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Car theft gang busted in UP

Agency : Bulandshahr, May 19Police today claimed to have busted an inter-dis-trict car theft gang here with the arrest of six persons. SP Anant Dev Tiwari today told re-porters that six persons, including the kingpin, were arrested while five stolen vehicles, in-cluding two SUV cars, were recovered from them. The gang had its area of operation spread over central and west-ern Uttar Pradesh while the stolen cars, with changed car engine and chassis numbers, were sold in Meerut, the SSP said.

7 killed in Raj dust storm

Agency : Jaipur, May 19Seven persons, including a minor girl and a woman, were today killed and 11 others injured after a strong dust storm hit parts of Rajasthan. The storm damaged many houses in rural areas of Bikaner and Bharatpur while many trees were uprooted and traffic was badly affected, police said. Five persons were killed and four injured in villages. The storm with high velocity winds was generated due to pressure gradient force over Bikaner region and soon advanced to Jodhpur, Nagaur, Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur and nearby areas, according to MeT department in Jaipur.Campaign for a healthy India

Agency : New Delhi, May 19 With support from the Indian Medical Associ-ation, Alkem Chronic, a strategic business unit of Alkem Laboratories, is all set to roll out a national movement by Indian doctors with the message “A Clean India will deliver a Healthy India.” The campaign will witness partici-pation of over 20,000 doctors, 3 lakh citizens and 900 Alkem employ-ees across 135 cities in India on May 23. The rally will be initiated at Bhagwan Mahavir Hos-pital and the Guru Tej Bahadur Hospital, the company said in a press release.

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Six killed, 40 injured after huge explosion hits diplomatic area of Kabul

Delhi govt calls meeting of all senior officers tomorrow

Agency : New DelhiDeputy Chief Minis-ter Manish Sisodia has called a meeting with all senior bureaucrats on Wednesday in the back-drop of the turf war be-tween Delhi government and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung. The government’s move comes a day after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal issued an order to department heads to apprise him or the Min-ister concerned about

any oral or written di-rection from the LG or his office before follow-ing them. “Sisodia will hold a meeting with all department heads, in-cluding Principal Secre-taries and Secretaries, to discuss flow of work,” sources said. The Depu-ty CM will also cite the rules under which Delhi is administered and will ask officials to follow the government’s directions, they added. Yesterday,

the AAP government had issued an order signed by Kejriwal, asking the bureaucrats, including the Chief Secretary, to first consult the Chief Minister and other Min-isters about any com-munication from the LG before acting on such di-rections. The order came amid deepening confron-tation between Kejriwal and Jung over appoint-ments of top bureaucrats in Delhi government.

Agency : Kabul

A large suicide car bombing struck down-town Kabul on Tuesday afternoon, apparently targeting justice min-istry employees and killing four people, an Afghan official said. Shortly after the blast, the Taliban claimed re-sponsibility for the at-tack. The bombing took place in the car park of the justice ministry when a car packed with explosives was detonat-ed, said interior minis-try spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi. He initially said that at least six people were killed but the interior ministry lat-er revised the death toll, saying four were killed, following an investiga-

tion at the site. “The re-port from our investiga-tive team confirms that four people were killed, including a woman, and 24 others were wound-ed,” said Sediqqi. The spokesperson for the ministry of public health, Ismail Kahossi, said a total of 42 people

were taken to hospitals around the Afghan cap-ital following the blast. Some sustained only minor injuries from flying glass. The 4pm bombing coincided with the end of the working day, when ministry em-ployees board minibus-es in the car park to go

home. The ministry is surrounded by buildings and shops and is located in one of the busiest ar-eas of downtown Kabul. An Associated Press re-porter at the scene said windows in buildings in the area had been blown out, indicating a huge explosion. The justice

ministry is close to the mining and finance ministries, as well as the Serena Hotel, which has been targeted in past Taliban attacks, most recently in March last year when nine people were killed there. An email from the Taliban sent to media organiza-tions in Kabul said the insurgents were behind Tuesday’s bombing. It was third large attack in the capital in the

past week. The Taliban said they were behind an attack on a Kabul guesthouse last week that killed 14 people, including nine foreign-ers, and also a suicide car bombing this week that killed three people, among them two young girls and a British secu-rity contractor. The Tal-iban have also claimed responsibility for a se-ries of recent attacks on judicial employees,

including buses carry-ing workers of the at-torney general’s office. The Taliban launched their spring offensive in late April with attacks across a widespread area of the country in what appears to be a fresh strategy aimed at forcing the government to concentrate its ef-forts and assets on se-curity - rather than on much-needed economic reforms.

Afghan security forces investigate the site of a bomb blast in Kabul. A bomb exploded in the parking lot of Afghanistan’s ministry of justice on Tuesday as civil servants were leaving work for the day.

Air India plane with 169 on board makes emergency landing

Agency : Bhubaneswar

A Delhi-Bhubaneswar Air India flight (AI 873) made an emergency landing at Lucknow airport with 169 passengers onboard at about 12.30 pm on Tues-day. All the passengers were safe after the landing. Airport sources here said that there was minor crack in the windshield forcing the pilot to land at Luc-know airport. The flight left Delhi at 11.30 am and was to land in Bhubaneswar at 1.15 pm. According to air-port officials the flight AI 873 was flying thousands of feet above Khajuraho when the pilot detected a

crack on the rear side of the nose. It was 11.57 am when the pilot finally decided to contact the air traffic con-trol at the Amausi airport. Airport director SC Hota said that the flight eventu-ally made a safe landing at around 12.35 pm. “All passengers are safe. If the problem is found to be ma-jor the passengers would be sent through an alternate

flight. Otherwise the same flight will take off,” he said. Relatives of passengers are having an anxious mo-ment at the airport. “There was some technical failure which forced the pilot to choose Lucknow airport for an emergency landing. The reason of technical failure is being investigat-ed,” said Biju Patnaik air-port director

IS militants look for collaborators after taking Iraqi cityAgency : Baghdad

Islamic State militants searched door-to-door for policemen and pro-government fight-ers and threw bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Mon-day after capturing the strategic city of Rama-di, their biggest victory since overrunning much of northern and western Iraq last year.Some 500 civilians and soldiers died in the ex-tremist killing spree since the final push for Ramadi began Friday, authorities said. Re-sponding to a call from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, hundreds of Iranian-allied Shiite mi-

litiamen rushed to a mil-itary base near Ramadi, the capital of overwhelm-ingly Sunni Anbar prov-ince, to prepare for an assault to try to retake the

city, Anbar officials said.The order came despite Obama administration concerns that the pres-ence of Shiite fighters in the Sunni-dominated re-

gion could spark sectari-an bloodshed. Until now, the defense of Anbar has been in the hands of the Iraqi military fighting alongside Sunni tribes-men, who al-Abadi’s Shi-ite-led government had vowed to arm and support — something it has done only sporadically.The Shiite militias have been key to victories against the Islamic State group on other fronts north of Baghdad in re-cent months. But they have also been widely criticized over accusa-tions of extrajudicial kill-ings of Sunnis, as well as of looting and torching Sunni property — charges militia leaders deny.

Twitter lashes out at Modi for saying countrymen ashamed till a year ago, Cong says ‘proud of India’

Agency : New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks in China and South Korea about Indians being ashamed of being born in the country before his government came to power triggered one of Twitter’s top trends, the hashtag #ModiIn-sultsIndia, on Tuesday. “Earlier, you felt ashamed of being born Indian,” Modi was quoted by The Hindu as saying during an interaction with the Indian community in Shanghai on Saturday. “Now you feel proud to represent the country. Indians abroad had all hoped for a change

in government last year.” Modi echoed the same idea when he addressed a gathering of Indians in Seoul on Monday. “There was a time when people used to say we don’t know what sins we committed in our past life that we were born in Hindustan. Is this any country, is this any government…we will leave,” he said, speaking in Hindi. “There was a time when people used to leave, businessmen used to say we can’t do busi-ness here. These people are ready to come back. The mood has changed.” These comments evoked a

strong reaction from Twit-terati, some of whom crit-icised the Prime Minister for “insulting” his own country. By late Tues-day morning, #ModiIn-sultsIndia had garnered more than 38,000 tweets. Another tweet echoed the same sentiment: “India is a nation built by blood and sweat of every Indian.

A PM referring tht Indians were an ashamed coun-try is detrimental.” Twit-ter user Shwetanshu, (@ShwetanshuMishr ) wrote he was never ashamed of being an Indian since great personalities like Mahatma Gandhi and Ne-taji Subhas Chandra Bose lived and died for the country.

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Why play cricket with Pakistan when ISI-backed terror attacks kill Indians in Kabul?

It is quite a queer coincidence that on a day when reports were doing the rounds of India and Pakistan agreeing to play a cricket series in UAE in Decem-ber this year, yet another dastardly terror attack took place against Indian interests in Afghanistan around the same time. No prizes for guessing identity of the real perpetrators as Pakistan has been known to have choreographed a wave of similar terror attacks in Afghanistan. Four Indians including a woman and one American were among 14 people killed af-ter gunmen stormed a guest house in Kabul where a party of foreigners was going on. Indian ambassador in Afghanistan Amar Sinha was the real target of this attack but he escaped as he decided at the eleventh hour to skip the party where he was a prominent invitee. At least twelve people were injured and 54 hostages were rescued as Afghan special forces re-took the guest house, situated close to a UN office and a diplomatic compound, in an operation that took several hours in clearing the building room by room. The bloodiest terror attack on Indian interests in Afghanistan took place on 7 July 2008 when a suicide car bomb attack was launched near the gates of Indian embassy in Kabul, killing 58 people, in-cluding Indian defence attache Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta and Indian diplomat V Venkateswara Rao. Besides two ITBP officers, Ajai Pathania and Roop Singh, were among the four Indians killed in the attack. Brigadier Mehta was specifically targeted by the perpetrators as they saw him as a point per-son in training the Afghan military and keeping a close tab on linkages between the Taliban and Pa-kistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). A New York Times report had then quoted US intelligence officials as suggesting that the ISI had planned the attack, though Pakistan refuted the claim. A report in The Sunday Times had said that then US pres-ident George W Bush confronted Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and stated that in the case of another such attack he would have to take “serious action”. Though Gilani promised to inves-tigate the attack, Pakistani foreign ministry spokes-man Mohammed Sadiq shortly later dismissed pres-ident Bush’s accusation as “total rubbish” and said there was no evidence of ISI involvement. Ameri-can intelligence agencies have time and again sug-gested that Pakistan’s ISI was behind many of the attacks. But no action has been taken by the Obama administration on the ground to declare Pakistan a ‘Terror State’ or a ‘Failed State’ or a ‘Rogue State’. WikiLeaks had named Pakistan’s ISI as a terrorist organization. In 2010 Pentagon had acknowledged that some elements in Pakistan’s ISI were cooperat-ing with terrorist groups to counter US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Indian interests in Afghani-stan have repeatedly been hit by terrorists, mostly inspired by Pakistan-aided terror outfits.

Why box office failure of ‘Bombay Velvet’ might not affect Ranbir Kapoor

“The government has been speaking to opposition parties to get their support in Rajya Sabha, where NDA lacks in numbers, and noted BJD’s decision to support the bill.”

Agency : Cannes

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan poses on the red carpet as she arrives for the screening of the film “Carol” in compe-tition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

certainly knows how to make her presence felt on the red carpet, and this year is no different. The Bollywood diva, who is at Cannes for the prestigious film festival, continues her winning streak with her latest appearance. Aish-

warya Rai made her first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 red carpet in an Elie Saab’s gown. The 41-year-old actress looked stunning in a teal beaded gown with a semi-sheer skirt. And re-cently she walked the red carpet in a white shirt and printed trousers, apparent-ly getting ready for press interviews. It was a Stel-la McCartney creation. Aishwarya’s bold red lip, green glittery eye liner

with side curls completed her red carpet look. Aish-

warya Rai attended the premiere of Cate Blanch-ett’s film “Carol” on 17 May. The “Jazbaa” actress also clicked selfies with Eva Longoria. The former “Desperate Housewives” actress and Aishwarya Rai attended the 68th Cannes

Film Festival as a brand ambassador of a cosmetic group. The Twitter handle of the L’Oreal Paris’s In-dia, the cosmetic, posted the selfie photo of Aish-warya with Eva Longoria with a caption, “We be-came friends at Cannes.

Marriage shouldn’t be due to social pressure: Kangana Ranaut

Agency : Mumbai

The National Award winning actor is 28, but marriage is not on Kangana Ranaut’s mind for now. The Tanu Weds Manu Returns star says getting married is an individual’s choice and one should not enter into wedlock due to any social pressure. She believes

“marrying without one’s choice spoils future”. “It (marriage) is an individual choice... whether he or she wants to get married or not. I believe it should be a choice and not a compulsion. I think we should not pressurise girls or boys for their future, marriage or anything...what do you want to

become in life...do you want to get married to how do you want to live. I think these things should not be forced upon due to society as future of both the parties is spoiled. So one should get married when one feels like and not due to social pressure,” adds the Queen star.

What did Shahid Kapoor gift his fiancee Mira Rajput on their roka?

Agency : New Delhi

Shahid Kapoor is gear-ing up for a grand des-tination wedding with Delhi based Mira Rajput this June. After confirm-ing reports of his im-pending marriage that were doing the rounds, Shahid had initially in-formed that he would get hitched in December. But then, the families decided to get Shahid and Mira hitched this June. Recently, at the roka ceremony held pri-vately in Delhi, Shahid surprised his ladylove with a priceless gift. Shahid and Mira posed for pictures together and also cut a photo-cake with their picture printed

on the cake at the roka ceremony. Only close friends and family stood witness to the grand af-fair but Shahid surprised everyone by planting an

expensive solitaire on Mira’s fingers. The event was organised by Mira’s best friends and they had personally sent out hand-made invites to guests.

Nayanthara’s wedding is just a rumour?

Agency : Chennai

Every time Nayantha-ra, who starred in Upen-dra’s Super, works in a film, she has been either linked with the director or the actor in the film. In the past, she was ru-moured to be seeing Arya while working on Raja Rani and then with Ud-hayanidhi, when she did back-to-back films with the actor-producer. Now, she is the news again and this time, she has been linked with the director of her current film, Naanum Rowdydhaan, Vignesh Sivan. Rumour mills said that Nayanthara gifted Vi-gnesh a luxury car, went for a vacation abroad with and has even secretly married him.However, a perturbed Vignesh Sivan texted us, “Marriage ru-mours are insane and not true. Such false rumours

sabotage the work flow and disturbs personally too!” (sic). However, we are being told by people close to both the actress

and the director that such fabricated news could be a marketing strategy to promote the film like in the past.

Salman Khan can’t forget Katrina Kaif, here’s proof

Agency : New Delhi

Salman Khan can’t have enough of Kashmir. The star, currently shooting in the valley for Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijan, was on a tweeting spree on Tuesday, waxing elo-quent on the state’s majes-tic beauty. He backed it all up by sharing five pic-tures from the valley, and then did the unexpected: “Maashallah Maashallah se yaad aya katrina kaif bhi Kashmir se hai,” Sal-man. Now, we do know that Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif officially

broke up long ago. But his love for his Ek Tha Tiger co-star just refus-es to fade away. Even at his sister Arpita Khan’s wedding last year, Sal-man teased Katrina say-ing that she had a chance

to become Mrs Khan but she chose to be Mrs Ka-poor! Salman went back to Kashmir after his sen-tence in 2002-hit-and-run case was suspended, to complete the shooting for Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

Agency : New Delhi

Ranbir Kapoor’s latest outing hasn’t fared well at the box office. In fact, Bombay Velvet is being said to be the biggest dud of all time but Ran-bir shouldn’t worry at all. Ranbir Kapoor had pinned all his hopes on Anurag Kashyap’s direc-

torial venture Bombay Velvet which finally re-leased last Friday after much delay. While the big budget film courted a lot of negative buzz since the very beginning, there were quite a few elements which made Bombay Velvet one of the highly anticipated films.

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IPL 8: Bangalore, Rajasthan face off in crucial Eliminator

Agency : Pune

The tie on Saturday be-tween the Chennai Super Kings, who are assured of a place in the playoffs, and Kings XI Punjab, who are languishing at the bottom, has little riding on it. Go-ing into their last league match, a win for CSK will help them finish in top two and thus give them two chances of making it to the final. Punjab, on the other hand, will look to spoil CSK plans. CSK coach Stephen Fleming assured that his team would go all

out for a win. “I think this makes Punjab even more dangerous as they have nothing to lose. Maybe, we can also adopt a simi-lar attitude for this match,” said Fleming. Despite the blip against Delhi Dare-devils in their last game, where the team surren-dered meekly, the Super Kings have been the most consistent performers in this league. The main concern for CSK will be the departure of Brendon McCullum, who has been in excellent form through-

out the league stage. Sat-urday’s game will be the last for the New Zealand skipper before he heads to England for a two Test and five ODI series. His century against Sunrisers Hyderabad, SRH, and a couple of fifties at the top had helped CSK get off to flying starts. He is also the highest run-getter for the side with 430 runs in 13 matches. CSK have been the most settled unit, which provides yet anoth-er contrast between the two sides.

IPL 8: Look what Rahul Dravid’s sons were up to

Agency : Mumbai

Being Rahul Dravid’s son, means that crick-et must run through his veins. While Rajasthan’s practise session prior to a do-or-die match against KKR, Rahul Dravid’s two sons, Samit and An-vay Dravid were seen practising along with hard hitter Steven Smith. With the two aged just nine and six respec-tively, the sport means to them equally what it meant to ‘The Wall’. And they exactly proved that. While Dravid was busy in his mentoring business, the duo found a way towards Steven Smith and were engaged in buying some great tips. Anvay, the younger

one, was more enthusi-astic. The right hander was very athletic in the field. Attempting diving catches, sliding to stop the ball. Indeed he was taking the best advan-tage of the RR captain. Hope the youngster will follow his fathers foot-steps. Dravid himself be-gan playing cricket from

‘Red mist’ in Peruvian League as referee shows five red cards in as many minutes

Agency : London

Peruvian referee, Ramon Blanco, caused a “red alert” in the 86th minute of Alianza Lima’s clash with Real Garcilaso,

when he drew out 5 red cards in 5 minutes. The 36-year-old showed cards for Gabriel Costa’s hack in midfield and manager Guillermo Sanguinetti’s

protests, two for an el-bow and vicious kick by Marcos Miers and Pablo Miquez, and for Chris-tian Cueva, who tried to stop Blanco from reach-ing for a card, the BBC reported. Blanco didn’t even let the sight of riot police attempting to ad-dress the chaos on the pitch distract him from his act. Peru’s Associa-tion of Professional Ref-erees praised Blanco and said he was “correct” and congratulating him on Facebook for a “very good job”. Garcilaso held on to win the match 1-0.

Tata Nano re-re-relaunch: New GenX automatic seems like a winner

Indian Women’s Hockey team can qualify for Rio Olympics 2016: Coach Mathias Ahrens

Agency : New Delhi

Newly-appointed Indian women’s hockey team coach Mathias Ahrens on Monday said his wards can qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. With the 10-nation Hock-ey World League (HWL) Semi-Final, an Olympic qualifying tournament, scheduled to start from June 20, Ahrens said he is impressed by the keen-

ness of the girls to im-prove. The teams that will grab the top three spots in the tournament to be held in Belgium, will qualify for the quadrennial ex-travaganza. “The team is up for the challenge and we can always qualify. We will go to the tourna-ment next month with all intent to qualify. The team is quite young and we have some experienced

players. The tournament comes at the right time for the girls as they are keen to deliver. What impress-es me about this team is their keenness to learn and apply,” he said in a release. The chief coach said that the team needs to put a better structure in place while playing the counter-attacking game. “The team as a unit play amazing hockey. It is real-ly fantastic to see how we connect on the field and the girls have the ability to penetrate the defence of the opponents. While we attack to our strength but sometimes in the count-er-attack we have to orga-nise ourselves a bit better which will help us score,” he said.

India should rest Kohli, Rahane, Ashwin and Umesh for the ODIs in Bangladesh

Agency : Mumbai

If there is one thing India’s cricket schedule over the last 18 months or so has made clear, it is that cricket needs player rotation or risk more injuries and shorter careers. It is a reality boards and broadcasters around the world must come to terms with sooner rather than later. It also means that some series will be more important than others. The tour to Bangladesh is one of the others. This is not to insult Bangladesh or demean a team that is showing signs of genuinely being able to compete on the field with the higher ranked

Test nations. This is simply to acknowledge facts. Three formats, international bilateral series, ICC tournaments and mushrooming domestic T20 leagues means there is no off-season anymore. Besides, India has played just seven Tests

and eight bilateral ODIs against Bangladesh over the last 27 years. A choice between not playing at all and playing a series with fewer stars shouldn’t be a choice at all.So it’s worthwhile to consider how best India could use the tour to their advantage.

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an early age of 12 and even represented Karna-taka at the U-15, U-17 and U-19 levels. He went on to become one of In-dia’s greatest batsman. After announcing his retirement in 2012, the 42-year-old now acts as commentator and is the mentor of IPL side Ra-jasthan royals.

Yuki Bhambri Becomes India’s Number One Singles Player

Agency : New Delhi

Yuki Bhambri today became India’s number singles player after leap-ing to number 158 even as Saketh Myneni broke into top-200 for the first time in his career with a jump of 33 places. Yuki,

who finished runner-up at the Samarkand Chal-lenger, gained 22 places for his effort. He jumped past Somdev Devvar-man, who now stands at 172. However, it is not best ranking for Yuki as he was ranked 143rd

last year in February. The tall and big-serving Saketh is now ranked 196. He had reached the semifinals of Samarkand Challenger, where he lost to Yuki. “The last three weeks have been good. I have another couple of weeks to go and I have always said that as long as I am playing well, re-sults will come,” Yuki, who will now strive to make it to the main draw of French Open through qualifier, said.

Zimbabwe official: Players volunteered to tour Pakistan

Agency : Lahor

“ A Zimbabwe cricket team official has said on arriving in Pakistan in defiance of his gov-ernment that the players volunteered for the 13-day tour. Ozias Bvute, head of the delegation and a former Zimbabwe Cricket chief executive, says, “Our players were offered the opportuni-

ty to voluntarily come to Pakistan. They ac-cepted, and that’s why we have a full-strength team.” The delegation, including 15 players and seven officials, sneaked out of Harare on Sunday, ignoring an order from the govern-ment’s Sports and Rec-reation Commission to cancel the tour on se-

curity grounds. Bvute says Zimbabwe Cricket weighed “the pros and the cons (of the tour) ... and what we wanted to achieve is to come and play against our broth-ers.” The SRC and for-eign affairs ministry in-structed ZC to abandon the tour last week after militants killed 43 peo-ple in a bus in Karachi.

Agency : New Delhi

After several false starts, the Tata Motors manage-ment may finally have got its act together with the Nano’s re-re-re-re-launch. Unveiling today (19 May) is the automat-ic version of the car, the GenX Nano, priced in the range of Rs 1.99. lakh and Rs 3 lakh for multi-ple variants. Unlike the first version of the Nano, which was developed based on a Ratan Tata hunch that people may upgrade from “unsafe” two-wheelers to “safe” cars if only the pricing was right, this time the company is launching 21 variants of GenX after detailed consumer stud-ies and feedback. It had better work this time, for Tata cannot afford anoth-er flop show. The “Rs 1 lakh car” has more than

$1 billion of investments riding on it. If it does not shine this time, the Nano will be more or less his-tory. The Nano’s prima-ry problem has always been its perception. Even before it was launched, it was dubbed the “Rs 1 lakh car” based on a Ratan Tata interview in which he talked about such a pricing. The glib assumption that pricing alone would do the trick turned out to be wrong. The consumer wondered if she was getting a glo-rified autorickshaw or a poor quality four-wheeler for that kind of money. Lower price was seen as implying lower quality – an impression fanned by news reports about the odd early Nano or two catching fire, which the company’s PR handled poorly.

Reliance Industries raises $200 million through Formosa bonds in Taiwan

Agency : New Delhi

Reliance IndustriesBSE 0.56 % today said it has raised $200 million by selling so-called For-mosa bonds in Taiwan, Asia’s hottest bond mar-ket. This is the first such sale by an Indian issuer. The debt, bought pri-marily by Taiwanese life insurance companies, of-fers investors a fixed in-terest rate of 5 per cent, payable half-year, the company said in a state-

ment. “These Notes, de-nominated in US dollars, have been issued primar-ily to Taiwanese life in-surance companies and are proposed to be list-ed on Taipei Exchange (formerly known as Gre-Tai Securities Market). Such notes are common-ly known as Formosa Bonds,” it said. The 20-year Notes are the lon-gest tenor Formosa Bond issuance by a corporate out of Asia.

Facebook Plans to Let Businesses Contact Customers via WhatsApp: Report

Agency : New York

Facebook at this year’s annual developer con-ference F8 announced a business to consumer (B2C) targeted initiative dubbed Facebook Mes-senger for Businesses. The company even went on to expand Messen-ger services by unveiling the Messenger Platform back in March and even allowing third-party de-velopers to create apps. Now, a report claims that Facebook is considering letting businesses con-tact consumers directly via WhatsApp. It might be the first hint that Face-book is gearing up to make money from WhatsApp. Facebook’s Chief Execu-tive Mark Zuckerberg last year had said that it had

no near-term plan to make money from the service. Bloomberg reports that WhatsApp, the most wide-ly used messaging service worldwide, might use some functions currently being tested on Facebook’s Messenger - most nota-bly, business-to-consumer interaction that’s paid for by businesses. The report quotes Facebook’s chief financial officer, David Wehner, who was recently speaking at the JPMorgan technology conference, “We think that enabling B2C [business-to-con-sumer] messaging has good business potential for us. As we learn those things, I think there’s go-ing to be opportunities to bring some of those things to WhatsApp, but that’s more long-term than the near-term.” Details about the WhatsApp’s busi-ness-to-consumer inter-action are limited as of now.

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3.92 lakh passengers enjoy free journey in Surat BRTS

Correspondent, Surat

A 27-day long period of free ride in Bus Rapid Transit System(BRTS) has been over for pas-sengers in Surat on new-ly opened VR Mall-Sar-thana stretch. This new stretch was opened by Chief Minister on 20th April. Passengers were offered ticketless travel till 17 May. In-total 3.92 lakh passengers had free journey during this pe-riod. On the first day of ticket travel, the num-ber of passengers was 60% down. During the ticketless period, daily number of passengers was at around 14,000 on average, but on the

first day of ticket trav-el the count of passen-gers was 5,911. Though the number of passen-gers was lesser, BRTS earned Rs 59,262 reve-nue. Not only this, but connecting routes that were witnessing few-er passengers suddenly

saw increase in number of passengers. BRTS project in Surat has been failure due to lesser than expected number of dai-ly passengers. Local au-thority now hopes that after completion of all routes of BRTS, there will be more passengers.

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Ex-IAS officer and for-mer Executive Chairman of ‘Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmed-abad’ Sanjay Gupta, who was arrested in a Rs 113-crore alleged scam, today moved the sessions court here seeking a ban on media coverage of his case. In his application seeking restraint on coverage in the media about the alleged metro scam, Gupta said his image is being tarnished due to the frequent cover-age in the media about the scam. Gupta also moved another application under section 281 of CrPC to give his statement with regard to the case before the court of Additional Sessions Judge N G Dave. Under CrPC 281, the accused has an option to present him-

self as a witness. Both the pleas are set for hearing on May 21. When produced today before the court after his four-day remand, Gup-ta alleged that he was pres-surised by probing agency CID to give certain kind of statement before them. Earlier today, Gupta and his aide and MEGA proj-ect’s former construction manager Radhesh Bhatt

were sent to judicial cus-tody by the court as the prosecution agency did not seek any further custody. Public Prosecutor Sudhir Bhrambhatt said that the investigating agency has sufficient evidence about the scam and hence they did not seek remand and the court has sent the ac-cused persons in judicial custody.

Narendra Modi’s Gujarati message confuses Chinese Buddhist monks

Agency : Beijing

A message written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his native Guja-rati language during his visit to a Chinese temple sent the monks into a spin following which they took the help of an Indi-an to decipher its mean-ing. In his message to the Daxingshan Temple in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province

during his three-day vis-it to China on Thursday, Modi praised a monk for his contributions to Bud-dhism and spoke of man’s search for world peace. However, his insights were lost on the monks as the message was in the Prime Minister’s na-tive Gujarati, Li Li’an, a professor from Xi’an’s Northwest University who examined it told state-run Global Times. Li was first approached by the temple’s abbot to

decipher the message fol-lowing which the profes-sor sent it to his doctoral student Guan Xiujie, a native of India. Recognis-ing it as Gujarati, Guan sent the text to an Indi-an friend, who translated it into Hindi. Guan then translated it into English, which Li finally present-ed in Chinese. Li said that Modi wrote in Gujarati to honour Dharmagupta, a fellow Gujarati who lived at the temple during the Sui Dynasty (581-618).

One year of Narendra Modi govt: Arun Jaitley likely to visit Gujarat

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

3Union Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley may come to Gujarat on May 26th when the Narendra Modi government in cen-tre is going to complete one year. It is learnt that various union ministers are to be sent to states to narrate the achievements of central government. Jan Kalyan Parva(Public welfare occasion) will be marked during 25-27

May to mark completion of one year of the gov-ernment in centre. Mean-while, Gujarat Congress is likely to host press con-ferences of former union minister CP Joshi, leader Girja Vyas among others in Ahmedabad to dis-cuss “failure” of central government. While CP Joshi’s media address is likely to happen on 20th, Girja Vyas will address the press on 24th.

Gujarat Congress delegation to meet President on May 23

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

A delegation of Gujarat Congress led by Ahmed Patel, political secretary of Sonia Gandhi will meet President of India and submit a memoran-dum requesting Presi-dent to disapprove the GCTOC bill which has been passed by the Gu-jarat Assembly and also

approved by state Gov-ernor. A delegation of Gujarat Congress which will be also joined by state Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki will visit the President on 23 May 2015 according to a statement issued by party MLA Gyasuddin Sheikh on behalf of state party unit.

Going beyond ancient boundary in Vadnagar

Only 5,226 LPG customers in Modi’s home state ‘give it up’

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

At a time when the NDA government is cajol-ing the country’s afflu-ent class to give up their LPG subsidies through the newly launched “give it up” slogan, Gujarat — the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — is languishing at the bottom, among states, in implementing this scheme. “Currently we have a very low number of people who have giv-en up their LPG subsi-dies. Gujarat is currently among the bottom rung of states, as far as imple-mentation of this scheme is concerned,” said S K Jain, general manager, Gujarat State Office of the Indian Oil Corpora-

tion Limited (IOC) which is the largest supplier of LPG cylinders in the state. Till now only 5,226 IOC customers in Gujarat have given up their subsi-dies, ever since the scheme was launched along with the DBTL scheme (Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG) about an year ago. The company has 34.66 lakh of the total 63 lakh LPG cus-tomers in Gujarat. With all the LPG companies put to-

gether (BPCL and HPCL) there would be about 8,000 customers across Gujarat who would have surren-dered their subsidies. This is very low considering the fact that over four lakh customers across the coun-try have given up their sub-sidies. Gujarat has a large number of affluent families and we are targeting to take the state among the top five states this fiscal,” he said on Monday.

Correspondent, Vadnagar

As per ancient accounts, Sharmishtha Lake was in center of the town of Vadnagar. However, as the current town, forti-fied lastly in 12th century by Solanki ruler Kumar-pal, is today at the south of the lake. “It was our first clue to start work on other side of the lake,” said Dr Madhulika Sa-manta, superintending ar-chaeologist (excavation), working at the site since

January this year. “We decided to start with the area around Kirti Toran as it must be a very im-portant location for the kings to erect the com-memorative structure there,” she added. Armed with other indications, the work started on the north banks with find of the lat-est coins but it soon got interesting. “We found several long, unusually shaped kilns used for met-allurgical purposes com-pleted with working plat-forms, soak pits and water inlets and outlets. There are also a number of holes that we find where the ar-

tisans might have fire. In-terestingly, we have found evidences of burning at a very high temperature that has charred conch shells,” she said. Another find is a boundary wall that has seen development over the centuries with differ-ent layers of bricks added upon later on. The wall is not continuous in the excavation so far. Both these major finds are dat-ed back to early 9th cen-tury. Archaeologists have also found ash depos-its that cover the entire mound of Baba no Tekro without much trace of burning.

Task force to study growing habitat of lion

Correspondent, Junagadh

Days after lion census 2015 concluded that pop-ulation of Asiatic lions in Gir forest and other pro-tected areas has gone up by 27 per cent as com-pared to 2010, state For-est Department on Mon-day formed a task force to study the phenomenon and form a strategy for conservation of increased population and lion land-scape. The office of the principal chief conserva-tor of forests and head of forest force issued an or-der announcing constitu-

tion of the task force un-der the chairmanship of S C Pant, principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF) and chief wild-life warden of Gujarat. It will have additional prin-cipal chief conservator of forests (land), director of GEER Foundation, chief conservator of for-ests (vigilance), and chief conservator of forests (CCF), wildlife circle of Junagadh as its members. Additionally, CCF IT, and deputy conservator of forests (DCF) of wild-life division, Sasan and

DCF of Gir East division will also be members of the task force. “This task force is a committee which will tell us if any administrative changes, like allocation of man-power needs to be re-aligned, what type of training such manpower would require etc. post the census results. The committee will look into all these administrative issues and government will take appropriate de-cisions based on census,” CN Pandey, head of for-est force.

VMC housing officer held in bribe case

Correspondent, Vadodara

A Class-II revenue of-ficer of the Affordable Housing and Mukhya-mantri Gruh Awas Yojana (MGY) department under the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) was arrested by the anti-cor-ruption bureau officials for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 in order to prevent the seal of a flat that had been “sold” in contravention of the provisions for affordable housing. According to the ACB officials, com-plainant Abdul Hamid Yu-suf Shaikh had purchased a flat under the JnNURM scheme of Rampura from Himmat Parmar for a con-sideration of Rs 3 lakh in 2013. Shaikh said that the flat originally belonged to one Hiraben Parmar, who holds the original allot-ment of the said house. However, her tenant Him-

mat Parmar had illegally sold off the flat to Shaikh, leading Hiraben to file a complaint with the Jn-NURM housing depart-ment to have her flat va-cated of Shaikh’s illegal possession. Accordingly, revenue officer Kanchan Parmar had served a no-tice upon Shaikh a few days ago. Shaikh ap-proached the ACB stating that when he met Parmar to explain that he had purchased the flat from Himmat Parmar, the of-ficer allegedly demand-ed a bribe of Rs 20,000 to withdraw the notice served upon Shaikh.However, after negotia-tions, Kanchan settled for Rs 10,000, out of which, Shaikh would pay Rs 5,000 on Monday. Ac-cording to ACB police inspector Kalpesh Solan-ki, Shaikh approached the department with a complaint against Par-mar and a trap was laid. “We received a complaint from Shaikh about VMC Affordable Housing reve-nue officer Kanchan Par-mar demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000.

Textile reinforced concrete gets industry boostSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Five months after Ahmed-abad Textile Industry’s Research Association (Atira), along with Instut fur Textiltechnik-RWTH Aachen (ITA), Germa-ny set up Innovative and Green Building laboratory - IGB lab for testing and display of Textile Rein-forced Concrete (TRC), top companies like L&T and Godrej have ap-proached Atira for collab-

orations for their upcom-ing projects. While L&T wants to build jaali struc-tures and houses for its of-ficials using TRC, Godrej Group is in talks for var-ious projects. extile rein-forced concrete is a type of reinforced concrete in which the usual steel rein-forcing bars are replaced by textile materials. In-stead of using a metal cage inside the concrete, this technique uses a fab-

ric cage inside the same. Atira is also going to or-der Rs 3.5 crore bi-axial-ly warp knitting machine from Germany to enhance the capability of IGB lab. Also the Union ministry of textiles has sanctioned Rs 3.9 crore for TRC testing and awareness. Initially, Atira had also worked with Ultratech Cement for the testing of TRC made products in Indian conditions.