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News BriefRussian diplomat hits biker, assaults

cop: policeAgency | New Delhi

A diplomat from Rus-sian Embassy alleged-ly hit a biker with his speeding car, rammed into a barricade and later assaulted a police official at south Delhi’s Moti Bagh area today. Police have registered a case of rash driving, obstructing a public ser-vant from performing duty and assaulting the public servant in con-nection with the inci-dent which was reported around 1.30 AM, said a police official.Court puts Tytler, Verma on trial in

cheating case

Bhisham Sahni’s memoir now in

English

Agency | New Delhi

A Delhi court today put on trial Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and con-troversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma after framing charges against them for allegedly writ-ing a forged letter ad-dressed to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009. After the court framed the charges against both the accused, they pleaded not guilty and claimed trial fol-lowing which the judge posted the matter for re-cording of prosecution evidence in the case.

Agency | New Delhi

The autobiography of Bhisham Sahni, writer of the highly-acclaimed “Tamas”, is now avail-able in English. “Today’s Pasts”, the English ver-sion of “Aaj Ke Ateet”, is not only a powerful poignant memoir, but also vitally documents the history of India in the 20th century, says publisher Penguin India.In addition to being the story of Sahni’s life and art, “Today’s Pasts” also chronicles the great cul-tural high points of mod-ern India: the Indian Peo-ple’s Theatre Association (IPTA), the Progressive Writers’ Association, the Nayi Kahani movement.

Says Sushma Swaraj after meeting Nawaz Sharif“Comprehensive dialogue”

Sushma Swaraj also asked the international community to ensure that the forces of terrorism and extremism do not find sanctuaries and safe havens in “any name, form or manifestation”

India, Pakistan to resume dialogue

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any interim di-rection on the PILs filed against AAP govern-ment’s plan to restrict plying of private vehi-cles from January 1 to combat pollution, say-ing it was too early to pass an order. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath termed the PILs as “pre-mature” and said, “The Delhi government has proposed an idea, which is to be implemented from January 1, 2016, on

Agency | Chennai

Tamil Nadu Chief Min-ister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the unprece-dented floods in the state as a national calamity and proposed measures, including a moratorium on home and vehicle loans, to enable affected families rebuild lives. “I request you to immedi-ately declare this unprec-edented, catastrophic and cataclysmic event a national calamity,” she said in a letter to Modi. For flood-hit households many of whom are in the low and middle income groups, she proposed a

Agency | Baghdad

A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least eight people near a Shiite mosque in east-ern Baghdad on Wednes-day, security and med-ical officials said. The blast in the Obeidi area also wounded at least 19 people, the officials said. IS claimed the attack in a statement posted on-line, saying a bomber identified as “Abu Sa-lem” carried it out with an explosives-rigged

Agency | Islamabad

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Wednes-day said India and Pa-kistan have decided to start comprehensive bi-lateral dialogue. Earli-er, hours before she met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Wednes-day, Swaraj said that it was time to display “ma-turity” and “self-confi-dence” to do business with each other. Later, when she reached Shar-if’s residence at Consti-tution Avenue, she was received by his daugh-ter Maryam Sharif, who accompanied her to the meeting. “Let me take

Agency | New Delhi

A government auctioneer will sell on Wednesday farmland, a restaurant and even a car which officials say once belonged to the country’s most wanted man, fugitive Mumbai mafia boss Dawood Ibra-him. Police have been unable to trace him for decades, but for as little as 4,000 rupees ($60), bidders can snap up a car he purportedly owned - a 15-year-old green Hyun-dai Accent sedan now parked in a working-class Mumbai suburb. The properties, confiscated more than a decade ago, make up only a tiny frac-tion of Ibrahim’s assets. Some have already been put up for sale but re-main mostly unwanted, as buyers stay away. On Wednesday, a crowd had

Delhi govt’s vehicle plan: HC refuses to pass interim order on PIL

Declare Chennai floods as national calamity, Jayalalithaa urges PM Modi

A steal at Rs 4,000: Hyundai Accent once owned by Dawood Ibrahim

gathered outside a down-at-heel south Mumbai ho-tel where the auction was taking place, kept outside by tight security. Ibrahim, reported to be hiding in neighbouring Pakistan, runs D Company, a crime syndicate Indian author-ities accuse of engag-ing in murder, extortion and weapon-smuggling. He is also accused of fi-nancing Islamist militant groups and of master-minding bomb and gre-nade attacks in Mumbai

in March 1993 that killed 257 people and wounded more than 700. Ibrahim fled India in the 1980s and has since eluded the authorities, although the arrest last month of a former partner in Indo-nesia - Rajendra Nikalje, known as Chhota Rajan - is thought to be part of a strategy to hunt him down. The government has battled for years to confiscate properties held not only by Ibrahim but by his relatives in Mum-bai, and has been held up by repeated appeals. Jour-nalist-turned-activist S Balakrishnan on Wednes-day made the highest bid of Rs 4.28 crores in the public auction for the ‘Delhi Zaika’ Hotel, one of the seized properties of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

trial basis for 15 days, so let them (Delhi govern-ment) try it.” “It’s just going to be implement-ed on trial basis. They have proposed an idea for which suggestions have also been called form various stakehold-

ers of society. Meetings are being held in this re-gard. Let’s see what the stakeholders suggest,” the bench observed oral-ly. It further said “also, no notification has been issued so far, let such no-tification come then we

will see.” “We will take up the matter after two weeks, by when the sug-gestions may also reach to the government,” the bench said and fixed the matter for further hear-ing on December 23. The bench also said, “Don’t use these PILs to pres-surise the respondent (Delhi governments).” The court’s oral observa-tion came during hearing the PILs, filed by Shwe-ta Kapoor and Sarvesh Singh, which sought di-rections for restraining implementation of the policy.

special set of measures like soft loans, speed-ing up insurance claims disbursal and moratori-um by banks on EMIs. Referring to the de-struction caused by the

four rounds of floods in most districts, she said there has been extensive damage to infrastructure as well as to the private property of thousands of families. Many house-

holds had lost valuables like personal effects and domestic durable assets, she said and added that “it cannot be adequately compensated through the existing structure of re-lief payments”. “The in-surance companies may be directed to take up the survey and settlement of the claims on a campaign mode, and with a liber-al application of norms so that such household-scould receive insurance payments early,” she said.

IS suicide bomber kills eight near Baghdad Shiite mosque

belt. IS considers Shi-ites to be heretics, and frequently targets them with bombings in crowd-ed areas of the capital. IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad last year, and while Iraqi forces have retaken sig-nificant territory north of

the capital, much of the country’s west remains under jihadist control. Bombings in Baghdad have become less fre-quent since the IS offen-sive last year, apparent-ly because the jihadists have been occupied with fighting elsewhere.

this opportunity to ex-tend our hand to Pakistan as well. It is time that we display the maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other and strengthen re-

gional trade and cooper-ation. The entire world is waiting and rooting for change. Let us not disap-point them,” she told the gathering, which includ-ed Sharif and his foreign

affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz. Her comments,

made while addressing the ministerial meeting of the Heart of Asia confer-ence, come against the backdrop of Pakistan not allowing transit of goods between India and Afghanistan. Islam-abad had blocked the consensus on the SAARC motor vehicles agreement at the SAARC summit in Kathmandu last year. Pakistan has also resisted India joining the Afghanistan-Pakistan Trade and Transit Agreement. As a poem by Muhammad Iqbal — which described Afghanistan as the “Heart of Asia” — was recited by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Swaraj said the heart of Asia “cannot function if arteries are clogged”. In a carefully calibrated

manner, she said, “India is prepared to move our cooperation at a pace which Pakistan is comfortable with. But to-day, let us at least resolve to help Af-ghanistan — in the best traditions of good neighbourliness — through more effective transit arrangements.” Stress-ing that “connectivity is at the heart of India’s own efforts” to develop region-al economic cooperation, she told the gathering — which included Sharif and Ghani — that “nothing can benefit Af-ghanistan more immediately than full and direct overland access to India’s markets to enable it to take advantage of the zero duty regime available to its exports to India”.

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THuRSDAy, DECEMBER 10, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYNational Herald Case: Why Sonia And Rahul Gandhi Need To Be Afraid

The Rs 5,000-crore scam involving Sonia and Rahul Gandhi looks like an open-and-shut case, if Subra-manian Swamy’s allegations are true. So why has the BJP-led government been dithering over it? Such inaction could cost the party dearly. With senior ad-vocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and P. Chidambaram on one side, you would think there is little else that could catch the judge’s attention. But it is no ordinary courtroom where you have Subra-manian Swamy—politician, professor, and serial liti-gant—asking the judge for a mere hour to make a pre-sentation to prove his case. “The stalwarts can argue all day—I just need an hour to make my point,” he politely tells the judge. A few hearings later, the judge is convinced and quashes an appeal against trial court summonses issued to Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi to appear before the court. This means that on 19 December Sonia and Rahul Gandhi are required to be personally present at 3pm at Patiala House courts. Swamy is a man who turns a courtroom into a carnival. It isn’t just another day in the court for a reporter when he is spot-ted in the corridors. His Supreme Court lawyer wife, Roxna Swamy, is present in most hearings involving her husband along with a junior lawyer. Dressed in his trademark white kurta-pyjama, flashing an Apple watch, he engages young lawyers for a chat before the proceedings begin. Journalists get a tete-à-tete after-wards. When he begins to talk, one cannot miss the composure and certainty in his voice and the frank-ness in his words. The lawyers on the other side and Swamy take turns to accuse each other of malice. Ev-ery Swamy session is replete with inside jokes, innuen-dos and friendly jibes. One of the first hearings in the high court was a lesson on Nehru’s legacy, with Sibal and Swamy nitpicking with each other over the edito-rial values of the National Herald. The retelling of the newspaper’s story—its debt and subsequent corporate transactions—has been done without fail to recall rele-vant anecdotes (including how and why Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda turned Sam Pitroda). Apart from the Gandhis, four others—Motilal Vora, the chairman of the board of directors of National Herald and Congress treasurer, Oscar Fernandes, Congress general secretary, journalist Suman Dubey and former National Knowl-edge Commission chairperson Sam Pitroda—have to appear before a court. Based on a first information re-port (FIR) filed in Tilak Nagar police station in New Delhi, a trial court began hearing the case in 2013 and issued summonses to all the accused, notably the Con-gress President and the vice President.

“No political vendetta. A private complaint was lodged. Government had nothing to do with it. The High Court has dismissed their case and asked them to go and face trial. Nobody in this country has immunity from law. They can challenge the orders in a higher court or face proceedings,”

- The Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan said in an interview to ETV channel..

Rani Mukerji, Aditya Chopra blessed with daughter, name her Adira

Karan Johar overworking Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma?

CBI files chargesheet in Jiah Khan suicide case

Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor’s ‘Mastizaade’ poster is out Bigg Boss 9: Digangana’s fan

attempts suicide after her eviction

Akshay Kumar spoofs Deepika’s Vin Diesel pic with Housefull 3 stars

Agency | Mumbai

IT dept surveys producer Sajid Nadiadwala’s office, home - Officials of In-come Tax Mumbai carried out a survey on producer Sajid Nadiadwala’s office and residence on Tues-day afternoon. The survey started at around 11 am and will apparently go on till Wednesday. A team of IT officials were exam-ining some documents relating to IT return filed by Nadiadwala. Sources from IT claimed that Na-diadwala while applying for his Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) presented some claims which are

not followed by docu-mentations. The survey is being carried out simulta-neously at Nadidawala’s Yari Road apartment and office. As per the sources, the filmmaker was pres-ent at time of the raid and he was asked to switch off his cell phone. Details about the raid and the doc-uments obtained from his office have not been re-vealed yet. The filmmak-er, who owns Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, has given numerous hits at the box-office in the last two years, including Houseful 2, Kick, Herop-anti and 2 States.

Agency | Mumbai

Karan Johar has kick started the second sched-ule of his much-talked-about film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in London. And the filmmaker is leav-ing no stone unturned to make it one of the best works of his career. So much so, that he is mak-ing his lead actors Anush-ka Sharma and Ranbir Kapoor work around the clock. The Student of The Year director recently shared an adorable pic-ture of two ‘overworked’ actors taking a nap on the sets of the film. Ran-bir, who was busy with the promotions of his last release Tamasha, head-ed to London as soon as the film hit the screens. After scoring a hit with Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha, the

Agency | Mumbai

Former adult film star turned Bollywood ac-tor Sunny Leone is back with a bang onscreen with a new film ‘Mas-tizaade’, which is a sex comedy. The film, which has been in talks for qui-et some time now, has fi-nally released the poster which showcases Sunny Leone with the two lead-ing men Tusshar Kapoor and Vir Das. The Milap Zaveri directed film’s first poster was released few months ago where we saw Sunny Leone posing with bananas in her hands, but this time

Agency | Mumbai

A Bangladeshi fan of Digangana Suryavan-shi attempted to commit suicide after the TV ac-tor was evicted from the Bigg Boss 9 house. The woman was allegedly up-set that Digangana was voted out by contestants and the show did not con-sider the audience’s votes. Digangana told the web-site Miss Malini, “She is in the hospital right now and I have been trying to get in touch with her family to know how she’s doing. She had been writ-ing on social media how

Agency | New Delhi

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in the Jiah Khan suicide case. The chargesheet has been filed in a special CBI court in Mumbai. The case was transferred to the CBI in July last year following the orders of the Bombay high court which had di-rected the agency to probe whether the death was a suicide or homicide on the plea of Jiah’s mother Rabia. The 25-year-old British-American actor, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home

IT dept surveys producer Sajid Nadiadwala’s office, home

Agency | New Delhi

Deepika Padukone is the toast of Bollywood at present after she tweeted her picture with Holly-wood star Vin Diesel and the revelation that she is to star opposite the ac-tion star in XXX sequel. Diesel also put a picture of the duo together on Instagram. It seems her Bollywood pals were too excited about the news. Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh, who are currently shooting for Housefull 3, recreat-ed the moment with their version of Vin Diesel. The Airlift star posted a spoof of Deepika’s pho-to on Twitter, wherein he along with Abhishek and Riteish were seen posing with Vin’s doppelgang-er, or is it a mannequin? He captioned the picture, “Since Vin Diesel is busy with @deepikapadu-kone, we at #Housefull3 are making do with Vin Petrol.” Moments after Akshay tweeted the pic, it started trending on the micro-blogging site and it was later shared

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood star Rani Mukerji and filmmak-er Aditya Chopra were blessed with a daughter on Wednesday morn-ing. The actor delivered the baby at Breach Can-dy Hospital in Mumbai. The proud parents have named their daughter Adira – a combination of Aditya and Rani. In a

statement released to me-dia, Rani said, “I would like to thank all my well wishers and fans. Today life has given us God’s greatest gift with Adira. We thank fans our friends and well wishers for their unconditional support and blessings. With joy we begin this new chap-ter in our lives.” Social media was abuzz with the news as Bollywood

celebs wrote congratula-tory messages to the cou-ple. Their close friend and filmmaker Karan Johar tweeted: “Am an uncle to a beautiful baby girl to-day!!!!! @udaychopra !!! Rani and Adi had a baby girl!!”. Rani’s mother-in-law Pam Chopra said in an interview last month, “Adi took me very quiet-ly aside in another room as we having dinner with other people and told me. Adi said, ‘Guess what? Rani’s pregnant.’ I almost screamed out! You can’t explain that wonderful feeling; and the fact is that you live with that feeling always… Even now when I think about my grandchild, I feel my heart skip a beat and that fluttery feeling in my stomach. My heart is so full of joy!”

by Riteish, who also ex-plained that their picture was more precious than

Deepika’s by writing, “Petrol ka bhav Diesel se jyaada hai.”

33-year-old has his eyes set on the Karan Johar di-rectorial. It is for the sec-ond time that Ranbir will share screen space with Anushka. The two had earlier worked together in Anurag Kashyap’s 2015 film Bombay Velvet. Apart from the two, the romantic drama also stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas. If reports are to be believed, Anushka plays a London-based girl in

the film and Imran Ab-bas essays the role of her boyfriend. The team of Ae Dil Hai Mushkil be-gan its journey in London a few months ago. They later shifted the location to Paris and then the team moved to Vienna for a 10 day schedule. KJo has donned the director’s hat after a gap of three years for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. The film is slated to hit the screens on Diwali 2016.

the actors have used balloons as props. Sun-ny Leone released the motion poster on Twit-ter and wrote, “Bhul jao apne jhamele kyun ki aa gaye hai Laila & Lily Lele!” Sunny Leone en-tered the Bollywood in-dustry with Bigg Boss and was offered her first

movie inside the house by veteran director Ma-hesh Bhatt. After mak-ing her debut in ‘Jism 2’ she was also seen in many other films like ‘Jackpot’, ‘Ragini MMS 2’, ‘Ek Paheli Leela’ and ‘Kuch Kuch Locha Hai’. Mastizaade will release on January 29, 2016.

in Juhu on June 3, 2013. According to Jiah’s mother Sooraj Pancholi, son of actor couple Adi-tya Pancholi and Zareena Wahab was in relation with the actor. She re-quested a probe into the

death of her daughter. She alleged that it was not suicide. Her relation-ship with actor Sooraj Pancholi was said to be under strain and it was suspected that it drove her to end her life.

she is unhappy with my eviction and thinks it was unfair that not the audi-ence, but the housemates have voted me out. It was through a direct message on Twitter that I got to know that she has actually taken this step.” She also asked her fans to pray for Bangladesh-based Aaliya Khan as she was still in hospital and battling for

her life. Digangana also went on to say how this is just a game and things happen. “I am very proud that I have come out of the house with my dig-nity intact and I am very proud of my fans who have constantly support-ed me. Please don’t let things like these get on your nerves.” The ac-tor, whose work includes TV soap Veera, was the youngest contestant ever on the controversial real-ity show. The 17-year-old used to command record votes every week from her wide fan base.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPu.S. Senators introduce law to cut H-1B visas by 15,000

Majority of Apple Watch Owners Plan to Give It as a Gift

Short circuit, poor maintenance reasons of train fires: CAG

Agency | washington

Specifically, it would prohibit any employer from replacing a U.S. worker with an H-1B visa holder Two American Senators have introduced legisla-tion in the Senate proposing to cut the number of popular H-1B visas by 15,000 and that such a visa be given to highest wage earner first. The legisla-tion in this regard was introduced by Senators Bill Nelson of the Democratic Party and Jeff Sessions of the Republican Party. “By cutting the number of visas available each year and requiring those visas be given to the highest wage- earners first, this bill directly targets outsourcing companies that rely on lower-wage foreign workers to replace equal-

ly-qualified U.S. workers,” Mr. Nelson said.

Agency | New Delhi

As Apple Watch enters the critical holiday shopping season, it looks likely to get a sales boost from happy customers, almost two-thirds of whom are planning to give one as a gift, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday. The poll found that about 7 percent of US adults plan to give the Watch as a gift this holiday season, including current owners. That could trans-late to sales of up to 16 million watches over the holidays, based on 2014 US Census projections and excluding younger teens. If even a fraction of con-sumers follow through, Apple would be well-po-sitioned to meet or beat Wall Street’s 2015 sales forecasts, which generally range from 10 million to 12 million watches, said FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives, who expects about 12 million sold worldwide. Cupertino, California-based Apple appears to be benefiting from its loyal fan base with its first new device since the iPad. Sixty-two percent of US adults who already have an Apple Watch plan to give the gadget as a holiday gift, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll.Holiday sales of the product will be scrutinized as a barometer of how much promise

it holds for the company.

Agency | New Delhi

Short circuit, poor maintenance and lack of aware-ness are major reasons of fire in trains, according to the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor Gen-eral of India. Besides the audit report found that the automatic smoke/fire detection device in the running trains are not successfully implemented. Though recommendations are made by high level safety review committee and 12th Five Year Plan for introduction of fire alarm system in coaches for early detection of fire, it has not been successfully implemented, CAG noted in its latest report tabled in Parliament today. A joint survey conducted by CAG and railway officials found that fire prone activities like cigarette smoking, cooking by ven-dors at stations, carrying of inflammable articles by unauthorised persons, accumulation of empty cardboard boxes and other waste materials were unchecked aggravating the risk of fire. The report observed that Corporate safety Plan (CSP) envis-aged bringing down the number of accidents by 80 per cent from 2001-02 to 2013 but number of ac-cidents went up by 160 per cent during the period. The loss of human lives in fire accidents in passen-ger coaches steeply increased from 3 in 2001-02 to 9 in 2011-12, 32 in 2012-13 and 35 in 2013-14.

Roger Federer parts ways with coach Stefan Edberg

Shikhar Dhawan reported for suspect bowling action after India vs South Africa 4th Test at Delhi

Brendon McCullum stands by his testimony in the Cairns case

Rohit Sharma to co-own PWL team UP Warriors

Ravindra Jadeja may finally play in IPL 2016 for his home side Rajkot!

Agency | Paris

Roger Federer has re-jigged his coaching team for next year by part-ing company with Ste-fan Edberg and bringing Ivan Ljubicic on board, the 17-times grand slam champion said on Wednesday. Former world number one Ed-berg had worked as part of a team led by Federer’s long-term coach Sever-in Luthi since January 2014, a period in which the 34-year-old revived his career without adding to his tally of grand slam titles. “After two very successful years, I would like to thank Stefan Ed-berg, my childhood idol, for agreeing to join my team,” Federer said in Facebook post. “It was

Agency | New Delhi

On Tuesday, Pune and Ra-jkot were declared as ven-ues of two new franchises for the next two seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL.) The move came after the RM Lodha-led panel suspended Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) for two years in relation to the 2013 IPL corruption scandal. Pune has earli-er been a part of the IPL, with Sahara group’s Pune Warriors India playing in three seasons from 2011 to 2013 before being ter-minated from the league.

Rajkot, on the other hand, will have its first tryst with the cash-rich tourna-ment when the franchise turns out in IPL-9. The new franchises will now take part in a player draft on December 15, where both teams will pick five players each from a pool of CSK and RR play-ers. Though all eyes will be on where MS Dhoni lands up after the auction, a certain Ravindra Jadeja will have fair share of the media spotlight. Fans will be keen to see whether or not Jadeja is bought by the Rajkot franchise — a team representing his

Agency | Dunedin

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum fi-nally broke his silence on Wednesday when he stated that he will stand by the testimony he gave against Chris Cairns even after his former teammate was acquitted in the per-jury case. Cairns, who was last month cleared of match-fixing related perjury charges, has de-manded an explanation from Mccullum about why he chose to appear as a prosecution witness. Speaking for the first time

since the verdict 10 days ago, McCullum said he was “very comfortable” with the evidence he gave and it was time to move on. “For me, it wasn’t about whether someone was guilty or not guilty. My role was to go and give the evidence in the trial and I remained pret-ty unemotional about it, to be honest,” he said in Dunedin as he prepared to lead New Zealand into a Test series against Sri Lanka. “I don’t think my reputation has been on the line during the whole thing. I was one

of a number of witness-es who gave evidence.” While journalists wanted answers about the Cairns trial, McCullum wanted to talk about the first Test against Sri Lanka start-ing on Thursday. “People have their own opinions on what unfolded but I am comfortable with it and it’s time to focus on a bit of cricket now,” he said, adding that he would not be responding to Cairns’ “please explain” demand in a newspaper column last weekend. “I don’t think I have to do that,” he said.

Agency | New Delhi

Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma was named as the co-owner of the Pro Wrestling League team UP Warriors. After Bol-lywood superstar of yes-teryears Dharmendra, the India’s ODI opener is the second big celebrity to co-own a team in the much-hyped league. Speaking about the association, Rohit said:”India has had a long and proud histo-ry with Wrestling. I am proud to come on board as one of the Co-Own-ers of the UP Warriors team at the Pro Wrestling League. Our team has the best line-up of wrestlers

Agency | New Delhi

Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan, who was used in the fourth innings of the fourth and final Test against South Africa which ended on Monday in Delhi as a part-time bowler, has been report-ed for suspect bowling action. The Internation-al Cricket Council (ICC) informed in a release on Wednesday morning that a report by the match of-ficials for the fourth and final Test at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in the country’s capital was handed over to the Indian cricket team management. The report from the match officials highlighted con-cerns about the legality of the bowling action of

the dashing opening bats-man, who is seldom used as a bowler by the Indian cricket team in interna-tional cricket. After being set an improbable target of 481 runs to win, the South African team finally found their confidence as they went on stonewalling the Indian bowlers for a major-ity of the fourth day at Del-hi and also in the first ses-sion on the fifth day. Indian team was seen getting a little restless as South Afri-can batsmen Temba Bavu-ma, Hashim Amla, Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers dropped anchor in their second innings and fought really hard to force a draw. The South Africans even-tually lost the game by 337 runs. On the evening of the

fourth day, a desperate In-dian cricket team used the services of their part-time bowlers Dhawan, Mura-li Vijay, Virat Kohli and even Cheteshwar Pujara, but could not break the stubborn stand between Amla and de Villiers. Dha-wan bowled three overs in his spell, which had one maiden and gave away nine runs without any success. Dhawan was not used by India on the fifth and final day of the Test. The International Cricket Council (ICC) informed in a release, “India’s Shikhar Dhawan has been report-ed with a suspect bowling action during the fourth Test against South Africa, which the host won in New Delhi on Monday.

including India’s most celebrated wrestler Sushil Kumar. We look forward to making it to the top of the league for the first sea-son of the PWL.” Com-menting on this move, Vishal Gurnani, Director ProSportify said,”Rohit

Sharma is one of the ap-preciated cricketers in India today. We excitedly welcome him on board as one of the co-owners for the team UP Warriors . We look forward for a fruitful & long lasting as-sociation with Rohit.”

a dream come true. Al-though it was supposed to only be for 2014, Ste-fan was great and agreed to extend the partnership through this year which I really appreciated. “He taught me so much and his influence on my game will remain. He will al-ways be a part of my team. “Severin Luthi, who I have been working with since 2008, will con-tinue to be my main coach and he will be joined by

Ivan Ljubicic,” Federer added. Croatian Ljubicic, who retired in 2012 after a long career which peak-ed when he reached num-ber three in the world, coached Canadian Milos Raonic for two years un-til last month. “It became very clear from the start that this was going to be a special partnership, work-ing with the greatest am-bassador tennis has ever seen,” the six-times grand slam champion said.

homeland. The man with the golden arm, Jadeja was the second highest wicket taker during the recently concluded Test series between India and South Africa. Inciden-tally, he was making his comeback to the team in the series. The 27-year Saurashtra all-rounder has been an integral part of all the IPL franchises he has played for so far. He made his IPL debut in the inau-gural edition, where he was a part of the RR team under spin-wizard Shane Warne. Then a 20-year old, Jadeja left an indeli-ble impression on Warne, who gave him the title of ‘Rockstar’! The Austra-lian legend even predict-ed that Jadeja would go on to play for India in the time to come, a prophecy that indeed came true. His negotiations with other franchises without Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI’s) approv-al resulted in a one year ban in 2010. But he made a stunning comeback next year to play for the now defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) franchise, where again he proved to be a mainstay.

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Correspondent | Jetpur

The issue of pollution in Jetpur town of Saurash-tra region has taken a new turn. Gunvantbhai Ashra who owns New Khatau Textile unit in Samakan-tha area of Jetpur has al-leged that he was attacked by former member of local municipality Samantbhai Maldebhai Sanjva(Ahir), wife Kaviben and son Yo-gesh alias Kano attacked and injured him after is-suing threat that if smoke coming out from his factory doesn’t stop, he would have to bear conse-quences. Samantbhai with

Correspondent | New Delhi

Congress lawmaker V Narayansamy played the true ‘foot soldier’ of the party when his boss, par-ty vice-president Rahul Gandhi, came visiting flood victims in his con-stituency Puducherry. The former union min-ister was seen in a video holding a pair of slip-pers for Gandhi when he removed his shoes to walk through the slush and mud. In the video, Gandhi was not seen ob-jecting as the 68-year-old MP stooped low to give him the slippers. Screen-grabs of the incident

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The National Investiga-tion Agency is probing if there was a ‘bigger con-spiracy’ behind the mur-ders of two BJP leaders in Gujarat’s Bharuch dis-trict last month, alleged-ly at the behest of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts ac-cused and underworld don Javed Patel, known as Javed Chikna. Sourc-es said NIA is looking at whether the murders were committed with a possible plan to trigger communal unrest across the coun-try. They are not ruling out the possible involve-ment of Pak agencies and Dawood Ibrahim behind this design to eliminate BJP leaders with a known “communal” image. NIA dispatched an inspector general (IG) rank officer

to Bharuch on Tuesday to monitor the investiga-tions and unearth the con-spiracy behind targeting the BJP/Sangh leaders. An NIA team is already questioning two contract killers - Abid Dawood Patel (Javed Chikna’s brother) and Salim Gan-chi-- who were allegedly paid Rs 50 lakh for the killings. Former president of party’s Bharuch district and senior RSS member Shirish Bangali and gen-eral secretary of Bharati-ya Janta Yuva Morcha of the district Pragnesh Mis-try were shot dead on No-vember 2. Abid and Salim were among seven sus-pects arrested by Gujarat police. NIA has registered a case under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and relevant sec-tions of IPC.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

If you are a Vodafone customer and wondering why your data service is down and facing call drops, well it is because the Chennai’s traffic was diverted to Gujarat by Vodafone. People in the state for last three days have been facing several call drops and slow inter-net speed. Many took to social media platforms to express their anguish over frequent disturbanc-es in services. Hiten-drasinh Zala tweeted on Monday evening saying, “Is there any issue with Vodafone Gujarat mo-bile internet? It is not working since last few

hours in my both the cellphones.” Vodafone India has sent messages to its customers saying that, “Vodafone Guja-rat network is assisting Chennai that is the rea-son behind poor connec-tivity .” “When a net-work is down, we divert the traffic to other circles to manage the incoming traffic. In case of Chen-nai, the data and voice calls were routed through three circles, including Gujarat. It was about for 2-3 days. Now that the situation is improving in Chennai, things will get better in the respective circles,” said a company spokesperson.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat Fisheries Department has issued an alert to all the fisher-men in Porbandar to im-mediately contact Coast Guard, Navy or any other security agencies if they spot ‘suspected and un-identified’ ‘pair vessels’ in the sea off Gujarat coast. The alert has been sent through fax today to various associations of fishermen in Porbandar, including to us, Nation-al Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) secretary Manish Lodhari said. The alert says that ‘suspected and unidentified’, ‘pair ves-sels’ are roaming in the Arabian Sea between Mumbai and Kand-la port in Gujarat. This alert is based on a recent communication sent by Indian Coast Guard’s

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Actor Vivek Oberoi says he is targeting the young and upwardly mobile mid-dle class for his theme-based resort and township that is coming up in Gu-jarat. The Bollywood star is investing Rs 400 crore in developing the theme-based resort and township near Ahmedabad, which is nearing completion. “Initially, we invested Rs 200 crore in the re-sort, but after the new tourism policy (of Guja-rat Government), which will help in boosting the tourism sector, we decid-ed to double our invest-ment to Rs 400 crore,” he said, addressing the Gujarat Investors meet here today. The 39-year-old actor-entrepreneur has invested in the proj-ect through Raghuleela Infrastructure, a firm in which he is a partner. The ‘Royal Beach City-The Goa’ resort and township near Ganeshpura village

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat education department has planned to include private schools in the annual evaluation drive, Gunotsav, this year. The drive, which got de-layed due to local body elections, is scheduled to be held from January 7-9, the department revealed during a presentation to cabinet ministers here on Tuesday. The depart-ment’s move comes in the wake of declining state board results. The Class X results of the Gujarat Sec-ondary and Higher Sec-ondary Education Board (GSHSEB), recorded since 2004, plummeted to the lowest pass percentage of 54.42 per cent in the academic session 2014-2015. What’s more, even this percentage could be achieved only after giving 25 grace marks. Besides, Class VI-VIII students will undergo reading and

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to file an affidavit on a plea by Hardik Patel questioning the legality of intercep-tion of his phone calls as well as of his associates, but rejected the defence’s request to share details of certain Home Depart-ment orders. The court was hearing a petition, filed by Hardik through his father, seeking all the papers related to phone interception. Justice J B Pardiwala, after a brief hearing, directed the state government to file an af-fidavit, stating who gave the orders of telephone interception and when. Public prosecutor Mitesh Amin said that the court, however, didn’t entertain Hardik’s lawyer’s request to direct the state gov-ernment to place all the papers related to passing

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Hardik Patel’s call interception: HC asks state govt to file affidavit

Class VI-VIII students to undergo test, pvt schools to be graded too

Clash over pollution: Jetpur to observe bandh on Thursday

Gujarat fishermen alerted over movement of suspected vessels

Vivek Oberoi taps upwardly mobile middle class for Gujarat resort

Veteran Congress lawmaker holds chappals for Rahul Gandhi in Puducherry

order of telephone before the court. In this petition, Hardik has made state government, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, P K Taneja, Director Gen-eral of Police P C Thakur, among others, parties in the case. The matter will be heard on December 17. During arguments, Hardik’s lawyer, B M Mangukiya, asked the government to share all orders given by Home Department permitting

city Crime Branch to in-tercept calls of many Pa-tel quota agitation leaders between August and Oc-tober. Mangukiya alleged that phone tapping was done without any prior permission from author-ities such as Additional Chief Secretary (Home). He termed the act as a ‘breach of privacy’ of cit-izens. However, Public Prosecutor Mitesh Amin maintained due process was followed in getting

permission. He said calls were intercepted after obtaining consent from authorities at regular in-tervals and objected to demand to share the or-ders. After hearing the arguments, Justice J B Pardiwala ruled that gov-ernment is not required to share these orders. He further asked the govern-ment to file a brief affi-davit in this regard and posted further hearing for December 16.

writing test during the evaluation drive this time round. Till now, such a test was limited to Class V only. During the previous Gunotsav, it was revealed that the students of upper primary classes (Class VI to VIII) fail to read and write simple sentences. The sixth season of the three-day long evalua-tion drive across the state, approved by the cabinet

meeting Tuesday, will cover over 34,000 govern-ment and grant-in-aid pri-mary schools. It is also ex-pected to add nearly 7,000 self-financed schools af-filiated to the GSHSEB. Sources revealed that the idea to include private schools under the evalu-ation drive has come up after analysing the poor performance of students in the state board exam-

inations. “The depart-ment is of the view that though the performance of government schools is tracked, there is no such provision for the self-fi-nanced schools. Further, the performance of gov-ernment school students is not very encouraging. This time, efforts are also made to include MPs,” re-vealed a senior official of the education department.

his family had been on fast for 30 days against the problem of pollution. He was assured by in-charge Mamlatdar Nikhil Mehta about solution to his problem, after which he had withdrawn his

fast agitation. Local sa-ree industry led by Jet-pur Dying Association and Chamber has given bandh call on Thursday against the incident of at-tack on Saree unit owner.

on the Vataman-Dhol-ka highway, 45km from Ahmedabad, will be like bringing in the magic of the coast to the inland, he said. “We are basi-cally targeting the young and upwardly mobile middle class people in the State who are looking at weekend destinations,” Oberoi said. The resort will give beach-like ex-

perience with artificial beaches with waves, both indoor and outdoor pools, floating cinema and ho-tel with 600 keys. “We want to create affordable yet luxurious destina-tion through this resort. We will be promoting it through events like beach volleyball tournaments, music festivals among others,” he added.

Gandhinagar office to the Fisheries Commissioner in Gandhinagar, the of-ficial said. “Pair Vessels are basically two vessels, one large and one small, joined together for fish-ing. Upon receiving the alert, we have started our exercise to inform all the fishermen about it and asked them to re-spond immediately if they find anything as mentioned in the mes-sage” said Lodhari. As per the communique sent by the department, there is an urgent need

to strengthen the se-curity along Gujarat coast, as it is suspected that ‘these vessels may infiltrate through this coast and may involve in some untoward act’. “Thus, all the fishermen are advised to inform the Coast Guard, Navy or any other security agen-cy if they find any suspi-cious activity in the high sea while fishing” stated the alert, requesting all the associations, fish-ermen community and boat owners to stay alert and spread the message.

from Tuesday went viral, with critics on Twitter calling it a shining ex-ample of the culture of sycophancy in the Con-gress. The veteran MP, however, brushed aside the barbs, saying he was only offering his own slippers to the young Congress leader so that

his feet do not get dirty. “As a courtesy I offered my chappals as Mr Ra-hul Gandhi removed his shoes to walk barefoot in the water...Rahul carried his shoes throughout and he didn’t even let his se-curity personnel carry them for him,” NDTV quoted him as saying.

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