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News Brief4 Collectors appear

before HC on contempt petitions

Agency | Chennai

Four District Col-lectors appeared before the Madras High Court today in connection with contempt petitions filed against them. The Collectors of K a n c h e e p u r a m , Villupuram, Thiru-vallur and Cudda-lore were present before the First Bench, compris-ing Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M Sathyanarayananin on different con-tempt cases filed against them.

Agency | Chandigarh

Renowned poet Sardar Anjum passed away after long illness today, his family said. He was 73 years old. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 2005. Anjum, who has written at least 25 books and made a television serial “Goongi Tarikh” on Punjab terrorism in 1990, was conferred with the Punjab Rat-tan in 2001 and Pad-ma Shri in 1991.

Agency | Visakhapatnam

A 26-year-old CRPF constable died when his ser-vice rifle acciden-tally went off while he was cleaning it at a police station in Visakhapatnam Agency area today. The deceased was identified as Ajay Kumar, a native of Moradabad in Ut-tar Pradesh, police said. “It is a rou-tine practice for the Central Reserve Po-lice Force (CRPF) constables to clean their weapons ev-ery Thursday. But today, when Ajay Kumar was clean-ing his Insas rifle, he forgot to remove the bullets from it and it went off acci-dentally.”

Renowned poet Sardar Anjum

dies

CRPF constable dies in accidental

firing

PM Modi proposes ‘Das Kadam’

‘Ten Steps for the Future’ for BRICS nationsCalling it ‘Das Kadam: Ten Steps for the Future’, Modi put forward new initiatives for the BRICS grouping that is formed by major emerging economies

“BRICS 2015”

Asaram’s rape accused son Narayan Sai refused permission to attend Guru Purnima event

Agency | UfaPitching for closer cooperation and co-ordination among BRICS nations, Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi on Thursday proposed a 10-point initiative that includes India hosting the first trade fair for the group-ing and establishing research centres for railways and agricul-ture. Calling it ‘Das Kadam: Ten Steps for the Future’, Modi put forward new initiatives for the BRICS grouping that is formed by major emerging econo-mies. At the Plenary session, the Prime Minister said, “the challenges that the world is faced with are for every coun-

try. It’s important to have consensus, collaboration and cooperation between all major nations”. The proposed initia-tives for the BRICS include a trade fair, a Railway Research Centre, cooperation among supreme au-dit institutions, a Digital Initiative and an Agricultural Re-search Centre. They also include State/Local Government’s Forum, cooperation amongst cities in field of Urbanisa-tion, BRICS Sports Council and Annu-al Sports Meet, a film festival and the first major project of NDB to be in field of Clean Energy. “Also, every country should obey international

Correspondent | SuratSelf-styled godman Asaram Bapu’s jailed son Narayan Sai, ar-rested in a rape case, was on Thursday re-fused permission to attend a Guru Purn-ima event here on July 31 by a court which rejected his application for one-day bail. Additional Sessions Court Judge HS Muliya rejected

Agency | BhopalIn Vyapam, the Cen-tral Bureau of In-vestigation faces a daunting task of un-ravelling a corrup-tion scandal that went on for years, leaving a trail of thousands of suspects – in-cluding some top elected representa-tives – with hordes of tell-tale evidence requiring thorough scrutiny. The agen-cy’s most crucial task, however, will be in prevailing over power dynamics and chasing links that may have potential-ly influenced inves-tigations carried out by the state police and the special task force (STF). “Politi-

cians and influential bureaucrats linked to scam were not called for recording their statements, let alone booked or interro-gated. While state police officials dith-ered to act, CBI offi-cials are expected to question everybody and unravel the en-tire conspiracy”, said a retired IPS officer, preferring not to be identified. “Scien-tific investigation wasn’t undertaken by the STF. Now, if CBI may go for lie-detec-tor test on PEB offi-cials, it can get vital clues about high-pro-file people who pro-tected the racket for so long. Investigation on the basis of the

Agency | New DelhiIndia’s second-string squad that takes on Zimbabwe in a three-match one-day series beginning Friday in Harare is without a specialist wicket-keeper but part-timer and top-order bats-man Robin Uthap-pa believes he can do the job. Uthap-

pa, along with mid-dle-order batsmen Kedar Jadhav and Ambati Rayudu are the makeshift wick-etkeepers in the 14-member squad for the short limit-ed-overs tour with captain Ajinkya Rah-ane indicating a final call on the gloveman will be taken be-

Agency | Beijing A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had strongly taken up with China over blocking action in the UN against Pakistan on the re-lease of Mumbai at-tack mastermind Za-ki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Beijing today defend-ed its step saying it was based on “facts” and in the spirit of “objectiveness and fairness”. “As a per-manent member of the UN Security Council China always deals

Cracking conspiracy, nabbing bigwigs: Vyapam scam will test CBI

results of such tests could reveal a lot”, he adds. Whistleblower Paras Saklecha said STF’s investigation began from the low-er wrung, instead of acting against the kingpins first. “As

many as 90% people arrested comprised students and their parents, while just half-a-dozen PEB of-ficials were arrested. We are hopeful that CBI would start ar-rests from the top”.

China responds to PM Modi taking up Lakhvi issue with Xi Jinping

India’s Robin Uthappa keen to take on wicketkeeping responsibilites

with the 1267 com-mittee matters based on facts and in the spirit of objectiveness and fairness,” Foreign Ministry spokesper-son Hua Chunying told reporters here to-day. She was respond-ing to a question on Modi “strongly” and “clearly” conveying

India’s concerns yes-terday to President Xi Jinping in Ufa, Russia, over China blocking a proposal for action by the UN against Paki-stan on the release of Lakhvi. India had also rejected the “weak evidence” theory pro-pounded by Beijing in this regard. Term-

ing Modi-Xi talks as “constructive and inclusive”, she said China has maintained good communication with India and other parties on the Lakhvi issue. About India’s concerns over terror-ism, she said, “I can tell you that both India and China are victims of terrorism.

the Sessions Court, had submitted that Asaram Ashram has a long tradition to ob-serve the Guru Purn-ima festival and he, being the religious leader of the Ashram, should be released for a day to attend the event. Oppos-ing the plea, Special Public Prosecutor PN Parmar told the Court that temporary bail cannot be grant-ed to Sai to attend a religious festival. Attending a religious festival is no ground to grant bail to a rape accused.

the temporary bail plea which sought re-lease of Sai for a day to attend the religious festival at Asaram Ashram in Surat. As Sai is also an accused in a case of bribery against him and 11 others, he had moved a similar application before designated ACB Court Judge RT Vacchani too. Since the Sessions Court rejected the plea, Sai, accused of rape by a Surat-based woman, withdrew his bail re-quest from the ACB Court as well. Sai, in his plea before

rules and norms,” the Prime Minister said at the BRICS meet which was at-tended by Russian

President Vladi-mir Putin, Brazil-ian President Dilma Rousseff and South African President

Jacob Zuma besides Chinese President Xi Jinping. With regard to BRICS, Modi

said that it is an “im-portant pillar” in the world of challenges. Giving a brief on

the BRICS Summit, Secretary (Multi-lateral Relations) in the MEA Sujata Mehta said, “It will be our intention to carry forward the an-nouncements made by our Prime Min-ister. The first an-nouncement was that we should have an annual BRICS trade fair and our intention is that the first of these will be during India’s chairmanship during 2016.” In-dia will be the next chair of BRICS for 11 months beginning February next year.

fore the first match. Uthappa, 29, and Jad-hav, 30, have regular-ly done wicketkeep-ing duties for Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the IPL while Rayu-du has occassionally donned the gloves for Mumbai Indians. Uthappa, who had trained for two weeks in Mumbai honing his wicketkeeping skills ahead of the tour is so confident of landing the job that he is not entertain-ing any discussion on who will keep.

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Property rights, household conflict and suicide in IndiaThe World Health Organization estimates that there were 260,000 suicide deaths in India in 2012 alone; twice as many deaths as HIV/AIDS and almost the same number as mater-nal deaths in young women. Statistics from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 1967 onwards reveal that the broad class of “family problems” is the main reported cause of suicide for both men and women. Suicides by married women and men as a re-sponse to family conflict are a common occur-rence in developing countries. Research has emphasized the cultural ramifications of sui-cide—relative to developed countries, where suicidal behaviour tends to be interpreted as a symptom of individual mental health, in poor-er countries, it is often considered a normal, al-beit last-resort response. Hence, government policies that strengthen the position of wom-en, by altering negotiations between men and women within families (husbands and wives; brothers and sisters), could be one of the fac-tors explaining increasing suicide rates. In a recent study, we examined policies that affect individual inheritance rights to family prop-erty in India and studied the relationship be-tween improved inheritance rights for women and the incidence of suicide among men and women. The Hindu Succession Act of 1956 was a landmark legislation that conferred in-heritance rights on Hindu women, and gave the same rights to sons and daughters in case of intestate death. However, it only applied to separate property (purchased or inherited land from persons other than father, grandfather, etc.). It did not apply to the most common form of ownership—joint family property (inherited ancestral property). Another short-coming was that it did not cover land owner-ship stemming from tenancy rights. We use both these exemptions to analyse the effect of better inheritance rights for women on sui-cides. Prior to a nationwide 2005 amendment, a few states passed amendments to equalize the inheritance rights of men and women over joint family property—Andhra Pradesh (1986), Tamil Nadu (1989), and Maharashtra and Karnataka (1994). We use this state-level variation in the legal treatment of women over time to examine its effects on suicide rates using NCRB data for 15 major states during 1967-2004. We find that the amendments are associated with an increase in the suicide rates for both men and women, particularly men. This takes into account state and year charac-teristics as well as the economic and cultural conditions. For both genders, these increases are substantial and mainly come from increas-es in suicides due to family problems.

“Association of Private Dental and Medical Colleges to scan the answersheets of candidates at the Dental and Medical Admission Test (DMAT) at all the nine examination centres in the state. DMAT will be conducted across the country including at nine centres in the state.”

- In an interim order, MP High Court ordered scanning of the ‘optical mark recognition’ answersheets of candidates of the July 12

Agency | MumbaiCelebrity hairstyl-ist Sapna Bhavnani, known for her stint on “Bigg Boss 6”, has revealed in an emotional Facebook post that she was gangraped in Chi-cago when she was 24. Sapna, now 44, said it took her two decades to break her silence on the fate-ful night that she has tried forgetting about every day. “After my father’s death, I moved to Chicago where there were so many like me and it gave me the freedom to get inked, exper-iment with my hair and just be myself. One Christmas Eve in Chicago, I walked out of a bar alone late at night in a short dress and red lipstick. I was 24 and had been drinking, when from a dumpster a group of guys walked upto me and put a gun to my head...Eventual-ly leading to a gang rape. I remember

Agency | MumbaiActors Ajay Devgn and Tabu are trying to outdo each other in the upcoming sus-pense thriller Drishy-am, but offscreen Ajay is all praises for his co-star. He said that no one, except for Tabu, could’ve played the role of a stern cop in the film. “We want-ed Tabu to do the film because I think this performance couldn’t have been done by anybody else,” said Ajay at a radio sta-tion appearance to promote their film.

“The film is about hu-man emotions. There is a conflict between Tabu and me and this conflict is what holds the plot of the film. Tabu’s charac-ter of an IG is a very strong character as an extremely emotional reason is attached to it. And it is about how she counters her emo-tions and seeks to win at every cost,” he said. Tabu stated that she didn’t take inspira-tion from any popular police officer for the role. “Inspiration for me was from the Ma-

layalam film as we’re following most of the aspects from it. The character is so strong that there was no need to follow any other character,” she said. Though she plays the role of a police offi-cer, there are no action sequences in the film and Tabu is relieved about the lack of fight scenes in the film, as she would’ve had to otherwise prepare for it. Director Nishikant Kamat’s Drishyam, which also stars Shri-ya Saran is releasing on July 31.

Agency | New DelhiHere’s another proof why producers don’t mind queuing up outside Kareena Ka-poor’s house to sign her up for their proj-

ect, even if it is just for one song. Because hers is one one name that almost always translates into big box office draw. In a cast-ing coup of sorts, di-

rector Karan Malhotra and producer Karan Johar have signed on Ms Khan for a siz-zling number in their upcoming film Broth-er. The film, starring

Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra in the lead roles, has Ka-reena as a bar dancer, crooning the number Mary Sau Takka Teri hai. The song takes

its inspiration from Malhotra’s earlier hit Agneepath in which Katrina Kaif was seen dancing on Chikni Chameli. The look and feel of the song is quite

urban, but the milieu it represents appears like a small town. The song is composed by Ajay-Atul and is voiced by Chinmayi Sripada.

Agency | New DelhiC h o r e o g r a p h e r , singer, performer-- myriad man Ganesh Hegde will be taking over the televisions every weekend from Saturday, judging the popular dance reality TV show Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa. Joining Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor and Lauren Gottileb, he will be a fresh face on the show. We got talking to the man himself and asked more about the latest

season of the show and what to expect from it. To be frank, all the shows that I have done till now always got boring for me after a point. I am a singer, per-former, dancer and choreographer... so it becomes very mo-notonous for me to just sit around giving marks to contestants. A number of my fans have told me they don’t like that version of me very much.

Judges won’t just give marks this season: Ganesh Hegde on Jhalak

Watch Kareena sizzle in ‘Mera Naam Mary’ song from ‘Brothers’

MERA NAAM

MARYMakers of

‘Brothers’, starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra,

have released the sizzling song video of ‘Mera Naam

Mary’ featuring Kareena Kapoor

Khan. And it is sure to set the

temperatures soaring!

Sapna Bhavnani : I was gangraped at the age of 24

Ajay Devgn: No One But Tabu Could Have Played the Cop in Drishyam

walking home, show-ering and pushing this incident to the back of my mind for years and never letting it break my spirit, I still wear short dresses and the brightest red on my lips,” Sapna said via “Humans of Bombay”, a website that lets people of Mumbai share their experiences and inci-dents. The reality TV star said while it is important for wom-en to open up about violence in any form but she also believes hiding one’s misery is not a sign of weak-

ness. “We live in a world where every-one stresses the im-portance of voicing yourself or walking out of tough situa-tions, but I just want to say this— no one wants to be beaten up, get raped or sell their bodies. It took me 20 years to voice my incident, but for me a woman keeping it all within her be-cause she has no oth-er choice isn’t a sign of weakness- it’s a mark of strength and something we need to start respecting,” she said.


SPORTS ROUNDUP

Agency | New DelhiAfter the split-sec-ond buying frenzy during its flash sale yesterday, Flipkart has announced that the Lenovo K3 Note will go on sale again on July 15. The black colour variant will go on sale at 12pm and the white version will be available at 3pm. Registrations for the sale are currently open here. The Le-novo K3 Note packs a 5.5” full HD dis-play (1920x1080p), 13MP rear camera with Dual LED flash

and 5MP front cam. It has a 1.7GHz 64-bit MediaTek octa-core processor, ARM MALI-T760 GPU and 2 GB DDR3 RAM. The K3 has dual SIM card slots, 4G connectivity and has 16 GB internal storage expandable via microSD up to 32 GB. The phone runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop with Leno-vo’s Vibe UI on top, and is powered by a 3000 mAh battery. The phone is avail-able exclusively on Flipkart for Rs 9,999.

Agency | Mumbai India has pipped China to drive the volume growth of smartphones in the world on the back of falling prices of high-end devices and growing adop-tion of 3G services, according to an HSBC report. “Chi-na was the volume growth engine since 2013. However, giv-en China’s smart-phone penetration having reached 95 per cent in 2014, fur-ther growth will be derived from other emerging countries with relatively low smartphone pene-tration. “We fore-

cast that smartphone shipments will grow at a 2014-19 CAGR of 26 per cent in In-dia, followed by 19 per cent in Middle East (West Asia), 8 per cent in Lat-in America and 5 per cent in China,” HSBC Global Re-search report said today. It noted that India was the global No. 2 mobile phone market in 2014 with 275 million units of shipment, or 14 per cent of world mar-ket. However, it was global No. 3 smart-phone market last year with 81 million units of shipment, or 6 per cent of global market.

Agency | New DelhiMicrosoft had ac-quired Nokia in 2013 for $7.2billion (around Rs.45,360 crore), hoping for a stronger presence in the smartphone eco-system. But it hasn’t been able to turn the tide in its favour. According to the

International Data Corporation’s quar-terly Mobile Phone Tracker report, pub-lished in May, An-droid is the most used mobile oper-ating system, with 78% market share globally. iOS is the second most popu-lar platform, with an 18.3% share.

Agency | KolkataThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) indicated it will appeal against former Chief Justice of India RC Laho-ti’s report that went in favour of Kochi Tuskers Kerala, the erstwhile IPL fran-chise whose contract was terminated by the Board in 2011 because of an alleged breach of contract. “We have got arbi-

trator Lahoti’s report. The majority of the members are of the opinion of appeal-ing against arbitra-tor’s report. We are seeking legal opin-ion,” Indian Premier League (IPL) chair-man Rajeev Shukla told PTI after a Gov-erning Council meet-ing. The BCCI has been asked to pay Rs 550 crore to IPL fran-chise Kochi Tuskers after an arbitration

ruled in favour of the team recently. Kochi though, it is learnt, is not interested in the money anymore and want its team fielded in the next IPL season. Back in 2011, the BCCI had decided to encash the bank guarantee giv-en by Kochi Tuskers and terminated the IPL contract of the franchise. The matter then went for arbitra-tion to Lahoti.

Lenovo K3 Note Flipkart flash sale announced for June 15

The problem with Windows phones

India Overtakes China in High-End Phone Volume Growth: Report

Agency | BengaluruFor a period over the last couple of months, it seemed like India’s tour of Zimbabwe was dead in the water. BCCI’s issues with the broadcaster and Indian players fatigue after a long season of limited-overs cricket threatened to prevent this tour from hap-pening. Zimbabwe were being given the proverbial step-child treatment. India’s se-ries defeat against

Bangladesh, however, made this the perfect opportunity for the In-dian think-tank to test their bench strength. One of the reasons for that defeat to Bangla-desh was perhaps the players not turning up in body and not in mind, but rest assured, the squad that the se-lectors have picked for this series will be raring to go, looking to leave an impres-sion in the selector’s books. Dropped in

an ODI series and be named captain for the second one. Rahane is the man on who the spotlight will be shin-ing at, over the next fortnight. Let’s be honest, his captaincy won’t come under too much scrutiny during this series. There are just far too many ‘leaders’ ahead of the Mumbai batsman for the selectors to choose from, when they have to deal with Dhoni’s eventual retirement.

India’a ODI Series against Zimbabwe is not just about Ajinkya Rahane

Agency | New DelhiWith age comes ex-perience and few know it better than West Indies Test cap-tain Denesh Ram-din, who still regrets an unsavoury act of flashing a note to-wards Vivian Rich-ards after scoring a century against En-gland in Birmingham back in 2012. Ram-din, after receiving flak from the legend for his poor show with the bat came back to score 107 in the third Test at Edg-baston and on com-

pletion of century, took a note out of his pocket and flashed it which read, “Yeh Viv Talk Na”. “It’s been a few years since that incident. What I did then happened at the heat of moment. When I look back, to-day perhaps with age, I have become wiser and would not have taken that piece of paper out of my trou-ser’s pocket,” Ram-din. during an inter-action. “I have put the past behind and now myself and Viv are good friends. He

Agency | WimbledonSania Mirza equalled her best performance at Wimbledon by reaching the wom-en’s doubles semi-fi-nals of the lone grass court Major with Swiss partner Mar-tina Hingis in Lon-don. Sania, who had reached the semis in 2011 too with Elena Vesnina, and Marti-na came out with a clinical performance to enter the semis on Wednesday evening. The top seeds need-ed only an hour and 19 minutes to beat Australian-Kazakh

ninth seeds Casey Dellacqua and Yaro-slava Shvedova 7-5, 6-3 in the quarter-fi-nal played on Court 3 of the All England Club. Sania and Mar-tina started off on an aggressive note, winning 20 of 27 first serve points. But Dellacqua-Shvedova came back strongly by winning a break point. However, that didn’t help their cause as the top seeds were too strong to break their opponents twice that led them to take the first set 7-5. The second set saw the

Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis ease into Wimbledon doubles semis

BCCI asked to compensate as Kochi Tuskers eye IPL re-entry

Denesh Ramdin regrets flashing “Yea Viv Talk Nah” note

Agency | Colombo Sri Lankan batting great Kumar Sanga-kkara will end his in-ternational career at the P Sara Oval next month in the second match of the three-test series against fa-miliar foes India. Last month, Sri Lanka’s most prolific batman announced his deci-sion to retire after the second test against India, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious 15-year stay at the crease. The Indian and the Sri Lankan cricket boards announced the tour itinerary on Thursday, confirming Galle as the venue for the first test start-ing on Aug. 12. The 37-year-old Sanga-kkara wanted to quit

top seeds play more aggressively for their quest of the semis berth. The pair broke their opponents once and a double fault by Dellacqua-Shvedova made it easy for the Indo-Swiss combine to win the set 6-3 and advance to the last four. Sania and Mar-tina next face Ameri-can fifth seeds Raquel Kops-Jones and Ab-igail Spears on Fri-day for a spot in the final. Later in the first round of girls’ dou-bles, Colombian-In-donesian pair of Ma-ria Fernanda Herazo Gonzalez and Deria Nur Haliza defeated Indo-Japanese com-bine of Pranjala Yad-lapalli and Chihiro Muramatsu 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour on Court 14.

Kumar Sangakkara to end career in Colombo against India

all formats after the World Cup earlier this year but agreed to stay on to play four home tests -- two against Pakistan and as many against India. P Sara Oval will host the second test, which will be Sangakkara’s 134th and final appearance, from August 20. The former captain has scored 12,305 runs from 132 tests at an average of slightly higher than 58, to

go with his 14,234 runs in 404 one-day internationals. Sri Lanka will begin a new era without the southpaw when they head to Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC), also in Colombo, for the third and final match against their neighbours.India will reach Colombo on August 3 and play a three-day warm up match at R Premada-sa Stadium from Au-gust 6.

in fact last week in-vited me for a round of golf but unfortu-nately, I could not make it,” said Ram-din who has played 69 Tests, 127 ODIs and 51 T20 Interna-tionals for the West Indies. While most of his colleagues are more intent on making their careers out of lucrative T20 leagues across the world, for Ramdin the longest format remains his preferred choice even though he has strike-rate in excess of 120 in the shortest format and has had a good Caribbean Premier League (CPL) so far for the Guyana Am-azon Warriors. For him, his colleagues Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo (if he thinks of coming out of Test retirement) are “always wel-come” in the West Indies Test side.

Serena Williams takes on Maria Sharapova for a place in the Wimbledon 2015 finalAmerican continues her quest for the ‘Serena Slam’ against Russian rival in semi-final on Centre Court, and takes opener 6-2


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IL&FS Engineer-ing and Construction Company (IL&FS Engineering Ser-vices) has commis-sioned a project of gas transmission pipeline in Gujarat. “IL&FS Engineering Services has success-fully commissioned Halol Godhra Dahod Pipeline Project in Gujarat. The project includes laying 103 kms high pressure gas transmission pipeline on an EPC basis for Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL),” the company said in a statement. The


A 45-year-old man on Wednesday alleged-ly strangulated his 18-year-old daughter to death in an appar-ent case of ‘honour killing’ in Gangaghat police station area of Unnao district. He was arrested after his wife got a case registered against him. The accused, Raju Botham who is a daily wage labour-er, confessed to have killed his daughter Shivani as she was adamant to marry the youth of her choice who belongs to the


The Gujarat Univer-sity has issued the notice of suspension to its former regis-trar Minesh Shah, who allegedly made excess payment of Rs 80 lakh to a con-tractor for the con-struction of a profes-sional study centre. Gujarat University vice-chancellor M N Patel said that Shah


Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s polit-ical secretary Ahmed Patel on Thursday slammed the Gujarat government for seek-ing another extension to implement the Na-tional Food Security Act (NFSA). In a let-ter to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, Ahmed took a dig at the ‘Gujarat Model’ and ques-tioned the efficiency of state administra-tion in implementing the Act. “Over the past several years, the state government has invested substantial


Additional sessions Judge H J Joshi on Wednesday permit-ted the state govern-ment to terminate the 14-week preg-nancy of a mental-ly challenged girl from Bengal. The girl was found in Meghaninagar in May. Medical exam-ination revealed that she was pregnant. However, looking at her mental condition, she was shifted to the city’s mental health centre. The court permitted the super-intendent of mental hospital to abort the fetus in a way that the “victim” mother

does not suffer phys-ical and mental inju-ry. The court has also sought a report of the process. Earlier, a magisterial court had refused to en-tertain government’s plea for aborting the girl’s fetus, cit-ing jurisdiction. The additional sessions judge, however, ob-served that refusal by the lower court had led to circum-stances in which it had to hear advocate Anand Brahmbhatt, who volunteered as an amicus curiae, even though he had no locus standi in the case.


The heavy rains in the last week of June led to increased sow-ing across the state. As a result, sowing in about 50% of the 85.53 lakh hectares of land in which farming takes place, had been completed. Unlike last year, there has been more sowing of groundnut than cotton this year.According to figures released by the agriculture de-partment, sowing of


Gujarat has recorded a negative growth of 3.89 per cent in 2012-13 the lowest in the country according to a Government of India study called ‘Agricul-ture Statistics 2014’. The study also cites neighbouring Madhya Pradesh as having re-corded highest growth

in agriculture and allied sectors in 2012-13 and 2013-14. However, of-ficials are yet to final-ize their conclusions as Gujarat is yet to submit its data for the year ending 2013-14. Ac-cording to the report, Gujarat (3.89 per cent) and Tamil Nadu (2.2 per cent) are the only two states to have reg-istered negative growth

in 2012-13 compared to the previous year. Statistics show that the state recorded negative growth in four years between 2004-05 and 2012-13. The data on the state agriculture and allied sector re-leased since 2004-05 also shows that the gross state domestic product (GSDP) has not remained constant.


After the second round of admissions to the Bachelor of Commerce course, 8,000 seats remain vacant. The Guja-rat University has decided that admis-sions to the remain-ing seats will be now done off-line. The GU officials said that around 4,000-odd students are yet to get admission. Officials said that apart from these students, there are those who will

clear their supple-mentary examination which will be held this month. The offi-cials said that offline admissions will be-gin once the supple-mentary results are out, in the last week of July. The officials said that the five-year integrated law course, which was recently approved, has few takers as the fee is very high, be-tween Rs 1 lakh and Rs 1.20 lakh.

Correspondent | Vadodara

An eight-year-old boy, who had run away from his home in West Bengal after his mother allegedly scolded him, was re-united with his family at a town near here. Sachin Sunil Chau-han, a student of class II, had run away from his home at a village near Vardhman town

of WB’s Asansol dis-trict about 10 days back, Bardoli police inspector SM Sagar over phone today. “Sachin was scold-ed by his widowed mother Radha on June 29 after he lost a Rs 500 note which she had given him to buy some items from the market,” Sagar said. An irked Sachin, who

had some money in his pocket that time, left home and came to Asansol railway sta-tion. He boarded an Ahmedabad-bound train and landed in Surat city. Howev-er, his trouble grew in Surat as he could converse only in his native language Ben-gali. The scared boy then got into a state

transport (ST) bus and asked the con-ductor to give him a ticket to Asansol. The bus conductor failed to understand his lan-guage and asked him to get down at the ST depot in Bardoli town, about 160 km from Vadodara. The boy begged there as he had no money, said Sagar.

Runaway boy from West Bengalreunited with mother by Gujarat Police

‘Honour killing’: Man strangulates daughter who wanted to marry her ‘boyfriend’

IL&FS Engineering Commissions Pipeline Project in Gujarat

company, however, did not mention the cost of the project. The pipeline network constitutes a main gas trunkline which takes gas from existing dis-patch station of Pad-mala -Halol pipeline at Halol to receiving station at Dahod in Gujarat. “GSPL has developed this in-

frastructure to cater to the customers in East Gujarat region,” it added. The proj-ect passes through wet and dry cultivat-ed fields, rocky ter-rains and forest zones which includes ma-jor crossing through rivers, canals, roads and railways among others. “The com-

missioning of this project has proven that the company has the capability to effi-ciently execute proj-ects in unfavourable conditions to ensure it meets commit-ments made to the clients,” it said. The company is current-ly executing an EPC contract from Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL), Ministry of Petroleum and Natu-ral Gas that involves laying of pipeline from Mangalore Port to Mangalore/Padur Cavern for storage of crude oil.

Gujarat government slammed for seeking NFSA deadline extension

amount of resources in highlighting it’s administrative effi-ciency called the Gu-jarat Model of Gov-ernance. Hence, it is surprising that the state has repeatedly missed the deadline, since states with larg-er populations like Bihar have already implemented it,” he said. Two days ago, Gujarat Food and Civil Supplies Min-ister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama stated that he had requested Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan to extend the deadline for rolling out NFSA till March 2016, since the Gujarat govern-ment is still preparing a digitised database

of beneficiaries. Re-acting to the develop-ment, Ahmed stated in his letter that earli-er, Gujarat had sought as well as received a one-year extension in August 2014, which ends on September this year.“The latest request (by the Guja-rat government) is a

major setback in the efforts to ensure le-gally guaranteed sub-sidised food grains to our population. There should not be any delay in meeting the revised deadline of September 2015, as mandated by the Central government,” Patel said.

Court nod to abort pregnancy of mentally ill girl

same community and lives in the neigh-bourhood. Botham was produced before the court on Wednes-day which sent him to judicial custody. Station House Officer of Gangaghat police station Mohammad

Ashraf said Shivani’s mother Santosh Ku-mari and her daugh-ter-in-law Shiksha are the eye-witness-es to Shivani’s mur-der. Both the women have told the police that they saw Botham strangulating the girl

with a rope at 1.30 am when she was asleep, said Ashraf. They tried to res-cue her but failed. When Santosh raised an alarm for help, Botham ran away from the house, the SHO said. The po-lice have recovered the rope which was used in the crime, he added. A resident of Champapurwa lo-cality, Shivani was a student of Class XII. Her elder broth-er Shivam works in Ahmedabad, while younger brother Adarsh stays with the family.

Gujarat University suspends former registrar

was suspended after an inquiry committee found irregularities. The GU will also or-der a departmental inquiry against him,

centre at Dada Saheb na Pagla to shift BK School of Business Management and KS School of Business Management from its campus. The GU had given Rs 3.78 crore contract to a build-er and construction work was started. But the AMC sealed the plot over a dis-pute. The total con-struction cost of the completed work was Rs1.6 crore, but GU paid Rs 2.4 crore to the builder. The ir-regularity came to light when the cur-rent VC decided to resume construction work of the centre and perused old files. However, support-ers of Shah say the excess payment was made to lay deeper foundation for the building as the soil report had indicated that a deeper founda-tion was required.

probably by a retired judge, Patel said. The GU was earlier forced to withdraw the sus-pension notice issued to Shailesh Goswa-mi, an engineer, and Shah — who was the chief accounts officer as well as the registrar — after the university realized that excess payment had been made. At the time of suspen-sion, Shah was in charge of the uni-versity’s information centre. During Pari-mal Trivedi’s tenure as VC in 2011, the GU administration had decided to build a professional study

Sowing at 50%; rain delay worries farmers

groundnut has been completed in 11.47 lakh hectares of land. This is 83.77% of the total 13.70 lakh hect-ares in which ground-nut is usually sown. There is usually more sowing of cotton in terms of percentage

but, this year, sowing of groundnut has been 7% more than that of cotton. Cotton is usu-ally sown in 27.27 lakh hectares but this year it has been sown only in 20.91 lakh hectares, i.e., 76.70% of the total area.

Gujarats agriculture growth in barren zone

After round 8,000 BCom seats vacant in Gujarat University

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