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ShamliAgency | Muzaffarnagar

Two incidents of vio-lence related to pan-chayat polls have been reported in Shamli dis-trict, following which police have booked 23 people and arrested eight of them. Police registered a case against several people includ-ing the husband of the Islampur gram prad-han and arrested eight of them in connection with a clash between the supporters of the village chief and her political rival, Circle Officer of police Nishank Sharma said today.Woman raped by

gas agency owner in Ballia

Acid attack: Court dismisses doctor’s

bail plea

Agency | Ballia

A 30-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a gas agency owner in Kotwali area, police said here today. The agency operator Sanjay Rai had called the victim on Feb-ruary 20 evening on the pretext of providing an LPG cylinder after which he raped her, SP Manoj Kumar Jha said. He said an FIR was lodged yes-terday after the victim filed a complaint. The matter was being investi-gated, he said.

Agency | New Delhi

A doctor, allegedly in-volved in the acid attack on a woman colleague in a government hospi-tal who had refused his marriage proposal, has been denied bail by a Delhi court. Addition-al Sessions Judge Na-resh Kumar Malhotra dismissed the bail plea of doctor Ashok Ku-mar Yadav, saying no ground was made out to grant him the relief and the two juveniles, ap-prehended in the case, have already been con-victed by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB).

free pills to Diabetes and BP patients, Rs 2/kg wheat, Rs 3/kg rice“Gujarat Budget”

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat government is going to recruit whop-ping 66,000 in financial year 2016-17 as per the budget speech delivered by Finance Minister Shri Saurabh Patel today in assembly. Patel said this size of recruitment drive is happening for the first time in Gujarat. Out of 66,000 recruitment, over 17,000 will be in po-lice department, 4,000 of which will be in traf-fic police. In other major announcement, Patel to-day said government will provide free medicines to

Agency | New Delhi

JNU students Umar KHa-lid and Anirban Bhat-tacharya, accused of raising “anti- national” slogans during a protest in the university last week, have now been asked to surrender and “follow due procedure” by the Delhi High Court. The court declined to pass any orders on their plea for “safe surrender” and will now hear the matter in de-tail again on Wednesday. The duo filed pleas seek-ing permission to surren-der before the Delhi High

Agency | New Delhi

Wading into the JNU row, a group of IIT-Madras faculty has expressed concern on institutions of higher learning be-ing converted into “war zones”, saying that call-ing for the country’s “dis-memberment and ruin” in the name of dissent is not acceptable. In a let-ter to President Pranab Mukherjee, the 56 faculty members said there is a

Agency | New Delhi

President Pranab Mukher-jee today highlighted the improved sanitation standards at rail prem-ises and the Railways’ first bullet train project in his address to Parlia-ment. Describing the tie-up with Japan on bullet train project as a “land-mark”, the President said “Agreement with govern-ment of Japan will make the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor a reality.” Japan is extend-ing soft loan and tech-

Agency | Chandigarh

The violent agitation by Jats demanding reserva-tion in government jobs and education in Haryana has brought the unambigu-ous fault lines in the state’s council of ministers to the fore. Its first manifestation became visible on Mon-day. Anil Vij, the health minister in the Manohar Lal Khattar government, expressed his disapprov-al at the declaration of a compensation of Rs 10 lakh and government job to the next of the kin of those who were killed in the violence. Vij, who is a Punjabi, was irked that the announcement was made by his cabinet colleagues despite the fact that they

66,000 recruitment in 2016-17

Court and “safe passage” from the University cam-pus to the court premises, alleging that there was “threat to their life and limb”. Referring to last week’s attack on media personnel and JNUSU president Kanhaiya Ku-

mar in the premises of the Patiala house courts by lawyers and other per-sons, the pleas also claim that they fear that they would be attacked if they were to be taken to the Patiala house court, and alleged that the petitioner

is more vulnerable to un-provoked attacks from a frenzied public than Kan-haiya Kumar.” With the police presence having been removed from the Delhi High Court prem-ises after the hearing in the Kanhaiya Kumar bail case on Tuesday morning, the surrender pleas were taken up by the court after 4 PM, with police person-nel being brought back. Entry into the courtroom was again restricted, with only five reporters and a handful of lawyers being permitted to enter.

As Jat stir continues, cracks appear in Khattar cabinet

President highlights Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project

had reached a consensus in the cabinet meeting saying it was not the right time do so. The announce-ment was made by edu-cation minister Ram Bi-las Sharma soon after the meeting got over. “There was unanimity in the Cab-inet meeting that announc-ing compensation for loss of lives may further com-

plicate the situation. No one can say with surety at this hour as to who all were innocent or not. Be-sides, divergent voices are being heard with regards to the quantum of com-pensation ranging from Rs 25 lakh per deceased to Rs 1 crore,’’ a BJP source, privy to the details of the cabinet meeting, said.

Umar Khalid must follow law and surrender, says Delhi High Court

Save universities from ‘scholarship of abuse, hate and discord’: IIT-M writes to President

diabetes and blood pres-sure patients for life time at government facilities. Making other big an-nouncement, Patel said,

changes in public dis-tribution system will be effective from 1st April this year. Beneficiaries will get wheat for Rs 2/

kg and rice for Rs 3.kg. Over 3 crore will benefit from this. In another an-nouncement, percentile and income limits for

beneficiaries of Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalam-ban Yojana are modified to cover more students. Rs 1,000 crore non-plan roads are announced under Rs 2,500 crore Mukhyamantri Gram Sa-dak Yojana which is to be introduced this year. In

3 years Rs 10,000 crore will be spent under this Yojana, of which Rs 2500 crore will be spent this year. Farmers will get upto Rs 3 lakh lending for Kharif crop at 1% inter-est rate. For the first time 2 lakh tonne fertilizer will be stocked by State

govt company. It will be stored at 50 places. This will avail smooth supply of fertilizer to farmers. “A plan of Rs 50 crore to develop a plug-and-play apparel park in four districts — Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Vadodara and Surat — by GIDC has been made so that ready-made garment industry can develop and women can get employment in large numbers. A special “women industrial park” has been set up at Sanand with special concession. Similar parks will also be set up at Halol and Junaid (Bharuch),” the minister added.

56 faculty members wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee

on Tuesday expressing concern on institutions of

higher learning being converted into war

zones.

need to save education-al institutions from the scholarship of abuse and hate and sought his in-tervention. “We feel con-cerned about the situation in the country where in-stitutions of higher learn-ing are being converted into war zones by some academicians, politicians and sections of media.

We support intellectual freedom, and alternative views are a must for de-mocracy and creativity. However, there is a deep distortion of the mean-ing of academic freedom which is leading to a vi-tiated atmosphere in the campuses,” they said. They have requested the President to take steps for

saving educational insti-tutions from the “schol-arship of abuse, hate and discord” and restoring the atmosphere of sobri-ety, reflection and harmo-ny necessary for genuine scholarship, Shreepad Karmalkar, a professor and one of the signato-ries, said in a statement. “In the name of academ-ic autonomy, angry aca-demics should not wage their ideological wars, nor can an institute cam-pus be beyond the norms of the society outside in matters of abusive and hateful expressions. Call-ing for dismemberment and ruin of our country in the name of dissent is not acceptable, even in a uni-versity,” the letter said.

nology help to execute the first high speed train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor. President said the government’s clean-liness mission extended to the Railways and it strived to phase out open discharge of sewage from trains and do away with manual scavenging. “My

government has initiated several ambitious mea-sures for improving sani-tation standards at railway stations and trains. ‘Sam-man’ guides us in our en-deavour to phase out the open discharge of sewage from trains and combat manual scavenging. All new coaches are now be-ing fitted with bio-toilets.” Mukherjee said. Referring to capacity expansion, he said Focus has also been on doubling, gauge con-version and capacity en-hancement works in Rail-ways.

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DAYThe Jats, Marathas and Patels are certainly dominant, why they want a quota

The Jats’ demonstrations for their inclusion on the list of the OBC castes in Haryana are echoing others — including the Patels’ agitation, which re-sulted in reportedly 10 deaths in August last year, a toll similar to the present one in Haryana where 16 people have died so far. And still other groups are asking for a “backward” status that would al-low them to have a greater access to job quotas. The Gujjars in Rajasthan, the Kapus in Andhra Pradesh as well as the Marathas in Maharashtra are similarly mobilised. So far, they all have been denied reser-vations because of their dominant character. M.N. Srinivas, the pioneer of Indian anthropology in the 1950s, defined the dominant castes as those that are demographically important and own a lot of land. The Jats, Marathas and Patels are certainly domi-nant, but their mobilisation tells us something about structural problems in the Indian economy. These dominant castes do not see their future in agricul-ture because of the attraction exerted by the city and because of the crisis in village India. These jobs are precarious and badly paid. In the private sector, the average daily earnings of the workers was Rs 249 in 2011-12, according to the Labour Bureau, and those of the employees at large, Rs 388. By contrast, in the public sector, the figures were respectively al-most three times more at Rs 679 and Rs 945. Re-cently, the Seventh Pay Commission recommended an increase of the minimum monthly salary from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000. Understandably, the young Jats, Patels, Kapus and Marathas who do not find good jobs in the private sector fall back on the govern-ment. The search for government jobs among these castes is also influenced by their particularly skewed sex ratio. Parents of girls prefer grooms with stable income – those with government jobs are often their preferred choice. With fewer girls compared to boys in these castes, there is competition in the marriage market. However, there are fewer government jobs these days. There were 19.5 million jobs in the pub-lic sector in 1992-93 when India’s population was 839 million. While there are 1.2 billion Indians now, the number of jobs in the public sector has shrunk to 17.6 million. In states that have aggressively im-plemented the liberalisation policy, government jobs have almost disappeared. For instance, the govern-ment’s share in employment in Gujarat is only 1.18 per cent whereas it is 16 per cent in Kerala. Some chief ministers pretend they can influence the judi-ciary. For instance, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fad-navis has referred the Marathas’s demand for reser-vation to the Supreme Court. Some others claim that caste should not be the only criterion for positive discrimination.

“Hindus, who are a majority in the over 120 crore population will never become a minority. Hindus will always be in majority. And whatever you see (population) today, it is going to increase in days to come,” - RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat said in an

interactive session of a Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Ranveer Singh is off to Paris to begin the shooting for his upcom-ing film ‘Befikre’. Film-maker Aditya Chopra’s next big project ‘Befikre’ which stars Vaani Ka-poor along side Ranveer. The actor seems to be in full #Befikre mode on his twitter handle. The cov-er image of the ‘Bajirao Mastani’ actor states the release date of the film, while his display picture has Paris’ biggest attrac-tion, the Eiffel Tower.

The actor captioned an image shared on Twitter and wrote ‘Paris bound’, which has heart smileys. Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor will be seen romancing in the film which will be extensive-ly shot in Paris. The co-stars had announced the release date of the film, which is December 9, in a vedio. In the video, re-leased by Yash Raj Films, Vaani Kapoor was seen announcing the film’s re-lease date in French while Ranveer later comes as a translator.

Agency | Mumbai

Action star Vidyut Jam-wal says his upcoming film “Commando 2” has better action, bet-ter storyline, and shoot-ing was more expensive compared to the earlier film. “The commandos are doing better job this time — you’ll see better action, storyline is better, we’re spending a lot of

money this time, several people have faith in it, everything is better and bigger,” Vidyut said at a press meet on the film’s sets. “We are not aware which film receives what response. There are nu-merous action films com-ing up and all will receive a different response, depending on how it is shot, who the actor is,”

he added. The film has been produced by “Na-mastey London” direc-tor Vipul Amrutlal Shah, who was responsible for giving Vidyut the break as a baddie opposite John Abraham in “Force”, which fetched him the Filmfare award for best debut. Shah had also pro-duced Vidyut’s earlier film “Commando”.

Agency | Mumbai

An anonymous phone caller has threatened to kill Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, prompt-ing the Mumbai Police to launch a probe, an official said today. The

phone call was made to the city’s Police Control Room on February 16, police said. Police sus-pected it was a hoax call and launched a probe though no case has been filed yet. Police has man-aged to locate the place

from where the call was made. Salman Khan has recently delivered two back-to-back hits with ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan.’ The actor is currently working on his next film Sultan.

Agency | Mumbai

A Mumbai restaurateur will offer a special cu-linary delight named Chicken Sanju Baba - free of charge to all pa-trons and fans to celebrate Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s release from pris-on on Thursday. Mughlai eatery Noor Mohammadi Hotel in south Mumbai will offer the signature recipe, created by Mr Dutt himself and gifted to restaurant owner Kha-lid Hakim. “I had invited Sanjay Dutt Sa’ab to in-augurate the new family

section of my restaurant in 1986. Since then, he visited regularly to relish the special non-vegetar-ian and other food items we served here, especially his favourite Nalli Nari,” Mr Hakim said. Mr Dutt also loved other delica-cies like White Chicken Biryani, Chicken Hakimi, Dal Ghee, Zafrani Tang-di Kabab, Shami Kabab and Tiranga Kabab on the menu, which Dilip Ku-mar, late artist M F Hu-sain and Sunil Dutt also loved. “It was only much later in 2010, on one of his visits that he creat-

Agency | Mumbai

With his Fan anthem be-ing released in six differ-ent languages, Shah Rukh Khan says the song is an ode to his idols Mahat-ma Gandhi, Sachin Ten-dulkar, Rajinikanth and Yash Chopra. The song ‘Jabra Fan’, which de-buted its Hindi version last week, has now been recorded in six more lan-guages -- Bengali, Bho-jpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati. The 50-year-old actor said the whole nation and world is fan of Gandhiji besides him. “Gandhiji, The Fa-ther of the Nation is also

Agency | Mumbai

We meet director/film-maker Hansal Mehta in-side the well-lit office of Karma Pictures at And-heri. There is a storyboard of what we assume to be an upcoming movie, books by authors like Am-itav Ghosh and Rajmohan Gandhi, and a lilting mel-

ody playing in the back-ground. Moments later, there is a hustle outside and writer/editor Apurva Asrani marches into the room. A quick embrace between Mehta and Asra-ni is followed by some fun banter. The camaraderie between Mehta and Asra-ni (both National Award

Agency | New Delhi

Veteran actor Dilip Ku-mar’s wife Saira Banu revealed on Twitter about an 18-year-old-case in-volving her husband. In a series of tweets, she said the hearing will take place today (Febru-ary 23). The veteran ac-tress sought support and prayers from the fans of the legendary actor who has not been in the best of health lately. Saira Banu did not reveal much about the case but said that ‘Dilip Saab’s health is delicate and is fac-ing neurological prob-lems.’ She also wrote, “Saab has never prayed

Ranveer Singh is Paris bound for Befikre

‘Commando 2’ bigger, better: Vidyut Jamwal

The makers of Aligarh talk about creating films with a conscience

Salman Khan gets death threat call by an anonymous phone caller

‘Chicken Sanju Baba’ will be Free to Celebrate Sanjay Dutt’s Release

Fans of Shah Rukh Khan, your star is a fan of these legends!

Dilip Kumar’s wife Saira banu tweets about husband’s 18-year-old case hearing

the world’s biggest star. The whole nation & the world is his fan!,” he tweeted along with the link of the song’s Guja-rati version. Shah Rukh, who is the proud owner of Kolkata Knight Riders and the state’s brand am-bassador too, said he is an admirer of the city of joy.

“City of joy, city of KKR & the city that still has the old world charm. Kol-kata, aami tomake bhalo bashi! Ur fan,” he wrote with the Bengali link of the song. Sharing the Punjabi version, the Jab Tak Hai Jaan star remem-bered Chopra and said he is his “ethernal fan”.

ed a special gravy-based chicken dish for us and we named it after him as ‘Chicken Sanju Baba’ on the menu card. He also gave me his written con-sent to prepare and sell it to our patrons,” said Mr Hakim, who is the third generation owner of the restaurant opened in 1923. Over the years, ‘Chicken Sanju Baba’ ranks among the top customer choice on the menu along with other traditional favourites. Mr Dutt even credited the hotel for the dish named after him in a television interview, Mr Hakim said with a tinge of pride in his voice. “He is a big star, he could have easily sold the recipe to some five-star hotel and earn royalty for his whole life. But he gave it to our humble place. The least we can do is celebrate his release differently along with his fans and patrons on Thursday,” Mr Hakim said.

for case adjournment.” The actress seemed too worried about the court proceedings. Saira Banu married Dilip Kumar in the year 1966 and has always been seen be-side him ever since. The legendary actor was be-stowed with the Padma Vibhushan Award re-cently. Besides this, the

Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan in 1991, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 for his contributions towards Indian cinema. The Gov-ernment of Pakistan also honoured Dilip Kumar with its highest civilian honour Nishan-e-Imtiaz in 1997.

Vidyut Jamwal says his upcoming film “Commando 2” has better action,

better storyline, and shooting was more expensive compared to the earlier film

winners for direction and editing respectively), is evident as they chat about their latest movie Aligarh. Set in Aligarh Muslim Uni-versity (AMU), the film is based on true events that led to the demise of Ma-harashtra Sahitya Parishad awardee Prof Ramchan-dra Siras, in 2010. Prof Siras was suspended by AMU for misconduct, af-ter having been ambushed by a TV channel’s camera crew, having sex with a rickshaw-puller. Prof Sir-as took the suspension to court and was reinstated since the Delhi High Court had, in 2009, decriminal-ised consensual gay sex.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Sami enter Pakistan squad for Asia Cup, world T20

You can see Asia Cup 2016 as whole package before world T20: Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli happy to see Mohammad Amir back in action for Pakistan

Aaron Phangiso condemned for imitation of snorting a line of cocaine

Aussie pacer Hazlewood fined after outburst during 2nd Test vs Kiwis

Gold imports likely to slump to 2-year low in February

Global Internet users rise by 300 million to 3.2 billion in 2015: Facebook

NASA: New Laser technology to propel spacecraft to Mars in just 3 days

Agency | Christchurch

Australian pace bowler Josh Hazlewood pleaded guilty to a dissent charge and was subsequently fined 15 percent of his match fee after launch-ing an expletive-laden tirade when a decision went against him in the ongoing second Test versus New Zealand on Tuesday. With New Zea-land battling to build a second innings lead in the first session on the fourth day, Hazlewood was convinced he had trapped Kane William-son lbw only for umpire Ranmore Martinesz to deny the appeal. Captain Steve Smith asked for a review, though ‘hot-spot’ technology showed Wil-liamson, the key wicket the Australians needed in their push for victo-

Agency | Karachi

The Pakistan Cricket Board has included open-er Sharjeel Khan and fast bowler Mohammad Sami in the squad for the up-coming Asia Cup and World T20 tournaments after injuries to Babar Azam and Ruman Raees. Khalid Latif would re-place Iftikhar Ahmed for the World T20 tour-nament after being rec-ognised for his power hit-ting during the Pakistan Super League in Dubai. The expected announce-ment came late last night through a press release from the PCB, which said that the changes were ne-cessitated due to injuries that batsman Azam and pace bowler Raees had picked during the PSL. The PCB said Babar and

Agency | Mirpur

Indian batting mainstay Virat Kohli on Tuesday said the Asia Cup starting in Mirpur on Wednesday is a perfect platform to as-sess the team’s strengths, weaknesses and its cur-rent standing on the global stage ahead of the big-ticket World T20 next month. India lock horns with Bangladesh in the tournament-opener of the Asia Cup T20 in Mir-pur on Wednesday, be-ginning their final phase of preparations for next month’s World T20 to be held in India. “Going into the World Cup as I said, the conditions are going

Agency | New Delhi

Virat Kohli today laud-ed Mohammad Amir for making a successful comeback to internation-al cricket after the Paki-stani pacer was banned in 2010 for his role in the spot-fixing scam that also netted then captain Salman Butt and senior speedster Mohammad Asif. Amir, 23, returned to play for Pakistan and did well against New Zea-land even though he had to deal with some unkind gestures from the crowds Down Under. Amir will now be seen in action at the Asia Cup T20. Paki-stan open their campaign against India on Satur-day. “I’m happy to see Amir back and wish him all the best. He’s always been a top-class bowler. He’s worked hard and it

Agency | New Delhi

South African left-arm spiner Aaron Phangiso has been condemned by Crick-et South Africa on a graph-ic imitation of snorting a line of cocaine at the Wan-derers Stadium. Phangiso was found imitating this action while the second T20I match between South Africa and England was in progress. The left-arm-er though later apologised after being caught on cam-eras. “I was sharing a light and humorous moment

with my team-mates, but in hindsight I realise it was a silly and irresponsible thing to do,” the 32 year-old said “I would like to apologise for my actions and to all those who I may have offended.”, he added. Phangiso was caught en-tertaining fellow substitute Quinton de Kock, and fast bowler Kagiso Rabada. He was one of the non-play-ing players and could be clearly be seen ‘sniffing’ an imaginary substance and then leaning back in

satisfaction. CSA’s CEO, Haroon Lorgat said: ‘We understand that Aaron was sharing in a light hearted moment with his team-mates, but his action on television was inappro-priate in the light of the drug problem that we are challenged with in South Africa. “We have asked team management to high-light the responsibility all players have in being pos-itive and inspirational role models to the youth of this country,” he added.

Agency | Hyderabad

Internet users globally grew by 300 million to 3.2 billion at the end of 2015, partly due to affordable data and rising global income, says a report by so-cial media giant Facebook. “At the end of 2014, there were 2.9 billion Internet users globally. By the end of 2015, this figure was predicted to have reached 3.2 billion, 43% of the world’s popula-tion,” said the report titled ‘State of Connectivity 2015’ on Global Access Internet. “During 2014, lower prices for data and rising global incomes have made mobile data packages of 500 MB per month affordable to 500 million more people,” it said. The highest estimates of 3G and 4G coverage suggest that 1.6 billion people live outside mobile broadband coverage, an improvement compared to

2 billion at the end of 2014.

Agency | New Delhi

India’s gold imports are expected to decline sharp-ly in February, touching an over two-year low as investors abstain from buying the metal due to a surge in prices recently and expectations over a cut in import taxes in the upcoming general bud-get. The estimated decline in the metal’s imports in February would be nearly 67 percent below the levels recorded in the previous month. “Banks and trading agencies have scaled down imports. They are being forced to offer heavy discounts (to glob-al prices) to clear inventory,” Bachhraj Bamalwa, director at All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation, told the agency. In the overseas mar-kets, gold prices have risen to one-year high of $1,260.60 an ounce this month, as the safe-haven demand for the metal went up sharply amid a sell-off in global equity markets. Domestically, the yel-low metal prices touched a high of Rs 29,650 per 10 gram on 12 February, posting gains by Rs 2,600

in the previous eleven trading sessions.

Agency | Washington

NASA researchers are working on a technology that could harness the power of light and may be the key to cutting down travel time to Mars from months to as little as three days. Philip Lubin, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is de-veloping the ‘photonic propulsion’ system where lasers can propel spacecraft with giant sails to the Red Planet. The system relies on the momentum of photons--particles of light--to move forward. However, instead of photons from the Sun’s rays, Lubin’s design would be given a push by giant Earth-based lasers. In a video for NASA 360, Lu-bin explained that the technology is very much readily available, and that the system could easi-ly be scaled up. With our current technology, it is estimated it will take humans around five months to reach Mars, ‘ScienceAlert’ reported. “There are recent advances that take this from science fiction to science reality,” said Lubin. “There is no known reason why we can not do this,” he said.

to be similar and we will probably be playing all these oppositions at some stage. So, as many teams as we play before the World Cup, it gives us a great opportunity to as-sess what the teams are like, what the balance is like, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and where do we stand com-

pared to them. You can see it (Asia Cup) as a whole package before the World Cup,” Kohli said at the pre-match press conference in Mirpur. India begin the tournament on the back of some very impressive outings in the slam-bang format against Australia and Sri Lanka.

requires courage,” Kohli said on the eve of India’s Asia Cup T20 opener against hosts Bangladesh. Kohli enjoys a good re-cord against Pakistan. In four T20 matches, he has scored 150 runs including one fifty, at an average of 75. He also has 373 runs (including two hundreds) from 10 innings in ODIs. The 27-year-old, how-ever, said that he never considered Pakistan to be any different from other

tough opponents. “I don’t feel any difference when I play Pakistan, but they are a strong side,” he said. But Kohli and India’s im-mediate focus would be Bangladesh, who stunned the in a bilateral ODI se-ries last year. Mustafizur Rahman starred in his debut series and he will once again be a big threat tomorrow. Kohli appre-ciated the young pacer’s quickly growing stature in international cricket.

ry, had got a thin inside edge onto his pad, so ball tracking was not exam-ined. The big screen did not show a clear picture of the hot-spot and Ha-zlewood exploded, with stump microphones cap-turing his tirade. Smith then confronted Mar-tinesz mid-pitch. Wil-liamson, who had an earlier lbw verdict over-turned, fell for 97 after lunch as the hosts post-ed a total of 335, giving the visitors a 201-victory

target. Australia reached 70 for one at the close of play. The outburst from Hazlewood, and ‘teapot’ impersonation by Smith dominated social me-dia afterwards. The fast bowler pleaded guilty lat-er to showing dissent, a team spokesperson said. “We probably thought it was out, but those 50-50 calls either go your way or they don’t,” said Australia bowler Jack-son Bird, who took ca-reer-best figures of 5-59.

Agency | Mumbai

Much along expected lines, the Mumbai Crick-et Association (MCA) has decided to file an in-tervention application be-fore the Supreme Court to present the difficulties in implementing the recom-mendations of the Justice RM Lodha Committee in order to bring reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). After the BCCI’s special general meeting here on February 19, there was a general consensus that all state associations would express their opposition to the Lodha panel re-forms separately to the apex court and MCA, headed by former BCCI president Sharad Pawar,

MCA to move Supreme Court against Lodha panel recommendations

Raees were unavailable for both events. Both the youngsters are yet to play in a T20 international for Pakistan. According to the PCB, Azam suf-fered a fracture on his left forearm during a practice session with Islamabad United and he has been advised around three to four weeks rest. Left arm pacer Raees suffered a grade one hamstring strain and is working to regain his fitness. “After

having looked at the per-formance of the players in the PSL, the selection committee along with captain Shahid Afridi and head coach Waqar You-nis decided to include Sharjeel Khan and Mo-hammad Sami as replace-ments for injured Babar Azam and Ruman Raees respectively for both Asia Cup and World Cup,” Pa-kistan chief selector Ha-roon Rasheed said in a statement.

is one of the first states to do it after it was decided in their managing com-mittee meeting on Mon-day. “In a meeting of the managing committee of the Mumbai Cricket As-sociation to discuss the far ranging consequenc-es of the Lodha Commit-tee’s recommendations, it was unanimously decided that the Mum-bai Cricket Association would file an interven-

tion application before the Supreme Court and highlight the difficulties and inconsistencies in the report,” MCA media release said. “Accord-ingly, the members unan-imously authorised joint honorary secretaries and vice president Ashish Shelar to seek appropri-ate legal advice and file necessary applications before the Court,” the re-lease added.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

BJP Lok Sabha MP elect-ed from Porbandar, Vit-thal Radadia today opined that if Jat community can get quota benefit in Hary-ana, then Patidar com-munity in Gujarat should get reservation. Radadia said this in Thorada vil-lage of Jetpur taluka, a Patidar community dom-inated area which is his stronghold. There’s no doubt that government’s positive approach to grant reservation benefit to Jat

community following a violent agitation has giv-en booster dose to those in Patidar community in Gujarat who are demand-ing quota benefits. How-ever even if government agrees, it’s not easy task to grant reservation to ei-ther Jats or Patidars. Jats are denied reservation by Supreme Court. Wheth-er Haryana government’s bill to grant reservation to Jat will sustain in courts if challenged, remains a question.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Ahmedabad Munici-pal Corporation on Mon-day sealed three restau-rants in the new west zone of the city.According to AMC officials, these three restaurants, Shiv Shakti Sky Dine and Rain Forest, both situated on SG High-way, and the famous Kake Ka Dhaba at Sarkhej, were operating without building use (BU) per-missions and fire safety licenses. The officials said that as per the norms, a restaurant has to get a fire license and also should have BU permission to operate. Officials said that new west zone authorities have taken up a special drive against such restau-rants. Meanwhile, there was tension in the Vatva area as municipal officials de molished 35 houses and 17 shops built illegal-ly on a corporation plot. On Monday, the AMC demolition team went to the area with a big police force, as tension mount-ed when people began to gather to register their

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Amid ongoing negotia-tions between agitating Patidars and Gujarat gov-ernment, the hearing on Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convenor Hardik Patel’s bail plea was adjourned on Tues-day for the sixth occasion in the sedition case. The newly appointed special prosecutor HM Dhruv requested the court for adjournment so that he could go through bulky case records to prepare a reply to the bail pleas filed by Hardik and three other Patidar leaders - Chirag Patel, Ketan Patel and Dinesh Bambhania. Earlier, the city crime branch cited absence of Investigating Officer (IO) in this case Jobdas Gedam for not filing an affidavit-in-reply. Har-

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat government has put more stress on the social services like ed-ucation and health in its proposed budget of Rs 85,555.78 crore for the year 2016-17. The pro-posed annual develop-ment plan (ADP) is high-er by Rs 66,262.67 crore from previous year. Out of proposed ADP, the government has allot-ted Rs 40,285.52 crore (around 47 per cent of the ADP) for the devel-opment of social services such as primary health services, education, drink-ing water, housing, nutri-tion, cleanliness, welfare of schedule caste, sched-ule tribes, socially and educationally backward, woman and child devel-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat government is set to introduce a bill in the Budget session of Assembly to bring crucial amendments to the 2013 land acquisition Act, in-cluding relaxation of the clauses of social impact assessment and need for consent of land owners, sources said. According to the sources, the Rev-enue Department was working for the last “five-six” months on the new bill and it has now been cleared by the state Cab-inet too. With the Cabi-net’s nod, the bill is likely to be introduced in the Budget Session, which started Monday. The state government was opposed

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Monday issued notices to the Supreme Court-ap-pointed Special Investiga-tion Team (SIT) and state government on a petition filed by the wife of a Naroda Patiya riots’ con-vict, who is serving a life sentence. The petitioner has sought cancellation of her husband’s tempo-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court has allowed a teen rape victim to abort her six-month foetus on medi-cal grounds. The court’s order came following a report filed by a panel of six doctors who stated that continuance of preg-nancy “involves grave in-jury to her mental health as her pregnancy being the result of rape, the an-guish caused also is to be constituted as a grave in-jury to the mental health of the victim…” Justice Sonia Gokani, while al-lowing termination of the

pregnancy, noted that the victim, who is from from Junagadh district, is be-ing fed through a tube and takes only fluids. She had consumed “acid” days after being raped. The or-der mentioned that “her frail physical and mental health is on account of trauma of rape she un-derwent and it appears al-most an impossibility for her to look for herself.” The judge observed, “All these factual circum-stances that emerge on record… leads this court to conclude in favour of grant of her request.”

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Correspondent | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s first budget had quite a few tax sops for the middle class, while his second budget pro-vided some relief to cor-porates. Most economists expect Mr Jaitley’s third budget to focus on fight-ing the distress in India’s countryside, home to over 150 million households or nearly 50 per cent of India’s population. Only 23 million households were provided employ-ment in fiscal 2015 as compared with nearly 50 million in each of the preceding 5 years, said DK Joshi of Crisil. In the first four months of fiscal 2016, average employ-ment days per household halved, he added. Lim-

Naroda Patiya convict’s wife alleges torture, wants his bail cancelled

Gujarat govt set to bring bill for key changes in 2013 land act

Hearing on Hardik Patel’s bail plea adjourned on sixth occasion

Gujarat HC allows rape victim to abort 6-month foetus

If Jats can get quota benifit, Patidars also should get it: Radadia

The Gujarat government is set to introduce a bill in the Budget session of Assembly to bring crucial amendments to the 2013 land acquisition Act, including relaxation of the clauses of social impact assessment and need for consent of land owners

to several clauses in the Right to Fair Compensa-tion and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Reha-bilitation & Resettlement Act, 2013, — enacted by the previous UPA gov-ernment at the Centre — claiming that it was almost “impossible” to acquire land for public purposes under the cur-rent provisions. In fact, the present BJP-led NDA

government at Centre had appointed Union minis-ter Nitin Gadkari to take suggestions from all the state governments on the stringent provisions in the 2013 land Act. The Guja-rat government had also submitted its objections to the Act before Gadkari. The state government had taken strongest objection to the provision (Section 4 of the Act) under which

it was required to consult the concerned Panchayat, Municipality or Munici-pal Corporation and carry out a Social Impact As-sessment (SIA) in consul-tation with the local body before acquiring land. More so, the SIA had to be finished within six months and it needed a number of things to be as-certained such as whether the proposed acquisition actually serves any public purpose or not.

The Gujarat High Court on Monday issued notices to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team and state government on a

petition filed by the wife of a Naroda Patiya riots’ convict Navab Kalu Harisingh Rathod who is

serving a life sentencerary bail alleging “men-tal and physical torture” by him. Minaben Rathod approached the division bench of justices Harsha Devani and G R Udhwani requesting them to can-cel temporary bail of her husband, Navab alias Kalu Harisingh Rathod. She alleged that her hus-band has been “torturing and physically assault-

ing her”. The bench has now asked the Naroda police station to make sure Navab’s presence Tuesday. Minaben had appeared in the court on behalf of her husband seeking extension of his bail for a week on Feb-

ruary 17. She had stat-ed that her husband had been operated upon at a hospital and required till February 22 to undergo further treatment. The court then granted the extension for ten days till February 27.

opment. Compared to last year, the state govern-ment has allotted around 1,801.37 crore higher on social services develop-ment. Finance Minster Saurabh Patel said, “The state government is com-mitted for creating condu-cive climate so that people can get desired share of growth. Social sector gets the highest priority with an outlay of Rs 40, 286 crore keeping in mind the over-all objective of improving of human development

index of the state.” Major focus areas in the ADP 2016-17 is on sectors that can increase agricultural production, core road net-work, affordable housing, generate higher employ-ment, expand access to education and health ser-vices, particularly to the deprived sections, greater investment in nutrition programs and strength-ening infrastructure in irrigation, water supply, sanitation, urban and rural areas.

Gujarat focuses on social sector in FY17 Budget

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation seals 3 restaurants

Budget 2016: why Farmers, Not Middle Class, will Be On Jaitley’s Radar

dik and his associates filed bail plea in the city sessions court on Janu-ary 22 after chargesheet was filed against them. The IO remained absent on the first date of hear-ing, January 27, when he was supposed to file his reply. He did not attend hearing on the second date of hearing, February 2, and then on February 9. On February 15, the court was informed that the IO had gone to Delhi

to attend proceedings on Hardik’s quashing plea in the Supreme Court. On February 20, the public prosecutor sought court’s time on the ground that the state government was to appoint special prose-cutors. After three special prosecutors - HM Dh-ruv, Sudhir Brahmbhatt and Amit Patel - were appointed, the lawyers sought time to study case papers. Further hearing is now kept on February 29.

protests against the dem-olition drive. AMC offi-cials said that these hous-es had been constructed on corporation land and were illegally built. The builder had been given several notices, but when he ignored to pull down the structures, AMC con-

ducted the demolitions. Sources in AMC said that the plot was reserved for commercial use, and was lying unused when the il-legal constructions took place. When it came to the notice of AMC offi-cials, they demolished the houses and shops.

It was wonderful meeting Gujarat’s ace tennis player Ankita Raina who made us proud with her outstanding performance in South Asian Games. I extended my best wishes to Ankita to continue the winning streak and blessed her to win more gold medals for Gujarat.

ited hike in minimum support prices (MSPs) for crops (to check food inflation) further impact-ed disposable incomes and rural wages, analysts say. These factors have impacted rural income and demand. According to Morgan Stanley, rural wage growth has deceler-ated to an average of 4.8 per cent in 2015 (year to date) from the average growth of 18 per cent between April-09 and March-13. The slump in rural demand has

not only hurt corporate earnings and economic growth, but is also being cited as reason for po-litical reverses the Modi government has faced re-cently. “After having lost Bihar (state elections), the government realises that rural vote has turned quite decisively against it and therefore it needs to do something to bring the rural votes back,” said Shankar Sharma, vice-chairman and joint managing director of First Global Stockbroking.