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News BriefI would love to be

in ‘Golmaal 4’: Tabu

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Tabu says con-trary to popular percep-tion, she has no disdain for commercial films and would love to do something like “Gol-maaal 4”. Tabu, who has been part of critical-ly acclaimed films like “Maqbool”, “Cheeni Kum” and “Haider”, says people form an as-sumption on the basis of her films.

Congress MLA booked for

kidnapping woman

Noted journalist Arindam

Sengupta is dead

Agency | Patna

Congress MLA Sid-darth was today booked for allegedly kidnap-ping a 20-year-old woman here, police said. Abhay Singh, a resident of Sonkukra village, complained that the Congress MLA from Bikram constitu-ency here, this morning kidnapped his daughter from their village, Su-perintendent of Police (East) Dhrut Saayli said.

Agency | New Delhi

Managing editor of The Times of India Arindam Sengupta passed away early today after a brief battle with cancer. He was 61. Sengupta had joined Times of India group in 1991 after a previous stint from 1988 to 1990. He had a long and distinguished asso-ciation with the group and served in various important positions in both Times of India and Economic Times. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of political leaders have condoled death of Sengupta.

Bhubaneswar leads 20 smart cities list, Pune, Jaipur among top three“First 20 Smart Cities”

Correspondent | Vadodara

The crime branch of Va-dodara police has nabbed two persons with UK pound and US dollar worth over Rs 96 lakhs in Indian currency. P I of of the special operation group of the crime branch M N Parmar said that on a tip off Salim Hussain Menon and Sadir Gaffar Teli were caught from a car on national highway 8 near Fajalpur while they were on their way to Mumbai. A total of

Surat and A’bad are the top 6

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Every day we wake up with the hope of battling all our fears. But very few gather the strength to look fear straight in the eye and nail it! The 14 promising contestants of this Season of Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi have done exactly that. Whether it was the scare of hissing snakes on their bodies or dunking their heads in-side a box full of worms, jumping off from running vehicles, speed in cars to survive a blast, battling with fire, allow deadly spiders and reptiles walk all over their face, pick slithering snakes using the mouth, walk the tight rope from scary heights - the daredevils of the Season have done it all! And to make their lives a

Agency | New Delhi

Urban development min-ister M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced the first list of 20 cities to be developed as Smart Cities, with Bhubaneswar topping the list and Pune and Jaipur coming in sec-ond and third respective-ly. The others on the list include Surat, Kochi and Ahmedabad. These cit-ies will be developed to have basic infrastructure through assured water and power supply, san-

Agency | New Delhi

Boston-based Massachu-setts Institute of Technol-ogy (MIT) may associate with the flagship pro-grammes of Skill India, Digital India and Start-Up India, with its senior or retired faculty members expected to share their expertise in New Delhi. A discussion in this regard took place when MIT President Rafael Reif called on Prime Minister

Agency | New Delhi

The CBI has been asked by the defence minis-try to probe complaints against two serving Major Generals for al-legedly having assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The ministry had in September red-flagged the promotion of certain officers follow-ing allegations of im-propriety. “The defence ministry has forward-ed to CBI complaints against these two offi-cers and has sought a reply,” defence sources said on Thursday, adding that the government will not tolerate corruption at

Two nabbed in Vadodara with dollar and pound worth over Rs 96 lakh

MIT President asks PM Modi to visit university, interact with students

Action, Adrenalin, Arjun in Ahmedabad to kick start this season of Khatron Ke Khiladi

Def min asks CBI to probe 2 Maj Gens for disproportionate assets

little more precarious was Arjun Kapoor - the fun, friendly and fearless host who loved doing keeda at every possible juncture. To share this incredible experience of being a host of the stunt based reality show Arjun Kapoor vis-ited the most celebrated city of India, Ahmed-abad. The daredevil host relived every moment of the Argentinian diaries as he spoke about the most special pages from this

amazing journey. Captur-ing moments of sanity and insanity, anxiety and with-drawals, fun and laughter, bruises and breakdowns, presenting an all-new sea-son of ZICA from Tata Motors presents Khatron Ke Khiladi – Kabhi Peeda Kabhi Keeda in Argentina with 14 celebrity enter-tainers and Arjun Kapoor; all set to premiere on Sat-urday, 30th January, 2016 and will air every weekend at 9:00 PM on COLORS. 1 lakh 14 thousand US dollar and 20 thousand

UK pound (total value in Indian currency Rs 96 lakh 92 thousand ) were found in a bag they were carrying, he said. During primary interrogation the duo, resident of Nagar-vada locality of the city, could not give any satis-factory answer as to from where they got the large sum of foreign currency. It is however, understood, that the money might be of some hawala racket. The matter was being in-vestigated.

itation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, IT connectivity, e-gov-ernance and citizen participation. “The states select-ed cities and sent us a list of 97 names. There was a

competition among these names and 20 cities have been selected,” Naidu told a news conference. “Bottom up approach has been the key planning principle under Smart City Mission,” he said. “The Smart City Chal-lenge Competition was as rigorous and demand-ing as the civil services competition conducted,” Naidu quipped. These are the 20 cities named in the first list: Bhubaneswar; Pune; Jaipur; Surat; Ko-chi; Ahmedabad; Jabal-

Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. Reif apprised the Prime Min-ister on work being done by MIT in the areas of ed-

ucation, health, water and innovation and invited him to visit MIT to inter-act with the students and faculty, a PMO statement

said. Modi asked Reif to explore the possibility of using MIT’s expertise in the flagship programmes of Skill India, Digital In-dia and Start-Up India, it said. He suggested that senior or retired faculty from MIT could visit In-dia for a few months to teach in an Indian Uni-versity, the statement said, adding Reif appre-ciated the suggestion, and offered his assistance in this regard.

MIT President Rafael Reif apprised the Prime Minister on work being

done by MIT in the areas of education, health, water and innovation

and invited him to visit MIT to interact with the

students and faculty

pur; Visakhapatnam; Solapur; Davanagere; Indore; New Delhi; Co-imbatore; Kakinada; Bel-gaum; Udaipur; Guwa-hati; Chennai; Ludhiana; Bhopal. In the subsequent years, the government will announce 40 cities each to be developed as smart cities as per Prime Minister Narendra Mo-

di’s plan to develop 100 smart cities in the coun-try. The government plans to build these smart cities by 2022 to help ac-commodate its swelling urban population, which is set to rise by more than 400 million people to 814 million by 2050. The cities are competing on a variety of matrices,

including urban reforms and their plan of action in four key areas -- Swachh Bharat, Make in India, good governance (mod-ern accounting system, rationalisation of property taxes) and e-governance. Naidu said that a total of 15.20 million (1.52 crore) citizens had participat-ed in the preparation of the ambitious Smart City plans at various stages. Some sent their ideas to city officials via Twitter, Facebook or SMS. Others entered local contests for designing logos or writ-ing essays. Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern state of Orissa, unfurled a 10-kilometer-long canvas banner across the city and invited residents to scroll down their suggestions.

any level. The CBI will now look into the com-plaints and report back to the ministry. Giv-ing a background to the case, sources said that a meeting of the Special Promotion Board of the Army was held last year to fill up the vacancy of three Lieutenant Gen-erals for which about 33 officers were con-sidered. A set of names

cleared by the board was sent to the defence min-istry. However, follow-ing the meeting of the board, a series of com-plaints against some of-ficers surfaced, many of which were being circu-lated on the social media too. Taking cognizance of the matter, defence minister Manohar Parri-kar himself looked into the issue.

First 20 smart cities are:11. Devangere12. Indore13. Coimbatore14. Kakinada15. Belgaum16. Udaipur17. Guwahati18. Chennai19. Ludhiana20. Bhopal

1. Bhubaneshwar2. Pune3. Jaipur4. Surat5. Kochi6. Ahmedabad7. NDMC (New Delhi)8. Jabalpur9. Vizag10. Solapur

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYCaste matters everywhere: schools, jobs or life

The suicide of research scholar Rohith Vemula has triggered a debate on caste discrimination in India. There is factual evidence (here and here) showing the existence of caste-based inequalities in terms of asset holdings, education and employment. Sure, it can be argued that these are the results of histori-cal discrimination/deprivation and caste- based dis-crimination does not exist anymore, given the con-stitutional equality all citizens enjoy. Is it possible to find out whether caste is still used as a basis for discrimination in India? The question is not easy, as it involves capturing a subjective phenomenon. Var-ious works of research in economics show that caste continues to act as a basis of discrimination in many aspects of life in India. Research shows that students sometimes perform better or worse in exams because their teachers expect them to do so. This is referred to as the Pygmalion Effect. Often, this effect can manifest itself on account of their characteristics, such as race and gender. In a 2012 paper, Rema N. Hanna and Leigh L. Linden, economists at Harvard University and University of Texas, Austin, tested this effect for caste among schoolchildren in India by conducting a grading experiment. The experi-ment involved inviting schoolchildren with diverse caste, age and gender attributes to take a multi-sub-ject exam with a sizeable monetary reward. The an-swer scripts were duplicated after the exam. After recording original attributes, one set—without caste and other details—was given to evaluators from within research team. Another set was assigned to locally recruited teachers (also from diverse caste, age and gender backgrounds). In the second set, ran-dom caste, age and gender information was assigned to the answer scripts to test how evaluators would react to the information while assigning grades. The scores assigned by the locally recruited teachers were compared with the ones assigned by the evaluators from the research team. In a 2007 paper published in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), S.K. Thorat, former professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Paul Attewell at the City University of New York, conducted an exper-iment by sending three applications each in response to newspaper advertisements for jobs. The applica-tions were sent in the name of an upper-caste Hindu, Dalit and Muslim applicant. The authors found that the chances of a Dalit or Muslim being called for a job interview were significantly lower in comparison with an upper-caste Hindu.

“President Rule is imposed only in a special case. Congress Party had imposed PR more than 100 times on flimsy grounds, including Arunachal Pradesh in the past,” - Amidst the ongoing row over President’s Rule in

Arunachal Pradesh, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has alleged that...

Ranbir Kapoor-Katrina Kaif split: What was Salman Khan’s advice to the actress?

Agency | Mumbai

National award-winning filmmaker Bhavna Talwar is directing her first inter-national project, a feature adaptation of children’s classic “Heidi”, starring veteran British actor Bill Nighy in the lead role. Ti-tled “Heidi- Queen of the mountains”, the film is be-ing produced by producers Sheetal Talwar and Simon Wright. Talwar, who won numerous accolades for her debut film “Dharm”, said she immediately agreed to direct the fea-ture after Wright gave her the script. “Simon Wright, producer, had approached me with the film and I

thought it was a great opportunity and agreed to do the film. I had read the Heidi series much earlier and with the film am keen on presenting a contemporary interpreta-tion of the story,” Talwar said in a statement. The first movie adaptation of the Heidi trilogy is written by writer-producer Paul Watson. It has been filmed on location in the UK and with interior work sched-ule to be shot in India. Nighy is a Golden Globe and BAFTA winning actor and is best known for his roles in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”, “Love Actually”.

Bhavna Talwar’s next on children’s classic ‘Heidi’

Agency | Mumbai

Ranbir Kapoor and Ka-trina Kaif’s split was long time coming and despite regular rumours of break-up, the couple made sure they stuck around for each other. Not anymore. They have finally parted ways and it’s been any-thing but an amicable split. What was the major reason behind the split? Sources close to the two claim that it was Ranbir’s behaviour which angered and upseted Katrina. His non-committal attitude was Kat’s major concern. But what put the final nail in the coffin was his

Agency | Mumbai

Oscar-winning sound de-signer Resul Pookutty has received two nominations for “Unfreedom” and “In-dia’s Daughter”, both the films which are banned in India, at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards. Pookutty, 44, took to Twitter to share his excitement fpr be-ing nominated with the fans. “Two nominations at #MPSE is a rare feat!I thank my crew and my fraternity for allowing me to grow and standing as the greatest support system,” he tweeted. The sound mixer dedicated his nominations to the victim of the December 16 gangrape. “I dedi-

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Arjun Kapoor says he flirts a lot with people in real life which is in his nature. The 2 States star will make his TV debut as the host of the new season of Kha-tron Ke Khiladi. When asked if he found love on the show, Arjun told reporters, “I fell in love with a lot of people (on the show) but I won’t go into details... That’s just for fun. I have done some amazing things on the show but that’s for fun. When you have a beautiful girl as ‘Paro’ in front you, of course you will flirt,” he said.

I have flirted with some people on ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’, says Arjun Kapoor

Don’s Plum: The Leonardo DiCaprio film that he doesn’t want you to see

Shruti Haasan turns 30, to celebrate with family and friends in Chennai Salman Khan files caveat petition in

Supreme Court in hit-and-run case

Banned in India, Unfreedom and India’s Daughter earns nominations at Golden Reel Awards

Agency | Los Angeles

The experimental 1995 in-die film Don’s Plum, star-ring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, was pulled from video-sharing website Vimeo after its lead stars sent a third-par-ty notification demand-ing the film’s release be blocked. The film was re-leased online for free by its producer Dale Wheat-ley. The lead stars, Leon-ardo DiCaprio And Tobey Maguire, reportedly hated the finished version of di-rector R D Robb’s film, which was subsequently pulled from release thanks to legal action on behalf of its actors, reported Enter-tainment Weekly. “Vimeo

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Shruti Haasan, who turned 30 today, is all set to celebrate her birthday in style. Shruti will be hosting a birthday bash in the evening for which she has invited her closest friends and fami-ly members. Shruti, who is also popular in Bolly-wood and was last seen in hit movie ‘Welcome Back’, will host her par-ty in home town Chennai this time. “Shruti has had a great run at the mov-ies in 2015 both Bolly-wood and South and has a massive year ahead es-pecially after the launch of her production venture Isidro. To commemorate the success of last year and the enthusiasm for the year ahead, Shruti has decided to celebrate her birthday with close friends and family in Chennai on Jan 28. Her father Kamal Haasan and sister Akshara will be there along with a number of her close ones

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood actor Sal-man Khan filed a caveat petition in the Supreme Court today asking to be heard when the Maha-rashtra government’s ap-peal against his acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case comes up for hear-ing. The case dates back to September 28, 2002 when the actor’s SUV hit five people sleeping on a pavement in Bandra, Mumbai leading to the death of one person. Four others were injured in the incident. In May last year, a trial court had found the actor guilty handing him a five-year sentence, but the Bombay High Court overturned the trial court order in December letting the actor walk free. The High Court additionally noted that the probe was conducted in a faulty and careless manner. Last Friday, the Maharashtra

philandering ways. He had cheated on Deepika Padukone previously and we hear, he did the same with Katrina. A dejected Katrina ran to find so-lace in Salman Khan who gave her a friendly ad-vice. While shooting on the sets of Bigg Boss 9 for the grand finale, Katrina

and Salman engaged in a long conversation over the matter. While Katrina is trying too hard to main-tain a smiling face during the Fitoor promotions, the actress is suffering a lot inside. She is definite-ly in a lot of pain, post the break up. And Salman’s advice to her is clear.

has removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire claiming that this material is in-fringing: Don’s Plum,” a note on Vimeo’s website reads. “Although the film

remains banned in the US and Canada,” Wheatley wrote in a statement on the film’s site, “as a writer and producer I am making the film available under my copyright for the sole purpose of promoting my work as an independent filmmaker.”

“I don’t deny that I flirt with people. So that was natural. Let the rumours spread now, who can stop,” he added. The ac-tor was speaking at the press conference of the upcoming reality show. Continuing the legacy of Akshay Kumar, Pri-yanka Chopra and Rohit Shetty, the 30-year-old

“Gunday” star will make his small screen debut with the seventh season of the stunt/ daredevil reality game show, based on America’s Fear Fac-tor. Arjun said he wasn’t apprehensive to come on television as he believes it is an “amazing” medi-um which should not be underestimated.

cate my nominations at the 63rd Golden Reel Award to the soul of... Nirbhaya case, truly the #India’sDaughter.” Flor-ida-based director Raj Amit Kumar’s debut film “Unfreedom”, starring Adil Hussain and Victor Banerjee in key roles, is a contemporary thriller that chronicles a lesbian love story set in New York and New Delhi. Leslee Ud-win’s controversial BBC

documentary “India’s Daughter” features an interview of one of four men sentenced to death in the case. “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Martian”, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “The Rev-enant” earned three men-tions apiece, the most in the feature-film catego-ries. The ceremony will be held February 27 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.

who’re flying in from dif-ferent parts of the country to be part of her special day,” said a source close to the actress. Shruti Haasan to play Kamal’s daughter in new Tamil film Shruti Haasan thanked her fans for the love. Shruti is the

daughter of Tamil super-star Kamal Haasan and veteran actress Sarika. Shruti Haasan will be seen in ‘Rocky Handsome’ opposite John Abraham later this year. Lovely to be working with Suriya again: Shruti Haasan.

government challenged the acquittal of the actor in the top court through a petition which disput-ed the earlier High Court finding. The appeal said evidence of complainant Ravindra Patil, who was with Salman in the Toyota Land Cruiser, was legally tenable and its rejection

was wrong. Patil was the actor’s bodyguard who had said Salman was driving drunk and had ig-nored his warnings. Patil died of tuberculosis in 2007 and when the High Court examined his tes-timonies, it held the evi-dence was not admissible under law.

Last week, the Maharashtra government had challenged

the acquittal of Salman Khan in the hit-and-run case

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SPORTS ROUNDUPBlackberry Priv runs Android and costs Rs 62,990

Discord swoons gamers with speed and security

Ford to launch its iconic sedan ‘Mustang’ in India in 2nd quarter of 2016

Agency | New Delhi

Blackberry’s first smartphone that runs Android — Blackberry Priv — has been launched for Rs 62,990. It will be available in leading Blackberry stores and Amazon from January 30. After they’re OS 10 sank while Android and iOS soared, Black-berry has finally has put an Android in one of its devices to keep up with the competition. The ver-sion of Android on Priv borrows heavily from the Blackberry OS 10. The Blackberry Hub — noti-fication inbox that aggregates all alerts — will be available on the Blackberry Priv. It also comes with a QHD screen and a slide-out physical key-board like the Blackberry Torch. If you have resist-ed the switch to Android or iOS from your trusty Blackberry for the lack of a physical keyboard or security features, you this phone should be in your

wishlist.

Agency | New Delhi

Well appreciated for its speed, security, and stand-alone nature, Discord (messaging app) was the un-likely product of a mobile game that never quite took off. Spun off from a mobile game, Discord has already seen swift adoption among online streamers and gaming community members. It’s even attract-ing interest from series investors. Having already built and sold another hot gaming program, the iOS Game Center precursor OpenFeint, tech entrepre-neur Jason Citron and business partner Eros Re-smini made plans to bring the success of Dota 2 and League of Legends to mobile. Fates Forever was a variation on the popular MOBA formula, designed exclusively for the iPad form factor, and launching in 2014. Despite having done decently enough at re-view, Fates Forever was not long of this world, but its development had turned its studio team on to an unmet need for a different sort of online chat app. They soon set about developing Discord, which of-fers both voice and text chat for free, via dedicated

mobile app, desktop program, or web client.

Agency | New Delhi

US car major Ford plans to launch its iconic se-dan ‘Mustang’ in India in the second quarter of this year. The company, which is present in In-dia via a wholly-owned subsidiary, currently sells models like EcoSport and Endeavour in the coun-try. “First time in 50 years we have right handed Mustang. We will launch this iconic model in In-dia in second quarter of 2016,” Ford India Man-aging Director and President Nigel Harris told reporters here. The coming of Mustang to India is like icing on the cake considering the company’s current product range in the country, he added. “The new Mustang is a modern interpretation of the American icon and we are thrilled to be giving our customers in India the opportunity to experi-ence this piece of automotive history for the first time,” Harris said. The company, however, did not share price details. Since the Mustang went on sale in 1964, Ford has sold more than 90 lakh units. The sedan will be launched here with a 5 litre V8 engine helping the car to a top speed of 250 km/hr.

Australian Open: Kerber ends Konta dream run to set final vs Serena

Hardik Pandya reprimanded for breaching ICC Code of Conduct

Ind vs Aus: India has found perfect team balance, says David Warner

Discarded Pakistani batsman Imran Farhat retires from international cricket

Malinga, Mathews likely to miss T20 series in India

U-19 World Cup: Underdogs Afghanistan start precariously against Pakistan

Agency | Melbourne

Seventh seed Angelique Kerber tamed British hope Johanna Konta to reach the Australian Open final on Thursday, where she will face dominant world number one Serena Wil-liams. The 28-year-old, buoyed by a new-found self-belief inspired by fel-low German Steffi Graf, proved too hot to handle for Konta as she won 7-5, 6-2 on Rod Laver Arena. The win puts the left-hander into her first ever Grand Slam final on her 33rd attempt, marking the first time a German has got so far at Melbourne Park since 1996. That year, Anke Huber made the final where she lost to Monica Seles. Graf is the last German champion in Melbourne, winning the

Agency | Melbourne

Only a few hours later he would be accorded with the prestigious Allan Bor-der Medal completing a dramatic turnaround that has seen him transform from the ‘problem child’ of Australian cricket to its ultimate match-win-ner. It’s been a period of his career where he’s dis-played an unimaginable appetite for runs, the kind you don’t expect from as explosive a batsman as the left-hander. But as he met the media at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport on Wednesday, the diminutive opener seemed more concerned about his hunger of an-other kind. While the rest of Australia’s cricketing

Agency | Karachi

Pakistan’s discarded Test opening batsman Imran Farhat announced his retirement from inter-national cricket in a bid to appear in the Mas-ters Champions League (MCL), which commenc-es in Dubai from tomor-row. Farhat, 33, made the decision after meet-ing the officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday and got a No-Objection Certificate to participate in the MCL. The left-handed batsman, who last played for the national team in 2013, joins a long list of Paki-stani cricketers who have been forced by the the PCB to announce their in-

Agency | Colombo

Sri Lanka T20 skipper Lasith Malinga and An-gelo Mathews, who are recovering from their re-spective injuries, are un-likely to feature in next month’s three-match se-ries against India. Ma-linga, who was ruled out of New Zealand tour with a knee inju-

ry, will require another fortnight to regain full fitness, while Test and ODI captain Mathews has been nursing a groin strain that largely pre-vented him from bowl-ing in New Zealand. In addition, veteran spinner Rangana Herath and fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep were recovering from their respective injuries

sustained during the Pre-mier T20 tournament. Meanwhile, Dinesh Chandimal is expected to continue as captain after leading Sri Lanka in the two T20s against New Zealand. Sri Lanka will kickstart their Indian tour from February 9 to 14 before the start of the Asia Cup, which com-mences on February 24.

Agency | New Delhi

Promising Indian crick-eter Hardik Pandya was on Thursday reprimand-ed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for celebrating aggressive-ly after taking a wicket during the opening T20I against Australia in Ade-laide. Incidentally, it was Pandya’s maiden Interna-tional match as well. The incident took place in the 16th over, when Pandya grabbed his maiden in-ternational wicket in the form of Chris Lynn and celebrated excessively in close proximity to the dismissed right-handed, which could have pro-voked an aggressive re-action. However, after the game in which India crushed the visitors by 37 runs, Pandya admitted the offense and accepted the

Agency | Sylhet

Afghanistan were placed at a precarious 90/3 off 25 overs in their game against Pakistan in the U-19 World Cup, at Syl-het International Crick-et Stadium. Left-hand-ed Tariq Stanikzai was unbeaten on 42 while keeper Ikram Faizi had made 17. While Afghan-istan may be considered minnows, they sprang surprises in the 2014 tournament by beating Australia and Sri Lanka, and losing to West Indies by only nine runs. Four players from that side are still part of the team, in-cluding Ihsanullah Janat, the captain. According

last of her four Australian titles in 1994. But Kerber now has a momentous task ahead against a play-er in awesome form, after defending champion Wil-liams swept past fourth seed Agnieszka Rad-wanska 6-0, 6-4 in the other semi-final. The Ger-man, who is guaranteed to return to the world top five, beat two-time cham-pion Victoria Azarenka in the last eight and the task facing Konta, ranked

47, was always a big ask. The Briton, who has ris-en 100 rankings places in the past year, was on her tournament main draw debut having failed to come through qualifying last season. But her de-feat of eighth seed Venus Williams in the opening round gave her a huge boost, and against the odds she kept her run go-ing to become Britain’s first female Grand Slam semi-finalist since 1983.

to Wisden, Afghanistan prepared for this tourna-ment with a tri-series in Kolkata, against India and Bangladesh, in which they lost all four matches. However, they then beat Zimbabwe 4-0 in Noida, which the team has used virtually as its adopted home stadium. In their two warm-ups games in Bangladesh thereafter,

Afghanistan eased past Ireland by 126 runs, but then lost by a narrow 13-run margin to New Zea-land. Ihsanullah scored a fine 125-ball 133 in the game against Ireland, and in the match before that against Zimbabwe in In-dia, he had a half-century. Zahir Khan, a chinaman bowler, took 5/30 against New Zealand.

fraternity was excitedly awaiting the results of the awards ceremony, War-ner was looking forward to the dinner menu, on which he was hoping to locate some chicken. He then ruled himself out of the race, tipping Test and ODI captain Steve Smith to win instead. He was to be very wrong. But the

attention soon turned to-wards the T20 series, and the Australian batsmen’s biggest nemeses, spinners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, not to forget their impact on the opening game which went the vis-itors’ way. And Warner insisted that his team will have to tread carefully against the duo.

ternational retirements in order to get the lucrative contracts in the Masters League. According to the PCB’s policy, the players, who sign contracts for the MCL, were told to first sign a letter to official-ly end their international careers with the decision being irrevocable. Farhat played 40 Tests, 58 ODIs and seven T20Is for Paki-stan. His last international

outing was in June 2013. The PCB, however, clari-fied that the players who go for the MCL can con-tinue to play in domestic cricket. Despite having the experience of playing 181 first-class matches and scoring 12,669 runs, Farhat was left out in the drafts for the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL), which is set to be held in February.

sanction proposed by Jeff Crowe of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees. The charge was leveled by on-field umpires Si-mon Fry and John Ward, third umpire Paul Wilson and fourth official Gerard Abood. Pandya was found to have breached Article 2.1.7 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “Using

language, actions or ges-tures which disparage or which could provoke an aggressive reaction from a batsman upon his/her dis-missal during an Interna-tional Match”, as per the ICC release. For all first offenses, Level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an official reprimand and a maximum penalty of 50 per cent of a player’s match fee.

In addition, veteran spinner Rangana Herath and fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep were recovering from their respective injuries sustained during the Premier T20 tournament.

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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Addressing a massive anti-liquor rally of OBC Thakor community, their leader Alpesh Thakor said in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, their community will decide who would be the Chief Minister. The rally — Vyasan Mukti Mahakum-bh — was organised at the GMDC Ground here under the aegis of Ksha-triya-Thakor Sena, led by Thakor. It was attended by around 2 lakh people, This was the same venue from where the Patidar

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Amid serious allegations of poor implementation of the Agriculture Lands Ceiling Act (ALC Act) in Gujarat, the Revenue Department has appoint-ed three nodal officers of deputy secretary rank to ascertain the actual sce-nario of the allocation of surplus land to landless farmers in state under the law. It is noteworthy that the Gujarat government passed a bill in the As-

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

A meeting between Min-ister of Road and Build-ing, Government of Gu-jarat Shri Nitin Patel and union minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari which was also participated by Minister of State and Ra-jkot MP from Gujarat Shri Mohan Kundariya and several government officials was held in New Delhi today. – Bhavnagar – Somnath – Dwarka road development was grant-ed permission in the past. Central government has decided to issue tender and start the works. Some land acquisition and forest department permissions are pending. The state government and central government will employ their efforts jointly in this regard. Notification for

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OBCs to decide next CM: Alpesh Thakor Allocation of Surplus land to landless: Govt forms fact-finding panel

Correspondent | New Delhi

Gujarat based Ram kath-akar Morari Bapu’s ‘Manas Rajghat’ Ram katha will be held at Raj Ghat in Delhi during 30 January to 7 February. Raj Ghat is samadhi sthal where father of the na-tion, Mahatma Gandhi was cremated. This par-ticular Katha is organized by RajGhat Samiti(a cen-tral government organiza-tion under Urban Devel-opment ministry). First day katha session will be between 2.30 – 6.00 pm, on next day onward daily session will be between 9.30 am and 2.00 pm. For Ramkatha entry will be

allowed from the public gate on the ring road only. Free Prasad (lunch) will be served every day af-ter the Ramkatha is over. Showing photo identity card issued by the gov-ernment has been made mandatory for entry to Katha venue. Shri Morari Bapu has earlier recited katha at Mahatma Gand-hi’s birth place Porban-dar and Gandhi’s karma bhoomi Sabarmati Gand-hi Ashram in Ahmedabad also. Shri Morari Bapu’s next two katha after Delhi are scheduled at Kamija-la during 13-21 February and at Junagadh during 37 February – 6 March.

Correspondent | New Delhi

Gauri Khan, entrepre-neur and wife of Bol-lywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, debuted at the trade show Mai-son&Objet in Paris with a presentation of her col-lection of furniture titled “Turned wood on brass” in collaboration with French designers Regis Mathieu and Jean Fran-coise L’Sarge. Gauri’s collection was comple-mented by chandeliers made of crystal produced by Regis Mathieu and a range of hand embroi-dered cushions by Jean Francoise LÂ’Sarge. The show was held between January 22-26 , 2016. Her collection was displayed on all the five days of the show. “Maison&Objet is a leading platform for the best in global design and creativity. I am honoured to have been invited to

Gujarat’s controversial anti-terror bill withdrawn by Home Ministry

Beti toll plaza to close, GoI approves Rs 800 crore fund, major highway works in Gujarat

Gujarat govt probes against IPS officer drag on for 17 yrs

Gauri Khan’s collection in Paris honours the Gujarati art of Sankhedu

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The controversial an-ti-terror bill passed by Gujarat State assembly has been has been with-drawn by Home Ministry after it was sent to Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee for approval. The law was passed in the Gujarat Assembly in March 2015 despite opposition. The Gujarat Control of Organ-ised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill, which was earlier returned by the President thrice to the state govern-ment for reconsideration, was passed by a major-ity vote amid stiff resis-tance from Opposition Congress, which walked out of the House over its controversial provisions. The contentious provi-sions of the bill included admissibility of evidence collected through tele-phonic interception and confession made before police officer as evidence in court. Section 14 of the Bill said, “Notwithstand-ing anything contained in the code or in any oth-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Central Adminis-trative Tribunal (CAT), Ahmedabad bench, Wednesday reserved its order on two petitions moved by IPS officer R S Yadav, challenging the delay in his promo-tion due to pendency of two inquiries against him which were initiated 17 years ago. Yadav was of Superintendent of Police (SP) rank then. Today, af-ter 17 years, he remains on the same post. Yadav, a controversial IPS offi-cer, moved two different petitions before the CAT in 2013 and 2014, stating that his promotion was delayed by the state gov-ernment due to two inqui-ries pending against him since 1998. He sought the tribunal’s intervention to direct the government to expedite the inquiry. The

er law which is in force, the evidence collected through the interception of wire, electronic or oral communication under the provisions of any other law shall be admissible as evidence against the ac-cused in the court during the trial of the case.” Ac-cording to Section 16 of the Bill, accused’s state-ment before a police of-ficer, not below the rank of Superintendent of po-lice, will be treated as an evidence. While, Section 20 (2) (b) said stipulated time to complete probe and file the chargesheet can be exceeded to 180 days (six months) from

the current stipulated time of 90 days. Another controversial provision under the bill is section 20 (4), which reads “no accused person in this act shall be released on bail or on his own bond unless the public prosecutor has been given an opportu-nity to oppose the appli-cation, the special court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that accused is not guilty of such offence and that he is not likely to commit any offence while on bail.” The cases under the act can be tried only in a special courts set up for this purpose.

reservation stir leader Hardik Patel addressed a massive gathering on Au-gust 25 followed by wide-spread violence across the state. Thakor is a promi-nent leader who has been opposing the Patidar res-ervation stir. The rally on

Tuesday was considered to be “a show of strength” by Thakor. “We will de-cide the value of our votes. In 2017, we will decide the CM. I don’t want to talk political, but our ruler should be the one who un-derstands the pain of peo-

ple,” Thakor said in his nearly 40-minute speech that was otherwise devot-ed mainly to de-addic-tion. During the function, video messages of Chief Minister Anandiben Pa-tel and Gujarat Congress Chief Bharatsinh Solanki were also screened at the gathering. They wished Thakor in his endeavour for de-addiction among Thakor community. Tha-kor has been spearheading a movement in Gujarat to counter the agitation of the Patel community seek-ing reservation.

present my collection here and to collaborate with immensely talent-ed French designers like Jean Francoise and Regis Mathieu,” Gauri said in a statement. Her collection had two sources of inspi-ration. The first being the work of craftsmen from the eastern region of Gu-jarat who are proficient in the art of “Sankhedu” (Gujarati name for a turn-ing lathe). The traditional art has been practiced by 80 to 100 families in the area, who have been hand painting furniture made of turned wood since 1855.

The collection also draws inspiration from the work of Indian designer Avni Sejpal of Studio Avni who uses materials like cork and rubber to make unique light fittings. Each piece of furniture in the collection comes with its own narrative and history. “India has a very rich her-itage in craft and France has a legacy as a design hub. The collaboration of cultures and traditions has been exciting. I would like to do more to bring traditional Indian craft to the fore internationally,” the 45-year-old said.

sembly seeking to amend the ALC Act. The legisla-tion was originally meant for bringing in equality by giving surplus land to the landless, but the pro-posed amendments to the Act have opened the sur-plus land to the industry also. The amendment bill has been sent to the Pres-ident for his approval. As per the order, the Revenue Department has distribut-ed all the districts in three zones and for each zone a deputy secretary rank offi-cer has been appointed as a nodal officer who will as-certain the actual scenario of the implementation of the ALC Act in Gujarat. In the first zone, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Banas-kantha, Patan, Sabarkantha, Ara-

valli, Ahmedabad, Anand, Kheda and Mahisagar have been included. Dep-uty Secretary (Land Ac-quisition) of the Revenue department will be nodal officer for the zone. The second zone includes Bharuch, Narmada, Su-rat, Tapi, Chhota Udepur, Valsad, Vadodara, Navsa-ri, the Dangs, Dahod and the Panchmahals with Deputy Secretary (Urban Land Ceiling) as nodal officer. Deputy Secretary (Land Reforms) will be

a nodal officer for Amre-li, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Somnath, Botad, Mor-bi, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Kutch districts. In his petition, Mevani has pro-duced voluminous gov-ernment records while alleging that thousands of acres, declared surplus under the ALC Act, have not been given to landless farmers of the Schedule Caste and the Schedule Tribe communities.

Correspondent | Bhavnagar

On a petty issue like auto rickshaw parking, four youths with swords and baseball bats in their hands attacked a boy and created panic in the market here. Accused Sahid Gaffar and Shoaib along with their oth-

Watch youths attacking boy with sword & baseball bat

er two friends attacked Hitesh Rathor on the is-sue of parking. The vic-tim is badly injured and admitted to the hospital by the locals. The entire incident is captured in the CCTV camera of the locality and police has launched a search opera-tion to nap the criminals.

state government, how-ever, sought time, initial-ly for six months. After the tribunal granted one-and-a-half month exten-sion twice, the govern-ment once again sought extension of time. The inquiries against Yadav are based on two differ-ent cases which were registered against him when he was SP, Gandhi-nagar. One of the case is related to a dacoity worth Rs 1.5 crore in which two people were killed. He is currently posted as commandant, State Re-serve Police, in Vadodara. It has been alleged that

during the investigation, he lodged an FIR against Gandhinagar range IG, Geetha Johri, who is now of DGP rank, for alleged-ly torturing an accused to confess his involvement in dacoity. The state gov-ernment chargesheeted Yadav for lodging the FIR without any basis. The state government filed an-other chargesheet against Yadav, alleging failure in supervising a SC/ST case. It was alleged that by as-signing the investigation to a police sub-inspector, instead of a DSP rank of-ficer, Yadav failed to su-pervise the case.

toll tax collection at Beti toll booth near Rajkot was issued in year 2012 and toll booth collection had started recently. We made representation that Beti toll booth is within 13 km distance of anoth-er toll booth located on same road at Bamanbor. The central government has in response denoti-fied the road and handed it over to Gujarat govern-ment.A decision has been taken that toll collection process at Beti toll booth will be closed and merged with toll collection at Bamanmor toll plaza and it will be reduced as much

as possible. Ahmedabad – Gandhinagar – Naro-da national highway was expanded to 10 meter width in the past, but traffic issue continued to exist due to IAF, BSF, Army, education insti-tutes there. We were de-manding to convert this road to four lane. Today Shri Nitin Gadkari has given approval for this task. It will make journey between Himmatnagar and Naroda smoother and safer. Construction works for world’s tallest statue featuring Sardar Vallabh-bhai Patel are going on in full speed.

Morari Bapu’s Ram Katha at Raj Ghat in Delhi from 30th January