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News BriefUndertrial

prisoner escapes from court

Agency | Nawada

An undertrial prison-er today escaped from Nawada district court premises here after cutting the rope with which his hands were tied, police said. The undertrial, identified as Md. Mushtaq, told the escorting policemen that he needed to go to the toilet. When he was allowed, he somehow managed to cut the rope off his hands and es-caped after scaling the wall of the court prem-ises, police said.

5 killed during recent hailstorm in

Raj: Kataria

Minor raped inside train toilet; accused arrested

Agency | Jaipur

Five persons were killed and three injured when lightning struck them during a recent hailstorm in Rajasthan which also damaged crops in 1007 villag-es in many districts, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Gu-labchand Kataria said today. As per initial re-ports sent by collectors, the crops were dam-aged in 1007 villag-es of 54 tehsils of Al-war, Baran, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Churu, Dhol-pur, Hanumangarh, Jai-pur, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Jhalawar, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Nagaur, Pali, Sawaimadhopur, Sikar, Sirohi, Tonk and Udai-pur districts.

Agency | Deoria

A youth has been arrest-ed for allegedly raping a minor girl inside the toi-let of a train, police said here today. The victim was on her way to Si-wan to meet her sister on March 5 during which she met a youth Pintu of the same village, Gov-ernment Railway Police said. She alleged that at Bhatni railway station Pintu took her to the toi-let and raped her, it said. The GRP said the victim alleged that later Pintu fled to Gorakhpur. On the victim’s complaint, a case was lodged yes-terday and Pintu had been sent to jail.

Separate Enclosure For PM : Allows event on Yamuna riverbed“NGT slaps Art of Living”

Sri Sri Event Cleared With 5 Crore Fine

Vijay Mallya left India on March 2: Attorney General informs SC

Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech in JNU: `Indian Army rapes women in Kashmir`

HUL settles toxic mercury vapour issue with Kodaikanal employees

Parliament Updates: Modi appeals for passage of pending bills; says Cong is like death, never gets blamed for anything

Agency | Mumbai

Liquor baron Vijay Mal-lya, who is facing legal proceedings for allegedly defaulting loans of over Rs 9,000 crore from var-ious banks, has left the country a week back, the government informed the Supreme Court on Thurs-day. “I spoke to the CBI little while ago and it told me that on March 2 he (Mallya) left the country,” Attorney General(AG) Mukul Rohatgi told the bench comprising Jus-tices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman. The bench issued a notice to Mallya and sought his response within two weeks on pleas filed by a consortium of banks seeking direction

Agency | New Delhi

Fast-moving consumer goods company Hindu-stan Unilever Ltd (HUL) on Wednesday said it has entered into a settlement with ex-employees, who were allegedly exposed to toxic mercury vapour at its former thermome-ter factory in Kodaikanal. The company has signed a settlement with Pond’s HLL ex-Mercury Em-ployees Welfare Asso-ciation, representing the former employees ther-mometer factory, HUL said in a statement. “The memorandum of settle-ment reached was record-ed in an order passed by

Agency | New Delhi

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Wednes-day replied to the mo-tion of thanks in Rajya Sabha and launched a scathing attack on Con-gress, saying the party is like a death, which never gets blamed for anything. Address-ing Rajya Sabha, Modi said, “There is a funny thing about ‘death’, no one blames death. They blame the reason why people die. Sometimes I feel Congress has a boon like that. When we crit-icise the Congress, it is reported as - criticism on Opposition, not criti-

for freezing his passport and his presence before the apex court. Since the court was informed that Mallya has already left the country, probably to the UK, the bench al-lowed the plea of AG that the notice can be served to him through his official Rajya Sabha email id, In-dian High Commission at

London and also through counsel representing him before various high courts, Debt Recovery Tribunal and also through his Company. During the brief hearing, the AG said that Mallya owes over Rs 9,000 crore to varioius banks, and has, on one or the other pretext, avoided to settle them.

the Madras high court. The settlement has been entered into on humani-tarian considerations to put an end to this long standing matter pending in the court for several years and also is in keep-ing with the suggestion of the high court,” HUL

said. This agreement was signed on 4 March 2016 in the presence of rep-resentatives of former workers and HUL, it add-ed. As per the terms and conditions of the agree-ment, HUL will provide ex-gratia payments to 591 former workers and their

families towards liveli-hood enhancement proj-ects and skill enhance-ment programmes. The former workers will also withdraw the petition they had filed in February 2006 before in the high court. However, the com-pany has not disclosed the amount on which it has negotiated the set-tlement. HUL executive director-legal and corpo-rate affairs Dev Bajpai said, “We have worked hard over many years to address this and find the right solution for our for-mer workers. We, along-side all involved, are glad to see an outcome to this long-standing case.”

cism on Congress. Con-gress never gets a bad name.” Stating that Con-gress is looking at their work with microscope, he said, “It would have been better if they had worked with binocular when they were in pow-er.” Modi also appealed opposition parties for the

passage of all pending bills. “Nation is waiting for us to pass many Bills. This is a Chamber of Ideas and it must guide the nation. Coordination between both Houses is essential,” he said “Let us pass those bills passed in the Lok Sabha as soon as possible and give im-

petus to India’s prog-ress,” Modi added. To-wards the end, Modi also emphasised on doubling income of farmers by 2022 saying, “We have focussed on policy-driv-en governance and given an importance to trans-parency.” Earlier in the day, a united opposition in Rajya Sabha slammed the Government for al-lowing Indian Army to be used for a private event of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living foundation, saying the event itself on the eco-logically fragile flood plains of Yamuna was an environmental disaster.

Agency | New Delhi

A lot of Kanhaiya Kumar fans have criticised those who raised the issue of the sacrifices done by our armed forces in defend-ing the nation while but-tressing their criticism of the PhD student and inci-dents at JNU post 9 Feb-ruary. The young man is on thin ice and one gets the feeling he is baiting the men in uniform, sort of seeking sanctuary and safety in indicting them publicly… like see, I tell the truth, I even attack the army, you cannot touch me and if you, me and my cronies will yell foul. A couple of days ago he scoffed at the army as

Agency | New Delhi

Notwithstanding raging controversies, the Na-tional Green Tribunal Wednesday cleared the decks for the three-day cultural extravaganza of Art of Living on the flood plains of Yamuna river from Friday but imposed a fine of Rs five crores on it as environmen-tal compensation. After posing tough questions, the tribunal also slapped fine of Rs five lakh on DDA and Rs one lakh on Delhi Pollution Control

Committee (DPCC) for not discharging statutory functions. A bench head-ed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, asked AoL, headed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to deposit Rs five crores as environmental compen-sation before the event begins on March 11. The NGT clearance came on a day the Delhi High Court described the event, from whose valedictory func-tion the President has already pulled out, as a disaster from the ecolog-

ical point of view. The tribunal also asked AoL to give an undertaking by tomorrow that enzymes will not be released into Yamuna river and that no further degradation of environment will hap-pen. Besides slapping the fines, the tribunal direct-ed AoL to develop the entire area in question into a biodiversity park. The tribunal’s order came on the pleas by NGOs and environmentalists who had sought cancel-lation of the festival on

not being the only mar-tyrs but equating them with the Naxalites. What was skated over was the basic fact that the army goes to battle on orders and risks its life not be-cause there is no movie this afternoon but be-cause they are told to. It was a smarmy bit of dia-logue between him and an anchor of a TV channel and it stank of prejudice.

I thought this could be morphed, the camera is a liar, let’s wait. Today we are told that Kanhaiya has tweeted that army men in Kashmir have raped women. Unless you are prepared to give time and place and back it with sta-tistics you cannot make a sweeping statement and indict every soldier and officer. Why are you so against the forces?

the ground that it would seriously endanger the fragile ecosystem on the riverbed. Environmental activist Anand Arya, who filed the petition to stop the event, rued that over 1000-acres of the sensi-tive area between Delhi and Noida, predominant-ly marshland, stand shorn of even a “single blade”

of grass. Another peti-tioner Manoj Mishra of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan questioned the “legality” of the event, and said the area, being destroyed “ev-ery moment”, will take a long time to recover and slammed the organisers for the “lack of under-standing” on their part. During two days of hear-

ing, the NGT had posed tough questions over who had given clearance to the ‘World Cultural Fes-tival’ in which 35 lakh people are expected to participate. During the hearing, the Water Re-sources ministry told the tribunal that it has not granted permission for the festival while an-

other ministry said no clearance was required for temporary structures. Responding to questions from the green panel, the Water Resources minis-try distanced itself from the controversy, saying, “We have not granted any permission regard-ing the event and no ap-plication is pending with us on the same.” The Ministry of Environment and Forests, whereas, told the the bench that no environment clearance was required for setting up temporary structures on Yamuna flood plains. The ministry’s submis-sion came after the bench pulled it up for not filing affidavit on environmen-tal clearances.

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THURSdAY, MARCH 10, 2016

QUOTE OF THE

DAYKingfisher debacle: The King of good times’ hangover

This is not the best of times for the “King of Good Times”: The Vijay Mallya story doesn’t seem to be headed for a happy ending. Regulators, courts, banks and employees want him to pay up outstanding dues. The troubles of Mallya, the former chairman of United Breweries and the now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), must serve as a wake-up call for au-thorities in India. In 2011, a year before it stopped flying, KFA implemented a debt recast package after which loans from 13 banks were converted into share capital. Mallya said in a September 2011 letter to his shareholders that banks had converted 30% of their outstanding loans into preferential and equity capital. Lenders were allotted 116 million shares at a price of 64.48 a share on March 31, 2011, a huge premium to the closing price of 39.90 that day. Besides, lenders had slashed the rate of interest that KFA had to pay to 8% from 11%. This leads to two basic questions. What prompted the banks to convert nearly a third of their outstanding loans into preferential and equity capital, and that too at such a high price? And two, why did the banks cut the interest rates for KFA by three per-centage points at a time when persistent high inflation had pushed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to raise interest rates repeatedly? Three years after KFA went belly-up the lenders are asking the right questions by demanding their money back. But one does get the un-settling feeling that the lenders may be raising these questions three years too late. India’s mounting bad loans suggest that the recovery processes for corporate loans are painfully slow. For instance, under strategic debt restructuring (SDR), the RBI allows banks to con-vert a part of their debt to majority equity in a defaulting firm. This is aimed at helping banks take control of the defaulting firm and effecting a change in management. While the defaulter loses control over the company, the onus of recovering the loan shifts to the bank. Banks are left holding a stake, as in the case of KFA, which is worth only a fraction of their collaterals. It is about time to plug the glaring regulatory holes that compa-nies appear to routinely exploit. The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Vijay Mallya over a banks consortium plea seeking to stop him from leaving the country. Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, representing the consortium of 17 banks, informed the court that Mallya left the country on 2 March, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation. He is likely in Lon-don, where he has a lot of property, Rohatgi added. The banks consortium had moved apex court on Wednes-day seeking to impound Mallya’s passport, an arrest warrant and a suitable security to ensure his presence at the debt recovery tribunal (DRT) proceedings.

“No matter how much you try to stop us, we will speak up against human rights violations (in Kashmir). We will raise our voice against AFSPA, While we have a lot of respect for our soldiers, we will talk about the fact that some Indian Army men rape women in Kashmir,”

- Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar sparked yet another controversy on Tuesday when, on the occasion of International Women’s day.

Agency | Mumbai

Akshay Kumar let out a big secret of his life this Women’s Day. In a rare but no less emotional gesture, the actor took to Instagram on Tuesday by posting a family picture to thank his mother, sister and wife for supporting him through his strug-gles. The four, all decked up as if going for a family function, look gorgeous in their amazing dresses, especially Akshay’s sis-ter Alka Bhatia. Twinkle is standing with Akshay at the back while mom Aruna Bhatia sits on a

chair, all smiles. Akshay is wearing a white kurta with a pink pagdi. Ak-shay captioned the pho-to as ‘3 cheers to these 3 ladies who keep me sane by driving me insane al-most daily?? & all you lovelies Happy #Inter-nationalWomensDay we truly can’t function with-out you all. #Womens-Day #IWD2016 #Wom-enOfSteel’. The photo has about 90,000 likes on Instagram. Akshay’s next film Rustom will release on August 12. He plays a Parsi Naval Officer in 1950’s India.

Agency | Mumbai

Google is celebrating electronic music pioneer Clara Rockmore’s 105th birthday by dedicating to-days doodle to her. In the doodle one can see the movement used to play the theremin: one hand controlling pitch and the other volume. The in-teractive element guides the user through musical lessons trying to explore how theremin actually functions. You have three lessons to get a sense of how the instrument works--hover the cursor over the notes, and move it higher or lower to vary the note’s intensity. Born

Agency | Mumbai

It was recently reported that filmmaker Siddharth Anand is ready to reboot the ‘Rambo’ franchise in Hindi, sparking off spec-ulations over the casting. “Hrithik (Roshan) is al-ways on top of my mind, but I haven’t finalised anyone as yet. It can be a new actor as well,” he had said. But now sourc-es working on the proj-ect have confirmed that it is indeed Hrithik who will play the desi version of iconic character John Rambo. Says a source, “The Hindi remake of Rambo will have Hrithik reprising Sylvester Stal-lone’s classic character, but with a desi twist. Sid-dharth bought the rights to the film a couple of years ago and is now all set to take it on floors.” Siddharth had collabo-rated with the star for his

Three women are driving Akshay Kumar insane. Guess who’re they?

Sonakshi Sinha thrilled as a part of Guinness World Records Title

Google doodle marks the invention of the world’s first electronic musical instrument

Baaghi poster released: Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff in a rebellious avatar Karisma Kapoor, estranged husband

Sunjay Kapur on verge of settlement

Agency | Mumbai

Talented Bollywood Ac-tress, Sonakshi Sinha has been thrilled to have a part of Women’s Day in Mumbai, that was a mem-orable occasion as Inglot, Guinness World Records Title for of “Most people painting their fingernails simultaneously at Palla-dium, Mumbai’s premier lifestyle destination on 8th of March 2016. The manufacturers in colour cosmetics and its exclu-sive Indian Franchise Partner Major Brands In-dia Pvt. Ltd. achieved the Guinness World Records Title. Sonakshi Sinha was part of this unique initiative. Dr. Zbigniew Inglot, the Chairman of

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actress Ka-risma Kapoor and her es-tranged businessman hus-band Sunjay Kapur told the Supreme Court on March 8 that they have ar-rived at an amicable solu-tion regarding the finan-cial aspects of the case. In the proceedings, which were held in the chamber of the judge, the financial aspect of the separation terms have been decided between the parties and the issues like “visita-tion” right of Sunjay Ka-pur to see their kids, who are with the actress, is to be reconciled. The bench headed by Justice A K Sikri has now fixed the

Agency | New Delhi

The poster of much awaited film Baaghi has finally released and it is surprising to see the girl next door Shraddha Ka-poor in a never seen be-fore avatar. Tiger Shroff looks no less a rebel to compliment his lady love in the first poster of the film. The two will be seen as rebels in love and we have no doubt over them giving their finest shots in front of the cam-era. Tiger, who is seen shirtless, flaunts his chis-eled body and those fine abs would make anyone drool over them. Shrad-dha on the other hand is seen sitting beside him. The actress launched the poster on Twitter and wrote, “Abhi toh humne

Agency | Mumbai

So here comes out the first poster for ‘M.S Dho-ni- the untold story’! Su-shant Singh Rajput, who is portraying India’s lim-ited overs captain, took to his twitter handle to release the poster. ‘The Man You Know. The Journey You Don’t. You need to know his story. #MSDhoniTheUntold-StoryPoster,’ writes Su-shant along with tweet-

ing the poster. The poster shows the ‘Kai Po Che’ actor, in his Dhoni-ava-tar, sitting on a bench at the railway station and a train passing by. This pic-ture is inspired from the shy Mahi, who worked as a railway ticket col-lector in West Bengal’s Kharagpur. Earlier this morning the 30-year-old actor tweeted the news about the release of the poster, ‘Like all Indians,

I am your fan too. This is my greatest fan moment. #MSDhoni - The Untold Story teaser poster out at 2 pm @foxstarhindi.’ The first teaser promo of the film will be out on March 19, when India and Pa-kistan will go head to head against each other at the ICC T20 World Cup 2016. The film, slated to release in September, will also star Kiara Advani and Anupan Kher in it.

last directorial, ‘Bang Bang’ (2014), which fared well at the box office. The action flick was the official remake of Tom Cruise-star-rer ‘Knight And Day’ (2010). Hrithik and Sid-dharth remained un-available for comment. However, another source close to the production team says, “Hrithik is currently busy with his other commitments and he will need to invest a lot of time into the prep for ‘Rambo’ considering

that it is a landmark char-acter in American cine-ma. The film is now in the pre-production stage.” The ‘Rambo’ series was based on David Morrell’s novel ‘First Blood’ and starred Sylvester Stal-lone as a troubled Viet-nam War veteran and former US Army Special Forces soldier. The fran-chise consisted of three films — ‘First Blood’ (1982), ‘Rambo: First Blood Part II’ (1985), ‘Rambo III’ (1988), and ‘Rambo’ (2008).

Has Hrithik Roshan finally given his nod for Hindi remake of ‘Rambo’?

on March 9, 1911, Clara studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold Auer, but due to bone problems, a result of childhood mal-nutrition, she had to quit playing it. However, this led her to discover the newborn electronic in-strument the theremin, a gesture-controlled instru-

ment and become perhaps its most renowned player. In 1977, she released a commercial recording called ‘The Art of the Theremin.’ Go ahead--open a new Google win-dow and give it a go. Just imagine how an EDM party would have played out back it its day.

the Supervisory Board of the company INGLOT and Tushar Ved President of Major Brands India Pvt. Ltd were present to grace the occasion. 1328 women who participated in this event were seen painting their nails with the range of revolutionary Inglot O2M breathable nail enamels. The brand

broke the previous record of 1156 people paint-ing nails simultaneous-ly which was created by Taiwan Nail Association at Banqiao Stadium, New Taipei City, Taiwan on 27 April 2011. Jack Brock-bank from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS was present at the event to validate the record.

Sushant looks just like Mahi in ‘MS dhoni - The Untold Story’ poster!

matter for further hearing in chamber on April 8 as the differences between the couple have not been resolved completely. After the in-chamber proceedings, Karisma’s lawyer Sandeep Kapoor said both of them have worked out “consent terms” for settling the issues. “The process is in the way of finalisa-

tion before the next date of hearing. There are all possibilities of workable solution,” he said. Ear-lier, the apex court had asked Karisma Kapoor and her estranged hus-band to resolve their mat-rimonial dispute amica-bly and also advised their counsels to work out the terms of settlement be-fore the next date.

start kiya hai!Presenting the #BaaghiPoster.” The trailer of Baaghi will hit the screens on March 14. This is the very first time that the duo have been paired opposite each other in a film. Ti-

ger Shriff, who is one film old in the industry made his debut opposite Kriti Sanon in Herop-anti. Directed by Sabbir Khan, the rebels in love will meet you in theaters on April 29.

Baaghi poster: Shraddha Kapoor and Tiger Shroff will be seen as rebels in love and we have no doubt over them giving their finest shots in front of the camera.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

World T20: England all-rounder Ben Stokes warns that they would continue playing aggressive cricket

Proteas spinner Aaron Phangiso cleared to bowl ahead of World T20

2016 ICC World Twenty20: Facebook, Instagram Let You Support Your Favourite Team

ICC World T20: I like to bowl on pitches that don’t really spin a lot, says Moeen Ali

India vs Pakistan, ICC World T20 2016: HPCA alleges state government creating hindrance

Facebook Lite touches 100 million monthly active users globally

Nasa Develops Pump to Work for Kids With ‘Half a Heart’

Idea Cellular launches 4G LTE service in North East

Agency | Dharamsala

The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) on Wednesday alleged that the state gov-ernment was creating hin-drance in the much-await-ed India-Pakistan ICC World T20 2016 in Dha-ramsala for their political agenda. HPCA spokes-person Sanjay Sharma, however, revealed that the Pakistani security team which visited India to en-sure security measures for their players looked quite satisfied with the arrange-ments. “Two days back, Pakistan security team came here to know about all the security arrange-ments. They have as-sessed the venue, players’

Agency | Mumbai

Swashbuckling England allrounder Ben Stokes on Wednesday said playing aggressive cricket has worked well for the side recently and it would ap-proach the ICC World Twenty20 with a similar mindset. “It has worked since Trevor (Bayliss) came in as a coach. He gave more of that freedom. We played this attacking and positive brand of cricket. We started doing that in the last 12-18 months. It has worked, so why stop doing that,” remarked the 25-year-old Stokes in the open media session. ”We got the criticism in South Africa, two (T20) games we lost. But we won six games in a row before that. T20 goes like that.

Agency | Cape Town

South Africa left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso has been cleared to play at the World Twenty20 tournament in India after an independent reassess-ment of his bowling action found it to be legal, Crick-et South Africa (CSA) said on Tuesday. The 32-year-old failed tests carried out by the International Crick-et Council (ICC) on March 1 having been reported by umpires in a domestic 50-over match last month. Phangiso was suspended from bowling until his action could be re-tested and has now been cleared to resume his career hav-

Agency | Mumbai

To cater to cricket fans around the world, social media giant Facebook and its photo-sharing app Ins-tagram have tied up with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to let fans support their teams com-peting in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 tourna-ment. “From March 8 to April 3, 16 men’s and 10 women’s cricket teams will face each other to determine who will be crowned the world cham-pions of the twenty over cricket and fans can stay close to the action by liking the International Cricket Council on Face-book, following ICC on Instagram, and connect-ing with the teams, play-ers, publishers and fellow fans on both platforms,” a Facebook blog said on Tuesday. The sixth edition of the 2016 ICC World T20 will be played across

Agency | New Delhi

A heart pump using flywheel technology, developed by engineers at Nasa’s Glenn Research Centre, has raised hope of a better life for children born with only one heart ventricle, or essentially half a heart. The idea to use heart pump powered by a Nasa designed flywheel motor to help circulate blood for children born with only one heart ventricle was mooted by Mark Rodefeld, paediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University. While the technology has been success-fully developed, the motor needs to be scaled down to the required diameter - the size of a nickel, the researchers said. “About 1,500 children are born ev-ery year with a missing ventricle,” Rodefeld said. “The numbers sound low, but it’s actually the fifth most common problem in those with heart issues,” Rodefeld said. By having half a heart, essentially the body is missing half of its pumping ability to

oxygenate blood and circulate it to stay alive.

Agency | Bengaluru

Facebook Lite has reached 100 million monthly active users in India. The app has achieved this in less than nine months of its launch. Facebook Lite was launched for devices that run lower spec hard-ware and use slower 2G data connection. Facebook Lite now supports more than 50 languages and has an install size of less than 1MB. Facebook says the lite version of its social networking app has been rolled out in more than 150 countries across Latin America, Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe. Face-book is also adding support for video, multiple photo uploads, pinch to zoom for photos and emo-jis. Facebook Lite was introduced in June 2015

and is available from Google’s Play Store.

Agency | Nagaland

Telecom major Idea Cellular on Tuesday an-nounced entry of its 4G LTE service in the North East, with the launch of the high-speed service here. With this launch, Idea expands its service to nine telecom circles. Currently Idea 4G LTE ser-vice covers over 300 towns and plans to cover 750 towns by June 2016 across 10 telecom circles, said Idea Cellular Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajat Mukarji. The company will expand its 4G LTE ser-vice to four more North Eastern towns of Kohima, Imphal, Tura and Senapati covering three states of the region before the end of the current financial year. By May, the company will launch its 4G LTE service in Mokokchung in Nagaland, Agartala and Aizwal, he added. P Lakshminarayana, Chief Op-erating Officer-Corporate, Idea Cellular, said since the last week of December 2015, Idea has rapidly rolled out its high-speed 4G LTE network to cover nine major markets in India. “We will soon launch 4G LTE service in another key circle of Maharash-tra and Goa by June 2016,” he said.

Agency | Kolkata

Their combination more or less settled, India will look to get some much-needed practice and attain per-fection in all departments when they take on an un-der-prepared West Indies in the ICC World Twen-ty20 warm-up fixture in Kolkata on Thursday. In-dia are in the middle of a dream run having won their sixth Asia Cup title recently after series wins in Australia and at home against Sri Lanka. Since it’s a warm-up game, a little bit of spotlight will be on Mohammed Shami, even though the chances of the pacer making it to the XI when the tourna-ment proper starts looks very grim. India’s front-line pacer less than a year

Agency | Mumbai

Contrary to popular be-lief, England’s spin bowl-ing allrounder Moeen Ali says he prefers to bowl on pitches that don’t offer much turn. Ali troubled In-dia with his off spin bowl-ing when Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men toured there two years ago. “I like to bowl on those pitch-es that don’t really spin a lot. It is a little bit eas-ier in terms of your line. But when it is spinning, you have more chances of getting wickets. But there you will also leak more runs if it is spinning as much with my style of bowling. “If a person like

Ashwin is spinning, he is still a lot more economi-cal,” said Ali at the team’s open media session in Mumbai on Wednesday. Ali is one of three slow bowlers in the England squad for the ICC World T20 Championship that started with the quali-fying on Tuesday. The England allrounder said his job in the tournament was primarily to contain the run flow and not take wickets. “I have not been here many times. My job will be simple – to con-tain runs, not get hit for too many boundaries and not look too much wick-et-wise. The pitches are

very good here and the boundaries are short. My job will be to be very eco-nomical. I work on my bowling a lot harder than I used to.” Ali, who will man the spin department with leggie Adil Rashid and left-arm Liam Daw-son, still saw himself as a batting allrounder. “I like to see myself as a bats-man even though I am batting at eight. My role in the team is a little dif-ferent now. So I have to consider what is keeping me in the team. “(But) As long as I am playing in the team, it doesn’t really matter where I am batting.

World T20: India, West Indies get ready for dress rehearsal

The left-handed batsman, who scored the fastest Test 250 for England

against South Africa in Cape Town this January, believes that they have a

balanced side for the competition

eight cities in India and the final of the tournament will be played on April 3 at the iconic Eden Gar-den’s Stadium in Kolkata. Under the tie-up, the fans can add temporary profile picture frames to show support for their favourite teams. Fans can visit their favourite teams’ Pages to discover the frames. An-other feature Facebook Live will enable fans to get closer to the game by letting them enjoy live videos of over 50 post-match press conferences in real-time from the sta-dium as well as match analysis, reviews, behind

the scenes action, play-er conferences and more. The social media web-site has also launched a new sticker pack, Cricket Match-up, featuring pop-ular match moments such as umpire calls, player celebrations and catches and LBWs. The stickers pack is now available for download in the Sticker Store, which can be ac-cessed in the Messenger app Also, fans can experi-ence matches in real-time and can join the conversa-tion on Facebook through dedicated prompts in the composer section of their profile.

staying place and on route security. They discussed about these all plans with us and they were satis-fied. But state government is creating hindrance for their political agenda,” he said. Sharma urged those protesting against the Dharamsala match to know the difference be-tween terrorists and play-ers. “The spectators of Hi-machal Pradesh want this

match to take place. The people, who are coming from Pakistan, are players and we have to differen-tiate between players and terrorists. We cannot take this issue like this that everyone coming from Pakistan is terrorist,” said Sharma. “We are hopeful that the match would go ahead without shifting the venue and without any in-convenience ” he insisted.

back, Shami is struggling to return following a sur-gery on his troubled knee and failed in his brief at-tempt during the Australia tour earlier this year when he pulled a hamstring. His fitness will be as-sessed during the course of the two warm-up fix-tures, against the West Indies and South Afri-ca in Mumbai on March 12. Jasprit Bumrah along with old warhorse Ash-ish Nehra have formed a

potent pace attack with seaming all-rounder Har-dik Pandya and the bowl-ing attack has left skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni ‘relieved’. Bumrah and Pandya shared 25 wick-ets between them in 11 matches. During this pe-riod, India have lost just one game and won a bi-lateral T20 series in Aus-tralia, against Sri Lanka here and lifted their sixth Asia Cup in Bangladesh recently.

You can win some and lose some,” the New Zea-land-born player said. The left-handed batsman, who scored the fastest Test 250 for England against South Africa in Cape Town this January, believes that they have a balanced side for the competition. “We have

got three spinners now, not just part time but they are front line spinners, so we have got the option of picking from them, now we could look to play all three if need be. And they could bat as well, so we have got options every-where.

ing worked with South Africa spin-bowling con-sultant Claude Henderson over the past week. ”It’s a huge relief to be cleared and to have my bowling action passed. It’s been a tough and challenging few weeks for me,” Phangiso said in a CSA statement. “I’d really like to use the next few days ahead of the

(World Twenty20) tourna-ment to gain playing con-fidence, especially with some of the technical ad-justments we have made to my action.” Phangiso will be available for South Africa’s series-deciding third Twenty20 interna-tional against Australia in Cape Town on Wednes-day.

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Correspondent | Gandhinagar

Opposition Congress Tuesday objected to Gu-jarat government’s move to distribute saffron-co-loured bicycles to girl stu-dents of backward class, saying the colour embar-rasses them as it gives away their financial sta-tus and caste. However, the government defended its decision claiming that the colour ensures safety

of girls on roads at night as saffron reflects light of other vehicles. The con-troversial issue came up for discussion in the As-sembly Tuesday. Taking part in a discussion on a starred question during Question Hour, Congress MLA Ashwin Kotwal raised his objection claim-ing that girls feel shy to use these bicycles as the colour creates discrimi-

nation. He said saffron is causing embarrassment to girls as everyone is aware that saffron bicycles are given free to those who are poor or backward. In his reply, Minister of State for Social Justice and Em-powerment, Dilip Thakore said black is not an auspi-cious colour but saffron is. Social Justice Department Minister Ramanlal Vora quickly added that saffron

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Bharatiya Janata Par-ty’s Gujarat pradesh IT cell Wednesday distanced itself from Sanjay Rathod, IT cell convenor at Jun-agadh district BJP, even as he trained his guns, this time, on the Narendra Modi-led at the centre. Rathod, late on Tuesday, tweeted: “Sarkar, mantri, santri, police, vipaksh, sabhi Kanhaiyya mein itne vyast hain ki Pakistan ko khud batana pad raha hai, bhai aatanki bheje hain, fursat miley to! (The gov-ernment, ministers, sol-diers, police, opposition, everybody is so busy with Kanhaiyya that Pakistan is

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A lady TV anchor of a lo-cal Gujarati TV channel committed suicide in a flat in Bodakdev area of the city where she lived as a paying guest, po-lice said today. Karishma Bhatt (23), whose father is an employee in post-al department in Gondal town of Rajkot, hanged herself last night in a flat of Prince apartment in Judges bungalow road under Vastrapur police station area. She has left some suicide notes of which one has alleged-ly been written to a boy requesting him to delete ‘some’ picture from his

laptop. She has however not held anyone respon-sible for the suicide. The boy has been identified as a engineering college drop-out and resident of Ambaliyasan in Mahesa-na district. The deceased, who was pursuing distant education MCA course from a Hyderabad based institute has also written separately to her parents and younger sister which prima facie indicates that she must have been in se-vere depression. She has mentioned that she could not fulfill the dreams of her parents. One of the suicide notes was badly torn and was virtually un-readable.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Amid reports that terror-ists may strike in Gujarat, the police and the Nation-al Security Guard (NSG) commandos are still on their toes. DGP (IB&CID) Pramod Kumar said the high alert sounded three days ago was still in place. “We have to see several aspects before saying that everything is OK. So the high alert is still in place. Police are

still actively involved in finding out any suspi-cious person or activity,” said Kumar. A top official of the state ATS said four teams of NSG were still in the state. On Tuesday, the local police of the Banaskantha district on the Indo-Pak border de-tained two Muslims from the premises of the Am-baji temple on suspicion. The police later released them, following a detailed interrogation. Police said

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A TOTAL of 25 copy cases were reported on the first day of Gujarat Secondary and High-er Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) Class X and XII examinations that began on Tuesday. While the highest number of cases was reported in Class XII general stream in Junagadh district, the least were in Class XII Science stream in Physics subject where only two cases were reported from Anand district. A total of 17 cases —14 from Jun-

agadh, 2 from Anand and one from Rajkot — in Class XII general stream were reported by the state control room. In Class X examination of language subject — out of 8.11 lakh registered students, 7.92 lakh took their ex-amination — one case was reported from Kheda and Surat each while two from Ahmedabad city and Anand each, totalling to 6. This is despite the fact that the GSHSEB exam-ination are being conduct-ed in complete CCTV sur-veillance across the state.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat, March 9, 2016:In today’s day and age, the Indian film industry plays a very significant role in the society. Moreover, the core of any entertainment is to reach its target audi-ence. Taking this thought forward, Mukta A2 Cine-mas is organising the first edition of the Gujarati Film Festival. The festi-val will be held from 11th - 13th March at Mukta A2 Cinemas across their Gu-jarat market - Ahmedabad, Baroda and Rajpipla. The festival aims at giving re-gional cinema the desired rise in the industry. The film festival was inaugu-rated in the presence of Mr. Rahul Puri, Managing Director, Mukta Arts Ltd

at Mukta A2 Cinemas, Ahmedabad. The curtain raiser was followed by a panel discussion in the presence of renowned art-ists - Abhishek Jain (Di-rector/Actor, Kevi Rite Jaise&BeyYaar), Amit Desai (Creative Producer, BeyYaar), Ashish Kakkad (Actor, BeyYaar and Vita-min She), Darshan Trivedi (Media & entertainment industry professional and researcher),JankiBodi-wala (Chhello Divas Ac-tress),Divyang Thakkar (Actor)and Ishan Randera (Director, Gujju Bhai The Great). Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rahul Puri, Managing Director, Muk-ta Arts Ltd, said, “We are extremely happy to an-nounce the 1st edition of

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

To recover dues of Rs 1,392 crore from city-based companies de-clared non-performing assets (NPA), officials from Allahabad Bank visited four company of-fices with red roses on Tuesday. The idea, said the bank officials, was to peacefully urge default-ers from the Ahmedabad zone to pay their dues. Allahabad Bank has to recover Rs 6,200 crore from 23 NPA companies

in Gujarat of which 10 are based in Ahmedabad. Interestingly, none of the top officials at any of the company offices met the bank officials during the latter’s visit on Tues-day. An asset is declared non-performing when it ceases to generate income for the lender. On Tues-day, bank officials visited four Ahmedabad-based companies including Sai Infosys that owes the bank Rs 50 crore, Rain-bow Papers Limited that

Correspondent | Mahesana

With two more people dying last night, the to-tal number of deaths due to suspected poisonous Bhang (hemp plant leaves) consumption on the oc-casion of Mahashivratri in Budasan village under Kadi police station of Ma-hesana district has risen to

three with over a hundred people still under treat-ment at various places. Mahesana SP Chaitanya Mandlik today said that Mukesh Marwadi (33), resident of Karannagar near Budasan and Nattuji Thakor (35), resident of Budasan died last night. The villagers had cremat-

BJP IT cell distances itself from party convernor’s tweets on JNU

Congress objects to Gujarat govt move to give saffron cycles to girls

Gujarat: Terror alert still in place, many detained Gujarati TV anchor commits suicide

Gujarat Board exams: 25 copy cases on Day 1

Budasan temple Bhang consumption case – number of deaths reaches 3

Bank Seeks Rs 1,392-cr dues

Mukta A2 Cinema Presents the 1st Edition of the Gujarati Film Festival

BJP IT cell official Sanjay Rathod tweets: Kill JNU students, professors; later deletes it.

the Gujarati Film Festival and do our part for the re-gional cinema. We have al-ways aimed at showcasing movies from all corners of the India. Such festi-vals are very important as they bring out the films need to be seen, reward-ed and recognized. With Gujarati Film Festival we are doing a small contri-bution to regional cinema and we plan to do many more such film festival in various languages.” Muk-ta A2 Cinemas is grow-ing by leaps and bounds with its presence in Tier 2 and 3. With multiplex in Mumbai, Sailu, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Gulbarga, Banswara, Sailu, Vizag, Sangli, Hyderabad, Bho-pal, Kundli, Rajpipla and Meerut it plans to open properties in Aurangabad, Dehradun, Navi Mum-bai- Panvel, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Ambarnath and Pune. Not just this, it also plans to spread its legs and open the first inter-national property in Bah-rain by end of this year-which is spread across6 screens.

colour is better than black when it comes to safe-ty of girls who use bicy-cles during night as well. Seeking to corner the gov-ernment, senior Congress MLA Shaktisinh Gohil sought to know whether government is considering passing an order to paint all vehicles sold in Gu-jarat in saffron for safety purpose. “If government feels that saffron colour provides more safety and reduces accidents, then saffron should be used in all vehicles. Does the gov-ernment wish to do that for the larger good of public,” Gohil said. Vora evaded a direct reply to the query.

having to tell us, brother, we have sent terrorists, but who has the time!).” Rathod, however, is list-ed as a member of the executive committee of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) , as per it’s official website. Ra-

thod posted on his Twitter handle earlier Tuesday: “Shoot Anti National JNU students & Proff and close the chapter. But the problem is that Our Govt doesn’t allow to kill Dogs WakeUpIndia.” He de-leted the tweet as soon

after spoke to him. On Women’s day, his tweet went, “Jeevan mein agar sahansheelta aur krodh pe sanyam seekhna ho to…ek saadi ki dukaan khol ke dekhein..Happy Women’s Day Women’sDay Wake-upIndia” (If you want to learn to control your tol-erance and anger….open a saree shop and see) The “suggestion” was fol-lowed by smiling emo-jis. When contacted, the Convenor of the Gujarat Pradesh IT cell, Rajee-ka Kacheria, that Rathod was out of her team since two and a half years and reacting to his Women’s Day tweet, said.

the duo had deposited three cellphones at the temple’s entrance as part of the security drill and re-turned without going into the main temple area. Po-lice sources told this pa-per, “When they came to claim their cellphones, the police officials guarding the temple asked for their identity. It was found that they were Muslims and told the police they were looking for a woman who is working with a travel firm identified as “Abu and Ambaji tours”. The police informed the se-nior officials who brought them to Palanpur and were questioned. Banaskantha SP Neeraj Badgujar said, “Nothing suspicious was found at the moment and they were let off. Further inquiry is going on.”

ed them without inform-ing the police.‘We came to know about it later. Ear-lier one 17 year old local lad Vipul Thakor had died owing to the consumption of the Bhang distributed near a local temple,’ the SP said adding that people are saying that the Bhang mixed drink became poi-sonous owing to the in-clusion of Datura seeds. He, however, added that the investigation of the matter has been handed over to the Forensic Sci-ence Lab and its report is awaited. Over 250 people had fallen ill after the con-sumption of Bhang mixed prasad near a temple in Budasan on Monday.

has a debt of Rs 160 crore, Shall & Pearl Ceramics Limited that has a debt of Rs 50 crore and Electro-therm Limited that owes Allahabad Bank Rs 275 crore, armed with plac-ards, banners and red ros-es. “We carried out peace-ful demonstration outside the offices of the loan defaulters from Ahmed-abad Zone,” confirmed deputy general manag-er (Ahmedabad zone), Manoranjan Das. In a statement released earlier about the demonstration, the bank said, “...large defaulters who are lead-ing a lavish lifestyles and commanding a good rep-utation in society but not repaying the bank’s loan deliberately by stalling various processes of re-covery. The public money is in doldrums which is essential to be channel-ized into the economy to augment growth at this critical stage.