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News BriefHoney bees attack tourists in Konark

TempleAgency | Bhubaneswar

At least 15 tourists, in-cluding four foreigners, were injured after being stung by honey bees at the world famous Sun Temple at Konark today, police said. The injured, including children and women, were rushed to a government hospital at Konark. While nine tourists were discharged from the hospital after preliminary treatment, four foreign nationals and two persons from Chattisgarh have to be admitted, an attending doctor said.

Not doing any Yash Raj film: Taapsee Pannu

Dalit woman found murdered, rape suspected

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Taapsee Pannu has denied reports that she has has been ap-proached for a yet-unti-tled film under the YRF banner. The 28-year-old “Baby” actress took to Twitter to set the re-cord straight and said she is doing only two films for now. “For all the speculations and source stories, I’m right now on for #Ghazi and an untitled movie un-der #RisingSunFilms ONLY *period*,” she tweeted.

Agency | Meerut

A 45-year-old Dalit woman was murdered after allegedly being raped, sparking protests near Daurala area here. “The 45-year-old wom-an went to collect fodder but when she did not re-turn till late evening, the family members with the help of villagers started searching for her. “They found her half-naked body with injury marks, indicating attack by a sharp object, in a near-by sugarcane farm. The body has been sent for post mortem,” a police spokesman said. The vic-tim’s husband has regis-tered a complaint against unidentified persons.

Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad in comatose state, condition critical“Siachen Snow Miracle”

Siachen: world’s highest battleground

India bundled out for just 101 runs as Sri Lankan pacers dominate

IPL 9 (2016): Heath Streak roped in as bowling coach for Gujarat Lions

Agency | Pune

That’s a wicket for Rajitha off his second ball in in-ternational cricket! I don’t know if that stopped on Rohit a little. He checked his drive, and spooned it in the air for mid-off to catch diving to his right Team India will be aiming to hold on to their current form when they take on an injury-hit Sri Lanka in the opening game of their three-match Twenty20 In-ternational (T20I) series at the Maharashtra Crick-et Association Stadium in Pune on Tuesday. The confidence of the home

Agency | Mumbai

Pakistani-American ter-rorist David Coleman Headley said on Tues-day that terror outfits LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen were given “financial” and “military” support by the ISI as he made fresh revelations includ-ing about an aborted plan to target Indian defence scientists and famous Siddhivinayak temple. On the second day of his deposition through vid-eoconferencing from a US jail before the Spe-cial TADA Court here,

Agency | New Delhi

Following a sensible marketing during the just-concluded IPL Auc-tion 2016, one of the newest franchises in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), the Guja-rat Lions have roped in former Zimbabwe skip-per, Heath Streak as their bowling head coach for the upcoming ninth sea-son of the IPL. Streak, who was a former Zimba-bwean seamer is also the present bowling coach of the Bangladesh national

Agency | New Delhi

Lance Naik Hanaman-thappa Koppad, who was miraculously found alive after remaining buried under snow for six days, is comatose and his con-dition is extremely crit-ical, Army Hospital Re-search and Referral said after he was flown in to New Delhi from Siachen Glacier on Tuesday. For-tunately, there was no cold exposure-related frost bite or bony injuries to him, a medical bul-letin issued by the hos-pital said. “He has been placed on a ventilator to protect his airway and lungs in view of his co-matose state. He remains

extremely critical and is expected to have a stormy course in the next 24 to 48 hrs due to the complica-tions caused by re-warm-ing and establishment of blood flow to the cold parts of the body,” it said. The soldier, who was ear-lier declared dead by the authorities, was found to be conscious but drowsy and disoriented on Mon-day after he was located during rescue operation. “He is currently coma-tose and continues to be in shock with low blood pressure. He has pneu-monia and his investiga-tions have revealed liver and kidney dysfunction,” the bulletin read. He was “severely dehydrated,

Agency | Bad Aibling

Two commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday morning in a remote area in southern Germany, killing at least nine people and injuring some 150, some of whom had to be cut out of the wreckage and transported across a river for medical care, po-lice said. The two region-al trains crashed before 7 a.m. on the single line that runs near Bad Aibling, in Bavaria, and that several wagons overturned, po-lice spokesman Stefan Sonntag told The Associ-ated Press. Fifty of those

hurt have serious injuries, he added. It took hours to reach some of the injured in the wreckage and au-thorities were still work-ing at midday to remove the final body from the train. “Once that is done then the investigators can begin their work,” federal

police spokesman Rainer Scharf told the AP from the scene. The rail line is commonly used by com-muters heading to work in Munich, and would normally also carry chil-dren traveling to school, but they are currently on holiday.

Train crash in Germany kills at least 9, injures 150

David Headley was asked by Pakistan’s ISI to recruit spies from Indian Army

Headley said he was tasked with luring spies from the Indian Army to work for Pakistan’s In-ter Services Intelligence (ISI). In his response to questions posed by Spe-cial Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, Headley admitted to working both

for the LeT and the ISI.He named three officials of the Pakistan army and ISI - Colonel Shah, Lt Colonel Hamza and Ma-jor Samir Ali - besides retired army officer Ab-dul Rehman Pasha who was closely working with LeT and Al-Qaeda.

team, and in what seems to be not an exclusive con-tract with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), he cannot be barred by the national board from tak-ing the similar job role on Tuesday. Streak has

been a highly successful as his role of the bowling coach. He was appoint-ed as the bowling head coach of Bangladesh in May 2014, and ever since, the teams has been highly successful, espe-

cially in the One-Day International (ODI) for-mat, as the results have improved massively for the team, that includ-ed a fair performance in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, and they also fared well in the bilater-al series against India, Pakistan and South Af-rica. Also, the upcoming seamers for Bangladesh in the form of Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed and Rubel Hossain have developed into one of the highly talented seamers under his guidance.

hypothermic, hypoxic, hypoglyce-mic and in shock. He was immedi-ately resuscitated by the doctors at the site, who had been there for the past five days in the hope of a sur-vivor,” it said. He was treated with warm intravenous fluids, humidified warm oxygen and passive external re-warming. Koppad was flown out from the site on Tuesday by helicop-ter along with a medical specialist to the Siachen Base Camp, from where he was brought to the Thois air base.

He was then transferred to Delhi by a fixed-wing aircraft of IAF along with a critical care specialist of the force and a medical specialist from the base camp. Koppad is being treated by a team of intensivists, neurologist, nephrologist, endocri-nologist and surgeons. He has been

administered fluids, drugs to bring up his blood pressure, besides an-tibiotics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, had visited the hospital earlier on Tuesday. Modi said Koppad is an “outstanding soldier” whose “endurance and in-

domitable spirit” cannot be described in words. “We are all hoping & praying for the best,” Modi added. On his part, Suhag commended the brave heart for his indom-itable mental robustness and his refusal to give in to harsh elements of na-ture. He also conveyed best wishes on behalf of all ranks of the army for his early and complete re-covery.

The condition of Lance Naik Hanamanthappa, who was miraculously

found alive after remaining buried

in snow for six days after the avalanche in

Siachen, remains critical, according to the medical

bulletin

team is sky high follow-ing a 3-0 hammering of Australia Down Under and the T20I series against the Island nation will be ideal for preparations for the upcoming Asia Cup in Bangladesh and World T20 in India in March-April. India, who vaulted seven places to first after sweeping aside Australia

last week, need to win the series against Lanka to re-tain the coveted position in International Crick-et Council (ICC) T20I rankings. While Lanka will also aim to win the series, if they win it 2-1 they will gain the top spot and India will slip to third position. India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has

been rested for the series ahead of the all important Asia Cup and World T20. Despite Kohli’s absence, the hosts need not worry much as openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dha-wan have been in good form of late. The duo will aim to exploit the Lankan bowlers in batting friend-ly Indian pitches especial-ly when pacer Lasith Ma-linga is not in the squad due to injury. The return of experienced Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh into the squad makes it more challenging for the opposition.

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DAYIndia needs a time-bound resolution of loan defaults (nPA)

The banking sector in India, dominated by state-owned banks or public-sector banks (PSBs), is ridden with multiple problems. One that needs ur-gent attention is the high level of non-performing assets (NPAs) and restructured assets. Stressed as-sets (NPAs plus loans that have been restructured) for scheduled commercial banks have steadily in-creased over the last five years to reach 11.3 per cent of total advances in September. For the PSBs, it was higher at 14.1 per cent. Tackling this has to be a pri-ority because banks, which are gasping for breath today, will be expected to gallop tomorrow when the demand for credit picks up. India’s 29 state-owned banks have written off a total of Rs 1.14 lakh crore between 2012-13 and 2014-15. A newspaper report on Monday about these write-offs only underlines the gravity of India’s problem with bad loans and the consequent constriction of credit flow. To put things in perspective, such an amount would be enough to build more than 11,000 km of national expressways at an average cost of Rs 10 crore per km entirely funded by the government. Likewise, with Rs 1.14 lakh crore, the government could have widened the scope of the rural job scheme by nearly four times. In recent days, mounting bad loans and high default rates by large companies have drawn criticism from experts and regulators, including Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan, who minced no words against those who “celebrate birthday bashes” despite owing a lot money. While one needs to be sensitive to those who default on loans because of genuine, but unforeseen, business reasons, it may be time to take a tough stance on loan defaulters who can pay, but won’t. These are wilful default-ers; the rules should be changed to allow banks to press criminal charges against such black sheep. The banking sector has been beset with loans that have turned bad due to slow economic growth and delays in project implementation. For 39 listed banks, gross non-performing assets (NPAs) rose nearly 27% to Rs 3.4 lakh crore for the quarter ended September 2015 from Rs 2.68 lakh crore in the same quarter in 2014. Of the September 2015 gross NPA figure, more than one-sixth are wilful. There is also an ur-gent need to come out with a mechanism that would ensure time-bound closure of legal cases pertaining to NPAs, a move that would speed up the recovery process for banks. At present, such cases can drag on in various courts for several years, delaying the recovery process for banks.

“You will not find Goans drunk on the roads or any local girl in bikini, People who are seen in bikini or wearing exceptional dress are not Goans. They are tourists,” - Goa’s CM Laxmikant Parsekar has said

Goans are not to be blamed for “misconceptions” about the state...

Salman Khan shares pictures of his clean-shaven look from Sultan

Agency | Mumbai

So finally the Bollywood beauty Preity Zinta has decided to settle down, that’s what the talk of the tinsel town. If the talks of gossip mongers are to be believed then during this Valentine’s Day week the popular dimple queen will be getting hitched with her American boyfriend Gene Goodenough. It’s a differ-ent thing that Preity Zinta or her American boyfriend has not revealed anything on social media platform with regards to her mar-riage. There are reports flashing on social media platforms that Preity Zin-ta’s wedding ceremony

will be taking place in the most happening cities of the world, Los Angeles. As per reports by Spot-boyE, the gorgeous Preity revealed that it would be a five day function that is between February 12 to February 16. Apparently she even added, “It would be great if you can join me in my moment of hap-piness”. Few months ago, Preity Zinta had denied all marriage rumours. There were rumours stat-ing that she will be get-ting hitched with her beau Gene Goodenough in the presence of her near and dear ones in the begin-ning of 2016.

Agency | Chennai

Recall the menacing cop, played by actor Ajay Ghosh, in Vetrimaran’s Tamil thriller Visaaranai? The actor will feature in SS Rajamouli’s Baahub-ali 2 as a dreaded dacoit. “I play a character called bandipotu (dacoit) Veer-aya, who is part of Anush-ka’s kingdom in the film. I have already completed

shooting for five days in the Kerala schedule last month. I will join the sets again in March to shoot rest of my portion,” said Ajay. Excited about be-ing part of India’s biggest motion picture, he says he can’t wait to watch him-self on the screen. “It’s a very interesting role. I am very excited and eager to know how audiences will

receive it,” he said. Ajay admits he was teary-eyed in the interrogation scenes. “I was in tears when I had to beat up Dinesh black and blue. Although we used dummy batons, the force with which it was used made me so uncom-fortable. But we had to continue shooting, because these were crucial scenes of the film,” he said.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Son-akshi Sinha has always supported the right caus-es and never hesitated to give it back to haters. There have been several instances when the ac-tress has slammed her body shamers on social media. Recently, a Twit-ter user asked the actress when she would show her body in a bikini and Son-akshi gave a perfect reply to him. “@prateek91 ask your mum or sister the same question you creep. Let me know what they say!” she tweeted. How-ever, the actress removed the tweets later as he had apologised to her. “Im de-leting the tweet because he apologised. I hope he and his type learnt a good

Agency | New Delhi

Filmmaker David Dha-wan is all set to direct his son Varun for the second time (after Main Tera Hero, 2014). Announc-ing the sequel to the 1997 hit Judwaa, Varun Dha-wan shared his picture on Twitter. While the cast is still to be announced for the sequel to the original which starred Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Rambha, there was a buzz in the industry that it could be Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Ka-reena Kapoor. However, Varun’s casting is the first official announce-ment. Judwaa 2 will be the first time Varun Dha-wan will play a double

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Sonam Kapoor, who is looking forward to her upcoming film Neer-ja, says she would rather focus on her performance than chasing awards. The Prem Ratan Dhan Payo actress feels awards do give a sense of validation to an artist, but to her, the craft matters the most. “I do not work for awards, I work for the craft...I am okay with recognition. The reason the awards are important is because they give you a validation and encouragement to do more and also push you to do better because it gives a sense of competi-tion,” Sonam said. When asked if Bollywood should start an exclusive award for women to hon-our and recognise their work, Sonam said, “Yes,

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Emraan Hashmi presented the first look of “Azhar” to cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, who is celebrating his 53rd birthday today. The 36-year-old actor, who will be portraying the lead role in the film, took to Twitter to wish the former Indian captain. “Happy 53rd Birthday @mpazhar. Here is my birthday present. Me as You in #Azhar! #Happy-BirthdayAzhar @Azhar-TheFilm,” the actor wrote. In a sepia toned photo, Emraan is seen wearing a white test team jersy. Filmmaker Mahesh

Agency | Mumbai

A few hours after Sal-man Khan’s clean shav-en look was unveiled by the official Twitter handle of Sultan, the Dabangg Khan also shared anoth-er look from his movie. In the new picture, Sal-man Khan sports a clean shaven look but his face is smeared with mud and blood. Looks like this im-age is from the sets when the actor is involved in

one of his fights at the aka-hara. Salman Khan had been sporting a stubble and handle bar moustache all these months now. And in the week of Val-entine’s Day, India’s most eligible bachelor, even at 50, will be seen in his much-loved clean shaven look. In a picture tweeted by Sultan movie’s official Twitter handle on Febru-ary 8, Salman Khan was seen sporting a clean face reminding one of his look

from Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Well, we wonder if there is a real life Be-gum waiting in wings for the Sultan if Bollywood. Anushka Sharma will be romancing Salman Khan in Sultan and the actress has already started shoot-ing for the movie. Sultan is going to release on Eid this year and is all set to clash with Big release ‘Raees’ starring Salman’s close friend Shah Rukh Khan.

Preity Zinta all set to get hitched during Valentine’s Day week?

emraan Hashmi gifts ‘Azhar’ first look to cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin on birthday

Visaaranai villain to star in Baahubali: The Conclusion

Keep your awards! Sonam Kapoor says she works for the craft

Sonakshi Sinha slams haters on social media; Varun Dhawan comes to her rescue

Judwaa 2 first look: Varun Dhawan to step in the shoes of Salman Khan

lesson in respecting wom-en, no matter which pro-fession,” Sonakshi tweet-ed. On the other hand, another Twitter user post-ed a comment that read: “@sonakshisinha Bolly-wood actresses who sell their skin for money need not lecture us about what is shameless!” Sonakshi shut this user up as well. “@aditi_ca US?? So ur sayin ur in his category ?? What a dhabba on wom-

ankind u urself are for sharing his disgusting line of thought,” she tweeted. While the “Tevar” actress was busy slamming her haters, Varun Dhawan stepped in to support her. “Everyone this girl needs to be trolled. Please edu-cate her,” he tweeted. The conversation, however, has been removed, but the actor owned up his fault and apologised for the same.

Bhatt, who launched the “Shanghai” actor, said the movie will reinvent Emraan as an artist. “The reinvention of Emraan Hashmi!,” he tweeted along with the first look.

Directed by Tony D’Sou-za, the film is produced by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures along with NP Singh and Sneha Rajani. “Azhar” will hit the screens on May 13.

of course, why not. But I think we already have enough awards in Bolly-wood for recognition... but I hope there are more nominations in these various awards where women are concerned.” Several Bollywood stars have raised concern over the credibility of vari-ous award shows while some categorically stay away from attending such events. Sonam feels things will change for the better. “I think it’s going

to change. Once issues start cropping up, things always change. Peo-ple start doing the right (thing).” She said Bolly-wood is male-dominated, but is “slowly changing”, and cited an example of how difficult was it for her sister to make her debut film Khoobsurat. Many producers were not willing to back the proj-ect and work with her sister, something which has changed today, she said.

role in his four-year-long career. He began his jour-ney in Bollywood with Karan Johar’s Student of The Year and went on to feature in films like Bad-

lapur where he received wide critical acclaim. He was last seen in Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol-Kri-ti Sanon-starrer Dilwale (2015).


SPORTS ROUNDUPGoogle to launch new-age virtual reality headset soon

nasa engineers Use Super Bowl to Decode Aerodynamics

3D-printed liver tissue for drug screening created in lab

Agency | New Delhi

In a bid to take virtual reality (VR) experience to a new high, Google is reportedly developing a new smartphone-assisted VR headset that will have bet-ter sensors, lenses and a more solid plastic casing for its users. According to a Financial Times report, the new device with better Android VR technolo-gy will succeed the mobile VR viewer Cardboard that Google launched 12 years back. It will also give tough competition to Gear VR - the flagship headset launched by South Korean electronic giant Samsung, in collaboration with the US VR tech-nology company Oculus, which is now available in India. How is the new Google VR headset going to beat its rivals? According to the report, the com-pany is embedding a new software directly into its Android operating system rather than relying on the app, that is there with Cardboard, for a better

VR experience.

Agency | New Delhi

Ishan Kishan-led Indian U-19 cricket team de-feated Sri Lanka in the semis to reach the final of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2016. Batting first, India lost wickets of in-form batsmen Rish-abh Pant (14) and Ishan Kishan (7) with just 27 runs on board. The Lank-ans had to wait for their third breakthrough as Anmolpreet Singh (72) and Sarfaraz Khan (59) resurrected the innings with a formidable 96-run stand. Even after los-ing Khan’s wicket in the 31st over of the innings, Singh stitched another 70-run partnership with next batsman Washing-ton Sundar (43). Ar-

Agency | Shillong

Indians bagged all the five gold medals up for grabs in the recurve event along with two more silver to make a clean sweep of the ar-chery competition in the 12th South Asian Games here today. Hav-ing claimed men, wom-en and mixed pair team gold in the morning ses-sion, the recurve archers bagged two gold and as many silver in the all-In-dian final in the after-noon to sign off in style with a maximum possi-ble of 10 gold and four silver in total. Making a comeback after the 2014 Asian Games, Tarundeep Rai retained his SA Games individual title to finish with a hattrick of

Agency | Chandigarh

South African batsman David Miller was on Tues-day named as the captain of Kings XI Punjab team for the upcoming Indian Premier League season 9. Speaking about his new role, Miller, who has been associated with Kings XI since IPL season 4, said: “I am honoured to lead the Kings XI Punjab squad this year. I would like to thank the franchise, pro-moters, management and all the team members for the confidence they have in me. “Kings XI have

Agency | Los Angeles

Aerodynamics engineers including an Indian-or-igin scientist are studying sports balls to learn lessons in aerodynamics that will help build air-crafts more earth-friendly and allow spacecrafts to take the most efficient route to Mars in the future. Aerodynamics is the study of how air and liquids, referred to collectively as “fluids,” flow around objects. By understanding how fluids flow around basic shapes such as cylinders and spheres, Nasa’s engineers predict how even minor alterations in these basic shapes change flow patterns and events like Super Bowl come handy. “Sports provide a great opportunity to introduce the next genera-tion of researchers to our field of aerodynamics by showing them something they can relate to,” said Rabi Mehta, chief of the Experimental Aero-Phys-ics Branch at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre - locat-ed less than 16 km from the home of Super Bowl 50 - Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The way air moves around different shapes plays a sig-

nificant role in the flight of all sports balls.

Agency | New York

A team led by engineers at University of Califor-nia-San Diego has 3D-printed a tissue that closely mimics the human liver’s sophisticated structure and function. The new model can be used for pa-tient-specific drug screening and disease modeling, thus helping pharmaceutical companies save time and money when developing new drugs. It typical-ly takes about 12 years and $1.8 billion to produce one FDA-approved drug because over 90 percent of drugs don’t pass animal tests or human clinical trials. “We have made a tool that pharmaceutical compa-nies could use to do pilot studies on their new drugs, and they won’t have to wait until animal or human trials to test a drug’s safety and efficacy on patients,” said Shaochen Chen, nanoengineering professor at the UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. The team engineered a human liver tissue model that more closely resembles the real thing -- a di-verse combination of liver cells and supporting cells systematically organised in a hexagonal pattern.

As it happened: India vs Sri Lanka, U-19 world Cup, Semi-final

South Asian Games: All rise for Pakistan hockey stars

Cristiano Ronaldo not planning to leave Real Madrid until 2018

IPL 2016: David Miller to lead Kings XI Punjab in IPL 9

Australia captain Steve Smith say no Test backlash to ‘mob rule’ wicket

South Asain Games: Archers shine for India as gold rush continues

Agency | Wellington

Australian captain Steve Smith remained riled on Tuesday over the ‘mob rule’ dismissal in the final ODI against New Zealand but said the fallout would not spill over to upcom-ing Tests. Smith said that while Mitchell Marsh was legitimately caught and bowled he should not have been given out be-cause the umpires were reacting to crowd pres-sure. There were heated exchanges on the field between the New Zea-landers and Australians after Marsh was bizarrely dismissed when the ball ricocheted from his bat to his foot then back to the bowler Matt Henry. It ignited a batting collapse that saw Australia lose their last five wickets for 27 runs to lose the match and allow New Zealand to take the series 2-1. When Henry caught the ball he

Agency | Guwahati

Talk about hockey and here are some facts which highlight the disconnect between the game and the North-East. No In-dian senior men’s team has played a match in this part of the country. No player from Guwahati, or from Assam has ever played for a senior Indi-an women or men’s team. The most recent achieve-ment of a hockey team from Assam has been the

‘B Division’ title its se-nior women’s team won in Bhopal two years ago. The All-India sub-junior women’s hockey cham-pionship was one of the biggest tournaments host-ed here in recent time. As far as the sport of hockey goes, Assam and most of the North-East can be called a backwa-ter though Kothajit Singh and Chinglensana Singh from neighbouring Mani-pur have donned India co-

lours. In this context, the India versus Pakistan pool match at the Moullana MD Tayabullah Hockey Stadium in Bhetapura was a watershed day for the game in the North-East. The two teams are bound to clash in multiple sports during the 12th South Asian Games, but a hock-ey match brings with it a history of rivalry which is matched only when the cricket teams of both na-tions play each other.

made a half-hearted ap-peal before walking back to prepare for his next delivery. The umpires only took action when the crowd reacted vocif-erously to a replay on the big screen which showed the ball had not hit the ground. The Australian media dubbed it a dis-missal by “mob rule” and Smith said he believed the system was wrong. “My thoughts are still the same as last night, the whole process of it needs to improve,” the Austra-lian captain said when

reviewing the match on Tuesday. “I don’t think there should be a replay on the screen before the next ball’s bowled. I don’t think that’s how a deci-sion should be made.” While obscenities were clearly heard on the field at the time of the incident, Smith said the fallout would not impact on the two-Test series starting in Wellington on Friday. “We both play a good, hard, aggressive brand of cricket. It’s going to be another tough series,” he said.

Agency | Madrid

Portugal star striker Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he will stay with his current club Real Madrid for at least another two years. Ronaldo, who joined Real in 2009, was con-tinuously linked with a

switch to either former club Manchester United or Paris Saint-Germain. The 31-year-old striker said that he had a con-tract of two years with Real and would take the decision, whether to con-tinue or not with the club, after 2018. Ronaldo, who guided his side to Cham-

pion League glory in 2008, further said that he wanted to see all his teammates to stay at Real for several years. Earlier, Ronaldo lost his two year grip on the FIFA Ballon d’Or award after Barce-lona rival Lionel Messi grabbed the prestigious award for the fifth time.

maan Jaffer’s 16-ball 29 helped Rahul Dravid’s boys reach a formidable total of 267 runs. Asitha Fernando was the pick of the Lankan bowlers with a four-wicket haul while Lahiru Kumara and Thi-lan Nimesh shared two wickets apiece. Defend-ing a modest total, Avesh Khan got a breakthrough in the very first over

when he trapped Avishka Fernando in front of the wickets off the sixth ball. None of the Sri Lankan batsmen could manage to score a half-century de-spite some efforts from Kamindu Mendis (39) and Shammu Ashan (38). The latter was looking set to play a big innings before being run-out in the 28th over.

assembled an exciting squad with a good mixture of youth and experience and I am really looking forward to the opportuni-ty that lies ahead.” Kings XI coach Sanjay Bangar said he is confident about Miller’s potential as a leader. “I have watched

David grow as a player. He has displayed out-standing batting abilities and a cool temperament in many high-pressure situations. I am confident in his potential to lead the boys this season,” Bangar said in a statement issued by the franchise.

gold along with Deepika Kumari as the duo also bagged the mixed pair and their respective team events. The two-time Olympian Rai, who had bagged the SA Games gold in 2010, held nerve under pressure to down his Army colleague Gu-rucharan Besra 6-2 in the individual final. Up 4-2 after three sets, Rai shot 19 (10-9) in his first two set of arrows, while Bes-ra also shot an identical

19 (9-10) as the former needed a Perfect 10 under windy conditions at the Polo Grounds. Showing nerves of steel, Rai was bang on target to clinch the fourth set 29-28 en route to retaining his gold as Besra had to set-tle for a silver. “It’s dif-ficult to assess the wind conditions, but it was my day. The medal means a lot to me as it has given me a perfect start in the Olympic year,” Rai said.


Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

A metropolitan court, on Monday, sent the sedi-tion case against Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel and his associates to sessions court for tri-al. Hardik and his aides will be produced again on February 22. Patidar stir supporters and law-yers refused to leave the courtroom even when ordered. The chaos esca-lated to such a level that after asking people to leave the room, the court observed, “Despite writ-ten order, lawyers and other litigants did not go out. Looking at the possi-bility of big trouble in the courtroom, the accused persons should immedi-ately be taken away by the police escort team.” Hardik and three other Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) conve-ners - Dinesh Bambhania, Chirag Patel and Ketan

Patel were produced be-fore additional chief ju-dicial magistrate, Shilpa Kanabar, amid tight se-curity arrangements. Har-dik’s supporters, lawyers and curious bystanders filled the courtroom, as soon as the high-profile accused were brought in by city crime branch of-ficials.The noise made by people disturbed the court to such an extent that the judicial officer was compelled to request all present to remain qui-et. But none paid heed. Finally, the judge ordered all lawyers and people not related to the case to leave the courtroom, so that the court could pro-ceed without disturbance or distractions, and court decorum could be main-tained. However, the law-yers shouted back that the judge could not order them to leave the court-room as it was an open court.


To strengthen the aviation sector in Gujarat, the state government has planned to set up the country’s first-ever Aviation Park here having a slew of fa-cilities including an air-strip, training school, he-lipad and space for setting up small manufacturing units among others. Ac-cording to officials of government-owned Gu-jarat State Aviation Infra-structure Company Ltd (GUJSAIL), this inte-grated park aims to raise the awareness about the potential of the aviation


Almost a year after it in-augurated its car plant in March 2015, US auto gi-ant Ford is unhappy over fiscal incentives offered by the Gujarat govern-ment. The company has complained that the draft of government resolution (GR) pertaining to sops does not reflect aspects discussed and agreed in the state support agree-ment (SSA). Ford India has also requested the government to update the final GR with mutually agreed terms. Voicing its concerns, Ford India has written a letter, copy of which is available, to Gu-jarat chief minister Anan-diben Patel seeking to re-


Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has said her government is plan-ning to launch a separate ministry for small-scale industries, and called for suggestions from the in-dustry in this regard. “The state government is think-ing of starting exclusive industrial estate and a sep-arate ministry for small scale industries,” a press release quoted Patel as saying. The government will set up multi-level es-tates within each GIDCs (Gujarat Industrial De-velopment Corporation) for small-scale industries, which will be the back-bone of industrial growth. 36 such GIDCs will have small-scale industiral units spread over 50-100 square metres each, she


The grand sports festi-val of Gujarat and the ultimate destination for every sports lover-Khel Mahakumbh is back in the month of February. After completing glorious five years of Khel Maha-

kumbh, it now steps into its 6th year and has been giving a number of sports stars to India and mak-ing Gujarat proud. Khel Mahakumbh is to host a number of upcoming games in various cities like: Ahmedabad: Chess, Shooting ball, Skating.

Surat: Taekwondo, Ka-baddi, Weight Lifting Baroda: Gymnastic, Rifle Shooting, Hockey, Basket ball, Half Marathon Ra-jkot: Swimming, Diving, Water Polo. Star sports will make a capsule of Kabaddi semi final and finals and telecast it.


Lavi Singh Satasia of Dhari tehsil of Amreli district in Gujarat is one happy mango farmer to-day. Thanks to the bud-ding cooperative move-ment in mango farming in his district, he has begun to earn twice the price for his kesar mangoes than he did until recently. Gujarat, which took the lead when it came to empowering farmers in dairying, has now started to take baby-steps to boost farmer in-comes in mango farming. Around 750-800 farmers like Satasia have benefit-ed, thanks to the budding mango cooperatives in the state. “People in my village (Sukhpur and ad-joining areas) were cutting down their mango farms to make way for peanut

and wheat cultivation as it was more rewarding. Mango farming is a once a year harvest and the yield fluctuates with vagaries of nature (storm, unseasonal rains etc),” Satasia says. Now that he has started selling his mangoes to a farmer producer company in the Avirat region, he is fetching over Rs 400-425 for 20 kgs (wholesale price) as compared to Rs 200-250 for 20 kgs earli-er. A local social worker called Raju Deepti has taken a leaf out of the Gu-jarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation’s (GCMMF) initiative and formed a special purpose vehicle (SPV) called DI-SHA, or Dedicated Initia-tive for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture along with stakeholders such

as Avirat Agro Producer Company, Rukmavati Ru-ral Agro Producer Compa-ny and others. The mango cooperative has started mango marketing along the same lines as other cooperatives. DISHA is basically a farmer-orient-ed multi-stakeholders agri business enterprise, as Deepti calls it. Under the initiative, farmers from Kutch in Gujarat and dis-tricts like Amreli came together to market their mangoes under a single brand directly to the con-sumer, bypassing the mid-dlemen. Last season about 750-800 farmers could sell about 130 tonnes of mangoes. Next season, the target is to bring together at least 2,000 farmers and sell at least 500 tonnes of mango.

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Correspondent | New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by former Indi-an cricketers Kirti Azad and Bishan Singh Bedi demanding a court-moni-tored investigation by the CBI into alleged crimi-nal offence committed by DDCA officials. Justice Manmohan refused to en-tertain the plea, saying the petition was “premature” while noting that the Cen-tral Bureau of Investiga-tion (CBI) had already ini-tiated preliminary enquiry on October 23, 2015. “The court is of the view that present writ petition is premature as preliminary enquiry has already been registered,” the court said, adding that court-moni-tored probe can not be or-

Correspondent | Mumbai

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sector among students, professionals, policy makers and business en-tities. GUJSAIL, which is given the task by the government to carry out the project, has recent-ly identified a piece of land near Bagodara vil-lage, about 30 kms from Ahmedabad. According to GUJSAIL CEO Cap-tain Ajay Chauhan, the main aim of this Aviation Park is to raise awareness

about the aviation sector among investors, stu-dents and people at large. It will also provide a plat-form for manufacturing activities and human re-sources related to the sec-tor, he said. “This will be a first ever Aviation Park in India. There are hardly 3 or 4 such parks in the world. We have identi-fied 60 hectares of land near Bagodara. Now, we will conduct a feasibility

study of that location and hoping to finalise that lo-cation after government approval by the end of this financial year,” said Chauhan. Giving details about the entire project, Chauhan, who is also the Director of Civil Avia-tion, stated that the Avi-ation Park will serve as a one-stop destination in the avenues of aerospace training, research, recre-ation and manufacturing.

said. Patel was speaking at the inaugural function of a four-day industri-al expo that started in Ahmedabad. The Chief Minister called for creat-ing facilities for training of manpower for large-scale industries, especial-ly defence industries that will set up their units in the state in the future, the release said. “The state government has adopt-ed a policy to encourage

women entrepreneurs in small and medium en-terprises by creating in-dustrial parks dedicated to them. Such parks are being created in Sanand near Ahmedabad, Bha-ruch and Halol. “For this purpose, 18.3 hectare land has been earmarked in Sanand industrial es-tate where 200 plots of 500-1,000 square metres will be offered to such women,” Patel said.

view key issues and make GR consistent with the SSA. “Lack of alignment and issuance of GR is se-verely impacting our busi-ness in the state,” reads the letter dated January 8, 2016. An emailed query sent to Ford India did not elicit any response. The GR does not mention in-clusion of time period for

reimbursement, refund of excess input paid against corporate guarantee or bank guarantee and align-ment of wordings of SSA for pending GST regime. The company had held several discussions with the government to ensure that commitments made under the SSA were ad-equately covered in the

proposed GR. “Unfortu-nately, we have been un-able to reach agreement on several significant is-sues as committed under the SSA by government,” the company has stated in the letter.

executives to achieve the number. It will also target getting 10% of the popu-lation of India as users to kick start the initiative of making India a Cashless Society.

Hardik Patel’s sedition case moved to sessions court

Delhi HC dismisses plea for probe into alleged DDCA malpractices

dered “just because union minister was named in the petition”. Azad, a sus-pended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, and Bedi had also sought appoint-ment of an independent administrator to look into alleged financial irregu-larities in the Delhi and District Cricket Associa-tion (DDCA). They had impleaded the central and state governments, the CBI and the Board of Con-trol for Cricket in India (BCCI) besides all current and former DDCA offi-cials, including its former president, union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

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