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PM Modi to visit Ajmer on May 31

Gujarat Lions V/s Sunrisers Hyderabad

(Delhi)(8:00 PM)

Agency | Guwahati

Chief Minister Sarba-nanda Sonowal today inaugurated the refur-bished Assam House in Shillong. The three-sto-reyed building sprawl-ing in an area of 12 bighas has 30 rooms, including six VIP suites and two VVIP suites, an official release said here. The state of the art Assam House has facili-ties like conference hall, office space, lobbies, foyers, dining hall and a dormitory and the to-tal project cost involved in the construction is Rs 10.36 crore.

Agency | Aurangabad

A-15-year-old tigress today died following a brief illness at the Sid-darth zoo here, officials said. The Yellow tigress named Dipti was not consuming any food since the last two days and she died this morn-ing inside the zoo, its Director Vijay Patil said. Dipti was brought to the zoo in 2005 from Ma-hendra Chaudhry Zoo-logical Park in Punjab.

Agency | Jaipur

Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi will visit Ajmer on May 31 and address a public meet-ing. “Modi will be visit-ing Ajmer on May 31,” Rajasthan government’s Chief Protocol Officer Sunil Bhati said today. He said further details of his visit are awaited.

‘Development is the solution to all problems’

Assam House inaugurated in

Shillong

Tigress dies in Maharashtra zoo

Today MaTch IPL 2016

Modi makes big promises with eye on UP polls next year“Modi in Saharanpur”

HC stays Haryana govt’s decision to give 10% quota to Jats, 5 other communities

Agency | Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday put on hold the Khattar government’s move to give 10% reservation to Jats and five other com-munities in government jobs and education. The stay came on a petition by a Bhiwani resident Mura-ri Lal Gupta, who argued that the Haryana govern-ment had violated the ba-sic structure of the Con-stitution. The stay doesn’t come as a surprise. A day after the assembly passed the bill, HT wrote that the move would run into legal trouble. To extend the ben-efit, the government had relied on a report trashed by the Supreme Court and that was argument made by the petitioner as well. The state assembly on

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Italian marine Salvatore Girone, accused of killing Indi-an fishermen off Kerala coast, to go home, agree-ing to relax his bail condi-tions. The second accused in the case returned to It-aly in 2014. Girone could return to Italy while inter-national arbitration into

the case was on, the court said. The Centre backed the marine’s plea, saying he should be granted relief on humanitarian grounds. Girone will be home next Thursday -- Italy’s Re-public Day, Prime Minis-ter Matteo Renzi tweeted. Out on bail, the marine has been living in the embassy complex in Del-hi. The arrest of the two

Agency | New Delhi

BJP president Amit Shah said on Wednesday that “Congress-mukt Bharat” is a “misunderstood phrase”. At a media in-teraction to mark two years of the NDA gov-ernment, Shah, referring to the phrase he has of-ten used, said, “It is an expression against the avyavastha (disorder) un-der the Congress rule of decades where, for self-ish interests of the party, Congressmen ignored na-tional interests. We want India to get rid (mukt) of the system nurtured

Agency | Saharanpur

Citing shortage of doc-tors, Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi on Thurs-day announced raising the age of retirement of government doctors to 65 years and said the Union Cabinet will give its nod to the decision this week. In a rally to observe the second anniversary of his government, Modi said there is a need for more doctors across the country but it was not possible to fill the gap in two years of his government. The de-cision will cover all gov-ernment doctors whether

Agency | Saharanpur

Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Thursday asserted that a mood of development and hope pervaded the country replacing hopelessness that prevailed under the UPA rule as he pitched his government as one dedicated to the poor and farmers which prevented the “loot” of public mon-ey. Addressing the first of his four public rallies here in Uttar Pradesh,

which will have assem-bly polls next year, to mark the second anniver-sary of his government, Modi reached out to the electorate, calling him-self a “UP wala” who cared for the farmers. He said his government had taken a series of measures to help repay the dues of sugarcane farmers, a politically im-portant constituency in the region, while other governments were not concerned about them.

March 29 unanimously passed the Haryana back-ward classes (reservation in services and admis-sions in educational insti-tutions) act, 2016, carving a new backward classes category to extend quota benefits to Jats, Jat Sikhs, Mulla Jats, Bishnois, Rors and Tyagis. It came weeks after Jat community’s ag-

itation for job and educa-tion benefits turned vio-lent, causing loss of life and extensive damage to property. As the Supreme Court had already ruled that Jats could not be treated as backward, the assembly had no right to pass the law, petitioner’s lawyer Mukesh Kumar Verma said. The benefit

was extended under the new act drawn on the ba-sis of the justice KC Gupta commission report,which was quashed by the court. The government’s deci-sion amounted to revising a judicial order, which could not be done by the legislature. Only judiciary was allowed to revisit its decisions.

Second Italian marine Girone too can return home: Supreme Court

Amit Shah nuances ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’: expression against ‘avyavastha’

marines after the shoot-ing death of two Kerala fishermen on February 15, 2012 strained ties be-tween the two countries, with Italy demanding the sailors be released. “We confirm our friend-ship with India, its peo-ple and its government,” said Renzi, who has been under pressure to secure the provisional liberty of both marines. “And we say welcome back to seaman Girone who will be with us on June 2.” A vacation bench of jus-tice PC Pant and justice DY Chandrachud asked the Italian ambassador to give an undertaking that the Girone would return to India within a month of an order from the UN’s permanent court of arbi-tration in The Hague.

under Congress rule.” Union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, M Venkaiah Naidu and Suresh Prabhu were also present at the event. BJP national general secre-tary Ram Lal shared the stage with them. Shah emphasised that in Uttar Pradesh, the incumbent Samajwadi Party is the

BJP’s closest rival — a statement that could well be to deflect from the po-litical buzz around the BSP, a year ahead of As-sembly polls in the cru-cial state. He sought to downplay any urgency for a Cabinet reshuffle, saying that the charge of the Sports Ministry had already been given to

Jitendra Singh. He also reiterated his old com-plaint against the Delhi media, saying, “Our gov-ernment’s good work has reached the people of the country, but it is yet to reach Lutyens’ Delhi.” Asked if the Centre was going on an overdrive to celebrate the NDA’s two years, with 200 rallies and programmes across India, he said, “Not at all. It is our tradition to pres-ent the report card direct-ly to the people. Yeh desh bahut bada hai. Two hun-dred rallies sound big in numbers, but this country is too big to cover.”

Govt doctors retirement age to be raised to 65: PM Modi

serving under states or the central dispensation, he said. “There is a shortage of doctors. In government hospitals, their retirement is 60 years in some states, 62 in some others. If ade-quate number of medical institutes were there, then we would have more doc-tors and would not feel the shortage. It is difficult to make doctors in two years but poor families cannot be forced to live

without doctors. “There-fore from Uttar Pradesh, I want to announce this to my countrymen that this week our government’s Cabinet will take a deci-sion and the retirement age of our doctors, wheth-er in states or government of India, would be made 65 years instead of 60 or 62,” he said. It will allow doctors to serve patients and provide education for a longer period, he said, adding that his govern-ment is also working fast to have more medical col-leges to have more doc-tors in the field.

Recalling that in his ad-dress after he was elected the leader of the BJP-led NDA following the Lok Sabha win he had prom-ised his government

would be dedicated to the poor, Modi said ev-ery decison he had tak-en ever since was in that direction. “If you look at my work of two years,

you will see one decision after the other was taken to empower the poor to fight poverty, to strength-en the poor against pov-erty so that they could defeat it. No poor man wants to bequeath pover-ty to his children. I have always tried to work for the common man,” he said. Development, he said, was the solution to all problems and all oth-er talk was meant to win elections and cater to vote bank politics. With

the NDA dispensation facing criticism over al-leged intolerance, Modi said his government’s “conscience was clear” and it wanted to develop all sections of society. Citing Swachh Bharat initiative, Mudra loan scheme, Prime Minister crop insurance scheme, free LPG connections to poor and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, he said these programmes were meant to serve ev-erybody, irrespective of

caste and religion, while schemes launched ear-lier were made keeping in mind castes and vote banks. Without naming the UPA government, he attacked it over alleged corruption and flagged his government’s “hon-est” credentials. “How much money was looted. Now I am in government and I am shocked over it as whether people are given chair to loot public money. I had pledged to stop this.

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DAYPackaging laws for tobacco products can’t be restricted to rich nations

In the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR), nearly 1.3 million people die every year due to tobacco usage. That’s 150 deaths per hour. Nearly 246 million adults smoke this cancer-causing agent while 290 million consume its smokeless forms. One of the most pow-erful ways to curb tobacco use is to opt for plain pack-aging. This means that logos, colours, brand images or promotional information are removed from the prod-uct packet. Instead, tobacco packaging features black-and-white or other contrasting colour combinations, a brand name, a product name and/or a manufacturer’s name and most importantly, graphic health warnings on it. The net result: The product will be less appeal-ing. Australia is the pioneer of the plain packaging initiative since December 2012. Research shows that plain tobacco packages have diminished appeal and have resulted in declining rates of tobacco use. Today, Australia’s daily smoking rate among in the 14+ age group has declined from 15.1% to 12.8% (2010-13). At present, France, Britain and Ireland are following the Australian example. The passage of plain-packag-ing legislation has been limited to high-income coun-tries. This needs to change. While tobacco consump-tion is on a downward trend among these countries, the opposite is true in low- and middle-income coun-tries. The developing economies of SEAR remain key markets for tobacco companies, who will fight to retain influence, brand loyalty and expand their markets. The cost of allowing this will be disastrous: Economies will be less productive; health care costs will increase; and the tobacco-poverty cycle will be-come entrenched. Important steps have been taken to control tobacco use across the SEAR. Ten of the re-gion’s 11 member countries are parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and they have implemented tobacco control legislation in line with the Convention’s provisions. Nepal, for exam-ple, has decided to have health warnings cover 90% of the principal display area of tobacco packs, while in Thailand health warnings cover 85% of cigarette packs on both sides. India recently increased the size of warnings from 40% on the front to 85% on both sides of all tobacco products packs. But there is con-siderable room for improvement. Children, youth and adults in countries across SEAR continue to be subject-ed to pro-tobacco messages in media. This must stop. The Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP7), hosted by India in November 2016, will be an opportunity to do that.

“Therefore from Uttar Pradesh, I want to announce this to my countrymen that this week our government’s Cabinet will take a decision and the retirement age of our doctors, whether in states or government of India, would be made 65 years instead of 60 or 62,”

- Citing shortage of doctors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced raising the age of retirement of government doctors to 65 years and said the Union Cabinet will give its nod to the decision this week.

Nithiin, Samantha starrer A...Aa to release on June

Agency | Chennai

The Telugu romantic dra-ma A...Aa starring Nithiin and Samantha Ruth Pra-bhu will release on June 2. The Central Board of Film Certification film cleared the film with a ‘U’ certificate on Wednesday following which the mak-ers announced the release date. The film has been directed by Trivikram Srinivas. This is the first time Samantha has be-ing paired with Nithi-in. The film’s music has been done by Mickey J Meyer while Natarajan

Subramaniam and Dud-ley have taken care of the cinematography. This the third time Samantha and Trivikram are working together, having done At-tarintiki Daredi and S/O Satyamurthy before. The film is said to have a grip-ping screenplay and the dialogues by Trivikram are said to be good. The fun elements in the mov-ie and the song are also said to be highlights in this movie. There is a lot of positive feedback from censor board officials and the movie is said to be a good family entertainer.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Diljit Dosanjh finds it “rewarding” that two of his films “Udta Punjab” and ” SardaarJi 2″ is set to release in June. “It’s rewarding to have two of my biggest films releasing this June in a weeks gap. I am hoping both the films find tremendous success and audiences should like the work we have put in for both these projects,”

Agency | Mumbai

The seventh edition of the Kashish queer film festi-val was inaugurated by legendary British actor Ian McKellen — sport-ing a cheeky red T-shirt — at Liberty cinema on Wednesday. ‘Some Peo-ple Are Gay. Get Over It’ the tee declared, as McK-ellen — who, incidental-ly, turned 77 on Wednes-day — lit the inaugural lamp and declared the five-day fest open. Cheers and applause greeted the gay icon as he took off his white blazer, walked on stage and pointed to the shirt. “This reminds me of the early days of the gay rights fight in the UK,” he said, referring to the fact that homosex-ual sex is still a crimi-nal act under the Indian Penal Code. “Beautiful,

Agency | Mumbai

The trailer of Salman Khan’s most-awaited flick ‘Sultan’, which was released on May 24, has amassed five million views on You-Tube in just 24 hours. The of-ficial Twitter handle of Yash Raj shared a mov-ie’s poster with words “Sultan trailer fastest five million views” writ-ten on it and captioned

it as, “That’s his power. The SULTAN power. SultanTrailer.” Interest-ingly, the hashtag Sultan-TrailerFastest5MViews has been trending on the social media with twit-terers going all gaga over it. One user wrote, “SUL-TANTrailerFastest5M-Views This movie will definitely spread aware-ness of Indian KUSHTI among all world.” Anoth-

er wrote, “5 million + hits on YRF’s YouTube chan-nel and more than 91K thumbs up. That’s SUL-TAN for you! SULTAN-TrailerFastest5MViews.” The highly-awaited trailer was launched at the film city in Mumbai. The film, which also stars Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda and Amit Sadh, is slated to be released on Eid this year.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Richa Chad-ha has revealed that she battled bulimia and has spoken out about feel-ing pressured to look a certain way for her film roles. In a TEDx Talk, the 29-year-old star of films like Masaan and Gangs of Wasseypur said that her “confidence began to evaporate” when she was asked to “gain weight, then lose weight, fix my nose and inflate my lips.” “I was told I should gain weight, then lose weight, fix my nose and inflate my lips, get a b**b job, lose the puppy fat, grow my hair out, or cut it, get highlights, or fake eyelash extensions, squat for a bigger b**ty, get fake gel

Ajay Devgn’s ‘Shivaay’ lands in legal hot waters

Festival praise no guarantee for box office success of Indian films

rewarding to have two of my films releasing in June: Diljit Dosanjh

for richa Chadha, Vomiting Her food Became Daily Post-Lunch routine

Ian McKellen inaugurates Kashish film festival

Agency | New Delhi

A complaint has been filed against actor Ajay Devgn in connection with the poster of his upcom-ing movie Shivaay for allegedly hurting Hindu community’s sentiments. The complaint has been filed in Delhi’s Tilak

Nagar police station. The complainant says the poster of the movie shows Devgn climbing Lord Shiva’s figure with shoes on, which hurts the sentiments of the people having faith in Lord Shi-va and Hinduism. The new poster of the movie was released on May 22

and it depicts Ajay hold-ing a ‘trishul’ (Lord Shi-va’s weapon) made of ice. The actor recently took to Twitter to share the blue-tinted poster, which gives a hint of the sto-ryline of his forthcoming film. The movie will hit the theatres on October 28, 2016.

Agency | New Delhi

Aishwarya Rai-starrer Sarbjit had two market screenings on the first weekend of the pres-tigious Cannes Film Festival where it won applause, but its perfor-mance at the box-office has been less than impres-

sive. The movie has only notched up collections of Rs.18 crore in its first five days in India. The recent biopic may not technical-ly have been part of the festival screenings but history shows that tour-ing the festival circuit or praise within those cir-

cles doesn’t help the box office collections of Indi-an films. Neeraj Ghawy-an’s much-acclaimed Masaan, which was screened in the Un Cer-tain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festi-val, besides winning two awards, made a little over Rs.3 crore. Nawazud-din Siddiqui-starrer Miss Lovely, which competed in the same category at Cannes in 2012, besides being screened at Toronto and Rotterdam, managed about Rs.49 lakh. All box-office figures in this article have been sourced from movie website Bol-lywood Hungama.

Diljit Dosanjh finds it

rewarding that two of his films Udta Punjab

and SardaarJi 2 is set to release

in June Diljit said in a statement. Diljit is marking his Bol-lywood debut with “Udta Punjab”, which also stars Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Kareena Ka-poor Khan. The Abhishek Chaubey directorial high-lights the issue of rampant drug abuse among the youth in Punjab. Shahid Kapoor is seen essaying the character of a high-on-drugs, long-haired rock-star Tommy Singh who

sings with glee and abuses with impunity. Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Phantom Productions, “Udta Punjab” is set to re-lease on June 17. On the other hand, “Sardaarji 2” is directed by Rohit Jugraj and produced by While Hill Productions. It is slat-ed to release on June 24 this year. The film also has Sonam Bajwa and Moni-ca Gill playing important roles.

nails, run in heels, wear Spanx, pout will talking, focus on dilating the pu-pils, and listen attentively. I crumbled under the pres-sure like a wrecking ball had hit me,” Ms Chadha said. Eating disorders are the film industry’s “best kept secret,” Ms Chadha said, calling bulimia the ‘Big B.’ “Anyone know

what that is? It’s when you consistently hate what you look like, and com-pulsively induce vomit-ing, throw up all the food you eat, accompanied of-ten by binge eating, gener-al anxiety and sadness and believing basically that you are unworthy,” Richa Chadha said in her TEDx Talk.

beautiful India is at a crossroads right now. You can be stuck in the colonial past or enter the modern world. Pre-pare to embrace that we are all born equal and we should all be treated equally. That’s the future Mahatma Gandhi dreamt to see.” Actor Sonam Kapoor added, “Hope-fully one day it’ll just be called a film festival and everyone will be just human beings. “Kashish celebrates freedom of the

spirit, as festival director Sridhar Rangayan put it. “It has been a challenging journey. In 2010, when we started in a 123-seat-er PVR and now we are here at Liberty with 1,400 seats. We hope it’ll only grow.” The audience comprised members of the gay community, sup-porters, McKellen fans and those who were all of the above. “We wanted to be a part of the queer ambience and meet new people.

The movie stars Nithiin, Samantha and ‘Premam’s Anupama Parameshwaran plays

the other female lead in the film

Salman, Anushka-starrer Sultan trailer gets over 5 million views in just 24 hours

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SPORTS ROUNDUPLANXESS raises guidance for 2016 after strong first quarter

flipkart Offers rs 1.5 Lakh Bonus To Campus recruits Amid Joining Delay

Lyf flame 3 With VoLTE Support Listed Online at rs. 3,999

Agency | New Delhi

Facing flak for postponing the joining dates of stu-dents hired from IITs and IIMs, Flipkart has offered Rs 1.5 lakh as an additional joining bonus to all campus recruits to ease their “financial burden” in case they are to pay back loans. Bengaluru-based Flipkart has cited restructuring of its businesses as the reason behind the deferring of joining dates for campus recruits from June this year to December. However, it did not disclose the number of campus offers made this year. There are, however, reports that suggest the move to defer the joining of re-cruits comes as a part of Flipkart’s efforts to cut costs amid funding crunch and falling valuations. “As we work on redesigning this programme, we have taken a decision to postpone the joining of new recruits by a few months. Instead of June 2016, the new recruits will now be part of the im-proved campus program in December 2016,” Flip-

kart has said in a blogpost.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Following a good first quarter, specialty chemi-cals company LANXESS has raised its earnings forecast for fiscal 2016. The company now expects to achieve EBITDA pre exceptionals within a cor-ridor of EUR 900 million and EUR 950 million. Previously, LANXESS had assumed earnings of between EUR 880 million and EUR 930 million. “We started fiscal 2016 with a good first quarter and the second quarter has begun well. For this reason, we are raising our guidance for the full year,” said LANXESS Chairman of the Board of Manage-ment Matthias Zachert. EBITDA pre exceptional’s climbed by around 14 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to EUR 262 million, compared with EUR 229 million in the prior-year quarter. This positive development was largely attributable to increased volumes, higher capacity utilization, positive cur-rency effects and the absence of the ramp-up costs incurred in the first quarter of 2015 for the new rubber plants in Asia. The EBITDA margin pre ex-ceptionals rose to 13.6 percent from 11.2 percent a

year earlier and was thus at a good level.

Agency | Mumbai

Reliance Retail’s Lyf brand seems to be gearing to launch the Flame 3 smartphone in India, which is now listed on a third-party online retailer. Priced at Rs. 3,999, the Lyf Flame 3 is currently ‘out of stock’ from the online retailer. At the time of writing, the Lyf Flame 3 was not listed on the company’s site. We can expect the handset to be available from the company’s site soon. The Lyf Flame 3 listing comes merely a few weeks after the launch of the Flame 2 and Wind 4 smartphones. The biggest highlight of the Flame 3 smartphone is it supports VoLTE (voice over LTE) with HD voice call compatibility. It sup-ports both 4G LTE bands in India - FDD-LTE Band 3 (1800MHz) and TDD-LTE Band 40 (2300MHz). The dual-SIM Lyf Flame 3 smartphone features a 4-inch WVGA (480x800 pixels) display and runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. The company says both SIM slots are 4G enabled; though, at one time only one SIM can use 4G while the other will work on 2G. The handset is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor clubbed with 512MB of RAM. It packs 4GB of inbuilt storage and supports expand-able storage via microSD card (up to 32GB). The Lyf Flame 3 sports a 5-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED flash along with a 2-megapixel

front-facing camera.

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Kolkata Knight riders Got It All Wrong vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Australian cricket team uses this new technology to enhance performance

Maria Sharapova Included In russia’s rio 2016 Olympics Squad

french Open: Leander Paes, Martina Hingis Get Off to Winning Start in Mixed Doubles

Timea Bacsinszky Downs Eugenie Bouchard at french Open

ISSf World Cup: Shooter Heena misses out on final berth

Agency | New Delhi

Kolkata Knight Riders missed an impact player in their IPL eliminator against Sunrisers Hyder-abad at Delhi’s Kotla on Wednesday night. Gau-tam Gambhir’s ‘home’ advantage came to noth-ing as the two-time cham-pions failed to chase down a modest target (163) in innocuous batting condi-tions and lost by 22 runs. KKR’s reputation as a ‘solid’ team lay in tatters after Gambhir’s team missed a special player, who like Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore’s AB de

Villiers did not have the caliber to steer the former champions over the line.

Andre Russell’s absence in a crucial game left KKR in the lurch. The West Indian all-rounder, who was expected to play against SRH, was not on the playing XI. Gambhir said injured Russell’s absence hurt his team. “When you lose someone like Russell, it is difficult to replace,” said Gam-bhir in a post-match chat. Russell’s firepower down the order and his abili-ty to pick wickets have been big positives for

Agency | Munich

Former world number one Heena Sidhu missed out on qualifying for the final of women’s 10-me-tre air pistol event by just one point on the conclud-ing day of the ISSF World Cup here on Wednesday. At the Olympic Shooting Centre, Heena finished 12th out of 104 shooters in the eventual standings but would have been pleased at having shot a higher score than 384 ahead of the all-important Rio Olympics. The eighth finalist from Serbia , who eventually won the gold, made it through with a score of 385 and had less inner 10s than Heena. Shweta Singh and Shri Nivetha Paramanantham , the other Indians in the event shot 378 and 377 to finish 47th and 52nd respectively. Serbia’s Bo-bana Velickovic won the gold in the event, while Sonia Franquet of Spain bagged the silver and China’s Mengxue Zhang

Agency | Paris

Timea Bacsinszky’s love affair with Roland Gar-ros continued on Thurs-day when she swept aside struggling Canadian Eug-

enie Bouchard 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the French Open. A semi-finalist last year where she lost to eventu-al champion Serena Wil-liams, the Swiss eighth

Agency | Paris

Leander Paes and Martina Hingis entered the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals of the French Open with a straight-set win over An-na-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah. Paes and Hingis, winners of three Grand Slam titles last sea-son, won 6-4 6-4 against the German-Colombi-an team. After breaking each other once, the two pairs were level 2-2 when Paes and Hingis broke again and held their own to nose ahead 4-2. That lead stayed with them as the two pairs managed to hold serve after that and Paes and Hingis served out the opening set com-fortably in the 10th game. In the second set, Paes and Hingis again broke early --in the third game

Agency | Moscow

The Russian Tennis Fed-eration (RTF) has named dope offender and sus-pended star Maria Shara-pova among four tennis players, who will com-pete in women’s singles at the 2016 Rio Olym-pics. Apart from Sharapo-va, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anastasia Pavliuchenko-va, and Darya Kasatkina were named, reports Tass. The regulations for the Games say countries can enter four women players having the biggest points in international ratings. However, there is still un-certainty about Sharapo-va’s participation. Shara-pova was suspended from competitions as of March 12 after testing positive

Agency | London

With an aim to reduce injuries and enhance per-formance of the coun-try’s pacemen, Australian cricket team have been using the ‘torpedo tech-nology’, which is more commonly used in mil-itary settings, for their upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. According to the Guardian, sports scien-tists at Australian Cath-olic University’s School of Exercise Science have developed the revolu-tionary algorithm as the current method of report-ing of professional crick-eters’ workloads, which only measures the num-ber of deliveries bowled and not the intensity and effort required to do so,

KKR this season. KKR’s team selection was ques-tionable. Choice of Ja-son Holder over Shakib Al Hasan backfired and R. Sathish hardly justi-fied his selection. Yet 160 wasn’t an impossible to-tal to get on a pitch that wasn’t a minefield. Gam-bhir agreed. “I thought it was a very good wicket to bat on, 160 was cha-seable. I thought Colin (Munro)’s run-out was a turning point,” Gam-bhir explained. Knock-out games like the one between KKR vs SRH expose big match temper-ament and ability. While Yuvraj Singh proved his class with a robust 30-ball 44 at No. 4 for Hyderabad, KKR missed a man who could play the role of an anchor. Gambhir, Man-ish Pandey spurned good starts, Yusuf Pathan did not turn up on a big day and Jason Holder proved he is no AB de Villiers.

for banned substance ‘Meldonium’ and the In-ternational Tennis Feder-ation has not considered her case yet. The presi-dent of the Russian Ten-nis Federation, Shamil Tarpishchev, earlier said the issue of endorsing her participation in Rio would be decided during

the French Open. Russia are expected to apply for her participation in the Games before June 6 and it is important to under-stand now if there will be an opportunity to put an-other player into the list of competitors if Shara-pova is not permitted to perform at the Games.

seed trailed 1-4 in the first set before she took con-trol, winning 10 games in a row to serve for the match at 5-0 in the second. Bouchard, a French Open semi-finalist in 2014, the year she rose to fifth in the world, staved off defeat by winning that game and she saved a match point on her own serve to pull back to 5-2. The fight-back con-tinued with another break of serve and a hold to get to 5-4, but Bacsinszky finally held firm on her serve at the third time of asking to seal the win.

was inadequate. The sci-entists have, instead, rec-ommended in the British Journal of Sports Medi-cine that coaches should use missile-guiding mi-crotechnology implanted in newly-developed wear-able devices, which would run the so-called ‘smart algorithms’. According to sports scientist and co-author Dr Tim Gab-bett, the same technology is used to navigate sub-

marines, guided missiles and spacecraft. Reflecting more on this technology, fellow ACU sports scien-tists Dean McNamara said that measuring bowling intensity for individual balls or sessions will pro-vide context for the acute and chronic workload of the individual bowler, and ultimately the prepared-ness of the bowler for the maximal workload of the immediate competition.

-- for a lead. They staved off two break chances in the eighth game to keep the advantage with them. Groenefeld and Farah kept fighting hard and had two more opportunities to break their fancied rivals when they were serving for the match but Paes and Hingis had enough experi-ence to save those points and finish the match in their favour. They next

face winners of the other first round match between the fourth-seeded pair of Yaroslava Shvedova and Florin Mergea and Luc-ie Hradecka and Marcin Matkowski. Later in the day, Sania Mirza will also open her mixed doubles campaign with partner Ivan Dodig. The second seeds face local pair of Mathilde Johansson and Tristan Lamasine.

won the bronze medal. In the other event of the day Chain Singh, in the men’s 50-metre rifle 3 positions, shot 1170 in qualifica-tion to finish at 38th spot. Chain had shot a 1174 a day earlier in his elimi-nation relay in the same event. Former Olympic champion Matthew Em-mons of the USA bagged the gold, while Serbia’s Milenko Sebic won the

silver and the bronze went to Gernot Rumpler of Austria. The ISSF World Cup stages next move to San Marino for the third leg of the Shotgun World Cup. India has won two medals in World Cups this year so far. China stamped their authority in the sport once again, heading the Munich medals tally with three golds for a total of seven medals.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

For last several years, Rajkot section of Sau-rashtra region of Gujarat was unable to get a single new passenger or goods train due to overloaded single railway track. At last the meeting of Cab-inet Committee on Eco-nomic Affairs(CCEA) led by Prime Minister Shri Nrendra Modi has approved a long-pending proposal of doubling of Surendranagar – Rajkot railway track, operation of new trains will be pos-sible in future. According to Divisional Railway Manager of Rajkot Divi-sion of Western Railway Smt Anuradha Mukhed-kar, estimates for double and electrification project are prepared and works will start from Digsar and Chamaraj stations of Surendranagar district. On 116 km route there are 12 stations and 6 over

Correspondent | Kolkata

A group of 50 rural ar-tisans from Gujarat are now being trained as fashion designers by training them to do hand embroidery on Bishnu-puri and Murshidabad silk saris, western gowns and other outfits. Kolk-ata-based young designer Kuheli Bhattacharya said she is training the wom-en artisans in the eight Kutch villages of Padhar, Lakhpat, Dhori, Dhaneti, Jhikri, Bhujodi, Bhachau, and Sumrasar. “These women are very talent-ed but were exploited so far. They were given only embroidery work but since the last few months I am training them to pre-pare different designs,” Bhattacharya said. She said the artisans had nev-er ventured into hand em-broidery on silk saris and

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Having launched the cen-tral government’s Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (Ujala) scheme to distribute LED bulbs to electricity consumers in Gujarat on Thursday, the state government now expects to save 6.5 bil-lion units of electricity per annum through the same. Executed by En-ergy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), an or-ganisation under the Min-istry of Power, Govern-ment of India, the scheme was launched by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel at Vadodara. Similar launch programmes were conducted in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Bhavnagar districts as well. “In Gu-jarat, we are aiming to disburse 120 million LED bulbs under Ujala. We are

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In a bid to ease pressure on its existing berths, the Kandla Port Trust (KPT) has set the ball rolling to increase its dry and liq-uid cargo handling ca-pacity. KPT has chalked out a plan to set up a mul-tipurpose cargo terminal and a mega container terminal at Tuna Tekra, where Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone

Ltd (APSEZ) already operates a bulk termi-nal. As part of its capac-ity expansion drive, KPT plans to establish multi-purpose cargo handling terminal with a capaci-ty to handle 18 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) involving an estimated capital cost of Rs 1,400 crore. KPT has already approached the Ministry of Environ-ment and Forests for its

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gunotsav VI results have revealed that while there was a marginal improve-ment of 12% in quality of primary education, standard of education in classes 6-8 failed to im-prove much. The results showed that of the 740 schools (658 D-grade and 82 C-grade in Gunotsav V) handed over to NGOs till now, 69 schools got A+ and A grade, while 269 improved to B grade. Of the 658 D-grade schools, only 98 still re-mained in D-grade with the rest moving up to bet-ter grades in the span of a year. Highlighting some improvement, the report

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel has advocat-ed that college students should be asked to carry out research and thesis on topics of various state welfare schemes and pro-grammes. Earlier, the state government had dic-tated a list of 82 topics for doctoral theses. Speaking at a workshop organized by the state education department at Mahatma Mandir, Patel said that college students should be roped in for survey of the various schemes of the Centre and state gov-ernment. She said this will help the government learn more of their weak-nesses, and where they can be improved. She said that in Ahmedabad district, several students

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ has become a buzzword for political discourse in the country after the state election results earlier this month saw the Congress party lose its government in two of the three major states (out of the 20 such major states in the coun-try) that it had held till re-cently. Now it is left with just Karnataka till 2018, when the elections are due there. If anti-incum-bency catches up with this southern state – given the Kannadigas’ recent elec-toral preference to throw out the incumbent gov-ernment after five years – then the wash-out of the Congress would be, more or less complete. The par-ty would be then left with a couple of tiny north-east-ern states to draw its sus-tenance from. Narendra

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat government has rolled back 5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed on industrial salt in 2016-17 budget. The move comes after oppo-sition from salt manufac-turers for the imposition of VAT. A decision to this effect was taken at the Cabinet meeting held yesterday. “Keeping the interest of salt producers in mind, the government has decided to com-pletely roll back 5 per cent VAT that was im-posed on industrial salt during this year’s bud-get,” an official release said. “The government received representation from salt producers who highlighted difficulties in differentiating indus-trial salt and salt pro-ducers cannot properly maintain record. Taking their representation pos-

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Impacts of Centre’s decision on doubling of rail track to rajkot

Gujarat artisans are being trained for making Bengali saris

bridges including 2 ma-jor over bridges at river Machhu and Aaji. With doubling work, all station buildings and platform level will also undergo change. Some old resi-dential staff quarters and colonies will need to be shifted and therefore 125 new quarters will be con-structed. Rukhadia rail-way station which is in very poor shape at pres-ent will go. Mukhedkar said due to overloaded

Rajkot section, no new passenger or goods train could be announced, but after completion of this project, the situation will change. Not just new trains will be allocated but punctuality of rail traffic will increase and time will be saved. At present two trains run on opposite direction and crossing procedure wastes lot of time. After doubling work crossing will not be an issue. western gowns. “Design-

wise, depicting India’s history and culture, whether be it the grandeur of a Mughal wedding or the eternal love of Radha Krishna is something that I have tried to imbibe the artisans of Bhuj with. The colour combination of the fabric and design was also

part of their syllabus,” the designer said. The prod-ucts are now being sold online as well as through the brick and mortar stores. The designer plans to get her artisans to work on Bengal weaves like tus-sar, motka, silk at first and then bring Bengal stitches like Kantha into play.

Gujarat govt rolls back 5% VAT on industrial salt

itively, the government has taken this import-ant decision,” it added. Salt producers had ear-lier threatened strike de-manding complete roll back on VAT, which was imposed for the first time in the state. They said 5 per cent VAT on industri-al salt, introduced in the 2016-17 budget, is full of technical complexi-ties which expose them to harassment from VAT inspectors. Bachubhai Ahir, who led agitation against imposition of VAT, welcomed the deci-sion saying that the move was positive and salt pro-ducers have been saved from major hassle.

Last chance for Congress: Win Gujarat, Karnataka or be consigned to history

CM wants research on Centre and State govt schemes

Modi’s call in 2014 for a Congress-mukt Bharat would then become a virtual reality before the next General elections in 2019. The Congress’s predicament is such that it is wilting under the weight of anti-in-cumbency where it is in power and it is not able to bounce back to power where it is in the opposi-tion. It is a predicament that is symptomatic of a death-wish. For the Con-

gress, it is turning out as if electoral decimation is a self-fulfilling prophe-cy. Is the decline of the Congress an irreversible process or is it that it is just a temporary blip for the century-old party and will it come round to its winning ways sooner rather than later? Those who have already writ-ten down the obituary of the Congress would tend to agree with the first as-sumption.

have carried out such re-searches and the input received had helped the government. The research would have a positive ef-fect on these schemes and programmes, she said. She urged for holistic quality and teachers’ pre-paredness to bring Guja-rat to the top position in the country. The CM said that the work is neces-sary to give smart shape

to schools in this smart era. She further said that the education department is playing a blame game instead of working in a coordinated effort. The kindergarten section does not think of colleges and primary sections, while the management in col-leges and universities do not play any role in shaping the children in schools, she said.

Marginal improvement in quality of education in Gujarat: GUnotsav

showed 73.50% students in classes II to V were able to read, but only 70.30% students were able to write. These had been 67% and 64.10%, respectively in Gunotsav V. There was no change in the quality of education in class VI, while in class VII there was a minor im-provement in the quality. But in class VII, there was a drop of 1.3% in students able to read and write. The results, which were tabled before the CM, has

revealed that there was a improvement of 12% in number of schools in B, C and D category. In Gunotsav-V, the number of schools in B, C and D grade was 29,811, while in Gunotsav-VI this dropped to 26,235. At the same time, results revealed that there was an increase of 80% in the number of A+ and A grade schools. This year, 8,004 schools got A+ and A grade, against 4,426 schools in Gunotsav-V, last year.

Major port Kandla bets big on container, liquid cargo business

approval. “The termi-nal will be developed as part of the second-phase development of Tuna Tekra,” said a senior KPT official. Plans are also afoot to develop a

mega container terminal, the official added. In the first stage, APSEZ-led consortium had won the contract in June 2012 to set up a bulk terminal at Tuna. The terminal with

a capacity of 20 MMT-PA was commissioned in February 2015. “Kandla Port Trust has proposed to develop new oil Jet-ty at old Kandla, multi-purpose cargo terminal at Tuna Tekra (Stage II) and few other projects for strengthening and upgrading existing fa-cilities at Kandla Port,” states the environment assessment report filed with MoEF.

Gujarat expects to save 6.5 bn power units through Ujala

expecting that this will save 6.50 billion units of electricity and it will give relief worth Rs 2,500 crore to consumers,” said Anandiben Patel, while urging people to apply for Ujala scheme and contrib-ute in energy saving. The state currently has around 1.21 million electricity consumers. “I am request-ing people to apply for Ujala scheme to not only make their houses energy efficient but also contrib-ute in saving energy re-sources,” she said.