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News Brief

Dial 139 for cancelling train

ticket

(1) Delhi Daredevils V/s

Kolkata Knight Riders (Delhi

4:00 PM)(2) Hyderabad V/s Bangalore (Hyderabad

8:00 PM)

Agency | Thane

A 31-year-old man from Mumbra in the district was today convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for three years by a local court for possessing and sell-ing MD powder, a party drug. District Judge N N Shrimangale found Firoz Shaukat Khan guilty un-der section 328 of IPC (causing hurt by means of poison) and also im-posed a fine of Rs 5000.

Agency | Mumbai

Adarsh Housing Society, a 31-storey upscale resi-dential complex in Cola-ba, Mumbai, should have originally housed war he-roes and war widows who lost their spouses during the 1999 Kargil War. But the occupants of the apartment complex built on defence land ended up being bureaucrats and relatives of politicians who were in no way con-nected with the Kargil war. Though the issue has been brewing since 2003, media scrutiny over the high-profile list of owners

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Ministry has agreed to return to 8.8 percent interest rate on EPF deposits. Trade unions on Friday went on a day-long nationwide protest against Finance Ministry’s decision to fix 8.7 percent interest rate for employees provident fund subscribers, lower than 8.8 percent decid-ed by the EPFO. Facing strong protest from the trade unions over reduc-tion in EPF interest rate, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said on Thurs-day that he will discuss the issue with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. “My ministry is exam-ining and shortly we are going to have a sitting

Agency | New Delhi

Congress leader Digvi-jaya Singh’s daughter Karnika Singh died due to cancer in New Delhi on Friday. 37-year-old Karnika is the youngest among the four daugh-ters of Singh. She was admitted in Max Hospi-tal, Saket, a few days ago and breathed her last at around 5 AM. She had undergone treatment for the disease in the US as well. Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi along with se-nior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad visited Singh at his residence locat-ed in 64 Lodhi Estate. Karnika’s body has been

Agency | Mumbai

The US dollar ended lower against the rupee at Rs 66.33/34 per dol-lar but the pound ster-ling finished higher at Rs 97.05/07 per pound at the close of the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market today.

Agency | New Delhi

Now railway passen-gers can cancel their confirmed train tickets by just dialling 139. The passenger has to dial 139 giving details of the confirmed ticket for cancelling it and the sender will get a one-time password (OTP). Passenger has to reach the Passenger Reser-vation System (PRS) counter and reveal the OTP to claim refund.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Rejecting Gujarat BJP’s announcement to give 10% reservation quota to economically backward candidates in general category, leader of oppo-sition Shri Shankersinh Vaghela today in a state-ment issued here said the ceiling of family income in EBC quota which has been kept Rs 6 lakh per year as per BJP announce-ment is not acceptable. It should be instead Rs 12 lakh income per fami-ly per year. Vaghela also said that 10% quota is not acceptable and it should be 20% instead.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The 10 per cent quota for Economically Backward Communities (EBC) an-nounced on Friday by the state government is a first for a prosperous state like Gujarat where the politi-cal verdict over the last two decades has been powered by the dominant agrarian community– the Patidars. That it is a po-litical gamble and smacks of tokenism by the BJP to woo the Patidars who have been agitating for

10% quota for EBCs in Gujarat

Man gets three-year RI for selling drug

US dollar ends lower against

rupee

Today MaTch IPL 2016

BJP’s gamble to weaken Patidars?“Patidar Agitation”

Adarsh scam: The story of a posh high-rise with not-so-posh occupants

began in 2010, prompt-ing the Army and CBI to launch separate probes. The CAG too submitted a report on the scandal. What, at first, appeared as a misuse of granted land, turned murkier as the revelations of the probe grew. It was found that the

Navy had objected to the Maharashtra government according permission for Occupation Certificates citing “serious security concerns” as the 100-me-tre tall building stood next to a planned helipad and military installations. It was also found that the so-

ciety didn’t obtain a NoC from the Ministry of Envi-ronment and Forests, and above all the society had permission to build only six floors. When bena-mi transactions were un-earthed, the Enforcement Directorate joined the probe. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s relatives, including his mother-in-law, owned three flats, a fact that cost him the post of Chief Minister. The probes also revealed that the society was granted permission when Mr. Chavan was the Revenue Minister.

Third PF roll-back: Govt raises EPF interest rate to 8.8% from 8.7%

Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s daughter Karnika Singh passes away

with the Finance Min-ister. Then we will have a dialogue and see that what solution can come out,” Dattatreya had told reporters at an industry event. “The (EPFO’s apex decision-making body) CBT, at its meeting held in February 2016, has proposed an interim rate

of interest at 8.8% to be credited to the accounts of Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) subscribers for 2015-16. The minis-try has, however, ratified an interest rate of 8.7%,” labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya had said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat today announced a new 10 per cent quota in government jobs and colleges for the poorest among the upper castes. The move is expected to benefit the powerful Patel or Patidar commu-nity in the state, which has aggressively cam-paigned for reservation, led by their jailed leader Hardik Patel. But they say it weakens their cause. From May, those who earn less than Rs. 6 lakh a year will get quota if they are in the unreserved or general category, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Pa-tel said on Friday. The decision was taken at

The Hardik Effect? Gujarat Changes Quota, But Patels Aren’t Happy

a meeting of the Guja-rat BJP’s core group, which was attended by party chief Amit Shah. Quotas in Gujarat now add up to nearly 60 per cent, which exceeds the Supreme Court’s limit of 50 per cent. So far, sched-uled castes and tribes and OBCs or Other Backward Castes enjoyed 49.5 per cent reservation in the state. The ruling BJP, say sources, sees the move as a political expedient even

though it may not stand legal scrutiny. The party has been under pressure over the Patidar agita-tion and its recent losses in civic polls in the state that is due for elections next year. The Patidar community has rubbished the move. “It’s a lollypop. It won’t stand in court of law and is an attempt to weaken our agitation,” said Nikhil Savani, con-venor of the Patidar Ana-mat Andolan Samiti.

taken to Wadhwan in Gu-jarat via road for the last rites. Karnika’s mother, Asha, who was the first wife of Singh, had also died due to cancer in 2013. Karnika was mar-ried to Siddharth Singh Jhala of Wadhwan royal family in Surendra Nagar district of Gujarat. She is

survived by her husband and seven-year-old-son, Prabhavoday Singh Jha-la. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief over the demise of Digvi-jaya’s daughter. “The un-timely demise of Digvijay Singh’s daughter, Karni-ka Singh is very painful.

Vaghela for 20% EBC quota,

family income ceiling of Rs 12

lakh

inclusion as OBCs, is ob-vious from the fact that the decision was taken by the core group of the BJP led by national pres-ident Amit Shah along

with Gujarat Chief Min-ister Anandiben Patel and Gujarat BJP chief and cabinet minister Vijay Rupani. Legally, there will be problems given

the Supreme Court’s 50 per cent cap on reserva-tion. But Rupani’s state-ment that the government is willing to fight right upto the apex court for

the sake of the EBC quo-ta, is already a disclaim-er of sorts. Currently in Gujarat, Other Backward Castes (OBCs) have a 27 per cent quota, the Sched-uled Castes (SCs) quo-ta is seven per cent and Scheduled Tribes (STs) get 15 per cent reserva-tion. The ordinance on the EBC quota will be issued on May 1, Guja-rat’s foundation day, to be applicable for an annual income cap of Rs 6 lakh — Rs 50,000 per month –for ‘upper-caste’ peo-ple excluding the OBC/ST/SC. This upper cap is likely to include a large chunk of upper-mid-dle class from the upper

castes which also forms a core vote bank of the BJP. It remains to be seen how the ordinance will define ‘upper-castes’ and, if the upper cap income of Rs 6 lakh per year will also apply to people from oth-er religions like Muslims and Christians. The im-mediate reason for the decision is the Patidar quota stir led by Hardik Patel who remains in jail on sedition charges even as five of his colleagues who were part of the ag-itation, were set free on bail, on Thursday. The Patidar community is not only the symbol of ‘up-per castes’ in Gujarat but also the backbone of the

BJP’s vote bank in the state. The Patidar agita-tion, that had started on July 6 last year is near-ly nine months old now. During the agitation Gujarat has witnessed a number of riots in BJP strongholds of Mehsana, Ahmedabad, Surat, etc. that have forced the gov-ernment to impose cur-few and restrict mobile internet services.

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DAYSedition law brings only disrepute to governments that brandish it

Hardik Patel is about to complete 200 days behind bars. The government has put him away for the bet-ter part of a year for sedition, because of the ostensi-ble gravity and repeatability of his “offence”. Since these qualities remain unaltered, does it follow that his right to liberty stands suspended for all time? The continuing incarceration of Patel highlights yet again the absurdity of retaining Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which governs sedition, on the statute books. By all accounts, the young activist has demonstrated an appetite and enthu-siasm for disturbing the calm, but criminal law is armed with numerous other provisions for dealing with such challenges. The demand for reservations raised by his Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti is political. Its methods are scarcely above reproach, but governments should engage with it politically, without reaching for magic bullets left over from the 19th century, like the sedition law. In this case — as is usually the case — the government’s re-sponse is completely out of proportion with the provocation, a video clip in which Hardik Patel is heard exhorting a supporter threatening suicide to kill some policemen instead. The strength of the police force was not thinned as a result, so this was just a case of Patel shooting his mouth off. But it was read as part of a “conspiracy” against the state, to “attempt to excite disaffection”. By that logic, a bunch of students grousing about the government would be seditious too. And so they were deemed to be. The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar and his fellow travellers at JNU has been reviled as a direct attack on campuses and dissent. It has backfired, turning the student union leader into a celebrity of sorts, with an instant book deal thrown in. And yet, the government persists in believing that the charge of sedition is a handy cut-out switch to cow down in-convenient people. None of the celebrated sedition cases of recent years brought any credit to govern-ment. It failed to discredit Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy and S.A.R. Geelani. Earlier this year, Ashis Nandy, who does not enjoy the material support of any political organisation, was forced to offer an apology for painting the Gujarat government in a poor light. But the government gained nothing by harassing the noted academic. It should appreciate that besides being colonial rather than democratic, Section 124A offers no tactical returns either. It is a loser on all counts.

“I definitely would like to return to India. Right now, things are flying at me fast and furious. My passport has been revoked. I don’t know what the government is going to do next,”

- The liquor baron Mr. Mallya says he wants a “reasonable” settlement with creditor banks for his de-funct airline, but they “are not getting any money” by taking his passport or arresting him.

•Hirpara Kapil (Editor)•Rudani Chirag (Dy. Editor)•Patel Bharat (Photographer)•Rudani Dixit (Reporter)•Makani Dhruvil (Sub Editor)•Patel Prakash (Reporter)

New poster from Sultan: Anushka Sharma nails the ‘dhobi-pachad’ like no other!

Agency | Chennai

Srinivasa Ramanujan was as much a Tamil as he was a mathematical prodigy. Indeed, he was a staunch Brahmin, in his mannerisms, speech and views, and if one were to alienate him from all these traits, the very char-acter may well suffer. This is precisely where Matthew Brown’s mov-ie on the mathematician, The Man Who Knew In-finity, seems to ring false, especially after Gnana Rajasekaran’s Tamil bi-opic on the genius, Ra-manujan, had been seen in 2014. Rajasekaran had ably captured the inti-mate nuances of the Tam-il Iyengar community. He had brought alive quite vividly the mood and es-sence of Ramanujan’s pe-riod, the stifling prejudic-es and so on. Take away all these from the man, he is as good as zero. Brown’s work somehow

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Prachi Desai says playing Mohammad Azharuddin’s first wife Naureen in “Azhar” was more difficult that por-traying his second wife Sangeeta Bijlani’s role in the biopic, played by Nargis Fakhri. “Any-body can play Sangeeta Bijlani’s role but nobody can play Naureen’s role other than me. Naureen’s role was much difficult. I don’t think anybody could have done this role and you will realize this. “We have a lot of actors who play glamorous part but I don’t think there are many who can bring out depth,

Agency | Mumbai

The first poster and teas-er of YRF’s Sultan fea-tured only Salman Khan. Anushka Sharma was nowhere to be seen and that had raised many eyebrows while some re-ports even started doing the rounds which claimed that Anushka has been sidelined in the project. Nothing of that sort has actually happened and here’s proof. Anushka Sharma who also plays a wrestler in the film fi-nally unveiled her look from the film in the sec-ond poster. Anushka plays Aarfa, the fierce and dominating woman wrestler from Haryana. And in the second post-er, Anushka completely aces the dhobi-pachad. There were a lot of apprehensions about Anushka being able to pull of the act, given her

Agency | New Delhi

When we come upon him first in his second film, ‘Baaghi’, we see Tiger Shroff upside down, bal-ancing his full weight on a thumb and forefin-ger. It is an impressive sight, to see someone so fit, so agile, so much in command of his body. It is the money shot of the film. Whenever we see Tiger doing something that involves his hands, legs, torso, head, all

moving in perfect sync, scything up, slashing down, revolving on the balls of his feet, we are watching: it is a pleasure to see this young actor move, no jerk, all flow. When he is in action, that is. When he is ‘act-ing’, he is still clearly a novice. But he makes up for that lack by being likeable, even when he is being forced to act like a rebel just so he can justi-fy the film’s title, in the first half of the film. Ron-

ny (Tiger Shroff) shows up at a ‘kalari’ (a Kerala martial arts school which teaches the ancient art of ‘kalaripayattu’) in order to hone his rough edges. The process of transfor-mation– from aimless ‘baaghi’ to a rebel with a cause– is familiar from many similar films, but there’s enough to keep us engaged through the in-teractions with a ramrod straight `guru’, who puts the young fellow through his paces.

Agency | New Delhi

Farhan Akhtar has been miffed with the media af-ter his divorce from his ex-wife Adhuna Bham-bani because he has been constantly linked with Kalki Koechlin, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shraddha Kapoor and more. Some media reports even sug-gested that Farhan and Kalki are planning to start with a living in re-lationship and other re-ports said he was spotted with Aditi Rao Hydari at a grand event when Prince William and Kate Middleton were on their visit to India. It was said Farhan and Aditi walked

The Man Who Knew Infinity review: More exotic than real

Naureen was difficult to play than Sangeeta in ‘Azhar’: Prachi Desai

Farhan Akhtar Slams Media For Twisting Milkha Singh’s Statement!

Raees in legal mess: Gangster Abdul latif’s son demands Rs 101 crore

falls short of portraying these qualities that made Ramanujan into what we knew him, and Dev Patel, despite his fairly good acting skills, does not appear like a Tamil Brahmin boy, who left his young wife and mother to cross the seas (considered a sin in the 1920’s India) to study and publish his papers. Although Abhi-nav Vaadi playing Ra-manujan in Rajasekaran’s work might not have been quite up to the mark, he looked and sounded the character, unlike Patel,

who comes off more as an Anglicised example of one so essentially Indian, nay Tamil. And Bhama, who is seen as his screen wife and Suhasini Mani Ratnam as his mother were very good in infus-ing their characters with the all the required traits. In Brown’s work, De-vika Bhise as Ramanu-jan’s wife just does not gel. Yes, Jeremy Irons, who essays GH Hardy in Brown’s biopic of sorts -- the man who invites Ramanujan to Cambridge -- is excellent.

Baaghi movie review: First half of Tiger, Shraddha film is enjoyable

Agency | Mumbai

Shah Rukh Khan’s up-coming film Raees is in legal trouble. A local court in Ahmedabad, Gu-jarat, on Friday (April 29) issued a notice to Khan’s production house. The notice is in response to a suit filed by the son of gangster Abdul Lat-if, claiming damages for defaming his late father. Ahmedabad civil court judge RT Vatsani issued

body structure but now that the first look is out, we completely love it. Unlike the Salman Khan poster, this one doesn’t look photoshopped and

that’s a plus for the ac-tress. Anushka stars op-posite Salman in the film which is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and is all set to release this Eid.

notices to Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited, Khan’s produc-tion house, and co-pro-ducers Excel Entertain-ment and Rahul Dholakia Productions. Replies are to be filed by May 11. Raees is reportedly based on Latif’s life. His son Mustaq Ahmad also sought injunction against the release of the film as well as its promotional

material. The second part of the film shows Latif in a very defamatory manner and damages the family’s reputation, the suit says, while demanding Rs 101 crore in damages. The pe-titioner claims that when the script was being re-searched, his family mem-bers were consulted and the producers had also ad-vertised that the film was based on Latif’s life.

in as a couple and didn’t hesitate to be together but they both have followed ‘no comments’ policy on their relationship status. But, yes ! Farhan has al-ways blamed media for creating these linkups and controversies. This time, again Farhan has shown his anger towards media and he gave his support to Milkha Singh. Farhan has a great rapport with Milkha and he has even acted in the biopic Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. So, sure-ly he will know Milkha Singh both on a personal and professional level. And, he said everyone is entitled to their opinion and so is Milkha Singh. Farhan strongly believes that Milkha didn’t say anything against Salman

Khan but he wants sports-men to be the Goodwill Ambassador for the Rio Olympics 2016. Farhan brought to our notice that a lot of times statements are misquoted to create a controversy and wrong meanings are taken out of right statements to win the race of Trps. It’s part and parcel of show-biz but Farhan blaming media every time is not the solution either. When Salim Khan lashed out at Milkha Singh why didn’t he say that he had noth-ing against Salman Khan ? He preferred taking the credit for working hard in his life which is true but he even said that Bolly-wood didn’t do a favor for him by making a bi-opic based on him.

maturity or variation in their role. I think that I do bring that onscreen to some extent,” Prachi said. “Azhar”, a biopic on the life of former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, will feature actor Emraan Hashmi in the title role. The film, directed by Tony D’Souza, also features

Lara Dutta and is slated to release on May 13. Prachi says that she got the best role in the film. “I think I hit the jackpot as I got the best role in the film. It was a huge challenge for me to play this role because I have never seen her nor read much about her,” she said.


SPORTS ROUNDUPColumbia Asia Hospital, Ahmedabad stresses the need to close immunization gap in India

Star Gold to premiere Tere Bin laden – Dead or Alive on 30 th April!

Docoss X1 ‘Real Images’ and Hands-On Video Shared on Social Media


Six years ago the first instalment of satirical laugh riot Tere Bin Laden spun a lot of nimble fun for being the humorous film that it was. Its second instalment, outshines the first! Xeroxing the first film’scomic timing and uncanny resemblance to real life characters, the second instalment, Tere Bin Laden– Dead or Alive, ups the entertainment quotient making it a must watch for cinema aficio-nados StarGold, the Home of Blockbusters, now brings this comic extravaganza to your home on 30 th April at1:00PM. The film begins by showing a Bollywood director being hired by an American talent agent to make a film on Osama bin Laden. The plan to use an Osama doppelganger in order to prove his death boomerangs when a Taliban arms dealer hijacks their idea to prove he's alive. This chase and confusion gives the film its enter-taining storyline. The film stars the ever so funny Manish Paul, Pradhuman Singh, Sikander Kher

and Sugandha Garg.

SETU Agency | Ahmedabad

From common flu to hepatitis to cervical cancer, immunization can prevent a series of dangerous diseases in adults or reduce the intensity of others. Despite being recognized as a life saver, the prac-tice of vaccination is yet to become commonplace in India to prevent diseases. In India, the concept of immunization is largely associated with chil-dren. Even the public awareness programs, such as for polio and chicken pox, primarily focus on im-munization of children. However, not many people are aware about the fact that vaccinations can be useful at each and every stage of life from youth to advanced years. As per the statistics record-ed by World Health Organization, immunization averts nearly 2-3 million deaths annually. Further, improved coverage of global immunization could help in avoiding an additional 1.5 million deaths. On the occasion World Immunization week, doc-tors at Columbia Asia Hospital, Ahmedabad have taken the initiative in line with WHO’s theme of “Close the immunization gap” to create awareness about importance of vaccination in all age groups.

Agency | New Delhi

Docoss, little-known manufacturer of the Docoss X1 smartphone that seems to have caught atten-tion of consumers in India this week, has posted images and a hands-on video of its Rs. 888 smart-phone in a bid to assure prospective customers the phone is ‘real’. After Ringing Bells and mPhone, the scepticism around smartphone that sounds too good to be true is understandable, and Docoss is trying its best to dispel the duplicitous image. To recall, the incredible price alongside the malfunc-tioning booking process and obscure origins of the company raised doubts about whether the Docoss X1 was in fact genuine, or just a scam. The smart-phone is currently up for pre-bookings (and will be up till Friday 10pm) via SMS and the company’s website. On Thursday afternoon, Docoss’ Twitter handle tweeted, “Don’t panic real phone real im-ages,” alongside four images of the Docoss X1 that appear to match the device seen on the company’s website. Separately, in a Facebook post earlier on Thursday, Docoss posted an unboxing and hands-on video with the smartphone. The video clarified the Docoss X1 will be available in only colour variant - Black, and that the box will come with earphones, apart from an AC adapter and USB data cable. The video also shows certain applications are pre-installed, including WhatsApp.

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Agency | New Delhi

Amid raging debate over the choice of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan as India’s goodwill ambas-sador for Rio Olympics, the Indian Olympic As-sociation has approached cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and oscar-win-ning music composer A R Rahman, Olympic gold winner Abhinav Bin-dra for the post. “We are in communication with Sachin Tendulkar and A R Rahman to become brand

ambassadors of the Indian Olympic contingent. We are yet to get their reply,” said IOA vice-president Tarlochan Singh. “We will rope in more people. Salman Khan will also re-main,” he added. Bindra accepted the offer after his father received a letter from IOA on Friday. IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta had earlier said in a statement that Khan is not going to be the sole face of the Indian Olympics contingent, adding they

Agency | Mumbai

The adage – when MS Dhoni hits, it stays hit – is struggling to stand the test of time with the India skipper’s failure to pull off the big shots that have been synonymous with his batting. While Dhoni has so far straight-batted questions thrown at him, voices are growing about his ability to do it day-in, day-out. It’s time he finds his touch with the Rising Pune Supergiants strug-gling towards the end of their innings, failing to reach par scores for their bowlers to defend, or overhauling totals in tight chases. If his performance over the past few months

Agency | London

He has promised anoth-er knockout show but Indian boxing star Vi-jender Singh’s unbeaten run will be put through a tough challenge when he squares off against experienced Frenchman Matiouze Royer in a su-per middleweight contest in London on Saturday. Vijender has won all his four bouts via Technical Knockouts in under three rounds. But in Royer, he faces a rival who has the experience of 44 bouts, including 14 wins, which adds up to 250 rounds in the ring compared to Vi-jender’s nine. Royer’s career spans over seven

Agency | Bandipora

Looks can be deceptive and that holds true for Tajamul Islam, a sev-en-year-old soft-spoken girl from a remote north Kashmir village, who is the national kickboxing champion and is all set to represent India at an international event in It-aly. Tajamul won nation-al recognition when she bagged the gold medal in sub-junior category at 2015 National Kickbox-ing Championship, held at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. Her achieve-ment at the national lev-

el got her an entry to the World Championships, to be held in Andria, Italy in November. She would be the first ever Kash-miri girl to do so. “I felt so happy that I won and would be going to Ita-ly. My mother, who was with me in Delhi, told me that is how you play and knock down your oppo-nent. My father, whom I spoke to on phone, told me that I will get a treat once I reach home and I was treated with my fa-vourite Biryani,” Tajam-ul said. Tajamul, hailing from Tarkpora village of Bandipora, 65kms

from Srinagar, is now a hero in her village and school — Army Good-will School, Bandipora. In fact, kickboxing is not even her forte. She excels in wushu and is also doing well in tae-kwondo. Her journey started in 2014 when she joined a local academy, which trains young boys and girls in martial arts. “I was walking near the stadium here when I saw many young boys and girls training. I saw them punching and all that and told my father that I want to join them and he let me,” Tajamul said.

Agency | Wuhan

Olympic bronze med-allist Saina Nehwal on Thursday reached the quarterfinals of the Asia Badminton Champion-ship after brushing aside Thailand’s Nitchaon Jindapol in straight games in Wuhan. The fifth seed-ed Indian prevailed 21-14 21-18 over Jindapol to take her head-to-head record to 7-0 against the Thai player. The World

No 8 will take on third seeded Chinese Shixian Wang next. Saina has a 6-7 head-to-head record against Shixian, having lost to her in the last two encounters. Other Indian in fray, PV Sindhu, how-ever, suffered a narrow 21-13 20-22 8-21 loss against the deceptive Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Tai-pei in a match that lasted for an hour. Sindhu will be disappointed to blow

Agency | New Delhi

Dutee Chand set the Neh-ru Stadium track ablaze by erasing the 15-year-old women’s 100m re-cord on the opening day of the Federation Cup on Thursday. Dutee clocked 11.33 seconds to enter the record books. The previous record of 11.38 secs was set by Rachi-ta Mistry in 2000. The Odisha sprinter wasn’t upset over missing the Rio qualification mark of 11.32 secs, but looked forward to Saturday’s 200m final. “My fitness is good, so posting anoth-er good timing shouldn’t be a challenging task,” she said. The Rio qual-ifying time in 200m is 23.20 secs. By setting a

Dutee Chand shatters national 100m mark, misses Rio mark by 0.01 second

Pune look to the finisher in Dhoni to step forward ahead of Gujarat tie

Unbeaten Vijender Singh looks to deliver another knockout blow

7-year-old Kashmiri Tajamul Islam to represent India at World Kickboxing Championships

is analysed, the picture isn’t rosy. The bottom hand is no longer gener-ating the kind of power it used to be, and the abili-ty to convert singles into twos too has come under the scanner. There have been instances when it was felt he isn’t the Dho-ni of the past. A recent one was when Pune were

chasing 185 set by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first home match at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium last week. While Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers set the tone for RCB, Dho-ni managed a 38-ball 41, well below his career strike-rate as Pune fell short by 13 runs.

national record, Dutee also proved her critics wrong. Her proposal to train in the US hasn’t been cleared by the gov-ernment as sprinters ar-en’t expected to make a mark at the Olympics. Since then, she has been training in Hyderabad. Dutee’s confidence got a boost when she reached the 60m semifinals at the March 17-20 World Indoor Championships

at Portland, USA. Her coach N Ramesh said, “It made a lot of difference.” On a day marked by me-diocre performances in the finals, another Odis-ha sprinter Amiya Mal-lick set the 100m re-cord in men. He clocked 10.26 secs in the semis. The existing record of 10.30 secs was set by Abdul Najeeb Qureshi at the 2010 Delhi Com-monwealth Games.

Sachin, Rahman, Bindra approached to be ambassadors for Rio Olympics

Saina Nehwal sails into quarters, PV Sindhu sinks in ABC

are in talks with two other big names in music and cricket industry to pop-ularise Olympic sports. “Mr Salman Khan is only being appointed from Bollywood segment and we are in talks with two other big names in music and cricket,” he said ear-lier this week The asso-ciation’s move to appoint Khan drew mixed reac-tions from Indian sports community last week.. “I think there is no short-age of real sportsmen in this country. People have done massive things for the country and for the Olympic sports as well. I would have liked some-one like Abhinav Bindra, someone who could have been a great ambassador,” Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir said on Monday.

years and he will be look-ing to spoil the party for Vijender when he makes his second appearance on UK soil. The two will square off in Stratford’s Copper Arena and Vi-jender has said that his latest opponent does not look to be as timid as the ones he has faced so far. “From whatever I have

seen of him, he does not look easy. He knows how to fight a tough one. I would say he is good but then I am no less,” the 30-year-old said. “I will try to finish this fight as soon as possible again. But I think it could be a little longer than the pre-vious ones, which is also good for me,” he added.

away a 12-6 lead in the second game. She was leading for most part be-fore Tai caught up at 15-15 and even though the Indian made it 20-19, she could not close the issue. In the decider, she lost out of her steam. Saina, on the other hand, hard-ly broke any sweat as she went about her business with utmost ease. She opened up early leads in both the games and held her fort.

Saina Nehwal has a 6-7 head-to-head record against Shixian Wang, having lost to her in the last two encounters


Correspondent | Bhopal

Narmada Bachao An-dolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar on Friday demanded that report of Justice Jha Commission that probed the alleged fake land registries and other issues related to the oustees of Sardar Saro-var dam project be made public. She also demand-ed that people of Madhya Pradesh who were af-fected due to the project, whose construction is on in Gujarat, be rehabilitat-ed without delay. Patkar launched a hunger strike

three days back with over 30 people at Neelam Park here demanding re-habilitation of the oust-ees of the dam project. “Jha Commission report should be made public as oustees of the Sardar Sar-vor dam have not been rehabilitated yet. Madhya Pradesh government is sitting tight on the report and not taking any action against the corrupt offi-cers who had siphoned off huge money meant for rehabilitation,” the ac-tivist told reporters. She said that around 50,000


Despite having imple-mented the highest num-ber projects, Gujarat lagged behind states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka in terms of investment realised through imple-mentation of industrial entrepreneurship memo-randums (IEM) from Jan-uary 2015 to March 2016. The state implemented 117 IEMs, the highest in India, but the investment stood at just Rs 8,474 crore. As against this, Maharashtra executed 82 IEMs worth Rs 53,438 crore followed by MP and Karnataka with 35 and 37 IEMs entailing investments of Rs 17,490


Amreli Lok Sabha MP and BJP leader Naranbhai Kachhadia has got relief from the Supreme Court. Kachhadia had chal-lenged the High Court order and sought his con-viction in lower court to be rejected. The Supreme Court has rejected the three-year jail term or-dered to him by the Ses-sions court in Amreli and asked Kachhadia to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation to victim. Kachhadia was facing disqualification from the post of member of parliament after 3-year


The Special Operation Group has cracked the sensational angadia rob-bery of Rs 22 lakh of Haryana, with the arrest of three Gujarati youth. It also recovered Rs 21 lakh cash and a Swift car recovered. According to SOG sources, Guja-

rati youth Hardik Pa-tel had been kidnapped and brutally murdered by spraying pest control substances and his body was disposed of. The body of Patel was found on April 22 by Haryana police. All three accused have been arrested from Ahmedabad.


Two consecutive drought years have already made farmers’ lives miserable in Rajasthan, and they believe, a third is on the way. However, the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has passed two new land reform Bills that will im-pact farmers. This legis-lation is almost identical to the Centre’s Land Ac-quisition (amendment) Bill 2015, which was re-jected by the farmers of the country. On April 6, the last day of its Budget Session, the Vasundhara Raje-led state government passed the Special Invest-ment Region Bill and the

Land Pooling Scheme. This came barely a week after neighbouring state Gujarat had passed its own Land Acquisition Bill. Gujarat passed “Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Ac-quisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Gujarat Amendment) 2016” on March 31, the last day of its Budget Session. A year ago, the BJP government at the Centre had intro-duced “The Right to Fair Compensation and Trans-parency in Land Acquisi-tion, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amend-ment) Bill, 2015 (LARR)” in the Lok Sabha on Feb-ruary 24, 2015.


A rare albino cobra was rescued by snake lovers from Rancharda on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The snake, which suf-fers from albinism just like humans, has lost its pigmentation and comes across as a white snake. This is the second such snake spotted in the state in the past three years. On Monday morning, snake rescuer Mukesh Bhat-ti and his team spotted the albino snake and in-formed the forest depart-ment after rescuing it. The snake was caught from the bungalows in the area and was then brought to the forest department res-cue centre in Ahmedabad. The albino snake rescued earlier was from Saurash-tra region and it is now a resident of Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden.Year : 02, Issue : 109 “Sunvilla Samachar” (English Daily) Printed at “Sunvilla Samachar, Daily Printing Press”, Survey No.: 1624-25-26, Final Plot No.F/P/537, Urmila Compound, Opp.Ambica Estate, G.D. School Road, Saijpur Bogha, Ahmedabad -382340 and Published at A-24, Sharddha Apartment, Thakkarnagar Road, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad-382350. Mo.: 9687612324, by Owner, Printer, & Publisher : Aksheshkumar S. Savaliya on date 30-04-2016 (Saturday), Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara* (*Responsible for selection of News under the PRB act). RNI No. : GUJENG/2014/59629

Correspondent | New Delhi

Gujarat High Court Thursday issued a no-tice to the state Govern-ment on a petition filed by the online retail major Flipkart against the en-try tax in the state on the goods bought through the e-commerce portals. The division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Red-dy and Justice V M Pan-choli scheduled the next hearing for June 9. Flip-kart has claimed the tax is discriminatory, because no such tax is imposed on the goods brought into Gujarat through other modes of sale. It moved the HC after the Guja-

Gujarat executes more projects but investment goes down

Supreme Court gives relief to Amreli MP, no disqualification now

Flipkart Challenges E-Commerce Entry Tax in Gujarat High Court

Three nabbed for kidnapping, murder of angadia employee

Did you know Gujarat & Rajasthan passed land Acquisition Bills?

Rare albino cobra rescued in

Rancharda

crore and Rs 15,581 crore respectively. IEMs are filed by compani es and industrial units with the ministry of com-merce expressing their intention to either set up new units or expand existing ones. They also have to inform the min-istry about commence-ment of operation. When it comes to investment, the other states which are

doing better than Gujarat might have got 2-3 big ticket projects. “But in terms of implementation we are way ahead. More IEMs mean more peo-ple are coming to set up projects in Gujarat,” said state’s finance minister Saurabh Patel.He further said that the conducive industrial environment in the state continues to at-tract people and projects.

rat Government amend-ed the law to levy entry tax on goods purchased through e-commerce por-tals, apparently to pro-vide a level-playing field to the traders and retailers

in the state. The Gujarat Tax on Entry of Specified Goods into Local Areas (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was passed on March 31. Now 15 percent entry tax is levied on the on-line purchases. Flipkart’s contention is it does not sell any product itself but only provides an online platform to manufactur-ers/traders, so the tax is unjustified.

term in criminal case or-dered by the sessions court. However today’s decision by Supreme Court to reject convic-tion itself has given relief to Kachhadia. It should be mentioned that when Kachhadia challenged

the lower court verdict in Gujarat High Court, his arrest was stayed but con-viction was not rejected. Kachhadia had therefore gone to Supreme Court to get conviction rejected in a bid to avoid disqualifi-cation.

Make Justice Jha panel’s report on Sardar Sarovar oustees public: Medha Patkar

people displaced by the project have yet to be rehabilitated. “But water level of the Sardar Sarvor dam is increased further, which will spell a doom for the people living in the catchment area,” she said. Sardar Sarvor dam is built in Gujarat on riv-er Narmada which origi-nates from MP.

Medha Patkar demanded that people

of Madhya Pradesh who were affected due to the project, whose construction is on in

Gujarat, be rehabilitated without delay

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