a proposal to raise the value of credit card transactions that banks have to report to Rs 5 lakh from the present Rs 2 lakh. News Brief

5 IAS officers transferred

in UPAgency | Lucknow, Jun 22

The Uttar Pradesh gov-ernment today transferred five IAS officers includ-ing two district magis-trates. District Magis-trate of Shravasti, Mohd Zubair Ali Hashmi and Special Secretary, Food Security and Drug ad-ministration (FSDA) Ra-ghvendra Vikram Singh have swapped places. MD Uttar Pradesh De-velopment System Cor-poration (UPDESCO), Rakesh Kumar Singh, has been sent to Home department as Special Secretary, an official re-lease issued here said.Cong attacks UP, MP govts over killings of

journalistsAgency | New Delhi Jun 22

Congress today attacked the governments of Ut-tar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh over the killings of journalists saying it was concerned over the way freedom of the press was being suppressed. “We are quite concerned over such incidents, over the way the freedom of the press is being sup-pressed by killing jour-nalists...such incidents are happening in BJP states and non-Congress ruled states,” Leader of the Opposition in the Ra-jya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters.South West Monsoon

to hit Rajasthan in three days

Agency | Jaipur, Jun 22

South West Monsoon is likely to hit southern region of Rajasthan in next three days, Meteo-rological department to-day said. Conditions are favourable for further advance of South West Monsoon into remaining parts of north Arabian sea, Gujarat, Chhattis-garh, Delhi and Rajas-than during next 3 days, the report said. Mean-while, sporadic rains occurred in parts of Ra-jasthan in last 24 hours with Deval recording 12 cms of rainfall followed by Dungarpur 11. How-ever, western districts of Rajasthan were still reeling under heat wave conditions as the max-imum temperature of 43.4 degree C was today recorded in Churu.

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Govt mulls tax breaks for debit, credit card paymentsDraft Proposalas to incentivize payment though debit and credit cards

Agency | New Delhi

The government has pro-posed income tax rebates for consumers who use debit and credit cards to make their payments, among a string of other measures aimed at moving towards a cashless econo-my and reducing tax avoid-ance. The government on Monday unveiled the draft proposals for facilitating electronic transactions, a

day after the plan to push for cheaper card payments. The government will also examine the feasibility of removing convenience fee, service charge, surcharge for card payments at petrol pumps, gas agencies and for railway tickets. Accord-ing to the draft proposals, tax benefits could also be provided to mer chants for accepting electronic pay-ments. “For example, an

appropriate tax rebate can be extended to a merchant if, say, at least 50% value of the transactions is through electronic means,“ the draft paper said. “Alternatively , 1-2% reduction in value added tax could be con-sidered on all electronic transactions by merchants.“ The aim is to improve the ease of conducting trans-actions for individuals, build a transaction history

to enable improved credit access and financial inclu-sion, reduce tax avoidance and minimize the impact of counterfeit money .It is also aimed at reducing the risks and cost of carrying cash for individuals and cut down the cost of man-aging cash in the econo-my , according to the draft proposals. The proposals have been prepared after intense discussions with the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Two rape survivors -just 12 and 14 years of age -whose torment began after they were sold twice by their father, have re-started school with new uniforms which their mother bought using the compensation of ered by the government. Six months after the girls were rescued by po-lice fol owing a com-plaint lodged by heir distraught mother, they have enrolled into class 6 and 5 respectively in a residential government school in Bhavnagar. “We like to study and I hope to become a doc-tor,“ said the younger sibling, giggling her

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Bharuch SP’s car meets with road accident near BagodaraSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The official vehicle of Shobha Bhutada, superin-tendent of police of Bha-ruch district, met with an accident near Ka lyangadh Patia on Bavla-Bagodara highway when the vehicle driver tried to take a sharp turn to avert a collision. Two bike riders, howev-er, fell on the road and sustained injuries.While one was taken to a private hospital in Bavla, another was taken to VS Hospital in Ahmedabad. According to Bagodara police, the incident took place when Bhutada was coming to-wards Ahmedabad on Monday afternoon. When the car was passing from Kalyangadh Pa tia, the driver saw two men on a bike crossing from the wrong side. As the driver tried to take a sharp turn to avert direct collision with

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

It is a home to 500 birds from 33 diverse species. And more are expected to touchdown here once monsoon sets in. No wet-land, this is Sardar Val-labhbhai Patel Interna-tional Airport which has a bad reputation for birdhit cases. A study conduct-ed by Gujarat Ecological Educational and Research (GEER) Foundation has found that around 33 spe-cies of birds are living in the two-km periphery of the operational area of the airport. The num-ber of birds could reach up 1,000 once the mon-soon sets in full swing in the city. The shocking finding comes close on the heels of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) terming Ahmed-

the bike, the bike hit the car. Before the car could stop, the bike got dragged for a few feet. The police car then fell in a ditch. Sources said that Bhuta-da and her staff stopped a private vehicle and sent the duo on the bike to a nearby hospital. The car driver and a commando with Bhutada sustained minor injuries. Senior

officials from Ahmeda bad rural police rushed to the spot after getting to know about the incident. The duo was identified as Manu Dabhi and Hargov-ind Patel, residents of De-hgamda in Bavla taluka. Hargovind had sustained head injuries and was thus shifted to VS Hospital. Both the bikers are out of danger, said investigators.

nerves away. “School didn’t charge any fee. The girls will get free lodging and boarding. I had to buy them uni-forms, shoes and some utility items which cost me Rs 3,000,“ the girls’ mother told TOI. “I paid from the money granted by the government.“ The girls, studying in class 5 and 4, were sold by

their father to different boys for Rs 40,000 and Rs 80,000 some eight months ago. One of the eight accused in the case, the father is currently absconding. “It is good that he has disappeared. His presence would do more harm than good,“ says the mother. The Rs 1.25 lakh rape compen-sation granted by the

government has proved a lifesaver. The mother and girls used Rs 60,000 of the fund to build a tin roof over their house. “I am a farm labourer and used to earn Rs 50 a day. But after my spine inju-ries, I can’t roil,“ says the mother.“With the girls in school, I will be all alone, but am happy they will be safe, secure and happy.“ Manjula Pradeep of Navsarjan Trust said: “It is very rare when girls sold off get a chance to go back to school and start afresh.“ A worker from the trust helped the mother file the police complaint and later admit the girls to school.

Airport a hit with 500 birds

CONFLICT IN AIRabad airport as sensitive in 2014 in tive in 2014 in terms of `wildlife strikes’ including birds and ani-mals. Last year Novem-ber, the DGC November, the DGCA had compiled a list of 18 airports where `wildlife hazard’ was the worst, which included all the six metros. Among these 18, five were the worst affected -Udaipur, Cochin, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar and Nag-

pur. “Last year when the study was conducted, around 37 species of birds were sighted around the airport. This year again, the study was again, the study was conducted on June 1 and 2. Around 33 spe cies of birds were sighted in-cluding ecies which are not some species which are not regular in this re-gion,“ said a government official. The uncommon species sighted this year

include In dian pond heron and black drongo, while common birds were crow, pigeon, myna, kite, egret and lapwing.

Reserve Bank of India and other stakeholders, banks, card service providers, mo-bile service providers and various departments. The draft said high-value trans-actions worth more than Rs 1 lakh could be man-dated to be settled through electronic means. There is also a proposal to raise the value of credit card trans-actions that banks have to report to Rs 5 lakh from the present Rs 2 lakh. At present, banks have to re-port A the aggregate of all payments made by a credit card holder as one transac-tion if such an amount is Rs 2 lakh in a year. It also talked about the possibility of reducing the merchant discount rate on debit card transactions. Currently , there is a merchant discount rate of 0.75% on debit card transactions up to Rs 2,000 and 1% on all transactions above Rs 2,000. Levying of a nominal cash handling charge on transactions greater than a specified lev-el is also being proposed. The draft paper said the ex-

ist ing inter-change fee on debit and credit card trans-actions are not uniform and need to be standardizedra-tionalized to encourage both issuing and acquiring banks to set up and utilize acceptance infrastructure. It said the authentication requirement for different classes of transactions could be re-examined

based on the risk profile and safety requirements. Utility service providers could be advised to give a discount to users for small ticket payments through e-payments, on the lines of BSNL, which provides an incentive of 1% of the billed amount if the payment is done through electronic mode.

Sonam Kapoor said,

“I used to love slides and I use

to bully boys.”

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Why cashless is the way to goBringing back black money and reducing the size of the shadow economy are a key part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) agen-da. One way of reducing corruption and tax avoidance is to go cashless. Towards this end, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance gov-ernment has suggested tax breaks for consumers and merchants using credit/debit cards, lower transaction fees for electronic payments, making high-value transactions mandatory through elec-tronic means and imposing a levy on cash pay-ments above a certain value. These proposals are not a moment too soon. As the chart shows, the demand for cash in India is high in comparison with other large economies. Currency in circula-tion in India amounted to 13% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2013-14, way ahead of advanced economies. Even fellow emerging economies such as China and Brazil have lower cash circulating as a percentage of their econom-ic output. To be sure, developing nations in gen-eral have higher demand for cash simply because there is a higher proportion of unbanked people in such countries. According to the World Bank Financial Inclusion Database 2014, about half of India’s population doesn’t have access to a bank account. The Jan-Dhan Yojana, which has seen about 16.27 crore accounts opened in the last 10 months, will go some way towards addressing the problem. The second reason why cash is pre-dominant in developing nations is because these are economies in transition. Increased monetiza-tion and commercialization (for example, selling agricultural produce for cash where previous-ly one would barter with a neighbour) lead to a high demand for cash in circulation. African and Latin American nations, home to emerging and so-called frontier markets, have seen the fastest growth in cash demand in recent times, according to a speech by K.C. Chakrabarty, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at the Banknote Conference 2014. At the same time, however, alternative methods of payments are gaining popularity in India. Incentivizing cash-less transactions is a good step as can be seen from the example of South Korea, which gives similar sops and has among the lowest cash usage in the world. Besides, there is a high cost attached to using cash. As the chart shows, India has one of the highest numbers of notes in circulation. At the end of 2013, there were more rupee notes float-ing around than euros and US dollars combined. The cost of producing these notes is substantial. According to Chakrabarty’s speech, RBI itself in-curred expenses of Rs.2,872 crore in 2012-13. Its printing presses had expenses of Rs.4,700 crore, mainly owing to the cost of paper and ink. Tot all this up and it comes close to the GDP of Mizoram. Clearly, there are more benefits to eliminating cash than just curbing black money transactions.

“Despite Yog Diwas getting over, the Prime Minis ting over, the Prime Minister is still in his `maun-vrat’ (silent mode). PM apne maun vrat ko tode aur mann ki baat karein (PM should break his silence and do his mann ki baat (he should break his silence and spell out his stand on the allegations“

‘Naughty’ Sonam Kapoor loved to bully boys

Divya Khosla Kumar trying to tap newcomers’ potential

I did ‘ABCD 2′ for kids: Varun Dhawan

‘Masaan’ to open sixth edition of Jagran Film Festival

- said Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Arshad Warsi has confirmed that the third part of “Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.” will be made and the makers are only waiting for its protagonist Sanjay Dutt to come out of jail and start working on the project. “Yes, ‘Munna Bhai 3′ will be made for sure. There is no doubt about that. The script is almost ready and we are waiting for him to come back and relax and then we will start working on it,” Arshad. Sanjay Dutt is in jail for illegal pos-session of arms during the 1993 Mumbai bomb

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Varun Dhawan has revealed he did “ABCD 2″ especially for his young fans. The 28-year-old star, whose latest 3D-dance film opened last Friday to mixed reviews, took to Twitter to thank them. “Hopefully all of you and your families enjoyed the film. I specially hope all the baachas (children) did because I did this film for the kids,” he wrote.

Dhawan, who plays a dancer in the film, said it is finally time to let go of the character. “There is always a child inside all of us #abcd2. It’s time to say bye to Suresh but don’t worry life is all about the next step,” he tweeted. Also starring Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhudeva, Dharmesh Yelande, Lauren Gottileb, Raghav Juyal, Punit Pathak, “ABCD 2″ is directed by Remo D’Souza.

Agency | New Delhi

Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut feature “Masaan”, which won two prestigious awards at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, will be

the opening film of the sixth edition of Jagran Film Festival, which will kickstart from July 1. The movie, which features powerhouse performers like Richa Chadha and

Sanjay Mishra, apart from newcomers Vicky Kaushal and Shweta Tripathi, follows the stories of four people from a small Indian town and how they fit into the

Agency | Mumbai

After working with a young cast in her direc-torial debut “Yaariyan”, Divya Khosla Kumar is busy with her next film “Sanam Re”. She says di-recting fairly new names like Yami Gautam and Urvashi Rautela is “ex-citing”. At a launch of a fashion store here, Kumar said: “I just got back from the Ladakh schedule (of my film). Yami Gautam and Urvashi Rautela are relative newcomers, so as a director, I am trying to tap in their potential and that I found very ex-citing.” “Sanam Re” also stars Pulkit Samrat and veteran actor Rishi Ka-poor.

Munnabhai 3 will be made for sure, just waiting for Sanjay Dutt to come back: Arshad Warsi

Agency | Mumbai

Actress and fashion icon Sonam Kapoor has

fond memories of her childhood, especially of playing on swings

and bullying boys. While promoting a new venture, Go Bonkers, an

indoor playground with many games like soccer, basketball, slides and

more for children, here, Sonam said: “I used to love slides and I use to

bully boys. I would push them, beat them… I was quite naughty. I miss those days, they were so carefree.” Spread across a 2,000 sq feet play area for children, Go Bonkers is for children aged from 2 to 10 years. Along with the playhouse, Go Bonkers also houses a 500 sq ft inhouse café along with a 440 sq ft yoga room. Talking about the venture, Sonam said: “It is an indoor playground with yoga centre and a small cafe. It is for kids because nowadays kids are always busy with iPads, phones and internet, so they have very less physical activity. This centre is designed for such kids.” On the big screen, Sonam will next be seen in “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo” opposite Salman Khan.

Divya Khosla

Kumar says directing fairly new

names like Yami Gautam

and Urvashi

Rautela is “exciting”.

“Masaan” will be the opening film of the sixth edition of Jagran Film Festival, which will kickstart from

July 1.

moralities. “Masaan” will be presented on July 1 evening by Ghaywan and the star cast of the film to the festival delegates personally. “It’s a matter of pride to open the festival with such a prestigious and worthy film. ‘Masaan’ is just the beginning; the festival has a lot in store for film delegates this year,” Manoj Srivastava, the festival’s strategic consultant, said in a statement. “Masaan” is an official entry in the festival and will compete for the Indian Showcase Awards, which will be held in Mumbai in September.

blasts and riots. Mean-while, Arshad is busy promoting his forth-coming film “Guddu Rangeela”, which also

stars Amit Sadh and Aditi Rao Hydari. “I am fond of both of them. Amit is like my adopted younger broth-

er. He is a really nice guy and Aditi is like family to me and we had a blast shooting for this film,” said Arshad.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPSachin Tendulkar fan Sudhir Gautam attacked in Bangladesh after second ODI

Agency | Mirpur

One of the most visible Indian cricket fans and an ardent Sachin Ten-dulkar supporter, Sudhir Gautam was attacked in Bangladesh on Sun-day, reports said. Sudhir was ‘mobbed’ outside the stadium as soon as the match got over. “As soon as I left the stadi-um, people mobbed me and started snatching the Tricolour, breaking the handle of the flag. Two policemen who were outside the stadium

came to my rescue and they escorted me to an auto-rickshaw. But the mob further attacked the auto and tried to break into it. They even hurled stones on the vehicle but luckily the auto was covered completely and I didn’t get hurt,” Sud-hir was quoted by the website. Sudhir is a reg-ular among the crowds whenever India go out to play abroad. The rea-son for the attack is still not known but a report in Zee News claims that

Agency | Lahor

Pakistan have even more reason to cheer their first test victory in Sri Lanka in nine years thanks to impressive performances from the team’s younger players, said captain Mis-bah-ul-Haq. The visitors fought back from 96-5 down in their first innings to register the win in less than four days after rain had washed out four ses-sions of the contest on the first two days at the Galle International Sta-dium. The task of haul-ing Pakistan out of trou-ble has usually fallen to Younus Khan, 37, and the 41-year-old Misbah but it was the emerging talents of Asad Shafiq

Agency | Chile

Neymar will play no further part in the Copa America after Brazil chose to accept the four-match suspension handed to its captain and star player following his red card in the group stage. The Brazilian Football Confederation said Mon-day that a decision not to appeal against the sanction was taken after a meeting between Neymar and the coaching staff on Sunday — a day after national-team coach Dunga said that Bra-zil likely would make an

appeal. Neymar, one of the world’s best players, was sent off after kicking the ball toward Colombia’s Pablo Armero after the ref-eree blew for fulltime in a Group C game on Wednes-day, which Brazil lost 1-0. Neymar also appeared to head-butt another player who came to confront him. CONMEBOL, the govern-ing body of South Ameri-can football, said the refer-ee’s report also showed he insulted the referee after the match and grabbed him by the arms.

India’s tour of Zimbabwe cancelled due to broadcasting rights issue

Agency | Kolkata

With their counterpart failing to resolve the broadcasting rights issue, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to cancel In-dia’s proposed tour of Zimbabwe. The Men in Blue were scheduled to play three ODIs and two T20 internationals from July 10. This paper al-ready reported the uncer-tainties about the tour due to persisting problems between host broadcaster Ten Sports and Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC). ZC chair-man Wilson Manase and CEO Wilfred Mukondiwa were still hopeful of find-ing a solution but even-tually they had to accept the reality. “If the matters take too long to resolve, ZC and the BCCI might

mutually agree to push the tour to next year,” Manase had said in a press state-ment. BCCI and Subhash Chandra, who owns Ten Sports, have fallen out badly of late. This fol-lows Chandra’s recent efforts to launch a break-away league to upset the existing world order. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is investi-gating the whole process. Besides, BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has had serious issues with Chandra. In 2004, the In-dian cricket board and Zee Telefilms, also owned by Chandra, were caught in a legal wrangle after BCCI had cancelled the bidding process in which Zee Telefilms emerged as the highest bidder for the broadcast rights of the

matches played in India between 2004 and 2008. Chandra’s response was to set up the now-defunct Indian Cricket League in 2007. The decision taken by the BCCI regarding the Zimbabwe tour puts a question mark over the proposed resumption of the bilateral series be-tween India and Pakistan as well. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Shahr-yar Khan met Dalmiya last month with the pro-posal to host India in the UAE for a full series in December. Problem is that Ten Sports is PCB’s broadcasting partner and the BCCI is likely to take the stand that subject to the government clearance. India will play against Pa-kistan only if Ten Network doesn’t air the matches.

Agency | London

Indian Tennis Star Le-ander Paes and Daniel Nestor beat Marc Lo-pez and Rafael Nadal in straight sets to enter the semifinals of the ATP Aegon Champion-ships. The third-seeded Indo-Canadian pair got

the better of the Span-ish pair 7-6(3), 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the € 1,696,645 grass court tournament. The two pairs broke each other one time in the first set before Paes and Nestor prevailed in the tie-break to nose ahead. In the second set, the win-

Agency | los angeles

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has decided to make its big-gest investment in wom-en’s cricket by pumping three million pounds to launch a six-team super

league tournament. The tournament, which is scheduled to start next summer, will initially employ the T20 format and would go on for two weeks, the BBC reports. However, the venues and dates have still not been

It’s good to have youngsters performing: Misbah-ul-Haq

the fan attacked him to avenge Bangladesh’s loss in the World Cup

quarter-final. Bangla-desh defeated India on Sunday in the second

successive ODI match to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in 3-match series.

and Sarfraz Ahmed who led them out of a precar-ious position and laid the foundations for the win. Leg-spinner Yasir Shah then ripped through Sri Lanka’s batting in the second innings with ca-reer-best figures of 7-76 to complete a 10-wick-et victory. “It’s good to have youngsters per-forming, that actually takes away the pres-

sure from us (Younus and himself),” Misbah told reporters. “This is the future we are build-ing with these young-sters and these players are coming of age now to take the team ahead. Sarfraz is a key player, Azhar (Ali) is perform-ing in the top, and the way Sarfraz and Asad played it further stamps our faith in them.”

Neymar out of Copa America after Brazil accept four-match ban

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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Four Mehsana-based men, including a pass-port/visa agent, were arrested by Sardarnagar police from Sardar Val-labhbhai Patel Inter-national Airport for at-tempting to travel with fake visa stamps to Can-ada. This is the second such incident uncovered in the past one week. In both these cases, the ac-cused were travelling to Canada. Based on the complaint filed by Bureau of Immigration (BoI) officials, Satish Kumar (24), Jaikishan Chaudhary (23), Nilesh Kumar Chaudhary (25) and agent Bharat Chaud-hary were taken into cus-tody. Except Bharat, the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Prevention of crime branch (PCB) sleuths on Sunday raided a gambling den in Jamalpur area of the city and nabbed five persons, including the kingpin, Shakib Pathan. PCB officials said that they have seized cell phones and computers from their residence. “The accused used to

make people gamble on figures from Sattabazar,” said PCB inspector Kiran Modi. A police source said that along with Shakib, they have arrest-ed Farook Shaikh of Ju-hapura, Imran Pathan of Kalupur, Arif Chipa and Amrat Solanki. “We are hunting for Shakib’s fa-ther Fazlurehman Pathan, who is also an accused,” said the source.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The city crime branch on Sunday registered an FIR in the fake degree scam involving four ac-cused, one of whom had bought a fake Arts de-gree and appeared in the physical exams for po-lice recruitment. Sources in the crime branch said they had received an alert from state intelligence with copies of the fake degrees. “The report also mentioned that one of the candidates who had

appeared in the physical examination for recruit-ment in the police, Ritesh Desai, had acquired fake degree certificates,” said a senior crime branch of-ficial. Crime branch offi-cials had first questioned Desai, a resident of Ba-punagar. “Desai said Ron-ak Brahmbhatt, a resident of Bapunagar who runs an education institute at Hare Krishna Complex, had helped him get the degree certificates,” said a source in the crime branch.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A team of Gandhinagar police local crime branch (LCB) officials have caught a man for break-ing an ATM in Chiloda in 2014 on the basis of information. A team led by sub-inspector R N Va-ghela got information on Himanshu Jaat, a youth suspected to be involved in an attempt to break an ATM at BSF cam-pus in Chiloda. Jaat was caught from Alampur Patiya and was ques-tioned on the basis of the CCTV footage. Jaat later confessed to his

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Khokhra police officials on Sunday faced an up-hill task when the kin of a person who alleged-ly committed suicide reached the police station alleging that he had been murdered The cops even-tually managed to calm the victim’s relatives down. A source said, “We informed the family that a suicide note was found on the victim which said that the reason for his taking the extreme step was so his wife could get remarried.” According to police, Ravi Panchal, a

Kabootarbazi on rise: 4 held with fake visas

Gambling den raided in Jamalpur, five held

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The St. Xavier’s Col-lege, Ahmedabad, under its autonomous system launched the BSc Bio-technology degree on Monday . While speaking at the inaugural function state education minis-ter, Bhupendrasinh Chu-dasma emphasized the importance of biotech-nology especially since the state government is putting emphasis on de-veloping industries. Chu-dasma assured students pursuing this course of bright career options. “Biotechnology is a field

that touches human life and therefore, there is a need for human resource here,“ he said. Vice chan-cellor of Gujarat Univer-sity , M N Patel, who was guest of honour St Xavi-er’s college, Ahmedabad is the first college in the state to have gained au-tonomy and appreciated the initiative to start the course as it is a subject that is in demand. “GU is unable to meet demands as around 12,000 forms have been filled online for B.Sc.programs and,“ Patel said. Fr. Robert Arockiasamy , the princi-

other three accused were to board Air India’s AI-331 flight on Saturday morning. BoI officials found discrepancy in visa stamps on the pass-ports of the accused and filed a complaint with police. The cops found that Satish and Nilesh paid Rs 13 lakh while Jaikishan paid Rs 15 lakh to Bharat and a UP-based agent for availing fake visa stamps. K K Patel,

senior police inspector, Sardarnagar police sta-tion, said, “This was the first job of Bharat as a passport/visa agent. Un-til immigration officials caught them, Bharat was under the impression that visas were not fake. Since he did not know that vi-sas were fake, he went inside the airport to drop the other three accused and was held on suspi-cion by immigration of-

ficials.” Bharat has been sent to five-day remand by sessions court while the other three accused were sent to judicial cus-tody. A case has been registered under sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 114 of IPC and sec-tion 12 (1) (b) of India Passport Act. Last week, a Bangalore-based car-rier Arun Alphonse was caught while trying to take a Kadi-based wom-an to Canada on fake documents from city air-port. The duo, posing as couple, was to fly to Can-ada by a Qatar Airways flight. City-based agent Sujal Shah, who helped the duo in procuring fake visa and passport, was also arrested a day later by Sardarnagar police.

Man caught for bid to break Chiloda ATM

Suicide victim’s kin throng Khokhra police station

involvement. LCB in-spector Ashutosh Par-mar said that Jaat is son of a sub-inspector with BSF. “He has named two others Vivek Pawar and Vivek Nain as co-ac-cused. Pawar, also a son of BSF official, served briefly as constable be-fore he was terminated. The trio was living on the campus when the incident had taken place. They had targeted an ATM near gate number 1 and had broken it with heavy objects. However, they couldn’t break the inner cover,” said Parmar.

garment factory worker, was found hanging on the staircase on the third floor of the premises with a plastic string. “A post mortem was conducted which confirmed the sui-cide,” said sub inspector R B Chauhan of Khokhra police station. However, despite the findings of the post mortem report Pan-chal’s relatives thronged the police station with his body. They claim that Panchal had borrowed Rs2 lakh from one Ghan-syam Thakker to start a new business with his friend Sachin Mehta.

St Xavier’s introduces biotechnology courseFIR filed in fake degree scam

pal of Xavier’s said, “The intake in the current batch is 36 and we will take a maximum of 40 students. We nurture the talent of our students and we are

proud of the success of our alumni. The college is ranked in the top 20 science and arts colleges in the country by India Today .“