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Punjab to book e-commerce

companies selling e-cigarettes

Agency : Chandigarh, May 21

Punjab government to-day directed district police chiefs to lodge FIRs against e-com-merce companies sell-ing electronic cigarettes despite a complete ban on sale of this product in the state. State Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani said the govern-ment would register FIR against e-commerce companies for openly selling e-cigarettes in the state thereby influ-encing the youth, espe-cially school children.

Kamal Chawla gets top billing

Agency :Kolkata, May 21

India’s leading cueists including the likes of Kamal Chawla, Alok Kumar, Manan Chandra and local lad Sourav Kothari will vie for top honours in the fourth and final leg of the RKG 1st Open Pro-Snooker Series 2015 from May 23-June 5. Chawla has been given the top billing in the field, which will also have Faisal Khan, Varun Madan, Rafath Habib, Laxman Rawat, Shivam Arora, Lucky Vatnani, Ishpreet Chadha, Rahul Sachdev alongwith Kolkata’s Brijesh Damani, Shahbaaz Adil Khan, Manish Jain, Shoaib Khan, Amir Hussain, Kingshuk Saha among others.Manipur bandh

to protest against alleged encroachment

Agency : Imphal, May 21

A 24-hour Manipur bandh has been called from midnight tomor-row to protest against alleged land encroach-ment by Nagaland at Manipur’s boundary with its neighbour at Dz-uko Valley in Senapati district.A press release to this effect was issued by the Committee for Kozii-rii-Dzuko Land Bound-ary Resolution (KDLBR) in association with Mao Council (MC) and Civil Society organisations of Mao area of Senapati dis-trict district yesterday.

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Car overturned, five of a family died near SuratAgency : Surat

HThe family of textile traders was returning from Rajasthan to their home in the city. Two persons suffered severe injuries in the accident and are under treatment. Due to the accident tex-tile market area of city was gripped in deep shock and many gath-ered at the hospital to support the surviving members. Families of

Indramal Rajpurohit and his brother-in-law’s son Shravan Rajpurohit were returning from Rajasthan when their car Maruti Su-

zuki Swift GJ-1-KJ-8070 overturned near Kosamdi village on Surat Kadoda-ra canal road off national highway 8. Shravan was

driving the car and lost control over it at around 6.45 am. The car wheel first hit a rock on side of the road and later hit a tree on road side. The vehicle over turned and the travellers suffered se-vere injuries in head. In the accident, textile trad-er, Indramal, 47, his son Chandan, 19, daughter Ekta, 10, Shravan’s wife Hushila, 24, eight month old son Vansh died. Shra-

van and Indramal’s wife Suman are currently un-der treatment in hospital. Their condition is criti-cal, police informed. In

the accident Vansh and Ekta had died on the spot while other victims died after being shifted to hos-pital. The injured were

admitted to Surat Mu-nicipal Institute Medical Education and Research (SMIMER) where three of them died.

Five from a textile trader family died in an accident near Kamrej in outskirts of the city on Thursday morning.

Dharamsala gangrape complaint found false, police say complainant’s motive being probed

Agency : Dharamsala

An alleged incident of gangrape that triggered student protests in the picturesque Himachal Pradesh town was a rumour circulated via social media, police said on Thursday. The students said they protested on the basis of a complaint lodged with the principal of a college by a woman last Saturday, who had allegedly said her sister was in hospital after five men gang-raped her. The news of the gangrape had gone viral on social media. But police called the allegation false as the complainant said during questioning that her only sibling was a brother, thereby ruling out the premise on which the

rape complaint was made. The girl, named as the victim by the complainant, was identified and it was found that the two were not related, police said. The alleged victim told the police that no such incident happened and the complainant might have spread the rumour to malign her. As protests continued in the hill town on Thursday, the district chief of police issued

a statement clarifying the matter. “We want to confirm that no such incident has taken place in Dharamsala,” Kangra superintendent of police Kapil Sharma said. Sharma said a special investigation team (SIT) was constituted after the allegation surfaced and the complainant was identified with the help of the college principal and some students.

IAF’s Mirage-2000 lands on Yamuna Expressway in successful runway trial

Agency : New Delhi

The Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully test landed a Mirage-2000 on the Yamuna Expressway near Mathura on Thurs-day as part of its trials to use national highways and civil airstrips for emergency landing by its fighter jets in future. “The aircraft made a practice approach on the high-way, coming down to a height of 100 metres be-fore landing off the next approach. The operations were conducted with ac-tive support from the gov-ernment of Uttar Pradesh, Yamuna Expressway Au-thority, toll authorities of JP Infratech and the civil police,” the IAF said in a statement soon after the landing. This first ever road landing by the IAF came close to Saturday’s test landing by two Mi-rage-2000 aircraft on an airstrip in Saifai village in Etawah.Hindustan Times was the first to

report about the deal be-tween IAF and the state government to convert the upcoming Agra-Luc-know Expressway as In-dia’s first road runway and the Saturday’s land-ing.The Uttar Pradesh government had given a green signal on May 11 to convert a 3 km stretch of the upcoming Agra-Lucknow Express-way into a full-fledged road runway to the air force.Just as the Saifai landings, the IAF kept the operation secret and only took the authorities concerned on board. The

IAF had prohibited all kinds of photography—still or video and de-ployed its photographers and videographers. The Mirage-2000, a sin-gle-engine fourth-gen-eration jet fighter man-ufactured by France’s Dassault Aviation, that landed on the express-way reportedly took off from the Gwalior squad-ron of the IAF as did the two others that landed in Saifai. The multi-role combat jet landed close to 118 milestone of the Yamuna Expressway at about 6:40am. The ex-

Mumbai firm rejects Muslim candidate’s job application; probe ordered

Agency : Mumbai

A Mumbai-based dia-mond export company has allegedly rejected the job application of an MBA graduate because he is a Muslim, prompt-ing the National Com-mission for Minorities to take up the case of religious discrimination, news reports said on Thursday. The controver-sy erupted after the MBA graduate Zeshan Ali Khan posted a screenshot of the mail from the com-pany, on his Facebook page, forcing the firm to issue a clarification and

apology, reports said. “Thanks for your applica-tion. We regret to inform you that we hire only non-Muslim candidates,” the mail purportedly sent by the company said. Lat-er on Thursday, taking a serious note of the inci-dent, Maharashtra chief

minister Devendra Fad-navis ordered a probe and Mumbai police registered a case against the busi-ness house. According to news reports, on Wednes-day Khan received a “re-gret” e-mail from a senior executive of the compa-ny, Hare Krishna Exports

ercise was done in coor-dination with the district magistrates and superin-tendents of police Agra and Mathura and nec-essary tie up was car-ried out for activation of the selected stretch, the statement said.

Pvt. Ltd. “We would like to clarify that the compa-ny does not discriminate against candidates based on gender, caste, religion, etc. Any hurt caused in the matter is deeply regret-ted,” the reports quoted Mahendra S Deshmukh, associate VP & Head-HR of the company as say-ing. The company official also passed on the blame to one “Mrs Dipika Tike, who has joined recently and is still on training.” The reports quoted the rejected applicant as say-ing, “Initially, I thought it was a joke.

Geelani’s passport application will be processed on merit: MHA

Agency : New Delhi

The request of hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for pass-port will be processed on “merit” depending on completion of “formali-ties” by him, the Union Home Ministry said on Thursday, amid a row over the issue that has di-vided the ruling coalition partners People’s Demo-cratic Party and Bharati-ya Janata Party in Jammu and Kashmir. “Passport is the right of every Indian citizen and is issued by the Ministry of External Affairs after following due process. In case any applicant applies for the passport, he should fulfil all the formalities before his case is processed. As and when the matter is referred to the Minis-try of Home Affairs, we will process the case on

merit,” a Home Minis-try spokesperson said. The PDP and the BJP are sharply divided over the Geelani passport is-sue. The PDP has said it would approach the Cen-tre for giving passport to Mr. Geelani on “humani-tarian” grounds while the BJP has said he should not be given the travel document till he “apolo-gises” for his anti-nation-al activities. Sources said Mr. Geelani and his fami-ly members want to trav-el to Jeddah and have ap-plied for passports online. But he has not yet visited

the regional passport of-fice in Srinagar to give his biometric data and clicking the photograph. As per the new rules, an applicant must visit the passport office in person to give biometric details and click the photograph. Sources said after Mr. Geelani visits the pass-port office to complete the formalities, his appli-cation will be sent to the Ministries of Home and External Affairs for their comments as he falls in ‘prior security clearance’ category for issuing of a passport.

- Nestle said that it has submitted samples to an an independent laboratory and will provide those results to officials.

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“My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist,”

In a blatant case of religious discrimination, a Mum-bai-based diamond export company has rejected the job application of a business management graduate on the grounds that he is a Muslim, prompting the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to take up the matter. Zeshan Ali Khan posted a screenshot of the “regret” email from a senior executive of the company on his Facebook page, which led to a na-tional outrage. “Thanks for your application. We regret to inform you that we hire only non-Mus-lim candidates,” read the mail sent by Hare Krish-na Exports Private Limited company, which enjoys global presence. Later lawyer and activist Shehzad Poonawalla filed a complaint to the NCM, Union Home Ministry and Chief Minister of Maharash-tra, seeking justice for the alleged case of discrim-ination. NCM chairperson Naseem Ahmed has ac-knowledged receipt of the petition. “If it is true, it is really unfortunate. We have received the petition this morning only and as per our set procedure, we will call for the comments of the respondent compa-ny and based on their response, we will decide the course of action,” Ahmed told Gulf News. The Modi government has taken notice of Zeshan’s case. “The Constitution of India forbids discrimination on the basis of religion or caste. A company can hire or fire anyone on the basis of merit, not on the basis of re-ligion,” Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Thursday. Hitting out at the Modi government, Zeshan told Gulf News over phone, “our Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about inclusive growth, but the reality is that private companies do not care about it. The compa-ny could have rejected me if they found I was not qualified enough. But they have rejected me simply because I am a Muslim. Sounds like a joke.” “At a time when PM Modi is visiting foreign countries and inviting them for investment and pushing ahead the ‘Make in India’ campaign, the leading export houses are rejecting local candidates for their religion,” he emphasised. Zeshan added that he will not accept a job from this company. “The executives of the com-pany called me today and said it was a typing error. They want me to believe it was a mistake. How can there be a mistake of such nature. I will never accept a job from this company,” he averred. Reacting to this, Zeshan’s father Ali Ahmed said that Muslims have been left behind in the process of development. “Religion cannot be a criterion for rejection from job. Only merit and demerit is the criterion. I never thought we will be treated in this manner. This is a clear cut case of religious discrimination. They always say Mus-lim families do not educate their children but I did. We condemn the policy of that company not allowing Muslims to work for them,” Ahmed said.

Eva Mendes’ first selfie for a noble cause

“We are aware of reports that tests by the local authorities have detected Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in a sample of MAGGI Noodles ...People can be confident that MAGGI Noodle products are safe to eat.”

Agency : New Delhi

Actress Jacqueline Fer-nandez, who will be seen in British horror thriller ‘Definition of Fear’, says she is a performer and finds it exciting to learn new things. “We consid-er ourselves a performer

and an artist. It is a beau-tiful thing to do other cin-ema as well. For me, be-ing a Sri Lankan, I came to Bollywood and I am doing a cinema which is not known to me. It is not from my home country, so it is just nice when you

can expand and learn. It is a beautiful thing,” said Jacqueline here. A string of actors from Hindi cin-ema are trying their luck abroad. While Priyanka Chopra is doing an Amer-ican TV series ‘Quantico’ in the West, Nargis Fakhri is making her Hollywood debut with ‘Spy’. In the past, Big B Amitabh Bachchan did a cameo in the Hollywood film “The Great Gatsby”, while Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan have featured in multiple Hollywood projects. “I just think that everything has become a lot more globalised now. Different actors from all over the word are doing different cinema and different things as well. Actors are not just getting into different cine-ma, they are actually get-ting into different walks of life... they are singing or they might be doing vari-ous things,” the Sri Lank-an beauty said on the side-lines of a brand promotion here on Wednesday.

Shahid gifted Mira Rajput a whopping Rs. 23 lakh solitaire

Agency : New Delhi

Shahid Kapoor is showering his wife-to-be Mira Rajput with gifts ahead of their wedding. The Haider actor gifted Mira a self-customised solitaire ring worth Rs. 23 lakh. Shahid definitely knows that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. “It

was custom-made and was ordered from a jeweller in Delhi itself. Shahid had kept Mira’s taste in mind and had personally picked the design and had ordered it much in advance. It costs a whopping Rs 23 lakh”.Reports suggest that Roka ceremony of the couple, where they exchanged rings, took

place at Mira’s residence in Chattarpur (Delhi) on May 16. They also cut the cake with their photo imprinted on it. Only the close friends of both the families were invited. It is said that the couple has planned for a lavish destination wedding in Greece. The wedding is supposedly planned for June 10.

Shikha Joshi suicide case: Police record cosmetic surgeon Vijay Sharma’s statement

Agency : Mumbai

The Mumbai police today recorded the statement of Dr Vijay Sharma, the cos-metic surgeon allegedly named in the dying state-ment of model-actress Shikha Joshi who com-mitted suicide last week. Versova police here re-corded Verma’s statement for nearly three hours, a police officer said. Joshi had earlier alleged that Sharma molested her when she visited his clin-ic in suburban Khar. Se-nior inspector of Versova police station Ravindra Pawar refused to reveal what Sharma told the po-lice.However, another of-ficer said on the condition of anonymity said that police were probing all the angles, including the

possibility of foul play-Apart from Dr Sharma, police have recorded the statements of seven wit-nesses including Shikha’s room-mate Madhu who recorded Shikha’s state-ment on her cellphone while the actress lay bleeding after slashing her own neck.According to the official, the actress was taken to the hospital

more than an hour after she slit her throat in bath-room of the flat where she lived. “This delay, police suspect, was fatal,” he said. Shikha Joshi (40), who had appeared in the 2013 film BA Pass, al-legedly committed sui-cide by slitting her throat at a MHADA colony flat in suburban Versova on Saturday evening.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: My brand associations not mere photoshoots

Agency : Cannes

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who is associated with global cosmetic brand L’Oreal Paris for over a decade, feels thankful that her brand association is not merely about photoshoots. She is glad it offers an “op-portunity to get in touch with the artistic aspects of the business as well as in-teraction with its top per-sonalities” “I am very very thankful that my associa-tions are not just for pho-toshoots or endorsements for a brand. If you are ac-tually a part of such brand for a long time, you end up having many things,” the former beauty queen said on Wednesday in a vid-eo chat from Cannes with the media here. “Yes, we walk the red carpet here (as ambassadors of L’Ore-al Paris), get a touch of artistic aspect of this busi-ness like styling, makeup,

designers, wear gowns... but at the same time, we get an opportunity to inter-act with the top people of the business,” added the

actress, who shared the frame with leading lights like Salma Hayek and Eva Longoria, among others, at the Cannes gala this year.

Telling tales via journeys: Bollywood’s latest routeAgency : New Delhi

Be it a train journey in “Chennai Express”, the National Highway journeys in “High-way” and “NH10”, a father-daughter jour-ney from Delhi to Kol-kata in latest entertainer “Piku” or a cruise trip in the forthcoming “Dil Dhadakne Do” - Bol-lywood filmmakers are telling fresh tales set around journeys, mode notwithstanding. This has also helped them to move away from studios and explore real locales. A case in point is the ab-

solutely splendid shot Rohit Shetty took of the Dudhsagar Falls in Goa. Then, there are shots of places like Varanasi which Shoojit Sircar has captured in “Piku”. This adds a distinct look to their stories and a wel-come change is the fact

that they are mostly looking within the coun-try for their locations. Of course, exceptions like “Queen” and Zoya Akhtar’s “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” and “Dil Dhadakne Do” are al-ways there. They’re en-tertaining, nevertheless.

Agency : New Delhi

Hollywood actress Eva Mendes has taken her first selfie after joining Instagram.The maid-en selfie has been tak-en for a good cause as she was seen in the im-age, donning a T-shirt that said, “Hope and prayers for Andrew Wilson”, reported Ace

Showbiz.Andrew Wil-son is a 17-month-old boy battling Neuroblas-toma, a form of cancer mostly found in infants and young children. he 41-year-old actress is supporting his family by helping to raise money to cover medical and liv-ing expenses as Andrew undergoes treatment.

Jacqueline Fernandez: Good to learn new stuff Is Ranbir Kapoor feeling insecure after Bombay Velvet debacle?Agency : New Delhi

It seems actor Ranbir Ka-poor is still rattled by the failure of Bombay Velvet, his third flop in a row after Besharam and Roy. In an interview to NDTV, Ka-poor bared his heart on his state of mind post the film’s release. “There’s a sense of insecurity that’s starting to trend inside of me. I’m feeling a sense of friction where I really don’t know what’s happening with my career. I know what’s hap-pening with my work but I don’t know what’s going to happen with my career.”

Bombay Velvet, which was expected to hit the jackpot at the box office, failed miserably. It garnered Rs 5.20 crore on the first day of its release and recorded a meagre Rs 20.97 crore in its first week. The film’s bud-get was said to be in excess

of Rs 100 crore. Ranbir Kapoor’s upcoming films Tamasha and Jagga Jasoos are also big budget films, and thus the pressure on him to deliver a blockbuster is going to remain the same in the coming months as well.

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Pleased India sending full-strength teams to Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza

Agency : Dhaka

Bangladesh cricket cap-tain Mashrafe Bin Morta-za is happy that India has announced full-strength squads for its tour next month. The Board of Control for Cricket in In-dia (BCCI) on Wednes-day named a Virat Kohli-led Test side and an One-Day International (ODI) squad captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The announcement end-ed speculation of India resting their top players. Mashrafe said he had been hoping that India would bring their strongest team to Bangladesh. “Every-one had been hoping for their best team. We knew any India team would be

a challenge. As it’s their full team, the challenge is even greater,” Mashrafe said on Thursday. Indi-an selectors have pinned their hopes on their World Cup team that beat Bangladesh in the quar-terfinal at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in March. “The ODI squad is quite identical to the World Cup’s. Only (Mohammad) Shami isn’t

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there due to injury. Their batting is undoubtedly the world’s No.1. It will be a huge challenge for our bowlers,” said the skipper. Right-arm seam-er Dhawal Kulkarni has been drafted in to replace pacer Shami. India toured Bangladesh last year for three ODIs in which they rested Dhoni and Kohli and sent a team led by Suresh Raina.

Saina Nehwal regains top spot in world rankings

Agency : Pune

SStar Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal on Thurs-day regained the num-ber one spot in the latest BWF world rankings released. Saina, who se-cured the number one spot for the first time early last month, slipped from the coveted posi-tion subsequently. The Olympic bronze medal-list, however, climbed to the number one rank-ing on Thursday once again ahead of the Aus-tralian Open, starting on May 26. Defending champion in the Austra-lian Open Super Series,

Saina would be tak-ing on a qualifier in her campaign opener. Mean-while, P V Sindhu lost a position to be on 12th place. In men’s singles,

K Srikanth has retained his fourth place. Even P Kashyap and H S Parn-noy also maintained their 13th and 15th positions, respectively.

De Villiers, Mandeep star in Bangalore’s easy win against Rajasthan in IPL Eliminator

Agency : Mumbai

AB de Villiers com-bined with Mandeep Singh for a game-chang-ing partnership as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) eliminated Rajas-than Royals (RR) from the 2015 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a splendid 71-run win in Pune on Wednesday.De Villiers hit a brilliant 38-ball 66 and shared a match-win-ning 113-run stand with Mandeep Singh (54 not out) as Bangalore re-covered from a sluggish

start to post a challenging 180 for four after elect-ing to bat.Rajasthan had the proceedings firmly under their grip but they leaked 86 runs in the last six overs to let it slip.De Villiers’ 66 came off 38 balls with four six-es and as many fours while Mandeep took 34 balls for his unbeaten 54, which had seven fours and two sixes.Rajasthan never looked convincing in their chase as they kept losing wickets and even-tually folded for just 109 in 19 overs, built around Ajinkya Rahane’s fight-

ing 42.Rajasthan’s sur-prise capitulation reduced it to a lop-sided affair and their total was the low-est in the IPL playoffs.Bangalore will now play against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the sec-ond Qualifier on Friday, the winner of which will lock horns with Mum-bai Indians (MI) in the summit clash on Sunday. Rajasthan lost in-form Shane Watson (10) and Sanju Samson (5) cheap-ly and the onus was on Rahane and skipper Steve Smith to bring the side back in the contest.

New India coach should be able to take charge of Virat Kohli’s temperament: Bishan Singh Bedi

Agency : New Delhi

Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi feels that BCCI needs to ap-point a “strong coach” to guide the temperamental Test captain Virat Kohli, who has courted a lot of off-field controversies in recent times. “I believe Virat needs a good coach, who will be an able guide. That coach should be able to take charge of his tem-perament. He (Kohli) is so impulsive and it needs to change. Crick-et is not kabaddi or kho-

kho. If you want to play the game for a long time, you should be in control of your temperament,” the legendary left-arm spinner during an inter-action on Thursday. Bedi is not too happy with a section of media eulogis-ing Kohli’s “aggressive attitude”. “Media creat-ed this image of Kohli and media will destroy him also. He needs to be very careful. Every move of his will be monitored consistently. Wheth-er he is holding the fork in the right or left-hand

will also be scrutinised,” said Bedi, who is known for expressing his frank views. Asked whether there are strong person-alities who can comple-ment Kohli’s aggression and in-your face attitude, Bedi did not give a direct reply. “Look how Ravi Shastri and Sourav Gan-guly look at Kohli, might be completely different from how Sachin Ten-dulkar and Rahul Dravid look at him. Look cricket is a sport that teaches you humility and a lot of good values,” said Bedi.

IOA ticket blunder: Sad that no one from a nation of 120 cr will cheer us at Rio 2016, says Yogeshwar

Agency : New York

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A beautiful city in a beau-tiful country that is filled with tourists around the year. The city, which is hosting the next Olym-pic Games in August next year, naturally becomes a perfect holiday destina-tion for sports fans who like to travel. Tough luck, if you are from India though. In a gaffe that is sure to disappoint sports fans across the country, the Indian Olympic Asso-ciation (IOA) has failed to reserve their quota of tickets with the interna-tional body for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The tickets won’t go on sale in India, as reported by Headlines Today, since the IOA missed deadlines to complete the paper-

work with Internation-al Olympic Committee (IOC), despite their re-peated reminders. While the fans are at an obvious loss, the athletes are af-fected too. 2012 Olym-pic Bronze medallist, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt is extremely disappoint-ed by this IOA blunder. “It’s a sad thing. It makes a lot of difference when our own people come and

cheer us in the stadiums,” Yogeshwar told Firstpost. “We will feel sad if there is no one in the stands. A nation of 120 crore and no one from India to cheer is sad. When there is no support, it surely af-fects our performance.” Yogeshwar also said that there was a need for bet-ter administration from the IOA in face of this shocking lase.

Cook Agrees with Decision to Bar Pietersen from England Team

Agency : London

Alastair Cook denied Wednesday he gave an ul-timatum to England man-agement to relieve him of the captaincy if Kevin Pi-etersen was recalled, but agreed with Pietersen’s extended exile from the team. Cook’s comments at Lord’s, on the eve of the first test against New Zealand, were his first in public on the recent tur-moil in English cricket. Former captain Andrew Strauss was appointed di-rector of cricket and im-

mediately sacked coach Peter Moores, and told Pietersen, discarded since the 2013-14 Ashes se-ries, that he would not be considered until after the summer campaign. “I do agree with the decision,” Cook said of barring Piet-ersen. He declined to say why, with some despair. “This has been going on for 15 or so months. We’ve got to start really looking forward, we have to really, really focus on what’s important to us (as players).

Allround Mumbai Indians blow away Chennai Super KingsAgency : Mumbai

Lendl Simmons, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga all sparkled today as Mum-bai Indians continued their stunning turnaround in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2015 and sealed their spot in the final of the multi-starrer tourna-ment. Simmons gave his side the perfect start, lay-ing a strong foundation which Pollard capitalized to the hilt. The allround-er slammed a blitzy 41 to give his side a daunting total of 187/6. Defending the total and with a noisy Mumbai crowd support-ing them, MI started well, but needed a superb spell from Harbhajan, including the dismissals of Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni off consecutive

deliveries, to take full control of the game. Ma-linga ensured there was no fairytale comeback by CSK towards the end as he wrapped up the game with two quick wick-ets. Mumbai went on to claim a comfortable win - by 26 runs - and earn a deserved four-day break ahead of the final. Chas-ing 188 to take the direct

route to the final, CSK suffered an early blow when Dwayne Smith was at the receiving end of a horror LBW call in the very first over. Mi-chael Hussey and Faf du Plessis scored brisk-ly to put their side back on track, but Vinay Ku-mar accounted for the Australian to give MI to edge again.

SpiceJet raises additional Rs 300 cr funding, co-founder Ajay

Agency : New York

Budget carrier SpiceJet, which was on the brink of collapse in December after being hit by a finan-cial crisis, has managed to raise an additional Rs 300 crore funding, even as its co-founder Ajay Singh was today appoint-ed as the airline’s Chair-man and Managing Di-rector. The Company’s Board also announced the appointment of Singh’s wife Shivani Singh as one of its directors at its meet-ing to comply with mar-

ket regulator Sebi’s norm for listed companies to have at least one wom-an director. “The Board of Directors of the Com-pany at its meeting held today has appointed Ajay Singh and Shivani Singh as directors and Harsha Vardhana Singh as Inde-pendent Director,” Spice-Jet said in statement after the meeting in Chennai. “The Board also took on record mobilization of additional funding of Rs 300 crore through various sources,” the airline said.

80% in India think businesses are corrupt: EY surveyAgency : Mumbai

India has been ranked at No. 6 in a survey of 38 countries on unethical business practices, with 80% of the respondents in the country saying bribery is widespread. Interestingly, 66% of Indian respondents in the survey conducted by EY Fraud Investiga-tion & Dispute Services, said bribes in the form of gifts or cash were acceptable to win busi-ness. A full 35% of the respondents said adher-ing to anti-bribery and anti-corruption policies would harm their com-petitiveness. The survey of 3,800 employees in Europe, Middle East and Africa, apart from In-dia between December 2014 and January 2015 showed corruption is most rampant in emerg-ing markets. Business-es in these regions are under tremendous pres-sure to perform despite the market volatility,

geopolitical instability, oil shocks and econom-ic sanctions. The report said more than half of all managers across the globe were under in-creased pressure to look out for new revenue op-portunities, leaving them with few options. This has resulted in actions that expose businesses to significant fraud and bribery risks. In India, 59% of respondents said local companies manipu-late financial statements to show better perfor-mances. While 67% said economic growth was slower than expected, 81% felt managers were under increased pressure to identify new revenue opportunities.

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Engg, pharmacy admission tests to be cut short to only two rounds

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has de-cided to complete admis-sion to engineering and pharmacy courses in two rounds from now onwards. The admission process for current year will begin af-ter declaration of Std XII (science) results in the last week of this month. Till last year, the admis-sion was completed after

four rounds, apart from one mock round. The new decision has been taken to quicken the admission and to start classes early so that examinations can be held on time and re-sults be declared without delay. Mankad said the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) had been instruct-ed to execute it without any changes. Elaborating on the procedure, he said

that after the mock round of seat allotments to stu-dents in different colleges based on merit, four other rounds were conducted. If the student did not get a seat in a college of his choice in the first round, he applied in the second round with his choice of institutes and he/she re-peated it twice till they got the college of their choice or till the last round of ad-mission process.

Tech inter-operability standards vital for smart cities

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

A few years ago the buzz was around smart homes that detect human pres-ence to adjust lighting, start appliances such as air-conditioner and save water and electricity through use of sensors. Now the concept has expanded to cities with integrated systems cov-ering areas such as traf-fic management, waste collection, metering of

Teaching workload of faculties in engineer-ing colleges increased by two hours a weekSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

RThe Gujarat state gov-ernment has increased the teaching hours of faculties by two hours in a week in govern-ment engineering col-leges. The action has been taken in view of the shortage of teachers in the state’s engineer-ing institutions. About 40 per cent of teaching posts are currently ly-ing vacant in all the 16 engineering colleges in the state. While the workload of princi-pals has been increased from existing four to six hours, those of pro-fessors from six to eight hours, associate profes-sors from 12 to 14 hours and assistant professors

from 16 to 18 hours. It includes teaching in classrooms and practi-cals in laboratories. A senior professor in LD College of Engineering, oldest engineering in-stitute of the state, said that their duty hours were from 10.30 to 6.10 p.m. and increasing the teaching workload by another half an hour did not matter. He said that teaching was complete-ly a different profession in which the teacher has to come to the class pre-pared beforehand. “It is not like an adminis-trative job where you don’t require to open books or read at home,” explained the professor seeking anonymity.

Modi govt slashed budget for social sector by Rs 1.7 crore, alleges AICC general secretary

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Alleging that the BJP government headed by PM Narendra Modi has slashed the spending on social sector by whop-ping Rs, 1,75,122 crores in the last one year, AICC general secretary C P Joshi said on Wednesday that Modi government believed in “corporate ka saath, khud kas vikas” and not in “sabka saath, sabka vikas”. Address-ing media persons at the state Congress office, the Congress leader said that

the Modi government which was “retrogressive and anti-poor”. Giving details about the cut in outlays in different social sectors, Joshi said that among the budgetary cuts also included Rs. 66,222 crore cut in grants on ‘so-cial sector’ schemes, Rs. 5,900 crore cut by clos-ing down `backward re-gions grant fund’ and Rs. 1,03,000 crore cut by not implementing the food se-curity programme aimed at 67 per cent of the popu-lation. Stating that “Mod-

inomics of crony capi-talism” has also affected agriculture and irrigation contributing 17 per cent of GDP, Joshi said that funds for Rashtriya Kri-shi Vikas Yopjana had been slashed by 7,426.50 crore, animal husbandry and dairy by 685 crore and ‘pradhan amndtri kri-shi sichai yojna’ by 8,156 crore. According to Joshi, even funds for schedule caste sub-plan have ben reduced by Rs. 13,208 crore and for tribal sub-plan by Rs 7,714 crore.

VMC to shift Butterfly Park to Ajwa GardenCorrespondent, Vadodara

Six months after the VMC awarded the work order for the construction of the controversial Butterfly Park inside Sayajibaug, popularly called Kamat-ibaug garden, a proposal before the Standing Com-mittee this week requests a “change of place” for the park to Ajwa Garden. The proposal seeks that the butterfly park should be allowed to move to Ajwa Garden instead of Sayajibaug as the project has seen much opposition from people, including morning walkers of Ka-matibaug. The proposal states that it is necessary to construct new gardens for the benefit of the cit-izens. “The Butterfly

Park in Sayajibaug was approved for a sum of Rs 6.83 crore, and M/s Satyam Constructions was awarded the con-tract in November 2014 for his tender worth Rs 6.36 crore. Accordingly, the contractor also com-menced work on the site. Currently, the work is in progress to construct the concrete walls that would be the boundary of the Butterfly Park. After

the contractor began his work, there were sever-al protests from morning walkers, senior citizens and political leaders in the city who submitted their petitions to the VMC.” The proposal states that a special meeting was called by the Municipal Commissioner on Febru-ary 25, in which a deci-sion was made to shift the Butterfly park to another location.

water use and so on. With the Indian government’s ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities, ex-perts are deliberating on ways to make the dream come true. The three-day TechSymp 2015 or-ganized by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on the theme of internet of things (IoT) got concluded on Friday with the promise to bring a white paper on

technology for smart cit-ies. The participants advo-cated inter-operability of technology and standard-ization as two major areas needing attention. Dr Anil K Roy, general co-chair of the event, said IEEE is already working on stan-dards such as architectural framework for IoT which will form the backbone of the smart grid for smart cities. “A panel will work on formulation and de-velopment of standards for cities. It will also help grading these smart cities - higher the grade, smarter the city. For smart cities, we have to integrate the system in the infrastruc-ture itself,” he said. He added that a white paper would set the ground for technology standardiza-tion for the industry.

Kiran, Chetan posed as plumbers to kill Parul

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

City crime branch sleuths on Wednesday arrested Kiran Makwana, 28 res-ident of Navjivan Vihar society Vatva and Chetan Raval of Nandej, Barejdi for murdering a woman in Marlin Sparsh Resi-dency in Vatva. Crime branch sources said the two accused gained ac-cess into the flat identify-ing themselves plumbers. They strangulated Parul Rajput, 28 with a shirt and then fled away with gold earrings, gold chain

and two cell phones. As-sistant Commissioner of Police, MD Choudhary said on a tip off Inspector Jeetendra Yadav and his team nabbed both Mak-wana and Raval from Vat-va. “We have also recov-ered the gold ornaments and the cell phones which were robbed by the ac-cused” added Choudhary. Crime branch officials said during interrogation it has come to light that both Makwana and Raval had gone to Parul’s flat a day earlier to the incident

and said that the builder has sent them to check taps of the flat. “The next day they again went on the pretext of fixing the tap. Makwana gripped Parul while Raval tied her up put a medical adhesive tape on her mouth. They then strangulated Parul and fled with her gold jewellery” said a crime branch official. Crime branch sources said in March, 2015 a similar incident had happened in Vatva, where in a woman was strangulated to death.

Power to farmers raises alarm bell for APMCs

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

The Agriculture Produce Market Committees (AP-MCs) have decided to hold a meeting on May 31 to discuss the fallout of the state government notifica-tion that allows farmers to sell their farm produce di-rectly in the open market. The notification was is-sued on Tuesday. The noti-fication gives the farmers a free hand to decide where

they want to sell their veg-etables and fruits and this will allow them to decide the prices for the produce. Now, the farmers can di-rectly go to the shop own-ers and sell their produce. They will, however, have the option of going to the APMCs. The government is also planning to give special permission to the APMCs to the set up retail counters in various parts of the cities where they

operate. On May 31, AP-MCs discuss who would benefit the most in view of the government decision. He said even the traders in the APMC will suffer and hence if required they will make a representation to the state government. “We may be from the same par-ty but when it comes to the farmers, we will definite-ly inform the government of the ground reality,” he said.

Congress to focus on “corruption under BJP” in local polls: Solanki

Correspondent, Rajkot

The “failure” of Gujarat and Central government in “reducing corruption” will be the main plank on which the opposition Congress will contest the forthcoming local bod-ies elections in the state, a senior party leader said here today. “We are go-ing to highlight the state and Central governments’ failure in reducing cor-ruption in the local bod-ies elections scheduled to be held in next two months. This will be the prime issue to be raised by Congress,” the party unit president Bharatsinh Solanki said here.Without taking the name of Chief Minister Anandiben Pa-tel, Solanki alleged that

the state government was following the “legacy” of former Chief Minister Na-rendra Modi “who had do-nated huge (tracts of) land to industrialists.” “BJP government at Centre had made several promises, but failed to fulfill them. Congress workers will submit a memorandum to district collector and ask BJP MPs to prepare a re-port card of (their perfor-

mance) in last one year,” he said.Solanki and the party leaders were in the city to attend a state-lev-el event organised to pay tribute to former PM Ra-jiv Gandhi on his 24th death anniversary.“Con-gress has decided to orga-nise state-level functions in various districts and to-day’s programme was part of this policy,” the Con-gress leader said.

Gujarat signs MoUs worth Rs. 30,000 cr with China

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

The business delegation that accompanied the

Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel to her recent China visit, to-day announced that the State will see two indus-trial parks being set up by Chinese developers, while several memoran-dums of understanding (MoUs) were signed for mutual cooperation and assistance. The MoUs signed between the in-dustrial extension bu-reau (iNDEXTb) and various companies in China and Hong Kong valued over Rs. 30,000 crore, which included Rs. 10,000 crore worth of MoU for setting up two industrial parks and Rs. 19,000 crore for smart city development. Two major MoUs were signed by China Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Ltd (CSMEI) and iNDEXTb. “There will be a textile park and a general industrial park near Sanand. However, the final location has not

yet been decided,” said a government official here. Also, the Gujarat delegation held discus-sions for establishing in-stitutional relationships between Confederation of India Industry (CII), the China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME), and China Council for Promotion of Interna-tional Trade (CCPIT), a state government offi-cial informed here. “The visit was fruitful and constructive. As against previous amity between the two countries, the three visits - two by Na-rendra Modi as Gujarat chief minister and the latest by chief minis-ter Anandiben Patel has opened new avenues for mutual cooperation and support,” said Parimal Nathwani, group presi-dent (corporate affairs), Reliance Industries Ltd, who was a part of the delegation.

‘Saffron’ Makeover for Bus Stands Riles Opposition in Gujarat

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

A dash of saffron in Guja-rat has opposition parties seeing red. Bus stands across the BJP-ruled state are being repainted in a shade that parties like the Congress allege is politically loaded. Over two dozen bus stands in Ahmedabad and Gandhi-nagar, which used to be red, have gone saffron and the state-run road transport corporation says many more will follow over the next few days. Besides government re-sources, this makeover

is also using money from the constituency develop-ment funds of lawmakers. “By putting saffron on all bus stands the BJP gov-ernment is promoting its communal agenda. They are appeasing the prime minister (Narendra Modi) by painting the town saf-fron,” said Congress lead-er Manish Doshi. He also alleged corruption and favouritism in contracts. The state government has rubbished the allegations. It says the choice of co-lour was not driven by ideology but logic.

Road Widening Snaps Power in Bodakdev

Sunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s apathy has left residents of Bodak-dev fuming this summer. The road widening project has been forcing residents to go without electricity for hours on end in this scorching heat. According to the residents, the work-ers dig up the road in such a manner that it damages the power supply lines along with telephone and

water lines. Pratik Ba-nerjee, secretary of Yash Towers, filed a complaint with the AMC against the contractor on Wednesday for repeatedly damaging electricity, water and tele-phone lines, and putting the residents to unneces-sary hardships. The res-idents say they had even drawn the attention of the contractors to the negli-gent attitude of the work-ers, but to no avail.