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News Brief20 years RI for 2 in gangrape case

Agency | Hajipur

Two persons were awarded rigorous im-prisonment for 20 years by a district court here today for gangraping a minor in Bihar’s Vaish-ali district about a year ago. Additional Dis-trict and Session court judge B K Tiwari also slapped a penalty of Rs 35,000 each on the two for the crime committed in March 2015 and or-dered the sum be made available to the victim.

Wild elephant crushes farmer to

death in UP

Nigerian national held with fake

passport

Agency | Saharanpur

A farmer was trampled to death by a wild el-ephant in Biharigarh area here, police said today. 40-year-old Dha-ram Singh was crushed to death by the wild el-ephant, while he was guarding his fields last night in Ganesh Nagar under Biharigarh area here, Biharigarh Police Station Upper Superin-tendent (Rural) Jagdish Sharma said. Police personnel and a team of forest officials reached the spot after local vil-lagers intimated them about the incident this morning, he said, add-ing that the victim’s body has been sent for postmortem.

Agency | Muzaffarnagar

A Nigerian national was arrested here for al-legedly travelling with fake documents, police said. Amutawi Thank God, the name the Ni-gerian national had on his passport, was ar-rested in Shamli when he had gone to meet a farmer, said Circle Of-ficer, Shamli, Nishank Sharma. During inves-tigation, his passport and visa were found to be fake, he said, adding that the accused is be-ing interrogated and a case has been registered against him.

Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra included, Pawan Negi surprise pick“India WT20, Asia Cup-2016”

15-man squad for the Asia & World Cup

Agency | Moran

Singling out the Sonia Gandhi family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress President and her son Rahul Gand-hi of disrupting Parlia-ment to avenge defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls and hence blocking the passage of bills aimed at benefitting the poor. Addressing tea garden workers in this poll-bound state of Assam, Modi alleged that “one family” was indulging in “negative politics” as he claimed that there are leaders in opposition parties other than Con-gress who want Parlia-

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday told Del-hi High Court that Chief Minister Arvind Kejri-wal and five other AAP leaders had launched a “calculated” defamato-ry campaign against him and his family with “ul-terior motives” to get political mileage. Jaitley said the right to freedom of speech and expression was “not absolute” and it “did not extend a licence to anyone to defame any other citizen having fun-damental rights under the Constitution”. He made the submission in response to written state-

ments filed by Kejriwal, Raghav Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, San-jay Singh and Deepak Ba-jpai on a civil defamation suit filed against them by him. In his response, Jait-ley has contended that the “defendants have, indi-vidually and collectively, in a calculated manner launched a per se defam-atory campaign against plaintiff (Jaitley) and his family members for gain-ing political mileage and ulterior motives”. Jaitley has sought Rs 10 crore in damages from them for issuing allegedly false and defamatory state-ments against him and

Agency | New Delhi

Mohammed Shami and Pawan Negi made it to the the Asia Cup and World T20 squads but Manish Pandey and Bhuvnesh-war Kumar were left out as the BCCI’s selection panel headed by Sand-eep Patil announced the squads on Friday in Del-hi. Other than that there were no major surprises as Mahendra Singh Dho-ni had hinted after the Australia T20 series. The selectors clearly thought better than going against the wishes of Team In-dia skipper. Mohammad Shami, who missed out on the tour of Australia

due to a hamstring injury made the cut while Bhu-vneshwar Kumar, who has had a torrid time of late in limited-over inter-nationals, was ignored. “Shami has 30 days be-fore the World T20. We have good time in hand to take a call on Shami. He has been one of our best bowlers. For now, I can only say that he has recovered and started bowling,” Sandip Patil said. Delhi all-rounder Pawan Negi, who was a surprise inclusion for the Sri Lanka series, also made it to the squad. The selectors also named the Women’s squad for the

Modi in Assam: PM says Gandhi family disrupting House to avenge poll defeat

Kejriwal made defamatory remarks to score political points: Arun Jaitley

ment to function even though they oppose him. “Those who have lost the election (in 2014) and have come down from 400 to 40 have decid-ed not to allow Modi to work. They have decided to create obstacles and difficulties. The conspir-acy for the same is go-ing on,” he said, refer-ring clearly to Congress.

“They have now decid-ed to take revenge from people, from the poor workers” for voting the Congress out of power, Modi said at the public meeting that was virtu-ally an election rally. His remarks came against the backdrop of washout of the last two sessions of Parliament because of which key econom-

ic reform measures, in-cluding GST, have been pending and are expected to be pushed by the gov-ernment during the up-coming Budget session starting on February 23. “There are many lead-ers and parties even in the Opposition who op-pose Modi, the BJP and the government but they want Parliament to run and carry out is business. But one family is so rigid that they do not allow the Rajya Sabha to function and let the nation’s agen-da of development to be taken forward because people of the country have defeated them,” Modi said.

Ravindra Jadeja gets engaged to Rajkot-based Reeva Solanki

Correspondent | Rajkot

Indian allrounder Ravin-dra Jadeja got engaged to mechanical engineer Reeva Solanki in a pri-vate ceremony in Rajkot today. Reeva completed her engineering degree at Atmiya College and is now preparing for UPSC examination in Delhi. Her mother Prafullaba Solanki is an Indian Rail-way employee while her father is a businessman. Earlier, Jadeja’s sister Naina confirmed news of the engagement and said the ceremony would be held in his restaurant. Re-

cently, Indian pacer Varun Aaron married childhood sweetheart Ragini in Jam-shedpur. World Cup win-ning all-rounder Yuvraj Singh also got engaged to Bollywood actor Hazel Keech in Bali in Novem-ber last year and the duo are expected to tie the knot this year. Discarded

speedster Mohit Sharma announced his engage-ment to girlfriend Shweta last month. It has been a season of marriages in the Indian camp with Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Harbhajan Singh tying the knot with their re-spective love interests last year.

his family in connection with alleged irregulari-ties in the Delhi and Dis-trict Cricket Association (DDCA) when he was its President. Kejriwal and the others have claimed that the suit was “a clas-sic instance of political vendetta” with a view to “harassing” them and curbing their right to free

speech. The Delhi CM and others also moved an oral plea today, through senior advocate H S Phoolka, seeking time to file more documents in support of the statements made by them.

World T20, which will be happening parallel to the men’s event. Mithali Raj has been named the cap-tain of the squad which is unchanged from the side which won the historic

three-match series Down Under against reigning World Champions Aus-tralia. For Dhoni’a side, as expected, there was a toss up between Manish Pandey and Ajinkya Ra-

hane. Pandey missed out on the T20Is in Austra-lia despite a match-win-ning century in the final one-dayer because both squads were announced before the ODI series. His heroic performance came against Australia in the final ODI. With Vi-rat Kohli rested, Pandey, though, was included for the Sri Lanka T20 series that also included Ajink-ya Rahane despite the

fact that Rahane didn’t make it to the starting XI for the three T20Is against Australia. With Kohli returning to the squad, one batsman had to make way and Pand-ey turned out to be the unlucky one. “Manish Pandey performed ex-ceptionally well in Aus-tralia, his name was also discussed,” Patil said. “When selectors pick a

team, we always give importance to domestic performance. It is not that we are only looking at se-niors, we have looked at the performance, fitness and record of the domes-tic players as well. We have taken into account all the performances of not just 15-16 guys but all the domestic players and then picked these 15,” he added.

Correspondent | Mahesana

Family of Pratik Babulal Patel who is under treatment due to serious injury during Patidar agitation in the month of August last year was today issue Rs 1,38,881 cheque by district collector of Mahesana Lochan Sehra. The amount has been given to Patel family for Pra-tik’s treatment. Pratik Babubhai Patel was given Rs 7,34,884 for treatment from Chief Minister’s Welfare Fund earlier on 4 November 2015. Thus so

A youth injured during Patidar agitation gets Rs 8,73,765 govt assistance

far Rs 8,73,765 assistance has been given to his family for treatment. Pratik’s par-ents and relatives thanked the government for assistance.

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DAYTime for India to confront an embedded racism

India’s racism is an open secret, but it is nevertheless shocking to find it at the very heart of digital India. By all accounts, the shameful mob attack on a Tanza-nian student, who was apparently beaten and stripped on the outskirts of Bangalore, was provoked by the colour of her skin. She had the misfortune of being in the area where a Sudanese man had caused a fatal traffic accident earlier. The two were not even of the same nationality, and all they had in common was or-igins in Africa. The incident invites comparisons with the midnight vigilante raid in Delhi’s Khirki village led by AAP Minister Somnath Bharti against Ugan-dan and Nigerian women who were accused of prosti-tution and pushing drugs. They, too, were humiliated like the Tanzanian student in Bangalore. Among Indi-an citizens, people from the Northeast have borne the brunt of the majority’s violent dislike for people who do not look like them, eat like them or behave exactly like them, and come from a place that seems remote. The persecution of young people from the Northeast in the capital, who constitute a tiny minority, had be-come so routine that the sheer enormity of the outrage made up for the lack of numbers. Bangalore, it may be recalled, was also the epicentre of the 2012 panic wave in which tens of thousands of migrant workers from the Northeast fled the city, terrorised by a con-certed hate campaign using SMS and social media. Now, as people from African nations come in search of education and opportunity, colour opens up fresh vistas of difference. The problem can only escalate as India positions itself as an investment destination — the very forces which attract capital also draw people. On the other hand, when people feel unsafe, capital flees. Sunday’s incident could prove to be a setback for Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, whose government hopes to see commitments of Rs 1.3 lakh crore from a global investors’ meet in Bangalore this week. But opposition to racism must not be merely practically constructed. Such discrimination is ethical-ly proscribed in a nation that is natively many-hued and is constitutionally committed to multiculturalism. Gov-ernments in Bangalore and Delhi have responded to the incident and arrests have been made. The tardiness of the police and their reluctance to protect the victim should be probed, but denial is only to be expected. A racist attack must not be allowed to settle comfortably into the identity of just another incident of road rage. A responsive police and legal apparatus are crucial for securing the rights of minorities, whether women, Dal-its, citizens from the Northeast or visitors from Africa.

“It is obvious in his own eyes, the defendant 1 (Kejriwal) does not possess either a reputation or character since he was resoundingly defeated in 2014 LS polls by a margin of over 3.37 lakh votes”. - delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal “does not possess either a reputation or character” in his own estimation, union finance minister Arun Jaitley told a delhi court on Friday..

deepika Padukone starts shooting with Vin diesel for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Agency | New Delhi

Online retailer Snapdeal has decided against re-newing Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s contract as its brand ambassador, an Economic Times report has said. Citing sources, the report says that the contract was extendable by about a year but the e-tailer decided against renewing it. The move may be considered as a fallout of the actor’s com-ments over intolerance in India. Khan who claimed that his wife, Kiran Rao, had expressed worries over the level of intoler-ance in the country and had also wanted to leave

the country over it, was met with a lot of backlash from the people over so-cial media. In fact, dozens of Snapdeal users went as far as deleting the app from their smartphones and downgrading it on Google Play, demanding Khan be dropped as the brand ambassador. At the time, Snapdeal went on record and said, “Snapdeal is neither connected nor plays a role in comments made by Aamir Khan in his personal capacity. Snapdeal is a proud Indian company built by passion-ate young Indians focused on building an inclusive digital India.”

Agency | New Delhi

When he sang on a flight from Mumbai to Jodhpur, Sonu Nigam didn’t just thrill passengers- the vid-eo also went viral. Nearly a month later, Jet Airways has suspended the crew of that flight for letting Mr Nigam, 42, use the pub-lic announcement system on the plane for his im-promptu concert. “This act lack of common sense according to me is Real Intolerance,” the singer retorted today, pointing out that when he sang, there were no announce-ments that needed to be made. “I have witnessed an elaborate fashion show in an aircraft...I have seen pilots and crew members cracking humorous jokes to loosen up passengers in

Agency | New Delhi

Randeep Hooda has al-ways had an element of surprise in all his films. Whether it’s just a tease or a full fledged trans-formation- this actor has never failed to surprise us! But with his next film Sarbjit, he has managed to take a huge leap. How? The actor has complete-ly metamorphosed into someone you won’t even recognise. Yes, Omung Kumar tweeted a picture of himself with Randeep from the sets of Sarbjit, a biopic that revolves around the life of Indi-an farmer Sarabjit Singh who was convicted in Pakistan and his brave-heart sister Dalbir Kaur. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Agency | Chennai

Actor Radhika Apte, who last appeared in Ketan Mehta’s Mountain Man, has joined Tamil actor Rajinikanth for the final schedule of upcoming Tamil gangster drama Kabali in Malaysia. “Im-portant scenes between Rajinikanth and Radhi-ka, besides some action sequences will be shot in this schedule that will go on for nearly three weeks in Malaysia,” said a source from the film’s

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actress Deep-ika Padukone, who reached Canada recently for the filming of her Hol-lywood debut ‘XXX: The Return of Xander Cage’, has begun shooting for the film. Her co-star from the film Vin Diesel, who plays the titular role ofXander,

shared a picture of the two from the film’s sets much to the delight of her fans back home. Deepika, who had left for Canada recent-ly to join the cast of xXx, had been training hard for her role. She trained un-der celebrity trainer Yas-mi Karachiwala. Deepika plays the role of Serena in XXX: The Return of

Xander Cage. Film’s di-rector D.j. Caruso has also been sharing the pictures from the film’s sets. D.J. had earlier confirmed the news of Deepika joining the film’s cast in February. Deepika, 30, who had re-cently met Vin Diesel to discuss the film with him, said the “Fast & Furious” star is a generous person.

Snapdeal will not renew Aamir Khan’s contract as

brand ambassador

Rajinikanth, Radhika Apte in Malaysia for Kabali’s final shoot

What a transformation! Randeep Hooda’s first look from ‘Sarbjit’ will shock you!

‘Real Intolerance’: Sonu Nigam On Punishment For His In-Flight Concert

will be essaying the role of Dalbir in the film. While Aishwarya’s look too caught everyone’s eyes, Richa Chadda’s look from the film was also praised by the audi-ences. But Randeep has managed a remarkable transition- from the hot, suave chiselled Randeep to this frail and weak Ranbir- he’s clinched a winner for sure! Ran-deep has immensely lost

weight in the last one month to suit the role and is looking unrecognis-able in the picture. For any layman, it’s difficult to gauge that it’s Ran-deep in the beginning. At a time when all actors are trying to flaunt a perfect-ly sculpted body with six pack abs, Randeep has taken the route less trav-elled. And we love the way he’s changed him-self to be Sarbjit.

Agency | New Delhi

Ghayal Once Again movie review will be out in a few hours from now. Sunny Deol is returning to big screen with Gha-yal Once Again with the sequel to his hit film ‘Ghayal’. The 1990 film Ghayal in which Sunny Deol played the role of youngster Ajay earned the actor his first Nation-al Award. Sunny Deol, who has been a favourite of many by delivering

his power-packed punch-es and heavy weight dialogues is ready to entertain the fans once again. Produced by fa-ther Dharmendra, Sunny himself has directed the film. It also features Soha Ali Khan, Tisca Chopra, Om Puri and child ac-tor Ruhanika Dhawan famous for her role of Ruhi in the hit television show ‘Yeh Hai Mohab-batein’. Sunny Deol, who has won two Na-tional Awards and sev-

eral other awards for his films, has a cult of die hard followers. He was recently spotted pro-moting his film at differ-ent cities with his father, veteran actor Dhar-mendra. ‘Ghayal Once Again’s special screen-ing was held in Mumbai recently and Bollywood gave a thumbs-up to the film. Keep watching this space for ‘Ghayal Once Again’ movie review by Indian Express’ critic Shubhra Gupta.

Ghayal Once Again movie review

unit. Radhika plays Ra-jinikanth’s wife in the film, which is being directed by Pa. Ranjith. Kabali, which also features Malaysian actors, is loosely based on real-life don Kaba-

leeshwaran. Rajinikanth plays an ageing don in the film. Slated to release in May, the film also features Dhanshikaa, Dinesh, Ka-laiarasan and Ritwika in important roles.

Agency | New Delhi

Saru, full name Saraswati, is an obe-dient daddy’s girl. Inder is a broody, massively-tattooed loner. And ‘Sa-nam Teri Kasam’ , not to be confused with the ’82 film of the same name, is a manual of how Not to make a con-temporary romantic film. Picture this: a heavy-handed father who thunders, flinging out instructions on how wife and daughters ought to behave. Falling in love with an unsuitable boy, ‘aiyyo rama’. Acting on your own will, ‘par-meshwara’. Doing what your heart tells you to, ‘aaj se thum mere liye marr gayi’. Which leaves Saru (Maw-ra Hocane) to smile, simper, weep.

Hesitate. Propitiate. And to look at her stony-faced father (Chowdhary, trying very hard to be a credible South Indi-an patriarch and failing) who’d rather conduct a wake than understand his daughter’s desires, and wait for his ‘permission’ before she can take a step forward. Inder (Harshwardhan Rane, armed with impressive bod, limited expression), who has daddy issues of his own, scowls and growls. The deep hurt caused by his dad is revealed much too late, and much too cursorily. The rest is filled by these two unlikely characters—Inder and Saru—devel-oping feelings, over a brain tumour, impending tragedy, and more tears.

Sanam Teri Kasam movie review

other countries which is so cool,” he said. Civil avia-tion regulator DGCA feels very differently and asked Jet Airways to punish all cabin crew members on the flight. The airline in a statement said they have been suspended for “cor-rective training” to re-inforce strict adherence to operating procedures. On video, Sonu Nigam is seen dressed casually in a T-shirt and jeans lean-ing against a wall in the plane as he sings two of his most popular songs

from the films Veer Zaara and Refugee. At one point he said, “Arrey wah, aap bhi gaatein hain. My God, saare singers hain (amazing, everyone here is a singer)” as passengers sang along with him. Late last year, amid a national debate on religious intol-erance, actors Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan spoke about their con-cerns, hurtling them into a social media avalanche of criticism that pounded them for being “anti-na-tionalist.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPWhatsApp groups can now have up to 256 members

Rupee trading weak at 67.68 on continued dollar demand

InFocus Bingo 21 With 4.5-Inch display, 2GB of RAM Launched at Rs. 5,499

Agency | New Delhi

WhatsApp has just bumped the user limit in chat groups on its platform to 256 members from 100 irrespective of the mobile platform - Android and iOS. The popular messaging app, which just crossed a billion users globally, had initially raised the number to 100 from 50 in November 2014. Currently, over 70 million people use the pop-ular instant messaging platform in the country. Since February 2014 when Facebook acquired WhatsApp, several changes have been made to the messaging app. In April 2015, the messaging app officially added voice calling, a long-teased fea-ture that was previously available only by invita-tion. Users now call their contacts worldwide for free over a WiFi or 3G/4G connection. Also, the app might soon get a video calling feature and a multi-tab user interface. A German website named Macerkopf had revealed screenshots that shows an ongoing video call in WhatsApp on iOS. If the screen shots are real, WhatsApp’s video calling interface is somewhat similar to its voice-calling one. Users would be able to mute calls and also

switch between the front and back cameras.

Agency | Mumbai

The rupee was trading weak at 67.68 in the evening session on bouts of continued dollar demand from importers and banks. The local unit resumed low-er at 67.65 per dollar against yesterday’s closing level of 67.55 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It slipped further to 67.72 before being quoted at 67.68, down 13 paise at 4.30 pm local time. The domestic unit hovered in a range of 67.72 and 67.58 during evening trade. In the glob-al market, the US dollar steadied against its major rivals in early Asian trade, but remained on track for weekly losses, as investors braced for US em-ployment figures later in the session over the lat-est clues on the outlook for the Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening path. The BSE benchmark Sensex ended higher by 278.54 points or 1.14 per

cent at 24,616.97.

Agency | New Delhi

InFocus has launched a new budget smartphone in India, the InFocus Bingo 21, priced at Rs. 5,499. It is available to buy from online stores in Blue, White, and Orange colour variants. The smart-phone is listed on the company’s own website as well. The dual-SIM supporting InFocus Bingo 21 runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop and features a 4.5-inch FWVGA (850x480 pixel) display with On-cell touch technology. It is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core Shark L (SC9830) SoC, coupled with 2GB of RAM. The smartphone bears an 8-megapixel aut-ofocus rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, LED flash, apart from a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The InFocus Bingo 21 also features a front-facing flash. Connectivity options on the InFocus Bingo 21 include 4G LTE (with Band 40), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, FM radio, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB, GPS, and a 3.5mm audio jack.

ICC World T20 2016: BCCI to take final call on ddCA to host matches on February 8

Maria Sharapova: Russian hoping to play Rio Olympics 2016 despite missing Fed Cup

HIL 2016: ‘distracted’ Jaypee Punjab Warriors go down to uttar Pradesh’s Wizards

IPL auction: Pressure on Pune and Rajkot to bid right, Yuvraj in focus

u-19 World Cup: Favourites India face mercurial Namibia in quarterfinal tomorrow

South Asian Games 2016: India expected to extend its dominance

Agency | New Delhi

The BCCI on Friday said that it would take the final call on the Delhi District and Cricket Association (DDCA) hosting the ICC World Twenty20 matches on February 8. “We dis-cussed that in the recent-ly held ICC meeting in Dubai. And we have de-cided that 30 days prior to the World Cup, which is on February 8, we will be taking a final call on the DDCA. And the sale of tickets will take place on February 9,” BCCI secretary Anurag Thak-ur told the media here. The DDCA, which has been facing allegations of several financial ir-regularities, received the No Objection Certificate ( NOC) from the Cen-tral Government to host

Agency | Kolkata

Numbers will be checked repeatedly before pad-dles are raised as the In-dian Premier League will witness another players’ auction in Bangalore on Saturday. A total of 351 players are set to go under the hammer, including 230 Indian players and 121 from overseas. But what makes this auction different is the presence of two new franchises --- Pune and Rajkot --- eager to get their squads togeth-er. A parallel could be drawn with the 2011 auc-tion when Pune Warriors India and Kochi Tuskers Kerala entered the fray. But the similarity ends there. In 2011, there

Agency | Guwahati

The much-awaited hour is almost here. The 12th South Asian Games will be launched with pomp and grandeur at the Indira Gandhi stadi-um, Sarurasajai, on Fri-day evening. Original-ly scheduled to be back in 2012, the prestigious multi-discipline event en-compassing competitions in 23 disciplines and 241 events well be held across two cities — Shillong be-ing the other host city — for the first time, and will see the participation of a record turnout of about 3,325 athletes and officials from the eight participating countries. That the event is being hosted for the first time in the North East of the country does add signif-icance to the Games, the curtains to which will be brought down on Febru-ary 16. From a historical perspective, the South

Agency | Chandigarh

Although he insisted his focus was firmly on hock-ey, there were apprehen-sions over Sardar Singh’s preparedness for Punjab Warriors’ home match against the UP Wizards on Thursday. A few hours before the match, the India captain addressed the me-dia, giving his version on the controversy that has followed him for the last couple of days. He looked composed, assuring that his mind was on the game later in the day. But when he stepped on the turf, Sardar — and rest of the Punjab players — looked

Agency | Paris

Maria Sharapova at-tempts to remain on course for the Rio Olym-pics when Russia take on the Netherlands in the Fed Cup this weekend even if she courts controversy by not actually playing. The world’s richest sports-woman has been named in the four-woman Rus-sian squad for the World Group clash in Moscow despite insisting that she is unable to play due to a forearm injury suf-fered in her Australian Open quarter-final loss to Serena Williams. Un-

der qualification rules, a player must be nominated three times in an Olym-pic cycle in order to be eligible for the Games in Rio in August. So far, the 28-year-old star has featured in just two ties since 2012, the year when she won the silver medal at the London Olympics. Sharapova was warned last week by Russian tennis chief Shamil Tar-pishchev that she risked missing out on Rio if she failed to turn out for the Fed Cup tie. But she was adamant she was unlikely to compete in Moscow to rest her injured arm. “I’m

going to go to Moscow, to be part of the team but I don’t think I’ll be play-ing,” she said. Sharapova was as good as her word as she was pictured on social media on Thursday at the Fed Cup dinner in Moscow along with team-mates Svetlana Kuznetso-va, Ekaterina Makarova, teenager Darya Kasatkina and team captain Anasta-sia Myskina. The Interna-tional Tennis Federation (ITF), which oversees the Fed Cup, said that Shara-pova did not necessarily need to play the tie in or-der to fulfil her Olympic criteria.

Agency | Fatullah

India will aim to build on their dominant showing in the pool stages when they take on an unpre-dictable Namibian unit in the quarterfinals of the ICC U -19 World Cup here tomorrow. India went about their job in clinical fashion beating Ireland, New Zealand and Nepal by big margins in Group D. However, they can’t afford to take their quarterfinal oppo-

nents likely as Namibia head into the knock-out phase after showing the exit door to defending champions South Africa. In other matches, the Af-rican nation got the better of Scotland before losing their final league game against Bangladesh to finish second in Group A behind the hosts. On pa-per, India possess a for-midable unit and should have little difficulty in getting past Namibia. In-

the World T20 in Del-hi. Expressing his views on the implementation of the Lodha Commit-tee recommendations, Thakur insisted that the BCCI was not running away from the report and was taking steps in right direction as it be-lieves in transparency and accountability. “The BCCI is not looking for any escape. We believe in transparency and ac-countability and in the last nine months we have

proven that the steps BCCI has taken are in the right direction. The certain changes we have brought in have been applauded by everyone. Justice Lodha has rec-ommended many things. We have requested the state cricket association to look into that,” the 41-year-old said. Thakur, however, admitted that the recommendations would have a lot of im-pact on the functioning of the BCCI.

dia captain Ishan Kishan would be pleased to get some runs under his belt in the last game against Nepal after failing in the previous two innings. He smashed a 40-ball 52 against Nepal in the com-pany of fellow opener Rishabh Pant, who looks to be in ominous touch. Pant enabled an India win in a canter after hammer-ing 78 off 24 balls against the team from the Hima-layan nation. The opposi-tion will also have to wor-ry about Sarfaraz Khan, who goes into game at the back of two fifties in three games. Madhya Pradesh-born pacer Avesh Khan has been the standout bowler for India with nine wickets at an average of 10.00 and economy rate of 3.21.

were teams like Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, and Deccan Char-gers who had not retained a single player and hence were on an even keel with the new franchises. This time, every IPL franchise apart from Pune and Ra-jkot has retained at least 13 players. IPL franchises can have a maximum of 27 players, including nine overseas recruits. And if

all franchises look to fill their quota that would mean 116 players --- in-cluding up to 36 over-seas players --- would be bought at this auction. The calculation means Pune and Rajkot would have to be on their toes as with only five players in their squads so far, onus is on them to give shape to their team as soon as possible.

Asian Games were estab-lished as a movement to foster peace and friend-ship through regular sporting contact between athletes from Afghani-stan, Bangladesh, Bhu-tan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and current host India. The first edition was held in Kathmandu in 1984. This is the third time India will host the Games, af-ter Kolkata in 1987 and Chennai in 1995, and it will have hopes of con-tinuing with its overall dominance across ven-

ues for a twelfth straight time. Through the last 11 editions, India has been virtually unstoppable, racking up a haul of 1,728 medals — 900 gold, 542 silver and 286 bronze — leaving second-placed Pakistan (1,022, 311-375-336) and Sri Lanka (928, 185-245-455) in third far behind. The script is un-likely to change this time around. The hosts will have participants in all 23 disciplines, and will be cheered by a partisan crowd both here and in Shillong.

a different unit compared to the one that had de-feated Delhi Waveriders a couple of days ago. That 5-1 win was largely due to the brilliant midfield play by their captain Sardar, but he was unable to re-produce the form in front of home fans, eventually losing 3-0. With Sardar looking off-colour, Punjab

depended on Australian Mark Knowles to deliver the goods. Knowles mar-shalled the team from the beginning, first thwart-ing Ramandeep Singh’s attempt early in the first quarter before setting up Armaan Qureshi with a delightful ball which went agonisingly wide from the goal post.

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Correspondent | Surat

Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation(GSRTC) run ST bus today plunged into Purna river in south Gujarat near Supa village of Navsari belt. The bus was full of passengers and therefore deaths of some pas-sengers are feared. All nearby ambulances are moved to the place of accident to carry all those injured to nearby medical care facility. Primary reports suggest that the driver was speeding. Rescue efforts were on.

Correspondent | Amreli

Claiming that Maharash-tra fishermen had intruded into Gujarat coast, around 700 boats remained an-chored in Jafrabad port on Amreli coast for the third consecutive day on Thurs-day as fishermen refused to venture into the sea, stating that their catch had dwindled. “It seems there are no schools of fish left in the sea. Fishermen from Maharashtra are coming near Gujarat coast with their big fishing trawlers and are catching all fish. Therefore, all fishermen of Jafrabad have remained anchored for the last three days,” Mala Vansh, pres-ident of Kharva Samaj Boat Association of Ja-frabad, said. Vansh said

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel announced that farmers in 35 villages of Mehsana, Becharaji and Jotana areas of north Gujarat will be provided Narmada water for irriga-tion. This will be done by laying pipelines through a Rs 125 crore project that will irrigate 4200 hect-ares in this region. This facility has been provid-ed after sarpanchs from these villages — located between Ahmedabad-Me-hsana highway and Khari river — made repeated requests for providing water for irrigation, stat-ed an official release from

the state government Thursday. Coincidentally ,this is also the same re-gion where Japanese au-tomobile companies like Maruti Suzuki and Honda Group have bought land to set up their respective vehicle manufacturing plants. Under this project, water from the Narmada Main Canal will be sup-plied to 42 ponds in the 35 villages. The state gov-ernment expects that once Narmada water reaches these villages, farmers will be able to produce Rs 42 crore worth of crops and reduce electricity consumption by approxi-mately Rs four crore.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

While The Ministry of Human Resource and De-velopment’s panel on the New Education Policy (NEP) plans to replicate Gujarat’s annual evalua-tion exercise for students, teachers and schools, the state education depart-ment has given a nod to hold it twice a year. The idea was mooted and given an approval in the District Primary Educa-tion Officers (DPEOs) and Administrative Of-ficers’ (AOs) annual re-view meeting, chaired by education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasa-ma and Minister of State Nanubhai Vanani, in Gandhinagar Thursday. “Conducting Gunotsav twice a year was one of the suggestions during the recent review meet-ing of Gunotsav, chaired by the chief minister, that was conducted for the first time this year, in or-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Advertising stalwart A.G Krishnamurthy, aged 74, who was the Founder Chairman and Managing Director of Mudra Com-munications and founding father of MICA passed away after a brief ill-ness at Hyderabad in the wee hours of Friday. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and son. Incidentally, Friday also marked the silver jubilee or 25 years of the advent of MICA- the advertis-ing institute nurtured by

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Several organisations from Gujarat have strong-ly opposed commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard crop in the country, ap-prehending that it could create ecological, en-vironmental and health problems in long-term, without the benefits of high yield and more rev-enue to farmers. The Genetic Engineering Ap-praisal Committee of the Environment Ministry (GEAC) is set to decide on Friday whether to al-low commercial cultiva-tion of GM mustard in the country. The GEAC would be appraising mus-tard’s GM variety devel-oped by Deepak Pental and his co-researchers at the Delhi University. On the forefront of the oppo-sition was RSS-affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sang-h(BKS). Other organisa-

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Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel’s daughter in soup over Gir sanctuary land deal, Congress wants SIT probe

Advertising stalwart, MICA founder AG Krishnamurthy passes away at 74

Correspondent | New Delhi

On the second day of the Auto Expo- the Motor Show 2016, Toyota Kir-loskar Motor unveiled its cloud based telematics services for India under the brand name of TOY-OTA CONNECT- Con-nected Services with a Human Touch giving its customers access to Toy-ota’s global standard of personalized connected services. TOYOTA CON-NECT is a fully integrat-ed cloud based telematics service platform support-ed by a new dedicated premium call centre and also integrated with Toy-ota’s dealer network & service providers. Toyota car owners will be able to access Toyota Connect through a smartphone ap-plication. Services will

Correspondent | New Delhi

The Congress has de-manded an independent probe by a Special Inves-tigation Team (SIT) into the reported land allot-ment to a company run by business associates of Gujarat Chief Min-ister Anandiben Patel’s daughter, Anar Jayesh Patel. The company was allotted 250 acres of land near the Gir lion sanctu-ary at an official rate of Rs 15 per square metre. The company owns a to-tal of 400 acres of prime land. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Congress leader Anand Sharma de-manded immediate res-ignation of Gujarat CM from her post and accused

700 boats remain anchored at Amreli’s Jafrabad port in protest

BKS, BJP Kisan Morcha among groups opposed to GM mustard

Toyota Kirloskar Motor unveils “TOYOTA CONNECT” Telematics Services for India

the PM Modi of turning a blind eye towards this shady land deal. “Under PM Modi’s watch when he was Gujarat CM, nep-otism flourished and pub-lic land was plundered to promote commercial and business. For fair probe, it is necessary that then revenue minister and cur-rent Gujarat CM Anandi-ben Patel resign from her

post “250 acres of land near Gir lion sanctuary was given for Rs 60000/acre whereas then noti-fied value of land was Rs 50 lakh/acre,” Sharma claimed. According to the Economic Times report, filings with the Regis-trar of Companies (RoC) show a number of trans-actions, which started when the Gujarat govern-

ment allotted 250 acres of public land in 2010-11 to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties, between Anan-diben’s daughter Anar Jayesh Patel and the pro-moters of Wildwoods. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief min-ister of the state at the time. Anandiben was Gu-jarat’s revenue minister at the time of the alloca-tion of land. The revenue department is the nodal authority for such land al-lotments. She retained the revenue portfolio when she became the chief min-ister of the state.

Krishnamurthy or AGK as he is popularly known to cater to the growing advertising industry with trained talent. Having started his career as an as-sistant to Gira Sarabhai- one of the scions of the illustrious Sarabhai fam-ily of Ahmedabad, he later moved into Calico Mills’ Shilpi advertising as an account executive in 1972, and then to Reli-ance Industries as adver-tising manager in 1976

and later founded Mudra Communications – float-ed by Reliance in 1980 at Ahmedabad. Hav-ing successfully steered Mudra as one of the top agencies in the country with brands like Vimal, Rasna and in the 1980’s, he later set up the Mudra Institute of Communica-tions, Ahmedabad(MI-CA), now called MICA in 1991. Completing 25 years- the institute(MI-CA) was marking its gen-

esis as ‘MICA day’. Call-ing his death ‘poignant and ‘profound’, Nagesh Rao- present Director of MICA said, “Today MICA has lost her parent, AGK, a dreamer, a build-er, and a visionary.” Sethu Iyer, MICA’s executive Registrar who worked with AGK at Mudra from 1989 to 2003 re-calls, “While Mudra was AGK’s mission, MICA was his passion. When he founded MICA in 1991 it was, as he used to say, his way of repaying back to the advertising indus-try that had made him. He last visited MICA as the chief guest on its 14th Convocation in March 2009 and was very proud to see how his dream had shaped up.”

that the association held a meeting with its mem-bers around 10 days ago and had decided not to go for fishing for an in-definite period beginning from February 2. “Fish-ermen burn around Rs 30,000 worth of diesel on a 10-day fishing trip. But, of late, their catch have remained so low that they cannot even recover cost of diesel, ice etc. There-fore, going on a fishing trip has become econom-

ically non-viable and they have remained an-chored for the last three days,” said Bhagu Solan-ki, president of Samast Jafrabad Kharva Samaj, a social organisation of fishermen. Solanki said that majority of fisher-men of Jafrabad employ netting method. Maha-rashtra fishermen do deep-sea fishing by em-ploying trawling method which involves dragging net on the seafloor.

Farmers in 35 villages to get Narmada water for irrigation

tions opposing the pro-posed move include BJP’s Kisan Morcha, Vadoda-ra-based ‘Jatan’ that pro-moting organic farming, Gujarat Khedut Samaj and several agricultural pro-duce marketing commit-tees (APMCs). All these organisations have written to GEAC’s chairman Hem Pandey, requesting him not to give permission for GM mustard cultivation citing health and environ-mental issues. Though ma-jor mustard growing states are Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan, it is

grown in large areas in Gujarat’s Dhanera, Deesa, Bhabhar, Diyodar, Patan and Kutch. “Our experi-ence with cultivation of GM cotton was very bitter and hence, we oppose in-troduction of GM mustard and other GM food crops,” BKS stated in its letter to the GEAC. “GM seeds will make farmers perma-nently dependent on seed companies as GM seeds are 8 to 10 times costlier than normal seeds. More-over, yield of GM variety is not more than traditional varieties,” it argued while opposing GM mustard.

To improve quality of education, Gunotsav to be held twice a year

der to give a platform to senior officials to share their experiences and feedback on how to fur-ther improve the quality of education. Today, we discussed the same with district level education officials and received a positive response. Since the exercise is effective in achieving the objective of raising learning in Gu-jarat, I have given a nod to this suggestion,” said education minister Bhu-pendrasinh Chudasama. Though the results of re-cently concluded sixth three-day long evaluation

drive from January 7 till 9 (which was delayed from its schedule of Octo-ber-November due to ur-ban and rural local body elections in the month of December) are still await-ed, sources in the educa-tion department revealed that the recommenda-tion had been proposed and approved keeping in mind the “unpleasant” results revealed during previous Gunotsav where students of upper primary classes (Class VI to VIII) failed to read and write even simple sentences in Gujarati and English.

ST bus plunges into river in south Gujarat, some passengers dead

commence from mid-2016. With host of ser-vices like 24X7 Assist-ed Navigation and Live Traffic information, 24X7 GPS Location based Road Side Assistance, Online Maintenance ap-pointment booking, live check of service progress, e-Payment etc., Toyota aims to support custom-er’s driving & lifestyle needs thereby making the vehicle possession experience safe & enjoy-

able. With this unveiling, India becomes the 11th country in global Toyota operations to launch the telematics service. Glob-ally, Toyota has more than 13 years of experience in the area of Telematics and introduced its first service in 2002 in Japan and has since expanded globally to USA, China, and Thai-land & Middle East under the brand of T-Connect which stands for Toyota Connect.