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News BriefWoman delivers baby girl in local

train

Agency | Mumbai

A 21-year-old wom-an delivered a child in a suburban train here while she was on way to hospital. Namrata Kini, who was in advanced stage of pregnancy, was heading to a hospital at Virar in the Bhoisar-Di-va local train along with her husband Yogesh Kini when she start-ed experiencing labour pains yesterday.

Anant Shet elected as Goa Assembly

Speaker

Music composer Anirudh appears

before police

Agency | Panaji

BJP legislator Anant Shet was today elected as the Speaker of Goa Assembly defeating his rival Aleixo Reginal-do Lourenco by 28 to 9 votes in the 40-mem-ber House. The election for the Speaker’s post, which had fallen va-cant after resignation of BJP legislator Rajendra Arlekar following his induction in the Laxmi-kant Parsekar Cabinet, was held after the Ques-tion Hour in the ongoing Assembly session.

Agency | Coimbatore

Music director An-irudh Ravichandran, who has allegedly com-posed the controversial ‘Beep’ song sung by actor Simbu, appeared before police here in connection with a case registered against them. Anirudh appeared be-fore the inspector of the Race Course Road po-lice station here around 11 PM yesterday and submitted a two-page statement, reiterating his stand that he was not the composer of the song, police said. In a WhatsApp message, Anirudh said, “As re-quired I have reported to the police in Coim-batore in person and given my statement.”

More Than 100 Whales Wash Up On The Beaches Of Tamil Nadu“Baleen Whales”

Agency | New Delhi

Lawyers and petition-ers, who fought for the quashing of ‘Jallikattu’, on Tuesday expressed happiness over the Su-preme Court’s order to stay the Centre’s notifica-tion of lifting the ban on the traditional bull-fight-ing sport of Tamil Nadu. “The SC has issued notice to all state governments and the Centre. We had asked for the notification to be quashed, and the court stayed that notifica-tion. So, no bullfight or bullock-cart race will take place now,” lawyer Apar-na Bhatt told ANI. Gauri Maulekhi, who was one of the petitioners, along with

Agency | New Delhi

Long before Shashi Tha-roor made us proud with his speech claiming India to be the rightful own-er of the Kohinoor, and TED Talks became the new bastion for discuss-ing and spreading radical new ideas, there was a man who did us proud on a world platform. Swami Vivekananda’s speech at the first Parliament of the World’s Religions, held in Chicago, is con-sidered among his most significant contributions to the world — so much so that a three-day world

Agency | Istanbul

Ten people, mostly for-eigners, were killed today when a Syrian suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul’s busiest tour-ist district, in the latest deadly attack to hit the country. Images showed several mutilated corpses lying on the ground close to the iconic Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Sul-tanahmet, a district which is home to Istanbul’s biggest concentration of historic monuments. “I strongly condemn the terror attack which was

Agency | Chennai

At least 45 whales died after they washed ashore overnight on a beach in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, officials said on Tuesday, with experts attributing the deaths to a possible underwa-ter disturbance like an earthquake or volcano. Helped by local fish-ermen, workers of the Tamil Nadu fisheries department, police and the administration man-aged to save 36 whales of the pod -- or group -- by towing them back to sea on Tuesday, offi-cials said. While beach-ing of whales and other aquatic animals is com-mon around the world, experts said it was rare to find such a large num-ber of whales washing

Agency | Batala

Three schoolchildren were killed and around twenty four injured when a school bus fell into a ditch at Fatehgarh Chu-rian town, 25 km from Batala in Gurdaspur dis-trict, on Tuesday morn-ing. The bus carrying students of the Captain School of Excellency was hit by a gypsy and fell off the bridge after the driv-er lost control. All three students died on the spot and other injured were

3 kids killed, 24 injured as bus falls into ditch near Batala

Sowmya Reddy, Radha Rajan and People for the Ethical Treatment of An-imals (PETA), said the Centre’s notification was completely faulty on legal and ethical grounds. “We are extremely happy, be-cause the notification was completely faulty on legal and ethical grounds. Le-gally, because there was a comprehensive order by

the apex court, which ear-lier prohibited Jallikattu. Basically, the cruelty in the sport cannot be pre-vented, which is inherent in the sport itself,” one of the petitioners Gauri Maulekhi told ANI. The Supreme Court on Tues-day suspended the Centre’s notification, lifting the ban on jallikattu, the traditional bull-fighting sport of Tamil

Lawyers, petitioners laud Supreme Court’s stay on ‘Jallikattu’

45 whales die in Tamil Nadu

Nadu. Last week, the Cen-tre had lifted the ban on the sport circumventing a Supreme Court ruling of May 2014. The apex court has also issued notices to the Centre, Tamil Nadu and other states, where ‘Jallikattu’ is played. The Centre’s notification that sought to lift the ban on Jal-likattu during the festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu was challenged in the Su-preme Court on Monday. The petitions were filed by Animal Welfare Board of India, (PETA) India and a Bangalore-based NGO. The four-year-old ban on holding of Jallikattu was lifted on January 8 by the Centre with some riders.

taken to a nearby hospi-tals including, hospitals in Amritsar for first aid and treatment. The acci-dent took place when the bus was coming from a village near Amritsar to

Fatehgarh Churian town in Gurdaspur. The local police have also ques-tioned the principal of the school ,Capt. Harinder Singh in connection with the accident .

National Youth Day: Why the world needs Swami Vivekananda now

conference was organ-ised to commemorate his 150th birthday in 2012. It was an impressive breakdown of the ancient philosophy of Hinduism — delivered with crisp logic and scientific in-sight. The speech made him a hero in the US. His opening lines “Sisters and brothers of Ameri-

ca!” earned him a 2-min-ute long standing ovation. Just imagine what effect the rest of his speech would’ve had. Here are a few excerpts from his speech that will convince you why celebrating the National Youth Day on his birth anniversary is so apt. He finished his speech with the appeal, “Upon the banner of ev-ery religion will soon be written — in spite of re-sistance — ‘Help and not Fight’, ‘Assimilation and not Destruction’, ‘Har-mony and Peace, and not Dissension’.”

Syrian suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul’s tourist heart

carried out by a suicide bomber of Syrian origin,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech in the capital Ankara. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtul-mus said most of the dead were foreigners, but did

not give details on their nationality. He identified the bomber as a Syrian national born in 1988. Speaking in Berlin, Chan-cellor Angela Merkel said that German nationals were “probably” among the victims.

up ashore and hinted at the mammals being dis-oriented by underground activity. Officials said that the pod of 81 short-finned pilot whales had

beached near Mandapu village since Monday evening. The area is around 600 km south of Chennai. “It appears the whales are in shock. It

mainly happened due to unusual activity deep inside the sea,” said a scientist with the Chen-nai-based Central Ma-rine Fisheries Institute. A team of experts have also rushed to the vil-lage for an on-the-spot assessment of the cause. Pilot whales – known to be among some of the most social aquat-ic mammals -- are so named because they are led or ‘piloted’ by a lead-er in their search for food or breeding grounds. A forest department offi-cial who had visited the beach said there were injury marks on the dead whales which indicated “high intensity” under-water activity. “This may have happened hundreds of kilometres away and the whales may have been washed to the coast because of the tide,” said the official who did not give his name. Rescue workers and fishermen

worked through the day to pull the whales -- each weighing between 1 tonne to 1.5 tonne and measuring between 8 feet and 10 feet -- back into the sea. Ten fishing boats and one mechanised fish-

ing made several sorties, each ferrying one whale at a time to sea and re-turning for more on the shore. Local residents said that the last time they

saw such a large number of whales beaching was way back in 1973 when 140 whales had washed ashore. Many of them had died.

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DAYPolitics over Jallikattu: Animals must be treated in more humane ways

The Centre last week issued a notification which makes it possible to legally organise jallikattu, a pop-ular bull-taming sport patronised by farming commu-nities in Tamil Nadu. This reverses a 2011 decision of the UPA government, which, by placing bulls in the list of animals that shall not be deemed as performing animals, had effectively banned the sport. In 2014, the Supreme Court endorsed the Centre’s decision when it upheld the view that jallikattu, and other sporting events like bullock-cart racing, violate the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. Animal rights groups have now sought the apex court’s intervention in the matter while the political class in Tamil Nadu, in a rare show of unanimity, has welcomed the Cen-tre’s decision. Jallikattu and other such sports are a part of agrarian culture. They give play to expressions of masculine violence, but they also showcase the prow-ess of cattle breeders and rearers and the skills of farm hands in managing cattle. Rural communities involved in these sports see legislative and judicial attempts to ban them as an assault on their tradition and cultural rights. While it is also true that culture must not be seen to be frozen or fixed in time, bans or unilateral legal intervention may not be the best way to bring in re-form. The concerns of cruelty towards animals raised by the activist community in the context of jallikattu are valid and there is a case for more humane treatment of farm animals. Over the years, debates on the ethics of the use of animals, not just in sport but also in other fields of entertainment like the circus, have helped in sensitising society to animal rights. But the shift from an anthropocentric vision to ecocentric wisdom can be achieved only through education and negotiation. Blunt instruments like bans only polarise the debate and may eventually cause a breakdown of the law. On jallikattu, political parties seem to be driven only by the populist impulse. Jallikattu patrons are politically influential in rural Tamil Nadu and the state is headed for elections this year. The political calculus also ex-plains the double standard of the BJP, which seeks to take credit for liftng the ban on jallikattu in Tamil Nadu even as it sings paeans to the cow elsewhere. Banned by the Supreme Court in 2014, Jallikattu made a brief comeback last week when the Union Ministry of Envi-ronment and Forests issued a notification citing culture and tradition to allow the sport, despite the bull being on the list of animals which are prohibited from being used as performing animals. The Animal Welfare Board of India, the original petitioners in the SC, challenged the Centre’s notification in the apex court on 11 January.

“The last time he contested the election to the Lok Sabha was from Amritsar as a BJP candidate in 2014. Despite the success of the BJP this plaintiff lost by a margin of more than 1,00,000 votes. Indian democracy has never accepted his claim of public character.”

- Arvind Kejriwal responded to Arun Jaitley’s defamation suit with a stinging reply in which he taunted the Union Finance Minister...

Will Priyanka Chopra play villain in Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s ‘Baywatch’?

Agency | Chennai

Actor Akkineni Nagarju-na says he’s at a position in his career where he doesn’t bother about star-dom anymore. Instead, he says he would concentrate on doing good films, even if it means waiting for over a year for a release. Nagarjuna’s “Soggade Chinni Nayana”, which releases worldwide on Friday (January 15), is his first release since 2014 Telugu drama “Manam”. “I don’t think about star-dom anymore. I’m way past that phase. The only thing that matters to me now is doing good films.

I may not have had a re-lease in 2015, but the wait has paid off with ‘Soggade…’, which has come out really well,” Nagarjuna said. Direct-ed by debutant Kalyan Krishna, the film also stars Ramya Krishnan and Lavanya Tripathi in important roles. Talking about the film in which he plays dual roles, he said: “I play the father and son. This is a fun film with a ghost angle. I also come as a ghost, but I won’t be scaring anybody. This is not your regular horror film. It’s a lovely story of a father returning as a soul to help his son”.

Don’t think about stardom anymore: Akkineni Nagarjuna

Agency | Mumbai

Boxer-turned-actress Ri-tika Singh wants to bal-ance both her training in boxing as well as acting in films. Ritika, a nation-al-level kick boxer, is well-versed with mixed martial arts and kara-te. Now she is making her debut in Hindi films with actor R Madhavan in “Saala Khadoos”. “I would love to do films as it is a different experi-ence. I am open to do all kind of films. I want to try something else as I can’t do action. I have got beat-en up and beat up people. I will continue to train whenever I have fights. I have a knee injury… hope it gets well soon,”

Agency | Mumbai

Sanjay Dutt will be out of Yerwada jail on Feb-ruary 25 after serving the five-year term after be-ing convicted for his in-volvement in 1993 serial blasts. The actor has got the remission of more than eight months for his ‘good conduct’ and the work hours he contribut-ed to in the jail. A press statement issued by ac-tor’s publicity agency has clarified the matter and confirmed the date of his release. HT was the first to report about the date of the actor’s release and him getting remission of 105 days. The statement stated, “Dutt, who has been serving the remain-der of his five-year term in Yerwada will finish his term on February 25th, contrary to the media re-ports that have been stat-ing various dates of his

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actor Anush-ka Sharma has said she is excited to work in the upcoming film Sultan as her role in the Salman Khan-starrer is something that she is eagerly waiting to “dig my teeth into”. “I am training to be working with Salman (in Sultan ). I am really excited about the film and my role,” the actress said on the side-lines of Britannia Film-fare Awards, held over the weekend. The NH10

star is set to play a wres-tler in the film. Anushka will sport a “realistic and de-glam” look for Sultan. An international pros-thetics expert, who will be working on Salman’s character, will also help create Anushka’s definite look. “The role is some-thing that I am just wait-ing to dig my teeth into,” she added. The 27-year-old, who has also worked with Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan in the past, is all praise for the

Agency | New Delhi

Be it Cheeni Kum or Shamitabh, R Balki’s film title always have a zing. And, to match upto the zing of Ki and Ka , the motion poster of the upcoming film featuring Kareena Kapoor and Ar-jun Kapoor is role rever-sal in the most interesting way. Amitabh Bachchan shared the first motion poster of Ki and Ka on his Facebook page. The film features also has guest appearances by Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. In the 48-second long video, Kareena, who plays an ambitious career-woman in the film, is seen put-ting a mangalsutra on Arjun’s neck, who plays her house-husband. Ki and Ka is set to hit the-atres on April 1. Arjun Kapoor had unveiled the first look of Ki and Ka

Agency | Mumbai

Milap Zaveri’s ‘Ma-tizaaade’ is turning out to be one of the most await-ed films of the month! The sex comedy starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sunny

Leone and Vir Das in lead roles has a new motion poster to offer to the audi-ences. The teaser, trailer and songs of the film have been a huge hit among admirers of adult humour.

The film will see Sunny Leone playing a double role. So this winter, enjoy the double dose of Sunny Leone as she hits the sil-verscreen this month end with her ‘Mastizaade’.

Sunny Leone’s naughty ‘Ande Ka Funda’ ‘Mastizaade’ motion poster

Boxer Ritika Singh of Saala Khadoos wants to continue acting

Anushka starts training for her de-glam role of a wrestler in Sultan

Ki and Ka motion poster: Where Arjun Kapoor wears the mangalsutraSanjay Dutt will be a free man on February 25

Agency | Los Angeles

Bollywood actress Priyan-ka Chopra is in talks to join Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in Baywatch, which would mark her Hollywood film debut. The 33-year-old actress is al-ready creating waves inter-nationally with her maiden American TV series Quan-tico. She also won her first international honour recently, People Choice Award for the best actress in a new TV series. Bay-watch is Paramount’s big-screen take on the 1990s television series about California lifeguards. Seth Gordon is directing the feature, which is paddling

toward a shoot with Alex-andra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach also suiting up, said The Hollywood Re-porter. The movie centres on the leader of an elite group of lifeguards (John-son), who is forced to team up with a young, hotshot

former Olympian (Efron) to save their beloved bay. Scheduling conflicts with the film’s shoot and Pri-yanka’s American show Quantico still need to be worked out, but if signed, the actress would play the story’s villain.

Ritika told reporters at an event. Filmmaker Rajku-mar Hirani is co-produc-ing the film, which releas-es on January 29. “It was a dream come true as in my first film I have Raj-kumar Hirani as the pro-ducer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?” Ritika said. When asked her about facing compe-tition in the industry, she

said, “I am not an inse-cure person. Thanks to my training in martial arts I have it in me to appreci-ate good work, say wow and say ‘You deserve it’.” Ritika’s father, who was present at the event, is proud of his daughter and her achievements in life so far. Ritika shared she is inspired by American mixed martial artist-ac-tress Ronda Rousey.

earlier this month, shar-ing several pictures that captured the Arjun-Ka-reena’s onscreen chem-istry on his Instagram account. Sharing his experience on working with Balki for the mov-ie, Big B wrote on his blog last year, “I work... I work with the wife... I work for R Balki... for his new film that he makes with Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor... called Ki and Ka... and if you know

anything about Balki, you will realise that his titles are most fascinating..This is a guest appearance, where we play ourselves, in our own home.” While this is the first time Jaya and Balki have teamed up for any film, Amitabh has worked with the director before in Cheeni Kum, Paa and Shamitabh. He also had a guest appear-ance in Balki’s wife Gauri Shindey’s directorial de-but English Vinglish.

Dabangg star . “There is nobody like him because of his persona,” she said. Speaking about the pair-ing, director Abbas Ali Zafar said. “We wanted to cast a great actor oppo-site Salman. That was the main criterion. Anushka is a terrific actress and a star in her own right. She can pull off a film effort-lessly. But the biggest plus point is that she is athletic, she understands the language and the mannerisms and it will be easy for her to get into the skin of the character. Also, she has previously romanced Shah Rukh and Aamir Khan. Now, it’s Salman. They look great together. Once the look is out, you will see.” Pro-duced by Aditya Chopra, Sultan is slated to release on Eid this year.

release.” Sanjay Dutt got fullest remission despite controversy over ‘misus-ing’ leaves on furlough and parole. “There were reports of misuse of the exemption given under furlough and parole to the actor. But, according to us, he had taken the leaves he was entitled to,” said a home department official. The actor has spent three-and-half years in jail, in-

cluding the period spent as an undertrial. Dutt was convicted for illegal pos-session of an automat-ic assault rifle, a part of cache of arms and ammu-nition that landed ahead of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people were killed. Meanwhile, a petition was filed in the Bombay High Court on January 7 seeking restrain Dutt’s early release.


SPORTS ROUNDUPGoogle celebrates story-teller Charles Perrault’s 388 b’day

IndusInd Bank reports 30% jump in net profit

Bank of Maharashtra plans to raise Rs 1,000 crore via Tier-II Bonds

Agency | New Delhi

We all owe are childhood to Charles Perrault as without his fairytales it would have not been so beautiful. Be it the glass slipper and the pumpkin that turns into a carriage or the princess who falls into a deep sleep when she pricks her hand on a spindle, Perrault has filled magic in everyone’s life. And to celebrate the French author’s 388th birthday, Google has created a special doodle. The doodle features scenes from stories such as Sleep-ing Beauty, Cinderella, Mother Goose and Puss in Boots. Perrault, an academic from Paris spent most of his life in the court of King Louis XV in the 17th century. He passed away in 1703. He laid the foun-dations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with

his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.

Agency | Mumbai

Private sector lender IndusInd Bank Ltd on Tues-day said its net profit for the quarter ended 31 De-cember 2015 jumped 30% on strong growth in its core operating income and other income. Net profit for the quarter stood at Rs581.02 crore compared to Rs447.19 crore—an increase of 29.9%. A poll of 22 Bloomberg analysts had pegged net prof-it at Rs579.10 crore. Net interest income, or the core income from lending businesses, rose 36.23% to Rs1,173.42 crore in the October to December quarter compared to Rs861.37 crore in the year-ago period. Other income, which includes earnings from fee-generating businesses, rose 29% to Rs839 crore from Rs649 crore in the year-ago quarter. Asset quality at the bank remained largely steady although the bank increased provisions during the quarter. Gross non performing assets (NPAs) at the end of the quarter were at 0.82% of total loans compared to 0.77% in the July-September quarter

and 1.05% in the year-ago period.

Agency | Sydney

The seemingly unstoppa-ble duo of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis eased past Anastasia Rodiono-va and Arina Rodiono-va in the opening round of Sydney International to extend their winning streak to 27 matches in Sydney on Tuesday. Ro-han Bopanna too won his opening round along-side Romanian partner

Florin Mergea to enter the quarterfinals of the concurrently held ATP event. The fourth seeds had to dig deep to beat Denis Istomin and Henri Kontinen 6-7, 6-3, 10-8. Doubles world num-ber one Sania and Swiss great Martina mauled the Rodionova pairing, rep-resenting Australia, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quar-ters. Sania and Martina

began 2016 by winning the Brisbane Interna-tional last week for their sixth title in a row. Their 27-match winning run is the longest since Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won 25 in a row in 2012. Sara and Roberta had won five titles in a row, at Barcelona, Ma-drid, Rome, the French Open and ‘s-Hertogen-bosch.

Agency | Mumbai

The bank is proposing to raise Basel-III compli-ant Tier-II Bonds amounting to Rs 1,000 crore by way of private/public placement, cited the com-pany statement. Bank of Maharashtra, a leading public sector bank, on Tuesday, said it will raise Rs 1,000 crore by issuing Basel-III compliant bonds on a private placement basis. “Bank of Maharashtra has informed the BSE that the bank is proposing to raise Basel-III compliant Tier-II Bonds amounting to Rs 1,000 crore by way of private/public placement,” it said in a regulatory filing. At 1437 hours, the shares of Bank of Maha-rashtra were trading down 0.64% or Rs 0.20 at Rs 31.10 per scrip intraday on the BSE. According to a Fitch Ratings report, Indian banks need $140 billion (nearly Rs 9.34 lakh crore) capital to en-sure full compliance with the Basel-III norms by 2018-19. The Basel-III norms are aimed at bol-stering banks resilience. Basel-III capital regula-tions are being implemented in India with effect from April 1, 2013, in a phased manner.

Fan pays Shahid Afridi’s bill after cricketer forgets to change currency at airport

Squash player who won gold medal ‘auctions’ his kidney on social media

Lionel Messi wins Ballon d’Or for fifth time, Arsene Wenger unhappy

Chris Gayle under fire for BBL no-run controversy

Sania-Martina eases into second round of Sydney International

Tokyo Sexwale feels sorry for banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter

Agency | London

FIFA presidential candi-date Tokyo Sexwale feels sorry for Sepp Blatter, the banned president of soccer`s scandal-plagued governing body, and has described his work as a “monument.” Sexwale, a South African busi-nessman and politician, is one of five candidates standing to replace Blat-ter, who has been banned for eight years along with European soccer boss Michel Platini by FIFA`s ethics commit-tee. “I feel very sorry for him,” Sexwale told Sky Sports. “He is a friend. I`ve spoken on the phone to Blatter and Platini, and they are leaders so they have to deal with

Agency | London

Lionel Messi reclaimed the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the world play-er of the year on Mon-day from his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo who had walked off with the award for the previous two years. The Barce-lona and Argentina for-ward took 41.33 percent of the votes followed by the Portuguese and Real Madrid forward (27.76 percent), with Brazil and Barcelona forward Neymar third (7.86 per cent). “It is a very spe-cial moment for me to be back here on this stage, winning again another Ballon d’Or after being there in the audience watching Cristiano win,” said Messi as he accept-ed the award at the end of

Agency | Karachi

Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi was saved of much embarrassment when a fan stepped in to pay for his meal at a fast food joint in Auck-land after the flamboyant cricketer realised that he was not carrying local currency. The Pakistan team is in New Zealand for a limited-overs series starting January 15. Afri-di and teammate Ahmed Shehzad had gone to buy meals at a McDon-ald’s restaurant inside the Auckland airport on Monday. The players, however, were carrying US dollars instead of lo-cal currency with them. And after the restaurant

Agency | Sydney

West Indies star Chris Gayle was again at the centre of a controversy on Tuesday for his actions in Australia’s Big Bash League, days after a storm over his sexist comments to a female television pre-senter. Gayle, who made headlines after attempting to flirt with Network Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin during an live interview, was savaged by com-mentators for refusing to take what appeared to be an easy single for his Melbourne Renegades team against Sydney Thunder late Monday. He was criticised by the match commentators for turning back his fellow opening batsman Tom Cooper, who was keen to take a run in a format

Agency | Perth

What do you do when you are a squash player who’s won a gold med-al at the Asian Junior championship, but have no money even to trav-el? This is the story of Ravi Dixit, a 20-year-old squash player who won gold in the 2010 Asian Junior championship. Ac-cording to a news daily,

Dixit has now decided to ‘auction’ off his kidney to pay for his campaign for next month’s South Asian Games. Dixit has posted on social media that he wants to sell his kidney and asked interested buy-ers to bid for it. “I have been playing squash for the last 10 years. Even after winning so many medals and representing India so many times, I

did not accept the mon-ey offered by the them, a fan — Waqas Naveed — paid Afridi’s bill. Afridi told the Pakistani media that he and Shehzad had forgotten to change their US dollars into New Zealand currency before going to the restaurant. “There was this young man behind us in the line and he offered to pay for us insisting it was his

way of welcoming us to New Zealand,” Afridi said. But the all-rounder said he was disappoint-ed that the entire episode was recorded by some-one in the restaurant and the media had been playing it. “Had us dol-lars which they wasent taking at nz airport:) but glad 1nce again our me-dia entertaining all of u,” he tweeted.

do not get any support to take my squash to the national and internation-al levels,” Dixit said. “Dhampur Sugar Mill has supported me but how long will they continue to support me? Next month, the games are starting in Guwahati and I am repre-senting India. To prepare for the tournament, I am training in Chennai but I have not been able to ar-range enough money to fund my campaign for the games. I have lost my de-termination. I am ready to sell my kidney. If anyone needs a kidney, they can contact me. The price of my kidney is Rs 8 lakh,” he said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

where one run can mean the difference between a win and loss. “This is the most unbelievable, ridiculous cricket I’ve ever seen,” said former Australian Test skipper Ricky Ponting. “Some-times in cricket and in life you get what you deserve, and he got what he deserved there. “What sort of message does that send to the boys on the

sideline?” Gayle was dismissed the next ball when Fawad Ahmed took a catch off Clint McKay. He had scored 28 off 20 balls. The burly West In-dian declined to be inter-viewed about the incident after the match. Normally batsmen would only re-fuse an easy single if they were attempting to keep the strike and protect a lesser batsman.

it. “They have to face their mistakes, but let`s not bury the good that they have done.” Blatter was FIFA president from 1998 until December, and had previously been Secretary General. The Swiss had prided himself on promoting football development around the world and being head of FIFA when South Africa became the first African nation to host the World

Cup in 2010. “Blatter`s work is a monument that stands for itself. It is a mountain that cannot be moved,” said Sexwale. “It is up to the ethics committee what hap-pens. The damage done is for posterity but it is not like they`ve murdered or committed genocide. “It is a game. We are there to understand and carry on their good work and learn from their mistakes.”

a drawn-out 90-minute ceremony. “It’s incredi-ble this is my fifth.” Bar-celona’s Luis Enrique was voted coach of the year while United States World Cup winner Carli Lloyd, who scored a hat-trick in the final against Japan, was named wom-en’s player of the year. Initially started as the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991, it became known as the

Ballon d’Or after merg-ing with France Foot-ball’s European footbal-ler of the year award in 2010. The award, shared exclusively between Messi and Real Madrid’s Ronaldo since Brazilian Kaka won in 2007, has been heavily promoted by FIFA and was broad-cast to 190 countries with 1,100 guests includ-ing players and coaches attending the ceremony.

Sania Mirza is atop the list with 11395 points while Martina Hingis has 11355 points in her kitty.


Correspondent | Lucknow

When Mulayam Singh Yadav’s “dream project” was envisioned in 2005, Etawah Lion Safari was estimated to cost the Ut-tar Pradesh government Rs 5 crore. By the end of September 2015 — only two years after work on the project eventually started with the Samajwa-di Party supremo’s son at the helm of affairs, the government has, as per its own records, spent Rs 53 crore so far. Close to Rs 1 lakh is spent every month on food and the upkeep of each pair of the animal. The safari’s breeding center, at present, houses four such pairs — four li-

Correspondent | Vadodara

A delegation of Ankle-shwar Industries Asso-ciation (AIA) has urged Union Environment Min-ister Prakash Javadekar to review the status of the industrial zone, which cur-rently falls under the ‘crit-ically polluted’ zone. The industrial zone in Bharuch district, around 100 kms away from here, was ear-marked under “critically polluted” category by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2010. Secretary of AIA Jashubhai Chaudhary told PTI that a delegation met Javdekar yesterday in Bharuch and sought review of the cur-rent status of pollution level in the zone, which they claim has fallen due to the effective measures undertaken by the indus-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Monday granted re-lief to BJP minister Puru-shottam Solanki against non-bailable warrant issued by a special an-ti-corruption court in con-nection with the multi-crore fisheries scam. The High Court stayed the warrant till the sec-ond week of February, a day before special court was to hear the case in Gandhinagar. On a plea moved by Solanki, a sin-gle judge bench of Justice J B Pardiwala stayed the warrant issued by special judge R A Ghoghari. So-lanki’s lawyer Virat Po-pat told the High Court that despite police report stating “no case is made out against Solanki, a non-bailable warrant was issued by the special court”. The court stayed the warrant and ordered


Before the Reliance In-dustries petition challeng-ing the validity of a key clause in the 2013 land Act, there have been at least two cases in which Gujarat High Court has declared land acquisition lapsed because possession had not taken or compen-sation not been paid with-in a time-frame of five years prior to enactment of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Reset-tlement Act 2013. The Act came into effect in Janu-ary 2014. In both cases, the court invoked sec-tion 24(2), which sets the time-frame of five years for land that had been ac-


On Monday, a Gujarat High Court division bench of acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and Justice N V Anjaria set January 25 as the date for hearing a special civil application by Reliance Industries against the standing law on land acquisition. The matter has arisen out of land acquisition for Reli-ance’s special economic zone in Jamnagar. The wider significance of the case, across infrastructure projects, is about if and when acquisition made under an old law lapses under the current one. At the centre of the debate is section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Ac-quisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013. It says if land was


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Ahmedabad Police to-day identified and held a policemen groping grop-ing girls and improper-ly touching women at a recently held Kankaria Carnival festival at Kan-karia Lake Front in city. A video clip purported-ly showing a policeman groping girls and improp-erly touching women at a recently-held festival here, had gone viral on social media, following which the city police had ordered an inquiry into the incident. Around a

minute-long video clip captured by an uniden-tified person showed the accused policeman ‘groping and indecently touching’ girls and wom-en while walking at the Kankaria Carnival held in the last week of De-cember. The Kankaria Carnival is a week-long festival held around Kan-karia lake premises in the city, where cultural, art and social events are organised. Hundreds of police personnel are de-ployed at the Carnival for security purposes.


The Gujarat High Court today issued notices to various state government authorities while hearing a PIL seeking a directive on the issue of school children being crammed in autos. This is being is termed as gross violation of fundamental rights of children by the petition-er. After hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), filed by Vadodara based advocate Biju Nair, who appeared as party-in-per-son, High Court bench comprising acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and justice V M Pancholi is-sued notices to Gujarat government, the state Transport Commissioner and the Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. Since the Gujarat High Court had taken up this matter suo motu in 2006 and asked the gov-ernment to frame rules and regulation in this re-

gard at that time, it also asked the state transport department to submit those rules and regula-tions before the court on January 28. To substanti-ate the case, the petition-er has attached several photos showing 15 to 16 children crammed inside one auto. According to the petitioner, such prac-tise is going on in major cities like Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat. The PIL contended that as per Motor Vehicle Act, a maximum of six children in the age group of 4 to 12 can be accommodated in one auto. Citing a past judgement of the Guja-rat High Court, the PIL also stated that the limit was later on raised to 8 in Gujarat. However, the petitioner alleged that no rules are followed by auto drivers to maximise their profit as the autos can be seen cramped with 12 to 15 children.

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etawah Safari: Uttar Pradesh grapples with dying lions, rising cost

Two acquisitions that lapsed because Gujarat delayed taking possession

Fisheries scam: Gujarat High Court stays warrant against minister Solanki

Why all eyes are on the Reliance’s land acquisition case

Ankleshwar industry players seek review by CPCB

ons and as many lioness-es. The government has also created a corpus fund of Rs 100 crore for the sa-fari’s maintenance. The figures were released in response to an application filed by The Indian Ex-press under the Right to Information Act. The data shows that the govern-ment, each month, spends lakhs in arranging the

facilities not just for the creatures but in the sev-eral works it keeps under-taking to make the proj-ect a success. Among the works undertaken by the government include vet-erinary hospital, breeding centre, houses for animals, quarantine, post-mortem, overhead tank, substation, pump house, deep tube-well pump, and facilities

for visitors and staff. Be-sides regulation of tem-perature with the help of heaters during winters and coolers in summers, RO-purified water and disinfected meat for the animals have become permanent arrangements. All efforts, however, have fallen short because ever since the spate of deaths began in October 2014, two lionesses, one lion and two cubs have died. Three more cubs were stillborn. Lioness Kun-wari is reportedly ill for the past few weeks. The deaths have left the ex-perts flummoxed and the officials with nothing but the illnesses to talk about.

quired under the previous Land Acquisition Act of 1894. In July 2014, the court held that the acqui-sition of 16,064 square metres in Jahangirpura, Surat, by the state-owned Gujarat Electricity Trans-mission Corporation Ltd had lapsed on the ground that GETCO did not take physical possession of the land within the five-year time-frame. A single judge bench of Justice

R D Kothari passed the judgment, pointing out that the government had acquired the land in 1987 under the provisions of the 1894 Land Acquisi-tion Act but did not take possession, hence it had lapsed as per the provi-sions of the new Act. In October 2015, a division bench comprising Jus-tices Akil Kureshi and Mohinder Pal, ruling on a set of petitions moved

by 13 farmers of Otala village of Morbi district, decided in favour of the farmers. The land here was for Bangwadi Irriga-tion Project; farmers’ land was acquired in 2008. The group of farmers who filed the petition, howev-er, had voluntarily for-gone their right to com-pensation. Their land was going to be submerged only for a month in the monsoon when the dam was filled to capacity, they pointed out, saying they could farm there for the rest of the year. When the compensation award for farmers was declared in 2008. the government agreed not to acquire the land of this group of farmers, and possession stayed with them.

tries in the past five years. He said the minister has assured that a CPCB team will visit Ankleshwar next week. The industrial re-gion, which comprise An-kleshwar, Jhagadiya and Panoli, was in January, 2010, earmarked under ‘critically polluted’ cate-gory by the CPCB, thus, banning the setting up of new units and expansion of the existing factories. The decision was taken

after a review of the zone, which has several chemi-cal units, where pollution levels were found to be high. He said they have submitted a memoran-dum to Javadekar in this regard. “Industries in the last five years have invest-ed Rs 800 crore to install pollution control equip-ments, and took steps to control air pollution,” one of the delegates, NK Na-vadia, said.

to take up the case in the second week of Febru-ary. In September last year, the High Court had stayed the trial in this case against former minister Dilip Sanghani, who was also allegedly involved along with five retired government offi-cers. In this case Solanki, who was the then minis-ter of state for fisheries and currently state min-ister for animal husband-ry and cow protection,

granted fishing contracts for 58 reservoirs to his alleged favourite parties, bypassing the mandatory auctioning process. The matter came to light after Ishaq Maradia, a Ban-askantha-based fishing contractor, approached the High Court accusing Solanki and others of ir-regularities in awarding contracts for fishing in 2008. Maradia moved the court after he was de-nied the contract.

acquired under the earli-er 1894 Act five years or more before the new Act came into effect — this happened on January 1, 2014 — and if physical possession was not tak-en or compensation not paid, then the acquisition will be deemed lapsed. In 2008, it was under the 1894 Act that the land was acquired for the Reliance SEZ. In 2014, a group of farmers moved the court seeking that the acquisi-tion of their land be de-clared lapsed because they

are still in possession of it. Reliance has now chal-lenged the constitutional validity of section 24(2). The 2013 Act was passed during the UPA regime. The current NDA regime has been seeking to amend the Act by modifying the way the five-year period is calculated — it propos-es that the period of any court stay or injunction be excluded while comput-ing the five-year window. The amendment, how-ever, has not yet cleared Parliament.

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