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News BriefOdisha to get

drought assistance as announced: Rajnath

Agency | Bhubaneswar

Rejecting apprehension of Odisha government about possible deduc-tion of Rs 214 crore from the drought assis-tance earlier announced by the Centre, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the state will get the amount as decided at the high level committee.Police questions journalist friend of Umar Khalid

Curfew imposed in Rohtak, Bhiwani

city areas

Agency | New Delhi

A Delhi-based journal-ist, who is a friend of Umar Khalid, has been questioned by Delhi Police about the where-abouts of Khalid, who the police are search-ing for in connection with the sedition case registered over the con-troversial event at JNU held last week. The journalist, Sadiq Naqvi, was at Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh when a team of Delhi Police officials approached him today, , following which he was questioned about Khalid’s whereabouts. They also asked him to come to Delhi and Naqvi is presently on his way.

Agency | Chandigarh

Curfew was imposed tonight in Rohtak and Bhiwani city limit ar-eas and army was being rushed there in view of worsening situation with Jats agitating over reservation issue going on rampage there. An official spokesman said here tonight that curfew has been imposed with immediate effect in view of protesting mobs going on rampage and indulging in violence. He said army units are also being rushed from Jaipur for deployment in other worst-affected areas of the state.

Vijay Rupani’s address to party cadre after becoming Gujarat BJP President“Rupani likely choice”

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Newly elected president of Gujarat BJP Shri Vijay Rupani today delivering address at his installation function said he will sit at his office at party head-quarters every Monday and Tuesday during 10.00 am to 6.00 pm and meet party workers from every corner of Gujarat. Rupani asked party workers to look at year 2017 Gujarat assembly general election

with Arjun’s focus on bird. He said small issues should be kept aside to achieve this Virat dream through which we will help Narendrabhai who is working hard at cen-tre. Rupani hailed party’s victory in municipality and municipal corpora-tion polls and described party’s defeat in pancha-yat polls as bruise. He remembered Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s words

that, ‘karyakarta kabhi harta nahi hain, jitata hai ya sikhta hai’. He also mentioned another line from Atalji, “Kabhi the hum akele, arre huye aaj hum itne, arre bhala tab nahi darre, to abb dar kai-sa.” Rupani said, “many people while congratu-lating me also alert me that this is a difficult job, but I believe that the post of the president of BJP is Vikramaditya’s Sim-

Agency | New Delhi

Hundreds of lawyers marched from the Patia-la House court complex to India Gate in the na-tional capital on Friday and demanded action against certain JNU stu-dents whom they dubbed “anti-national”. Led by Vikram Chauhan and Yashpal Singh -- alleged-ly involved in an attack

on journalists inside the court complex on Mon-day -- the protesting law-yers raised slogans such as ‘do not spare traitors’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ and also termed those students as “anti-nation-al”. The lawyers’ protest march was organised by the coordination com-mittee of all district court bar associations in Delhi.

Agency | Rohtak

The Army was called in on Friday in eight dis-tricts of Haryana after one person was killed and 21 injured in police action as the Jat protest for quota turned violent and the rampaging mobs set ablaze the state fi-nance minister’s house besides several govern-ment and private proper-ties. Protesters also took some police personnel captive besides going on a rampage at many places

Agency | New Delhi

With the Supreme Court paving the way for gov-ernment formation, Pres-ident’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh was on Friday lifted that could usher in a new dispensation head-ed by dissident Congress leader Kalikho Pul. Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee has given his approval to the Union Cabinet’s rec-ommendation for revo-cation of President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh, a Home Ministry official said. The President’s nod came after the last ditch effort of Congress leader and deposed Chief Min-ister Nabam Tuki seeking

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme court on Fri-day issued notice to actor Salman Khan on the Ma-harashtra government’s petition challenging a Bombay High Court ver-dict that acquitted him in a 2002 hit-and-run case. Issuing notice returnable in six weeks, an apex

court bench comprising Justice Jagjit Singh Khe-har and Justice C. Nagap-pan told Salman Khan that “it would be much, much better if he gets ac-quittal from this court as it will save him from all the repercussions”. Se-nior counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing for Salman,

took the court through the proceedings of the tri-al court, contending that his conviction was based on the testimony of one person, which cannot be relied upon. He said be-sides that there was no other evidence before the trial court to convict Sal-man Khan in the case.

Lawyer denies attacking Kanhaiya, leads march to counter JNU protest

Chauhan, who has been accused of leading the attack on journalists and students, denied that Ku-mar was attacked. “JNU students in black coats raised slogans at Gate No. 2. And no citizen of this country can bear an-ti-national slogans,” he said. “If they provoke and challenge our patri-otism and attack us, we will definitely respond,” Chauhan added. The Su-preme Court earlier trans-ferred to the Delhi high court Kanhaiya Kumar’s petition seeking bail, as it said that the direct hearing of the bail plea bypassing the high court would set a wrong precedent.

Gujarat BJP to get new chief

hasan. Even if a common karyakarta sits there, the system of organization is so well set that he would gain strength, speed and justice.” Rupani thanked party for elevating a small party workers to this level. He remem-bered his early days when

he used to do wall paint-ing for party campaign and also used to climb poles to tie banners. He said he was once into anti-Congress agitations and also went to jail un-der MISA. Rupani said it is only this party in which a small karyakarta can

become party president, elsewhere there are fam-ilies. He recalled Atal-ji’s lines: Yeh pad nahin hai, yeh dayitva hai, Yeh pratishtha nahin hai, yeh pariksha hai,Yeh sanman nahin hai, yeh chunau-ti hai(this is not position but a responsibility, this is not fame but a test, this is not honor but a chal-lenge). He said he has been agreed to take this challenge on the basis of these lines of Atalji and one crore party workers from across Gujarat who are honest, dedicated, hardworking and work day and night for nation. He said, power takes birth from organization, and the organization has to see that its ideologi-cal horizon is intact. He

said Ayodhya mein Ram, Yovako ko kaam, Kisano ko sahi dam, mehngai pe lagam are main highlights of agenda. Rupani re-membered party leaders from past era Shri Vas-antrao Gajendragadkar, Nathalal Jhagda, Haris-inh Gohil, Chimanbhai Shukla, Makrandbhai Desai, Arvindbhai Mani-yar, Suryakant Acharya, Ashok Bhatt, Kashmiram Rana and past party pres-idents Keshubhai Patel, Vajubhai Vala, Rajen-drasinh Rana, Parshottam Rupala and RC Faldu. He admired Chief Minister Anandiben Patel for her welfare schemes and oth-er works and Prime Min-ister Shri Narendra Modi for giving scam free gov-ernment in centre.

Jat quota stir: Army called in, shoot at sight orders in Rohtak, Bhiwani

including Rohtak, Jhajjar and Hansi, targeting po-lice and private vehicles, buildings housing offices, including two toll plazas at Hansi in Hisar district and near Rohtak, both located on the Delhi-His-ar-Fazilka National High-way. The agitation, which has been going on for last few days, escalated and turned violent soon af-ter an all-party meeting held by Chief Minister

Manohar Lal Khattar is-sued an appeal for call-ing it off. Khattar gave an assurance that a solu-tion will be worked out to extend reservation to the community. One protes-tor was killed in Rohtak when the BSF personnel opened fire in “self-de-fence” after someone from the mob fired at and injured a BSF constable, Haryana DGP Yashpal Singhal told a press con-

ference in Chandigarh. Since the situation was going out of control, the army has been called in for deployment in eight worst-affected districts — Rohtak, Jhajjar, Jind, Bhiwani, Hissar, Kaithal, Panipat and Sonipat, the state police chief said. About 20 companies of central paramilitary forc-es (CPMF) have been sought from the Centre, police said.

President’s rule lifted in Arunachal Pradesh; paves way for new govt

an interim direction that his party be allowed to go for a floor test in the Arunachal Pradesh As-sembly to prove majority was rejected by the Su-preme Court on Friday. The Union Cabinet had recommended the with-drawal of President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday after Pul, ac-companied by 31 MLAs,

including Congress reb-els, BJP and independents met Governor J P Rajk-howa and stake claim to form a new government. A revolt by Congress dis-sidents led by Pul led to a political crisis in the state that finally led to imposi-tion of President’s rule on January 26. Tuki report-edly has the support of 26 MLAs in the 60-mem-

ber Assembly. Congress, which had 47 MLAs in the 60-member assembly, suffered a jolt when 21 of its lawmakers revolted against Tuki’s leadership. Eleven BJP MLAs and two independents backed the rebels in the bid to upstage the government. Later, 14 rebel Congress MLAs were disqualified by the Speaker. The Su-preme Court was con-sidering pleas against imposition of President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh and also hearing petitions seeking examination of constitutional schemes on the scope of discretionary powers of the Governor.

Supreme Court issues notice to Salman Khan in 2002 hit-and-run case

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DAYIt’s beginning of fascism of a kind’What has happened at JNU can happen on any campus in Kolkata soon and the beginnings are already evident at Jadavpur University: This is how Marxist economist Prabhat Patnaik summed up the current scene at insti-tutes. Patnaik was speaking at a protest convention, or-ganised by teachers’ unions of all universities across the state, at Darbhanga Hall in Calcutta University. Posters saying, “Kanhaiya, I’m proud of you”, were pinned up in a show of solidarity by at least 300 college teachers gathered at the convention. “The situation at JNU is the result of blatant lies propagated by the Modi govern-ment. Why are thugs being let loose on a university? I see it as the beginning of fascism of a kind and reminds me of the 30s. I see it as a systematic attack on think-ing, progressive students. This fire of repression, the tendency to gag dissent will spread to every institution that is known in the country as a centre of excellence,” said Patnaik. A former professor of economics at the Centre for Social Studies at JNU, Patnaik lives on the campus and was witness to the mayhem that unleashed since the day Kanhaiya Kumar gave his speech and was arrested. “Some students on the campus feel Afzal Guru’s hanging was the result of a misjudgement and they hold such meetings on the day of the hanging as an annual affair. No anti-national sentiment was venti-lated. As Kanhaiya spoke, the ABVP started shouting slogans, suggesting the speech was anti-national... The speech is available in public domain. I dare all to point out what is anti-national there. The Delhi Police could not furnish any proof of Kanhaiya being anti-national. Perhaps to tighten the noose around JNU, home min-ister Rajnath Singh has stepped up the pitch about the university’s supposed links with LeT. Why should a country’s home minister have such a weak intelligence network?” Patnaik said. Probably Kanhaiya question-ing the central ministers’ role in freedom fight and struggle against anti-colonial forces, drew their ire. and made them brand him anti-nationalist. “It is a fact those ruling at the Centre today were not there in the coun-try’s anti-colonial struggle,” Patnaik added. Among the other speakers was Congress leader, JNU alumnus and JU faculty Om Prakash Mishra, who pointed at ques-tioned why Kanhaiya’s full speech was not being pub-licised by the electronic media. and blamed the latter for playing a partisan role. He cited examples of sev-eral occasions when BJP leaders and parliamentarians met PDP leaders in Kashmir for a political understand-ing but kept it under the wraps. “We know followers of which ideology burnt the national flag. It is a historic reality that the BJP cannot escape,” Mishra said. He alluded to the ABVP when he said JNU students did not use swords to drive home a point. “They use log-ic and slogans, a political language that Modi doesn’t understand.

“totally with the decision of the tricolour being hoisted at all Central Universities and why not it brings out the best in us, inspires us to soar high,” - the 48-year-old Akshay Kumar “Airlift” star

took to twitter to welcome the decision made by the ministry.

Neerja review in pics: Sonam Kapoor gets applauded for her role

tiger’s sincerity is unbelievable: Shraddha Kapoor

Not February, here’s when Preity Zinta is going for Mission Marriage!

‘Hey Ram’ turns 16, Kamal Haasan touchedtamil movie Miruthan starring Jayam Ravi,

Lakshmi Menon gets thumbs up from audience

Agency | Mumbai

ha Dhupia says there was a time when she was un-happy with her work and began following other actresses. Neha, who has earned critical acclaim for her performances in films like “Phas Gaye Re Obama” and “Delhi Heights”, said in the low phase of her career she decided to conform to the ways of the industry. When asked if there was a time when she was unhap-py with the work she was doing, Neha said, “Yes

there was. I had started dressing like other ac-tresses. I started wearing contact lenses because we were supposed to. I was doing everything that oth-er actresses were doing. I was following a suit.” What held the actress together was the unpre-dictability in her life, as Neha said she had initial-ly thought of retiring by the age of 30 and have a family in Rome. “But I’ve always had a mind of my own. I was educated to believe that I was going to become an IAS officer.

Agency | Mumbai

Gushing about her child-hood friend and “Baaghi” co-star Tiger Shroff, ac-tress Shraddha Kapoor says his sincerity towards work is unbelievable. The duo is sharing screen space for the first time in Sajid Nadiadwala’s “Baaghi: Rebels in Love”, directed by “Heropanti” helmer Sabbir Khan. “Tiger’s ac-tion and sincerity – he is

just unbelievable. I have done a bit of action, so hope everybody likes that. But definitely he has tak-en it to a whole newlevel, we all have worked very hard,” Shraddha told re-porters last evening on the sets of the film. The mov-ie’s team interacted with the media on the occa-sion of Nadiadwala’s 50th birthday. The 26-year-old “ABCD 2” actress hopes

Agency | New Delhi

Fasten your seat-belts for Neerja Bhanot’s bi-ographical movie ‘Neer-ja’ has hit the screens and surprised the audience with an impressive mix of performance, script and screenplay. For those who thought ‘Neerja’ is a slice from the history book, well it isn’t. There’s no more history classes in this Ram Madhvani’s brilliant biopic than the touching, heart-wrench-ing tale of a 23-year old girl’s bravery. Revolving around the mind-boggling hijack of Pan Am Flight

Agency | New Delhi

While all kinds of rumours have been flying around about Preity Zinta’s mar-riage to Gene Goode-nough, here’s the truth. The two will be tying the knot in April an intimate ceremony in Los Ange-les. Gene is a top financial

consultant, a management graduate from Marshall School of Business and is currently a Senior Vice President of Finance with an US-based hydroelec-tric power company called NLine Energy. The ac-tress’s brother Manish and his family are based there

Agency | New Delhi

Perturbed by the ongo-ing debate on freedom of expression, director Abhishek Sharma said that his next film Hume Aitraaz Hai will revolve around the subject. Abhishek, known for his comic sat-ires Tere Bin Laden and its spin-off Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, said that the satire on the correct exercise of freedom of ex-pression is the need of the hour. “The film is not on intolerance. It’s on free-dom of expression. Peo-ple are taking about it and there is so much debate on it. So, it’s a commentary on that. It will be funny as hell,” he said. “We are not taking any sides. The film is not a message. I wrote Tere Bin Laden in anger because I felt the bombings were wrong. From anger comes sat-Neha dhupia: there was a phase

when I was aping other actresses

Agency |New Delhi

‘Miruthan’, which is the first zombie horror thriller in Tamil, hit the theatres today and has opened with good reviews from the critics and audiences seem to have loving the film. With breathtaking action, chilling horror elements and brilliant performanc-es, Jayam Ravi starrer is acting like a magnet and is pulling the audiences to the theatres. The film, which released worlwide, is high on its visual ef-

fects (VFX) and there were about 1000 VFX shots which according to the film’s director will be difficult for the audience to make out. “There are about 1000 VFX shots and out of which audience may identify 10-15, while the rest will be too diffi-cult to make out,” he said. Jayam Ravi plays a traffic inspector in the film while Lakshmi Menon plays his love interest and this is the first time they are working together. Director Shakti

Soundar Raja had said that the film was an experiment as a lot of risk was involved but Ravi accepted the proj-ect with a lot of excite-ment and it took only one meeting for the director to convince him for the role. “It was an experiment that could’ve gone wrong and Ravi could’ve gone from a star with two back-to-back hits to butt of all jokes in the industry. It was a risky proposition, nevertheless he accepted the project with a lot of excitement.

tere Bin Laden director’s Next Film is on ‘Freedom of Expression’

Agency | Chennai

Kamal Haasan feels nos-talgic as his 2000 period crime drama “Hey Ram”, also starring Shah Rukh Khan, has turns 16 today. The 61-year-old actor took to Twitter to thank his fans and the crew, who made his directorial ven-ture possible. “Touched by Hey Ram fans cele-brating 16 yrs. Remember all who made it possible. Especially Shah Rukh Khan and Bharat Shah,” he tweeted. Haasan also remembered actor Mo-han Gokhale, who died

during the shooting of the film. Atul Kulkarni was roped in to play his role. “Mohan Ghokale. Af-ter sculpting Abhyankar beyond my expectation died. I Reshot with Atul K, who won the national award.. Thanks to Mrs Ghokle.” The “Vishwa-roopam” actor, who also starred in “Hey Ram” besides calling the shots, said he would soon post the video of Gokhale’s performance for his fans. “One day I wish to show-case late Mohan Gokha-le’s performance for all

that her on-screen chem-istry with Tiger is loved by the audience. “We just hope that everybody loves our chemistry, everybody loves the scenes that we have done. Sabbir sir has really directed us in very beautiful ways, I hope we have done justice to that,” she said. While Shraddha is working for the first time with Sabbir, the director collaborated with 25-year-old Tiger for “Heropanti”, which was the debut of both the filmmaker and the actor. “I feel like I’m a part of the ‘Heropanti’ team in our film ‘Baaghi’. The only hope is that peo-ple like the film and also love the promo once it’s out,” Shraddha said.

73 that happened in 1986 in Karachi, this Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi starrer takes off a smooth ride, right off the bat in it premises and overcomes the turbulence that come along, swiftly and almost impeccably. When Frank-furt bound airplane Pan

Am Flight 73 is hounded and hijacked by a bunch of Libyan hijackers in Karachi in 1986, lead air hostess Neerja Bhanot (Sonam Kapoor) from Punjab must do what she must do in order to keep the surroundings tamed in the horrifying situation.

and she had met Gene on one her trips there a few years ago. A source close to Preity adds, “Preity and Gene are both extremely private people and will get married sometime in April this year. The church wedding will be a private affair, with Preity and Gene’s close friends and family, flying down to LA for the ceremony. It will be a select group of people who will fly down for the LA wedding which will be tastefully done up keeping Preity’s personal tastes in mind. It will be fol-lowed by a big fat Rajput wedding (consisting of a three-day affair and hav-ing wedding, sangeet and mehndi) in Mumbai with the who’s who of the film industry in attendance.”

ire and from satire comes comedy,” Abhishek said. The director said that it is wrong to question the sense of freedom of ex-pression in our country. “India is a beautiful coun-try. We have more free-dom than any country in the world. There are only two countries, India and US, where there is real sense of freedom of ex-pression.” Hume Aitraaz Hai, produced by Goldie

Behl and Shrishti Arya, is currently on its casting stage and shooting will begin by year end. “There is still some time left for shooting because it’s a different kind of film. It’s tough because it might not get accepted by the audience. So, you have to maintain the shock value. It will not be a small bud-get film. So, probably we will begin shooting this year end,” he said.

to see. A day before he died I told him he might win awards for his role… “Mohan Ghokale. Af-ter sculpting Abhyankar beyond my expectation died. I Reshot with Atul K, who won the national award.. Thanks to Mrs Ghokle.” The “Vishwa-roopam” actor, who also starred in “Hey Ram” besides calling the shots, said he would soon post the video of Gokhale’s performance for his fans. “One day I wish to show-case late Mohan Gokha-le’s performance for all to see. A day before he died I told him he might win awards for his role… He died after completing 90 per cent of his work. Loved MG.” Legendary composer Ilayaraja had composed the music for the film, which was si-multaneously made in Tamil and Hindi.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPLeEco Flipkart sale: Exchange offers of up to Rs 20,000 on Le 1s, Le Max

Forex Reserves Up By $347 Million to $351 Billion

Freedom 251 First Impression: It has nothing Indian about it!

Agency |New delhi

As part of the Rs 8 crore LeEco Day Shopping Bo-nanza on February 25 on Flipkart, LeEco has an-nounced exchange offers on Le 1s and Le Max. Un-der the offer, users exchange their old smartphone, provided it is in working condition and get upto Rs 6000 off on the Le 1s or upto Rs 20,000 on Le Max. Basically, the company is offering up to 50 per cent off on the LeEco smartphones. LeEco in its three flash sales earlier this month witnessed massive re-sponse. the company plans to give away prizes worth Rs 8 crore during the shopping bonanza. Also, start-ing LeEco Day, Le1s will be available on Flipkart without consumers having to go through the regis-tration process. LeEco users can expect a content ecosystem to be uploaded into Android-based EUI system in the 2nd quarter of this year as the compa-ny has already signed contracts with Eros and Yupp TV. LeEco has put in place 555 service centers in prime locations in the country, besides providing 24×7 toll free services. This article is sponsored by LeEco

Agency | New Delhi

The country’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $347.2 million to $351.831 billion in the week to February 12, helped by an increase in foreign currency assets (FCAs), according to the Re-serve Bank. In the previous week, the reserves had surged by $2.332 billion to $351.484 billion in the reporting period. FCAs, a major component of overall reserves, increased by $ 1.581 billion to $330.019 billion in the reporting period, RBI said in a release. FCAs, expressed in dollar terms, in-clude the effect of appreciation and depreciation of non-US currencies such as the euro, pound and the yen, held in the reserves. The gold reserves re-mained unchanged at $17.696 billion in the week. India’s special drawing rights with the Internation-al Monetary Fund (IMF) grew by $21.5 million to $4.061 billion in the week, while country’s reserve position with the fund declined by $1.255 billion

to $54.2 million, the apex bank said.

Agency | New Delhi

Two days back, an unknown company – Ringing Bells, shocked the world by launching a phone at throwaway price of just Rs 251 for which you can’t even afford a medium pizza these days. Even mul-tiplexes charge more than that for 3D movies! Nat-urally the phone, which is named as Freedom 251, caught the attention of all, both in India and abroad. Freedom 251’s features were even more shocking for the price it is being offered. To start with, the phone offers Android 5.1 Lollipop operating sys-tem and is powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core pro-cessor. The phone has a 4 inch IPS touchscreen and WVGA (800×480 pixels) resolution. It has 8 GB of internal memory, 1 GB RAM, a 1450 mAh battery, 3.2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front camera, and supports dual SIMs. Strangely, even be-fore the commencement of its full-fledged operation in India, Ringing Bells’s President Ashok Chadha has claimed that by the end of this year they will be able to capture 30 percent smartphone market share in India. But before I dwell into all the announcements made by the Ringing Bell’s top management lets me share my first impression of the device.

Agency | New Delhi

Every sportsman reach-es an age where nothing but absolutely impeccable performances match after match will keep the nay-sayers at bay. The world seeks to breathe down the necks of those who par this threshold in terms of an imaginary age line. Even a single underperformance evokes a flood of opinions from fans and media call-ing for the necks of these players. Irrational as it may be, not many coaches or management come out in strong defence of these under-fire players. Ravi

Shastri has made a strong example by his vehement defence of MS Dhoni. At 34, nearing 35, Dhoni finds himself in an unde-sirable situation where there is a sword hanging over his head at every point. There is a critic prowling in every corner and given the density of India‘s population and the cricket madness that runs through the country’s veins, those critics have a collective appetite to bash a cricketer, far greater than in any other coun-try. Criticism is good, be it in the field of cricket of

otherwise. It is what keeps people of power at bay. Deprive the society of the option to criticise and you end up with something like the tyranny, that is North Korea. However, it is a double-edged sword. Some of these so-called critics surface with the sole purpose of shredding a player. And once a play-er crosses a certain age limit, the frequency and intensity of these irratio-nal criticisms surges dra-matically. Dhoni is at that stage in his career now, drawing fiery flak for ev-ery little misstep he takes.

Consistency the watchword as Afridi gears up for final flourish

Overwhelmed with love: Sachin tendulkar thanks his fans for buying his book

BCCI to contest Lodha Committee recommendations in SC

Agency | Mumbai

The BCCI unanimously decided to file an affida-vit in the Supreme Court pointing out the “anom-alies and difficulties” in implementing the Justice Lodha Committee rec-ommendations on the re-structuring of the cricket board. It was decided in the Special General Meet-ing of the BCCI that sec-retary Anurag Thakur will file an affidavit on behalf of the BCCI in the apex court. The Lodha Com-mittee has recommended wide ranging sweeping reforms in the BCCI in-cluding having only one vote per state, age cap of its officials, no simulta-neous posts in state and national body along with restrictions on advertise-ments in televised cricket

Agency | New Delhi

Sachin Tendulkar, thanks fans for their ovewhelm-ing response. He wrote on Twitter: “Overwhelmed with response to Play-ing it My Way! Thank you for your interest in my cricketing journey. The book was co-written with Boria Majumdar, a well-known cricket his-torian and journalist. It also holds the record in retail value terms having logged up Rs 13.51 crore with its cover price being Rs 899. When it was first announced that Sachin Tendulkar was writing an autobiography, the initial feeling was of euphoria. Who would not like to get personal insights from

Agency | Mumbai

Kidambi Srikanth was an-swering the question for the dozenth time and was clearly bemused each time it persistently came up in the day — the one about how India’s shuttlers must’ve spent sleepless nights ever since the draw of the Asian team champi-onship was out, and they were pooled with power-house China in the group stage. They didn’t — he fervently insisted. “India’s

not ranked in the Top 4 of Asia’s teams — we are ranked No. 5 to 8. So it was obvious we would play one of the top four teams in the group. I was happy it was China the best time to play the world’s top team is in the pool stages when there’s no pressure on us and we can go out and play freely and have the cushion of beating another team,” he sagely explained. “Plus it would ensure, we wouldn’t meet

Agency | Dubai

There are leaders and then there are those who lead. Shahid Afridi, for one, doesn’t need captaincy to command attention. Attend any practice ses-sion involving him to see how players, coaches, net bowlers, media gravitate towards his magnetic per-sonality. As Andy Flower says, ‘Afridi is that guy that other people just like

to follow.’ At the Pakistan Super League, there’s al-ways a nice easy going vibe in Peshawar’s prac-tice sessions, something that was to be expected with Afridi at the helm. It reflects in the team’s po-sition. Along with Quetta Gladiators, who Peshawar play in the playoffs, Afri-di’s Zalmi have been the most dominant side in the tournament. Still, it hadn’t been the most productive

Agency | Christchurch

It was job first and retire-ment talk second for Bren-don McCullum on Friday on the eve of the final Test against Australia starting , on Saturday with his fo-cus firmly on a series-sav-ing win and not his inter-national swansong. The clash in Christchurch will mark the charismatic New Zealand captain’s 101st and final Test on his home ground at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. New Zealand are playing “big brother” Australia, are one Test down in a two-Test series, and the swashbuck-ling McCullum needs just one more six to move to 101 and topple Australian Adam Gilchrist with the

Ravi Shastri sets a strong precedent by his aggressive backing of MS Dhoni

Job comes first as Brendon McCullum prepares to bow out

matches. “The Members authorised the honorary secretary BCCI to file an affidavit in the Hon’ble Supreme Court on behalf of the BCCI pointing out the anomalies and diffi-culties encountered in im-plementation of Hon’ble Justice Lodha Commit-tee’s recommendations,” the BCCI said in a release after the meeting. t is also learnt that BCCI has told the state associations that they can file affidavit separately on the difficul-

ties they faced due to the recommendations. In fact Saurashtra Cricket Asso-ciation (SCA), who will be affected on two counts -- losing voting rights due to ‘One State One Vote’ recommendation which may come into effect and its president Niranjan Shah requiring to quit if the age-cap of 70 is im-plemented, are moving court. “We will be filing an affidavit in Supreme Court,” SCA supremo Niranjan Shah said.

of tournaments for Afridi the player until recent-ly and for good reason. Pakistan’s limited-overs skipper has had enough on his plate even without the added responsibility of leading Peshawar Zal-mi in the inaugural edi-tion of PSL. Pakistan have been on the move since the turn of the new year. They flew to New Zealand for a quick limited-overs series before travelling straight to Dubai for this T20 league. The 35-year-old Afridi, who will call time on his international career post next month’s ICC World T20 in India, has had selection re-sponsibilities, media and corporate commitments to fulfil between all the back-to-back games and that takes a toll.

the most popular Indian cricketer ever? Sachin Tendulkar is not merely a person or player: he has become an icon, even an institution. A peek into the heart and mind of such an institution is always a hugely welcome proposi-tion. Writing for dna, Pra-nav Joshi wrote: “Howev-er, on second thoughts, the conscientious cricket fan would have realised that

the autobiography could not be expected to shake the foundations of world cricket. Tendulkar, who was a reticent man during his career both on and off the pitch, preferring to duck controversy rather than confront it, could not be expected to sudden-ly throw caution to the winds. This would not be an image-altering exercise in exposes.

Kidambi Srikanth decodes Chinese puzzleChina, for sure, in the quarters!” he guffawed. Playing in the four-pool, 14-team event and waking up to take on China’s sec-ond-string (Tian Houwei — No. 8) is still ranked one place above India’s best Srikanth — No. 9), the absolute clarity with which K Srikanth saw the situation at the Hyderabad event, went a long way in finally putting it across China when the two Asian biggies met on Thursday. Srikanth would reverse re-sults of five straight defeats he’s suffered at the hands of China’s top player here Tian Houwei (Chen Long and Lin Dan didn’t fetch up in the Olympic year) to help India to its first-ever 3-2 win against China in a team event.

most Test sixes. His fare-well has drawn a sell-out crowd, with day three the fifth anniversary of the devastating earthquakes which claimed 185 lives in Christchurch. Despite the emotional occasion, McCullum said it was “pretty easy” to shut out the distractions. “We have got a job to do. We are 1-0 down in the series. We have got one Test to go and we have to find a way

to square the series,” he said. “At the moment all I’m focusing on is trying to enjoy the last Test with the boys. “It will be spe-cial, playing in Christ-church as well… There is a lot to look forward to and plenty of time for reflection after the Test.” Both sides have made changes to their bowling attack following injuries to Doug Bracewell and Peter Siddle.

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Correspondent | Surat

Hooligans in Surat late in the night on Thursday torched two State Trans-port(ST) buses in Sart-hana-Simada Naka area. Patidar agitation is sus-pected responsible for this act of causing damage to government property. In the month of August last year, Paridar communi-ty had torched dozens of buses across Gujarat and also caused massive dam-age to public property including railway tracks, police stations, libraries, sanitation infrastructure, Judge’s car and more. In yesterday’s incident two buses GJ18Y5250(Him-matnagar-Surat route) and GJ18Z0387(Ahmed-

Correspondent | Rajkot

At least 40 fishermen with their seven boats have been abducted by Paki-stan from International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) on Friday morn-ing. “Indian Fishermen were fishing near IMBL off Kutch coast when Pa-kistan Marine Security agency came there and abducted seven boats with 40 fishermen on Friday morning. The weather into the Arabian Sea has been rough for the last

three days and fishermen are finding it difficult to fish into deep sea. We are awaiting the exact num-ber of abducted fishermen and their boats by Paki-stan’,’ Manish Lodhari, Secretary of National Fish workers’ Forum (NFF), told TOI. Earlier on Feb-ruary 7, Pakistan abducted 12 fishermen with their two boats (IMBL). The abduction of 12 Indian fishermen by Pakistan had occurred just two days after Indian Coast Guard

intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat about 30 nau-tical miles west of Jakhau coast and apprehended 11 fishermen for violating the Indian Maritime Zone on February 5 night. “Out of the seven abducted boats, six boats are from Okha and Mangrol and one from Porbandar,’’ Lodhari add-ed. Fishermen says that total 452 fishermen are lodged in Pakistani jails. “In last three months, PMSA have abducted to-tal 50 boats and 292 fish-

Sunvilla News | Surat

Patidar quota stir leader Hardik Patel on Thursday started an “indefinite hun-ger strike” inside the Cen-tral Jail in Surat where he is lodged in connection with a sedition case. Pris-on authorities said Hardik had written to Jail Super-intendent R N Pandey on February 16 stating that

from February 18 on-wards he would go on an indefinite fast, demand-ing immediate release of all quota stir leaders who are in jails across Gujarat, and reservation benefits for the commu-nity. According to jail au-thorities, the 22-year-old Patidar leader refused to take food or water since morning. They, how-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

We live in a country which still comes under the list of developing countries. Ev-ery country has its unique and different strategies to make their country more successful and more pow-erful with compare to other countries especial-ly with their neighboring countries. Similarly, in our country many of our research scientists keeps working hard in their spe-cific field in the welfare

of our country. Also, we need to do more work on our social and economic welfare to convert every city of our county in smart cities which will results to have a successful and powerful nation. With the aim to spread aware-ness about the precious &important plans of our country, Dr.NeelamGoy-al(President, Atomic Pow-er Evolution Awareness Foundation) which is also known as ‘Bharat KeePar-

Sunvilla News | Patna

Terming the violence in front of the state BJP head-quarters by the student wings of ruling alliance partners as a ‘state-spon-sored one’, Bihar BJP president Mangal Pand-ey today said that NDA workers are ready to take on the goons of ruling par-ties anywhere in the state. “This is a state sponsored attack on BJP office today, the conspiracy for which

was hatched at JDU of-fice… This is Nitish gov-ernment’s state sponsored attack,” Pandey told re-porters here. Pandey, who expressed displeasure over the administration remaining “a mute spec-tator”, told the attackers that NDA and BJP work-ers would pay them in the same coin. He said that attackers were from AISF, JDU, RJD student wings who had come with lathi, bottles and sticks.

Sunvilla News | Rajkot

WITH A VIEW to making the public transport service more efficient, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has equipped its entire fleet of buses with GPS devices and started trial-run of the technolo-gy from this week. Rajkot Rajpath Limited, a spe-cial-purpose vehicle of the RMC, operates city bus service called Rajkot Mass Transport Service (RMTS) and Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), in the city. While RMTS has a fleet of 90 buses, BRTS is served by 10 buses. All of these buses have now been fitted with global position-ing system (GPS) devices. “GPS chips have been in-stalled in all the buses of RMTS and BRTS and trial run began this week. The trial run will go on for a few more days before formal inauguration of the sys-tem,” said Chirag Pandya, general manager of RRL.

Sunvilla News | Rajkot

The civic body’s gener-al board meeting on the budget continued till late Wednesday night with sev-eral issues, such as the de-clining passenger numbers of AMTS and loss making accounts took centrestage. The opposition Congress claimed that AMTS pas-senger numbers had fallen from 7.5 lakh commuters a day to around 5.6 lakh commuters per day in the last six years, despite the city’s population increasing by 19% in the last decade. Opposition leader Dinesh Sharma said that even after the Rs 1,200 crore BRTS project, and adding 300 buses to the AMTS bus fleet, the civic body has not been able to convert the public transport sys-tem into a reliable mode. “Where will the metro rail go when your basic public transport system has not been able to attract new commuters,” said Sharma.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi might visit Ahmed-abad after a period of over one year to participate in the 13 th edition of World Spice Congress going to be held here from February 27 to 29, Assistant Director of Gujarat wing of the Spices board T P Prathyush today said. The three day bien-nial event to be held at the Gujarat University Con-vention Center will be the first edition of the WSC in Gujarat. It is being or-ganized by Spices Board, the flagship organisation under Union Ministry of Commerce and Indus-try. The theme for World Spice Congress 2016 is “Target 2020: Clean, Safe and Sustainable Supply

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Hooligans torch two St buses in Surat, role of Patidar agitators suspected

Hardik Patel begins ‘indefinite hunger strike’According to jail authorities, the 22-year-old Patidar leader refused to take food or water since morning. they, however, said his condition was “alright”

ever, said his condition was “alright”. Hardik, convener of Patidar Ana-mat Andolan Samiti, has been kept in a separate barrack. “We tried to con-vince him to eat some-thing, but he denied. He had given me a letter on February 16, demanding immediate release of Pa-tidar youths from differ-ent jails and a decision on the reservation issue. Our medical team examined him and his health is at present normal. There is nothing to worry about. We have asked a team of doctors to monitor his health continuously. We have also informed the higher authorities,” said

the jail superintendent. On October 19 last year, police in Surat had arrest-ed Hardik on charges of sedition for allegedly in-citing fellow activist Vi-pul Desai to kill a hand-ful of policemen instead of committing suicide. The alleged statement was made on October 3. Two Patidar youths — Vipul and Chirag Desai — were also arrested in January this year in con-nection with the case and they are lodged in Surat district jail. Another ac-cused Alpesh Katheriya has gone “underground”. Hardik is also facing an-other sedition case which has been lodged by Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch.

abad-Surat route) were torched by a group of about dozen odd persons in Sarthana area. Two fire fighters, two tankers and PCR van had rushed to the spot. The incident is seen in light of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti(PAAS) leader Hardik Patel’s fast

in Lajpor jail that start-ed yesterday and various kinds of speculative news stories related to that airing on Gujarati TV channels. It is not exact-ly correct to attribute this act of violence to Patidar community, as opposition Congress has now some

hold in this community in Surat following victo-ries in Municipal Corpo-ration election. The inci-dent could be a political attempt to create distur-bance ahead of instal-lation of new state BJP President today. Reacting to this incident Shri Vijay Rupani said this is a loss to people, as service like ST is operated through tax money. ST has suffered loss even earlier during this agitation. While agi-tation is right of citizens, damaging public property is not proper. Talks are going on at government level with community leaders and one should have patience till the time solution is arrived.Pakistan detains 40 Indian

fishermen off Gujarat coast

It’s time to work together in making our nation successful & more powerfull: dr.Neelam Gupta

“Attack on Bihar BJP headquarters in Patna state sponsored”

manuSaheli’ today visited Ahmedabad at Ahmed-abad Management Associ-ation and shared her views and details in this regards.She is the first person who has done research on the subject – ‘The working culture & safety process’ of the Indian Atomic Pow-er Plants & the Societal and Economical welfare of the neighborhood. She has also done a study about “The 4 Most Am-bitious Plans of India”. While talking to media, she shared, “We have 4 different plans which will take around 20-30 years to complete but if these will be successfully im-plemented within the time limits, the average per capital income of India would reach up to around 15 lakhs rupees per year.

Rajkot municipal body starts tracking its buses through GPS

Spices Board trying hard to ensure PM Modi’s participation in WSC Ahmedabad

BRTS service in Ahmed-abad have such a sytem in place while state transport service provider Guja-rat State Road Transport Service Corporation (GS-RTC) have also installed GPC devices on boards its selected buses. The RMC has signed a three year-long contract with High-Tecpoint Techonol-ogies Private Limited, a Chandigarh-based private firm that provides vehicle tracking system service under brand name Balak-box Vehicle Management System. This firm has fit-ted city buses with GPS chips, civic officers said. These chips will beam signals to a central moni-

toring control-room set up at Multiactivity Centre of the RMC in Nana Mava. As per the contract, the RMC will pay Rs349 per bus per month to the pri-vate firm for its services. “The realtime tracking system will help stream-line RMTS and BRTS services. It will allow us continuous monitoring of our buses, actual time a bus takes to reach one stop to another and com-pleting a trip on given route. Based on such in-formation, we shall be able to know if a route needs to realign or where stops are required,” Chi-rag Pandya, general man-ager of RRL said.

Chain.” Mr. Prathyush said that attempts were on to bring the Prime Minis-ter either in the inaugural or the valedictory session of the prestigious event He said that Commerce Minister Mrs. Nirmala Si-taraman’s participation in the inaugural session has been finalized and co-or-dination is on for bringing the Prime Minister also. ‘Though there is no fi-

nal word about the PM’s visit as yet, we have been instructed to go through some routine security pro-cedure and that is being followed,’ a senior police officer today said. ‘If Mr. Modi’s visit is confirmed then most likely a helipad will be made in the ad-joining GMDC ground,’ the officer said denying to divulge any further detail at this juncture.

Chaos reigns at AMC general body meeting

ermen of IMBL,’’ Lodhari added. Lodhari said that Pakistan is yet to release 860 boats which were seized by PMSA in last two decades. Last year, Pakistan had released 57 boats were released as goodwill gesture. Pakistan has not released any boats which were captured since October 2003. On Septem-ber 18 last year, one fish-erman was killed in firing allegedly by PMSA near International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and abducted 24 fisher-men into custody and four boats were seized. Indian and Pakistan marine secu-rity agencies often capture fishing boats for crossing into each other’s maritime boundary. Recently, a fish-ermen’s organization, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had re-quested him to initiate ef-forts to bring back jailed Indian fishermen and their boats from Pakistan.