Al Qaeda India wing targets ModiNews BriefFarooq Abdullah

chairs NC’s meeting, first after surgeryAgency : Srinagar, May 4

Opposition National Con-ference (NC) today held its first core group meet-ing after the return of its president Farooq Abdul-lah from London where he underwent a successful kidney transplant. “Ab-dullah chaired the par-ty Core Group meeting, which was also attended by NC Working Presi-dent Omar Abdullah. This was the first Core Group Meeting chaired by the party president following his return to the state after recuperating from a sur-gery he underwent recent-ly,” an NC spokesman said. He said Abdullah re-viewed the organisational matters of the past two months and also reviewed various political develop-ments in the State.BJP slams Nitish for proposing to

visit NepalAgency : Patna, May 4

A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was reportedly told by the Centre to defer his Nepal trip, former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi to-day asked Kumar why he proposed to tour the country when he had not met people hit by natural calamities in his own state.

Fifth sub-junior hockey national

championship from May 6

Agency : Jammu, May 4The 5th Sub-Junior Hockey India National Championship will be organised at K.K Hakku AstroTurf Stadium in the state’s winter capi-tal from May 6. “Hock-ey J&K is organizing 5th Sub-Junior Hockey India National Cham-pionship at K.K Hakku AstroTurf Stadium Jam-mu w.e.f May 6-17 un-der the aegis of Hockey India”, Working Pres-ident, Hockey J&K, S M Sahai told reporters here today. Sahai, who is Additional Direc-tor General (ADG) of Armed Police said, “the Championship is being organized in collabora-tion with J&K Sports Council where as J&K Bank and HDFC Bank are the co-sponsors of the event.

Agency : New DelhiAl Qaeda’s latest propa-ganda video titled ‘From France to Bangladesh: The Dust Will Never Settle Down’ has made mention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Seven minutes into the video, Al Qaeda’s chief Asim Umar says that there is a war going on against Muslims from Waziristan to Charlie Hebdo “through World Bank and IMF poli-cies, drone attacks, satanic conspiracy of Kerry-Lu-gar bill, Charlie Hebdo’s writings, UN charter, offi-cial sermons by muftis and Narendra Modi’s speeches which call for muslims to be burnt alive- this is the same war.” This nine-minute vid-

eo, released by Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS ) and produced by their own As Sahab produc-tion house. The formation of the new affiliate AQIS was announced by the overall

leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al’Zawahiri last year. Ac-cording to the Guardian, the video, which reads like a long and bloody laundry list of al Qaeda’s ‘achieve-ments’, is a bid to counter the growing influence of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and the rivalry between the two Islamic militant organisations has intensified. The nine-minute video also takes responsibil-ity for a series of attacks that killed six writers and intel-lectuals in Bangladesh and

Pakistan, including promi-nent blogger Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street in February and the death of three others - Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, Rajib Haider and AKM Shafiul Islam- saying that they “have recently assassi-nated several blasphemers of the Prophet and insulters of Islamic law.” In addition to these incidents, AQIS has also claimed that its jihadists were responsible for kill-ing Muhammad Shakil Auj

(who was the dean of Islam-ic Studies at the University of Karachi when he was shot in September 2014) and Aniqa Naz. In the video Umar claims that the assas-sinations were all carried out by different branches of the Al Qaeda on instructions from “their leader Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri (may Allah protect him) “ and it is part of their commitment to fulfill the “oath of Sheikh Osama bin Laden (may Al-lah have mercy on him).” “In France, Denmark, Ban-gladesh, Pakistan and other

countries, enemies of the Prophet are slandering him with words which makes the hearts of the followers of Allah run cold,” Umar says in the video. This vid-eo statement by al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent refers to another statement by Al Qaeda in the Arabi-an Peninsula (Aqap), that claimed responsibility for the killing of of the Char-lie Hebdo cartoonists. In the video Umar also pays tribute to a “Bangladeshi brother” named Sulaim-an who “was martyred in

a drone strike in Khurasan by the same powers that ex-pressed solidarity with the blasphemers by participat-ing in the march in Paris.” AQIS has in the past at-tempted to use the missiles aboard a Pakistani frigate to attack American and In-dian ships. The AQIS team that tried to commandeer the frigate was comprised of former and active Paki-stani officers. They failed to launch the missiles, but reportedly killed Pakistani servicemen in the resulting shootout.

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Panna: 21 passengers charred to death as bus falls off bridge

Agency : Panna At least twenty-one pas-sengers were charred to death and 13 others were injured, one of them critical, when a bus on way to Satna fell off a bridge and caught fire near Pandav Falls, about 10 kms from Pan-na town on Monday af-ternoon. IG (Chhatarpur) Pankaj Shrivastava told The Indian Express that

21 completely charred bodies had been recov-ered from the private bus that had a capacity to carry 35 passengers. IG Shrivastava said that bursting of the diesel tank was probably the cause of fire. The bus operated by Anup Trav-els from Chhatarpur to Satna via Pannaa started at around 12.40 and the mishap occurred about

an hour later. While the condition of 12 survivors was reported to be safe at a government hospital in Panna a 42-year-old passenger had sustained serious burns and was re-ferred to another hospi-tal. One of the survivors told the district authori-ties that the bus was be-ing driven at a very high speed when the mishap occurred. Local people however, claimed that the number of passengers was much more than the official figures. While ordering a magisterial inquiry, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced compen-sation of Rs 2 lakh for the dead.

Did Dawood Ibrahim want to surrender? Controversy erupts over underworld don

Agency : New DelhiAfter a controversy erupt-ed over underworld fugi-tive Dawood Ibrahim’s alleged offer to surrender over the 1993 Mumbai blasts, former CBI top officer Shantanu Sen con-firms that there were in-deed talks with the gang-ster over his trial in India, Times Now reported on Monday. Former Delhi po-lice commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Saturday de-nied reports that quoted him saying that Dawood Ibrahim wanted to sur-render, and that the then government scuttled the plans at the last mo-ment. Commenting on the development, Ram

Jethmalani, an emminent lawyer, said, “I was in London myself. Dawood approached me and told me he wants to come to India because this case is false”. “He said if you can see that I’m under house arrest and not put in jail, I’m prepared to come & face trial,” Jethmalani added. Jethmalani said he had communicated this to the politicians in power at that time in Maharash-tra and they consulted whoever they wanted to consult and said that they didn’t want to accept this offer. The lawyer said this offer was “ought to have been accepted by the pol-iticians who were in pow-er at that time”.

Kerala: Top police officer caught cheating in law exam, asked to leave hall

Agency : Thiruvananthapuram

The administration in Ker-ala was left red-faced on Monday after a top police officer was caught alleged-ly cheating during the Master of Law examina-tion. Inspector general of police (Thrissur range) TJ Jose had to leave the exam hall 30 minutes before the test ended at St Paul’s College in Kalamasser-

ry, on the outskirts of the port city of Kochi, after invigilators found he was allegedly copying from a text book. Jose denied the charges and described the incident as a conspir-acy to defame him. “No-body prevented me from leaving the examination hall. And no material was seized from me,” he said. The invigilators said they weren’t aware of Jose’s designation when they caught him. They said they would ask Mahatma Gandhi University, which is conducting the exam, to take action against him. The embarrassed state

government asked addi-tional director general of police Shankar Reddy to probe the incident and sub-mit a report immediately. Confirming the incident, VJ Peter, vice-principal of St Paul’s College, said uni-versity authorities would be informed of the matter. As news of the incident spread, student unions jumped on to the bandwag-on and sought a high-level inquiry. Attempts were re-portedly made to cover up the incident. This isn’t the first time Kerala has seen such a high-profile case of malpractice during an exam.

PM’s social media account a hit in ChinaAgency : Beijing

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi began direct-ly communicating with Chinese people on Mon-day after opening an account on Weibo, the Twitter-like social media platform in China. The move came just about 10 days before he is due to visit China. “Hello Chi-

na! Looking forward to interacting with Chinese friends through Weibo,” the Prime Minister said in his first post. He fol-lowed it up with anoth-er post greeting people on the occasion of Budh Purnima. The new ac-count started attracting new followers rapidly and built up a follow-ing of over 26,442 by

late evening. This is very significant because there was no advance publicity about Modi’s arrival on Weibo. Observers said Modi’s following might cross 200,000 by the time he begins the tour at the expected date of May 14. This is entirely feasible because millions of Chi-nese are on Weibo at any given time, and they are given to retweeting posts all the time.m This will give the Prime Minister a strong platform to convey his ideas about India-Chi-na friendship particularly among the Chinese youth.

The Dust Will Never Settle Down’, al Qaeda has mentioned Narendra Modi in relation to what it claims to be is a war against Muslims.

NDRF work accomplished in Nepal: Kiren RijijuAgency : New Delhi

India today said that the National Disaster Re-sponse Force (NDRF) was deployed in Nepal immediately after the April 25 earthquake for rescue operations and their work has been ac-complished. “NDRF was deployed in Nepal for rescue operations and their rescue work has been accomplished,” Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told reporters here. The Minister, who handles the disaster management division in the Home Ministry that controls the NDRF, said the Nepalese government has asked

the NDRF to demobil-ise so that reconstruction and rehabilitation work can be started. “It should not be taken in any oth-er sense,” he said. Rijiju said not only India’s but forces of 33 countries, engaged in rescue opera-tions in Nepal, have been asked to prepare for re-turn. Rescue teams from India and 33 other coun-tries were today asked by Nepal to leave as it pre-pared to launch massive operations to rehabilitate millions of uprooted vic-tims of the devastating temblor on April 25 that has killed at least 7,365 people, including 41 In-dians.

Agency : New DelhiActress Katrina Kaif, who is set for her maiden outing at the 68th Cannes International Film Festi-val, will not only walk on the red carpet on the fest’s opening day, but will also do so the following day. The Bang Bang! star will make her presence on the red carpet on May 13 and 14. Her fellow L’Oreal Paris brand am-bassador Sonam Kapoor will grace the red carpet of the prestigious festival on May 16 and 18, read a statement. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has been a L’Oreal Paris am-bassador for more than a decade, will complete 14 years at Cannes with L’Oreal Paris and will walk on the red carpet on May 17 and 20. As far as Hollywood is concerned,

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DAYWhy Sonam Kapoor is possibly the best choice to play Neerja Bhanot

Agency : New DelhiSonam Kapoor might be more applauded for her impeccable dressing sense and spectacular magazine covers, but the actress has also received critical ac-claim for few of her author backed roles. After a se-ries of commercial masala films, Sonam has decided to take one step ahead by playing the brave air host-ess Neerja Bhanot in her next film, which is a bi-opic. The actress who has already started shooting for the biopic shared few pictures from the sets and we cannot help but exclaim that the artists have careful-ly made sure Sonam looks a lot similar to the daredev-il flight attendant. Calling it her most special people, Sonam tweeted a picture revealing her look from the film. It would be absolutely right to say that the makers have made the right choice in casting Sonam for the role. While the first element of the biopic - looking her

Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan’s ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ poster out

Royal princess named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

Agency : CharlotteThe fourth in line to the throne will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.There had been spec-ulation that the couple would include the name of Diana in honour of Prince William’s moth-er. Charlotte was born on Saturday in the Lin-do Wing of London’s St Mary’s Hospital. The BBC’s royal correspon-dent Peter Hunt said the

Queen and other senior royals were told of the baby’s name before the announcement was made public. He said that a Kensington Pal-ace official, when asked about the couple’s choice, said: “We’ll let the names speak for themselves.” the fem-inine form of Charles, has a long royal pedi-gree and became popu-lar in the 18th century when it was the name of George III’s queen.

Narendra Modi and the Chinese question

When he visits China next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have his plate full. Economic relations and security matters will be high on his list of priorities. In one sense, relations between the two countries could not have been better. In the first 10 months of 2014-15, bilateral trade stood at $61 billion. China is India’s biggest trading partner now. The two countries are members of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group; coordinate their policy responses on a vari-ety of issues of mutual interest globally and China’s President Xi Jinpingwas among the first leaders to visit India after Modi was sworn in as the prime minister. In one sense, relations between the two countries could not have been better. In the first 10 months of 2014-15, bilateral trade stood at $61 bil-lion. China is India’s biggest trading partner now. The two countries are members of the Brics (Bra-zil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group; coordinate their policy responses on a variety of issues of mutual interest globally and China’s Pres-ident Xi Jinpingwas among the first leaders to visit India after Modi was sworn in as the prime minis-ter. But there is another aspect to the relation that does not inspire much confidence. India and Chi-na have a long-standing border dispute involving territory running into thousands of kilometres. The rancour in relations is due to a much bigger prob-lem: of how the two countries perceive their role in Asia and the world. There is antagonism on that plane. From mutual fears of containment to geopo-litical contests in far-off continents (Africa is one example), to wooing countries in South and South-east Asia, contest stands out in much bolder relief as compared with cooperation. The security chal-lenges with China, as they have evolved over the past two to three years, merit a closer look. They certainly deserve a far more coherent policy re-sponse than what has been seen until now. For one, the scale of Chinese claims and intrusions in all sectors has now increased manifold. The Chinese now claim the whole of Arunachal Pradesh as their territory. Any visit by an Indian prime minister to that state and any construction of physical assets evokes a Chinese reaction. This is a strong reversal of their earlier position—right from the inception of the border dispute—that this sector (the eastern sector) of the disputed boundary is Indian territory. In the western sector (in Jammu and Kashmir)—which is the site of military confrontation—incur-sions into Indian territory are now routine across the entire swathe of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) from Depsang in the north to Chumar in the southeast.

“A very large section of the media has accepted ‘supari’ for finishing off AAP. There can be a public trial. There can be 8-10 spots in Delhi where we can collect a group of people and show the erroneous clip. That way we can start a ‘janta ka trial. If you see a channel shows a factu-ally wrong report, take the channel’s name and bring it forward,”

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Agency : New DelhiThere is a new Vidya Bal-an-Emraan Hashmi film, Hamari Adhuri Kahani, and if that brings to mind a nightmare of Ghanchak-kar proportions, we total-ly understand. However, dispel your fears and take a look at this forthcoming

Mohit Suri film because it just might surprise you. While a glimpse of Raj-kummar Rao in any film’s trailer can bring hope to moviegoers, Rao doesn’t have too much screen time in Hamari Adhu-ri Kahani. In fact, initial reports claimed that the

actor will only be doing an extended cameo in the film. However, the good news is that there’s more in Hamari Adhuri Kahani than just Rao. Balan and Hashmi too seem to be back in their element. If the trailer is any indica-tion, the two have an easy chemistry. Balan plays a woman who is married to one man but in love with another. Rao plays her abusive husband and Hashmi plays her lover.Hamari Adhuri Kahani has all the trademarks of a good Mohit Suri film -- dramatic scenes, me-lodious music and melo-dramatic dialogues and a love story at the heart of the film. The trailer opens with a wild-haired and bearded Rao, throwing a violent tantrum. He gets arrested and Balan, his long-suffering but good wife, tries to get him out of jail. Somewhere along the way, she and Hashmi meet and fall in love. What happens next? We’ll have to wait for the actual film to find out.

part- has already brought in huge applause for Sonam, the actress needs to turn on the acting fire within to make sure people love her performance as well. Giv-

en that Sonam shone in an author backed role like Ranjhanaa, it would not be surprising to see Sonam de-liver her career-best in the Neerja Bhanot biopic.

Amitabh Bachchan misses Delhi pro-motion of ‘Piku’, down with viral

Agency : New DelhiMegastar Amitabh Bach-chan, who was sched-uled to arrive in Delhi on Monday for the pro-motion of his upcoming film Piku, has skipped his visit as he is suffering from viral fever. “So just because you are ‘ridden’ does not mean you can-not communicate..’Veri-fied Incorporated Ratio-nale Against Liberty’ .. VIRAL. Got it... Down a bit, but communicating is now an insatiable hun-ger !!! And the connect seems better in recline,”

[sic] Bachchan, 72, post-ed on Twitter. The actor plays an ageing father to Deepika Padukone, in the comedy-drama. The film explores the dynam-ics of the father-daughter relationship as they take

a road trip to Kolkata from Delhi. Also starring Irrfan Khan, Moushu-mi Chatterjee and Jishu Sengupta, the Shoojit Sircar-directed film is expected to hit theatres on May 8.

Katrina, Sonam to make Cannes red carpet appearance twice

Naomi Watts will also at-tend Cannes on May 13 and 14. Actress Fan Bing Bing will accompany The Ring star on May 13 and 14 and so will Julianne Moore. Singer-TV per-

sonality Cheryl Cole will make her Cannes appear-ance on May 15, actress Jane Fonda on May 16 and 17, and actress Andie MacDowell on May 16 and 18.

Rs 200-cr investment riding on Sal-man Khan as judgement day nears

Agency : New DelhiAs a local court is set to pronounce verdict in the hit-and-run case involving the Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on May 6, the film industry is keeping its fingers crossed as an invest-ment of about Rs 200 crore is riding on him. “The film industry is hoping that noth-ing terrible happens. Either he is pronounced innocent or the least punishment is given,” said the trade an-alyst Komal Nahata. His two upcoming films, Ba-jrangi Bhaijaan which stars Kareena Kapoor and Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo opposite Sonam Kapoor, are current-ly in the last schedule of shooting. The 49-year-old actor recently shot for Ba-

jrangi Bhaijaan in Kashmir. Amod Mehra, another trade analyst, said Salman had committed to do four others films, including Dabang 3 and Entry Mein No Entry, but these were only at the

stage of announcement. In all, an investment of Rs 200 crore is riding on Salman, who has delivered a string of box office successes in the last few years, according to Nahata.

Akshay Kumar’s ‘Gabbar is Back’ records highest weekend collections of 2015 at box office!

Agency : New DelhiAkshay Kumar’s Gabbar

is Back might not have received great critical

responses but the audi-ences seem to not get enough of Akki’s Gab-bar avatar. While the audiences are showing their love for the film by flocking to their near-by theatres, the film has been raking up a decent total at the box office over the weekend. After collecting in the range of Rs 13.50 crore on its opening day, On Sunday, the film collected around Rs 14.5 crore, taking the first weekend collections to Rs 39 crore.

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IPL 2015: CSK vs RCB: Bravo brilliance ends Kohli knock, DK falls to Nehra

Agency : Chennai The hosts, CSK, lost two matches on the trot but are still table toppers. The visitors, RCB, had a poor start but have slow-ly gained in confidence. After demolishing KKR at home, they are eager to change their fortunes in a city which hasn’t been kind to them.When CSK walk out on the MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch on Monday, the first six overs will be the key. As coach Stephen Flem-ing put it after CSK lost

to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday night,“We were completely out-played. We lost the game then, as we’ve done it to other teams (in the tour-nament)”Going by sta-tistics, MS Dhoni’s boys look better. They have defeat-ed the Royal Challengers Bangalore four times at home.However, in their last meeting in this edi-tion, the India Test cap-tain’s half-century went in vain, thanks to Ashish Nehra’s 4/10.They lost

by 27 runs at the Chin-naswamy Stadium.A clash between Dhoni and Virat is always explosive. While RCB have won four of the eight match-es, it has been Virat’s energy and intensity that has been praised.The in-your-face player though doesn’t hold back. Re-member his clashes on the recent Australia tour? On the other hand, Dhoni is a pro-active captain in the shorter formats, calm and able to quickly adapt to situations.

Yuki Bhambri breezes back into top-200

Rajasthan Royals, Ajinkya Rahane back on top

Agency : MumbaiThe stage was set for Mumbai boy Ajinkya Rahane to impress. The historic Brabourne Sta-dium was the venue.

The stands, occupied by Mumbaikars donning the Rajasthan Royals blue and shouting “Ra-haa-ne” every time he was on strike. For once,

Rahane’s personal coach Praveen Amre sat in the opposite camp, but he would have been pleased to watch his ward thrash Zaheer Khan & Co. on his way to a 54-ball 91. The knock helped Ra-jasthan Royals coast to a comfortable 14-run win over Delhi Daredevils on Sunday. Amre is the batting coach of Dare-devils. Rahane’s knock couple with a stroke-filled 61 off 38 balls from Karun Nair was in-strumental in their team post 189/2. However, it turned to be enough as Delhi failed to outsmart Rajasthan’s tight and disciplined bowlers.

Hockey: Sardar Singh and Co gear-up for 2nd match of Test Series against Japan

Agency : BhubaneshwarAfter a high-intense drawn match against Japan, India will now step-on the field with a single goal of wining their second match to put a strong hold in the four-Test Series here tomorrow. In-dia displayed rusty defence yesterday during their 1-1 draw against Japan to begin its four-match Test series on a disappointing note and skipper Sardar Singh will hope his team puts up a better show tomorrow. To-morrow Indian players will have to tackle Japan’s long passes as well as contain them in their half to create maximum goal-scoring op-

portunities. In the penalty corner, India has a stronger side than the visitors and in the presence of specialists such as VR Raghunath, Birendra Lakra and skip-per Sardar Singh, Indians have ability to convert maximum penalty corners in goals. Japan, on the other hand, could not ma-terialise a single penalty corner yesterday and they found difficult to surpass goalkeeper PR Sreejesh. Come tomorrow, both In-dia and Japan will have to tweak their strategies to outplay each other. While Indians will look to work on their defence side, Ja-

Gold imports up 19.5 % at $34.32 bn in 2014-15

Agency : New DelhiGold imports surged 19.5 per cent to reach USD 34.32 billion in 2014-15 due to declining prices and easing of restrictions by the Reserve Bank. Im-ports of the metal were USD 28.7 billion the previous fiscal, 2013-14. Increase in gold imports impacts the country’s trade deficit, which has reached USD 137 bil-lion in 2014-15, and the current account deficit (CAD). The imports al-most doubled in March to USD 4.98 billion which pushed the trade deficit to a four-month high of USD 11.79 billion for the month, according to the Commerce Ministry data. India is the largest importer of gold, which mainly caters to the de-

mand of the jewellery in-dustry. The Reserve Bank and the government have maintained that the CAD level is comfortable, but the spike in gold imports may spark fresh worries. It has narrowed to 1.7 per cent for the first nine months of the previous fiscal. According to the Reserve Bank data, in the April-December period of last fiscal, CAD stood at USD 31.1 billion or 2.3 percent of GDP. On November 28, RBI had scrapped the controver-sial 80:20 scheme. Under the programme, which was put in place in Au-gust 2013 to put a tight leash on gold inflows, at least 20 per cent of the imported gold had to be exported before bringing in new lots.

Facebook opens Internet.org to developers

Agency : New Delhi Even as Facebook faced criticism for its Internet.org platform in India over the Net Neutrality debate, the company has now launched the Inter-net.org platform, which is aimed at developers.According to an official post by Facebook, the Internet.org Platform is an “open program for developers to easi-ly create services that integrate with Internet.org.”Facebook notes in the blogpost that the core of Internet.org is “non-ex-

clusive partnerships with mobile operators to offer free basic inter-net services to people through Internet.org.” Facebook had launched Internet.org in India in February 2015 with Reliance Commu-nications and the app offered some select ser-vices for free (the ones that had partnered with Facebook). This was also seen as a violation of Net Neutrality, al-though Facebook said that there was no mon-etary exchange to offer these services as free.

Motorola cuts price of Moto 360; Now starts at Rs 12,999

Agency : MumbaiMotorola has reduced the price of its Moto 360 smartwatch by Rs 5,000. The leath-er strap variants are now available at Rs 12,999 while the met-al band version cost Rs 14,999. The Moto 360 was earlier priced at Rs 17,999 and Rs 19,999 for the leather and metal band respec-tively. It is available only on Flipkart. Powered by An-droid Wear OS, the Moto 360 is compatible with all smartphones running Android 4.3 or higher. It has a 1.5-inch round dial and has

a display resolution of 320 x 290 pixels at 205 ppi. The Backlit LCD is protected with Corn-ing Gorilla Glass 3. It weighs just 49 grams and comes with a 320 mAh battery.The smartwatch is wa-ter resistant and has 4 GB of internal storage and 512 MB RAM and is based on TI OMAP 3 processor. The device comes with a Pedome-ter that counts the num-ber of steps the user takes and also comes with a optical heart rate monitor. Moto 360 is compatible with all smartphones running Android 4.3 or higher.

pan have to work on their penalty corner skills. “We didn’t play very good yes-terday and faced strong challenges from the Japan side. As I told you earli-er, don’t see the ranking, they are a very good Asian team, who plays in Euro-pean style speedy hockey”

Agency : New DelhiYuki Bhambri today broke back into the top-200 after 15 months, thanks to a solid perfor-mance at the ATP Taipei Challenger, where he made the semifinals to leap to number 186 in the latest rankings. After a jump of 30 places in the ladder, Yuki is now only 13 places behind In-dia number one Somdev Devvarman (173), who slipped four spots. If Yuki can manage a good show at the Karshi Challenger in Uzbekistan this week, he has a good chance to be country’s top sin-gles player. Yuki had achieved his career-best rank of 143 in February last year but his position suffered after he missed on-court action due to injury. f he can remain

injury-free, Yuki can better his best ranking this season. Meanwhile, Ramkumar Ramanathan was the next best Indian at number 226, closely followed by Saketh My-neni (239). In doubles, Leander Paes (23) con-tinues to be the top play-

er from the country. He was followed by Rohan Bopanna, who gained two places to be at num-ber 24. In the WTA rank-ings, Sania Mirza kept her number one rank in the doubles chart while Ankita Raina was best in singles at number 235.

Dempo and FC Goa starlet Romeo Fernandes makes first team debut for Brazilian club

Agency : New DelhiIt’s been a good year for Indian football so far. After goalkeeper Gur-preet Sandhu became the first Indian to play for a top division side outside India, FC Goa and Dempo’s Romeo Fernandes became the first outfield player to achieve the same feat. The 22-year-old mid-fielder, who notched

up three goals and two assists in 11 Indian Su-per League (ISL) ap-pearances for FC Goa, was brought in the 69th minute against Nacional PR during the last round match of the Campe-onato Paranaense on Saturday. Atletico were already 4-0 up when Ro-meo was brought on, but it is a sign that the club see potential in the Indi-

an — and he could see more action in the fu-ture. “Atletico was look-ing to develop a player from India. I suggested Romeo and Zico gave his approval,” the same report quotes his agent Beto as saying. Beto, a former Dempo player, was also key to getting Zico to sign as FC Goa manager. Brazil’s most popular No 10 was im-pressed by Romeo’s ma-rauding skills down both wings and made him an integral part of his side which went from the bottom of the table into the semifinals in the in-augural ISL. Zico appar-ently recommended the winger to Atletico and the club seem to have taken the recommenda-tion pretty seriously.

Rohit Sharma gets engaged to best friend Ritika, tweets picture

Agency : New DelhiThe present lot of Indian cricketers has frequent-ly been in the headlines for choosing and/or get-ting hitched off to their partners. After MS Dho-

ni, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina lately, it was time for Rohit Sharma to di-vulge the identity of his life partner. Rohit got engaged to childhood

friend Ritika Sajdeh, who is a sports manag-er by profession and had been the “best friend” of the aggressive bats-man since eight years. Currently captaining the Mumbai Indians at the Indian Premier League, Rohit was in his home-town Mumbai last week, when he shrugged off his bashful nature to propose his ladylove by taking her to Borivali Sports Club, the place where he first began his quest to become a pro-fessional cricketer.

Tennis: ‘Struggling’ Nadal to switch back to old racquet ahead of French Open

Agency : JohannesbergIn an attempt to regain his form, 14-time Grand

Slam champion Rafa-el Nadal has said that he will use his old rac-quets until the end of the season. After losing to world number one Novak Djokovic in the finals of the Monte Carlo Masters and suffering a shock early exit at the Barce-lona Open, the Spaniard

explained that he has less control over the new racquet as he requires enough time to train and adapt to it, Sport24 re-ported. In the absence of Djokovic, Nadal would start the forthcoming Madrid Open as favour-ites despite his struggles with form.

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Gujarat BJP announces major appointments in organization

Surat-Amreli flight service af-ter repair of Amreli airstrip

25 nursing students in Gandhinagar fall sick after having stale halwa

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadAs many as 25 female students of Sahajanand College of Nursing in Gandhinagar have been admitted to a Chand-kheda hospital for food poisoning. On Monday morning, the students complained of vomiting and loose motions. The students, who stay in the college hostel, had eaten

halwa in breakfast in the hostel canteen. Hospi-tal sources said the stu-dents came to them in the afternoon and were severely dehydrated. They were immediately put on IV fluids. One of the students alleged, “Our canteen doesn’t maintain any hygiene and often serves us ran-cid food.”

Correspondent, SuratSurat headquartered Di-amond aeronautics is planning to start daily flight connecting Surat and Amreli. Diamond at present connects Surat to Bhavnagar and Rajkot with its daily flights. After initial success Diamond has increased the number

of flights. Diamond uses 9-seater planes to operate its service. There was a de-mand to operate flights connecting Surat and Amreli from prominent people in Amreli. How-ever the airport runway at Amreli is not suitable to operate flights. In this re-

gard a representation was made before state Civil Aviation Minister Sau-rabh Patel. In response Patel has promised re-pair of Amreli air strip so that it can be made func-tional. Once the airport is in working condition, Diamond will start Su-rat-Amreli flights.

Sunvilla News, GandhinagarGujarat BJP President RC Faldu has made sev-eral appointments in par-ty organization after two days long Chintan Shibir held in Surat which con-cluded yesterday. Ac-cording to details shared by state BJP media cell in an official commu-nication, Jashwantsinh Bhabhor(Dahod) has been appointed Vice President of Gujarat BJP while Mansukh Man-davia(Bhavnagar), KC

Patel(Patan) and Shab-dasharan Bhrahmbhat-t(Vadodara) are appoint-ed General Secretaries of Gujarat BJP. Rajes-hbhai Chudasama(MP) has been appointed Sec-retary of state BJP. Piy-ushbhai Desai has been appointed organization-al incharge(Prambhari) of Tapi district BJP unit. Shri Niranjanbhai Zan-jzmera(Mayor of Su-rat) has been appointed South Zone incharge of Mahasampark Abhiyan

of Sangathan Mahapar-va while Amit Thaker has been appointed in-charge of Central Zone, Jaysinh Chauhan as in-charge of North Zone and Rajeshbhai Chudasama as incharge of Saurash-tra Zone. Note: Vijay Rupani and Shankarbhai Chaudhary are replaced with new General Secre-taries as they migrated to government and became minister. Though it is of-ficially not communicat-ed, it is learnt that Bharat Pandya has been replaced with a General Secretary, while Bharatsinh Parmar has been continued as General Secretary. Piyush Desai is replacing Dinesh Dasa as Tapi district BJP unit guardian, as Dasa has been made member of Gujarat Public Service Commission(GPSC) in Gandhinagar.

Man lives for 24 days with 3cm bullet in his headSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Mangilal Kanjar, 22, sur-vived a headshot. After living with a three-centi-meter bullet for 24 days, Kanjar is now in Ahmed-abad Civil Hospital and has got a new lease of life. Kanjar was shot through his right eye by an un-identified person during a wedding procession in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, on April 2. The youth and his family still do not know who fired the shot from ‘point blank range’. “I was drunk and don’t remember who shot me and exactly when. I can just remember the sear-ing pain in my head and

then complete blackout,” Kanjar . Dr Harshil Shah, consultant neurosurgeon, Civil Hospital, said the bullet went through Kan-jar’s eye socket, travelled five inches by breaking through his head and was only stopped by the back of his skull. The bullet was lodged deep into his brain for more than 570 hours. In a life-saving surgery lasting five hours, doctors removed the bul-let but could not restore Kanjar’s vision. “When Kanjar came to us, the left side of his body was already paralyzed and his right eye was completely damaged... It’s very rare

that a bullet is so close and the person does not die. Providence also had a role in his survival,” Dr Shah said. Kanjar had a tough time shuttling be-tween different govern-ment health centres in Jhalawar, Kota and Udai-pur, which refused him admission. The patient was finally brought to Civil Hospital by his rela-tives on April 18. Howev-er, there was no end to his trauma. The doctors only operated Kanjar on April 25, more than a week af-ter he was admitted. This was despite Kanjar being on high risk of brain hem-orrhage and meningitis.

Millers’ Association revives flour fortification in Gujarat

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadThe Comptroller and Audi-tor General of India (CAG) had flayed the Gujarat gov-ernment for discontinuing the “Antyodaya Anna Yo-jana” (AAY) that supplied fortified wheat flour for overcoming micronutrient deficiencies in a state that has a poor malnutrition record, especially among children. Now, Gujarat Roller Flour Millers’ Asso-ciation is relaunching flour fortification in Gujarat. This is part of their corpo-rate social responsibility with technical support by Food Fortification Initia-

tive, India. Wheat flour is the staple diet for average Indians and the fortified flour ensures positive ef-fects on health and welfare of the citizens thereby pro-viding them with required minerals and nutrients for a balanced diet. Dr Subrata Dutta, India coordinator, Food Fortification Initia-tive, USA, said “For some years now the fortification of Atta scheme in Gujarat has been discontinued. At a time when Gujarat is ex-celling in all respects be it development or infrastruc-ture, the basic health ame-nities are often ignored.

How to stay healthy in the Ahmedabad’s summer

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadNow that the most dread-ed Amdavad summer has dawned upon us, the time’s finally come to get prepared to face it. For Amdavadis who totally love to sink their teeth often in golas, sherdi no ras, shikanji and the om-nipresent aam ras, there are certain tips that you need to keep in mind

while venturing out in sun, and enjoy the sum-mer to its fullest. Summer is one of the best times to lose weight as your appe-tite drops a lot. But one can’t bar-gain when it comes to workouts, as weight loss during summer should be done in a healthier man-ner, says fitness expert, Ravi Rawal. “Make sure

that you don’t miss your regular workouts. Opt for more cardio related exer-cises such as running, cy-cling, jogging, dance aer-obics or even brisk walks. Also early mornings and post dusk are favorable for workouts. Remember to drink loads of water, as loss of water will result in muscle cramps during workouts.”

No space for the dead in municipal hospitalsSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

There is a severe pauci-ty of space for the dead in city-based municipal hospitals. The cold room capacity of VS, LG and Shardaben hospitals is severely limited as com-pared to the necessity. In Ahmedabad, there are only 15 mortuaries at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run hos-pitals. This is woefully short for the city’s pop-ulace of around 70 lakh. Often bodies have to be stored in cold rooms while awaiting post-mor-tem, or for relatives who

stay abroad to reach the city. And, in cases the bodies remain unclaimed. These bodies then have to be referred to Civil or pri-vate hospitals. VS hospital, one of the biggest hospitals run by AMC, has a mor-tuary which can accom-modate only eight bodies,

while Shardaben has a fa-cility for only four bodies and LG hospital only three. While the AMC charges a nominal fee for use of mortuary facilities, private hospitals’ charge hefty fees which are often 10 times more than the municipal corporation’s rates.

Ahmedabad’s air 2nd worst, Faridabad tops the list

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadSunday proved to be an exception, nationally, on the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) daily air quality index (AQI) list. Ahmedabad displaced Delhi in the rank to become the second city with a poor ambient air quality in the country. The AQI index defined the city’s air quality to be “very poor” along with Faridabad. The AQI score for Ahmedabad was 304, while that of Faridabad was 341. Delhi on the other had an AQI score of 259 and was rated “poor” by CPCB. Since the last two days the CPCB has been releasing a daily

air quality bulletin for 11 cities across the country. The AQI is decided on ambient concentration values of air pollutants and their likely health impacts which are com-monly called health break points. The pollution pa-rameters whose concen-tration is measured in ambient air include par-ticulate matter that are of size 2.5 microns (PM 2.5), PM 10, nitrogen di-oxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, ammonia and lead. The pollution parameter is measured over a period of 24 hours and the data is revealed by the CPCB the following day.

German Ambassador meets Gujarat CM:Skill development in agenda

Sunvilla News, GandhinagarGerman Ambassador Mr. Michael Steiner today paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Mrs. Anandiben Patel in Gandhinagar. During their meeting they dis-cussed on vocational training and skill devel-opment. Germany’s Ap-prenticeship Model is well-acclaimed; and thus Mrs. Patel shared that Gujarat should take in-puts and engage in qual-

itative vocational train-ing. They discussed that Gujarat and Germany can collaborate in the field of skill development to em-power the youth, which will give a boost to em-ployability in MSMEs. Mrs. Patel ex-pressed that forming such ‘Skill Clusters’ with the motive to encourage skill-development in the state will enable Gujarat to be a model state for vo-cational training and skill

development. During the meeting, German Am-bassador gave details on incentives given to the German industries for providing vocation-al training to the youth. Additional Chief Secre-tary Mr. Arvind Agrawal, Principal Secretary Mr. Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary to CM Ms. S. Aparna, Secretary Mr. Ajay Bhadu and senior officials were present in the meeting.

Construction of new Gujarat Bha-van to begin shortly in New Delhi

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadThe state Government is in the final stage of final-izing the plan for the de-velopment of new Guja-rat Bhavan at New Delhi on the 7,066 square me-ter land allocated by the Ministry of Urban Devel-opment after the former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi become the Prime Minister. The new land is close to the

present Gujarat Bhavan in the Chanakyapuri area. The state Government has taken over the posses-sion of the new land from after paying the premium and other charges. Ac-cording to the sources the new building is expected to be completed in next two to two and half year. Approximate project is cost will be around Rs.10 crore.

AMC seizes 246 kg plastic, 9 units sealedSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Health de-partment teams today seized 246 kg plastic cup/wrappers and collected Rs. 2,55,500 administra-tive charge. The AMC teams issued 214 notic-es and sealed 9 units. AMC has banned usage of low quality plastic cups(mainly used at tea shops) wrappers(mainly

used at paan shops) and bags with effect from 1st

May under the provision of GPMC act.

GPS app to track officers in fieldSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Now they can’t fool their boss or cook up stories about their location in the field. The municipal commission-er and the deputy municipal commissioners can know the exact location of their subordinates on the city map with just a tap on an android app for cell phones. About three months ago, more than 340 zone-level engineers,

supervisors, sanitary staff, health and tax officers were asked to download the app called, SmartCity311. Their officials work is monitored by municipal commission-er D Thara. Incidentally, the app can also be used by the police department to mon-itor the work of personnel in the field. Beat constables can be required to notify their position.

Gujarat University to finally recruit 30 teachers after 18-month delay

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadGujarat University will be finally conducting in-terviews for recruiting 30 teachers in its science faculty from May 11-17. The process was delayed for about 18 months. The advertisements for the vacancies were issued in November 2013. These posts had been lying vacant for more than 10 years, which has adversely affected the curriculum. Vice-chan-cellor M N Patel said that though the applications from the candidates were received by December 4, 2013, the recruitment process was stayed by the state government ow-ing to objections raised by the SC/ST cell of the university. The SC/

ST cell alleged that the university had not fol-lowed the roster system in reservation of posts for reserved categories. It took a long time for the university authori-ties and office-bearers of the SC/ST cell to sort out the matter. The SC/ST cell later withdrew its objections after pro-longed discussions on the issue with the senior officials in the state ed-

ucation department only a few weeks ago. Patel said that the university received a green signal from the state govern-ment three weeks ago for going ahead with the in-terviews. The university, he said, issued interview letters immediately and also informed the candi-dates through email and SMSes. Patel said he had also begun interviews for non-teaching posts.