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Annual Subscription : Rs. 300 /- Edition : Ahmedabad. M.:9687612324 ENGLISH DAILY MORNING REPUTED NEWS PAPER, AHMEDABAD RNI NO.: GUJENG/2014/59629 Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Deputy Editor : Chirag Rudani March 23, 2016, Wednesday Mo : 98250 98053 Ph: 079-32452269 Web: www.sunvillasamachar.com/en Corpo. Office: B/14, Madhav Chamber’s, India Colony, Opp-Vidhyanagar School, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: [email protected] Mo : 98250 98053 23 th March, 2016 - Wednesday Year :02 Issue : 76 Pages:4 Price :Rs.1/- News Brief Minor girl raped in UP: Police Agency | Deoria A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old youth in Kotwali area here, po- lice said today. The girl was lured by the youth and allegedly raped on Sunday, Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary said. On the complaint of the vic- tim’s father, the accused has been arrested, he said. Project to groom budding athletes launched TSR personnel kills lover, commits suicide Agency | New Delhi With an elusive track- and-field Olympic medal on mind, National Yuva Cooperative Society and GAIL (India) Limited launched a grassroots athletics project here to- day. Launched by pace legend PT Usha, the GAIL-Indian Speed Star project will focus on training prospective athletes in the 11-17 age group in 100, 200 and 800 mts track events all over the country. Dis- trict-level trials have already been conducted at Coorg, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Ranchi, Go- rakhpur among other places. Agency | Agartala A 32-year-old Tripura State Rifles (TSR) per- sonnel allegedly killed his lover and then com- mitted suicide with his service weapon at Durjoynagar near here, police said today. Mri- nal Das, a rifleman of the Ninth battalion of TSR, who was in his uniform, entered the rented house of his girl- friend Tanushree Kar- makar (25) on Monday night, Superintendent of Police, police control, Uttam Kumar Bhow- mik said. Das shot his girlfriend dead with the automatic weapon be- fore turning the gun on himself, the SP said. Multiple blasts hit Brussels : PM Charles Michel calls it a ‘black day’ “Terror strikes Brussels” Explosions at airport, subway Special team from Pakistan to visit Pathankot on March 29 BJP likely to field ex-cricketer Sreesanth in Kerala Assembly elections Agency | New Delhi A top counterterrorism official will lead a spe- cial team from Islamabad to Punjab’s Pathankot airbase on March 29 to investigate a deadly at- tack in January for which India blames the Paki- stan-based Jaish-e-Mo- hammed group. The six-member team that will arrive in India on Sunday for a four-day visit will also question in the NIA’s presence a police officer and two others who were alleged- ly abducted and later re- leased by the attackers. The siege at the military facility derailed proposed talks between the foreign secretaries, with India making it clear that the possibility of dialogue hinged on Islamabad Agency | London The decades-old European project ap- peared under increasing strain on Tues- day after three blasts in Brussels – the seat of the European Union – killed 34 people, switching on emergency measures in London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere in the continent. Wracked by a migrant cri- sis, terror attacks in Paris, economic melt- Agency | Kochi The BJP is planning to field former cricketer S Sreesanth as its candidate for the Kerala Assem- bly elections to be held on May 16. Sreesanth said he would decide on whether to contest the election on Wednesday. “I will let you know my decision by tomorrow,” Sreesanth said on Tues- day but declined to give further details. Members of Sreesanth’s family said he received a call from a top BJP leader in Delhi requesting him to con- test from Thrippunithura Assembly constituen- cy. They also said Sree- santh is likely to meet BJP chief Amit Shah when he visits Kerala. When contacted, Kerala Agency | Brussels Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brus- sels airport and a rush- hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tues- day, according to public broadcaster VRT, trigger- ing security alerts across Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport. The federal prosecutor said one of the explosions was probably triggered by a suicide bomber. The blasts occurred four days after the arrest in Brussels of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Belgian police and com- bat troops on the streets Agency | Hyderabad University of Hyderabad VC Prof Appa Rao Po- dile, who went on leave at the height of an agi- tation over the suicide of research scholar Ro- hith Vemula, on Tuesday resumed charge amid protests from a section of students, who ran- sacked his official resi- dence leading to tension on the campus. Raising slogans against the vice chancellor, agitating students barged into his residence (VC’s lodge), broke window panes, Hyderabad University row: VC Appa Rao resumes charge amid protests Protesting students barged into VC’s lodge, broke window panes, smashed doors and television among other items smashed doors and tele- vision among other items, protesting against his resumption of duty. Prof Podile, who is in the eye of a storm over Ve- mula’s suicide on 17 Jan- uary, had proceeded on leave on 24 January as the agitating students de- manded his resignation and held vigorous pro- tests seeking “justice” for Vemula. A battery of high-profile leaders, in- cluding Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal had visited Hyderabad Cen- tral University (HCU) at the height of protests. Based on a complaint by a section of students, Cyberabad police had registered a case against union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Podile and three others in connec- tion with the suicide. Podile was scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday morning but it was cancelled following the violence. One of the protesting students said, “Our primary demand is that the VC should not come...we lost Rohith Vemula. He (Podile) is one of the culprits. Its almost over two months since the incident but no action has been ini- tiated.” The protesting students demanded that the VC be immediately arrested. A large number of police personnel were deployed near the vice chancellor’s lodge as tension prevailed on the campus. clamping down on those behind the attack. Addi- tional inspector general Tahir Rai of Pakistan’s counterterrorism depart- ment, who will lead the visitors, is the counterpart of the National Investiga- tion Agency’s inspector general Sanjiv Singh. The Pakistani special investi- gating team (SIT) will be allowed into the military facility after being flown to Amritsar from Delhi in a BSF aircraft and then dropped by a helicopter outside the air force sta- tion. They will enter the compound on vehicles and will be allowed to inspect the spot where the fighting took place, more than a kilometre away from the airbase’s technical area. Pakistan authorities registered an FIR on February 18 over the attack on the basis of information provided by India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval to his counterpart, Naseer Khan Janjua, the same day. BJP president Kumma- nam Rajasekharan said the state leadership was not aware of the move but “things will be clear in two days.” A top BJP leader also said someone from BJP’s central lead- ership must have con- tacted Sreesanth direct- ly “as he is a celebrity”. If Sreesanth decides to contest the elections, he is likely to fight against state Excise Minister and Congress leader K Babu for Thrippunithura seat in Ernakulam district. The CPI-M has not announced its candidate to the seat. After being exonerated in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing case by a Delhi court last year, Sreesanth is now a busy actor. He is currently shooting for a Hindi film produced by Pooja Bhatt. Babu, a close confidant of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, has been win- ning from Thrippunithura since 1991. “Happy Holi” had been on alert for re- prisal but the attacks took place in crowded areas where people and bags are not searched. All public transport in Brus- sels was shut down, as it was in London during 2005 islamist militant at- tacks there that killed 52. Authorities appealed to citizens not to use over- loaded telephone net- works, extra troops were sent into the city and the Belgian Crisis Centre, clearly wary of a fur- ther incident, appealed to the population: “Stay where you are”. British Sky News television’s Alex Rossi, at the air- port, said he heard two “very, very loud explo- sions”. “I could feel the building move. There was also dust and smoke as well...I went towards where the explosion came from and there were people coming out looking very dazed and shocked.” VRT said po- lice had found a Kalash- nikov assault rifle next to the body of an attacker at the airport. Such weap- ons have become a trade- mark of Islamic State-in- spired attacks in Europe, notably in Belgium and France, including on Nov. 13 in Paris. An un- used explosive belt was also found in the area, the public broadcaster said. Police were continuing to scour the airport for any further bombs or at- tackers. Alphonse You- la, 40, who works at the airport, told Reuters he heard a man shouting out in Arabic before the first explosion. “Then the glass ceiling of the air- port collapsed.” Target Europe: London, other capitals on high alert downs in member-states such as Greece and growing tensions in Britain before the June 23 referendum, the EU was grappling with the longest calender of challenges since its inception before the blasts struck in Brussels. Britain scaled up its preparedness for terror attacks with increased police presence in Lon- don and elsewhere, while Prime Minis- ter David Cameron chaired an emergen- cy response committee soon after the Brussels blasts. Belgium was put on its highest terror threat level of 4. Britain has been on a “severe” threat level since August 2014, which means a terrorist attack is highly likely. Security officials recently conducted exercises in London to test responses to terror attacks.

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News BriefMinor girl raped

in UP: Police

Agency | Deoria

A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old youth in Kotwali area here, po-lice said today. The girl was lured by the youth and allegedly raped on Sunday, Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary said. On the complaint of the vic-tim’s father, the accused has been arrested, he said.Project to groom budding athletes

launched

TSR personnel kills lover, commits

suicide

Agency | New Delhi

With an elusive track-and-field Olympic medal on mind, National Yuva Cooperative Society and GAIL (India) Limited launched a grassroots athletics project here to-day. Launched by pace legend PT Usha, the GAIL-Indian Speed Star project will focus on training prospective athletes in the 11-17 age group in 100, 200 and 800 mts track events all over the country. Dis-trict-level trials have already been conducted at Coorg, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Ranchi, Go-rakhpur among other places.

Agency | Agartala

A 32-year-old Tripura State Rifles (TSR) per-sonnel allegedly killed his lover and then com-mitted suicide with his service weapon at Durjoynagar near here, police said today. Mri-nal Das, a rifleman of the Ninth battalion of TSR, who was in his uniform, entered the rented house of his girl-friend Tanushree Kar-makar (25) on Monday night, Superintendent of Police, police control, Uttam Kumar Bhow-mik said. Das shot his girlfriend dead with the automatic weapon be-fore turning the gun on himself, the SP said.

Multiple blasts hit Brussels : PM Charles Michel calls it a ‘black day’“Terror strikes Brussels”

Explosions at airport, subway

Special team from Pakistan to visit Pathankot on March 29

BJP likely to field ex-cricketer Sreesanth in Kerala Assembly elections

Agency | New Delhi

A top counterterrorism official will lead a spe-cial team from Islamabad to Punjab’s Pathankot airbase on March 29 to investigate a deadly at-tack in January for which India blames the Paki-stan-based Jaish-e-Mo-hammed group. The six-member team that will arrive in India on Sunday for a four-day visit will also question in the NIA’s presence a police officer and two others who were alleged-ly abducted and later re-leased by the attackers. The siege at the military facility derailed proposed talks between the foreign secretaries, with India making it clear that the possibility of dialogue hinged on Islamabad

Agency | London

The decades-old European project ap-peared under increasing strain on Tues-day after three blasts in Brussels – the seat of the European Union – killed 34 people, switching on emergency measures in London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere in the continent. Wracked by a migrant cri-sis, terror attacks in Paris, economic melt-

Agency | Kochi

The BJP is planning to field former cricketer S Sreesanth as its candidate for the Kerala Assem-bly elections to be held on May 16. Sreesanth said he would decide on whether to contest the election on Wednesday. “I will let you know my decision by tomorrow,” Sreesanth said on Tues-day but declined to give further details. Members of Sreesanth’s family said he received a call from a top BJP leader in Delhi requesting him to con-test from Thrippunithura Assembly constituen-cy. They also said Sree-santh is likely to meet BJP chief Amit Shah when he visits Kerala. When contacted, Kerala

Agency | Brussels

Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brus-sels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tues-day, according to public broadcaster VRT, trigger-ing security alerts across

Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport. The federal prosecutor said one of the explosions

was probably triggered by a suicide bomber. The blasts occurred four days after the arrest in Brussels of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Belgian police and com-bat troops on the streets

Agency | Hyderabad

University of Hyderabad VC Prof Appa Rao Po-dile, who went on leave at the height of an agi-tation over the suicide of research scholar Ro-hith Vemula, on Tuesday resumed charge amid protests from a section of students, who ran-sacked his official resi-dence leading to tension on the campus. Raising slogans against the vice chancellor, agitating students barged into his residence (VC’s lodge), broke window panes,

Hyderabad University row: VC Appa Rao resumes charge amid protests

Protesting students barged into VC’s

lodge, broke window panes, smashed doors and television among

other items

smashed doors and tele-vision among other items, protesting against his resumption of duty. Prof Podile, who is in the eye of a storm over Ve-mula’s suicide on 17 Jan-uary, had proceeded on leave on 24 January as the agitating students de-manded his resignation and held vigorous pro-tests seeking “justice”

for Vemula. A battery of high-profile leaders, in-cluding Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal had visited Hyderabad Cen-tral University (HCU) at the height of protests. Based on a complaint by a section of students, Cyberabad police had registered a case against union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Podile and

three others in connec-tion with the suicide. Podile was scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday morning but it was cancelled following the violence. One of the protesting students said, “Our primary demand is that the VC should not come...we lost Rohith Vemula. He (Podile) is one of the culprits. Its almost over two months since the incident but no action has been ini-tiated.” The protesting students demanded that the VC be immediately arrested. A large number of police personnel were deployed near the vice chancellor’s lodge as tension prevailed on the campus.

clamping down on those behind the attack. Addi-tional inspector general Tahir Rai of Pakistan’s counterterrorism depart-ment, who will lead the visitors, is the counterpart of the National Investiga-tion Agency’s inspector general Sanjiv Singh. The Pakistani special investi-gating team (SIT) will be allowed into the military facility after being flown to Amritsar from Delhi in a BSF aircraft and then dropped by a helicopter

outside the air force sta-tion. They will enter the compound on vehicles and will be allowed to inspect the spot where the fighting took place, more than a kilometre away from the airbase’s technical area. Pakistan authorities registered an FIR on February 18 over the attack on the basis of information provided by India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval to his counterpart, Naseer Khan Janjua, the same day.

BJP president Kumma-nam Rajasekharan said the state leadership was not aware of the move but “things will be clear in two days.” A top BJP leader also said someone from BJP’s central lead-ership must have con-tacted Sreesanth direct-ly “as he is a celebrity”. If Sreesanth decides to contest the elections, he is likely to fight against state Excise Minister and Congress leader K Babu

for Thrippunithura seat in Ernakulam district. The CPI-M has not announced its candidate to the seat. After being exonerated in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing case by a Delhi court last year, Sreesanth is now a busy actor. He is currently shooting for a Hindi film produced by Pooja Bhatt. Babu, a close confidant of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, has been win-ning from Thrippunithura since 1991.

“Happy Holi”

had been on alert for re-prisal but the attacks took place in crowded areas where people and bags are not searched. All public transport in Brus-sels was shut down, as it was in London during 2005 islamist militant at-tacks there that killed 52. Authorities appealed to citizens not to use over-loaded telephone net-works, extra troops were sent into the city and the Belgian Crisis Centre, clearly wary of a fur-ther incident, appealed to the population: “Stay where you are”. British Sky News television’s Alex Rossi, at the air-port, said he heard two “very, very loud explo-sions”. “I could feel the building move. There was also dust and smoke as well...I went towards where the explosion came from and there were people coming out looking very dazed and shocked.” VRT said po-

lice had found a Kalash-nikov assault rifle next to the body of an attacker at the airport. Such weap-ons have become a trade-mark of Islamic State-in-spired attacks in Europe, notably in Belgium and

France, including on Nov. 13 in Paris. An un-used explosive belt was also found in the area, the public broadcaster said. Police were continuing to scour the airport for any further bombs or at-

tackers. Alphonse You-la, 40, who works at the airport, told Reuters he heard a man shouting out in Arabic before the first explosion. “Then the glass ceiling of the air-port collapsed.”

Target Europe: London, other capitals on high alert

downs in member-states such as Greece and growing tensions in Britain before the June 23 referendum, the EU was grappling with the longest calender of challenges since its inception before the blasts struck in Brussels. Britain scaled up its preparedness for terror attacks with increased police presence in Lon-don and elsewhere, while Prime Minis-ter David Cameron chaired an emergen-cy response committee soon after the Brussels blasts. Belgium was put on its highest terror threat level of 4. Britain has been on a “severe” threat level since August 2014, which means a terrorist attack is highly likely. Security officials recently conducted exercises in London to test responses to terror attacks.

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DAYPolitics over Bhagat Singh is insulting his legacy

On Monday, two days before his 85th death anni-versary, Bhagat Singh – the Marxist revolutionary hanged by the British at 23 – trended on Twitter, as people lashed out against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for comparing Singh with the latest Left-lib-eral sensation, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.Tharoor, in his inimitable style, had told cheering stu-dents at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), “Bhagat Singh was the Kanhaiya Kumar of his gen-eration.” Well, maybe not. Singh’s political acumen, revolutionary activity, popular appeal and controver-sial execution made him a national figure at a much younger age than Kumar. Kumar was, till recently, a campus politician who shot to prominence and won hearts because of the state’s knee-jerk reaction to arrest him, misleading media trials and his furious critique of the overall policies of the BJP-led central government. Nonetheless, Tharoor’s basis for the comparison – both young men are “Marxists … pas-sionately committed to their motherland” – is broadly correct. Just like Kumar spoke about ‘azaadi’ from people who are “looting the country”, Singh too had said in one of his last messages on March 3, 1931, that the struggle in India would continue as long as “a handful of exploiters go on exploiting the labour of the common people for their own ends. It matters little whether these exploiters are purely British capitalists, or British and Indians in alliance, or even purely Indi-ans”. But there are prominent differences. Singh nev-er joined the Communist Party of India (CPI), estab-lished in 1925-26, of whose student body Kumar is a member. Yet, the Indian Left has always appropriated Singh as an iconic hero who, according to former CPI (M) chief Harkishan Singh Surjeet, gave a country a course “opposed to the one pursued by Congress”. But today the Left in India has many hues, and it’s dif-ficult to predict how Singh – a believer in anarchism – would have chosen to fight for the “liberation” of his countrymen in today’s India. If Singh had been alive today, would he have joined the parliamentary Indian Left parties? A study of Singh’s politics indicates the answer is more complicated. For example, Delhi Uni-versity professor Apoorvanand wrote in an article last year that “...Bhagat Singh was not impressed by the nationalist rhetoric of (Netaji Subhas Chandra ) Bose and finds Nehru intellectually more challenging and satisfying”. He wrote that Singh had written in 1928 that “Panjabi youth should go with him [Nehru] to understand the real meaning of revolution...” and this article by the revolutionary has been ignored by the Left, perhaps because it doesn’t fit into their narrative.

“A lot of people are there from Kashmir as well. want to thank people in Calcutta (now Kolkata), they really supported us,”

- Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi said on Tuesday, Afridi, who is expected to lose his captaincy after the World T20 championship, was speaking at the toss of the Pakistan vs New Zealand match in Mohali...

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who was released from Yerawada prison last month after serving his sentence in the 1993 serial blasts case, has approached the special TADA court seeking his passport back. “Dutt has sought his passport back and we have given ‘no objection’,” Special Pub-lic Prosecutor Deepak Salvi said. Special TADA court judge GA Sanap is likely to pass an order on

Dutt’s plea on Tuesday, he said. The Bollywood star was arrested on April 19, 1993, for possession and destruction of an AK-56 rifle which was a part of cache of arms and explosives that land-ed in India prior to the serial blasts in Mumbai in March 1993. On July 31, 2007, the TADA court had sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment un-der Arms Act. In 2013, the Supreme Court re-duced the sentence to five years.

Agency | Dubai

Jackie Chan will be shooting for his upcom-ing Indo-Chinese film ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ in India, says Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who will be seen sharing screen space with the legendary actor for the first time. “Jackie (Chan) will be coming to India and will be coming to India on the 21st (of March)...He will be stay-ing for 15 days. Jackie will be staying in Jaipur,” Sonu told reporters here on the red carpet event for the Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) 2016 on Friday. The ‘Dabangg’ star says he will join the martial arts movie star, who will be shooting a schedule in India and then will be proceeding to Bei-jing. “I am going to join him next week in India and then we are going to Beijing...October release.

Agency | Mumbai

Aanand L Rai, producer of “Nil Battey Sannata”, today dismissed any de-marcation between com-mercial cinema and the movies that go to film festivals. “There is a per-ception that the films that go to film festivals don’t do business (box office collection). I think time has changed. The bifur-cation is wrong (between festival and commercial films),” Rai told reporters here at the trailer launch of “Nil Battey Sannata”. Produced by Rai along with Eros International and Jar Pictures, the film

Agency | New Delhi

Alia Bhatt, who was busy with her recent re-lease Kapoor And Sons, finally got some time off to spend with her family. Alia turned 23 on March 15, but her grandparents wished her happy birth-day yesterday in the cut-est way possible. Alia’s sister Pooja Bhatt shared the video of it on her Instagram account and wrote “Happy Birthday Alia!! A glorious rendi-tion of Happy Birthday for @aliaabhatt by her dazzling grandparents! Naturally there was not a dry eye in the house..

Agency | New Delhi

Though he’s always tried to portray the perfect fam-ily man image, Hrithik Roshan has often hit headlines for his relation-ships outside of marriage. As allegations between him and Kangana Ranaut fly high amid a soured affair, here is a look at the many women in Ro-shan’s life, starting with his wife Sussanne Khan. The couple divorced last year. Hrithik and Sus-sanne had quite a filmy start with Hrithik falling in love with Sussanne af-ter spotting her at a traffic signal in Mumbai. The two started dating soon after. After a year-long relationship, Hrithik pro-posed to her on a beach in Mumbai, and the two got married at a luxury spa in Bangalore with only close

Agency | New Delhi

Award functions are no less than circuses for John Abraham, who said that he doesn’t take these events seriously. “I don’t go for award functions. I don’t know. They are cir-cus acts and I don’t go for circuses. So, I don’t take award function serious-ly,” John said. John, 43, was in New Delhi to pro-mote his upcoming film Rocky Handsome. Re-cently Riteish Deshmukh, while hosting an awards show with Parineeti Chopra, said that John can never learn acting even 15 years down the line. “Riteish is a friend and in awards functions, people do make fun of each other. I take it in a good spirit, positive-ly. Riteish is a good boy and I don’t take things

Agency | New Delhi

Jon Favreau’s Amer-ican live-action epic adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is going to release in April and there is some good news for In-dian fans. For the Hindi dub of ‘The Jungle Book’ , the reworked version of ‘Jungle jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai, chad-di pehen ke phool khi-la hai, phool khila hai’ written by Gulzar will be included. This will take back viewers to the animated series, “Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli” that aired on Doordarshan in the ’90s. The new and reworked version of the hit track Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai has been re-recorded by Gulzar and director Vishal Bhardwaj, who had initially composed it for the animated version

This is how Alia Bhatt reacted when her grandparents wished her happy birthday

is a tale of a single moth-er battling to ensure that her daughter gets every opportunity in life. Di-rected by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, the film features Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Tripathi and Ria, and it will be released in the-atres on April 22. “It is not that audiences do not

understand films goingto festivals. I think audi-ences are ready to watch good content. I think the line between festival film and commercial film should be blurred now,” he said. Rai said he de-cided to come on board as a producer because he loved the idea of the film.

Sanjay dutt moves TAdA court, wants his passport returned

Not that there ever is a shortage of waterworks at a Bhatt family do but this one was truly spe-cial!#Birthdays #family #grandparents #Bhatts #legacies #giftsthat-keepongiving #memo-ries (sic).” In the video, Alia’s grandparents are

seen playing her a hap-py birthday tune which made the Highway ac-tor emotional and she couldn’t hold back her tears. Pooja Bhatt also shared a picture of Alia and her grandmother Trudy Razdan hugging each other.

Jackie Chan to shoot a schedule for ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ in India, confirms Sonu Sood

Line between commercial and film festival cinema blurring: Aanand L Rai

Hrithik Roshan and his women: Kangana Ranaut wasn’t the only one

John Abraham doesn’t Attend Award Functions. They Are ‘Circus Acts’

Reworked version of Gulzar’s Jungle, Jungle Baat Chali Hai for ‘The Jungle Book’ film

friends and family in at-tendence in 2000. There were rumours of prob-lems in their marriage in 2013 when Sussanne was missing from the Roshan family’s Ganesh Visarjan celebrations. She also left her father-in-law Rakesh Roshan’s 64th birthday party abruptly. The two decided to separate just a week before their 13th wedding anniversary in

December 2013. There were reports that the cause of the separation was Sussanne’s affair with actor Arjun Rampal. Four months after the sep-aration, they filed for di-vorce by mutual consent in Bandra court. In July, 2014, there were reports about Sussanne asking for Rs 400-crore alimony. The two got divorced in November 2014.

Fingers crossed.” said an elated Sonu, who looked dapper in suit by Delhi based designers Bharat and Reshma. Sonu, who was last seen on the silver screen in the 2015 film “Gabbar Is Back”, says the “Rush Hour” actor is one of the “most humble and hardworking actor”. “He is one of the most humble actors I have ever come across. He is very hardworking...” Sonu said. ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ is a part of the three-film

agreement signed be-tween the two countries during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to In-dia. The film also stars actress Amyra Dastur. It is reported that the Hindi film stars have performed some adrenalin-pumping action sequences for the movie. Directed by Stan-ley Tong, the action com-edy film is also shot here and Iceland, where Jack-ie got Amyra a farewell cake, as a warm goodbye gesture from him.

negatively at all,” added John. Riteish and John worked together in 2012 film Housefull 2. Rocky Handsome has been di-rected by Nishikant Ka-mat. “I always wanted to work with him again. I am a fan of his movies. I fell in love with him af-ter I watched Mumbai Meri Jaan. It’s my good fortune that I worked

with him in Force. When I got a fantastic script in the form of Rocky Hand-some, I directly went to Nishi,” added John. “My character is complex and layered. He had been through many hard ex-periences in life. So, he is very tough. But there are sequences in the film, where he is emotionally charged too,” said John.

of Jungle Book aired on TV 23 year ago. UTV re-leased the song on their Twitter handle and in the video we can see young kids recording the song in a studio while Vishal and Gulzar sit on the recording table. Irrfan Khan Nana Patekar, Om Puri and Shefali Shah have lend their voice for the Hindi version of Disney’s upcoming American live-action epic release “The Jungle Book”. The original film is a re-imagining of Walt Disney’s 1967 animated movie of the same name

and stars Indian-Ameri-can actor Neel Sethi as Mowgli. It features the voice talents of Bill Mur-ray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Gi-ancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. “The Jungle Book” has been directed by “Iron Man” helmer Jon Fa-vreau, and inspired by Rudy Kipling’s adven-ture stories based in India and Disney’s animated version. The Indian audi-ence will get to watch the movie on April 8, a week before US release.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Uncertainty continues over ICC world Twenty20 2016 semi-final at Feroz Shah Kotla

Rio 2016 definitely be my last Olympics: Usain Bolt

west Indies hero against Sri Lanka Andre Fletcher unsure of place in side for next match

no social media for me, I am still with my nokia: Ashish nehra

edelweiss to buy JPMorgan’s mutual fund business in India

Vitara Brezza clocks 20,000 bookings within 2 weeks of launch

Did you know season of your birth determines your allergy risk?

Agency | New Delhi

Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has received 20,000 bookings within the first fortnight of the launch of compact SUV Vitara Brezza, while it will start de-livering the new model to customers from Friday. “Within the first fortnight of its launch, the Vitara Brezza has received around 70,000 customer en-quiries and 20,000 bookings,” MSI said in a state-ment today. Deliveries of Vitara Brezza will com-mence from March 25. The vehicles will be retailed from the company’s over 1,800 sales outlets spread across India, it added. Customers have appreciated the new model for “its sporty and muscular design and the combination of features offered at multi-ple trim levels” MSI Executive Director Marketing and Sales R S Kalsi, said. “Our endeavor now is to deliver these cars quickly so that customers can

enjoy their Vitara Brezza,” he added.

Agency | Mumbai

Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd, on Tuesday an-nounced the acquisition of the mutual fund (MF) business of JP Morgan Asset Management India Pvt. Ltd. The company did not disclose the size of the deal. With MF assets worth Rs.7,501 crore, JP Morgan MF is almost five times bigger in size than Edelweiss MF. In a similar deal last year, DHFL Pramerica Asset Managers Pvt. Ltd had bought out Deutsche Asset Management (India) Pvt. Ltd that managed 10 times more assets than Pramerica then. For the quarter ended December, Edelweiss MF managed average assets worth Rs.1,632.36 crore. “We have built a substantial onshore funds busi-ness in India over the past decade. As a result of a global strategic review and after careful consider-ation of what is best for our clients and employees, we have decided to find an acquirer for this busi-ness,” said Michael Falcon, chief executive officer of Asia Pacific, global investment management for JP Morgan Asset Management in a press release.

Agency | London

The time and date of birth determines our horoscope and the characteristics associated with it. However, a new study reveals a specific marker in our genes, which gives us the horoscope by the seasons of birth and shows how it influences so many things in our life. The study showed that the season a person is born in influences a wide range of things: From risk of allergic disease, to height and lifespan. But, rel-atively little is known about how a one-time expo-sure, such as the season of birth, could hold lasting effects. A specific marker that has been discovered on human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been instrumental in linking the season of birth to risk of allergy in later life. “It might sound like a horoscope by the seasons, but now we have scientific evidence for how that horoscope could work. Because season of birth influences so many things, the epigenetic marks discovered in this study could also potential-ly be the mechanism for other seasonally influenced diseases and traits too, not just allergy,” said lead author Gabrielle Lockett from University of South-ampton in Britain.

Agency | New Delhi

The uncertainty over whether a semifinal match in the ongoing World T20 will be played in Delhi continues, with a single bench of the Delhi High court on Monday declin-ing to pass orders on a fresh plea filed by the Delhi and District Crick-et Association (DDCA)to use the RP Mehra block in the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium. The case will now be heard before a di-vision bench on Tuesday. The DDCA approached the High Court in a writ petition seeking orders for the SDMC to issue a completion certificate for the RP Mehra block, claiming that the “unau-

Agency | New Delhi

Not often in a pre-match press conference you see media bursting into laughter, but it was one such moment at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Tuesday, when Ashish Nehra sent every Indian and Bangladesh journalist into splits. It’s completely up to an indi-vidual if he wants to stay away from what’s being said on Twitter, Face-book, etc., or written in the newspapers, especial-ly sportsperson and fa-mous personalities. And Nehra does that too, but the way he chose to give a comic tone to it made news. “I am somebody who is not on social me-dia and I am still using my old Nokia,” said the 37-year-old, who is al-

thorized” structure inside the stadium can be said to have been “regularized” under the provisions of the Government of Na-tional Capital territory of Delhi (Special laws) Act of 2011. “The act pro-vides for regularisation of the structure which does not have proper sanction plan,” says the plea, filed through ad-vocate Sangram Patnaik.

During brief arguments before the bench of jus-tice AK Pathak, senior advocate Sandeep Sethi and Rajiv Nayyar, ap-pearing for the DDCA also argued that the “grievance” of the crick-eting body was “against the view taken by Justice Mudgal” who had said that the RP Mehra block should not be used for the Match.

Agency | Bengaluru

West Indies star perform-er Andre Fletcher, who made an unbeaten 84 in their win over Sri Lanka, on Sunday said he is still unsure of getting picked for the next match in the ICC World Twenty20. “I cannot answer that (whether you are expect-ing 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 told reporters. Fletcher, filling in for injured Chris Gayle, played a career-de-fining unbeaten knock to help West Indies beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in a Super 10 match. Asked about the side’s chanc-

Agency | Moscow

Viswanathan Anand proved his true mettle yet again as he outclassed Levon Aronian of Arme-nia in a long-drawn game in the ninth round of the Candidates Chess tourna-ment on Monday. Look-ing for a victory desper-ately with white pieces, Anand’s plan came good as the opening, middle game and eventually the endgame panned out well for his third victory of

the event wherein he was written off as a favourite. With 5.5 points in his kit-ty from nine games now in what was conceived as the biggest challenge of the year, Anand is now sharing the lead with over-night joint leader Sergey Karjakin of Russia. The Indian ace is now in ex-cellent position to play a third match with Magnus Carlsen of Norway for the World Championship. While Anand’s detractors

Agency | Kingston

Usain Bolt has confirmed this year’s Olympics will be his last, snuffing out the possibility of extend-ing his career to the 2020 games in Tokyo. The Ja-maican sprint king had raised the prospect of prolonging his Olympic career in January after revealing that his coach Glen Mills had suggest-ed his fitness would car-ry him through to Japan. However Bolt told AFP subsidiary SID in an in-terview that the curtain would come down on his Olympic career in this year’s games in Rio de Janeiro, where he is tar-geting three more gold medals. “It’ll definitely

Agency | London

Indian boxing star Vi-jender Singh’s next bout was postponed from April 2 to April 30 due to techni-cal reasons. The fight will now be held at the Copper Box Arena instead of the Harrow Leisure Centre in London. “It had been an-nounced that Singh would feature on April 2 show at the Harrow Leisure Cen-tre in London, but fol-lowing a reschedule he has been moved, instead, onto the undercard of Bil-ly Joe Saunders’ WBO World Middleweight ti-tle defence against Max Bursak,” Vijender’s pro-moters Queensberry Pro-motions and IOS said in a press release. Vijender, who took his record to 4-0 in Liverpool earlier this month with a blistering fourth round stoppage of Alexander Horvath, will fight in a four-round con-

Vijender Singh’s Copper Box Arena bout postponed to April 30

es of lifting the cup for the second time, Fletcher said if they continue with the winning streak, they would lift it again. “Be-fore 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 accus-tomed playing, we would lift the cup for the sec-ond 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.”

Usain Bolt told in an interview that the

curtain would come down on his Olympic career in this year’s

games in Rio de Janeiro

be my last Olympics,” Bolt said. “It’s going to be hard to go four more years for me, to keep the motivation that I want, especially if I accomplish what I want to in Rio. “It’s going to be hard to keep the motivation to go on for four more years so it’ll definitely be my last one.” Bolt, who already has six gold medals from his stunning performanc-es in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, has repeatedly said he plans to hang up his spikes for good after the 2017 World Cham-pionships in London. He

hopes to have taken his tally to nine golds by the time competition in Rio has concluded in August. “My biggest dream at the Olympics is to win three gold medals again. That’s my focus, that’s what I want. And that’s what I’m aiming for because that’s my goal and that’s my dream,” Bolt said. Bolt meanwhile reiterated his desire to make more re-cord-breaking history before he retires, saying that he is determined to become the first man to go below 19 seconds for the 200 metres.

ways know to speak his heart out without worry-ing who reacts how. The comeback fast bowler was replying to a question on how he sees India vs Bangladesh as a rivalry, since a lot of it has been said and written about on the Internet and print ever since India lost an ODI series in Bangladesh last year. Some of the fans chose to fuel it foolishly, use Photoshopped im-

ages to deliberately give a controversial air to a sporting encounter. “You are asking this question to a wrong person...I am not on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. I don’t read newspapers. Maybe I am from the old school but like I said, Bangladesh cricket is doing really well, especially in this format,” he replied, giv-ing a diplomatic turn to his answer.

did not give him a chance, the ‘Tiger from Madras’ was in his technical el-ements against Aroni-an against whom he has had a good score off late. The opening was less of a surprise but more of a game- going as Anand started off with the Italian opening and as the middle game approached it was just a level position with chances for both sides. The black pieces gave a psychological disadvan-tage in chess and this was a critical case as Aronian went in to a shell letting Anand do what he wants in what appeared to be a seemingly impregnable position. It was not to be as Anand proved consis-tently and in the end his third victory in the event brought cheers to the fans worldwide.

Viswanathan Anand beats Aronain to jump to joint lead at Candidates

test against an opponent to be announced later. The star will then fight on Fri-day May 13 at the Premier Suite in the Macron Sta-dium, Bolton, on the un-dercard of his stablemate Jack Catterall who will defend his WBO Inter-continental Super-Light-weight title against Joe Hughes. The next month, the 30-year-old is sched-uled to make his high-ly-anticipated homecom-ing in India where he will fight for the WBO Asia title. “I’m thrilled to be fighting on the same card as the WBO World Mid-dleweight Champion Billy

Joe Saunders on Saturday 30th April at the Copper Box Arena. Saunders is in the position that I want to be in one day, the mid-dleweight champion of the world,” Vijender said. “Then I can look forward to my next date on Fri-day 13th May in Bolton, where my good friend and gym-mate Jack Catterall is headlining, which will be another great night. So it’s a busy few months ahead and then of course I will be making my big homecoming in India which will be absolutely amazing and I can’t wait,” he added.

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Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

In a bid to intensify the Patidar quota stir, Lalji Patel, convener of Sardar Patel Group (SPG), has on Monday, announced that the Patidar commu-nity will start ‘Jail Bharo’ agitation from April 17, if the state government does not pay attention to the reservation issue. Patel, however, said that their community now wants reservation in Econom-ically Backward Class (EBC), as they apprehend that seeking quota under Other Backward Class (OBC) status will trigger

conflict amongst many communities. “We have given an one-month ulti-matum to the state gov-ernment on March 12. As the government has not been taking positive steps towards meeting our de-mands, we have decided on the next round of ag-itation,” he said. Patel on Monday issued a 20-point demand seeking review of the reservation policy. “We will file petitions in courts seeking prevention of government recruit-ments,” said SPG mem-ber and advocate Rohit Patel.

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

A local court today reject-ed the regular bail plea of three jailed Patidar Anamat Aandolan Sami-ti (PAAS) leaders Chirag Patel, Ketan Patel and Dinesh Patel in the sedi-tion case lodged by the crime branch of Ahmed-abad police in October last year. The court of ad-ditional sessions judge N G Dave which had earlier on March 8, rejected the bail petition of PAAS con-vener Hardik Patel, also rejected such plea of the trio on the ground that the circumstances since the rejection of their bail plea prior to the submission of charge-sheet on January 18, has not changed so it cannot use its discretion-ary powers to grant bail to them. Public Prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said that the court refused to

Sunvilla news | Amreli

A lioness was killed af-ter being run over by a vehicle on Pipavav road at Rajula taluka of Am-reli district on Tuesday, a forest department official said. The lioness, a sub-adult whose age is yet to be determined, was found dead on the Pipavav Road near Pipavav Port, Depu-ty Conservator of Forest (Amreli) Mohan Ram said. It’s not unusual for lions and other wild ani-mals from nearby reserve forest areas to cross the road while moving from one place to another. We shall be able to deter-mine the age of the lion-ess through post mortem, said Mohan Ram, Depu-ty Conservator of Forest (Amreli). The body of the

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

Top officials from the Gu-jarat government’s labour and employment depart-ment have intervened in the 29-day long stand-off between Tata Motors Sanand plant workers and the management on Monday and asked Tata Motors to come with a “final decision” to resolve the feud with its 400 odd striking employees from its Sanand plant. This was communicated at a joint meeting between both parties led by Sanjay Prasad (IAS) — Principal Secretary to Government, Labour & Emp-loyment Department, Gujarat Government, on Monday

at the Labour Commis-sioner’s office at Khan-pur. “Today while both parties met for talks, no decision was reached. The company officials did not come with any pro-posal to resolve the issue and we told them to get in touch with their head-quarters and come back with a “final decision” on top priority basis. We un-derstand that there have been several proposals from the workers side in past few weeks, but no clear decision has been communicated by the company management till now. Several talks held by the deputy labour officials before also failed

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

Post urbanization, most of the movies in Gujarati Film industry is targeting new youngsters. With the same concept ‘Shashikant Shah Film Production is coming with their new Gujarati comedy mov-ie - ‘3 Doba – 3 Mistake of God’.Film is based on the very famous Gujarati comedy drama – ‘3 Doba, TaubaTauba’, which has entertain its audience not only in Gujarat but in Mumbai as well for a very long time. This film is ready to hit the screens on 25th March and this is surely going to enter-tain the audience by its storylines, star cast’s act-ing performance. Film is produced by Shri Shashi-

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

As the Enforcement Di-rectorate ordered an in-vestigation into Gram-shree Trust, a non-profit entity started by Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel, allegations that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) played favourites by letting violations slide have started to shadow the CM and her family. Started in 1995, the trust, now headed by the chief minister’s daughter Anar Patel, is under the scanner for possible violations of the Foreign Contributiuon Regulation Act (FCRA) and Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). In her letter accepting the complaint, vigilance as-sistant director Snehlata Grover said the “matter has been referred to the concerned section of the

Sunvilla news | Gandhinagar

More than 2.39 crore pil-grims paid visit to Amba-ji Mandir last year, said Yatradham Vikas Minis-ter Shri Pradipsinh Jadeja in the Gujarat Assembly. He said Rs 83.52 crore development works are under plan at present at Ambaji including steps of Gabbar hill, Ambika

dining hall, flooring in Chachar chowk, lighting etc. He said this year 28 lakh pilgrims reached Ambaji on foot through pad yatra. He said Rs 61.57 crore project of construction of 51 Shakti Pith has been completed and dedicated by then Chief Minister of Gujarat and current Prime Minis-ter Shri Narendra Modi.

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

On Thursday, as the sun sets on Holi celebrations, Ahmedabad’s Poonam and Bagadana’s Arjun will usher a new dawn in their lives. Poonam and Arjun, a bovine couple, will be joined in holy matrimony by their own-ers, who have planned a lavish wedding cere-mony in Kotiya village in Bagadana. The wed-ding is being organised by Parasana Charitable Trust and could possibly be the first-of-its-kind cattle wedding in all of history. The trust has also prepared a wedding invi-tation for the couple. The owners are conducting such a lavish ceremony for the wedding of their cattle to show that the val-ue of cows in our society

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kant Shah and directed by Shri Nishith Bhrahmbhatt. While interacting with me-dia friends at YMCA club, Shri Nishith Brabhmbhatt (Director)shared, “Our film is a social comedy and entertaining film and we hope it will entertain audience of every age group. It can be watched with whole family.Story

of this movie is very in-teresting and which will keep its audience excited throughout the movie. It revolves around 3 differ-ent physically impaired boys and their life, which takes a new turn when they start to live at same house as paying guests. Film is a combination of comedy with romance”

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This was communicated at a joint meeting between both parties led by Sanjay Prasad

(IAS) — Principal Secretary to Government, Labour & Emp-loyment Department, Gujarat

Government, on Monday at the Labour Commissioner’s office at Khanpur

to bring an outcome and for the first time there has been an intervention from the government level. We will hold a joint meeting on March 22 at the labour

department in the Sa-chivalay at Gandhinagar between both parties,” said R H Vasava, Deputy Secretary, Labour & Em-ployment Department.

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is immeasurable. “I have been living with cows for the last 30 years and hence, know the amount of love this animal is ca-pable of. I don’t mind having a modest wedding for my children, but I will get my daughter Poonam married in the most lav-ish manner possible,” said Vijaybhai, trustee of Parsana Charitable Trust and Poonam’s owner. Vi-jaybhai has also got gold jewellery made for Poo-nam’s wedding. Vijaybhai owns four cows, apart

from nine-month old Poo-nam and has several other pets as well. “When we decided to marry her off like this, people laughed at me. But, I want to set an example and show the world that Poonam is like family to me.” For the wedding, the bridal party, consisting of 300 guests will leave for Kotiya vil-lage with a three-member wedding orchestra. The wedding will reportedly cost Poonam and Arjun’s owners around Rs. 18 lakh.

exercise its discretionary powers in the matter. ‘The court in its order has also mentioned about the seri-ousness of the crime and examination of the role of each of the petitioner,’ he said. He also said that the court while delivering the order has also taken in to account the pend-ing special leave petition (SLP) pertaining to the quashing of the sedition

charges filed by Hardik in the Supreme Court. The verdict of the court de-spite ‘no-objection’ from the prosecution for their conditional bail has shat-tered the hopes of the trio to celebrate Holi/Dhuleti with their families. Nota-bly with high hopes, not only family members but many of the PAAS mem-bers including Morbi con-vener Nilesh Ervadiya,

an accused in yet another sedition case who is on bail, was also present in the court premises here. In the legal circles, it was being speculated that the conditional bail to the trio was almost certain but in a ‘twist of sorts’ the court which had reserved its verdict on March 17 to be pronounced yesterday, sought the status report of a related case in Supreme Court and deferred the pronouncement of the ver-dict till today. The trio, in their written submission in the bail petition had said that they would follow all the conditions put forth by the court for bail. They have also given assurance to the court to not to in-dulge in any activity (read agitation) which might cause unrest or law and or-der problem in the society.

lioness was taken into the custody of the forest department and was sent for post mortem. State Forest Minister Mangu-bhai Patel had recently told the Assembly that as many as 310 lions in-cluding their cubs suc-cumbed to natural and unnatural deaths in the last five years. Out of 310 lions, 25 had died

an unnatural death, Patel said, replying to a written query raised by Congress MLA. Amreli district is home to 174 Asiatic lions as per the census con-ducted by the state gov-ernment last year. The same census has put the total number of lions in the state to 523, a jump from 411 lions recorded in 2010 census.

Enforcement Directorate for further appropriate action.” Amid the crack-down for FCRA irreg-ularities on NGOs that began last year, Gram-shree Trust seems to have repeatedly escaped the MHA’s clutches. In April 2015, the ministry cancelled the registra-tion of 9,000 NGOs for failing to make mandat-ed financial disclosures from 2009 to 2012. Cu-riously, three months later, when the MHA cancelled the licenses

of another 4,470 NGOs citing FCRA violations, Patel’s organisation remained untouched. Ahmedabad-based RTI activist Roshan Shah, whose relentless pursuit ended in the complaint against Gramshree, told The Wire that the trust has been shipping hand-icrafts and other arti-san-made products from 2006 to 2009 outside of India but never disclosed the income generated from any of these con-signments.

Sardar Patel Group to start ‘Jail bharo’ agitation