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News BriefKangana Ranaut to speak at CII annual summit

Agency | Mumbai

National Award-win-ning actress Kangana Ranaut will be a speak-er at CII Young India’s upcoming annual sum-mit “TakePride2016” in Delhi. The two day summit (March 25-26) will be held at the Taj Palace. The 28-year-old “Queen” actress will speak at the topic, “My Idea, My Belief Why I In-spire”. “TakePride2016” will bring together statesmen, political and business leaders, think-ers and writers, stars and stalwarts and youth icons to connect.

Protesters stop inspection at

DefExpo site in Goa

Cold conditions persist in Punjab

and Haryana

Agency | Panaji

Nearly 300 protesters today stopped Goa gov-ernment officials from conducting inspection at the proposed site for the upcoming Defence Expo (DefExpo) here, over an issue related to the venue for the event. The protesters, com-prising a local Congress legislator Chandra-kant Kavlekar, various NGOs and other peo-ple, stopped the team of government officials from conducting the inspection at Betul, a village in South Goa’s Quepem taluka, where the DefExpo is sched-uled next month.

Agency | Chandigarh

Cold weather condi-tions persisted in sev-eral parts of Punjab and Haryana as Amritsar reeled under a tempera-ture of 3.6 degrees Cel-sius which was three notches below normal. The minimum at Am-ritsar, had yesterday settled at 4.4 degrees Celsius. Ludhiana and Patiala recorded below normal minimum tem-peratures of 9.4 degrees Celsius and 8.8 degrees Celsius respectively.

Modi’s Varanasi Is Among The 10 Dirtiest Cities In India“Swachh Bharat rankings”

Mysuru Cleanest, Patna Dirtiest city

Agency | New Delhi

Justifying the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, Del-hi Police Commission-er B S Bassi on Mon-day claimed that he had raised anti-national slogans during the con-troversial event in the campus but said police have so far found “no ev-idence linking the LeT” to the incident. “Kan-haiya was present at the event, where he deliv-ered a speech and partic-ipated in an unlawful as-sembly which indulged in anti-India sloganeer-ing. It was because of his involvement, and the evidence we have

Agency | New Delhi

Surat has emerged as 6th cleanest city of India in Swachch Survey 2016 carried out by Govern-ment of India. Rajkot from Gujarat has secured 7th rank in this list. While Surat and Vadodara are in top ten list, Ahmedabad and Vadodara are among top 15 cities (15 leaders) declared as cleanest in In-dia as they have achieved benchmark score of 70. Vadodara has been on

13th rank while Ahmed-abad on 14th rank. Pune, Navi Mumbai, Vadodara Ahemdabad Imphal The city of Rajkot has been declared among top ten movers. The city was not even in top 300 in year 2014 survey. It is not on 7th rank in year 2016 rankings. Karnataka’s Mysuru is India’s cleanest city for the second year in a row while Chandigarh, Tiruchirapalli , the New Delhi Municipal Council --where 1.5 % of Delhi’s

16.78 million resident live – and Visakhapatnam make up the top five , a nationwide survey by the Urban Development (UD) ministry has found. A sim-ilar survey in 2014 ranked Mysuru and Tiruchirappa-li among the five cleanest cities as well. The “Swa-chhta Sarvekshan” that covered 73 cities with a population of over one million ranked Varanasi --Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi’s constituency -- among the bottom ten

Agency | Mumbai

The Maharashtra govern-ment will be developing an International Financial Service Centre (IFSC) hub in the posh commer-cial area of Bandra-Kur-la Complex (BKC), in the coming months. A formal announcement in the context was made by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Monday, at the Make In Mumbai (MIM) session, in the ongoing Make In India (MIM) week programme, at MMRDA Grounds in BKC. “We will be de-veloping an IFSC hub in the very land we are now standing at. Plans

Agency | thiruvanantha-puram

Reserve Bank of In-dia Governor Raghur-am Rajan on Monday said neither RBI nor the government intends to “undervalue” the rupee to pursue growth unlike countries such as Chi-na and Japan because it leads to a lot of prob-lems over time. Inaugu-rating the 4th edition of MSME summit here, he said undervaluation of the domestic currency’s exchange rate is “not the intent of RBI and Gov-ernment of India”. Some people point out that the growth of countries like China, Japan and Korea was due to undervalu-

ation of exchange rate and they also want India to follow the same path. He said however that there are a lot of prob-lems with undervalu-ation over time, which is reflected in the situations that some of the coun-tries find themselves today. Pointing out that sustained undervalu-

ation for a long period of time “was not a feasible or desirable strategy for growth”, he said this was why he “firmly believes that RBI’s philosophy of not focusing on the lev-el of exchange rate...try-ing to manipulate up or down...but trying instead to minimise situation of extreme volatility”.

collected so far, that he has been arrested un-der charge of sedition,” Bassi told reporters here after meeting Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Twice the commissioner said that Kanhaiya was part of the event where anti-national slogans were raised. He said the congregation, organised against the hanging of

Parliament attack con-vict Afzal Guru, was an-ti-national and unlawful. “Yes, he raised anti-na-tional slogans,” he said when pressed further on the issue. Bassi said that the speech he delivered at the event was highly ob-jectionable. When asked about alleged links be-tween Kashmir militants and the JNU students

who were suspected to be involved in the incident, Bassi said, “Kanhaiya’s interrogation will be ana-lysed for terror links and the police are looking for some other students who all went absconding after the incident but will soon be arrested.” He, howev-er, said they have found “no evidence linking” the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to the JNU incident so far. “As and when it comes, it will shared with Home Ministry,” he said. The police chief added that during Kanhaiya’s ques-tioning investigators have gathered crucial informa-tion which will now be verified and processed.

Delhi Police chief Bassi justifies JNUSU president’s arrest, says no evidence of LeT link so far

Make in India week: Maharashtra govt to develop IFSC hub in Mumbai, says CM Devendra Fadnavis

RBI, govt not in favour of undervaluation of Rupee: Rajan

are been rolled to con-struct an IFSC building at the MMRDA Grounds in BKC,” Fadnavis said, in his address to the packed house. He claimed that, even before the planning is yet to formalize, the state has received a pro-posal to book the first 20 floors of the IFSC build-

ing. Fadnavis who has been muscling to aggran-dize the island city as an international commercial centre, thumped on the working of his govern-ment to evolve Mumbai as an IFSC. “Bureaucra-cy has been streamlined to assist businesses and development projects

in and around Mumbai. Every sector will be de-regulated and all depart-ments will be pressed to clear proposals in time at all costs,” Fadnavis added. Underlining the importance of upgrading the city, the CM assert-ed that, Mumbai is need of a ‘Comprehensive Seamless Mobility Plan’ (CSMP) to leverage the possibilities for the city. The state plans to inte-grate a network of roads, bridges, alongside trans-port modes like buses, metros, monorails and railways to bolster the economy drive in the city.

dirtiest cities. The other in the dirty list included Dhanbad, Asansol, Patna, Meerut, Raipur, Ghazia-bad, Jamshedpur, Kalyan Dombivilli and Itanagar. In October 2014, Modi wielded the broom in the Capital to promote clean-liness as part of his pet Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). But except the

NDMC, which is home to the city’s VIPs and is ranked fourth, the rest of Delhi continues to be among India’s dirti-est. The Capital has been ranked based on its three municipal corporations. While East Delhi Munic-ipal Corporation is ranked 52, North and South Del-hi Municipal Corporation

are 43 and 39 respectively. Geographically, cities in the south and west fared better than those in the north and east. The cities were ranked on their per-formance on each of the components of SBM -- solid waste management, construction of individual, community and public toi-lets and sanitation strate-gies and behavior change communication. Union urban development minis-ter M Venkaiah Naidu an-nounced the result. This is the second such survey car-ried out as part of the gov-ernment’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission to make India clean and open def-

ecation free by 2019. The PM’s message on cleanli-ness does not seem to have had much of an effect in his constituency Varanasi. The holy city – which got over Rs 20,000 crore since 2014 to upgrade its run-down civic infrastructure -- ranks 65 in the list of 73 on account of its abys-mal sanitation facilities. In 2014, the ministry had carried out a similar exer-cise in 476 cities and mu-nicipalities with a popula-tion of over one lakh. The survey had found Delhi ranked among the dirtiest while Mysore, Bangalore, Kochi and Navi Mumbai were the cleanest.

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DAYSex determination: how will govt track 29 million pregnancies annually?

I was inspired by Maneka Gandhi’s struggle to get back her passport (impounded by the Janata Party gov-ernment) as an IIT student in 1977. Her Supreme Court case led to a landmark judgment on personal liberty. Subsequently Gandhi filed petitions in courts to pro-tect animal rights. Given this early commitment to the law, her recent statement against the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act was bizarre. Over the past 25 years, more than 15 mil-lion girls have been eliminated because of determina-tion of foetal sex before birth. This was the outcome of at least 45 million medical crimes of determination and elimination. Sex selection was introduced in India as a method to control population growth. The depart-ment of reproductive physiology was set up in 1970 in AIIMS by a doctor from the Population Council, New York and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The research published in the medical journal, Indian Pe-diatrics, in 1975 argued that the excess girls born, for a son, was unnecessary fecundity and that elimination of girls would lead to population control. Following concerns of discrimination against women, sex deter-mination was banned in Delhi government hospitals in 1978. But this practice spread into the private sector. Leading newspapers in Delhi carried advertisements for ultrasound sex determination in the late 1980s. Punjab clinics opened sister clinics in Delhi, asserting that they had 10 years of expertise in determining sex. The medical geneticist who taught genetics students in Guru Nanak University, Amritsar in the 1980s would announce at global genetics conferences that foetal sex determination would prevent women from dowry deaths and other forms of violence. In the late 1980s, in Hisar, glass jars with preserved female foetuses were exhibited by doctors to encourage female foeticide. Thus, it was a steady growth from the early genetic clin-ics in Amritsar in 1979 to over 50,000 ultrasound clinics all over India today. The initial phase of denial about the demographic consequences of this medical malpractice by scholars in the early 1990s assisted in the populari-sation of this extreme form of violence against women. The country will welcome incentives for girls. But the only immediate deterrence against continuous promo-tion of sex selection by unethical medical professionals and agents is the implementation of the law. The law was enacted because professionals did not follow med-ical ethics. And Gandhi’s endeavour to put the burden on women to stop sex selection is unforgivable — they are being punished for crimes that are being perpetrated by doctors. If the government does not have the will to regulate 55,000 clinics, how will it track 29 million preg-nancies annually? In addition to the impossibility of this, it would undermine the abortion needs of women.

“The Union government is planning to set up a centre of excellence for skilling media and entertainment industry professionals and has also decided to fund movies to participate in foreign film festivals.” - Union Minister of State for Information and

Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore told reporters here at the ‘Make In India Week’.

Sultan: Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma’s new look on this Valentine’s Day

B-Town celebrates baby shower of Salman Khan’s sister Arpita

Shah Rukh Khan attacked by VHP activists during Raees shoot in Ahmedabad

Kareena Kapoor breaks no-kissing policy, locks lips with Arjun Kapoor in ‘Ki and Ka’

Game of Thrones 6 teaser sets a grim and creepy mood

For Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘The Revenant’ set was colder than ‘Titanic’ scene

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Kate Winslet, who won Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTA, said she was once told by a drama teacher to “settle for the fat girl parts”. The Titanic star, 40, dedicated her award, which she won for playing Apple mar-keting executive Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs, to women who are the sub-jected to criticism. “When I was younger, when I was 14, I was told by a drama teacher that I might do OK if I was happy to set-tle for the fat girl parts,”

Kate said in her accep-tance speech. “So, what I always feel in these mo-ments is that any young woman who has ever been put down by a teacher, by a friend, by even a parent, just don’t listen to any of it, because that’s what I did. I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities,” she said. It was Kate’s third BAFTA win, after winning awards for Sense and Sensibility (1996) and The Reader (2009). She beat out competition from fellow actresses Julie Wal-ters and Rooney Mara.

Agency | London

Leonardo DiCaprio says shooting The Revenant was colder than being submerged in icy waters in the final scenes of Ti-tanic. DiCaprio won the best actor Bafta award while the film bagged four other trophies at the ceremony last night. The actor and the crew of the Alejandro Gonza-lez Inarritu’s film had a tough time capturing the survival drama in harsh weather conditions as the director insisted on shooting only in natu-ral light. DiCaprio, 41, however, does not regret

the discomforts of play-ing Hugh Glass, a role that saw him sleeping in a horse carcass and eat-ing raw bison liver, as he feels they have a great movie to show at the end of it, reported People magazine. “This is pret-ty cold, this whole expe-rience,” DiCaprio said when asked about Titan-ic and Revenant shooting experiences at the Bafta red carpet. “We should be more used to this cold, but I’m not. It’s been awhile,” the actor joked at the red carpet. Inarritu, who took home the award for best director, conced-

ed that DiCaprio had to put up with more of the chilly weather during filming but the actor said the whole crew had a tough time. “I suppose I was submerged in the ice a lot more, but look it was a team effort, we all knew what we were getting into,” he said. “We knew we weren’t going on a tropical va-cation in Hawaii and the Maldives, we were going to be submerged in the wilderness like this. But at the end of the day we have a great piece of art to show for it, so we’re all excited to be here.”

Agency | Mumbai

Arpita Khan-Sharma re-ceived a big baby shower to celebrate her step to-wards motherhood. Ma-ma-to-be Salman Khan left no stone unturned to give this great moment to his little sister. Bollywood celebs and regulars at Khandaan parties attend-ed the grand baby show-er. In images uploaded by Arpita on her Instagram account, we can see the director of Bajrangi Bhai-jaan Kabir Khan pose with Salman and Arpita. His wife and TV host Mini Mathur too seen doting

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Kareena Kapoor seems to have broken the no-kissing policy on screen that she had com-mitted to her actor hus-band Saif Ali Khan after tying the knot in 2012. Arjun Kapoor and Kare-ena Kapoor, who set the fire on screen striking a smoking hot roman-tic pose at the start of the year, are now seen sharing a sweet kiss in Ki and Ka’s new poster. The chemistry between the duo looks amazing since Arjun and Kareena have been paired oppo-site each other for the first

Agency | New Delhi

Are you eager to watch Game of Thrones season after season despite what it does to you? Gear up for some more heartbreaking stuff as the next season is almost here: The hit fantasy drama TV series released a teaser for the sixth season late on Sun-day and it definitely isn’t puppies and sunshine in its tone. The teaser begins in the dark, damp Hall of Faces where we saw Arya in last season. We are shown faces of all ma-jor characters who have died so far, resting in

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan’s film Sul-tan has been in news ever since it was announced. The filmmakers have now treated Salman and Anushka Sharma’s fans with a new look on this Valentine’s Day. Dressed in blue tracksuits, both Anushka and Salman are seen posing for a pic-ture. The picture has been captioned as, “Haryana ka Sher aur Haryana Ki Shaan ka ghana ishq hai takkar ka. This #Valen-tinesDay, celebrate the love of equals (sic).” In Sultan, Anushka is not just playing Salman’s love interest, but has also been taking wrestling lessons for the film. The film has garnered a lot of attention because of its search for the leading lady. Talking about Anushka Sharma, a source had earlier said,

BAFTA 2016: Kate Winslet Was Asked to ‘Settle For Fat Girl’ Roles

on Arpita. Kanchi Kaul, Genelia Deshmukh, and Arpita made for an ador-able trio of moms-to-be. Shilpa Shetty was present with husband Raj Kundra and son Viaan. The venue was decorated with white linen and Aprita’s initials and a bear made of yel-

low flowers! According to a leading daily Salman Khan’s leading lady in Sultan, Anushka Sharma attended the baby shower. There was some free time available for the duo as Salman Khan took three days off from the full swing shoot.

“Since she is also playing a wrestler in Sultan, her look will be more realis-tic or de-glam through-out the film. She doesn’t need to look like a mil-lion bucks.” This is the first time Anushka has

been paired with Salman on the silver screen. The Dabangg actor also plays the role of a 40-year-old wrestler from Haryana. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Sultan is slated to release on Eid 2016.

time onscreen. Arjun Ka-poor plays the character of Kabir, an IIT gradu-ate and a house husband, who has grown up want-ing to be like his mother and not like his father and will be seen doing house-hold. On the other hand, Kareena Kapoor plays the character of Kia, an am-

bitious and a career-ori-ented woman in the film. The film, which follows the relationship of the married couples, also fea-tures megastar Amitabh Bachchan and wife Jaya in special appearance. Directed by R Balki, the film is slated to release on April 1.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Shah Rukh Khan, who has been shooting in Gu-jarat for his upcoming film Raees, has to face several hurdles before he wraps up the schedule in the state. Owing to his statement on ‘intolerance’ which he made on his birthday that is November 2015; the superstar con-tinues to face trouble by Vishnu Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists and oth-ers and was now attacked in Ahmedabad. Shah Rukh Khan, who was re-cently in Sarkhej Roza in Ahmedabad shooting with the team of Raees, had to face protests from VHP activists who refuse to allow the actor to shoot in their state. In fact, stones were hurdled at the superstar’s car (Mer-cedes) which was parked outside the Hyatt Regen-

cy in Ahmedabad. There was also a BJP Yuva Morcha protest wherein the effigies of the actor were burnt by the activ-ists who were screaming ‘Jai Shri Ram’ along with anti-Shah Rukh Khan slogans. Shah Rukh Khan was at the popular histor-ical monument with co-star Mahira Khan to shoot a ‘nikaah’ scene which further miffed the dev-otees at the dargah who had face to delay owing to the fact that the doors to the Roza were closed due to the ongoing shoot

of the film. As of now, the police is investigating the matter and according to Inspector Rathod after a lot of research and a CCTV footage, a persona named Nilesh Arya has been identified as the ac-tive member of VHP and has been arrested under several sections of the IPC which includes 143 (Punishment), 147 (Pun-ishment for rioting), 336 (Act endangering life or personal safety of others) and 188 (Disobedience to order duly propagated by public servant).

the cervices of the walls, in the chronological se-quence of their deaths. First, of course, we have Ned Stark and his famous words are heard: “The man who passes the sen-tence, should swing the sword”. Good job HBO on hitting us right where

it hurts in the first scene itself. Then we see King in the North, Robb Stark and we hear: “I’ve won every battle but I am losing this war.” Next up is Lady Katlyn and her words of vengeance: “Show them how it feels to lose what they love”.


SPORTS ROUNDUPUS researchers find new way to make nanowire laser

Lenovo teases smartphone launch for MWC 2016, likely Lemon 3 Plus

Google to Shut Down Picasa on March 15 in Shift to Google Photos

Agency | New York

US researchers have found a new way to produce nanoscale wires, with diametres as small as 200 nanometres, or billionths of a metre, that can serve as tiny, tunable lasers. The project was led by Pe-idong Yang, a chemist at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, according to Xinhua. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers said they have developed a simple chemical-dip-ping solution process to produce a self-assembled blend of nanoscale crystals, plates and wires com-posed of cesium, lead and bromine (with the chem-ical formula: CsPbBr3). “What’s amazing is the

simplicity of the chemistry here,” said Yang.

Agency | Mumbai

Lenovo has teased a new smartphone launch on Twitter, just a few days before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) begins. Captioned ““#KnockOut Coming Soon MWC 2016”, The teaser image indi-cates the new phone might have anall-metal body. The new device is rumoured to have a 5.5-inch full HD (1920x1080) IPS display, with aa 13MP rear cam and 5MP front camera. It will feature a Qual-comm Snapdragon 616 octa-core processor, couple with a Adreno 405 GPU and 3GB RAM. Running Android 5.1 Lollipop, the phone has 16GB inter-nal storage, expandable up to 128GB. It’s likely to also have a dual SIM setup with LTE support. There’s really not much else to tell from a teaser image alone, but the device is rumoured to be the Lemon 3 Plus, successor to the Lemon 3 launched recently. The Lemon 3 had a China launch a little while ago, and was priced at 699 Yuan, approxi-

mately Rs 7,300.

Agency | New Delhi

Google on Friday said it will be shuttering Picasa to shift its focus to the new Google Photos service launched less than a year ago. “Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. Af-ter much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that pro-vides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products,” Google Photos chief Anil Sabharwal said in a blog post. Pictures or videos in Picasa online albums will be automatically avail-able in people’s Google Photos accounts, accord-ing to Sabharwal. Those wishing not to shift to the new service will still be able to view, download or delete photos in Picasa albums, but the software won’t be updated and adding images won’t be an option.

Agency | St Petersburg

Indian tennis star Sa-nia Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis won the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Sun-day and extended their remarkable winning streak to 40 matches in the process. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair hardly broke sweat on their way to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over the Rus-sian-Czech team of Vera Dushevina and Barbora Krejcikova in the wom-en’s doubles final that lasted for an hour. This is the fourth title that Sania and Martina have won this year. Their overall

Agency | Visakhapatnam

The emphatic triumph over Sri Lanka giving a perfect start to their World Twenty20 build-up, Indian captain Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni said his side will be one of the top contenders at the showpiece even though some top batsmen are yet to get enough time in the middle. Due to India’s deep batting, not all the batsmen have got enough runs and overs under their belt in the last six T20 matches. Dhoni himself and comeback-man Yu-vraj Singh have hardly spent time in the middle both in the series against Australia and Sri Lan-ka. “Everybody has not

Agency | Visakhapatnam

A disappointed Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandi-mal said not playing well in the Power-Play overs cost his inexperienced side the just-concluded T20I series against In-dia. In Ranchi, the Lank-ans bowlers bled runs throughout while in Vi-sakhapatnam in the fi-nal match, they lost half the side inside six overs. “Throughout the series we played good cricket. In the first game we got momentum but in the second and third games, we did not start well. In Ranchi, we did not bowl well in the first six overs and here we lost four wickets during Pow-er-play overs. These are mistakes in the last two

Agency | Karachi

Pakistan players Wahab Riaz and Ahmed Shehzad have been fined heavily and given a warning by the Cricket Board for a heated on-field alterca-tion during a PSL match in the UAE. The incident happened in the fifth over of the match between Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi when the two Pakistani players pushed each other and exchanged harsh words. While Shehzad was fined

30 per cent of his match fee, Riaz was penalised 40 per cent of his game earnings by match refer-ee Roshan Mahanama. Shehzad’s fellow Quetta Gladiators batsman Asad Shafiq pulled him away, as did Riaz’s Peshawar Zalmi teammates. Even as the duo were walking away from each other they continued to mouth off. Riaz’s captain Sha-hid Afridi then took him aside and had a few words, as Riaz eventu-ally calmed down. Riaz

finished with figures of 2 for 19 in three overs, but it was Afridi who stole the show. Afridi bowled a mind-numbing spell of 5 for 7 in 4 overs with one maiden, routing Quetta Gladiators for a mere 129 in 18 overs. Dawid Malan (60 not out) along with Mohammad Hafeez (36), and Kamran Akmal (17) ensured that there were no unpleasant surpris-es for Peshawar Zalmi, as they chased down the total by 8 wickets with 8 balls to spare.

Shikhar Dhawan wants to carry newfound good form to World T20

Wahab Riaz, Ahmed Shehzad warned by PCB after spat in PSL 2016 match

We are always top contender in shorter formats: MS Dhoni

Mistakes in power-play cost us series: Dinesh Chandimal

Agency | New Delhi

Hoping to carry his great run of form to the Asia Cup and World T20, In-dia opener Shikhar Dha-wan on Monday said keeping things simple and “doing the basics right” has worked in his favour. Dhawan was in-volved in a candid chat with his opening partner Rohit Sharma following India’s comprehensive nine- wicket win over Sri Lanka in Visakhapa-tnam last night, which gave the home side the three-match Twenty20 series 2-1. “First of all I am very fortunate that my teammate is saying that my form is very im-portant for my team. And yeah, I am just keeping it

trophy count now stands at 13. They started the year with wins in Bris-bane and Sydney before completing a hat-trick of Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open. They have been close to unstoppable since an

upset loss in the French Open quarter-finals last year. Since then, they have claimed titles at Wimbledon, US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, the WTA Finals in Singapore, Brisbane and Sydney.

Agency | Zurich

Viswanathan Anand made a grand comeback to defeat Levon Aronian of Armenia in the first round of the Zurich Chess challenge that got under-way on Sunday. Anand outplayed Aronian out of a seemingly calm Four Knights’ Game, that sud-denly came to life when white allowed his pawn structure to be damaged, but in return got a strong knight on the king side to open an attack. The ma-terial was a bit reduced

after the exchange of two pairs of minor pieces early in the middle game and Anand came up with a flourish of tactics to make it count. The chess engines that can count a million moves a second were rooting for blood as early as move 15 and Anand did not disappoint his fans to take the same route. Anand sacrificed his knight and Aronian had to take it with the king, forcing the oppo-site king to take a walk outside his own castle.

This was not the best thing for royalties and it was no surprise that Anand netted himself a full point after only a few moves by weaving a mat-ing net. The other two games of the first round ended in draws. Shirov tried to combat Kramnik in another Berlin defense of the elite circles but the latter was quite up tot the task in defence. These days the Berlin seems to be the wall that every king pawn player wants to break.

got the chance to bat. But you will keep facing this problem because our batting line-up is deep. We will have to try and give bating to players, who have not batted so far but people who are batting close to 6, 7 or 8, they will have to play big shots because that is go-ing to be certainly be very important for us,” Dhoni said after series-clinching

nine-wicket win against Sri Lanka in Visakhapat-nam on Sunday. “It’s not how many runs you have scored at that time but may be if you are facing only 3-4 balls and you can get 10-15 runs, that will be a real benefit,” he said. Dhoni said familiar conditions at home is also a comforting factor for them for the World Twen-ty20 starting March 8.

games,” Chandimal said at after the nine-wick-et loss in the third T20I on Sunday. Chandimal also rued the lack of ex-perienced players in the side to counter the Indi-an team. “We have got an inexperienced team. They don’t know how to stay at the crease and get some more runs. We struggled with that. I think they will learn as

soon as possible and we are looking forward to do well in the next series.” The Sri Lankan captain though took out a few positives from the lost series, saying they found a few future players. “In Dushmanta (Chameera), Dasun Shanaka, Kasun Rajitha, we found those players for future, we can get this positive out of the series,” he said.

quite simple, making sure that I am doing the basics right, just timing the ball rather than look to hit the ball,” Dhawan told his interviewer, Sharma on this instance, in a viedo posted on ‘bcci.tv’. The Delhi boy added: “Of course, in this format we have to hit big ones too. I make sure that I play less dot balls so pressure doesn’t build on me that much.” The 30-year-old

Dhawan smashed his way to a maiden half-century in the slam-bang format in the second game and then came up with a run-a-ball 46 to wrap up the game and series in India’s favour in the final T20. As Sharma showered praises on his teammate, Dhawan urged the Indian fans to gear up some ex-citing times ahead in next month’s big-ticket tour-nament.

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History books say that the title of Mahatma was bestowed on Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore, but the Gujarat government thinks otherwise, insisting that an “unknown journal-ist” from Saurashtra actu-ally gave the title. The mat-ter has now landed before the Gujarat High Court. Rajkot District Pancha-yat Sikshan Samiti, which conducted an exam for the post of Talathi in the Revenue department, has cited the work of Narayan Desai, son of Gandhi’s sec-retary Mahadev Desai, to claim that the title was giv-en to Gandhi by the anon-ymous scribe from Jetpur town. Sandhya Maru, one of the candidates who ap-peared for the exam, has challenged this “right an-


A day after a state trans-port bus overturned, kill-ing eight persons and injuring 27, Transport Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday said that he has directed the road and building department to rectify the sharp curve that led to the accident, and that the government would take measures to reduce the number of accidents that kill 7,000 people evey year in the state. “Primary inquiry has revealed that the road where the bus overturned in Armeli on Saturday has a sharp curve. We have directed roads and build-ings department to re-move that curve. Not only

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India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at Gujarat Interna-tional Finance Tec-City (GIFT) has crossed the US$ 100 million business transactions mark in three months time and is expect-ed to cross US $1 billion (1000 million) in next 3 to 4 months, Mr. Ajay Pan-dey, MD & Group CEO of GIFT City said today. Just two banks, YES Bank and Federal Bank have generated this busi-ness within three months of their IFSC Banking Units (IBU) becoming operational at GIFT IFSC. YES Bank was the first to set up an IBU at GIFT IFSC in October last year and Federal Bank’s IBU started functioning a few weeks later in No-vember, he said. A unit at


‘New Cottage and Rural Industries Policy 2016’, prepared under the guidance of Smt. Anan-diben Patel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Guja-rat, aims to promote the growth and development of cottage and rural in-dustries in Gujarat, with special emphasis on the socio-economic devel-opment of the people engaged in the sector through the generation of supplementary em-ployment opportunities, improvement in their

quality of life and the preservation of tradi-tional crafts. The pol-icy was announced by Shri. Saurabhbhai Patel, Hon’ble Minister of Cot-tage Industries. Several new initiatives have been proposed under this poli-cy. A pilot project on the concept of “One Village One Product” would be initiated to preserve and revive the heritage of languishing crafts Lan-guishing crafts would be identified and promoted through production as a niche high quality prod-uct linked to the village

where it has been prac-ticed traditionally. Addi-tionally, focused support in the form of diagnos-tic research, facilitating availability of raw ma-terial, training in design development and product diversification as well as encouragement for branding and marketing of the products would be provided. Artisans prac-ticing languishing crafts would be extended spe-cial rebate on sales of products as well as fa-cilitated to participate in National and Internation-al fairs / exhibitions.


The tourism department of Gujarat unveiled its new policy at a road show on Sunday. One of the key features of the poli-cy is the status of indus-try given to the tourism sector. Gujarat’s Minister of Tourism Saurabhbhai Patel said the state was aggressively pursuing in-vestments in the sector. Speaking about the policy, the Minister said that de-spite the influx of tourists in the state, the compara-tive figures as opposed to other countries was still less in India. “The new tourism policy will posi-

tion Gujarat as a vibrant tourist destination, with an emphasis on improv-ing visitor experience, livelihood linkages, envi-ronmental concerns and enhancing investment op-portunities, thus catapult-ing tourism as one of the most important economic drivers, leading to sus-tainable development and inclusive growth in the state,” Patel said.Tourism Commissioner N Srivas-tava said that in 2014-15 the total tourist arrivals in the State was 3.36 crore, which was 13.5 per cent higher than the previous year.


A letter to district admin-istration officers written by the District Election Officer and Collector’s office of Junagadh in January seeking specific information on the rea-sons for the BJP’s losses in Gujarat’s local body elections in January, has just surfaced. The letter cites a query on the sub-ject by the Chief Minis-ter’s Office and asks for an immediate response. “Urgent details have been sought by the Chief Minister’s Office in con-nection with the results declared for the general election of last district and taluka panchayat 2015. Kindly send in the detailed information of your work area as per the questionnaire by fax


Gujarat University (GU) will observe its first `no-vehicle day’ on Mon-day . The GU authorities have decided to observe the first and 15th day of the month as novehicle day when staff members and students of the universi-ty-associated colleges will use either public transport or walk to their destina tions. With a view to re-ducing traffic congestion and pollution, GU decided on February 3 to observe the day. According to a statement by GU, princi-pals, professors, staff and

the students will not use their vehicles on Monday to keep the pledge of ` Aapnu Amdavad, Swachh Amdavad, Trafficmukt Amdavad’ (Our Ahmed-abad, Clean Ahmedabad, Traffic-free Ahmedabad). Vice-chancellor M N Patel and registrar Dr H C Patel will walk to their office on university campus from their homes located near the GU premises.Mayor Gautam Shah will wel-come them at their work-places in GU. According to a statement, Shah will felicitate principals of var-ious colleges who will fol-low the pledge.


Plast Asia 2016, an up-coming plastics show will replace many shows and bring a brighter fu-ture for exhibitors and visitors, who wanted to be in the capital for expo. PlastAsia moved from Bangalore to Del-hi, all welcomed warmly as there is no good show in north India for plas-tics. There will be many foreign and domes-tic exhibitors who will showcase their products and service to the indus-try. PlastAsia replaced many plastics show and

a growth expected in number of exhibitors and visitors, it will help the plastics industry to grow and it will be show casing with the latest in-novation and technology for the future said Mr. Cyril Pereira, Managing Director of Triune. He further added Make in India will become a real success if all together work towards, by pro-viding quality products, machinery, auxiliaries and related services. In-ternational companies will come shake hand with us for manufacture in India by joint venture,

when we show cases our quality and ability to make and provide as per customers expecta-tions. Last five shows made PlastAsia pioneer in plastics exhibitions in India and it is a well know name plastics in-dustry. Triune organise many other shows oth-er than Plastics Indus-try which given them a brand equity, as the only private organizer, we will focus on quality of visitors, service and all necessary amenities. You can see all the data on the website www.plastasia.in

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within 1500 hours today without fail,” says the letter. Details asked for include the number of BJP candidates defeated in the area, the number of constituencies where they were defeated and reasons for their loss. The letter is bound to fire up the Congress party in the state, which is already planning to corner the ruling BJP on the issue of the alleged land deals

of the business partner of chief minister Anandi-ben Patel’s daughter. Dr Manish Doshi, Gujarat Congress spokesperson, said: “While this is just one case where you have documented evidence on how the state govern-ment is abusing the bu-reaucracy for its political end, we are still trying to find out if similar letters were written in other dis-tricts as well.”

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that, the government will also take action to recti-fy all the accident prone zones in entire state,” Rupani said in Junagadh. The minister was address-ing a gathering after dedi-cating to public the new-ly-constructed building of regional transport office (RTO) in Junagadh. The new RTO building has been built on Khamdhrol

Road at the cost of Rs 5.88 crore. A Gujarat State Road Transort Corpora-tion (GSRTC) bus with 43 people on board had over-turned near Luvara vil-lage in Savarkundla talu-ka of Amreli on Saturday. While seven people died yesterday soon after the mishap, one more passen-ger, Ranchhod Rambhai, succumbed to his injuries

at PDU General Hospital in Rajkot on Sunday. The bus was on its way to Ma-huva town in Bhavnagar district from Upleta town in Rajkot district, and its driver was among those killed. Earlier this month, a GSRTC bus had fallen off a bridge and plunged into Purna river in Navsa-ri district, killing 42 pas-sengers.

GIFT IFSC is equivalent to a foreign branch and hence facilitates the Bank to function as such from within India. IBU offers facilities like buyers’ credit; external commer-cial borrowing (ECB); accepting deposits and

providing credit facilities to wholly owned subsid-iaries/joint ventures of Indian companies regis-tered abroad. IBUs can also undertake factoring/ forfeiting of export re-ceivables; treasury activ-ities like overseas money

market operations, in-vestments in overseas se-curities; and transactions in derivatives and struc-tured products. “Anoth-er dozen plus Banks and Insurance players are go-ing to commence opera-tions at GIFT IFSC in the coming few months. The IFSC at GIFT is attracting a lot of interest from the Financial Services sector in India, especially from banks, insurance compa-nies and capital market players who want to tap the global markets. We expect that the next big milestone of US$ 1 bil-lion business transactions at GIFT IFSC will be achieved shortly,’ he said.

swer key” besides two oth-er answer keys which were part of the question paper before the high court as the exam had negative mark-ing system for wrong an-swers. The exam was con-ducted in six other districts as well. “In the provisional answer key, the answer to the question on ‘who first named Gandhi as Mahat-ma’ was Tagore, but in the final answer key the answer got changed to ‘unknown journalist’,” the petition stated. Hemant Munshaw, the lawyer representing the

Rajkot District Panchayat Sikshan Samiti, told the court that papers for the exam were set by an out-side agency based on the autobiography of Narayan Desai and not by officials of the district panchayat. “Narayan Desai, who had spent around 20 years of his early life with Mahat-ma Gandhi, had said in his autobiography that he (Gandhi) was first called ‘Mahatma’ by a journalist from Jetpur town in Sau-rashtra when he was in South Africa in 1916 and after that Tagore called him ‘Mahatma’ (sic),” Munshaw told the court.

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