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Hrithik not doing ‘Dhoom 4’

Agency | Mumbai

Superstar Hrithik Ro-shan has denied reports that he is teaming up with Prabhas for the fourth instalment of thriller-action “Dhoom”. There were reports that the 42-year-old actor and the “Baahubali” star were roped in to play the main villains in the Yash Raj franchise. “There are ONLY 2 movies I am doing. KAABIL and yashraj next with vic-tor! THATS IT (sic),” Hrithik said during a chat session with fans.

Two held for cheating Amazon,

Flipkart

AIIMS doctor found dead in hostel room

Agency | Hyderabad

Two students were arrest-ed for allegedly cheating e-commerce retailers, Amazon and Flipkart, by ordering electronic gad-gets and replacing them with sand and returning parcels here, police said. On credible information Commissioner’s Task Force, Central Zone Team arrested Yahiya Mohammad Ishaque and Mohammad Shahroz Ansari yesterday, a re-lease from Hyderabad Police said.

Agency | New Delhi

An AIIMS doctor, said to be addicted to drugs, was today found dead in his hostel room under suspi-cious circumstances, po-lice said today. The doc-tor identified as Kumar Kunal (34), a junior resi-dent in Medicine Depart-ment, was found dead in room number 602, the Masjid Moth doctor’s hostel of the institute, a senior police official said. “The body was found on the bed and the room was bolted from inside. There were no injury marks on his body...So far inves-tigations have revealed that he was not eating since the last three days and was also not seen during the same period,” the official said.

Fight against terrorism is not confrontation against any religion, says Modi“World Sufi Forum”

99 names for Allah, none stand for violence

Agency | New Delhi

Two flights bound for Nepal and Bhubaneswar were on Thursday grounded just before taking off after security agencies were alerted of a bomb threat call on the two airliners at the Indi-ra Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here. Of-ficials said passengers on board the two aircraft–Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhu-baneswar– were evacu-ated and taken to the iso-lation bay where security agencies carried out an-ti-sabotage checks after a threat call was received by the airport control room at about 10 AM. While the Kathmandu flight (RA-

Agency | New Delhi

Pakistan foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz on Thursday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the SAARC Summit in Pakistan later this year. External Af-fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met Aziz on the sidelines of the SAARC ministerial meeting in Pokhara on Thursday. During the meeting, Aziz handed over an invitation from Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to attend the South Association Association for Region-al Cooperation (Saarc) summit. The two dis-cussed a range of issues including the Pathankot

Agency | New Delhi

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Thursday praised the “rich diver-sity” of Islam and said people of all religions “are an integral part of India”. “All our people, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Bud-dhists, Parsis, believers, non-believers, are an in-tegral part of India. Let us remember what the Quran says, ‘If anyone slays a person, it would

be as if he slew the whole people’,” said Modi in Delhi at the World Sufi Forum. “This is an ex-traordinary event of great importance to the world, at a critical time for humanity. At a time when the dark shadow of violence is becoming longer, you are the noor or the light of hope,” said Modi about the event, which is being attended by 200 Sufi scholars, ac-ademics, social workers from 20 countries. “This

is an extraordinary event of great importance to the world,” he said, add-ing: “None of Allah’s 99 names stands for vi-olence.” “Diversity is a basic reality of nature and source of richness of a society--it should not be a cause of discord,” he said. “Terrorism uses diverse motivations and causes, none of which can be justified. The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion. It cannot be.”

Agency | Mumbai

The auction for King-fisher House, the head-quarters of the defunct Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, failed to draw any bids on Thursday, two peo-ple familiar with the de-velopment confirmed. A real estate adviser said the asking price was too high. The property was being auctioned through an electronic auction process conducted by SBICAP Trustee Co. Ltd on Thursday afternoon. The base price for this multi-storey building, with a built up area of over 17,000 sq. ft,was set at Rs.150 crore. “Today’s market is a distressed market. Land has be-come unproductive and these land prices are not

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court on Thursday acquitted Mirza Himayat Baig, the lone accused who was awarded death penalty for “masterminding” the German Bakery blasts that killed 17 people in Pune in 2010. He was, however, found guilty of possessing explosive sub-stance and forged docu-ments and awarded life imprisonment. Justices N H Patil and S B Shukre read out the judgment to Baig. “Aapko faansi ki saza se bari kiya jaata hai (you have been acquitted of the death penalty),”

206) had 155 passengers and nine crew members, the flight bound for Odis-ha’s capital Bhubaneswar (AI-075) had 178 fliers and seven crew mem-bers. Passengers of both the flights and their bag-gage were subjected to a second round of checking with the Bomb Threat Assessment Commit-tee (BTAC) at the IGIA monitoring the situation. Security personnel from the CISF and Delhi Po-

lice cordoned off the two planes along with bomb disposal squads, the of-ficials said. They added the threat was triggered after the airport con-trol room received a call from a person identify-ing himself as Abhishek Singh, a “CBI officer” and said that while there is a “time bomb” in the Nepal bound flight, some “movement” has happned at the terminal area to hit the AI flight.

Modi gets invite for SAARC summit in Pakistan; Sushma and Aziz discuss Pathankot, Masood Ashar

Kingfisher House fails to get any bids at SBI auction

German Bakery blasts: Himayat Baig spared of gallows, but gets life term under Explosives Act

the judges told Baig. Go-ing by the judgment, Baig has been acquitted of all the five counts he was convicted under and sen-tenced to death. Baig was convicted and sentenced to death on two counts of Unlawful Activities Pre-vention Act, 1967; two counts of the Indian Pe-

nal Code and one count of Explosives Substance Act. He was awarded life im-prisonment on four counts under these stringent laws. The court on Thurs-day awarded life terms to Baig on two counts — Section 5 (b) of the Ex-plosive Substance Act and Section 474 of the Indian

Penal Code. The two pro-visions refer to possession of explosive substance and forged documents, respectively. Interestingly, and more importantly, two key witnesses had moved their applications in the matter, saying they were coerced into giving state-ments against Baig during his trial. In addition, AAP leader Ashish Khetan had moved an application, claiming that he had car-ried out a sting operation on these witnesses which revealed that they were “coerced” and “tutored” by the Maharashtra ATS to give the testimony.

saleable; 17,000 sq. ft for a ready asset for Rs.150 crore comes close to Rs.88,000 per sq. ft on land area which is way too high and I fail to un-derstand the calculation and logic behind how they come up to that val-ue,” said Pankaj Kapoor, managing director, Li-ases Foras, a real estate consultant. According to property consultants, the average commercial

property price in the Vile Parle area where King-fisher House is located, is at around Rs.28,000 per sq. ft. “There were no bids and thus the auction failed. We’ll have to con-duct another auction for the property now, how-ever, it is not decided when we will do it,” said a senior official at State Bank of India (SBI), speaking on condition of anonymity.

terror attack. “We dis-cussed issues pertaining to the Pathankot terror strike, Swaraj said after her talks with Aziz. She said a Pak Joint Investi-gation Team will reach India on March 27 and begin its probe a day later. However, quoting

sources said members of the team have not yet applied for a visa. In-dia also sought details of JeM Chief Masood Azhar during the meet-ing. This was the first formal meeting between the two leaders after the January 2 cross-bor-

der terror attack on the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot in Punjab that claimed the lives of seven Indian secu-rity personnel. The at-tack derailed the foreign secretary-level talks between the two south Asian neighbours sched-uled for the middle of January after Aziz and Sushma Swaraj in De-cember last year agreed to start a comprehen-sive bilateral dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi. The two leaders arrived in Pokhara on Wednesday to attend the 37th meet-ing of the SAARC coun-cil of ministers which was held on Thursday.

Bomb scare at Delhi’s IGI airport: Bhubaneswar, Kathmandu flights evacuated

Modi’s speech comes at a time when his minis-ters and BJP leaders have been accused of making controversial statements

about minorities and practising divisive pol-itics. Sanjeev Balyan, union minister of state for agriculture, is being

tried in a Muzaffarnagar court for rioting, disturb-ing the peace and un-lawful assembly during the 2013 riots in the Ut-

tar Pradesh city. Other BJP leaders have called Muslims “terrorists” or asked them to leave In-dia if they can’t stop eating beef. On Thurs-day, Modi said Islam “literally means peace”, adding Sufism was the greatest contribution of the religion to this world. The PM’s speech comes ahead of elections to four states and a union terri-tory over six weeks be-ginning April 4, in a test of whether the BJP can expand its footprint in regions where it has been traditionally weak.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2016

QUOTE OF THE

DAYWork towards making India the skill capital of the world

Skill isn’t some activity you learn and forget over time. Skill is experience, intellect and passion act-ing in unison. Knowledge is not skill. Skill devel-opment in India is quite a challenge considering the population which is deprived of facilities to work on their skills. Thankfully, India is on a mission to find such talent and enhance skills. The recent budget has rationalised customs and excise duty rates to boost Make in India, which will create the need for skill development. A sum of Rs 25,000 crore has been al-lotted to the development of the public sector, which would create more jobs and sharpen the focus on skill development. Providing entrepreneurship and training facilities in schools, colleges and ITIs pri-oritise mass employment creation and skill develop-ment. Jobs and hirings in India must shift from being ‘qualification-based’ to ‘skill-based’. Today, almost every hiring is done using education and qualifica-tion as a surrogate for skill. This is a roadblock that the National Skill Development Mission needs to address. The budget has emphasised creating a new dynamism in the social sector. Concentrating on cre-ating a modern infrastructure and maintaining fiscal discipline will not lead to actual growth — focus-ing on the Scheduled Castes, backward classes and deprived segments, connecting them and skilling them for industry requirements is what is required. Governance and ease of doing business will attract more investors, but does not solve the skills short-age. People’s potential must be recognised, refined and exposed to opportunities. There should be an unprecedented focus on providing quality education to the deprived segments and child labour must be abolished. These two issues need to be addressed on a mission mode. The responsibility of develop-ing the skill sets shouldn’t be confined to a depart-ment or a cell. The whole country should be work-ing towards transforming India into the skill capital of the world. Hopefully, the extended e-assessment will generate larger tax generation and this will re-sult in greater funding for important programmes by the government. In the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth”. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership, and that is how this country will be on the path to literacy and true sov-ereignty. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a skill. The illiter-ate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

“We are also working on station redevelopment through 100 per cent transparent process…this process will lead to good ideas coming in so we do not want to design ourselves as CPWD design but we will do something which could be really a new icon of development,” - Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday said......

Agency | New Delhi

Singer Mika Singh, who made headlines with his off screen kiss with Ra-khi Sawant on her birth-day bash years ago, is going to debut with a kiss in his next single. The ‘Jumme Ki Raat Hai’ hit-maker will be launching his next single ‘Billo’ on March 18, which will fea-ture Mika Singh himself. He will be seen sharing

a steamy kiss with mod-el and former Miss Uni-verse Canada Hannah Simard on screen for the time. Mika Singh took to Twitter to announce the launch of the Billo song with the song’s cover im-age. The song has been composed by Baba Hon-ey and directed by David Zennei. It will be avail-able on T-Series official YouTube Channel.

Agency | Mumbai

Filmmaker Karan Johar, known for delivering fam-ily blockbusters like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, says his forthcoming pro-duction Kapoor and Sons is the most identifiable film of his home ban-ner Dharma Productions. Karan, who was present at an event here to unveil his limited edition jewellery line with Mumbai-based jewellery label Gehna, said: “Kapoor and Sons is a very beautiful film. I have specified it to every-body that this film is the most identifiable film of Dharma Productions. It is special to all of us. “I think it has a different perspec-

Agency | New Delhi

It looks like shooting for director Shankar’s ‘2.0’ is moving at a brisk pace. The latest news is that the audio of the film is likely to be launched in Lon-don. The movie, which is a sequel to Robot, is being produced by Lyca Productions and they are based in London, so this could be a strategic move. Meanwhile, shooting for the movie is said to be on in Delhi now. Akshay Kumar was in Dubai till a few days back for an event to honour teachers.

Agency | New Delhi

The Kannada star has turned 41 and his fans are celebrating his birthday on social media with the hashtag #HappyBirth-dayPuneeth trending since morning. Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar is having a good year as he is gearing up for the release of his first film of the year Chakravyu-ha. He has also just been signed up as the Karnata-ka brand ambassador for Ziox Mobiles, from Sun Airvoice. Meanwhile, Chakravyuha is set to release in April. Direct-ed by M Saravavan, it has the same storyline as Ivan Veramthiri, but most of the Tamil version has been changed. Puneeth has been having a good run the last few years on TV and on the big screen. He was the popular host of the TV show Kanna-dada Kotyadhipati or the Kannada version of Who Wants To Be a Million-aire? The actor is also a good singer and has sung many songs in his films. Numerous producers and directors have lined

Agency | Dubai

The lights, cameras, stage and the stars are ready, just the action is about to begin! With the red car-pet all set to be rolled out for a two-day celebration, beginning Thursday, of the Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) 2016, Bollywood fans can ex-pect a grand affair studded with stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, the organisers said. Pop-

ular names including San-jay Leela Bhansali, Ka-reena Kapoor Khan and Ranveer Singh too will be seen raising the celeb-rity quotient at the second edition of the gala, which celebrates Hindi cinema on foreign shores. The first edition of TOIFA was successfully held in Van-couver, British Columbia, in 2013; and after a long break, it’s back to enthrall fans. “It is going to be the biggest Bollywood event ever hosted in the Gulf

region with performanc-es and presence of some of the biggest Bollywood celebrities on one stage,” said Sameer Soni, direc-tor international business , The Times of India Group. The 25,000-seater Dubai International Stadium, Dubai Sports City, will play host to the main TOI-FA night on Friday, and will feature some of Hindi filmdom’s iconic stars and young guns on the red car-pet, in the audience and on the stage.

Agency | New Delhi

Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover’s PDA has been making news for quite a while now. There were rumours that the duo would get married this year but apparently their families have nipped those plans in the bud. Re-ports say Bipasha’s fami-ly is not happy with her choice of mate and have expressed displeasure over the marriage. Bipa-sha’s mother doesn’t ap-prove of Karan as the TV actor is twice divorced. He was earlier married to TV stars Shraddha Nigam and Jennifer Win-get, whom he recently

Rajinikanth-Akshay Kumar’s ‘2.0’ audio to be launched in London?

Vidya Balan begins shooting for Kahaani 2! Arjun Rampal to join the cast?

Birthday Special: Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar turns 41!

Bollywood stars to add sparkle in Dubai for TOIFA 2016

Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover marriage stalled by their families?

‘Kapoor and Sons’ the most identifiable Dharma Productions film: Karan Johar

tive on family. Whoever you are, you will identi-fy and see yourself in the film.” Kapoor and Sons sees the return of director Shakun Batra, who had previously directed the Imran Khan-Kareena Ka-poor-starrer Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu which fared aver-age at the box office. The movie catches the on-and-off bond between charac-

ters essayed by Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan, who play siblings. Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak Shah play their parents, while Alia Bhatt’s charac-ter gets involved with the family and the brothers at different points of the sto-ry. Veteran actor Rishi Ka-poor plays old Mr. Kapoor in the movie, which is re-leasing on Friday.

Agency | New Delhi

Fans of Kahaani, the 2012 cult hit that took the nation by storm, can now look forward to its sequel.The mystery thrill-er, co-written by Ghosh revolved around Vidya

Bagchi, a pregnant wom-an who was in search of her missing husband in the city of Kolkata. With Kahaani, Vidya proved that a heroine can sin-gle-handedly change the fate of a film at the box

divorced. Even Karan’s family doesn’t want to see him get married so soon after his second di-vorce. He had promised his mother that he’d ask for her opinion before ty-ing the knot again and she allegedly says no bahu so soon. Karan and Bipasha, who started dating while shooting for Alone, have

been together for almost one year. While they have not spoken publically about their relationship, they are often seen to-gether and regularly post pictures together. Despite their families saying no to the match, the couple was seen enjoying an intimate dinner with close friends in an Instagram picture.

up birthday gifts for the actor on his special day. Director Santhosh Anan-dram who is the captain of Puneeth’s next film Rajakumara released a poster today from the

film. The audio album of Chakravyuha will also be out today. The audio launch is set to take place at Jnana Jyothi Auditori-um from 6 pm onwards on March 17.

Now, Rajinikanth and Ak-shay Kumar are said to be shooting in New Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Sta-dium. The shoot will con-tinue in Delhi for a month. The action sequences are reportedly going to be filmed in Delhi with Ra-

jinikanth and Akshay Ku-mar. Part of this will be shot at the stadium. There have been huge sets erect-ed for the purpose at the stadium. There’s no word yet if the film’s heroine Amy Jackson will be part of this schedule in Delhi.

office. The sequel had been a matter of specula-tions since the success of the first film.The makers delighted the fans by fi-nally announcing it. Su-joy Ghosh took to Twitter to share a picture of the clap board of Kahaani 2 and announced the be-ginning of the shooting of the film. He wrote “in gratitude for the love you gave our first film. we will work even harder to live up to your expec-tations:)”. Vidya Balan returns for the sequel, as confirmed by her while shooting for Sujoy’s film Te3n.

Numerous producers and directors have lined up birthday gifts for the

actor on his special dayMika Singh shares a steamy kiss in his next single Billo

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Scientists develop chick with ‘dinosaur’ feet

Do you have an abnormal heart rhythm? Yoga can help you

Agency | Santiago

Scientists in Chile have created a chicken embryo that developed dinosaur-like feet after genetic ma-nipulation, highlighting the evolutionary link be-tween theropod dinosaurs and birds. The research - published last week in the journal Evolution - shows that “by inhibiting early maturation of a leg of the chicken embryo, the leg reverts to the shape that dinosaurs’ legs had,” said Alexander Vargas, one of the six researchers at the University of Chile. “The result is a chicken embryo with dino-saur legs,” Vargas told AFP on Tuesday, explain-ing what amounts to reverse evolution. Theropods, a group of dinosaurs, started as carnivores but evolved to eat plants and insects. Birds evolved from small theropods in the Jurassic period more than 145 million years ago. In their study, scien-tists manipulated the Indian Hedgehog Homolog

gene common to all animals, including man.

Agency | New Delhi

Oppo, as expected, has unveiled its new camera-fo-cused R9 and R9 Plus smartphones in China. The Oppo R9 and Oppo R9 Plus have been priced at CNY 2,799 (approximately Rs. 29,000) and CNY 3,299 (approximately Rs. 34,000) respectively. The Oppo R9 will be going on sale starting March 24 in China while the Oppo R9 Plus is expected to be available from April 12. Unfortunately, there is no word on availability outside China as of now. The biggest highlight of the Oppo R9 and R9 Plus smartphones is that they pack 16-megapixel front cameras with 78.1-degree wide-angle lens and an f/2.0 aperture. On the rear, the Oppo R9 sports a 13-megapixel camera with LED flash, with an f/2.2 aperture. The R9 Plus packs Sony’s IMX298 CMOS sensor in its 16-megapixel rear camera

with an f/2/0 aperture.

Agency | London

Yoga may improve quality of life in patients suf-fering from abnormal heart rhythm because it gives them a method to gain some self control over their symptoms instead of feeling helpless, says a new study. The researchers examined the effects of yoga on patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) in which faulty electrical signals and rapid heart rate begin suddenly and then stop on their own. “Many patients with paroxysmal AF can’t live their lives as they want to — they refuse din-ners with friends, concerts and travelling – because they are afraid of an AF episode occurring,” said one of the researchers Maria Wahlstrom from So-phiahemmet University in Sweden. “AF episodes are accompanied by chest pain, dyspnoea and diz-ziness,” added Wahlstrom in the study published in the European journal of cardiovascular nursing. These symptoms are unpleasant and patients feel anxious, worried and stressed that an AF episode would occur. AF is the most common cardiac rhythm disorder and has no cure, the researches pointed out.

Agency | Kolkata

Not ready to dwell on the past, Pakistan skip-per Shahid Afridi says the morale-boosting win over Bangladesh will hold them in good stead when they clash with arch-rivals India in their crucial ICC World Twen-ty20 match at the Eden Gardens here on Satur-day. Stung by unwarrant-ed criticism and contro-versy, Afridi today gave a fitting reply with a bril-liant all-round show as he blasted 49 off 19 balls and also took two for 27 in his four overs to help Pakistan avenge their Asia Cup loss to Ban-gladesh by notching up a 55-run win and start their World T20 campaign on a positive note. Paki-stan’s next WT20 match

Agency | California

A dominant Serena Wil-liams proved far too strong for defending champi-on Simona Halep as the American eased into the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open with a 6-4 6-3 victory on Wednes-day. The world number one has yet to drop a set in four matches in Cal-ifornia, and Williams made a tricky opponent on paper look complete-ly over-matched in the quarter-final encounter. The 21-time grand slam champion blasted 28 winners to Halep’s nine. She also recorded seven aces, aptly closing out the match with an unre-turnable serve down the middle. Williams also broke the Romanian’s serve four times and im-proved her head-to-head

Agency | Mumbai

The indomitable West In-dies opener Chris Gayle showed why he is consid-ered the king of Twenty20 world with a brutal innings of 100* off 48 balls against England on Wednesday at Mumbai. Chasing an otherwise impressive to-tal of 182 for 6 wickets at Wankhede Stadium in their first 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Group I match, West Indies reached the target with 11 balls to spare with Gayle hitting his second T20 World Cup century. After win-ning the toss, West Indies skipper Darren Sammy

Agency | California

Novak Djokovic avenged his only loss of 2016 with a ruthless 6-3 6-3 victo-ry over Feliciano Lopez as the Serbian top seed eased into the quarter-fi-nals of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday. An eye issue forced Djokov-ic to retire against his Spanish opponent at the Dubai Duty Free Cham-pionships last month but he had his sights set firm-ly on victory for their re-match in California. The world number one needed just 66 minutes to prevail as he won 75 percent of his points on serve and broke Lopez three times. “I have respect for his game, which definitely made me very cautious of

Agency | Kolkata

India take on Pakistan in their second fixture of Group 2, Match 19 of ICC World T20 2016 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. India, who came into this tournament on the back of seven consecutive wins, were given a huge reality check by New Zealand, who beat them by 47 runs in their first World T20 fixture. Pakistan on the other hand, came into this tournament in shambles. Their performance in the Asia Cup was very ordi-nary, and the team was being lambasted by crit-ics, left and right. Yet, they showed their mettle against an in-form Ban-gladesh side in their first World T20 fixture, beat-ing them convincingly by 55 runs. India’s match against Pakistan was seen

Agency | Mumbai

Bruised and battered by the Chris Gayle mauling, England are faced with a must-win situation as they look ways to contain South Africa in their ICC World Twenty20 match on Friday. Shell-shocked by Gayle’s record 47-ball century, England are re-quired to win against the Proteas, to whom they lost 0-2 in the tune-up to the tournament, if they are to progress to the semi finals from Group

1. The 2010 champions’ under-fire bowlers and fielders will be up against a strong rival batting line-up comprising the innovative AB de Vil-liers holder of the world’s fastest 50, 100 and 150 in ODIs, big-hitting David Miller and the solidity of captain Faf du Plessis, Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock and JP Dumi-ny. The key, perhaps, would be how effectively England’s spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali

can perform after being sent to the cleaners by the big-swinging bat of Gay-le who struck successive sixes into the top tiers of the Wankhede stadium off both these slow bowlers. They were tilted over for 171 as recently as Febru-ary 21 at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg by the Dale Steyn-less Proteas’ bowling attack comprising young tear-away Kagiso Rabada, Kyle Abbott, Chris Mor-ris and Imran Tahir.

is against India on Satur-day here, a venue where the visitors have never lost to the home team before. “I don’t want to talk about the past, I don’t live in past. I think we should learn from our mistakes. We have done well against these guys and India have been playing good cricket, even with the last loss. We won this match and everyone is feeling good after this win,” said Afri-di at the post-match pre-

sentation ceremony. Af-ridi said he would look to lead by example in the ongoing tournament. “My performances al-ways play a key role, and I was really hungry to perform. For the last few series I didn’t play well. But I was focused on my performance because I know how important it is for me and my coun-try. It’s a big event as captain, as senior player, I have to lead by exam-ple,” said Afridi.

asked England to bat first. English batsmen played well to compile a big to-tal, with Joe Root (48) and Jos Buttler (30) lead-ing the charge. For West Indies, Andre Russell and Dwayne Bravo took two wickets each. Gayle, whose marauding unbeat-en innings in the Super

10 Group 1 game kept the crowd at the Wankhede Stadium on their feet throughout, had struck 11 sixes and five fours to-day as he carried his bat through the innings. He also became the highest number of six hitter in T20 Internationals with 92 in his name now.

as a walkover for the hosts before the tournament be-gan. But after taking into consideration the displays of both the teams in their opening games, many believe Pakistan have a slight upper hand against the hosts. India would hope the New Zealand game was a ‘one-off’ and would hope to get back to winning ways. Pakistan though, will look at this fixture an opportunity to avenge their Asia Cup loss and put the hosts in

a vulnerable situation. The strength of India lies in its batting. Both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma failed against New Zea-land, but were in great nick before that game. Shikhar Dhawan played a great knock against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup final, and he is cer-tainly a player for the big games. In the middle- or-der, the biggest plus for the hosts was the batting of MS Dhoni in the last game.

record to 7-1 against her fifth-seeded opponent. A right knee injury forced Williams to withdraw from the event last year, when she ended a self-im-posed 14-year absence at the tournament, giving Halep a walkover in their scheduled semi-final. Ha-lep ultimately defeated Jelena Jankovic to capture the crown but her defeat to Williams keeps the Ameri-can on course for a first In-dian Wells triumph since 2001. Third seed Agnies-

ka Radwanska stands be-tween Williams and a spot in the final, with the world number one expecting a tough challenge from the Pole. “(Radwanska) knows how to play in big stadiums and big match-es, big games,” Williams told reporters. “Obvious-ly she does everything so well, including running, and this is a good surface for her because it’s a slow surface. I think I expect there will be a lot of long rallies.”

approaching this match and made me very de-termined to impose my game plan from the very beginning,” Djokov-ic told reporters. “I was very solid. I didn’t allow him to come to the net too many times. It was a good performance.” Djokovic enjoyed his best perfor-mance of the tournament to date and next meets Frenchman Jo-Wilfried

Tsonga, who defeated Dominic Thiem 6-3 6-2, as the defending cham-pion seeks an unprece-dented fifth title at Indian Wells. Earlier in the day, third seed Stan Wawrin-ka was sent packing in the fourth round and the Swiss was very nearly joined by Rafa Nadal, who pulled off a Houdi-ni-like escape to reach the last eight.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

In a bizzare incident, six people of the ‘Gau Rak-sha Ekta Samiti’ in Ra-jkot were hospitalised after they attempted sui-cide over their demand that the cow be made the ‘Mother of the Nation.’ Yesterday, they gave a memorandum to the Ra-jkot collector demand-ing to declare cow as the Mother of the Nation and gave 24 hours time. How-ever, the demand was not taken into consideration and they have informed

the authority of self im-molation in the collector office itself. Fortunately, none of them lost their lives and were admitted to hospital in time. “They were demanding the gau (cow ) to be declared as the Rashtra Mata and to-day they also came to de-mand it and six of them have drunk poison sort of things and they have been arrested and shifted to the Rajkot hospital where couple of them are little serious,” said Police In-spector Kalpesh Chawda. Yesterday, the activists

went to demand the status of cow as the Mother of the Nation and few mem-bers from different cities decided to drink poison as part of the protest. The names of the victims are Kamlesh Rabari from Morbi, Amarbhai from Gondal, Raghuvir Singh Jadeja from Ahmedabad, Deepak Vaghela from Jas-dana and Jayubha Jadeja from Khiri village. They all are under medical su-pervision and treatment. The police have put staff in the emergency ward to take stock of the situation.

Correspondent | Morbi

Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti(PAAS) agitation is going on as per Con-gress party’s agenda, al-leged active agitators of PAAS agitation Ashish Patel and Vinod Aghara in press statement. Both of them were active in this agitation in Morbi belt of Saurashtra re-gion. They claim that en-tire agitation is going on as per Congress party’s agenda and conveners of these agitation are mostly Congress loyalists. They are only busy in place-ment of elected Patidars under Congress party’s banner in local elections held last year. Patel and

Correspondent | Palanpur

Gujarat government has allotted 1407 hectare land to Gujarat Power Corpo-ration to set up a 750 MW ultra mega solar plant in Vav taluka of Banaskan-tha district. A request has been sent for setting up Ultra Mega Solar Power Project. However local villagers have pointed out that about 68 hectare land is grass land and therefore re-survey should be done for adjustment of this 68 hectare land. The gov-ernment has in response to this complain started

re-survey procedure. Ac-cording to Karsanbhai Rajput, Sarpanch of Rad-ha Nesda group panchayat which is located 30 km away from international border with Pakistan, the government will return 68 hectare land. He said the plant will transform this area. Unemployed youths will get employ-ment and border area will have a new look. The land has been allocated 6 km away from Radha Nesds in Rann of Kutch where Chor Zad, Limda Bet, old Bhagwati mandir and oth-er bet areas are located.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

If figures of money and items recovered from in-side the Sabarmati Cen-tral Jail in the past two years are anything to go by, security continues to be lax despite the jail-break attempts in 2013. Data tabled in the state assembly shows that in the last two years jail authorities recovered 61 mobile phones along with batteries, chargers and sim cards from in-side Sabarmati jail prem-ises. Also, Rs 1.58 lakh

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The makeshift tarpau-lin hut, which was sup-posed to provide some peace and quiet to the Malik family, is full of people. Aamir Malik’s wife tries to pacify their baby daughter while the rest of the family tries to explain a murky story to the visitors — police, health officials, politi-cians and media. Malik, a 27-year-old cattle trad-er, was allegedly cheated into selling his kidney to

pay off debts. It was the FIR lodged by Malik that blew the lid off an organ racket in Pandoli village, where at least 13 men — between the ages of 20 and 35 — have a missing kidney. Banu, Malik’s father, had gathered his family in the makeshift hut to escape the public glare. But that was not to be. Banu is now busy describing how Malik’s kidney was “extract-ed” in a Delhi hospital on February 12, with-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued no-tice to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the state gov-ernment on a PIL alleging discrimination against the Muslim-dominated local-ities of Sarkhej ward. The plea alleged that the Mus-lim localities were not provided basic civic facil-ities such as drinking wa-ter, drainage, street lights and disposal of garbage. The High Court ordered the AMC and the state government to file their replies in four months. The petitioners — activ-ist-cum-lawyer Amrish Patel and Musebhai Kha-tumbara — moved the court, saying that the local

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Famous Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali is scheduled to perform during a cultural event, organised by a trust run by religious leader Mora-ri Bapu in Bhavnagar dis-trict from March 19 to 22. The 75-year-old ghazal maestro will perform on any one day during the four-day event at Talga-jarda village of Mahuva taluka, about 175km from here, a close aide of Mora-ri Bapu said today. Be-

sides, Ali and nine other famous personalities as-sociated with various arts will be presented awards by Shree Chitrakutdham Trust, run by Bapu, at Tal-gajarda village, said his close aide and event organ-iser Harishchandra Joshi. “Ali along with five others will be given ‘Hanumant Award’ on the concluding day of the event (March 22). Ali will perform once during the four-day event. He had performed here in the past also,” said Joshi.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, whose last visit to Gujarat sched-uled on February 27, was cancelled due to “security reasons”, is now expected to visit on March 19. He will be in Gandhinagar at the invitation of Congress Legislature Party leader Shankersinh Vaghela to inaugurate a college build-ing under the aegis of his trust-run Bapu Gujarat Knowledge Village. Last time, Singh’s visit, apart from coinciding with the anniversary of the Sabar-mati express train burning

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Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali to perform at cultural event in Gujarat

Gujarat HC notice to govt, AMC on PIL alleging discrimination against Muslim localities

“PAAS agitation is going on as per Congress party’s agenda”

February visit cancelled, Manmohan Singh now to visit Gandhinagar on Saturday

In this Gujarat village, at least 13 men don’t have a kidneySix attempt suicide demanding cow

be declared ‘Mother of Nation’In last two years, 61 cellphones

seized in Sabarmati Jail

– Famous Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali is scheduled to perform during a

cultural event, organised by a trust run by religious leader Morari Bapu in Bhavnagar

district from March 19 to 22

Four other recipients of Hanumant Award, being given for the last 10 years, include classical dancer and Lok Sabha MP Hema Malini and famous sitarist Debu Chaudhary, added Joshi. “Film actor Dhar-mendra along with three other artists will be given ‘Natraj Award’ for their contribution in their cho-sen field, while Vadoda-

ra-based sculpture-maker Nagji Patel will be hon-oured with ‘Kailash Lalit Kala Award’ on March 22,” said Joshi. Late last year, Ali was forced to cancel his shows in in Mumbai and Pune due to opposition from Shiv Sena, which is part of the BJP-led governments in Maharashtra and at the Centre.

authorities through notifi-cations in 2006 extended the limits of Ahmedabad city in which several mu-nicipalities namely Bo-dakdev, Makarba, Nava Odhav, Nikol, Vastrapur, Nava Naroda, Thaltej and village panchayats Sarkhej, Vejalpur, Jodh-pur, Memnagar, Ghatlo-dia, Chadlodia, Ranip, Kali, Vastral, Ramol were

merged and brought un-der the AMC. According to the petitioners, after the merger, the AMC start-ed collecting municipal taxes from the residents, but those living in Mus-lim-dominated localities were not provided basic civic facilities. Sarkhej and Makarba are the two areas where a large num-ber of Muslims have set-

tled since 2002. “While the residents of one community are provid-ed all the civic facilities, the residents of another community are deprived of the basic civic ameni-ties. This action on the part of respondents is arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of Article 14 and Article 15,” the petitioners said.

at Godhra, of 2002, had also coincided with the Gujarat BJP’s felicitation of its national president Amit Shah on his second term which was also held in Gandhinagar. Vaghela had then called the cancel-lation of the visit, a “polit-ical conspiracy” to prevent

the former PM from com-ing to Gujarat. On Wednes-day, Vaghela, confirmed the arrival of the former prime minister and said, “he will be here at 2.30 pm and leave at 7 pm”. Singh is also expected to interact with students, teachers and academicians.

Resurvey for Radha Nesda Ultra Mega Solar Power Plant in Gujarat

Aghara in their statement further said that ongoing Patidar Ekta Yatra is like election campaign tour of Congress party. They said PAAS conveners should give it in writing that no one from their circle will contest elections in future. It should be mentioned

here that Patidar Ekta Ya-tra led by PAAS Saurash-tra zone convener Lalit Vasoya is going to con-clude at Kagvad on March 27. Provocative and ex-tremist speeches have been heard during public meetings that are held in course of this yatra.

Villagers say it was never a secret among the 15,000-odd families — selling off a kidney

to pay debts is a “common practice”. Multi-speciality transplant hospitals “send their agents” to seek kidney sellers, they add.

out his knowledge. “He had a debt of Rs 1 lakh and he wanted an inter-est-free loan to pay it off. He asked his friends for help,” he says. On Mon-day, Aamir told the po-lice that he was whisked away to Delhi, “drugged and unconscious”, by his “friends” who “cheated him” into selling his kid-ney. With the Rs 2.3 lakh he got for the kidney, Malik paid off his debt and put the rest of the money in the bank for his two daughters — aged three and one. Anand police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case.

cash was recovered in the last two years, along with dangerous items like iron rods, scissors, and razors from various barracks of the jail. Replying to a question by Jhalod MLA Mitesh Garasia, minister of state for home, Ra-janikant Patel, said that apart from mobiles, the police have also recov-ered cigarette packets, scissors, iron roads, ra-zor, gutka, sugar and tea among other items. Po-lice also recovered garlic chutney, onions, potatoes and edible oil. The gov-ernment’s reply stated that departmental inquiry has been initiated against 88 jail officials, and 236 prisoners from whose barracks these prohibit-ed items were recovered. Patel said that in 2014, some 29 phones were recovered from the jail, while in 2015 the num-ber increased to 32. Also, the cash recovered from inside jail was Rs88,850 in 2014 and Rs69,500 in 2015.