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race to be held tomorrowAgency | Jaipur

First Jaipur Bird Race will be held tomor-row in and around the city where teams of bird-watchers will spend the entire day birding and covering ev-ery bird-watching site. “This is the first time that such an event is be-ing held in Jaipur where more than 360 species of birds have been re-corded over the years in and around the city that encompasses broad range of habitats, from Aravalli Shekhawati landscapes to agricul-tural tracts, urban parks and gardens, inland wet-lands,” Dr Sumit Dook-ia, the local coordinator said today.Youth arrested

for ‘kidnapping’ minor girl

Riteish Deshmukh’s next on Chhatrapati

Shivaji

Agency | Etah

A 22-year-old youth was arrested for al-legedly kidnapping a minor girl from Nagla Bhikari village under kotwali Awagarh, po-lice said today. Rakesh of Lalai village was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl on December 2, they said. Police said they received a tip-off yesterday suggesting that the accused was with the girl near Arav village.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Riteish Deshmukh has revealed that his next Marathi produc-tion venture would be on warrior king Chha-trapati Shivaji. The film will be directed by Na-tional-award winning director Ravi Jadhav, who collaborated with Riteish in “Balak-Pal-ak”. The “Ek Villain” star will be next seen in “Housefull 3”, which also stars Akshay Ku-mar and Abhishek Bachchan.

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has said that...“Akhand Bharat”

In an interview to ‘Al Jazeera’, the former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh spokesperson said, “The RSS still believes that one day these parts, which have for historical reasons separated only 60 years ago, will again, through

popular goodwill, come together and Akhand Bharat will be created.”

India, Pak, B’desh will reunite

Agency | Beijing

China on Saturday wel-comed the surprise meet-ing between Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore, saying improvement in Indo-Pak ties is signifi-cant for regional peace, stability and develop-ment. “The Chinese side has noticed the report and welcomes the lat-est development in the Pakistan-India relation-ship,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang said. He was responding to a question about Mo-di’s surprise visit to La-hore while on way form Kabul yesterday during

Agency | Nagpur

The Maharashtra An-ti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Telangana police ar-rested on Saturday three people from Nagpur air-port on suspicion that they were trying to leave the country to join terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS). Maharashtra officials handed them over to the Telangana ATS after the joint operation yielded success. Residents of Hy-derabad, all three youth are aged between 20 and 25 years. The youth were reportedly planning to board a flight to Srinagar from Nagpur after ar-riving from Hyderabad on Friday, a senior ATS official said. “We got in-formation that the youth would be boarding the

Agency | New Delhi

After uproar over reports that the government-run Air India will no longer serve non-vegetarian food on its short duration do-mestic flights for econ-omy class passengers, airline chief Ashwani Lo-hani clarified on Saturday that non-vegetarian food was never served on these flights. He added that the airline has improved its food services and will serve hot vegetarian meals instead of cold vegetarian snacks, like pastries and sandwiches, on flights up to 90 minutes duration. “There has been some con-

Agency | New Delhi

A Maharashtra cadre police officer has been booked for allegedly raping a civil services aspirant on pretext of marriage, police said to-day. According to com-plaint filed by the Jabal-pur-based victim, 2013 batch police officer Lo-hit Matani raped her at a hotel in Tukoganj area in August this year after calling her to the city by promising to marry her, Superintendent of Police (East), OP Tripathi said. The victim alleged that the accused later raped her on several occasions at various places, he said. The officer used to allegedly introduce the victim as his wife or fian-cee wherever they stayed, but later refused to marry

Agency | New Delhi

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has said that he believes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will reunite one day to form an “undivided In-dia” through “popular goodwill”. “The Rashtri-ya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) still believes that

one day these parts, which have for historical reasons separated only 60 years ago, will again, through popular goodwill, come together and Akhand Bharat (undivided India) will be created,” Mad-hav told Doha-based Al Jazeera news network in an interview. “As an RSS

Agency | Kabul

At least 12 people were injured in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar prov-ince after an earthquake jolted the country just before midnight Friday, officials said on Saturday. A number of Nangarhar University students in the provincial capital, Jalala-bad, were injured during a stampede while trying to run out of a building during the quake, said At-taullah Khogyani, spokes-man for the provincial governor. The magnitude 6.2 quake struck at around 11.45pm on Friday and lasted about a minute. It was also felt in the capital,

China hails PM Modi’s meeting with Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore

3 Hyderabad youngsters held at Nagpur airport for trying to join IS

Air India says non-veg food never served on short duration flights

which the two prime ministers met at Shar-if’s residence. Lu said Pakistan and India are important countries in south Asia and the im-provement of their rela-tionship will be signif-icant to regional peace,

stability and develop-ment. “As the common neighbour and friend of both Pakistan and India, China is happy to see and will support, as al-ways, Pakistan and India to enhance mutual trust and achieve common

development through continuous dialogue,” he added. Modi stayed for over two hours in Lahore on his way back home from Afghanistan yester-day during which he held talks with Sharif at his Raiwind house.

early morning flight,” the official said. “The youth, who came to Nagpur by cab, were handed over to the Telangana Count-er-Intelligence cell.” So far, around 20 young men, mostly from Telan-gana, have been prevented from travelling to Syria, ostensibly to join IS. Indi-an security establishment suggests that around 20-odd Indians are currently fighting for the banned

outfit in Iraq and Syria. They include two youths from Kalyan on the out-skirts of Mumbai, an Aus-tralia-based Kashmiri, one youth from Telangana, one from Karnataka, one Oman-based Indian and another Singapore-based Indian. Last year, a youth from Kalyan had returned home after spending about six-months with IS. He was arrested upon arrival in Mumbai.

fusion. On 61-90 minutes flights, we only serve veg-etarian snacks at present. In fact, we have tried to im-prove the food service and instead of cold vegetarian snacks, we will be offering hot vegetarian meals,” said Air India chairman and managing director Mr. Lo-hani. At present, full-ser-vice carriers like Air India, Jet Airways and Vistara

give complimentary meals on its flights while low-cost airlines such as Indi-Go, SpiceJet and GoAir offer meals on payment basis. A few years ago, the loss-making Air India had discontinued the practice of serving hot meals to economy-class passengers on flights with up to 90 minutes duration to cut-back on costs.

Afghanistan records 12 injured in late-night earthquake

Maharashtra IPS officer booked for rape in MP

Kabul, sending residents rushing into the street for safety. The UN’s Of-fice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said two regions of Af-ghanistan were affected - east and north-east - but the expected impact was “small to medium scale”. The quake’s epicenter was in the Zebak district of Badakhshan province in the country’s north, but no casualties or damage from the area had been report-ed, OCHA said.

the victim, Mr Tripathi said. The victim came in contact with Mr Matani through Facebook while she was preparing for civ-il services examination. The accused allegedly made advancements by saying that he will help her out with exam prepa-rations, he said. The case was lodged against the officer in Jabalpur under section 376 (rape) and 417 (cheating) of the In-dian Penal Code recently and has been transferred to Indore Police since the alleged incident took place in Japalpur, Mr Tripathi said.

member, I also hold on to that view,” he said, clari-fying he did not mean to “wage a war” against any of the neighbours. “That does not mean we wage war on any country, [or that] we annex any coun-try. Without war, through popular consent, it can happen,” he said. “If two Germanys can come to-gether, what makes you believe that India and Pakistan can’t come to-gether?” On Saturday, Madhav told HT that he

presented the RSS view in response to a question that asked whether the RSS still held on to that belief. Madhav is a na-tional executive member of the RSS, a right-wing outfit considered to be the ideological parent of the ruling BJP. Madhav said the RSS ideology is for the supremacy of India and

the organisation is neither “fascist” nor “aggressive”. The programme contain-ing Madhav’s comments was apparently recorded in London before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Pakistan on Christmas when he

met his Pakistani counter-part, Nawaz Sharif, and discussed ways of im-proving ties between the two countries. The pro-gramme was aired late on Friday night. Speaking on writers and intellectuals returning their awards to protest against “growing intolerance”, Madhav said in the Al Jazeera interview that they were doing it “to defame the government and in turn to defame the image of India”. The BJP leader said the mode of their protest was “wrong”. Madhav said India is “a land where a particular

way of life, a particular culture or civilisation, is practised”. “We call it Hindu - do you have any objection? India has one culture. We are one cul-ture, one people, one na-tion,” he told the channel. On the Jammu and Kash-mir issue, he said: “The only outstanding issue with regard to the Kash-mir problem is the Kash-mir under Pakistan occu-pation.” “The Kashmir that is an integral part of India, it has been proved time and again that it’s an integral part of India,” he said.

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DAY2015 has been a disappointing, So what are the prospects for India in 2016?

The year 2015 has been a disappointing one as far as economic reforms are concerned. While another failed parliamentary session is likely to lead to more acrimony and finger-pointing among politicians, common people will look back at 2015 as a wasted opportunity. Even the prime minister acknowledges the long road ahead when he says, “reforms are not a sprint but a marathon”. For the ruling party, there were setbacks on the political front as well. The year started with a humiliating defeat in Delhi and ended with a rout in Bihar. With no prospect for the BJP to get a majority in the Rajya Sabha anytime soon, the only hope for the government in pushing forward its legislative agenda lies in reaching a compromise. But there appears to be no reason why the opposition par-ties will oblige easily, especially since the BJP stalled several key legislation, like the GST bill, during the UPA’s tenure. It’s tit for tat in Parliament while the nation suffers. But even the progress of economic re-forms that did not require legislative approval has been sluggish. For instance, the modest disinvestment target of roughly $11 billion has been postponed. There is no clear strategy to recruit better managers for PSUs. The bankruptcy bill is yet to be made into law. The prob-lem of non-performing assets in public-sector banks remains unresolved. There has been little progress on energy reforms and there is only a slight improvement in the ease of doing business index. The government had a unique opportunity afforded by the Bali pack-age of the WTO — to reform the PDS and domestic food subsidy regime — but it has shelved those plans and ignored the Shanta Kumar Committee report on re-forming the Food Corporation of India. And no efforts are underway to set right the distorted fertiliser sub-sidy. Inflation has come down but this, too, is largely due to the decline in global commodity prices. The re-vised (but questionable) GDP series has bumped up the growth rate by two percentage points, and this is being used by the government to claim that it is the world’s fastest growing emerging economy. But the level of investment remains lower than desired and import de-mand continues to be weak. In fact, there are no finan-cial or business indicators that suggest the economy is growing as rapidly as suggested by the new GDP esti-mates. A modest recovery is underway but it is much weaker than what is being claimed. The recovery has also been slowed down by the RBI’s stubborn insis-tence on keeping interest rates higher than mandated by the underlying inflation. The RBI finally lowered interest rates but it could further help the recovery by lowering them by another 50 basis points.

“We will not back off our decision. If MHA has any problem with Delhi government’s notification to appoint Commission of Inquiry to probe alleged irregularities in DDCA, it may approach High Court,”

- Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal today said that we are not scared when all the agencies under them including police CBI, DRI are after us, why are they scared with one commission of enquiry..

Ajay Devgn shares first daringly picturesque look from ‘Shivaay’

James Cameron’s ‘Avatar 2’ gets a release date!

Dhanush’s project with brother postponedSunny Leone is stunning: Priyanka

Agency | New Delhi

Varun Dhawan’s acting career seems to be on a roll. After impressing fans with some intense performance in Badlapur, there was an equal share of fun and light-hearted roles for the Student of the year actor in ABCD 2 and Dilwale. However, junior Dhawan seemed to have taken a liking to se-rious roles. And which is why buzz has it that Varun Dhawan will be next seen the playing the role of as sharpshooter Feroz Konk-ani. An aide of Dawood Ibrahim in the early 1990s, Feroz was a par-

take of many high profile murders including that of the music baron Gulshan Kumar. Well, while we are completely aware of Bollywood’s fascination with crime dramas and gangster recalls, it would be interesting to see Var-un in this dark role. A source close the film had said, “A trial chase se-quence has been filmed in the exact location of Gulshanji’s murder. The film is a re-enactment of real-life incidents and the location of the Jeeteshwar Mahadev Mandir in And-heri has been used for the scene.”

Varun Dhawan to play gangster in his next?

Pasanga 2 review: A lost opportunity

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ breaks another box office record!

Agency | Chennai

Actor Dhanush’s project with brother and film-maker Selvaraghavan, which was scheduled to take off early next year, has now been postponed by a few months. “It’s true that both of them are teaming up after six years. The film was supposed to go on the floors in the first half of 2016, but now has been pushed by a few months,” a source close Selvaraghavan. Dhanush, according to the source, will only start work on this project after he com-

Agency | Chennai

Pandiraj’s Pasanga 2 has a novel core plot — Atten-tion Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — but the film takes an awful-ly long time to get to the point, and when it does, it spins out of focus, weigh-ing us down with inane incidents and slapstick humour. It is once again a classic case of Tamil cine-ma starting with a remark-ably interesting storyline, but messing it up with bad scripting and ideas liberally borrowed from other movies. One can see bits and pieces of Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par and even Mani Ratnam’s Anjali. The 127 minutes of Pasanga 2 often seem like a drag in a work where Tamil star Surya plays a child psychiatrist, Tamizh

Naadan, and Amala Paul his schoolteacher wife, Venba. And into their lives, a boy, Kavin, and a girl, Naina, storm in, their parents and teachers foxed and frustrated by the kids’ hyperactivity. Forced to quit one school after an-other and examined by innumerable doctors, the children’s parents finally run into Dr Tamizh, who waves his magic wand of kindness and comprehen-sion to soothe the harassed and embarrassed parents and calm down the kids. Suffering from ADHD, Kavin and Naina ultimate-ly get help from Tamizh, much like the dyslexic little boy in Taare Zameen Par who chances upon a fresh life with the arrival of a new teacher (Aamir Khan) at school. Taare Zameen

Par undoubtedly had a lot more finesse and far better story-telling than Pasanga 2, which gets into needless alleys (look at the way the secretary of the building complex is humiliated) before hitting the point it wants to make. Precious screen time is wasted in melodramatic interludes, and there is at least one wrong message which the film promotes — board-ing schools are places of punishment where trou-ble-mongers are cast away. And, of course, while both Surya and Paul may be credited with fine perfor-mances (easy and natural), the children appear to go overboard with their histri-onics. And Pasanga 2 frit-ters away what could have been an excellent opportu-nity to be a gripping work.

Agency | Los Angeles

It’s a Christmas present for Avatar fans as the se-quel of the 2009 hit flick is all set for a Christmas 2017 release date. The di-rector of the flick, James Cameron has confirmed

that his eagerly anticipat-ed follow-up to the epic science fiction has a tenta-tive release date but right now his main concern is completing them. He said that Christmas of 2017 is the target, adding that he

Agency | Los Angeles

Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to add feats to its list of box office records and now has the biggest Christ-mas Eve domestic gross with $27.5 million, de-feating previous record holder Avatar which took in $11.2 million in 2009. The seventh installment of the Star Wars saga also broke the opening week domestic box office record, earning $391.1 million after seven days in theatres. The film beat

out previous record hold-er Jurassic World, which took in $296.2 million during its first week at North America box office in May. The Star Wars” movie is now the 22nd highest domestic grosser of all time. It outpaced Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II ($381 million), Finding Nemo ($380.8 million) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ($380.3 million). The Force Awakens, which stars Daisy Ridley, John

Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver and Har-rison Ford, could earn $35 million-$47 million on Christmas Day, which would easily surpass the $24.6 million opening of Sherlock Holmes on De-cember 25, 2009 to nab the biggest Christmas Day revenue of all time. So far, the JJ Abrams-di-rected movie has earned $422.4 million overseas and $391 million at do-mestic box office, push-ing its worldwide total to $813.4 million.

Agency | Mumbai

Ajay Devgn shared a dar-ing look of his upcoming movie Shivaay. The actor turned director is enjoy-ing the action genre at its best. Shared on his Twitter page, the image shows Ajay hanging from a rope above a deep val-ley in the snow capped mountains of Landour in the Himalayas. Shivaay will launch Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu’s grand-niece Sayesha Saigal. Next schedule of the

movie will be shot in Hyderabad before mov-ing to Bulgaria to shoot a bigger portion. Direct-ed by Ajay Devgn him-self, Shivaay is set to release on October 28. It

will clash with Karan Jo-har’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil which has a star-studded cast of Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bach-chan, Anushka Sharma, and Fawad Khan.

pletes R.S. Durai Senthi Kumar’s “Kodi”. “Early next year, Dhanush will start shooting for polit-ical thriller ‘Kodi’, and as soon as he completes shooting for it, he will work with his brother,” the source said. In 2016,

Dhanush also has film-maker Vetri Maaran’s Tamil gangster drama “Vada Chennai”, and a Hindi film with “Ranjha-naa” director. Dhanush will be teaming up with Selvaraghavan for the fourth time.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Priyanka Chopra, who will next be seen in Prakash Jha’s forthcom-ing film “Jai Gangaajal”, says that standing next to the former Indo-Canadian adult film star Sunny Le-one makes her look “bad” as the latter is “stunning”. “I love how things ar sen-sationalised out of con-

text! Standing and taking pics with Sunny Leone makes me look bad cause she is stunning! Lol!” Pri-yanka tweeted on Friday night. Earlier this week it was reported that the “Quantico” star did not wish to be photographed with the “Jism 2” actress. Sunny, who is prepping up for director Milap Za-

veri’s upcoming sex-com-edy “Mastizaade”, where she will perform a double role, said she “feels the same” about Priyanka. “I feel the same about you darling,” Sunny told Pri-yanka in a tweet. “Media can be mean sometimes. They just wish it was them taking pics with you. Lol xoxo.”

calls it a meta-narrative that runs across the three movies. Each film stands alone, but it also tells one much larger story. Cam-eron also revealed that pre-production is almost completed and he is get-ting ready to start shoot-ing. He explained that they have design more or less finished, which is an enor-mous task. It’s been about a two-year task, adding that they have finished all the creatures and the landscapes, and the new worlds within the world of Pandora that you see.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPFacebook Myths and the Facts about ‘Free’ Basics: Distortion Again

Lenovo to launch K4 Note featuring 3GB RAM on January 5

Listing drought ends, Rs 13,600 cr raised in 2015

Agency | New Delhi

Facebook’s assault on the privacy of the Indian poor has reached the “do or die” stage. One last massive effort is underway to buy a change in the climate of opinion, to obscure the realities and sim-ulate grass roots support, before the giant is forced into an inevitable climbdown. In such situations, the “myth/fact persuader” is a staple of the practi-tioners of public relations. Sure enough, Facebook put out a “myth/fact” fabrication in late November, packaged as a slickly informal video from internet.org. To begin with, naturally, “Facebook takes user privacy and security extremely seriously.” Indeed, it loves the privacy of the Indian poor so much that

it wants to take it home to California.

Agency | New Delhi

Mobile manufacturer Lenovo after the successful launch of Lenovo K3 Note is all set to launch its upgraded version next year. According to a teas-er posted by the company on micro blogging site twitter, it has revealed that the new device will be powered by 3GB RAM. Lenovo K3 Note on the other hand has 2GB RAM. The company is all set to launch the new mobile on January 5 2016. The other note worthy features that the new phone will support is a metallic frame along with a fingerprint scanner. It is also said to be powered by a Medi-aTek Helio X10 processor and come equipped with an internal storage of 32GB. COmpany has also revealed this information on its twitter handle. Le-novo K3 is powered by a 64-bit 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6572 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. It sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 1080 x 1920 pixels of resolution. The device sup-ports 4G and runs Android 5.0 Lollipop with a lay-er of its own Vibe UI. The device measures 152.6 x

76.2 x 7.99mm and weighs 150gms.

Agency | Mumbai

Ending the IPO (initial public offering) drought, 21 companies have entered Dalal Street in 2015 with IPOs to garner Rs 13,600 crore - the highest in five years - and an impressive pipeline is already in place for the new year. While IPOs worth Rs 14,000 crore are already in the final stages of hitting the market, experts say the overall pipeline currently stands at well in excess of Rs 50,000 crore. Adding to the depth of the IPO market, companies from diverse sectors like renewable energy, quick ser-vice restaurant, logistics, pharma, electronics, and airlines, have made their way into the IPO space this year. The total funds collected by the 21 IPOs in 2015 is the highest since Rs 37,534.6 crore gar-nered in 2010. The year has seen as many as 60 per cent of the newly-listed stocks trading at a high premium over their issue prices, as against most of the stocks trending below issue price in previous years.

unmukt Chand’s 80 takes Delhi to Vijay Hazare final

Hafeez, Azhar Ali to face disciplinary action for boycotting camp

Jyoti Randhawa takes four-shot lead at McLeod Russel Tour Championship

Cook departs early on rain-hit first morning in Durban

Robin Singh shines in India’s 2-0 win over Sri Lanka in SAFF Cup

New Zealand pacers make light work of Sri Lanka

Agency | Thiruvanantha-puram

Robin Singh’s post break brace enabled a domi-nant India to begin their South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup campaign with a 2-0 win against Sri Lanka on Friday. Robin broke the deadlock on 51 minutes and then extended the ad-vantage 22 minutes later. It was the second con-secutive match in which the burly striker scored in the national colours after a match-winning goal against Guam in a 2018 World Cup qualifi-er on November 12. Sri Lanka beat Nepal 1-0 in

Agency | Durban

Soth Africa’s Dale Steyn struck an early blow to remove England cap-tain Alastair Cook for a duck, as the tourists went to lunch at 12 for one wicket on a rain-hit first morning of the opening test against South Africa at Kingsmead on Satur-day. After winning the toss and electing to bowl in overcast conditions, South Africa got the perfect start to the four-match series by claiming the key wicket of open-er Cook. Debutant Alex Hales (10) and South Af-rican-born Nick Comp-ton (one), batting at num-ber three, will resume at the crease after the start had been delayed by 30 minutes due to morn-ing drizzle. The tourists lost Cook, who admitted

Agency | Bengaluru

Delhi cruised into the fi-nal of Vijay Hazare crick-et tournament as they rode on Unmukt Chand’s unbeaten 80 to register a six-wicket victory over Himachal Pradesh in the first semi-final on Satur-day. After Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir chose to field, his bowlers re-stricted Himachal to 200 for nine in 50 overs at the M Chinnaswamy stadium. Leading the side, Bipul Sharma top-scored for Himachal with an aggressive 45-ball 51, which was studded with four boundaries and three sixes, including a huge one that landed on one of the stands. Shar-ma was ably supported

Agency | Lahore

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Sha-haryar Khan said on Fri-day that former T20 cap-tain Mohammad Hafeez and One-Day Internation-al (ODI) captain Azhar Ali can face disciplinary action after the two crick-eters boycotted a fitness training camp due to the inclusion ofspot-fixing tainted pacer Moham-mad Amir. Shaharyar was quoted as saying by BBC: “We have talked earli-er regarding this matter and we will talk again, but still if they (Azhar and Hafeez) do not agree then the PCB will think about disciplinary action against them.” Amir’s bid to make a comeback to the national side was given a major boost last week after PCB inducted

Agency | Christchurch

Just when Sri Lanka thought batting would be easier without new-ball pair Tim Southee and Trent Boult after the Test series, a more damaging New Zealand duo stepped up to the plate in the first one-dayer between the sides in Christchurch on Saturday. Matt Henry and Adam Milne reduced the visitors to 27 for five in-side 10 overs at Hagley Oval in the opener of the five-match series as New Zealand cruised to a sev-en-wicket victory. Henry, who struggled in Australia last month and took just two wickets for 158 runs in the drawn second Test in Perth, produced an out-

the opening game of the tournament on Wednes-day but was evidently inferior against the home side at the Trivandrum International Stadium. Coach Stephen Constan-tine opted for a cautious 5-4-1 formation against a team ranked 28 plac-es behind them in the

166th-ranked India, naming Robin Singh the lone striker. He pegged back forward Jeje Lal-pekhlua, impressive for Chennaiyin FC’s tro-phy-lifting Indian Super League (ISL) campaign, to the midfield and wing-er Sanju Pradhan as a right back.

the fast bowler in a camp for 26 players which also includes T20 captain Sha-hid Afridi. The board on Wednesday issued a state-ment backing Amir’s re-turn to the national set-up saying “even Islam calls for forgiveness in such cases”. But PCB’s efforts to reintegrate the pacer back into the national side took a hit on Thursday af-ter Ali and Hafeez failed to ‘report to the camp’ at the National Cricket Academy here. Azhar has

publicly opposed Amir’s inclusion. “We will not take part in a camp which also includes Amir. We will not back down on our stance but are willing to discuss the matter with PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan,” Azhar was quoted as saying by Geo News earlier. In November, Ha-feez turned down an offer from Chittagong Vikings to feature in the Bangla-desh Premier League as the franchise had already signed Amir.

Agency | Kolkata

Senior pro Jyoti Randha-wa benefited immensely from his European Tour experience to card a siz-zling seven-under 65 un-der windy conditions and established a four-stroke lead in the McLeod Russel Tour Championship 2015 at Kolkata on Friday. The Gurgaon-based Indian golfing icon shot two ea-gles, four birdies en route to securing tournament’s best seven-under 65 to to-tal 11-under 133 midway into the 72-hole stroke

play season-ending PGTI event at the Royal Calcut-ta Golf Course. Bengaluru duo of Khalin Joshi and S Chikkarangappa were next best on the leader-board at seven-under 137 in the Rs 1.5 crore cham-pionship that will also de-termine the winner in the Rolex Rankings of the Or-der of Merit. The 43-year-old, Randhawa who was joint overnight leader along with four others, came out all guns blazing as he made two chip-ins in quick succession on the second and fourth, the

first bird and the second for an eagle. A winner of nine international titles, Randhawa made his only error on a windy day on the 10th where he over-shot the green with his approach and as a result dropped a bogey. He then collected his second eagle of the day on the 15th and three more birdies on the last seven holes to end up with a seven-under. He landed his second shot within six feet for eagle on the par-5 15th before signing off with a 12-feet birdie conversion on the 18th. “The wind worked to my advantage as I’m used to playing in such conditions, having played in Europe for seven years. My experience helped me negotiate the weather con-ditions,” Randhawa, who won his last title in March 2012, said.

standing opening six-over spell on Saturday with fig-ures of 4-26. He finished with 4-49 from 10 overs. Both he and Milne regu-larly clocked in excess of 140 km per hour, with the fiery Milne exceeding 150 kph on several deliveries, a far cry from the 130-140 kph range that Southee and Boult delivered in the Test series against Sri Lanka. What was most important for New Zealand captain

Brendon McCullum, how-ever, was that with Test seamer Doug Bracewell, who impressed on Satur-day with 3-37, and left-arm quick Mitchell Mc-Clenaghan, he now has a deep pace bowling unit to choose from. “I think both Adam Milne and Matt Henry with the new ball back in their hands were outstanding for us,” Mc-Cullum said in a televised interview.

he would have bowled had he won the toss, in the third over as the left hander was tempted by a delivery just outside off-stump from Steyn and edged to Dean Elgar at second slip. On a wick-et that looks devoid of the usual pace associat-ed with Durban, the ball drifted away from the England skipper as Steyn bowled with a scram-bled seam. Just 6.1 overs

were possible before the threat of lightning took the players from the field and a heavy downpour followed shortly after-wards. England have also included Chris Woakes as a replacement for injured seamer James Anderson, while fast bowler Steven Finn returns to the side after recovering from a foot problem that saw him miss the recent away series defeat to Pakistan.

by Mayank Dagar, who put on 57-run partnership for eighth wicket, after Himachal were precar-iously placed at 131 for seven. Chasing a modest total of 201, Delhi were helped by Chand’s 86-ball knock, which was decorated with seven boundaries and two six-es. India opener Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed for 39 by Bipul Sharma,

who had the southpaw foxed by his orthodox left-arm spin. Dhawan took 53 balls to score those runs and found the fence on five occa-sions. Gautam Gambhir, Rishabh Pant and Milind made 16, 18 and 10, re-spectively, before Chand and Nitish Rana (19 not out) guided Delhi past Himachal total with 8.5 overs to spare.

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Correspondent | Udvada

Udvada, a hamlet of a handful of Parsi-owned bungalows and perpetual calm, woke up to much fanfare on Friday. Mem-bers of the community descended on this rather obscure coastal town in Gujarat’s Valsad district not only from different parts of India but also from across the world. They all shared a common belief. The support of the Gujarat government, es-pecially Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who they credited for sowing the idea of the Iranshah Ud-vada Festival, a first-of-its-kind celebration for the community with fast dwindling numbers world over. The opening day of the three-day event had Gujarat Finance Minis-ter Saurabh Patel in at-

Correspondent | Rajkot

The Gujarat government is set to implement the new labour laws early next year, with minister Vi-jay Rupani saying that he would pitch the state as a safe investment destina-tion having zero industrial accident and complete la-bour peace at the upcom-ing Vibrant Gujarat Sum-mit. “I am happy to inform you that under the leader-ship of honourable Min-ister (of Labour and Em-ployment Vijay Rupani), we have brought amend-ments to labour laws. The Government of India and the President have given their assent to them, and the rules will be notified by December 30 for their implementation,” said Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary, Department of

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Chief Minister today dedicated two ‘Jal-pari’ buses that has been bought at a cost of Rs 50 lakh at Kankaria lake front. While inaugurating annual Kankaria Carnival, Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel also performed bhumi pujan fr Rs 329.23 crore development works.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In reply to a question during the Make In India week related function in Ahmedabad today, the Additional Chief Sec-retary of Industry and Mines department, Gov-ernment of Gujarat Shri Arvind Agrawal said, the Gujarat state will be par-ticipating in the ‘Make In India’ week in a very big way. He said, “we are participating in the ‘Make In India’ week in a very big way. I think we would have the largest pavilion among all the state gov-ernments. There’s a Gu-jarat Investors Summit also at the meet. Agrawal further said, “There’s lot of competition among the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to its Vigilance Cell and the court administration over “unsatisfactory” investi-gation against two judi-cial officers, who were purportedly caught on camera “settling money” and suspended in Septem-ber 2014. It asked why the probe should be not handed over to the CBI. The court was annoyed with the fact that investi-gating officer failed to file the chargesheet in time, which resulted in default bail to one of the accused. The case involves Judicial Magistrates (First Class) A D Acharya and PD In-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

More than 2.25 lakh or 32.43 per cent students who opted for Sanskrit failed to in the subject in the Class X board exam this year, the worst perfor-mance in the last 15 years. A total of 10.46 lakh stu-dents had appeared in the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Ed-ucation Board exam in March, of which 6,94,765 opted for Sanskrit as one

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Union government has said that 340 km fenc-ing on the Gujarat border is likely to be completed within three years. The Centre has also claimed that fencing along only 76 km remains to be fin-ished while work on the rest had been completed. Minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju has also said that, between 2012 and 2014, around 34 instances of infiltration and 43 cases of contra-band smuggling had been detected in Gujarat along the 508-km international border with Pakistan. Ri-jiju was replying to Lok Sabha MLAs from Guja-rat who had sought details of the border fencing and even the number of cases of smuggling of weapons and contraband as well as infiltration through Guja-

rat borders detected by the authorities. In his reply, Rijiju said: “On the basis of the feasibility report for construction of the fence, the Union government has sanctioned construction of 340 km of fencing on the border in Gujarat. Out of this, fencing of about 264 km has been completed.” About the remaining 76 km, Rijiju said that it may take about 36 months to complete the rest of the work depending on cli-matic conditions. He further said that mainte-nance of the fence is done by the Border Security Force (BSF). “Due to the extreme nature of the to-pography, the fencing and its foundation are prone to corrosion by salty wa-ter and heavy inundation. Because of this the fence has deteriorated in some places.”

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Graft case against judicial magistrates: Gujarat HC notice to vigilance cell, court admn

Lowest Sanskrit score in 15 years: Experts suggest equal importance to subject

Gujarat to announce new medical policy shortly: Minister

‘Zero industrial accident’ in Gujarat by 2017, says Vijay Rupani

“Gujarat to participate in the ‘Make in India’ week in a very big way”

`Border fencing in Gujarat to be over in three years’

amdar, who while posted at Vapi court in Valsad district, were allegedly caught in a spy camera fitted in their offices by complainant Jagat Patel, a local lawyer. The re-cordings, both in audio and video formats, pur-portedly showed the two judges “settling money” with the defence law-yers. An FIR was lodged against them by the Vig-

ilance Cell police station of the High Court. They were arrested on Septem-ber 9. On December 9, the complainant Jagat Pa-tel moved the High Court claiming that the investi-gation was not thorough-ly done by the vigilance cell and, therefore, prayed that the case should be transferred to CBI. He also said the investigat-ing agency failed to file

chargesheet in stipulated time. Under the provi-sions, the chargesheet has to be filed in three months from the day of arrest. Last week, while hear-ing the petition, Justice J B Pardiwala said, “It is very shocking to note that in a very serious offence of corruption wherein two judicial officers are involved, the investigat-ing officer failed to file chargesheet within the statutory time period.”

of the main subjects. The state government has been promoting the lan-guage for years and also set up its own Sanskrit University. According to the records available with the GSHSEB, the pass percentage of 67.57 in Sanskrit turns out to be the lowest in 15 years, given that the success rate in subject has always been over 90 per cent, except for 2004 when it dipped to 82.41 per cent. The highest was in 2010, when 95.67 per cent stu-

dents who opted for it passed the exam. Besides the education department, several educationists and Sanskrit scholars have raised concerns over the poor exam results. The members of the drafting committee for the new education policy have also started “brainstorm-ing” on the reasons for the poor results. “This was one of the major concerns recently raised during meeting on the Nation-al Education Policy this month. How can we pro-

mote a language which has the lowest pass percentage in Class X. Also, if this continues, how will seats in the Sanskrit University and colleges get filled,” said a senior education of-ficial. Though the reasons cited by the GSHSEB was change in the text-book pattern, the curric-ulum framing committee claimed that it was due to the importance given to Science, Mathematics and English over Sanskrit both by parents and teachers. “The Class IX Sanskrit textbooks were changed in 2013 and Class X in the year 2014. Though the curriculum was not changed much, the pat-tern was changed that re-sulted in higher difficulty levels,” said M M Pathan, Class X GSHSEB’s offi-cer on special duty.

Labour and Employment. He was addressing a sem-inar on industrial safety, environment and occu-pational health on Friday. The one-day seminar was organised by Kutch Saurashtra Productivity Council and Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health of Gujarat. The Assembly had passed the Labour Laws (Gu-jarat Amendment) Bill, 2015 in February this

year. Prasad informed the gathering that Gujarat has 402 chemical facto-ries with the potential to cause disasters like the Bhopal gas tragedy, to which Rupani, who was present there, replied that such units were inspected thrice a year. Address-ing the seminar, Rupani said the government was working towards making Gujarat “free from indus-trial accidents by 2017”.

Gujarat hamlet comes alive with Parsi festive notes

tendance. Patel, asserted High Priest Vada Dasturji, had been a “force to reck-on with” and a “driving force” behind the devel-opment of the commu-nity. Patel said the prime minister’s “love” for Par-sis was evident. Praising the likes of Jamshedji Tata, Dr Homi Bhabha and Dadabhai Naoroji, the minister declared that the competitive spirit of the community was responsi-ble for their reaching the pinnacle in various fields. Modi, when he was chief minister of Gujarat, had in 2011 suggested that Valsad be given the tag of a “World Heritage Centre for Religious Harmony”.

Correspondent | Vadodara

The Gujarat government would soon announce a new medical policy to de-velop the state as a med-ical hub, the state Health Minister Nitin Patel said today. “The Gujarat gov-ernment is in the final stages of framing a new medical policy that would make Gujarat a medical hub. It would increase medical tourism,” said Pa-tel. “Our aim is to increase various medical facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, medical colleges and super—spe-ciality hospitals, for which the new policy would be a

discussed in a meeting to be held on December 27, before the announcement. “The meeting would dis-cuss it for enhancing the medical sector in the state, as part of the success achieved in the Gujarat model of development,” he said. Patel said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the former Chief Minister of the state, was the first to introduce Gujarat as a model state. “His successor Anandiben Patel has been carrying it forward and changing the policy for the medical sector,” he said. “Under the new medical policy,

the government would provide the financial and administrative help to all those who want to set up hospitals and medical col-leges in state. It includes subsidy in the construc-tion of facilities for boost-ing medical tourism and subsidy for purchasing specialised equipment,” he said. He said that the state Health department is in talks with state Finance department to finalise the subsidy amount and sev-eral other financial bene-fits, which would be ac-corded to those who want to open medical institu-tions in the state.

states for ‘Ease of Doing Business’ evaluation this year also. Gujarat has taken the driver seat. We have not rested with lau-rels that we are number one in 2015, so we will be number one in 2016 also. No, we are aware that we have to improve upon ourselves. We were num-ber one last year but with 71%. We can be num-ber one with 95% also, so there lies difference.”

He said, ten days ago the Government of India, Ministry of Mines has complemented Gujarat in writing. We have become the first state in the coun-try to start E-auction of minerals. We have begun with limestone and major minerals. We are the first state in the country.”

Kankaria Carnival kicks off, two new Jalpari buses added to lake front