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Kerala CM pays rich tributes to INTUC

veteranAgency | Chennai, May 29

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and other Congress leaders today paid rich tributes to trade union veteran G Ramanujam on the occasion of his birth centenary celebrations. Unveiling a statue of Ramanujam here at a function organised by the state unit of IN-TUC, Chandy hailed Ramanujam’s ‘historic background’ and lauded his contributions to the working class. “Ramanu-jam was a great leader of the working class of our country. He was not just a leader of INTUC but that of the working class,” Chandy said.

Dharmendra to undergo surgery:

Hema MaliniAgency | Mumbai, May 29

Veteran actor Dharmen-dra, who was hospital-ised following weakness and shoulder pain, is likely to undergo a sur-gery. The 79-year-old actor was admitted to a hospital here on May 27. “Just an update on Dharamji. He got admit-ted to Breach Candy to check his blood count as he felt tired all the time and to check his shoul-der pain.” Malini posted on twitter today. The ac-tress and BJP politician revealed Dharmendra is currently under obser-vation and asked fans to pray for his speedy recovery.

Jawan injured in Nagaland

ambushAgency | Kohima, May 29

A jawan was injured when suspected mil-itants ambushed an Assam Rifles convoy on the National High-way-2 near Phesama village on the outskirts of the state capital to-day. One jawan sus-tained bullet injury while the vehicles of 19 Assam Rifles were hit by bullets as suspect-ed militants ambushed them from the nearby jungles, a defence of-ficial said. The jawan was hospitalised. The Assam Rifles party was heading from Kohima to Jakhama when they were attacked.

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India’s economy grew at 7.3% in 2014-15, the gov-ernment said on Friday using a new formula that covers a raft of activities from farm-level livestock to mega infrastructure projects even as ques-tions loomed over the new methodology. Revised statistics showed “real” or inflation-adjusted eco-nomic growth rate for Jan-uary to March 2015 was at 7.5% Also, at Rs. 125.4 lakh crore ($2.02 trillion as on March 2015) India’s GDP at current prices--the total value of goods

and services produced in the country--has official-ly crossed that $ 2 trillion mark making it the world’s 10th largest economy. In-

dia’s annual per capita or average income (in current prices) stood at Rs. 87,748 from Rs 80,388 in the pre-vious year. India is also set

India’s economy expanded by 7.3% in the year ended March, Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast

Modi speeds up capital spending in April to push growth

Agency | New Delhi

Prime Minister Modi ramped up spending on roads, railways and rural infrastructure in April to boost economic growth, after $19 billion in cuts brought public invest-ment shuddering to a halt at the end of the last fis-cal year. Modi, who com-pleted one year in power this week, has vowed to raise public spending on infrastructure by $11 bil-lion in the current fiscal year. At the same time, he is targeting a fiscal deficit of 3.9 percent of gross domestic product, a shade lower than 4 per-cent achieved in the year that ended in March. The government increased capital spending to 351.6 billion rupees in April, the first month of fiscal 2015/16. That is up more than 50 percent from a year ago, data released by the government on Friday showed. In the first month of the current fiscal year, the government allocat-

ed 32.89 billion rupees for railways, 58.3 billion rupees for roads and 175 billion rupees for rural projects. Data released earlier on Friday showed the Indian economy grew 7.5 percent in the quarter ended in March, faster than China. But a con-traction in agriculture and a downward revision for the previous quarter indicated weaknesses in Asia’s third- largest economy. With banks weighed down by bad loans, company profits squeezed, rural demand weak and exports de-pressed, the government recognises it will have to take the lead to meet its

jobs and growth goals. “Front-loading of spend-ing on infrastructure is a welcome step, though it remains to be seen what happens in the whole year,” said N.R. Bhanu-murthy, an economist at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), a Delhi-based think tank. Fiscal deficit figures for the first month of the new fiscal year in-dicated that Modi’s gov-ernment plans to support domestic demand. Fi-nance Minister Arun Jait-ley plans to boost public investment in infrastruc-ture and devolve more spending powers from the centre to India’s 29 states.

to become the world’s fast-est growing major econo-my in the world, overtak-ing China’s 7.3% growth. Despite the current slow-

down, however, at $10.3 trillion China’s economy is five times bigger than India, while the USA re-mains the world’s largest economy at $17.4 trillion. In January, the Central Sta-tistics Office (CSO), using a new method, said that India’s real or “inflation adjusted” GDP in 2013-14 grew 6.9% instead of the earlier 4.7% and by 5.1% in the year before compared to 4.5% in the earlier system. Advance estimates for 2014-15 re-leased in February pro-jected India’s GDP during the year to grow at 7.4%. The new series uses 2011-12 as the new “base year” from 4.5% estimated us-ing 2004-05 as the base year. While the base year of the national accounts is changed periodically to

factor in structural chang-es in the economy and present a more realistic picture of macroeconom-ic aggregates, it is the new formula that has stumped both experts and the un-initiated. Experts say that data from other sources such as household spend-ing, corporate earnings and tax collections and sales of goods and services were weak and do not mirror the revival trends shown in the GDP numbers. For in-stance, many experts have pointed out that there were anomalies as manufactur-ing shows an estimated growth of 7.1% for 2014-15, which under the index of industrial production (IIP) data for factory out-put was 2.3%. According to officials IIP or factory output counts the number

of units produced and does not distinguish between say the value of a luxu-ry car and an entry-level hatch-back. It is possible that factory output would have remained stagnant over a period of time, but its value would have multiplied. Likewise, ac-cording to new the GDP numbers, the finance sec-tor expanded by 11.5% in 2014-15 from 7.9% in the previous year, even though growth in depos-its and credit appears to be tardy. According to official statisticians this is because, in the earlier method, financial cor-porations in the private sector, other than bank-ing and insurance, in the earlier series were limit-ed to a few mutual funds (primarily UTI).

Medical consignment causes radio-active leak at IGI Airport in Delhi

Agency | New Delhi

A radioactive leak from a medicinal consignment was detected in the cargo area of the Indira Gand-hi International Airport in Delhi on Friday morning. Senior Delhi government health officials have main-tained that the leak has been contained and that there is no need for panic. Union Home Minister Ra-jnath Singh also confirmed at a press conference that the leak had been plugged. The incident has not affect-ed airport operations. “A medical consignment of material suspected to be of

radioactive nature was re-ported at the Cargo terminal of Delhi Airport this morn-ing. A team from Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and National Disaster Re-sponse Force (NDRF) are at the site and making ar-rangements for the removal

of the material. This area is far away from any of the passenger terminals and there is absolutely no risk of exposure to any passen-gers. The said area has been cordoned off and as per the preliminary assessment given by AMD the material has been termed as that of low radio activity- Sodium Iodide Liquid Class 7 meant

for medicinal use,” airport operator DIAL’s spokes-person said. According to a senior health official: “The area of the leak has been cordoned-off and the leak happened in a consign-ment of sodium iodide from Turkey meant for a private hospital Fortis’ Nuclear Department.’’ He added that the leak hap-pened in a small area of the cargo hold and was quickly isolated. “The area has been cordoned off and a team of the Na-tional Disaster Response Force or NDRF is at the spot. Also Atomic energy experts are at the airport to access the situation,’’ he noted. Meanwhile, the Fortis HealthCare author-ities maintained that they are yet to ascertain if this consignment belonged to their hospitals.

Airport says no people had suffered any radio-active contamination; leak found in Turkish

Airlines freight plane’s medical consignment plugged, says Centre

first look of the film is out and the actor is seen with an i n -t e n s e look on his face a l o n g with his onscreen w i f e

Shriya Saran and their daughters. We have seen Ajay Devgn in some bril-liant performance based films in the past and

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One Year of Narendra Modi govt: Bold moves on world stage With Xi Jinping in charge, we now know what the new strong China looks like. With Narendra Modi in charge, we are finally getting glimpses of what the new strong India will look like. It will be a radi-cally different India from the one that the world has got used to. Three new points stand out. The first transformation is paradoxical. For decades, India has aspired to be a leader of the non-aligned move-ment. But it is only now that India is becoming genuinely non-aligned. This observation is shock-ing. It deserves an explanation. What does “genu-ine non-alignment” mean? At the NAM summit in Cuba in 1979, at the height of the Cold War, then Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene shrewd-ly observed that there were only two non-aligned countries: the United States and the Soviet Union. He added that all other countries were in one way or another aligned with these two powers. With Modi’s arrival, the list of “genuinely non-aligned” powers has grown from two to four. It now includes Ameri-ca, Russia, China and India. Modi has given birth to a truly multipolar world. There is no doubt that the world is now full of sharp differences between key world leaders; for example, between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin, Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Putin, and, most sharply, between Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran. It takes great political and psychological confidence to maintain equally good relations with such sharply divided leaders. Modi has it. Hence, he can sign deals worth $35 billion with Abe and then follow up with signing deals worth $22 billion with Xi. If Modi is shrewd, he can use China-Japan competi-tion to benefit India. For example, he can encourage China and Japan to compete in delivering the badly needed bullet train services to India. Similarly, un-der Modi, India will move even closer to Israel, es-pecially in defence technology. Yet, Modi has also just signed an agreement to build a port in Chaba-har, Iran, which will provide India a much-needed logistical lifeline to Afghanistan. Only a new strong India under Modi can get away with such bold moves. The second transformation was expected. Modi has moved India to the right. But he has done it in surprising fashion. He has no interest in mov-ing towards the Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher consensus. Instead, he would rather move towards the Lee Kuan Yew-Deng Xiaoping consensus. The intellectual output from the Washington DC think-tanks and even the IMF and World Bank means little to him. Instead, the extraordinary performances of the East Asian economies mean a lot to him. Cer-tainly he believes that the private sector has a critical role to play.

Suriya’s Tribute To Michael Jackson In Poochandi From Masss

“There were certain issues which need to be ironed out. I have crystallised the format, and in May this year the file has been sent to the finance ministry. It should be approved,”

Agency | New Delhi

Sajid Nadiadwala’s Baaghi, directed by Sab-bir Khan, starring Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor went on floors on May 27, 2015. While Tiger began his shoot-ing schedule, Shraddha’s will begin only later. The actress is currently in the midst of hectic promo-

tions for her next film but she personally want-ed to go on sets and wish the team luck. So she took time out of her busy schedule and visited the sets of Baaghi on day one. Shraddha met her director, producer and co-star and even saw the elaborate and intricate sets that she had been waiting to see. Shraddha

is very excited to start shooting for the film. It will be interesting to see the fresh pairing of Tiger and Shraddha in Baaghi. This will be the first time that Shraddha will be working with Sajid Na-diadwala. Sa‎jid Nadia-dwala, Sabbir Khan and Tiger Shroff are coming together after their su-perhit film Heropanti.

Agency | Mumbai

Arshad Warsi might be the hardest-working actor in Bollywood. Since Tere Mere Sapne in 1996, he’s averaged over two films a year. Most of these are in the vein of Circuit, his breakthrough role in the two Munna Bhai films: second lead, funny, street-smart. Whenever he’d had something to work with—Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II, Kabul Express, Sehar, Ishqi-ya, Dedh Ishqiya—he’s been excellent. But even when the material’s been bad (which is most of the time), Warsi is rarely less than watchable. Welcome 2 Karachi is just the sort of awful derivative comic slop Warsi’s had to wade through his entire career.

Ajay Devgn turns family man for ‘Drishyam’

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Ajay Devgan will play a family man in his upcoming movie ‘Drishy-am’. He has been s e e n in all genres o f m o v -

ies, be it action, intense high drama, romance etc. This time, the actor is ready to surprise his fans in ‘Drishyam’. The

Dil Dhadakne Do: Hrithik Roshan And Katrina Kaif’s Special Request To Zoya Akhtar

Agency | MumbaiThe makers of Bolly-wood’s one of the most awaited upcoming film Dil Dhadakne Do orga-nized a special screening of the film for the Btown-ers yesterday on May 28 in Mumbai. While we saw a lot of dazzling stars come down for the screening, the Bang Bang on-screen couple, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif gave the screening a miss as the two couldn’t make

it. But no worries, be-cause if recent reports are anywhere to be true, the director of Dil Dhadakne Do, Zoya Akhtar might just hold a special screen-ing for Hrithik Roshan and Kartrina Kaif. Yes, apparently, Bollywood’s Greek God, Hrithik, who worked with Zoya, along with Katrina Kaif in Zindagi Na Milegi Doba-ra has asked Zoya to hold a special screening for the star cast of ZNMD. Re-

portedly, Katrina wishes for the same thing. Yes, both Hrithik and Katrina are very eager to watch Dil Dhadakne Do and having missed the special screening that was held yesterday, the star have requested Zoya to hold yet another screening of her upcoming film just for the star cast of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which also includes Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar and Kalki Koechlin.

Agency | Chennai

Actor Suriya is all geared up for the release of his much awaited film Masss that comes out today on May 29. To hype up the crowd for the big release, Eros Tamil released a new music video from the film featuring Suriya in a very different avatar where he has even paid tribute to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. The opening sequence of the music video be-gins with an atmosphere

similar to that of Michael Jackson’s song ‘Ghosts’. Dancing around spooky zombies and ghosts, Suriya still manages to look hot! Wearing MJ’s iconic white shirt and black trousers, Suriya paid tribute to the king of pop through his song. Poochandi song has quite some catchy tunes and the next part of the song shows a colourful circus set where Suriya can be seen dressed up like a cir-cus ringmaster.

Shraddha Kapoor to begin shooting for ‘Baaghi’

‘Baahubali’ Hindi trailer on June 1st

Agency | New Delhi

Rajamouli and the makers of ‘Baahubali’ have ex-ploded a bomb yesterday on the millions of fans who have been patiently waiting since two years to witness the magic on screen. The audio and trailer launch event which

was supposed to happen on May 31st has been postponed and Rajamouli has not even announced the new date. But here is some good news for the diehard fans of Prabhas and ‘Baahubali’ movie. Reportedly, the trailer for Hindi version will be un-veiled in Mumbai on June

1st, as planned earlier. It is known that Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar is releasing the Hindi ver-sion. Inside info is that Karan Johar was angry due to postponement and hence Jakkanna has de-cided not to postpone the Hindi trailer just as he did for Telugu version.

Film Review: Welcome 2 Karachi

He plays Shammi Thak-ur, a former naval officer who takes a yacht out to sea with his friend, Ke-dar Patel, to party. Along comes a storm—or rath-er, along comes some of the shoddiest VFX I’ve seen in my life. The boat capsizes, and the two of them wash up on a beach. A bomb is detonated near them—more embarrassing VFX. They wake up in a

hospital and realise that they’re in Karachi. The rest of the film has them running from the ISI, the CIA, the Taliban and local hoods. Welcome 2 Karachi was originally supposed to star Irrfan Khan as Kedar, but he had to drop out. He was replaced by producer Vashu Bhagnani’s son. For those who haven’t seen his work, Jackky Bhagnani is the anti-Arshad Warsi.

he has given hits like Zakhm, Omkara, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Yuva and more. Nishi-kanth Kamat’s ‘Drishy-am’ is a family thriller film and A j a y

Devgn’s role is that of a middle class man Vijay Salgaonkar who loves his family more than any-thing in this world.

Veteran actor Dharmendra hospitalized; doctors say he is fine

Agency | Mumbai

Veteran actor Dharmen-dra has been admitted to Breach Candy hospital here after he complained of weakness and shoulder pain. “Dharmendra was admitted last night after he complained of pain in right shoulder and weak-ness. He is here for overall health check up as well,” Dr Sanjay Desai, ortho-paedic, knee and shoulder specialist at Breach Candy Hospital. “As of now he is

fine, talking to everyone. There is nothing to worry,” he said. The 79-year-old actor is not likely to be dis-charged today as doctors are going to perform some tests on him. “We are doing some investigations like MRI, X-Ray and all. Once the reports come, after that only we will be able to say

something,” Dr Desai said. The actor is known for his acting in films like ‘Ban-dini’, ‘Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya’, ‘Anpadh’, ‘Raja Jani’, ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’, ‘Sharafat’, ‘Jugnu’, ‘Cha-ras’, ‘Azaad’ and ‘Sholay’. In 1997, Dharmendra re-ceived the Filmfare Life-time Achievement Award for his contribution to Hin-di cinema. He was a mem-ber of the 14th Lok Sabha from Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan from BJP.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPSania crashes out of French OpenAgency | Paris

India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Bra-zilian Bruno Soares crashed out of the French Open after losing in the first round of the mixed doubles m a t c h here on T h u r s d a y. G e r m a n y ’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld a n d Dutch-man Jean-Julien Rojer stunned the top-seeded

Blatter defends corruption actions ahead of FIFA vote

Was fascinated by Mumbai Indian’s turnaround in IPL 8: Harsha Bhogle

Agency | Zurich

Ace cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle thinks the Indian Premier League 2015 (IPL 8) was one of the best editions in the eight-year history of the annual T20 carnival. According to Bhogle, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and the Mumbai Indians (MI) were the teams he liked the most in this edition. He said the RCB, although had a bowler short, but they were a treat to watch. He said Chris Gayle’s form showed that he still has cricket left in him. Bhogle was excited about the the

Agency | Zurich

FIFA leader Sepp Blat-ter on Friday defended his actions battling cor-ruption ahead of a vote to decide on whether he remains as president of football’s beleaguered world body. But Blatter expressed doubts about timing of the arrests of seven top football offi-cials just two days ahead of the election he has been strong favourite to win. “I am not saying it was a coincidence. But I do have a small ques-tion mark,” the Swiss official told the start of FIFA’s annual congress. Blatter, 79, is being chal-lenged by Prince Ali bin al Hussein, a FIFA vice president. The prince, strongly backed by Eu-rope’s football powers, has campaigned on the

Agency | New Delhi

The Sport Ministry on Friday made it clear that it never ignored ace doubles shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa for the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme, saying the Identification Com-mittee had considered their names during the meeting held last month. Jwala, a bronze medallist along with Ashwini in the 2011 World Champion-ships, had slammed the ministry for ignoring her for the TOP Scheme last month. However, a Sport Ministry source Jwa-la and Ashwini’s name were considered during the meeting of the Iden-tification Committee held on April 21. “The names of Jwala Gutta and Ash-wini Ponappa were con-sidered for inclusion in the TOP Scheme at the meeting of the Identifi-

Agency | New Delhi

India Cements transferred the franchise rights of IPL team CSK at a net asset value of Rs 7.83 crore to a wholly-owned subsidi-ary, Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd (CSKCL) but sold its entire stake in the arm to another trust for just Rs 5 lakh. The BCCI ap-proved the transfer of the franchise rights to CSKCL subject to the condition that India Cement provid-ed a parent company guar-antee that subsidiary would meet all the obligations un-der franchise agreement of IPL. The cricket board also approved the sale by India Cements of its entire stake holding in CSKCL aggre-

gating to 50,000 shares of Rs 10 each to a trust called India Cements Sharehold-er Trust for just Rs 5 lakh. “During the quarter under review (March 2015), the franchise rights in Indi-an Premier League (IPL) were transferred to Chen-nai Super Kings Cricket Ltd (CSKCL), a whol-ly-owned subsidiary at its net asset value as at March 31, 2014 as per books at Rs 7.83 crore,” India Cements said in a filing to the BSE. It said BCCI approved the transfer subject to the con-dition that ICL (India Ce-ments Ltd) shall provide a parent company guaran-tee for “guaranteeing per-formance/compliance by CSKCL of the obligations

of the franchise under the franchise agreement. Also, ICL and CSKCL were re-quired to enter into a tripar-tite “Novation Agreement” with BCCI-IPL “whereby from the effective date, CSKCL shall inter alia step into all obligations of ICL under the Franchise Agree-ment without any further act or deed”, it added. The company further said its board of directors in their meeting held of February 23, 2015 had “approved the sale of entire stake holding in CSKCL aggre-gating to 50,000 shares of Rs 10 each to a trust called India Cements Sharehold-er Trust aggregating Rs 5 lakh.”

Agency | Mumbai

Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar feels that inter-national batsmen should constantly work on their game in order to counter world class bowlers, as he did during his playing days. “It is the duty of a batsman to work on his game as these world class bowlers constantly intro-duce something new,” said Tendulkar. Asked what’s the secret of fac-ing Lasith Malinga’s toe crushers, Tendulkar smiled and said, “Baal na-hin ball ko dekho (Don’t watch his mop of hair but watch the ball).” (Sachin Tendulkar impressed by Rohit Sharma’s cap-taincy) Recollecting his fond memories of Delhi when he visited the city as a player, Tendulkar said,”My first match as India’s Test captain was at Feroz Shah Kotla against Australia and we

Vodafone sells its 4 percent Bharti Airtel stake for $200 mn

Agency | New Delhi

UK telecom major Vodafone has sold its 4.2% stake in Bharti Airtel Ltd to Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Pvt Ltd for $200 million. In 2005, Vodafone had picked 10% stake in Bharti Airtel. Following its entry into the Indian market with its buyout of Huntchinson stake in Hutch Essar, Vodafone brought its stake in Bharati Airtel down to 5%. Vodafone’s decision to offload its stake in largest telecom operator in India, in terms of subscribers

base, follows the new unified licence (UL) regime in Department of Telecommunication. The UL regime prohibits holdings by any group in more than one licensee company in the same service area. Vodafone in a late night statement, confirmed the sale of its share in Bharati Infotel Pvt Ltd, representing an approximate 4.2% interest in Bharati Airtel Ltd, through a “wholly-owned subsidiary” to Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Pvt Ltd for $200 million.

Rajesh Exports Q4 net profit up three-fold to Rs 205 crore

Agency | New Delhi

Gold and diamond jew-ellery company Rajesh Exports on Friday re-ported over three-fold jump in net profit at Rs 205.5 crore for the quar-ter ended March 31 2015, on the back of healthy performance in exports, wholesale and retail busi-nesses. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 59.3 crore in the year-ago period, it said in a BSE filing.”...the com-pany performed well in its export, wholesale and retail business and posted

an impressive profit after tax of Rs 6549 million (Rs 654.9 crore),” Rajesh Exports Ltd Chairman Rajesh Mehta said in a statement. Total income of the company increased to Rs 19,165 crore in the January-March quarter from Rs 12,230 crore in the same quarter of the previous fiscal. The com-pany claimed that it has set up the world’s largest gold jewellery manufac-turing facility at Banga-lore, with a capacity to process 250 tons of gold into jewellery.

India Cements Values IPL Franchise Rights at Rs 7.83 Crore

Sachin Tendulkar Shares Batting Tips to Counter Quality Bowling

won the match.” Anoth-er incident related to his 35th Test hundred, sur-passing Sunil Gavaskar is also etched in his mem-ory. (Ganguly, Dravid, Laxman in Tendulkar’s proposed T20 league?) “That was 2005 and we were playing Sri Lanka. After first Test match in Chennai and before Delhi Test, I was having a pow-er nap in the afternoon. In my dream, I saw my-self scoring a hundred at Kotla. And I scored my 35th hundred,” Tendulkar

said at promotional event in Gurgaon’s Cyber hub. (Mumbai Indians stayed together in tough times: Tendulkar) He praised the Delhi crowd for its passion for cricket. “Del-hi has extreme weathers like April-May when its extremely hot and then December-January when it’s cold. But Delhi-ites love their cricket and come out to support us even in IPL (in the month of April, May),” conclud-ed the Mumbai Indians icon.

Samsung reclaims top position in smartphone market

Agency | New Delhi

According to the market research firm, Gartner, Samsung has achieved the top position in global smartphone market share. The South Korean giant lost its position to Apple in the last quarter of 2014 but has bounced back to the top position according to the recent evaluation. According to the firm, Samsung sold 81.1 mil-lion smartphones in this quarter whereas Apple was left behind at 60.1 million units. Though the company reclaimed it po-sition, it could not match up to its own sales com-pared to the same quarter last year. The company

experienced a drop from 30.4 per cent in the same quarter last year to 24.2 per cent this year. Apple on the other hand, lost the top position but showed improvement when com-pared to last year. The Cupertino giant raised its market share from 15.3 percent in the same quar-ter last year to 17.9 per cent this year. Lenovo bagged 5.9 percent of the market share followed by Huawei and LG with 4.8 per cent and 4.0 per cent respectively. The research also extended to operating systems and the only OS that improved its market share was iOS. Android and Windows witnessed a drop in their market share.

Govt didn’t reject Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponappa for TOP scheme, clarifies sports ministry

cation Committee held under the chairmanship of Anurag Thakur, MP on 21st April, 2015 in New Delhi,” the source said. “The Committee deliber-ated on their post-CWG 2014 performance. After discussions, the Commit-tee decided to defer the decision on inclusion of their names and consider support for a combined training programme for doubles at a later stage,” the source added. The TOP scheme identifies medal prospects from a few sports, including bad-minton, to provide fund-

ing for top-class training for the 2016 Olympics. Six shuttlers who were named by the Ministry for the scheme are London Olympics bronze-med-allist Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu, P Kashyap, K Srikanth, Guru Saidutt and H S Prannoy. Soon after the government re-leased the names of the athletes, Jwala lashed out chief national coach Pul-lela Gopichand for pro-moting players of his own academy players and ac-cused him of “biased se-lection” for ignoring her name from the TOPS list.

need for change at the top of the scandal-tainted body. FIFA was rocked on Wednesday by the ar-rest of seven officials in a dawn raid on their Zu-rich hotel. They now face extradition to the United States where they are ac-cused of accepting tens of millions of dollars. Separately, Swiss inves-tigators are looking into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. The votes have also been at the centre of corruption allegations. Blatter said

the arrest of the seven at FIFA’s Zurich hotel had unleashed a “storm” and that the congress has “vital decisions” to take. But he added: “Today I appeal for a team spirit, unity, so we can advance together. It may not be easy but that is why we are here today.” Blatter, who rejected a call to quit from UEFA presi-dent Michel Platini, re-peated his case that he cannot “monitor” all of football alone and can-not be blamed for the scandals.

MI’s performance in this edition. “ I have seen them closely over the years and I have always thought that for all the riches they possessed in the team, they seemed to be storing up for a rainy day,” he said about

the team that lost their first four matches but went on to win the title by defeating a formidable Chennai Super Kings (CSK). It was their second title victory after 2013 when they had also beaten the CSK.

Indo-Brazilian pair 6-2, 6-2 to enter the second round of the tournament. Groenefeld-Rojer

showed their dominance

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first set 6-2 in a one-sid-ed affair. The

second set saw the same result in favour of

Groenefeld-Rojer as Sa-nia-Soares failed to make a comeback into the game. Groenefeld-Rojer pair won 63 percent of first serve points, while win-ning six out of nine break points. They next face Taipei’s Yung-Jan Chan and Australia’s John Peers

i n t h e second round who earlier beat Hao-Ching Chan and Marin Draganja 6-3, 6-4.

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Draft delimitation of Ahmedabad, Rajkot Municipal Corporation announced

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

As per a new delimitation announced today by state election commission, the total number of wards in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is down from 68 to 48. Each ward will have 4 seats, two will be reserved for woman. Thus there will be total 192 seats. As per year 2011 census the city has 55,77,940 population. Each ward will have average population of 1,16,207. 20 seats are to be reserved for scheduled caste(SC), of which 10

are to be reserved for women. 19 seats are reserved for backward class of which 9 shall be for women. Responses of people are invited for ten days after announcement of new delimitation, after which the final report will be handed over to state election commission by district collector. The final delimitation with all corrections and changes will be announced by the end of June. It should be noted the the election for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is going to

be held most probably in October 2015. While in previous election each ward had 3 seats, this time each ward will have 4 seats. 50% reservation for women is another new thing. The state election commission has also announced delimitation for Rajkot Municipal Corporation with 18 wards and 72 Councillors. Rajkot hs populatio of 13,46,192. Each ward will have average 74,788 people. 5 seats ar reserved for SC of which 2 will be reserved for women.

Rajnath Singh interacts with media at Rajkot, Gujarat

Correspondent | Rajkot

Union Home Minis-ter Rajnath Singh today slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gand-hi for his attack on RSS and said that opposition parties were not aware of India’s culture and char-acter. Replying to Gand-hi’s accusation that RSS was running the educa-tion system in the coun-try, Singh said that RSS’s ideology considers the whole world as a single family. “Rahul Gandhi says that RSS runs the education system. I want to tell him that RSS does not run anything, it runs on its own. RSS has em-braced a culture which says that the whole world is our family. Our politi-cal opponents do not have any idea of this culture and character of India,” said Singh addressing a rally here. “Previous governments used to run by instilling fear among

African countries to sign MoU with power surplus Gujarat

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

African countries see In-dia as a “solution part-ner” to develop and ex-plore various sectors of the continent as well as train people there for sustainable growth, In-do-African Chamber of Commerce and Industries (IACCI) General Secre-tary Sunanda Rajendran said here today. Talking to reporters here during Africa Day celebrations in the city, where ambas-sadors from around elev-

en African countries par-ticipated, she said, “They (African countries) want India to give them tech-nology in terms of joint ventures where Indian companies can adminis-ter and provide services as well as train their local people for the sustainable growth”. “Sectors like infrastructure, construc-tion, agriculture, health, information technology and telecom, energy and power and skill devel-opment under vocational training have been iden-

tified,” she said. Rajen-dran said that African countries are set to sign an MoU with the Gujarat government for their re-quirements in the power and energy sector. There are 126 power projects pending in Africa that has not been awarded so far, she said. “There are also some projects where Chi-na is leading.India’s con-tribution is very less. We (IACCI) are here to pro-mote and increase India’s contribution to the power sector,” she said.

Two more die as Ahmedabad sizzles at 43.2°C

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Two more people suc-cumbed to the stifling weather in the city over-night, mounting the death toll to nine. Ten more high-grade fever cases due to heat were also re-ported from the Ahmed-abad Civil Hospital and other private hospitals in the city. So far, 10 people have died of heatstroke in the state. On May 17, the heat also claimed one life in Deesa. On Thursday, the maximum tempera-ture settled two notches above normal, making Ahmedabad the third hottest place in Gujarat at 43.2 degrees. Suren-dranagar was the hottest at 43.9 degrees, followed by Rajkot 43.5 degrees. On Wednesday, the city was a close second to Suren-dranagar that recorded the highest temperature of 43 degrees. The weath-er department has pre-dicted that the maximum temperature will continue

Thai-Pakistan drug syndicate active off Gujarat coast

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Drug smugglers operating from Thailand and Pakistan may have carried out yet another transaction in the waters off Rann of Kutch on Wednesday night or the night before, just a month after the Coast Guard and Navy seized some 230 kg of heroin worth Rs 600 crore from a boat and ar-rested several Pakistanis. The same gang also had a controversial stand-off with Coast Guard on December 31 when a Pakistani boat went up in flames. Latest intercepts show that the gang is very active, sources said. According to reliable sources, the drug syndicate that is controlled from Thai-land with bases in Pakistan and the Gulf region is still active in the international

waters off Gujarat coast, where India and Pakistan have differing claims over their maritime boundary.As late as last week, Indian agencies picked up cred-ible information showing that the same syndicate was about to execute an-other round of transaction in the international waters. It is not clear if this trans-action was completed. The

very fact that the syndicate is still active raises sev-eral questions, and some disturbing possibilities. Officials wonder why the syndicate is carrying on un-perturbed despite the Coast Guard and Navy seizing a boat with 232 packets of heroin, satellite phones and GPS on April 20. Eight Pa-kistanis manning the boat were arrested.

Muslims while we want to move ahead by taking everyone along. We will not discriminate against anyone,” he said. “There are 72 different factions in Islam. Even in Islamic countries, all these fac-tions are not living to-gether. But you can find people of all of these fac-tions in India. This is In-dia’s culture,” the Home Minister said. “These people (Congress) are instilling fear among minorities by taking the name of RSS. This has to be stopped. To get votes, you have to build trust, not to create fear.” Singh also took a dig at

Rahul for his comments on Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi’s frequent foreign tours. “Congress’ `yuvraj’ claims that our PM lives more in foreign countries than in India. I want to tell him that past PMs visited foreign countries as a political formality, while this PM goes to strengthen the nation,” he said. “Earli-er, there was nothing to show on TV when PM went outside India. Now TV channels all over the world broadcast the vis-it. Presidents and PMs of other countries break all the protocols to welcome our PM at the airports.

After his daughter elopes, man kills youth’s father

Correspondent | Rajkot

Weeks after his daughter reportedly eloped with a youth, a man from Mesa-vada village near Rajkot city and his relatives al-legedly murdered father of the youth and injured his mother seriously on Thursday morning. Kh-imji Bavaliya, his brother Valji and four unidenti-fied men allegedly as-saulted Rana Makwana and his wife Leela when they were working on their agricultural farm in Gadhka village at around 10 am. Kuvadva Road police said that the as-sailants hit Rana and Leela with sharp-edged weapons and wooden clubs and then ran away. The injured couple was rushed to Civil Hospital

in Rajkot where Rana, a farmer, died at 2 pm while undergoing treatment. Leela was also receiv-ing treatment but police said her condition was out of danger as of now. “Mesavada and Gadhka villages are located near each other. Some 45 days ago, Khimji’s daugh-ter Manisha had eloped with Rana’s son Jaysukh. This had angered Khimji. However, Manisha and Jaysukh are adult and had left home out of their free will,” Kuvadava Road Police Inspector Sarman Varu said. Based on a complaint filed by Lee-la, Kuvadva road police have booked Khmji and five others for murder and rioting. The police inspector said that the ac-cused were on the run.

Steering Committee constituted to expediate Bhadbhut Barrage Project

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

To control tide-induced salinity ingress and ero-sion of Narmada river banks in downstream of Narmada Railway bridge, the Government of Gujarat has decided to construct a barrage across river Narmada near village Bhadbhutt in Bharuch district. Ap-proximate project cost is around Rs.5000 crore. The Government of has constituted the “Steering Committee for Bhadbhut

Barrage Project’’ under Chairpersonship of Ad-visor to Chief Minister for expedite the project execution in the Public Private Partnership(PPP) mode. The steering committee will monitor implementation of the Government policies and directives for Bhadbhut project. It will approve and monitor the overall activities proposed to be undertaken by the project authorities and progress of work in order to com-

plete the project within stipulated time limit. The committee take policy decisions as and when required for timely com-pletion of the project. It will guide the govern-ment in adopting suitable strategies of Public Pri-vate Partnership(PPP) for the project. The project has got the environment clearance and the state government is in the last stage of finding the pri-vate partner to implement this ambitious project.

to be on the high at 43 de-grees on Friday. The blis-tering heat brought down the humidity which fluc-tuated between 74% and 24%. As if the swelter-ing conditions were not enough, power outages in some residential colo-nies in Chandkheda com-pounded the woes of the people. The state meteo-

rological department said there is no likelihood of rainfall and thunderstorm till May 31. May 16 was the hottest day in the city in five years at 44.5 de-grees. Weather data sug-gested this was the hottest day during the last five-year period the city had recorded 44.5 degrees on May 15, 2009.

HSC science result at 86%, CBSE students get 10/10

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

It was a day of results on Thursday. Gujarat Sec-ondary and Higher Sec-ondary Education Board (GSHSEB) declared an 86.10% result even as the Central Board of Second-ary Education declared class X results. Most city schools registered a cent per cent result in the lat-ter with several students scoring a 10/10 cumula-tive grade point average (CGPA). Experts said that the HSC (science) result, the lowest since the semes-ter system was introduced,

is expected to lead to a scramble for admissions to BSc courses as 6,000 more students have passed in the Biology group. Against 29,000-odd seats in medi-cal, paramedical and pure sciences, 43,000 students have passed in the group. The scenario is expected to be diametrically oppo-site in engineering col-leges where 30,000 seats are expected to go vacant as against 75,000 seats in professional engineer-ing courses — only over 55,000 students qualified for admissions.

Heat sheetSurendranagar..........................................43.9Rajkot.......................................................43.5Ahmedabad...............................................43.2Gandhinagar..............................................42.8Deesa.........................................................42.8Amreli........................................................42.5Rajkot..........................................................42Bhavnagar....................................................42Deesa............................................................42

Gujarat cadre IPS gets first khaki coupleSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat has got power IAS couples and IAS-IPS cou-ples. Now, Bharuch SP Shobha Bhutada and Jam-nagar SP Pradeep Shejul will tie the knot on June 4 to become Gujarat cadre’s first khaki couple. IPS officers from the 2008 batch, Shobha (29), a Marwari from Latur and Pradeep (29), a Maratha from Aurangabad, fell in love when both were nurs-ing dreams of becoming civil servants. They went to the same coaching class, cracked the UPSC, under-went IPS training and were

assigned to Gujarat cadre. The love story is now cul-minating in marriage. The picture-perfect couple is known for their passion for photography and interest in wildlife. “We wanted to join the civil services to-gether and are now getting

married. It’s a dream come true,” said Pradeep She-jul. It needs mention that Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Shweta Shrimali, from Jai-pur and currently posted as DCP in Ahmedabad, wed Odisha cadre IPS officer Sunil Joshi in 2013.

Govt grant for tribal students up by 50%

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Gujarat government has taken a decision to hike the grant for ST(tribal) ashram shala/hostels by 50%. At present the gov-ernment gives grant of Rs 1,000 per student per

month. It will be Rs 1500 per student per month with effect from April 2015 in case of hostels and with effect from ac-ademic year 2015-16 in case of ashram shala, uttar-ucchatar buniyadi ashram shala.

Use DHI Capital Goods Scheme to acquire technologies :Geete in Gujarat

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Shri Anant Geete, Union Minister for Heavy In-dustries & Public Enter-prises while inaugurating DHI-FICCI Workshop on “Technology Development for Capital Goods: Con-straints & the Way For-ward” in Ahmedabad today urged the industry to come forward and make use of the Capital Goods Scheme notified by Department of Heavy Industries (DHI), Government of India to bridge the technology gaps in the sector. The scheme launched under the Make in India initiative of Gov-ernment of India provides

support to the industry to acquire technology, set-up technology development centres in collaboration with Institutes, and create common infrastructure for the capital goods industry. In capital goods sector, the technology gap is widen-ing when compared to oth-er countries. Dependence on high-end technology capital goods is increas-ing in the country and upgradation of technology levels, continuous R & D efforts and self sufficiency of the nation in this sector requires desired levels of investment and support by the Government.