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News BriefPhotographers

capture moments of history: Jaitley

Agency | New Delhi

Union Minister Arun Jaitley today lauded photographers for doing “not an easy” job and capturing “moments of history” as he referred to Dandi March saying many have forgotten the yatra, but it is the imag-es of Mahatma Gandhi walking with stick which reminds all of the event. “There are indeed several visuals which we remem-ber really by the photo-graphic visual and not by deep content of what the event was. Have we not repeatedly seen Gandhiji with a stick in his hand walking? Fire breaks out

in Ludhiana hospital

My son has made me a better person:

Emraan Hashmi

Agency | Ludhiana

A fire broke out at Mo-han Dai Cancer Hospital in Sherpur locality here in the wee hours today. All the patients admit-ted to the hospital were immediately removed to safer places, he said. “Smoke was noticed at around 1.30 AM after which six fire tenders were rushed to the spot to contain the fire,” Fire Officer Raj Kumar said. It took about two hours to bring the fire under control, the officer said, adding that the cause is yet to be ascertained.

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actor Em-raan Hashmi says his six-year-old son has made him a better per-son and a responsible father, besides teaching him to “never give up”. “Ayaan has given birth to a new me. He made me a better person and taught me that life will hit you, it will knock you down on the floor but you have to get up, stum-ble, fall again and then get up but never give up,” Hashmi said while addressing a panel dis-cussion on “Parenthood” at Spring Fever 2016.

Lies are spread against govt on reservations: PM Modi“Ambedkar Memorial Lecture”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In its attempt to address challenges of climate change, the Gujarat gov-ernment has announced it will be spending Rs 25,000 crore in next 10 years. For this, the state government stated all its departments will contrib-ute towards addressing climate change related issues. Minister of State for Energy and petro-chemicals Govind Patel in his address in state as-sembly on Monday said the state government has proposed Rs 2,116 crore on climate change for the year 2016-17 and this amount will be spent by various departments in-cluding agriculture, for-est and energy. “Climate change is the most dis-cussed issue at this time across the world. Gujarat

Sunvilla News | Amreli

Some passengers of a bus and several bikers saw the lioness walking along the bridge at Pipavav and later crossing it, he said. Traffic came to a halt after an Asiatic lioness was spotted roaming on a bridge in Gujarat’s Amre-li district, forest officials said today. The lioness was last night spotted on the bridge at Pipavav under Rajula taluka of Amreli, because of which the traffic movement there stopped for about

No change in reservation policy

Delhi HC stays ban on Corex, D’Cold and other drugs till next Monday

Kanhaiya has qualities like Bhagat Singh, says Shashi Tharoor; BJP gets angry, Cong stays away

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi high court re-strained the government from enforcing a ban on hundreds of drugs for an-other week on Monday until it has heard petitions from drugmakers chal-lenging the order, a law-yer representing some of the firms said. The health department prohibited the manufacture and sale of 344 fixed-dose combi-nation drugs this month, citing experts as saying there was no medical jus-tification to administer them. Several companies, including Indian units of Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer Inc, and domestic firms like Cipla Ltd and Macleods Pharmaceuti-cals, went to the Delhi High Court to try to get

Agency | New Delhi

A controversy erupted on Monday over Congress leader Shashi Tharoor comparing JNU students’ union president Kanhai-ya Kumar, facing sedi-tion charges, with Bhagat Singh, drawing strong criticism from BJP, which accused the former Union Minister of insulting the freedom fighter. During his over 43-minute long speech at JNU campus on Sunday evening, Tha-roor said, “Bhagat Singh was a young man in his 20s with Marxist beliefs who had great passion for motherland. Kanhai-ya has same qualities in common.” The BJP took strong exception to Tha-roor’s comment saying it

Agency | Mumbai

Increased prospects of a lower policy rate and firm Asian shares rubbed off on markets as the Sensex ended in the pos-itive zone for the second straight session by soar-ing 333 points to close at 25,285, a nearly 11-week high. The broader NSE Nifty again went past the 7,700 level. A cautious stance of the US Federal Reserve meaning more capital inflows and the government’s decision

Agency | New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday made it clear that there will be no change in the reser-vation policy for Dalits. He asserted that nobody can snatch their right, and accused his opponents of spreading “untruths” on the issue. The Prime Min-ister also compared Con-stitution architect Dr. B. R. Ambedkar to Martin

Luther King, who fought for the rights of blacks. Mr. Modi was delivering the Ambedkar Memori-al Lecture here. He said, “Nothing has ever hap-pened to reservation for Dalits and tribals when we are in power, but still lies are being spread to mislead people. “When Vajpayeeji became PM, a campaign was run say-ing reservation will be

abolished. He was the Prime Minister for two terms and nothing of that sort happened. “BJP has ruled in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, and Haryana for many years and the quo-ta policy never suffered a scratch. Yet untruths are being spread. People, who are only interested in doing politics, fail to come out of it. “As I had

Lioness spotted on bridge, traffic halts

the ban lifted. On Mon-day, judge Rajiv Sahai Endlaw moved the hear-ing into his chamber from a courtroom packed with lawyers and company ex-ecutives. Archana Sach-deva, a lawyer represent-ing Cipla among other firms, said he had ordered the next hearing on March 28. Abbott is challenging the ban on its popular co-deine-based cough syrup on the grounds it was not

given a chance to defend itself. Combination drugs are used worldwide to improve patients’ compli-ance, as it is easier to get people to take one drug rather than several. But inconsistent enforcement of drug laws in India has led to hundreds of such medicines entering the market based on approval from regulators in indi-vidual states, rather than the central government.

20 minutes. Later, the fe-line got down from the bridge and disappeared. Deputy Conservator of Forest, Amreli Range,

Mohan Rahul said the li-oness, who had possibly strayed from its habitat, did not hurt anybody be-fore it disappeared. Some

passengers of a bus and several bikers saw the li-oness walking along the bridge at Pipavav and later crossing it, he said. Two days back, a 62-year-old man was reportedly mauled to death by a lion when he was camping at Ambariya village in Am-reli. Gir houses about 523 Asiatic lions, as per the census conducted in May last year. Out of the total, 268 lions are in Junagadh district, 174 in Amreli, 44 in Gir-Somnath and 37 in Bhavnagar.

government has formed climate change depart-ment that is working on various issues. But now other departments of the state government will also join this activity and the state will spend Rs 25,000 crore to address the various problems re-lated to it,” Patel said. Informing the assembly Govind Patel stated the departments of agricul-ture and forest department

were working on issues like reduction in methane gas and water harvesting, which would help in ad-dressing climate change. “Gujarat government will spend Rs 50 crore on rooftop solar project in housing in next financial year that will produce 80 million units of renew-able power in the state and decrease use of coal by 60,000 tonnes,” Patel further said.

Gujarat to spend Rs 25,000 cr to address climate change

was an insult to the “great freedom fighter” as well as all patriots of the coun-try. “Bhagat Singh went to the gallows chanting

‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ while fighting for the country’s independence. Compar-ing Kanhaiya Kumar with Bhagat Singh is an insult

to the freedom fight-er and all the patriots. Shashi Tharoor should tell if Kanhaiya is Bhagat Singh, then what are Ra-hul and Sonia Gandhi,” BJP’s Shahnawaz Hus-sain said. BJP leader and actor Paresh Rawal also criticised Tharoor’s IQ for such statement. Raw-al tweeted, “At the cost of repeating myself I must say @shashiTharoor IQ is lower than his shoe size !

said earlier also that even if Ambedkar appears to-day, he cannot snatch this very right of yours. What are we before Baba Sa-heb.“ Laying the founda-tion stone for an Ambed-kar National memorial, he targeted his political opponents, accusing them of “spreading confusion and lies” on the issue and rued that while its

“serves their politics”, such things “weaken” the social fabric of the nation. The Prime Min-ister’s renewed pitch on reservation comes ahead of Assembly polls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry beginning in April. He repeatedly questioned “why it took 60 years” to do it and re-

minded that Ambedkar as law minister had to resign from Jawaharlal Nehru’s Cabinet owing to lack of backing on the Hindu Code Bill that was a pro-

gressive move aimed to codify and reform Hindu personal law in India by giving the women equal rights in many spheres like property.

Sensex takes gains further, soars 333 points on rate cut odds

to slash rates on small savings added to expec-tations that RBI will go the distance and lower rate at its first policy meet of 2016-17 on April 5. Additionally, a lower re-tail inflation at 5.18% in February provides more room for RBI to act, said traders.

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DAYRSS has changed the uniform, not its views

It was the coffee- brown pants that replaced the bil-lowing khaki shorts as the uniform of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that grabbed headlines after the recently concluded annual meeting of the Sangh Parivar (RSS and its affiliates), held in Nagaur, Rajasthan, between March 11-13. A variation in the nonagenarian Sangh’s attire was seen as not just a sar-torial change. It was examined for what it signalled, analysed for subliminal messages and eventually ap-praised as a touchstone of the Sangh’s willingness to change its image from that of an orthodox, archaic outfit. While the Parivar was amused by the attention its new attire fetched, it was comforted by the fact that its resolutions — passed after several amend-ments — pushing for accessible, affordable and qual-ity healthcare and education, and social harmony and its declaration placing women at par with men did not go unnoticed. But should these announcements and the long-awaited change of uniform be read as indicators of the Sangh’s changing stance? Has the Sangh, which has periodically raised and consistently nurtured the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ stepped away from its core ideology? “The changes are cosmetic; they are essentially tokenism. The Sangh continues to be a religious, chauvinistic outfit that still believes that Indian Muslims and Christians are somehow in-ferior, and (live) in an imagined, glorified past where Hindus knew all and showed to the world everything from literature to mathematics and science…so the core of that ideology has not changed,” says Ram-achandra Guha, historian and writer. To be truly mod-ern, the Sangh will have to recognise every individual as equal irrespective of “gender, caste and sexuali-ty” says Guha. For the RSS brass and its cadres too the new uniform, as also the stand on issues such as women’s rights and caste-based quotas, do not sig-nal change. These are not attempts to stay relevant, but simply in line with the Sangh’s ideology of keep-ing up with the times, they say. “We are not rigid and take decisions according to the time,” RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi emphatically stated, announcing the new ‘ganavesh’ (uniform) in Nagaur. He was reluctant to term these decisions as an attempt to woo the youth by raising contemporary issues. It is with complete sangfroid that J Nandakumar, in-charge of the publicity wing, dismisses the charge that the RSS has changed its stand on social issues like wom-en’s right and the need to eradicate casteism, to stay relevant. “More than 20 years ago in Kerala, the Sangh campaigned for those not born in so-called high caste families to be allowed to become temple priests.

“Bhagat Singh went to the gallows chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ while fighting for the country’s independence. Comparing Kanhaiya Kumar with Bhagat Singh is an insult to the freedom fighter and all the patriots. Shashi Tharoor should tell if Kanhaiya is Bhagat Singh, then what are Rahul and Sonia Gandhi,” - India’s former Cabinet minister and the most prominent Muslim

in the predominantly Hindu BJP’s spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Arjun Kapoor, who is gearing up for the pro-motion of his film “Ki and Ka”, says today looks have become important to everybody. “If you are a good actor, all these pressures doesn’t matter. I feel this society has cre-ated this pressure. Looks have become important to everybody. I think, for an actor, you should look the way your character needs you to look. It should not be more or less than that,”

Arjun said. Arjun will be seen playing an IIT grad-uate and a house husband in the R. Balki directorial. Asked about his compari-son with his uncle and ac-tor Anil Kapoor, he said: “When you start, you don’t have a reference point. Suddenly, I came as an actor. Comparisons with Anil stopped after one film.” “There was no similarity to my perfor-mance. I have got flashes of the Kapoors, but then thank God there was no comparison.”

Agency | New Delhi

The Power Star of Tolly-wood had a massive launch event for the audio of Sardaar Gabbar Singh. Pawan Kalyan and his brother Chiranjeevi were the cynosure of all eyes at the event which saw massive crowds. Chiran-jeevi launched the audio officially. The trailer was also launched for the film which is up for release on April 8. Sardaar Gabbar Singh has been scripted by Pawan Kalyan which sees

Agency | New Delhi

Remember those photos of actors Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt that went viral about a week ago in true picture abhi baaki hai mere dost style? Well, the poori picture is finally here and we couldn’t be more thrilled. The High-way girl and Bajirao man,

ambassadors for an online travel portal, offer not one, but two incredible com-mercials with four equally incredible characters that may just convince you to pack your suitcase just so you could meet the kind of people they play. You may also end up wishing for a full-fledged Bunty Aur Babli-type movie with

these two as the leads. Yep, they’re that good. Commercial one shows Alia the taxi driver being interrupted while sipping her cutting chai by a cer-tain ‘babumoshai’ looking for a hotel. The chalu driv-er tries to take the seed-ha-saadha Ranveer for a ride, without him so much as stepping into a cab.

Agency | New Delhi

Dancing diva Malaika Arora Khan remained tight-lipped when asked about the divorce reports from actor-producer hus-band Arbaaz Khan at an event here. The 42-year-old former VJ was in the capital to walk for designer Mandira Wirk at the ongoing Ama-zon India Fashion Week 2016. Dressed in black and beige gown, Malai-ka gracefully smiled and left without giving any details about her mari-tal status. The “Munni Badnam Hui” star was in

Agency | New Delhi

It’s not easy being Abhishek Bachchan. You think you have a diffi-cult life? You have no idea the kind of hardships Abhishek Bachchan fac-es on pretty much a dai-ly basis. There you are, grumpily waking up in the morning thanks to an annoying text informing you about your rapidly haemorrhaging bank ac-count - your bed empty, as it has been for years. Sure, Abhishek Bachchan might have more money than you and yes, you suppose he is married to an ex Miss World, but you still don’t understand how messed up it is to be Abhishek Bachchan. Are you a Twit-

Agency | Dubai

The theme song “Jabra fan” for superstar Shah Rukh Khan starrer “Fan” has now been recorded in Arabic too. The “Fan” anthem has already been recorded in many Indian languages like Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi, Benga-li, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Hindi. Titled as “Ja-bara fan”, Arabic version is sung by Abdelfettah Grini, a Moroccan singer. Shah Rukh, who was seen at the second edition of the Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) here, was one of the A-listers who perfomed on stage to songs from his films like “Chhaiya chhaiya”, “Lungi dance” and even the Hindi version of the “Fan” title song. Af-ter his performance, the “Chennai Express” star introduced Grini on stage and performed along with him, while he sang the Arabic version. Shah

Agency | London

Several personal photo-graphs of the singer Adele were stolen and then dis-tributed online by a hack-er, leaving the 27-year old celebrity furious. The major security breach oc-curred after her boyfriend Simon Konecki’s email was allegedly hacked into. From here, photos of her five-month ultrasound scan, a selfie of the sing-er while pregnant, and an image of her then-new-born son Angelo swad-dled in blankets are said to have been circulated on Facebook, reported Daily Telegraph. Adele is in-credibly protective about her family, including her three-year-old son, which makes the leak of her per-sonal photos even more upsetting for the star. A representative for Adele is yet to comment but it appears the leaked pho-tos have since been taken

Why is Malaika Arora Khan avoiding questions of divorce with Arbaaz Khan?

him paired with Kajal Ag-garwal. The music for the film is by Devi Sri Prasad. The audio launch took place in Hyderabad on Sunday. The two brothers came together after a long

time and even took a selfie that sent fans into a tizzy. Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan were said to have had a strained relationship in recent years but it looks like that is behind them.

Looks have become important to everybody: Arjun Kapoor

high spirits and sashayed down the ramp with con-fidence. Over the last few months, the star couple has been the subject of fevered speculation about their marriage. They have not yet addressed the top-ic publicly. Even the fam-ily members, including

Arbaaz’s father and noted scriptwriter Salim Khan refused to comment on their relationship, saying he does not interfere in the personal lives of his children. Malaika and Ar-baaz have been married for 18 years. They have a 13-year-old son Arhaan.

Pawan Kalyan sets screen on fire in ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’

What Happened When Babumoshai Ranveer Met Taxi Driver Alia Abhishek Bachchan, we know you’re

a Twitter superhero, but please stop

Adele’s Personal Photos Stolen in Latest Celebrity Hack

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Jabra fan’ from FAN recorded in Arabic

ter vigilante? Have you taken it upon your own two shoulders to take the trolls down? Are you the one who’s reminded, ev-ery day, that you haven’t lived up to your fami-ly name and your wife is way hotter than you? No. Because you aren’t Abhishek Bachchan. And when you’re a Twitter vigilante, people will go after your family. That’s

exactly what happened when someone attacked Abhishek Bachchan’s daughter online. What did you expect Abhishek Bachchan to do? Just sit around? Would you just sit around if someone cyberbullied your infant child? No, you’d find them, and beat them to a pulp. Or you might just tweet them back, like Abhishek Bachchan.

down from Facebook, the Daily Telegraph added. Aside from these photos, another image stolen is from Adele’s childhood, which shows her at the bottom of a slide, stick-ing her tongue out. There was also a more recent photo of the singer, lying on a bed with a cham-

pagne bottle and a cig-arette. News of this lat-est celebrity hack attack emerged mere hours af-ter One Direction singer Harry Styles, and model Kendall Jenner, had their intimate holiday photos leaked on Twitter, after Styles’ mother had her iCloud account hacked.

Rukh donned a black shirt and pants while per-forming with Grini, who was seen crooning the number in a black and orange sherwani. “Fan” revolves around a young boy from Delhi named Gaurav essayed by Shah Rukh, who embarks on a journey to the city of dreams, Mumbai, in or-

der to wish his favour-ite actor Aryan Khanna, played by the Bollywood Badshah again, on his birthday. Directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra, “Fan” also fea-tures Shriya Pilgaonkar among others. The film is slated for release on April 15.

The “Fan” anthem has already been recorded in many Indian languages like Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali,

Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Hindi

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

ICC World Twenty20: Here’s what Team India should learn from Virat Kohli

Sunil Chhetri to miss India’s 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifier vs Iran

World T20: Bangladesh urge ICC to lift ban on pacer Taskin Ahmed

Hockey India announces squad for Azlan Shah Cup, star players missing from the line-up

Andre Fletcher unsure of place in West Indies side despite unbeaten 84 against Sri Lanka

Four-day bank holiday begins Thursday: All you need to know

Jewellers get tax notices from excise dept despite govt assurance

Apple, uS govt to face off in court over iPhone privacy

Agency | Mumbai

Gold jewellers and associations across the coun-try called off their 18-day strike over the levy of 1% excise duty on gold jewellery, on late Saturday night after the government’s assurance that they will not be harassed by the tax officials. The gov-ernment also assured the jewellers that they will form a three-member committee to address the concerns, which will submit a report in the next 60 days. However, despite this, some jewellers have already started receiving tax notices from the excise duty department, a report by Business Standard says. The tax notices demand jewellers to furbish details of their balance sheets, details of turnover over the last two years, expected turnover for March 2016, copies of income tax, value add-ed tax and sales returns for 2014-15 and 2015-16. A jeweller who didn’t wish to be named has said in the report, “there’s a huge disconnect between policy makers and the tax officials. We do not want

inspector raj to return to the sector”.

Agency | New Delhi

The four-day long weekend this week means peo-ple will not be able to conduct bank transactions from Thursday as even banks will remain closed. However, online transactions will be possible. For people in Uttar Pradesh, banks will shut down from Wednesday onwards. Banks will be closed for four days in row given the coming successive festivities. The holiday weekend begins with Holi on Thursday, followed by Good Friday and then the fourth Saturday of the month, a designated bank holiday. Lenders however assured that ATMs would be fully loaded to meet cash needs. Banks said they would try to ensure that all ATMs re-mained operational and loaded during these days so that people do not face a cash crunch during the extended weekend, a senior public sector bank of-ficial said, adding that higher denomination notes

would be fed into the machines.

Agency | Los Angeles

The US government and Apple will face off in court on Tuesday in a closely-watched case that could have wide-reaching implications on digital securi-ty and privacy. The crucial hearing before a federal judge in Southern California focuses on the battle between the tech giant and federal investigators who want help from Apple to unlock an iPhone linked to one of the shooters in the December terror attack in San Bernardino, California. “It’s a fight over the fu-ture of high-tech surveillance, the trust infrastructure undergirding the global software ecosystem, and how far technology companies and software developers can be conscripted as unwilling suppliers of hacking tools for governments,” wrote Julian Sanchez, a sur-veillance law expert at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. “It’s also the public face of a conflict that will undoubtedly be continued in secret, and is likely already well underway.” Apple, backed by a broad coalition of technology giants like Google, Facebook and Yahoo, argues that the FBI is seeking a “back door” into all iPhones as part of the probe into the December 2 massacre that left 14 people dead.

Agency | Kolkata

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s media conference at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, after India beat Pakistan for the 11th time in the ICC tournaments, appeared more like he was address-ing his own team-mates. Like a teacher telling his students which classmate of theirs they should em-ulate, pointing to the most scholarly in the class, In-dia captain sang paeans of praise for Virat Kohli’s virtues as a cricketer and sincerely seemed to mean every word he uttered. He made sure the mes-sage went to his other team-mates. For instance, when Dhoni talks of how Kohli handles pressure,

Agency | Bengaluru

West Indies star performer Andre Fletcher, who made an unbeaten 84 in their win over Sri Lanka, on Sunday said he is still un-sure of getting picked for the next match in the ICC World Twenty20. “I can-not answer that (whether you are expecting to open for the team for good). I can’t even say whether I will play the next game. I am keeping my fingers crossed,” he said. Fletch-er, filling in for injured Chris Gayle, played a career-defining unbeat-en knock to help West Indies beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in a Super 10 match. Asked about the side’s chances of lift-ing the cup for the second time, Fletcher said if they

Agency | Greater Noida

A group of dedicated (read fanatic) gamers in India spend a better part of the day creating localised mods for the cult classic ‘Euro Truck Simulator 2’. Thanks to their efforts, it is now possible to spend 90 minutes ferrying a propane tank in a retro camion truck, on a “vil-lage” map with a heav-ily-mustachioed Indian driver. While the dedi-cation is admirable, one wonders why not go for the real thing, with life-like graphics and cold, hard cash instead of vir-tual points? “Zyaada log ye truck driving line mein nahi aana chahte. Pub-lic hum log ko thoda… low class mein dekhte hain,” said Mohd Parvez, a 39-year-old from Mad-hubani, Bihar. (Not many people want to get into truck driving. The public perceives us as being a little low class) “But we

he might as well be tell-ing this to Rohit Sharma: When there is lot of pres-sure, often individuals go for big shots, thinking it to be the best option, but the best way to tackle pressure is to take a sin-gle and go to the other end. That will calm you down. That’s what Dhoni does as well, waiting for

the opportune moment to lash out. Dhoni makes no secret of his admira-tion for Kohli’s hunger to perform and his willing-ness to take up the chal-lenge -- the qualities that make Kohli what he is, a special. These attributes don’t come easily and for that he prepares well, tak-ing care of his fitness.

Agency | New Delhi

Hockey India on Monday announced an 18-member Indian team led by Sardar Singh that will take part in the 25th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup to be held in Ipoh, Malaysia from April 6 to 16. Be-sides India, New Zealand, 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Australia, Paki-

stan, Japan, Canada and hosts Malaysia will be taking part in the annual tournament. While Sardar Singh will lead the team, S Sunil will be supporting him as the vice-captain. Besides two goalkeepers - Harjot Singh and Akash Anil Chikte, the squad will have five defenders: Rupinder Pal Singh, Jas-

Agency | New Delhi

Influential skipper Sunil Chhetri has been ruled out of India’s Fifa 2018 World Cup qualifier against Iran owing to a groin injury, dealing a body blow to the beleaguered outfit’s prospects of putting up a fight. The match for the Russia 2018 World Cup Preliminary Joint Quali-fication Round 2 is slated to be played in Tehran on Thursday. A 22-member team on Monday left for the forthcoming game. Six players from the list of 28 probables, includ-ing injured striker Ch-hetri, didn’t travel with the squad. “We had to take some bold decisions and we have to travel to Tehran without our in-fluential captain Sunil Chhetri,” national coach Stephen Constantine

Agency | Dhaka

Bangladesh have ap-pealed to cricket’s world governing body to lift the suspension on paceman Taskin Ahmed, who was ruled out of the ongoing World Twenty20 in India due to an illegal action. Taskin and left-arm spin-ner Arafat Sunny were suspended from bowling in international cricket on Saturday after being reported by match offi-cials following Bangla-desh’s qualifying match against the Netherlands in Dharamsala on March 9. While Sunny’s elbow extension for the ma-jority of his deliveries exceeded the 15-degree limit, not all of Taskin’s balls were found to be legal, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said while announc-ing their suspensions. “We are not convinced about Taskin as of now.

jit Singh Kular, Kothajit Singh, Surender Singh, Harmanpreet Singh. But star goalkeeper PR Sreejesh and defenders VR Raghunath and Bi-rendra Lakra have been left out from the team of 18 players for the silver jubilee tournament. The midfield will be under the leadership of skillful Sardar and he will be as-sisted by Danish Mujta-ba, Chinglensana Singh, Manpreet Singh, S K Uthappa, Harjeet Singh. While Sunil, Talwinder Singh, Mandeep Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nik-kin Thimmaiah will form India’s forward line.

We don’t have any rea-son to be satisfied with the report,” Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan told re-porters. “And that’s dis-appointing, so we have appealed to the ICC. “They are going to sit down with a team of le-gal experts and will in-form us of their decision as soon as possible.”

Bangladesh, who came through the qualifiers to reach the Super 10 stage, lost to Pakistan in their opening Group Two match last Wednes-day and next face Aus-tralia in Bangalore on Monday. India and New Zealand are the other teams in the pool with the top two advancing to the semi-finals.

don’t take it to heart. This is a job of responsibility and we are trusted with shipment worth crores. That’s a lot of respect.” In a country whose econ-omy depends a great deal on the large trucking net-work, a career as a driver is surprisingly undesir-able. It’s the perception that the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship — backed by the Federation of Motor Sport Clubs of India (FMSCI) and man-ufacturers Tata Motors — hoped to change when 12 Indian truck drivers took to the track at the Buddh International Circuit on Sunday. For the first time

in the event’s three-year history, the international ‘pro class’ drivers were joined by Indians com-peting in the ‘super class’ category. The finalists were whittled down from a pool of over 500 drivers who had to be less than 45, in good physical con-dition and should have driven a tractor-trailer for at least five years. The 132 shortlisted were taken to Chennai where they received training at the Sriperumbudur track. “The fundamen-tal training has helped a lot, not just on the track but on the road too,” said Nagarjuna.

continue with the winning streak, they would lift it again. “Before the World Cup, we knew what we are capable of. We know the strength of our team. We always back ourselves to win the World Cup. It was good to see two wins under our belt. So, once we get to the semifinal we take it from there into the final. For sure once we continue to play cricket we are accustomed play-ing, we would lift the cup

for the second time,” he said. Asked whom they fancy to meet in the final if they qualify, Fletcher said, “It doesn’t matter who comes. We have played everybody. Who so ever the opponent is, we would play them in our style.” Asked about the mood in the camp, Fletcher said it would be good if they win all the matches going into the knockout stage and were treating each match as final.

said. “He will be bad-ly missed.” Chhetri has been ruled out follow-ing a groin injury which he had picked up in the I-League. “The injury is such that it requires him to take necessary care and that requires him to stay back in India and get treated,” Constantine said. A disappointed Ch-hetri couldn’t recall as to when he last missed an international match due to injury. “I was sitting at

my room trying to recall as to when I last missed a national team match for injury. It’s so disap-pointing. It’s such an im-portant match for us and I still can’t believe that I would be missing it,” Chhetri said. “The gaf-fer had a chat with Gigy sir (team physio Gigy George) and decided to leave me out of the squad to enable me time to get treated and get ready for the next game,” he said.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Suspecting infidelity, a retired constable of Cen-tral Reserve Police Force (CRPF) allegedly shot dead his wife and two mi-nor children and later at-tempted suicide, in Hirasar village of Surendranagar district in the wee hours of Monday. The Chotila police said that Bhupat Nakia (50), a CRPF con-stable who had taken vol-untary retirement around two years ago, went on the killing spree past mid-night at his residence in Hirasar village in Chotila taluka of Surendranagar. He first murdered his two children Simran (12) and son Nitin (10) by shoot-ing them in head from point blank range from his licensed .32 revolver, while they were asleep on

Correspondent | Sidhpur

‘Kshatriya Thakor Sena’ led by Alpesh Thakor to-day postponed its block-ade programme after assurance of action and provision of escort from police even though in-stances of stone pelting and mild police action was seen during the 45 minute blockade at some places earlier in the day before it being called off. Supporters of the caste based outfit sat on the Ka-lol Mahesana road in the morning as part of their pre-announced protest blockade of the National Highway 8 from Amir-garh to Kalol in North Gu-jarat against the attack on three members by boot-leggers during their raid on an illicit liquor den last Friday. The outfit ex-pressed displeasure over the police granting bail to

Correspondent | Jamnagar

An alert was today issued in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district by police after they received informa-tion regarding suspicious movement of a SUV in the coastal town of Sikka near here. The red alert was issued across the dis-trict as the police did not want to take chance, after a recent IB alert regard-ing entry of 10 terrorists from Pakistan through Gujarat coastal route, Su-perintendent of Police, Jamnagar, Pradeep Sejul said. “A local informer told us that a SUV with four persons was moving suspiciously near Sikka

Correspondent | Vadodara

Police had to lob tear gas shells late last night to disperse a mob in Ako-ta area of the city where tension continued on the second day following stone pelting by a group on people rejoicing the Team India win over arch rival Pakistan in a match of T 20 world cup played at Eden Gardens of Kol-kata on March 19. Po-lice today said that two auto-rickshaw were also partially damaged in the group clash with one per-son sustaining injury last night. On the late night of March 19, when peo-ple in Jay Bhavaninagar and communally sen-sitive Akota area were rejoicing the Team In-dia win over Pakistan in the crucial encounter, a group of people had

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Anant Ambani, son of Mukesh Ambani was in news on Sunday for re-portedly reducing 70 kg weight. A day before Anant had visited Shri Somnath Mandir in Gu-jarat. Photos clicked there were released to media by local scribes. Pictures showed Anant has re-

duced his weight signifi-cantly. Actually the story is little older. In first week of February early this year Anant had visited Dwark-adhish Mandir in Gujarat. At that time it was report-ed that he had reduced his weight from 208 kg to 98 kg which is reduction of over 100 kg. Photos of Anant were in circulation then also, but just locally.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

At a time when caste res-ervation is hotly debated across political and social circles in the country, Ram Vilas Paswan, the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Pub-lic Distribution, Monday choose to link the need for reservations in the pri-vate sector to “rising nax-alism” in the country. He asked the Modi govern-ment to take “affirmative action” and reserve jobs for SC/STs in the private sector. “What is the rea-son behind the increasing problem of naxalism (in the country)? The reason is that their lands are be-ing snatched away. This land has gold and coal

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Cops issue ‘red alert’ on suspicious vehicle movement in Jamnagar district

Gujarat short of more than 13,000 primary teachers

Retired CRPF jawan kills wife, two children; attempts suicide later

Post Indo-Pak match tension continues, late night stone pelting in Vadodara

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The crime branch team probing the murderous assaults on Lala Thakore and Raju Chandak, has come to learn that gun-men Kartik Haldar and Sanjay alias Sanju had used an isolated place near Asaram’s ashram in Motera as a shooting range to check their skills and weapons. Soon after, they began to attack wit-nesses against Asaram and his son. Investigators said that in 2009, when the attacks on Chandak and Thakore were car-ried out, Asaram was not in jail, and hence they will verify whether he had instructed the killer

squad in person. Haldar, arrested recently by Gu-jarat police from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, has al-legedly confessed that K D Patel, another staunch follower of Asaram, had provided Rs1 lakh to pur-chase weapons, said a senior police official. Ac-cording to crime branch sources, Sanju, a resident of Malegaon in Maha-rashtra, bought a pistol in 2009 for the same pur-pose. “Both then went to an isolated place near the Asaram ashram in Motera and fired a few shots to check out their skills with the weap-ons,” said a crime branch source.

Paswan links rising Naxalism to reservation in private sector

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Amid frequent allega-tions by Congress about deteriorating quality of education in Gujarat due to lack of teachers, the state government has admitted a shortfall of more than 13,000 teach-ers in the state-run pri-mary schools. As per the data tabled by the government in the Gu-jarat Assembly recently, a total of 1,67,461 pri-mary school teachers are working against the total sanctioned strength of 1,80,601 teachers across the state. These figures indicate 13,140 posts of primary teachers are still lying vacant in the state.

The district-wise data has revealed that remote districts of Kutch and Banaskantha followed by tribal districts of Panch-mahal and Dahod are the worst hit in terms of vacant posts of primary teachers. In Kutch, 2,724 posts are lying vacant while 1,741 posts are not filled up in Banaskantha. These districts were fol-lowed by Panchmahal, where 935 posts are va-cant, and Dahod, where 912 teachers are not re-cruited yet. As per anoth-er set of data tabled in the Assembly by the BJP-led state government, there is a shortfall of more than 2,400 teachers of math-ematics and science sub-

jects in upper primary schools (6 to 8 standard). The data suggested that the government is yet to recruit 2,413 teachers who can teach maths and science subjects in gov-ernment-run upper prima-ry schools across the state. Banaskantha once again topped the charts with a shortfall of 404 teachers for the above subjects, followed by Panchmahal (382), Ahmedabad (230) and Dahod (203). The issue of vacant posts of primary teachers has been raised several times by Congress in and outside the Assembly, as the Op-position alleged that the government was not do-ing enough in this regard.

After scuffle and police assurance ‘Thakor Sena’ calls off blockade

Gunmen had practice yard near Motera ashram: Cops

beneath it. You dig it out and shoo them away. The youth then takes up the wrong path… So it is nec-essary to provide reserva-tion in the private sector,” said Paswan who was in Ahmedabad to hold a re-view meeting of officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI) in Gujarat. “We want affirmative action to be taken in this regard. If a private com-

pany is taking funds from the government, then such companies should implement the SC/ST res-ervation in their firms,” Paswan added. “This was our demand earlier, it is our demand even now,” the minister said adding that jobs can be reserved for Class III and Class IV levels so as to provide eq-uitable reservation to the backward sections of the

society. These comments from the minister comes at a time when several voices from the RSS and leaders from the ruling NDA government have public spoken out about a “rethink” on the cur-rent caste-based reserva-tion policy. Claiming that the “Modi government was giving top priority to Babasaheb Ambedkar, Ram Vilas Paswan said the current government is building memorials of the Ambedkar at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh where the leader was born, at Ra-jghat, Nagpur, at Mumbai where his last rites were performed and at London.

town. One person, who was holding a weapon, handed over some bag to a person in a highly sus-

picious manner. “Taking no chance given the re-cent terror alert issued by the central IB, we have

issued red alert so that we can put up check points and search vehicles,” Se-jul said. Following the red alert, security check points were set up across the district, especially to monitor the entry and exit of vehicles and search them on ground of sus-picion. Police patrolling was also enhanced, the SP said. Ahead of ‘Maha Shivratri’, a terror alert was issued in Gujarat which said 10 terrorists had entered the state and their likely target was Somnath temple.

the accused. Today scuf-fle between police and the blockaders also took place on Kalol Mahesana road. In another incident near Brahmadvada in Un-jha taluka of Mahesana district in North Gujarat police lobbed tear gases to remove another set of blockaders when they pelted stone on them. Later, when Alpesh Tha-kor got assurance from police officers near Na-tional Highway 8 in Sidh-pur regarding making police escort available to his outfit during its future

raids on illegal liquor dens and action against the policeman who al-legedly misbehaved with him, he called off the blockade for now. Tha-kor said that the police accepted all our three demands including strict action against attack-ers, disciplinary action against three policemen who misbehaved with us and providing police protection to our raid teams. ‘Following which I called off the blockade after 45 minutes from its beginning,’ he said.

an altercation with an-other group. Police had controlled the situation on the first night. Again last night the situation became tense with stone pelting between two groups. Senior police of-

ficials including JCP D J Patel rushed to the spot. The situation was later controlled. Extra police force has been deployed in the area to check any possible repeat of the in-cident.

Anant Ambani gets slimmer, his latest Somnath visit attracts media attention

the terrace of their home at around 12:30 am. The police said that the chil-dren died on the spot. Hearing the gunshots, his wife Daya (46) who was sleeping beside the chil-dren woke up and tried to wrestle away the weapon from Nakia. However, the former trooper shot his wife thrice in torso and once in head, killing

the woman on the spot as well. Later, Nakia tried to commit suicide by hitting himself with an axe on head. But neigh-bours prevented him and rushed him to a hospital in Chotila. From there, he was later referred to PDU General Hospital in Ra-jkot, where his condition was reported to be out of danger.