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farmer commits suicide

Agency | Nashik

A 68-year-old debt-rid-den farmer from Palk-hed village here alleged-ly committed suicide after he failed to repay his loan, police said to-day. The victim, identi-fied as Shivaji Shankar Kale, consumed poison on Saturday following which he was rushed to the Nashik Civil Hos-pital, where he passed away yesterday, they said.This is a special win as we had to work

harder: Kohli

HC order in Herald to be

challenged in SC

Agency | New Delhi

India captain Virat Kohli today described their 337-run win at Ferozshah Kotla here as the most special of the four-Test series against South Africa, saying his team had to work harder to achieve the result as compared to the previ-ous matches. India won the four-Test series 3-0, with the second match at Bangalore being washed out. While India won the first and third matches within three days, the last Test here went on till the fifth day with South Africa put-ting up a massive resis-tance for the major part of the match.

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi High Court order dismissing pleas against summons is-sued to Sonia and Ra-hul Gandhi in the Na-tional Herald case will be challenged in the Supreme Court tomor-row, the Congress said today claiming “sever-al legal deficiencies” in the verdict. Party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi, who is the senior advocate repre-senting the Vice Pres-ident, brushed aside suggestions that it was a major setback for them in the case filed by BJP leader Subra-manian Swamy.

India jump to second spot with 337-run win over South Africa“Ind vs SA, 4th Test”

The win was the biggest in terms of runs and pushed India to second rank in ICC Test rankings

India seal win after Proteas crumble

Agency | Beijing

Beijing issued its first-ev-er red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking re-strictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads.The red alert – the most serious warn-ing on a four-tier system adopted a little over two years ago – means au-thorities have forecast more than three consecu-tive days of severe smog. An online notice from the Beijing Municipal En-vironmental Protection Bureau said it issued the alert to “protect public health and reduce levels of heavy air pollution.”

Agency | Mumbai

A massive fire triggered by a gas cylinder explo-sions swept through the packed Damu Nagar slum in Mumbai’s Kandivali on Monday, killing one person and destroying around 1,000 homes, offi-cials said. “The body was burnt beyond recognition. It was difficult to say by looking whether it was a boy’s or a girl’s body,” a police constable, who was present at the spot, said. One of the women has sustained severe burn injuries, police said. The fire brigade control room, which said the fire start-ed around 12.30pm, sent 16 fire tenders and nine water tankers to control the fire. Fire officials had to struggle to contain the fire and could douse it only at 3.10pm. “A gas

Agency | New Delhi

Observing that the con-duct of Congress of-fice-bearers named in the National Herald case “smacks of criminality”, the Delhi High Court dis-missed Monday appeals filed by Congress presi-dent Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and five others against summons to face trial. Hours after the bench of Justice Sunil Gaur turned down the pleas for ex-emption from personal appearance in the case in the trial court, where it is listed Tuesday, a stunned Congress said it will ap-proach the Supreme Court Tuesday morning against the High Court order. The

Agency | New Delhi

Hosts India overcame South Africa’s dogged resistance in the final ses-sion to beat the visitors by 337 runs in the final Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium on Monday and complete a 3-0 win in the four-match series. AB de Villiers batted for about six hours, much of it with a swollen thumb, for his 43 to fuel South Africa’s faint hopes of salvaging a draw after extraordi-

China: Beijing issues first smog red alert, urging schools to close

National Herald case: HC dismisses Sonia, Rahul’s pleas against summons; BJP hails decision

Fire destroys around 1,000 slum homes in Mumbai, one killed

Readings of PM2.5 parti-cles climbed toward 300 micrograms per cubic meter on Monday and are expected to continue ris-ing before the air begins to improve with the arrival of a cold front on Thurs-day. The World Health Organization designates the safe level for PM2.5 particles at 25. Along with school closures and limit-

ing cars to driving every other day depending on the last number of their license plate, a raft of oth-er restrictions will seek to reduce the amount of dust and other particulate matter in the city of 22.5 million people. Officials said extra subway trains and buses would be add-ed to handle the additional strain on public transport.

It’s the second time this month that notoriously polluted Beijing has expe-rienced a prolonged bout of smog, sending PM2.5 levels in the suburbs as high as 976 micrograms. Beijing was also shroud-ed in persistent smog for most of November, when power demand soared due to unusually cold weather. While pollution in the cap-ital improved slightly in the first 10 months of the year, heavy smog that can be seen from outer space regularly forces Beijing schools to suspend out-door activities and can even prompt highway closures because of re-duced visibility.

cylinder burst in a slum hutment due to which a big fire broke out. Ap-proximately 1,000 hut-ments are burnt. Present-ly fire is under control,” Fatehsingh Patil, addi-tional commissioner of police, north region, said. Dramatic video foot-age and pictures posted on Twitter showed thick black smoke billow-ing above the slum after more than a dozen cyl-inders exploded in quick

succession after the first blast. People living a ki-lometre away from the accident site heard loud explosions. The fire in the slum, which is on collec-tor land and shares one of its boundaries with a godown, is suspected to have spread after a gas leak, fire brigade sourc-es said. Members of the NSS and civil defence struggled to control the crowd as panic gripped the locality.

trial court is likely to is-sue a date for personal ap-pearances of all accused. The Gandhis and five others — Suman Dubey, Moti Lal Vohra, Oscar Fernandes, Sam Pitroda and Young India Ltd (YI) — had challenged the tri-al court summons on a complaint by BJP’s Sub-ramanian Swamy against them for alleged cheating and misappropriation of

funds in taking control of the now-defunct Na-tional Herald newspaper. Dismissing their appeals, the High Court bench, in a 27-page judgment, not-ed that YI was a “special purpose vehicle” created by the Congress leaders and the “questionable conduct of the petitioners needs to be properly ex-amined… to find out the truth”. The bench ques-

tioned the need for shift-ing the interest-free loan of Rs 90.25 crore extend-ed to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), publish-er of National Herald, to Young India Limited (YI) for Rs 50 lakh. The court observed that the modus operandi depict-ed “criminal intent”. “…where was the need of extending interest-free loans to a public limit-ed company engaged in a commercial venture of publishing newspapers,” the judge said, adding that allegations raised by complainant Swamy would need to be exam-ined in detail at the stage of framing of charges against the accused.

nary stonewalling from the visitors in their remarkably dour second innings.

India struck back in the final session, claiming five wickets to bowl out South

Africa for 143 runs in 143.1 overs to seal victo-ry and vault into the sec-ond place in world Test rankings. Resuming on 72-2 on a hazy morning, South Africa employed the same ultra-defensive strategy that marked their batting on Sunday. Deter-mined to eke out a draw, captain Hashim Amla and de Villiers continued frus-trating the Indian bowlers with resolute stonewall-ing. The number of bowl-ers Virat Kohli employed rose to eight, including the India skipper him-self, as he grew desperate to try and separate Amla and de Villiers. Kohli sur-rounded the batsmen with

up to six close-in field-ers for his spinners but success eluded the hosts until the 13th over of the day. Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja earned the breakthrough in the fifth over after the hosts had taken the new ball, spinning one past Amla’s tentative bat to hit the top of the off-stump before embarking on a celebra-tory run. Amla departed after nearly five hours of dour defending, scoring 25 painstaking runs from 244 balls in what was the slowest ever Test inning of 200 or more balls. The 27 runs he added with de Villiers in 253 balls was also the slowest Test

partnership of 175 balls or more. New man in Faf du Plessis displayed the same obduracy with the bat and took 53 balls — seven more than skipper Amla — to get off the mark. Jadeja, who sent down 17 consecutive maiden overs in the sec-ond innings, struck again after the lunch break, trapping du Plessis leg before for 10, ending the batsman’s two-hour vig-il. Ravichandran Ash-win (5-61) dismissed the scoreless JP Duminy but de Villiers and Dane Vilas (13) joined hands to thwart the Indians to en-sure the test spills into its final session.

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DAYHow is AAP planning to implement the alternate car day rule?

People are outraged. They will not tolerate this. How will they manage for two whole weeks—actually seven days—without their cars? Oh actually, most of them have one car per member of the family, so they may just be able to do so. But let’s not ruin the outrage. In all honesty, while I’m not outraged, I am cocking my eyebrow at this new anti-pollution measure by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and by extension, Arvind Kejriwal—and I’ll get to why later. Now if anyone is a walking-coughing example of the ill-effects of Del-hi’s pollution, it is Arvind Kejriwal with his perenni-al cough. For the record, Delhi’s pollution levels are indeed scary. Delhi’s air quality, according to Gufran Beig, chief project scientist of System Of Air Quali-ty and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), is swinging between “very poor” and “poor” and we also have some areas where the PM level is “severe”. “Very poor” signifies PM 10 and PM 2.5 levels be-tween 351 and 420, and 211 to 252 micro gram per cubic metre, respectively. “Severe” is declared when PM 2.5 and PM 10 cross 253, 421 micro gram per cubic metres, respectively. When I checked Delhi’s pollution rate on IndiaSpend’s #Breathe at 9.32am to-day, the PM 2.5 level was 453 and the PM 10 level 733. This was at Civil Lines. If you want to petrify yourself, keep clicking on this link every 30 minutes. There’s no doubt that we need to get a grip on the pollution levels, before we are all gassed to death. Which is why Kejriwal should be complimented for announcing a bunch of measures to curb pollution such as shutting down two power plants in the city, changing the timings of trucks entering the city and ensuring garbage doesn’t get burnt in the open. But all this has been overshadowed by the unkindest cut of them all. We have been informed that from the new year, cars with odd-numbered licence plates will be allowed to ply on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, while cars with even-numbered plates will run on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. On the Sabbath, we will travel the way the lord God meant us to —in our even and odd numbered cars without discrimination. A worthy plan, but is it well thought out? I am think-ing not. Here’s why. First of all, this is Delhi, where being ill-informed and rich is a virtue. Most people have multiple cars and will just take out their second or third or fourth car—or buy a new one if required—to get around this rule. The latter is what happened in Mexico City after this rule was implemented. Take for example the tweet by the complete man, Gautam Singhania, “Ridiculous rule in Delhi to have odd even number cars on alternate days.

“The government has reduced OROP to writing. I am ashamed to say that after having committed to give OROP, the prime minister says that he has not understood the issue,” - The noted lawyer said

at a press conference organised by ex-servicemen at Jantar Mantar

dishoom first look: Varun dhawan, John Abraham are the new action boys

Rachel Weisz ‘very happy’ in marriage with Daniel Craig

Sunny Leone as ‘Super girl from China’

Confirmed! deepika Padukone will work with Vin diesel in the new XXX film

Manish Malhotra celebrates birthday with Bollywood pals

Finally! Parineeti Chopra opens up on working with Salman Khan in ‘Sultan’

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court is slated to deliver its verdict this week on an appeal filed by actor Sal-man Khan against the five year sentence award-ed to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case. The arguments in the case concluded yesterday and Judge A R Joshi said he would begin dictation of judgement on the appeal from tomorrow. A ses-sions court had on May 6 convicted the 49-year-old actor on the charge of culpable homicide

not amounting to mur-der under IPC and other offences. An aggrieved Salman filed an appeal in the High Court which granted him bail before hearing arguments in the case. It is the case of the prosecution that Salman had consumed liquor at ‘Rain Bar and Restaurant’ at Vile Par-le before ramming his Toyota lexus car into a shop at suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002. One person died in the mishap and four others were injured.

Salman Khan hit-and-run case: HC to deliver verdict on actor’s appeal this week

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood superstar Sal-man Khan’s upcoming film ‘Sultan’ has bagged a lot of attention ever since it was announced. Every-thing about the film – be it Salman’s role, his look or the location of shooting, everything attracted eye-balls. But what made peo-ple go more curious about ‘Sultan’ was the leading lady of the film. So far several names have been doing the rounds for the film from Deeepika Padu-

kone to Katrina Kaif and from Parineeti Chopra to Kangana Ranaut. Re-cently, the speculations about Parineeti being fi-nalised for ‘Sultan’ were rife. Though, there was no official confirmation or denial about the ru-mours so far, but now the ‘Ishaqzaade’ actress herself decided to clear the air about ‘Sultan’. The actress took it to mi-cro-blogging site Twitter to make the clarification as she tweeted, “Guys,

I am not doing Sultan, please put all rumours and speculations to rest and let me announce my next film when the time is right.” Yes! Parineeti won’t be seen in Salman Khan’s ‘Sultan’. While the actress has put the rumours on rest, we still wonder who will be the leading lady of Salman in the film. ‘Sultan’ which will see Salman Khan playing the role of a wres-tler, is expected to hit the theatres on Eid 2016.

Agency | London

Actress Rachel Weisz is thankful to be married to “Spectre” star Daniel Craig and has “no com-plaints” about life. The 45-year-old “Youth” ac-tress said she has a won-derful family and she is at a great place in her life, reported Female First. Asked what it’s like liv-ing with Craig, she said, “Let’s just say I’ve got no complaints. Life is good and I’m very, very happy. I have a wonderful family and my career seems to be going well, touch wood. “I’m quite superstitious though, so I don’t want to say too many things about it in case I jinx it.” Weisz also thinks her husband, who is best known for playing James Bond, is

Agency | Los Angeles

Vin Diesel has teased fans about his leading lady Deepika Padukone in “Xander Cage Returns”, the upcoming sequel of XXX franchise, by shar-ing a picture with the In-dian beauty on his Insta-gram. Deepika, 29, had first fuelled speculation about her possible Holly-wood debut by sharing a picture with Diesel where she is seen hugging the Hollywood hunk while looking at the camera mysteriously. Though Diesel, 48, has left the fans guessing by keeping the picture caption-less, Deepika’s “Piku” co-star Irrfan Khan confirmed the news by congratulating the actress. “A big con-gratulations to our favour-ite #Piku for her smashing #Hollywooddebut with #Vindiesel @Deepika-Padukone,” he posted on Facebook. “XXX”, a 2002 American action film di-

Agency | Mumbai

It was Bollywood’s fa-vourite celebrity design-er’s birthday and it looks like Manish Malhotra had a bash with his pals. The 50-year-old designer took to his Instagram and posted several pics from his birthday bash. Man-ish posted a group pic-ture with his gal-pals, in-cluding Karisma Kapoor, Sridevi, Kareena Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty with the caption, “Friends

Agency | Mumbai

After admiring Sunny Le-one as ‘Laila’ and ‘Lee-la’, it’s time to see her in a super girl’s avatar. The ‘Mastizaade’ star plays ‘Super girl from China’ in a new song sung by Kanika Kapoor and Mika Singh. The track pre-sented by T-Series has been penned by Shabbir Ahmed and composed by Kanika and the video has been directed by Ahmed Khan. In the video, Sun-

Agency | Mumbai

After making headlines, all thanks to his promo-tions for ‘Dilwale’ we get to see another side to Varun Dhawan in the first look of action film, ‘Di-shoom’. Directed by Ro-hit Dhawan, the first look features John Abraham and Varun Dhawan in a high-octave action scene

with John riding a bike and Varun in the carriage. Both hunks look like they’re on a high-speed chase through the desert as we glimpse camels and dust in the background. Set in the Middle East, ‘Dishoom’ has been shot in Morocco and Abu Dhabi. This is the first time that Varun Dhawan will be working with his

brother, Rohit and we are hoping that the fam-ily equation adds to the excitement of the film. ‘Dishoom’ also marks the return of Akshay Khan-na to the silver screen after a gap of four years. Produced by Sajid Nadi-adwala, ‘Dishoom’ also stars Jacqueline Fernan-dez, Kabir Bedi and Ram Kapoor.

a “brilliant” actor. When quizzed on life with James Bond, she replied, “I don’t live with James Bond, I live with an ac-tor called Daniel Craig, who is such a brilliant ac-

tor that he has convinced everyone else that that is who he is. “I don’t know James Bond personally and as far as I understand, he doesn’t really get mar-ried, does he?”

rected by Rob Cohen, starred Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill seeking ex-treme sports enthusiast,

stuntman and rebellious athlete-turned- reluctant spy for the national secu-rity agency.

since years.” Urmila Ma-tondkar, Alia Bhatt and

Raveena Tandon also at-tended the celebrations.

ny is seen wooing a geek, who assembles a man-nequin that eventually transforms into a super-woman. It’s been about

4 years since Sunny has made her presence felt in Bollywood after par-ticipating in reality show ‘Bigg Boss’.

Rachel Weisz is thankful to be married to “Spectre” star daniel Craig and has “no

complaints” about life


SPORTS ROUNDUPSiri’s voiced-activated support announced for 5 million Ford cars

Microsoft to Fix Surface Pro 4, Surface Book ‘Sleep’ Issue by Next year

Godrej Properties Sells 300 Flats for Rs 700 Crore in Mumbai

Agency | Mumbai

Ford has announced that it will offer support for Apple’s Siri Eyes-free feature for about 5 million of their cars. Siri can be activated in a Ford car with the help of a hardware button which is usually located on its steering wheel to issue commands. These commands include everything that you will probably want to do with your iPhone without having to touch it. Sending text messages, making phone calls, getting directions, playing music, set-ting reminders and checking the weather are some of the commands that can be used. Although it is useful and less distracting than the traditional way of operating you iPhone, it is not as advanced as

Apples’s CarPlay.

Agency | New Delhi

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are facing an issue where the devices go in to standby mode (low power mode) but not to a sufficient lev-el, resulting in unforeseen battery drain. Microsoft has addressed the issue, and said the the fix will arrive “sometime soon in the new year.” The prob-lem is reportedly due to the “new silicon” on the laptops and tablets, specifically the Intel Skylake chipset, reports Windows Central. Microsoft in a forum post explains that even when the Surface device goes into standby, the CPU stays active, which leads to the heating of device with contin-uous battery drain. The problem is reportedly not only limited to these two devices but also to those Skylake-based devices made by non-Microsoft PC manufacturers. Fortunately, Microsoft has ad-dressed the issue and has said it is working on it. However, the company says users would have to wait for the fix until next year. “Yes, The ‘standby’ battery life is an issue we are working on and have

been working on.

Agency | New Delhi

Realty firm Godrej Properties has sold 300 flats worth over Rs 700 crore in just one week in its project at Vikhroli, Mumbai, even as the hous-ing segment is facing a huge demand slowdown. Godrej Properties, the real estate development arm of the Godrej group, on Monday informed the BSE that “it has sold 300 apartments within one week at ‘The Trees’, its flagship project in Vikhroli, Mum-bai”. “The value of the apartments sold is in excess of Rs 700 crore making this Godrej Properties’ most successful launch ever in terms of value of real estate sold. This is also one of the country’s most successful recent launches,” it added. Godrej Properties has launched 374 apartments in the first phase of the project. “We are thrilled with the customer response to the launch of The Trees in Vikhroli. We will do everything possible to ensure we deliver our customers an outstanding and inno-vative project,” Godrej Properties MD and CEO Pirojsha Godrej said.

HWL 2015: India’s rollercoaster ride ends in bronze high

The way South Africa are defending is a surprise, says Umesh Yadav

Winter Session: demand in Rajya Sabha for cricket ties with Pakistan

India to kick off U-19 World Cup campaign against Australia

Vijender faces experienced Bulgarian Samet in his third pro fight

Dhammika Prasad ruled out of Sri Lanka’s New Zealand tour

Agency | Raipur

It was Indian hockey at its best and worst, all in the space of 13 bizarre, breathless minutes. Till the 47th minute, they were being outplayed by the World’s No.2 side Holland. They were los-ing 2-1. Until they equal-ised, went ahead, then doubled their lead with just four minutes to play only to concede twice in the last two minutes. With scores level 5-5 after four quarters, the match went into penalty shootouts where goalkeeper PR Sreejesh once again stood like a rock to help guide India to a remarkable 3-2 win and end a 33-year wait to win a medal at a major international hock-

Agency | Malang

Demand for resumption of cricketing ties between India and Pakistan had an echo in Rajya Sabha on Monday with a Congress member questioning why the government was not giving its nod to it. Rajiv Shukla, who is also IPL Commissioner, raised the issue in the context of a meeting between National Security Advisors of India

Agency | Dubai

India will take on Austra-lia on January 28 at Mir-pur in their opening match of the 2016 ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup to be held in Bangladesh from January 27 to February 14. The tournament will be held across eight ven-ues in four Bangladesh cities with 48 matches to be played and ICC to produce live broadcast coverage of 20 matches. India, the winners of the 2000, 2008 and 2012 edi-tions, have been placed in Group D along with Aus-

tralia, New Zealand and Nepal. Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka and Sylhet will share the 48 match-es between them during the 19-day tournament, which will open with the match between defending champion South Africa and host Bangladesh at Zohur Ahmed Chowd-hury Stadium (ZACS) in Chittagong. The tour-nament will culminate with the final at the iconic Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. All matches will be day fix-tures and will start at 0930

local time. The Super League semi-finals and fi-nal will have reserve days, the ICC said on Monday in a statement, announc-ing the schedule of the tournament. For the first time in the history of this competition, ICC will pro-duce live broadcast cover-age of an unprecedented 20 matches. The match-es which will be shown around the world by ICC broadcast partner, Star Sports and its licensees, include four from Chit-tagong, nine from Mirpur and seven from Fatullah.

Agency | Wellington

A back injury has forced leading fast bowler Dhammika Prasad out of Sri Lanka’s cricket tour to New Zealand, days be-fore the first of two Tests. Prasad was due to lead the Sri Lanka in the attack in

the first Test, which starts at the University Oval in Dunedin on Thursday. But a back injury suf-fered in a warm-up match against a President’s XI, which ended in Queen-stown on Saturday, has ruled Prasad out of the test and subsequent five-

match one-day series. Prasad will be replaced in both the Test and one-day squads by uncapped paceman Vishwa Fernan-do, who joins Dushman-tha Chameera, Nuwan Pradeep and Suranga Lakmal among the tour-ists pace options.

Agency | Manchester

Indian boxer Vijender Singh will be looking to continue his great run of form after when he face his most experienced op-ponent so far in Bulgarian Samet Hyuseinov in his third professional bout at the Manchester Are-na on December 19. Vi-jender has sailed through his first two professional opponents, beating Son-ny Whiting in his debut in October and followed that up with a one-round demolition of Dean Gil-len in Dublin last month. The 30-year-old middle-weight boxer now takes on Hyuseinov in his quest to become India’s first ever professional world champion and end the year undefeated. Where-

ey event, excluding con-tinental tournaments. The last time India finished on the podium in a FIH tournament was in 1982, when they won a bronze medal. On a mental Sun-day evening, they finally ended the hoodoo. The match began with Hol-land dominating the hosts in the first three quarters before it lost shape, or-der and discipline. By the end of it all, they had

lost the count of goals. For the longest time, it looked like Holland would steamroll India. They scored twice in the opening two quarters and had at least half-a-dozen other chances, which ei-ther went wide or were saved by PR Sreejesh. Ramandeep Singh pulled one back for India in the 39th minute. However, Holland still looked in complete control.

and Pakistan in Bangkok yesterday, a week after Prime Ministers of the two countries met in Paris. “When Prime Ministers are meeting, Foreign min-isters are meeting, foreign secretaries and NSAs are meeting, only the cricket-ers are not being allowed to play. Everyone is cre-ating a problem on that. When mangoes and sarees are being exchanged and their trade is taking place and everyone between two countries are meet-ing, only cricketers are not allowed to meet and play. When everything is happening, why not al-low the cricket teams to play also. Government

should explain and come out with a statement,” he said. Seeking to support it, Deputy Chairman P J Kurien said, “I think that it is a suggestion on which government should have a positive reaction. Why not government should look into it?” Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “Government will work in national interest. It is equally concerned about the national inter-est as Rajiv Shukla is.” The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has already written to the External Affairs Ministry seeking a nod for holding a cricket series in Sri Lanka.

Agency | New Delhi

Indian speedster Umesh Yadav expressed his sur-prise at the ultra-defensive strategy employed by the South African batsmen in the fourth and final crick-et Test here but remind-ed them that one cannot last an entire fifth day by “just blocking” deliveries. Asked if 72 runs scored by the South Africans in 72 overs came as a shocker, Yadav admitted that it was indeed so. “Yes it’s a sur-prise as we did not think that they would play like this. The way they are de-fending is a surprise and they are not even trying to play a shot. Even deliver-ies they can score are be-ing defended,” Yadav told mediapersons at the day-end conference. Yadav admitted that it can be-

as Whiting and Gillen had a combined record of five fights, Hyuseinov has 14 fights under his belt, winning seven and losing the rest. “This is another important fight for me that I must win so the pressure is on,” said Vijender. “I’m unbeaten and intend to stay that way going into next year where I am looking at my first title fight so I’m not letting Hyuseinov mess up my plans to get my

first championship belt,” he added. Vijender said his approach will contin-ue to be aggressive even though he would be up against an experienced fighter this time. “While I got rid of Whiting and Gillen early, I’ll have to see what Hyuseinov brings to the ring on the night. If I feel that I can take him out early I will go in for the early knock-out and get the job done nice and quick,” he said.

come a challenge for the bowling side when the batsmen are not ready to attack. “Yes it becomes a challenge when batsman does not play a shot as chances of getting a play-er out decreases. When a batsman does not take any initiative then even if you bowl a good delivery, he will just block it out. I can tell you this kind of cricket can be very bor-ing, because you just are

bowling over after over and nothing is happen-ing,” he said. “It becomes so boring that you start thinking as to whether something will happen or not,” Yadav said in refer-ence to Hashim Amla’s unbeaten 23 off 207 balls. Amla’s effort is the sec-ond least number of runs scored in the history of Test cricket for any bats-man who have faced 200 deliveries.


Correspondent | Rajkot

Police in Amreli have booked seven persons for allegedly making of-fensive remarks against former Gujarat minister Dilip Sanghani on Face-book, a day after BJP suffered massive defeat in the local body polls in Rajkot. An FIR was reg-istered against the seven persons after Kamlesh Sanghani, nephew of the former agriculture min-ister, filed a complaint with the city police Sat-urday evening. Hitu Pa-tel, Hitesh Dudhat, Feroz Bhatti, Nikunj Dobariya, H P Sanghani, Sanjay Rupapara and Jitu Nasit, all named in the com-plaint, have been booked under Section 66 (A) (b) of the Information Technology Act, 2003,

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The schedule of the parlia-mentary board meeting of the ruling BJP in Gujarat to select the mayors of the six municipal corporations and other office bearers of the local bodies won by it during the recently held elections has been slight-ly changed. The meeting slated to be held on De-cember 9 and 10 would now be held on December 8 and 10 instead. BJP state media convener Harshad Patel today confirmed the change in schedule and said that many of the se-nior party leaders from


Congress is hoping to build on the gains in ru-ral local bodies election, dubbed as the “semi- fi-nal”, to end BJP’s 20-year in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls, while the result has come as a wake-up call for the ruling par-ty.A rattled state BJP gov-ernment announced many pro-farmer decisions in just three days after the local bodies elections, including giving land on concessional rates to AP-MCs and farmers’ groups, release of Narmada water for farmers and setting up food parks in five rural ar-eas. “Results in rural ar-eas of Gujarat are not as per our expectations. But

we will win over rural ar-eas by our pro-people de-cisions and developmen-tal works before the 2017 polls,” state BJP minister Raman Vora said.Out of power for 20 years, the Congress recently won 21 of the 31 district pan-chayats and 124 of the 230 taluka panchayats, while the BJP retained its hold over all six mu-nicipal corporations and 40 of 56 municipalities. After its battering in Bi-har, BJP’s loss in rural local bodies in Gujarat comes more than a year after Narendra Modi, who ruled the state for 12 years, shifted to Delhi. An upbeat Congress sees its win in district and ta-

luka panchayats as a big opportunity to return to power in the next Assem-bly polls. “This result is a stepping stone for the party for the 2017 polls,” Congress leader Ahmed Patel said.Two years of agrarian distress due to insufficient rains coupled with flood-like situation in some districts and the alleged poor response to it by state government is considered as the main reasons for BJP’s bad performance in rural ar-eas.On top of it, the Patel quota agitation erased the support base of BJP in ru-ral areas which allowed Congress to make a big comeback in the country-side of Gujarat.


The year 2015 doesn’t only mark the centenary year of Mahatma Gand-hi making Ahmedabad his home in 1915, but on Monday, both Bapu and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel will complete 100 years of beginning their politi-cal careers in India. Back in December 7, 1915, Bapu and Sardar were chosen from Ahmedabad as delegates to the ‘Hin-di Rashtriya Mahasabha’ which was being held in Bombay that year. Both these stalwarts were recommended by Gu-jarat’s socio-political organization, ‘Gujarat Sabha’, of which both were members. Guja-rat Sabha was among two most powerful bod-ies of opinion makers for med in the 1880s in Gujarat along with the Surat-based ‘Praja Hith-vardhak Sabha’. But since 1913, even before

Bapu made Ahmedabad his home in 1915, Sardar was practising as a law-yer in the Bhadra court. “On December 8, 1915 edition of the Prajaband-hu journal one finds that a consensus of choosing delegates for the Bom-bay meet was organized by Gujarat Sabha in Sansarsudhara hall at Bhadra. While Sardar’s name ranked 25 on the list, Gandhiji figured at number 70,” says city based historian Rizwan Kadri. Though it is well known in history that Sardar joined Bapu af-ter the Champaran Sa-tyagraha of 1917, few know about this earlier association of the two as Gujarat Sabha members. After being chosen as delegates, both Bapu and Sardar had to pay Rs40 towards membership and registration fees.The delegation from Gujarat included almost 100 rep-resentatives..


The Gujarat Second-ary and Higher Second-ary Education Board (GSHSEB) had to award grace marks to students in the semester exams in at least four subjects to cover up for the errors in the objective question pa-pers. The board awarded the highest grace mark of 21 in the objective ques-tion paper of Biology alone in the last Class XI and XII board examina-tions. The case indicates that the board goofed up in 21 objective questions in the subject. The En-glish version of this paper had seven errors leading to a grace mark of 7m while the Hindi and the Gujarati medium of the paper had four mistakes, so a grace mark of four each. A total of nearly 30 incorrect questions or op-tions provided, has result-ed in an equal number of


With an eye on the 2017 assembly elections, Aam Admi Party (AAP) is plan-ning to hold as many as 50 rallies and strengthen the party in the state in the next six months. This was announced by senior par-ty leaders at a convention of its workers in Naroda here on Sunday. They also said that Congress was a choice of compulsion for voters of rural Gujarat and that AAP would try to provide an alternative to BJP in the state. The par-ty organised a press meet in this regard which was attended by senior par-ty leaders Sanjay Singh, Ashutosh, Kanu Kalsar-ia, Gulabsingh Yadav and Dilip Pandey. Speaking on the occasion, Sanjay Singh said, “The results

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eye on Assembly polls, AAP to hold 50 rallies in next 6 months

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Board covers up its goof-up with grace marks

Wedding of Jaitley’s daughter: Change in Gujarat BJP parliamentary board meeting schedule

Bharuch murders: NIA takes over investigation


The National Investiga-tion Agency (NIA) lodged a fresh FIR on Sunday in connection with the murder of two BJP lead-ers in Bharuch, formally taking over the case. The FIR was lodged at NIA’s Mumbai office, which has jurisdiction in Gujarat. A team of NIA officials also reached Bharuch Sunday. According to Bharuch police, ASP Namrata Pa-til and others were hand-ed over the case papers and also the custody of nine accused. The custo-dy of two remaining ac-cused Abid Dawood Patel and his close aide Salim Ghanchi will be given after December 11 since they are in the custody of

and Section 504 of the IPC for intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace. “We have registered an of-fence in this connection under the IT Act. We are looking for IP (in-ternet protocol) address-es of the seven accused who made objectionable comments against Sang-

hani and also abused him,” Inspector P P Chaudhari said on Sun-day. No arrest has been made so far. The alleged offensive comments, according to the com-plainant, were posted on Facebook on December 3, a day after BJP lost elections to Amreli and Bagasara Municipalities

and also all but one ta-luka panchayat in the Patidar-dominated dis-trict. Nalin Kotadiya, BJP MLA from Dhari Assembly seat in the district, had openly sup-ported the Patidar agita-tion for quota benefits, and appealed people to defeat his own party in the local body polls.

of local polls in Gujarat have sounded alarm bells for the Gujarat govern-ment. The voters of ru-ral areas have rejected BJP, but since there is no political alternative in the state, the benefit

has gone to Congress. Congress is an alterna-tive for people of Guja-rat out of compulsion.” Singh added that their aim was to have a strong organisation in Gujarat before the 2017 Assem-

bly elections. Singh said that the party would start its work in Gujarat on two fronts; one, to strengthen its organisation and two, to protest on the issues of the people. AAP in-charge for Gujarat and Delhi MLA, Gulabsingh Yadav, said that the work to strengthen the organ-isation has already be-gun and that this was his fourth visit to the state in recent times. Yadav said that they were planning to hold 50 rallies in Gu-jarat in the next six-eight-months on various issues.

local police as granted by the district court. “We have almost solved the case as far as the Bharuch incident is concerned. But, it has a national ramification as similar methods have been used elsewhere. We have es-tablished that underworld gangsters, assisted by anti-nationals on foreign soil, are targeting politi-cians belonging to a par-ticular ideology in order

to create communal ha-tred in the country,” said an official involved in the investigation. Shirish Bangali, former Bharuch district BJP president, and Pragnesh Mistry, general secretary of the Bharuch BJP youth wing, were shot dead at the former’s Surya printing press in Panchbatti area of the town by masked assailants on the evening of November 2.

grace marks, probably the first instance of awarding such high grace marks. After parents complained the GSHSEB in per-son, emails or by post, the board has decided to make up for its mistakes even in chemistry, phys-ics and mathematics pa-pers, which have a com-paratively lower error rate. “In such a rigorous

competitive environment when students fail to get admission in medical colleges by fraction of marks, such gross errors will really affect their fu-ture,” said Umang Shah, one of the parents from Ahmedabad who person-ally went to the board’s headquarters in Gandhi-nagar to submit his repre-sentation.

Bapu, Sardar began political careers in India 100 yrs back

the state would be participating in the reception cer-emony of the marriage of Sonali Jaitley, daughter of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on December 9. Mr. Patel said that the names of the Mayors and other of-fice bearers of the six corporations in Ahmedabad, Va-dodara, Rajkot, Surat, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar would be discussed on December 8. However the names won’t be announced that day and would be declared in the respective municipal bodies later. He said that on

December 10 the presidents and other office berares of the 40 muncipalities, 6 district and 77 taluka pan-chayats would be finalized and declared in the respec-tive local bodies later. The meeting will be attended by chief minister Anandiben Patel and other senior lead-ers.Elections for the six municipal corporation was held on November 22 while that for 56 municipalites, 31 district and 230 taluka panchayats took place on November 29. The counting was done on December 2.

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