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News BriefPM’s birthday

diplomacy a failure: GogoiAgency | Guwahati

Assam Chief Minis-ter Tarun Gogoi today criticised Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy and said the Pathankot attack had shown his “birthday diplomacy” was a “fail-ure”. “It happened in-spite of Prime Minister Narendra Modi going to Pakistan. His birthday diplomacy has totally failed,” Gogoi told re-porters here. Modi made a surprise visit to Lahore on his way back from Kabul to greet Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his birthday on December 25 last.Govt to import 5,000 tonnes of

tur dal

“Disgusted” woman Maoist

surrenders

Agency | New Delhi

With pulses prices still ruling high on likely production concerns, the government has issued a tender to import 5,000 tonnes of pigeon peas (tur) to boost domestic supply from next month. State-run MMTC has in-vited bids for supply of 5,000 tonnes of pigeon peas and the quantity of shipment can be in-creased depending on the price bids.

Agency | Bhawanipatna

A woman Ultra today surrendered at the office of the superintendent of police here in Kalah-andi district as she was “disgusted” over the Maoist activities. Ka-lamdei Majhi (24), who joined the banned out-fit in October last year, surrendered before the Superintendent of Po-lice of Kalahandi district Brijesh Rai. The SP said her activities were con-fined to the Gundi and Khandualmali Reserve Forest areas. Disgusted over the Maoist activi-ties, she decided to quit the outfit. She also com-plained of harassment of women members by se-nior cadres, the SP said.

Supreme Court allows Gujarat Police to file charge sheet“SC allows Guj. police”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Congress Presi-dent Bharatsinh Solanki along with other party leaders and workers were detained today for taking out a rally here demand-ing release of jailed Patel quota agitation leaders, including its spearhead Hardik Patel and aides. Though the police denied them permission to hold the rally, Congress lead-ers were adamant to go ahead with their ‘Daman Pratikar Rally’ and asked their workers to converge here at Sabarmati Ash-ram, from where, they were supposed to march towards the Collector’s office to hand over a mem-orandum this afternoon. According to local police, Congress workers had gathered at the Ashram.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The Government of Gu-jarat has in a statement today announced hike in tax/cess rate on petrol and diesel in the state. With this the petrol price will go up by Rs 1.90/litre while diesel price Rs 1.82/litre. The new prices will come to effect from Janu-ary 6. Assistant Commis-sioner of Sales Tax, Gov-ernment of Gujarat in a statement said: Since July – 2014 petrol and diesel rates are continuously down. Entire benefit of price cut has been passed to consumers in Gujarat so far. The state govern-ment has seen adverse impact in its revenue due to continuous price cut. Gujarat govt has not in-creased the rates of tax on petrol and diesel for last nine years. Other states

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to mod-ify its December order banning registration of large diesel vehicles in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) in view of the alarming air pollution levels. A bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur had on De-cember 16 ordered a ban on sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and luxury cars with the engine capaci-ty of 2000cc or higher, a move that was pleaded against by top car man-ufacturers. A plea asking for a revision of the order was filed by Toyota, Ma-hindra and Mahindra, and Mercedes, claiming that their cars did not cause much pollution. “Do your cars emit oxygen?” the bench remarked as it di-

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Gujarat Police to file a charge sheet by Friday in a trial court in a criminal case lodged against quota agitation leader Hardik Patel for allegedly instigating the Patel community to kill policemen

and adopt violent means to “wage war against Gujarat government”. The apex court’s order came when Attorney-Gen-eral Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Guja-rat, sought permission to file the charge sheet on the ground that if it is not filed, the accused will be entitled to get bail.

Agency | Mumbai

Mumbai teenager Pranav Dhanawade on Tuesday scripted history by becom-ing the first batsman ever to notch up a four-figure score by smashing an un-beaten knock of 1009 in an inter-school tournament in Mumbai. The 15-year-old, playing for KC Gandhi Higher Secondary School, reached the gigantic score in just 323 deliveries with a strike rate of 312.38 in the game against Arya Gu-rukul in the Bhandari Cup inter-school tournament organised by the Mum-

bai Cricket Association (MCA). In the course of his awe-inspiring innings, which lasted 395 minutes, Dhanawade smashed a whopping 129 fours and 59 sixes. The epic knock ended when his school declared at 1465, which is also a world record. His school went past Victoria’s 1107 against New South Wales made way back in 1926. Pranav now holds the record for the highest individual score in any form of cricket, bettering AEJ Collins’ 628 not out for Clark’s House against

Gujarat govt hikes tax and cess on petrol – diesel, price per liter up by Rs 1.90

After world record of 652, this 15-year-old says he wants to score 1,009 runs

rected the three car man-ufacturers to submit doc-umentary evidence that pollution from their vehi-cles equaled those of pet-rol engines. The top court also banned the entry of heavy commercial vehi-cles from four additional entry points at NH 2, NH 10, NH 58 and state high-way 57 which connects Ghaziabad to Baghpat. In an earlier order, the apex court had restricted the entry of trucks not bound for Delhi through NH1 and NH8. However, the

court allowed entry of such vehicles which are Delhi-bound on payment of a pollution cess. The measure reinforces the Delhi government’s cru-sade against air pollution with its 15-day trial of an even-odd formula for cars plying on Capital roads. The court also directed the city government to appro-priately award No-Objec-tion Certificates (NOCs) to 10-year-old diesel ve-hicles and 16-year-old petrol vehicles being sold outside the NCR.

SC ban on over 2000 cc diesel vehicles in Delhi, NCR remains

File chargesheet against Hardik:SC

like Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, Tel-angana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Ben-gal, Punjab, Haryana and majority of other states across the country have increased the tax on pet-rol and diesel during last one and half year. Due to decreased revenue, development works in the state could be affect-ed.” “To avoid this, tax on petrol has been in-creased by 1% and cess by 2%. Thus it will be 24%+4% instead of ex-isting 23%+2%. With

this petrol price will be up by Rs. 1.90 and effec-tive price per litre will be Rs 62.12 which is lower than Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Telan-gana, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharshtra and West Bengal.” “Simi-larly tax on diesel will be up by 3% and cess by 1%, and so it will be 24%+4% instead of ex-isting 21%+3%, as a re-sult of which diesel price will go up by Rs 1.82/litre at Rs 50.13.” “The new rate will be effective from 6 January 2016.”

North Town in 1899 in the UK. The 10th standard boy is a ward of experi-enced MCA coach Mobin Sheikh and the only child of an autorickshaw driver.

The mammoth score was in reply to their rivals’ paltry score of 31 all out in 17 overs, at the Vaylen-gar ground at Kalyan in neighbouring Thane dis-trict. Dhanawade, who was unbeaten on 652 last evening, thus became the world’s highest individ-ual scorer in all forms of cricket. During the course of his innings on Monday, he went past the highest individual score of 546 in Indian schools cricket standing in the name of another Mumbai cricket-er, Prithvi Shaw of Rizvi Springfield made against St Francis D’Assissi in the Harris Shiled game in 2013. “Dhanawade is with me from the age of six. His feat would give a strong boost to cricket in this area. We have lot of talent in and around Kaly-an but lack of proper facil-ities has hampared it. “To-day (former India captain and MCA Vice President) Dilip Vengsarkar came and promised an academy here if he is provided with the ground and our local MLA promised to provide him wherever he wanted it,” said Sheikh.

Cong leaders, workers detained ahead of ‘Daman Pratikar’ rally

A large number of police force was deployed on the 2-km stretch between Ashram and Collector’s office since morning to stop the Congress lead-ers and workers from holding the rally. As soon as Bharatsinh Solanki along with other leaders such as Arjun Modhwa-dia, Siddharth Patel and Shaktisinh Gohil reached Ashram to lead the rally, police detained them and

took them to police head-quarters in Shahibaug. “We have detained a total of 153 Congress workers and leaders including So-lanki, as they tried to take out the rally without our permission. They were released later in the eve-ning. No major untow-ard incident took place during the rally,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Zone 2 Mahendra Bagaria.

“It would be inappropriate to look into (the draft charge sheet). Let the charge sheet be filed in

the trial court on or before January 8, 2016”

However, a bench of jus-tices J.S. Khehar and C. Nagappan refused to look into the draft charge sheet of the police. “It would be inappropriate to look into it. Let the charge sheet be

filed in the trial court on or before January 8, 2016. A copy of the charge sheet would be provided to the counsel for the accused in the trial court,” it said. The court fixed January 14,

2016 for further hearing the matter. It will also hear another plea of Mr. Hardik Patel challenging the High Court’s decision declining to quash the sedition charge invoked against him and others in a case lodged for allegedly attacking places like police stations in the State. The State police had lodged the case in October against 22-year-old Mr. Hardik Patel and five of his close aides on the charge of sedition and waging war against the govern-ment. Later, Mr. Hardik Patel, Chirag Patel, Dinesh

Bambhaniya and Ketan Patel were arrested and are currently behind bars. Two other aides of Mr. Hardik Patel — Amrish Patel and Alpesh Kathiriya — were not arrested as the high court had granted them interim protection. The FIR against Mr. Hardik Patel and five others un-der serious charges of se-dition said that the young leader had allegedly in-stigated his communi-ty to kill policemen and adopt violent means to wage “war against Guja-rat government”.

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DAYIndia must talk to Pakistan but terror is on top of the agenda

The attack on the forward airbase in Pathankot on Saturday, perpetrated by terrorists who came from across the Pakistan border, yet again challenges In-dia to find a way of keeping the India-Pakistan peace process on track despite providing a compelling case for New Delhi to give its Pakistan policy another crit-ical look. The event is being widely interpreted as the response of a hostile Pakistan army to Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore in the last week of 2015 to greet his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on the latter’s birthday. Intelligence re-ports indicate a direct planning of this daring assault by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, a sub-set of the Pakistan army, confirming the impression that the Pakistan army was not in alignment with the peace initiatives being taken by the two civilian heads of government. The Pakistan army’s reservations about a bilateral talks agenda that accords prime importance to the issue of cross-border terrorism first led to the replacement of Sartaj Aziz, a civilian, with a retired lieutenant general, Naseer Khan Janjua, as Pakistan’s national security advisor. And this happened soon af-ter the Ufa summit meeting where the prime ministers of both countries had met for a substantive exchange of views. The Pathankot offensive was audaciously planned in quick time and daringly executed by mil-itants dressed in army fatigues. They were directed to hijack a taxi and commandeer a police vehicle in order to reach close to the air base and produce a deci-sive result. The modus operandi employed by the ter-rorists is reminiscent of the attack on the Indian Par-liament in December 2001 — another offensive by the Jaish-e-Mohammad — and the November 2008 Mumbai attack carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The Pakistan army, even to this day, mentors both these outfits. The attack on the Pathankot air base re-vives three questions that have a bearing on the future prospects of the India-Pakistan bilateral relationship. First, is the civilian leadership of Pakistan prepared to publicly accept the stipulation that violence shall not be used to press for a solution of the Kashmir prob-lem? Second, can Pakistan’s prime minister declare that while the process of evolving confidence-build-ing measures in order to reduce tension along the Line of Control and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir is on, such disruptions will not come in the way of talks on the economic cooperation front? And finally, will the Pakistan government announce dis-arming of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and its front outfits while expediting the 26/11 trial?

“I seriously suggest Russian treatment to terrorists’ carcasses. wrap them in pigskin, bury them face down in pig excreta. No chance of Houris,” - Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Tuesday said on Twitter...

Here’s how Aditya Roy Kapoor got his chiseled body for Fitoor

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Aditi Rao Hydari was delighted to act with Farhan Akhtar in “Wazir”, and says their love story in the movie is “intense and intimate”. Talking about her chemistry with Far-han, Aditi said: “I’m very grateful because ultimate-ly the love story portion of ‘Wazir’ is a very intimate and very intense. I’m ec-static because I’m a big fan of Farhan. I’m really happy that I got this oppor-tunity to work with him, and I’m happy that people

have liked us together. “I hope that I can work with him again.” The songs “Tere bin” as well as the song “Tu mere paas” from the film, have highlight-ed the chemistry between the two actors. Both songs also show the differences they share and how they please each other later on. Farhan had also termed an intense kitchen scene in the film as his most favou-rite. (Big releases in Janu-ary 2016). About the film and her experiences, Aditi said: “The team of ‘Wazir’ is very special.

Love story in ‘wazir’ very intense, intimate: Aditi Rao

Agency | Mumbai

Gone are the days when actors underwent rig-orous training to flaunt six-pack or eight-pack abs. Aditya Roy Kapoor, who hasn’t beefed up a bit, has taken a different route to showcase a well toned physique in Fitoor. The actor opted for body sculpting. Body sculpting is a technique that is used to shape the muscles in one’s body to perfection

without bulking it up. An extremely grueling pro-cess, Aditya first worked towards losing muscle mass and then reducing the percentage of body fat. It took months for the actor to get the kind of physique wanted for his character in the film, but he loved to process thor-oughly. “I have been fol-lowing this regime on and off for a year-and-a-half now. After filming some sequences, I let go a little

bit and I had to lose weight all over again, which was quite frustrating. So I’ve learnt that this lifestyle has to be consistent,” said Aditya Roy Kapoor. The actor, who has trained with Prashant Sawant and Praveen Nair, further said, “They both trained me at different stages. I also trained a lot by my-self. I like training alone. Otherwise, I find I get too dependent on someone else for motivation.”

Agency | Mumbai

Sanjay Leela Bhansali-di-rected period drama ‘Ba-jirao Mastani’, one of the most talked about movies of 2015, has mopped up Rs 301 crore worldwide since its release on De-cember 18, its distributor said today. The film, star-ring Ranveer Singh, Deep-ika Padukone and Priyan-ka Chopra in lead roles, had a gross collection of Rs 211 crore in India (net box office collection of Rs 162.35 crore) and Rs 90 crore (USD 13.5 million) in overseas markets, Eros International Media said in a statement here. “The Christmas and New Year holiday weekends have shown tremendous foot-

Agency | Chennai

Battered and bruised by the floods in December, Chennai now has an im-pressive line-up of su-perstars who’ve come together to make a video song for the city. Tam-il stars Suriya, Baahub-ali’s Prabhas, Premam star and Malayalam actor

Nivin Pauly, and a host of other south cinema artists will star in a video song, titled Spirit of Chennai. The music for the video is credited to C Girinandh. The video will pay tribute to the people of Chennai as well as the army of volunteers who braved odds to organise help for

those stranded during the devastating Decem-ber 1 Chennai rains. The other film stars who will do a cameo include Ram Charan Teja and Nani (Telugu), Puneet Rajku-mar and Yash (Kannada), Nithya Menen, Bobby Simha and Vijay Sethup-athy (Tamil).

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Son-akshi Sinha, who will be soon seen in the re-make of 2011 Tamil film ‘Mouna Guru,’ recently revealed that ‘Akira’ has been the most challeng-ing film for her so far. During the Filmfare press

briefing, the 28-year-old actress said, “This as a role was emotionally and physically grueling for me. Some of the sequenc-es that we have shot and places we have been, I have never imagined myself in situations like that.” The ‘Dabangg’ star

Agency | Los Angeles

Director Michael Bay will return to direct Transformers 5 after all. Bay had promised to pull out of the series after both Transformers 3 and 4. Bay, 50, who has direct-ed all the films in Trans-formers series confirmed the news, said The Holly-wood Reporter. Howev-er, the Pearl Harbor and Armageddon helmer said that he is willing to pass on the director’s cap to someone as this will be his last Transformers movie. “Transformers, I still have a great time,” he said in an interview with Roll-ing Stone. “It’s fun to do a movie that 100 million

Prabhas, Suriya, Nivin Pauly in Vikram’s video song for Chennai

Pratyusha Banerjee files FIR against eight men including three policemen

Akira Has Been Sonakshi’s Most Challenging Role

Michael Bay relapses yet again, will return to direct Transformers 5

‘Bajirao Mastani’ collects Rs 301 crore at box office worldwide

Agency | Mumbai

Television actress Praty-usha Banerjee of ‘Balika Vadhu’ fame has filed an FIR against eight men, in-cluding three policemen, claiming they tried to barge into her residence in Mumbai. The inci-dent happened on Mon-day evening. Pratyusha Banerjee said that eight people barged into her

Kandivali residence and asked for her friend, actor Rahul Raj Singh. When the actress told them that he was not at home, they forcefully tried to barge inside. “I’m extremely upset with whatever hap-pened last evening. If this is how policemen are go-ing to behave, then what to do? I have filed an FIR against eight men, of

people will see. But this is the last one. I have to pass the reins to someone else,” he said. Reminded that he had said this twice before Bay responded, “I know. JJ (Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens director) told me, ‘You’re the only guy that could do this.’ But it’s time to move on. One more.” Par-amount Pictures recently organised sessions with

writers to create a new di-rection for the franchise, with the new script being written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway along with Ken Nolan. Actor Mark Walhberg, who starred in 2014’s Trans-formers: Age of Extinc-tion, is expected to lead the cast. The new movie is an attempt to create a greater cinematic uni-verse for Transformers.

falls (in cinema halls) and with no new release for another week, we expect this phenomenon to con-tinue,” Eros Internation-al Senior Vice-President (India Theatrical) Nandu Ahuja said. The movie production and distribu-tion company claimed the movie was the third high-est grosser of 2015. The

film, produced by Bhan-sali, narrates the story of Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao I and his sec-ond wife Mastani. Eros released ‘Bajirao Mas-tani’ across 3750 screens worldwide on Decem-ber 18 and went on to increase showcasing to meet demand in the sub-sequent weeks.

added that for the A.R. Murugadoss -directorial she had to undergo phys-ical training for one and a half month. Further talking about the direc-tor of the flick, Sonakshi said, “A.R. Murugadoss is a genius and his brain should be kept in a mu-seum to be studied.” She said that the ‘Holiday’ hit-maker is such a silent man as thinking wheels are always turning around in his head, add-ing that she has realised that one cannot question him you cannot question him, he just have to trust him blindly.

whom three are police-men,” Pratyusha said. “They entered my house, pushed my door, they were misbehaving with me and were so rude. It took me three hours to convince the police to file the FIR since police themselves were also in-volved in it. Today, I am going to meet the (area) DCP,” she added when contacted her on Tues-day. Apparently, it’s all got to do with a car loan that Rahul Raj Singh had taken from a bank and had been irregular in his repayments. “Last night, they again came to my house. I told them Rahul does not live here and that’s when all this hap-pened,” she added.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPLenovo launches K4 Note with VR headset and TheaterMax tech

MediaTek MT2523 Series of Chipsets Launched for Smartwatches

Switch off email notifications on your phone to reduce stress

Agency | New Delhi

Lenovo on Monday launched the K4 Note smart-phone in India with its new TheaterMax technology and an exclusive virtual reality (VR) headset from ANT VR. The Chinese handset maker’s TheatreMax makes use of a split screen technology to project the images twice using a software to create an immersive experience. The company will also sell the ANT VR headsets at a price of Rs. 1,299. ANT VR is a startup company previously featured in an Indegogo kick-starter campaign. According to the company, the The-aterMax and the VR headset will bring a theatre-like experience to the users’ pockets. “We did not put a projector as it would be very heavy on battery. We just found a smart way to work our way around it,” Sudhin Mathur, director of smartphones at Lenovo India, said. The dual 4G slot enabled K4 Note, which is the first smartphone to come with Dolby Atmos sound technology on speakers, comes with a Medi-aTek Cora-core processor and a 3G DDR3 RAM.

Agency | New Delhi

MediaTek in an attempt to increase the adoption of its chipsets in the wearable segment has launched a new wearable-focused chipset on Monday. The MediaTek MT2523 is said to be designed for ac-tivity trackers and fitness-focused smartwatches. The Taiwan-based chipmaker also claimed that the new chipset is the “world’s first system-in-pack-age (SiP)” that offers features such as GPS and dual-mode Bluetooth Low Energy. The chipset is also said to support MIPI high-resolution mobile screen. It bears a Cortex-M4 processor onboard. The company says that the new SiP has been print-ed on a circuit board area that is 41 percent smaller than other chipsets designed for wearables. An-other notable highlight suggested by MediaTek is that the devices powered by MT2523 can last more

than a week on single charge.

Agency | London

What is the secret to happiness? Well, it may be switching off email notifications on your smart-phone, say researchers who found that people who automatically receive emails on their devices report high levels of ‘email pressure’. Since the creation of emails in the 1970s, its growth has been unprec-edented, facilitating quick and easy communication between people across borders and time zones, for both business and personal use. However, despite its widespread usage and popularity as a commu-nication tool, for some individuals and employers, it can be a source of major frustration, anxiety and lost productivity, the researchers said. As the vol-ume of email continues to rise, many struggle to prioritise work effectively and are constantly inter-rupted by the flow of messages and demands, re-sulting in decreased productivity and stress. In order to understand more about how email both facilitates and negatively impacts the employee experience, researchers from UK-based Future Work Centre conducted a survey of about 2,000 people across a variety of industries, sectors and job roles in the UK.

Very Very Special: Laxman’s 281 voted best Test knock of last 50 years

New Zealand seal series win over Sri Lanka thanks to Guptill century

Australia withdraws from U-19 wC in Bangladesh over security issues

england vs South Africa: Strong fightback by Proteas as Amla scores timely ton

Chris Gayle slammed after asking presenter out on a date

Agency | Mumbai

Melbourne Renegades opener Chris Gayle has sparked the first great sporting Twitter melt-down of 2016, proposi-tioning Channel 10 Big Bash League presenter Mel McLaughlin live on air. Gayle had just been dismissed for a dazzling 41 off 15 balls in the Renegades comfortable win over Hobart, and was being interviewed by McLaughlin at the side of Bellerive Oval. But after being comple-mented on his aggres-sive batting, Gayle – re-nowned in cricket circles as something of a ladies man – turned his sights firmly on McLaughlin. “I wanted to come and have an interview with you as well, that’s why I’m here – just to see your eyes for the first time,” Gayle told McLaughlin, who looked

Agency | Karachi

His career handed a fresh lease of life, tainted Pa-kistan pacer Moham-mad Amir’s attitude and behaviour would be as much under scrutiny as his on-field performances when he makes an inter-national comeback, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asserted. “The PCB has supported Amir and given him a second

chance to play for Pa-kistan again because he served his punishment and was cleared by the In-ternational Cricket Coun-cil (ICC) to play cricket again,” Pakistan Cricket Board’s Executive Com-mittee head Najam Sethi said. Sethi was also a Chairman of the Board in 2013 and ‘14. Sethi said there had been lot of dis-cussion on whether Amir should be allowed back

Mohammad Amir’s attitude and behaviour will be monitored: Pakistan Cricket Board

Agency | Mumbai

Eclipsing several other great individual knocks, VVS Laxman’s master-ly innings of 281 against Australia at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata has been rated as the greatest Test performance of the last 50 years. The honour was accorded to the Hy-derabad stylist’s fabulous series-turning knock after India trailed by 274 runs on the first innings, by his fellow-players, com-mentators and journalists in a poll published in the January issue of ESPN’s digital magazine the Cricket Monthly, a me-dia release said. Laxman, promoted to no. 3 after

Agency | Mount Maun-ganui

New Zealand clinched the one-day series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday thanks to a brilliant Mar-tin Guptill century as they achieved a 36-run victory in the fifth and final one-dayer at Mount Maunganui. Matt Henry’s five-wicket bag helped ensure the hosts took a 3-1 series win to go with their 2-0 Test domination last month. New Zealand posted 294 for 5 bat-ting first at the popular beachside resort venue with Guptill making 102, before Sri Lanka were all out for 258 with 17 balls remaining. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, with a brave knock of 95,

Agency | Sydney

Australia announced on Tuesday that they have decided to withdraw from the upcoming ICC U-19 World Cup in Bangladesh over safety and securi-ty fears, after they also scrapped a Test tour late last year. Cricket Austra-lia officials said the threat had not dissipated since early October, when the Test tour was called off because of the risk of terrorism. “Regrettably, the advice from our gov-ernment suggests that the security threat to Austra-lians travelling to Ban-gladesh remains as high now as it was when we

Agency | Cape Town

Captain Hashim Amla emerged from a year of poor form with a dogged century to lead a South Africa fightback in the second test against En-gland on Monday. Amla scored an unbeaten 157 as the hosts closed the third day on 353-3, still 276 runs behind but with a foothold in the match after England had piled up a massive 629 for six declared. Amla, whose captaincy has been criti-cised after a year of poor results for the top-ranked

test nation, scored his first hundred in 13 months and batted through a day on which England took only one wicket, AB de Vil-liers for 88. Faf du Ples-sis was 51 not out at the close, his first half-cen-tury in 12 innings. “Los-ing just one wicket in the day is a huge success for us and we hope that it’s a turning point,” Du Plessis told reporters. Monday’s play had none of the fire-works of the previous day when Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow shared a stroke-laden re-

cord-breaking partner-ship of 399 for England, who lead the series 1-0. South Africa forced the touring side to toil in hot conditions and will seek to keep them in the field again for much longer to try to save the match. De Villiers reached 8,000 test runs before he pulled a short ball from Steven Finn to James Anderson at mid-wicket just before tea. The South Africans batted with much circum-spection and were grind-ingly pedestrian at times but did offer chances.

embarrassed by the or-deal. “Hopefully we can win this game and we can have a drink after, don’t blush baby,” he said be-fore dissolving into laugh-ter. McLaughlin, who ap-peared uncomfortable as a result of Gayle’s remarks, said ‘I’m not blushing’, as she attempted to continue with the interview. After being asked about an inju-ry he suffered, Gayle said he hoped to stay on the field for the remainder of the series, before adding: ‘hopefully I can recover and look in your eyes.’ Shortly after the incident,

Big Bash League Antho-ny Everard chief execu-tive released a statement on Twitter. ‘I heard Chris’ comments and they’re disrespectful and simply inappropriate. We’ll cer-tainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it. This league is all about its appeal to kids, families and females. ‘There’s just no place in the BBL — or, for that matter, cricket anywhere — for that sort of behaviour.’ Social me-dia reaction to the incident was instant, with many critical of Gayle’s ‘sexist’ behaviour.

his first innings’ 59 out of a team score of 171, came up with his magi-cal innings and also add-ed 376 runs for the fifth wicket with Rahul Dravid (180). In his tribute, one of seven by participants in the Test, leg spin leg-end Shane Warne recalls: “I was bowling in the footmarks and Laxman was hitting the same ball

through cover or whip-ping it through midwick-et. It was so hard to bowl then.” Ricky Ponting re-members that “his work through the leg side in particular was a source of wonderment to many of us... Ultimately we bowled for near enough to two days at him with-out even looking like get-ting him out.”

postponed the Test team’s tour,” CA chief James Sutherland said in a state-ment. “Included in that is reliable information suggesting there is a high threat to Australian inter-ests in Bangladesh and the knowledge that the Australian government has authorised the depen-dants of posted diplomatic staff in Bangladesh to re-

turn home to Australia.” Sutherland said given all the advice CA had re-ceived, “we feel we had no alternative other than to make this difficult de-cision”. The Internation-al Cricket Council (ICC) announced in October that Bangladesh would host the 2016 ICC Under-19 World Cup despite mount-ing concerns over security.

into the team after being banned for five years fol-lowing the 2010 spot-fix-ing scandal. The pacer has been picked for the upcoming limited-overs tour of New Zealand. “Everyone has his strong views on this issue but now it is up to him how he makes the most of this opportunity. He will have to be on his best behaviour on and off the field. As his every action will be fol-lowed closely,” he added. “I think it is now Amir’s responsibility to adjust into the team and regain the confidence and sup-port of his teammates and officials. He will have to watch his overall attitude and behaviour which will be closely monitored,” Sethi said.

had set the scene for a cliff-hanger finish when he led his side to 223 for 5 before the tail folded in six overs for the addi-tion of only 35 runs. The last three wickets fell for six runs in the space of 10 deliveries. Along with Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal and Milinda Siriwardana played their part in keeping Sri Lan-ka in with a chance for most of the their innings.

Mathews and Chandimal produced a 93-run stand for the fourth wicket be-fore Trent Boult, mak-ing his first appearance in the series, dismissed Chandimal for 50. After Thisara Perera (15) made a brief appearance at the crease Siriwardana and Mathews cracked 62 off 40 to have Sri Lanka at 223 for 5 with nine overs and five wickets to get the remaining 72 runs.

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Correspondent | Surat

Congress on Monday fielded Dhansukh Rajput, three-time municipal councillor of Surat and a migrant, to take on BJP’s Jankhana, daughter of the late MLA Raja Patel, from Choryasi Assembly seat in Surat in the bypoll to be held on January 21. Rajput filed his nomination at Su-rat district collector office on Monday. Till the last day of filing nominations Monday, 34 persons have filed their papers. While Jankhana is a Koli Patel, Rajput is into real estate business and hails from Uttar Pradesh. The total number of voters in this migrant-dominated seat is 3.91 lakh. Out of this, 1.63 lakh are male voters and the rest are women. The migrant voters hail

from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Odisha, and others. This seat has siz-able number of Koli Pa-tels, Kanbi Patels, fisher-men, Brahmins, Rajputs, SCs/STs from the state. BJP candidate Jankhana Patel had filed her nomi-nation form on Saturday afternoon. According to her affidavit, she is hav-ing assets worth over Rs 6 crore, while Rajput is having assets worth over Rs 11 crore. Rajput had earlier contested the Lok Sabha elections from Navsari seat on Congress ticket losing to BJP’s C R Patil in 2009 by a narrow margin. Again, the Con-gress gave him Udhna as-sembly seat in 2012, but he was defeated by BJP veteran Narottam Patel by 32,000 votes.

Correspondent | Jamnagar

Revamped Dhanvantari auditorium in Jamnagar is going to be opened today by state health minister Nitin Patel. The audito-rium has 478 seats on ground floor and 147 in balcony. It has a big wood-en stage and all modern facilities. The auditorium had suffered major dam-ages in year 1978 due to natural calamity. Later it was repaired by during a programme in year 2003, outer portion of ceiling had collapsed . The the-ater was declared dan-gerous for holding events and closed. After prolong

Correspondent | Bhuj

Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB) company that was removed from guard-ing the border areas of Kutch about 15 years back is going to return here as per a decision tak-en by central government. It is learnt that one SSB company is soon going to be deployed in border dis-trict of Kutch. The head-quarters of SSB at present is in Jamnagar. Nakhatra-na and Bhachau in Kutch will come under it. Erst-while defunct SSB head-quarters at Nakhatrana in Kutch is being revamped for this purpose. It was this place from which SSB was operating in Kutch during 1988-2001. Later the entire SSB force in Kutch was shifted to Nepal and Bhutan border. SSB has total 90 com-

panies. SSB is a Border Guarding Force (BGF) under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs. SSB was set up in early 1963 in the wake of the Indo-China conflict to inculcate feel-ings of national belong-ing in the border popu-lation and develop their capabilities for resistance through a continuous process of motivation, training, development, welfare programmes and activities in the then NEFA, North Assam, North Bengal, hills of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Ladakh. The scheme was later extended to Manipur, Tripura, Jam-mu (1965), Meghalaya (1975), Sikkim (1976), border areas of Rajasthan and Guj arat (1989), Ma-nipur, Mizoram and some more areas of Rajasthan

and Gujarat (1988), South Bengal, Nagaland (1989) and Nubra Valley, Ra-jouri and Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir (1991). In the fifty years of its existence, SSB endeav-oured to present a benign face of the government among border populace in the far flung and inac-cessible areas subscribing to the ETHOS of Service, Security and Brotherhood. The local populace always found SSB standing stead-fastly with them during difficult times. Pursuant to the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on reforming the Nation-al Security System, SSB was declared as a border guarding force and lead intelligence agency (LIA) for Indo-Nepal border (January, 2001) and In-do-Bhutan border( March, 2004).

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The ‘Save the Bird’ cam-paign which is conduct-ed every year during Uttarayan festival, will be held from January 11 to January 18. The cam-paign is being taken up extensively to save the birds from injuries. For-est officials said that in Ahmedabad, 602 injuries were reported during the two-day festival in 2015, while in 2014, a total of 1,007 birds were treated for manja-afflicted in-juries. In 2013, approx-imately 2,700 birds had been injured. Deputy conservator of forest, H R Prabuddha, said mo-dalities of rescuing and saving the birds will be decided at the meet-ing. “We have already requested the various

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The state government has decided to increase seats in Medical colleges situ-ated in Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara to have a to-tal of 250 seats in the state. The state government has already moved an appli-cation to increase medical seats in Surat, Vadodara and NHL Municipal Col-lege and even Post grad-uate seats in LG Medical College. NHL and LG are affiliated to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Anil Mukim, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Services & Medical Edu-cation) said that the State Government has decided to increase the medical seats in the state by around 12 to 15 per cent annual-ly. As a part of this policy the state has decided to increase the seats in Surat Medical College and Va-dodara Medical college

and even NHL Medical College in Ahmedabad to take the total num-ber to 250. He said this would mean a increase of about 270 odd seats in the state. According to officials, at present Surat Medical College has 150 seats, while Vadodara has 180 seats and NHL Mu-nicipal Corporation had 150 seats. Sources said that apart from these, the state has also proposed to increase the seats in Post graduate seats in NHL and LG Municipal Col-leges. The officials said that NHL College has proposed to increase the seats in Super speciality from 18 seats to 27 seats. Similarly in LG Medical College, the officials have proposed to increase the post graduate seats from existing four to 58 seats. The LG hospital is 150 seats Medical college.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Tanveer Jafri, son of slain ex-Congress MP Ehsan Ja-fri, on Monday his mother Zakia had met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at Circuit House in Ahmed-abad when she was visit-ing Gujarat soon after the 2002 riots. He was react-ing to a claim made by ex-DGP R B Sreekumar in his book Gujarat:Behind the curtain that Congress leaders had then prevent-ed Gandhi from meeting Zakia, wife of Ehsan Ja-fri who was killed in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre. Tanveer also sent an e-mail to Sreeku-mar on Sunday in which he stated: “Ms Soniaji Gandhi met my mother in

Sunvilla News | Palaj

Beginning January 5, a contingent from Duke University will visit IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) for a week of partnership and capacity building events. The partnership is a re-sult of a Joint Declaration of Intent, signed by the U.S. and Indian govern-ments in January 2015, to deepen higher educa-tion collaboration. With funding support from the U.S. Agency for Interna-tional Development (US-AID), Duke University was selected by IITGN to receive initial support under the agreement. The two schools immediately

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Jamnagar gets revamped Dhanvantari auditorium

IIT Gandhinagar and Duke University forge partnership with govt support

Correspondent | New Delhi

The Supreme Court (SC) on 4 January 2016 direct-ed the Gujarat govern-ment to make functional the Gujarat State Coop-erative Tribunal by fill-ing up the vacant posts including that of judicial members, which is the bone of contention. Fur-ther, the court directed that the tribunal cannot be allowed to be non-func-tional. The ruling was made by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India TS Thakur. The dispute has its origin in 2011, when the Gujarat Co-op-erative Bar Association moved the High Court challenging the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961 and the Rules made there under with re-

Sonia Gandhi had met my mother after Gulberg incident: Zakia’s son

Save Bird Campaign for Uttarayan from January 11

SC directed Gujarat government to make Gujarat State Cooperative Tribunal functional

Sashastra Seema Bal is back in Kutch after a gap of 15 years

Choryasi bypoll: With eye on migrants, Cong fields Dhansukh Rajput

repair work, the auditori-um is being opened today on the occasion of Guja-rat Ayurved University’s golden jubilee function. The auditorium was built with donation of Rs 3 lakh by Chatrabhuj Sheth

in year 1946. The work for this auditorium was started by an Italian ar-chitect and completed by an Indian architect. The auditorium has been re-vamped by state health department’s PIO wing.

The hall is centrally air conditioned. It has latest sound system, separate changing rooms for la-dies and gents, VIP room, LED lighting, latest cur-tains, latest electric panel ceiling, ecostic system

found common ground for collaborative re-search, student exchang-es, and joint engagement of private sector part-ners. Highlighting the strategic importance of the partnership for Duke University, Larry Carin, Duke’s Vice Provost for Research, and delega-tion lead, said, “India is a special place for Duke, as seen in the number of students and alumni we have from India, the re-search collaborations our faculty have there, and our institutional partner-ships across India. We are privileged to work with USAID and RTI Interna-tional – our long standing partner in North Carolina – on this initiative with IITGN.” From January

5-8, a 15-member con-tingent from Duke and RTI will work with IIT-GN faculty and staff to develop new research projects, improve IITGN capacity in critical areas, and discuss potential in-dustry partnerships. The week’s events have been made open to other IITs through simulcast on the IIT-wide video network. Welcoming the support and new partnership, Prof. Sudhir Jain, IIT-GN’s Director, added, “IITGN has carefully ap-proached strategic global partnerships, seeking out like minded institutions who share our focus on transdisciplinary learn-ing, student focused ped-agogy, and cutting edge research that improves

our shared community. Duke is exactly that type of partner.” Speaking on the support being extend-ed by USAID, Kathryn D. Stevens, Acting Mis-sion Director, USAID/In-dia, noted: “USAID and the IITs have a long his-tory of partnership. After supporting India in es-tablishing IIT-Kanpur in 1960s, the governments of both U.S. and India are once again collaborating to build IIT-Gandhinagar into a center of excel-lence for science and technology. The power of youth, technology and innovation is defining the U.S.-India relationship and igniting a partnership that will advance and sus-tain prosperity in our two countries.”

spect to the appointment of members of the State Co-operative Tribunal and members of Board of Nominees. They had contended that the Act confers excessive pow-er upon the State in the appointment process. It was also their contention that the process of ap-pointment does not com-ply with the provisions of Part IV, Chapter 6 of the Constitution dealing with the Directive Princi-ples of State Policy. The

High Court had initially dismissed the petition, but overturned its judg-ment in a review petition. However, on 11 Septem-ber 2015, the HC ren-dered Rule 40A (C) the Co-operative Societies Rules, which allows ap-pointment of persons with just a law degree invalid. It ruled that only mem-bers with a minimum of five years’ experience as a judicial officer will be eligible to be appointed to the tribunal.

Ahmedabad immediately after riots while she was visiting riot victims in Gujarat. The meeting was held in Circuit House. Mr Ahmed Patel (Gandhi’s political secretary) and one another gentleman was present during that time. I too was present (sic).” However, reply-ing to Tanveer’s e-mail, Sreekumar stated: “My statement that Sonia

Gandhi did not visit your mother at her residence is truthful and correct. Instead Congress leaders summoned your moth-er, an old widow, under severe shock, agony and despair to the place of stay of Congress presi-dent. This act is highly deplorable, sinful and violating all social con-ventions and canons of ethics and morality.”

Surat, Vadodara and NHL to have 250 seats medical college

NGOs to be part of the campaign,” he said, adding, “We have come out with a pamphlet ask-ing people not to fly kites early in the morning and late in the evening. The pamphlet also asks people not to sprinkle water on

injured birds and not try to free birds from manja thread by themselves.” Officials said early morn-ing and late evening are the times when birds leave their nests to seek food, and return home, re-spectively.