Lok Sabha proceedings washed out as Opposition adamant on Sushma Swaraj, Raje’s resignationNews Brief

HC directs ED, ACB to continue probe against Bhujbal

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court today directed the state Anti-Corruption Bu-reau and Enforcement Directorate to continue its inquiry against for-mer minister Chhagan Bhujbal and his fami-ly members for alleged money laundering and land grabbing. The di-rection was passed by a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice A K Menon de-spite the two investigat-ing agencies informing the court that they have closed inquiries against Bhujbal into five allega-tions out of total nine, due to lack of evidence.El Nino has affected monsoon adversely:

GovtAgency | New Delhi

The El Nino has ad-versely affected the monsoon in the country so far and is expected to further affect the rainfall in coming months, gov-ernment today said. In a written response to a question in Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said India has received 7 per cent less rainfall than what is normal during the peri-od between June 1 and July 20. “El Nino has adversly affected the monsoon so far as per the model forecasts. It is also expected to affect the monsoon in coming months.

Govt in touch with UK on new

immigration rulesAgency | New Delhi

Government today said it was in touch with British authorities to ascertain the impact of new immigration rules on Indian nurses in that country due to the newly introduced sala-ry threshold of 35,000 pounds per annum. Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs V K Singh said Indian High Commission in London was actively engaged with Indian as-sociations in the UK to make appropriate pre-sentation to British Mi-gration Advisory Com-mittee on the issue.

Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Deputy Editor : Chirag Rudani Reg. Add : A-24, Shardhdha Apartment, Thakkarbapanagar Road, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad - 382350 Ph: 079-32452269Corpo. Office: 302, Center Point, Opp-Jagatnagar-2, India Colony Road, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Web: www.sunvillasamachar.com Email: ssdaily2013@gmail.com Mo : 9687612324

23th July, 2015 - Thursday

Cong lacks real strategy to washoutMembers of Congress and Left carried placards and raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the

government for not acting against Swaraj and Raje in Lalit Modi row

“All noise, no substance”

Year :01 Issue : 175 Pages:4 Price :Rs.1/-

Agency | New Delhi

For the second day, Par-liament was unable to function as the opposi-tion, rejecting the govern-ment’s offer of a debate, forced repeated adjourn-ments Wednesday, de-manding the removal first of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj,

Rajasthan Chief Minis-ter Vasundhara Raje and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the con-troversies surrounding them. Rajya Sabha failed to transact any business for the second straight day due to the pandemo-nium. Meeting on its first working day this session,

Lok Sabha too remained paralysed as Congress and Left members kept entering the well of the House with placards de-spite Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s warning of disciplinary action. Both Houses adjourned for the day after 2 pm. The only work done in Lok Sabha was the green signal to a

motion seeking extension of the term of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the land bill. Black bands on their arms, Con-gress members raised placards that read ‘Bade Modi meherban to chhote Modi pehelwan’ (a refer-ence to the Prime Minis-ter and former IPL chief Lalit Modi), ‘PM chuppi

Agency | New Delhi

With no end in sight to the ongoing tussle in Parlia-ment, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opened a new front against the Congress by releasing a video of a purported sting operation against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s personal secretary Mo-hammed Shahid, in which he is seen as negotiating with middlemen to change the excise policy in the state. Releasing the video at the party headquarters, Union Commerce Min-ister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “The excise policy of Uttarakhand under Vi-jay Bhauguna was to have the wholesale distribution of foreign liquor (FL-2) through Garwhal Mandal Vikas Nigam and Agricul-ture Marketing Council. These two then distribute to the smaller retailers and the third layer was the re-tail outlet.” Sitharaman said that after the Con-

Agency | New Delhi

No business could be conducted in Parliament pre-lunch on Wednesday as a combative Oppo-sition sought to force a discussion on corrup-tion in the wake of the Lalit Modi case and the Vyapam scam. In the Lok Sabha, several Op-position MPs sported black bands in protest and also held up plac-ards. When they contin-ued to hold them up de-spite directions from the Chair not to do so, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumi-tra Mahajan warned the Congress and TRS MPs of disciplinary action. In the Rajya Sabha, Depu-ty Chairman P.J. Kurien chided the BJP MPs for disrupting proceed-ings and asked why the

Agency | New Delhi

In a weird event, Jharkhand Education Minister Neera Yadav was found paying hom-age to former president APJ Abdul Kalam’s pho-to in Kodarma. Accord-ing to Hindu tradition, the floral tribute and applying kumkum on the photo is something which is predominantly done to pay respect to a person after his death. And it is considered in-auspicious to do it while someone is alive. This bizarre incident raised questions over the lack of cultural knowledge of the Education Minister. Even more bizarrely, the incident took place in a

Agency | Faryab

Asuicide bombing Wednesday at a crowded market in northern Af-ghanistan killed 19 people and left at least 28 others injured, officials said. The blast in Faryab province was caused by explosives attached to a motorcycle, said Mohammad Saleh Saleh, governor of the local Almar district. The dead included 10 mem-bers of the country’s secu-rity forces, he said. Many people were out in public Wednesday in the after-math of the Eid al-Fitr hol-

Speaker warns of action against protesting members

BJP alleges ‘liquor scam’ in Uttarakhand, releases sting operation video

Shradhanjali: Jharkhand minister thinks APJ Kalam is dead, gives him floral tribute

Annual Subscription : Rs. 300 /-Edition : Ahmedabad. M.:9687612324

Treasury Benches were behaving like the Op-position. As in the Lok Sabha where the TRS was demanding the es-tablishment of a seperate High Court in Telangana in the din over corrup-tion, the Rajya Sabha also saw members of various parties raise a slew of issues. 4:45 pm: Lalit Modi Row: The Government rejected

demand for a probe into charges against Union minister Sushma Swaraj and two BJP chief min-isters, contending they had not violated any law and sharpened its attack on Opposition for stall-ing Parliament. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley lashed out at the Oppo-sition saying it is “weak on arguments and strong on disturbance“.

gress replaced Bhaugu-na with Harish Rawat in view of the Uttarakhand floods, among the first thing the new CM did was to change the liquor pol-icy of the state. “Harish Rawat’s priority was to change the policy in such a way that the liquor dis-tribution would happen through agencies which they will bring in and only transportation would hap-pen through GMVN,” he said. The minister added that the distribution was

removed from govern-ment agency GMVN... the public body was sidelined and private agencies at the convenience and through the pick and chose poli-cy of the Chief Minister and his PS Mohammed Shahid and passed on to private agencies. “There was an understanding of several hundred of crores (of rupees)...let us bar-gain how much you will give me, the PS sits and negotiates with these people saying how much

are you giving now and the payment would be made in Delhi or Dehra-dun. 25% now, 75% later all this comes through in that sting operation,” she said. “Very clearly, with a clear intention of making money in a state like Ut-tarakhand which is crying for help, the chief minister and his handpicked and chosen PS, an IAS officer from Gujarat cadre who was brought in even when he was a union minister,” he added.

school where the prin-cipal and several other people including teach-ers present were paying homage to the scientist. After paying homage, Neera Yadav, the chief guest at the event was in-augurating smart classes at the school. After much criticism, Yadav said that garlanding great leaders in schools is also means

to honour them and that there is nothing objec-tionable in garlanding Kalam’s photo as he is a great scientist. Accord-ing to the report , Yadav said that schools, pho-tos of great leaders are also garlanded to honour them and is a way to pay respect and there was nothing objectionable in garlanding the pho-

to of the great scientist and leader. An Education Minister, at an event in a school, must brush up her general knowledge before garlanding major leaders of the country who are still very much alive.

Blast in Afghanistan targets crowded market, leaves 19 dead

todo’ (PM, break your silence), ‘Modiji 56 inch dikhao, Sushma, Raje ko turant hatao’ (Show your might by remov-ing Swaraj and Raje). RJD and NCP members backed the Congress pro-test, watched by Swaraj who was sitting in the front row of the treasury benches with Home Min-ister Rajnath Singh and

Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari. TRS members contributed to the uproar

by raising the demand for a separate high court for Telangana.

iday that marked the end of the monthlong Islamic fast-ing time of Ramadan. No group took immediate re-sponsibility for the attack, which was under investi-gation amid speculation that the security forces at the market were targeted.

The bombing came days after Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan’s first vice president, visited the province to mark Eid al-Fitr and vowed that the government would stand by the increasingly vola-tile area.

2 / Dt. 23-07-2015, Thursday www.sunvillasamachar.com

- Kapilkumar M. HirparaEditor

Ahmedabad

Editors’ Picks

THURSDAy, JULY 23, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYFracas between Kejriwal government and Delhi policeFor some time now, and in full public view, Delhi’s government has trained its guns on Delhi Police, which reports to the Union home ministry. The lat-ter has returned fire, with constables to the police commissioner taking pot shots at the government. The state government has embarked on an adver-tisement blitz, in print and on radio, that frames the police force in poor light. In an open letter to the prime minister, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has highlighted the gruesome murder of a teenage girl in the city to underline his complaint, while pushing his campaign for gaining control over the force that is denied to the elected government un-der the capital’s power-sharing arrangement. His disparaging remark about policemen had earli-er caused some heartburn in the force. Kejriwal’s strategy of going public in a bid to distance his government from policing failures in Delhi intends to be smart politics, but actually reveals a lack of maturity. There is a systemic price to be paid if a chief minister ridicules officials, especially law enforcers, in public. Reprimands, when necessary, must be served behind closed doors and without disrespect to the institution. To be sure, Kejriwal’s frustration with the multiple centres of power in a state he rules is understandable. As the head of an elected government, he also has to address the complaints and concerns of citizens. Yet, the reality is that he has only partial control over the exec-utive in Delhi and till the arrangement is altered through due process — which will involve nego-tiation with the Centre — he must function with-in its limits and constraints. The lack of a working relationship with the Centre can hurt the efficiency of his government and jeopardise the developmen-tal agenda it so fervently promises and proclaims. As chief minister, moreover, Kejriwal is expected not just to publicise and highlight the problems but also to come up with the solutions. And while his government’s efforts to identify and isolate corrupt elements are commendable, he also needs to recog-nise and make the distinction between the institu-tion and its rogue members. If he is not careful, his headlong rush into confrontation with institutions and with the Centre could take the sheen off his government’s more radical initiatives, like subsi-dised canteens and health centres. The Delhi fracas has raised another question: Should police officials publicly lock horns with the head of the elected government? The Union home minister must cau-tion Delhi Police personnel against commenting on the state government’s conduct in public. A spat between the government and the law enforcement machinery can only benefit law-breakers.

“misappropriated the funds of charity and converted to their own use funds meant for the rehabilitation and welfare of the unfortunate victims of riots in Gujarat in Feb-March 2002,” including construction of “dream museum”

Anushka Sharma opens up about her relationship with Virat Kohli, calls him her ‘arm candy’

Parineeti Chopra not Haryana ambassador for ‘Beti Bachao’: Minister Kavita Jain

- The state police in its affidavit said Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand as trustees of two trusts —Sabrang Trustand Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP) — have by “diverse methods” allegedly..

Agency | New Delhi

There’s one sure-shot way to make sure you get at-tention on social media these days, criticise the BJP government or Na-rendra Modi. That often ensures preferential treat-ment by thousands of anonymous trolls whose raison d’etre seems to be to abuse people on the internet. On a day when rains brought the city of Mumbai to a standstill, Neha Dhupia tweeted: “One rain n the city comes to a standstill. Good gov-ernance is not about self-ies n makin us do yoga,it’s making sure ur citizens r safe,” This was all the sign

that Twitter users, largely anonymous, a group that pop-culture expert Chetan Bhagat christened bhakts or FACIM (Frustrated And Complex-ridden In-dian Males), attacked her for being a woman, for supporting AAP, for cam-paigning for a Congress candidate and for doing films. To be fair, her view wasn’t that different from how we felt while com-muting to work today, wondering how a little rain could bring the entire city to a standstill. Only a month ago, Shruti Seth and Kavita Krishnan were trolled, for questioning the Prime Minister’s #Self-

ieWithDaughter campaign where men after loving-ly clicking pictures with their daughters proceeded to abuse both of them with the vilest words. Actress Shruti Seth had tweeted “A selfie is not a device to bring about change Mr. PM. Try reform.” And added the hashtag #self-ieobsessedPM for good measure. Activist Kavita Krishnan was more criti-cal as she had called Modi a #LameDuckPM and saying “He has a record of stalking daughters.” Even the nation’s go-to bapuji showed his ‘unsanskari’ side when he tweeted: “Jail the bitch.”

Agency | New Delhi

I remember during the in-teractions for PK, when Anushka Sharma was quizzed about her relation-ship with Virat Kohli, she had clearly refused to talk about it. Not because she didn’t want to talk about it but she knew what would follow. “I don’t want this to grab headlines, honest-ly. I know it will if I talk about it. It’s for everyone to say. I’m not accepting it nor am I denying it. It’s evident from what I am doing. But I don’t want a 24X7 press conference running in my life,” she had shot back. That was December, last year. She’s been a part of three more films in between- NH10, Bombay Velvet and Dil Dhadakne Do- and has changed in a lot more ways. She’s become more open about her boyfriend

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood’s Singham actor Ajay Devgn is quiet possessive when it comes about his family and lit-tle kids. The actor can go at any extent for his two little kids and family and must the actor every time proves his is totally fami-ly oriented. Ajay Devgn, who will also be portray-ing the role of a protective father in his upcoming film Drishyam, has been away from his kids and wife Kajol due to his work commitments and promo-tions of the film. As we all know Kajol is shooting for Rohit Shetty’s highly anticipated film Dilwale

in Bulgaria. The actress has been shooting for the film in Bulgaria since June and Kajol had to take her daughter Nysa and son Yug along with her as she is shooting there while Ajay Devgn had to stay behind at home for his busy schedules here. Ajay Devgn is perfect doting fa-ther as his recent instance has surely made us go ‘aww’ with his adorable gesture. According to the reports, Ajay Devgn who wants his kids around him had called up Kajol and asked her to send the kids back almost 10 days earlier than they were initially expected to return. Ajay was miss-

Agency | Gurgaon

Haryana has not ap-pointed Bollywood star Parineeti Chopra as the brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign in the state, Social Jus-tice, Empowerment and Women and Child De-velopment Minister Ka-vita Jain said on Tues-day. Jain was talking to media persons after participating in an event related to the campaign. She said the Haryana government has not made any payment to Chopra for the purpose, and Chopra expressed her wish to work for the campaign without charging any fee. A state government spokesman said on July 16 that Parineeti was chosen for the campaign as she hailed from the state’s Ambala town. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the nationwide campaign from Panipat town in January to promote the cause of the girl child. The campaign was launched from Hary-ana as the state has the worst sex ratio at 879 fe-males per 1,000 males. The child sex ratio in Haryana is the worst among all the states in the country. Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij recently tweeted that Chief Minister Manohar

Here’s Why Ajay Devgn Called Back His Kids From Bulgaria

Good governance not about selfies, says Neha Dhupia

Virat Kohli and is more accepting about her rela-tionship. Yet, she doesn’t like people intruding into her personal space. “I am not here to tell anyone how many times we talk to each other in a day, when we meet, where we meet, nothing.” At the vogue Beauty Awards on

Tuesday night, Anushka walked in with Virat in tow. While at the Wimble-don, the two were sport-ing matching colours, at the awards function, the situation was a little dif-ferent. Virat chose his sta-ple black and white while Anushka beamed in a lime gown.

ing his kids so much that he couldn’t wait for few more days for his kids to get back to India. Report-edly his kids flew back and are having a good time with their father

Ajay Devgn as well the actor is happy to see his kids back at home with him. Earlier last week, the actor had moved to Bulgaria for shooting few scenes for his upcoming

film. Ajay was also spot-ted having dinner along with his long lost friend Shah Rukh Khan who is also shooting in Bulgaria with Kajol for their next venture film Dilwale.

Lal Khattar kept him in the dark over Chopra’s

“appointment” as brand ambassador.

Kavita Jain said the Haryana government has not made any payment to Parineeti Chopra for

the purpose

3 / Dt. 23-07-2015, Thursday www.sunvillasamachar.com Ahmedabad

SPORTS ROUNDUP

Agency | New Delhi

With uncertainty looming over the impact of poor rain on kharif crops, the Union cabinet on Tuesday decided to extend the sub-sidy offered on interest rates to farmers for 2015-16 and increase the bud-get allocation for the so-called interest subvention scheme. In doing so, the finance ministry seems to have dropped its plan to revamp the scheme for crop loans at least for now. Finance minister Arun Jaitley had allocat-ed Rs.13,000 crore in the

budget for this scheme in the current fiscal, higher than Rs.9,476.71 crore set aside in last year’s budget (as per revised estimates for 2015-16). On Tues-day, the cabinet decided to increase the allocation for this year to Rs.18,110 crore. Of this, Rs.15,778 crore will be used to subsidize loans given by state-run banks. The re-maining amount will be used by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) to refinance loans given by regional rural banks and cooperative banks.

Agency | London

Gold fell back to-wards five-year lows on Wednesday as investors continued to pull away from the precious metal, with a slide through key chart levels earlier this week setting prices up for further losses. A looming rise in U.S. interest rates, the first in nearly a de-cade, has dented gold’s investment appeal, en-couraging more sellers in the market after Mon-day’s 3 percent rout, its biggest one-day drop since September 2013. Holdings in top gold-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF) SPDR Gold Trust fell for a fourth

day on Tuesday, declin-ing another 4.8 tonnes to hit their lowest since 2008. Its reserves have nearly halved from their 2012 peak. Spot gold was down 0.5 percent at $1,095.69 an ounce at 0940 GMT, while U.S. gold futures for August delivery were down $8.70 an ounce at $1,094.80. On Mon-day, gold slid to its low-est since March 2009 at $1,088.05 an ounce. It failed to benefit from a softer tone to the dollar and stock markets on Wednesday, which usu-ally would be expected to give some respite to the metal.

Agency | Paris

There is no doubt that Jamaica’s Usain Bolt is one of the legends in ath-letics. He has smashed several world records and has been dubbed as the fastest man on earth. However, in a bid to ex-tend his career, Bolt has to sacrifice something unusual. With injuries

taking a toll on Bolt with every passing year, the Jamaican sprinter and six-time Olympic gold medallist, is curb-ing chicken nuggets in order to compete in the coming years. Speaking in the Inside Athletics programme, Bolt said, “I’ve noticed that I have to be very careful and I

just have to be aware of everything around me and make sure I’m on point. I’ve started eating healthy. That’s the hard-est thing for me right now is the sacrifices, eating vegetables all the time. Everything else is easy to give up, but eating healthy is really hard!”

Agency | New Delhi

Legendary hockey Olym-pian Balbir Singh Sr is extremely disappointed in the manner Hockey India has handled the Paul van Ass issue mak-ing it clear that this fre-quent hire-and-fire policy would affect the national team’s performance with only one year left for Rio Olympics. “If we change coaches this frequently, then something appar-ently is wrong with our system. It reflects poorly on us and it would defi-nitely affect the on-field performance of the Indian national team,” the triple Olympic gold medallist said in an exclusive inter-view reacting to sacking of Terry Walsh and Van Ass in a space of eight months. Only two days

back, Dutch coach van Ass created a flutter by claiming that he has been fired by Hockey India fol-lowing his alleged public altercation with federa-tion president Narinder Batra, throwing the sport into yet another phase of uncertainty. Balbir Sr knows a thing or two about man management having guided India to its only World Cup tri-umph in 1975 feels that if we are recruiting foreign coaches, then we should also learn to respect them. “If we do not appoint an Indian coach and invite a foreign coach, then we should treat him with due respect. We should give that person adequate op-portunities, because his own reputation is equally involved,” Balbir Sr said.

Without taking HI chief

Narinder Batra’s name, the former Indian hock-ey captain made it clear that administrator should refrain from giving tech-nical inputs as it is the sole domain of a coach. “During a tournament, the administrator has no role to play in the techni-cal aspect of the game,” he added. Over the past few years, HI has stressed on getting a foreign coach on board, paying them handsome salaries. The last Indian coach to take charge of the senior team was Joaquim Carval-ho, who had a one-year stint that ended in 2008. But four foreign coach-es - Jose Brasa, Michael Nobbs, Terry Walsh and in all likelihood Van Ass now - have had uncere-monious pre-mature ex-its.

Agency | Mumbai

Aided by strong attacks from Shabeer Bapu and Rishank Devadiga and supported by some fine defensive work, hosts U Mumba pipped Puneri Paltan 28-21 in the Ma-harashtra derby of the Star Sports Pro Kabaddi

League here on Tues-day. U Mumba, who thus notched up their fourth straight win in as many days to end the home leg matches on a rousing note, took the top spot in the table with 20 points while their rivals suf-fered their second defeat here at the NSCI Stadi-

Agency | New Delhi

A new record for Le-novo, their K3 Note smartphone today had the company’s best flash sale success yet. Le-novo’s official handle spouted some whopping numbers on Twitter this evening, talking about their two separate sales

today. That’s a total of 45,000 smartphones sold in five seconds. In their last flash sale for the device, the company had received around 50 lakh registrations, may of whom were left dis-appointed. Registrations will open once again at 6pm today for the net flash sale on Flipkart.

No one is bigger than cricket: Laxman on IPL controversy

Changing Coaches Frequently not Good for Indian Hockey Team: Balbir Singh Sr

Usain Bolt Sacrifices Junk Food To Prolong Career

India’s tour of Sri Lanka: Focus on third spinner as selectors set to pick Test squad

Gold slides towards 5-year low as investors pull back

Govt approves extension of interest subvention scheme on crop loans

45,000 Lenovo K3 Note units sold out in 5 seconds

Agency | New Delhi

The third specialist spinner’s slot will be the subject of much deliberation when the national selection committee, headed by Sandeep Patil, meets on Wednesday to announce the squad for the three-Test away series against Sri Lanka starting August 12. Barring this one aspect, the five wise men on the selection panel would have very little to fret on while picking the squad for the longer format where at least 13 players will automatically select themselves. Apart from third spinner’s position, it will also be interesting to find out whether it will be a 15 or 16-member squad for the three-match series. The six specialist batsmen who are automatic choices are openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan,

Agency | Mumbai

Former India bats-man VVS Laxman on Wednesday termed the suspension of two Indi-an Premier League (IPL) teams Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Ra-jasthan Royals (RR) as unfortunate, but added nothing is bigger than cricket and the game will ultimately emerge vic-torious despite the con-troversy. “Suspension of both the IPL teams is very unfortunate. There are lot of positives as far as IPL is concerned. No one is bigger than the game. And I think the focus is and will always be on cricket and cricket will be the ultimate win-ner,” Laxman said in an interview here. The Su-preme Court appointed Justice Lodha Commit-tee suspended the two IPL franchises on July 14 and banned their two team officials, Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kun-dra, respectively, for life from cricketing activi-ties. After the suspen-sion, the Board of Con-trol of for Cricket in India

(BCCI) named a working group comprising Sourav Ganguly, Rajeev Shukla, Anurag Thakur and An-irudh Chaudhry to study the verdict and prepare a road map for IPL’s fu-ture.“I am big believer the exposure that young cricketers get to share the dressing rooms with some of the legends in the game is just because of IPL. I think there are very few negative inci-dents in IPL, but overall

I think IPL is positive for budding cricketers for the country,” he said. “This is definitely not good for the brand IPL. But the amount of good cricket that we have seen in the last IPL, competitive cricket was seen being played.” The 40-year-old also said it is too early to say it is a setback for the young players who are part of the two franchises.

skipper Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and A team captain Cheteshwar Pujara. Young KL Rahul, who missed out against Bangladesh due to dengue, is likely to come back as the seventh batsman. Wriddhiman Saha is another automatic selection as first-choice wicket-keeper while an additional 16th member might make provision for Naman Ojha or Sanju Samson as the second wicketkeeper. The three

pacers, who are likely to make the cut are Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Pacer Varun Aaron is also a certainty if he recovers from his bout of influenza. While the two off-spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh are sure to retain their places, it remains to be seen whether the selection committee opts for a left-arm spinner in Axar Patel or a veteran leg-spinner in Amit Mishra.

U Mumba Pick Up Fourth Straight Win: Pro Kabaddi

um, having lost to Telugu Titans on Monday. For last years runners-up U Mumbai, who defeated defending champions Jai-pur Pink Panthers, Ben-galuru Bulls and Patna Pirates in their previous three games here, Bapu scored eight raid points while Devadiga got sev-en, including two when just five minutes were left. In fact, this phase of the game in the second half, when the two teams were tied at 18-all with nine minutes left after U Mumba had taken a 10-9 lead at half time, was the turning point as the hosts garnered four raid points to their opponents’ nil.

Year : 01, Issue : 175 “Sunvilla Samachar” (English Daily) Morning Newspaper Printed at Vansh Corporation, A-8, Shayona Golden Estate, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad - 380 004., and Published at A-24, Shardha Apartment, Thakkarbapanagar Road, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad-382350. Mo.: 9687612324, by Owner, Printer, Publisher : Aksheshkumar S. Savaliya on date 23-07-2015 (Thursday), Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara* (*Responsible for selection of News under the PRB act). RNI Regn No. : GUJENG/2014/59629

4 / Dt. 23-07-2015, Thursday www.sunvillasamachar.com Ahmedabad

Correspondent | Rajkot

Weeks after he was declared defaulter by HDFC bank, scion of Rajkot royal family, Mandhatasinh Jadeja has been dragged to the court by Gruh Finance Limit-ed over recovery of loan dues. Gruh Finance filed a case against Jadeja in a Rajkot court on Tuesday after two bank cheques that the royal had giv-en to the financing firm bounced last month. Se-nior officials of Gruh Finance said that Jade-ja had availed of Rs 2.5 crore loan by mortgaging a Rs 22 crore worth flat in Malabar Hill in Mumbai in year 2008. He further availed Rs 5 crore loan by submitting the same Malabar Hill flat as se-curity in 2012. Officials of Gruh Finance further

Correspondent | Surat

After nearly 20 days, south Gujarat and Sau-rashtra regions witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall on Tuesday, giving a new lease of life to otherwise withering cash crops of groundnut and cotton. In south Gujarat, Dharampur in Valsad received 177.8 mm rainfall, while Kapra-da, Umargam and Sapu-tara (Dangs district) re-ceived 171 mm, 127 mm and 101.6 mm rain, re-spectively. Other parts of Valsad, such as Vapi, the town and Pardi, received moderate rainfall. Heavy shower in Surat (127 mm) hit normal life as water-

logging on several city streets threw traffic out of gear. Tapi and Navsari dis-tricts have also received heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours with weather-men forecasting similar weather for Wednesday. Ahmedabad and Vadodara also received intermittent rain since morning. Rain on Tuesday came as a boon for farmers in south Gujarat and Saurashtra regions, where crops had started to dry for the want of water. The state had not received any signif-icant rainfall since June 24. In Saurashtra, while Jamkandorana taluka in Rajkot received 40 mm

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

State government’s plan to develop prime land adjoining the Gu-jarat University(GU), between LD College of Engineering and 132-feet Ring Road, faces strong opposition from some of the university employees, syndicate members and others. Those opposing the plan question the right of the GU authorities to hand over the land to Ahmed-abad Municipal Corpo-ration(AMC), which is reported to have held a meeting with GU au-thorities for a town planning (TP) scheme. Himanshu Patel, a pow-erful GU senate mem-ber, has asked GU vice chancellor M N Patel to produce evidence that the land belongs to the university.“VC can’t

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

H Masud Taj, Adjunct Professor at Carleton University in Canada, was mentored in archi-tecture by Hassan Fathy and in calligraphy by David Hosbrough. His talk on “Sinan:Archi-tect at the Centre of the World” in Delhi drizzled with anecdotes of Otto-man empire’s most cel-ebrated builder, and how history and politics were fertile soil for some of Istanbul’s lasting mon-uments. Excerpts from an interview: Where did your love for calligra-phy and poetry devel-op? In Bombay, at home by the sea with its tidal rhythms, where my fa-ther had a divine hand that remains without a tremor even in his 90s and because my mother tongue is Urdu, the most poetic of Indian languag-es (besides being a de-scendant of the classical

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The city with India’s best business acumen, Ahmed-abad, sure carries travel at its fingertips. Hotel book-ings made on Cleartrip Mobile from Ahmedabad, have seen a magnifi-cent 564% year-on-year growth, according to an insight shared by Cleart-rip. Similarly, air bookings made on Cleartrip Mobile from Ahmedabad, have seen an exceptional 197% year-on-year growth. “Ahmedabad plans travel on-the-go. At Cleartrip, we are seeing extraordinary uptake in bookings made from mobile devices. According to Cleartrip’s Insight on Mobile Trav-el Behaviour in Ahmed-abad, over 64% bookings from Ahmedabad come from mobile devices. The mobile growth on ho-tels for Ahmedabad has been amongst the highest across the country, and we are very excited about

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

With police seeking a lead in the fatal accident which claimed two lives near Amikunj crossroads on Sunday morning, a team from the forensic science laboratory (FSL) visited the spot and examined the vehicle even as city traffic police joined in the probe by using software to simulate the incident. On Sunday, a speeding car had hit a tree near the crossroads after which it slammed into a parked car and boundary wall of a residence in the area. Two occupants - Aakash Patel,19 and Divya Patel, 20 - died whereas Rahul Nayak, 20, and Dipali Pa-tel, 20, survived the crash but sustained severe inju-ries.Police investigators said that the FSL team was roped in to ascertain how the incident occured. “On the basis of the man-gled body, experts opined that the car was in fact at a high speed. They will

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat high court has fined Hasmukh Pandya, 42, a teacher from Limkhe-da — in the tribal district of Dahod — for refusing to accept that he is the father of his three children. Pan-dya invited the court’s ire because of his dogged de-nial of fatherhood despite the DNA test conducted by the Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS), Gand-hinagar, establishing his paternity. Justice Paresh Upadhyay said, “The hus-band has not only abused the process of law, but

has abused his wife. He is falsified by the clinching evidence like the FSL re-port. Dismissing the peti-tion without imposing cost would be too lenient a view against him...” Pandya has paid Rs 2,500 to his wife as directed by the HC for abusing her and unneces-sarily making her and their three children — two sons and a daughter — take the test. Pandya married in 1994; the couple had their first child in 1995; the second in 1996; and the third in 1999. In 2011, Pandya filed for divorce in a Dahod court, accus-

ing his wife of having an extramarital relationship. He also asserted that he was not the biological fa-ther of the three children. He demanded the DNA test to prove his claims. However, the court turned down his plea. The ada-mant Pandya then filed an appeal in a district court, which ordered his wife and the three children in February 2012 to take the paternity test at the DFS. In September 2013, the FSL report demonstrated that Pandya’s claims were false and that he was in-deed the father of the kids.

Rajkot royal family dragged to court for loan default

State govt’s plan to develop land owned by Gujarat University faces opposition

transfer the land to the state government if it is not the owner of the land”, points out Himan-shu Patel. Let GU prove its ownership first be-fore anything else”, says the senate member, who is also a state Congress spokesperson. Patel and several employees of GU suspect the move to grab the university’s land and hand it over to

real estate developers or to some private groups running educational in-stitutions. “The whole idea is to make a quick buck by transferring the prime land to business groups”, remarks former GPCC president Arjun Modhwadia. A senior BJP leader, on condi-tions of anonymity, said that since the area is an educational hub with

LDCE, Government Women’s Polytechnic, Physical Research Lab-oratory, ATIRA(Ahmed-abad Textile Industry’s Research Association) and Amrut Modi School of Management locat-ed in the area, efforts were being made by some private education-al group close to the ruling party to acquire the university’s land by bringing a TP scheme. The politician said that if the university wanted to develop the area, it could do it from its own funds as the university’s annual income from dif-ferent sources was more than Rs. 25 crores. And it would not take more than Rs. five crores for resurfacing the road and installing streetlights on the road from LDCE to 132 feet Ring Road.

said that till year 2013, Jadeja, who is also a di-rector of Tourism Corpo-ration of Gujarat Limit-ed, had been paying his EMIs (equated monthly installments) each worth Rs 12 lakh regularly. But he started defaulting since then and did not pay a single EMI in financial year 2014-15. “There-

fore, we served him a le-gal notice in March this year. In reply, he sent us three cheques collective-ly worth Rs 1.25 crore. Two of them were worth Rs 30 lakh each while the third cheque was worth Rs 65 lakh. We de-posited the first cheque on June 15 and it was cleared. However, the

second cheque deposited on June 20 bounced. The third cheque worth Rs 65 lakh that we deposited on June 30 also bounced. So after statuary period of 15 days, we moved the court on Tuesday for the Rs 30 lakh cheque that bounced,” a senior offi-cer of Gruh Finance. on condition of anonymi-ty. Gruh Finance, which is subsidiary of HDFC bank, has filed the case in Rajkot district court under Section 138 of Ne-gotiable Instruments Act for dishonouring cheque. The court case against Jadeja comes weeks after he was declared default-er by HDFC bank last month after failing to repay Rs 4.46 crore loan which he had availed from an HDFC branch in Ahmedabad.

Buildings are books someone forgot to burn, says H Masud Taj

Ahmedabad has higher utilization of last–minute hotel bookings

Urdu poet, Ameer Mee-nai). With a father who was a shayar a mother who tore the last page of Urdu novels to replace it with her own version, with storytellers and musicians for sisters, it just had to happen. And when it did, I was 13 years old, far from home, and far from my mother tongue, in Ooty in a school, grounded on JD Krishnamurti with a sprinkling of Aurobin-do, where clouds would descend valleys, enter classrooms and blur categories. You taught architecture simultane-

ously at Sir JJ College of Architecture, Rizvi Col-lege and Pillai college in Mumbai Yes, while running an architectural practice in Bombay and consultancy in Delhi be-sides being a fortnightly op-ed architectural col-umnist. Now I teach in Canada, practice in India and research in-between in Europe and Turkey. For instance this year the University’s Faculty of Public Affairs, show-cased the research and photography I did while reading medieval build-ings and Don Quixote, in Toledo, Spain.

Rain after 20-day dry spell brings relief for farmers

rainfall — the highest in the region, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Junagarh and Bhavnagar districts re-ceived moderate show-ers. Due to heavy rainfall in neighbouring Maha-

rashtra and breaches be-tween Palghar and Boisar there, five Gujarat-bound express trains from Mumbai were cancelled. The cancelled trains are Ahmedabad Express,

Bandra-Surat Inter-city Express, Mumbai Cen-tral-Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express, Mumbai Cen-tral-Porbundar Express and Bandra Terminus-Va-pi passenger train.

Dad-in-denial fined for serial paternity dodge

Software recreates Naranpura accident; speeding suspected

the adoption of our mo-bile app, here,” said Amit Taneja, Chief Revenue Of-ficer at Cleartrip. Impulse travel lies at the core of Ahmedabad as we know it. “For advance purchase patterns in Ahmedabad, we’ve witnessed a steady graph around last-minute travel. A noteworthy high-light in Cleartrip’s insight showed that over 39% bookings from Ahmed-abad happen 0-7 days from the actual date of travel. Pegging travellers from Ahmedabad as last-min-ute bookers, this average is pretty close to the na-tional average of 36%

last-minute bookers across India, which indicates that Ahmedabad travels much at the last minute,” said Taneja. Ahmedabad wel-comes Bangkok, Dubai and London amongst the top few international des-tinations from the city. Other international holiday spots from Ahmedabad that make it to the top 10 include New York, Singa-pore and Toronto. Closer to home, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore are the top three domestic destina-tions from Ahmedabad, while Hyderabad, Kolkata and Goa are not too far be-hind in the list.

be contacting the man-ufacturer of the car if it contains a chip that re-cords information about the car’s movements. A few samples from the car were also collected for analysis,” a Naranpura police official said . Traf-fic branch officials got a software — Crash Labto — analyze the accident spot. “The software gets input from a camera that clicks pictures and cap-tures video with various factors taken into con-sideration. The program then simulates the situa-tion in which the accident might have taken place. It will take a few days for us to get,” said a traffic branch official.