News BriefSC stays defamation case against activist

Priya PillaiAgency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court today stayed the trial court proceedings in a defamation case filed by the Essar Group against Greenpeace ac-tivist Priya Pillai and two others at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh. A bench of Justices Jag-dish Singh Khehar and Adarsh Kumar Goel also issued notices to the firm and the Cen-tre on Pillai’s plea in which she has also challenged the validity section 499 (defama-tion) of the IPC.

Demand in LS for setting up museum in

memory of KalamAgency | New Delhi

A museum should be set up in Delhi in the memory of former President A P J Abdul Kalam and DRDO Bha-van should be renamed after him, a member de-manded in Lok Sabha today. AIADMK mem-ber A Anwhar Raajhaa also said that the birth and death anniversa-ries of Kalam must be observed in a befitting manner. He said the Tamil Nadu govern-ment has already de-clared Kalam’s birth-day on October 15 as ‘Youth Awakening Day’ and established an award of eight gram gold medal with Rs.5 lakh cash in his honour.

Refined palmolein declines on reduced

demandAgency | Jaipur

A police head constable was today arrested for allegedly taking a bribe for “helping” a man in connection with a case lodged against him in Churu district of Ra-jasthan. Shakti Singh gave a complaint to the anti-corruption bureau against the head con-stable Baiju Lal posted with Sandwa police sta-tion in Churu, spokes-person of the ACB said here. After verification of the complaint, a team of ACB from Nagaur district laid a trap and the accused was caught while accepting Rs 12,000 in the police sta-tion premises.

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A decision that comes in the midst of tensions over two terror attacks in Punjab and J&K“J-K speaker not invited”

This follows Pakistan not sending an invitation to Jammu and Kashmir Speaker to the Inter Parliamentary Union meeting

India to boycott CPU meeting in Pak

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Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

An eligible voter vio-lating the provision for compulsory voting in the local body elections would have to pay a fine of Rs 100, according to the draft rules regarding punitive measures under the Gujarat Local Author-ities Act (Amendment) 2009. The draft rules also mention 11 conditional relaxations for the elder-ly, students, those suffer-ing from illness, mourn-ing a death or attending a wedding on the day. Sources in the Urban De-velopment Department, which last week released notification for the Act, maintained that “no harsh measures”, but a Rs 100 fine has been fixed for those violating the rule of mandatory voting. An appellate officer would be appointed to decide whether the person is a defaulter after hearing the reasons for his “ab-senteeism”. “Actions like cancellation of a subsi-

Agency | Bengaluru

As per the reports, self-styled godwoman Radhe Maa, against whom an FIR has been lodged in Mumbai on Thursday, is said to be missing now. Mumbai police on Friday issued a lookout notice against her amid the reports that the con-troversial godwoman might be planning to flee abroad. “A 32-year-old married woman yester-day lodged a complaint against her in-laws as well as Maa, claiming she is being harassed mentally and physi-

cally for dowry,” said Mukund Pawar, Senior Inspector, Kandivali Po-lice Station. The woman said her in-laws and oth-er family members are the followers of Radhe Maa, who has instigated them to demand dowry and harass her if the de-mand is not met, he said. Based on the complaint, police have named sev-en persons as accused, including the godwom-an and the victim’s hus-band, in the FIR. “We are now gathering ev-idence against the ac-cused to substantiate the allegations levelled

Agency | Mumbai

The Maharashtra gov-ernment has denied that absconding mafia don Mushtaque alias Ti-ger Memon allegedly called up his mother and threatened to avenge his brother Yakub Memon’s hanging last week, top officials said here on Friday. The Mumbai police, too, denied any

Agency | New Delhi

India will boycott a Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Union meet-ing in Islamabad next month in protest against Pakistan not inviting the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, a decision that comes in the midst of tensions over two terror attacks in Punjab and J&K. “A meeting of Speakers of all states in New Delhi on Friday unanimously decided that India will boycott the meeting of the CPU if the Speaker of the Jammu and Kash-mir Assembly is not in-vited,” Lok Sabha speak-er Sumitra Mahajan told reporters after the meeting. This follows Pakistan not sending an invitation to Jammu and Kashmir speaker to the Inter Parliamentary Union meeting to be held from 30 September to 8 October in Islamabad while invitations have been sent to all the oth-er Speakers in India. The

decision of the Speakers comes against the back-drop of simmering ten-sions between the two countries over the recent terror attacks in Gurdas-pur in Punjab and near Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists, perpetrated by terrorists who had infiltrated from Pakistan. Mahajan said this was against a rule in the CPU in which all the Speakers, who are mem-bers of the Common-wealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), have to be extended an invita-tion to the CPU meeting. “It is wrong (on the part of Pakistan). They cited an old rule of 1951-57 regarding their having raised an issue in the UN Security Council for not inviting Jammu and Kashmir Speaker,” she said, adding it had lost relevance. The Speaker said Pakistan gave this reply when India took up the matter strongly with the CPA chairper-son and secretary gen-

Agency | New Delhi

There couldn’t have been a better description of external affairs min-ister Sushma Swaraj’s statement on the Lal-it Modi controversy in Parliament than what the Congress called it - a tearjerker. On a serious allegation of impropri-ety, which has led to the suspension/boycott of the opposition MPs, what she did on Thursday was an attempt to convince the nation through emo-tions, not through rea-sons. The summary of her one-sided statement - because the contestants to her argument were not present in the Parlia-ment to pick holes - was this: she didn’t help Lalit Modi, but only a woman suffering from cancer for the last 17 years. “The al-legations against me are Gujarat govt plans Rs 100-fine on

those who don’t vote in local polls Police Issues Lookout Notice Against Self-Styled ‘Godwoman’ Radhe Maa

dy or civic service were discussed. But, no harsh measures like that have been finalised. Instead, a fine to the tune of Rs 100 has been fixed,” said a top official. The sourc-es said the government would soon release a no-tification in this regard. No action would be taken against those who failed to cast their vote due to hospitalisation, compet-itive examination, inter-view, travel outside Gu-jarat to attend a wedding event or a funeral, the sources said, adding that government and private sector employees, travel-ling due to transfer, have also been exempted from paying the fine. Besides,

voters who are 75 years old or above, and those with 75 per cent disabil-ities, have also been ex-empted, the draft rules said. An appellate officer at every election office across Gujarat would be appointed. Absentees would be first sent a no-tice and later a hearing would be held, the sourc-es said. The Bill that was earlier passed twice with a majority vote by the Gujarat government, then led by Narendra Modi, had faced stiff resistance from former Governor Kamla Beniwal in 2010 and 2011 on the grounds that forcing people to vote violates Article 21 of the Constitution.

against them,” they said. In this regard, police are inquiring several people, including neighbours of the complainant, a res-ident of suburban Kan-divali, her relatives and friends. “Statements of all the seven accused will also be recorded,” Pawar said, adding all

of them are co-operating with the police. The ac-cused have been booked under relevant sections of IPC and Dowry Pro-hibition Act. Among others, they have been charged with cheating, criminal breach of trust, cruelty and harassment for dowry, police said.

eral against leaving out the Jammu and Kashmir Speaker, Kavinder Gup-ta. “We (31 Speakers) reviewed this issue and

felt this was wrong. We reject this decision (of Pakistan). We are writ-ing to the CPA chairper-son that if Jammu and

Kashmir Speaker is not invited then India will not attend the meeting or change the venue (for

us to attend),” she said. Welcoming the decision Gupta, who attended the meeting, thanked the

Speakers for the decision saying it was a question of unity and integrity of the country.

Drama queen moment: Sushma needs to make her case through evidence, not emotions

wrong, untrue and base-less. I have never rec-ommended or requested the British government to provide travel documents for Lalit Modi.” She went on to add that it was the British government that had asked India if giv-ing Lalit Modi travel documents would affect bilateral ties of the two countries.”I never asked them or even requested them to do so.” What got drowned in her well-mod-

ulated sentimental rhet-oric, which also tried to draw in an unwilling So-nia Gandhi, was this op-erative portion: that she never asked the British government to help Modi and it was them who ap-proached India. Granted that she did say what she didn’t do, but did she say anything on what exactly she did? Did she say yes to them, or no? And what exactly was the process involved?

Maharashtra denies Tiger Memon’s ‘revenge’ call

such conversation as having taken place, as reported by a leading fi-nancial daily.

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DAYModi’s actions are Loud but silent

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ideological moor-ings have often been debated. But his attributes as a leader are also coming under scrutiny. Detractors will say that his leadership was always an illusion, a virtual trick, designed to hoodwink the gullible. Supporters will be immune to any reality check. But Modi’s actions are demonstrating qualities that are opposite to the mythology surrounding him. There may be an alchemy to power, where mirrors show exactly what a leader wants to see, but the chatter outside the hallowed halls captures reality more pre-sciently. Admittedly, the PM had a big challenge. As Machiavelli said, “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubt-ful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” But his turning into the opposite of his own self-presentation is striking. Instead of boldness, we are getting timidity. There is not a single measure this government has taken or a policy it has proposed that can in any way be called bold, which involves the slightest political risk, or displays a measure of conviction. Just to take one example, the UPA did more subsidy reform in its last year than this government has managed to with its mandate. Government is, for the most part, still business as usual, even more so. A bold leader would have understood Machiavelli’s advice: “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger but calculating risk and acting decisively.” Instead of clarity, there is confusion. Look at the narrative of flip-flops on the land bill. The govern-ment first jumps without thinking and promulgates an unsustainable and indefensible ordinance, osten-sibly under bad advice from the finance ministry that this will be a big-bang reform to energise investors. All it took was one jibe on an infamous suit for the government to decide that it needed to appear to be pro-farmer more than pro-investor. The point is not about the specific merits of the bill or the right balance between investors and farmers. But you get the sense that there is no coherence to the econom-ic narrative; it will swirl with the wind, not giving confidence to anyone. Instead of implementation, you are getting inaction. This was a PM who staked everything on implementation capabilities. It will be interesting to see how he presents himself on August 15. Just rewind to his promises last August. None of the schemes are on a sustainable implementation pathway. Arm-twisting corporations to spend money to randomly build toilets is hardly an implementa-tion plan for Swachh Bharat. Niti Aayog, the central statement of a new planning philosophy, hardly has the identity or range of capabilities.

“I think the most important thing, if you look at all the bills pending, GST more important than land bill, Through the GST, we will have double digit growth in India and everything else will come in line,” - Raising concerns over disruptions

in Parliament stalling key reform bills, top industrialist Adi Godrej on Friday said...

Agency | New Delhi

There’s a reason why Tom Cruise is still a beloved movie star. Even after turning 53, he continues to appear in big science fiction and action thrillers in which he does his own stunts. It helps that most of the films he does are actually pretty good, and he gives it his 100% every single time. It’s why the ‘Mission Impossible’ se-ries has not only survived for 20 years but has also gotten better with every

film. ‘Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’ may not be as fun as the previous installment ‘Ghost Pro-tocol’, but it’s an exceed-ingly good action movie. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie who assisted in ‘Ghost Protocol’ and co wrote ‘Edge of To-morrow’, ‘Rogue Nation’ brings back the visceral spy thrills that made the first film so good, and in-fuses them with the break-neck pace of ‘MI:3’ and the humor of the ‘Ghost Protocol’.

Agency | Mumbai

She isn’t just another pretty face around. Ac-tor Shruti Haasan, whose new Telugu film Sriman-thudu has just hit the screens, has launched her own production house, Isidro. It will fo-cus on short films, digital films, musical and mul-timedia-based modern content.The 29-year-old, who has starred across various films in Hin-di, Tamil and Telugu, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share the news about her produc-tion house. “Proud to say my dream is coming true ISIDRO,” tweeted the daughter of veter-an actors Kamal Haas-an and Sarika.Shruti’s upcoming films include Welcome Back, Rocky Handsome and Yaara in Bollywood and films opposite Suriya, Vijay,

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who features in the new advertising campaign of LifeCell - India’s first stem cell bank - says the commer-cial captures moments shared between expect-ant parents beautifully and will become a part of their journey towards parenthood. “This is an interesting campaign which positions um-bilical cord stem cell banking as one amongst other important things that expectant parents should consider for their child. The ad film maker has beautifully captured the moments of the lives of expectant parents who wish to do their best for their baby. Pregnant couples across the country would eas-ily relate to this film as a part of their journey towards parenting,” said Aishwarya, who is also brand’s ambassador, in a statement. The national campaign - Ayushmaan

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Akshay Kumar and his reel-brother Sidharth Malhotra have launched the official ‘Brothers’ game called ‘Brothers: Clash of Fighters’. Unveiled here on Wednesday, ‘Broth-ers: Clash of Fighters’ is the official game of their forthcoming film ‘Broth-ers’, which will hit the theatres on August 14. With 3D animated life-like characters from the movie played by Akshay and Sidharth as well as a roster of international fighters, the game has an arcade street-fighting format featuring one-on-one close combat fights. The game rang-es from ‘Arcade Mode’ for a quick fight of three rounds as well as a ‘Tournament Mode’, which will be launched

on the release of the movie, where the play-er must beat opponents, each more difficult than the last. All the while players must avoid get-ting knocked-out to win the ‘Right to Fight’ championship. ‘Broth-ers: Clash of Fighters’, powered by VROOVY (a joint venture between South Asia’s Digital Me-dia Company Hungama and India’s game service company Gameshastra) features intense real life fight moves as well as combo moves and fin-isher moves. The game features different are-nas such as The Street, The Gym and The R2F Arena. The game also has social features such as Facebook and Twit-ter sharing where one can brag about one’s victory using - #Broth-

ersMovieGame There are daily missions and quest gamers can par-ticipate in these to stand a chance to win mov-ie merchandise and a chance to meet the cast of ‘Brothers’. “I am so excited about the launch of this game. Seeing Sidharth and myself in our game avatars has been great,” Akshay said in a statement. Sidharth had a “fanboy experi-ence”. “Seeing myself in my game avatar has been a fanboy experience. I have played many video and console games while growing up and it’s ex-citing that now I am a game-character too. My boys are loving it. In fact, I feel girls might also enjoy playing this game because the char-acters are actually me and Akshay,” he said.

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan stresses on importance of umbilical cord stem

Sidharth and Akshay launch the ‘Brothers’ game

Sonam Kapoor was in a foul mood at IIJW 2015′s recent event- find out why!

Agency | Mumbai

When it comes to the game of fashion, Sonam Kapoor is simply flaw-less. Be it pulling off quirky, chic style state-ments or walking the ramp to represent a de-signer’s creation, Sonam nails it every time. The actress looked breath taking at IIJW 2015′s re-cent event as she walked the ramp in a gorgeous legenga by Shyamal and Bhumika, teamed with a heavy jhumkas. The beauty looked royal and stunning like never be-

fore! Even though Sonam was all smiles and man-aged to floor us with her beautiful form, the real picture was very differ-ent. We hear Sonam was pissed and in a foul mood at the IIJW event! If re-ports are to be believed, Sonam was supposedly miffed with the fact that she wasn’t allowed to speak on stage and was not informed in advance that she had to share the limelight with a few other dignitaries. A source while talking to a popular enter-tainment daily revealed,” Sonam was the star of

the evening, but on stage, she was made to share the limelight with several oth-er dignitaries. She didn’t complain. Then, she was made to wait on stage as the dignitaries gave their speeches one after the oth-er, although Sonam herself wasn’t given a chance to speak. And to top it off, it was suddenly announced that Sonam would walk the ramp. Being a profes-sional, she did whatever was required of her, but her annoyance was evi-dent. Soon after, she chose to leave the event without creating a fuss.”

Ajith and Mahesh Babu across Tamil and Telu-gu cinema. She will also

be seen opposite Ajay Devgn in Milan Luth-ria’s Baadshaho.

Bhava - aims at creating awareness and increas-ing uptake for its umbili-cal cord banking service. In the video, the actress, who is married to actor Abhishek Bachchan and has a daughter Aaradhya, talks about the impor-tance of preserving the umbilical cord stem cells at birth, which can fight many medical conditions

and provide a healthy foundation for the child to live a long and healthy life. Conceptualised by the creative team at Mc-Cann Mumbai and ex-ecuted by production agency Electric Dreams, the campaign has been launched after coming out with an affordable umbilical cord stem cell banking service.

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Kohli’s aggressive nature rubs on to players, says Dhawan

Moody’s Retains Stable Outlook for Bharti Airtel

Facebook wants you to help keep Internet.org alive in India

Tata Motors saw 48.7% decline in Q1, down to Rs 2,768.91 cr

Agency | New Delhi

Moody’s has retained stable rating outlook for the country’s top telecom operator Bharti Airtel as it expects the telco to continue to grow its core Indian and African wireless businesses. “Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s operating performance for the first quarter ended 30 June 2015 (1Q 2015/16) contin-ues to support its Baa3 credit profile,” Moody’s said in a statement. The stable rating outlook re-flects Moody’s expectation that Bharti will con-tinue to grow its core Indian and African wireless businesses, and that the group will continue to deleverage on both an absolute and relative basis. Moody’s said Bharti reported its results for the first quarter of 2015-16, with revenues up 3.1 per cent year-on-year to Rs 237 billion ($3.7 billion).

Agency | New Delhi

Internet.org is Facebook’s controversial project to subsidise data for people in countries where costs of data access are high and incomes low. It has come under fire in India for violating net neutrality principles. Now, Facebook is mustering support of its users in India to defend its platform Internet.org, with just a week left for public com-ments on a DoT panel’s report, which says free internet services like that of the social network’s violate net neutrality principle. Facebook has started the public campaign to make a case before lawmakers for allowing free internet access plat-forms like Internet.org. Facebook users in India are getting a message on their profile pages which seeks their opinion on having free basic online services in the country.

Agency | New Delhi

Major autmobile manufacturer Tata Motors report-ed a 48.7% decline in their consolidated net profits at Rs 2,768.91 crore on Saturday, with the decline in the first quarter mainly due to a reduction in sales of its British asset Jaguar Land Rover. The company had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 5,398.21 crore in the same quarter of previous fiscal year. Consolidated net sales during the pe-riod under review stood at Rs 60,180.57 crore as against Rs 64,150.74 crore in the year-ago period, down 6.18%, the company said in a filing to the BSE. JLR’s revenue stood at Rs 49,178.5 crore during the first quarter as against Rs 54,425.97 crore in the year-ago period, down 9.64%. The company said JLR’s financial performance in the quarter under review was lower than the strong corresponding quarter last year due to softer sales in China but was partially offset by strong per-formance in the UK, Europe and North America. Tata Motors sales, including exports, of commer-cial and passenger vehicles for the quarter stood at 1,17,439 units, up 6.2%, as compared to the corre-sponding quarter last fiscal. On a standalone basis, Tata Motors net profit for the June quarter stood at Rs 257.57 crore, down 34.56% from Rs 393.65 crore in the year-ago period. Standalone net sales were at Rs 9,197.62 crore as against Rs 7,612.89 crore in the previous fiscal, it added. Tata Motors shares ended at Rs 392.55 apiece on the BSE on Saturday, up 2.52% from the previous close.

Agency | Chennai

India opener Shikhar Dhawan said the “con-trolled and aggressive” nature of skipper Virat Kohli rubs on the entire team and fires up the players to be more at-tacking on the field. “He (Kohli) is really con-trolled and aggressive in the field and that brings an aggressiveness on all the players too and we are also more attacking towards the opponents,” said Dhawan ahead of the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. Dha-wan and Kohli have been friends for long time and have played Ranji Tro-phy for Delhi. Asked about their friendship, the left-hander said, “We

are still the same and it is not that something has changed. It is good that my captain has expec-tations from me and I hope I play consistently for my team.” Talking about the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka, Dhawan said, “It is go-ing to be a good series. They have also got a young side and we also don’t have a mature Test side so it is going to be a good competition.” Asked about competi-tion for the opening slot, Dhawan said, “I think it is a good thing for Indi-an cricket that there is so much competition for opening slot. Players put in more effort because you can be kicked out if you don’t play well and

make mistakes. I take it positively and try to en-sure that I give my best.” Dhawan, who had scored fastest Test ton on de-but against Australia in 2013, said it is good to have batsmen who can score runs quickly in modern day Test crick-et. “In Test cricket now, you also need players who can score quickly, it has became very import-ant because sometimes in second innings or first innings if you score quicky it helps the team. I have always been like that, so it doesn’t bother me,” he said. “I just try to keep it simple. If I get a good delivery, I just de-fend it and If I get a loose ball then I hit it and make runs,” Dhawan said.

Agency | Chennai

Captain Usman Khawaja and his opening partner Joe Burns smashed scin-tillating centuries as Aus-tralia A thrashed a hapless India A by a massive 119 runs in the second tri-se-ries cricket match here on Friday. Khawaja and Burns continued their top form as they sent the In-dian bowlers to a leath-erhunt in their knocks of 100 and 154 respectively, sharing 239 runs from 35.5 overs in their open-ing stand, to help Austra-lia A post a mammoth 334 for 4 after electing to bat at the M A Chidambaram Stadium here. The Indi-

Agency | New Delhi

Defending champions Ranchi Rays have decid-ed to retain their English captain Ashley Jackson and five other key play-ers for the upcoming and the next season of the Hockey India League. Besides Jackson, Barry Middleton (also from England), defender Bi-rendra Lakra, and Indian players Kothajit Singh and Manpreet Singh along with Australian de-fender Fergus Kavanagh have been retained by the team. Jackson had scored 12 goals to help his team to clinch the 2015 HIL ti-tle. Among the 12 goals, he converted 11 penal-ty corners and became the top-scorer of the HIL and also the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament. Middleton also proved to be a ver-satile with four goals.

Agency | Kazan

′The 5-foot-11 teenage freestyler with the re-served personality and the swimming range of an albatross won every world championships fi-nal from the 200 meters through the 1500, thrill-ing the crowds inside the stadium while gun-tot-ing soldiers patrolled the outside. Forty years before Katie Ledecky rocked Kazan Arena

while troops kept the peace outside, the aquat-ics world strained for superlatives to describe the performance in Co-lombia of Tim Shaw. His ease in the water was surpassed only by his unease in the spot-light, as he conveyed in 1975 in a sentiment that could have been uttered by Ledecky when he told reporters in Cali, “I don’t want to be singled out as anybody special.” Like

it or not, Ledecky, 18, has surpassed Shaw and is approaching the same celestial orbit as the likes of Serena Williams, Floyd Mayweather and Ronda Rousey. Since winning the 800-me-ter freestyle at the 2012 Olympics, Ledecky has dominated the distance freestyles, recording five of the six all-time fastest times in the 800, five of seven in the 1500 and the three fastest in the 400.

Ishant Sharma fifer destroys Sri Lanka President XI top-order

Ranchi Rays retains its best players for HIL

In Katie Ledecky’s Amazing Feats, Echoes of a Star From the 1970s

Lakra led the defence of the Ranchi Rays and has been an integral part of the team. Apart from him, Kothajit Singh holds the defence of the team. Both the play-ers have played more than 100 international matches and their vast experience will solidify the defence-line of the team. Speaking on their retained players, Ranchi Rays stated, . “All the players retained by us

were hugely instrumen-tal towards our win in the third edition of the Hockey India League. The players held back by us are a good mix of defenders as well as strikers.” Speaking on Ranchi Rays’ decision to retain him, Lakra said, “The presence of Ash-ley is very important for us as he knows the in-side-out of the team and we enjoy playing under his leadership.”

Agency | Colombo

Ishant Sharma wrecked havoc today in the Sri Lanka Board President XI camp after the Indi-an-medium pacer bagged

five wickets to reduce the hosts to 35 for five at lunch on Day 2 of the three-day tour game here. Getting behind the Indians first innings score of 351,

Usman Khawaja, Joe Burns star as Australia A thrash India A by 119 runs

the President XI top-order had no answers to Ishant’s (5-5) pace and swing on a humid day as the lanky bowler, who shared the new ball with Bhuvnesh-war Kumar (0-5), struck twice in his very first over. He removed both the openers, Dhananjaya de Silva and Kaushal Silva, for a duck. Ishant kept up the good work by pick-ing Upul Tharanga (0) in his next over and then got Lahiru Thiramanne (5) and Kusal Perera (0) on consecutive deliveries in his fourth over to be on a hat-trick. The score read 10 for five. Shehan Jaya-suriya, who is battling it out on 7 not out, averted the hat-trick ball and now shares an unbeaten 25-run partnership with Milinda Siriwardana (23 not out) to bring some respite from the wicket-fall. Earlier starting on their overnight score of 314 for six, the Virat Kohli-led Indians managed to post 351 all out with Ajinkya Rahane top-scoring with 109 re-tired out.

ans produced a spineless show in all departments of the game as their bowl-ers were first steamrolled by Khawaja and Burns during the Australia A in-nings and then the home team batsmen fell far short of reaching the stiff target of 335 as they were bundled out for just 215 in 42.3 overs. The Aus-tralians maintained their

wicket to wicket bowling and the impatient Indian batsmen paid the price of chasing short-pitched deliveries. The wicket appeared to offer good bounce throughout the day but the hosts bats-men were to be blamed for failing to make a mark as the majority of them were out due to wrong shot selections.

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Correspondent | Godhra

At around 1.30 am on July 16, 55-year-old Kadir Ab-dul Gani Pataliya came out of his house in Vach-la Oda locality near Abu Bakr Mosque here to have a cup of tea at Rosy Hotel when sleuths of the Local Crime Branch (LCB) ar-rested him in connection with the burning of Sabar-mati Express on February 27, 2002. Pataliya, who evaded police for over 13 years, claimed that he lived in the locality all these years. On the night when he was arrested, the market was bustling with Ramzan festivities and he was one in the crowd. Six of his family mem-bers have been accused in the same case. His cousin Shaukat Bhano Pataliya,

Correspondent | Vadodara

163 Indian fishermen, mostly from Gujarat, who were released from Pakistani jails on August 2, have arrived in Va-dodara to a warm wel-come. The fishermen, who were apprehended by Pakistan Marine Se-curity for the last two years from Arabian Sea at Jakhau in Kutch dis-trict, bordering Pakistan, reached Vadodara late last night. They then set out for Veraval town in Somnath district, where they will be reunited with their family and friends. Religious leader Shri Chinmayanand Bapu of Haridwar, city mayor Bharat Shah, standing committee chairman Hi-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Kickstarting his two-day visit to Gujarat on Thursday, the President of Mozambique, Filipe J Nyusi, who is an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, met CM Anandiben Pa-tel and expressed interest in enhancing relations with the state during a one-to-one meeting held at a city-based hotel be-tween the two leaders. The President showed interest in knowing the practices and achieve-ments of Gujarat in the field of agriculture, es-pecially cotton produc-tion as well as education and skill development initiatives. He also re-vived his close ties with the city with a visit to a private store in Ahmed-

abad that manufactures and retails “Modi kur-ta” and “Modi jackets”. The President and the First Lady, Isaura Nyusi, dropped by at the Jade Blue store located at SG Highway that is known to style PM Narendra Modi for more than 25 years. “This is the first time that we had a Pres-ident of a nation visiting our store. President Ny-usi knew all about ‘Modi kurta’ and the jacket and he said so. He said he was keen to visit our store because he recalled getting a suit stitched from here when he was studying for a three-month course at the In-dian Institute of Man-agement, Ahmedabad, back in 2003. While he

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday ordered sealing of illegal un-der-construction units in Gir sanctuary and also commercial estab-lishments running with-out permission in the sprawling wildlife zone, the last abode of Asiatic lions spread over three districts. Acting on a PIL, a division bench or-dered a halt to all illegal under-construction units in the lion sanctuary lo-cated in Gir-Somnath, Amreli and Junagadh districts. The bench of Justices Jayant Patel and R H Shukla directed Gu-jarat government to seal 61 under-construction units (residential and

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A special trial court hear-ing the 2002 Naroda Gam riot case was ex-pected to rule Friday on a plea by Maya Kodnani — the former Gujarat minister convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case — seeking re-ex-amination of the police inspector, Khorshed My-sorewala, who was post-ed at the Naroda police station during the 2002 riots. Mysorewala, now retired, was the first in-vestigating officer in the case who had testified that Kodnani was not present at the spot when the riots broke out. His claim was contrary to what was al-

leged against Kodnani in the Naroda Gam case. Mysorewala, who was posted at Naroda police station as senior police inspector, had conducted the initial investigations into both the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya cases. Earlier, when the Naroda Gam case was be-ing heard in the court of now retired special judge Jyotsna Yagnik, Kodnani was allowed to recall and cross-examine eight prosecution witnesses in July 2013. Judge Yagnik, who also presided over the Naroda Patiya case, had convicted Kodnani and 30 others for life in August 2012. The Naroda

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat high court on Thursday upheld police department’s decision to transfer 22 constables from Ahmedabad city to other districts after they were found attend-ing wedding ceremony at a noted bootlegger, Suresh Langda in Feb-ruary. These constables were transferred in April by the DGP on basis of outcome of preliminary inquiry he had ordered following newspapers exposed the close link between policemen and the bootlegger, who was booked under prohibition laws on 23 occasions and who was sent to jail under PASA for 18 times. The constables moved the HC against the inter-district transfer and argued that it is contrary to provisions of section 28(1) of the Bombay Police Act and

rule 152 of the Gujarat Police Manual. Consta-bles cannot be transferred to other district if there is no emergency or exigen-cy at the place of trans-fer. They argued that the transfer here is not in the nature of public interest, but punitive in nature be-cause they had attended marriage reception of the son of a noted bootlegger. Justice J B Pardiwala re-fused to accept the argu-ment and said that words like ‘public interest’ and ‘exigency’ must not be interpreted narrowly. “The maintenance of an efficient, honest and ex-perienced police service is a must for the due dis-charge of that responsi-bility. Therefore, the au-thority concerned alone is best suited to judge as to the existence of exi-gencies of such a service, requiring inter district transfer.”

Mozambique President Filipe J Nyusi seeks to boost ties, goes shopping for ‘Modi kurta’

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2002 riots: Decision on Maya Kodnani’s plea likely today

2002 Sabarmati train burning: 3 arrests in a month, but 13 still absconding

Seal illegal under-construction units in Gir sanctuary: Gujarat HC

Gujarat HC upholds transfer of cops for attending bootlegger’s wedding

was here for about twen-ty minutes, we gifted him a navy blue ‘Modi jacket’ and presented the First Lady with a print-ed silk dupatta (stole),” said Bipin Chauhan, MD of Jade Blue Life-style India Ltd, who has been styling Modi since 1989. Jade Blue is the

original maker of the “Modi kurta’ and ‘Modi jacket’, after garnering the trademark rights for the iconic half-sleeved kurta ‘Modi kurta’ worn by PM Modi in 2012. After seeking Modi’s assent, later it also got the trademark rights for ‘Modi jacket’ in 2014.

Nyusi, who underwent a short-term Management Education Programmes (MEP) meant for senior executives in 2003, also visited IIM Ahmedabad and had an informal session with 18 of his 36 batchmates here. A source close to the de-velopment added that

Nyusi was keen to start an institute similar to IIM-A at Maputo in Mo-zambique Business ties between local entrepre-neurs and a high-pow-ered delegation from Mozambique consisting of 100 businessmen were explored at a “business meet” organised by the Indo-African Chamber of Commerce & Indus-tries held at IIM-A. An agreement for bilater-al cooperation between Mozambican Invest-ment Promotion Centre and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce & Industries was signed at the business meet, said Sunanda Rajendran, secretary general at In-do-African Chamber of Commerce & Industries.

Gam case is now being heard by special judge P B Desai. In 2008, all the nine major riot cas-es were handed over to the Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by an order of the Supreme Court, and Mysorewala was made a prosecution

witness in the case. The case pertains to the killing of 11 Muslims in Naroda Gram with 83 people, in-cluding Kodnani, Babub-hai Patel alias Babu Ba-jrangi, listed as accused. The application to re-ex-amine Mysorewala was taken by Kodnani after she recently changed her lawyer. However, SIT lawyer Gaurang Vyas said that the application to recall Mysorewala was unwarranted as he was cross-examined at length in 2013. Kod-nani’s new lawyer Amit Patel, who had moved the application on her behalf, was not available for comment.

who was sentenced to life imprisonment, died in 2012 in jail. Kadir’s uncle Ayub Abdul Gani Patali-ya and cousin Irfan Hanif Patadiya were among the 11 convicts sentenced to death, while his brother Yakub Abdul Gani Pa-tadiya has been evading police for 13 years. His

son Shakir, then a juve-nile, was kept in a remand home for six years in con-nection with the case. Ac-cording to police, Kadir, like the other members of his family named in the FIR, was in the mob that threw petrol and burnt down S-6 coach of the train, killing 59 passen-

gers, mostly kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya. The incident had trig-gered widespread com-munal violence in Gu-jarat during which more than 1,000 people lost their lives. In July alone, police traced and arrested three of the 16 abscond-ers in the case.

commercial) that are coming up without ob-taining permission from state authorities. The HC also directed the District Collectors to issue show-cause notices, within 10 days, to the commercial units running without permission under a new eco-tourism policy. The Collectors should seek a

reply within 15 days and if their owners fail to do so, the units should be sealed. The bench asked the state to present before it the delineation map of the eco-sensitive zone of Gir on next hearing (Sep-tember 10). The direc-tion came after the unit- owners said they were not aware of the radius

of the zone. Earlier, the Collectors of Junagadh, Amreli and Gir- Som-nath districts had filed affidavits before the HC, stating that around 244 illegal units, some of the under-construction, are operating in the sanctu-ary without obtaining re-quired permission from authorities concerned.

Fishermen Released by Pakistan Reach Gujarat’s Vadodara

tendra Patel were among those who received the fishermen at the railway station. The fishermen asked the authorities to convey their request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to secure the imme-diate release of 50-year-old fisherman Dhirubhai

Govindbhai Majithia, who had reportedly suf-fered paralysis attack in a Pakistani jail, on human-itarian grounds. “Majith-ia is still in Pakistani jail due to some reasons,” KR Patani, state Fish-eries department super-intendent, who brought

the fishermen from Pun-jab. Earlier, Shri Chin-mayanand Bapu offered flowers and gave a bag containing a bottle of drinking water and light food to each of the re-leased fishermen. Sever-al fishermen broke into tears upon the arrival.