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News BriefGold weakens on Asian cues, low

demandAgency | New Delhi

Snapping its two-day rising run, gold prices drifted by Rs 85 to Rs 25,605 per ten grammes at the bullion market today on weak global trend amid slackened demand from jewel-lers at prevailing lev-els. Silver also dipped below the Rs 34,000-mark by falling Rs 320 to Rs 33,980 per kg on reduced offtake by in-dustrial units and coin makers. Bullion traders said besides weak Asian cues, fall in demand from jewellers mainly pulled down gold and silver prices.Neil Nitin Mukesh

to release single next year

Rupee moves up 11 paise against

dollar

Agency | Mumbai

Taking forward the leg-acy of his grandfather singer Mukesh, actor Neil Nitin Mukesh will be venturing into mu-sic and says he plans to release a single next year. The “John-ny Gaddar” star has recorded nine songs, which he plans to use in his films. “Yes I have plans. Hopeful-ly by mid of next year I’ll release my single. I have recorded almost nine songs already.

Agency | Mumbai

The rupee continued to rule higher against the American currency for the eighth straight ses-sion as it rose 11 paise to 66.10 in early trade at the Inter-bank For-eign Exchange today on increased selling of the US currency by exporters and banks. Forex dealers said that besides sustained selling of the Ameri-can unit by exporters, the dollar’s weakness against some curren-cies overseas and a higher opening of the domestic equity market supported the rupee.

With annual income more than Rs 10 lakh will“No more LPG subsidy”

No subsidised LPG for consumers

Agency | New Delhi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hit back at the BJP on Monday over the party’s demand that he apologise after the state government-ap-pointed three-member probe panel did not name Arun Jaitley in its 237-page report on the al-leged irregularities in the Delhi and District Crick-et Association. “BJP al-most begging me for an apology. Sorry. I won’t oblige them. Let Jaitley ji be cross-examined in defamation cases. Let truth prevail,” Kerjiwal said on Twitter. Kejriwal clarified that the govern-ment probe did not give a

Agency | New Delhi

The BJP said on Mon-day that a hidden “truth” was now out in the open as the Congress party tried to shrug off em-barrassment following the publication of arti-cles critical of its presi-dent Sonia Gandhi and former PM Jawaharlal Nehru in its Maharash-tra mouthpiece. Rub-bing salt in the wound of former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam, who is the editor of the journal, Union minister Prakash Javadekar “congratulat-ed” him. Javadekar said the Congress leader was known for such write-ups when he was the ed-itor of the Hindi edition of Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Dopahar Ka Saamana’. Nirupam, who was in

Agency | New Delhi

Tax payers with annual income of more than Rs 10 lakh will not get subsi-dised cooking gas (LPG) from next month as the government on Monday decided to limit the sup-ply of under-priced fuel to cut subsidies. At present, all households are enti-tled to get 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg each at subsidised rate of Rs 419.26, while the market price is Rs 608. The government had asked well-off people to voluntarily give up using subsidised LPG and in-stead buy cooking fuel at

Agency | Gurgaon

A girl was allegedly ab-ducted from the gate of her college in Gurgaon on Monday morning and freed after a few hours as police jumped into action, with the incident again putting the spot-light on women’s safety in the Delhi-NCR region. “The girl is now safely at her home.,” Gurgaon commissioner of police Navdeep Singh Virk said. News agency ANI report-ed that three accused in the case were detained in the evening. Soon after the kidnapping, dramatic CCTV footage emerged of the car allegedly used by the abductors speed-ing away from Dronacha-rya Government College

Agency | Chandigarh

At least six persons feared dead, while over a dozen sustained grievous inju-ries in a building collapse that took place in Trans-port Area of Chandigarh on Monday morning. According to prelimi-nary reports, a group of labourers were digging a basement in a vacant plot in Transport Area when a concrete structure locat-ed adjacent to the vacant plot collapsed. A tavern (ahaata) and a liquor vend were functional from the building that collapsed completely. Workers, who were digging the base-

No clean chit to Arun Jaitley, I won’t apologise: Kejriwal on DDCA row

Girl abducted outside Gurgaon college freed, captors identified

‘Truth is out in the open’: BJP targets Congress over journal gaffe

clean chit to anyone, but the report merely con-firmed several wrong-doings in the DDCA without taking names. He wrote on Twitter that the panel recommended an inquiry commission to take up the investiga-tion and name the ones responsible for the al-leged corrupt practices within the DDCA. The

Delhi government too re-sponded saying that the BJP is falsely trying to project the inquiry report as a clean chit to Jait-ley. Speaking to report-ers today deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said, “Our panel has not named anyone in this report. Does that mean that corruption hap-pened during the period

as a couple of youngsters chased the vehicle. “The culprits and the victim girl knew each other...At this stage, it would be wrong to reveal more de-tails,” Virk said. The girl is a second-year student of the college. Accord-ing to witnesses, a white Maruti Swift suddenly stopped near her when she was entering the col-lege to write an examina-tion. A man in the rear

seat reportedly dragged her into the car. “She was walking towards the main gate…the car stopped and I saw a hand coming out of the car…he pulled her inside. We rushed towards the car but they fled from the spot,” said Rahul Yadav, a student and an eyewit-ness. The car’s number plate was covered with mud to avoid identifica-tion, police said.

but ghosts did it? “Why there is so much rush to absolve Jaitley? Why so much pressure? Probe by the Commission of Inqui-ry has begun yesterday only. Gopal Subramani-am whom we appointed as its chief had given the letter of acceptance yes-terday,” Referring to cer-tain allegations against DDCA, Sisodia said, “Wasn’t Jaitley the head of DDCA during 1999-2013 when these irregu-larities happened? When laptops were hired at Rs 16,000 per day when cost of renovation of the the Feroz Shah Kotla sta-dium escalated to Rs 144 crore from Rs 24 crore.

the Sena before he joined the Congress, is also the president of Mumbai Re-gional Congress Com-mittee, which publishes the magazine ‘Congress Darshan’. Though ini-tially Nirupam sought to wash his hands off the controversy by claiming he had nothing to do with the articles, he later ad-mitted the “mistake” and sacked the content edi-tor. Articles published in the Hindi edition of this month’s ‘Congress Dar-shan’ said Sonia Gand-hi’s father was a member of the fascist forces in It-aly and that she became the Congress president just 62 days after be-coming a party member in 1997. Another arti-cle suggested that Neh-

ru should have listened to freedom fighter and former home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa-tel’s views on interna-tional affairs. Both these articles did not bear the name of the writer. “The Congress journal which is named Congress Dar-shan should be called ‘Satyarth Darshan’ (sight of truth). It is significant that it has come on the 131st foundation day of

the party. Sardar Patel had maximum support in the Congress to become the prime minister but Gandhiji proposed Neh-ru. “Patel merged 562 provinces into India and Nehru was in charge of only Kashmir and it re-mains a problem. Patel had warned about Chi-na’s betrayal on Tibet... This is not BJP or Ja-vadekar saying so but the mouthpiece of Congress.

At least 6 labourers die as liquor vend collapses in Chandigarh

ment, and people sitting in the tavern and the liquor vend got trapped under the debris. The Police Control Room received first in-formation about the acci-dent at about 11 am. The rescue teams reached the spot in about 30 minutes. In a four-hour long rescue operation, over a dozen persons were exhumed from the debris. While the

11 injured were rushed to PGIMER, out of whom six have succumbed to in-juries. Four injured were admitted in Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector 16, while two were admitted in Govern-ment Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32. A few others who sus-tained minor injuries were given first-aid.

Tax payers with an annual income of more than Rs 10 lakh will not get subsidised LPG anymore, the government announced on Monday

market price, Oil Ministry said in a statement. So far, over 57.5 lakh LPG con-sumers, out of nearly 15 crore customers, have giv-en up subsidies. “While many consumers have giv-en up subsidy voluntarily, it is felt that consumers in the higher income bracket

should get LPG cylinders at the market price,” the statement said. The gov-ernment, it said, “has de-cided that the benefit of the LPG subsidy will not be available for LPG con-sumers if the consumer or his/her spouse had taxable income of more than Rs

10 lakh during the previ-ous financial year comput-ed as per the Income Tax Act, 1961.” This would, however, be done initial-ly on “self-declaration basis while booking cyl-inders from January 2016 onwards.” To cut subsi-dy bill and reduce fiscal deficit, the previous UPA government had restrict-ed the number of subsi-

dized domestic cylinders per household to six every year in September 2012, revising it to nine the fol-lowing January. The cap was revised in January 2014 to 12 cylinders a year, starting April 1. The subsidy for 12 cylinders in a year is paid directly in the bank account of con-sumers which they use to buy LPG at market rate.

The subsidy payout on LPG in 2014-15 was Rs 40,551 crore, which this fiscal will be less than half as oil prices have slumped to six year low. During April-September, the sub-sidy outgo was Rs 8,814 crore. There are no esti-mates of how many LPG customers would have a taxable income of Rs 10 lakh or more. Presently,

there are 16.35 crore LPG consumers in the coun-try. This number fell to 14.78 crore after the start of Direct Benefit Transfer on LPG (DBTL) scheme which eliminated dupli-cate and inactive custom-ers. “The objective of the scheme was to ensure that the subsidy benefits go to the targeted group,” the statement said.

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DAYArun Jaitley is the Manmohan Singh of the BJP...?

In many ways, Arun Jaitley is the Manmohan Singh of the BJP. Like Singh, he was a successful and much-admired professional before he became a member of Parliament and Union minister. Like Singh, he has a calm demeanour, and friends across the political spectrum. Like Singh, he sees the Rajya Sabha as his natural parliamentary home — like him again, he was once persuaded to fight a Lok Sabha election and lost, confirming the aptness of his own preferred choice. Finally, like Singh, Jaitley has a reputation for honesty and probity. These compar-isons are strengthened by the recent controversies that Jaitley has found himself in. In the 10 years that he was prime minister, Manmohan Singh retained his individual reputation for integrity. No one could accuse him of having diverted a single paisa of pub-lic funds for personal use. However, all around him, nepotism and cronyism flourished. In 2011-12, as the corruption scandals gathered force, the PM came increasingly under the scanner, not because he was personally involved, but because he was head of a cabinet some of whose members were seen as hav-ing a hand in the till. It has been claimed that the UPA government of 2004-14 was the most corrupt in the history of independent India. And it is widely known in cricketing circles that, even when judged by the lamentably poor standards of our sporting bodies in general, the Delhi and District Cricket As-sociation has been deeply mired in cronyism, nepo-tism and corruption. It is among the worst managed cricket associations in India. No evidence has thus far emerged that, in his long tenure as DDCA pres-ident, Jaitley financially benefited from the various scams the association is now accused of. Yet all around him, men in the DDCA were on the make, on the take. If Singh could not escape culpability or re-sponsibility for the misdeeds of A. Raja, S. Kalmadi, et al, can Jaitley entirely escape culpability or respon-sibility for those charged with allowing these reported instances of malfeasance in the DDCA? If the buck for the misdeeds of Union ministers stops with the PM, surely the buck for the misdeeds of the DDCA’s officials stops with the DDCA president? The cam-paign against corruption in the DDCA has been led by the now-suspended BJP MP, Kirti Azad. The DDCA is a private body, not an arm of the government. The oversight or complicity he is charged with happened under his watch as DDCA president, not as finance minister. That said, as with Singh and 2G/ 3G/ CWG, Jaitley’s reputation will never be the same again.

“BJP almost begging me for an apology. Sorry. I won’t oblige them. Let Jaitley ji be cross-examined in defamation cases. Let truth prevail,” - Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal hit back at the BJP on Monday over the party’s demand that he apologise after the probe panel did not name Arun Jaitley in its 237-page report on the alleged irregularities in the DDCA.

Ajay Devgn to ink his wife Kajol’s name on his chest?

I’m disappointed: Gizele Thakral on her eviction from ‘Bigg Boss 9’

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Farhan Akhtar, who will be seen as investiga-tive officer in “Wazir”, says the movie is a heart-warming emotional dra-ma rather than the thriller people think it is going to be. “There is little bit of the thriller aspect in the film because there is an investigation in the mov-ie. But if you ask me, this movie is all about emo-tional drama,” Farhan said in an interview here. “The emotional thrust of this film is the most ef-fective thing and that is something which will re-

main with you. There is a love story and drama of two friends that is some-thing you’ll remember about this film once you watch it,” added the ac-tor, who stars in the mov-ie with veteran star Ami-tabh Bachchan. “Wazir”, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Bejoy Nambiar, also fea-tures Aditi Rao Hydari and Neil Nitin Mukesh. The film tells the story of two unusual friends — one a paralysed chess grandmaster and another a grief-stricken ATS of-ficer — brought together by a peculiar twist of fate.

‘Wazir’ an emotional drama, not thriller: Farhan Akhtar

Salman Khan: Decoding the mystery around his ever-rising brand value

Here are Sonam Kapoor’s New year resolutions!

Priyanka Chopra in Kalpana Chawla Biopic? Here’s What She Says

Agency | Mumbai

Kajol and Ajay surely have become more ador-able! Kajol just delivered a hit film, Dilwale, where she starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sa-non while Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay has become talk of the town! Being Ajay’s second directorial ven-ture, the film has become one of the most antici-pated films of 2016! The actor has already done quite a few action films like Singham, Singham Returns etc., and looks like even his film Shivaay would hold a lot of action scenes. Well, even amidst his busy schedule, the actor makes sure that he spends time with his fam-ily! While earlier there were reports that the actor inked his daughter, Nya-sa’s name on his chest, he also planned to tattoo his

Agency | New Delhi

Sonam Kapoor, who is fiercely independent, has managed her own financ-es since she was a teen-ager and is determined to better herself in 2016 “by being healthier, fit-ter and happier.” Despite this self-improvement mission, she doesn’t shy away from embracing her fun side: she dreams about filling her ward-robe space with a certain pair of Stella McCartney loafers. For someone who dreams about fashion, it’s hardly surprising that she tops many style sur-veys—including Vogue India’s first-ever ‘What Women Want’ survey in the January 2016 issue.

Agency | New Delhi

He is a fascinating case study in himself, a medi-ocre acting talent ruling the Hindi film business. Salman Khan gave him-self an average rating as an actor on a popular TV chat show, in all seriousness. He is very rooted and hum-ble about the lack of acting prowess otherwise. So, it’s not like Salman doesn’t know where he stands, but he also knows the business. And, he is getting better at the numbers game with age and experience. He is a classic superstar. His films are low on content but high on style. Plus a superb marketing strategy. He makes it count, every time. There was a phase when Shah Rukh Khan was seen as the master of marketing, then Aamir Khan replaced him for a brief period, and

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Priyanka Chopra chose to stay mum on speculations that she has been approached for a pro-posed biopic on Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-Amer-ican astronaut. “There are bunch of films that have been offered to me, I can’t commit which one I am doing. There are few real-ly amazing scripts. I have a lot of choices, but not much time,” Priyanka said when asked if she would be part of the Kalpana Chawla biopic. Kalpana first flew on space shut-tle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and pri-mary robotic arm operator. In 2003, she was one of the seven crew members who died in the space shuttle disaster. Priyanka has been part of biopic Mary Kom, and the film had got good response from everyone. “There are six films. I can do only two between India and America. I don’t know what I will end up doing. It’s difficult to decide,” she said. The 33-year-old ac-tress reveals that due to the success of American TV show Quantico, the series has extended and hence she can’t do many films. “The show Quantico got extended, so I am caught up with it. We have dubbed Quantico in 44 languag-es like Italian, Spanish, German, etc. We have got very good response for the show, so from 13 episodes to 22 episodes,” she said.

Agency | Mumbai

Former Kingfisher calen-dar girl and actress Gizele Thakral, who entered the ‘Bigg Boss Nau’ house as a wild card entry, was on Sunday night evicted from the show. Gizele, who will be next seen in adult comedies ‘Mas-tizaade’ and ‘Kya Kool Hain Hum 3’, joined the reality shows three weeks back along with another wild card entry Nora Fatehi. She was nominated along with Suyash Rai, Rochelle Rao, Priya Malik and Mandana Karimi. Other contestants still locked inside the house also in-

son Yug’s name but due to his schedule, he couldn’t make time to sit down for a session. And while that plan of Ajay is still in the development stage, wife Kajol wants him to do something equally special! According to a leading daily, it has been reported that the Dil-wale actress wants hubby

Ajay to ink her name on his chest too! It has been heard that Kajol told her husband that it is ‘unfair’ for him to only tattoo the names of their two chil-dren and has asked him to ink her name on his chest as well! Aww! Kajol sure is stuck in the romance air as she is being super cute with this demand.

clude Kishwar Merchant and Prince Narula. ‘Bigg Boss Nau’ is hosted by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. The ac-tress says she is very dis-appointed as her stint at ‘Bigg Boss Nau’ turned out to be a brief one. But she hopes to share screen

space with the show’s host and superstar Sal-man Khan, even if it’s just for a single scene. Gizele, who entered the ‘Bigg Boss’ house as a wild card entry three weeks back, was on Sunday night eliminated from the show.

Here’s what the actress said in her interview to the magazine about her goals for 2016... Sonam admits she lets her motor mouth get the better of her. “Sarcasm gets lost a lot of times… especially

with me. People tend to take me very literally,” she says. This year, the actor will attempt to prac-tise brevity in speech and “think things through and react with a little more patience.”

now it’s Salman’s turn to dictate the rules of the game. This year’s Forbes’ list of highest earning ac-tors in the world was quite a revelation for many. It acknowledged the grow-ing market share of Indi-an films and its leading actors. Forbes began its article with this line: Am-itabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar–never heard of them? They earned more than

Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Johnny Depp, all with-out being US household names. Here the keywords were ‘without being US household names’. It is in-deed the case with Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar, not so much with Amitabh Bachchan though. Salman and Akshay are part of an industry that has struck a balance with the outside advertising world.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPSpiceJet’s new year bonanza! Buy tickets at Rs 716

India deal unlikely to secure Toshiba’s lofty nuclear plans

Reliance Jio: Seven consumer services you need to know about

Agency | New Delhi

Low cost carrier SpiceJet on Monday announced the launch of its ‘Happy New Year Sale’. As a part of this sale, one-way base fares start at Rs 716 (ex-cluding taxes) for some very popular routes on the domestic network. The three-day sale launched to-day will be open till midnight, December 31, 2015. The travel period covered in this sale is from 15th Jan 2016 to 12th April 2016 and is valid only for travel on direct flights on SpiceJet’s domestic net-work. Tickets for this sale can be booked on all channels of Spicejet , SpiceJet mobile app, all trav-el portals, call centre & travel agents. Tickets under this offer are refundable (only taxes and fees) and changeable with a change fee and payment of fare difference. There is limited inventory under the of-fer and seats will be available on a first-come-first-

served basis.

Agency | Tokyo

Japan’s Toshiba Corp may need to curb its ambi-tions in nuclear power even as it looks set to win a deal in India, battling both competition from emerging market rivals and the impact of its own deteriorating finances, industry experts said. A se-nior Indian government official told Reuters ear-lier this month that the country expects to seal a contract with Toshiba’s U.S. nuclear unit Westing-house to build six nuclear reactors in the first half of next year. The deal, estimated to be worth as much as $2 billion per reactor, is a blessing for Toshiba as the laptop-to-nuclear conglomerate overhauls its loss-making consumer electronics division in the wake of a $1.3 billion book-keeping scandal. Yet industry experts say it is far from securing its goal of building 64 reactors over the next 15 years - an ambitious plan announced in November and even more bullish than its outlook before the 2011 Fukushima disaster that spurred a nuclear phase-

out among developed nations such as Germany.

Agency | New Delhi

Reliance Jio finally launched its next generation 4G services on Sunday, albeit only for its employees, after postponing the network services launch across the country for a while. Jio, which will be rolled out for consumers in March 2016, will use a technology called VoLTE or voice over LTE (long-term evolu-tion) that offers faster internet speeds and better voice quality on calls among other things. However, Jio will be launched along with an array of services and its brand of smartphones called ‘Lyf’ in an attempt to build an Apple-like ecosystem around its services. Jio Infocomm is in possession of 2300 Mhz spectrum across the country, 800 Mhz spectrum in 10 circles and 1800 MHz spectrum in six circles. The compa-ny has made a total investment of Rs. 34,000 crores. Jio’s network is currently present in 29 states of India and also covers 18,000 towns and cities across the nation. The company aims to cover 80% of India’s population by the year-end and plans to have com-plete national coverage within the next 3 years.

Martin Guptill smashes 30-ball 93 in New Zealand win

After bundling WI for 271, Australia swell lead to 459 in 2nd Test

Injured yuki Bhambri pulls out of Chennai Open

Chhangte Zuala’s record brace takes India past Nepal, enter SAFF semis

Vijay Hazare Trophy: It’s Gujarat vs Delhi in final!

Agency | Thiruvanantha-puram

Chhangte Lallianzuala became the youngest goal scorer for India as the hosts bounced back from a goal down to beat Ne-pal 4-1 in their final group match, advancing to the semifinal of the South Asian Football Federa-tion Cup here on Sunday. Apart from India, Sri Lan-ka is the other side from the Group A to qualify for the last-four stage. In-dia remained unbeaten in their group engagements, having beaten Sri Lanka 2-0 in the opening fixture. 18-year-old Lallianzuala’s (81st, 90th minute) twin strikes came in the final 10 minutes of the match after Rowlin Borges (26th min-

Agency | Christchurch

Martin Guptill flirted with a world record then had to settle for a New Zealand one as he demolished Sri Lanka’s bowling to guide his side to a comprehen-sive 10-wicket victory in the second one-day inter-national in Christchurch on Monday. Guptill, who had moved to 46 off 13 balls, had AB de Villiers’ record of 16 balls for a half-century in his sights before two yorkers from Nuwan Kulasekara end-ed the bid. He brought up his 50 off 17 balls, with five boundaries and four sixes, as New Zea-land chased down Sri Lanka’s 117 off just 8.2 overs. Guptill said he had no idea he was close to De Villiers’ record be-

Agency | Bengaluru

Eyeing their second title win in the tournament, a confident Delhi will take on a spirited Gujarat in the day-night ODI cricket final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the Chinnas-wamy Stadium, here on Monday. If Delhi, who won their only Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2012-13, have banked on their bowlers all this while then bowling all-round-er Axar Patel has given Gujarat the much-needed impetus in crunch times. For Delhi, Shikhar Dha-wan, who was unable to muster enough runs in the recently-conclud-ed South Africa tour and

also in this tournament, will be determined to make a statement before embarking on India’s tour to Australia, especially against the most success-ful bowler Axar, who has taken 19 wickets in the season. Captain Gautam Gambhir will be heart-ened by his bowling at-tack led by Ishant Shar-ma and Pawan Negi, but he knows that individ-ual brilliances apart his batsmen have been far from consistent. Unmukt Chand’s unbeaten 80 in the semi-final against Hi-machal Pradesh brought welcome cheers for the Delhi team before the summit clash. Dhawan,

Gambhir, Chand and Ishant will be the play-ers on whom Delhi will banking on to see off the Parthiv Patel-led Guja-rat. Gambhir’s side will go into the match with an advantage of having played their quarter-fi-nal and semis matches at this venue, unlike Guja-rat who played their pre-vious matches at Alur, better-known as a batting wicket. Gujarat may find it difficult to adjust to these conditions because of the two-paced movement of the track as some balls are keeping low and some others scooting off the deck, which makes batting that much difficult.

Agency | Melbourne

Australia amassed a for-midable 459-run lead over the West Indies and were heading for a series vic-tory with two days left in the second Test in Mel-bourne on Monday. After dismissing the outgunned tourists for 271 and a 280-run first innings lead, skipper Steve Smith did not enforce the follow-on, preferring to recharge his bowlers and bat a sec-ond time. By close on the third day, Smith had led the Australians to 179 for three with his virtuoso un-beaten knock of 70 off 70 balls with the under-used Mitchell Marsh, elevated to fifth in the order, chip-ping in with 18. The Aus-

tralians have been far su-perior and seemed intent on constructing a huge overall lead and bowling out the Caribbean visitors for a fourth time in the one-sided series. Australia crushed West Indies by an innings and 212 runs in the first Test in Hobart and have lost only 10 wickets for 1,313 runs in three in-complete innings. Smith had Sunday’s third Test in Sydney and the extra bowling workload in mind when he decided not to put the West Indies back in to bat. The Australians went about chasing quick runs and lost wickets along the way. Both openers were gone by the 11th over as the West Indies bowlers

enjoyed their best spells of the series. Skipper Jason Holder, sharing the new ball with Jerome Taylor, had first-innings centuri-on Joe Burns caught by Kraigg Brathwaite at sec-ond slip for four. Debutant Carlos Brathwaite fol-lowed up with the prized wicket of David Warner. Warner attempted to steer a lifter behind the wicket only to be well caught by Holder in the gully to miss out again with 17 follow-ing his 23 in the first dig. First-innings centurion Us-man Khawaja played some improvised shotmaking for his breezy 56 off 61 balls before he was caught be-hind attempting to paddle Holder behind the wicket.

Agency | Chennai

India’s top singles player Yuki Bhambri on Sunday withdrew from the Chen-nai Open as he is yet to recover from his elbow injury. Yuki had enjoyed a lot of success in the season 2015 as he broke into top-100, winning two Challenger level sin-gles titles. After winning the Pune Challenger, he was forced to withdraw from his last event of the 2015 season due to

the same injury. He had about six weeks to re-cover but could not and was advised more rest by his Delhi-based doc-tor. “I have been training and exercising all these weeks but I have not started hitting. My physi-cian has asked me to rest for one week so I had no option but to pull out of the Chennai Open. I have played in Chennai in all theses years and was to play main draw for first

time. I did not want to miss this but things are like this only,” Yuki said. Yuki, who is ranked 93, hopes to be in good shape before the Austra-lian Open, the first Grand Slam of the 2016 season. It was a good chance for Yuki to play in a quality field that has two-time and defending champion and world no. 4 Stanislas Wawrinka, world no. 12 Kevin Anderson and 19th ranked Benoit Paire.

ute) and skipper Sunil Ch-hetri (68′) found the target for India. However, India were in for a shock when Nepal took the lead as ear-ly as in the third minute of the match through Bi-mal Magar’s strike. Con-trary to the result, it was Nepal which started on a positive note as Magar handed his side the lead in the third minute. Ro-hit Chand’s ball forward saw Nawayug Shrestha

get beyond Augustin Fernandes. Shrestha’s shot comes off the far post and lands in front of Magar who slotted the rebound into an empty net to stun the Indians. In the 14th minute Magar had a another shot on target but a feeble one. In the first 16 minutes, Nepal were the dominant side on display as they had four shots on target against none by India.

fore umpire Richard Il-lingworth mentioned it. “Richard Illingworth said something like I was get-ting close with a couple of balls to go and then I got a couple of yorkers in there,” Guptill said in a televised interview. “I am pretty happy with the way things are going (but) I’ll take a 90 not out and the win rather than the fastest 50 and getting out.” Guptill ended 93 not out, from 30 balls, while

Tom Latham was on 17 as the hosts finished on 118 without loss to achieve victory before the sched-uled lunch break. It was the second successive heavy defeat for the vis-itors at Hagley Oval, af-ter they were bowled out for 188 in the first game on Saturday, with Gup-till and captain Brendon McCullum putting on a century stand in 10 overs to set up the seven-wicket victory.

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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Wind turbine maker, the Suzlon group today said its S97-HT DFIG 2.1-MW wind turbine has achieved a 35 percent plant load factor over the last 12 months since its launch in November 2014. The pro-totype was commissioned on June 9, 2014, at Nani Ber district of Kutch, Gu-jarat, the company said in a release. The wind turbine has received “encouraging response” from custom-ers across segments and reflects in the 350 MW of orders received. “By offer-ing a product that can opti-mise and harness wind re-sources at higher altitudes, Suzlon has proved that even low-wind sites can be made attractive. Con-sistently achieving and maintaining 35 percent PLF will help in reducing

the levelised cost of en-ergy,” said Suzlon Group Chairman Tulsi Tanti in the statement. The S97-HT DFIG is the world’s tallest all-steel hybrid tower -- with a height of 120 metres -- the design of which combines both lat-tice and tubular structures designed indigenously to harness the enhanced availability of wind re-sources at higher altitudes, making low wind sites vi-able. It increases energy output by 12-15 percent over other turbines of same capacity at a height of 90 metres. The combination of lattice and tubular gives enhanced tower strength at a lower cost. The three-di-mensional lattice struc-ture can support heavier weights due to the broad base and reduces the steel requirement, apart from being logistic-friendly.

Correspondent | New Delhi

Karan Adani, son of Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani, has been appointed as the CEO of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (AP-SEZ) with effect from 1 January 2016. He will take over the top job from outgoing CEO Sudip-ta Bhattacharya, who is moving to the US as the CEO for North America, APSEZ said in a regula-tory filing. The board has accepted the “resignation of Bhattacharya as the CEO of APSEZ with ef-fect from 31 December 2015”, it added. It also approved the “appoint-ment of Karan, executive director (non-board posi-tion) as CEO of the com-pany with effect from 1

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Congress president So-nia Gandhi planned to visit Zakia Jafri, wid-ow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the post-Godhra riots of 2002, but was prevented from doing so by party leaders, claims retired DGP R B Sree-kumar, in his book Gu-jarat: Behind the Curtain which was released last week. The chief of the Gujarat Intelligence Bu-reau in April-September 2002, Sreekumar accuses the Congress-led UPA as well of betraying the ex-pectations of riot victims regarding justice, even as he slams the BJP and Sangh Parivar for their role in the violence. His

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

MoS for Health Shan-kar Chaudhary, who was elected unopposed as chairperson of Ban-as Dairy on Sunday, an-nounced a reduction of Rs 40 per kg in the price of ghee produced by the co-operative. The reduction in price would be effec-tive from Monday. With Chaudhary’s election as chairperson of Banaskan-tha District Cooperative Milk Federation at Palan-pur, the 24-year rein of Parthi Bhatol, who did not contest this time, at the top of Asia’s largest dairy cooperative came to an end. Mavji Desai, chair-man of Deesa Agriculture Produce Market Commit-tee, was elected Chaud-hary’s deputy. After his election, Chaudhary wor-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) of Gujarat, since the ban on sale and distri-bution of gutka was im-plemented on September 11, 2012 till March 2015, has seized gutka worth Rs 50 lakh from over 50,000 firms for selling the banned product. As per the latest records available with the FDCA, as many as 50,499 firms have been inspected for gutka sale.

Out of this, only 31 were detected selling gutka against whom cases have been registered at various courts. Also, from these seizures gutka worth Rs 50.24 lakh has been collected by the FDCA. Further, fine of Rs 8,780 has been collected under Cigarettes and Other To-bacco Products Act, told Food and Drugs Control Administration Commis-sioner HG Koshia. On the effectiveness of this

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Chief Minister Gujarat government is now planning to extend the e-voting facility to panchayat polls, despite the lukewarm response it got in the recent mu-nicipal polls. At present, the e-voting facility is available only for voters of all the eight municipal corporations in the state. Voters of District, Talu-ka and Gram Panchayats are not given this facility yet. However, before tak-ing a decision, the state Panchayats Department has started an exercise to collect information from across India as well as from the other countries to find out the feasibility of this project. According to Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Jayanti Kavadia, informa-tion about Internet connec-tivity in rural parts of state is also being collected by his department. “Our de-partment is at present col-lecting information about

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat Chief Minister Mrs. Anandiben Patel today dedicated newly built Saurashtra Leuva Patel Samaj Bhavan at Devbhumi Dwarka and offered prayers at fa-mous Dwarkadhis tem-ple. While addressing at the occasion she gave details of upcoming de-velopment projects worth Rs. 19 crore to be under-taken for the facililities of pilgrims. She appealed the community leaders to give proper direction and guidance to the youth so that they can use their strength for growth and so we can archive new heights of development in the state. She suggested the youth to take maxi-mum benefits of Mukhya-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court today allowed a 16-year-old rape victim to abort her eight-week foetus under proper medical care, on a plea by her parents. Cit-ing provisions of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, High Court justice K J Thaker asked the local police to take her to Sola Civil Hospital here and submit the latest medical reports of the doctors by tomorrow before proceed-ing for the termination of her pregnancy. The court’s order came in response to a plea filed by the victim’s parents, who came to know about the alleged rape on their daughter when they took the girl for medical test at Sola Civil Hospital on December 12. In her FIR lodged with Sola Po-

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Post-ban, gutkas of 50,000 firms seized in three years

Shankar Chaudhary ends 24-yr rein of Bhatol, elected Banas Dairy chief

CM dedicates Saurashtra Leuva Patel Samaj Bhavan at Dwarka

Gautam Adani’s son Karan Adani takes over as CeO of Adani Ports

Congress didn’t let Sonia meet Zakia Jafri after riots: 2002 ‘whistleblower’

Gujarat HC allows abortion of rape victim’s 8-week foetus

Gujarat Government Planning To Launch e-Voting In Panchayat Polls

As per the latest records available with the FDCA, as many as 50,499 firms

have been inspected for gutka sale.ban in the state, Koshia confirmed, “As suggest-ed during the discussions, the department is plan-ning to target schools and colleges to organise awareness camps against consumption of gutka and other tobacco related products. It is very im-portant to focus on teen-agers and youth who are susceptible to tobacco consumption.” Post- ban on the production and sale of gutka in Gujarat since September 11,2012, entire 100 per cent of gutka consumers have switched over to some-thing similar-to-gutka by buying ingredients sep-

arately to combine with tobacco and consumed as gutka or a product similar to gutka. Also, 43 to 55 per cent consumers had initiated gutka below 20 years of age. This was revealed by the study un-dertaken to examine the impact of gutka ban in Gujarat by Johns Hop-kins Centre for Commu-nication Programmes and Centre for Communica-tion and Change-India, New Delhi with support from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Institute for Global Tobacco Con-trol and the World Health Organization.

shipped a Kankreji cow and garlanded the statue of Banas Dairy found-er Galbabhai Nanjibhai Chaudhary. Addressing a function on the occasion, he said henceforth the dairy would not charge for email facility from cattle breeders. Chaud-hary would take charge

from Monday, sources said. It was for the first time since 1991 that Bha-tol had the taste of defeat in the Banas Dairy elec-tions, which were con-cluded recently. He was the unchallenged leader of the cooperative sector in the district for almost a quarter century and also

made chairman of Gu-jarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Anand, which owns the famous Amul brand. He had reached the position by replacing the late Dr Verghese Kurien. Chaud-hary is already chairman of the Banaskantha Dis-trict Cooperative Bank Ltd and with election as chief of Banas Dairy, his grip on cooperatives poli-tics in the district became stronger. In this election, the panel led by Chaud-hary had won 10 out of 14 seats, while Bhatol’s pan-el managed only three. One seat was won by Dhanera Congress MLA Joitaram Patel.

book, the first by an IPS officer who was in ser-vice of the Gujarat gov-ernment during the 2002 riots, talks about the “il-legal” briefs given to him in the course of his five-month stint as ADGP, CID (intelligence), soon after the Godhra train carnage that sparked communal riots across Gujarat. While in service, Sreekumar had filed four affidavits before the Jus-

tice (retd) G T Nanavati and Justice (retd) Ak-shay Mehta Commission on the alleged collusion of government agencies with rioters. The Guja-rat government initiated a probe against him for maintaining an unofficial “secret diary” and giving out “classified informa-tion” before the panel, in which he got a stay from the Supreme Court in October.

January 2016,” the filing said. Karan, who looks after strategic devel-opment of Adani Ports across India, has been in-volved in managing var-ious port operations for the firm since 2009. “He aims to build the group’s identity around an inte-grated logistics business model, backed by his sound understanding of new processes, systems

and macroeconomic is-sues”, the filing said. He is an economics graduate from Purdue University, the US. Bhattacharya, in his new role, will be responsible for driving the significant emerging opportunities between India and the US, it said. Shares of APSEZ were up 0.81% to Rs.260.60 apiece in the afternoon trade at BSE.

lice here, the victim alleged that she was raped thrice by a youth during last three months time, which resulted in her pregnancy. Based on the complaint, the accused have been ar-rested by Sola Police and lodged in jail, stated the plea. As the medical tests confirmed that the girl is 8-week pregnant, her par-ents sought High Court’s permission to abort the child under the provision of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, which per-mits abortion under the su-pervision of single doctor panel if the pregnancy is of less than 12 weeks.

mantri Yuva Swavlamban Yojana, Start-up scheme and other financial assis-tance schemes to setup their own independent businesses. Mrs. Patel appealed the pilgrims to maintain cleanliness and beauty of tourist-pilgrim-age places. Furthermore, she stated that tourist des-tinations have become a

medium of employment for local communities. During the occasion, State Ministers Mr. Gov-indbhai Patel and Mr. Jayeshbhai Radadiya, MPs Mr. Vithhalbhai Ra-dadiya, Mrs. Punamben Madam, MLAs, dignitar-ies, donors, community leaders and people in large number were present.

whether such facility is in place in any other part of India or in the world, and how it is being handled there. Such information is crucial for us to find out the road map to imple-ment e-voting in Gujarat,” said Ms Kavadia. In the recently concluded local body polls across Gujarat, e-voting was introduced by Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC) for polling in six municipal corporations. However, it received a lukewarm re-sponse, as only 806 people preferred to vote online out of a total of 95.9 lakh voters in these six urban bodies. Gujarat SEC has

been the first in the coun-try to allow online voting facility for voters of mu-nicipal corporation areas of the state. This facility was first offered to vot-ers in the year 2010. The recently concluded local body polls were the sec-ond election where voters were given the facility to vote online without com-ing to the polling booth by registering themselves with the SEC on their website and follow proce-dures. The election body has also prepared itself if the Panchayat Depart-ment gives a go ahead for e-voting in future, said SEC Secretary MV Joshi.

Suzlon’s Gujarat wind mill achieves 35% plant load factor