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News BriefSchool lecturer rapes

teenage student in Rajasthan

Agency | Bundi

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her school lecturer for about five months in Lakshmi-pura village here, police said today.The lecturer, Ramesh Kumar Nayak, about five months ago, had threatened the vic-tim, a class XI student, that he will upload her photos on the internet and on this pretext has raped her five-six times in a nearby jungle, Ta-lera police station SHO, Jitendra Singh said.Umang fires UP to

four-wicket win against Mumbai

Kapoor to be India’s ambassador

to Israel

Agency | Cuttack

Middle-order batsman Umang Sharma struck an unbeaten 47 to help Uttar Pradesh steal a tense four-wicket win against big guns Mum-bai in the Group D Twenty20 cricket match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here today. Chasing 165 for a win at the Barabati Stadium, UP top-order batsmen squandered away good starts only to see Umang stay on with his 32-ball blitz and help the side achieve the target with two balls to spare.

Agency | New Delhi

Senior diplomat Pavan Kapoor has been ap-pointed India’s ambas-sador to strategically important Israel, where he will succeed Jaideep Sarkar. Kapoor, a 1990 batch Indian Foreign Service Officer, is cur-rently India’s High Com-missioner in Mozam-bique capital Maputo. “He is expected to take up his assignment short-ly,” the External Affairs Ministry said in a state-ment. The appointment assumes significance as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to visit India this year. Modi may also pay a return visit to Tel Aviv.

Investors lose Rs 3.47 lakh crore in 2016 amid global market crash“Markets at 19-mth low”

Agency | Srinagar

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has written to the Governor backing Mehbooba Mufti as the next Jammu and Kash-mir Chief Minister. “As far as PDP is concerned, we are unanimous that Mehbooba shall succeed Mufti Sahib,” senior PDP leader and Lok Sabha member Muzaffar Hus-sain Baig told reporters. Unlike the long delay in stitching the alliance with PDP last year, the BJP will have to make up its mind quickly with the Budget Session of the Assembly slated to begin on January 18. Mehboo-

Agency | Mumbai

Superstar Aamir Khan, who has ceased to be the mascot for the ‘Incredi-ble India’ campaign af-ter 10 years, today said he respects the govern-ment’s decision to “dis-continue” his services while making it clear that he never charged anything for the task. “It is the prerogative of the government to de-cide whether they need a brand ambassador for any campaign, and if so, who that ambassador should be. “I respect the deci-sion of the government to discontinue with my ser-vices. I am sure they will take all appropriate steps

Agency | New Delhi

Pakistan-based terror out-fit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar -- mastermind of the IC-814 hijack case -- are among four people identified by Indian intelligence agen-cies as ‘handlers’ in the Pathankot airbase attack. The Indian agencies have found evidence that the attack “conspiracy” was hatched near Lahore, ac-cording to government sources. The details of the four people have been shared with Pakistan “through proper channel” and India has pressed for stern action against them as a condition for any fu-ture talks with Pakistan, the sources said. Nation-al Security Adviser Ajit Doval is understood to have spoken to his Paki-

Agency | New Delhi

Parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday drove down to meet Congress pres-ident Sonia Gandhi at her residence, intensify-ing the BJP-led govern-ment’s efforts to secure the main opposition par-ty’s support for passage of the long-pending GST bill. Naidu also met for-mer prime minister Man-mohan Singh as part of the confidence-building exercise. The ambitious tax reform bill – which envisages a uniform tax

Agency | Tripoli

A truck bomb attack on a police training centre in Libya’s western city of Zliten has killed and wounded dozens of peo-ple, local media reports said on Wednesday. A re-port from the LANA na-tional news agency under the control of Libya’s in-ternationally recognised government said at least

Agency | Mumbai

In the worst crash this year, the bench-mark Sensex on Thursday broke below the 25,000-level by tanking about 555 points to close at 24,851.83, a 19-month low, as global stock and currency mar-kets reeled after China let the yuan fall faster to battle a slowing economy. The NSE Nifty too plunged headlong as it went below the 7,600-mark by falling 172.70 points, or 2.23 per cent, on mas-sive selling across sectors. Realty, infra-

structure, auto, metal and capital goods were among the worst hit as investors got anxious amid a global sell-off. Pow-er, PSU, oil and gas and banking shares also came under pressure. The 30-share BSE index resumed the day sharply lower in line with the global sell-off and remained weak throughout as selling in-tensified. The gauge ended with a steep fall of 554.50 points, or 2.18 per cent, at 24,851.83, its lowest closing since June 4, 2014, when it closed at 24,805.83. In-

Whether I am brand ambassador or not, India will remain Incredible: Aamir Khan

India identifies Jaish chief, 3 others as Pathankot attack handlers

Naidu meets Sonia, Manmohan as govt reaches out to Cong on GST

ba, who has assumed an image of a fiery leader, started her political ca-reer in 1996 by joining Congress along with her father. The 56-year-old mother of two daugh-ters is also president of the PDP. She won her first Assembly election as Congress candidate from her home segment

of Bijbehara. Mehbooba played a key role in her father’s victory as Con-gress candidate in Lok Sabha elections of 1998 when Sayeed defeated NC’s Mohammad Yousuf Taing from south Kash-mir. The Muftis, along with some key associates, floated their own region-al party, Peoples Dem-

PDP writes to Governor, backs Mehbooba Mufti as next Jammu and Kashmir CM

Sensex crashes 555 pts on China woesDomestic markets plunged to four-month lows in late morning deals as the benchmark BSE

Sensex fell by more than 400 points to crack below the 25,000-level

to do what is best for the country,” Aamir said in a statement, a day after the Tourism Ministry said his contract for the campaign was over. Aamir said it had been an “honour and a pleasure” for him to be the “Brand Ambas-sador for the Incredible India campaign for the past 10 years.” “I was happy to be of service to my country, and will al-

ways be available for it. I would like to clarify that all public service films I have done till date have all been free of any cost to me. It is always an hon-our for me to be of service to my country, and this is how it will always be. “… Whether I am brand am-bassador or not, India will remain Incredible, and that’s the way it should be,” he said.

ocratic Party (PDP) in 1999. In 2002 Assembly elections, PDP bagged 16 seats and Sayeed for the first time became Chief Minister with the support of Congress and some independent MLAs. In 2004, Mehbooba con-tested and won her first Lok Sabha election, from south Kashmir. In 2008, she contested and was re-turned as MLA from Wa-chi segment of Shopian in south Kashmir when PDP bagged 21 seats but lost power to NC-Congress coalition. In 2014, she was yet again returned as Lok Sabha member from south Kashmir.

stani counterpart Naseer Khan Janjua and shared all relevant evidence in-cluding voice data, they said. The evidence alleg-ing JeM’s involvement in the recent attack may put a question mark on the scheduled foreign secretary-level talks be-tween India and Pakistan in Islamabad on Janu-ary 15. Those identified by the Indian agencies are Azhar, Rauf, Ashfaq and Kashim, the sources said. Rauf was the mas-termind of the hijack of an Air India plane in

Kathmandu in 1999. The aircraft was later taken to Kandahar in Afghan-istan. The eight-day hi-jack crisis had ended after the release of three hardcore militants includ-ing Azhar in exchange for the freedom of passen-gers and crew members who were held hostage. Asked as to what action India wants Pakistan to take against these four, the sources said they have to be arrested and handed to New Delhi so they can be questioned in the on-going investigation.

structure across the states -- is struck in the Rajya Sabha due to continued opposition of the Con-gress and some other par-ties. The ruling alliance is in a minority in the upper House. Prime Minister Narendra Modi too had called on Gandhi -- their

first ever meeting -- last year to hammer out a deal on the GST bill. Howev-er, the talks did not yield any result. The Congress, however, said that the government should get serious about the GST and not limit itself to just the “optics of meetings.”

Libya: Truck bomb kills at least 60 policemen, wounds 200

15 people had been killed and 30 wounded. A rival news agency loyal to au-thorities in Tripoli, who are in control of Zliten, said at least 50 people had been killed and 127 wounded. There was no immediate claim of re-sponsibility for the attack. Libya has been beset by chaos since the 2011 over-throw of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the Islamic State group has been gaining increasing influence. The UN envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, said on Twitter that the blast was a suicide at-tack. “I condemn in the strongest terms today’s deadly suicide attack in Zliten, call on all Liby-ans to urgently unite in fight against terrorism,” he wrote. Libya has had rival administrations since August 2014, when an Islamist-backed militia alliance overran Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in the east. The United Nations is pressing both sides to ac-cept a power-sharing deal agreed in December.

tra-day, it hit a session’s low of 24,825.70. The Sen-sex has now lost 1,309.07 points in four straight ses-sions. Asian markets were in deep red, with Shanghai shares crashing 7.32 per cent, forcing authorities to suspend trading less than half an hour after opening as the new circuit-breaker tripped for the second time

in a week. The fall came amid worries over a slow-ing growth in the world’s second-largest economy, which has roiled investors worldwide, and pressure on its currency from capi-tal outflows. China’s cen-tral bank today lowered the yuan against the US dollar by 0.51 per cent to 6.5646, the lowest since

March 2011. After getting below the 7,600-mark, the NSE Nifty touched the day’s low of 7,556.60 be-fore settling at 7,568.30, a sharp fall of 172.70 points,

or 2.23 per cent. All the 30-Sensex constituents led by BHEL (6.98%), Tata Steel (6.85%) and Tata Motors (6.15%) ended in the negative territory.

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DAYTime for questions on PathankotThere is much relief as quiet finally returns to Pathan-kot. However, the immediate questions that need to be asked are about the way the security operation was car-ried out from the moment a specific intelligence alert came to the Centre about the possible targeting of the Pathankot airbase. This newspaper has already report-ed that by Christmas, a foreign intelligence agency had passed on a tip-off about terrorists planning to attack the base. Was that not treated with seriousness because most intelligence alerts do not mean anything? Is the re-sponse a reflection of the poor quality of general intelli-gence alerts? On January 1, early morning, the abduct-ed Superintendent of Police, Salwinder Singh, reported to the local police that his vehicle had been snatched. By afternoon, the government at the Centre had con-firmation about the presence of terrorists in Pathankot. What the security establishment did from that moment raises several questions. A meeting chaired by the Na-tional Security Adviser and attended by, among others, the chiefs of the Army and the Air Force, decided to rush NSG commandos from Delhi. How did they take that decision, when it was clear that an airbase had to be protected and terrorists could be anywhere in the district? Does this reflect the poor thinking of senior members of the security establishment? Or does it hint at autocratic decision-making in New Delhi without professional participation? Over the last few days, the government has been making a desperate effort to de-fend the course of action that was followed in fighting terrorists. From informal briefings in New Delhi to the formal briefing on Wednesday evening by Lt. Gen. K.J. Singh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, West-ern Command, the government has been putting up a spirited defence of the operations. Gen. Singh admit-ted that the first to react to the terrorists were the DSC (Defence Security Corps) and Garuds, but added that the second contact was the Army columns. As Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar did on Tuesday, Gen. Singh claimed that there was total operational synergy, and he justified the time taken by saying that forces had to be applied sequentially, and not simultaneously, and they were also careful to avoid a hostage situation and oth-er eventualities. Despite the Pathankot airbase being at shouting distance from thousands of Army soldiers trained to deal with terrorists, why were they not even called in to provide perimeter security to the base? What was the need to send the NSG into a military installation where the Army’s para commandos and quick reaction teams would have been more familiar with the terrain? Why was the operational command not handed over to the senior-most Army commander on the ground?

“ISIS, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and other like groups does not represent Islam. Daesh (alternate name of ISIS) is a terrorist organisation which is killing innocent people and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan is weakening Pakistan internally,”

- Hardline Hurriyat Conference & Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has said...

Sanjay Dutt set to walk free in Feb-end, says lawyer

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Sunny Deol is hope-ful that his film Mohalla Assi will be screened. The movie, starring Sun-ny Deol, is loosely based on Kashinath Singh’s popular Hindi novel Kashi Ka Assi, a satire on the commercialisation of the pilgrimage city and fake gurus who lure for-eign tourists. In June last year, the film’s release was stayed by the court for allegedly hurting re-ligious sentiments. Also, Mohalla Assi was leaked online in August 2015. “It is not in my hands, I can’t say anything. It is

sad. It’s a good film, those who have seen it have raved about it. Once Gha-yal Once Again releases and becomes a success, Mohalla Assi will be screened 100%,” Sunny said in an interview here. However, he did not elab-orate on how he plans to get the film across to the audience. The film has a lot of expletives, which did not go down well with certain people. “The film is based on a nov-el...it (expletives) is not brought into the film for commercial reasons. It is there because it is part of the script.

Sunny Deol hopeful of screening ‘Mohalla Assi’

Agency | Pune

It is now certain that 56-year-old actor Sanjay Dutt, currently lodged in Yerawada Central Jail, will be a free man by the end of February, accord-ing to his lawyer. Dutt’s lawyer Hitesh Jain said, “Based on the remission that he is entitled to, he will be released in Febru-ary. The exact date will be decided by the jail author-ities.” The jail adminis-tration is now waiting for a state government order regarding an inquiry about Dutt reporting to jail two days late after a furlough. Since May 2013, Dutt has been serving the remain-ing 42 months of his five-year prison term in the Yerawada Central Prison following his conviction

Agency | Los Angeles

Bollywood actor Priyan-ka Chopra after she won the Favourite Actress in a New TV series award at the People’s Choice Awards (PCA) 2016 for her lead role in American TV thriller series Quan-tico. The former Miss World , who plays the role of an FBI agent named Alex Parish in the show, was competing against actresses like Emma Rob-erts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele and Marcia Gay Harden in the cat-egory. Hollywood actor Vin Diesel presented her the award on Wednesday

Agency | New Delhi

Filmmaker Prakash Jha has accused censor board chief Pahlaj Nihalani of asking for bizarre cuts in his upcoming Priyanka Chopra-starrer ‘Jai Gan-gaajal’, including the re-moval of word ‘saala’. Jha said the cuts suggest-ed by the Nihalani will ruin the texture of the movie and he has moved to the tribunal against the decision of the revising committee of the board. “What can I say? He wanted to give ‘A’ certif-icate. When I asked why, he said, ‘There are many abusive words in your movie. There is word saala’. He wanted us to remove word and certain scenes but I don’t think it is an abuse. It is used regularly by people. It is important to the texture of the movie,” Jha said. “There is nothing explic-it in the movie. My films deal with social issues and making those changes will be an injustice to my

Priyanka Chopra bags People’s Choice Award for Quantico, thanks fans

Amitabh Bachchan injures rib cage during ‘TE3N’ shoot

Bipasha Basu turns 37, shares a childhood pic to celebrate her birthday

Prakash Jha criticises Pahlaj Nihalani for demanding cuts in ‘Jai Gangaajal’

Suriya’s ‘Singam 3’ is now ‘S3’

Agency | Chennai

The first look posters and the movie name were revealed at 12 am. All these while it was unofficially called as “Singam 3” as it is the third film made by the same team mainly fea-turing Hari and Suriya. The makers’s decision to have a new name has come as a surprise to the audience. Singam 3 Movie First Look to be released today Makers are planning to unveil the poster of the mov-ie at 12 PM on January

7. Also, it was said that they will be launching six new stylish avatars of Suriya. Buzz is say-ing that makers will be conducting a debate on the title change in twit-ter. The are tweeting with hashtag #Suriya-HariCombo. Actually, movie should commence for a shoot in December but due to unpredicted rains in Chennai, mak-ers planning to begin the shoot from 7th January 2016 in Vizag. Suriya and Hari’s movie title might go for a change if they are collaborating

for a fresh subject, say reports. Meanwhile, the fans are ready to wel-come the first look. They are using a few hashtags to create trends on social networking sites. The official hashtag used to generate buzz is #Suri-yaHariCombo. Coming back to “Singam”, the first instalment redefined Suriya’s mass avatar and his character of cop Durai Singam was highly suc-cessful. He sported han-dlebar moustache in the two instalments, which had Anushka Shetty in the female lead role.

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood’s sultry beau-ty Bipasha Basu turned 37 today (January 7) and she celebrated her birthday by sharing a collage of her childhood pics on In-stagram. The actress, who is known to be a fitness freak, is on an extended vacation in Maldives with her rumoured boyfriend Karan Singh Grover. Bi-pasha, who was last seen onscreen in a horror mov-ie ‘ Alone’, was hosting

Agency | Kolkata

Megastar Amitabh Bach-chan injured his rib cage while shooting for his upcoming drama TE3N here but assured fans not to worry. The 73-year-old actor said he suffered the injury last night and is taking pain killers. “No nothing to wor-ry... I have injured my rib cage, it pains and so when I breathe it hurts. Am doing ice-pack and pain-killers, spoken to my doctor... should take 48 hours to heal, he says. Else we do X-Ray or MRI or whatever he de-cides,” Bachchan posted

evening. Priyanka is said to be the first South Asian actress to win a People’s Choice award. After win-ning the award, Priyanka took to Twitter to thank all for supporting her in her debut TV series. “I

am so fortunate! Thank you to everyone who vot-ed for me at the #PCAs! My #PCManiacs- I am nothing without you! Big love,” she tweeted along-side a photograph of her-self with the trophy.

on his blog. The Piku star has been shooting the film with Nawazud-din Siddiqui and Vidya Balan for sometime now. Despite the injury, the actor will be taking his

friends and fans to watch Wazir, which releases on Friday. “Hurt rib from shoot .. but ok .. taking friends Ef to WAZIR at South City Mall, Kolkata this evening !! YEA.”

film.” The director said he had first gone to the examining committee but the members there had a difference of opinion then we moved to the re-vising committee, which was presided by Nihalani himself. Jha said Nihala-ni could have discussed and a solution could have been found but instead he handed over many cuts to him. He has suggested 11 cuts and told me to beep the word ‘saala’. If I be-

gin to do that then I have to beep it in 50 places.” Nihalani, however, said that Jha was not telling the whole truth. “I can’t talk about each and ev-ery movie that comes for certification. Prakash Jha had come to us and we had agreed to give him ‘A’ certificate without any cuts but he wanted an U/A certificate. We did not agree to it. He is not telling the entire truth,” he said.

in the 1993 Mumbai se-rial blasts case. His full sentence period ends in November this year, but if the remission of sev-en days per month he is entitled to is considered, he will be a free man by February-end. The re-mission is granted based on one’s behaviour in the jail and good work

he has done. In Dutt’s case, it would include his working for the jail radio station Radio YCP. Dutt had stayed out of jail for 118 days on paroles and furloughs in the first one year of his term at Yer-awada, prompting many to raise questions wheth-er the government was granting favours to him.

a TV show ‘Darr Sabko Lagta Hai.’ In the shared picture, the actress looks pretty in two ponytails. She also shared a pic-ture of her celebrating

her birthday over dinner. Sharing her pictureshe wrote, “Thank you all my sweethearts for all your love and beautiful birth-day wishes.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPGovt likely to give oil cess relief to domestic producers

Call drops: TRAI to conduct test in seven cities to assess the quality of service

Xiaomi Redmi 3 Expected to Launch on Tuesday

Agency | New Delhi

For the first time in over four decades, the Gov-ernment is likely to convert a cess on domestical-ly produced crude oil into an ad-valorem rate from a fixed per tonne levy, at present. The Budget for 2016-17, the second full year Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to make changes in the way Oil Industry Development Cess is levied to provide relief to companies like ONGC and Cairn India that are being battered by oil prices plunging to 11-year low. “There are indications the Budget may announce an ad valorem rate of cess instead of Rs 4,500 per tonne fixed levy currently,” a se-nior government official said. The ad valorem rate of cess will results in higher payouts when prices are high and lower when rates fall. Currently, state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) pay a cess of Rs 4,500 per tonne on crude oil they produce from their allotted fields on a nomination basis. Cairn has to pay the same cess for oil from the Rajasthan block. With oil prices drop-ping to an 11-year low of under USD 35 per barrel, the cess translates into one-third of the realisation

going away in just one levy.

Agency | New Delhi

With the government and operators claiming im-provement on call drop front, telecom regulator Trai is conducting tests in seven cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, to find whether quality of service has improved. A Trai official said that drive tests in sev-en cities across the country started on December 21 and are likely to end by January 8. The cities are — Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Kolkata, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Indore. Drive tests are conducted to assess cov-erage and quality of service of mobile networks. Tele-com Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that call drop problem is improving and operators are putting up more tower sites. The Minister last month said a total of 29,000 new telecom towers were installed by private telecom operators across the country after government took strong exception to the problem of call drops. Operators have also said that they have

taken steps to rein in call drops.

Agency | New Delhi

Xiaomi, soon after confirming Mi 5 launch de-tails, has now confirmed that the Redmi 3 smart-phone will be launching on Tuesday. The compa-ny teased the smartphone with launch details on Weibo, which is the Chinese equivalent of Twit-ter. The teaser image also included an image that showed the rear of the handset featuring a textured back panel. We can expect to hear more about the new rear panel design from Xiaomi at launch. The teaser image also spilled some of the details of the handset such as the screen size to be 5-inch and a metal unibody chassis.

Trent Boult, Grant Elliott bowl New Zealand to tense T20 win over Sri Lanka

Chris Gayle to file defamation case against Fairfax Media

Justice Lodha panel seeks to give ‘conflict of interest’ clause a wider ambit

Hashim Amla resigns as SA Test captain, de Villiers to take over

Australia lift frank Worrell trophy as Sydney Test ends in draw

Agency | New Delhi

Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela broke the world record on way to winning gold in the women’s 10 metre air rifle event at the Swedish Cup Grand Prix. Chandela shot 211.2 in the event held on Tues-day to surpass the feat of

Chinese Olympic gold medallist Yi Siling, who held the record with 211. The result marked a pos-itive start for Chandela, who has already qualified for the Rio Olympics. The silver and bronze went to Swedish shooters Astrid Steffensen (207.6) and

Agency | New Delhi

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) regime, under Shashank Manohar, has started mak-ing wholesome changes in the way cricket is run in the country. However, if the Supreme Court-appointed Justice RM Lodha-panel’s recommendations could take it to different level, if implemented in toto. It has not been long when national selector Roger Binny was shown the door for his apparent ‘conflict of interest’, given that his son Stuart Binny was part of Team India, or former India selector Narendra Hirwani was orders to withdraw from the Mad-hya Pradesh state selection committee for the rea-son that his son Mihir has been part of state’s age-group team. However, Jus-tice Lodha panel has not stopped there. The panel has taken the contentious ‘conflict of interest’ issue a wider reach where no one in the BCCI or in state as-sociations would have to choose between “his job or his son”. In simpler words, for example Sachin Ten-dulkar, even if approached

Apurvi Chandela smashes world record, wins gold at Swedish Cup Grand Prix

Agency | Cape Town

Hashim Amla announced a shock decision to resign as South African captain after leading his team to a draw in the second Test at Newlands on Wednesday. “I felt someone else could do a better job,” Amla told journalists. “The decision was not made over the last couple of days. It was made at least two weeks ago.” AB de Villiers will lead South Africa in the remaining two matches of a series which England lead 1-0. “I had chatted to a few of the guys be-fore this so this did not come as a massive shock to them,” said Amla. “We have a very tight leader-ship team -- myself, AB, Faf (du Plessis), quite a few of the senior guys.

Agency | Wellington

Trent Boult produced an economical spell of bowl-ing to take three wickets and help New Zealand to a tense three-run win over Sri Lanka in their first Twenty20 interna-tional on Thursday. Boult combined his speed with strict line and length to finish with 3-21 off four overs and had the dan-gerous Milinda Siriward-ana caught in the deep for 42 to leave the visi-tors needing 30 runs off the final three overs. The left-armer then took a vi-tal catch to dismiss Nu-wan Kulasekara for 14 in the final over bowled by Grant Elliott, before Chamara Kapugedera was brilliantly run out by Martin Guptill with a bullet throw for 17. The

Agency | Melbourne

Under-fire Chris Gayle has sought the services of a leading Australian lawyer to start defamation pro-ceedings against Fairfax Media over allegations that the West Indian cricketer indecently exposed him-self to a woman in Sydney during the World Cup last year. The allegations came to the fore following Gay-le’s widely-criticised live interview with Ten Sports’ female presenter Mel Mc-Laughlin while playing for Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League. The Renegades slapped a fine of USD 10,000 for making controversial re-marks to McLaughlin, who found herself being asked out for a drink af-ter Gayle blasted 41 runs

Agency | Sydney

Australia’s David War-ner lit up the fifth day of the weather-ravaged third Test against West Indies with an 82-ball centu-ry before the dead rub-ber contest petered out in a draw at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Thursday. A draw and a 2-0 series victory for the

hosts was always the most likely result after all but 11 overs of day two and the entirety of days three and four were washed out. Australia dismissed West Indies for 330 to bring up lunch before Man of the Match Warner launched his assault on the visiting bowlers. A few thousand fans attracted by free en-try were treated to a typi-

Stine Nielsen (185.0). An elated Chandela said: “This gold at Sweden has further strengthened my resolve to bag a medal at the Rio Olympics this year. The support, en-couragement and wishes received from my well wishers from Rajasthan has stood me in good stead in various international tournaments.” Chandela had won the gold in the National Championships held last month. She had won an Olympic quota place for India after win-ning a bronze in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea in April last year.

visitors needed 13 runs off the final over but fell short as Elliott, back after a broken hand, sent down composed six deliveries that restricted them to 179-9 chasing New Zea-land’s 182-4 in their 20 overs. Siriwardana and Thisara Perera (28) had got their side back into the game with 49 runs in 32 balls after Boult, Matt Henry and leg spinner Ish Sodhi had reduced the visitors to 84-5 in the 10th over. The match had been

billed by New Zealand coach Mike Hesson as the start of an extended run of selection matches ahead of the World Twenty20 in India with limited overs specialist Colin Munro brought back into the side. Munro did his chances no harm with the bat, scoring 36 while batting at num-ber three, but his medium pace bowling was too full and did not put pressure on the Sri Lankan batsmen as he conceded 17 runs in two overs.

AB is very able and a brilliant captain himself.” On what had been expect-ed to be aHashim Amla low-key final day after high scoring in the first innings, Amla’s captain-cy ended on a high. After scoring 201 in a South African fightback follow-ing a battering by a Ben Stokes-inspired England in the first innings of the match, Amla had one of his better days in the field as England lost six

second innings wickets by mid-afternoon. Jon-ny Bairstow and Moeen Ali negotiated the rest of the afternoon and En-gland were on 159 for six, leading by 161 runs, when play was called off. Amla had explained in a statement: “After careful consideration and con-siderable thought, I wish to announce I will be stepping down as captain of the Proteas Test team with immediate effect.

cally aggressive display of batting by the left-hander, who had notched up 122 not out to help Australia to 176 for two when the players shook hands on the draw. The 29-year-old hit two sixes, including one over cow corner to bring up his half century, and 14 fours in his 103-ball knock, heaping more indignity onto a West In-dies bowling attack which took just 12 wickets over the series. He reached his 16th Test century when he swept the ball down leg side for three runs before leaping into the air in his now traditional celebra-tion of the milestone.

off 15 balls on Monday. Gayle said he was happy to be interviewed “just to see your eyes for the first time”, before add-ing, “Don’t blush, baby”. “Chris Gayle has strong-ly denied allegations first published by Fairfax Me-dia that he indecently ex-posed himself to a woman during last year’s World Cup in Sydney,” Gayle’s manager Simon Auteri said in a statement. “De-spite such denials Fairfax Media continues to pub-

lish the false and defam-atory allegations which have received widespread re-publication in media throughout the world. “As a result Chris Gayle has retained Mark O’Brien, a leading Australian me-dia lawyer to immediate-ly commence defamation proceedings against Fair-fax Media.” The storm sur-rounding the star Jamaican cricketer intensified yes-terday as new allegations about his behaviour to-wards women emerged.

by BCCI or Mumbai Cricket Association, will not be able to take up any administrative job if his son Arjun is part of any state team. Tendulkar is currently part of the BC-CI-appointed Cricket Ad-visory Committee (CAC) along with Sourav Gan-guly and VVS Laxman. The three-member Lodha panel has talked about the ‘conflict of interest’ in the BCCI and at the state as-sociation level in detail, widening its ambit by bringing in office-bearers and representative of full member under its purview. Earlier, the debatable is-

sue was merely confined to the role of selectors but the panel has suggested that the ‘conflict of inter-est’ can’t just include the selectors. Similarly, Shah is serving as the honorary secretary of the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) since 1972, and his son, Jaydev Shah, leads the state Ranji Trophy team. He has played 102 first class matches since mak-ing debut in 2002-03 sea-son. On the issue of former players and administrators running cricket academies, this could well cause more wrinkles on the forehead of some former players.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

A man was robbed of Rs 4.5 lakh by two motorcy-cle-borned assailants on Wednesday at Vadodara’s busy Sursagar Lake Road, police said. The incident occurred at around 6 pm, when one Rakesh Goswa-mi, was travelling with a bag of cash amounting to Rs 4.5 lakh entrusted to him by a city angadia, police said. “In his police complaint, Goswami said he was walking towards his car which was parked his car near the music college at Sursagar Lake Road, when the motorcy-

Correspondent | Vadodara

The state-run Harni civil airport here would soon get two crash fire tenders imported from Nether-lands, an official said to-day. The new fire tenders are expected to arrive in the city within a month and would replace three BEML-Tatra crash fire tenders currently in use, fire services department in charge M M Chan-danshiye said today. “An airport crash fire tender, known in some countries as airport fire appliance, is a specialised fire en-gine designed for use in aircraft rescue and fire-

fighting at aerodromes,” he said. The old fire ten-ders may be sent to the airports in Kandla, Bhuj or Diu, Chandanshiyehe added. The Airport Au-thority of India’s pro-fessionally-trained staff provides high-tech fire fighting services of dif-ferent categories at its airports, depending on criticality. It also works in close co-ordination with the city Fire Brigade through hotlines, in the event of a fire incident, he said. Last August, of-ficials of the AAI’s local office here had written to the Vadodara Munic-ipal Commissioner H S

Patel to renew the Mem-orandum of Understand-ing (MoU) between the airport and the city’s fire service. The MoU expired on September 18, 2015, and renewal is awaited, he said. As many as 16 flights oper-ate daily from the Harni airport, which is located on the outskirts of the city, the official said. The flyers include foreigners, MNC executives and of-ficials of organisations such as Bombardier, Alstom, TBEA, Reli-ance Industries Limited, Gujarat Refinery, GSFC, L&T, ONGC, among others, he added.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institu-tions (SRISTI) will host the Sattvik – 13th Tra-ditional Food Festival during January 9 to 11, 2016. The unique food festival will be organized at IIM Ahmedabad’s new campus. Shri O P Kohli, Governor of Gujarat, will inaugurate the festival on Saturday, January 9, 2016. The festival aims to take people back to their roots and renew their interest in forgotten, traditional reci-pes, lesser known grains, vegetables and minor mil-lets. SRISTI has ensured that only healthy, maida-free recipes are allowed to participate in the festival. All the recipes have been tested and verified by SRISTI and those that did not meet the standards, have been disqualified by SRISTI. The festival will host unique and interest-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Ruling out foul play as the cause of the sud-den death of BJP leader Praffulgiri Goswami on December 24, Vadodra Police said on Wednes-day that he died due to myocardial heart failure according to the viscera report submitted by the the SSG Hospital. “We have received the report from doctors at SSG hos-pital regarding the exam-ination of the viscera. It states that Goswami suf-fered a myocardial heart failure due to excessive consumption of alcohol. This has ruled out any angle of suspicion of foul play,” Commission-er of Police, Vadodara, E Radhakrishana said. Doctors of the SSG hos-pital submitted a con-cluding medical report

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

A day after announcing a hike in the rates of petrol and diesel by increasing the VAT and cess on the fuel, the state government Wednesday announced a reduction in rates of Piped Natural Gas (PNG ) by Rs 5 per cubic me-tre. State Energy Minister Saurabh Patel said the re-duced rates would benefit around 2,800 small and medium industrial units of the state. He added that from January 1, reduction of Rs 3 per cubic metre of PNG will be imple-mented, while from April 1, the rates would be cut

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The state government is mulling five to 10 times hike in fine charged for traffic rules violations. The minimum fine which is now a paltry Rs 50 and Rs 100 is likely to be raised to between Rs 250 and Rs 500. The move, which is under consider-ation since two years now, is likely to be expedited in the wake of alarming rise in number of accidental deaths and traffic snarls plaguing major cities of Gujarat. State transport minister Vijay Rupani said the transport depart-ment has prepared a draft proposal for various mea-

sures to improve traffic management in the state including a substantial hike penalty to curb vio-lations. “Present penalty rates are very less. It has been observed that people do not mind paying a fine than adhere to road traf-fic and safety regulations. We are awaiting central government guidelines while announcing more measures to improve traf-fic enforcement.” Top sources in the depart ment said, “The mini mum fine is likely to be increased to Rs 250 to Rs 500 per offence. Repeat offend-ers who have been fined for thrice risk losing their driving licence.”

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Union Minister of State (MoS) for HRD Ram Shankar Katheria to-day said the Centre was mulling to relieve gov-ernment school teachers from non-academic as-signments such as elec-tion duty etc, in order to improve the quality of education. Accord-ing to Katheria, deliber-ations are on to find out a solution so that teach-ers are not occupied in such non-academic work which adversely affects the education of children. “These school teachers are given elec-tion and Census data col-lection duties. They are also given assignments for implementing vari-ous schemes. Our gov-ernment has taken up this issue. We are doing deliberations to find out a solution,” said Kathe-

ria, who was here for the 19th Nirma International Conference on Manage-ment held at Nirma Uni-versity. He further stated that the government also wanted to make sure that the teachers focused only on imparting edu-cation. The issue of put-ting teachers for election as well as Census duties has been a widely debat-ed issue in India, as di-rectives also came from Supreme Court in this regard in the past, where it asked the government not to assign such du-ties to teachers during working hours. Time and again, various teach-ers’ associations as well as schools across India have raised objections on the practice, claiming such non-academic tasks given to the teachers was hampering the education of children.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court has dismissed the peti-tion of a suspended prin-cipal civil judge who had sought reinstatement and quashing of the depart-mental inquiry against him. The judicial officer was suspended follow-ing allegations of sexu-al advancements, seek-ing sexual favours from women and corruption. A chargesheet was filed against him in June 2012. The division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and Mohinder Pal last month dismissed the pe-tition moved by Dipak

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Gujarat HC rejects petition of judicial officer for reinstatement, quashing probe

Gujarat: Man robbed of Rs 4.5 lakh, suspects caught on CCTV

Gujarat: No foul play in death of BJP leader Praffulgiri Goswami, say police

Gujarat Govt cuts rates of piped natural gas by Rs 5

Civil Airport Harni to get Netherlands-imported fire tenders

13th Traditional food festival ‘Sattvik’ this weekend at IIMA new campus

Centre mulling to relieve teachers from poll duties: MoS HRD

Traffic fines may go up 10 times

N Tapodhan, who was working as principal civ-il judge when allegations cropped up against him. After the order dismiss-ing his reinstatement petition was passed on December 10, the sus-pended judicial officer filed another plea seek-ing to modify the earlier petition, but it was too re-

jected on December 23. Tapodhan sought quash-ing of the inquiry against him on the ground that it was initiated upon by an “anonymous and pseud-onymous complaint”. He argued that such com-plaints should not have been entertained by the High Court administra-tion. The petitioner men-

tioned that action of the High Court and subse-quent chargesheet were “illegal”, as being a ju-dicial officer he should have been protected by the High Court against “frivolous complaints”. While dismissing the pe-tition, the division bench brushed aside this conten-tion, stating, “…Unless it is pointed out that the alle-gations are ex-facie (on the face of it) baseless and not supported by any materi-al on record, chargesheet cannot be quashed. This was not even the conten-tion of the advocate of the petitioner.”

cle came from behind him. One of the men snatched the bag and they sped away,” Inspector P G Patel of Raopu-ra police station said. With the help of

Goswami’s inputs and CCTV footage, the police have narrowed down to two suspects in the case. A manhunt is on to nab them.

by further Rs 2 per cubic metre. With this reduction in price, small and medi-um industries will save Rs 623 crore on their PNG consumption bill every year, the government said. Patel said the reduction in PNG prices is a result of the efforts of the state government and officials

of Gujarat State Petro-leum Corporation (GSPC) during the signing of con-tract between India’s Petr-onet LNG Limited and Qatar’s RasGas Compa-ny. Gujarat Gas Limited buys imported Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and provides the same to its industrial units.

to the Vadodara police on Wednesday evening, after drawing conclusions from the findings of the Gand-hinagar Forensic Labo-ratory. According to the report, Goswami died due to myocardial heart fail-ure, arising out of exces-sive consumption of ethyl alcohol, the compound found in liquor. An expert from SSG hospital said

heart failure is a common result of excessive alcohol consumption. The doctor said, “Alcohol consump-tion can cause sudden cardiovascular changes that can lead to unexpect-ed death. When consumed in excessive amounts, al-cohol can cause cardiac enlargement, which was evident in the autopsy conducted on Goswami.”

ing recipes such as Israeli Ghughra and Yam Tikki (Jewish recipes), Mani-puri Black Rice Kheer, Singju (salad) and Umor-ok (King Chilli Pickle), Uttarakhand’s Ramdana Kheer, Ghughani and Paan Milkshake from West Bengal, Barra Gul-la, Ragi Tea and Aris-sa from Odisha, Pongal from Tamil Nadu, Kaang Sheera from Himachal Pradesh, Gundali Kheer from Jharkhand, Saati Ki Kadhi and Paratha from Haryana, Sindhi Kadhi besides Gujarati recipes like Cactus ice-cream made using stevia, Surti Ponk, among others. For

the first time, a Maldhari association will partic-ipate in Sattvik to sell camel milk and sheep milk. “We have ensured that only quality produce and recipes that use tra-ditional grains, millets or vegetables from respec-tive states are allowed at the food festival. Cotton seed oil, for example, has not been allowed in cooking to prevent the harmful effects of BT Cotton. There are very few dishes that are deep fried and some recipes have been modified to make them healthier,” said Ramesh Patel, sec-retary of SRISTI.