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News BriefGroundnut oil

firms up on consistent demand

Agency | Mumbai

Groundnut oil rose fur-ther at the Vashi oils and oilseeds wholesale mar-ket here today due to consistent demand from retailers. Refined pal-molein also recovered following good demand from retailers. In the non-edible section, cas-torseeds bold and castor oil commercial extend-ed its fall owing to low-er offtake from shippers and soap manufacturing units. Linseed oil ruled steady in the absence of any worthwhile buying activity.

2 killed, 2 injured in head-on collision

in UP

Govt not worried about fiscal deficit:

Jaitley

Agency | Kanpur

Two people were killed and two other injured in a head-on collision be-tween a bus and a tractor in the Bidhnu area of the district here, police said today. The government roadways bus of Maho-ba depot was travelling from Bidhnu to Ghat-ampur city yesterday when it collided with a truck laden with bricks near Ramaipur bridge and lost balance, a po-lice spokesperson said. “The collision resulted in the bricks breaking the windshield of the bus, impaling two pas-sengers in their chests,” he said adding that one of them died on spot while the other died in a hospital.

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said he was not worried about fiscal deficit and gov-ernment would be able to meet its target de-spite additional outgo towards the imple-mentation of the 7th Pay Commission. He admitted however that the impact of imple-menting the pay com-mission’s recommen-dations, which will result in an additional annual burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore on ex-chequer, would last for two to three years.

Delhi govt announces curbs on plying of pvt vehicles“Delhi’s desperate measures”

In a bid to curb rising pollution, the Delhi government on Friday decided that odd and even number vehicles will ply on alternate days in the capital from January 1

Delhi Fights Crippling Air Pollution

Agency | New Delhi

Finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday an 18% cap on the goods and services tax (GST) rate as suggested by the Congress would result in a flawed system as it could lower duties on a host of “sin” products and luxury items that should attract higher taxes. Jait-ley’s comments came on a day a panel led by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian batted for a standard GST rate be-tween 17% and 18% and a revenue-neutral rate (at which there would be no revenue loss to states or

Agency | Chennai

A relatively dry spell in Chennai and its neigh-bourhood brought relief to the flood affected res-idents and rescue agen-cies as hopes of water fast receding went up. Signs of easing of situation emerged on Friday with no fresh rains and a sharp fall in water levels of Ad-yar and Kumbh rivers that were in spate following torrential rains as res-cue and relief operations continued in full swing and Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi announced a Rs 1,000 crore more aid to Tamil Nadu. Chennai city and its suburbs expe-rienced a welcome break from the unpredented

Agency | Srinagar

Two militants and an army man were killed in an operation in North Kashmir’s Rajwar area. The operation is still in progress as army has in-formation about the pres-ence of a big militant group in the forests of Buwan. Army said that in the morning troops of 21 Rashtriya Rifles along with the Special Opera-tion Group of Jammu and Kashmir police launched an operation in the forests of Buwan at Rajwar in Handwara. The operation was launched on a tip-off about the presence of mil-

Agency | New Delhi

In a radical step to curb alarming air pollution, the Delhi Government on Friday restricted plying of private vehicles bearing odd and even registration numbers to alternate days from January 1 in the na-tional capital. The mea-sures were announced following an emergency meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a day after the Delhi High Court compared the city to a “gas chamber”. Chief Secretary K K Sharma said the government de-

Agency | New Delhi

Bihar would have a ‘total’ ban on all kinds of liquor starting April 1, 2016 and not just on country-made liquor as some reports had suggested earlier, said Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil Mas-tan. Though Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that alcohol will be banned in Bihar from April 1 next year, some reports said the ban could be limited only to country-made liquor. Mastan also mentioned that the ban will just not be on country made li-quor as some reports had suggested earlier. “We will impose a liquor ban in Bihar. It will be for desi (country-made liquor), videshi (foreign-made li-

Fixing 18% cap on GST rate could lower duties on ‘sin’ products: Jaitley

Chennai floods: Relief for residents as river water levels decline, no fresh rain

Bihar to ban all kinds of liquor from April 1, 2016

the Centre) of 15-15.5%. In a report to the finance minister, the panel also suggested scrapping a 1% additional levy or “entry tax” on cross-bor-der transport of goods, a recommendation in keep-ing with the Opposition demand. “There are sin products (such as alcohol and cigarettes) that need to be taxed high. There

are polluting products and there are luxury items that should attract higher taxes,” Jaitley said at a session in the 13th Hin-dustan Times Leadership Summit. The Subramani-an panel report proposed a three-tier rate structure —12% for essential items, 40% for “demerit goods” such as luxury cars, aerat-ed beverages, pan masala

and tobacco products, and 17-18% for all the rest. The GST, billed as the country’s most ambitious tax reform, aims to stitch together a common na-tional market by disman-tling fiscal barriers among states. Once implement-ed, it will replace layers of local levies such as val-ued-added tax and octroi by a single nation-wide tax. The 122nd Consti-tution Amendment Bill, passed in the Lok Sabha in May, is stuck for want of political consensus in the Rajya Sabha where the ruling BJP does not have a majority.

quor) or locally-made li-quor.” There was no truth in those reports, Mastan said.”We are yet to fi-nalise the modalities for a liquor ban in the state. (But) It will be a total ban”. Mastan said the poorest of the poor had been consuming liquor, destroying their families and their children’s edu-cation. Increasing liquor consumption was also a

major cause for domes-tic violence, particularly against women, and had contributed to a rise in crimes.”Women are suf-fering more than anyone else due to increasing li-quor consumption,” he said. According to offi-cials, the decision of the government to impose a ban is expected to ad-versely affect the govern-ment’s financial health.

rains of the last 100 years, that resulted in a sharp fall in the discharge of waters from Chembarapakkam, Pondi and Puzhal lakes leading to reduction in the water levels of the two riv-

ers that criss-cross the city. After their separate aerial surveys of the flood-rav-aged areas, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalali-thaa met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged

for an immediate relief of Rs 5,000 crore, to which he responded by announc-ing Rs 1000 crore more for relief work in Tamil Nadu. This will be in addition to the Rs 940 crore already announced by the Centre. Officials said that from a discharge of 30,000 cu-secs of water from Chem-barampakkam, one of the key sources of drinking water supply to Chennai city, it has come down to 13,000 cusecs in the after-noon and 5,000 cusecs at night after there were no fresh rains on Friday.

Army jawan, two militants killed in encounter in Kupwara

itants in the forest area. Officials said that from past three days, army has been patrolling in the area, however, on Friday morning they got infor-mation about the militant hideout in the Buwan for-ests. Officials said that army had information that four to five militants

are hiding in the Buwan area of Rajwar. As the army and policemen were launching operation, mil-itants fired on the troops resulting in an encounter, the militant ran into dense forests. Army chased the militants and cordoned the forest from different sides.

cided to shut down the Badarpur Thermal pow-er station and will move the National Green Tri-bunal to close the Dadri power plant which falls in Uttar Pradesh. He said Government will carry

out a massive plantation drive along all arterial roads across the city to curb spread of dust and ensure vacuum cleaning of roads by the Public Works Department from April 1. The government

was also mulling to allow move-ment of trucks only after 11 PM as they slow down overall vehic-ular movement which was point-ed out to be a major contributing factor to pollution from vehicular emission. The city government has also decided to make it mandatory for vehicles to have Euro VI stan-dards for vehicular emission from 2017, two years before the Cen-tre’s scheduled introduction of the same. Sharma said public transport will be significantly augmented to take the load of increasing passen-

gers due to the odd-even number restrictions. All private vehicles even having registration numbers issued by neighbouring states will have to follow the odd-even num-ber formula. Emergency services and public transport will not be under the ambit of the restriction, Delhi Dialogue Commission Vice Chairperson Ashish Khetan said, while noting that the idea has been borrowed from foreign countries. The Delhi high court later ordered all private radio taxis to switch over to compressed natural gas (CNG)

before March 1, 2016 if they de-sired to operate in the capital. NGO Greenpeace warned recently that the indoor air in Delhi was five times more polluted than it should be according to Indian standards. The WHO, however, says this is 11 times more than their prescribed level. Several Chinese cities have slapped limits on car numbers be-cause of congestion and pollution. But unlike Beijing, which also suf-fers from hazardous haze levels, New Delhi does not issue public health warnings.

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DAYBJP setback in local polls may point to a growth model

The BJP’s recent setback in the Gujarat local elections is partly due to the fact that Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has not been as effective as now-Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, who used to canvass for local elections more systematically than most. But this is not the only reason. What is at stake is the Gujarat model. This model never appealed to the common people who have been its casualties for years. Guja-rat’s social indicators contrast starkly with its growth rate. Gujarat has slipped in the human development index from 10th in 1999-2000 to 11th in 2011. This is largely due to the condition of three groups: Adiva-sis (15 per cent of the state population), Dalits (7 per cent) and Muslims (9 per cent). In the last decade, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has repeat-edly reproached the Gujarat government for failing to ensure that the development funds allocated to Adiva-sis and Dalits were in proportion to their population. An indication of the socio-economic backwardness of Adivasis and Dalits in Gujarat is their indebtedness. While the proportion of indebted rural households has increased from 35.7 per cent in 1999-2000 to 56 per cent in 2004-05, it has risen from 44.80 per cent to 62.95 per cent among Dalits, and 32.9 per cent to 60.1 per cent among Adivasis. Given the communal violence they have repeatedly suffered from, Mus-lims in Gujarat face specific problems. According to the Sachar Committee report, they are under-repre-sented in most state government departments: They occupied 1.7 per cent of higher positions and 4.5 per cent of lower positions in the education department as well as, respectively, 5.6 per cent and 5.6 per cent of the home department, 2.2 per cent and 1.5 per cent of the health department. Low levels of education com-pounded this problem. Only 26 per cent of Muslims in Gujarat reached matriculation, the same proportion as for SCs/ STs, against 41 per cent for others. Twen-ty-four per cent of urban Muslims in the state lived below the poverty line, against 17 per cent of SCs/ STs, 18 per cent of OBCs and 3 per cent of other ur-ban-dwellers. These figures suggest that the Gujarat model relies on a twofold process of polarisation, re-ligious as well as social. But another dichotomy de-serves some attention, as evident from the rural-urban differential of the average monthly per capita expen-diture calculated from National Sample Survey data. This differential grew from 49.8 per cent in 1993-94 to 68 per cent in 2007-08, and remained the same in 2011-12. Which means that urban-dwellers consumed two-thirds more than villagers.

“India can grow only on the “strong shoulders” of its states and not from Delhi alone”

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, making a strong case for development of the country’s industrially underdeveloped eastern region.

Uttarakhand farmers use Yo Yo Honey Singh songs to drive away wild boars

2002 hit-and-run case: SC rejects plea to cancel Salman’s bail

Angry Indian Goddesses review: A female buddy film sans feminism

In the Heart of the Sea review: A rip roaring, heartfelt adventure

Was exciting to work with Shabana Azmi, says Juhi Chawla

Fraudster dupes Andheri woman of Rs 7 lakh after posing as Ekta Kapoor, offering role

Agency | Mumbai

Actor of Indian film in-dustry Varun Dhawan and Indian designer Natasha Dalal have been dating since years but the actor has never come out and spoken about it. When pic-tures of the two on a din-ner date came out, Deccan Entertainment caught him in a good mood and de-cided to ask him about it. He said, “ I honestly feel that there is nothing much to talk about. I am only meeting her for dinner, we are not doing any stunt or something. There is

nothing to confirm as yet. When there is something to confirm, I will.” Looks like Varun, who has pre-viously been extremely protective about Natasha, has become a little more chill about her being pho-tographed. When asked if he has let his guard down when it comes to her He said, “I am still protective about her and will always be. I am a public figure, my friends are not. They don’t know this movie world and they’re not re-lated to films. I am still friends with all my school friends.”

Varun Dhawan spotted on a dinner date, guess who’s she?

Agency | New Delhi

An imposter duped And-heri-based actor Anjali Badhoria of Rs 7 lakh by impersonating himself as producer Ekta Kapoor, owner of Balaji Tele-films, on a fake Face-

book account, according to a report in an English daily. The conman prom-ised Badhoria of a role in Balaji Telefilms’ serials to extract money from her. The matter came to light when Badho-

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actor Salman Khan may be the king of box office numbers, but he is yet to ward off all the legal troubles. In the infamous 2002 hit-and-run case, a petition was filed to cancel Salman’s bail order. the Supreme Court has rejected the plea to cancel Salman’s bail in 2002 Hit-and-run case. Constable Ravinder Patil’s mother had filed the petition to cancel Sal-man bail. Meanwhile, the prosecution on Thurs-day tied up its case by reiterating that the actor was drunk and driving

Agency | New Delhi

There is something about the human spirit: Some-thing foolish perhaps, at once stubborn and unstoppable. There is a thirst, a curiosity to keep discovering, a hunger to conquer all. As you watch In the Heart of the Sea, the new picture by Ron How-ard, another film pops into mind, not one that you would immediate-ly associate with a mov-ie set in the early 1800s. The film is Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and what it shares with In the Heart of the Sea is its romantic portrayal of the untamable beast that

Agency | New Delhi

Womenfolk of the coun-try, it is time to rejoice: India’s ‘first female bud-dy film’ hits theatres this Friday. For most parts, Pan Nalin’s Angry Indi-an Goddesses is indeed an Indian version of Sex and the City, (of course much less sex, this is In-dia with the censor board, remember?) and surpris-ingly, a good one! Angry Indian Goddesses follows a group of seven women: Frieda (Sarah-Jane Dias), a photographer, invites her college friends over to her family home in Goa. The diverse bunch

Agency | Mumbai

“Chalk N Duster” actress Juhi Chawla says that it was exciting to work with her talented co-ac-tor Shabana Azmi in the film and that she tried to learn something from the latter’s style of working during shooting. “It was exciting for me. I worked with her for the first time and of course she’s a very accomplished actress. I had heard about her how she goes on a set and how

she familiarizes herself with the surroundings to utilize the place well along with her character. Even I thought I’ll secret-ly try to learn something from her on the sets,” said Juhi at the trailer launch of the film. “When the script had come to us, it seemed that the role was always meant for Shabanaji. In fact, you can’t imagine anyone else in that role because she seems to fit in so beautifully,” she added. Both of them play

teachers in the film who enjoy teaching kids, but face a tricky situation when the school manage-ment led by Divya Dutta tries to turn the school into a business and com-promise on teaching stan-dards. How both of them battle this plan forms the crux of the story. About the film, Juhi says: “The film has been written passionately. If it’s com-ing across that the film is only about teachers, then that’s not true.

Agency | New Delhi

Whether by design or by fluke, India seems to find very innovative ways to use popular mu-sic around the country. Or rather, one should say, make fantastical associations. In 2006, a small village in Gujarat claimed that a very pop-ular number by music director-singer Himesh Reshammiya, “Jhalak Dikhla Jaa”, was not only a favourite with the younger generation, but also with those long gone — the ones in the spir-it world. The villagers thought the spirits and ghosts in the region con-sidered it an invitation to make an appearance. If you think that’s bizarre,

think again. farmers in Uttarakhand’s agricul-tural fields have started playing songs by popu-lar Punjabi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh and other Punjabi singers to drive away wild animals from their fields — and the stratagem is apparently working! The farmers were so harassed by the wild boars in the area

wrecking havoc on their fields and destroying the harvest that the local government was forced to sanction their culling, says the report. But that didn’t help, since the animals are quite strong and difficult to catch. So, instead, the farmers tried a different technique of driving them away — and it worked.

the Toyota Land Cruis-er which rammed into a bakery in Bandra killing one and injuring four others. Bombay High Court Justice A. R. Joshi, who is hearing Salman’s appeal against his con-viction and a five-year jail term by the sessions court awarded last May,

is likely to start dictating his order soon. In May this year, Salman was convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, besides sev-eral other offences, and sentenced to five years jail, against which he filed the present appeal in the high court.

ria asked the company about the role. When the company came to know of the issue, they lodged a complaint with the Bandra-Kurla Com-plex (BKC) cyber police station on December 2. “The fraudster created a fake Facebook profile of producer Ekta Kapoor and sent a friend invite to the victim. He made a false promise of a role in a telefilm under the Bala-ji Telefilms banner. The producer neither adver-tised nor made any friend request,” said employee Pratik Sanghvi. Badhoria transferred funds after the fraudster communicated with her over Facebook chat and calls and told her about an opening in a tele-film. “Details have been sought from the bank to which she transferred the money. Also we are try-ing to get details if oth-ers also fell for the trap,” said an investigator to the news daily.

is the human spirit. Both films couldn’t be more different, yet more alike. In the Heart of the Sea is based on the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship Essex and its crew of brave men. The harrow-ing tale is told through the eyes of Thomas Nick-erson, played by Tom Holland as an unblem-

ished 14-year-old and by Brendan Gleeson as an alcoholic survivor with enough guilt to drown a catholic. He drunkenly recounts his life’s adven-tures to Herman Melville (yes, the very same) who forever lives in the shad-ow of his hero Nathaniel Hawthorne, insecure and inadequate.

includes CEO Suranjana (Sandhya Mridul), aspir-ing ‘Katrina Kaif-like’ actor Joanna (Amrit Ma-ghera), struggling singer Madhureeta (Anushka Manchanda), social ac-

tivist Nargis (Tannishtha Chatterjee) and ‘trophy wife’ Pam (Pavleen Gu-jral). Laksmi (Rajshri Deshpande), the maid, takes care of the house and Frieda’s friends.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPFaintest galaxy that’s far, far away captured

Rupee recovers from its 27-month low to trade at 66.79 per US dollar

Ola inks pact with Didi, Lyft and GrabTaxi to take on uber

Agency | Washington

A team of astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space tele-scopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago. The team has nicknamed the object Tayna, which means “first-born” in Aymara, a language spoken in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South Amer-ica. Though Hubble and Spitzer have detected oth-er galaxies that are record-breakers for distance, this object represents a smaller, fainter class of newly-forming galaxies that until now have large-ly evaded detection. These very dim objects may be more representative of the early universe and offer new insight on the formation and evolution

of the first galaxies.

Agency | Mumbai

The Indian rupee recovered from a 27-month low hit in early trade after some public sector banks sold dollars, spurring speculation that they may have done so on the directive of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). At 2pm, the home currency was trading at 66.79 per US dollar, down 0.19% from its previous close of 66.66. The local unit opened at 66.93 per US dollar and touched a low of 67.01, a level last seen on 4 September 2013. Traders said that dollar sales by public sector banks began when the rupee hit 67 per dollar level, but it could not be confirmed whether the selling was on the behalf of the central bank. However, the currency contin-ued to be under pressure on view that the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) measures were not enough to prop up global growth, making India more vul-nerable to dollar outflows. Weak domestic stock

market also weighed on the rupee.

Agency | New Delhi

Indian taxi aggregator app Ola has inked a pact with global peers - Didi, Lyft and GrabTaxi -- that will allow users of these ridesharing apps to seamlessly travel across India, China, the US and Southeast Asia. The partnership will enable the companies to jointly compete with US-based Uber that has a presence across 67 countries. The new alliance will cover nearly all of Southeast Asia, In-dia, China and the US, reaching nearly 50 percent of the world’s population, a joint statement said. Joint partner products will start rolling out in the January-March 2016 quarter, it added. In Septem-ber, US’ Lyft and Chinese player Didi Kuaidi had inked a similar partnership. Interestingly, Didi is an investor in Ola, Lyft and GrabTaxi. Ola has a presence in 102 Indian cities, while Didi’s plat-form provides 7 million rides per day across 360 Chinese cities.

Saina Nehwal nominated for BWF Woman Player of the year Award

Hockey World League Finals: India stun Britain to enter semis

Rahane’s ton takes India to 326/8 at lunch on Day 2

IPTL 2: uAE Royals beat Japan Warriors to keep clean slate intact

India moves up six places to 166th in latest FIFA rankings

Ranji Trophy 2015, Group B: Marathon man Bhargav Merai gives Gujarat hope

Agency | Dubai

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has been nom-inated for the Woman Player of the Year Award of the Badminton World Federation after a con-sistent season which saw her occupy the world number one spot for a brief period. Saina, cur-rently ranked number two, will vie for the cov-eted honour along with world number one Caro-lina Marin of Spain, 2014 winner Zhao Yunlei of China and another Chi-nese Bao Yixin. The win-ners of the BWF Play-ers of the Year Awards will be announced at the Players’ Reception and Gala Dinner for the Dubai World Superser-

Agency | Raipur

India continued their roll-er-coaster ride in the Hero Hockey World League Final. After a poor start and superb performance against Olympic cham-pions Germany, Roelant Oltmans’ team fell back to old habits against de-fending champions, The Netherlands, losing 1-3. But they knew that the real battle would start from the quarterfinals, and India brought their ‘A Game’ to the stadium. They played with a lot of energy, harried their ri-

Agency | New Delhi

Ajinkya Rahane struck his fifth Test hundred to guide India to a com-mendable 326/8 at lunch on the second day of the fourth and final cricket match against South Afri-ca here on Friday. Rahane scored 127 off 215 balls, achieving the distinction

of being the first player from either side to have reached a three-figure mark in this low-scoring series so far. The stylish right-hander’s knock was studded with 11 fours and five sixes. He added 98 runs off 193 balls for the eighth wicket with Rav-ichandran Ashwin (53

Agency | Mumbai

A little over one hour into the day, it seemed Mum-bai had sewed up the game and eyeing a big first-innings lead. Badri Alam had struck twice in two overs to knock out Rujul Bhatt and Parthiv Patel and leave Gujarat on the edge at 139 for 5. A situation that had turned more dire with news com-ing in from Indore that Gujarat’s chief competi-

tor for the knockout spot, Madhya Pradesh, were on course for an innings win against Andhra. However, Bhargav Merai, who was recognised by the Indian cricket board as the best U-19 batsman in 2009-10, hit his first ton of the season, an unbeaten 150 accrued over nearly eight and half hours. He was a tired man but its not over yet as he will come out to bat on Friday to con-tinue the knock that has

already seen him retire to bed for two nights. A magnificent effort that has dragged Gujarat back in contention. He added 155 runs with Axar Patel in 50.3 overs as Gujarat reached 355 for 7. After batting for almost seven hours on Thursday, in an extended day’s play, they still need 176 runs for the lead, but Merai has managed to keep MP on tenterhooks for one more day.

Agency | Kobe

UAE Royals notched up their second consecutive win with a comprehen-sive victory over home team Japan Warriors on the second day of the International Premier League Tennis at Kobe (Japan) on Thursday. The Warriors failed to cash in on the huge home crowd support as the Royals emerged 30-15 victori-ous. The home team not win a single set as the Royals bagged all five of them. The pair of Kristina Mlaenovic/Daniel Nestor put the Royals ahead with a 6-0 win over the War-riors duo of Maria Shara-pova and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the mixed dou-bles. Leander Paes was substituted in by the team in place of Herbert, but it was too late by then. The women’s singles saw Ana Ivanovic taking on Sharapova and the crowd witnessed some sizzling tennis with both women

Agency | Zurich

It was a great develope-ment for the Indian foot-ball team as they jumped six places to the 166th spot in the global foot-ball rankings in the latest list released by FIFA on Thursday, while Belgium retained their top position after grabbing it for the first time last month. Before the release of these rank-ings, India were 172nd in last month’s rankings af-ter losing five consecutive 2018 World Cup qualify-ing matches. But, the Ste-phen Constantine-coached side arrested the slide with a commendable 1-0 win against Guam in their last World Cup qualifier at Bengaluru on November

ies Finals on December 7 at Al Badia Golf Club in Dubai. Saina became India’s first world num-ber one in women’s sin-gles and enjoyed a con-sistent run this season, winning her home leg of the BWF World Su-perseries tour in Delhi and also reaching the fi-nals of the BWF World Championships, the All England and the Thaihot China Open. Marin start-

ed and ended the year on a perfect note — winning the All England Cham-pionship in March and the Hong Kong Open in November. In between, she picked up three other Superseries titles and re-tained the World Cham-pionship title. Zhao was the pre-eminent woman doubles player. Partner-ing Zhang Nan, she won six Mixed Doubles Su-perseries.

vals and defended stout-ly to stun Britain 2-1 at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium. This was India’s first win over Britain in a major tour-nament since their 3-1 win in the Champions Trophy in 2012 at Mel-

bourne. Drag flicker VR Raghunath and Akash-deep Singh scored for In-dia while forward Simon Mantell struck the lone consolation goal for Brit-ain as India reached the semifinals of the HWL Final.

batting), who completed his sixth half-century in the longest format. In-cidentally, this was also the highest stand for any wicket among either teams in the series. Ra-hane-Ashwin duo sur-passed the previous best of 86 between Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara. Among the many firsts, it was Rahane’s maiden hundred on home soil as he has not enjoyed a lot of success in the few Test matches that he has played in India. This was also the first time that one team passed a total of 300 runs with the previous highest being 215 in Nag-pur. This was also the first time that only one wick-et fell in a single session which yielded 95 runs.

12. On the other hand, Belgium will end the year as the world’s top-ranked team for the first time in their history. World Cup 2014 runners-up Argenti-na moved up a spot to the second, displacing reign-ing world champions Ger-many from the spot, who dropped to fourth. World Cup 2010 winners Spain claimed the third spot,

up by three places. Copa America 2014 victors Chile retained their fifth spot just before five-time world champions Brazil, who moved up two spots. Portugal are at seventh, a dip of three places, but just ahead of Colom-bia, who dropped a spot. Ninth-placed England and Austria at 10th, retained their slots.

fighting it off stroke for stroke. Ultimately, Iva-novic took the set 6-4 giv-ing the Royals a huge lead on the scoreboard. The legends singles took au-diences back a decade or more, with big boys Marat Safin and Goran Ivani-sevic pitted against each other. Goran’s quick-foot-ed and quick-witted ten-nis won it for the Royals 6-4. The men’s doubles with Paes/Herbert brought

some much-needed cheer to home fans. There was brilliant stroke play and clever shot making by Paes on the nets, but Nestor/Berdych won the set 6-4. In the clos-ing match of the day, Berdych and Philipp Kohlschreiber were pit-ted in the men’s singles rubber. Berdych won the set 6-3, closing out the match with his side win-ning by a huge margin.

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Correspondent | Surat

Ninety two-year-old Da-hiben Rana, who used to run a tea stall, has won the Ankleshwar Nagarpalika election from Ward No. 6 for the 10th consecutive term — four times from BJP and the remaining six as an Independent. “Voters and people of Ankleshwar are like my children… They come to me even with their family problems and I guide them. I don’t like the ideology of Con-gress as a result of which I am with BJP. “I met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and welcomed him during his visit to Ankle-shwar in the last Assem-

Correspondent | Mumbai

Describing the results of Gujarat local body polls as a “win for Congress despite losing”, NDA ally Shiv Sena today said it indicates that people of Gujarat do not stand behind the Prime Min-ister completely and the BJP needs to evaluate why “alarm bells” have started ringing on Naren-dra Modi’s home pitch. The Sena also said that it needs to be studied why the BJP lost in rural areas if the state is claimed to be ‘number one’ in terms of development. Sena said the results indicate that the people of Guja-rat do not stand behind

Correspondent | Surat

Several development proj-ects are to be inaugurated today in Surat during state Chief Minister’s visit to this city which is second largest in Gujarat in size and population. Ambi-tious Gopi Talao project has been completed and inauguration of this beauti-fied place of hang out will take place today. Play area, Chatusmukhi stepwell are

some of the attractions at this place which is going to emerge as preferred place for hang out for Surti peo-ple. Indoor stadium reno-vated at cost of Rs 22.76 crore also will be reopened today. The city will also get a new railway over bridge connecting Godadara and Dindoli which has been built at a cost of Rs 40 crore. Computerized draw of 1,143 flats will also be conducted today.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

It was an election that the Gujarat government had not wanted, at least not now, and it made no bones about it. The government had told the Gujarat High Court that the timing was not con-ducive to hold free and fair elections, apparently referring to the damage caused by the Patidar agitation. The elections were finally held at the behest of the high court and the State Election Commission went about with the reparations, in the brief time it had. The good turnout for both elections compared to 2010 – municipal corpo-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

You’ve seen them deliver famous movie dialogues with flair… narrate funny anecdotes with so much drama ‘n’ masti that you want to pull their cheeks … they do roleplays of their parents, teachers & neighbors with an ador-able glint in their eyes … and their unabashed atti-tude of dramebaazi can instantly brighten your mood. They trooped in flamboyantly and won your hearts with their dramebaazi in 2013 and now a fresh batch of 16 is all set to dazzle you with their adorable innocence and histrionic abilities as India’s leading broadcast-er, Zee TV, presents audi-ences with season 2 of its immensely successful re-ality series - ‘India’s Best Dramebaaz’. Premiering on 12th December, the show will air every Satur-day-Sunday at 9:30 PM, only on Zee TV. Having

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Denmark today ex-pressed eagerness to ex-pand cooperation with Gujarat and develop partnerships with the state government in var-ious sectors. Danish Am-bassador to India Tak-soe Jensen Peter paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel at Gandhinagar and held discussion with her on increasing bilat-eral cooperation, an of-ficial press release said. During the meet, Pa-tel invited Denmark to participate in projects across various sectors such as wind energy, smart city, food process-

Correspondent | New Delhi

India can grow only on the “strong shoulders” of its states and not from Delhi alone, Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi said on Friday, making a strong case for devel-opment of the country’s industrially underdevel-oped eastern region. “The world cannot understand what we mean when we say India. They know, at the most, Mumbai, Del-hi, Kolkata, and Banga-lore after the IT revolu-tion. It is important that the world recognises our states. The states have their own strengths,” the Prime Minister said in his address at the HT Leader-ship Summit. He, howev-er, saw hope in states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, once among the most backward eco-nomically and on social indicators, coming up on tops in recent rankings on

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Chinese dyestuff and intermediaries man-ufacturers are looking to invest in Gujarat in joint venture with local partners. Speaking post the inauguration of 5th ‘Interdye Asia’ here on Thursday, Tian Liming, vice chairman and sec-retary general of China Dyestuff Industry Asso-ciation (CDIA) said that 10 Chinese companies have shown interest in setting up project in Gu-jarat. “We work in co-operation with dyestuff manufacturers associa-tions in India. Now we want to move beyond sales in India and com-panies are looking for investment in projects in Gujarat. The 10 compa-nies that are keen to set up projects here include Jiangsu Yabang Dyestuff Co Ltd and Shanghai Anoky Group Co Ltd,”

said Liming. Liming fur-ther said that each of the 10 companies will be in-vesting at least $10 mil-lion. “The minimum size of the investment will be $10 million by each com-pany. Currently there are 300 dyestuff manufactur-ers in China which pro-duce 1.2 million tonnes of dyestuff and interme-diaries and generate an-nual revenue of $10 bil-lion. Comparatively, in India there are 1000 man-ufacturers which gen-erate revenue worth $4 billion and have produc-tion capacity of 0.3 mil-lion tonnes. Janak Mehta, president, Dyestuff Man-ufacturers Association of India (DMAI) said, “Out of $4 billion revenue, around $2.5 billion rev-enue comes from exports and $1.5 billion from domestic market. Also more than 80% of man-ufacturers are present in Gujarat.”

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Gujarat civic poll results a loud wake-up call for BJP

Gujarat local body polls: Congress has won despite losing, says Sena

HTLS 2015: India can grow on ‘strong shoulders’ of states, not from Delhi alone

Judge Sajid Khan in Ahmedabad to promote the show

Gujarat CM seeks Denmark’s cooperation in various sectors

Gujarat civic polls: 92-year-old Dahiben wins 10th term in a row from Ankleshwar

‘ease of doing business’ in India, often seen as an important barometer helpful in enticing in-vestors. Since assuming power last year, the NDA government has reached out to the states, seeking their greater involve-ment in policy-making as part of a bridge-build-ing mechanism Modi calls cooperative feder-alism. Many have laud-ed the idea as something that could put an end to a tradition of confronta-tional politics between the Centre and states that hobbled develop-

ment. Towards that end, he abolished the Neh-ru-era institution Plan-ning Commmission and replaced it with the Niti Aayog (National Insti-tution for Transforming India), which is mandat-ed to take into account the states’ aspirations in devising policy and sug-gesting funding. To but-tress his arguments on equitable development, Modi gave the analogy of a bicycle saying it can’t run if a part of the tube balloons up though the metre will still show the correct reading.

Reopening of repaired Indoor stadium, revamped Gopi Talao today

10 Chinese dyestuff manufacturers to invest in Gujarat

celebrated the singing and dancing talents of the masses and made heroes out of India’s common man, Zee TV’s ‘Surf Ex-cel India’s Best Drame-baaz co-powered by Pa-tanjali Dantkanti’ presents a national platform for the acting talent of kids! After some truly awe-inspiring acts by the little power-houses of talent week-on-week and the lovely camaraderie the kids en-joyed with the judges and

hosts in the first season, the show has plenty up its sleeve to delight the view-ers in the second season. There’s going to be just pure unadulterated enter-tainment as the multi-fac-eted director Sajid Khan joins Sonali Bendre & Vivek Oberoi on the judg-es panel. Having been in the industry for decades, he comes with immense understanding of gauging an actor’s abilities and se-lecting the right talent.

ration (45 per cent) and the nagarpalika, district and taluka panchayat elections (over 60 per cent) – held during the Diwali holidays, and the marriage season, indi-cated the interest of the proverbial “last man” in these elections. Unlike last time, the contest was confined to the Congress and the BJP, (except in

Bharuch where Janata Dal (U) has a presence). Voters of the taluka and district panchayats chose to repose faith in the Congress, which has not been in power in Gujarat for almost 25 years and was completely routed in the national elections last year with no Lok Sabha win from Gujarat. The BJP held on to all

six municipal corpora-tions, retaining its urban constituency. The victo-ry in the urban centres was a saviour for Anan-diben Patel – though the BJP won the six munic-ipal corporations and 42 of 56 municipalities, the number of seats has been reduced. Howev-er, the BJP which had won 2,460 taluka seats in 2010 (Congress got 1,428), is down to 2,017 and the Congress up to 2,548 taluka panchayat seats in these elections. The Congress has also wrested 20 of 31 (368 seats to BJP, 595 to Con-gress, 9 to independents) district panchayats.

the Prime Minister com-pletely and that the BJP needs to evaluate why “alarm bells” have start-ed ringing on Narendra Modi’s home pitch. Out of power for 20 years, the Congress made a stunning comeback in the rural areas of Gujarat where it won 21 of the 31 district panchayats and around 110 of the

230 taluka panchayats, while the BJP retained its hold over urban pock-ets clinching all six mu-nicipal corporations and 40 of 56 municipalities. After its battering in Bihar, the loss in rural local bodies in Gujarat comes more than a year after Narendra Modi, who ruled the state for 12 years, shifted to Del-

hi. “The results of the civic body polls only in-dicate that the people of Gujarat do not stand be-hind Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi completely. Though the BJP has won all six municipal corpo-rations, one cannot say that the Congress got defeated,” an editori-al in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said.

ing and generation of electricity from waste. Since the Scandinavian country has expertise in urban development, she urged the envoy to share their knowledge in the field with Guja-rat, where the Centre has identified six cities to make them ‘smart’, the release said. Patel also sought Denmark’s

cooperation in building partnership with Gujarat Government to upgrade health infrastructure in rural areas, especially for screening of women for breast and cervical cancer. Responding pos-itively to her appeal, Pe-ter expressed eagerness to develop partnerships with Gujarat in various sectors, it added.

bly elections. I met Chief Minister Anandiben Patel in Gandhinagar during my visit,” she added. Dahiben, who has no child, joined politics af-ter her husband died 45 years ago, and success-fully fought first election in 1978. Her husband used to run a tea stall in Chauta Bazaar area of Ankleshwar, and after his

death, Dahiben took over the business. She joined BJP in early 1990s. “She had joined politics over 40 years ago… For the last last four terms, she contested on a BJP ticket from Ward No. 6 (Katli-falia, Panchvati bazaar and Golwad),” said Da-hiben’s nephew Mukesh Rana, who now runs the tea stall.