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found defective in J-K; sealedAgency | Jammu

A weighbridge in the outskirts of Jammu city has been sealed by au-thorities after it was found to be “defective”, officials said. Acting on complaints from coal transporters plying in the state, the Legal Metrol-ogy Department (LMD) yesterday checked the weighbridge at Purk-ho and found it to be “faulty” , a senior official of the LMD said. Ac-cording to truck drivers, there was a discrepancy in the weight shown at the weighbridge, with measurements showing less weight to the tune of “250 kgs” against the total of 9 tonnes, the of-ficial said.Family members

booked over dowry

Free from cancer now, says comedian

Innocent

Agency | Faridabad

Cases have been regis-tered against two sepa-rate families for alleged-ly torturing two women for dowry here. In the first incident, a case was registered against Praveen, his father Ra-jendra, mother Jhilmil, brother Akshay and sis-ter-in-law in Dayalpur village here yesterday for torturing his wife over dowry, police said. The case was filed fol-lowing the complaint by the victim Anshu, they said.

Agency | Angamaly

Popular Malayalam film actor-turned politician Innocent today said he is now free of cancer. “I am happy to see you all. I had got sacred when I was diagnosed with can-cer for the second time.I was doubtful about a comeback again. But that was a wrong think-ing,” the Lok Sabha MP, who is a comedian, said here. Innocent, an independent Left party MP representing Cha-lakkudy constituency in the Lower House, said no elements of cancer was detected in his body in the detailed scanning conducted two days ago.

‘We Are Not Afraid, Will Continue Fight,’ Says Sonia“National Herald case”

Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen granted bail to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on a bail bond of Rs 50,000.

Sonia, Rahul get bail ; next hearing on Feb 20

Agency | New Delhi

All CBSE books and learning material will be made available online for free as part of the Cen-tre’s good governance efforts, HRD minister Smriti Irani said in New Delhi on Saturday. At a function organised at a Kendriya Vidyalaya in east Delhi, she also said that initiatives would be undertaken to ensure holistic nurturing and improve learning out-comes at these schools. “We made NCERT books available online for free through e-books and mobile applications a month-and-a-half ago. We dare similarly going

to make CBSE books available online along with additional learning material and videos as part of our good gov-ernance efforts,” Irani said at the inauguration of a new building of the school in Khichripur. Re-sponding to the call by Delhi deputy chief min-ister Manish Sisodia at the function that endeav-ours be made to ensure that children not only excel professionally but also become good hu-man beings, Irani asked her ministry’s officials to organise ‘Baal Sabha’ (Child conventions). These conventions will feature interactions be-tween children and pro-

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday in-dicated that the govern-ment may not be able to pass the Goods and Ser-vices Tax (GST) Bill in the ongoing session of Parliament, but will in-troduce the bankruptcy Bill. Accusing the Con-gress for delaying GST for “collateral reasons”, he said: “Some people do get sadistic pleasure in seeing India slow down. But then, it’s a sadistic pleasure at a very severe national cost. We cannot allow that.” The minister further said the govern-ment will push through changes in the arbitration Act and commercial court

Agency | New Delhi

After a 10-minute hear-ing, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul were today grant-ed unconditional bail in the high-voltage Nation-al Herald case by a lo-cal court which said that offences alleged against them were not of “seri-ous magnitude” at this stage and there was no apprehension that they would flee. Facing a pri-vate criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the transfer of shares of the defunct party news-

paper Herald to a new-ly-created company, the two Gandhis, accom-panied by a phalanx of leaders, including former Prime Minister Manmo-han Singh and Priyanka Gandhi, appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen at 2.50 PM. The party’s legal eagles Kapil Sibal, Ashwini Kumar, both former Union Law Ministers, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, as also top Congress leaders such as Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mal-likarjun Kharge, A K Ant-ony, Shiela Dikshit, Am-bika Soni, Ahmed Patel

Agency | New Delhi

Veteran players Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra were handed fresh life-lines with a recall to In-dia’s Twenty20 squad, while Punjab left-arm seamer Brainder Sran and Baroda all-rounder Har-dik Pandya were the new faces in the squads for India’s tour of Australia in January. Lanky pacer Ishant Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami were brought back into the ODI team, which had no place for Suresh Raina, who was overlooked to test new players, and Stuart Bin-ny, who was left out of the T20 and ODI squads. Shami, who has now re-

Agency | New Delhi

A day before his release, the December 16, 2012 juvenile rapist in Delhi gang-rape case has been shifted out of correctional home and taken to an un-disclosed location on Sat-urday evening. The rap-ist, now 21, is likely to be monitored by the Juvenile Justice Board, which will decide on his rehabilita-tion, “social mainstream-ing”, and even whether he should be returned to his family. Legal options to stop his release are open till Sunday and both the Delhi government and the state Women’s Commission are consid-ering them. Meanwhile, the victim’s parents came

CBSE books to be made available online for free

GST unlikely this session, bankruptcy Bill to be introduced

Nirbhaya gang-rape case: Juvenile rapist shifted to undisclosed location, parents launch protest

fessionals from fields in-cluding defence to help the former grow into “good human beings”. Irani also reiterated that the Centre will launch ‘Shaala Darpan’ and ‘Sa-ransh’ services (for Class I to Class XII students) in Kendriya Vidyalayas in the next academic year. The ‘Shaala Dar-pan’ service is aimed at using SMSes to keep

parents informed about their wards’ attendance, time table and marks in exams while ‘Saransh’ will help parents com-pare the subject-wise learning outcomes of their children, with oth-ers at the district, state and national levels. Ear-lier, addressing the func-tion, Sisodia stressed on the role of education in the lives of children.

out in protest against the release of the juve-nile convict. The Delhi Commission for Wom-en (DCW) had said that it will challenge the re-lease by writing to Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee, and the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court. BJP leader Subramani-an Swamy had moved a plea seeking a stay on the

juvenile’s release. Apart from Swamy, the Centre had also asked the High Court to extend the ob-servation of home stay of the juvenile convict in December 16, 2012 gang-rape case, saying several mandatory as-pects were missing from the post-release rehabili-tation plan which needed to be considered before setting him free.

Bill in the Rajya Sabha in the remaining “crucial” three days of the winter session, which ends on Wednesday. Addressing the Ficci AGM, Jaitley said, “I have no doubt in my mind that attempt to delay (GST) is entire-ly for collateral reasons. And the only collateral reason I suspect is if I couldn’t do it, then why should somebody else do it?” He maintained that

“a delayed GST is better than a flawed GST”. The minister added that he would “still urge and per-suade” the Opposition to give up their rigidity on Constitution-prescribed tariffs. “The Constitu-tion-prescribed tariffs ac-tually can be an albatross around the neck of the future generation. And we owe it to them not to create situations of this kind,” he said.

Yuvraj, Nehra return to India’s T20 squad

covered from his injury, has been named in both the ODI and T20 squads, announced by BCCI Sec-retary Anurag Thakur after a meeting of the se-lection committee in New Delhi on Saturday. Rishi Dhawan and Manish Pan-dey were also included in the One-day squad. Bhu-

vneshwar Kumar, Am-bati Rayudu, Amit Mish-ra and Harbhajan Singh were also omitted from the ODI squad. Off-spin-ner Harbhajan, however, kept his place in the T20 squad. Pacer Mohit Shar-ma was unavailable for selection due to fitness issues, Thakur added.

The 23-year-old Sran and 22-year-old Pandya were rewarded with a berth in the ODI and T20 squads respectively for their con-sistent performance in do-mestic circuit. The squad, to be captained by Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni, has ex-pectedly been packed with seamers, keeping in mind the conditions in Aus-tralia, where India will play five ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals from January 12 to 31. The selectors preferred to give another opportunity to Yuvraj and Nehra, both of whom have represented India with distinction in the past.

and Meira Kumar were at hand. As soon as the hear-ing commenced, Swamy opposed the bail pleas moved by the Gandhis and other accused say-ing they are influential persons and might flee the country if enlarged. However, the court said

“The accused are reput-ed persons having deep political roots and there is no apprehension that they will flee.” Swamy then said that a condition should be imposed that the accused should not be allowed to travel abroad without the permission of the court and they should submit their passports to

the court. “Congress is an old party,” the judge shot back and then dictated the order. “At this stage, without evidence the charges cannot be said to be serious in magnitude. They also have deep roots in the society so bail can be granted to the accused,” the judge said. Sonia, Ra-hul and three other ac-

cused -- Motilal Vora, Os-car Fernandes and Suman Dubey--sought bail which was granted after they fur-nished a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety each. One of the accused Sam Pitroda was not pres-ent as he was stated to be unwell. His plea seeking exemption from personal appearance was allowed.

During the hearing, Sibal, Singhvi and other law-yers, who appeared for the accused, argued there was no apprehension that any of their clients would flee from the country as they have appeared be-fore the court on the first date itself. Swamy later claimed that he had not opposed the bail but had told the court that condi-tions should be imposed on the Gandhis’ travel abroad since they “were in the habit of running away from the country”. The magistrate fixed Feb-ruary 20 as the next date of hearing during which they were asked to appear in person.

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DAYTwo new reality shows reveal all is fair in love and TRPs

Love seems to be in the air—at least for our Hindi gen-eral entertainment channels. Two new reality shows focusing on the power of love have been unleashed on unsuspecting audiences in the past week. The rea-son why both caught my eye was because both are anchored by celebrity couples and run through pretty similar formats. The first, Power Couple premiered on Sony over the weekend. To show that all is fair in love and TRPs, it is hosted by Salman Khan’s broth-er Arbaaz Khan and his wife Malaika Arora Khan, and is telecast at 8.30pm. This clashes with the Sal-man Khan-anchored weekend episodes of Bigg Boss Double Trouble on Colors. All that’s left is for little brother Sohail Khan to start anchoring a show, but I don’t think any channel wants to take such a big risk. So what’s Power Couple all about? According to the programme descriptor on the website (yes, they have a dedicated website for the show), Power Cou-ple is, “When true love is put to the test, the most caring, trusting and daring couple rise to power.” Like a phoenix from the ashes. I waded through two en-tire episodes of the show and here’s what I saw. Ten celebrity couples, ranging from former cricketers to models to dancers to TV actors and star brothers, who have shown that their only prowess is in making MMS videos of their inebriated girlfriends, have been lined up in one pretty row. Some of the couples are both ce-lebrities, others are celebrities and their spouses have tagged along. The couples include MMS king Ashmit Patel and model Mehek Chahal; TV actors Apurva and Shilpa Agnihotri; dancer Sandeep Soparkar and his wife model Jesse Randhawa; model Shawar Ali and his wife model Marsela; model Rahul Dev and actor Mugdha Godse; cricketer Salil Ankola and his wife Ria Banerjee; TV actor Pratyusha Banerjee and her fiancé, actor Rahul Singh; TV actors Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali; TV actor Delnaaz Irani and DJ Percy Karkaria; and TV actor Naved Jaffrey and his wife Sayeeda. Some of the couples are married, but most are dating. The couples are taken to a villa in Goa and are met by Malaika and Arbaaz, who will supposedly give them “power advice on the basis of their long relationship”. The skill sets people have nowadays, really. The first two episodes show the couples participate in a bunch of tasks—trivia quiz-zes about each other and physical tasks—and finally one couple is voted out. That couple being Sandeep Soparkar and Jesse Randhawa. The show is the In-dian version of one of Israel’s most popular reality shows and is like Fear Factor on a Valentine overkill. Is it bad? Well, it’s not great.

“I have no doubt in my mind that attempt to delay (GST) is entirely for collateral reasons. And the only collateral reason I suspect is if I couldn’t do it, then why should somebody else do it?” - Addressing the annual general meeting

of industry chamber Ficci, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said....

Tamil Thanga Magan Movie Review Rating 1st day Box Office Collection

Sushant Singh Rajput wishes girlfriend Ankita Lokhande Happy Birthday with a KISS!

When Deepika Padukone thought Ranveer Singh was ‘too much’

Star Wars: The Force Awakens destroys Harry Potter’s BO record

Cute Selfie: Shahid resting on wife Mira’s shoulder

We work hard and deserve the money we make: Kajal Aggarwal

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Aftab Shivdasani says when the script of his upcoming adult-com-edy “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3” was offered to him he discussed it with his wife. Aftab, who has earlier worked in raunchy com-edies like “Masti” and “Grand Masti”, plays an adult movie star in “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3” along with actor Tusshar Ka-poor. “I didn’t discuss the script with family and friends because they trust me But I did discuss it with my wife and she was very supportive and very encouraging. She was very positive about it,” Aftab told reporters. His co-star Tusshar add-ed, “This is not a new

genre for us. We are play-ers in this genre, we have done two-three films in this zone so its like our everyday work.” They were speaking at the song launch “Hai Jawani” from the movie which features Gauhar Khan in a special appearance. Directed by Umesh Ghadge, “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3” is the third instalment in the popular franchise. The previous two parts starred actor Riteish Deshmukh. Tusshar, who has been part of “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum” and its sequel “Kyaa Super Kool Hai Hum”, feels even though people like adult come-dies it is no indicator that they will be successful too.

Agency | Los Angeles

The Force Awakens is turning out to be an even bigger monster at the box office than imagined. It hurtled toward a $120 million opening Friday at the US and Canadian box office and a poten-tial record-breaking $215 million through Sunday, giving the long-awaited movie a shot at the big-gest opening weekend of all time. The ticket sales figures from Walt Disney Co late Friday indicated that the film could eclipse the $208.8 million record set by dinosaur adventure film Jurassic World in

Agency | Mumbai

Ranveer Singh, whose latest film, ‘Bajirao Mas-tani’, has got an amazing response at the box-of-fice, completed five years in the Hindi film industry on December 10, 2015. When Ranveer and his co-star, Deepika Padu-kone, were in Delhi for the promotions of the film, we asked Deepika as to what was the first impression that she had of Ranveer. She said, “I have seen all of his mov-ies. Some I have liked, some I have not. But I was blown away. I am gonna be honest and say that when I saw the pro-mos of the film (‘Band

Agency | Mumbai

A recently released ce-lebrity list ranks Kajal Aggarwal higher than the likes of Abhishek Bachchan, Rajinikanth and even SS Rajamou-li. The ranking is based on estimates of earnings and popularity. Ask the actress what she craves more money or fame? She quips, “Honestly, success is a combination of the both money and fame. As actors we work our a$%es off. I mean there is a lot of physical labour involved and the result of all of that efforts is the stardom.” Kajal’s earnings in 2015 — esti-mated to be in excess of Rs 10 crore — has be-come the talk of T-town. In the backdrop of the ongoing debate about pay disparity between gen-ders in showbiz, quiz her

Agency | Mumbai

Married couple Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput are totally devoted to each other. Their mar-ried life is going strong and the couple very of-ten spotted together at events. Apart from that, time and again Shahid and Mira post adorable picture on their Insta-gram account. Shahid and Mira will welcome New Year first time to-gether and they have al-ready started planning. The selfie was clicked on a flight and it seems the couple headed for an undisclosed location to ring in Christmas and

Agency | Chennai

Amy Jackson and Dha-nush chemistry in this movie is good. The actor is also helping for the re-lief works with his fans association and doing his best during the hour of crisis. From a young boy who takes a fancy to Hema (Amy Jackson), he traverses the course of his life that takes some re-sponsible shape when he starts working with his father (K.S. Ravikumar), and marries Yamuna (Sa-mantha Ruth Prabhu) ac-cording to his mother’s (Radhika Sarathkumar) wishes. Thanga Magan depends on its hero and he comes up with a glitter-ing performance. Thanga Magan is a comedy drama film written and directed by Velraj, which is pro-duced by Dhanush and G. N. Anbu Chezhiyan un-der the banners Wunder-bar Films and Gopuram

Agency | Mumbai

It’s Ankita Lokhande’s birthday today and her boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput just posted an adorable picture of him-self with the Pavitra Rishta actress. Sushant posted a photo of them from a party of him kiss-ing Ankita with great love while she savours it. Despite her eyes being closed, we could totally see the blush on her face. So much love. Sushant posted a small message with the photo too, which said, “Happy Birthday jaaneman.. @anky1912. Love you.!!” Well, love and celebration is in the air for the couple who has been dating since 5 years. They are engaged

discussed ‘Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3’ script with my wife: Aftab Shivdasani

Films. Though there was a halt in the movie promo-tion at Chennai, the film makers of Nava Manmad-hudu are very confident that Dhanush, samantha appeal and personal would make the audience come to the screens to watch the movie and in Telugu it would be Samantha who

have good star name in the Telugu market. After an exciting line of mov-ies this year consisting of Anegan, Maari, Sham-itabh, Dhanush finishes 2015, which by the way has already turned out to be a very productive year for him, on a high note with Thanga Magan.

since their stint in Jhal-ak Dikhhla Jaa 4, where he had proposed to her. However, the duo haven’t married till now. Sushant had confirmed in one of

his interviews that mar-riage will happen in next couple of months or next year and after seeing this picture, we can’t wait to seem them both hitched.

New Year together. Mira Rajput as usual looking absolutely stunning in a grey outfit while hubby Shahid sports a military haircut, which might be for his upcoming flick ‘Rangoon’. The photo shows Shahid Kapoor resting on wife’s shoul-

der while Mira was full of smile. Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput tied the knot on July 7, 2015 and since then always re-mained in the limelight for their PDA, public ap-pearances together and for posting adorable sel-fies.

if she feels underpayed, she says, “Yes, there was disparity earlier on. But right now, honestly, I think it depends on how much work you do. It’s very logical and calculat-ed in terms of how many days you are working on a project and the amount

of work you put into it. I can’t say I have any-thing to complain about.” While she just had one Telugu release, NTR’s Temper, in 2015, she has two marquee projects to look forward to next year — Sardaar Gabbar Singh and Brahmostsavam.

Baaja Baaraat’) first, I remember someone say-ing, ‘Oh my God! He is the next superstar’ and I remember thinking to myself, ‘He is too much’. And then I watched the film and realized that he has such amazing screen presence.” The diva fur-

ther said that she had mistaken Ranveer to be a Delhi guy going by his amazing portrayal of a Delhi guy in ‘Band Baa-ja Baaraat’. She said, “Someone like me sitting in the theatre actually be-lieved that he was from Delhi.

June. Disney said movie theatres were continuing to add screenings to meet “unprecedented demand.” Fans flocked to theatres Thursday evening, many dressed as evil Stormtroop-ers or lightsaber-wielding Jedi as the movie took in $57 million at domestic theaters. That surpassed the previous opening-day

record of $43.5 million for the final Harry Potter movie in 2011. Interest extended to international markets, where the movie brought in $72.7 million in 44 countries. At the White House, a beeping R2-D2 and two Stormtroopers surprised reporters with a quick appearance in the briefing room.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPSundar Pichai: Google is barely getting started in India

Consumers saved Rs 60k cr on their fuel bill

Facebook expands ‘Instant Articles’ to Android

Agency | New Delhi

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, who is on his India tour will address and interact with the students from across the country today (Thursday) at Delhi Uni-versity’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). Since India is projected to have more Android us-ers than the US by 2016, Pichai spent his first day emphasizing on India’s importance for Google. “We will build a new campus, ramp up engineering pres-ence in Hyderabad to make products for India; and increase hiring in Bengaluru”, he said. On being asked about his interest in technology, he said, “I was always interested in technology”. During the two-day visit, he will meet Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “In our attempt to provide internet access to people, we have decided to provide Wi-Fi in 400 railway sta-tions with RailTel”. “It’s incredible to see from the scale of India overtime, you do need enteprenuers to tackle and build things for India and globally and

I think it’s a unique opportunity that India has”.

Agency | Bangalore

Six excise duty increases on petrol and diesel since November 2014 may have added Rs 25,700 crore to the government kitty, but consumers are no less rich. Largely automobile owners, consumers togeth-er gained a little over Rs 60,000 crore from lower petrol and diesel prices in the first seven months of the current financial year. On an annualised basis, the total hike in excise duty can add Rs 92,915 crore to the government kitty based on 19.1 million tonnes of petrol and 69.4 million tonnes of diesel Indians burnt last financial year. The total increase in excise duty has been Rs 9.65 a litre for petrol and Rs 7.97 a litre for diesel. This could have directly translated into reductions in retail prices but the government decided to use the fall in global prices to allow state-owned oil refiners to partially pass on the benefit

through periodic price cuts.

Agency | New Delhi

Facebook has said it had signed up 350 global me-dia partners, including from India, for its “Instant Articles” service as it expanded the programme to Android devices. The service launched this year for Apple devices allows users to quickly view news articles which are hosted on the fast network of the world’s biggest social network. “We’ve been beta testing Instant Articles for Android with a small group of people on Facebook for several weeks, and as we saw on iPhone, the faster, richer reading ex-perience inspires people on Android to share Instant Articles with their friends more often than they do with standard web articles,” said Facebook product manager Michael Reckhow. “More than 350 pub-lications around the world have already joined the Instant Articles program to date, and more than 100 are already publishing daily -- with more joining each day.”

Agency | Hamilton

Sri Lanka scripted a bril-liant comeback in their second Test match against New Zealand thanks to a destructive spell of bowl-ing by young quick Dush-mantha Chameera on day two in Hamilton on Sat-urday. Chameera took his first five-wicket haul as New Zealand slumped from 81 without loss in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings score of 292 to be 232-9 at stumps. Doug Bracewell was not out 30 after a ninth-wick-et stand of 31 with Neil Wagner (17) who was

dismissed on the last ball of the day. The 23-year-old Chameera, bowling at up to 146 kilometres per hour (90.6 mph), was used sparingly by captain Angelo Mathews, taking three for 17 in his first spell and two for 30 in his second. In partnership with the wily 37-year-old Rangana Herath, playing his 67th Test, they took New Zealand apart when it seemed openers Tom Latham and Martin Gup-till were settling in. New Zealand lost four wickets for eight runs in four overs as Chameera claimed the

scalps of Latham, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor while Herath re-moved Guptill. Brendon McCullum tried to steer his side out of trouble and put on 39 for the fifth wicket with Mitchell Santner before he became Herath’s second wicket. Chameera, who in his second spell removed Tim Southee and Wagner, was delighted with his performance. “This is my fourth Test and I get five wickets so I am very hap-py,” he said, adding the wicket he treasured most was Williamson.

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I am sure I will spend some time on SABR: Roger Federer

Ravindra Jadeja set to return as selectors pick squad for Australia

Agency | Singapore

World number three Rog-er Federer said he will keep honing his chip-and-charge “SABR” tactic as he prepares for the 2016 season with a new coach-ing team. Short for “Sneak Attack by Roger”, it in-volves rushing towards the net at the moment of a second serve and chipping back the ball, shortening his opponent’s response time. The Swiss 17-time Grand Slam winner, who was in Singapore for the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), successfully employed it against Novak Djokovic at the Cincinnati final in

August. “I would love to keep trying it, now I have time to practise, so I am sure I will spend some time on that as well and see if… it’s something I should keep up,” said the 34-year-old. “I am hap-py that it kind of worked, it was fun and it was all over the news, I thought it was quite exciting for me personally,” he said, giving credit to head coach Severin Luthi for the tactic. Federer enters the 2016 season with a new coaching team after replacing his idol Stefan Edberg with a new assis-tant coach, Croatian Ivan Ljubijic. “I’ll stay in touch

Agency | New Delhi

Back in the limelight with a solid show against South Africa in the re-cently-concluded Test series, Ravindra Jadeja is likely to make a return as the national selectors meet here on Saturday to pick the Indian squad for the upcoming limit-ed-overs series in Austra-lia. While Jadeja almost looks a certainty, the se-lectors are likely to dis-cuss about the inclusion of fit-again pacer Mo-hammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Murali Vijay, who has started batting in the middle-order for Tamil Nadu in the ongo-ing Vijay Hazare Trophy. It will be interesting to see if the selectors con-

Agency | New Delhi

Former India all-round-er Manoj Prabhakar was on Thursday appointed bowling coach of the Af-ghanistan national team. Prabhakar says the role is “a challenge” , one he is looking forward to. “It’s a challenge I am looking forward to. I hope I can use my expertise to help guide the Afghanistan team. This is a team brim-ming with talent, and I am sure they will be a force to be reckoned with in the T20 World Cup,” he said. The 52-year-old, who has been training the U-19 Af-ghanistan team at the Sha-heed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Great-er Noida since Sunday, said his contract would

Agency | Kolkata

It’s been a mixed year for the Men in Blue. After the high of reaching the World Cup semi-final, in the first half of 2015, it has been all downhill for India’s limited-overs team under skipper MS Dhoni. The two traumat-ic blows in the period of slump being the away loss to Bangladesh and the humiliation at the hands of South Africa at home. These string of failures have put Dhoni’s cap-taincy under the scanner, especially at a time when the Test team is doing so well under Virat Kohli. So is Dhoni still the right man to be in-charge of the limited-overs squads? This is a tricky question that the national selectors face, as they meet in Del-hi on Saturday to pick the

Agency | Sydney

Australian spinner Na-than Lyon has insist-ed that his side will not display any mercy to the wounded West Indies side in the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne. The once-formidable West Indies side crashed to an innings and 212-run defeat in the opening Test of the three-match series in Hobart, trigger-ing a widespread criti-cism from former greats on the current plight of the islanders’ stand in the international cricket. Prior to the tour, the Ja-son Holder-led side had suffered a humiliating

10-wicket loss to Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane. However, Lyon insist-ed that the tourists can-not be taken lightly as they are a talented side, adding that he was ex-pecting the West Indies to give the Australians a real good crack during

the Boxing Day Test, the Sydney Morning Herald. The 28-year-old further said that Australia won’t taking a backward step, adding that it would be a good challenge for them and that the hosts would-n?t be taking any mercy on the underdogs.

sider Yuvraj Singh, who has been in top form for Punjab in the Vijay Haz-are Trophy. To press his case further, the south-paw also smashed an 83-ball 98 against Services

in Secundarabad on Fri-day. The selectors are unlikely to tinker with the core of the team, with at least 12 player picking themselves in both the formats.

Indian team for the up-coming tour of Australia. India will play five ODIs and three T20 interna-tionals, starting January 12, next year. According to a source, the selec-tors are unlikely to make major changes with the World T20 round the cor-ner. “Dhoni might face some scrutiny, yes. But I don’t think there will be a change of guard. That will be a knee-jerk reaction,” he said. So the status quo is set to be maintained un-less the BCCI and its se-nior selection committee decide to spring a coup on

the floor. They will also decide the squad strength on the floor. In all likeli-hood, it’s going to be 16, which usually has been the case for trips abroad. On the eve of the meeting, the big talking point was about Yuvraj Singh, who after a few creditable out-ing has emerged as a con-tender for a middle-order berth. The 34-year-old hasn’t played for India since April 2014, but as-suming that at least 8 batters, including Dhoni, would be picked, a couple of vacancies appear to be up for grabs.

with Stefan Edberg, he’s been a wonderful guy, an incredible inspiration and motivation for me,” said Federer. “Unfortunately we won’t be working to-gether as much anymore but he said he would like to come around for some tournaments and we’ll still be in touch,” he added.

expire after the T20 World Cup. Prabhakar also heaped praise on the Af-ghan colts. “These young-sters are not only talented but also keen learners,” he adds. The Afghanistan U-19 squad are in Great-er Noida to play a four-match ODI series with Zimbabwe. With tem-peratures in Kabul hov-

ering in single digits, and security concerns driving teams away, the Afghani-stan Cricket Board (ACB) signed an MoU with the BCCI to host matches in Greater Noida. However, the ICC refused to grant permission to the ground, and as things stand, the team is all set to shift base to Dubai.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli on Satur-day hit out at debate on secularism in the coun-try alleging there were organised attempts at fo-menting hatred among youth towards religion and blamed the current education system for it. “Religion is a very com-plex issue. Nowadays, lots of organised attempts are being made to breed hatred among the youth towards religion so that younger generations come to hate it. They are taught that religion means panth (sect) but it does not mean so. They are told religion means traditions but it is not so. They are told religion means karma-kand (ritu-als), but it is not so. Thus, hatred is being bred in minds of younger gen-eration towards religion by misguiding them. If I tell someone that I follow

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat Labour and Employment Minister Vijay Rupani has exhort-ed the industries of the state to visit a first-of-its-kind safety park set up at the Gujarat Refinery near here to improve their em-ployees’ awareness about the safety and security is-sues. Rupani was talking to yesterday on the side-lines of the third edition of the Industrial Safety Summit, organised by the Confederation of In-dian Industry (CII) here. In an effort to improve safety awareness of em-ployees and contract workers through mod-el-based training, the Gujarat Refinery, owned by the Indian Oil Corpo-ration, has built a safety park in its complex. It is

the first safety park set up in the country. Safety measures and procedures that should be followed while working at high altitudes, in confined spaces, etc, are on dis-play in the safety park, S K Dhar Gupta, Executive Director of the Gujarat Refinery, informed the minister, who attended the event’s concluding session. “This safety park initiative will go a long way in ensuring that employees as well as contract workers and vis-itors are equipped with safety-related informa-tion to ensure safety on and off the job,” Rupani said. He said, “The visits of the industries to this safety park will help the Gujarat government in making 2016 a ‘zero in-dustrial accidents’ year.”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

HIGHLY, the company in India in the HVAC Com-pressor segment with mar-ket share of over 35%, shall invest and enhance the annual capacity of its Changodar plant, near Ahmedabad to 2 million units to meet its growing export commitments as well as domestic require-ment. The company in a statement issued here said: The plant, situated near Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, commenced pro-duction on 26th Novem-ber, 2013 and the sales has grown to 400,000 units in 2015. The prospect of In-dia HVAC industry look favorable with the growth of Indian economy and go-ing by the forecast, by the end of Q3-2016, HIGH-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Congress alleged that the state govern-ment spent Rs 31 lakh on raising a lavish tent for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Dhordo in Rann of Kutch, where he will stay during the ongoing meeting of country’s top police brass. The annual three-day conference of directors general of po-lice and inspectors gener-al of police organised by the Intelligence Bureau was on Friday launched in the presence of Modi and Union minister Ra-jnath Singh. “Prime Minister describes him-self a Pradhan Sevak but improper expenses have been made to build a tent for him. The mon-ey spent is huge,” state Congress chief Bharat-sinh Solanki alleged here on Friday. “We are not

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A huge influx of milk from villages of Gujarat this winter has prompt-ed Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federa-tion (GCMMF) that mar-kets its dairy products under the brand Amul, to send about 15 lakh litres of milk every day to pri-vate dairies in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan for being processed and being con-verted into value-added products. “Amul is pro-curing about 17-18 per-cent more milk compared to last year. We are get-ting a lot of milk. We do not have the capacity and so we are sending about 15 lakh litres of milk ev-ery day outside Gujarat to private dairies in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan for converting it into value-added prod-ucts like milk powder,”

Correspondent | Kutch

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday after-noon handed over certif-icate of reinstatement of Indian nationalist Shy-amji Krishna Varma in the British Bar to chief minister Anandiben Patel at a function held at Bhuj Air Force Station. Patel is also president of Shri Shyamji Kishanverma Memorial `Kranti Tirth’ in Varma’s home town of Mandvi. The certificate will be kept at the memo-rial. After the function, Modi went to Dhordo to kick-start the three-day All India DGP and IGP meet at the tent city about 90km from district head-quarters Bhuj. Modi said many have laid down their lives for freedom of the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Union mome minister Ra-jnath Singh on Friday em-phasised on the need to make police stations more people-friendly, while expressing concern over non-registration of criminal cases. Singh was speaking at the 50th annual confer-ence of directors general/inspectors general of po-lice of states and Union territories in Dhordo, Rann of Kutch. “Atmosphere in the police stations must be people-friendly. Emphasis should be on good inves-tigation of the registered cases and effective action against the criminals,” the home minister said, add-

ing that police stations should be open for poor and other weaker sections and that they should not be scared of going to it. The government is committed to carrying out reforms in policing and building SMART police across the country, he added. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced the con-cept of SMART Police (S-Sensitive and Strict; M-Modern with mobility; A- Alert and Accountable; R- Reliable and Respon-sive; T- Trained and Tech-no-savvy) during the last directors general/inspec-tors general annual confer-ence in Guwahati held on November 30, 2014.

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Milk influx from rural-Gujarat forces Amul to lean on private dairies in MP, Rajasthan & Maharashtra

Gujarat Congress objects govt ‘spending’ Rs 31 lakh on Modi’s tent

PM hands over Shyamji Varma’s reinstatement certificate to CM

Education system breeding hatred among youth towards religion: Gujarat Governor

Correspondent | Bharuch

Ground breaking for con-struction of a new river bridge over Narmada in Bharuch district of cen-tral Gujarat will take place tomorrow by state Chief Minister. The four lane bridge will come up next to existing over 100 years old Golden bridge which connects the city of Bharuch to Ankleshwar. The new bridge will be on national highway number 8 at the stretch between 193/8 and 195/2 km. The bridge will have 850 me-ter length on Bharuch side including 20 meter solid approach and 640 meter wide portion. The bridge will have 1700 meter portion on Surat side in-cluding approach road. The bridge according to

country. “Shyamji Krish-na Varma, the brave son of Kutch was one of them who took up the fight for independence on foreign soil,” the PM added.Modi began his address by extending greetings in Kutchhi language, “Ki Eyo Bhaio ane Bhe-no”. Shyamji Krishna Varma as the worshipper of both `Shastra’ (scrip-tures) and `Shastra’ (weapons), said Modi, adding that Varma was the only nonBrahmin to

be conferred the degree of` Pandit in Varanasi. “Mahatma Gandhi and Shyamji Krishna Varma were the only two per-sons, who were debarred by the British Bar,” he added. In August 2003, Modi had brought back the mortal remains of Varma and his wife Bha-numati from Geneva and handed it over to Shyam-ji Krishna Varma Kranti Tirth in his home town Mandvi. Verma died in March 1930.

Stone laying for new river bridge over Narmada in Bharuch

details shared by the state government will be built in next 30 months at es-timated cost of Rs 309.10 crore by Road and Build-ing department, Govern-ment of Gujarat. There are two bridges includ-ing Golden bridge and railway bridge over river Narmada in Bharuch. The Golden bridge was con-structed in year 1882 un-der British rule. it’s an old and narrow bridge which can carry two vehicles side by side at one time.

For last 20 years, heavy vehicles are banned to use this bridge. They therefore need to cross new national highway to reach Ankleshwar. Sardar bridge located on new na-tional highway remains close for vehicles often for repairing which trig-gers massive traffic jam for hours. The new four lane bridge will solve this problem and make road journey between Surat and Vadodara smoother and speedier.

Gujarat based Highly to enhance capacity to 2 million units by 2016

RS Sodhi, managing di-rector of GCMMF said on sidelines of an event held here Saturday. He said that past experiences have shown that milk pro-curement during drought years increases as the farmer’s income from agriculture declines and he tends to concentrates on producing more milk. GCMMF which had a daily milk collection av-erage of 148 lakh litres in 2014-15, currently is handling 205 lakh litres

of milk per day. GC-MMF is in the process of setting up “India’s biggest milk powder dry-ing plant” at a cost of Rs 450 crore at the Mother Dairy, Gandhinagar (a unit of GCMMF) which will have a capacity of 150 metric tonne per day. The expansion at Gand-hinagar includes installa-tion of two milk process-ing lines of 50 KLPH, an additional 80 MTPD ghee processing and packing line and a 50 MTPD but-

ter manufacturing line. “Last year, the quantum of milk we had sent out for processing was not even one-third of what we are sending out of Gujarat this year… Milk has come more than our expectations. This is be-cause of our good price (been given to milk pro-ducing farmers),” Sodhi said adding that GCMMF has not increased the prices of milk and milk products for the last one-and-half-years.

against the conference as such, they should meet and discuss nation-al security but our prob-lem is the expense done behind it,” Solanki add-ed. In a statement earli-er on Friday, Congress leader Jayrajsinh Parmar

claimed that Rs 31 lakh have been spent to build the tent for Modi. “The Prime Minister himself has appealed to country-men to forsake the LPG subsidy but is now liv-ing in a tent worth Rs 31 lakh,” Parmar said. He

also criticised the state government for provid-ing “royal treatment” to the Prime Minister. “Gujarat government is spending huge money on the PM but not giv-ing good price to farm-ers for cotton,” he said.

a religion, I am told I’m kampadh (not fully edu-cated) and the one who hates religion, keeps away from religion is termed secular,” Kohli said while delivering a speech at 50th convoca-tion of Saurashtra Uni-versity (SU). By virtue of being the governor of the state, Kohli is also the chancellor of SU and was presiding over the convocation of the var-sity. Quoting from Bhag-vat Gita, Kohli asked students and parents if

Krishna was communal when he preached that he would return to rees-tablish dharma. The gov-ernor further said that by religion, Lord Krishna meant order, system, val-ue, culture—the system which supports life. “Our educated youth should practice this religion and not shy away from it. Students graduating from our universities should be proud about their religion and should connect with it,” the governor further said.

LY, expects to grow ex-ponentially. HIGHLY was the first rotary compressor supplier to have invested in PM Modi’s dream of “Make in India” as the lo-cal production is driving the development of the Air Conditioners and AC compressor industry. As a part of its growth strategy, HIGHLY acknowledged the support of the Supply Partners in the last two years during the “Supply Partner Meet” held on the occasion. The Shanghai Hitachi Chairman and the senior management team

met them personally and thanked everyone. Talking about HIGHLY’s market share, Mr. Shen Jianfang, Chairman, HIGHLY said “By the year end of 2015, HIGHLY’s sales is ex-pected to cross 400000 compressor units. The Year-on-Year increase of 130% compared to 2014 represents 10% of the market share. Consider-ing 2015 is the 2nd year of operations only, HIGHLY has got very good oper-ational results which has undoubtedly exceeded our expectation”.

Guj Min urges industries to visit Gujarat Refinery safety park

Make police stations more people-friendly: HM tells dGPs