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News BriefKatsumi strike keeps Bagan 3

points clear at topAgency | Barasat

Defending champions Mohun Bagan pipped Sporting Clube de Goa 1-0 courtesy Katsu-mi Yusa’s late strike, tightening their grip on the pole position of the I-League football tourna-ment, here today. At the halfway stage after eight rounds, Mohun Bagan are the only team to main-tain an unbeaten record with 18 points from eight games with five wins and three drawn games. They are three points clear of second placed Benglauru FC, who are on 15 points with equal number of wins.

BJP trying to polarise country:

Tarigami

Girl killed in LPG cylinder explosion

Agency | Jammu

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of launching a hate cam-paign against the peo-ple who do not follow RSS ideology, the state unit of CPI(M) today demanded the release of JNU student leader Kan-haiya Kumar. “Follow-ing the RSS ideology... the Narendra Modi-led government has un-leashed a hate campaign against them (those against RSS ideology),” CPI(M) state Secretary and MLA, M Y Tariga-mi said here today.

Agency | Jaunpur

A 19-year-old girl was killed and three other members of her family were injured in an LPG cylinder explosion at her house in Shivnagar village here today. Af-sana, a student of class XII, was working in the kitchen this afternoon when the incident took place, police said. Her mother, brother and sis-ter were also injured and admitted to a hospital, police said, adding the body has been sent for post-mortem.

Army conducts flag march in tense areas“Haryana Jat protest”

Agency | New Delhi

Mired in controversy, Ringing Bells, the makers of the world’s cheapest smartphone, on Saturday closed the booking for its ‘Freedom 251’ phone, citing heavy demand. Announcing the closure of booking, the company said, “We are humble and extremely grateful for your overwhelming re-sponse and trust. Respect-fully, this is to advise that the response far exceeds the number that we had expected and therefore, we are now closing the invitation to bookings in this phase 1.” The notice on the website read: “We

Agency | New Delhi

Success of Nepal’s new Constitution will depend on “consensus and di-alogue” and India was for peace, stability and overall development of the Himalayan nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday after holding extensive talks with his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli. The two leaders de-liberated on all aspects of the bilateral relation-ship, particularly the po-litical situation in Nepal, following which Oli said “misunderstandings” that persisted in the last few

Agency | Pathankot

Claiming “complete in-volvement” of people from across the border in Pathankot terror attack, a top Army Commander on Saturday said Pakistan should take action on dos-siers concerning evidence of the militant strike. Gen-eral Officer Command-ing-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Western Command, Lt General KJ Singh also said a multi-agency re-sponse has been put in place to scuttle any terror attacks on security estab-lishments. “You know dossiers (on evidence of

Agency | Rohtak

At least one person was killed and 20 others were injured on Saturday in Haryana’s Jhajjar after Indian Army personnel fired on Jat protestors, demanding reservation in jobs and education, turned violent and tried to set government buildings on fire. The protesters, who were trying to set the block development and panchayat office ablaze, fired back at the army us-ing the weapons stolen on Friday night. Eight peo-ple have been admitted to

various hospitals so far. A mob of around 10,000 people carrying weap-ons from the surrounding villages of Rohtak were also seen vandalising pri-vate property. Police and army have not been able to reach the area as yet. District administrations have clamped curfew in Jind, Sonipat and Goha-na as violence spread to more areas in Haryana over the Jat quota row. Curfew was already in place in Rohtak, Bhiwani and Jhajjar in the wake of incidents of violence during the Jat agitation.

Agency | Srinagar

At least 120 people in-cluding employees and trainees are trapped in En-trepreneur Development Institute (EDI) on the out-skirts of Srinagar as mili-tants have occupied it after attacking a Centre Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy Srinagar-Jammu highway, police sourc-es said. The militants at-tacked CRPF convoy on the highway at Sempo-ra at around 3:30 p.m in which 11 CRPF men were wounded. Srinagar based CRPF spokesman Bavish Chudhary said that out of 11 CRPF jawans one has succumbed to the injuries. He said after the attack the

Haryana: 5 shot dead by Army

Amidst controversy, Ringing Bells closes booking for ‘Freedom 251’ smartphone

appreciate and acknowl-edge that we may not have been able to meet the needs of all, but will definitely look forward to serving you again in the next phase.” The com-pany said it has received 3.70 crore registrations on Day 1 and 2.47 crore on Day 2 (as of 1949 hours). Touted as the

world’s cheapest smart-phone, the Freedom 251 has been in news globally for several reasons. There were allegations that the company had show-cased a rival company, Adcom’s handset, as its own. Also, the icons on the device looked sim-ilar to that of global technology giant, Apple.

Ringing Bells President Ashok Chaddha clarified that “it wanted to show a sample or prototype of what the handsets will look like. This is not the final piece”. “In view of the shortage of time and given that these were to serve only as prototypes to a limited list of per-sons, we went ahead. We would clearly mention that the Final Freedom 251 manufactured/as-sembled in India would be to identical specs - i.e. no change,” he added. Industry members have also complained against the company to the Tele-com Ministry to dig deeper into the issue.

Terrorists attack CRPF convoy in J&K’s Pompore, 1 killed, encounter on

militants, whose number is not known, rushed to-wards the EDI building. “There are civilians inside and first priority is to get them out of the building,” the spokesman said. Su-perintendent Police (SP) Anwantipora, Muham-mad Irshad said the po-lice was trying to evac-uate the civilians safely.

An EDI employee Ashfaq Mir told Mail Today that all civilians have been evacuated by the police and paramilitary forces in seven shifts. “I am now in armored vehicle mov-ing towards safe place.” Mir said. He said that the intense gunfight between the militants and the se-curity forces have started.

months “no longer exist”. The two sides inked nine MoUs to expand cooper-ation in a range of areas including in transport and power sectors. The rela-tionship between the two countries had soured in the wake of agitation by the India-origin Madhesi community, which shares

close family and cultural ties with Indians, oppos-ing Nepal’s Constitution. “The announcement of the new Constitution in Nepal came after decades of struggle in Nepal. It is a major achievement. I ap-preciate the contribution of the political leadership and people of Nepal for it.

India, Nepal talk it out; No ‘misunderstandings’ now, says Oli

involvement of Pakistani elements in Pathankot terror attack) have been handed over to them twice. So they should take action,” Singh told a press conference here on the sidelines of an investiture ceremony. “That (action by Pakistan) will foster good relation between two countries,” Singh added. Investigations are

at primary kind of stage, he said, adding, “While I share concern (over Pak investigation), but it may be better to allow diplo-mats and official agencies– they have empowered peo-ple– they are aware that they are taking all mea-sures in this regard.” “I am sure that they will take measures to highlight this issue and Ministry of Ex-

ternal Affairs (MEA) will take it up and we hope to see that,” Singh said. Tak-ing a dig at Pakistan over classification of terrorism into “good and bad”, the Army Commander said, “The problem is that if you start classifying terrorism and use it as a strategic weapon, one day it is go-ing to backfire.” “So, we advice and counsel our neighbour that they must realise this that people who are terrorists should not be classified as good and bad terrorists or their agents. They (Pakistan) should be ruthless to them (terror-ists),” Singh said.

Pak should take action on Indian dossiers on Pathankot attack: Army commander

Haryana chief minister ML Khattar has made a fresh appeal to the peo-ple to maintain peace and harmony. “I appeal to all my fellow Haryanvis to maintain law & order in the State, and ensure that

harmony is maintained in society,” he tweeted. Ear-lier in the day, a mob in Rohtak district’s Meham area set a police station, a petrol pump and a gov-ernment building on fire. “The police station has

been set on fire by a group of about 2000-2500 peo-ple. They went on a ram-page today and also set on fire a petrol pump, a government building and a banquet hall,” Rajender Singh, sub-inspector and SHO of Meham police station, said. Singh said the situation was tense in the area and addition-al forces have been sum-

moned to bring the situ-ation under control. The army is already out in the district, which has been worst hit by the stir, to bring the situation under control. In another inci-dent in Jhajjar district, a mob pelted stones at the house of senior Haryana minister OP Dhankar, one of the prominent Jat politicians in the state,

on Saturday afternoon. “The mob threw stones at Dhankar’s house, but no one was injured,” a police official said. The Budha Khera Railway Station in Jind district was also set on fire by some un-identified people as the Jat stir continued for the seventh day. The record room, furniture and other articles were set on fire at the railway station, which falls on the Jind-Panipat rail section, police said. The army conducted a flag march in violence-hit Rohtak, where three peo-ple were allegedly killed and 78 others injured in firing and clash between security personnel and Jats on Friday.

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DAYAyodhya to JNu, history repeats itself; will Modi meet Advani’s fate?Does anybody remember the exact date on which LK Advani lost his chance to become Prime Minister of India? If you don’t, it was 6 December 1992. What happened was this: Advani reminded karsevaks at Ayo-dhya how the Babri Masjid, which stood at the exact spot where Lord Ram was born, symbolized the evils heaped on the Hindu nation through the centures. But the karsevaks were not interested in mere talk. They stormed a police cordon around the masjid and the police cheerfully gave way. Then, the mob attacked the Babri Masjid and demolished it till not a stone re-mained standing. Advani seemed genuinely upset by this turn of events. Some say he was in tears when Pra-mod Mahajan led him away and took him to the guest-house where he was staying. In the weeks and months that followed, there was shock and revulsion across the world. Riots broke out throughout India, hundreds died. And later, when assembly elections were held, the BJP was voted out in those states where it held power. The demolition effectively sealed Advani’s fate. It was clear that the BJP government in UP had colluded with the vandals. In total violation of an undertaking given to the Supreme Court, the karsevaks were allowed to bring the implements required to demolish a large stone structure to the group. And the demolition was carried out with well-rehearsed precision. Cynics maintained that Advani must have been party to the conspiracy to demolish the mosque. This meant that he was clear-ly unfit to be Prime Minister. Others, such as myself, believed that he had no idea of what was planned. But this led to a graver question. Could you trust a man who stoked passions for political gain (as Advani clear-ly had on the Ayodhya issue) and then lost control of the mob whose fervour he had fed? I reckon it was the second question that sealed Advani’s fate. At the time he was Supreme Leader of the BJP and AB Vajpay-ee had been sidelined. But in the years following the demolition, Advani was demoted to second place and Vajpayee became the party’s candidate for PM – a post he eventually secured. I was reminded of the questions about Advani’s leadership as I watched events unfold after the crackdown at JNU, and I couldn’t help but no-tice how history was repeating itself. Consider the way this story has played out. The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar was in keeping with the hyper-nationalism promoted by Modi. After the arrest, the party sent in the big guns to condemn the JNU agitation: Rajnath Singh, Nirma-la Sitharaman and Smriti Irani, who introduced Bharat Mata into the discourse. Then things began to go wrong. There was, first of all, the nagging feeling (now largely confirmed) that a) the slogans, while deeply offensive, did not meet the legal definition of sedition and b) that even if they did, the police had arrested the wrong man.

“The direction came as Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and other accused in the case told the court that Subramanian Swamy should first satisfy them about the relevance of the documents ordered to be summoned,” - A delhi court today directed that

the documents summoned from the Ministries of Finance, urban development and Corporate Affairs, Income Tax department and other agencies in the National Herald case would be kept in a sealed cover till further orders.

Big B launches Shatrughan Singha’s biography

Post break up, Ranbir-Katrina stop shooting together for Jagga Jasoos, again

Agency | New Delhi

Priyanka Chopra first won hearts in the west with her singles Exot-ic and In My City. Then she went on to become a popular actress in Holly-wood with ABC’s Quan-tico. She won a People’s Choice Award for her role in the hit TV series. And then she made the biggest news through a video by announcing that she will be starring in the mov-ie remake of the hit TV series Baywatch. And

that too alongside Hol-lywood hotties Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. She will be seen playing the antagonist in the film. Priyanka Chopra first won hearts in the west with her singles Exot-ic and In My City. Then she went on to become a popular actress in Holly-wood with ABC’s Quan-tico. She won a People’s Choice Award for her role in the hit TV series. And then she made the biggest news through a video by announcing that she will

be starring in the movie remake of the hit TV se-ries Baywatch. And that too alongside Hollywood hotties Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. She will be seen playing the antag-onist in the film The char-acter that Priyanka would be playing Baywatch was initially written for a man. But soon the actress came into consideration and the role was re-writ-ten as a female character. This sort of change has previously happened with the movie Salt.

Agency | Mumbai

Shah Rukh Khan, who is currently shooting for Gauri Shinde’s untitled next with Alia Bhatt in Goa, had a surprise visi-tor on Thursday. Grammy award winning American DJ and record producer, Diplo, who performed in Mumbai on Friday, was keen to meet King Khan and flew to Goa before the gig. ”Diplo feels that India is a musical power-house and is keen to work in Bollywood. He post-poned his sound-check for the Mumbai gig so he could meet SRK,” says a source present at the location, adding that the musician’s team fondly calls SRK Badass Bad-shah. “The duo spent the

Agency | New Delhi

Amitabh Bachchan launched the biography of his Bollywood col-league Shatrughan Sing-ha, written by columnist, critic and author Bharathi S Pradhan. One of the highlights of the evening was the reading of an ex-cerpt from “Anything But Khamosh: The Sha-trughan Sinha Biography” by Shatrughan’s daughter Sonakshi Sinha. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha was also present along with filmmaker Subhash Ghai. Pradhan said: “With

Agency | New Delhi

What is it like to spend 16 hours trapped in a hi-jacked plane? What is the anguish of having your daughter come home in a coffin? What is the taste of terror? In Neerja, direc-tor Ram Madhvani recre-ates the last day in the life of a 23-year-old Pan Am flight purser, who was killed in 1986. The New York bound flight was taken over by Palestinian terrorists when it halted at Karachi. Following protocol, the pilots aban-doned the cockpit. Neerja Bhanot, who was on her first flight, as head purs-er, took charge. She hid American passports and eventually opened the emergency exits. Neerja saved 359 lives. She was shot dead as she huddled

Agency | Mumbai

Colors and Kapil Shar-ma’s battles have gone a far way. Taking it even further, now Colors has slammed another legal notice on the ace come-dian. This time, clearly mentioning he isn’t al-lowed to showcase the famous ‘Babaji Ka Thul-lu’ pose on his new show. Kapil shot for the last ep-isode of Comedy Nights

Neerja review by Anupama Chopra: This one is a genuine weeper

Agency | Mumbai

Looks like side effects of break-up between Ran-bir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif is becoming quite evident. Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos is facing the brunt of their break-up for quite some time now. Although the entire team has been profusely work-ing on the film for around two years now, yet, the film is incomplete. The film is scheduled to hit the screens on June 3 but seems like the film has been further pushed. Ac-cording to Mumbai Mir-ror, a source told that the two actors have stopped interacting completely. “Ranbir shoots for ‘Jagga Jasoos’ everyday but Ka-

‘Anything But Khamosh’, Om Books International, Shatrughan Sinha and I have truly raised the bar for a page-turning honest read. The book launch was befitting of the most honest biography of India. Celebrity-studded, excit-ing, engrossing, dramatic

and forthright.” The 338-page book retraces the hurrahs and heartaches of India’s most popu-lar “Bihari Babu” and is based on seven years of research, 37 interviews and over 200 hours of taped conversations, says the author.

day on the film’s sets as Diplo was curious about the Bollywood way of making movies. He loved the song-and-dance for-mat and is planning to feature SRK in his next single which will include a smattering of Hindi, and maybe a Punjabi rap-per.” Karan Singh, CEO of a major music festival, who was instrumental in

getting Diplo to India, got the two of them to-gether. ”While SRK took him around for a spot of sightseeing, Diplo taught the actor how to spin on a DJ console in between relishing Indian curries, fish and rice,” informs the source, adding that the actor suggested that the American try his hand at acting as well.

children to safety. She was posthumously giv-en awards for her cour-age by India, Pakistan and America. Ram and writers Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla dramatise and embellish this story. In their telling, Neerja is a Rajesh Khan-na fan. Early in the film, she delivers his iconic dialogue from Anand — ‘Zindagi badi honi cha-hiye, lambi nahin’. And then over the next two hours, she exemplifies

exactly that. Ram begins by intercutting between Karachi and Bombay. Terrorists prepare bombs while children play with balloons at a building party where Neerja works the mike as the unofficial MC. We see her ordinary home, her gentle mid-dle-class parents, her dog who sleeps on the bed with her. Each scene adds to your dread because you know that eventual-ly these two worlds will tragically collide.

with Kapil which was aired on January 23. After that, there have numerous twists and turns in the case where Colors and Krush-na Abhishek (who re-placed Kapil on his show) had lashed out at Kapil for his unprofessional be-haviour. But Kapil stayed mum. Now he’s struck a golden deal with Sony TV and he is all set to come forward with anoth-er show of his own- Com-

edy Style. While the show begins end March-early April, Colors, on hearing the news of this devel-opment had already sent out a legal notice to Kiku Sharda and Sunil Grover who played Palak and Gutthi in CNWK saying that they won’t be permit-ted to retain their char-acter on the new show and there shouldn’t be any similarity with their CNWK characterizations.

trina has not been on the sets for the last two days.” Reportedly, Katrina has started filming her next time-travel-romace flick ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ op-posite Sidharth Malhotra. She was supposed to re-sume shooting for Jagga

Jasoos after Valentine’s Day but the source re-vealed to Mumbai Mirror that the Mumbai schedule will now be completed with Ranbir alone. ”Ka-trina will not shoot for it but on March 22 they will take off to Morocco.”

Agency | New Delhi

Srijit Mukherji’s Bengali Dark Comedy ‘Hemlock Society’ is on its way to being remade in Hindi and who else could be a better choice than Alia Bhatt for the lead role. Srijit, who will direct the Hindi remake as well, told the leading daily Deccan Chronicle, “Yes, I’ve spo-ken to Mahesh Bhatt saab about a Hindi version of Hemlock Society. I feel Alia would be ideal for the role that Koel Mallick

did in the original.” The movie, which is a strong insight into psychological dilemma about the primal existence of life, revolves around a girl learning the different techniques of a successful suicide from a man, who trains suicide aspirants. While tackling a serious issue, it incites laughter and ex-plores a dark perspective.Alia is currently shooting for Gauri Shinde’s next film opposite Shah Rukh Khan.

Alia Bhatt in `Hemlock Society`s Hindi remake?

Grammy winner chills with Shah Rukh Khan!Priyanka Chopra’s Baywatch plans will take off after the Oscars!

Colors’ strict diktat for Kapil Sharma: No ‘Babaji Ka Thullu’ on new show!


SPORTS ROUNDUP

Unstoppable Saketh Myneni romps into delhi Open final

Brendon McCullum smashes fastest Test century

Agency | Christchurch

Brendon McCullum struck the fastest ever Test century in a blister-ing counter-attack that dragged his side back into the second Test against Australia, with New Zea-land getting out for 370 on the first day on Saturday. The New Zealand captain, playing his 101st and final Test, reached his 12th Test century from just 54 balls as he and Corey Anderson bludgeoned the visitors’ attack in a scintillating 75 minutes after lunch at Hagley Oval.McCullum was dismissed for 145 when Nathan Lyon took a good catch in the deep to end a 179-run partner-ship with Anderson, who reached his fourth Test half-century from 39 balls

Agency | New Delhi

Saketh Myneni demol-ished the challenge of sec-ond seed Kimmer Coppe-jans with remarkable ease to move to the Delhi Open singles final at New Delhi on Saturday. Serving bet-ter and better as the match progressed, 166th ranked Myneni made short work of his Belgian opponent 6-3 6-2 in the semifinals of the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger event at the DLTA complex. With his dominating performance, Myneni has earned him-self an opportunity to win his second Challenger lev-el singles title. His first title came in October 2014 in Indore. Not only singles,

Agency | Mumbai

The BCCI’s full, associ-ate and affiliate members, without going deep into the report of the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee on ‘Reforms In Cricket’, authorised secre-tary Anurag Thakur to file an affidavit in the court, pointing to the “anomalies and difficulties” in imple-menting the recommenda-tions. At a special general meeting here on Friday, the members were also ad-vised to file independent intervention applications on the recommendations they would find difficult to comply with. Constitu-tional lawyer K.K. Venu-gopal will appear for the BCCI before the Bench on March 4. Since most members submitted their

BCCI to file affidavit on ‘anomalies’ in Lodha recommendations

and was dismissed for 72 shortly before tea. Wicket-keeper BJ Watling scored 58 to give New Zealand some breathing space and a chance for their bowl-ers to hit back to Austra-lia. Until the fifth-wick-et pairing’s attack on a good-paced pitch that was drying out in brilliant sun-shine, Australia had been well in control, having reduced the hosts to 74 for four with Kane Wil-liamson’s dismissal for

seven after lunch. Wil-liamson had batted sto-ically in the morning as he tried to rebuild New Zealand’s innings under the pressure of superb pace bowling. McCul-lum was also brilliantly caught when on 39 with Marsh’s one-handed ef-fort in the gully, but tele-vision replays showed fast bowler James Pattin-son had overstepped the mark and the captain was reprieved.

Myneni also has a chance to win his fourth doubles Challenger title in the eve-ning when he and Sanam Singh take on Mahesh Bh-upati and Yuki Bhambri in the final. Coppejans put up some resistance initial-ly but once Myneni raised the level of his game, the Belgian just fizzled, look-ing helpless and at mercy of the Indian. Coppejans

often made eye contact with his lone supporter in the stands, perhaps his compatriot, as if asking what to do to counter My-neni. Myneni hardly put a foot wrong. He served big, stroked with author-ity and was fluent in his stroke-making. He gave himself enough time to choose the shot he wanted to play and the placement.

views on the recommen-dations on January 4, the president did not deem it necessary for them to do it again. “I think it was a smart and wise move. The president conducted the meeting well. He did not want any confusion

to arise in the event of each member being given a chance to make his ob-servations on the Lodha recommendations. “The president said it was not a question of whether the BCCI agrees or disagrees with the recommendations.

Agency | Sydney

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke scored what he described as a ‘rusty’ 48 in his come-back match in Sydney club cricket on Saturday. Clarke, 34, who bowed out of the game in Au-gust after the disastrous Ashes series in England, was dropped twice early batting at No. 3 for his old team Western Suburbs against Randwick-Peter-sham. He was finally dis-missed leg before wick-et trying to work a ball through fine leg to Sam Doggett just two runs short of a half-century. Clarke

was dropped at second slip before he had scored and later was put down again at second slip while on 30 in his 135-minute innings, which includ-ed seven fours. “It was nice, I enjoyed it. I batted for a good length of time and the body feels pret-ty good,” Clarke told re-porters at the ground.“My goal here is to come and try and contribute. Fortu-nately I made a few runs, I always want some more, but I’ll worry about any-thing past that after this game. “I didn’t really have too many goals to be honest, it was more just to come back and play, walk

out to the middle and as you would’ve seen there was certainly a bit of rust there. “I didn’t feel great, but it was nice to spend some time in the middle and score some runs.” One of the outstanding batsmen of his genera-tion, Clarke said before his comeback game that he “missed the game”, and wanted to have a crack at making his mark in T20s. While Clarke played in 115 Tests and 245 one-day internation-als, he only took part in 34 T20 internationals during his first-class ca-reer.

Asia Cup: India winning and not my batting position matters, says Suresh Raina

Agency | New Delhi

The world football gov-erning body FIFA’s in-spection team is satisfied with the planning aspect of India’s preparations for next year’s Under-17 World Cup but said that major renovation works need to be done in most of the six stadia to be com-pliant with international

standards. The team led by FIFA head of events Jaime Yarza said that the state and central govern-ments, and the football federation will have to start construction work immediately if the stadia are to be ready by Octo-ber deadline. “I must say that the FIFA delegation is satisfied with the plan-

Agency |New Delhi

Playing down the hype around his batting posi-tion, Suresh Raina on Sat-urday stated that the team winning mattered more than anything else. Of late there has been added focus on India’s batting line-up, especially with the return of star left-hander Yuvraj Singh With Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli

doing most of the scoring, players like Raina, Yu-vraj and even MS Dhoni have got limited batting chances during twin se-ries against Australia and Sri Lanka. “Batting position does not matter, I want India to win. We have Yuvraj Singh in our side and he is not getting chances as well. Every-one in the team can bat on every spot,” Raina was

Michael Clarke out for ‘rusty’ 48 in comeback club match

Most of 2017 Under 17 World Cup Stadiums Need Major Renovation: FIFA

quoted as saying by IB-NLive at the unveiling of the team jersey of the new Indian Premier League franchise Gujarat Lions. Raina showed his impor-tance to the side with a match-winning knock in the 3rd T20I against the Aussies last month.”Play-ing matches is more im-portant than practice because during an inter-national match there is pressure and there is a real feel to it,” said Raina. The Uttar Pradesh bats-man also highlighted the importance of the Asia Cup, stating it was ideal preparation for the all-im-portant ICC WorldT20. India take on hosts Ban-gladesh on Wednesday in the tournament opener.

ning of the U-17 FIFA World Cup. The AIFF, the local organising com-mittee and governments have done a very good job as far as planning is concerned. We are 80 per cent satisfied with the planning of the tour-nament,” Yarza said at a press conference here. “But we need amend-ments in the ground plan and all the six stadiums need major renovations. October is the dead-line for the stadiums to comply with standards required for hosting a World Cup match. The state and central govern-ments and local organis-ing committee will need to start the construction work immediately,” he added.

IdBI Bank to raise Rs 1,500 crore via selling stake to LIC

Japan Sees drop in iPhone Shipments: Report

IIM-Calcutta Registers 100% Placement Within 3 Days

Agency | New Delhi

State-owned IDBI Bank on Saturday said it plans to raise up to Rs 1,500 crore by selling stake to Life In-surance Corporation (LIC) by preferential issuance of shares to the insurer. The board has approved the proposal for preferential issue of capital to Life In-surance Corporation of India, aggregating up to Rs 1,500 crore (inclusive of premium amount) subject to Government of India’s approval, IDBI Bank said in a statement. LIC and various other schemes cur-rently hold 7.25% stake in IDBI Bank. Last week, the bank also got board approval for raising up to $500 million (Rs 3417 crore) through tier I bonds. The board has approved issuance of Basel III com-pliant Additional Tier 1 (AT 1) bonds in offshore markets up to $500 million to enhance tier 1 capital of the bank, the bank had said. AT-1 bonds, which qualify as core or equity capital, are one of the means of raising capital by public sector banks that require Rs 1.80 lakh crore by March 2019 to meet

global norms on capital adequacy (Basel III).

Agency | Washington

Shipments to Japan of Apple Inc.’s iPhones dropped 10.6 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, marking the first drop in Japan since the ubiqui-tous smartphone went on sale in 2008, MM Re-search Institute said on Saturday. According to the research institute, shipments totalled 14.73 million units, with the notable slump attributable to slug-gish sales of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus versions of its handsets, that went on sale in autumn last year, Xinhua reported. The institute noted that while Apple remains the market leader for smartphone sales in Japan, it has given some way to Sony and Sharp who have both gained ground. Apple saw its market share trimmed to 41.2 percent from 43.1 percent in 2014, with Sony in second place with a market share of 13.9 percent followed by Sharp who captured 11.9 percent of the market in the re-

cording period.

Agency | Kolkata

he Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta has achieved 100 per cent final placements for the 2014-16 batch in less than three days. “For the largest batch of 439 students among the old-er IIMs, a whopping total of almost 500 offers were made during the entire process, including 21 international offers,” the institute said in a statement. IIM-Calcutta remained unchallenged as the finance campus of India, registering over 100 offers in the sector. Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citibank, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, JPMC, Avendus Capital, ICICI Securities, Kotak IBD, Edelweiss and other finance firms recruit-ed students from the campus, while BlackRock and MasterCard were the first time recruiters for finance roles. Consulting firms continued their dominance in the campus with over 20 per cent of the total offers, it said. The major firms hiring in the consulting sector included Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain & Co., McKinsey, AT Kear-ney and Accenture Management Consulting, with Bain & Co. emerging as the largest recruiter, it said.


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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Seeking to end the confu-sion caused by the answer key of job exam held by a Rajkot local body, the Gujarat High Court today declared that it was poet Rabindranath Tagore who first used the title `Mahat-ma’ for Mohandas Karam-chand Gandhi. Justice J B Pardiwala, while dispos-ing of a petition, noted that all school textbooks give the credit for the Ma-hatma title of Gandhi to Tagore. Sandhya Maru, a candidate, had moved the HC challenging the an-swer key of the examina-tion conducted by Rajkot District Panchayat Sik-shan Samiti for the post

of panchayat talati. Maru said that due to ambiguity about who called Gandhi a Mahatma first, she lost marks as the examination had negative marking sys-tem. As per the key re-leased by the Samiti, the answer to the question was an “unknown journalist”. Maru had also challenged the answers to two oth-er questions: which is the longest river of India and which article comes before the word `Mt Everest’. As per the key, answers are Brahmaputra and `a’. The court made it clear that longest river of India is Ganga while the word Mt Everest will not have any article the before it.

Correspondent | Surat

Incarcerated Patel quo-ta stir spearhead Hardik Patel, on a hunger strike since Thursday, has been admitted to a hospital after he complained of weak-ness and dizziness. The 22-year-old, who launched his indefinite fast in La-jpore Jail in Surat, was shifted to the prison ward of Civil Hospital on Friday late night where he is fine now, a health official said . “Hardik Patel was brought late last night from Lajpor Jail and admitted to the prison ward of Civil Hos-pital,” Superintendent of Surat Civil Hospital Ma-hesh Vadel said. ”He had complained of weakness and dizziness. We con-ducted various tests on him and he is found to be OK. His treatment is going on in the hospital,” Vadel


In just 110 days of the launch of Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavlamban Yoj-na for higher studies, the state government has giv-en the benefits to 10,000 students. The state, on an average, has given bene-fits to nearly 91 students every day. On Friday, chief minister Anandi-ben Patel handed over a cheque of Rs 2.14 lakh to Jheel Vodcha. Vodcha is the first year MBBS student at LG Medical

College, Ahmedabad. As against 15,000 students registered so far for higher studies under the scheme, Rs 32.69 crore have been disbursed to 9,999 stu-dents. With Vodcha, the number of beneficiaries reached 10,000 students. Of the Rs 32.69 crore dis-tributed include Rs 17.88 crore to 1,429 medical and allied subject students and another Rs 11.61 crore to 4,716 students of engi-neering and diploma en-gineering courses. A total of Rs 3.20 crore has been


A Gujarat bureaucrat on Friday linked the Patidar quota stir with the drop in cotton prices in India, which has put farmers in the state many of whom are Patidars — in distress. Speaking at the inaugural function of Intexcon 2016, a conference on denims and apparel industry, J N Singh, IAS, additional chief secretary in the Fi-nance Department, said, “I can see the econom-

ic roots of it (the Patidar quota stir). Cotton prices have fallen in the country because of the global sit-uation. And, with Gujarat producing one-third of the cotton in India, the farm-ers, largely the Patels, are in distress. The farmer dis-tress, at least in Gujarat, is largely due to the global economic trends. So, you can see how it acts and interacts. The economy is not doing well, the in-dustry is not doing well

No mobile phone for unmarried women : Gujarat village diktat

Patidar agitation: Bureaucrat links stir to fall in cotton prices

GuJ CENTRAL uNIVERSITY STudENTS SuPPORT JNu

Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavlamban Yojna has given benefits to 91 students every day

The IAS officer was speaking at the flagship event held on the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad campus, in which state Finance Minister Saurabh Patel was slated to be the chief guest, but he could not attend

and once again it interacts. The textile sector fortu-nately is one of the bright spots in the economy, and that too denim, as the fig-ures have shown. We are producing one sixth of the global denims and in that too, Ahmedabad is one of the leading players.” The IAS officer was speaking at the flagship event held on the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad campus, in which state Fi-nance Minister Saurabh Patel was slated to be the chief guest, but he could not attend. Singh said, “Gujarat just last year an-nounced the textile policy. The spinning sector in Gu-jarat was very down. But, with the new textile policy, we are witnessing green shoots all around, at least in the spinning sector.


While Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi is making all out effort to make his Digital Indian campaign a success, a village in his native district of Mehsa-na has banned unmarried women from using mo-bile phones. Unmarried women caught with mo-bile phones will be fined Rs 2,100 while informers will be rewarded with Rs 200 in the village, situat-ed 100 kilometres from the state’s financial capi-tal Ahmedabad, according to a report. “Why do girls need cell phone? Inter-net is a waste of time and money for a middle-class community like ours. Girls should better utilise their


The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) has apprehended another 48 Indian fishermen and seized their nine boats from Arabian Sea off Jakhau port of Gujarat, hours after it held 40 fish-ermen from India from the same spot, National Fish-workers’ Forum (NFF) said today. With this, the total number of Indian fishermen apprehended by PMSA in the last 48 hours has gone up to 88. While the NFF had yesterday confirmed that PMSA had held 40 Indian fishermen late Thursday night, today it said that the Pakistani agency apprehended an-other 48 hours later. “The PMSA has apprehended 88 Indian fishermen and 16 of our boats. Yesterday, we had got to know that it had caught 40 Indian fish-


Ahmedabad traffic police may have committed the biggest gaffe or a deliber-ate mistake by announcing fines that can burn a huge hole in the pocket of repeat offenders but without put-ting in place a mechanism to catch them. New rules were recently implement-ed doubling or trebling the fine payable in the second or third instance of traffic violation like talking on mobile while driving, not wearing helmet, not car-rying licence et al. Traf-fic department officials admitted that they have not caught a single repeat

offender till now simply because they do not have a system in place to track them. The traffic police has doubled the fines for several offences like driv-ing without helmet and not using seat belts from Rs 50 to Rs 100. Some offences like talking on phone while driving carries a fine of Rs 1,000 when the offence is committed the first time. Thereafter the fine doubles or trebles in certain cases. As per Ahmedabad traffic police records, 4,310 of-fenders were booked on Saturday, February 13, and a fine of Rs 4,62,650 was collected. On Sunday.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

With an aim to promote Gujarat as tourist destina-tions, the fourth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Inter-national Travel Mart was inaugurated today at Ma-hatma Mandir in Gand-hinagar. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel inaugu-rated the three-day event today in which travel pro-fessionals from 47 coun-tries and 20 states of India participated. “Through this Vibrant Gujarat In-ternational Travel Mart, we would like to show the various destinations within the state of Guja-rat which are also very well recognised the world over. We want to promote

this sector in a very fast way and hence we have kept this summit,” Guja-rat Tourism Minister Sau-rabhbhai Patel said. The travel mart brings together tour operators, hoteliers, airlines, destination man-agement organisation, medical service providers, IT companies. The focal point of the event will be the buyer-seller meet, B2C meetings and trav-el exposition. This travel mart was initiated under the guidance and vision of the then honourable chief minister and the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2011. a senior state tourism department official said.


Students of Central Uni-versity, Gujarat seem to be in mood to fight it out. After deciding not to write or disclose their last name after Rohith Vemu-la’s suicide at Hyderabad Central University, the students have decided to show their support for Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-sity students and teachers. Agitated by central gov-

ernment’s approach of micro-managing universi-ties, several students have decided to go to Delhi to participate in a protest march to support Kanhai-ya Kumar, a JNU student leader who has been ar-rested allegedly for com-mitting sedition by rais-ing anti-nation slogans. Around 1,000 students study at this varsity. “This government has been pok-

given 3,835 students in other faculties. Besides, 62 lakh students studying in class I to VIII in gov-ernment or grant-in-aid primary schools were giv-en Rs 310 crore as waiver of tuition fees which was to the tune of Rs 500 to 750 per year. Also benefits of Rs 110 crore in the form of free textbooks and an-other Rs 186 crore in the form of free uniform have been given. Responding to the Patel stir seeking res-ervation in education and government employment, the Gujarat government had announced scholar-ship scheme for merito-rious students from less privileged backgrounds. The scheme, Mukhya-mantri Yuva Swavalam-ban Yojana, is intended to provide financial aid to about 70,000 college stu-dents.

It was Tagore who gave `Mahatma’ title to Gandhi: Gujarat HC

time for study and oth-er works,” Suraj village sarpanch Devshi Vankar said. He added, that there are no restrictions when it comes to unmarried wom-en talking to relatives us-ing their parents’ phone. Their parents can pass on their phones for conversa-tion to the girl if any rela-tive wants to talk to them.

Suraj village imposed the ban on February 12 but it may spread to other parts of north Gujarat as the politically influential Tha-kor community initiated a drive to extend the restric-tion, with support of other OBC communities such as the Rabari and Vankar, has decided to bring more villages under this rule.

Vibrant Gujarat International Travel Mart Underway

Pakistan apprehends another 48 Indian fishermen; 88 held in two days

ermen and seven boats and today we are able to confirm that another 48 fishermen and nine of their boats have been captured,” NFF secretary Manish Lodhari said. Preliminary reports have revealed that all of them were caught near the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and have been taken to Karachi Port by the Pa-kistani agency, Lodhari said. Since there are no physical markings in the

sea, fishermen are depen-dent on the GPS system installed on their boats to find out their exact loca-tion in the sea and prox-imity with IMBL. “How-ever, GPS is not fitted in all the boats. Moreover, only the latest GPS devic-es show the IMBL on the GPS screen, while older GPS devices do not have that facility. As a result, it becomes difficult for fishermen to determine their exact location,” he added.

ing its nose in university matters. Victimisation of Rohith Vemula was one grave incident and now the manhandling of JNU case has surfaced. At a time when students are involved, where is the need for home ministry to step in and involve police in handling of the situation?” questioned a student. Another student, Vasant, said that the epi-sode has been blown up for political gain. “We aim to protest against the NDA government’s move to impose their ideologies on everyone. We believe, the gov-ernment is saving Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Par-ishad members by not showing the video clip of the incident.

SMART PLAN, duMB EXECuTION

Hardik Patel hospitalised after two days of hunger strike

said. “On our advice he has started taking water,” he said. Hardik, lodged in the jail since September in two sedition cases, is leading an agitation de-manding reservation for Patels in government jobs and educational institutes under OBC category. The surprise move of hunger strike by Hardik three days back came at a time when his close aides have expressed willingness

to hold talks with Guja-rat’s BJP government to resolve the quota issue, which had led to violent protests. Three of Hardik’s close aides - Ketan Patel, Chirag Patel and Dinesh Bambhaniya - who are also behind bars in sedi-tion case, wrote a letter to Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Wednesday and expressed willingness to hold talks.

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