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News Brief

Jaitley warns of action against

tax evasion

Sunrisers Hyderabad V/s Gujarat Lions

(Hyderabad 8:00 PM)

Agency | Mumbai

The US dollar ended steady against the rupee at 66.55/56 per dollar but the pound sterling finished lower at Rs 96.20/22 per pound at the close of the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market today.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan says be-cause of her films and the amount of time she spends in Kolkata, peo-ple often think she is a Bengali. The actress made her debut in films in a leading role with the Bengali movie “Bhalo Theko” in 2003 before debuting in Bollywood with “Parineeta”.

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today warned of action against those passing off income from other sources as agricul-ture income but ruled out levying any tax on farm earnings. Replying to the discussion on the Finance Bill 2016 in the Lok Sabha, he also ruled out withdrawal of the 1 per cent excise duty on non-silver jewellery, a demand that was made by opposition Congress and ruling NDA constit-uent Shiv Sena.

Agency | Panaji

Goa Police on Thursday recorded the statement of the minor girl, who was allegedly raped by expelled Congress legis-lator Atanasio Monser-ratte in March. The MLA on Thursday surrendered before the Crime Branch of Goa Police. “A team of officials from Women’s police station visited the state-run protective home where the girl is current-ly lodged and recorded her statement,” a senior official said on condition of anonymity. The victim

Agency | New Delhi

Wrong depiction of the map of India could land the violators in jail with a maximum term of seven years and fine upto Rs 100 crore. This measure has been envisaged by the gov-ernment against the back-drop of instances where certain social networking sites showed Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as part of Paki-stan and China respective-ly. Recently, ‘Twitter’ had shown the geographical lo-cation of Kashmir in Chi-na and Jammu in Pakistan triggering protests from the Indian government af-

Agency | Ujjain

At least seven people were killed on Thursday when a pandal collapsed in strong winds and heavy rainfall here at Simhastha Kumbh Mela, one of the largest Hindu religious congregations organised in an interval of every 12 years. Strong winds and heavy rainfall swept through the Ujjain city in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, as thousands of devotees thronged to take their holy bath on the banks of the famed

Kshipra river. The Mad-hya Pradesh government has announced a com-pensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of deceased and Rs 50,000 each to critically injured victims. The month-long Simhastha Kumbh Mela began in Ujjain early on last Friday with the arrival of Juna Akhara for the royal bath on the banks of the river. Peo-ple from different parts of the country have con-verged in the city, which is also the abode of Lord

Hailstorm claims 7 lives at Ujjain

US dollar ends rock steady

People often think I am

Bengali: Vidya

Today MaTch IPL 2016

7 killed at Ujjain Kumbh as tents collapse after heavy rainfall, 70 injured“Simhasth Kumbh Mela”

Rape of minor by Goa MLA: Atanasio Monserratte surrenders before crime branch

Up to 100 crore fine, prison sentence for wrong depiction of India map

Agency | Mumbai

The father of Keenan Santos, one of the two men who was killed while trying to save their women friends from ha-rassment, said on Thurs-day that justice was de-livered after a Mumbai court sentenced to life the four people charged in the case. Valerian Santos (57) expressed “satisfac-

tion” over the verdict and said the two victims had been finally meted out justice. “However, this is just the beginning... The battle is not over, they might appeal in the high-er courts and we have to wait,” Santos said shortly after the verdict. A spe-cial women’s court in Mumbai, on Thursday, sentenced to life impris-onment the four people

charged with killing two men who had tried to pre-vent the molestation of their women friends five years ago, a legal official said. The convicts - Ji-tendra Rana, Sunil Bodh, Satish Dulgaj and Di-pak Tival - had attacked Keenan Santos, 24, and his friend Rueben Fer-nandes, 29, on the night of October 20, 2011 after they tried to harass their woman friends outside a restaurant in Andheri. Special judge Vrusha-li Joshi pronounced the sentence in the presence of family members of the accused, kin of the vic-tims and mediapersons covering the trial for the past five years.

had recorded her state-ment before Child Wel-fare Committee wherein she had alleged that Mon-serratte has raped her several times in the past. The details of the state-ment were, however, not revealed by the police. An FIR was registered by

Panaji police on Wednes-day in this connection but it was handed over to Women police station last night. Superintendent of Police (Women police station) Karthik Kashyap said that Monserratte has been booked under sec-tion 3,4 of POSCO Act,

and relevant sections of the IPC and Goa Chil-dren’s Act. Monserratte, who represents St Cruz constituency, was out of town when the case was booked against him yes-terday. He had claimed that the case against him was “politically moti-vated”. “The girl was working in my showroom and I had dismissed her for misappropriation of funds. This is a conspir-acy against me,” he had said. Monserratte’s fam-ily members maintained that he is innocent and is being “framed”.

Justice delivered but battle not over: Keenan’s father on court verdict

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat government on Thursday opposed the bail plea of Patidar Anamat Andolan Sami-ti leader Hardik Patel, saying that the “conduct and behaviour” of the ac-cused showed it was se-ditious in nature. Public Prosecutor Mitesh Amin, who began his argument against Hardik’s bail plea in the court of Jus-tice A J Desai, told the court that “conduct and behaviour” of accused Hardik since the begin-ning of the agitation was against the government and seditious in nature. The court kept the mat-ter for further hearing post summer vacation, on June 9 as the govern-ment lawyer said that he cannot finish his argu-ments in a day. The high court will go for vaca-tion from coming Sat-

Gujarat govt opposes Hardik’s bail, says agitation was seditious

urday. Questioning the statement made in a vol-untary undertaking given before the court by Har-dik’s lawyer on Wednes-day, Amin said the clause that he will continue agi-tation with a rider that it will be peaceful, was not acceptable as given the history of Patidar agita-tion, it was not likely to remain peaceful. Amin highlighted Hardik’s be-haviour as ‘stubborn’ for insisting that chief min-ister Anandiben Patel herself should come to collect memorandum at

GMDC ground where a huge rally turned violent on August 25 last year. Hardik’s insistence led to his detention, he told the court. The violence that broke out following his detention could have incurred loss to the tune of around Rs 100 crore, Amin told the court. He also questioned Hardik’s visit to Vipul Desai’s home in Surat where he made a statement saying Vipul (who had threat-ened suicide) should kill policemen rather than end his life.

ter which it was corrected. ‘The Geospatial Informa-tion Regulation Bill 2016’, it will be mandatory to take permission from a gov-ernment authority before acquiring, disseminating, publishing or distributing any geospatial information of India. “No person shall

depict, disseminate, pub-lish or distribute any wrong or false topographic infor-mation of India including international boundaries through internet platforms or online services or in any electronic or physical form. “Whoever acquired any geospatial information

of India in contravention of the law shall be pun-ished with a fine ranging from Rs 1 crore to Rs 100 crore and /or imprison-ment for a period up to seven years,” according to the draft bill. Geospa-tial Information means geospatial imagery or data acquired through space or aerial platforms such as satellite, aircrafts, airships, balloons, unmanned aerial vehicles including value addition or graphical or digital data depicting nat-ural or man-made physi-cal features, phenomenon or boundaries of the earth or any information related thereto including surveys, charts, maps, terrestrial photos referenced to co-or-dinate system and having attributes.

Mahakaleshwar, one of the 12 Jyotirlings in the country. All the 13 Akha-ras of saints and seers will take dip one after an-other for which elaborate arrangements were made along the banks of the

river. Over 5 crore peo-ple, including seers, are expected to visit the city during the period, with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan saying it will be a “Green Simhastha”.

“Over 5 crore pilgrims are expected to vis-it Ujjain and other holy places during the fair, for which huge security and logistical arrangements have been made,” Chou-han said. Congress gen-eral secretary Digvijaya Singh also took bath at Gaughat on the opening day of the Simhastha. About 22,000 security personnel, including the state policemen, person-nel from central forces and other departments have been deployed.

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DAYKerala rape and murder case: Cash cannot make up for justicePublic memory is fickle. So is their reaction to differ-ent episodes of similar nature. Take for example, the rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit woman at Pe-rumbavoor in Kerala on April 28. The brutality of the incident is a chilling reminder of the 2012 gang rape case in Delhi but the public reaction to it has been nothing like what we saw in Delhi. This unnervingly indifferent reaction to the case, however, should not worry us excessively; instead, what should worry us much, much more is the ‘time-lapse’ in the reaction of the local police to the repeated demands of the vic-tim’s family for security cover. According to news re-ports, the victim’s mother, a daily wage labourer, had given written complaints to the police that her daugh-ter, a law graduate, was being stalked and harassed by a relative of a panchayat member and that both had got death threats from the man. At the time of going to press, the police have not been able to arrest the culprits but the government has removed a police of-ficer from the team investigating the case. The initial lackadaisical approach of the police raises a critical question: Did the police look the other way because the victim was a Dalit? And a rhetorical one: Why are political parties playing politics over the rape and murder when what they should be doing is push the police to bring the culprit to book? The BJP on Tues-day attacked the Congress, saying its vice-president Rahul Gandhi was quick in rushing to different states over Dalit issues but has refrained from making a comment on the incident. While we know such cases are ‘live’ ammunition for the Opposition during an election season, parties should desist from petty pol-itics; instead, they should pressure the police to nab the culprits. It’s just another case of the pot calling the kettle black: If it was the BJP on the backfoot in the Rohith Vemula case, in Kerala, it’s the Congress. Caught in the storm, the Kerala chief minister went into damage-control overdrive: He tweeted that the government will give Rs 10 lakh compensation for the “Perumbavoor mishap victim’s family” and a government job to the victim’s sister. Instead of making promises that will take years to bear fruit, it would have been better had the CM not softened the nomenclature of the crime (“mishap”), explained to us why the police failed to stick to the rule book in the first place and ensured a through and quick probe. For a victim’s family, a closure is always more important than a cash handout from the very State that has failed to do its primary duty of ensur-ing their security.

“He is the first former CM who has been served summons by the CBI. There is no smoke without a fire. It is another indication that he has done something wrong,” - State BJP president Ajay Bhatt said.....

Kaabil: Check out the motion teaser poster of Hrithik Roshan’s next

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actors Ami-tabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan, director Ribhu Dasgupta and producer Sujoy Ghosh launched the first trailer of upcom-ing Hindi film TE3N on Thursday at an event in Mumbai. The thriller is expected to hit the the-atres on June 10, 2016. In the fast-paced trailer, John Biswas (Amitabh) is seen trying to figure out the mystery behind the disappearance of his grandchild, Angel. The video establishes the three lead characters – Vidya Balan, Nawazud-din Siddiqui and Amitabh Bachchan. Big B plays a grandfather while Nawaz and Vidya essay the roles of a priest and a cop re-

Agency | New Delhi

Ranbir Kapoor has tried to quit smoking a few times. Last year, he even ac-companied his then girl-friend Katrina Kaif to the Austrian medspa where he took injections that made him quit the habit. But only for some time. The star, who has often confessed that it’s tough

to quit the cancer stick completely, is now try-ing again. He has become hooked to the electronic hookah or e-hookah. Says a source, “People trying to quit smoking cold tur-key complain about miss-ing the ritual as much as the physical withdrawal. A friend of Ranbir sug-gested he try out the elec-

Agency | Mumbai

Dad Rakesh Roshan and Hrithik Roshan have yet again collaborated for a film, but this time Sanjay Gupta will take to the di-rector’s chair. The Jazbaa director, who has already started shooting for his upcoming film Kaabil, took to Twitter to share the motion teaser poster of the film. Even Hrithik gave a sneak-peek into his next film on social media. The 40-second teaser shows Hrithik in an intense avatar. And the

tagline reads, “The Mind Sees All”. It is for the first time that the teaser poster of a film has been released on the same day it goes on floors. Hrithik has begun shooting for the film and Gupta is quite impressed by the actor’s focus and dedication. Kaabil also stars Yami Gautam. It is for the first time that the Sanam Re actor will romance Hrithik on the silver screen. A source was quoted as tell-ing BollywoodLife.com, “It’s a big solo-heroine

project for Yami, who has done films with Ajay Devgn and Varun Dha-wan, where she had to share joint credit with an-other actress. There were speculations that actresses like Parineeti Chopra and Kareena Kapoor had been approached for the role in Kaabil, which director Sanjay Gupta later denied. It’s a big feather in Yami’s hat to be part of this proj-ect. Everyone from Gupta to Hrithik and his father Rakesh felt that Yami suit-ed the role the best.”

TE3N trailer: Amitabh, Vidya and Nawazuddin promise a gripping thriller

After giving up smoking, Ranbir Kapoor’s hooked to e-hookahs

‘Sairaat’ leaked online, producer seeks police help

Agency | Mumbai

Dalbir Kaur wants ac-tor Randeep Hooda, who portrays her broth-er Sarabjit Singh in the film “Sarbjit”, to offer his shoulder to carry her body when she dies. “I would like to tell Ran-deep that I have truly seen Sarabjit in him. I have a wish and I would like to take a promise from him that when I die, he should definitely give me ‘kand-ha’ (shoulder). My soul will receive peace that

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Shraddha Ka-poor, who is basking in the success of her latest release “Baaghi”, says the best compliments she got for the film came from the audiences who saw it in single-screen cinema halls. “The best compliments that I got for ‘Baaghi’ were the kind of reactions I got from the single-screen theatres where people were whistling and shout-ing for certain dialogues. It was great as they were enjoying the film and that’s a huge compli-ment when people clap for your work,” Shraddha said. “We actually went to Chandan (single-screen theatre in Juhu locality) to get the feel of it and

Agency | Jodhpur

The lawyer of Salman Khan on Wednesday con-tended before the high court that the pellets re-covered from a vehicle and those recovered from hotel rooms where the ac-tor and his co-actor stayed bore no match, in a chin-kara poaching case. Jus-tice Nirmaljeet Kaur ex-amined the pellets which police claimed to have recovered during investi-gation. The knife and the pellets recovered from a Gypsy were produced before the high court. Sal-man’s counsel Hastimal Saraswat informed the high court that forest offi-cials inspected a Gypsy on October 7, 1998 but they could recover nothing. “But police claimed to have recovered the pellets from the Gypsy on Octo-ber 12. Police also claimed

Agency | Mumbai

Barely a week after its release, the director of the much-talked about Marathi movie Sairat has approached the Cyber Police Station in Mumbai seeking action against un-known persons who have leaked the movie online. According to sources, the producer and director of Sairat, Nagraj Manjule, approached the police with his complaint earlier this week. “A high qual-ity version of the mov-

ie has been leaked on at least three different web-sites. The quality indi-cates that it was done by someone with access to a studio print of the mov-ie,” a source said. The Cyber police have started the process of tracing the Internet Protocol address from which the movie was uploaded on the in-ternet, and is also gather-ing information about all such people who might have had access to a high quality print of the movie.

Promise me you’ll give me ‘kandha’ when I die: Sarabjit’s sister dalbir to Randeep

Best reactions for ‘Baaghi’ came from single-screen halls: Shraddha Kapoor

Poaching case: Pellets from Gypsy and hotel not same, says Salman’s lawyer

spectively. The film has been shot extensively in Kolkata. Given the past record of the people in-volved (Sujoy-Vidya worked together in Ka-haani (2012) while Ami-tabh and Ribhu have col-laborated on the TV show Yudh in 2014), we expect an edge-of-the-seat thrill-er. The crisp scene tran-sitions and a Durga Puja visual bring back mem-ories of Kahaani. TE3N was slated for a May 20

release. However, when it came to light that it would clash with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s Sarbjit, her father-in-law asked the makers to postpone the date of its release. Speak-ing at the launch, Bach-chan said, “I am delight-ed to work with Vidya and Nawaz. I get to learn so much from artists like them. I love learning the craft from young talent. I admire the way they ap-proach the scenes.”

tronic hookah to give up smoking. Smoking an e-hookah or a vape pen is now en vogue with the youth. Some of these de-vices have no tobacco, no nicotine and no tar resins that are otherwise pres-ent in cigarettes or con-ventional hookahs. A key reason for their growing popularity is that they of-fer a similar experience to smoking. Ranbir real-ly wants to quit smoking so he was willing to try it out. Now he carries it the e-hookah instead of a pack of ciggies with him and is often seen smoking it. He’s making a serious attempt at least to kick the habit.”

Sarabjit gave me ‘kand-ha’,” Dalbir Kaur said at an event which remem-bered Sarabjit on his third death anniversary. The film’s director Omung

Kumar and the cast of the film — Randeep, Aish-warya Rai Bachchan, Ri-cha Chadha and Darshan Kumar — were also pres-ent at the event.

it was really nice as the audience was so happy. We got news from inside that they were screaming, shouting and whistling inside,” she added. Pro-duced by Sajid Nadiadwa-

la and directed by Sabbir Khan, “Baaghi” also fea-tures actor Tiger Shroff. According to trade expert Taran Adarsh, “Baaghi” has collected Rs.55.69 crore till Thursday.

to have recovered the pel-lets from the rooms occu-pied by Salman and Saif Ali Khan. But they are not similar.” Saraswat argued that the knife allegedly used for slitting the throat and peeling off the skin of a poached chinkara was ‘unused’. “It doesn’t prove hunting. Police failed to produce foren-sic report of the knife,” he said. Contending that false evidences have been produced to fabricate Salman, the defence on Wednesday completed its argument. The next hearing will be on May

10 when the prosecution comes up with its argu-ments. Counsels Saraswat and Mahesh Bora also questioned the statements of witnesses Harish Du-lani and Govardhan Singh, who mentioned antelope in their statements and not ‘chinkara’. “How could the prosecution come to conclusion that it was a chinkara, Bora ques-tioned. Bora said neither Dulani nor any other witness saw the poach-ing taking place nor the pellets allegedly used in poaching have the capac-ity to kill any animal.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPDatsun starts pre-booking for the ‘redi-GO’ urban-cross in Ahmedabad

Eat Healthy, Get Active This World Athletics day: Nutritionist Komal Patel

SOF launches Sports and Company Secretaries Olympiad in Ahmedabad

SETU Agency | Ahmedabad

Now in its 21st year, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Athletics Day is the sport’s annual worldwide festival of youth and one of the most anticipated days on the international athletics calendar.It is a momentous occasion for young athletes and school children across the world to take part in athletic competi-tions to popularize the sport while staying active and healthy. At the heart of all the sprinting and jumping is the need to inculcate active lifestyle among world’s youth and promote athletics as a way of life for children around the world. And, all this begins with a dose of good health through eating right every day because for optimum performance

on tracks there is no escaping a healthy diet.

SMS Agency | Ahmedabad

Datsun today announced the start of pre- launch bookings for its much-awaited, ‘Datsun redi-GO’ urban-cross, a unique fusion of compact crossover and hatchback. The pre-booking orders for Datsun redi-GO has begun staring May, 2016. Deliveries of the vehicle to new owners will The Datsun redi-GO will be priced between Rs. 2.5 lakh and 3.5 lakh; the ex- showroom prices and variants will be announced during the launch in June. Customers can pre-book their Datsun redi-GO with a fully refundable down payment of INR 5,000 at Nissan dealerships across India. Currently, the company has 217 outlets cov-ering 165 cities, with plans to establish 300 sales and service Prospective customers can also book the Datsun redi-GO online through Snapdeal.com,

India’s leading ecommerce platform.

R3 Comm. Guj Agency | Ahmedabad

Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) the biggest organizer of Olympiads for school students in the world has launched two new Olympiad globally In-cluding Ahmedabad with renowned organization, one is International Sports Knowledge Olympiad ( ISKO) in association with STAR SPORTS India’s largest sports channel and second International Company Secretaries Olympiad (ICSO) – in asso-ciation with The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, under The Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India. Approx 70,000 Students registered for the Olympiad (2015-2016) in Ahmedabad. Some of the regular participants in SOF Olympiad from Ahmedabad are Udgam School for Children, Best School, Anand Niketan Maninagar, D.A.V Interna-tional School and Anand Niketan Satellite School etc. International Sports Knowledge Olympiad will include Sports & General Knowledge questions and students from classes one to ten may appear in the ISKO. Awards/scholarships worth approx. Rs.2.25 crores will be provided to winners/ participants. In addition, for the first time, select state topper stu-dents will be invited to appear on a special program on Star Sports channel. Company Secretaries Olym-piad – for students of classes 11 & 12, is designed to assist students realize their aptitude & potential for Company Secretary’s profession.

Agency | Kolkata

Kolkata Knight Rid-ers may be going along smoothly with six wins from nine matches but head coach Jacques Kallis on Thursday warned the team against compla-cency, saying that it had slipped out of contention from a similar position in last year’s IPL. “The pos-

itive of course is we’re atop the table. We’re sit-ting pretty in a good po-sition. I suppose some of the negatives might be we were pretty similar to this last year, then sort of relaxed towards the end,” Kallis told reporters on the sidelines of ‘Knight Golf’ a charity initiative at RCGC in Kolkata on Thursday. Rewind the

clock to IPL-2015 and then defending champi-ons KKR had climbed to the pole position after a thrilling one-run win over Kings XI Punjab at Eden Gardens on May 9. But as it turned out, they lost two matches (Mum-bai Indians and Rajasthan Royals) on the trot to slip out of top-four and miss a playoff berth.

Agency | Karachi

Former Test allrounder Mudassar Nazar is set to take over as director of academies in the Pakistan Cricket Board, which has created the position to streamline and groom new talent in the country and to improve the domestic cricket structure. Nazar, 60, has submitted his doc-uments with PCB which, in its Board of Governors meeting on Tuesday, spe-cifically removed the re-quirement of a candidate being a qualified graduate to be eligible for the posi-

tion. “With the condition of being a graduate re-moved Mudassar is now set to be appointed to this new position,” an official in the board said. Mudas-sar has been working as coach in the ICC global cricket academy in Dubai for the last few years and the official said he had agreed to resign from the position to come to Paki-stan. “He was the unani-mous choice because of his background in coaching and cricket administration with the ICC and national teams,” the official said.

Mudassar, who played 76 Tests as an opener and 122 one-day internation-als, has coached the Paki-stan senior and A teams in the past and was national team coach in 2001/2002. He also served as director of the National Cricket Academy in Lahore be-fore moving to Dubai. The decision to appoint the former player is one of several steps being taken by the PCB to restructure its cricket system owing to the national team’s disas-trous performances in the Asia Cup and World T20.

Agency | Kochi

Bowlers claiming all ten wickets in an innings is a rarity in cricket and more so in junior level cricket. But on Wednes-day 18-year-old Nazil CT from Kannur became the first bowler to achieve the unique feat of claim-ing all ten wickets in an innings in Kerala’s junior inter-district tournament history. Nazil was the cy-nosure of all eyes on the opening day of two-day U-19 inter-district cricket match at the KCA stadium in Perinthalmanna as his ten-wicket haul helped his side, Kannur, bundle out Malappuram for just 26 in their first innings. The lad who has just completed his plus two ended up with

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Agency | Dubai

The Indian cricket team was dislodged as the top Twenty20 side and also dropped a rung to fourth in the ODI charts of the latest ICC rank-ings following the annu-al update. India are now second in the Twenty20 charts, behind New Zea-land. Australia and New Zealand have retained the top two positions on the ODI rankings. Re-sults from 2012-13 have been dropped, while results from 2014-15 have been reduced to a weighting of 50 per cent. Australia, who won their fifth World Cup title in Melbourne last year, are now sitting on 124 points after dropping two points to lead New Zealand by 11 points.

Agency | New Delhi

Rising Pune Supergiants, licking their wounds after so many reverses in their inaugural season, were at the Ferozeshah Kotla for practice on Wednes-day ahead of the game against Delhi Daredev-ils. None exemplified the downcast mood in the team better than Ishant Sharma, the strike bowl-er, who has been played in just four matches, tak-ing three wickets. Captain MS Dhoni and R Ashwin were not present and coaches Stephen Flem-ing and Eric Simons were trying to make sense from the depleted squad with them. This season’s IPL is going through a melt-down, and injury woes,

Agency | New Delhi

England skipper Alastair Cook is in line to break one of the many records held by batting legend Sachin Tendulkar. Cook will have an opportunity to become the youngest cricketer to score 10,000 Test runs when his team takes on Sri Lanka in a three-Test series at home, starting May 19. Tendulkar breached the 10,000-run mark against Pakistan at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in 2005 when he was 35 years and 10 months old. Cook, who turned 31 last December, needs 36 more to join

IPL 2016: Jacques Kallis warns KKR against 2015-like slip up

PCB to appoint Mudassar Nazar as director of academies

India lose top T20 spot, slip to fourth in OdIs in latest ICC rankings

U-19 cricket: Kannur boy Nazil claims 10 wickets in an innings

Sachin Tendulkar’s Test record under threat from Alastair Cook

dhoni’s team looks to make sense of season ahead of Daredevils tie

figures of 9.4-2-12-10 Na-zil, who considers himself predominantly a swing bowler, was ecstatic at his achievement. “I’m an in-swing bowler and I don’t strive for much pace and it helped that the ball moved around in the morning,” he said. Out of his 10 scalps, 4 were bowled and three were leg-before wickets which exemplifies the fact that he kept probing the stumps. Nazil comes from a family with a cricketing

background. Fabid Fa-rooq, the off-spinner who made his first-class debut for Kerala last season, is the son of Nazil’s uncle. Nazil nurses ambitions of following the footsteps of his cousin and playing Ranji Trophy. “I would like to play for Kerala one day. For the moment, it’s about doing well for my district team,” said the pacer who idolises Bhu-vaneshwar Kumar, anoth-er swing bowler.

especially those of Pune, have had a knock on ef-fect. Dhoni’s team had banked heavily on Kevin Pietersen, Faf du Ples-sis and Steve Smith but all have pulled out due to injury. In a desperate move, Big Bash League’s second most successful batsman, Usman Khawa-ja (who was the second highest run-getter and averaged 172), has been called up after he was ig-

nored at the auctions in February. Fellow Aussie George Bailey, who aver-aged 60 in Big Bash but was also given the boot at the auctions, has also been signed on. Both at-tended practice on a day when Kings XI Punjab announced the signing of Hashim Amla, anoth-er accomplished batsman who was ignored at the auctions, to replace the injured Shaun Marsh.

South Africa have swapped places with In-dia to move into third position, while the West Indies have exchanged places with Pakistan to push the 1992 World Cup winners out of the top eight. Other sides to gain following the annu-al update include sixth-ranked England (103, up two), seventh-ranked

Bangladesh (98, up one), eighth-ranked West In-dies (88, up two), 10th-ranked Afghanistan (51, up four) and 11th-ranked Zimbabwe (47, up two). A significant date on the ICC events calendar is 30 Septem-ber 2017, which is the rankings cut-off date for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

the elite 10,000-run club in Tests. Cook will get the chance to break Ten-dulkar’s record against Sri Lanka at Leeds, in the first Test in two weeks. The left-handed opener will also become the first England batsman and the 11th overall to get

to the 10,000-run mark. The England skipper has played 126 matches and has piled up 9964 runs at an average of 46.56. Graham Gooch and Alex Stewart hold the second and third spot in the list of highest run-scorers in Tests for England.

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Correspondent | Bhuj

A Pakistani national, who appeared to be a snake-charmer, was held by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the Indo-Pak border near Khavda in Kutch district of Gujarat. He was iden-tified as Javed, resident of Tando Jaan village in Sindh province of Paki-

stan. He was arrested last evening, a BSF official said. “He appeared to be a snake-charmer who may have entered the Indian territory by mistake. We found a snake, Pakistani currency, an I-card and some food items on him,” said the official. Javed was handed over to Kha-vda police for further in-quiry, added the official.

Correspondent | Surat

Reserve Bank of India manager on Wednes-day surrendered before the Surat district court and was sent to judicial custody in connection with a rape and cheat-ing complaint lodged by a city-based chartered accountant. According to police, Raghav Joshi (name changed), a res-ident of Mumbai, got engaged with the wom-an a year ago. However, their relationship turned sour and Joshi refused to marry the complainant in February 2016, they said. According to the complaint, Joshi also filmed their intimate mo-ments and later threat-ened to make it public. The complaint was filed with Umra Police Sta-

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

As many as 761 villages across the Gujarat facing acute water crisis have received water through tankers, the state govern-ment said today. Till last week, 530 villages were given water through tank-ers. Now, 231 more vil-lages are being covered, taking the total number to 761 villages, said an offi-cial release quoting Gu-jarat Education Minister

Bhupendrasinh Chudasa-ma. Chudasama heads a sub-committee of min-ister for the assessment of scarcity of water. The committee today held it’s weekly meeting at Gand-hinagar to assess the situ-ation and steps being tak-en by the government. It said 91 out of 162 munic-ipalities have been given water tankers of 5,000 to 10,000 litre capacity to ferry water in their re-spective regions.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today said that out of the 162 munici-palities in the state, 66 mu-nicipalities used only 50 per cent of the grant giv-en by the government last year, or even less than that. The CM took urban civic bodies and their elected representatives to task on various issues including under- utilisation of funds while speaking at a func-tion to distribute cheques of grants to the civic bodies here. She also rapped the officials and elected rep-resentatives for slow pace of construction of toilets, maintenance of cleanli-ness, etc. “Out of 162 mu-nicipalities, 66 municipali-ties have used only 50 per cent grant disbursed by the government last year.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued no-tice to the state govern-ment on a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging scam in construction of toilets in Surat district. The PIL alleged that in the name of providing sanitation under “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” to ev-ery household, “old toi-lets have been shown as newly constructed, while some were constructed at places adjacent to ex-isting toilets and at res-idential complexes built by the Gujarat Housing

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

At a party meeting in Gandhinagar on Wednes-day, the Gujarat BJP re-

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66 municipalities in Gujarat used only 50% or less grant

PIL alleges scam in construction of toilets in Surat

Board (sic)”. The peti-tion, filed by Dipak H Ba-gul, a resident of Kanak-

Surat: RBI manager sent to judicial custody in rape-cheating case

Gujarat BJP vows to take quota benefit to maximum people

tion. The accused had applied for anticipatory bail before the Surat Dis-trict Additional Sessions Court, but his plea was rejected. He then moved the Gujarat High Court, which also turned down his petition. The Surat court Wednesday reject-ed police’s plea to take

custody of Joshi and sent him in judicial remand. “The court rejected our remand application, and mentioned that he would remain present before the investigating office when called. His lawyer also has applied for regular bail,” said Umra police inspector G A Sarvaiya.

pur in Surat, alleged that “no new toilets have been constructed after 2010, and the toilets which were constructed between 2006 and 2010 have been shown as recent construction.” The petitioner has also an-nexed a number of photo-graphs which he obtained through RTI requests in support of his petition.

State BJP president

Vijay Rupani said, “This month marks the

second year of the Narendra Modi-led NdA government and the Anandiben Patel-led

state government and it is our responsibility to take the people-friendly schemes announced by them to

the public

solved to give the benefits of the recently announced 10% quota for Economically Backward Classes

(EBC) for upper castes and the Mukhyaman-tri Yuva Swavala-mbhan Yojana (MYSY) scheme of the state government to the maximum people as part of its preparation for 2017 assembly polls. Party spokes-person Bharat Pandya said that in the first executive meeting of the state BJP held in presence of Gujarat chief Dinesh Shar-

ma and national organisational secretary V Sathish, charting the course for a BJP win in

the coming assembly elections dominated the agenda. State BJP president Vijay Rupani said, “This

month marks the second year of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government and the Anandiben Patel-led state government and it is our responsibility to take the peo-ple-friendly schemes announced by them to the public.

Two-day conference of Gujarat Police officers kicks off

Gujarat Chief Minister today inaugurated a two-day conference of police officers of Gujarat Police at Forensic Science University auditorium in Gandhinagar.

Pakistani national with snake held at border in Kutch district

761 villages given water through tankers: Gujarat govt