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In its forecast, the IMD has issued “severe heat wave” warning for Gujarat, west and east Rajasthan, west and east Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, west and east Madhya Pradesh for the next three days.

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Nargis and I are still close friends:

Uday Chopra

Gujarat Lions vs Kolkata Knight

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Agency | Kolkata

The Enforcement Branch of the Kolkata Police has seized coun-terfeit VIMAL suit-ings and ready-to-stitch boxes from a shop in Burrabazar area. An official of EB said that acting on a tip-off, po-lice, along with execu-tives of Reliance, raided the shop yesterday and found around 110 rolls of counterfeit VIMAL suitings rolls and ready-to-stitch boxes.

Agency | Itanagar

Flood waters of the over-flowing Noa-Dehing river, fed by torrential rain in the past few days, have inundated several areas in Namsai district of Arunachal Pradesh. The flood water inun-dated Mahadevpur-I, Mahadevpur-IV and Kakoni villages be-sides submerging paddy fields in Namsai dis-trict, an official report said today. Besides, five bamboo spurs out of 14 constructed on May 10 were washed away by flood water at New Sila-too threatening the Ma-hadevpur town.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Uday Chopra says he shares a “close” friendship with Nargis Fakhri amid reports that the “Azhar” actress has gone back to her home in New York post their split.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat Anti-Ter-rorist Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested Fa-rooq Bhana, the alleged mastermind behind set-ting fire to Sabarmati Express train in which 59 persons were killed at Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. A day later, the incident led to widespread riots in various parts of the state. Superintendent of Police (ATS) Himanshu Shukla said that Bhana, an ex cor-porator of Godhra munic-ipality, was arrested from Kalol in Panchmahal dis-trict where “a clandestine

meeting with his family members was to be held.” Officials said that Bha-na is allegedly the main conspirator who had held a meeting at Aman guest house in Phoolan bazar, adjacent to Godhra rail-way station. “Bhana had told in the meeting that the Sabarmati Express will be late and instead of 2 AM it would reach at 7 AM. He part of the con-spiracy behind burning the train for which 140 liters of petrol was pro-cured following the meet-ing at the guest house,” ATS officials said. They said that Bhana will be

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The MeT department has issued a “severe heat wave” warning for parts of north and central India, which are already reeling under the scorching sun, over the next three days. “Heat wave conditions continued to pre-vail at most places with severe heat wave at a few places over west Ra-

jasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and at isolated places over Haryana and Delhi, east Rajasthan, east Uttar Pradesh and central Maharashtra,” the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. In its forecast, the IMD has issued “severe heat wave” warn-ing for Gujarat, west and east Rajas-than, west and east Uttar Pradesh,

Vidarbha, west and east Madhya Pradesh for the next three days. The condition will also continue in east and west Rajasthan until May 21. However, there could be some relief as the month ends, the weathermen said. In its earlier forecast, the IMD had said that heat wave conditions were already prevailing over parts

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Apple CEO Tim Cook in India, visits Sidhhivinayak temple in MumbaiAgency | Mumbai

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s visit to India comes at a time when the US tech-nology giant is hit by slower growth in global sales of its flagship prod-ucts and has his work cut out in a market that is growing fast. The chief executive, who sees In-dia as the company’s next growth curve point, is in the country to forge partnerships and open exclusive stores that will help boost iPhone sales. Cook has a packed schedule during his stay with visits to Gurgaon, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. On Wednes-day, Cook began his first official visit to India by offering prayers at Mum-

Agency | Quito

A powerful magni-tude-6.7 aftershock ear-ly on Wednesday rattled Ecuador near the Pacific coast area where a dev-astating earthquake hit a month ago, knocking out power and scaring still-traumatised resi-dents as they slept but otherwise causing only limited damage. The US Geological Survey said today that the quake’s epicenter was 35 kilo-meters from the town of Muisne. It struck shortly before 3 a.m. local time and had a shallow depth of 32 kilometers below the earth’s surface. Pres-

Agency | Mumbai

Here’s another attempt at offering cheap smart-phone -- and this time, it’s really cheap. Ben-galuru-based Namotel is marketing Namotel Acche Din at an insane-ly low price of Rs 99, calling it India’s most affordable smartphone. At a press conference, the company’s promot-

bai’s Siddhivinayak tem-ple, where he also met Anant Ambani, the son of Reliance Industries chairperson Mukesh Ambani. He is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sat-urday. He met Modi at a Silicon Valley event in the US last September, where they discussed manufacturing plans un-der Modi’s ‘Make in In-dia’ initiative. “In Delhi,

after greeting employees at the Apple’s corporate office at One Horizon Centre in Gurgaon, he is expected to visit iZen Store (Apple authorised reseller) in Green Park and the iWorld Store (Apple premium store) in Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj,” said cited an un-named source as saying. The source, however, did not give details of his meeting with Modi.

World’s cheapest smartphone Namotel Acche Din launched at Rs 99

Magnitude-6.7 earthquake reported in Ecuador

Now an unknown company called

Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest

smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.

er Madhav Reddy said that the smartphone is available for pre-booking from May 17 to May 25 on the company’s website namotel.com. However, the website did not open when Tech tried to book the smartphone. Also, there’s a rider for all those planning to buy the

smartphone. Propspec-tive buyers are required to register on bemybank-er.com website and get a user ID and password, which is required to book the smartphone on namo-tel.com. For registration on bemybanker.com web-site, users need to pay a one-time lifetime mem-

bership fee of Rs 199. However, bemybanker.com too showed database error when Tech tried to access it. As for the spec-ifications, Namotel Ac-che Din sports a 4-inch display with 480x800 pixels WVGA resolution. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and packs 1GB RAM. There’s 4GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card. There’s a 2MP camera at the back and a VGA sel-fie camera for those who plan on using this thing for taking photos. Con-nectivity options include 3G and dual-SIM.

ident Rafael Correa said there was no tsunami alert and called on res-idents in Quito, where some residents poured into the streets, to re-turn to their homes. The quake was strong enough to trigger a national di-saster alert, but Correa

deactivated the emergen-cy response a few hours later when local authori-ties reported the situation was calm. “These sort of aftershocks are normal but that doesn’t mean they’re not scary and can cause damage,” Correa said in a televised ad-

dress, adding that after-shocks of this magnitude were normal for up to two months after a major quake like the one Ec-uador experienced. The president said that while some previously ravaged homes suffered more damage most had already been evacuated and no buildings had collapsed. There were no reports of fatalities and only a few light injuries from peo-ple who tripped and fell in the dark, he said. Au-thorities were working to restore power in affected areas.

Godhra carnage: Gujarat ATS nabs key accused after 14 years; seven still at large

59 persons were killed in the incident at

Godhra railway station on

February 27handed over to Supreme Court appointed-Special Investigation Team (SIT) which investigated the case. On February 27, 2002 coach number S-6 of Sabarmati Express train were torched by a mob at Godhra railway station in which 59 peo-ple, mostly karsevaks, were killed. A day later, this incident triggered widespread communal ri-ots in the state. In 2011, 31 persons were convict-ed by a special court and 63 were acquitted in this case. While 11 were sen-tenced to death, remain-ing 20 were given life imprisonment. Bhana re-mained absconding. The

convicts have challenged the trial court’s order in the Gujarat High Court where hearings were con-cluded last year and judg-ment is awaited.

of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Tel-angana. “These conditions are likely to spread over to some more areas compris-ing parts of Uttar Pradesh,

Haryana, Chandigarh, Del-hi, Gujarat and north Mad-hya Maharashtra between May 17 and 21. They are likely to abate gradually during the remaining part

of May,” the IMD had said on Monday. Several parts of the country are reeling under intense heat, while the MeT department has predicted that the onset of monsoon will get delayed by six days. Temperature in Ahmedabad touched 48 degree on Wednesday. “The (heat) intensity is likely to reduce thereafter and gradually abate during May 27 to 31. “Day max-imum and night minimum temperatures are likely to remain markedly above normal over entire north-west, west and central In-dia during May 17 to 27.

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DAYToday Result: Challenged by Right, Left and Centre but Mamata may holdIf exit polls are anything to go by, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has probably tackled her biggest political challenge so far – the unprecedented Left-Congress alliance – with a measure of success that nobody expected. However, the predictions also sounded a warning bell for the Trinamool Congress chief. According to the surveys, she will have to con-tend with the strongest Opposition since 1977. If the Trinamool gets 160-170 seats and the opposition 120-130, it might give rise to many forces in the Opposi-tion as well as her own party that will ultimately work to Banerjee’s detriment. However, for the moment, it is worth looking at how the 62-year-old politician is poised to pull off a feat many thought was almost be-yond her. Banerjee wanted to fight the 2016 assembly elections on the development plank, and though the Narada sting video and the flyover collapse gave Op-position parties the ammunition they needed, it seems the people of West Bengal – especially in rural areas – were convinced by her pitch. The chief minister’s fo-cus on keeping the rural masses happy by establishing welfare projects, giving away cycles to students and building better roads might have paid off during the polls. This, incidentally, was also how the Left pulled off its record-breaking 34-year rule in the state, before the Trinamool Congress trounced it in the 2011 assem-bly elections. “It is proved that Mamata Banerjee’s development initiatives across Bengal have triumphed over the canards that were spread by Opposition par-ties and a section of the media. The people of Bengal were – and are – with Mamata Banerjee. However, I think we will do better than what the exit polls have predicted,” said Subrata Mukherjee, vice president of Trinamool Congress and the senior-most member of the cabinet. The exit polls have foretold that the vote share of the Trinamool Congress – which did not cross 40% either in the 2011 assembly polls or the 2014 Lok Sabha elections – will climb to about 44%, followed closely by the Congress-Left alliance at 42%. If the pre-dictions come true, Banerjee can pat herself on the back for breaking the 40% ceiling and thank the rural belt for coming to her rescue. There is also a possibility of the BJP helping the Trinamool Congress retain power in the state. Though its vote share is predicted to drop from a 16.8% high in the 2014 Lok Sabha figures to 7%, the party might have easily fragmented the Opposition votes – thereby helping the Trinamool Congress in quite a few seats. On March 31, just four days before the first phase of the polls on April 4, a section of a flyover under con-struction in North Kolkata collapsed – killing 27 people.

“he (Modi) has initiated Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and it coincides with our ‘help A Child Reach 5’ initiative, so we thought of meeting and discussing things with him. We are on a same page as our goals are same… We want a hygienic environment,”

- The 41-year-old actress met Modi in Delhi to discuss Hindustan unilever’s Lifebuoy’s ‘help A Child Reach 5’ campaign as its brand ambassador.

Priyanka Chopra pays tribute to Prince at ABC upfronts

Agency | New York

Priyanka Chopra and her show Quantico have be-come a Marquee asset for American TV net-work ABC. Therefore, when it came to woo-ing the new and existing advertisers, they chose Priyanka to perform at the annual ABC Upfront Show in New York on

May 17. Last year, Pri-yanka was introduced to the American TV crowd in the same event along-side Kerry Washington and Ellen Pompeo. Pri-yanka spoofed Quantico with her co-star Jake Mc-Laughlin in a short video before the performance. Then she took to the stage to perform on a parody of

Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptaown Funk’ mixed into Prince’s ‘Kiss’. Priyanka looked hot in red romper and she showed some good moves. It was good see her on stage after a long time. She is currently bust shooting her Hollywood debut movie Baywatch with Dawayne The Rock Johnson and Zac Efron.

Agency | Mumbai

Riding high on the suc-cess of his latest stint, Airlift, Akshay Kumar may soon don the ava-tar of a lawyer. Reports claim that the 48-year-old actor has signed the sequel of Subhash Ka-poor’s Jolly LLB. As per an English daily, the Kh-

iladi of Bollywood has given his nod to step into the shoes of Arshad War-si, who played a lawyer in the 2013 hit film. Ak-shay Kumar will soon be seen in two other sequels - Robot 2 and Namastey England. Arshad Warsi who played the title role in the first instalment, may not feature in the

sequel as “it’s a different case story altogether.” However, no such con-firmation has come from the director or the actor’s side. When the daily got in touch with the director to know the development he refused to divulge any details and said, “Can’t comment on it right now.”

Agency | Mumbai

Maverick film direc-tor Ram Gopal Varma is back in the news again. The Veerappan film di-rector has stated that the infamous Sandalwood smuggler of Tamil Nadu was keen on kidnapping Superstar Rajinikanth,

like how he had kid-napped Kannada Super-star Rajkumar. RGV, as he is known, has direct-ed a film on the life of Veerappan depicting the events leading up to his death. The director has reportedly gathered a lot of information from Veer-

Agency | Mumbai

In a series of tweets, vet-eran Hindi film actor Ri-shi Kapoor said that the Congress government has named important assets of the country after Gand-hi family and that the present government must consider renaming the as-sets after those who have contributed to society. “We must name important assets of the country who have contributed to soci-ety. Har cheez Gandhi ke naam? (Why everything in the name of Gandhi?) I don’t agree. Sochna log! (Think people!),” the “Bobby” star wrote. The 63-year-old questioned if the “roads in New Del-hi can be changed, then why not the names of Congress assets/proper-ty”. Rishi even demand-ed that “Film City should be named Dilip Kumar,

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam pulled off a per-formance on a busy Mumbai street recently for hours, and, surprising-ly, went completely unno-ticed. He sat under a tree in Mumbai’s Juhu area with his harmonium and started singing his popu-lar song Kal Ho Naa Ho. Though a small crowd gathered around him, and many even complimented

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Shahid Kapoor is going to have a busy cou-ple of months soon - baby and new film will arrive in quick succession. Sha-hid and his wife Mira Rajput are expecting their first child and the due date is in September. The actor’s upcoming film Rangoon releases in October. “Rangoon is scheduled for release on October 14. Junior will definitely arrive before that. Mira’s date is around mid-September, but as it happens in most cases, the baby could arrive a few days before or after the due date,” a source said. Shahid, 35, is also taking very good care of his pregnant wife. “She has started getting crav-ings for particular kinds of food and he makes sure to indulge her. He has

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal, who is shooting for the his upcoming film Sujoy Ghosh’s sequel to his 2012 hit Kahaani, has injured his knee while filming a chase sequence for the promotions. Shar-ing a picture of his injured knee from the sets of Ka-haani 2, the 43-year-old actor tweeted, “Finished the shoot.Now in agony.” Last week, it was report-ed that movie’s leading

lady Vidya Balan and Arjun have wrapped up the shooting of the film and are now gearing up for its promotions. The 38-year-old actor tweet-ed her farewell to Su-joy in Bengali. “Aaschi Sujoy da...Dhonnobaad for ‘another mother of a story ‘ !!” she wrote which meant ‘Good bye Sujoy.thanks for ‘another mother of a story .’ The forthcoming sequel is scheduled to release on 25 November.

Why name India’s assets only after Gandhis, asks Rishi Kapoor

Akshay Kumar to play a lawyer in Jolly LLB 2?

Veerappan wanted to kidnap Rajinikanth, says Ram Gopal Varma

Shahid Kapoor, Mira Rajput’s Special Time: Due Date and Other Details

Went without any expectations: Sonu Nigam on his incognito performance

Dev Anand, Ashok Ku-mar ya Amitabh Bach-chan ke naam? Rajeev Gandhi udyog Kya hota hai? Socho doston!” The actor also suggested that the names of legendary singers Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar be used for important venues. Stressing on the contri-bution of his legendary father, actor-filmmak-er Raj Kapoor, Rishi wrote: “Raj Kapoor has

made India proud over the years all over even after his death. Certainly more than what has been perceived by politics.” “Change Gandhi family assets named by Con-gress. Bandra/Worli Sea Link to Lata Mangeshkar or JRD Tata Link road. Baap ka maal samajh ra-kha tha,” Rishi, who be-longs to Hindi cinema’s world famous Kapoor clan, tweeted on Tuesday night.

appan’s former associates and people involved in Operation Cocoon. This film was released in Kan-nada first and turned out to be a big hit. In Hindi, it is produced by Sachiin J Joshi. When RGV was asked why he made a film about a man who was a dacoit, he had stated that everyone makes films about heroes but he want-ed to make a film about a villain. He said he was fascinated with Veerap-pan’s life and wanted to show the world that he was not just a sandalwood smuggler.

him for his voice, no one recognised him. “I went without any expectations, totally bereft of any awk-wardness for the way I was looking and what I was about to subject myself to. For the first time, I was not me. The make-up was so good and authentic, that even peo-ple standing close to me,

couldn’t recognise me,” he said in a statement. “ I was carrying the har-monium that my parents bought when I was born. It was all so humbling. And from such an unfa-miliar zone, I managed to procure something. Grat-itude, Grace and appreci-ation for what we have,” the statement read further.

also been accompanying her for visits to the doc-tor and when they are out, he doesn’t let go of her hand or leave her side,” said. There has reportedly been no decision yet on whether the baby will be born in Mumbai or Delhi, Mira’s hometown. Shahid and Mira were last spot-ted at actress Preity Zin-ta’s wedding reception in Mumbai on May 13. “As of now, they are just re-

lieved that Mira is bloom-ing through her pregnan-cy. In fact, Preity Zinta congratulated her on her glow when they were at the reception to wish her and husband Gene Good-enough,” the said. The couple recently returned from their babymoon in the Maldives. Before the Vishal Bhardwaj-direct-ed Rangoon, Shahid has Udta Punjab releasing on June 17.

Arjun Rampal `busts`his knee on sets of Kahaani 2

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SPORTS ROUNDUPUpcoming Gujarati Urban horror movie ’16 - Fight

Against ragging’

hARMAN Opens Premium Showroom for high-End Luxury Audio in Ahmedabad

Celebrate Chhota Bheem ka birthday month with POGO

Agency | Ahmedabad

HARMAN (NY-SE:HAR), the premier connected technologies company for automo-tive, consumer and en-terprise markets, today opened an exclusive premium showroom for its high-end, Luxury Audio range of products in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. This is the company’s fifth luxury audio show-room* in India and of-fers the most advanced

Agency | Ahmedabad

Suspense, thriller with horror genres all in just one movie ’16 -Fight Against ragging’. Gulaal production Mr. Navin Hadiya and Mr.Vijay Bal-daniya for the first time is coming up with a Urban Gujarati movie which is having genre of Come-dy horror thriller. The movie will release on 20th may 2016 in all major cities of Gujarat. Coming up with the strong subject like anti ragging and show-ing the youth the pros and cons of the ragging is try to show by the director Lagdhirsinh N Jadeja who was an Engineering college pass out.This is his first directed movie on big screen .Mr. Avatar fame Sanjay Maurya and Canvas movie fame Chi-ni Raval are lead actors. Other star castes include, Yuvraj Gadhvi, Nikita Soni, Sameer Trivedi,Vai-sakh Rathod and Sandeep Prajapati in second lead. Musicby Mayur Soni. The movie storyline is about college life .16 Fight Against Ragging movie trail-er is full of Comedy,Suspense and horror scenes. The major part of the movie is shoot in scenic lo-cations of Kutch and this will make the Gujarati movies reach a new level in the Gujarati movie industry.

Agency | Ahmedabad

It’s the best time of the year as we celebrate Chhota Bheem’s Super Birthday with his little fans! Fun, frolic, cakes and cookies along with a bundle of happy times are in store for the lit-tle viewers as Chhota Bheem celebrates his Su-per Birthday on POGO with the premiere of the first ever 3D animated movie, exciting new ep-isodes, along with ex-citing contests. To top it all, a lucky winner also stands a chance to cele-brate Chhota Bheem’s birthday at his home. So let the good times roll as POGO celebrates Ch-hota Bheem’s birthday with exciting shows like Lights Camera Pogo, a special edition which brings in Pogo Film Fac-

IPL 2 6

IPL snub affecting Pakistan’s T20I performance: Coach Arthur

Marcus Stoinis returns home from IPL 9 due to personal reasons

Maria Sharapova to face meldonium hearing in London

Bangalore batting trio leaves nothing to weak bowling

Raina returns as Lions hope to roar against Knight Riders

Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea seeking stay on BCCI elections

Agency | Lahore

Pakistan’s newly-ap-pointed chief coach Mickey Arthur on Wednesday acknowl-edged that not playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has hit the performance of the coun-try’s cricketers in the shortest format. Politi-cal tensions between the arch-rivals have resulted in the Pakistani players being barred from tak-ing part in the lucrative league since the second edition in 2009. But Ar-thur, who succeeded the legendary Waqar Younis as the head coach, reck-oned that players learn a lot participating in such tournaments. “You learn such a lot from franchise

Agency | London

Maria Sharapova will at-tend an International Ten-nis Federation anti-dop-ing hearing in London on Wednesday, British media reported, with the Russian facing a possible ban of up to four years for failing a drugs test at the Australian Open. The five-times grand slam champion stunned the

world in March when she said she had returned a positive test for meldo-nium, a Latvian-made heart medication which was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) banned list from Jan. 1. Sharapova, the world’s highest-paid sportswoman, claimed to have been taking meldo-nium on doctor’s orders for 10 years and had

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to en-tertain a plea seeking stay on the BCCI elections scheduled to take place on May 22. The petition-er, Cricket Association of Bihar, had asked the apex court to stay the elections or restrain the candi-dates having chargesheet against them as suggested by the R.S. Lodha Com-mittee. BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur is among the candidates against whom chargesheet has been filed. The apex court asked the petitioner to ap-proach the bench, which passed the earlier order. The Supreme Court-ap-pointed Lodha Commit-tee had earlier in their

cricket tournaments and I think that could be play-ing a large role,” Arthur, who coached the Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Su-per League (PSL), was quoted as saying by pa-kpassion.net. “Yes it is probably right that not playing in the IPL could be affecting the perfor-mances of the Pakistan team in the 20-over for-mat.” Buoyed by the le-thal bowling attack at his disposal, the 48-year-old

is confident that the team will get the advantage in that department. “With both pace and spin there is certainly enough depth there for this bowling at-tack to be very good. Pa-kistan have produced a lot of good quick bowlers and they continue to do that and they also have some really good spin bowlers and that clearly gives them the advantage and edge at the moment,” Arthur said.

report recommended the legalisation of betting in Indian cricket. The Lodha Committee also sug-gested the appointment of three authorities with distinct roles. The Lodha panel proposed that the second authority would be the ethics officer, who will administer the issues re-lating to conflict of inter-est, behaviour or corrup-tion. The panel said that the ethics officer would

be a former High Court Judge. “The third author-ity, which we proposed to be created, is an electoral officer, who will oversee the entire election process relating to the office bear-ers, namely preparation of voters’ list, publications, disputes about eligibility of the office bearers, all these matters relating to election shall be overseen by the electoral officer,” the panel said.

Agency | Melbourne

Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) all-rounder Marcus Stoinis has become the latest player to have re-turned back home, cit-ing ‘personal reasons’. Stoinis, who had featured in 7 games for KXIP this season, scalping 8 wickets and scoring 146 runs. He becomes the sixth Australian player to have left the tournament midway, following the likes of Steven Smith, Mitchell Marsh, John

Hastings and teammates Shaun Marsh and Glenn Maxwell. Kings XI Pun-jab have already been knocked out of the tour-nament, and are current-ly placed bottom of the standings. Stoinis was one of the very few play-ers who performed on a regular basis for a team which has struggled big time. While there has no official reason cited be-hind his return, a ‘fam-ily issue’ is said to have been the reason for him leaving. Stoinis has rep-

resented his national side in a solitary ODI and a T20I. Despite his good form, he wasn’t a part of the Australia squad for the upcoming ODI tri-series against West Indies and South Africa at the Caribbean. His fel-low injured teammates though will be expected to be fit in time for the series. Smith and Mitch-ell Marsh are certain to be play the series, while Maxwell’s injury is also not serious enough to rule him out.

Agency | Bengaluru

From the TV advertise-ment of biscuits to the branding inside the lift to the press box at Chin-naswamy Stadium, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle literally em-body the fight in Royal Challengers Bangalore. Needing to win every match since Saturday, the trio has scored 427 of the 434 runs accumu-lated by RCB in the last two games, the remain-ing seven runs coming from extras. A feat diffi-cult to surpass, it proves how in the absence of a decent bowling attack they have decided to let their bats leave nothing to chance. It also speaks of a bond that runs deeper

Agency | Kanpur

Skipper Suresh Raina’s return could not have been better-timed as Gu-jarat Lions, jolted by the tournament’s biggest ever defeat, seek to revive their campaign when they face off with Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Pre-mier League in Kanpur on Thursday. The Knight Riders will be handi-capped by the absence of in-from all-rounder An-dre Russell, and Gujarat Lions will look to cap-italise on the void at the Green Park, which will be hosting its first-ever IPL match. In the pecking order, KKR are placed in second position with 14 points and a good posi-tive net run rate, despite being humbled by Royal

failed to note that it had become a banned sub-stance until hearing of her failed test at the first grand slam of the year. She was provisionally suspend-ed on March 12 pending the hearing. Hundreds of athletes have tested pos-itive for meldonium this year but WADA admitted last month that their bans might be overturned due to a lack of clear scien-tific information on how long the drug takes to be excreted from the body. The drug’s manufacturer said traces could remain in the body for sever-al months depending on dosage, duration of treat-ment and sensitivity of testing methods.

than what meets the eye. A few days back, one of those feel-good sponsors’ events turned almost gloomy when de Villiers and Shane Watson were asked --- in the presence of Gayle --- where the Ja-maican had gone wrong. Both looked crestfallen but de Villiers was quick to react. “Wow! Are you actually a journal-ist?” asked de Villiers in keeping with the fad of

questioning journalists’ right to criticise. Jumping to conclusion becomes a norm when he gets a string of single-digit scores and returns to the dugout with that poker face. His teammates how-ever see Gayle for a lon-ger period of time. They play, practice, travel and eat together. They know of a few things that the media or public will nev-er know.

Challengers Bangalore by nine wickets in their last match. The two-time former champions have won seven matches and lost five in 12 outings so far, and a win on Thurs-day will definitely bring them closer to a play-off berth. In their maiden season, the Lions are at the moment occupying the fourth place with 14 points, but their net run rate is inferior to Knight Riders. They have also won as many games as

the Gautam Gambhir-led side. Lions, who started the season on an impres-sive note and even oc-cupied the top spot for a while, experienced their worst day when they suf-fered a 144-run humilia-tion at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore last Saturday. Blazing centuries from AB de Vil-liers and Virat Kohli left the Lions attack bruised and battered, and a shak-en batting line-up was sent packing for 104 runs.

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Correspondent | Jhalod

Jaswant Manjhi had not heard of silicosis, even af-ter it started eating away at his body. Today, he fears it may be too late for him. This 40-year-old has al-ready lost his elder broth-er Mukesh, younger sister Kokila and her husband Tansinh — all workers like him at stone quarries in Godhra — to the respi-ratory disease. And he is among the survivors still waiting for justice from the Gujarat government. “We had no idea that it would completely eat away our bodies. We quit the job within three years, but the damage had been done,” said Manjhi from Shan-karpura village in Dahod’s Jhalod taluka. The story of these stone quarry workers made headlines after the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Chief minister Anandi-ben Patel is expected to launch the smart village programme on May 22, the second anniversary of her government. She will felicitate villages that have 100% toilet facility. The CM will attend the Ac-cessible India campaign workshop on May 21. The CM will also attend Lok Samvad Setu programme in Umparpada and An-kleswhar in central Guja-rat on May 20, and in Ol-pad and Choryasi on May 19. Patel will be present at an education department

workshop and announce various projects on May 25. She will dedicate a new science college and girls’ hostel in Jetpur in Rajkot on May 31. GCCI poll process begins: Twen-ty forms were taken by as-piring candidates on day one of form distribution at the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try (GCCI), on Tuesday. The election process for 24 seats of the GCCI ex-ecutive committee and posts of office-bearers has begun. The forms for both GCCI and Business Wom-en Wing were made avail-able from Tuesday.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In the wake of the re-cent triple murder in Surat, Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela on Wednesday attacked the BJP-led Gujarat govern-ment for “deteriorating” law and order situation and alleged that “jungle raj” was prevailing in the state. Vaghela, who is the Leader of Opposi-tion in Gujarat Assembly, while citing the figures of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), said the tag of ‘jungle raj’ “fits Gujarat more than Bi-har”. The BJP has recent-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Western Railway is running a Mela Special Non Stop train between Ahmedabad and Ujjain late tonight in the wake of the increasing rush on the fag end of the Simhastha Kumbh which started on April 22 and is to con-clude on May 21. Spokes-person of the Ahmedabad division of the Western Railway, Mr. Pradeep Sharma said that the Mela Special non stop train for Ujjain will depart at 2300 hrs tonight from platform number 7 of Ahmedabad railway station. The train being run to clear the ex-tra rush has 15 General Coaches and one 3AC Coach. Booking for 3AC

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court Tuesday summoned Me-hsana police, along with their investigation papers and police station diary, in connection with the FIR filed against Sardar Patel Group (SPG) con-vener Lalji Patel. Justice B N Karia kept the mat-ter for further hearing on May 31. The court also removed the name of Gu-jarat CM Anandiben Pa-tel and Home Minister Rajni Patel from the list of respondents, stating that they were not neces-sary parties in the case. The plea had sought a probe by the Special In-vestigating Team (SIT) into the violence during

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Finally central govern-ment’s Ujala scheme is going to be launched in Gujarat. The scheme has been launched in most of the states. Gujarat is one of the last states to have this scheme. State Chief Minister Anandiben Pa-tel is going to launch the scheme in Gujarat on May 26 which is the anniversary of the Nar-endra Modi government in centre. Under this scheme, the stat govern-ment will distribute one crore LED bulbs at sub-sidised rates of Rs 80-85 per piece. The bulb will have 3-year replacement

warranty. It will be 7-8 watts bulb with lumi-nosity of 900 lumens. Each household will get ten bulbs maximum in first phase. The amount will be charged through electricity bill in eight to ten installments. Avail-ability of bulb will be at offices of power distri-bution companies, bill cash counters and cen-tral government com-pany Energy Efficient Services Limited(EEEL) kiosks. The state govern-ment will purchase the bulbs from EEEL and distribute them. Market cost of such bulb is Rs 250-300.

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Correspondent | New Delhi

For the members of the D-Gang the hit list for Gujarat was a long one. The National Investi-gation Agency which probed a case following the murders of two Hindu leaders, Pragnesh Mistry and Shirish Bengali had stated that the offence was committed with an inten-tion of inciting communal riots. The NIA says that the entire operation head-ed by Javed Chikna, a key Dawood Ibrahim man had many more leaders from Gujarat on their hit list. The names of Viral De-sai, a VHP leader, Jaykar Maharaj, a priest and Prakash Modi the broth-er in law of the deceased

Bengali. The NIA had found during the probe that the intention was to incite communal tension. The plan was to start in Gujarat by carrying out the murders of prominent Hindu leaders. They felt that once the communal trouble starts in Gujarat, it would spread across the country. For this purpose the money was routed from a hawala channel through Dubai. The NIA says that the hitmen were paid sums of Rs 5 lakhs to carry out the job. The accused persons had done a lot of research on their targets. They were ex-pected to come up with names and target prom-inent Hindu leaders, the NIA has also learnt.

Correspondent | Mumbai

The condition of Jamna-gar Lok Sabha MP Poo-nam Madam, who was injured after falling into a drain on Monday and flown to Mumbai, is sta-ble, hospital officials here said. The 41-year-old BJP MP, who suffered head injuries in the accident which occurred when she was inspecting a demo-lition site at a locality in Jamnagar, is undergoing treatment at the Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital here. “Her con-dition is stable,” a hos-pital spokesperson said. A Mumbai BJP MP, who is slated to meet her to-day, said she was “do-ing well”, and added that there was no cause of concern. Madam had

Gujarat BJP MP Poonamben Madam who fell in drain stable

Soaring temperatures reignite forest fires in uttarakhand

Launch of Govt of India’s Ujala scheme for LED bulbs

in Gujarat on May 26

Non Stop Ahmedabad – ujjain train tonight for Simhastha Kumbh

238 deaths later, silicosis is still the killer in Godhra’s quarries

Tag of jungle raj fits Gujarat more than Bihar: Congress

gone to Jalaramnagar area in Jamnagar city of Gujarat on Monday when residents were protesting against the demolition of 237 housing units by the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation. She was speaking to officials out-side one of the housing units when a slab which

covered the underground drain on which she was standing collapsed. Mad-am had suffered a 4-inch deep gash on her head and also hurt her shoulder and foot. She received five stitches on her head, doctors who treated her at a private hospital in Jam-nagar had earlier said.

Quota stir in mehsana: Gujarat HC summons police with probe papers

the Jail Bharo agitation to demand quota for Pa-tidars recently. Lalji Pa-tel, along with over 20 others, was arrested last month, after the court arrest movement turned violent in Mehsana. Af-ter his arrest, he moved Gujarat HC, demand-ing independent probe against him. “Gujarat police can’t act impar-tially, independently and

fearlessly,” he alleged. Currently, he is lodged in Mehsana Jail in judi-cial custody. Demanding an investigation by SIT, Lalji Patel alleged in the petition that “he has se-rious doubt about the in-tegrity of the concerned police officers… These police officers are acting at the behest of the chief minister and the home minister….”

is available at the cur-rent counter at Ahmed-abad station. There won’t be any stoppage for the train as it would run non stop till Ujjain, the reli-gious city in neighbour-ing Madhya Pradesh, he said. The Ujjain Kumbh or Simhasth is celebrated when Jupiter ascends into sun sign Leo’s quarter or the Simha constellation of zodiac, which is why

it is called ‘Simhastha’. The Simhastha is special in Ujjain as it is the seat of divine Mahakal – the Lord of all times. The ritual of bathing in the holy waters of Kshipra begins on the full moon day of the Hindu month of Chaitra (March-April) and continues on various dates until the full moon shows up in the follow-ing month of Vaishakha.

Supreme Court, in a rare order last week, directed the Gujarat government to release more than Rs 7 crore as compensation to the families of 238 work-ers who died due to sili-cosis after working in its quartz and stone crushing industries. But for those like Manjhi, getting com-pensation from the Em-ployee’s State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) that a Vadodara labour court or-dered last year has proved to be a fruitless struggle. Some silicosis victims

turned to religion for so-lace, and others alleged that they were handed tu-berculosis cards by the lo-cal Primary Health Centre (PHC). The victims start-ed hitting one government wall after another ever since September 26, 2011, when the People’s Train-ing and Research Centre (PTRC), an NGO acting on their behalf, filed pe-titions with the labour court in Vadodara and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), seeking compensation.

ly criticised the Nitish Kumar-led government and the law and order sit-uation in Bihar which it dubbed as “maha jungle raj”. “Three people were killed in Surat recently. On an average, three in-cidents of rape and mur-

der happen daily in Guja-rat, particularly in urban parts,” Vaghela said. The NCRB figures show that more murders have tak-en place in Gujarat than in Bihar, Vaghela added. “Situation in Gujarat is worse than Bihar. NCRB figures clearly suggest that jungle raj prevails in Gujarat,” alleged Vaghe-la. People in Gujarat are forced to protect them-selves, as state govern-ment has lost its control over the law and order situation due to “lack” of man power in police de-partment.

‘Let Gujarat burn’ a chilling message from D-Gang

CM to launch smart village drive on May 22

Agency | Dehradun

Soaring temperatures in Uttarakhand reignited for-est fires in the hill state on Wednesday, with near-ly 180 hectares of green cover gutted in the fresh fire incidents in Uttar-kashi district. Currently 180 hectares of forest land spread over 111 places in the district are in flames, Uttarkashi District Magis-trate Shridhar Babu Add-anki said. “Rangers and Divisional Forest Officers have been asked to rush to the spots where fires are active and extinguish the flames as soon as possi-ble,” he said. DFO Barkot DK Singh and DFO Purola Sandeep Kumar said there is no dearth of funds and equipment and they expect to control the blazes soon.

Uttarakhand is reeling un-der heat wave conditions for over a week now with most places recording temperatures which are four to five degrees above normal for this time of the year, MeT director Vikram Singh said. That may be one of the factors behind the fresh forest fires in parts of the state, he said

advising caution. Forest fires this season, which began in February have so far destroyed nearly 4048 hectares of land in Uttara-khand in 1857 incidents. The rising trend in tem-perature is likely to con-tinue for a few days more with the temperature of Dehradun which recorded a maximum of 40.2 de-grees Celsius on Tuesday likely to hover around 41 degrees on Wednesday, he said, adding there is no re-spite from heat likely over the next 48 hours.