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News BriefAkshay’s beach

date with daughter

Agency | Mumbai

Superstar Akshay Kumar is off on a vacation with wife Twinkle Khanna and his “little princess” Nitara. The 48-year-old actor, who has been shooting for director duo Sajid-Farhad’s upcoming comedy film “Housefull” in London, posted a pho-to of the father-daughter duo enjoying the beach.

Man dies in road accident in

Ramban

Pak college cricketers find safe haven in

India

Agency | Jammu

A man who was cross-ing the road, died after allegedly being hit by a mini-bus in the Batote area of Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. Mir Wali, an employee of Animal Husbandry Department at Batote, was crossing the road when he was hit by a speeding mini-bus near Batote bus stand, a police officer said today. He said that the driver managed to escape from the spot. Wali who was profusely bleeding was referred to Government Medical College (GMC) hospital here but suc-cumbed to his injuries on the way, he said.

Agency | New Delhi

The recent anti-Paki-stan protests in India may have further jeop-ardised the revival of the much awaited crick-eting ties but a bunch of college-going crick-eters from Karachi, oblivious of the sim-mering tensions at the higher level, are having the time of their lives in the “safe haven” of Dehradun. While Shiv Sena-led protests in Mumbai did not allow the chiefs of Indian and Pakistan cricket boards to meet, the political party has taken on the task of ensuring that no one from across the border, be it cricketer or actor, is allowed in the state.

Model code of conduct in force : State Election Commission“Ahm Corp Voting on 22”

Voting for 6 municipal corporatVoting for 6 municipal corporations on November 22; 317 other bodies on November 29ions on November 22, 317 other bodies on November 29

Gujarat Local Body Polls on Nov 22, 29

Agency | New Delhi

India’s top literary body, the Sahitya Akademi, condemned on Friday the killing of rational-ist thinker MM Kalburgi and asked the Centre and states to thwart such at-tacks, while it urged writ-ers to take back awards they recently relinquished to protest rising intoler-ance in the country. The academy passed a resolu-tion to denounce the Kan-nada author’s murder and threw its weight behind the writers who are part of a spiralling campaign against growing hostility and bigotry that they say has been allowed to fes-ter under the Narendra Modi government. The move came hours after a

Agency | New Delhi

India on Friday down-played the reference to Kashmir in a US-Pakistan joint statement, affirming its commitment to resolve issues with Pakistan bi-laterally and welcomed the focus on terror net-works in the statement. Asserting that the state-ment devotes consider-able space to the issue of terrorism and that it was for the first time that LeT and Haqqani network are specifically mentioned in it, Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry Vikas Swarup said India also read the assurance about these two entities

Agency | Mumbai

In a bid to surpass com-petition from China and other countries keen to be part of the first bul-let train project, Japan has offered financial support besides technol-ogy for India’s ambi-tious rail project. Japan has offered to finance Mumbai -Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor estimated to cost about Rs 90,000 crore at an interest rate of less than one per cent, sourc-es in Railway Ministry said. Japan Internation-al Cooperation Agency (JICA) in its report sub-mitted to the Railway Ministry has envisaged a reduction in the trav-el time on the 505-km long corridor between the two western cities to two hours from the existing period of over seven hours. The bullet

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The state election com-mission (SEC) on Friday announced dates for civic body polls in Gujarat for six municipal corpora-tions, 56 municipalities, 31 district panchayats, 230 taluka panchayats or tehsils. The six munici-pal corporations include Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Surat and Jamnagar. Voting for the six municipal corpora-

tions will be held on No-vember 22, while that for the rest of the 317 bodies including municipalities, district panchayats and taluka panchayats will be held on November 29, 2015. On the other hand, while counting of votes for municipal corpora-tions will take place on November 26, that for the rest of the bodies will be done on December 2, the state election commis-sioner, Varesh Sinha told

mediapersons on Friday. By-polls for vacant posts in all panchayats, tehsils and municipalities will also be conducted along with the panchayat polls. With the announcement of local body polls in the state, the model code of conduct has been put into force. Earlier this week, Gujarat High Court had quashed an ordinance issued by the state gov-ernment to delay local bodies polls, terming it

Akademi condemns attacks, urges writers to take back awards

It is Pakistan which chose terrorism as instrument of state policy: India on US-Pak joint statement

Japan offers soft loan for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project

train is expected to run at speeds of around 300-350 km/hour. Though there are many countries offering the high-speed technology for the bullet train project, it is Japan which is offering both technology and funding together, they said. How-ever, they said, a decision on the project is yet to be taken by Railways be-cause it will be decided at the highest level in the government. The JICA team had presented the report in July to the joint

monitoring team here where a detailed presen-tation was made on traf-fic forecasting, alignment surveys and compara-tive study of high-speed railway technology. Ac-cording to officials in-volved in the high-speed rail corridor project, Ja-pan has offered to meet 80 per cent of the Mum-bai-Ahmedabad project cost, on condition that India buys 30 per cent of equipment including the coaches and locomotives from Japanese firms.

silent protest in the Cap-ital by about 100 promi-nent writers with black gags and armbands who demanded the institute pledge to take stern steps to safeguard free speech and the right to dissent. “The Akademi condemns the killing of writers and we appeal to the writ-ers to take their awards back,” said Krishnas-wamy Nachimuthu, an Akademi council member

and Tamil scholar. “We appeal to the state and central governments to take steps to prevent such incidents in the future.” At least 35 writers from across India have given up their awards since the brutal killing of a Muslim blacksmith in an Uttar Pradesh village over ru-mours of consuming beef to mark their anger over growing violence against minorities and the kill-

ing of rationalist thinkers such as Kalburgi. Noted writer Nayantara Sah-gal was among the first to give up her award on concerns over a “danger-ous distortion of Hindu-ism”. After her, a string of wordsmiths including Ashok Vajpeyi turned in their honours to express their anger over the Ak-ademi’s silence on rising attacks on free speech in the country. The academy has been awarding works of literary merit in Indian languages and English since 1954. The writers’ revolt kicked off in Sep-tember after 76-year-old Kalburgi, a known critic of Hindu idolatry, was gunned down in his home by two unidentified men.

and terrorism in general offered by Pakistan. “We hope that they deliver on these commitments,” he said. When asked about India’s reaction on the US-Pakistan joint statement issued after a meeting between Presi-dent Barack Obama and Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif which talked about resolution of Kashmir through peaceful means, the spokesperson said, “Let me make it clear that India has always de-sired resolution of all out-standing issues with Pa-kistan bilaterally through dialogue and peaceful means. “It is Pakistan

which has chosen terror-ism as the instrument of state policy. We hope that this visit conveys a clear message to Pakistan that international community is deeply concerned about its support and sponsor-ship of terrorists.” The US-Pakistan joint state-ment which was issued on Thursday during Shar-if’s visit to Washington said, “The two leaders expressed concern over violence along the Line of Control, and noted their support for confi-dence-building measures and effective mecha-nisms that are acceptable to both parties.”

“unconstitutional”, even as the SEC was direct-ed to “conduct polls be-fore the expiry of their

terms”. Gujarat SEC was also pulled up for using a government ordinance to postpone the polls for three months, which was termed “illegal” even as the court observed the commission’s attitude re-garding timely conduct of polls as “negative”. The ordinance amending section 7(a) of Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 8(A) of Municipality Act and 257 of Panchayat Act “is un-constitutional and void and hence quashed and set aside”, a bench of act-ing Chief Justice Jayant Patel and N V Anjariya had observed. According to the SEC, the total num-ber of registered voters, who would exercise their franchise stands at 35.55

million of which 18.59 million are male voters, while 16.95 million are female voters for all the bodies put together. Of these, the six municipal corporation have a total 9.59 million registered voters with 5.11 million males and 4.47 million female voters. Mean-while, around 813 elec-tion officers will be on duty, along with 1062 of-ficials assisting them for the polls. As part of secu-rity arrangements, about 2,30,000 policemen will be deployed for election duty. Apart from elec-tronic voting machines

(EVMs) at polling booths, voters will also be able cast their votes online. For this, the SEC will be introducing a mobile ap-plication for e-voting reg-istration. Moreover, an e-dashboard technology will also be introduced by SEC for real-time update of voter turnout on the day of polls. Given the multi ward system in mu-nicipal corporations with four candidates in each ward, SEC has purchased Rs 48 crore worth EVMs. Further, for panchayat polls, EVMs worth Rs 25 crore have been pur-chased.

October turning out to be exceptionally hot for GujaratSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

October 2015 is turning out to be the hottest for Gujarat in last ten years. Normally during this time of the year – when Mon-soon retreats completely – the temperatures in Gu-jarat start to rise again due to clear skies and bright sunshine. This is why the month of October is also known as the second summer for Gujarat. This

year the day temperature has been recording above normal most of the time in October. For example, the average maximum temperature recorded in the city of Ahmedabad was close to 38°C for a large part of October. The day temperature had almost touched the 40°C mark on October 17 when the maximum recorded 39.2°C.

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SATuRdAy, OCTOBER 24, 2015

QUOTE OF THE

DAYWhy Dalits need to organise themselves politically

When men can be so blinded by caste hatred that they can set two sleeping toddlers on fire, there must be something terribly wrong in the Indian psyche that takes such perverse pleasure in torturing fel-low human beings only because they are born at the wrong end of the caste system. Across India, Dalits continue to face insults and violence, some of which finds its way to the mainstream media, triggers out-rage, and dies down, until the next incident is re-ported. Caste is the ultimate reality in India and for all those sniping at backward caste politics for drag-ging down governance and India’s economic poten-tial, the question that must be asked is how many people are willing to give up their caste identities. In a country where most people passionately cling on to their caste identities, the prejudices and the dehumanising culture engendered by the caste sys-tem is passed on from one generation to the next. So when incidents like Ballabgarh happen, there is no surprise, only shame and resignation, and to quote the French-origin epigram, the more things change the more they remain the same. The biggest anom-aly of our democracy is that the focus has shifted away from social justice and human rights protec-tion. The mainstream discourse stays focussed on the economic, electoral and technological changes for contributing to better standards of living, but we have paid only intermittent attention to the fountain-heads of inequality in our society. On the other hand, atrocities against Dalits have become easy fodder for politicians to target their adversaries. Politicians like Rahul Gandhi marched to Ballabgarh to commiser-ate with the Dalits of Sunped village. The atrocity even found resonance in distant Bihar, where BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan blamed the ML Khattar gov-ernment. Political parties fiercely compete with each other in the race for Dalit votes. But their concern for Dalits does not move beyond electoral calcula-tions. In this situation, only the BSP can legitimate-ly claim to have worked among Dalits and offered them unflinching support to fight caste oppression. Politics as the art of the possible is characterised by parties like the Congress which succeeded in carry-ing both Jats and Dalits along on the same political platform in Haryana despite the two communities at loggerheads in the social space. In the past decade under BS Hooda, Haryana has witnessed several caste atrocities like the Mirchpur killings, the Bha-gana social boycott and a spate of sexual assaults against Dalit women since 2012.

“If VK Singh has compared the incident of burning of dalits with (burning of) dogs, the Prime Minister should take cognizance of it and initiate appropriate action against him,” - BJP’s ally in Bihar Hindustani Awam Morcha’s (HAM)

chief Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday criticized union minister VK Singh’s ‘dog’ remark...

Agency | Mumbai

Filmmaker Vikas Bahl’s film Shaandaar, starring Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, has made Rs 11 crores making it the big-gest opening day for a Shahid Kapoor-film. A Box Office India report says the collections are

not impressive consider-ing that the film released on Dussehra, which was a holiday. However, as per the report, consid-ering that this is a four day weekend, the ‘real level of business’ will be known today. With a destination wedding as the backdrop, the plot

revolves around the the brewing romance be-tween a wedding organ-iser Jagjinder Joginder (Shahid Kapoor) and the bride’s sister Alia (Alia Bhatt). Besides Shahid and Alia, Shaandaar also stars Pankaj Kapur, San-jay Kapoor and Sanah Kapur in key roles.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is mak-ing a comeback on the big screen as Prem after a gap of 15 years with ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ and since it is a very spe-cial film for the actor, he has decided to host a special screening of the movie for Madhuri

Dixit and Bhagyashree. Bhagyashree had made her debut opposite Sal-man Khan in Sooraj Barjatya’s Maine Pyar Kiya in 1989 and Mad-huri Dixit worked with him in Hum Apke Hain Koun (1994). “The idea came up during a discus-sion (involving his latest film’s marketing team), which Salman Khan was

also part of. Since his character is called Prem, once again in his next film (he was also called Prem in Hum Apke Hai Koun! and ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’, among others), Salman wants to show the film to both the actresses with whom he has shared screen space in the past as Prem,” says the spokes-person of the film.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Lara Dutta feels Bollywood filmmakers are now scripting a va-riety of roles for mar-ried heroines including those who have become mothers. Lara, 37, mar-ried Mahesh Bhupathi and has a three-year-old daughter, Saira. “Today there is so much work for actresses who are married or have become mothers. Filmmakers have a role for everyone today. There are no ste-reotypical roles,” Lara. She would be seen next in Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor that stars Ka-trina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapoor. The former Miss Universe shares a good equation with the director and hence, she agreed to be part of the

Salman Khan to hold special screening of ‘Prem Ratan dhan Payo’ for Madhuri dixit, Bhagyashree

Bollywood is now ready for married actresses, feels Lara dutta

‘No one came forward to help Labh Janjua’s wife’

Amrita Rao refuses to play Salman’s sister for ‘Prem Ratan dhan Payo’

Birthday special: 12 things you need to know about ‘Baahubali’ star Prabhas

Shaandaar Figures For Shahid Kapoor on Opening Day

Agency | New Delhi

Salman Khan might move the mountains in his films, but he could not convince Vivah girl Am-rita Rao to act in his film. The actress has refused Rajshri’s offer to act in the upcoming film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. The actress, who is current-ly busy with the Jaipur Jewellery TV Show, was approached by the Sooraj Barjatya to play Sal-man’s sister in the film.Swara Bhaskar eventual-ly stepped into the role; the actress is playing Sal-man’s sister in the family drama revolving around sibling rivalry. Accord-ing to sources “Amrita would have loved to do a

Agency | New Delhi

Singer Labh Janjua, 55, known for hit songs like ‘London Thumakda’ from ‘Queen’ and ‘Jee Karda’ from ‘Singh is King’, was found dead at his flat in Goregaon, during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. He is suspect-ed to have died of a heart attack, although the ex-act cause of his death is yet to be ascertained, the police informed. Janjua, who shuttled between his home in Punjab and Mum-bai for work, had arrived in the city two days ago and was found dead when his maid showed up in the morning. As news of his

film. ”Gattu (Abhishek) is a good friend. My role is not in the book. It’s a special role. Most of my scenes are with Aditya and its great working with the younger gener-ation.” Lara, who made a comeback of sorts to films with actor friend Akshay Kumar starrer Singh is Bling, is elated with the response. “I am

glad the film is getting an overwhelming re-sponse,” she added. Be-sides, Lara will also be seen in Ekta Kapoor’s home production film Azhar, a biopic based on former Indian cricket player Mohammed Azha-ruddin. “I am playing a lawyer in the film and it is too early to talk about my role my film,” she said.

demise spread, the music and film industry rushed to offer condolences on social media. However, it was a different sight at the hospital where he was brought, as only a hand-ful of his friends turned up, while his wife arrived from Punjab in the eve-ning. ”He lived alone in a flat in Dheeraj Residen-

cy, Goregaon (West), and spent a few days every month here for recording his songs. On Wednes-day, he complained of stomach ache and acid-ity, and his friend Rishi Raj took him to a private hospital following which he was fine,” said Gautam Sharma, one of Janjua’s friends.

today.Here are 12 less-er-known facts about the actor-1. Prabhas was born to director U Sury-anarayana Raju and he is the nephew of Telugu actor Uppalapati Krish-nam Raju. 2. Prabhas is engaged to be married in December. His fiancée, is a 22-year-old engineering student, has been select-ed by his parents and she has nothing to with films! 3. Prabhas’ biggest hit, Baahubali was made on a budget of over Rs 250 crore. Nearly 10% of the total budget was for the actor who was signed for a whopping Rs 24 crore. The actor reported-ly spent Rs 1.5 crore on gym equipment to tone his body for the role.

film with Salman, but the role was that of his sister. Her character is nega-

tive, she did not want to play a cute girl in a nega-tive role.”

Agency | Mumbai

As Shivdu in SS Ra-jamouli’s epic film Baa-hubali, actor Prabhas won

hearts the world over. The Telugu star, who is tout-ed as the Salman Khan of Tollywood, turns 36

Ayushmaan Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar in Anand L Rai’s next

Agency | Mumbai

They wooed the audi-ence with their earnest chemistry in “Dum Laga ke Haisha” and now ac-tors Ayushmann Khurra-na and Bhumi Pednekar are set to pair again for a yet-to-be-titled romantic film. The project will be produced by filmmaker Anand L Rai, of “Tanu Weds Manu Returns” fame and helmed by Sa-meer Sharma, who made his directorial debut with “Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana”. Bhumi, who made her debut with the romantic-comedy oppo-site Khurrana, said she was excited for her sec-ond outing. “Yes I am

doing the film. It is di-rected by Sameer Sharma and produced by Anand L Rai. I will be acting with Ayushmaan who is a brilliant actor. We share a great chemistry. I am re-ally, really excited for it,” Bhumi. The actress was seen as an overweight girl in “Dum Laga ke Haisha” and has since shed a lot of weight. Bhumi said her role in the film will be “tougher” as she has un-dergone a change. “It will be tougher for me this time as I have changed. But it is exactly the role I was wanting to do for my second film. It is a won-derful script and just the right one to do.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPHonda Recalls 3,879 Units of City Sedan in India

Apple Watch launching in India on November 6

MEA places order for 55 Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedans

Agency | New Delhi

Japanese auto major Honda is recalling 3,879 units of a particular variant of its popular sedan City in India which were manufactured from Feb-ruary-November 2014 to update a software for transmission system as part of a global exercise. The company’s Indian arm, Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) said the CVT variants of Honda City pro-duced during the period are being recalled update the software that manages the continuously vari-able transmission (CVT). The control software will be updated to optimise the hydraulic pres-sure applied to the CVT, it added. “The software will be updated free of cost at HCIL dealerships across India from October 24, 2015 and the com-pany will communicate with customers directly,” HCIL said in a statement. Customers can check whether their car is covered under this campaign by submitting their 17 character alpha-numeric Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) on the spe-cial microsite which has been created on the com-

pany’s website, it added.

Agency | Mumbai

Almost 6 months of becoming available globally, Apple Watch is finally coming to India. Though the company has not made any announcement in this regard, the Apple India website mentions that the smartwatch will become available in the country starting November 6. However, there is no men-tion of the Apple Watch’s price on the official web-site. It is expected that the smartwatch will start at approximately Rs 30,000 in the country. In the US, the Apple smartwatch, which is compatible only with iPhones, costs $349 for the base mod-el. The smartwatch will be available in two sizes (38 and 42 mm) and three variants: Apple Watch, Apple Watch Edition and Apple Watch Sport. The first two come with sapphire crystal to protect the screen from cracking, whereas the sports version

has a strengthened Ion-X glass on the display.

Agency | Mumbai

Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz today said India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has placed an order to lease 55 top of the range E 250 CDI luxury sedans. The high-end sedans will be used by the visiting foreign dignitaries of min-istries including the head of states, presidents, prime ministers and top diplomats, it said in a statement. Mercedes has so far sold over 30,000 units of the E-Class in India and is the first lux-ury car to be produced in India since 1995. It also remains, by far, the largest selling luxury car model in the country today, the firm added. Mercedes-Benz India CEO and Managing Di-rector Roland Folger said the company has al-ways been the preferred luxury brand for Head of States across the globe including India.

Ranji Trophy: Shreyas Iyer’s ton leads Mumbai to 447 against Baroda

Virender Sehwag gives very very special reply to Laxman on Twitter

Saina Nehwal lone Indian survivor at French Open Super Series

Chennai hundred among my more challenging knocks: Virat Kohli

Agency | Vadodra

Shreyas Iyer’s strokeful century may have pow-ered Mumbai to 447, but the run-feast continued as Baroda also respond-ed with a strong 133 for one at stumps on Day 2 of the Group B Ranji Trophy cricket match on Friday. Starting on their overnight score of 317 for three at the Reliance Sta-dium, Mumbai lost Iyer (173) early as the top-or-der batsman was run out by Yusuf Pathan after adding just 6 runs to his Day 1 score. Surakumar Yadav (68) could also add just 2 runs to his overnight score as the Mumbai in-nings started wobbling. But Abhishk Nayar struck a defiant 89 and stitched a 70-run tenth-wicket stand with Shardul Thak-

Agency | Paris

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone survivor at the French Open Super Series after she defeat-ed Minatsu Mitani of Japan to reach the quar-terfinals of the women’s

singles event. Saina, who slipped to world number two in the lat-est rankings, claimed a 21-19, 21-16 win over her Japanese opponent in a thrilling second round contest that last-ed 41 minutes. In men’s

singles, HS Prannoy crashed out of the tour-nament after suffering 15-21, 10-21 defeat against Hong Kong’s NG Ka Long Angus, while Ajay Jayaram was beaten 18-21, 8-21 by China’s Tian Houwei.

Agency | Paris

During his days as an India opener, Virender Sehwag always seemed unfazed with the situa-tion or the bowler in front of him. His ‘see the ball hit the ball’ technique vindicated his swag and it came to the fore once

again in an apt reply to his ex-India colleague VVS Laxman who wanted a triple hundred from the Nawab of Najafgarh. “1st Match after announcing his retirement @viren-dersehwag gets a brilliant 100.Wld love if he can sign off with a 300 Mem-

oriesForever,” tweeted VVS Laxman soon as the news of the Delhi Dash-ers’s ton broke. Sehwag announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Tuesday and 48 hours later he scored a ton against Ranji champions Karnataka in Mysuru.

Agency | Chennai

Exhausted and elated in equal measure after a match-winning hundred in the fourth ODI against South Africa here, Indi-an batsman Virat Kohli said the knock is among the most challenging of his career. India rode on Kohli’s brilliant 138 to post 299 for eight and then restricted the visitors to 264 for nine, despite a valiant ton by rival skip-per AB de Villiers, to win by 35 runs and level the five-match series 2-2. “It

is one of my more chal-lenging innings in ODI cricket specially because of the bowling attack they have. South Africa have been bowling pret-ty well in the series in the right areas. The pitch wasn’t that quick for us to get boundaries through-out,” Kohli. “So I had to run a lot and keep push-ing the boundary field-ers and keep looking for those gaps so that I could keep running through the innings. Probably, that is why in the end I start-

ed cramping because the body took a lot of toll. In the afternoon it gets pretty tough in Chennai and the conditions to bat are pretty difficult. But, all in all right now I feel great about it,” he said. The innings included 66 singles and nine doubles and Kohli said he knew he would have to push himself more than usual given the conditions he was batting in.“Till about 70 or 75 I only had three boundaries and a couple of sixes.

Dhoni criticised for meeting Srinivasan in Chennai

We hope they deliver: India on Pakistan PM Sharif’s anti-terror promise to uS

Agency | Chennai

India’s ODI skipper Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni on Friday took time off to meet former BCCI pres-ident N Srinivasan at his residence here, a move which invited criticism from some quarters. A top source said that Dhoni met Srinivasan over breakfast and was at the ICC chairman’s residence for close to 45 minutes. After he left, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy met Srinivasan.Srinivasan, who was ear-lier the owner of the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, had to detach him-self from the Dhoni-led

Agency | New Delhi

The Modi government is hoping that the promises made by Pakistan in US will be delivered soon. ”We have also read as-surances on terrorism by Pakistan. I hope they de-liver,” MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said. “Ter-rorism naturally comes to mind when talking about

Pakistan. The US-Pak joint statement devotes much space to it,” the MEA spokesperson add-ed. The external affairs ministry also said it was open to NSA-level talks as decided in Ufa. The MEA statement comes a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif commit-ted to take “effective ac-

side due to conflict of interest. The Tamil Nadu strongman was also re-moved from the BCCI top job after cases of fix-ing cropped up against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, and he now serves as ICC chairman only. CSK and Rajas-

than Royals (RR) were suspended for two years by The Board of Control for Cricket in India after the Supreme Court ap-pointed Lodha Commit-tee found both the team owner’s, Meiyappan and Raj Kundra (RR) guilty of betting.

tion against United Na-tions-designated terrorist individuals and entities, including Lashkar-e-Tai-ba and its affiliates, as per its international commit-ments and obligations. The commitment, con-tained in a joint statement issued at the end of a meeting between US Pres-ident Obama and Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, came after Islamabad persuaded Washington to press India for talks, including on bor-der tensions. “We remain open to NSA-level talks (with Pak) as decided in Ufa,” the MEA spokesper-son said. “Pak chooses to use terrorism as a instru-ment of state policy. India has always desired resolu-tion of all issues bilateral-ly,” the spokesperson said.

ur (24) to give muscle to the Mumbai score. Baro-da medium-pacer Ajitesh Argal bagged four wick-ets while Hardik Pandya picked up two scalps. In reply, the hosts lost their opener early after Monil Patel (10) was scalped by

Dhawal Kulkarni for 10, but Kedar Devdhar (84 not out) and captain Ad-itya Waghmode (35 not out) stitched an unbeaten 113-run stand to give the home team hope. They still trail by 314 runs in the first innings.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

The Gujarat govern-ment’s education depart-ment has asked six grant-in-aid colleges offering education exclusively in fine arts to close down af-ter the number of students taking admission there dropped sharply over the last few years. Admis-sions in these colleges have already been sus-pended since 2014. The government has now de-cided to move remaining students of these colleges to “colleges offering sim-ilar streams situated in the nearby area”, as per a circular issued by the office of the commission-er of higher education. Some colleges blamed the government’s delay in the common admission process for less students. The colleges which will no longer function from this year are Ipcowala

Santram College of Fine Arts, Vallabh Vidyanagar; Sri Krushnalal Majmu-dar College of Fine Arts, Bharuch; The New Pro-gressive College of Fine Arts, Mehsana; Smt MN Shah College of Fine Arts, Surendranagar; Priya-darshini Kala Maha-vidy-alala, Surat; and RT Fine Arts Institute, Valsad. Students of these colleges will be moved to Seth CN College of Fine Arts, Ahmedabad and BA Me-hta Kala Mahavidyalaya, Navsari. The process to close these colleges was set rolling last year, but the approval for the same was given on September 16, 2015. “It has been de-cided to shift them (the students) to the nearby colleges offering similar courses” where they will complete their diploma or degree programmes, the circular stated.

Correspondent | New Delhi

Gujarat opener Priyank Panchal’s impressive run with the bat continued this Ranji season as the right-hander smashed his second consecutive ton to bail his side out of trouble on the opening day of the Group B contest against Railways. While his 105 against Punjab came in batting-friendly condi-tions in Mohali, the 141-run knock against Rail-ways needed some doing on a green strip at the Karnail Singh Stadium. Railways asked Gujarat to bat first on a pacer friend-ly pitch, and the openers struggled to play their nat-ural game. There wasn’t much movement off the strip or in the air, but

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

By making the gover-nance approach of Gov-ernment of Gujarat as more pro-people, Gujarat Chief Minister Mrs. Anan-diben Patel suggested to determine 2nd Friday of each month as ‘Revenue Services Day’. Moreover, district administration, collector office and office of district development of-ficer will give importance to perform revenue works as a part of ‘Revenue Ser-vices Day’ on 2nd Friday of every month. As a part of ‘Revenue Services Day’ the officers will perform their duties by giving cop-ies of the decisions/orders made by the administra-tion to redress the basic issues of the people to the concerned applicants. The ‘Revenue Services Day’ will become a new step

towards people oriented works by making transpar-ency, swiftness and more committed approach of the revenue department. Mrs. Patel inspires the revenue department and district collectors and dis-trict development officers for well-arranged planning to organize ‘Revenue Ser-vices Day’ on 2nd Friday of every month to provide 7/12 copies for free of cost, to distribute property cards and to offer whole day for revenue works – services to people. Reve-nue concerned works has been performed in district offices during other days of the week as well. Now on, as the 2nd Friday of every month has been de-termined as “Revenue Ser-vice Day” the redressal of revenue related issues will become quicker.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Two years after 5,000 Dalits converted to Bud-dhism in Junagadh in Gujarat, 90 Dalits em-braced Buddhism at a programme organised by the Gujarat Buddhist Academy in Dholka town of Ahmedabad dis-trict on Thursday. The Dalits, who come from Ahmedabad’s Jivraj Park area, include 27-year-old

Bhamini Delwadia, an MBA, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC). Bhamini was joined by 89 other Dalits, including four of her family mem-bers, at the newly-built Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Hall in Sonar Kui locali-ty of Dholka, 30 km from Ahmedabad City. The 90 Dalits, most of them be-tween 20-35 years, took “diksha” from Bhikshu Pragnya Ratna, a Dham-

ma pracharak from The Great Ashoka Buddha Vihar in Porbandar, and general secretary of Guja-rat region of Akhil Bhara-tiya Bhikshu Mahasangh. Bhikshu Pragnya Ratna was also joined by Bhik-shu Padmasambhav from Surat and Bhikshu Prag-navansh from Madhya Pradesh as Buddhist reli-gious leaders at the func-tion attended by around 500 persons. Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Western Union Com-pany (NYSE:WU) this Diwali is looking for-ward to lighting up many homes in the remote vil-lages of India. The aim is to make electricity available to those in the villages who have nev-er seen nor experienced a light in their homes. Each remittance received from designated countries during the period October 15 to November 30, 2015 through Western Union services will contribute towards the lighting up of a village in rural India. Western Union will con-tribute up to Rs 100 for each Western Union re-mittance received in India from designated countries during this period. Around 10 villages across India may benefit from this ini-tiative, including 1 or 2 in Gujarat. People sending money to India via West-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Globetrotting Gujaratis are making the most of the extended weekend fol-lowing nine days of Gar-ba fun. With Dussehra on Thursday and the fourth Saturday of the month on October 24, only one day off taken on Friday en-sures four days’ holiday. According to tour oper-ators and travel agents, bookings for the Dussehra weekend are up by 20%-25% compared to last year. Also, around 30% of the tourists are heading for international destina-tions this weekend while

rest continue to explore domestic destinations. “Among international destinations, Ko Chang in Thailand has emerged a new favourite this year. According to our esti-mates, around 5%-10% of tourists heading for for-eign destinations are going to Ko Chang in Thailand,” said Manish Sharma, MD, Akshar Travels. “Thailand has always been a favour-ite with Gujarati travelers, courtesy the easy accessi-bility and visa on arrival, apt for weekend getaways and quick short-breaks. This year we are seeing a

Correspondent | Rajkot

Following a fresh flare-up in the district, Morbi Su-perintendent of Police Ra-jan Susra was transferred with immediate effect late on Wednesday evening and was replaced by Jai-palsinh Rathore. With him, Morbi deputy superinten-dent of police was also transferred. The district, however, remained calm on Thursday. Through an order, the state home de-partment transferred Susra to Ahmedabad city police and posted him as depu-ty commissioner of zone VI. The same order trans-ferred Rathore from Ch-hota Udepur and replaced Susra in Morbi. Rathore assumed charge as Mor-bi SP early on Thursday. Another order from the department transferred Morbi DSP Komal Vyas and posted her in Anand. She has been replaced by

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Friday reserved the order of a petition moved by Patidar Anamat An-dolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel seek-ing quashing of the FIR lodged against him for sedition and “spreading hatred among commu-nities,” among others charges. The court will pronounce its order on October 27. Hardik was booked under sedition by Surat police for his alleged remarks to “kill four-five policemen in-stead of committing sui-

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Patel agitation: Gujarat HC reserves order on Hardik Patel’s petition for quashing sedition charges

Ranji Trophy 2015: Against Railways, Gujarat ride on Priyank Panchal’s ton

Quota stir in Gujarat: After fresh spell of violence, Morbi SP, deputy transferred

Few students, govt orders closure of six fine arts colleges

Western Union to contribute solar lighting in rural India this Diwali

Long dussehra weekend spurs short vacations out of Gujarat

Conversion: In search of equality, education, 90 dalits embrace Buddhism

ern Union from US, UK, Kingdom of Saudi Ara-bia, United Arab Emir-ates, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand will have an opportunity to light up people’s lives this Diwa-li. Several villages in the hinterland of India will get access to light for the first time from solar pow-

ered lamps. Through this campaign, Western Union will use the contribution to engage The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in erecting solar panels for each household in the targeted villages, and each household will get three solar connec-tions - two for electricity and one for cooking.

enough to keep the bowl-ers interested. Variable bounce, as early as first hour of play, only added to visitors’ struggle. Rail-ways’ new-ball pair of K K Upadhyay and Anureet Singh bowled well in tan-dem, and kept Gujarat’s scoring rate down, but

failed to make any addi-tions to the wickets col-umn. If Singh attacked the stumps with a trap for the mistimed flick on the leg-side, Upadhyay, the pick of the bowlers, gen-erated a nice shape away from the right-handers. Gujarat’s over-cautious

approach early in the in-nings backfired as they lost opener Gohel in the 19th over to first-change seamer Ranjeet Mali. At this point, the scoreboard read a miserable 25/1 which soon became 26/2 when Upadhyay trapped Rajul Bhatt in front for 1.

cide” to a Surat-based PAAS members Vipul Desai on October 3. Desai had announced to commit suicide if the state gov-ernment doesn’t heed to their demand for reserva-

tion. During the hearing, the court raised certain queries. One of them, the court asked, was how ut-tering few words against some policemen would amount to spreading ha-

tred (under section 153A of Indian Penal Code) among communities. The single bench of high court justice J B Pardiwala asked public prosecutor Mitesh Amin whether the latter was bringing the po-lice force under the ambit of a community, Amin responded, “up to some extent yes.” Amin said, “I am making this statement as a public prosecutor giv-en the circumstance that have been recorded since August. There are allega-tions against police atroc-ities by the PAAS leaders and there are cases which have been lodged by po-lice against PAAS lead-ers for attacking police, damaging police stations, properties among others. One of the policemen lost his life.”

Rajdeepsinh Zala, the as-sistant commissioner of police (traffic), in Ahmed-abad city. The transfer came hours after angry mobs protesting against the arrest of Patidar quo-ta agitation leader Hardik Patel allegedly set three state transport buses on fire and clashed with po-lice on Tuesday night in Morbi. Police had to fire rubber bullets and lob teargas shells to disperse rioters and drive them away from highways which they had blocked. Local leaders of the quo-ta agitation had given a

call for day-long bandh in Morbi to protest a case of sedition filed against Hardik, the convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), in Surat city. However, the strike turned violent in the eve-ning. The fresh spell of vi-olence in Morbi started on October 18 after Hardik was detained by Rajkot police. The quota agita-tion leader was on his way to watch the One-Day In-ternational (ODI) cricket match between India and South Africa in Rajkot when he was detained as a preventive measure.

shift from the usual Bang-kok-Pattaya trips to new-er locales like Ko Chang, Krabi, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai,” said Jatin-der Paul Singh, senior vice president, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. “Be-sides Thailand, Singa-pore, Malaysia, Dubai, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong continue to be short-haul favourites, since they can be reached in 5-6 hours,” added Singh. The trend of weekend vacations is catching up fast with young people and nucle-ar families. Also, with the Diwali vacations already booked, people are opting for short holidays earlier. “Flights and hotels during Diwali holidays get cost-lier by 15%-20%, and are heavily booked.

Gujarat CM suggests 2nd Friday as ‘Revenue Services day’