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News BriefBardhan’s

condition very critical: CPIAgency | Mumbai

The condition of vet-eran CPI leader A B Bardhan, who was ad-mitted to a hospital here on Monday after he suffered a para-lytic stroke, is “very critical,” a senior par-ty leader said today. “His condition remains very critical. Doctors are trying their best to see there is improve-ment in his health con-dition,” CPI national secretary D Raja said. Earlier, in a statement issued by it, CPI had said, “Bardhan is crit-ical but fighting. He had brain hemorrhage. Doctors attending on him are making all-out efforts to save him. He is still in the ICU.”

No plan to allow undertrials cast

vote: Govt

Sena MLA says facts distorted in ‘Bajirao Mastani’

Agency | New Delhi

The government to-day said it has no plan to amend the law to allow undertrials cast their vote. Law Min-ister D V Sadananda Gowda informed Lok Sabha in a written re-sponse that there are no plans to amend the Representation of Peo-ple Act for the purpose. “No madam,” replied Gowda to a question on as to whether the gov-ernment proposes to amend the R P Act to confer the right to vote on undertrials.

Agency | Nagpur

A Shiv Sena MLA to-day raised the issue of Bollywood film “Ba-jirao Mastani” in the Maharashtra Assembly and alleged that the facts were distorted by its producer and direc-tor Sanjay Leela Bhan-sali. The movie, star-ring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, is scheduled for re-lease on December 18. Raising the issue un-der Point of Propriety rule, Pratap Sarnaik, an MLA from Thane, al-leged that the film was not in good taste.

Case verdict: Actor acquitted of all charges, State to move SC“2002 hit-and-run case”

Salman Khan hit-and-run case: According to the Bombay High Court, the prosecution failed to prove that the actor was drinking and moreover driving the vehicle on the night of the accident

Mumbai high court acquits Salman

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Ministry of Urban Development, Govern-ment of India, has re-leased total Rs86.62 crore to the State Gov-ernment of Gujarat for building toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission, while the amount stands at Rs15.27 crore for state of Jharkhand. Minister of state for Urban Develop-ment Shri Babul Supriyo presented the details in Rajya Sabha on Decem-ber 10, 2015 replying a question raised by Rajya Sabha MP Shri Parimal

Nathwani. The minister stated that under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), total 1.04 crore individual toilets, 2.52 crore com-munity toilets and 2.56 crore public toilets will be constructed in 4041 towns of the country. Shri Parimal Nathwani wanted to know about schemes supporting the infrastruc-ture development in ti-er-II and tier-III cities of the country and the funds provided for the same. In the statement tabled in the house, the minister said that the estimated cost of implementation of

Swacch Bharat Mission (Urban) for its various component is Rs62,009 crore and the Govern-ment of India’s share is Rs14,623 crore. As on December 10, 2015 the government has released total Rs1,361.38 crore to different states and union territories of the country. The highest Rs179.60 crore has been released to the state of Maharash-tra, followed by Rs168.30 crore to Uttar Pradesh. The lowest Rs 0.14 crore has been released to union territories of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Agency | Islamabad

Pakistani media today welcomed the resumption of Indo-Pak comprehen-sive dialogue, describ-ing it as a “major break-through” and a pleasant turn in bilateral ties fol-lowing three top-level meetings in 10 days. The decision to resume the talks was taken yesterday during visit of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here and her meet-ing with Pakistani lead-ers. Dawn reported that in a “major breakthrough”, Pakistan and India an-nounced that they were resuming the dialogue on outstanding issues, end-ing a two-year logjam. “The ‘Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue’ as it

Agency | New Delhi

A civil nuclear pact and an agreement to jointly produce US-2 amphibi-ous military aircraft could add momentum to ties between India and Japan during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit during December 11-13. Officials said “last mile efforts are still on” for concluding the deals. New Delhi sees the nucle-ar pact as a touchstone to measure the strength of its strategic ties with Japan. The deal is crucial to India as it will help the country further its ambitious civil nuclear programme and

Agency | Mumbai

David Headley -- a Paki-stani-American LeT ter-rorist serving a 35-year jail term in the US -- ap-peared via video link in a Mumbai court and said he was ready to depose in the 26/11 attacks case if he re-ceived pardon. “I appeared here, I am ready to answer to questions regarding this event if I receive a pardon from this court,” Headley said before the court. “I accept the responsibility for my role in these of-fences. I also agree to be available as a witness in this court,” he added. Un-der the guilty plea which he entered in March 2010, Headley had earlier agreed that when directed by the

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court on Thursday acquitted actor Salman Khan of all charges in the 2002 hit-and-run case. The court has directed the ac-tor, who was present in court for pronouncement of verdict, to furnish a fresh cash bond of Rs 25,000 on cancellation of the bond in the trial court. The Bandra Police Station has been asked to return his passport upon verification. Earlier, while disposing of the ap-peal filed by actor Salman Khan against a five year jail term by a lower court in the 2002 hit-and-run case, the court had said that the prosecution had failed to successfully es-tablish the case on all the charges levelled against the actor. Justice A R Joshi disposed of the appeal and said that order will be giv-en once the actor is pres-ent before the court. “Any strong suspicion cannot be enough to hold someone guilty. Prosecution hasn’t brought material on re-cord to prove case and its entire evidence was based circumstantial in nature,” said Justice Joshi. He said that, while testimony

Pakistan media welcomes resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue

Swachh Bharat Mission: Centre releases Rs 86.62 crore to Gujarat

Nuke, defence partnership may boost India-Japan ties

has been named will in-clude all elements cov-ered under the previous versions of the talks — peace and security, confi-dence-building measures, Jammu and Kashmir, Si-achen, Sir Creek, Wullar Barrage / Tulbul Navi-gation Project, economic

and commercial cooper-ation, counter-terrorism, narcotics control and hu-manitarian issues, peo-ple-to-people exchanges and religious tourism,” it reported. It further said that a “chance meeting” between Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan in

Paris and surprise talks between their Nation-al Security Advisers in Bangkok led to a formal meeting between their top foreign policy officials in Islamabad on Wednesday which produced a major agreement: resumption of a stalled dialogue process.

enable it to improve ongo-ing civil nuclear coopera-tion India has with France and the US. Japanese forging major Japan Steel Works (JSW) is a supplier of critical equipment for reactor pressure vessels for most firms worldwide. Indian officials hope Abe will give the necessary

political push for this is-sue. The nuclear issue, however, is sensitive in Japan, the only country ever to have suffered an atomic strike. Japan wants explicit commitments on testing clauses — that is, the deal will be called off in the event of a nuclear test by India.

David Headley will depose in 26/11 attacks case on condition of pardon

US Attorney’s Office, he would truthfully testify in any foreign judicial pro-ceedings held by way of deposition, video-confer-encing or letters rogatory. He is currently serving 35 years in an American pris-on after being convicted of being involved in the planning and execution of the Mumbai terrorist attacks on November 26, 2008 in which 166 people

were killed. Headley is said to have visited India five times between 2006 and 2008, made maps, shot video footage and scouted several targets for the attacks including the Taj Hotel, Oberoi Hotel and Nariman House. His reconnaissance provided vital information for the 10 LeT terrorists who at-tacked Mumbai and their handlers.

of Salman’ s bodyguard Ravindra Patil could be of

a direct nature, the court had already said it could

not be considered and the trial court had erred in tak-ing it on record. He said that he was not “oblivious of perception of general public” but the court must decide the case based on material brought on re-cord. Pointing to the order passed by the Sessions’ Court convicting Salman for five years, Justice Joshi said that “appreci-ation of evidence by trail court was not proper as

per principles of criminal jurisprudence.” He point-ed out that the Sessions Court erred in accepting the bills which were pro-duced by the investigating agency as proof of Sal-man and friends drinking at Rain Bar. According to the High Court, the pros-

ecution failed to prove that the actor was drink-ing and moreover driving the vehicle on the night of the accident. He also pointed to several hypoth-esis which were created around the case such as the faulty manner of In-vestigation where the

prosecution failed to es-tablish procedure of con-necting chain of evidence with regard to collecting biological evidence. The other point was relating to purposely keeping loose ends so that a favourable order is achieved for the accused.

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DAYOld script of India-Pakistan ties, the process can derail anytime

As a young British diplomat, Sir Harold George Nicolson participated in the Paris Peace Conference (1919) held in the aftermath of the World War I. Giv-ing an account of the conference in his book Peace-making 1919, Nicolson writes: “I learnt from this erratic but brilliant statesman [David Lloyd George] that apparent opportunism is not always irreconcilable with vision… that volatility of method is not always indicative of volatility of intentions.” Lloyd George served as the prime minister of the UK between 1916 and 1922. The current National Democratic Alliance government would require a diplomat-wordsmith like Nicolson to justify the spate of flip-flops on Pakistan. To be fair, confusion over the Pakistan policy has not been a monopoly of the current government. All the previous governments in recent memory have been equally, if not more, clueless in dealing with India’s most difficult neighbour. The dialogue held between Ajit Doval and Lt General (retd) Naseer Janjua—the national security advisers (NSA) of India and Paki-stan respectively—accompanied by the foreign sec-retaries on 6 December in Bangkok has capped the latest round of the same old game involving recur-rent phases of engagement and disengagement. The NSA-level dialogue was preceded by a “pull aside” meeting between prime ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate change summit. Sushma Swaraj, the minister of exter-nal affairs, is on a trip to Islamabad to attend the Heart of Asia conference, which focuses on regional coop-eration with a strong emphasis on stability in Afghan-istan. The Bangkok talks were intended to resume the bilateral engagement in order to pave the way for Modi’s participation in the 19th Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit sched-uled to be held in Islamabad in 2016. The constraints that led to the cancellation of NSA-level dialogue in August were overcome by a mix of improvisations and compromises. The August dialogue was called off be-cause Pakistan was not ready to honour India’s twin conditions of a) no meddling by the Hurriyat, a Kash-mir-based organization with a separatist agenda, and b) restriction of the NSA-level talks to terrorism alone (leaving out Kashmir). The former was made clear to Pakistan through the cancellation of foreign secretary talks in August 2014 following the meeting between Hurriyat leaders and Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s high com-missioner to India. The latter was enshrined in the joint statement released after the two prime ministers met in Ufa, Russia, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Coopera-tion Organization summit held in July this year.

“The security of national players is top priority and government’s decision is also top on agenda. And one has to look at many other things when it comes to taking decisions regarding Pakistan,” - BCCi Secretary Anurag Thakur on Thursday said

the Board is still waiting for the government approval before taking any decision...

How Ravi Teja ignored Sampat Nandi’s bad luck jinx to okay Bengal Tiger

Genelia & Riteish Deshmukh to become parents again?

Salman Khan meets Pakistani fan who underwent successful liver transplantCBi charges Sooraj Pancholi with

abetting Jiah Khan’s suicide

Parineeti debuts sexy new look after losing SO much weight

Agency | Mumbai

Filmmaker Milap Zaveri says he is happy that many Bollywood stars have ap-preciated the motion post-er of his upcoming adult comedy “Mastizaade”. The film stars Sunny Le-one, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das and will feature the “Jism 2” actress in a double role. “It’s amaz-ing that superstars like Anil Kapoor, Varun Dha-wan, Siddharth Malhotra, Ayushmann, Jacqueline Fernandez and so many more tweeted and shared the Mastizaade motion poster. Overwhelmed by their love for me and

my film,” Milap said in a statement. “Really grate-ful that they loved the poster so much. Looking forward to meeting their expectations with the film too,” he said. Co-written by Milap and Mushtaq Sheikh, “Mastizaade” is a raunchy comedy of errors revolving around Aditya Chotia (Das) and Sunny Kele (Kapoor) who fall for the twin sisters, Lily and Laila, played by Leone. Milap has earlier penned movies like “Masti” fran-chise, “Housefull” and directed “Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai”. “Mastizaade” hits the screens on January 29, 2016.

Agency | Mumbai

Parineeti Chopra has always got her due credit as an accomplished performer. She was also described as “chubby” and “cute” in the same breath. As the actor completes four years in Bollywood, she has replaced sexy with chubby and hot with cute with a dramatic new photoshoot that shows how much weight the Ha-see to Phasee actor has lost in the last few months. No wonder, Twitter has gone into a tizzy since she posted her pictures. Parineeti wrote on Twitter on Wednes-

day: “4 years ago, a chubby childish girl was intro-duced to the world. 4 years later, i am closer to where i want to be. A very special photoshoot, made me get rid of my inhibitions, and portray the strong, confident girl I feel today. Anybody who thinks it’s a challenge, take it from me -- you can also do it. Because I am sure that, like me, even you are built that way.” The actor had said earlier, “For the last few months, I have been working on myself. I have lost a lot of weight, and I am much fitter now. I was so busy last year that I

didn’t get the time to work on myself. I neglected my health, but now, I make sure I take care of it... We al-ways aim to get thin. But that’s not enough. We should feel fit from the inside. I was unfit and overweight. Now as I am losing weight and getting fitter, I should soon be where I want to be.” Along with Sonakshi Sinha, Parineeti was a Bollywood star often trolled for her weight. While Sonakshi has been emphatic in her responses, often shaming the bodyshamers back, Parineeti chose to slim down. And here’s the proof...

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Ravi Teja, who goes by the sobriquet Mass Maharaja, swears by the title and says that as long as audiences ac-cept him in his mass av-atars, he doesn’t see the need to experiment. “It’s not that I haven’t exper-imented. But whenever I did, the result has not been satisfying. Hence, I like to concentrate on doing films that entertain scores of people who are responsible for my suc-cessful career. When I’m loved for what I’m do-ing, I don’t see the need to experiment.” The 47-year old star, known for producing out-and-out commercial entertainers, promises that his latest

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan is known for having a huge heart and funding charita-ble ventures. After his chart-buster flick Ba-jrangi Bhaijaan swept audiences off of their feet in both India and Pakistan, the Bollywood actor has also stepped up his efforts to strength-en bonds between India and Pakistan. Salman’s

movie was instrumental in highlighting the un-fortunate case of Gee-ta, the 23 year-old deaf and mute girl from In-dia, who was stranded in Pakistan. Most recent-ly, Salman met a fan of his from Pakistan named Abdul Basit, who had undergone continuous phototherapy during the last two months. Abdul Basit was an 11 year-old child from Pakistan who

had been affected with severe jaundice after his birth. The phototherapy was necessary to ward off brain damage and hearing loss as a result of the con-dition. After being treated for two whole months, the boy was discharged from the hospital and was told to continue his treatment at home. As time passed by, his skin condition worsened and the light penetration also declined.

Agency | Mumbai

The CBI on Wednesday submitted the charge sheet in the Jiah Khan case in the session’s court, two-and-a-half years after the 25-year-old actress was found hanging from a ceil-ing fan in her Juhu flat on June 3, 2013. The agen-cy confirmed that Sooraj Pancholi, Khan’s boy-friend at the time of her death, has been charged with abetting her suicide, as he had been by the Juhu police during the original probe. A CBI statement read, “It was alleged that a 3-page note seized by the state police on 10/06/2013 was written by Ms Jiah Khan, which narrated

Agency | Mumbai

Genelia and Riteish Deshmukh celebrated baby Riaan’s first birthday in November this year and now it seems like the cou-ple is all set to welcome their second baby. Re-ports claim that Genelia might be pregnant again. Sources in the know sug-gest that actress Genelia D’Souza is apparently pregnant with her second baby and the little one will arrive in 2016. Well, if that happens, baby Riaan will soon have a sweet little sibling to play with! However, no official state-ments have been made as

Check out Sunny Leone’s ‘Mastizaade’ teaser

Telugu outing “Bengal Tiger” will appeal to ev-erybody. “Although we have a predictable story, but the way it has been treated will make all the difference. We’ve made an entertaining film and I guarantee that it won’t disappoint,” he said, adding that he had first heard a line of the story four years ago. Directed by Sampath Nandi, the

film stars Tamannaah Bhatia, Raashi Khan-na and Boman Irani in important roles. “Even before Sampath made ‘Racha’, he narrated the line and I really liked it. However, I asked him to work on it. Meanwhile, both of us got busy with our respective projects and finally decided to join hands now,” he added.

her intimate relationship, physical abuse and men-tal torture that she experi-enced at the hands of the said private person (Pan-choli). The documents and the material objects of this case have been thoroughly and scientifically exam-ined. “The Board of Foren-sic Medicine Experts has opined that the death was

suicidal in nature, which corroborated the obser-vation and opinion of the post-mortem doctor. The forensic statement-analy-sis of the note written by the deceased has opined that the said note alleged-ly represents her mental status genuinely and the circumstances and reasons behind her suicide.”

yet as both actors have been maitaining a tightlip over the matter neither confirming or denying the reports. Riteish and Gene-lia got married February 3, 2012. Their dreamy love affair began way back in 20013 when they starred opposite each other in Tu-jhe Meri Kasam. The ac-

tress, who was planning to return to the film industry and resume work after a long break, may now have to put a stop to these new projects now that she is in the family way again. Genelia has appeared in several movies like Force, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and a few others.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPApple’s iPad Pro costs just a little more than the iPhone 6S in india

Why RBi’s intervention in rupee futures market is prudent

Facebook works better even on bad internet connections now

Agency | New Delhi

Remember the iPad Pro? It’s Apple’s monster 12.9-inch tablet that also transforms into a kind-of-sort-of laptop with an optional bluetooth keyboard. That monster is making its way to India this week. And the good news is that it only costs slightly more than the iPhone 6S. According to The Quint and Gadgets 360, which both cite independent sources within Apple, the iPad Pro will start at Rs. 67,900 for the WiFi-only 32GB version and go all the way up to Rs. 91,900 for the 128GB version with built-in cellular. As a point of comparison, the 16GB iPhone 6S costs Rs. 62,000 in India. Keep in mind, though, that these prices are just for the iPad Pro. Apple sells the keyboard for an addition-al $169 in the US, which is just over Rs. 11,000. It also sells a $99 stylus called the Apple Pencil, which, we think you should buy if you’re serious

about getting this thing.

Agency | Mumbai

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) added to nervousness in the markets by announcing that they would in-tervene in the Exchange Traded Currency Deriv-atives (ETCD) market, if required. Ironically, the reasoning behind such a move by the central bank is to curb nervousness and volatility. The markets have been surprised by the development and be-lieve that the RBI feels that the ‘perfect storm’ – which the World Bank has warned of if the US raises interest rates – is a reality. The US Federal Reserve is expected to meet in a week’s time to consider a rate hike for the first time since the fi-nancial meltdown of 2008. So what does the RBI’s intervention in ETCD mean and why is the market jittery? ETCD is the currency equivalent of futures market in equities. Currencies can be traded on the ETCD through a leverage position, which in that market is very low. As per the current norms, for a lot of $1,000 (equivalent to around Rs 67,000) the margin required is only Rs 1,800, or only 2.7%. As compared to these margins in the currency market, stocks attract a margin of around 40%, while equi-

ty indices need 20%.

Agency | New Delhi

Facebook’s News Feed is the first thing you see when you open the app or website. So it’s import-ant for it to load quickly irrespective of the inter-net connection or device. Facebook is modifying the timeline to show more relevant stories in the News Feed that load even on flaky internet connec-tions. On slow connections, users will be allowed to write comments that will be saved and posted when the connection is stronger. Facebook writes: “In the past, if you were on a poor internet connec-tion or had no connection, you might need to wait for stories to load when you opened News Feed. We are now testing an update in which we look at all the previously downloaded stories present on your phone that you have not yet viewed, and rank them based on their relevance. We also factor in whether the images for the story are available. This way we can immediately display relevant stories you haven’t seen yet, instead of showing a spinner while you wait for new stories. When we receive new stories from the server when you’re back on-line, we load and rank those stories normally.” Facebook previously tried to make the experience of browsing Facebook less annoying for users on slower networks like 2G or low end devices with the Facebook Lite app for Android.

Vijay Hazare Trophy: domestic cricket gets a dash of glamour

Nadal’s success formula: Work hard and work with right people

Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth off to poor starts at Super Series finals

AB de Villiers to keep wickets in SA’s Tests against England

Starc ruled out of World T20 due to ankle surgery

Champions League: Arsenal saw ‘massive’ win in Greece coming, says Petr Cech

Agency | Kolkata

It’s still unclear whether India will play a limit-ed-overs series against Pakistan this month be-fore they head Down Under for five ODIs and three T20 internationals in the second week of Jan-uary. But this uncertainty has an upside to it if you care for Indian domestic cricket. This unusual win-ter break has made all the big names free and avail-able for the Vijay Hazare Trophy. From MS Dhoni to Virat Kohli (not play-ing the first match) and Ravichandran Ashwin — India’s premier 50-overs domestic meet starts to-morrow with a stellar star-cast. When Dhoni last played for Jharkhand, IPL still sounded like an audacious idea. It was the summer of 2007 and India had been walking

Agency | New Delhi

The current season has not been a great one for the 14-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, but he still believes in the two main principles which has made him the great play-er he is now - Hard work and right company. The 30-year old Spaniard says he was no different from other kids when he started out and if he can achieve and relish success at the highest level, others also can. “When I was a kid, I just dreamt about play-ing at Roland Garros, at Wimbledon, profession-al tournaments. I am no different than many kids. My motivation and pas-sion to try to reach that

Agency | Johannesburg

Batsman AB de Villiers will return to the role of wicketkeeper for South Africa in the opening two tests of their four-match home series against En-gland starting in Durban on Boxing Day. Cricket South Africa confirmed the move on Thursday as they named a 13-man squad for the first two tests that also includ-ed a call-up for uncapped left-handed batsman Rilee Rossouw. The versatile De Villiers did keep wick-ets during last season’s home series against the West Indies when Quinton de Kock was injured but

Agency | Dubai

Saina Nehwal and Kid-ambi Srikanth, had a dis-appointing start to their campaign at the BWF Su-per Series Finals as they suffered straight-game defeats on the opening day of the prestigious event here on Wednes-day. World No.2 Saina seemed to struggle with her ankle injury as she went down 14-21, 6-21 against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in a women’s singles match which last-ed 35 minutes. The World Championship silver medallist will play World No.1 Carolina Marin in another Group A match on Thursday. World No. 9 Kidambi Srikanth, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Masters Grand Prix Gold last week, suf-fered a 13-21, 13-21 loss against Japan’s Kento Momota in a men’s sin-gles Group B match at the Hamdan Sports Com-plex. The 22-year-old In-

Agency | Hobart

Australia wasa dealt a huge blow in their pur-suit of the 2016 World Twenty20 Champion-ship as their pace spear-head Mitchell Starc was almost ruled out of the tournament by Cricket Australia due to an ankle injury. Starc, who has had trouble with his right an-kle stemming back to the Ashes series in England this year, suffered a stress fracture of the same foot in the day-night third Test against New Zea-land in Adelaide late last month. It has now been decided he needs ankle

Agency | Athens

Arsenal knew they would get their “massive” win in Greece if they could impose their brand of football on the game, Petr Cech has said the club sealed their last 16 place in the Champions League with a 3-0 win over Olympiakos Piraeus on Wednesday. The Gun-ners went into the game knowing they needed to win by any scoreline apart from 1-0 or 2-1 to qualify for the knockout stages for a 16th consecutive year. “Well, we could! We were searching for it and we knew if we played our game, if we have a great team performance and great individual perfor-mances then we will have a chance, and we did say exactly that,” Cech told reporters after the game when asked if anyone could have seen that result

coming. “It is a massive win for us, the club, the supporters and for the fu-ture because it will give us confidence.” Arsenal avoided the embarrass-ment of dropping into the second tier Europa League thanks to striker Olivier Giroud, who scored his first hat-trick for the club on Wednesday. Giroud

has scored 13 goals in 23 appearances for the club this season and Cech has singled out the French-man for praise. “He scores goals when we need him. He is a real handful when we need to play. What you want from your striker is to score goals and he has been scoring goals which is fantastic,” Cech said.

dream was the key to our success. We worked hard with motivation. Kids can do it, if I did it,” the Span-ish legend said ahead of the opening IPTL match. “The only thing I can ad-vise is that try to have right people around you, who know about the sport, who really sup-port you and try to help you reach your best lev-el, practise everyday

with motivation and pas-sion. “I had good peo-ple around me. Without (coach and uncle) Tony, nothing was possible. I am lucky that someone from my family is my coach forever. We work hard. We work with passion, with love for what we are doing and just trying to do right things to improve every year. That’s the only secret.”

before that had not donned the gloves in a test since the 2013-14 home series against Australia. Both de Kock and Dane Vilas, who kept wickets in the recent 3-0 series loss in India, have been dropped

for poor batting form but will play for South Afri-ca A against England in a two-day fixture starting next weekend. Vilas will captain the side and keep wickets while de Kock will bat at number four.

surgery meaning Starc will miss the remainder of the Australian sea-son. “After discussions with specialists, and in consultation with Mitch-ell, we believe the best course of action would be for Mitchell to have the surgery for his ankle impingement now while

he is currently laid off with the stress fracture in his foot,” CA physiother-apist David Beakley said in a statement. “His re-turn to play time frames will be clearer once the surgery is complete but it is unlikely that he will be available for the ICC World T20.”

wounded after a dismal World Cup performance. Eight seasons later, Dho-ni is now a cult, India’s most successful captain ever. He has won ev-erything that cricket can offer. The 34-year-old is now in the autumn of his career. He has retired from Test cricket and plays only in the short-er formats. Returning to his roots will allow him quality game-time ahead of the Australian tour and the World T20 that India will host in March-April next year. Dhoni,

however, is not leading Jharkhand in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. His state association had offered him the captaincy but Dhoni was reluctant. He’s happy to play under India fast bowler Var-un Aaron. “It’s sensible, because he (Dhoni) is coming back to the state team after a long time and doesn’t know all the boys. Varun plays with us and it’s easier for him. But Dhoni will always be there as the anchor,” said the team’s middle-order batsman Saurabh Tiwary.

dian will next face Vik-tor Axelsen of Denmark on Thursday. Saina, who came into the match with a 4-0 head-to-head re-cord against Okuhara, with two of this wins coming this year at Asian Championship and China Open, could not play her best game as her ankle injury restricted her on-court movement. Okuha-ra zoomed to a 5-1 lead early on but Saina soon engaged her rival on long rallies using her tosses and drops and also judged the shuttle well in these

conditions to claw back at 8-8. The Indian grabbed the lead when Okuha-ra hit wide but Okuhara caught the Indian at the forecourt and then with a smash moved into the in-terval with a slender 11-10 lead. Saina stumbled on a few unforced errors after the break, which allowed Okuhara to lead 17-12. Saina grabbed two points before a net error and cross court drop at the left took the Japanese to the game point. She pocketed the game when Saina hit long again.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

A 21-year-old state-lev-el rifle shooter, who was forced to set up a food stall here due to financial constraints, has been of-fered a job by city-based Gujarat State Fertiliz-ers Company (GSFC). Pushpa Gupta, winner of 8 medals in different state-level competitions in Gujarat, opened a Chi-nese food stall in Febru-ary this year to fund the purchase of sophisticated gear required of the sport and to continue pursuing her dream of becoming a national champion. The GSFC has now offered Gupta a job after getting

Correspondent | Bhuj

A student of Computer en-gineering in Kutch district of Gujarat has claimed to have made a chat and sharing application which can be alternative to ap-plications like WhatsApp and Hike and do 20 more tasks compared to WhatsApp. The applica-tion is second only made domestically after Hike messenger. The applica-tion will be launched on December 25. Shivlakha village based 23 year old student Bahadursinh who studies in fourth semester of computer engineering has made this application for Google Play store for now. Son of farmer, Ba-

hadursinh has made this application with financial help of Rs 1.5 lakh from his friends Bhavik Kubadiya and Pruthvirajsinh Jadeja. The company without its office has been named as ‘Lupi time’ by these three friends. Bahadursinh says he has invested over one year to make this applica-tion which shall have facil-ities like unlimited mem-bers group, PDF, Excel, PPT, 3GP, MP3 sharing, sticker sending, multi color themes, login and logout systems, multiple accounts on one phone, mood, gen-der, relationship, email, Facebook ID, current loca-tion etc options and audio/video call services.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Manufacturing is consid-ered Gujarat’s strength, but the state figured no-where on the defence man-ufacturing map of India two years back.The sce-nario is set to change dras-tically as the state has now caught the fancy of pri-vate companies engaged in manufacturing defence equipments. As many as 22 licences have been granted for setting up de-fence manufacturing units in Gujarat, home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. If everything goes as planned, Gujarat will

be manufacturing a host of defence equipment in-cluding light and medium artillery guns, armoured vehicles, medium tanks, helicopters, aircrafts and their parts among other things. Anil Ambani’s Re-liance Defence Systems and Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering, AMW Motors, Asteria Aerospace, Fedders Lloyd Corporation and Mod-est Infrastructure have already received indus-trial licences for setting up their units in Gujarat.Among other prominent players in pipeline include Adani Group’s Adani De-

fence Systems. This as-sumes importance as Gu-jarat managed to bag only five licences for establish-ing defence and explo-sive manufacturing units between 2001 and 2014.Only Pipavav Defence, erstwhile Pipavav Ship-yard Ltd, was the only ma-jor name to have its unit in the state. As per the data available with the Depart-ment of Industrial Policy and Promotion, over 121 industrial licences in In-dia have been cleared for the private players under `Make In India’ progamme to promote the defence manufacturing sector.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Centre has given en-vironment clearance for development of the Rs 1,378-crore greenfield international airport at Dholera in Ahmedabad. “Based on the recommen-dations of green panel EAC, the Environment Ministry has given clear-ance to the project, Devel-opment of Dholera Green-field International Airport, by Airport Authority of India,” a ministry official said. The approval has been given subject to compliance of certain conditions, the official said. The Dholera airport will be developed in three phases and the cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 1,378 crore, the official added. The new airport is expected to reduce air traffic load at the exist-ing Ahmedabad airport, which has no space for

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A sidelined leader who was once a close confi-dante of Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi has emerged as the new ‘post-er boy’ of the BJP in Gu-jarat, signalling growing dissent in the party after its debacle in the recent local body polls. Posters carrying pictures of for-mer party general secre-tary Sanjay Joshi and a call to bring the sidelined leader back to “save the party” have surfaced in constituencies of BJP chief Amit Shah and chief minister Anandiben Patel in Ahmedabad. The local body polls, which saw the opposition Congress sweep rural Gujarat and also make visible dents in the BJP’s urban bastions, was seen as a referendum on the party’s state and central leadership. The pro-Joshi posters with the message “Sanjay Joshi lao, BJP bhachao” (Bring back Sanjay Joshi to save the BJP) have been put up at public places in Shah’s constituency Naranpura and Patel’s constituency Ghatlodia. Joshi, a close

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court Wednesday barred any sort of media coverage of court proceedings on the habeas corpus petition filed by two associates of Patidar reservation stir leader Hardik Patel af-ter the latter went “miss-ing” on October 22. The petitioners had moved court past midnight, al-leging that Hardik was kidnapped by Gujarat Police. Although Hardik surfaced the very next day, the petition was moved as the state gov-ernment wanted the pe-titioners to substantiate the allegation of kidnap-ping before disposing of the case. On Wednesday, as the matter was being heard, petitioners’ lawyer B M Mangukia sought the court’s intervention to bar media from cover-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Farmers can expect a bounty as the state pre-pares a draft bill to im-plement UPA’s flagship `The Right to Fair Com-pensation and Transpar-ency in Land Acquisi-tion, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013’ in state. The state gov-ernment may give as much as three to four times compensation for land acquired from farm-ers for urban, peri-urban, industrial and service in-dustry. With Narendra Modi-led NDA not able to make any headway in getting controversial amendments cleared in the parliament, state government has decided to adopt the Act which BJP criticized for long with crucial amend-ments with change in state-specific rules. A senior government of-ficer close the develop-

ment said, “Since ordi-nances promulgated by the central government have lapsed, the state has initiated process of implementing `The Right to Fair Compen-sation and Transparen-cy in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Re-settlement Act 2013’ in Gujarat.” “A new Bill will be brought in the state assembly to im-plement the Act in the next budget session of the state along with new rules and regulations to implement it in the state,” the source added. The state government has assigned the task to a group of bureaucrats headed by a retired IAS to prepare the Bill, rules and regu ations. “As per the Act, 100% solacium in addition to the jantri or market value of land, whichever is higher, will be given to the farmers.

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After Rs 4.28-crore winning bid, former journalist new owner of dawood’s hotel

Hardik Patel case: Gujarat HC bans media coverage of court proceedings

Gujarat gaining popularity in defence manufacturing sector

Rifle shooter facing financial crunch gets job offer from GSfC

Gujarat’s dholera airport project gets Centre’s green nod

After Gujarat poll debacle, sidelined leader is BJP’s ‘poster boy’

Hefty compensation likely for land acquired from farmers

Agency | Mumbai

A hotel owned by gang-ster Dawood Ibrahim in Pakmodia Street in Bhen-di Bazaar was sold at an auction for over Rs 4 crore, with a former jour-nalist who runs an NGO placing the winning bid. S Balakrishnan, a former journalist with The Times of India, bid Rs 4.28 crore at a closed-door auction at Hotel Diplomat Wednes-day. The 45-square-metre Hotel Raunaq Afroz — the food joint has been later renamed as Delhi Zayka — was among sev-en items that went under the hammer. The auction was conducted by Ashvin & Co at Hotel Diplomat, which accepted bids in person through its web-site and sealed envelopes opened at the Office of the Competent Authori-ty under the Smugglers

and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act. Bal-akrishnan, who runs NGO Desh Seva Samiti, and the Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust, which is undertaking redevelop-ment of Bhendi Bazaar, were the only bidders. Following the acceptance of his bid, Balakrishnan will have to make the pay-ment in 30 days. “We are dependent on people of

India to raise the money. I will appeal to them for do-nations,” he said. He said he was happy that “efforts to thwart from across the border did not succeed and that the national honour of the motherland had been upheld”. “A huge amount has to be raised. We plan to do it in 25 days,” he said, adding, “we will not carry out any commercial activity from the place but

open a centre for youth and women of Bhendi Ba-zaar”. The green Hyundai Accent car went to Hindu Mahasabha, after no other bidder matched its offer of Rs 32,000. The car is now in a state of serious disrepair. Swami Chakra-pani, national president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, said they planned to convert the car into an ambulance.

age. Following the argu-ment, the division bench of Justices K S Jhaveri

and R P Dholaria passed an order stating that “publicity in any form —

electronic or print media — shall not be given to the matter.”

aide-turned-bête-noire of Modi, was removed from the party ahead of the BJP national exec-utive meet in Mumbai in 2012 over a sex CD controversy. Despite his reinstatement, the once powerful leader now re-mains sidelined in the BJP under the leadership of Modi and Shah. “It is déjà-vu for the Gujarat BJP. Following losses in the by-elections in 2000 under the leadership of Keshubhai Patel, the party looked weak and

Modi was brought in,” said a senior party lead-er, who is also Joshi’s sympathiser. But under chief minister Anan-diben Patel, who took over after Modi moved to Delhi as Prime Min-ister, the party “lost its rural ground for the first time in over a decade”, the leader said. “The posters indicate that Gu-jarat BJP workers are feeling the need for a strong leader,” he said. Assembly elections in the state are due in 2017.

expansion of terminal and construction of the second runway. The capacity of the existing Ahmedabad airport is 25 million pas-sengers per annum, which is likely to saturate during 2024-25, according to the current traffic forecast, the official said. Dholera airport, which would be developed in 3,525 acres owned by the state gov-ernment, will have two runways and the terminal building will have a ca-pacity for 1,200 domestic and international passen-gers. During the construc-tion phase, 250 persons

per day will get direct employment while 900 persons will get indirect employment opportuni-ty. During the operation phase, about 600 people will get direct employ-ment while about 2,200 persons will get indirect employment, as per the proposal. The proposed airport is initiated and pro-moted by the Gujarat In-frastructure Development Board (GIDB) and will be developed by Dholera In-ternational Airport Com-pany Ltd (DIACL) on public private partnership (PPP) basis.

to know about her plight. “I visited her home and met her yesterday after learning about her side of story and setting up a food stall for earning a livelihood and support-ing her family,” GSFC Chairman Sudeep Ku-mar Nanda said over phone today. Nanda has offered Pushpa a cleri-cal job in GSFC as she is an undergraduate. He also spoke to an official of the city-based Baro-

da Rifle club to provide her training in further improving her skills in the sport. “Our club will help her,” Baroda Rifle club office-bearer Ishwarsingh said. Mean-while, BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Vadodara Ran-janben Bhatt has also as-sured Pushpa of all help from the government. “I visited the rifle shooter’s home on the outskirts of the city and assured to provide necessary help under various schemes of Central and Gujarat gov-ernments. I have under-stood her problems and will make all attempts to resolve them,” Bhatt said.

Student in Kutch creates alternative to WhatsApp with 20 more functions