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News BriefGovernment lab submits report on Maggi in SC

Flaws in National Air Quality Index: Greenpeace India

Agency | New Delhi

A government laboratory today submitted its test report on Maggi noodles in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court which directed that copies of it be given to the Cen-tre and Nestle India. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh directed the regis-try to give the report of the Mysore-based insti-tute to the parties within three days. ”In pursuance of the earlier order, sam-ples were sent to CSIR, Karnataka for testing of the product. The said in-stitute has filed the report in a sealed cover.

Rupee snaps 2-week rise; down 25 paise to 66.46

Agency | Mumbai

Snapping its nearly 2-week winning spree against the American currency, the rupee to-day dropped by 25 paise to end at 66.46 on fresh demand for the dollar from banks and import-ers amidst sharp fall in equity. The rupee re-sumed marginally low-er at 66.25 per dollar as against yesterday’s closing level of 66.21 at the Interbank For-eign Exchange (Forex) market and hovered in a wide range of 66.07 and 66.52 before finish-ing at 66.46, showing a loss of 25 paise or 0.38 per cent.

Agency | New Delhi

Greenpeace said “flaws still remain” in the Na-tional Air Quality In-dex (NAQI), launched by Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi a year back, while accessibil-ity of data on air pol-lution continues to be “skewed”.The NGO said “sadly” NAQI con-tinues to be plagued by several discrepancies in the investment in infra-structure and the exist-ing system is far from being reliable both in collection and dissemi-nation of data.

Agency | New Delhi

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tues-day flagged off In-dia’s fastest train, the “semi-bullet” Gatimaan Express, from Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station in New Delhi. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony, Prabhu said that the launch is an important step for Indi-an Railways. Gatimaan will run between Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station and Agra Can-tonment Station. The proper commercial run of the train will com-mence from April 6. The 12049/50 Gatimaan Ex-press will clock a speed of 160 km per hour speed

Agency | New Delhi

The Narendra Modi gov-ernment has planned a se-ries of events in the next three weeks to highlight the rural and agrarian fo-cus of its policies and programmes, particularly those for farmers and Dal-its. These events would include celebrating the

centenary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran Sa-tyagraha in Bihar in a big way. It was Gandhi’s first mass agitation in India where he had led a pro-test of peasants against the forcible cultivation of indigo. Today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Stand-up India’ scheme for Sched-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat BJP will hold ‘Bharat Mata Gaurav Kuch’ at 18 places across Gujarat tomorrow in which union ministers JP Nadda, Dharmendra Pradhana and Smriti Irani will take part at Ahmed-abad, Vadodara and Su-rat respectively. 6 April which is BJP’s founda-tion day will be marked with hoisting of BJP flag in the morning at booth committe level. Later BJP leaders and cadre will take part in ‘Maa Annapurna Yojana’ pro-gramme organized by the State goevrnment. Bharat Mata Gaurav March will

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on cash-rich BCCI, saying the cricket body was running like a “mutually beneficial so-ciety” and “practically corrupting” its members by not seeking any ex-planation on how crores of rupees allotted to them were being spent. While scrutinising the fund al-location and expenses of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the apex court also pulled it up for not giving funds to neglected states for promotion of cricket and said it has done nothing to encourage the game. It was also critical of the

discrimination metted out to different states by BCCI and said the states begged for money from the board which follows a “no questions asked” policy as a method to buy votes in a certain manner. Lauding the work done by Justice R M Lodha-led committee for bring-ing out massive structur-al change in functioning of BCCI, the bench said “this is not an ordinary panel. It is a committee on which we have com-plete faith. It is committee of judges and its findings have to be relied upon. We cannot say that the find-ings are perverse.”“They have come after consulta-tions with the and a wide spectrum of people and

BCCI body runs like a ‘mutually beneficial society’ - SC“Supreme Court slams BCCI”

Agency | Mumbai

A couple of days ago which was one of the 100 media groups inves-tigating a massive leak of 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonse-ca, a Panama based law

firm with offices in 35 countries, reported that Amitabh Bachchan was the appointed director of four shipping companies registered in offshore tax havens and set up 23 years ago.However, the superstar has finally

SC pulls up BCCI again: corrupting its units

Amitabh Bachchan finally breaks his silence on Panama tax evasion case

BJP to hold Bharat Mata Gaurav March at 18 places in Gujarat : BJP will mark its 36th foundation day

in the Tughlakabad-Agra section. Prior to that, it is slated to run at 120 km per hour. The origi-nal idea to run the train from New Delhi station and make it reach Agra in 90 minutes or even in 105 or 110 minutes has been abandoned. In fact, when starting from New Delhi, the flagship train was making little im-provement on time from

the existing Bhopal Sha-tabdi. So Railways chose the safe bet of starting it from Nizamuddin station so that it reaches Agra in 100 minutes. The train’s fares will be higher than that of a Shatabdi. The train will have 12 coach-es of Executive Class as well as chair cars. It is yet to be decided wheth-er to allow commercial booking for the inaugural

run or start it the follow-ing day. With its timing not proving to be much to boast about, Railways has decided to present exceptional on-board services as Gatimaan’s USP. According to a Railway Board member, the train will have “Rail Hosts and Hostesses” dressed in a blue uni-form, specially designed for them.

would come soon. ‘It would come before April 17,’ he said. Meanwhile, it is understood that the state government has shown positive response to over 20 of the total 27 issues earlier raised by Hardik through Radadiya. The government has how-ever reportedly expressed inability on the point of reservation to the commu-nity. It has also expressed willingness to constitute a Savarna Aayog (com-mission for upper castes) instead of the demand of Patidar Aayog.

Correspondent | Gandhinagar

In a renewed effort to find a resolution to the vexed Patidar reservation stir is-sue, BJP MP from Porban-dar Vitthal Radadiya, who had met jailed quota stir leader Hardik Patel twice in Surat jail as govern-ment backed negotiator a few weeks ago, today had a meeting with Chief Min-ister Mrs Anandiben Patel after which he said that he would be meeting the Patidar Anamat Aandolan Samiti (PAAS) convener in the jail soon to expedite the resolution process.

Radadiya meets CM, will meet Hardik in jail again

Mr. Radadiya said that he would meet Hardik again in jail in two days.The leader of Sardar Patel Group, another prominent outfit of the community, Lalji Patel would also re-main present on the occa-sion when efforts to chalk out a formula to end the stir would be made. The BJP MP claimed that the resolution of the issue

broken his silence and issued a statement clar-ifying his stance in the controversy. Big B’s of-ficial statement reads, “I do not know any of the companies referred said. Sea Bulk Shipping Com-pany Ltd, Lady Shipping Ltd, Treasure Shipping Ltd, and Tramp Shipping Ltd. I have never been a director of any of the above stated companies. It is possible that my name has been misused. I have paid all my tax-es including on monies spent by me overseas.

the recomendations have been given by a former CJI who have experience and they have arrived at some conclusions,” a bench comprising Jus-tices T S Thakur and F M I Khalifulla said. BCCI had moved the apex court submitting that it

has accepted some of the recomendation of Lodha panel while there were difficulties in implement-ing others as these would have wide-ranging affect on the functioning of the board. While analysing the table of fund alloca-tion and expenditure pro-

vided by BCCI for the last five years, the bench said “out of 29 states, 11 were going without a single penny and zero funds. You

have given them nothing. This doesn’t reflect a good future.” “The impression we get from the Lodha Committee is that you are releasing huge amounts to some states and you leave it to the states on the ways to spend. You are practically corrupting the person by not demand-ing explanation in spend-ing of huge money,” the bench said, adding that “you (BCCI) are running a mutually beneficial soci-ety”. During the hearing, the court wanted to know whether any cases of mis-appropriation and FIR has been lodged by the BCCI. Senior advocate K K Venugopal, appearing for the BCCI, said an FIR

was filed pertaining to the funds allocation to Jammu and Kashmir cricket board and that Assam has not filed the statement of ac-count. The bench also said “Rs 570 crores is distrib-uted every year and next time it will be Rs 1000 crores. There must be a system to check embez-zlement, siphoning. You cannot allow the siphon-ing and misappropriation of funds.” At present, there is complete lack of transparency in fund allo-cation to the states, it said. “You function like show me the face, I will make the payment,” the bench said, adding that there should be some justice in providing funds.

be held during 5-7 pm on same day.The march according to State BJP spokesperson Shri Bharat Pandya willbe about 3 km long and will start with Vande Mataram

song. It will proceed with Bharat Mata Ki Jay and Ek Do Tin Char Bharat Matano Jay Jay Kar slo-gans. The march will get blessings of saints on its route. Chief Minister

Anandiben Patel, BJP national vice president Parshottam Rupala will join the march in Ahmed-abad. State BJP chief Vi-jay Rupani will join the march in Surat.

Modi govt’s Dalit, peasant and agrarian push over next three weeks

uled Castes (SC), Sched-uled Tribes (ST) and women on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Dalit leader Jagjivan Ram.

Gatimaan Express, India’s fastest train, launched on the Delhi-Agra route

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DAYMaharashtra CM must focus on governance, not wield slogans

Devendra Fadnavis’s statement at a BJP rally on Sat-urday that people who refuse to chant “Bharat Mata ki Jai” have no place in India is unbecoming of a chief minister. A day later, in Rohtak, Baba Ramdev claimed he would have decapitated those who found the slogan unacceptable but for the law. The yoga gu-ru’s remark borders on incitement to violence. But in a time when an elected leader who also holds the con-stitutional office of chief minister makes a statement that violates both the letter and the spirit of the Con-stitution, and gets away with it, the question could be: Why single out Ramdev? The Indian Constitution does not prescribe the chanting of any slogan or any other rituals as a condition of citizenship. In fact, it doesn’t envisage the Indian state in terms of a moth-erland — or fatherland, for that matter. It is imagined on the premise of equal rights to its citizens. Fadna-vis, later, “clarified” that his government is guided by the Indian Constitution where every citizen has equal rights and would get justice. But recent actions of his government might suggest otherwise. Last month, a state BJP minister — supported by MLAs from all parties, including the Congress and NCP — piloted a resolution in the Maharashtra assembly for the sus-pension of AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan for refusing to chant “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. Political appropriation has turned the slogan contentious and its polarising impact is also reflected in a fatwa issued by the Darul Uloom Deoband. Individuals like Ramdev and insti-tutions like Deoband are free to debate their ideas of nationalism and its appropriate manifestations as long as the debates do not incite violence or threaten public order. Elected officials, however, should, at the very least, ensure that their views are in consonance with the Constitution. A city like Mumbai attracts glob-al capital and talent because, despite being home to a vicious streak of nativist politics, it is broadly seen to be cosmopolitan and accommodative of re-ligious, ethnic and cultural diversity. Hypernation-alism, especially with religious overtones, threat-ens to disrupt this narrative and hurt the economy. Targeting Fadnavis, the Left party said his stand is in “gross violation” of the Constitutional position he holds and reflected the “view of an RSS activist and not that of a Chief Minister”. “What the Chief Minister has said is that those who do not agree with the Hindutva version of nationalism have no right to stay in the country. “This is the view of an RSS activist and not that of a Chief Minister who has sworn to uphold the Constitution. The politbu-ro demands Fadnavis retracts this statement imme-diately,” CPI(M) said in a statement.

“Dalits and poor people, if given an opportunity, can bring in various reforms in the country. That’s my vision for Stand up India,”

- Ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the ‘Stand Up India’ scheme in Noida.

Agency | New Delhi

We reported in January that COLOR’s contro-versial reality TV show Bigg Boss will lose its celebs-only tag from this year, the show’s tenth season. The first promo of Bigg Boss 10, which was released recently, confirms our worst fear: Looks like the show’s big-ticket host, Bolly-wood star Salman Khan, too, will be out of the show. The show’s first promo invited the general public to send their en-tries for participation in Bigg Boss 10. The 35-sec-ond-long video shows a guy in a heated argument

with the umpire during a gulli-cricket match, fol-lowing which Bigg Boss invites him to be a part of the show. “Apka ye andaz aapko Bigg Boss ke ghar me winner bana sakta hai. Host Salman Khan is missing from the promo, raising fears that he may not be a part of the show this year. However, said.the Bajrangi Bhaijaan star will definitely host Bigg Boss 10. Elaborating on the celeb and non-celeb feature, the report quoted a source as saying, “It’s not just non-celebrities. It is a mix. There will be some known faces and some unknown faces.”

Bigg Boss 10 promo: No celebs, fine. But no Salman Khan?

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Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood is abuzz with epic team ups between big stars over the recent years. A good example is Shah Rukh Khan and Varun Dhawan collab-orating in Dilwale. But there could be an even more exciting and epic team up on the cards in-volving SRK and another big star. Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh will be coming together for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next production and the word in B-Town is that it will be directed by Shimit Amin. Shimit has earli-er directed SRK in 2007 (Chake De! India) and his last film was Rock-et Singh: Salesman Of The Year (2009). It will be interesting to see him

Agency | Mumbai

The Sadmaa remake with Kareena Kapoor and Ranveer Singh as the lead pair wasn’t meant to be. Kareena admits, “I was approached for the film but I am not do-

ing that film.”Following Kareena’s exit from the film, it now appears that the film might not be remade at all anymore. Says a source, “The makers planned the se-quel keeping Kareena in

Agency | New Delhi

Emraan Hashmi has been tagged as the serial kisser of Bollywood and there are many actresses who would love to be wooed by the actor on screen. In his upcoming movie Azhar, Emraan Hashmi will be seen locking lips with his co-actors Nar-gis Fakhri and Pracchi Desai. Lara Dutta, who will play a lawyer in the film, has also expressed her desire of kissing the actor. A source said, “She was completely fine kissing Emraan but unfortunately the script did not demand it. Obvi-ously she is very open to the idea if it pops up in the near future.” Emraan Hashmi has been known as the “serial kisser” of Bollywood because he in one actor who is best at doing it on screen. The actor has had no inhibi-

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Zarine Khan is winning admiration for an inspiring post on Ins-tagram in which she re-veals that she struggled with her weight and being bodyshamed. Zarine, 28, accompanied her lengthy Instagram note with two photos of her much heavi-er self, both taken when she was in school. What the Housefull 2 actress says about her young-er self is, or should be, a lesson in self-esteem and self-worth: “When I look at these pictures, I feel proud of myself today. Not that I felt any lesser about myself back then. Inspite of being so big I never let people’s com-ments or ideas about me bother me. Because it’s my life and my body and only I have the right to de-

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actor Asin Thottumkal, who got mar-ried to business tycoon Rahul Sharma in Janu-ary, has announced that she has stopped working post marriage. In a long post, Asin wrote on her Instagram account on Sunday, “For all my me-dia friends who still have not got the message, I’m once again reiterating that I have stopped taking up any assignments and have wrapped all my commit-ments before my wedding itself including my brand endorsements.” She add-ed, “Request people to stop making assumptions

‘Dabangg 3’ To Go On Floors Next Year, Confirms Arbaaz Khan

‘Sadmaa’ remake with Kareena Kapoor and ranveer Singh shelved?

lara Dutta expresses desire to kiss Emraan Hashmi on screen

Post wedding, I have stopped taking any new films: Asin

Shah rukh Khan and ranveer Singh to share the screen for Shimit Amin’s film?

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan has a full schedule staring at him with Ali Abbas Zafar’s film Sultan going full throttle. So, where does that place his superhit franchise Dabangg with the iconic character Chul-bul Pandey? Brother Ar-baaz Khan who produced the first two instalments is asking his fans to wait a little. Arbaaz, who also directed Dabangg 2, said, “Next year we will start working for Dabangg 3. Right now Bhai (Salman Khan) is busy with some of his projects like Sul-tan and others. Therefore, Dabangg 3 is in queue. I cannot say the exact time, but next year for sure.” While promoting Dabangg 2, Salman had revealed that the third film

tions in kissing his lead-ing lady.Unfortunately, the script did not demand a kiss between Emraan and Lara.Azhar is based

on the true life events of ace cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin. Directed by Tony D’Souza, the film will release on May 13.

directing Shah Rukh and Ranveer together. Hope it is a happier experience compared to when SRK and Varun came togeth-er. King Khan is on an experimental phase right now with Manish Shar-ma thriller Fan and Rahul Dholakia’s real life based film Raees, for which SRK is currently shoot-

ing. His last film Dilwale was a bit of a letdown and the actor is pulling all stops to become the top actor again.Ranveer Singh on the other hand is easily at the peak of his career. After a riveting performance in Bajirao Mastani, he is currently busy with shooting for Befikre in Paris.

will actually be a prequel. “We have our third film ready and it will go back and show how Chulbul Pandey becomes Chulbul Pandey. If the second one becomes a hit, we can go to the third one, which is actually the first one. So Dabangg 3 will be a prequel.” He had also said that Sonakshi, the lead actress of the first two films, will also fea-

ture in the prequel. Sal-man is shooting for Ali Abbas Zafar’s Sultan, which also stars Anush-ka Sharma and Randeep Hooda. The Bajrangi Bhaijaan star will be seen portraying character of a 40-year-old wrestler named Sultan Ali Khan from Haryana who strug-gles with problems in his professional and person-al life.

mind. It’s her character that drives the film so the female protagonist is very important in the film. Sridevi had nailed her part in the original and the team felt Bebo’s the only actress of the current generation who can bring in the depth and drama to the table. So af-ter she informed them that she wasn’t doing the film, the makers decided to put the film on hold for the time being.” Tell Kareena about it and she almost confirms that the film is on the back-burn-er. “I don’t know if they are making the film any-more now,” admits Bebo.

cide what I’m going to do with it.” In her note, she writes that losing weight was difficult and that she had already lost the ex-tra kilos by the time she was cast in her first film (2010’s Veer, co-starring Salman Khan). She was asked to gain weight to play the role of Princess Yashodhara in the film.

And since irony often ups and dies in Bolly-wood, she was slammed by some for the weight gain: “Unfortunately I was criticised to no end for my weight but again I never let that get to me. How could I? Those peo-ple had not seen me like the way I am in these pictures here.

Everyone Should read Actress Zarine Khan’s Powerful Post on Bodyshaming

about my assignments and work as I’m not doing that at this stage. Had made this announcement before the wedding itself.” Asin and Micromax co-found-er Rahul tied the knot in a twin wedding ceremony on January 19. A Christian ceremony in the morn-ing was followed by Hin-du pheras in the evening. Bollywood star Akshay

Kumar introduced Asin to Rahul . Talking about it, Akshay had said right be-fore the wedding, “It was during Housefull 2 and we were in Delhi. Don’t laugh, but we were & play-ing hide and seek, and I made the two of them hide together in one cupboard. That is how it started and it is so nice that they are get-ting married now.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPDoordarshan starts free TV service for smartphone users

This Gas Giant Planet has three shining suns in its sky

Mphasis shares pare early gains; up nearly 1% at close

Agency | New Delhi

Scientists studying a distant gas giant have found a rare three-star system 685 light years away. And this planet’s star system contains not only or two but a trio of suns that coexist in a complex system. This planet KELT-4Ab, astronomers believed could help throw some light on the complex dynamics of these multi-star systems. KELT-4A is relatively close to us and bright, giving us a better chance to study and understand the complex planetary system.KELT-4 system lies about 685 light-years away in the con-stellation Leo. Now with Kilodegree Extremely Lit-tle Telescope and several other telescopes, astron-omers have found that the distant star is actually a binary - made of not one but two stars. This triple system is a binary within a binary. Roughly speak-ing Kelt-4A is 1.2 solar masses. It’s only the third known transiting planet in what’s known as a ‘hier-

archical triple stellar system.

Agency | New Delhi

Watching television on the go has never been sim-pler. Doordarshan is rolling out mobile television service that will initially cover 16 cities with plans for expansion into more locations in India. Unlike online video streaming services that have been on the rise in the recent times, Doordarshan’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service requires no In-ternet connection. One only requires DVB-T2 Don-gle to watch various Doordarshan channels on their smartphone or tablet. Not only has Doordarshan simplified access to mobile TV, but the broadcast-er’s offering is also low-cost. Plugging to DDT of-fering doesn’t consume a customer’s Internet data. Additionally, besides the cost of the dongle, there are no additional charges for streaming Doordar-shan channels available through the DDT platform. The channels being relayed through DDT include DD Sports, DD News, DD Bharati, DD National,

and DD Regional.

Agency | Mumbai

Blackstone Group agreed to buy out Hewlett Pack-ard Enterprise’s (HPE) majority shareholding in Bengaluru-based IT services provider Mphasis Ltd., in a deal worth up to Rs.7,071 crore. The transaction will be the U.S. private equity firm’s single largest investment in the country. Accord-ing to Blackstone, it will acquire at least 84 per cent of the 60.5 per cent stake owned by HPE and make an open offer for buying another 26 per cent from the public. The company said it would pay a purchase price of Rs.430 per share to HPE and Rs.457.50 apiece for shares bought from the pub-lic through an open offer. Based on the open-of-fer subscription, the purchase price consideration will vary between Rs.5,466 crore and Rs.7,071 crore (approximately $825 million - $1.1 billion). The transaction is expected to close in the coming months subject to approvals. “Mphasis’ has strong domain expertise in banking, financial services and insurance vertical,” said Amit Dixit, Senior Man-aging Director and Co-Head of Private Equity in India at Blackstone.

IPl 2016 | leaving those bright yellow memories behind: Dhoni practises with his new team

women’s hockey: India suffer hat-trick of losses in Hawke’s Bay Cup

After Afridi’s resignation, Pakistan appoints Sarfraz Ahmed T20 captain

ST bus fall off bridge near Vyara

ICC chief executive bats for more teams to be included in World T20

Agency | Mumbai

Having a fine spell with captaining India in the World T20, Ms Dhoni will now shift focus to the Indian Premier League as he looks all set to captain his new franchise- Rising Pune Supergiants. MS Dhoni, who was the first pick of the Pune side in the recently concluded auction, was appointed as their skipper in Janu-ary earlier this year. MS Dhoni, who was the cap-

tain of Chennai Super Kings since the incep-tion of IPL, will be seen in a new jersey as both Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were suspended from the Indi-an Premier League for a tenure of two years. This action was taken follow-ing charges of match fix-ing on officials from both teams. With the ninth edi-tion of the Indian Premier League slated to start from 9th April. Ms Dhoni

didn’t waste any time as he began his practise ses-sions with side by posting a photo on social media. Of his previous Chennai team mates, only R Ash-win and Faf du Plessis remain while his mates, Suresh Raina and Ravin-dra Jadeja were picked by the other new franchise, Gujarat Lions. Ajinkya Rahane and Steven Smith of Rajasthan Royals too join MS Dhoni for this term of the IPL.

Correspondent | Surat

In yet another accident involving a bus of Guja-rat State Road Transport Corporation (ST bus), over 40 passengers were injured today when it fell off a bridge near Kathvad Patiya close to Vyara, the district headquarter of Tapi district. However, in a miraculous way despite the speeding bus falling in to a water stream be-low from a height of over 20 ft no loss of life took place. Superintendent of

the ST in Surat region, D C Rajguru said that the bus number GJ- 18- Y- 7794 was going to Ahmedabad from Nijhar town of Tapi district. ‘At around 7 am this morn-ing the driver suddenly lost control of the steer-ing while the bus was on the bridge. The bus with around 45 passengers in it fell off the bridge. Most of the people sustained minor injuries and were discharged from hospital in Vyara after primary treatment while three se-

riously injured including a woman and the driver of the bus have been sent to Surat civil hospital for better treatment,’ he said. It may be recalled that on Feb 5 this year, 44 peo-ple, almost half of them women, were killed in a similar incident which turned in to a major trag-edy when a ST bus going from Navsari to Ukai fell off the bridge on Purna river near Supa village on Bardoli road under Navsari rural police sta-tion of the district.

Agency | Islamabad

Pakistan’s Cricket Board Tuesday announced Sar-fraz Ahmed as new cap-tain of the T20 team after Shahid Afridi stepped down following his side’s humiliating ear-ly exit from the World Twenty20. A statement on the PCB website de-scribed Ahmed -- who led the Quetta Gladiators to the final in Pakistan’s

first-ever franchise-based T20 league in February -- as a “natural choice” for the position. “I spoke to Sarfraz this morning and conveyed to him that he was our natural choice for this position. His ap-pointment is open-end-ed. I wish him good luck in his new role,” it quoted PCB chairman Sheheryar Khan as say-ing. Afridi resigned as

Agency | New Zealand

India’s women’s hock-ey team suffered third consecutive loss in the eight-nation Hawke’s Bay Cup, losing to China 1-2 in the last pool game here on Tuesday. Rani Ram-pal’s field goal put India ahead in the 19th minute but the Chinese equal-ised through Yu Qian in the 45th minute before ang Mengyu scored the winner from a penalty corner with five minutes left on the clock. World

No.13 India, coming into the match with two suc-cessive defeats -- against New Zealand (0-1) and Ireland (0-4), came to life in the second quarter ear-ly against the fifth ranked Chinese. Rani scored off a swiftly worked count-er-attack from the right flank, giving India the lead in the 19th minute. China immediately hit back, and won a penal-ty corner of their own, but goalkeeper Savita ensured India went into

Agency | New Delhi

ICC chief executive Da-vid Richardson is satisfied with the current format of the World T20 but said that he would like to see the inclusion of two more teams in the first and sec-ond rounds in future com-petitions. “I think, the for-mat itself works. Whether we promoted those first round matches well enough, that is a question we need to answer at a later stage and review it,” Richardson told Cricket Radio ahead of the World T20 finals of the men’s and women’s teams. “The format has worked in that all the matches, first round and second round, it is designed to create even contests between the teams and to that extent it

has worked exceptionally well,” he added. “Wheth-er we move to perhaps increasing the size of the tournament by adding one or two teams, or one team to each group in that first round, I think if we can do that, number one, we will provide more op-portunities to other teams but, number two, if you do lose two matches, you have still got a chance in a group of five whereas, in a group of four, you

are dead and buried,” quipped the former South African wicketkeeper. “That might be useful and then even maybe increas-ing, instead of having a Super 10 have a Super 12 maybe which will again increase the number of matches but, I think, it will give more opportu-nities for the Associate members to participate in the second round of the tournament itself,” he elaborated.

the break with their lead intact. The third quarter saw resolute defending from India, as China controlled most of the possession. Monika in particular was very good at marshalling the mid-field and dropping deep to deny China. With the last play of the quarter though, China scored the equaliser through Qian.The final quarter saw several chances fall for both teams as they tried to take full points. Deep-ika, took charge and had a couple of half chances that went wide of the post. Mengyu scored the win-ner for China through a penalty corner in the 55th minute. “We gave a tough game today to a team that are higher ranked than us. Crucial mistakes at the end of the final quarters denied us the points.

captain on Sunday af-ter his team’s exit from the tournament’s group stage.Waqar Younis re-signed as head coach of the Pakistan team on Monday.The 2009 T20 champions were widely criticised for a lacklustre performance at the latest tournament, with just one victory against unfancied Bangladesh and big loss-es to India, New Zealand and Australia. Veterans like Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik have been singled out. Ahmed, a 28-year right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman, has played 21 T20 Inter-nationals and the same number of Test matches as well as 58 one-day in-ternationals.

Gujarat: ‘Harassed’, Dalit clerk hangs self

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A 31-year-old Dalit, work-ing as a clerk in an Ahmed-abad court, committed suicide at his home alleg-ing discrimination and ha-rassment at his workplace. Before taking the extreme step he is said to have writ-ten names of five of his colleagues who allegedly harassed him by hurling castiest remarks. Accord-ing to police, Ketan Kora-dia, a resident of Behram-pura, Danilimbda hanged himself at his home Sun-day evening while his par-

ents were away. His father Dalpat Koradia lodged the FIR naming five of Ketan’s colleagues who work at metropolitan court, Gheekanta in Ahmedabad. His father has said in the FIR, lodged at Danilimbda police station, that Ketan was appointed as a clerk in 2013 and was posted in accounts department. He has alleged that since the beginning Ketan was being discriminated due his caste. “To harass him further, Ketan was trans-ferred to court no 7 despite

FIr names five of Ketan’s colleagues

who work at metropolitan court

the fact that there was no official order. After some complaints, he was trans-ferred back to the accounts department.” According to the FIR, last February he was transferred to court no 14. His father has said that due to fresh transfer Ketan went into depression and proceeded on leave. On Sunday evening when Dal-patbhai and his wife were on their saree shop their son-in-law informed that Ketan has committed sui-cide. The victim’s father has handed over papers where names of five court officers – CK Trivedi, GJ Shah, RP Barot, KC Bhavsar and Bhati Saheb – have been written who allegedly harassed Ketan.

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