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US dollar ends dearer against the

rupeeAgency : Mumbai, May 20

The US dollar ended dearer against the rupee at 63.82/83 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished higher at Rs 99.00/02 per pound at the close of the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market today. Following are the Interbank Forex and RBI rates: (In Rs Per Unit) Unit Interbank RBI Reference US Dol-lar 63.82/83 US Dollar Rs. 63.8655 Pound Ster-ling 99.00/02 Euro Rs. 70.7310 Euro 70.80/82 Japanese Yen(100) 52.Five arrested for betting on IPL

matchAgency : Pathankot, May 20Five persons have been arrested for allegedly placing bets on the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at Mumbai yesterday, police said. It is being probed whether the arrested persons were in touch with other top bookies wanted by the police. Those arrested have been identified as Nishant, Anil Sharma, Sahil Kumar, Ashwani Kumar and Rashpal Singh, all of whom hail from Jammu and Sujanpur (Punjab) areas.Kanpur district

admin cancels 20 land leases

Agency : Kanpur, May 20The district administra-tion here has cancelled leases of 20 pieces of land given to 17 peo-ple for plantation which they allegedly used for farming purposes. 17 people, who belong to Katri Domanpur and Kharoti villages, were given government land in 2007 and 2009 under a greenery scheme to plant saplings. Howev-er, they used the land for farming, District Magis-trate (DM) Roshan Ja-cob said. Despite sev-eral warnings by village accountant, they contin-ued to use the land for farming, he said. Upon receiving information, tehsildar Anil Kumar recommended the DM to cancel the leases.

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Bangladesh : Harbhajan earns Test recall, Jadeja dropped

Osama Bin Laden was grooming son Hamza as heir to jihadist empire

Agency : WashingtonThe 22-year-old would-be-jihadist wrote to his reclusive father to say he was itching to join the fight. Hamza trained with explosives and em-braced the terror network that killed 3,000 Ameri-cans in the September 11, 2001 attacks. But young Hamza was no run-of-the-mill jihadist recruit. He was the favorite son of 9/11 mastermind Osa-ma bin Laden, who was grooming him to take over as al-Qaida’s lead-er, according to US in-telligence officials. More than 100 newly declassi-fied documents were pro-

vided to AFP by the Cen-tral Intelligence Agency, including two letters to Bin Laden from his son and one from Hamza’s mother imploring that he follow in his “father’s footsteps.” They included

al-Qaida correspondence noting the eagerness of Hamza, believed to have engaged in terror raids when he was a teen and propaganda videos at a younger age, to return to his father’s inner circle.

Agency : Kabul

Harbhajan Singh’s burn-ing desire to win his India jersey back was answered in the affirmative on Wednesday as the BCCI selectors picked the vet-eran offspinner for the one-off Test during the Bangladesh tour. Harbha-jan has had a successful IPL 8 for Mumbai Indians, picking up 16 wickets and leading them to the final of the tournament. Harbha-jan last played for India in March 2013, so he will be returning to India colours after a gap of more than two years. However, it re-mains to be seen whether skipper Virat Kohli picks him in the eleven consid-ering R Ashwin is also part of the squad. “We have named two offspinners since Bangladesh have six left-handed batsmen in their squad. Other young offspinners were also dis-cussed with the skipper Virat Kohli,” said chief se-lector Sandeep Patil. “We received requests for ‘rest’ by some of the players, but considering Bangladesh’s recent form, we wanted to have bench strength on tour,” Patil added. Patil and BCCI secretary Anu-rag Thakur also informed

that the names of Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gam-bhir were not discussed.Contrary to reports, the selectors didn’t rest any

of the seniors and picked the best squad available.Two noticeable change in the Test squad was the absence of MS Dhoni and

Ravindra Jadeja. While Dhoni retired from the lon-ger format during India’s tour of Australia last year, Jadeja has reportedly been

dropped on form. Suresh Raina too has been left out of the Test squad after his miserable return to the

whites with a pair in Aus-tralia. Legspinner Karn Sharma, however, has re-tained his place. Dhoni’s

retirement means Wrid-dhiman Saha becomes India’s first-choice Test wicketkeeper.

Gavaskar said the selection of top-choice players shows that India are not taking Bangladesh lightly.

Mukesh Ambani Keeps Salary Capped at Rs 15 Crore for 7th Year

Agency : New Delhi

Reliance Industries’ Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani kept his annual salary capped at Rs 15 crore for the seventh year in a row even as the remuneration of most directors declined marginally. Ambani, the richest Indian, has kept salary, perquisites and allowances and commission at Rs 15 crore since 2008-09, foregoing almost Rs 24 crore per annum. “The Chairman and Managing Director’s compensation has been set at Rs 15 crore as against Rs 38.86 crore as

approved, reflecting his desire to continue to set a personal example for moderation in managerial compensation levels,” RIL said in its annual report for the financial year ended March 31, 2015. His remuneration for 2013-14 included Rs 4.16 crore as salary, perquisites and allowances of Rs 60 lakh, retirement benefits of Rs

83 lakh and Rs 9.41 crore as commission on profit. In the previous year, while his salary and perquisites and allowances were the same, he got commission of Rs 9.42 crore and Rs 82 lakh in retirement benefits. Mr. Ambani voluntarily capped his compensation at Rs 15 crore in October 2009 amid a debate over right-sizing of CEO salaries.Jung annuls AAP govt’s appointments;

Kejriwal banks on public supportAgency : New Delhi

Escalating his confronta-tion with the Aam Aad-mi Party government, Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Wednesday cancelled all appointments made by it in the last four days, as-serting he was the sole au-thority in matters of order-ing transfer and posting of bureaucrats. In a letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Lt Governor challenged AAP govern-ment’s order to bureau-crats not to follow his di-rectives without securing approval from the CM or any other minister, main-taining he has the power to decide on transfers and postings. Mr. Jung also

contested AAP govern-ment’s instructions to the officials to not route files through his office, saying he has been vested with power to decide on ma-jor policy issues. In the letter, Mr. Jung explained constitutional provisions and norms laid down in Government of NCT of Delhi Act and Transaction of Business rules of the Delhi Government, and asked the AAP govern-ment to follow the rules and procedures. Mr. Jung said orders pertaining to transfers and postings by AAP govt in the last four days were not valid as they did not have his ap-proval. In a directive on

Monday, Mr. Kejriwal had asked the bureaucrats including the Chief Sec-retary to first consult him and other Ministers before acting directions from the LG. On Tuesday, both Mr. Kejriwal and Jung had taken their bitter fight to President Pranab Mukher-jee, accusing each other of

violating the Constitution and overstepping their re-spective jurisdictions. On Wednesday, Mr. Kejriw-al asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow the city government to function “independently” and accused the Centre of trying to run the Delhi ad-ministration through Jung.

Narendra Modi meets Cabinet colleagues ahead of govt’s first anniversary

Agency : New Delhi

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Wednesday met his senior ministerial colleagues to discuss pro-grammes to celebrate first anniversary of his govern-ment. Modi, who returned from a three-nation tour of China, Mongolia and South Korea Tuesday night, held deliberations with minis-ters Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, M. Venkaiah Naidu and Ni-tin Gadkari. Issues related to celebrating the first an-niversary of the Nation-

al Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on 26 May are understood to have been discussed during the meeting. Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah also met the prime minister in connection with the anni-versary celebrations, sourc-

es said. Modi is understood to have told his minis-ters and party leaders to spread the message about the work done by the government during the last one year, particularly highlighting the initia-tives in the social sector.

Food inspectors order recall batch of Maggi noo-dles from shops across country over excess lead

Agency : New Delhi

Food inspectors have ordered Nestle India to recall a batch of Mag-gi noodles from shops across the country, say-ing the product con-tained dangerous levels of lead.The Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) in Uttar Pradesh

said high lead content was found during routine tests on two dozen pack-ets of instant noodles, manufactured by Nestle in India Two FDA offi-cials said all the packets

of instant noodles tested in the state-run labora-tory were contaminated. They found a lead con-centration of 17.2 parts per million (ppm), nearly sev-en times the permissible limit. The FDA officials said the acceptable limit of lead ranges between 0.01 ppm and 2.5 ppm.

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An unsurprising first year in powerA year after coming to power, Narendra Modi hasn’t proved his critics wrong; he is failing his support-ers. Narendra Modi remarkable victory last year was possible because he made the Bharatiya Janata Par-ty attractive beyond its core Hindu nationalist vote. From a low base of 7.74% in 1984—the first year the BJP fought elections in its current form—the par-ty’s popular vote had risen to about a fifth of India’s electorate by 2009 (when it got 18.8% of the vote). Its share had otherwise hovered around 20-22%; its highest share had been 25.59% in 1998. Modi took the BJP’s vote to 31%, a 13 percentage-point shift over 2009. Modi did so by attracting new voters, some of whom included those too young to know about the massacres in Gujarat in 2002. Many felt India needed to respond robustly to terrorism and believed Modi would do what Manmohan Singh wouldn’t. This generation had grown up in post-re-form India, taking an India of malls and cellphones for granted, impatient when the growth rate slowed. Modi also attracted many older voters who professed to be pro-markets and who felt the solution to India’s myriad problems lay in private enterprise. (Business can indeed create the prosperity that can help solve those problems, but solving those problems is not necessarily business’ responsibility). These new supporters gave the BJP that extra edge, which gave the party a parliamentary majority. To win in 2019, the BJP will need them and build on that vote. How-ever, if the BJP returns to power in 2019, it will be because of the opposition’s failures. A year after the elections, it’s surprising that many are surprised and disappointed with the government. I’m not. Forget the unattainable rhetoric of bringing black money from Switzerland back home. Recall instead what the experts thought Modi would do: streamline the bureaucracy, make it easier to do business, and make development his priority. Other than progress on a nationwide goods and services tax, which the pre-vious government had worked hard to legislate but which the BJP-ruled states—including Modi in Gu-jarat—resisted, there have been few concrete gains. Even the amendment to the land acquisition law, which the BJP would like passed, and which is os-tensibly pro-business, actually violates a core prin-ciple of free market economics—property rights. It is puzzling to see the number of business leaders and economists, who seem to think nothing wrong with the idea of compulsory purchase of land, who cite the doctrine of eminent domain, as though it is a desirable doctrine even if the acquisition may not serve a public purpose. To disregard the customary rights of the poor and appropriate land they use or work on at a price that may bear no relation to what the market price might be a few years hence after the land has been developed (after being financed by loans and public debt) and allow gains to accrue to a private business, is hardly free market economics.

King Khan to perform underwater stunts in Dilwale

“Unless a capacity for thinking is accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”

Agency : Cannes

Bollywood fashionis-ta Sonam Kapoor made all heads turned as she made her first appear-ance on the red carpet at the French Riviera. Flaunting her cobalt blue

floor-sweeping gown, created by designers Ralph & Russo, Bol-lywood actress Sonam Kapoor took the centre stage at the 68th Cannes International Film Fes-tival. The 29-year-old,

who made her fifth Cannes appearance on Saturday representing L’Oréal Paris, sent the shutterbugs in frenzy as she walked the red car-pet in the striking blue gown paired with a matte orange lip colour. The flowing gown was com-plemented with a pair of Giuseppe Zanotti san-dals and dainty Chopard earrings. Sonam looked diva in its true sense. Her hair in a gorgeous shade of praline brown were styled in soft loose curls that cascaded over her shoulder. The “Khoob-surat” actress has mostly impressed fashion crit-ics worldwide with her sartorial choices every year. Prior to her, “Bang Bang!” star Katrina Kaif made her Cannes debut in this year’s edition on May 14. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will walk the red carpet on Sunday and May 20.

Inside Priyanka Chopra’s diary: Being a ‘TV virgin’ and confessions on ‘Quantico’

Agency : New Delhi

Here’s a scene: a famous actor, at home, sleeping. News comes in that she’s got a coveted role in an upcoming TV series. Will she be woken from her slumber by a personal valet carrying a silver tray with a sealed envelope? Would an army of domestic help and personal assistants wait in pin-drop silence for the actor to wake up and then pop champagne bottles? If you’re Priyanka Chopra, then what happens is what’s happened to almost every kid, usually on the morning of exam results being announced -- her mum beat her door down and yelled at Chopra to get up already. “Wake

up, wake up, wake up!” I could hear my mom calling out to me as she simultaneously banged my bedroom door down. I somehow stumbled out of bed, suddenly worried that something bad had happened. These lines are from Chopra’s diary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Apparently, Chopra

decided to keep a record of what was going on in her life earlier this month. “It’s an old-school version … no laptops or iPads for this one,” Chopra told THR. “I simply pen my thoughts, emotions and experiences … I believed it would help me relive and also relish some of the finer moments.”

Nawazuddin Siddiqui blessed with son on 41st birthday

Agency : New Delhi

On his 41st birth-day on Tuesday, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui received what is perhaps his best birthday gift ever. His wife gave birth to a son ; their second child together ; calling for double celebration.The actor, who is mar-ried to Anjali, was shoot-ing in Kashmir for his much-anticipated mov-ie ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ when he was informed about the good news. The delivery happened at his wife’s hometown Jabalpur, said a source close to the critical-ly acclaimed actor. An ecstatic Nawazuddin, already on his way to meet the couple’s new

bundle of joy, said in a statement: “I am happy to become father for the second time. We hav-en’t thought of a name yet. I’m just too happy. It’s going to be a double celebration in the family

from here on.” He con-firmed that the mother and the new-born are fine. Nawazuddin, who forayed into Bollywood with Aamir Khan-starrer ‘Sarfarosh’, has a six-year-old daughter Shora.

Jr. NTR delights fans with the glimpse of his son

Agency : Chennai

Stars unveiling the first look poster and teaser of their films on their birth-days has become a trend. Actor Junior NTR broke the norm by giving his fans the first glimpse of his 10-month-old Abhay Ram on his 32nd birthday on Wednesday. To coin-

cide with his birthday, Jr. NTR unveiled two photo-graphs of his son Abhay Ram on social network-ing website Twitter. “Ju-nior NTR’s fans have been patiently waiting for months to get a glimpse of Abhay. Since no teas-er launch of his film was planned, NTR decided to delight his fans by releas-

ing pictures of his son,” a source close to the ac-tor. Jr. NTR, however, is not the first Telugu actor to set this trend. Recent-ly, Allu Arjun introduced his son, Allu Ayaan, to his fans via Twitter. On the acting front, Jr. NTR is gearing up for a new project with filmmaker Sukumar.

Madhuri Dixit all praises for Tiger Shroff!Agency : New Delhi

Yesteryear dream girl Madhuri Dixit is one of the most loved actresses in the film industry. The dancing diva has won the hearts of millions and it goes without saying that every budding dancer takes inspiration from her and is a role model for many of the contempo-rary superstars. While we can’t get enough of her amazing moves, it looks like Madhuri can’t stop talking about the new kid on the block Tiger Shroff. The Tezaab actor is all praises for the starkid who made his debut with Heropanti (2014). She is

in awe of Junior Shroff and is highly impressed with his dancing skills. The 48-year-old actress has been spotted appre-ciating his dancing skills. She has also expressed admiration for his new dance music video Zind-agi Aa Raha Hoon Main, and feels that Tiger has done a commendable

job in the video and once again, she was left stunned by by his terrif-ic moves. Well, it’s not just his dancing skills she is raving about, but the dhak dhak girl has also acknowledged his histri-onic abilities! Madhuri loves the way Tiger per-forms action scenes on screen.

Agency : New Delhi

After Hrithik Roshan in Bang Bang and Aamir Khan in Dhoom , now its Shahrukh Khan’s turn to amaze the audience with underwater stunts in Ro-hit Shetty’s next come-dy-drama, Dilwale. With his power-packed perfor-mances in action movies

like Don (2006), Don 2(2011), Ra One (2011) and Happy New Year (2014), it seems that the actor does not want to be only known as a roman-tic hero. He is constant-ly trying something new in each of his films. The great underwater stunt will be shot in Mauritius.

Cannes 2015: Sonam Kapoor Sizzless Red Carpet In Ralph & Russo Gown

Cannes 2015: Richa Chadha In Dilemma Over Her Dress

Agency : Cannes

Director Neeraj Ghaywan’s “Masaan” was treated to a five-minute long standing ovation at the Cannes In-ternational Festival, leav-ing the actress teary-eyed. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the prestigious annual movie gala. Starring Richa Chadha, the movie is an Indo-French co-production produced by Manish Mun-dra, Macassar Productions, Phantom Films, Sikhya Entertainment, Arte France Cinema and Pathe produc-tions. “Got teary at the 5 minute long standing ova-tion. Thank you everyone. @ghaywan, first thanks to you,” Richa tweeted

alongside a photo, show-ing people applauding and congratulating the team of the film. Ghaywan also took to Twitter to express his happiness. “Broke

down at the unstoppable applause. Thanks every-one! Missed you so much @anuragkashyap72, editor @nitin_baid, DP @avi-nasharun20! #Masaan.”

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MI canters into the final with a handsome victory

Agency : Mumbai

Mumbai Indians soared on wings of confidence into its third IPL final, beating league-toppers Chennai Super Kings in the first Qualifier. CSK was on course before plunging downhill, managing only 162 in 19 overs to hand the home team an exhilarating 25-run victory. Dwayne Smith flicked and missed at a Lasith Malinga deliv-ery on the leg stump, and then looked around be-mused as the MI fielders ran towards the Lankan in celebration of a leg-before dismissal. Mike Hussey turned aggressor, swing-ing an effortless six off Vinay Kumar high into the mid-wicket stands. The bowler got his man, slanting across for a nick behind. Rohit Sharma de-

cided to take advantage of a turning track by getting Harbhajan Singh angling the ball in from around the wicket. The off-spin-ner brought his expe-rience into play with a match-winning 11th over which saw Suresh Raina scoop a return catch on the second ball. Off the very next delivery, M.S. Dhoni crouched into a

IPL: BCCI secretary assures action against Virat Kohli for meeting Anushka Sharma

Agency : Mumbai

Playing down the con-troversy stirred by Virat Kohli’s interaction with actress girlfriend Anush-ka Sharma during an IPL match, BCCI secre-tary Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said no play-er is above the game and investigations are on in the alleged code of con-duct breach. Royal Chal-lengers Bangalore cap-tain Kohli was spotted chatting with Anushka in the VIP box during a rain break in the team’s game against Delhi Daredevils at the M Chinnaswamy

Stadium. Players are not allowed to interact with anyone other than the dug-out members during a match under the an-ti-corruption guidelines. Thakur assured that the star will be dealt with as per law. “According to the IPL guidelines, the

anti-corruption unit is-sues a notice and they demand explanations. According to it, we did whatever we needed to do. No player is above the game. And whatever the rules of the game say, investigations will hap-

Mumbai FC take on classy East Bengal

Agency : New Delhi

The last time Mumbai FC won an I-League match, the weather around the country was cooler, Ne-pal hadn’t been struck by an earthquake and Aus-tralia were still to win the cricket World Cup. As many as 80 days have passed since Mumbai FC posted a win - a 3-1 ver-

dict over Salgaocar - on the last day of Febru-ary. Thereafter, Mumbai FC have drawn six and lost one -0-6 to Shillong Lajong. Mumbai FC’s struggle to avoid getting drowned in the deep end of the I-League pool has continued. For the record, they are seventh in the 11-team table with 18 points,

but have just one point more than bottom-ranked team Salgaocar. Mum-bai FC, having drawn their last six games, have just two more matches to play. If they don’t win against East Bengal at the Cooperage on Wednes-day, they could be in real danger of facing the axe. East Bengal will be no pushovers. The Kolk-ata team, with 26 points, won’t surely be in the mood to hand any free-bies to Mumbai. They do not have the services of their pivotal player Me-htab Hussain, but they are here to win and earn those three points to en-sure they finish as “high as possible”.

Defending champion Saina seeded second in Australian Open

Agency : Sydney

Defending champion Saina Nehwal has been seeded second in the women’s singles competition of the USD 750,000 Australian Open Super Series badminton tournament that will get underway here on Tuesday. Olympic bronze medallist, Saina had outclassed Spaniard Carolina Marin to clinch her first Super Series crown in 20 months, after coming out on top in the Denmark Open in October 2012. The World No. 2 Indian will take on a qualifier in her campaign opener.The other Indian in women’s singles, World No. 11 P

IPL - 8 : 2015SPORTS ROUNDUP

sweep on the first ball, missed and was gone. Raina’s fall triggered a collapse, sparking cel-ebrations with each dismissal. After Mitch-ell McClenaghan and Parthiv Patel combined to run Dwayne Bravo (20 off 15 balls) out, Jagadee-sha Suchith snapped up Faf du Plessis and it was all over for CSK.

Bangalore vs Rajasthan: Royal battle on cards in IPL Eliminator

Agency : Pune

Sneaking into the play-offs at the last moment, an unpredictable Rajas-than Royals will look to upstage a batting-heavy Royal Challengers Ban-galore in a tough IPL Eliminator in Pune on

Wednesday. The Steve Smith-led side found its rhythm at the business end of the T20 tourna-ment and won a thrilling last league game to enter the final-four after settling at the fourth spot. Austra-lian opener Shane Wat-

son, who was relieved of his captaincy at the final stages of the event, struck an unbeaten 104 in the fi-nal league game to push defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders out of the title race. Opener Ajinkya Rahane is also in top form as the Mum-bai batsman has amassed 498 runs from 13 games to have a strong chance of taking the orange cap from David Warner (562 from 14 matches), whose team SunRisers Hyder-abad failed to make the final-four cut.

Pakistan umpire wants to forget 2009 attackAgency : Lahor

“ Ahsan Raza is look-ing forward to umpiring Pakistan’s match against Zimbabwe, putting be-hind him the morning when he was shot twice in an attack that slammed the door closed on inter-national cricket in Paki-stan. The 2009 ambush by gunmen on Sri Lanka’s team and match officials on their way to Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium killed six people and one of the bullets left Raza with a damaged lung. “I don’t want to look back and

recall what happened six years ago, it was dread-ful,” Raza told The Asso-ciated Press on Wednes-day. “It was not easy (to recover) with so many stitches all around my stomach and one of the bullets even damaged my right lung.” The attack in this eastern Pakistani city killed six police officers and brought a sudden stop to international cricket in the country, one of the world’s leading cricketing nations. Raza was travel-ing in a small bus behind the bus carrying Sri Lan-

ka’s team. That bus was bravely driven through intense gunfire to the protection of the Gaddafi Stadium. The smaller bus also came under intense fire. It was carrying in-ternational umpires Si-mon Taufel, Steve Davis and match referee Chris Broad, as well as Raza. Six years on and 40-year-old Raza wants to forget that dreadful morning of March 3. It took Raza nearly a year to recover completely but he was back on the field as um-pire in 2010.

Gold monetisation scheme: Interest on deposits to be tax-free

Agency : New Delhi

The draft gold moneti-sation scheme also pro-vides for incentives to the banks, while individuals and institutions can de-posit as low as 30 gms of gold, while the inter-est earned on it would be exempt from income tax as well as capital gains tax. The stock of gold in India that is held by peo-ple of the country that is ‘neither traded nor mon-etised’ is estimated to be over 20,000 tonnes, which would be worth about Rs 60 lakh crore at the current market price. A large amount of gold is also held by temples and other religious in-stitutions. However, the

draft scheme does not specifically mention the kind of institutions that would be covered under it. India is one of the larg-est consumers of gold in the world and imports as much as 800-1,000 tonnes of the metal each year. As per the draft guide-lines, a person or institu-tion holding surplus gold can get it valued from BIS-approved hallmark-ing centres, open a Gold Savings Account in banks for a minimum period of one year and earn inter-est in either cash or gold units. The Finance Minis-try has sought comments from stakeholders on the draft gold monetisation scheme by June 2.

Facebook’s plan for WhatsApp: To help businesses to reach out to customers

Agency : New York

Facebook is looking at how WhatsApp can help businesses reach new customers. According to a Bloomberg report, Face-book might allow brands to contact customers through WhatsApp. “We think that enabling that B2C messaging has good business potential for us,” David Wehner, Face-book’s chief financial of-ficer, said at a JPMorgan technology conference Monday in Boston, re-ports Bloomberg. “As we learn those things, I think there’s going to be opportunities to bring some of those things to WhatsApp, but that’s more longer-term than the near-term.” The Bloomberg report adds, “WhatsApp may use

some functions that are being tested with Face-book Messenger.” Face-book bought WhatsApp last year for $22 billion, the biggest deal in tech-nology history so far, and for investors the biggest question has been how Facebook plans to convert WhatsApp into a viable business idea. WhatsApp lost $232 million in the first half of 2014 alone. With WhatsApp, one of the key features has been that the app remains ad-free. Also after the first year users are expected to pay $1 for the app but many of them get an extension to con-tinue using WhatsApp for free. Where busi-nesses connecting with WhatsApp goes, this is not radically new. In In-dia, many restaurants, home delivery services have turned to WhatsApp and users can just send a message via the app plac-ing their order and it will be delivered.

pen according to it and it has been like that al-ways,” Thakur told me-dia at a press-conference on Wednesday. Kohli will lead a 15-member squad in the one-off Test against

Bangladesh starting June 10 in Fatullah. Thakur said he was happy with the team’s performance in the recent past and also sees the beginning of a new era in BCCI.

V Sindhu is unseeded and will face former World Champion Chinese Yihan Wang, seeded eighth, in her opening match. Three Indians will compete in the men’s singles competition with World No. 4 Kidambi Srikanth, who has been

seeded fourth, taking on Danish Hans-Kristian Vittinghus in his opening match. Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap will face Chinese sixth seed Wang Zhengming in a tough match.

BCCI technical committee proposes several changes to domestic cricket structure

Agency : Mumbai

The technical commit-tee of the BCCI met in Mumbai on Tuesday, proposing several chang-es to structures and sys-tems in domestic cricket. First, the Ranji Trophy points system seems set to be overhauled. It has been proposed to abol-ish the current system of awarding 3 points for the first innings lead and 1 point for the other side. Instead, a bonus point will be awarded to a team scoring 300 runs in 85 overs, and a bonus point to a team taking 7 wick-ets in 85 overs. Howev-er, the current system of awarding 6 points for an outright win and a bo-nus point if applicable, will continue. The Du-leep Trophy for 2016 has also been postponed, be-cause India will host the ICC World Twenty20 in March-April 2016. It was also proposed to revamp the current format of the

Deodhar Trophy and have three teams partici-pating - the winner of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, and two teams picked by the national selectors. The Committee praised the ef-forts of the BCCI to curb the menace of ‘chucking’ (illegal bowling actions) and the remedial steps taken in this regard. It has avowed to follow ICC protocols in this regard. The One-Day Inter-State Seniors’ tournament and the Syed Mushtaq Ali

T20 tournament will also be reformated by forming four groups from across the country, as against the current zonal system. “It was a fruitful discussion with an increased focus on strengthening domes-tic cricket. We hope that some of the measures suggested will make do-mestic cricket more inter-esting and challenging,” Anil Kumble , who is the chairman of the Technical Committee, said accord-ing to a press release.

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Ahmedabad Metro scam: Ex-IAS officer sent to prison

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Former IAS officer San-jay Gupta, who is in-volved in the alleged Rs 113 crore Ahmedabad Metro rail scam, was sent to Sabarmati Central Jail in judicial custody on Tuesday. Earlier, the CID (crime) officials pro-duced him before a spe-cial court after their four-day remand ended.Before Gupta was sent to jail, he submitted three applica-tions through his lawyer, including a request to pass a gag order on me-dia reporting on his case. The former bureaucrat, who was the chairman of the Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and

Ahmedabad Company Ltd (MEGA), was arrest-ed by CID on Thursday last week and was sent to police custody for fur-ther investigation. Gupta

and co-accused Radhesh Bhatt were produced be-fore the special anti-cor-ruption court in the morn-ing where the CID didn’t seek his further remand.

100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s Kochrab Ashram marked in Ahmedabad

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corpora-tion(AMC), Gujarat Vidyapith and Guja-rat Sahitya Akademy today marked 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagrah Ashram at Kochrab. This was Mahat-ma Gandhi’s first ashram in Ahmedabad even before Sabarmati Ashram. It was founded in year 1915. Vice Chancel-lor of Gujarat Vidyapith Shri Anamik Shah on this occasion said that Sabar-mati Ashram was born from this ashram at Kochrab. Mahatma Gandhi observed

fast here on 1st June 1015 for the first time as part of his struggle. Champaran satyagrah’s foundations were laid in this ashram. Gandhiji’s favorite Bhajan ‘Pre-mal Jyoti’ was created here. He said the road connecting to Kochrab Ashram and Sabarmati Ashram has been named as Ashram road. People of this city passing through this road should have knowledge of these both ashrams. On this occasion, state Minister Shri Bhupendrasinh Chu-dasama felicitated grand sons and others belonging to family of freedom fighters.

Two Gujarati return safely from IraqSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

They were held captive for months, were not paid full wages, their pass-ports were taken away but thanks to external af-fairs ministry’s interven-tion, Kheda based Jayanti Vanand and Ishwar Patel returned safely from Iraq on Wednesday afternoon at city airport. Vanand and Patel work for a Vat-va based company and had gone to Iraq on a one-year contract for the in-stallation of machines in a plastic manufacturing facility. Vanand and Pa-tel left from Ahmedabad on November 2, 2013 for Baghdad to install ma-chines that the Iraq based company had bought from NAROTO Ma-chines and Moulds India in Vatva in Ahmedabad. “The Iraqi company told our company that they needed people to prop-

erly install the machine and train their workers as well. Our company sent us on one-year contract. Bus as soon as we reached there, our unending or-deal began,” said Ishwar Patel. Patel further said that the Iraqi company officials took away their passports and visa and lodged them in a room. “We were made to work for 12-14 hours a day but were paid for 7-8 hours.

We were not allowed to go out of the facility’s boundary. In between they sent us to Iran for two days and somehow got our visa extended,” said Vanand. When their contract ended in last No-vember, Vanand and Patel were refused passports by the Iraqi company. “The company officials said that till they do not find any proper replacement, they will not let us go.

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.

White tiger population up from 3 to 8 in 6 months at Rajkot Zoo

Correspondent, Rajkot

White lioness ‘Gayatri’ has given birth to four cubs in Rajkot Municipal C o r p o r a t i o n ( R M C ) run Pradyuman Park zoo.Six months ago on November 19, the zoo administration had brought two tigress Yashodhara and Gayatri

and one tiger Divakar from Bhilai zoo in exchange of a pair of lion. On 8 May, tigress Yashodhara gave birth to two cubs. One of them died due to injury when mother Yashodhara tried to carry it by gripping her mouth. Another cub faced injury due to similar reason. After this, the zoo

administration separated cub from mother and gave artificial support for survival. Yesterday morning, another tigress Gayatri gave birth to four cubs. Total number of white tigers in this zoo has increased from three to eight now. All cubs and mother are kept under CCTV observation.

CM concludes China and Hong Kong visit: 3 MoUs signed on last day

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Chief Minister Anandiben Patel continued delibera-tions and discussions with business leaders in Hong Kong. Gujarat govern-ment arm iNDEXTb and China National Building Material Group Corpora-tion signed 3 MoUs for collaboration in afford-able housing, solar panel

manufacturing and build-ing material manufactur-ing. The Chief Minister addressed Gujarat road show that was graced by Secretary for Commerce & Economic Develop-ment of Hong Kong Mr. Gregory So. Chief Min-ister invited Mr. Gregory So to visit India and Gu-jarat with business dele-

gation and explore vast opportunities. Chief Min-ister said, “as 7-day visit to China and Hong Kong comes to an end, I am extremely satisfied with response received from Chinese officials and business leaders. I thank Chinese and Hong Kong governments, especially Guangdong government.

Gujarat govt plans ‘4D drive’ against malnutrition in kidsSunvilla News, Gandhinagar

The state government has decided to launch a statewide drive to curb malnutrition, and address common health problems among children in the state in the 0-6 age group. The government will adopt a ‘4D approach’ for a survey to identify “birth defects, disease, deficiency and de-lays in development,” said an official. From June 1, chief minister Anandiben Patel and all ministers will visit the worst-affected ar-eas of the state in an effort to boost efforts to eliminate malnutrition in the state. Of late, the government has been facing severe

criticism from all quarters regarding the high level of malnutrition in the state. Giving this information, state health commission-er and principal secretary, health and family depart-ment (public health), JP Gupta, said: “We had been doing yearly checkup of students under the school health program. But the state government feels we should focus on malnutri-tion among children right from their birth. Hence, the state government has decided to launch a major campaign from June 1 for a survey of malnourished children in the 0-6 age group.

6 Rajasthan tigers in Kuno, MP afraid of losing lions

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Rajasthan seems to be losing its tigers to Mad-hya Pradesh. The move-ment of tigers from Ranthambore national park in Rajasthan to Ku-no-Palpur wildlife sanc-tuary has established the natural corridor be-tween the two sanctu-aries is functional. In April 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered trans-location of Asiatic lions from Gujarat’s Gir sanc-tuary to Kuno-Palpur. Interestingly, instead of rejoicing over the grow-ing number of tigers in Kuno, forest officials of the state are worried in view of a petition filed by a Gujarat-based NGO, Wildlife Conservation

Trust-Rajkot, pending in the Supreme Court. The NGO has joined as par-ty to the petition filed by the Rajasthan govern-ment claiming that there is a possibility of conflict between the two big cats because a natural corri-dor of movement exists between Kuno and Ran-thambore. Sources in the Gujarat forest department said that the tigers named, T-38 and T-71 — the latter is cub of the tiger named, T-30 — was first pho-tographed in Kailadevi wildlife sanctuary. The same T-71 tiger has now established its territory in Kuno. (Kailadevi national park is a part of the Ranth-ambore tiger reserve.)

Science admission in GU to be onlineSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Gujarat University has be-gun online admissions for the 2,800 seats in seven science colleges in the city, barring St Xavier’s Col-lege. GU stated that stu-dents seeking admission to first year BSc courses will have to apply online, while

allotment of seats at these colleges will be offline. GU has decided to call 500 students every day and will allocate seats according to merit from June 20 to June 27. Officials said science admissions are taken up after the first round of allotment of

seats for the degree en-gineering colleges. Vice chancellor M N Patel ad-mitted that this year there might be problems in ad-missions for students of the Biology Group as around 55,000 students took the board exam against 41,000 last year.

3,000 forms filled for BCom, BBA, BCA coursesSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Around 3,000 students have filled in forms in first two days of admissions to first-year Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Computer

Administration and five-year integrated MSCIT courses. Admissions be-gan on May 18. The uni-versity got around 35,000 admission forms against the 50,000 forms printed last year. The authorities said that last year about 37,000 forms were filled and hence the universi-ty got only 35,000 forms printed this year. Univer-sity authorities said stu-dents will have to fill at least 15 choices of college in the form. “If a student doesn’t provide 15 choic-es, his form will not be accepted by the system,” said vice chancellor M N Patel. He further said that there are 71 colleges with a capacity to admit 71,000 students. Based on the success of these procedures, Gujarat Uni-versity will also imple-ment them for Master of Commerce admissions.

Patel said there will be no separate sports quota reserved, but the univer-sity will give priority to students who have rep-resented the state or dis-trict at the national level or at state-level sports competitions. The vice chancellor said that since students commit errors in filling forms, GU has decided to organize sem-inars at 10 colleges in the city. The first seminar will be at GU senate hall on Thursday. Patel said that the first allotment of seats will be done on June 26, and students will be informed via SMS about their admission. The sec-ond merit list will be de-clared on July 5, he said. Officials said academic studies for the first year will begin from July 1, while second and third year studies will begin from June 15.

Class X exams: Anand’s Bhalej centre reports mass cheating

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Coming under surveil-lance for the second time in a row, after Class XII examinations recently, the Bhalej examination centre in Anand district reported 100 per cent mass copy-ing cases in the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) Class X examinations. The GSHSEB, in its review evaluation, detected a total of 1,971 mass copying cases from the Bhalej centre. Out of these, while 1756 were reported from the closed circuit televi-sion (CCTV) cameras, 215 were detected from

the tablets. Shocking-ly, 1,740 mass copy-ing cases were detected from only one centre in Bhalej taluka of Anand district. These were to-tal candidates who took the Class X examination at this centre. Taking a strong note of this, the board on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to all the 29 invigilators deput-ed at one centre. In addi-tion to the invigilators, notices have been issued to the building conduc-tor as well as the school in Bhalej where the mass copying took place. Af-ter the cheating cases were detected, their re-sults have been withheld by the GSHSEB.