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News BriefAgrarian crisis due to deficient rainfall: Sinha

Agency | New Delhi

There is a “crisis” in agriculture today due to deficient rainfall but comprehensive steps have been taken to help the farmers, government said in the Lok Sabha today. Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said despite poor rains, production has increased by two per cent because farmers have diversified into areas like fishery and livestock.Five persons killed

as car overturns near Pipar

Odisha minister’s residence ransacked

Agency | New Delhi

Five persons were killed on the spot and two oth-ers injured when a car in which they were travel-ling overturned and hit a school bus in an attempt to save a stray animal on Pali-Bhoplargarh road at Sathin village near Pi-par in Jodhpur division, police said here. The de-ceased were identifed as Deepak Soni (35), Suni-ta Jain (60), Kashish (4), Doli (8), and Diwanshi (6), they said. The in-jured were referred to a government hospital in Jodhpur, they said.

Agency | Bhubaneswar

The residence of Odi-sha Minister Pranab Prakash Das here was ransacked and eggs were thrown at it to-day by angry kin of deceased employees of the Energy department protesting against al-leged denial of rehabili-tation. Police said some wooden furniture kept in the lawn of the En-ergy minister’s bunga-low were damaged and the glass window panes smashed as well as all earthen flower pots. At least 30 people have been detained in con-nection with the inci-dent, the police added. Many of them had also tonsured their heads as a mark of protest.

Congress asks workers not to come to Delhi when Gandhis make court appearance“National Herald case”

The party said it has not taken any decision on the Gandhis not applying for bail and sources said the Congress will explore all legal remedies, which very much include bail

Have Sonia, Rahul decided to go to jail?

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Vibrant Gujarat Business Women Na-tional Conclave began today with the opening ceremony of the Garima Exhibition inaugurat-ed by actress Raveena Tandon. Noted spiritual leader Param Pujya Shri Morari Bapu was also present at the conclave to shower his blessings. The first day saw a number of participation by the Gov-ernment Officials from Gujarat Tourism, Indus-tries Commissionerate, iNDEXTb, Amdavad Municipal Corporation, NSIC etc, and other del-egates from all over the country. The three-day conclave organized by GCCI – Business Women Wing in partnership with the Indian Merchant’s Chamber provided wom-en entrepreneurs with a platform to make a mark in local and national mar-

Agency | New Delhi

A single judge bench of Gujarat High Court pre-sided over by Justice J B Pardiwala, on Friday, deleted the ‘anti-reser-vation’ observations of the judge from his recent judgment on a quashing

petition moved by Pati-dar quota stir leader Har-dik Patel & others on the ground that they were not ‘relevant’ or ‘necessary’ to decide the petition. Justice Pardiwala passed an order in this regard while acting on a Speak-

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) on Friday decided to approach the Supreme Court, President Pranab Mukherjee and Delhi High Court Chief Justice against release of juvenile convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. The Delhi High Court today refused to stay the release of December 16 gang-rape case juvenile convict and said that he could be released on or before December 20. The convict, now 20-year-old, was a juvenile in 2012 when the crime was committed, and the court found him guilty of rap-ing and assaulting the victim along with five

Agency | New Delhi

DCW chief Swati Mali-wal today sought the in-tervention of the Chief Justice of India and the President against releas-ing of the juvenile con-vict in the December 16 gangrape case, saying he must be kept in observa-tion home until his ref-ormation is ascertained. Terming the Delhi High Court’s refusal to stay the release of the juve-nile as a “dark day” in the history of the coun-try, Maliwal shot off let-ters to President Pranab Mukherjee, Chief Jus-tice of India TS Thakur and the Principal Mag-

Agency | New Delhi

The Congress on Thurs-day issued a rare public appeal to its leaders and workers, asking them not to come to the national capital on Saturday — the day party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice-presi-dent Rahul Gandhi appear in court in the National Herald case. The move is seen as an attempt to send out a message that it was not making the court appearance a media spec-tacle. Party leaders, how-ever, said they can only

advise and appeal and cannot prevent anyone from coming to Delhi or to its party headquarters 24, Akbar Road. Sources said the party considered the options of organising a show of strength or a solidarity parade to the court, but it was at the same time circumspect and cautious since it is a court matter and the par-ty should not be seen as challenging the court. It has, however, asked all its MPs to be in Del-hi on Saturday, although Leader of the Opposi-

Gujarat HC deletes ‘anti-reservation’ observation from Hardik Patel judgement

Nirbhaya gang-rape case: DCW to approach SC, President against juvenile rapist’s release

Vibrant Gujarat Business Women National Conclave kicks off

ing to Minutes applica-tion moved by the State of Gujarat to delete the observations. Hours be-fore this, 58 Rajya Sabha MPs had submitted a pe-tition to the Rajya Sabha Speaker Hamid Ansari to move a motion for the impeachment of Justice Pardiwala for his written observations against the constitutional provision of reservation. On De-cember 1, while decid-ing the quashing petition moved by Hardik Patel & others Justice Pardiwala had, in paragraph 62 of the judgment, observed, “If I am asked by any

one to name two things, which has destroyed this country or rather, has not allowed the country, to progress in the right direction, then the same is, (i) Reservation and (ii) Corruption. It is very shameful for any citizen of this country to ask for reservation after 65 years of independence. When our Constitution was framed, it was un-derstood that the res-ervation would remain for a period of 10 years, but unfortunately, it has continued even after 65 years of independence.”

kets. The day included B2B, B2G and B2C in-teractions and Workshop Sessions. The workshop sessions included Quick, Healthy & Nutritious cooking for busy entre-preneurs by cookery ex-pert and a session on the topic of Art & Women by Flo Art expert Kalpa-na Amin. The day ended with Happy Hours for fitness and health, with Iyengar Yoga by Het-al Desai and Zumba by

Maurieen Simon. More than 100 stalls have been put up at the exhibition to promote women entre-preneurship. Ms. Grish-ma Trivedi, Chairperson of the GCCI Business Women Wing believes that “Any nation that has a vision to educate its girls or employ its women citizen should allow them the freedom and support to maximize their potential and add to the nation’s economy.

accomplices — among whom main accused 35-year-old Ram Singh was found dead in his Ti-har jail cell in 2013 — in a private moving bus in Delhi. Nirbhaya’s moth-er said that allowing the 20-year-old from Badaun, Uttar Pradesh to leave the reform home ‘sends out a wrong message’. “Juve-

niles will now think they can do whatever they want, and get away with it,” she added. “But did he reform? Thousands of girls are being raped across the country. What has changed?” Making a strong plea to the gov-ernment to ensure he re-mained in custody, in jail if not in a juvenile home,

while being tried (it is not clear what she meant because he was tried and sentenced by a juvenile court), Nirbhaya’s moth-er said: “They say that his rights as a juvenile have to protected. What about us? Are we not citizens, don’t we have rights? And what about Nirbha-ya’s rights? Doesn’t she deserve justice? Don’t we deserve justice? I appeal to the government to not allow this to happen. If he roams free we will be sending a wrong message to others.” “It has to do with the attitude of Delhi people and competence of Delhi Police,” LG Na-jeeb Jung said on women security.

Dec 16 gangrape: DCW chief seeks Prez, CJI intervention to stall juvenile’s release

istrate of Juvenile Jus-tice Board (JJB) Murari Prasad Singh. “In light of the particularly hei-nous nature of the crime executed by this boy, the DCW requests your Hon’ble self to kindly

intervene in the matter and ensure that the boy be kept in the observa-tion home at least un-til his mental frame of mind and reformation is properly ascertained,” she said in her letter.

tion Ghulam Nabi Azad insisted it was to ensure a healthy attendance in both the Houses next week. He, however, did not deny that all the MPs have been asked to come to AICC headquarters at

1 pm. “Where should we call them? Should we call them to BJP headquar-ters?” he said. “The Con-gress has made it clear to everybody that no leader or office-bearer or work-er… they need not and

should not come to Delhi on 19th. No leader should come to Delhi. We are requesting all the leaders not to come to Delhi,” he said. The party said it has not taken any decision on the Gandhis not applying for bail and sources said the Congress will explore all legal remedies, which

very much include bail. “There are two days. There is still time (for the decision to be taken). To take bail or not these things cannot be said in a press conference. The decision will be taken on the spot and we will act in accordance with what advice the lawyers

will give,” Azad said. Azad said the party chief, vice-president and the entire leadership of the party have full faith in ju-diciary and the law of the land. “Whatever we shall have to do, whatever in-struments we have to use, we will use” in the case, he said.

Maliwal shot off letters to President Pranab Mukherjee, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur

and the Principal Magistrate of Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) Murari Prasad Singh

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DAYThe conference of DGs and IGs: May the police force be with you

The annual conference of the directors general and inspectors general of police (DG/IG conference), be-ginning today in the Rann of Kutch, is significant not because it’s being held in Gujarat, and outside Delhi for the second time, but because it will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for all three days. The conference, organised by the Intelligence Bureau on behalf of the Union home ministry, discusses the com-mon issues of state police forces and Central armed police forces and looks for strategies to face new challenges — the most critical areas being terrorism and insurgency, intelligence collection and sharing, investigative standards, force modernisation, human resource upgrade, etc. The most important and chal-lenging task faced by the law enforcement authorities and intelligence agencies today is the collection and analysis of preventive intelligence and follow-up ac-tion, especially pertaining to terrorists and insurgents who pose a constant challenge to internal security. While there’s a dire need to improve the capability of the intelligence-collection machinery and upgrade its resources, the intelligence-sharing mechanism leaves a lot to be desired. Our intel, collected by state and Central agencies, still sits in silos. Apart from the fact that it’s often not analysed properly, the mania for get-ting credit drives the organisation having the intel to follow it up even if it doesn’t have the wherewithal. Our efforts in setting up the Natgrid, to build a secure sharing platform, have remained tied in knots despite huge investments. The DG/IG conference needs to discuss and find a way out of the current situation and lay down a roadmap for establishing a robust intel collection and sharing mechanism. The Central intel-ligence agencies have to strengthen their capabilities and also help states upgrade their machineries for col-lecting both human and technical intelligence. States also need to pick up on generalised inputs flowing to them and work on specific information, rather than ignoring it all as vague and non-actionable. The oth-er important, but badly neglected, aspect of policing is criminal investigation. Standards have declined sharply in the last few years. Unfortunately, the so-called premier investigation agencies like state CIDs and the CBI are no exception. Apart from investiga-tions and conclusions of trials taking an abnormally long time, these tend to fall flat in court, often attract-ing the judiciary’s wrath. On the other hand, inves-tigation is no longer a coveted job in the states. The investigations in, say, the Aarushi Talwar or Sheena Bora murder cases, or the Salman Khan case, speak volumes about falling investigative standards.

“The government has been taking measures to promote the internationalisation of the Indian Rupee,”

- Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said in the Lok Sabha

Bajirao Mastani Movie Review It’s confirmed: Mother Teresa to be made Catholic saint in September

Amol Gupte plans a Saina Nehwal biopic, calls her ‘tigress beti’

Revealed: John Abraham’s look in ‘Rocky Handsome’

Gaitonde fetches a whopping Rs 29.30 cr at Christie’s auction

Marathi film ‘Court’ out of Oscar nominations race

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress So-nam Kapoor, who has often been the public’s target for her comments, recently revealed that she speaks from her heart, not from her brain. During the trailer launch of her upcoming flick Neerja, the 30-year-old actress said, “I think my problem is that I only work with my heart and I speak with my heart, I don’t use my brain. Whatever I do work, talks or relationships I do it with my heart only.”

Agency | Mumbai

Records tumbled at Christie’s auction held in Mumbai with an untitled work by India’s foremost abstract painter Vasudeo S Gaitonde fetching a jaw-dropping Rs 29.30 crore. Five bidders, on telephones and in the room, battled closely for Gaitonde’s work. Besides soaring above its pre-sale estimate, the work also broke the previous auc-tion record of Rs 23.70 crore set by the artist at Christie’s inaugural India sale in 2013. “As leaders in the field of Indian mod-ern and contemporary art, the team has proven that their strategy of ensuring that we offer works of the best quality, competitive-ly priced and with great

Agency | Mumbai

John Abraham has teamed up with director Nishi-kant Kamat for ‘Rocky Handsome’ which also stars Shruti Haasan. The first look of the actor is out featuring him with an intense look on his face as he aims a gun. The film, which is embellished with “never been seen hand to hand action sequences” choreographed by world renowned action direc-tors and four superlative musical tracks, is set to release on the Holi-Good Friday Holiday of March’16. Rocky Hand-

Agency | Mumbai

Filmmaker Amol Gupte, who is making a film on Indian badminton cham-pion Saina Nehwal, says that the biopic is differ-ent as it is the story of a “tigress beti”. Writ-er-actor-director Gupte has been roped to direct the much-awaited film. Noting the biopic is go-ing to trace the journey of the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics, Gupte said: “This film is going to trace Saina’s pulsating journey on her way to the top of the sports pyr-amid.” Stating how differ-ent the film is going to be from the biopics that have

Agency | Los Angeles

Chaitanya Tamhane’s Marathi film “Court” is out of the best foreign film Oscar race after it failed to qualify in the Acade-my’s latest shortlist. Nine films have advanced in the race for the Oscar for foreign-language film out of 80 movies and they have moved on to the next phase of voting for the 88th Academy Awards. Debutante Tamhane’s film beat Rajkumar Hirani’s “PK”, Neeraj Ghyaywan’s Cannes winner “Masaan”, Omung Kumar’s “Mary

Kom”, Vishal Bharad-waj’s “Haider”, M Man-ikandan’s “Kaaka Muttai” and SS Rajamouli’s “Baa-hubali” in the Oscar race. The films that have made it to the Oscar shortlist in the best foreign film category include Belgium’s “The Brand New Testament,” Colombia’s “Embrace of the Serpent,” Denmark’s “A War”, Finland’s “The Fencer,”, France’s “Mus-tang,” Germany’s “Laby-rinth of Lies,” Hungarian project “Son of Saul,” Ireland’s “Viva,” and Jor-dan’s “Theeb”. Seven of the nine films are from

Agency | New Delhi

Maratha history gets the full-on Sanjay Leela Bhansali treatment in Ba-jirao Mastani. The over-wrought but impressive extravaganza elevates the legendary 18th century warrior-hero determined to establish Hindu rule across the subcontinent to the level of a selfless crusader for love in a cli-mate of hate and bigot-ry. Bhansali fictionalizes several of Bajirao’s key battles but focuses more on the married Peshwa’s passion for Mastani, the beautiful and courageous half Rajput, half-Muslim princess of Bundelkhand. Every emotion in the film - be it love, longing or valour on the battlefield - is translated into a grand and elaborate song-and-dance routine. A couple of the musical set pieces do not ring true in a his-torical epic about a man

Sonam Kapoor says she speaks with with her heart not her brain

Agency | Vatican City

Pope Francis has rec-ognised a second mira-cle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clear-ing the path for the be-loved nun to be elevated to sainthood next year, Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported on Thursday. Sunita Ku-mar, spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity set up by Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa, celebrat-ed for her work with the poor in Kolkata, is ex-pected to be canonised in Rome on September 4 as part of the pope’s Jubilee year of mercy, accord-ing to the newspaper’s Vatican expert Stefania

whose place in history is primarily as an unvan-quished general. These are but minor aberrations in a sweeping love story that is mounted on such a grandiose scale and craft-ed with such vaulting zeal that eventually the small-er details cease to matter. Bajirao Mastani is, in many respects, Bhansa-li’s most subversive film to date. Its central mes-sage is that all religions preach love but love has no religion. Love, the film conveys via Irrfan Khan’s voice, is a religion

by itself and those that swear by its tenets become immortal like Bajirao and Mastani. Peshwa Baji-rao, played with flair by Ranveer Singh, takes on the unbending clergy and his own angry family to uphold Mastani’s dignity after she arrives in Pune as his second wife. To liv-en up this “love story of a warrior”, Bhansali, as is his wont, rustles up a se-ries of spectacular visuals, each as blindingly awash in red, russet and gold and bathed in light and shade as all the others.

some’ is said to be high on the action front as well as heart tugging emotions since it revolves around a seven year old child who is kidnapped and a man who embarks on a lethal rampage to get back the only person he ever cared about. Set in Goa, Mum-

bai, Pune & Seychelles. Rocky Handsome is an adrenaline pumping Ac-tion Film embellished with a strong emotional story of the relationship between a Father who never had a daughter and a seven year old Daughter who never had a Father.

Europe. There is one from the Mideast and one from South America. Asia and Africa were shut out, as were Australia (which had submitted “Arrows of the Thunder Dragon”) and North America (in-cluding Canada’s “Felix and Meira” and Mexico’s “600 Miles”). There were some high-profile films that didn’t make the cut. The no-shows include Austria’s “Goodnight Mommy”, Brazil’s “The Second Mother”, Iranian film “Muhammad: The Messenger of God”, Pal-estine’s “The Wanted 18”, Poland’s “11 Minutes” and Portugal’s “Arabian Nights – Volume 2, The Desolate One”. The nomi-nations of the 88th Oscars will announced on Janu-ary 14 and the ceremony is to be held on February 28 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Falasca. The move comes after a panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed a miraculous healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumours to Mother Te-resa, Avvenire reported. Teresa, who was born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Mace-

donia, was known across the world for her charity work. She died in 1997 at the age of 87. Nicknamed the ‘Saint of the Gutters’, she dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying in the slums of Kol-kata, founding the Mis-sionaries of Charity order of nuns in 1950. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

been made till date, be it Bhaag Milkha Bhaag on national champion runner Milkha Singh or Mary Kom which was based on five time World amateur boxing champion Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom. “How many times have we encountered either a male or a female Indi-an get prime ranking in a world sport? None - ex-

cept Saina Nehwal. That makes it different, doesn’t it? It’s a story of a ‘tigress beti’, ‘princess beti’ who has set fire to the badmin-ton court with her prowess like no one else before. The nation needs to know the story of the ‘World number 1 beti’- an icon for the young and the old, for a long time to come,” Gupte said.

provenance, continues to be a winning formula for our clients,” said William Robinson, International Head of World Art, speak-ing after the auction held at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. “The results speak for themselves — 73 per cent of lots sold above estimate. With each sale, our collectors here in-crease in number and appetite and the demand for works of top quality is there to be met,” said

Robinson. The auction, which for the first time included classical art, got a roaring reception as the 10th century granite fig-ure of a Dvarapala sold for Rs 1.70 crore. Chris-tie’s, the world’s largest auction house, made a total sale amounting to a whooping Rs 97.69 crore in the auction. The works of classical art that were sold on Tuesday cannot be exported, but can still be exchanged in India.

The ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ star also talked about her fears during the event and revealed that she has ridiculous stage fright. Sonam said, ‘I am constantly scared about everything, it takes me a lot to get on stage and talk to people as I have been a very shy and reserved person when I was younger.’ She added that she used hide behind her mother when she was younger and lacked actor’s per-sonality. Kapoor fur-ther said, “Most of the time, I am so scared that I laugh uncontrolla-bly or say all the wrong things.” Actress Sonam Kapoor says before join-ing films there was a time when she was not confident about herself. The 30-year-old “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo” ac-tress, who is known for her outspoken nature, revealed she is a shy person in real life.


SPORTS ROUNDUPCCI examining fresh complaint against cement makers

Facebook looks to garner support for its Free Basics initiative

HTC One X9 Leaked in Fresh Images, Video Ahead of Launch

Agency | New Delhi

The Competition Commission is examining a fresh complaint of alleged unfair business practices made against cement makers, CCI chairman Ashok Cha-wala said today. The development comes against the backdrop Compat’s quashing over Rs 6,300 crore fine imposed on them by the regulator in a previous case. Recently, realtors’ apex body CRE-DAI filed a complaint with the Commission against cement manufacturers alleging price cartelisation. On the sidelines of an event here, Chawla said the Competition Commission of India is looking into a fresh complaint filed against cement companies. The Confederation of Real Estate Developer’s As-sociations of India (CREDAI), which has about 10,000 members, approached the CCI against the Cement Manufacturers’ Association (CMA) in late September. In October, CREDAI said the associa-tion has filed complaint against the CMA as prices have risen sharply despite low demand for cement.

Agency | Bangalore

With over 125 million users in India, Facebook, the largest social networking site is pushing hard to gar-ner support for its Free Basics initiative — formerly Internet.org in India, which is alleged to be against the net neutrality principles. Facebook users are get-ting notifications from the company since Tuesday urging them to support the Free Basics Initiative – with a pre-written message claiming that Free Ba-sics is in danger in India and their support would be sent to Trai as part of their new consultation pa-per regarding differential data pricing. The message claims, “Free Basics gives people access to vital services like communication, healthcare, education, job listings and farming information – all without data charges. It helps those who can’t afford to pay for data, or who need a little help getting started online. And it’s open to all people, developers and

mobile operators.”

Agency | New Delhi

HTC’s unannounced One X9 smartphone has been leaked in a bunch of high-resolution images show-ing the handset in its full glory ahead of launch. The images come courtesy of a Chinese publication. In a separate post, another Chinese blog going one step ahead has even published an in-depth review of the handset that even includes a video, apart from more images. With the number of leaks increasing, we can expect the Taiwanese handset maker to launch the One X9 soon. The company recently teased launch of a new device which is likely the One X9. In the new images, the One X9 can be seen sporting a brushed aluminium unibody design, similar to the HTC One A9. The handset is likely to sport HTC’s BoomSound dual front-facing speakers, something the One A9 missed out on. The One X9 rear can be seen featuring the camera on one side of the handset.

Shahid Afridi hopes Pakistan beat India to win World Twenty20 title

2nd Test, Day 1: Late strikes rock Sri Lanka as Kiwis fight back

Gonna miss you boss: John Terry to Jose Mourinho

Ajinkya Rahane slams 114 for Mumbai in losing cause

Former Australian batsman Mike Hussey denies World Twenty20 comback rumours

India vs Australia: Ravindra Jadeja set for comeback, Murali Vijay in fray too

Agency | Karachi

Pakistan’s Twenty20 cap-tain Shahid Afridi has ex-pressed that a challenging draw would motivate his side to lift the coveted World Twenty20 title for the second time and in the process break the hoodoo against arch-rival India. Pakistan, the 2009 cham-pions, have been placed along with hosts India, Australia, New Zealand and a yet to be decided qualifier in Group 2 of the Super Ten round of the pinnacle event, which starts from March 8. Pa-kistan have never beaten India in either a traditional one-day World Cup or the newer World Twenty20. India were crowned the T20 champions of the in-

Agency | Sydney

Retired test batsman Mike Hussey has laughed off suggestions he could re-turn to Australian colours for next year’s World Twenty20 after scoring an unbeaten 80 to lead the Sydney Sixers to victory in the domestic Big Bash League. The left hander, who retired from interna-tional cricket two years ago, will be on the flight to India for the March 8-April 3 tournament as a coaching consultant to the Australia team. Shane Watson was one observers

Agency | New Delhi

Back in form with an impressive performance against South Africa in the recently-concluded Test series, Ravindra Jadeja is likely to make a come-back when the national selectors meet here on Saturday to pick the Indi-an squad for the upcom-ing limited-overs series in Australia. India will play five ODIs and three T20 internationals in Australia with the first game starting on January 12. Three other players, who could be un-der spotlight, are fit-again pacer Mohammed Shami, senior-most pacer Ishant Sharma and veteran bats-man Murali Vijay, who has started batting in the middle-order in one-day-ers for Tamil Nadu and also could be a back-up

Agency | Hamilton

Trent Boult led a late New Zealand fight-back to leave Sri Lanka on 264-7 when rain ended play ear-ly on day one of the sec-ond Test on Friday. Three wickets in two overs after tea rocked Sri Lanka just as captain Angelo Mathews and Milinda Siriwardana were looking solid with a record fifth-wicket part-nership. When rain halt-ed play 23 overs short of the day’s scheduled 90, Mathews was unbeaten on 63 with Dushmantha Cha-meera yet to score. Siri-wardana, in only his fourth Test, was out for 62 after joining Mathews for Sri Lanka’s record fifth-wick-et partnership against New Zealand of 138, eclips-ing the 133 set by Mahela Jayawardene and Hashan Tillakaratne in 2003. On

Agency | London

John Terry has paid tribute to Jose Mourinho after the Portuguese was sacked by Chelsea for the second time, taking to Instagram to describe his former manager as “the very best I have ever worked with”. Defensive stalwart Ter-ry formed a strong bond with Mourinho during the manager’s first spell at Stamford Bridge, when the west London side won back-to-back league ti-tles. The same bond was in evidence last season, when the Blues romped to the title and League

Agency | Mumbai

India batsman Ajinkya Rahane likes challenges. He enjoys when he has his back against the wall. The way the Mumbaikar bounced back after four failures in the Test series against South Africa, scor-ing back-to-back hundreds in the last Test in New Del-hi, is ample proof. Only a few months back, Indian ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had raised doubts about Rahane’s abilities and limitations in limited-overs cricket. On Thursday, Rahane once again answered his critics in style, scoring a 112-ball 114 batting at No. 4 in his first game for Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The knock helped Mum-bai pile a 301/9 in 50, but it wasn’t enough as Rajas-than chased it down with five wickets to spare in the Group A league en-counter in Hyderabad. Put into bat, Mumbai lost two quick wickets of opener Shashank Singh (two) and Shreyas Iyer (0). Open-er Akhil Herwadkar (30) could not capitalise on the good start by getting out to seamer Pankaj Singh, while skipper Aditya Tare

a day in which fortunes ebbed and flowed, the valuable Mathews-Siri-wardana pairing began when Sri Lanka were heading for trouble at 121-4. Siriwardana was caught at first slip by Ross Taylor off the bowling of Boult, who claimed his second wicket three balls later when Kithuruwan Vithan-age was caught by a div-ing Brendon McCullum at mid-off without scoring. Just before the rain came down, Rangana Herath was run out for four by a fine throw from Kane Wil-

liamson in the gully. With three wickets after tea, New Zealand enjoyed their most productive session after winning the toss and making Sri Lanka bat on a green pitch expected to be a bowler’s paradise. They could only manage two wickets in each of the first two sessions as Sri Lanka fought to atone for their 122-run loss in the first Test in Dunedin. In part the tourists were helped by New Zealand’s inconsis-tency with line and length, but they also played an ag-gressive game.

of the 59-ball knock who suggested his 40-year-old Sixers team mate would not look out of place back out in the middle in the international game but Hussey was having none of it. “No, I wouldn’t have thought so,” Hussey laughed. “I’m happy to try

augural edition after de-feating Pakistan in 2007. Afridi admitted they have a tough draw but add-ed that he was hopeful that the challenge would pump-up his team to win the title and beat India on

the way, Sport24 reported. The flamboyant all-round-er insisted that he didn’t want to live in history and called on his side to over-come mistakes they make while playing against In-dia in big events.

too failed to open his ac-count. It was thus left to Rahane and Suryakumar Yadav to steady the ship and the duo did it with aplomb. The duo stitched together a 125-run stand for the fifth wicket. Rah-ane’s form and confidence was evident as he smacked 10 fours and two sixes. Yadav, on the other hand, gave able support from the other end by giving most of the strike to the senior pro. But Yadav could not go further and edged one to wicket-keeper Dis-hant Yagnik off Tanveer-ul-Haq after completing his half-century. Even as wickets kept falling at the

other end, Rahane held fort. He got out only after taking Mumbai past 270, with seamer Nathu Singh getting him edged caught to Yagnik. However, the target fell short as Rajas-than chased it down in 49 overs, thanks to half-cen-turies from Asho Menar-ia (86) and veteran Rajat Bharia (94). Brief Scores: Mumbai 301/9 in 50 overs (A Rahane 114, S Yadav 52, I Abdulla 31, A Her-wadkar 30; P Singh 4/55, T-Ul-Haq 2/55) lost to Ra-jasthan 305/5 in 49 overs (R Bhatia 94*, A Menaria 86, P yadav 49, D Yagnik 40; A Nayar 2/28) by five wickets.

opener for an out of form Shikhar Dhawan. The se-lectors will pick the squad, to be captained by Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni, keeping the ICC World T20 in mind although atleast 12 playes are likely to be au-tomatic picks in both the formats. With 23 wickets in his comeback against the Proteas, along with crucial runs (109 runs), the 27-year-old Saurashtra all-rounder should be back in the ODI squad after six months and likely to beat

Axar Patel for the second spinner’s slot with Rav-ichandran Ashwin being an automatic choice. Is-hant Sharma, who has had a good season as the strike bowler in Test matches is likely to get the nod in limited overs after a gap of nearly one year. Ishant was being considered for the limited-overs series against South Africa but he pulled a hamstring during a Ranji match and was rested keeping in mind the Test series.

Cup, with Terry an inte-gral part of the success. However, cracks in the relationship surfaced this season as the team’s form slumped, with the first signs appearing as early as August when Mourin-ho hauled Terry off at halftime during a 3-0 de-

feat to Manchester City. Despite their strained ties towards the end of Mourinho’s tenure, Ter-ry had nothing but praise for his former boss in the wake of his sacking. “Thank You doesn’t seem enough. Sad sad day,” the Chelsea captain wrote.

and help out as much as I can off the field. “We’ve got so much talent in this country and I’m excited to be working with the Aus-tralian team. “It’s the one trophy we don’t have in the cabinet, so there’s a lot of motivation for the team. “Everyone I talk to around Cricket Australia, it’s the one they really want. If I can help out in some small way, I’d be ecstatic.” Aus-tralia’s best showing at the World Twenty20 was reaching the final of the 2010 version, when they lost to England.


Correspondent | Rajkot

As medical practitioners and researchers at interna-tional conference IPSCO 2015 called for thorough research on cow-product based therapies to dispel myths and science behind them, Gujarat Ayurved University (GAU) on Fri-day announced to set up a registry of observations made by ayurveda practi-tioners in the country for coordination in research. Dr Ashok Vadiya, the pioneer of reverse phar-macology appealed re-searchers to pick anec-dotal evidence of success of panchgavya treatment up as beginning for their research. “The talk about cow did not begin after BJP came to power. Vi-noba Bhave and Mahat-ma Gandhi were the ones who underlined the im-portance of cow in Indi-an life. But there is ques-tion as to whether gavya chikitsa is myth or reality. Myths are public dreams. Go-Gram is Indian reality. But we must find out ef-fectiveness of the practic-es through research. There are anecdotes and they can be starting points of research. Gujarat should


After Gujarat govern-ment announced a bonus of Rs110 per 20 kg of cotton, its farmers in the state stare at a “rigorous procedure” to avail of the benefit. Only those selling their produce to the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) are eligi-ble for bonus. Steps tak-en by the CCI, a central government undertaking under the Union Ministry of Textiles, in the wake of scams in Telangana and Andra Pradesh have made the procedure to avail of bonus cumber-some. The CBI is inves-tigating multiple cases in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana where middle-men and private money-lenders sold cotton to the CCI at Minimum Support


RSS farmers’ body Bhara-tiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) Thursday said small and marginal farmers, who have already sold their produce, may not benefit from the MSP bonus. It said that the Agriculture Produce Market Com-mittees (APMCs) and the Cotton Corporation of In-dia (CCI) await a formal intimation from the gov-ernment and the farmers will have to wait for some time to avail of the bonus”. “Had the government made the announcement in the beginning of the season, small and margin-al farmers, who have been forced to sell their cotton at a low price, would have benefited. We demand that the government also


Over half a dozen theaters/multiplexes across Guja-rat cancelled the shows of Shahrukh Khan star-er ‘Dilwale’, which was released today and faced stiff opposition from vari-ous quarters, mostly from nationalist organizations to protest the disputed ear-lier remarks of the actor regarding ‘intolerance’ in India. At least two cinemas each in Ahmedabad and Surat including the PVR, and one each in Mahesana, Vyara, Mandvi, and Val-sad cancelled the shows or stopped it midway in the wake of the protests. In Ahmedabad a less know outfit Aum Kranti Sena held demonstrations near City Pulse theater in Rai-pur, Apsara in Kankariya and Revolution in CTM area. A group of doctors

also held demo in front of PVR cinema in Thaltej area. In Surat the activists of Hindu Rashtra Sena pro-tested in front of Rajhans theater in Piplod which stopped the show. Later police detained around a dozen of them including their leader Pavan Jain, PI G A Sarvaiya said. The show in PVR cinema in the diamond city was also cancelled. In the southern district of Valsad owing to similar protest the show of the film in Cinepark the-ater was stopped mid way while the Vaibhav cinema in Vyara (Tapi) also can-celled the show. The show of the film in a theater in Mandavi town of Kutch district was also can-celled though its manager claimed ‘technical’ reasons to be the cause behind can-cellation of the show.


An all-India conference of top police officials, to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will begin today in Kutch, where among other is-sues, ways to thwart at-tempts by ISIS to spread its base in the country are likely to be discussed. The 50th edition of the All-India Directors Gen-eral/ Inspectors General of Police Conference is being hosted at Dhordo village, organised near the India-Pakistan border from December 18-20, where other issues re-lated to internal security would also come up for discussion. During the conference, where Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will also be pres-ent, ways to thwart at-tempts by ISIS to spread its base in the country are


The Ahmedabad zonal unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested two Jalandhar-based busi-nessmen in the Rs 17 crore commercial tax fraud case. DRI sleuths held Amar-jeet Singh Jolly and Ashok Goyal, for claiming Rs 3.5 crore and Rs 1.5 crore in duty drawback by using fake bills. Both accused were sent to custody by a local court on Thursday. Earlier in October, DRI ar-rested two Ludhiana-based traders in the same case. In January this year, the Ahmedabad unit of DRI had detected commercial tax fraud of Rs 17 crore in exports of scaffoldings and seized 23 containers of two Jalandhar-based traders, one distributor and ship-per at Mundra port. These traders, in connivance with a Gandhidham based Cus-toms house agent, were

exporting scaffoldings out-side India while the entries in Customs were made for clamps, nuts and bolts to avail extra benefits under the government’s export schemes. The accused had also created several fake companies and exported scaffoldings for the whole of year 2015 from Mundra port. “The Customs house agent helped these traders in preparing fake bills of entry by changing the de-scription of goods. These traders exported scaffold-ings worth more than Rs 100 crore. Going by they rules they should have got around Rs 4 crore as in-centive and drawback but they availed much more than that,” added a DRI official. According to DRI officials, around 10 fake companies were created along with 300 fake iden-tities of people running these companies.


CAIRN India has been awarded the CII-ITC Sus-tainability Awards 2015 in Domain Excellence forCorporate Social Re-sponsibility (CSR). ITC chairman YC Devesh-war, CII Director General Chandrajit Banerjee, and R. A. Mashelkar former Director General of the Council of Scientific & In-dustrial Research (CSIR)presented the trophy and the certificate to Cairn In-dia MD & CEO Mayank Ashar in the award func-tion held at New Delhi on 15th December, 2015. In his acceptance speech, Mr Ashar dedicated the award to the employees and partners of Cairn In-dia and to the people of Rajasthan, Gujarat and

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Correspondent | New Delhi

The environment ministry has poured cold water on demands for translocating lions from the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Ku-no-Palpur Wildlife Sanc-tuary in Madhya Pradesh, saying the process will take more than 25 years. In a response submitted in the Lok Sabha, environ-ment minister Prakash Ja-vadekar said the matter of relocating lions from Gu-jarat to Madhya Pradesh (both BJP-ruled states) was a “long-term action”, starting from preparing the translocation area in MP to identifying the lions in Gujarat. “The whole programme encompasses action for over 25 years,” Javadekar said in a written reply to a question asked

DRI arrests 2 Jalandhar-based businessmen in fake exports case

Andhra Pradesh. He said, “At Cairn India, Corpo-rate Social Responsibil-ity is an integral part of our business philosophy, as sustainable and inclu-sive growth in our area of operation is essential for the holistic develop-ment. Cairn India has been at the helm of some wonderful socio-eco-nomic transformation of communities it works

with.” The CII-ITC Sus-tainability Awards are a symbol of credibility for businesses and have been recognizing sustainable businesses for over a de-cade now. The CII-ITC collaboration is seeking ways to be more sus-tainable and inclusive in their activities. Winners of these awards are role models that inspire all business to follow suit.

Price (MSP), posing as farmers. The probe agen-cy suspects that a few CCI officers connived with the middlemen and moneylenders, and re-fused to buy cotton from farmers saying it was of poor quality. Indebted farmers were forced to sell cotton to middlemen at low price. And, the

middlemen subsequent-ly sold the same cotton to the CCI as ghost farm-ers and received pay-ment through cheques. The agency suspects that the scams run into hundreds of crores of rupees. As a fallolut, the CCI has made it manda-tory to make payment to farmers only electroni-

cally through real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system. Moreover, at a meeting held on Tues-day, senior officials from Textiles Minis-try, the CCI and senior ministers and officers of the Gujarat government agreed upon a rigorous procedure for disbursing the bonus.

thinks about such farm-ers,” Vitthal Dudhatra, general secretary of Gu-

jarat unit of BKS, said in a release. While mak-ing the announcement

on Wednesday, Health Minister Nitin Patel, the spokesperson of the state government, had said those farmers who have already sold their cotton will not get the benefit. On the other hand, a top officer of Ahmedabad branch of the CCI said it has not received any com-munique from the state government or the head-quarters of the CCI on the bonus payment.

As pharmacologists meet call for research on gavya chikista

PM Narendra Modi To Attend Top Police Officers’ Conference In Gujarat

Gujarat wants 25 years to move its lions to Madhya Pradesh sanctuary

take lead in gavya re-search,” the senior re-searcher said, while ad-dressing gathering at a symposium on Gavya Chikita: Myths or Reali-tyof IPSCON 2015. The IPSCON 2015, the three-day international meet and 48th annual con-ference Indian Pharma-cological Society (IPS) began on Saurashtra University campus here on Friday. The meet is being organised by IPS, the apex organisation of pharmacologists in the country. Panchgavya means five cow products – milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung. Dr Vaiyda, who is also chairman of the or-ganising committee of IP-SCON 2015 further stated that there was dire need to record evidence of panch-

gavya treatment and standardisation of cow products. Responding to Dr Vaidya’s suggestion, GAU vice-chancellor Rajesh Kotecha said his university will establish a registry for research in panchgavya chikitsa. “In ayurveda, there are refer-ences about products of cow and guamutra. But they are here and there. For example, properties of milk and milk as a ve-hicle of medicine etc. For us Indian scientists also, it is a new area of looking at. There is experience, there is shraddha (faith) also, there are some clues. But we need to work more on it. So, I agree with Dr Vaidya’s reccommenda-tion that we need to make a registry of observations, scientific evidence.

likely to be discussed. Union Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary will also be present. Last year, the conference was held at Guwahati (Assam) in November. Gujarat Di-rector General of Police P C Thakur had earlier said that one of the issues for discussion would be about IS plans on India and what kind of steps could be taken to “de-rad-icalise Indian Muslims” and to stop them from falling pray to the “mali-

cious” propaganda of the global terror outfit. The conference is organised by the Central Intelli-gence Bureau (IB) and all heads of various police and other security agen-cies will attend it. Apart from all the DGPs and IGs of all the states and union territories, heads of National Investigation Agency, Central Bureau of Investigation, IB, nar-cotics department and various police training academies will also take part in the conference.

by two Congress Lok Sabha MPs – Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scin-dia. Sources in the min-istry said the Lok Sabha statement was made after consultation with experts, who were of the view that the translocation of li-ons was not immediately possible. “We don’t think Kuno is perfect to support a lion population as an is-sue of conflict with tigers was emerging,” a senior ministry official said, re-questing anonymity. The

tigers that now call the Ku-no-Palpur sanctuary home were brought in from the congested Ranthambore reserve in Rajasthan. Many wildlife experts believe the two big cats cannot co-ex-ist in a small manmade sanctuary like Kuno. How-ever, Fayaz Khudsar, a bi-ologist with Delhi Univer-sity and on whose petition the apex court had ordered the relocation of lions, said there has been no scientific research on the subject in central India.

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