Ss eng 14 08 2015

News BriefMissing woman found murdered

Agency | Muzaffarnagar

The body of a 45-year-old woman, who was missing since Sunday, was today found near her house in Purkazi town here, police said. Sarvari had on Sunday gone to meet some per-sons who she had lend some money but did not return home. Her body was today found near her house here, Circle Officer Akeel Ahmed said.

Twinkle Khanna ‘spellbound’ by

Akshay’s ‘Brothers’

I see a bit of Maradona in Kohli:

Ganguly

Agency | Mumbai

Twinkle Khanna is “spellbound” by her su-perstar husband Akshay Kumar and actor Sidharth Malhotra’s performances in their upcoming outing “Brothers”. Twinkle, 40, who attended the film’s screening here last eve-ning, said the movie is “absolutely fantastic”.

Agency | Kolkata

Former India skip-per Sourav Ganguly is bowled over by Virat Kohli’s exuberance and passion to cricket and compared the Test cap-tain to legendary foot-baller Diego Maradona. “One of my favourite sportsmen was Diego Maradona and every time I saw him play football you could see the passion in the heart. You see the same thing with Virat Kohli. I love his body language. I am a big fan of Kohli,” an avid football follower, Ganguly told reporters.

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Gujarat CM appoints high level committee to look into reservation demands“Patel stir for Reservation ”

Following the Patidar agitation, a number of other communities have also started raising voice for getting OBC reservation

7 Ministers Committee to talk to the ‘Patidar’

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Agency | New Delhi

In a major relief to Nes-tle India, the Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the FSSAI order banning Maggi for six weeks. The order states that principles of natural justice were not followed and so the ban should be set aside. Meanwhile, even as Nestle continues to maintain that the de-cision to ban its product was arbitrary, the gov-ernment’s claim from the company for selling “de-fective and hazardous” Maggi noodles may ex-ceed Rs 640 crore as it is tabulating further damag-es to be sought. The case has been heard for over a fortnight with Nestle India denying the claims of Food Safety and Stan-

The return of Maggi? Bombay HC quashes ban, but Nestle not out of woods just yet Instead of facts we got fudge:

Chidambaram hits back at Swaraj

dards Authority of India (FSSAI) that the instant noodle has excesses lead content. A division bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Burgess Co-labawalla said that the “principles of natural jus-tice” and procedures were not followed in the case. The High Court also said that the samples were not tested at accredited labo-

ratories raising doubts on the results. The court al-lowed Nestle to send five samples of each variant of noodles for fresh testing to three labs in Punjab, Hyderabad and Jaipur. If lead content is found be-low permissible limit by the three labs, Nestle will be allowed to manufac-ture Maggi noodles in In-dia, the Bombay HC said.

Agency | New Delhi

Former union minister P Chidambaram on Thurs-day hit back at external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj saying she was hiding crucial facts on her help to tainted for-mer IPL chief Lalit Modi. Chidamabaram asked Swaraj why she had not asked Modi to apply to the Indian high commis-sion in UK for a tempo-rary travel document if she wanted to help him. If Sushma Swaraj wished to help Lalit Modi on pure-ly humanitarian grounds, why did she not advise him to apply to the Indi-an high commission in

Agency | New Delhi

Amid talk of conven-ing a special session of Parliament for enacting a GST law, Congress on Thursday said it was not averse to cooperate provided government brought a “good” legis-lation and not one “rid-dled with problems and issues”. “We want a good GST, certainly not this GST riddled with prob-lems and issues... There is growing support of the Congress’ objections on GST, many corporates strongly support our ob-jections”, former finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters. Address-ing a press conference at the AICC headquarters,

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Facing state-wide public agitation by youths of Patidar community seek-ing OBC status, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel, on Thursday, appointed a high level committee of seven cab-inet and state level min-isters to look into the reservation demands of

various communities. Headed by Health Min-ister and government spokesperson, Nitin Pa-tel, the committee is ex-pected to submit a report to the state government after hearing the repre-sentatives of different social organisations. Gu-jarat Government issued a press release in this re-

gard while announcing formation of the com-mittee. Apart from Nitin Patel, the other ministers in the committee include cabinet ministers Raman-lal Vora, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Babu Bokh-iria and state ministers Vasuben Trivedi, Nanub-hai Vanani, and Rajni Patel. Since beginning


At a time when Mumbai Police has booked Sukh-vider Kaur alias Radhe Maa in a dowry case, BJP MLA from Anjar Vasan Ahir wrote to the min-ister of state for home of Gujarat seeking ac-tion against the self-pro-claimed godwoman in connection with a mass suicide case in Kutch

London for a temporary Indian travel document valid for visiting only Portugal,” Chidambaram asked at a press confer-ence. He asked Swaraj why she thought Modi needed a British travel document instead of an

Indian one. Indicating that the government was hiding something, Chi-dambaram asked why Swaraj and finance min-ister Arun Jaitley were selectively quoting his letter to UK’s chancellor of the exchequer instead

of releasing it in full. “Instead of debate we got diatribe, instead of dialogue, we got lecture, instead of answers we got a sermon, instead of facts we got fudge,” he said re-ferring to Swaraj’s speech in the Lok Sabha. He said the ruling BJP “did ev-erything except answer-ing crucial questions that arose out of Sushma Swaraj’s intervention on behalf of Lalit Modi.” Swaraj, who is facing opposition allegations of helping Lalit Modi get British travel documents for quid pro quo, had hit out against the Gandhi family in her speech on Friday.

Correspondent | Rajkot

With the reserva-tion-for-Patels move-ment gaining momentum, Shree Khodaldham Trust (SKT), the biggest com-munity organization of Leuva Patels, has softened its stance on the issue. As August 25 — the day when a massive show of strength has been planned in support of reservation — draws near, SKT has swung into action by of-fering to mediate between the agitating Patidars and the state government to reach an amicable solu-tion. So far, SKT has consistently distanced it-

self from the state-wide reservation stir. In a care-fully drafted letter made public on Wednesday, the organization has also stated that “those Patidar families, who are eligible for their rights, must get it and their talks with the government on this are on”. “Since Khodaldham Trust echoes the feelings of the community, it has decided to play the role of a mediator between the protesters and state gov-ernment to come out with solution. We will meet the committee of those leading the protests and then engage in talks with the government,” Paresh

Gajera, one of the trust-ees of Khodaldham trust. The offer comes at a time when the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) is determined to display their strength with a mas-sive rally in Ahmedabad on August 25. PAAS convenor Hardik Patel however expressed sur-prise at the trust’s offer saying none of the ag-itating Patidar groups have approached them for any kind of interven-tion. “We are surprised that the Khodaldham trust leaders, who have openly opposed the reservation movement, are now will-ing to mediate.

Khodaldham Trust offers to mediate

Not averse to GST if govt brings ‘good’ legislation: Congress

Chidambaram said Con-gress had some funda-mental concerns on the draft bill and “I don’t see reason why party will not cooperate”. Noting that it was his party which had authored the GST, he said “Let the Government re-spond to our demand for a discussion and arrive at the consensus on the fun-damental objections that we have raised. If they

meet us and come to the consensus ....I don’t see reason why party will not cooperate”. At the outset, he made it clear that he could not speak for the Congress parliamentary party. Chidambaram’s remarks are significant as they came on a day when the government ap-peared to be keeping its options open on conven-ing a special session of

Parliament for enacting the GST law on which fi-nance minister Arun Jait-ley declared that it was determined to stick to the rollout deadline of April 1, 2016. Although the monsoon session ended on Thursday, the govern-ment has decided against proroguing it to keep the possibility open for convening a special ses-sion at short notice. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, that seeks to replace all indirect taxes with a uniform levy, has already been approved by the Lok Sabha but could not be taken up in the Upper House because of opposition by the Con-gress and Left parties.

of July, youths of Pati-dar or Patel community have, with the support of one Patel organisation called Sardar Patel Seva-dal started an agitation demanding OBC status for them to get reserva-tion in the government jobs and higher educa-tion. The agitation has now spread across the state and the community is reportedly planning to hold a massive gather-ing in Ahmedabad city

on August 25. Following the Patidar agitation, a

number of other commu-nities have also started

raising voice for getting OBC reservation.

Gujarat MLA seeks action against Radhe Maa

last year. Ahir, who is also parliamentary sec-retary for Kutch district, in his letter to MoS for home Rajnikant Patel on Wednesday said that the suicide en mass by seven

members of a single fam-ily in Ningal village of Anjar taluka had affected public sentiment in his constituency. He further wrote that he informed home department and di-rector general of police (DGP) but whereabouts of Radhe Maa were not known at that time and therefore action could not be taken against her.

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Editors’ Picks

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYAnother wasted session of Parliament

Wasted sessions of Parliament have become near constant features of our public life. On Thursday, both Houses were adjourned sine die without con-cluding any major legislative business, chief among which was the passage of the Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill that would have ushered in the goods and services tax (GST). If the Bharatiya Ja-nata Party (BJP) has to share the blame for misman-agement, the lion’s share of the blame lies with the Congress party, which has acted with great irrespon-sibility. The lack of debate in Parliament imposes a cost on the country in various ways. The 16th Lok Sabha seems to be following the pattern of the previ-ous one. The first four sessions of the last Parliament went relatively smoothly. The fifth session was en-tirely washed out by demands to set up a joint com-mittee to investigate the 2G spectrum allocations, and later sessions saw sustained disruptions on sev-eral issues, including the allocation of coal fields and the creation of the new state of Telangana. Over the five years, about one-third of allocated time was lost to disruptions. In this Parliament, too, the first sessions were productive, with the budget session working 22% more than the originally scheduled time. However, the recently concluded session was a washout with Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha losing over 50% and 90% of scheduled time, respectively. Lok Sabha passed three laws while Rajya Sabha did not pass any. One hopes that history does not repeat itself so soon, and that future sessions see produc-tive discussions. There have been several estimates on the cost to the exchequer due to the disruptions. These vary from a few crore rupees to a few hundred crore rupees. These calculations are based on daily cost of running Parliament, by dividing the annual budget of Parliament by the scheduled number of days (or by 365). This is a simplistic assessment. My contention is that the actual cost of a dysfunctional Parliament is significantly higher. It is not possible to peg an exact monetary value to the harm caused by parliamentary disruptions. But even in monetary terms, there is a significant cost. Take, for instance, the delay to the goods and services tax (GST) bill. There is a broad consensus across the political spec-trum on the draft law with a few points of difference. Parliamentary norms dictate that such differences be argued out on the floor of the house, and finally de-cided through a vote. However, this bill, originally introduced in March 2011 and a second version was passed by Lok Sabha in May, has not been taken up for consideration by Rajya Sabha. The process re-quires this bill to be passed by each house of Parlia-ment and then ratified by 15 state assemblies.

“We accept this undemocratic challenge by the Congress and will take it to the people. Our people will go to every nook and corner to Expose Congress, they want to save family, we want to save country”

- As The monsoon session ended in a washout on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed NDA MPs to fan out across the country to..

Agency | Mumbai

TV actress Sakshi Tan-war, who became popu-lar with shows like ‘Ka-haani Ki Ghar Ghar Ki’ and ‘Bade Achhe Lagte Hain’, has managed to get her big break in Bol-lywood with an Aamir Khan film. The actress, who has done a handful of miniscule roles in the past and a prominent role in the controversial film Mohalla Assi, will now play the role of Aamir Khan’s wife in his next titled Dangal. From what we hear, Sakshi Tanwar

was selected after the makers auditioned over 70 actresses for the role. While it was chemistry, comfort level and body language that the makers were looking for, they found that Sakshi fits the bill. It is also being said that Aamir and oth-ers were keen on casting a new face but ended up roping in the popular TV actress for the role af-ter a lot of discussions. However, it seems that Sakshi, will have to un-dergo intense diction training in Haryanvi.

Agency | Chennai

Tamil actor Vikram is currently sporting a han-dlebar moustache, much on the lines of Kamal Haasan’s look in his

1992 Tamil film ‘The-var Magan’. Though he refused to share details about it, it seems like the look is for one of his next yet-untitled Tamil

Agency | New Delhi

Deepika Padukone’s schedule is current-ly blocked with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s peri-od romance, ‘Bajirao Mastani’, which is rac-ing towards a Christmas release. With Priyanka Chopra who plays the Pe-shwa’s first wife, Kashi Bai, away in Montreal till September end, shoot-ing for her American TV show, ‘Quantico’, the

focus is on Deepika and her real life beau Ran-veer Singh. Ranveer’s action sequences had to be pushed forward after he fell off a horse and underwent a shoulder surgery. It’s pretty hectic on SLB’s sets currently. Yet, when Deepika learnt that she was needed for a poster shoot with Ranbir Kapoor for their upcom-ing love story, ‘Tamasha’, which opens a month ear-lier on November 27, she

was ready to make some adjustments in her dia-ry. Says a source close to the actress, “Bhansa-li has graciously agreed to let Deepika off for a day. It could be August 16 or 17 when she moves from Ranveer to Ranbir without any tamasha, off screen.” When contacted Deepika’s spokesperson confirmed that she had made time in her busy schedule for this photo shoot with Ranbir.

Agency | New Delhi

After his decent debut in Mukunda last year, Varun Tej, the nephew (yes, yet another nephew!) of ac-tor-politician Chiranjeevi, is back in circulation again with the first poster of his new Telugu film, Kanche. If in Mukunda our man fought local politicians and his henchmen for love and friendship, Kanche has Tej playing a soldier: The poster has the silhou-ette of a man, carrying a gun. The image is awash with the glow of a setting sun with a handwritten letter in Telugu and a Brit-ish India stamp to the right on which the soldier’s im-age is embossed. The base of the poster shows a war scene. Dark and gritty, the picture gives a hint of a flashback story, possibly of pre-independent Brit-

Sakshi Tanwar to play Aamir Khan’s wife in ‘Dangal’

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra has been invited to become the Grand Marshall and guest of honour at the prestigious New York In-dia Day Parade this year. The non resident Indians on August 16 will gath-er in New York from all across North America to

celebrate the indepen-dence of India. The “Kill Dil” star will be shar-ing this dais with super achievers from the NRI community, and will be interacting with them. Parineeti, 26, will also be ringing the opening trade bell at Nasdaq, apart from other key event appear-ances. “I believe India’s

story should be celebrat-ed everywhere, and the journey of NRI citizenry is nothing short of incred-ible. The most successful community of expatriates anywhere, I treasure this opportunity to celebrate our independence in such a festive manner in New York,” she said in a state-ment.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Kunal Khemu on August 12 unveiled the trailer of his action thrill-er Bhaag Johnny, direct-ed by Shivam Nair. “It was a unique story that I heard. The film is based on the saying that ev-eryone knows that your life is the result of your actions. The choices that you make direct the way in which your life moves ahead,” said Kunal. Zoa Morani, Mandana Karimi, Manasi Scott and Aseem Merchant were present at the launch. The film is a comeback

of sorts for Kunal after Go Goa Gone in 2013. When asked about his role in the thriller, Kunal said: “Due to certain rea-sons, he gets stuck in a position because of which he has to kill Tanya. Just when he thinks there is no other option in his life, he gets the opportunity to live both lives, one in which he kills Tanya and one where he rescues her. The film is about the results of his actions in both the lives.” Tanya is being played by Zoa Mo-rani, who was launched in Shah Rukh Khan’s

Kanche first look: Varun Tej mirrors a soldier’s dilemmaVikram’s handlebar

moustache look for his next?

Parineeti to be Grand Marshall of India Day parade in NY

Deepika Padukone makes time for poster boy Ranbir Kapoor

Kunal Khemu’s Two Lives in Comeback Film Bhaag Johnny

production Always Kabhi Kabhi. RJ-actor Manasi Scott is seen in a negative role, while Urvashi Rautela features in a song in the trailer, which also shows snip-pets of high-octane ac-tion. The film, produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series, will release on September 25.

“IT WAS A UNIQUE STO-RY THAT I HEARD. THE FILM IS BASED ON THE

SAYING THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT YOUR LIFE IS THE RESULT OF YOUR ACTIONS. THE CHOICES

THAT YOU MAKE DIRECT THE WAY IN WHICH YOUR

LIFE MOVES AHEAD,” SAID KUNAL

ish India. Another smaller image has a couple walk-ing in a distance with their cycles. Directed by Krish, known for the philosoph-ical content in his works, Kanche looks to be in line

with a slew of films with nationalistic flavour that have either released or are set to release in the next couple of months. Kanche’s teaser releases on August 15.

projects. On Thursday, Vikram revealed his new look at an event while promoting his upcoming Tamil thriller ‘10 En-drathukulla’, and when asked if it was for his next film, he convenient-ly dodged the question. In Vijay Milton-direct-ed ‘10 Endrathukulla’, Vikram told reporters that he essays dual roles. He also said that the film’s last schedule will be wrapped up by this month end. The film, jointly produced by AR Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios, will release worldwide on October 21. Vikram presently has two Tamil projects with directors Anand Shankar and Amid.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Tea report: Sri Lanka end Shikhar Dhawan’s vigil

Sensex keeps its head above water, spurts 37 points

Twitter lifts limits on direct messages between users

Xiaomi launches MIUI 7, Redmi Note 2, Redmi Note 2 Prime

Agency | New Delhi

The benchmark BSE Sensex changed gears after four sessions of loss and bounced back by over 37 points on Thursday after buying activity in beat-en-down blue-chips picked up on rate cut hopes triggered by a cooling inflation. Industrial output too cheered, which grew at a 4-month high of 3.8% in June. There were also news reports that a gov-ernment-appointed committee suggested that there was no legal basis to the imposition of the min-imum alternate tax (MAT) on foreign investors, which perked up mood. Global markets, on a high-er footing, played its part too. In a choppy trade, the 30-share Sensex opened on a firm note before settling at 27,549.53, up 37.27 points, or 0.14%. The broad-based NSE Nifty also ended marginally higher by 6.40 points, or 0.08%, at 8,355.85 after shuttling between 8,429.50 and 8,339.75 intra-day.

Agency | New Delhi

Twitter lifted its character limit Wednesday for di-rect messages between users, saying it would help make the private side of Twitter “more powerful and fun.” As a result, these private messages will no longer have the 140-character limit which ap-plies to tweets. “You can now chat on (and on) in a single Direct Message, and likely still have some characters left over,” said product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post. “While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements and events that unfold on Twit-ter,” Agarwal added. “Today’s change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun.” For now, the chang-es apply to Twitter users with Android and Apple mobile devices, online at twitter.com or on the TweetDeck application, although Agarwal said the change “will continue to roll out worldwide over the next few weeks.”

Agency | New Delhi

Chinese company Xiaomi has launched mid- range smartphones, Redmi Note 2 and Redmi Note 2 Prime in Beijing. According to The Next Web, the Redmi Note 2 is 4G-capable dual-SIM phone with a 5.5-inch full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels dis-play and comes with a 2GHz MediaTek Helio X10 octa-core processor. It also sports 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage as well as a MicroSD slot to add more storage space. Also, it features a 13-megapixel rear camera with phase detection autofocus and a 5-megapixel front camera for sel-fies. The handset packs a 3,060 mAh removable battery and an IR blaster for controlling the user’s home entertainment system. The Note 2 Prime comes with a more powerful 2.2GHz chip and the onboard storage at 32GB and has rest of the config-uration same as Redmi Note 2. In addition, Xiaomi has also announced MIUI 7. The two new Xiaomi smartphones will go on sale online starting in Chi-na on August 16.

Agency | Galle

Sri Lanka wrested back a fair slice of momentum during the afternoon ses-sion of the first Test, tak-ing four wickets - includ-ing centurions Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane for zero - as India took tea on 304/6 with a lead of 121. Two wickets in three deliveries from spinner Tharindu Kaushal had changed the complexion of play in Galle and gave Sri Lanka some desired lift after 64.3 overs with-out a breakthrough, and when Dhawan casually chopped onto his stumps 17 minutes before tea, the hosts had reason to feel chuffed. A second wicket for Pradeep on the verge of the interval lifted their spirits further. Until that moment of indiscretion, Dhawan had batted with poise and admirable presence of mind for a fine 134 from 271 deliv-eries, playing the lead in a stand of 227 - India’s third best on Sri Lankan soil - that erased the defi-cit and set the stage for India to pile on the lead. Usually a stroke-maker capable of scoring brisk-ly, Dhawan took over as chief accumulator while shunning his repertoire

Agency | Galle

A good four years into his international career, Ravichandran Ashwin must surely have won-dered at some stage what his record would have looked like if he were a

little more productive away from home. Histor-ically, all Indian spinners have struggled on foreign soil -even the great Anil Kumble did. If Ashwin has a few more dream days like he did here on

Saina, Srikanth win, Kashyap ousted at World Championships

Ravi Shastri’s pep talk in Australia was where it took off: R Ashwin

of expansive shots and instead relying on flicks and drives to march to his fourth Test hundred. Before today, the longest time at the crease Dha-wan had spent was 211 balls, back in Auckland in early 2014. Prior to that, he had never faced more than 195 balls in an innings, and only twice had he exceeded 145. Imperious and unfet-tered by pace, spin or the conditions until he was bowled by Pradeep, the left-hander had secured his fourth Test century in the morning session and built on that unfettered after lunch with his skip-per. Kohli’s 103 was his 11th century - and fourth in six innings as Test captain - and the deter-mination with which he snapped an internation-al century drought was

pleasing, though he will rue a silly sweep shot against Kaushal, who had bowled 101 deliveries without a wicket. Enter Rahane, who lasted five balls before he failed to get bat on a flighted de-livery from Kaushal and was rapped on the pads in front of the stumps. India’s lead at the time was 72. A couple of full tosses from Kaushal helped settle Saha in be-tween some deliveries that spun past the bat, and slowly an alliance was formed. Dhawan did not need to change his approach, because solid-ity and judgement out-side the off stump were what had taken him past his century already. Thus it was surprising when he almost lazily pushed at Pradeep and dragged the ball onto his stumps.

Hockey: India eye win in series decider against Spain today

UP Wizards retain Srejeesh, Raghunath for next two HILs

Agency | New Delhi

The Indian men’s hock-ey team will be aiming to clinch the three-match series against Spain when they will take on the hosts in the third and decisive match at Ter-rassa on Thursday. After enduring their first de-feat of the European tour against Spain 1-4 in their opening game, the Sardar Singh-led team produced a much improved perfor-mance by defeating the hosts 2-0 to level the se-ries on Wednesday. India had started their Euro-pean tour in an imperi-

Agency | New Delhi

Uttar Pradesh Wizards have retained five play-ers, including star goal-keeper P R Sreejesh and drag-flicker V R Raghu-nath for the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Hockey In-dia League (HIL). All the franchises had the option of retaining five players -- three Indians and three foreigners, but UP Wiz-ards today informed the HIL board that they have decided to retain just five players for the next two seasons of the tournament. UP Wizards made the de-cision post a detailed anal-ysis of the entire team and individual player’s con-tribution in the last few seasons. Besides Sreejesh

Agency | Indonesia

Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal and Kid-ambi Srikanth both ad-vanced in their respective singles encounters, while 10th-seeded Parupalli Kashyap was knocked out of the World Bad-minton Championships in Jakarta on Wednes-day. Nehwal exhibited imperious form to defeat Chinese Taipei’s Cheung Ngan Yi 21-13, 21-9 in the second-round match at Jakarta’s 9000-seater Istora Senayan arena. The World No 2 only needed 33 minutes to complete the formalities, collecting 42 of the 64 total points played in a completely

one-sided affair. Nehwal will next face the chal-lenge of 14th seed Japa-nese Sayaka Takahashi, who defeated Switzer-land’s Sabrina Jaquet 21-11, 21-17. Earlier in the day, Srikanth breezed past Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Jen Hao 21-14, 21-15, in the second-round match, taking just 36 minutes to collect the win. Srikanth was dominant through-out, collecting 42 of the 71 points played. He will next play 13th-seeded Hong Kong’s Hu Yun in the next round. Kashyap was knocked out of the tournament after losing 21-17, 13-21, 18-21 to Nguyen Tien Minh of

Vietnam in the second round in a match that stretched for an hour and five minutes. The Indian women’s dou-bles team of Jwala Gut-ta and Ashwini Ponnap-pa fared better, winning their second-round con-test against the Chinese Taipei duo of Hsieh Pei Chen and Wu Ti Jung 21-10, 21-18. The doubles specialists dominated the match from the very be-ginning and wrapped up the match in just 24 min-utes, winning 42 of the 70 total points played. They will next play the Japanese pair of Rei-ka Kakiiwa and Miyuki Maeda in the next round.

ous style as they claimed a 2-0 series win over

France before venturing into Spain.

Wednesday morning, that ‘away’ average of 42.82 will drop to re-spectable limits. There are very few spinners who have bowled with so much authority and control on the opening day of a Test match as Ashwin did on Wednes-day. In fact, he now has the best figures (6/46) for an Indian on Day One, bettering Bhagwat Chan-drasekhar’s 39-year-old record. “I am not look-ing too much into what is foreign and what is local performance. I tried to put an end to that kind of feeling. I want to move ahead and do better for the team. It’s an extraor-dinary performance to bowl out a team in a day, especially in Sri Lankan conditions after having lost the toss,” Ashwin said after the opening day’s play. The Tam-il Nadu offspinner has been India’s leading slow bowler in the last four years but was dropped for the first Test in Ade-laide last year when In-dia chose to play Karn Sharma in his place.

and Raghunath, the oth-er Indian player who has been retained by UP Wiz-ards is striker Ramandeep Singh. Apart from the Indian trio, the Wizards have also retained Aus-tralian midfielder Eddie Ockenden and Dutchman Jolie Wouter. Speaking on their decision to re-tain five players, Director

Sahara Adventure Sports Limited, Abhijit Sarkar said: “The choice of hold-ing back Sreejesh and Ra-ghunath was easy because while one is the regarded as one of the best goal-keepers in the world on Thursday, the other one of the best drag-flicker. So retaining them was the easiest choice for us.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

The chief of Sabar Dairy, Jethabhai Patel, was on Wednesday re-elected as the chairman of the Gu-jarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), for anoth-er three-year term. Pa-tel served as a stop-gap arrangement for about an year, following the unceremonious oust-er of former chairman Vipul Chaudhary. GC-MMF, popularly known as Amul, is Asia’s largest dairy cooperative market-ing body, which clocked an annual turnover of Rs 20,733 crore during 2014-15. GCMMF has chairmen of 17 dairy co-operatives in the state as its members on the board, of which 16 dairy cooperatives are under the control of BJP-af-filiated chairmen. Patel has a strong connection with the ruling BJP gov-ernment in the state, and the state government has backed his eleva-tion to the post, sources


Former Gujarat lokayukta and ex-judge of the Guja-rat High Court Justice S M Soni has been appoint-ed by the high-profile Rajpath Club to probe alleged discrepancies during the tenure of its former president Paresh Dani. He was president of the club till March this year. The decision to ap-point Justice Soni was taken after a board meet-ing of the club on July 23 by the new administra-


At a special book reading session organized at the IPS mess in Shahibaugh, additional DGP VK Mall; IIT professor Rita Kothari; sociologist Go-pika Solanki; and author, Noor Zaheer, engaged the audience in a debate on why archaic laws in any religion are not dis-cussed or criticized. Za-heer’s new book gives an account of the suffering in marriage endured by 160 Muslim women of UP and Bihar. It docu-ments the plight of wom-en accepted in ‘marriage’ and then abandoned at will by men. The book titled, ‘Denied by Allah, angst against archaic laws of Halala, Triple talaq, Mut’ah and Khula’, de-picts suffering of women under ‘patriarchal’ cus-toms and practices that

take away from wom-en any hope for a decent life. “This book is not an attempt to reinterpret the Holy Quran,” said Zaheer. “It is an attempt to show the way our laws have been interpreted to rele-gate Muslim women to being non-entities. Mus-lims in our country need to re-evaluate themselves. Why aren’t we engaging our Maulvis in discussions on Muslim personal laws or these laws? Our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was known to be quite secular. But he too did not do much to bring these issues to the discus-sion table.” Reading from her book about a wom-an who was subjected to Halala , in this practice a woman has to marry an-other man so that she can marry her husband again after divorce.


In a bizarre news, a goods train that set out from Jodhpur for Mun-dra Port in Gujarat on July 27 is reported to have gone missing for the past 17 days. The train was booked by an

exporter Ranjan Kansara from Jodhpur on July 14. On July 27, it was loaded with 90 containers each containing goods worth Rs 10 lakh and total ex-port materials worth Rs 9 crore. The train was to reach the destina-tion within 3 days but

been missing since then. Train’s online status shows it is in Ahmedabad since August 2, but it has not been found there. When Kansara filed a complaint with railway officials in Jodhpur, he was told rain could have delayed the train.


Sudden family tragedies stupefy even the wealthy and powerful, making it difficult for them to think clearly. But one girl from an underprivileged home proved that you don’t need deep pockets or ed-ucation to be generous -a large heart will do. When Nilam, a 20-year old girl who works as a domestic help, lost her mother in an accident, she decided to donate the latter’s or-gans. Her mother, Savita Prajapati, lived in the Sa-barmati area and was also a domestic help. She was 50 when she died in Feb-

ruary this year. “My moth-er was under treatment in hospital after the acci-dent,” said Nilam. “But doctors could not revive her and declared her brain dead after four days.” She said she then remembered that the organs of one of her friends had also been donated after she was killed in an accident. “My mother had studied only till class 2,” Nilam said. “She had lived a hard life working at six bungalows to earn a living. But she had a generous heart. She would have approved that her organs be donated af-ter her death if they could

give life to somebody critically ill.” Nilam has studied till class 9 and works in four houses to earn a living. Savi-ta’s kidneys were trans-planted in two women patients of renal failure; they had been waiting for a donor for two years. Priya Shah is transplant coordinator at the Insti-tute of Kidney Diseas-es and Research Center (IKDRC) where Savita’s kidneys were transplant-ed on their recipients. “It was moving to see Nilam and her brother donate their mother’s organs,” said Shah.


The resignation of 76-year-old Dalsukh Prajapati, who head-ed the Other Backward Class (OBC) cell of Con-gress’s Gujarat unit for over a decade, from the membership of the party shocked several leaders as there was no voice of dissent against him. Prajapati, who broke his 40-year association with Congress, twice served as Vadodara mayor and also won the 2002 Assembly elections from Sayaji-gunj seat. Prajapati was considered to have cor-dial ties with all previous state party chiefs and that could be the reason why he continued as OBC cell chief from the tenure of Amarsinh Chaudhary to Arjun Modhwadia. He

was not disturbed even during the previous stint of Bharatsinh Solan-ki, who is again head-ing the state unit since March this year. While Prajapati said “the par-ty’s lack of concern for the poor” drove him to resign, Congress leaders said he was inactive for the last several years” and the party leadership was contemplating to replace him. State par-ty spokesperson Manish Doshi said Congress had convened a meeting of the OBC cell thrice in the last two months, but Prajapati did not turn up even once. “This indicat-ed he was not interested,’ said Doshi. Doshi said the current period was crucial for the party be-cause of the upcoming civic elections.


Profit can be thicker than blood, at least in Guja-rat. A Comptroller and Auditor General report reveals a grim picture of state-governed blood banks in Gujarat, which sold blood components for profit, which over-charged HIV patients, and where government oversight was apparent-ly so relaxed that it led to the loss of at least one life. The CAG re-port on the general and social sector was tabled in the Gujarat legisla-tive assembly in March during the monsoon ses-sion. It says that between

2011 and 2014, 10 blood banks sold 52,000 litres of “fresh frozen plasma” for Rs 6.17 crore in con-travention of the nation-al rules. The National Blood Policy clearly pro-hibits sale of blood in the country, yet these blood banks “traded in blood components”, vending plasma to three pharma-ceutical companies for fractionation, a process whereby blood is sepa-rated into its component parts. This wasn’t the only breach of the na-tional policy. Violating rules that forbid accept-ing payment for blood or blood components for

thalassaemia and hae-mophilia patients who need repeated life-saving blood transfusions, three “charitable” blood banks charged such patients ex-orbitant service charges totalling Rs 19.61 lakhs. Furthermore, of the 32 blood banks CAG exam-ined, seven overcharged HIV patients, even though the National Aids Control Organisation in-structs not to do so. To-gether, these banks col-lected “excess... service charge of Rs 4.82 crore for 3.14 lakh units of blood or blood compo-nents” from HIV patients during 2011-’14.


Justice Jayant Patel, the senior-most judge in the Gujarat High Court, was named Acting Chief Jus-tice (ACJ) after Justice V M Sahai retired on Wednesday. Justice Pa-tel will take over as ACJ on Thursday. Confirming the development, High Court registrar B N Karia said that a notification has been issued announcing the appointment of Jus-

tice Patel as the next ACJ. Justice Patel (59), who is from Junagadh district, was elevated as addi-tional judge in the High Court in 2001 and was confirmed as permanent judge in 2004. His name figures in the suo motu PIL questioning the resi-dential plots allotted to 27 sitting and former judges. The PIL was taken up by justice Patel’s prede-cessor Justice Sahai on

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Justice Jayant Patel named new Acting CJ of Gujarat HC

Rajpath Club appoints former lokayukta to probe ‘irregularities’ during ex-president Dani’s tenure

Jethabhai Patel re-elected chairman of Amul

Blood banks in Gujarat sold blood to pharma companies for crores

tion, which is currently headed by Jagdish Patel, who led ‘Member’s Pow-er panel’ that swept the Rajpath polls in March with 27 of its candidates winning as against three from the rival Paresh Dani-led ‘United Raj-path’ camp. The board wants Justice Soni to probe cricket betting in-cident that led to police raid on its premises, in-stances of substandard food, a software com-pany being paid Rs 35 lakh despite incomplete

work and discrepancies in multi-level parking project causing a loss of 5-6 crore, said Patel. “Similarly, the issue of membership transfer af-ter a member expires has also not been followed in many cases, which needs to be investigated as this constitutes criminal of-fence as per club rules. The board decided that discrepancies by the for-mer management should be probed and Justice SM Soni was appointed to head the probe and he

accepted this position almost 15 days back,” he said. Patel said Soni will receive assistance from the club adminis-tration in the probe at its premises and his recom-mendation will be taken up by the club to initiate proceedings against its past president for the alleged discrepancies. Dani said, “I will give my clarifications when asked by the former high court judge.” Inci-dentally, the final count-ing of Rajpath Club poll votes had taken place in presence of officials appointed by the High Court under the supervi-sion of Observer Justice (Retired) DA Mehta at the Diamond Hall of the club and was kept in a sealed cover at the club premises and disclosed Tuesday.

Monday and notices were issued to all the judg-es. The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings for four

weeks and also ordered to delete the names of all the judges who have been impleaded in the petition as parties.

in the federation said. Patel’s nomination was proposed by Parthibhai Bhatol, chairman, Ban-askantha Milk Union, and supported by Ram-sinhbhai Bhetaria, chair-man, Junagadh Milk Union. Patel, a veteran dairy cooperative leader with strong connection with the ruling BJP in Gujarat, has served as the head of the Sabarkan-tha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, or Sabar Dairy, at Himmatnagar twice over, and was elevated to the post of the chairman of the GCMMF with the backing of the state gov-ernment in August last year, to fill in the vacancy caused by the ouster of

Chaudhary in January the same year. “Jetha Patel was unanimously elect-ed as the chairman of the GCMMF by the board. The election was held in the presence of heads of all 17 dairy union mem-bers who voted unani-mously to elect Patel, thus maintaining the tradition of unanimous election of GCMMF chairman,” said managing director R S Sodhi, soon after the meeting of the board that was attended by the heads of 17 dairy cooperatives which are members of the GCMMF, along with a cooperative registrar and GCMMF managing director, who have the power to vote to elect the chairman.

Prajapati wasn’t interested in party work, says Congress

Goods train which left Jodhpur for Gujarat missing since 17 days

Hold of religious codes discussed at IPS mess

It’s the heart that donates, not deep pockets

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