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News BriefJaitley apprehends

wash out of Winter session

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today appre-hended a “wash out” of the current Winter ses-sion and invoked Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to remind Congress of the responsibility of MPs for governance of the country through Parlia-ment. “The last session of the Parliament did not function.The current session of the Parlia-ment is also threatened with a wash out. The reasons for the wash out of the current session keep changing by the hour.

Talks with Pak beginning with

trust, says Swaraj

Ranveer is emotionally

vulnerable: Deepika

Agency | New Delhi

Rejecting any “flip flop”, India today as-serted that the decision to re-start talks with Pakistan was based on “trust” and said the in-tent would be to have an “uninterrupted” di-alogue process despite provocations by the “saboteurs”, an appar-ent reference to terror groups.

Agency | Mumbai

Fans might swoon over Ranveer Singh’s cheeky, flirtatious na-ture but “Bajirao Mas-tani” co-star Deepika Padukone says the ac-tor’s emotional side is what she connects with more. Deepika, who has also worked with Ranveer in “Ram Lee-la”, said she finds his hidden side more relat-able. “From the little bit I know him, he is a different person when he is with him family and friends than what he is out there in public. I feel the public does not get to see a certain side of him.

Ahmedabad-London flight service to commence from today“Air India’s first direct flight”

Service between Ahmedabad and London will take off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport

London-Ahmedabad direct flightSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Air India’s first direct dai-ly flight service between Ahmedabad and London will take off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel In-ternational Airport here early tomorrow, airline officials said today. The announcement comes a month after Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi an-nounced during his Lon-don visit that there will be a direct flight between Ahmedabad and London.

Agency | New Delhi

A political row has erupt-ed over the death of a six-month-old girl during the Railways demolition drive at Shakurbasti Ce-ment Siding, Delhi with the AAP government blaming the tragedy on the demolition. However, the sequence of events lead-ing to the tragedy suggest that the girl died before the demolition work be-gan. Sources said, Rukai-ya Khatoon, the youngest of three children, died at least three hours before demolition work began after being buried under the heap of clothes inside her house. According to the post mortem re-port from Sanjay Gandhi Hospital where the girl

Agency | New Delhi

Coast guard DIG BK Loshali has been sacked following a board of in-quiry over his comments that contradicted the gov-ernment’s stand on the sinking of a Pakistan boat last year. “He was dis-missed from services af-ter the Board of Inquiry found him guilty of all the charges on Saturday. The inquiry was conducted by a panel of senior DIG (deputy inspector gener-al) rank officers for over three months,” said a se-nior Coast Guard official. On eve the of New Year last year, a Pakistani boat said to be carrying explo-sives was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard off the coast of Gujarat, but the vessel exploded and caught fire before sinking along with four occupants.

Delhi: Has Kejriwal govt jumped the gun by blaming girl’s death on demolition?

Coast guard dismisses Loshali for ‘Pak boat blown up’ remark

Defence minister Mano-har Parrikar had said the “circumstantial evidence” indicated that the Paki-stani boat had suspected terror links. Dismissing claims that the occupants of boat were smugglers, the minister had said he would classify them as “suspected or possible terrorists” since they had committed suicide af-ter being intercepted and added that they were in touch with Pakistani mar-itime officials, “army and international contacts”.

While the government has claimed that the Pakistani boat had been set on fire by its crew, Loshali told an audience of Coast Guard and Larsen & Toubro of-ficials on February 15 that he had ordered to blow off the boat, which was a major embarrassment for the government as well as the Coast Guard. On “31st December night. I was there at Gandhinagar, and I told at night, blow the boat off. We don’t want to serve them biryani,” Loshali had said.

had been declared dead on Sunday, death was due to shock as result of chest and head injury by blunt force impact. All injuries are ante-mortem in nature and possible in manner as alleged. As per the post mortem report the deceased was taken to SGM Hospital at 11.35am where she was declared dead. According to a railway release, the ‘police clearance to com-

mence the encroachment removal activity was giv-en at 11.50 am, therefore the death of the child has no connection with the activity of encroachment removal which started at about 12.00 hours and concluded at 6pm.’ Rail-ways Minister Suresh Prabhu also said on Mon-day in Parliament that the 6-month-old girl died be-fore the Delhi slum dem-olition began. According

to police sources, the girl was asleep on the bed in-side shanty umber 488 lo-cated at the end of the JJ cluster. At about 8 am on Sunday, the residents were informed of the proposed demolition drive. The railway officials pasted notices on walls of some shanties as well, sources said. The girl’s parents claimed that they left their daughter asleep inside the house and went outside to talk with the neigh-bours about the demoli-tion drive. When they re-turned at about 9.15 am, they found their daughter under a heap of clothes which had been kept on a wooden table. The heap of clothes had apparently fallen on her.

Agency | New Delhi

Team India’s batting star Rohit Sharma on Sunday married long-time girlfriend Ritika Sajdeh in a grand cere-mony in Mumbai. The wedding was solemnised at Poolside in Hotel Taj Lands, followed by a reception. The stylish right-hander sported a Raghavendra Rathore outfit for the wedding and a Troy Costa suit for the recep-tion. Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and wife, as well as Rohit’s Team India colleagues graced the occasion.

Rohit Sharma weds Ritika Sajdeh; Sachin Tendulkar, Team India stars present

This will be a daily service from to-morrow. The inaugural flight ‘AI-131’ will take off from Ahmedabad at 4.30 am tomorrow and will arrive at Mum-bai at 5.45am. From Mumbai it will

take off at 7.05 am and land at London at 11.30 am on that day,” Air India Ex-ecutive Director, Corporate Affairs, Anil Mehta said. The flight will oper-ate with a B-787 Dreamliner aircraft on

the Ahmedabad-Mum-b a i - L o n d o n - M u m -bai-Ahmedabad route, he said adding that the pas-sengers will not need to change the flight at Mum-bai during the halt, he added. On the return leg, flight AI-130 will leave London at 13.30 pm, ar-rive at Mumbai at 4.00 am the next day, and de-part from Mumbai at 5.30 am to land in Ahmedabad at 6.45 am, Mehta add-ed. “The entire journey would last around eight hours. Though there is a halt at Mumbai for one hour, passengers need not alight for security checks or to change aircraft. At

present, 70 per cent of the seats are booked for the inaugural flight from here tomorrow, which is a good sign,” Mehta said. According to another top official of Air India, re-turn fare for the economy class is around Rs 45,000, while people wanting to travel in executive class need to shell out Rs 1.5 lakh for two-way journey. “The Dreamliner aircraft is very spacious with 238 seats in economy class and 18 seats in executive class. We are introducing this direct flight service after two years of exten-sive research and delib-erations. We are confi-dent of getting very good response,” said Mukesh Bhatia, General Manag-er-Commercial (Western Region). This flight ser-

vice is “direct” and not “non-stop” at present, Mehta announced that it will become non-stop in the mid of January. “The halt at Mumbai will not be there in near future, as we are planning to turn the service into a non-stop one during the mid of January,” announced Mehta. This direct flight service between the two cities is being resumed af-ter a gap of almost seven years, as it was stopped in 2008 after it proved “commercially unviable”. According to an official statement of the airline, this flight will be a boon to the 1.5 million-strong Indian diaspora living in Britain, catering to the strong demand of more than six lakh Indians from Gujarat.

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DAYResumed India-Pakistan dialogue is welcome

The good news that India and Pakistan will resume their “comprehensive bilateral dialogue” should be greeted with careful expectations about the road ahead. The revival of the dialogue, which covers a multitude of issues, including counter-terrorism, economic and commercial cooperation, humanitar-ian issues, border arguments and the future of Kash-mir, was made in Islamabad on December 9, after a two- year hiatus. The announcement followed a series of quiet meetings between the leadership of the two countries in the last month. The key to the breakthrough appears to be a Pakistani commitment to move forward with bringing to justice the perpe-trators of the November 26, 2008 attack on Mumbai. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had promised Washington during his visit last month that Paki-stan would take action against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group responsible for the attack. Since the head of the LeT, Hafiz Saeed, operates openly in Pakistan and enjoys the strong support of Pakistani intelligence, many in India are understandably scep-tical that Nawaz can deliver. Let us see if he can. If Pakistan does take concrete and verifiable actions against the LeT, the burden will quickly move to try-ing to find some movement on the most contentious issue of them all, the future of Jammu and Kashmir. No one expects an early breakthrough on that score, but there are useful lessons to be learned by review-ing the one previous intensive eff-ort to resolve the conflict. That was in the wake of the 1962 Chinese invasion of India. In 1962, one of US President John F. Kennedy’s most serious challenges during the Si-no-Indian war was to keep Pakistan from opening a second front against India. Then Pakistan President Ayub Khan told Kennedy that he wanted “compen-sation” from India in Kashmir for Pakistan’s neutral-ity during the war. Kennedy made clear to Ayub that no such compensation would be tolerated, and that Pakistani intervention in the war in the Himalayas would be seen by Washington as a hostile act. After the war ended in November, Kennedy did encourage India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir that went on for six rounds through 1963. The lessons of this history are still relevant today. A territorial settlement between India and Pakistan remains a bridge too far. The fo-cus should be on much more tangible achievements aimed at improving the life of Kashmiris on both sides of the border, and de-escalating tensions. Here again, tangible action by Pakistan against the LeT and other terrorists should be a priority.

“Nothing has changed on the ground. Because we had said that terror and talks cannot go together, Whenever talks happen, that is based on trust….There is a need to bridge the gulf (with Pakistan),”

- external Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, while briefing Parliament on her recent visit to Pakistan..

Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan pose together

Sunny Leone planning for a baby

Hrithik Roshan excited to see Farhan Akhtar perform stunts in ‘Wazir’

Honoured with Padma Vibhushan, Dilip Kumar tears up

Salman Khan and Iulia Vantur getting married in 2016?

Dulquer Salman and Parvathy shine in ‘Charlie’ trailer

Agency | Mumbai

Veteran actor Rishi Ka-poor remembered his father Raj Kapoor on his 91st birth anniversary today. A noted actor of his time, Raj Kapoor is often referred to as ‘The Show Man’. Rishi took it to micro-blogging site Twitter to share a pic of ‘Showman of the Mil-lenium’ Raj Kapoor. He tweeted, ““Happy Birth-day”,papa. He would have been 91!” Raj Ka-

poor, is known for his amazing performances in movies like ‘Mera Naam Joker’, ‘Shree 420’, ‘Jis Desh Mein Ganga Beh-ti Hai’, ‘Awara’, etc. He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1971 followed by Dada Saheb Phalke award in 1987. In 2001, Indian Postal Services also released a postal stamp with his picture in order to hon-our the thespian. Here’s wishing the legend a very Happy Birthday.

Agency | New Delhi

Sunny Leone is planning to become a mother soon. Husband Daniel Weber and she have been think-ing of becoming parents for a long time, but have not been able to find the right time for Sunny to take that break amidst her hectic schedule. But now, there’s pressure for parenthood. Says Sunny, “We both want a child. We’re just trying to fig-ure out the best time for that. I do know my moth-er-in-law was complain-ing last week. She wants a grandchild and we are taking too long.” Sharing her recipe for a long-last-ing marriage Sunny says, “Daniel is my best friend. We’ve seen the best of times and the worst of times together. I can consult him about

Agency | New Delhi

Home minister Rajnath Singh honoured veteran actor Dilip Kumar with the Padma Vibhushan—India’s second highest civilian award — on Sun-day, two days after his 93rd birthday. Famous-ly known as the tragedy king, the veteran actor has immortalised films like Devdas, Mughal-e-Azam, Naya Daur, Madhuma-ti, Ram Aur Shyam and Saudagar with his bril-liant performance. Leg-endary actor Dilip Kumar was presented the Padma Vibhushan at his resi-dence in suburban Band-ra. The 93-year-old legend was presented a medal, a certificate and a shawl by Singh, in the presence of the actor’s wife Saira Bano. When asked about

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan’s marriage is a topic that has kept many a Bollywood lov-er occupied for several years now. Every single time Salman is spotted with some lady or the other, be it a Bollywood actor or someone else, the grapevine works itself into a tizzy over Salman Khan’s ‘mystery wom-an’. As recently as a few months ago too, yet an-other tsunami of rumours drowned the internet. This time around, it was said that Salman Khan might have gotten engaged to the woman he is suppos-edly in a relationship with

Agency | Mumbai

Dulquer Salman, Mala-yalam cinema’s current heartthrob, is back with

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Hrithik Roshan, who has worked with Farhan Akhtar recently saw the trailer of ‘Wazir’ and is gung ho about it. Watching Farhan per-form stunts for the first time in a movie alongside megastar Amitabh Bach-chan is like a treat for his friends in the indus-try. The trailer of ‘Wazir; recently hit screens and Farhan has been gar-nered with words of ap-preciation from all over. Looking at the trailer it has become hard for his friends and fans to be-

Agency | New Delhi

Sushmita Sen posted a picture of her posing with her one-time rival and beauty queen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Twit-ter from the recent party hosted by Mukesh Am-bani and his wife. Both Sushmita and Aishwarya, who have often been pitted against each oth-er, look cheerful as they pose. This epic picture has put all the rumours to rest. Posting the pic-ture on Twitter, Sushmi-ta wrote, “2 decades of a fairytale,V celebrate it all!!! Beauty has no rival-ry..it gives, glows n grows cheers b’ful.” Sushmita and Aishwarya repre-sented Indian at a beauty pageant where Aishwarya was the first runner up. Ever since the two have allegedly shared a rival-ry, but with this picture,

Rishi Kapoor remembers his father Raj Kapoor on his 91st birth anniversary

anything, any problem. He is always there for me. I can lean on him for anything, no matter how silly.” Sunny is hap-py to let Daniel (also her manager) take control of her life. “I believe I have been given that chance that every actor wants

in life. My husband and I work together on every deal in what I want to do and what I don’t. I make the final decision in my life and its probably me who wants things wa-ter-tight.” With her hus-band around, Sunny’s life is stress-free.

Kumar’s reaction at re-ceiving the award, Saira later told reporters that, “He has always been quiet about himself. He is hap-py, he smiled and there were tears in his eyes. He is an emotional and sensi-tive person. For him ma-terial things do not mat-ter. He is a simple man, down to earth.” Rajnath Singh had tweeted about

his arrival in Mumbai on Sunday morning for the event. Maharashtra Gov-ernor C Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, were among other dignitaries present at the actor’s home when he received the award. “Dilip Kumar will be honoured with Padma Vibhushan on December 13 at his resi-dence here.

- Romanian TV personal-ity Iulia Vantur. However, back then, Salman’s sister Arpita Khan Sharma had trashed all rumours of her brother having exchanged rings with Iulia Vantur. Salman too, said how he loved the rumour about his engagement. That Salman Khan has stayed a bachelor all these years

hasn’t escaped the prying eyes of anybody who is even remotely clued in into the happenings of Bollywood. In interviews over the years, both Sal-man and people close to him have pointed out how Salman’s court cases were the reason the actor hadn’t tied the knot all these years.

Sushmita seems to have made it clear that there is nothing to be worried about between them and the beauties are good to-

gether. The same year, both Sushmita and Aish-warya won Miss Universe and Miss World pageants respectively.

lieve that he will be seen doing stunts on screen. Hrithik Roshan took to Twitter to share about what he feels about his ‘buoy’ after watching him in the trailer. Hrithik wrote, “My buoy @Fa-rOutAkhtar u r killing it!! #Wazirtrailerrocks! @

SrBachchan how do u do it!@aditiraohydari can’t stop stunning! Congrats 2 d team.” Hrithik and Far-han have worked together in ‘Lakshya’ and ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’. Di-rected by Bejoy Nambiar ‘Wazir’ is set to release on 8th January 2016.

his latest film Charlie, co-starring Parvathy. The film is directed by Mar-tin Prakkat of ABCD fame, which also starred Dulquer. Though the 1 minute 53 seconds trail-er does not reveal much, it does promise pow-erful performances by Dulquer and Parvathy. Actors Nedumudi Venu, Aparna Gopinath, Neeraj Madhav, Radhakrishnan Chekyat, Chemban Vinod Jose also star in the mov-ie. The soothing music is composed by Nation-al Award winning Gopi Sundar. The fiilm is pro-duced by Shebin Backer, Joju George and Martin Prakkat himself. The film will be released on com-ing Friday, December 15, 2015.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPHate Facebook? Survey Shows Why you Log in Again

Twitter warning users against state-sponsored cyber attacks

Sensex ends 106 points up at 25,150 in a volatile trade; Nifty settles at 7,650

Agency | New Delhi

Have you felt like walking away from Facebook or to shut down your account swearing never to return, only to meekly log back in a week later? You are not alone. Researchers from Cornell Uni-versity have found four key reasons why people make the pledge not to log in to Facebook but ul-timately could not resist the allure of Facebook’s social network. “The first reason is perceived ad-diction. Those who feel that Facebook is addictive or habitual were more likely to return,” said lead researcher Eric Baumer. One participant described this habitual aspect by saying, “In the first 10 days, whenever I opened up an internet browser, my fingers would automatically go to ‘f.’” Another reason is privacy and surveillance. Users who felt their Facebook activity was being monitored were less likely to revert, while those who use Facebook largely to manage how other people think of them

are more likely to log back in.

Agency | New Delhi

Twitter Inc has alerted some users that state-spon-sored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive data from their accounts, the first such warning by the micro blogging site. The notice said there was no indication the hackers obtained sensitive infor-mation from what it said were a “small group of accounts” targeted. It did not provide additional in-formation about the attack or possible suspects in its investigation. Twitter’s notice is the latest amid concern about cyber attacks by state-sponsored organisations. Government agencies, businesses and media have all been hacked. Recently, Goo-gle and Facebook also started issuing warnings to users possibly targeted by state-sponsored attacks. A story in New York Times had indicated that the federal department found out about those attacks

because of the alert system.

Agency | New Delhi

The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty rose on Monday after touching a more than three-month low earlier in the session as buying at lower levels supported market ahead of the US Federal Reserve meeting later this week. Investors were also somewhat com-forted after data released late on Friday showed in-dustrial output grew a much stronger-than-expected 9.8 per cent in October from a year earlier, its fastest pace in five years. Sensex closed 105.92 points up at 25150.35, while Nifty 50 index settled 39.60 points up at 7650.05. In the 50-share index, Adani Ports, Hindalco, Coal India, ZEEL and Ambuja Cements gained between 2.50 per cent and 5.80 per cent. On the other hand, Axis Bank, Tata Motors, Bharti Airtel, ONGC and State Bank of India fell between 0.70 per cent and 2.15 per cent. Shreyash Devalkar, fund manager, equities, BNP Paribas Mutual Fund, said, “Key benchmark indices started the week on a positive note after touching more than a three month low earlier in the session. While investors resorted to some value buying, there seems to widespread cau-tion ahead of the Fed’s meeting on the 16th of this month.” Among the sectoral indices on the BSE, the BSE Metal index gained the most — 2.40 per cent, followed by BSE IT index (up 0.83 per cent), BSE TECk index (up 0.79 per cent) and BSE Healthcare index (up 0.71 per cent.) The BSE Realty, BSE Cap-ital Goods, BSE Oil & Gas and BSE Bankex slid 0.19 per cent, 0.15 per cent, 0.14 per cent and 0.01 per cent, respectively.

Wasim Akram warns Pakistan Cricket Board not to boycott T20 World Cup in India

Indian Premier League: MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane up for grabs in Players’ draft

Peshawar signs Andy Flower as mentor for Pakistan Super League

Anirban Lahiri savours winning Asian Tour’s Order of Merit

A playful rhino as mascot, a Bhupen Hazarika song as theme for 12th South Asian Games

West Indies’ Marlon Samuels banned from bowling for 12 months

Agency | Mumbai

India’s limited-overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, along with his teammates Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rah-ane, Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin, among others, will be up for grabs for the two new IPL teams in the draft to be held here on Tuesday. Sanjeev Goenka’s New Rising won the bid for the Pune franchise while In-tex won the bid for Rajkot after a reverse bidding process held in Delhi on Decmber 8 to replace sus-pended teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajas-than Royals for the next two editions to be held in 2016 and 2017. Also

Agency | Karachi

Former Pakistan skip-per Wasim Akram has warned the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of not boycotting the 2016 World Twenty20 in In-dia, saying that non-par-ticipation of his country will affect the team in the long run. The former pace spearhead urged Pa-kistan to participate in the ICC event at any cost. Reflecting on the stalled India-Pakistan bilateral series, the 49-year-old left-hander insisted that his country’s cricket can survive without playing against India. Akram admitted that the Indian Government had taken a lot of time to decide on the series but added that he still remains hopeful about the series taking place in the near future.

Agency | Karachi

Former England coach Andy Flower has been signed on as the batting consultant and mentor of the Peshawar franchise in the upcoming Pakistan Super League. And if the Peshawar franchise gun for England’s discarded batsman Kevin Pietersen in the players draft, on December, it could be the first reunion between the two since Flower had to step down as head coach after the Ashes 2013-14. Pietersen has already made his intention of participation in the PSL clear via a video message and is said to be among a top favourite for the five franchis-es in the T20 competition. The PSL is due to be held in Dubai and Sharjah in February and the Peshawar franchise has announced former Pakistan bowling coach Muham-mad Akram as their head coach and Flower as their batting consultant and mentor. Pi-etersen was unceremoniously dumped by the England and Wales Cricket Board and

Agency | Sentosa

India’s Anirban Lahiri has described lift-ing the coveted 2015 Asian Tour’s Order of Merit crown as “really special” as he reset his goals to winning in America and becoming a Major champion in the near future. The 28-year-old enjoyed a stellar campaign this season where he won twice on the region s premier Tour, broke into the world s top-50, posted a top-five finish in a Major, qualified for his maiden Presidents Cup and earned his PGA Tour card. As he savoured the rewards, Lahiri said he was honoured to join Asian golf legends such as Thong-

chai Jaidee and Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand and countrymen Jeev Milkha Singh, Arjun Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa as Asia s number one golfer. “It’s some-thing that I’ve always wanted to win,” said Lahiri, who finished third and sec-ond on the Merit list in 2013 and 2014 respectively. “I feel really happy and it makes me really proud to be in the same league of players like Thongchai, Jeev, Arjun, Thaworn and Jyoti as they are all legends of the game and have won the Order of Merit. It s nice to be in the same bracket and have something in common. It s something that is really special.”

Agency | Guwahati

Tikhor, a rhino calf as a sharp, naughty, sporty, and modern boy, was on Sunday here declared as the mascot for the up-coming 12th South Asian Games that will be held simultaneously in Guwa-hati and Shillong from February 6 to 16, 2016. A Bhupen Hazarika song on the other hand has been chosen as the theme song of the event. Unveiling the mascot Tikhor, along with the logo of the event – a flower with eight pet-als representing the eight participating nations – jointly with Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, union sports minister Sarbananda said Tikhor not only represented an energetic all-rounder, but would also focus on the

Agency | New Delhi

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has been banned from bowl-ing for 12 months by the International Cricket Council after undergo-ing testing on his action. It is the second ban for the 34-year-old, whose off-spin bowling is only used on a part-time ba-sis by West Indies. He was reported for an ille-gal action following the first test defeat against Sri Lanka in October and had testing at the ICC accredited testing centre in Brisbane earlier this month. “The assessment revealed that Samuels’ elbow extension ex-ceeded 15 degrees while bowling and, thus, he em-ployed an illegal bowl-ing action,” the world governing body said in a statement. “As this re-port constitutes the play-

natural heritage of the Northeast in the form of a rhino calf. “With tra-ditional and sporty cos-tumes, Tikhor would be playing all games and welcoming every new idea in sports,”he said. The highly endangered one-horned rhinoceros is also the state animal of Assam. Tikhor inciden-tally is a popular charac-ter in Assamese folk lit-erature, who figures in a story called “Tikhor aru Chutibai”immortalized

by Sahityarathi Lakshmi-nath Bezbaroa, the doy-en of modern Assamese literature in“Burhi Aair Sadhu” – the first col-lection of Assamese folk stories published more than 100 years ago. Tik-hor, a naughty, energet-ic orphan boy, not only plays various pranks in the story, but by dint of his presence of mind also helps his sister Chutibai survive all odds includ-ing fighting a tiger that had plotted to eat them.

available for picking by the Twenty20 League’s two new franchises are other top international stars such as New Zea-lander Brendon McCul-lum, Australia’s Shane Watson, now retired from international cricket, and current captain Steven Smith, and West Indi-an all-rounder Dwayne Bravo from a total of 50 cricketers, who played

for suspended IPL teams CSK and RR in the last edition earlier this year. Pune will be given the choice to pick the players first because they were the lowest bidders (nega-tive bids) to buy the new team for two years in the draft to be held at the Mumbai Cricket Associ-ation’s recereation cen-tre at the Bandra Kurla Complex.

Earlier, PCB chief Sha-haryar Khan had said that they had decided to give up on the series after failing to receive a necessary reply from the BCCI and is likely to make the announcement about the same on Mon-day. A memorandum of understanding (MoU)

signed between the PCB and BCCI, both countries are scheduled to play six series between 2015 and 2023 after a clearance from the Indian Gov-ernment. India have not played a full bilateral Test series with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

er’s second suspension within a two-year period, he is now automatically suspended from bowling in international cricket for a 12-month period.” Samuels has already served a near four-year bowling ban from 2008 over concerns with his action but was allowed to resume in 2011 after

remedial work. He was reported again following a test in India in 2013 and subsequently banned from bowling his quicker deliveries but had been allowed to continue with his standard off-break. He will not be allowed to apply to have his action re-assessed until the ban ends, the ICC added.

team management, after the Ashes post a public fallout particularly with Flow-er and has since said that: “Flower had it in for me since he took over.” The discarded England batsman alongside West Indian Chris Gayle and Paki-stan’s Shahid Afridi are among the top draw in the PSL players draft due to be held later this December.

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Correspondent | Lucknow

Patel Navnirman Sena (ABPNS) has indefinite-ly deferred the proposed kisan mahapanchayat of its leader Hardik Patel, which was scheduled to be held on Tuesday in Varanasi. As December 15 is the death anniversa-ry of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Hardik had chosen the date to target the Modi government on the farm-ers’ issues. Varanasi is the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi. ABPNS took the decision to postpone the mahapanchayat after the bail plea of Hardik, the Patidar quota agita-tion leader, was rejected by a court in Surat recent-

Correspondent | Rajkot

A major fire at Vanakbara harbour in Diu gutted at least four fishing trawl-ers, 30 huts and scores of vehicles on Sunday. No death or injury was re-ported in the incident. Ac-cording to officials, fire started at one of the huts lining the jetty at 7.55 am and soon spread to other parts of the harbour. The blaze was doused by 4.30 pm after firefighters from Diu (UT), Veraval, Ko-dinar and Una towns of Gujarat as well as Gujarat Ambuja Cement Limit-ed plant in Kodinar were pressed into service. In the shanties, many fisher-men store barrels of die-sel, cooking gas cylinders

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Special Operation Group (SOG) of city crime branch arrested two brothers, Mofizul Shaikh, 20 and Shabud-ding Shaikh, 25, residents of Murshidabad in West Bengal, with fake cur-rency notes worth Rs 8 lakh. In a span of 10 days this is the second seizure of duplicate currency by SOG. Top cops said that Rs 1.5 crore worth of du-plicate notes have been pumped into Delhi, Gu-jarat and Maharashtra. Earlier, SOG had arrested Babu Mulla of Fatehwadi and Mohammed Ishrar of Uttar Pradesh with a con-signment of Rs 10 lakh worth of fake currency notes. “Mulla and Ishrar

had confessed that in No-vember they had pumped in Rs 15 lakh worth of fake notes in Ahmedabad market alone. A week after that SOG officials nabbed the kingpin of the scam, Raees Syed from Uttar Pradesh,” said a se-nior crime branch official. Following the same lead, assistant commissioner of police, SOG, BC Solanki arrested the brothers from near Astodia Darwaja on Sunday morning. SOG of-ficials said, “Mofizul has confessed that he stored fake notes at his house in Thane near Mumbai. During interrogation the duo claimed that they have been pumping fake notes in Maharashtra, Gu-jarat and Delhi since the two years. “

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Not just the number of seats, even the vote share in the recent Gujarat civic polls says so -- the Con-gress is well ahead of the BJP in the villages, while making marginal gains in the cities. The data re-leased by the state elec-tion commission on Mon-day, twelve days after the results were announced, showed that Congress has a 3% lead over BJP in the rural areas. In cities, BJP’s vote share has gone down marginally compared to the 2010 elections, though it still came out on top. In the 31 district panchayats, the Congress’s vote share has gone up to 47.85%, from 44% in 2010. The

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In view of the possibil-ity of oil spill in the sea near coast of western In-dian state of Gujarat due to heavy traffic of ships, the State Forest and Envi-ronment department has decided to prepare a risk mitigation and response plan to save the fragile eco-system and under-water habitat of marine species. According to of-ficials, a high-level com-mittee would be formed to study the risk potential of oil spill, which can be a major ecological disas-ter for sea-life, and come up with a comprehensive plan suggesting ways to avoid such disasters. “Our aim is to save the marine life and their habitat. If oil gets spilled in the sea near our coast, it will spell

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The bilateral trade between India and South Africa cur-rently stands at US$15 bil-lion and both the countries are trying to take it beyond US$20 billion by 2018. India and South Africa historically sharefriendly terms like Mahatma Gand-hi and Nelson Mandela who are revered in both the countries. People of Indian origin account for almost 2.5 per cent of the country’s population with Durban havingthe high-est concentration of the community. South Africa is also increasingly be-coming an attractive hub

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Ministry of Water Re-sources, River Develop-ment and Ganga Rejuve-nation has released Rs2928 crore to Gujarat under Ac-celerated Irrigation Ben-efit Flood Management Programme (AIBFMP) in last three financial years. Under Integrated Water-shed Management Pro-gramme (IWMP), the government has released Rs461.58 crore to state of Gujarat. Minister of state for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Mr. Sanwar Lal Jat presented the details in Rajya Sabha on December 14, 2015 re-plying a question raised by Rajya Sabha MP Shri Parimal Nathwani. The minister said that all the water resources projects such as major and medium irrigation projects, surface minor irrigation projects,

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Gujarat polls: Congress makes inroads, dent in BJP’s vote share

Hardik still in jail, kisan mahapanchayat cancelled in Varanasi

Deputy Collector killed with family members in accident near Bhavnagar

Fire at Diu harbour engulfs 4 trawlers, 30 huts

Gujarat gets Rs 2928 cr for irrigation, Rs 461 cr for watershed in 3 years

Bilateral ties between South Africa and India

Gujarat readies to handle possible oil spill in sea

2 from West Bengal arrested with fake currency worth 8 lakh

BJP’s percentage of votes has dipped to 43.97 from 50.26 in the 2010 elec-tions. There is a similar role reversal in the 230 taluka panchayats, where Congress’s vote share of 46% is higher than BJP’s

42.32%. In 2010, it was 42.42 and 48.51% respec-tively for the Congress and the BJP. In the 56 municipalities, the BJP’s share of votes is down to 44.67% from 47.77%. With 39.59% of the votes,

the Congress has record-ed a 10% jump from last time. In the cities, where the BJP has maintained a decent 10% lead over the Congress, it barely man-aged to keep its votebank intact.

ly. Hardik is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail connection with a sedi-tion case. The members of the Patel communi-ty, led by 22-year-old Hardik, are demanding reservation under OBC category. Last month, Hardik had applied for bail before the court and his supporters had started preparations for the rally in Varanasi. ABPNS had also approached farm-ers’ leaders across the country, including those from Gujarat, Maha-rashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar and Ut-tar Pradesh, to attend the event. It had also invited

Bihar Chief Minister Nit-ish Kumar to address the mahapanchyayat along with Patel. ABPNS na-tional executive member Sushil Kashyap said, “As the court is yet to grant bail to Hardik Patel, the party, in a meeting of its national executive in Delhi on December 10, had decided to postpone the mahapanchayat in Varanasi. A fresh date for the mahapanchayat will be decided only after Hardik is released. The mahapanchayat will defi-nitely happen whenever Hardik comes out of the jail.” Kashyap belongs to Varanasi and was pre-

paring for the mahapan-chayat there. He admitted that Varanasi was chosen as the venue for the ma-hapanchayat as it is the Lok Sabha constituency of the Prime Minister and “the best place to target him and give a message to the Centre on farmers’ issues”. “ABPNS work-ers had started to invite the masses and farmers in eastern UP for the ma-hapanchayat. But we had not formally applied for permission from the dis-trict administration for the mahapanchayat, as we were waiting for the court orders on Hardik’s bail plea,” Kashyap said. He added that ABPNS had invited Nitish Kumar “be-cause he had challenged Modi’s Gujarat model and defeated BJP with his own development model in the Bihar polls”. “Hardik has to tell the masses that Gujarat was developed by Patidars but they were not given credit,” he claimed.

for foreign investors be it economic, political or social reforms. Also, the economies of India and Africa are very similar in nature. India’s major exports to South Africa include pharmaceuticals, chemicals, engineering

goods including electrical machinery and petroleum products. India’simports from South Africa con-sists of precious metals including gold, minerals including coal, iron and steel, mining equipment and industrial chemicals.

and their catch. As the fire raged, several diesel drums and LPG cylinders exploded. “Around 30 huts have been gutted. A few fishing trawlers and around 10 auto-rickshaws and motorbikes have also been damaged in the fire. No injury or human casu-alty has been reported,” said Inspector Dhanji Ja-dav. According to Laksh-

man Solanki, former president of fishermen association of Vanakbara, “The fire has gutted three fishing trawlers anchored on the shore for repairs and one anchored near the dock. Two cranes owned by the fishermen associa-tion have also been dam-aged…. We estimated a damage of around Rs10 crore.”

repair, restoration and renovation (RRR) of wa-ter bodies are meant for storage of water resourc-es for providing water to farmers for irrigation. The central government has provided total Rs2928 crore to state of Gujarat under Accelerated Irriga-tion Benefit Flood Man-agement Programme in last three financial years since 2012-13, said the minister. As per the state-ment tabled in the house, central government re-leased grant of Rs1285.93

crore, Rs607.57 crore and Rs1033.94 crore in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 respectively. Shri Parimal Nathwani wanted to know about different schemes for making adequate wa-ter available to the farm-ers for irrigation and ex-penditure incurred during the last three financial years. He also wanted to know about central assis-tance provided for repair and maintenance of dams and embankment meant for water harvesting to various states.

Correspondent | Bhavnagar

A Deputy Collector rank official and three of his family members including wife, son and daughter died a tragic death in a road mishap near Bhavnagar today, SP Deepankar Trivedi said. Pradip Singh Jadeja (45), a deputy col-lector rank official associated with the Ahmedabad Metro rail project, was coming from Ahmedabad to participate in a marriage ceremony at his maternal

aunt’s (Mausi) place here. He was driv-ing his car in which his wife Rajeshwa-riben (40), daughter Rishipiba (17) and son Harshraj (14) were also traveling. It collided head on with a private pas-senger bus (Bhavnagar based Rajdhani travels) near Nirma Patia of Vedavadar police post on Ahmedabad-Bhavnagar highway . While the deputy collector died on the spot his wife, son and daugh-ter were declared brought dead by the doctors in a hospital here, the SP said.

doom for marine life. Thus, we have decided to chalk out a plan to stop such accidents from hap-pening as well as to pre-pare a contingency plan if in case such a oil spill takes place,” said Ad-ditional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) S C Pant. More than 5000 ships loaded with various material, in-cluding crude oil, arrive at various ports in Gujarat every year. While some of the major ports, such as Kandla and Mundra, are situated in the Gulf of Kutch, others like Dahej and Hazira are situated in the Gulf of Khambhat.