their new governments on May 16. This will be the first time when “None of the Above” or NOTA in

the electronic voting ma-chine (EVM) will have a cross symbol to ensure voters can recognise the option easily. The polls are a crucial not only for the Congress that rules Assam and Kerala, but also for the BJP that mis-erably lost two high-pro-file assembly contests in Bihar and Delhi in 2015.

The stakes are also high for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, J Jayalalitha’s AIADMK and the All India N.R. Congress that rule West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, respective-ly. West Bengal will also

have the highest number of poll booths, 77,247, followed by Tamil Nadu (65,616). Along with the announcement, the Model Code of Conduct also comes into force immediately. The gov-ernments of poll-bound

states as well the Centre will not be able to an-nounce any new welfare

schemes without the prior permission of the election commission.

Assam poll dates 1st phase – 65

constituencies Date of polling – April 4 2nd phase – 61

constituencies Date of polling – April 11

Kerala – 1 phase (140 constituencies)

Polling day – May 16 Tamil Nadu – 1 phase (234 constituencies)

Polling day – May 16Puducherry – 1 phase

(30 constituencies) Polling day – May 16

West Bengal poll dates 1st phase – 18

constituencies Polling days – April 4, 11

2nd phase – 56 constituencies Polling

day – April 17 3rd phase – 62

constituencies Polling day – April 21 4th phase – 49

constituencies Polling day – April 25 5th phase – 53

constituencies Polling day – April 30 6th phase – 25

constituencies Polling day – May 5

Counting day – May 19 Around 17 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballots in the five states. The model code of conduct for the election comes to effect immediately, the EC announced. The EC also said they have prepared a symbol for the NOTA option for voters.

The dates are as below:

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Editors’ Picks

SATURDAY, MARCH 05, 2016

QUOTE OF THE

DAYKanhaiya is a ‘Make In India’ product - and a political entrepreneur

Why are people surprised when politics happens at Jawaharlal Nehru University? You are not surprised when IITans build a machine. You are not surprised when Google, the search engine giant, is born in Stan-ford. So, when a political leader of sorts is born in a stu-dents’ movement at a premier university in the national capital of the world’s largest democracy, should we be surprised? The answer is perhaps, no. One might add for effect that Kanhaiya Kumar, whose speech at the JNU campus on Thursday night hit the national headlines and triggered a viral video, is now a “Make In India” product. At a serious level, there is widespread miscon-ception in India that universities exist only for educat-ing the young in skills which in turn are used for them to get jobs. Actually, that is a simplistic view, though an understandable one. Universities have historically been hubs for brainstorming and research as well. The subjects may vary, though. In the UK, Cambridge and Oxford are known for economics, humanities and the liberal arts the same way as universities like Stanford and Carnegie Mellon are known in the US for engi-neering and physical sciences. Using a similar logic, it is possible to say that if IITs are an Indian variant of a Stanford or a CMU, JNU is an equivalent for an Ox-ford or a London School of Economics. Debates and discussions have been a part of India’s argumentative tradition and even the ancient Nalanda, now sought to be revived, was famous for that. However, in the new middle class morality of contemporary India, there is an equation of universities with skill shops. The logic often used to justify this is that students and faculties are indirectly funded or subsidized by taxpayers. But in this, an issue is conveniently forgotten: social change is as much a product of politics or reformist initiatives as an innovation in technology. In that sense, a Kanhaiya Kumar can be seen as a political entrepreneur. When he gives a speech in the campus, it is the social equivalent of what an engineering student does when he displays a prototype for venture capitalists. The students union in JNU discusses social ideas the way Stanford engineers experiment with computers in their labs. The bodies they eventually found can be called social enterprises or political startups. You can, of course, consider the ills of an ideology just as you can discuss the adverse effects of a drug or technology. Why should there be an assumption that only technocrats are important?

“I am not a politician, I am a student. I have no intention of joining mainstream politics or contesting any election. I want to question as a student and I will like to answer as a teacher in the future. So, the question about my political ambitions should be kept aside,”

- JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar says Rohith Vemula is his idol, not Guru...

Agency | Mumbai

After penning a book on parenting, actress Sona-li Bendre says she might come up with another piece but it will not be a fictional novel. The 41-year-old actress, who was speaking at the suc-cess bash of her book The Modern Gurukul - My Experiments with Par-enting, says there are a couple of ideas which she will eventually turn into a book. “I am very sure that I am not writing fiction. But I don’t know what it is that I will write (next). To be honest, there are a

couple of ideas but just the thought of putting the time and discipline is put-ting me off,” Sonali said. “I just finished my two shows, this book has been there, I will just hiber-nate for some time and do nothing... May be some-thing will fall into place because even this book was a compilation and it turned into something else.” Sonali has a son named Ranveer with her husband-producer Goldie Behl. The actress says even though they both be-long to the film industry, they do not treat Ranveer as a star kid.

Agency | Los Angeles

Indian-origin actor Frei-da Pinto has revealed that she is playing Mow-gli’s adoptive mother in Jungle Book: Origins. The live-action adven-ture fantasy film is be-ing directed by Andy Serkis, who plays Ba-loo, along with Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan, Christian Bale as Bagheera and Cate Blanchett as Kaa. Pinto, who co-starred Serkis in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, said she is very ex-cited to be a part of the film, which is based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling, reported En-tertainment Tonight. “I

Agency | Jodhpur

The trial court hearing a case of alleged illegal pos-session of arms against Bollywood actor Salman Khan in connection with black buck poaching has summoned him for re-cording his statements on March 10. The District and Session Court gave this order after rejecting an application of the de-fence seeking recalling of a prosecution witness for his examination. “The court has rejected the ap-plication of the defence seeking recalling of a prosecution witness, the then District Magistrate Rajat Kuamr Mishra, and ordered the defence

Agency | New York

Actress Tina Fey is grate-ful she lives in New York City because she doesn’t have to deal with Holly-wood’s double standards. The former 30 Rock star was a guest presenter at the Academy Awards but she quickly grew irritated with all of the messages of social activism her fel-low celebrities were try-ing to convey, reported Contactmusic. Fey felt it was hypocritical to hear about topics including “corporate greed” from a room full of “rich peo-ple”, while she was also just overwhelmed by the sheer number of differ-ing issues brought up at

Agency | New Delhi

Just yesterday, Priyanka Chopra had shared a pic-ture of hers on Instagram bidding farewell to Mi-ami and Baywatch. Obvi-ously our minds quickly raced wondering what did the encrypted message stand for. Was it good bye forever or was it just for a brief period. And again, Quantico scenes made us think that maybe since the show is to air on 6th March, she probably took off for it. However, now we know what the real deal is! Turns out Priyan-ka will be back on the sets of Baywatch to make sure

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Urmila Matond-kar, 42, married Kash-mir-based businessman Mohsin Akhtar Mir on Thursday (March 3) af-ternoon in a quiet cer-emony. The ceremony was a simple one devoid of any usual Bollywood strappings and had only Urmila’s close family members. The wedding was solemnised as per

Hindu rituals at Urmila’s residence. The only per-son from Bollywood in attendance was Urmila’s close friend and ace de-signer Manish Malhotra. Sharing her happiness, the just married Urmi-la Mantonkar said: “We kept it an exclusive wed-ding with just family and friends at the celebration. Since our families wanted the wedding to be a low

key affair we mutually decided to keep it private. We seek your blessings on embarking this new journey of our lives .” Manish Malhotra later shared Urmila’s picture on Twitter congratulating the actress and called her the most beautiful bride. A few days ago Preity Zinta had tied the know with her fiance Gene Goodenough in LA.

Sonali Bendre makes sure her second book won’t be fiction either

Urmila Matondkar marries Mohsin Akhtar Mir in Mumbai

play Mowgli’s adoptive mother, so I’m very, very excited about it. I read The Jungle Book and watched the TV series in India growing up, and for me, to finally be part of the film that reminds me so much of my childhood is just amazing,” the 31-year-old actor said. “It’s one of those films that I feel, no matter

what age group you are, you’re going to enjoy that film, and I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve done something like that, because most of my films have not been good enough for children. A little too intense, so I’m very happy to finally be doing a film that can be watched by kids,” she said.

Jungle Book Origins: Freida Pinto to play Mowgli’s adoptive mother

Salman Khan summoned by Jodhpur court for recording statement

Tina Fey breaks down exactly what happened at Oscars 2016Dwayne Johnson CAN’T wait for Priyanka

Chopra to come back on the sets of Baywatch!

Agency | Mumbai

On the face of it, debutant Mozez Singh’s Zubaan has much that is likeable. Yet the potential inherent in its music-laden coming-of-age drama remains largely unrealized. The film makes the right noises, but its sluggish pace and inconsis-tent writing rob it of the possibility of culminating into a meaningful and coher-ent statement about life and its vicissitudes. This story of one man’s voyage of discovery takes multiple detours through other genres family drama, love story, et al before it gets to its predictable destination. Zubaan is about a Gurdaspur boy Dilsher (Harmehroz Singh) who, on account of a pronounced stutter caused by a personal tragedy, is at the receiving end of bullying by his mates. On one such occasion, a bystander Gurucharan Sikand (Manish Chaudhary) gives the boy a pep talk and a ball-pen with the advice that he should write his own destiny. Stop depending on anybody, not even God, for help and stand up for yourself, he is said. Dilsher is a Gurbani singer’s son and is blessed with innate musical talent. But he takes Gurucharan’s exhortation to heart and sets out to break free from his moorings. Several years later, Dilsher (Vicky Kaushal), now a strapping young lad, lands in Delhi in search of his childhood benefactor. Gurucharan is a wealthy real estate tycoon and Dilsher resorts to means fair and foul to earn his trust.

Zubaan movie review

the Los Angeles ceremo-ny. “I’m so glad I live here (in New York City) because halfway through (the Oscars), I was like, ‘This is some real Holly-wood...’,” she told radio host Howard Stern. “Ev-eryone’s telling me what to do. People are yelling

at me about rape and cor-porate greed but really it’s climate change. I was like, ‘Guys, pick a lane. Like we’re going to fix everything tonight?’ And also, like, ‘You’re all rich. Why are you yell-ing at me about corporate greed?’”

to ensure the presence of Khan in the court on March 10 for the re-cording of the accused’s statements”, said Addi-tional Public Prosecutor Dinesh Tiwari. The trial of the case was complet-ed with the re-examina-tion of 5 prosecution witnesses on Wednes-

day, immediately after which defence counsel H M Saraswat had moved a fresh application to recall Mishra. But the magistrate Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit rejected the application today stat-ing that enough time for re-examination has been given to the defence.

the cast’s have a bad bad time because hey, some-times bad is bad! Since she will be playing the baddie Victoria Leeds’ role, we’re sure that we’re in for some dra-ma! Her co-star Dwayne shared a picture on Insta-

gram to confirm the news of her return on the sets of Baywatch. He said, “Every great story starts with a great villain… My sistah @priyankachopra is one of the biggest and most beloved stars in the world.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Team and Dhoni helped me to calm my nerves before debut T20: Pawan Negi

South Africa vs Australia, 1st T20I at Durban: A rivalry more than a game of cricket

Indian shooter Jitu Rai clinches gold at the ISSF World Cup

Agency | Mirpur

A bundle of nerves ahead of his international debut in the ongoing Asia Cup, India all-rounder Pawan Negi said emotions were getting the better of him before senior players such as skipper Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni stepped in with their calming words. Negi made his de-but against the UAE last night and grabbed one wicket. “I got to know that I will be making my debut in the after-noon. Our bowling coach Bharat Arun told me that I will be playing this game. I felt really great when I heard that news,” he said. “It felt normal when we were in our team meeting

Agency | Durban

Expect more fireworks, banters and tussles on a cricket field as Austra-lia tour South Africa for a three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) se-ries. The last time these two arch rivals faced each other in the shortest for-mat was in March 2014. Though South Africa suf-fered a 0-2 drubbing at the hands of the mighty Australians, they will leave no stone unturned to avenge the loss. Aus-tralia, on the other hand, were white-washed by the in-form Indians in a recently concluded T20I series Down Under. Giv-en the rivalry these two flare up, they will play fire with fire and will be

Agency | Bangkok

A fit-again Indian shoot-er Jitu Rai edged past a strong field, including former Olympic cham-pion Pang Wei, to clinch the 50m pistol gold at the ISSF World Cup here on Friday. Jitu, who had been nursing a palm inju-ry for some months, beat China’s former World and Olympic Champion Wei to second place shooting 191.3 to Pang’s 186.5. Wang Zhiwei, also of Chi-na and an Olympic Bronze medallist, finished third with a final round score of 165.8. India’s Prakash Nanjappa shot 549 in the qualification round to be placed 17th. Jitu reached the final by finishing third at the end of the 60 shot qualifying series with a score of 562. Wei led the

and then boarded the bus for the stadium. But just when we reached close to the ground, I had a bit of butterflies in my stom-ach. I was about to play my first game and there were a flurry of emo-tions as I walked into the dressing room. “When Ravi (Shastri) sir gave me the cap and I wore it, it felt really great. All the players came up to me

to congratulate and that moment felt really spe-cial,” he said. Negi said the team helped calm his nerves. “The seniors in the side really helped me to calm my nerves and they came up to me to boost my confidence levels. The entire team was really supportive and I never felt like I was playing my first match,” he said.

at each other’s throats. All the banter began in 2014 when David Warner alleged AB de Villiers of ball tampering. Eventu-ally, Warner was fined for untrue accusations. The matter got out of hands when South Afri-can speedster Dale Steyn and former Australian captain Michael Clarke had a heated exchange in the third Test of their three-match Test series.

However, Steyn did not reveal the exact words Clarke hurled at him, as it would affect the spirit of the game. The most prob-lematic of all was when South Africa’s T20 cap-tain Faf du Plessis called the Australians “a pack of dogs”. The incident again happened in the third Test. Mitchell Johnson’s short delivery hit du Ples-sis on the pads and rolled towards the stumps.

field of eight top qualifiers with a score of 564, while Zheiwei followed him in second place scoring 563. Former World Champion Tomoyuki Matsuda of Ja-pan was also going to be a threat in the final given his recent form in the Asian Shooting qualifiers in Delhi. Jitu did not start as strongly as he would have wanted to in the final how-ever he maintained a top three position throughout. Wei finally conceded the lead to Jitu after having

below par 13th and 14th shots. The following two shots also saw a similar pattern for Wei and from then on, it was Jitu all the way as both the Chinese challengers had a tame end to the 20- shot final. Tomoyuki Matsuda, af-ter briefly lying in the top three, was eliminated in 5th place. itu will look to increase his medal tally in the pistol event while Gagan Narang and Chain Singh will lead India’s charge in the Rifle event.

Captain confident: Current Indian T20 team can play anywhere in the world, says Dhoni

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka,Asia Cup, Match 10 at Mirpur, Dhaka: Pakistan’s likely XI

Agency | DhakaPakistan will be up against Sri Lanka in Match No. 10, which is a dead rub-ber. Both teams have struggled in the Asia Cup Twenty20 (T20) 2016 series and have just not been able to perform to the best of their potential. After Pakistan’s critical loss against Bangladesh by five-wickets, which sending them crashing out of the Asia Cup fi-nal contention, there has

been heavy criticism by experts and former crick-eters of Pakistan Cricket. T20 Captain Shahid Afri-di has been on the bitter end of it, along with the team selectors. After Pa-kistan’s loss to India in their first match and then the hosts Bangladesh, this reaction was inev-itable though. Friday’s match against the Lank-ans, will be a chance for Pakistan to earn some respect among their fans

Agency | New Delhi

As a special bench of the Supreme Court began hearing BCCI’s response to the Lodha commit-tee recommendations on Thursday, its official broadcaster, Star India, has begun mounting pres-sure on Board to renegoti-ate its contract. The BCCI is arguing that the panel’s ruling that no advertise-ments should be allowed during the game will

make the deal far less re-munerative for its broad-casters and will cause a big impact in its revenue. “In a nutshell, two issues highlighted (domestic advertisement and syndi-cation revenue) together with the existing chal-lenge around subscription revenue stream would have a significant impact on the value of BCCI media rights, reducing it to negligible value com-

Agency | Mirpur

India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels the current Indian team is a “balanced” side which can “take on any team anywhere in the world” at least in the shortest for-mat of the game after they notched up their ninth win out of 10 matches. “Well if you see, more often than not, the team that we have played with (this year in T20’s), looks like a team that can play in any condition, especially in this format. Let’s not talk about the 50-over format. But in T20s, we can play

with this team anywhere in the world,” said Dhoni after India crushed UAE by 9 wickets in Asia Cup last night. “We now have three proper seamers, two spinners and if needed part-timers. I think it is the right combination. And even if you go for a few extra runs, with the batting that we have - till No 8, I think we can look to get those extra runs if the op-position scores off us. So I think this team is set for playing in any conditions, whether you are playing in India or outside India. It looks like a very balanced

BCCI broadcaster begins push for revenue squeeze

and they will be playing for pride as well. Go-ing into the ICC World T20 2016 in India in this shape will definitely hurt Pakistan, and they will certainly want to change that. A win against Sri Lanka, who themselves haven’t shown much re-sistance and looked out of sorts, will certainly lift the spirit inside the Pakistani dressing room. Most importantly, a de-cent performance, more so with the bat will pro-vide momentum before heading into the WT20. Waqar Younis, said they were ready and willing to make changes in the squad before Pakistan play their final game in a tournament which was quite necessary for them to know where they stand.

pared to the current `43 crore per match,” Nitin Kukreja, authorised rep-resentative, Star India, wrote to BCCI president, Shashank Manohar, on February 21. The e-mail adds: “Needless to say, if sought to be implement-ed, we would have to revisit our agreement to accommodate for all the factors mentions above and we would urge you to start early negotiation with Star.” BCCI’s cur-rent broadcasting rights contract for internation-al and domestic matches with Star for 2012-2018 is `3851 crore. The Lodha committee recommenda-tions restrict ad breaks to drinks, lunch and tea in-tervals, as is the practice internationally.

team.” Dhoni was in play-ful mood when a Ban-gladeshi scribe asked a long and winded question with basic intent of trying to know if this is the last time that the limited overs skipper will be playing in this country. “I’m not get-ting rid of myself so soon. Bangladesh will have to face me more often than not. This is one occasion when the question was longer than the answer,” he smiled as everyone present in the conference room had a good laugh. On a serious note, Dhoni said that he expects the final to be a tough one as Bangla-desh knows the conditions well. “As I said, any good team if they are the home team, they will always know the conditions very well. So to beat a home team is always difficult. Also Bangladesh, over the years has developed a lot. They have improved their strength. They know the condition well, as I have said.

Weight issues troubling you? Snack on peanuts to lose it

Raghuram Rajan To Wait Until April To Cut Rates: Poll

Jays enter India with premium u-Jays headphones

Agency | Bengaluru

The Reserve Bank of India will wait a month to cut interest rates again, according to economists in a Reuters poll who mostly said New Delhi’s latest fiscal deficit target looked optimistic. Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley committed to fiscal discipline in his February 29 Budget, lowering the deficit target further for the fiscal year that starts next month, but offered little in the way of reforms investors have been waiting for. Investors and traders in fi-nancial markets have been hoping RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan will follow soon with a rate cut, like he did last year. But the majority of econo-mists polled said he would not repeat the surprise cut of 25 basis points he delivered just a few days after last year’s budget, with 20 of 28 saying a cut was unlikely before next month’s policy review on April 5. “Although we doubt the fiscal math, the fact that the government has been sticking to the stated math, in whatever way they are doing it, cre-ates room for Rajan to cut rates soon,” said Kunal

Kundu, India economist at Societe Generale.

Agency | New York

Whether your goal is overall weight loss or better overall health, researchers recommend snacking on peanuts or peanut butter three to four times a week. According to a new study, teenagers at high risk for being overweight or obese reduced their Body Mass Index (BMI) when they adhered to a nutri-tion intervention that included a snack of peanuts, compared to those children who did not. “Obesity is the most pressing health issue facing us today,” said Craig Johnston from University of Houston in the US. “We’d like to think it’s preventable, but from where I sit right now, there hasn’t been a lot shown to be very effective on a large scale,” John-ston added in the paper published in the Journal of Applied Research on Children. The study ac-knowledged that snacking is more common during the adolescent years and that the unhealthy eating

habit can lead to an unhealthy weight.

Agency | New Delhi

Jays has launched premium u-Jays headphones in India. The headphones, priced at Rs.15,999, will compete against the likes of Sennheiser and Beats. The headphones would be sold through the Head-phonezone.in, a website dedicated to sell only the audio gear, with which Jays, a Swedish company, has a partnership. Jays claims that the u-Jays head-phones are ideal for the audiophiles who are looking for outstanding acoustics, comfort and quality. The headphone comes with an acoustic system designed to make the earcups and ear cushions work together as a whole. Japanese silk-coated diaphragm has been used in making of the headphones, with vent holes covered with acoustic tuning filters that are evenly distributed around the speaker. The company claims that the sealed ear cushions help optimise the air-flow through the acoustic system while preventing leakage, resulting in greatly improved details and a deeper bass response.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Demanding reservation for his community, a 36-year-old man belong-ing to the Patel commu-nity allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at a private guest house in Dhoraji town of the district, police said today. Prakash Shaani (36), a farmer and native of Moti Paneli village near Dhoraji town, was found lying on the bed of his rented room when the guest house manager knocked the door to wake him up last night, police said. “When we reached the guest house after re-

ceiving information from the manager, we found Prakash lying uncon-scious. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced brought dead,” said Police Sub Inspector of Dhoraji J R Rana, adding that Shaani died after consuming some poisonous sub-stance. Upon searching the room, police have also found a four-page suicide note, in which, Shaani claimed that he was sacri-ficing his life for the on-going agitation by Patel community demanding reservation under OBC quota.

Correspondent | Rajkot

A FOUR-MEMBER del-egation from Gujarat left for Pakistan Thursday to prepare ground for re-patriation of 22 fishing trawlers presently in cus-tody of the neighbouring country. The delegation boarded a flight from Ahmedabad early Thurs-day morning and was ex-pected to land in Karachi via a connecting flight by late evening, officers in the fisheries department of the state said. Assistant commissioner of fisher-ies, MK Chaudhary is leading the four-member delegation which com-prises two mechanics and a fisherman leader from Porbandar, Aravind Moti-

varas. BS Jebalia, former IGP (coastal security) was also scheduled to be part of the delegation but his name was withdrawn subsequent to his recent transfer as IGP (prisons), officers said. “The dele-gation has visa till March 5. They will inspect boats and mechanics will as-sess their seaworthiness. They will submit a report to Indian embassy there. Pakistan will undertake repairs of the boats as requested by embassy and will communicate to the Ministry of External Affairs of India the final schedule of repatriation of the trawlers,” state fisheries commissioner AM Narmawala said.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat government Thursday prohibited the strike announced by the 400-odd workers at the Tata Motors’ Sanand plant since February 22 and asked them to resume work immediately. Last week, a worker on the condition of anonymity, had said that the lack of wage hikes and the move to form a trade union by workers had been a bone of contention between

the company manage-ment and them since De-cember. However, what escalated the situation was when 422 workers, who are permanent em-ployees, went on strike last month, protesting the suspension of 28 work-ers by the management and demanded their rein-statement. Talks initiated by the Deputy Labour Commissioner between the management and workers a few days back failed to break the dead-

Correspondent | Surat

A farm labourer died on the spot while another injured after they were struck by lightning in Bharuch district Thursday morning. Though heavy lightning with thunder-storm and light rainfall was witnessed in Ahmed-abad too in the wee hours of Thursday, no casual-ty was reported. Hemant

Parmar (40), a resident of Simrath village in Amod taluka in Bharuch district was working along with other labourers in an ag-ricultural field near their village Thursday morning. Suddenly it started raining with high velocity winds and heavy lightning. Struck by lightning, Hemant and Bhagwan Sindha, work-ing there, were severely

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

12 years ago, the Gu-jarat Police shot dead three men and a woman — 19-year-old Ishrat Ja-han — allegedly as they headed to Ahmedabad on a Lashkar mission to assassinate Chief Minis-ter Narendra Modi. The investigation into the en-counter soon ran into a cloud of suspicion, and a High Court-appoint-ed Special Investigation Team and the CBI found it to be ‘fake’. Along with the Gujarat Police, the CBI implicated the IB in the alleged mur-ders. A new twist to the

story was added this week after a Home Min-istry official claimed he was forced to file a fur-ther affidavit in 2009 that removed references to alleged links between Ishrat and the others and Lashkar, and alleged he had been tortured by an officer who was part of the HC-appointed SIT. Ishrat Jahan Raza, 19, along with Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, and alleged Pakistanis Am-jad Ali Rana and Jishan Johar were shot dead on June 15, 2004, near Ko-tarpur waterworks out-side Ahmedabad. An

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Calling for an “impartial inquiry into the events that took place at JNU and Patiala House Court” in February, more members of the academic fraternity from Gujarat joined on as signatories this week in an open letter that expressed solidarity with the stu-dents of the Delhi-based university. The number of academicians from varsi-ties in Ahmedabad, Gand-hinagar, Surat and Anand rose to 70 this week. The recent additions being three faculty members of the India Institute of

Management, Ahmed-abad(IIM-A) and one from the National Institute of Design (NID). Indira Hirway, director and pro-fessor of Economics at the Centre For Development Alternatives, who had ini-tiated the discussion on the JNU row, said the list of signatories went from around 66 last month to 70 now with the addition of IIM-A faculty Kavi-ta Rangarajan, Navdeep Mathur and Ankur Sarin and NID faculty Tanishka Kachru. “In the letter, we have raised our concern about four things, includ-

Correspondent | Gandhinagar

Opening general debate on the 2016-17 state Budget in the Gujarat Assembly Thursday, the Leader of Opposition Shanke-rsinh Vaghela lambasted the development claims of Gujarat government, con-cluding his speech on gov-ernment’s modified plan of implementing the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Yojana through Under Ground Pipeline (UGPL). Vaghe-

Correspondent | Jamnagar

A part from social em-powerment and econom-ic growth, India is also focussed on building ca-pacity to defend its terri-torial integrity said Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee Friday while awarding Presidential Standard and Colours to two units of the Indian Air Force that included a helicopter unit based in Jamnagar, Guja-rat that had played a ma-jor role during the August 1999 “Atlantique Crisis” and the November 2008 terrorist attack on Mum-bai. President Mukherjee awarded the Presidential Colours to 28 Equipment

Depot and Presidential Standard to 119 Helicop-ter Unit at a ceremonial parade held at Air Force Station Jamnagar. The Air Officer Commanding of 28 Equipment Depot, Air Commodore NR Chitnis Vishisht Seva Medal and Commanding Officer of 119 Helicopter Unit, Wing Commander Suseem Si-wach received the Presi-dent Colours and Standard respectively. “India is firmly committed to peace and equality for which we need an effective deter-rence and a strong defence force. The nation is striv-ing hard for an all-round economic growth and social empowerment of

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Changing versions, contesting claims: How Ishrat encounter refuses to die Gujarat team leaves for Pak to

seek repatriation of 22 boats

Man commits suicide on quota reservation issue in Gujarat

Tata Motors plant at Sanand: Labour dept prohibits strike, asks workers to resume work

70 academicians from Ahmedabad varsities support JNU

IAF unit that downed Pak plane, checked Mumbai terrorist attack gets Presidential award

Raises question over plan implementation

through UGPL .

BS Jebalia, former inspector general of police (coastal security) was was also

scheduled to be part of the delegation but his name was withdrawn subsequent to his

recent transfer as IGP (prisons)

la said that he could smell corruption in the UGPL Project of the government. Vaghela began his speech while sarcastically asking the government to also check the development of unemployment, financial

indiscipline, liquor and dropout rates in educa-tion. He criticised the state government’s Power Poli-cy, alleging that the policy was such that benefited private power companies. Vaghela slammed the gov-

ernment particularly for its solar power policy un-der which the government is buying each power unit from the private compa-nies at the rate of Rs 16 per unit. He said that this pur-chase rate was much high-er than other states. “A joint parliamentary com-mittee should be formed to inquire into solar pow-er. And the committee’s inquiry report should be placed before the House,” Vaghela said.

Hemant Parmar (40), a resident of Simrath village in Amod taluka in Bharuch district was working along with other labourers in

an agricultural field near their village.

injured. Though Hemant succumbed to injuries on the spot, Bhagwan is said to be out of danger as he is admitted in Amod re-ferral hospital. Amod po-lice immediately reached the spot and took state-ments of other labour-ers. Hemant’s body was

handed over to his family after post-mortem. Police lodged a case of acciden-tal death into the incident. The IMD Ahmedabad centre attributed this sud-den change in weather to the cyclonic circulation over Gujarat and south Rajasthan.

The investigation into the encounter soon ran into a cloud of suspicion, and a High Court-appointed Special Investigation

Team and the CBI found it to be ‘fake’.

identity card found on Ishrat identified her as a science student of Guru Nanak Khalsa College in Mumbai. Gujarat Police claimed to have acted on an intelligence input that Javed was coming with two fidayeens in a blue Indica, MH02 J A 4786, to kill Chief Minister Na-rendra Modi. As per the FIR of the Ahmedabad City Crime Branch filed that day, the intelligence was received by Ahmed-abad Police Commisson-er K R Kaushik around end May-beginning June 2004. The FIR named the “two Pakistani fi-dayeens”, and said “one Javed” who was a resi-dent of Pune, was arrang-ing their local network. It also said Joint Commis-sioner of Police P P Pan-dey had received specif-ic information “through his personal source” that a blue Indica had left Mumbai for Ahmedabad with Javed and the “two Pakistani fidayeens”.

Talks initiated by the Deputy Labour Commissioner between the management and workers few days back

had failed to break the deadlock, even as the strike entered the eleventh day on Thursday.

lock, even as the strike entered the eleventh day Thursday. “I have visited the plant four times and we had held a joint meet-ing between both parties, including the striking workers and the compa-ny, at the office of the As-sistant Labour Commis-sioner in Ahmedabad, but no solution was reached. We have given the order to the company’s man-agement and the workers and we have referred to the suspension of the 26 suspended workers to the Industrial Tribunal. A decision on the same should be taken with-in 60 days. On the basis of these procedures, we have prohibited the strike and in two days, if the workers do not join back work, we can issue them a show-cause notice and even initiate a criminal case against them,” said Deputy Labour Commis-sioner M S Patel.

The recent additions being three faculty members of the India Institute of Management, Ahmedabad(IIM-A) and

one from the National Institute of Design (NID).ing freedom of speech, freedom of dissent, auton-omy of universities and misuse of law of sedition. We have also pointed out in the letter that shouting slogans should not amount to sedition and freedom to express dissent against the government is not anti-na-tional and that no political party can define it. I felt this first and wrote to sev-eral colleagues of some nearby colleges and they responded. So, currently 70 people from different institutes have signed the letter,” said Hirway. “I do believe that in an educa-tional campus, freedom of speech is most important for young people as they are learning to express themselves. It is on cam-puses that students learn to develop ideas and that is what campuses are for,” said Tanishka Kachru from NID, who has re-cently signed the letter.

its citizens. However, we remain equally focussed on building capacity to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said President Mukherjee while addressing a for-mal gathering held for the awards. Talking about the 119 Helicopter Unit — also known as “The Stal-lions” is presently located at Jamnagar and operates Mi-17 V5 helicopters — President Mukherjee said, ” This unit took played a major role during the “Atlantique Crisis” of Au-gust 1999 and “Op Black Tornado” after the terror-ist attack on Mumbai in November 2008.” IAF had shot down the Paki-stani Naval patrol aircraft in Gujarat after it entered the Indian airspace. IAF’s operational squadrons be-come eligible for award of Presidential Standard after completion of 18 years of service. The selection is based on the units perfor-mance and achievements during peace as well as hostilities.