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Gold, silver drop on subdued demand, global weakness

Agency | Mumbai, May 23

Extending its fall for the fifth straight session gold drifted further at the bullion market here to-day on subdued offtake by jewellery stockists and traders amid bear-ish overseas cues. Silver slipped due to renewed speculative selling as well as reduced industri-al buying. Standard gold (99.5 purity) declined by Rs 70 to close at Rs 27,105 per 10 grams from Friday’s closing level of Rs 27,175.Gold weakness on global cues, sub-

dued demandAgency | New Delhi, May 23

Gold prices fell fur-ther by Rs 150 to Rs 27,450 per ten grams at the bullion market to-day dragged down by a weak trend overseas and sluggish demand from jewellers. Silver also declined by Rs 375 to Rs 38,800 per kg on reduced offtake by in-dustrial units and coin makers. Marketmen at-tributed the fall in gold prices to a weak global trend as strengthening dollar reduced its de-mand amid gains in US inflation boosted con-cern that the economy is doing well enough for the Federal Reserve to start lifting interest rates.We need to be at our best against

Mumbai: HusseyAgency | Ranchi, May 23

Veteran Mike Hussey played a key role in en-suring Chennai Super Kings’ record sixth ap-pearance in the final of the Indian Premier League and the Australian said the team needs to be at its “best” to beat Mumbai Indians in tomorrow’s summit clash at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. CSK rode on Hussey’s 56 off 46 balls to chase down the modest 140-run target set by Royal Challengers Bangalore and register a three-wicket win in the second qualifier here yesterday. It is going to be a great match. I am hoping it sort of works out like 2013 where we beat Mumbai Indians in the first Qualifier to go straight to the final.

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Heatwave sweeps across India, kills 200 in AP and TelanganaAgency | New Delhi

Searing heat intensified across India on Saturday with the mercury main-taining its upward trend and heatwave sweeping across large parts of the country. People contin-ued to reel under intense heatwave conditions in both states on Saturday, Met officials said. More than 100 people were felled by a blazing heat wave on Friday alone in

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with the mercu-ry hovering at 47 degrees Celsius at several plac-

es across the two states. Hospitals in Telangana reported a heavy rush of inpatients with symptoms of sunstroke even as the Andhra government kept emergency medical teams at standby in all districts. Officials issued warnings

to people to not venture out during the day with-out guarding themselves against the sweltering heat. As the temperature soared past the 45 degrees the India Meteorological Department upgraded the heat wave warning to “se-vere”, and forecast at least three more scorching days

in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Wa-rangal, Khammam, Ran-gareddy, Hyderabad, Nal-gonda and Mahbubnagar districts of Telangana. In Andhra, districts hit were East Godavari, West Go-davari, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Chit-toor, Kadapa and Kur-

nool. IMD officials feared the region would break its past record of maximum temperature - the highest day temperature ever re-corded in AP and Telan-gana was 48.8 degree in Vijayawada on May 11,

2002. This is also the first time ever that so many people have died due to heat wave in such a short span in Telangana and AP — even when they were one entity. With the toll mounting by the day, Tel-angana and AP govern-ments on Friday reviewed the situation and directed field level officials to take up a massive campaign to advise people on how to save themselves from the high temperatures. In Odi-sha, heatwave-like condi-tions prevailed in large parts forcing people to re-main indoor and prompt-ing the administration to take precautionary mea-sures. The Odisha gov-ernment received reports of 23 deaths allegedly due to sun stroke on Friday. West Bengal continued to reel under intense heat-wave as a cab driver died of a suspected heatstroke on Saturday taking the toll to four since Friday.

Heatwave in several parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh has claimed over 200 lives in last three days.

Rahul Gandhi meets ex-servicemen, promises to put pressure on NDA for One Rank One Pension

Agency | New Delhi

Attacking the government over non-implementation of ‘one-rank-one-pension’ scheme, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he will “pressurise” the Centre to act on the issue at the ear-liest. After meeting a del-egation from the ex-ser-vicemen cell of the party, Gandhi said the UPA gov-ernment had made pro-visions for the scheme and had even allocated money but the Narendra Modi government failed to implement the scheme. “One year has passed of the NDA government, of the Modi government and it has not proceed-ed ahead with the issue. They (ex servicemen) had knocked the doors of the government, but noth-ing materialised. Army, Navy, Air Force take care of the nation, secure our borders, their demands

should be met. “We had alloted money and also taken a decision. One year has passed and this should happen at the earliest. We will pressurise the govern-ment and ask them to take a decision at the earliest,” Gandhi told reporters af-ter the meeting with the delegation at the AICC headquarters here. Former Minister of State for De-fence and Congress leader Jitendra Singh accused the government of being an-ti-soldier. He said the UPA

government first took an initiative on the issue in 2006, then in 2009 and 2013. Singh said the par-ty fears that the govern-ment was “diluting” some of the provisions. “There were some discrepancies of about 10-20 per cent in the OROP scheme. We even cleared that in 2014. We also ensured that handicap persons and widows would get bene-fit. “But it has been a year now and the government has still not implemented

OROP. This government is anti-soldiers (sainink virodhi). We had sat on a dharna at Jantar Mantar on February 1 this year. We were given an assur-ance by the government that the problem will be solved in seven days, but nothing has happened yet. OROP, a long stand-ing demand of ex-ser-vicemen’s associations, relates to payment of uni-form pension to defence forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, ir-respective of their date of retirement.

ISIS allegedly claims mosque bombing as first attack in Saudi Arabia

Agency | Dubai

A suicide bomber killed 21 worshipers on Fri-day in a packed Shi’ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, residents and the health minister said, the first attack in the kingdom to be claimed by Islamic State fighters. It was one of the deadliest assaults in recent years in the largest Gulf Arab country, where sectarian tensions have been frayed by nearly two months of Saudi-led air strikes on Shi’ite Houthi rebels in neigh-boring Yemen. More than 150 people were pray-ing when the huge ex-

plosion ripped through the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh, witnesses said. A video posted online showed a hall filled with smoke and dust, with bloodied peo-ple moaning with pain as they lay on the floor littered with concrete

and glass. More than 90 people were wounded, the Saudi health minis-ter told state television. “We were doing the first part of the prayers when we heard the blast,” wor-shiper Kamal Jaafar Has-san told Reuters by phone from the scene.

2 strains of bird flu to get vaccines soon

Agency | Washington

A new study has detailed vaccine development for two new strains of avi-an influenza that can be transmitted from poultry to humans. The Kansas State University’s vac-cine development meth-od is expected to help re-searchers make vaccines for emerging strains of avian influenza more quickly, which could re-duce the number and in-tensity of large-scale out-breaks at poultry farms as well as curb human trans-mission. It also may lead to new influenza vaccines for pigs, and novel vac-cines for sheep and other livestock, said researcher Jurgen Richt. Richt and

his colleagues focused on the avian influenza virus subtype H5N1, a new strain most active in Indonesia, Egypt and oth-er Southeast Asian and North African countries. H5N1 also has been doc-umented in wild birds in the US, though in fewer numbers. China has re-ported about 650 cases in humans and Canada has reported two cases in people returning from China. About 230 people have died from H7N9.

Summer vacation fair on ‘Sea World’ theme opens in Ahmedabad

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In later phase of sum-mer vacation, there are number of fairs going on across Ahmedabad. One of them is the 19th edition of Vacation 2015 organized by Ahmed-abad-based Gandhi Cor-poration. The fair was inaugurated today in presence of city May-or, veteran BJP leader Shri. Surendra Patel, organizer Hemu Gandhi among others. The fair has been organized on the sea world theme. It will continue till June

1. Sharing more on Va-cation 2015, Shri. Hemu Gandhi, MD, Gandhi Corporation said “Va-cation 2015 is part of a series of thematic ex-hibitions initiated by the Gandhi Corporation every year since 1996 and is one of the larg-est and successful con-sumer oriented exhibi-

tion. Its objective is to disseminate knowledge and act as an informa-tive medium across varied topics that refer to aspects of our sur-roundings”. In keeping with the earlier tradi-tions, over 8 lakh sq. feet have been utilized for thematic develop-

ment. There will be 200 stalls. A three di-mensional structure of a ship has been erected right at the entrance of the exhibition measur-ing 150 ft length x 50 ft height as a sheer visu-al delight. Over 8 lakh visitors are expected during the exhibition.

- Mr Shah said here while addressing a BJP state executive meetSUNDAY, MAY 24, 2015

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Modi mania everywhere: Can you catch a break from it?All you see on magazine covers, hoardings, airwaves and TV channels is Narendra Modi and all you hear is either him or his pointpersons extolling his virtues as the helmsman of NDA govt. It’s Narendra Modi all the way. On magazine covers, hoardings, airwaves and TV channels. All you see is his face and all you hear is either him or his pointpersons extolling his virtues as the helmsman of the National Democrat-ic Alliance (NDA) government. In the run-up to the NDA’s first anniversary in power, Indian (and inter-national) media coverage is obsessed with the man. The rest of the government isn’t even a footnote! “He remains the central figure of his government and his party. He’s also the central figure in his own under-standing of what this huge change over the past year has been about—new government, new mandate, a completely new set of people and priorities,” said Sevanti Ninan, a media critic and author and editor of the media tracking website, thehoot.org. Such is the obsession with the man that even The Econo-mist, a weekly news magazine which took a strong stand on Modi last year, seems to have given in. It put him on the cover this week, describing him as India’s one man band. To its credit, it acknowledged the fact. “This newspaper chose not to back Mr Modi in last year’s elections because of his record on han-dling religious strife. Though he fails to control the Hindu extremist bullies who back him, we are hap-py that our fears of grave communal violence have so far not been realised”, read a quote from its cover story Earlier this month, Time, an American weekly magazine, sat him down for an interview, seeking his views on everything from his dreams for India to the global war on terrorism and what personally moves him. Why Modi Matters?, read the cover line. Clos-er home, some of the coverage showed a little more restraint. For instance, the cover story in India Today, an English weekly magazine, was titled, Modi’s First Year: Impatient India Wants Delivery, Not Just Intent. While Open magazine’s cover story read, “One year on, he faces the gaze of a nation reeling under exag-gerated expectations. Those who are looking for a re-run of the Modi Miraculous of his campaign days are likely to be disappointed”. Grim words, but it was still Modi on the cover. “It’s about scrutiny and celebra-tion. The media brought him in with huge hype a year ago and the expectation hasn’t abated. The media has a lot of grist for its mill. In the fitness of things, the media has to make a lot of this anniversary because he came in with a huge mandate,” added Ninan. But for the most part, the media just hung on to his every word. Television news channel Bloomberg TV India, for instance, has been running a weekend campaign called NaMo’s Year with exclusive interviews with ministers like Suresh Prabhu and Nirmala Sithara-man, among others.

Surkhaab - Movie Review

“When Modiji undertakes a trip abroad, thousands of Indians wait to welcome him and foreign nations are eager to do business with India”

Agency | Mumbai

Filmmaker Karan Johar will be releasing Hindi version of S.S. Rajamou-li’s Telugu film “Baahu-bali – The Beginning”. Actor Rana Daggubati is the one who brought the two titans together. Rana, who features in the magnum opus, intro-

duced southern director Rajamouli to Johar and paved way for a profes-sional bond. Confirming this, the film’s spokesper-son said: “Rana knows both S.S. Rajamouli and Johar. During a conversa-tion about the film, Rana had introduced Johar and Rajamouli to each other.

That is where the journey of the collaboration sprint-ed.” Rajamouli recently announced a two film col-laboration with Johar. Jo-har will be presenting both the upcoming films of Ra-jamouli, read a statement. Johar will release the pe-riod drama in partnership with Anil Thadani.

Sylvester Stallone wants to work with Salman Khan

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood superstar Sal-man Khan had got onto a microblogging site and asked people to follow his hero Sylvester Stallone. And now, thanking him, Sylvester has replied say-ing that Salman has a big heart, talent & future. Sal-man had written, “Agar

kisi ko follow karna hai? Bahar ka... inko follow karo @TheSlyStallone Aapke Hero ka hero Syl-vester Stallone.” To which Sylvester replied, “Would like to thank the super talented Indian superstar SALMAN KHAN the Compliment he Tweeted! We should do an ACTION

FILM together!” Sylves-ter also wrote, “@Being-SalmanKhan Thanksmy-friend! You have BIG heart! Big talent! Big future ! KEEP PUNCH-ING , SALMAN! Your friend Sly Stallone.” We would love to see the two actors in doing an action film together soon!

‘Unhappy’ Celina Jaitley asks Sunny Leone to move out?

Agency | New Delhi

Adult star turned Bolly-wood actress Sunny Le-one seems to be in a lit-tle trouble as she might have to soon shift from her house in Mumbai, reportedly. Sunny, who stays in actress Celina Jaitley’s house, has ap-parently irked the actress as she found out that Sun-ny has not been keeping it in a good condition, reports suggest. Accord-ing to a leading daily, Celina when she visited

the house, saw that it is complete mess and that very moment she decided to ask Sunny to move out from there. Earlier, re-ports suggested that due to Sunny’s dark past, the

Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ bumper opening, makes Rs 8.75 crore on day one

Agency | New Delhi

Kangana Ranaut-Mad-havan-starrer Tanu Weds Manu Returns opened to a great response on Fri-day, collecting Rs 8.75 crore in India. Aanand L Rai’s sequel to his 2011 hit film has critics raving about the performanc-es of the lead pair, and Deepak Dobriyal. The

film was made at an es-timated budget of Rs 40 crore. The film also made impressive collection in the international markets, earning a total of Rs 3.5 crore at the overseas tick-et windows. It made Rs 19.9 lakh in Australia, Rs 3.5 lakh in New Zealand and Rs 34 lakh in En-gland. The film earned Rs 1.5 crore in the US. Tanu

Weds Manu Returns is about mismatch in a love marriage. Kangana es-says a double role in the movie, reprising the role of Tanuja Trivedi as well as her look-alike Datto -- a Haryanvi student study-ing in the Delhi Univer-sity. The film also stars Swara Bhaskar, Eijaz Khan and Rajesh Sharma in pivotal roles.

Agency | New Delhi

The movie starts with much sincerity as it at-tempts to talk of the ille-gal immigrants in Cana-da and their miserable, uncertain lives. The sto-ry begins pretty well and keeps you glued, as Jeet (Barkha Madan) plans to visit her brother Par-gat (Nishant Bahl), who she hasn’t met in several years. A tout promises to get her the necessary false papers, but in re-turn, she has to carry a ‘package’ for him. His nephew Kuldeep (Sumit Suri), however, has oth-

er plans. The story holds fort till Jeet manages to reach Canada and her loving brother. One gets kind of involved with Jeet’s travails as we are told of her and her moth-er’s (Vineeta Mallick) helplessness and des-peration through flashes of flashbacks. But soon Pargat is kidnapped and it is up to Jeet to bring her brother back. Af-ter this point, the film’s script loses its way and gets into an action mode, with Jeet putting her judo karate skills to good use.

Rana Daggubati behind Karan Johar, Rajamouli collaboration

This new picture of Ranveer Singh is funnily adorable

Agency | New Delhi

This man, by the name of Ranveer Singh, can do anything, believe us. See this picture. Amidst the promotional tweets for his upcoming movie ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, di-rected by Zoya Akhtar, Ranveer posted this 70s-inspired picture of his. Long grown hair, trousers that flair up at the end and the typical Ranveer-esque smile, Ranveer looks funny but adorable in this attire. Funnily adorable. The actor, who never ceases to show his quirky na-ture on Twitter, didn’t however disclose the reason of posting such a picture without abso-lutely no background, though it received great

‘Leela’ actress had been denied a rented apartment in Mumbai. However, no official statement has been made either by Ce-lina or by Sunny on the matter as yet.

‘Indian Idol Junior’ sets ball rolling with Bollywood

Agency | Cannes

‘Indian Idol Junior’ is back with more glamour quotient and young talent from all over India. The singing reality TV show was launched here with a blast from the past, with contestants paying trib-ute to some of the leg-ends of music industry like Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar and Sonu Nigam. The children traced the journey of songs in the music world from 1950s era by croon-ing hit numbers ‘Aaiye meherbaan’, ‘Aayega aane wala’, ‘Mere sapno ki rani’, ‘Ruki ruki thi zindagi’ and ‘Main tenu samjhawan ki’. They gave a glimpse of what’s in store for the show’s future, at an energetic and fun-filled evening here on Thursday. With the season two of the show, Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha is foray-

ing into small screen as a judge. The ‘Dabangg’ actress says she will try to induce a ‘fun’ element in the show while finding the winner from a com-mon man’s perspective. “I cannot judge children on their singing capabili-ties, but will be watching them as a common man

who likes music and ap-preciates music. I will be someone who encourag-es them and we will have fun together,” Sonakshi said at the launch. The event started with host Hussain Kuwajerwala introducing his co-host Asha Negi of ‘Pavitra Rishta’ fame.

response from his fans and followers. Ranveer Singh will next be seen

in ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ and Sanjay Leela Bhan-sali’s ‘Bajirao Mastani’.

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IPL - 8 : 2015SPORTS ROUNDUPFrench Open: Djokovic on brink

of Grand Slam history in Paris

Agency | Paris

Novak Djokovic can become just the eighth man to complete the career Grand Slam with a maiden French Open victory, but the world number one fears fate may conspire against him in Paris. Djokovic, who turned 28 on Friday, is the overwhelming favourite

to lift the Coupe des Mousquetaires and claim his ninth career Grand Slam title. Victory would take him alongside Fred Perry, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal as a winner of all four majors. It would also take him halfway to a calendar Grand Slam, a challenge

so daunting that only Budge (1938) and Laver (1962 and 1969) have managed to pull it off. Djokovic comes into Paris riding a 22-match winning streak, a season which has already seem him capture a fifth Australian Open as well as Masters titles in Indian Wells, Miami and on clay at Monte Carlo and Rome. However, the Serb has been in this situation before. In 2011, he entered the French Open as hot favourite but saw a 43-match winning sequence ended by Federer in the semi-finals. A year later, Djokovic was defeated by Nadal in a four-set final which was completed on the third Monday because of rain.

People are noticing more because I am 36: Ashish Nehra

Nehra, Hussey guide Chennai past Bangalore into record sixth IPL final

Pakistan savour return of international cricket

Agency | Lahore

Friday’s Twenty20 game between Pakistan and Zimbabwe was the first international match in Pakistan since terrorist attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009. Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by five wickets before a 27,000-strong crowd, who battled 42 degree heat and stifling security arrangements. “It’s always good to play in

front of the home crowd and winning the game is like icing on the cake,” said Waqar, who coached for the first time in a match in Pakistan. “Playing on home soil in front of our own people gives you different feelings.” Pakistan achieved their best Twenty20 chase by overhauling a target of 173. Opener Mukhtar Ahmed hit a rapid 83 to steer the home team to a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. Waqar said the

occasion made Pakistan a proud nation. “The way Lahore rose for us was simply the best. We are proud of our people and our nation. I had said (before the match) that people should keep some patience as they might face minor problems (amid extra security) but I am happy everything went well.” After Sunday’s Twenty20 both teams will play three, one-day internationals on May 26, 29 and 31.

Agency | Ranchi

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) reached the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for a re-cord sixth time as they defeated Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore (RCB) by three wickets in the Qual-ifier 2 of the tournament at the JSCA International Cricket Stadium in Ran-chi on Friday. Put in to bat, two-time runners-up RCB could only manage a modest total of 139/8 with left-handed opener Chris Gayle top-scoring with 41. Sarfaraz Khan

also played a handy in-nings of 31. Left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra was the pick of the bowlers for CSK as he picked up 3/28 from his four overs. In reply, two-time cham-pions CSK were driven by a patient knock from vet-eran Michael Hussey, who scored 56 from 46 balls. The left-hander shared a useful 47-run stand with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (26) to help his side reach home with three wickets and a ball to spare. With this win, CSK set up Sunday’s title clash with Mumbai Indians

(MI), who won the Quali-fier 1 against the same op-ponents on Tuesday. Ear-lier, veteran pacer Nehra once again came good for CSK as he clinched 3/28 in his four overs, includ-ing the vital wickets of RCB skipper Virat Kohli (12) and explosive bats-man AB de Villiers (1). Nehra was well assisted by off-spinner Ravichan-dran Ashwin, who ended with brilliant bowling fig-ures of 4-0-13-1, scalp-ing Mandeep Singh (4). The duo did not allow the RCB batsmen to acceler-ate at all.

Agency | Kolkata

He has already won a few Man-of-the Match awards for his superlative per-formance with the ball in IPL-8 and experienced campaigner Ashish Nehra says it is difficult for a fast bowler to regularly emerge as the top performer in one season. With 22 wickets so far, the 36-year-old out-

of-favour India bowler is one of the top wicket-tak-ers in the eighth edition of Indian Premier League. “I have got three or four Man of the Match awards this season and that says it all. For a fast bowler to pick up that many awards in one season is not easy,” Nehra was quoted as saying in the IPL website. The Chennai Super Kings player called

it his best season in IPL. “If you see stats-wise, then definitely yes. But I can’t just say that this is the best IPL I have had till

date. Even in 2008 when I played for Mumbai Indi-ans or for the Delhi Dare-devils in 2009 and 2010, I was bowling really well. “At that time obviously I was five years younger as well. But when you pick wickets, people remember you more. In T20 some-times it happens that you are bowling really well but you don’t get wickets.

This time I am among the wickets and I am picking up wickets upfront which has really helped my team.” A clinical Chennai Super Kings yesterday defeated Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore by three wickets in a nail-biting second qualifier to set up a summit showdown with Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens.

Code violations in IPL 2014 cleared

Agency | New Delhi

Indian cricket board’s (BCCI’s) Anti-Corrup-tion Unit had pulled up various IPL franchises and players for failing to adhere to protocol during the 2014 tournament, but both the board and teams confirmed the ACU was satisfied with the expla-nations it had received and the inquiries were considered closed. In an email to some officials in the previous BCCI ad-ministration, ACU head Ravi Sawani outlined in-stances where franchis-

es had failed to provide guest lists for private par-ties and sponsor events in advance, and certain players had allowed visi-tors into their rooms with-out informing the on-duty ACU officer. Cricinfo confirmed the contents of Sawani’s email with BCCI officials. The ACU’s concern that cer-tain players were still not following the code strictly stemmed from the scan-dal of the 2013 season, when some players and team officials were found to be involved in corrupt

activities that brought the game into disrepute. One example Sawani cited, according to the report, was of a private party or-ganised by Kings XI Pun-jab owner Preity Zinta on a boat on April 30, 2014. In this instance, though only players were invit-ed, there was also a friend of Zinta’s in attendance, whose presence the ACU was unaware of. It is un-derstood the ACU wanted to first establish wheth-er there was a party and whether there was an out-sider present.

Xiaomi to host open sales of flagship Mi 4i on May 25 and 26

Agency | New Delhi

The Mi 4i smartphone from Xiaomi will be available without regis-trations on May 25 and 26 along with the Lenovo A6000 Plus smartphone on Flipkart. Priced at Rs 12,999, the Mi 4i features a 5-inch 1080p Full HD fully laminated OGS sun-light display with a pix-el density of PPI. Mi 4i ships with MIUI 6 based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. Another interesting fea-ture introduced in MIUI 6 is visual IVR which lets user to see options in automated calls and re-spond at a glance. So, if

you are dialing any cus-tomer care number, you will not have to listen and follow instructions like “Please press 1 for En-glish or press 2 for Hin-di.” The smartphone runs on a 2nd-gen Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 oc-ta-core 64-bit processor based on A53 architecture with four performance

cores at 1.7GHz and four power saving cores at 1.1 GHz. It comes with Adreno 405 GPU, 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 16GB of onboard storage which cannot be further expanded. So, users will have to live with around 12GB of free memory. On the connectivity front, it is a dual SIM (dual standby) device and sup-ports 4G on both SIM card slots. Other features include 802.11ac WiFi with M-MIMO support (supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands), Bluetooth 4.1, Bluetooth HID, WiFi display and WiFi Direct.

Boxing: India wins three gold, two silver in Women’s Junior World Championship

Agency | Taipei

Indian boxers rounded off a thoroughly commendable performance at the AIBA Women’s Junior World Championships, clinching

three gold and two silver medals on the final day of the event at Taipei on Saturday. Savita (50kg), Mandeep Sandhu (52kg) and Sakshi (54kg) struck gold for the country, while Soniya (48kg) and Nihari-ka Gonella (70kg) settled for silver medals. Soniya was the first to take the ring for India, squaring off against American Heaven Garcia. She went down 1-2 to open the Indian ac-count with a silver medal.Next in was Savita and she edged past her Ukrainian

rival Kateryna Rohova 2-1 to clinch the first gold of the day for India. This was followed by Mandeep’s 3-0 triumph over Ire-land’s Niamh Earley be-fore Sakshi made it three in a row by out-punching American Yarisel Ramirez 3-0. However, Niharika proved no match for Rus-sian Anastasiia Sigaeva and lost 0-3 to settle for a silver medal. Earlier in the youth competition, Jamuna Boro (57kg) had bagged a bronze medal after losing in the semifinals.

Timex Ironman Move X20 review

Agency | New Delhi

With an eye on the ex-panding fitness wearables segment in India, watch giant Timex introduced its Ironman Move X20 fit-ness band at a price of Rs 8,995. Initially unveiled in August 2014, the band features 3D accelerome-ter technology and has a built-in display to track and show steps, distance, calories, time of day and date. The company also offers a companion app Timex phone app (com-patible with iOS and An-droid) to display fitness and sleep statistics and caller ID and SMS notifi-cations. Is the Move X20

the perfect fitness band you’ve been waiting for? We try to find out in our review. The Timex Move X20 essentially compris-es of a silicone band that sports a slightly curved resin case to fit one’s wrist. It does look sporty and is well built. We got a pink and black version of the fitness band. The band can be adjusted to fit one’s wrist with the help of a clasp that features two spokes to fit into the other end with two holes. While the band is soft and comfortable, the main casing is comparably harder and doesn’t feel as unobtrusive as the Xiao-mi Mi Band.

Govt plans new subsidy rules to push ONGC stake sale

Agency | New Delhi

India plans to reform rules governing the lev-el of discounts upstream state oil firms including ONGC offer to retailers, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday, a move that could expedite the sale of a stake in the company. The govern-ment hopes to sell shares in ONGC and India Oil Corp. to raise about a third of its budget target for asset sales of $11 bil-lion - and reduce its fis-cal deficit to 3.9 percent of GDP in the 2015/16 fiscal year. Currently ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corp), Oil India and GAIL (India) sell crude and fuels like cooking gas at discounted rates to partly compensate retail-ers for losses they incur on selling fuels at gov-ernment-set rates. But the finance ministry and oil ministry are in talks to work out a mechanism for easing the subsidy burden

for the upstream compa-nies, Ratan P. Watal, ex-penditure secretary at the Ministry of Finance, told reporters on Friday. Ear-lier, sources told Reuters that the oil ministry had set a new subsidy formula for the April-June quarter that would exempt up-stream companies from discounting sales of crude oil and refined products if global oil prices are up to $60 per barrel. India had to defer plans to sell a 5 percent stake in state-run oil company ONGC last year as investors wanted a clarity on subsidy pay-ments, which had previ-ously been set by gov-ernment decree, creating uncertainty around its earnings outlook. Market experts said that if talks between the two minis-tries lead to the tempo-rary subsidy arrangement being prolonged, that would make the ONGC stake sale a more bank-able proposition.

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GSHSEB exams: Class X student reveals his cousin wrote six papers for him

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A Class X private can-didate’s last day ap-pearance at the Chhota Udepur centre has spilled the beans on his “unfair means” in the examina-tion. A police complaint has been lodged against him as he was report-edly caught appearing as a dummy candidate. However, it was revealed during the hearing that he was actually the original candidate who had to ap-pear for the last paper as the dummy candidate — one of his cousins who wrote six papers for him — fell sick and couldn’t appear for last paper. The whole episode came to light when the Gujarat

Unai hot water spring totally dries up!Correspondent | Surat

Hot water spring at Unai in south Gujarat dried up couple of days back. Generally, the water lev-el in the season of spring goes down significantly, but total absence of wa-ter has been noticed for the first time according to locals. Unai attracts great number of visitors everyday due to Unai Mata Mandir and hot wa-ter spring attached to it. While local administra-tion is in process to rope in geoloists and experts to probe the issue, locals believe that with onset of monsoon period, hot

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The efforts by Guja-rat’s tourism department seem to be paying off as the number of spiritual tourists and leisure trav-elers sharing ‘Khushboo Gujarat Ki’ has risen in the last one year. Ac-cording to a report by Gujarat Industrial and Technical Consultancy Organisation Limited (GITCO), leisure trav-ellers grew by 17.7 per cent to 2.4 million while spiritual tourists account for nearly 31 per cent

of the tourist inflow at 10.2 million, growing by 16 per cent. Overall, tourist inflow to Guja-rat has registered a 13.5 per cent growth to 32.6 million over 28.7 mil-lion in 2013-14, said the report prepared by GIT-CO, which manages the Tourist Flow Informa-tion System (TFIS) for the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL). The report said that 19.2 million business trav-ellers visited Gujarat during 2014-15, regis-

Secondary and Higher Secondary Examination Board (GSHSEB) sum-moned the original can-didate for hearing. This year, a total of 40 dummy cases were reported. Out of these, Class X record-ed the highest number among all while Class XII Science stream reported none. As per rules, every dummy candidate case is registered with the police.

Despite a deterrent of a police case, as many as 21 dummy cases from Class X have come up for hear-ing at the GSHSEB head-quarters in Gandhinagar. Among these, there is no woman candidate who was caught using a dum-my candidate. While, in Class XII General stream, 19 dummy cases were re-ported, out of which three were women candidates.

Gujarat’s tourist inflow up by 13.5% in 2014-15

water spring will again have water. According to local belief, Unai is the place where Sitaji wanted to take bath but there was no water. Shri Ram hit the land with arrow and there was a flow of water, that too hot. After taking bath Sitaji said, ‘Hu Naahi’ (I took bath). The place was

then called Unai. The en-tire region of Unai and adjoining Dang(Danda-karanya) has number of places associated with Ra-mayana including a place called Subir(Shabari) as-sociated with Shabari and also another place where Hanumanji took birth, as per local belief.

IIT-GN Palaj campus to have 10-storey ‘landmark tower’

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A “landmark tower”, 30 meters in height, made of red pigmented con-crete akin to a ten-storey building, is going to be a unique feature at the new permanent riverfront campus of the Indian In-stitute of Technology, Gandhinagar. The insti-tute which was function-ing from a temporary facility at Vishwakar-ma Engineering College (VEC) on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, is expect-ed to make a move with around 1,000 students and close to 100 faculty to its permanent 400 acres resi-dential campus at Palaj in

Gandhinagar by mid-Ju-ly. Six architectural firms, including two from the city, have participated in the design of the perma-nent campus which is lo-cated on the banks of the Sabarmati at Palaj. While the masterplan was drawn up by Delhi-based Green campus development consortium, the student hostels were designed by HCP Design Planning and Management Pvt. Ltd, faculty and staff housing have been done by Vastu Shilpa Consultants and the academic areas have been designed by Pune based Mitimitra Consul-tants Pvt. Ltd(MCPL).

tering a 12.38 per cent growth over the previ-ous year. However, in spite of hosting Vibrant Gujarat in January 2015, the share of business travellers did not see much increase this year compared to last. “Busi-ness travellers account for nearly 59 per cent of the net tourist inflow and the share has remained unchanged in 2014-15 from the previous year,” said the report. Out of the total tourists, the number of foreign tour-ists grew by seven per cent while the number of tourists visiting from other Indian states grew by 23 per cent. Among domestic tourists, 24.5 million tourists from within Gujarat toured the state in the last year while 7.4 million tour-ists from other Indian states visited Gujarat, — a hike of 23 per cent from six million tourists in 2013-14.

NGT rejects review plea of farmers against Nirma Cement plant in Mahuva, GujaratSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The National Green Tri-bunal (NGT) has reject-ed the review application of farmers from Mahuva in Bhavnagar against the Nirma Ltd’s cement plant. The farmers through Shree Mahuva Bandhara Khetiwadi Pariyavaran Bachav Samittee had ap-proached the Green Tri-bunal seeking review of an order passed in January where NGT had set aside the order of the ministry of environment and for-ests (MoEF) revoking the environment clearance to Nirma’s cement plant. Nirma has proposed to construct 1.91 MTPA (million tonne per an-num) cement plant. The farmers from villages in Mahuva had opposed the cement plant on the

grounds that it was be-ing constructed on Sam-diyala Bandhara a water body and could cause irreparable environmen-tal damage. Nirma had argued that the land in question was wasteland as per government reve-nue records and the plant did not pose and threat to the environment. After a three-year-long legal bat-tle in Gujarat High Court and Supreme Court, the MoEF in December 2011 had revoked the EC to the Nirma plant. This order

of MoEF was challenged in the NGT. In January this year NGT ruled that Samdiyala Bandhara was not a wetland. It also re-jected MoEF’s primary ground for revoking the EC that the company had concealed information with regard to character of land on which the plant was to come up.

Eighty police personnels shunted out of Ahmedabad crime branch, forty posted inSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Eighty police personnel were shunted out of the city crime branch by city police chief Shivanand Jha. Police sources said 52 of the police person-nel, ranking from consta-bles to Assistant Sub in-spectors were transferred as they had completed five years of posting at one place, while another 28 were shunted out for non-performance. It was not only crime branch from where the police personnel were shunted out, three police person-nel were also transferred from the Prevention of Crime Branch unit, work-ing directly under the supervision of the City

Police Commissioner. Earlier, about 1000 po-lice personnel were trans-ferred from their postings, as they had completed five years at one place. Senior Police officials said a committee was formed for the transfers of the police personnel ranking from constable to Assistant Sub Inspec-tor level. “Opinion of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, crime branch was also sought before the transfers. Some police personnel who were ex-cellent performance vise have been transferred to Special Operation Group, which works in Co-ordi-nation with the city crime branch” said a senior po-lice official.

3 pharma giants keen to open medical colleges

Sunvilla News | Ganghinagar

Three leading healthcare companies - Cadila Phar-maceuticals (IA Modi group), Torrent Pharma and Apollo Group - have expressed interest in establishing three new medical colleges in the state via the public-pri-vate partnership (PPP) mode.The companies have already approached the state government in this regard.It may be mentioned that the state government is likely to announce a new policy allowing the establish-ment of medical colleges in Gujarat on the PPP model.Apollo Group al-ready has a major hospi-tal in Ahmedabad while Cadila and Torrent Group are pharmaceutical giants keen to set up medical colleges. These compa-

nies have the land, infra-structure and the man-agerial expertise to run medical colleges, sourc-es said.“Each company will invest around Rs 500 crore to establish its pro-posed medical college,” a source said.For its part, the government will give 20 acre land, Rs 50 crore viability gap funding and several tax concessions for each new medical college. “The proposed medical colleges will be provided infrastructure facilities such as road, water supply and elec-tricity,” said a source.

Congress asks President not to give nod to Gujarat anti-terror law

Agency | New Delhi

Congress on Saturday made a strong plea to Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee not to give his nod to a controversial anti-terror law passed by Gujarat As-sembly, a measure which has failed to get Presiden-tial assent thrice. A delega-tion of party leaders from the state, including Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress President, Guja-rat PCC Chief Bharatsinh Solanki and state Oppo-sition leader Shankersinh Vaghela as also all party MLAs, met the President to plead against the bill. The Gujarat Control of Terror-ism and Organised Crime Bill, 2015 which was passed by the Assembly, has been approved by the Governor and it has been sent to the Centre for fur-ther approval from union Home Ministry and the President of India. The del-egation submitted a mem-orandum to the President on the contentious mea-sure with party spokesman Shaktisinh Gohil alleging that the BJP was playing politics through the mea-sure. An assent to the mea-sure was fraught with dan-gerous consequences for

the opposition in Gujarat, the President was told. The bill was first introduced as the Gujarat Control of Or-ganised Crime Bill (GU-JCOC) in 2003 by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The rechristened legislation retaining pro-visions like empowering police to tap telephonic conversations and submit them in court as evidence was passed by the state As-sembly on March 31. The Bill makes confessions made before the police admissible in court and empowers law enforcing authorities to intercept and record phone calls as evi-dence. It also provides for extension of the period of

investigation from stipu-lated 90 days to 180 days. Further, it makes offences under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organ-ised Crime Act, 2015, a non-bailable offence. The original GUJCOC bill, which was on the lines of the stringent Maharash-tra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was rejected in 2004 and 2008 by the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Pratibha Patil respectively who had suggested some amend-ments in the provisions re-lated to telephone intercep-tion and confession made before police officer being considered as evidence in court.

New University, 10 taluka colleges inaugurated in Gujarat

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Tribal belt of Gujarat has got its first universi-ty. Chief Minister Anan-diben Patel inaugurated Govind Guru University in Godhra which is head-quarters of tribal Panch-mahal district. The new university will have courses of engineering, medical, agricultural sci-ence in tribal area. Chief Minister said the govern-

ment intends to coordi-nate with the best univer-sities of world including Havard University to pro-vide education in this uni-versity. She said the gov-ernment had in its budget this year announced its plan to start two univer-sities. One of them, Nar-sinh Mehta University was inaugurated recently in Junagadh, while the other has been inaugurat-ed today. Ten talukas of

Gujarat that lack presence of college at taluka head-quarters today got col-leges. Ministers of Anan-diben cabinet inaugurated taluka based colleges at Mandal, Umarpada, Bar-vala, Liliya, Morva Ha-daf, Kwant, Patdi, Gari-yadhar, Khambhalia and Santalpur today. Nearly 84 colleges across 5 dis-tricts are likely to be af-filiated with Govind Guru University.