News BriefTwo minor sisters feared drowned in

GangaAgency | Lucknow

Two sisters are feared to have been drowned in river Ganga today while crossing it in Bijnore district, police said here. The incident took place when three persons, in-cluding the sisters, were crossing river Ganga and slipped into the deeper end in Mandwar area of Bijnor, they said. The sisters have been identi-fied as Sangita (13) and Shivani (12), while the third person is Lokesh Devi (25), police said. Devi was saved by the locals, they said, while police are still trying to search the two minors.Rising sea level poses

threat to Bengal Tiger: IUCNAgency | Kochi

Rising sea levels caused by climate change threat-en to wipe out Sundar-bans? a large mangrove forest area shared by India and Bangladesh --and thus world’s beau-tiful Bengal tigers, ac-cording to a leading con-servation organisation. “Without mitigation efforts, projected sea level rise?nearly a foot by 2070?could destroy nearly the entire Sund-arbans tiger habitat,” International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said quoting a WWF study on the oc-casion of International Tiger Day today.

Rajinikanth remembers

‘mahatma’ KalamAgency | Chennai

Superstar Rajinikanth feels “blessed enough” to have lived during a time that had a “mahat-ma” like former presi-dent A P J Abdul Kalam. Paying tribute to Kalam, Rajinikanth today said the scientist inspired millions of people with his life and achieve-ments. “I did not have the privilege of seeing our mahatma Gandhiji, Kamaraj or Barathiyaar but was blessed enough to live amidst mahat-ma Kalamji,” the actor tweeted. From hum-ble beginnings Abdul Kalam ji rose to great heights but continued to live humble and simple.

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A postage stamp de-picting the spirit behind “Chaalo Gujarat 2015”—the World Gujarati Con-ference—has been un-veiled by Bollywood megastar Shri Amitabh Bachchan in a symbolic gesture just prior to the beginning of the three-day conference in New Jersey, USA. The soft launch in India is sure to stimulate a tempo for the extravaganza that is to follow where a grand launch awaits. Between July 31 and August 2, the fourth edition of the largest congregation of the non-resident Gujarati community in a foreign shore will be organized by the Association of In-dian Americans of North America (AIANA). This will see the celebration of art, culture, color, vig-

Agency | Gurdaspur

The three men who struck terror in Punjab’s Gurdaspur on Monday may have sneaked into India from Pakistan on Sunday night after crossing the Ravi river and had two more tar-gets marked, data from their GPS devices has revealed. Three heavi-ly-armed men dressed in battle fatigues left seven people, including a se-nior police officer, dead in Dinanagar town of the border district before they were killed in a day-long gun battle that end-ed the siege of the local police station. The two global positioning sys-tem found on the men, suspected to be from

Agency | Kabul

Taliban leader Mullah Omar died two years ago in Karachi, Afghan-istan’s intelligence agen-cy spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said today. The comments came after unnamed government and militant sources said earlier that he had died. “Mullah Omar is dead,” Sediqi, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, told AFP.“He died in a Karachi hospi-tal in April 2013 under

mysterious circumstanc-es.” Rumours of Omar’s ill-health and even death have regularly surfaced in the past, but the latest claims just two days be-fore peace talks with the insurgents mark the first such confirmation from the Afghan government. Sediqi’s statement comes after unnamed govern-ment and militant sourc-es told media, including AFP, that the one-eyed leader died two or three years ago. “He was bur-

ied in Zabul province (in southern Afghanistan),” said the senior official, citing Afghan intelli-gence sources. The insur-gents have not officially confirmed the death of the supreme leader of the Taliban, who has not been seen publicly since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban government in Kabul. If confirmed, Omar’s death would mark a significant blow to an almost 14-year in-

Agency | Nagpur

With the Supreme Court rejecting relief to Yakub Memon, the countdown for the hanging of the only death-row convict of 1993 Mumbai blasts case tomorrow has started at the Nagpur Central Pris-on here. Memon is all set to be hanged to death as per the TADA court’s or-der tomorrow on his 53rd birthday. All the prepara-tions were complete, pris-on sources said. Top po-lice officials today visited the prison to supervise the security. Additional Di-rector General of Police (prisons) Meera Borwan-kar arrived from Pune to oversee the preparations.

Gurdaspur attack: Recovered GPS systems reveal trail of terrorists

Pakistan-based Lash-kar-e-Taiba, showed they started from Shakhar-garh tehsil of Pakistan and entered India from Tash area along the bor-der, sources said. “The coordinates were fed in the GPS devices on July 21 somewhere deep in-side Pakistan. We have sought help from the US

to pinpoint the location and further analyse the devices,” a government official said, requesting anonymity. If the inputs are proved correct, this would be the first strike by Lashkar in Punjab, which battled a Sikh in-surgency in the 1980s and 90s. After Tash, they crossed the Ravi, moved

south to Makoura in Pun-jab and then Marara in Gurdapur tehsil before entering Dinanangar, which is 18km from the border.“As per their GPS system, they first planted bombs on railway track before snatching a car from a civilian and then gained entry into the po-lice station,”

Amitabh Bachchan tunes in to “Chaalo Gujarat 2015”; Unveils a postage stamp dedicated to the event

or and exuberance of the state of Gujarat which they represent and are so ingrained in their way of life. It is for the first time that the Bollywood icon has extended his personal endorsement to an event of the Gujarati community. But despite displaying an eagerness to attend the conference, a tight schedule did not permit him to do so. “My best wishes to the entire team of Chaalo Gujarat 2015. A busy schedule

does not allow me to travel this year to attend the conference in New Jersey. I hope to be pres-ent in the next edition,” said Mr. Bachchan. A commercial roll out of the stamps is expect-ed after the conclusion of the mega event. For AIANA, its true style guided by the principles of Atra-Tatra-Sarva-tra (Here-There-Every-where) gets typified in an innovative move that will be for keeps.

Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Died Two Years Ago in Karachi: Afghan Intelligence

surgency, which is riven by internal divisions and threatened by the rise of the Islamic State group in South Asia.

She is being assisted by deputy inspector gener-al of prisons Rajendra Dhamne and jail super-intendent Yogesh Desai. Desai had overseen the hanging of Pakistani ter-rorist Ajmal Kasab at Yer-wada jail in Pune during his stint there. Commis-sioner of Police S P Ya-

dav, Joint Commissioner of Police Rajwardhan and zonal deputy commis-sioner Ishu Sindhu visit-ed the jail in the evening. A Quick Response Team (QRT) of police has al-ready been deployed near the premises. Though no intelligence inputs have been received about any

possible incident, police are not taking any chanc-es, sources said. Section 144 of CrPC prohibiting assembly of five or more people has been imposed in the area around the prison. Memon’s brother Suleman and cousin Us-man arrived here today. “We have faith in Allah,”

was all they said when accosted by reporters out-side the hotel. Accord-ing to the jail manual, Memon will be woken up early in the morning, al-lowed to take a bath and offered some light re-freshment. He would be given religious books to read or recite prayers. A

team of doctors will ex-amine Memon before the hanging. Chief Judicial Magistrate M M Desh-pande is likely to be pres-ent and she will be read-ing out the operative part of the trial court’s order to Memon. Memon had not yet seen the ‘Fansi Yard’, where the hanging would

take place. The hangman is supposed to pull the lever after a signal from the magistrate. The body should be kept hanging for half an hour, the man-ual says. The doctor will then check the body and declare him dead, and an autopsy would be con-ducted in the jail itself.

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYRemembering APJ Abdul Kalam, the problem-solver

My association with A.P.J. Abdul Kalam began in 1967 when I joined the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Thiruvananthapuram. Through the years, he had been my guide and mentor. I learned about the technology behind rockets and project man-agement from him. We worked together for nearly 20 years — first at Thumba and later on the satellite launch vehicle (SLV-3) project. I owe all my achieve-ments to this great personality. Kalam was a real task-master and used to set impossible targets. At the same time, he used to be our motivator and facilitator. He used to check that we were on the right track and if any mistakes occurred, he would help us analyse and resolve the issues. He saw to it that we achieved suc-cess in the shortest possible time. Kalam never blamed anyone for a mistake or failure. He used to encourage people to put in their best. One of his biggest con-tributions was seeing through the successful progress of the SLV 3 programme in the 1970s. When we got into the SLV programme, we had only been launching small rockets that would go to an altitude of 10 km. Kalam envisioned launching a huge 20-tonne rocket with a spacecraft that would orbit the earth. We had no hope of getting this technology from outside. It was Kalam’s leadership that enabled this to happen. The basic technologies in a rocket system are com-plex and elements are integrated into future missions. The technology for the rocket, control system, naviga-tion system, etc that were developed during the SLV 3 time have formed the foundation for Isro’s PSLV and GSLV systems. One of the remarkable things about Kalam was his intuitive decision-making. He had a knack for spotting trouble well in advance. We en-countered many failures in the SLV programme and he always used to say that failure is the stepping stone to success. Today, Isro’s project management system stands out as one of the most purposeful in the world because of his efforts. After leaving the space pro-gramme, he took up the challenge of providing a mis-sile shield for the country. Prithvi, Agni, Akash, etc are his brainchildren. Later on, he worked on weap-ons systems. When the weapons system was realised, I asked him why we were developing it and he said that only strength can draw the respect of others. He looked at the entire thing as a deterrent. I will not clas-sify Kalam as a pure scientist. He was not the kind of person to write a thesis or solve equations and things like that. But he knew the critical issues in develop-ment programmes, whom to tap — a senior scientist, technician or professor. He had high respect for the professors and teaching staff at our leading science institutions and always used to tap their wisdom. He was able to synthesise the knowledge of hundreds of people to solve a single problem. There is practically no other person who has successfully completed so many missions in such a short time.

“A.P.J. Abdul Kalam backed the nuclear deal India inked with the United States in 2005 and it is a “total canard” that the then president (Kalam) was reluctant to appoint Sonia Gandhi as the prime minister”

- Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said.

Agency | Mumbai

Every time a new film re-leases, we get to hear sto-ries about the “alleged” relationship between the lead pair. The actors are often spotted in each oth-er’s company and give feelers to being in “love”. However, that’s not the case with Sooraj Pancho-li and Athiya Shetty. the

two young star kids have not been allowed to date each other. They were apparently strictly asked to maintain a profession-al relationship and not get emotionally involved with each other in due course. Both Sooraj (son of Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab) and Athi-ya Shetty (daughter of

Suniel Shetty) will make their film debut in Sal-man Khan’s ‘Hero’, an official remake of Sub-hash Ghai’s 1983 name-sake blockbuster star-ring Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Sheshadri. Directed by Nikhil Ad-vani, the film is slated to release on September 11, 2015.

Agency | Mumbai

Humar Qureshi, who cel-ebrated her birthday yes-terday, received birthday wishes from fans and Bollywood actors. Vet-eran actor Rishi Kapoor too tweeted wishing the actor and made a person-al joke on the actor by posting a pic which read: The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap.. Stay safe.. Eat cake! And this post definitely didn’t go down well with Hu-ma’s fans as they thought Rishi Kapoor is making fun of the birthday girl’s weight. Rishi Kapoor, soon retracted the tweet and apologised for the comment saying, “Apol-

Agency | New Delhi

The film, which also stars Jacqueline Fernan-dez, Jackie Shroff and Shefali Shah, is slated to release on August 14.The song showcases the training the lead charac-ters undergo to test their strength and prepare for the final fight.The num-ber is crooned by Vishal Dadlani and composed by Atul-Ajay. As soon as

the song was released on-line, #BrothersAnthem started trending on Twit-ter.Directed by Karan Malhotra, the film is an official Hindi adaptation of the Hollywood film ‘Warriors’ and tells the story of two estranged brothers.Before releas-ing the video, a few stills of Akshay and Sidharth from the song were un-veiled.

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Isha Koppikar, who is best known for her item number Khal-las and was missing from Bollywood for four years, is now all set to make a comeback with a drama titled Assi Nab-be Pure Sau. The film also co-stars Chashme Baddoor actor Divyendu Sharma. The first look of the film was revealed on Tuesday. At the press conference, when Isha asked about the reason for choosing this as her comeback film, she said,

“If I have chosen a film after four years, then it is this one (Assi Nabbe Pure Sau) because it has a fantastic script.” The film has been directed by Ankur Bhatia. About the director and script, she said, “First of all, when a director gives a narra-tion, from that you come to know of his vision and potential. In the last one and half years, what-ever scripts that I had shortlisted or was con-sidering, certain issues cropped up due to which I thought I don’t want

to do the film. For this film, there were no such issues. “The script is of today, it is youth-centric and a hardcore drama. It is a different script and it rang a bell for me. There was a lot to perform and it had everything. There is revenge, romance and story spanning across five decades.” Isha’s last notable venture was the Ram Gopal Varma-pro-duced Shabri which released in 2011. She then made her debut in Marathi films with 2013’s Maat.

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Sanjay Dutt turned 56 on July 29 and the film fraternity, including Anil Kapoor and his All The Best: Fun Begins co-star Ajay Devgn, are waiting for him to come out of jail. The Khalnayak star, who has given hits like Mun-na Bhai MBBS, Vaastav: The Reality and Saajan, is currently serving jail term in Pune’s Yerawada jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts. On his birthday, some of the celebrities took to the mi-croblogging site Twitter to wish the actor: A very happy bday to my elder brother, waiting for you to come.

Khallas Girl Isha Koppikar Making a Comeback With This Film

Akshay, Sidharth together in ‘Brothers Anthem’

Happy Birthday Dhanush: Bollywood’s Raanjhanaa turns 31

Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty not allowed to date?

Agency | Mumbai

Born as Venkatesh Pra-bhu Kasthuri Raja, this talented two-time Na-tional Awardee popu-lar as Dhanush is not just an actor, but also a producer, lyricist, and singer who has gained popularity in both south and Bollywood film in-dustries. He first made his onscreen debut in his father, Kasthuri Ra-ja’s directorial venture, ‘Thulluvadho Ilamai’ in 2002, after which he featured in 25 films over the next decade. Dha-nush is married to super-star Rajinikanth’s elder daughter, Aishwaryaa

and the couple have two sons – Linga and Yatra. Dhanush, who made his Bollywood debut with ‘Raanjhanaa’, cel-ebrates his 31st birth-day today, July 28. The twitterati are flooding his feed with birthday wishes and the actor has been trending with the hashtag #Happy-BirthdayDhanush. Dha-nush has had a fairly successful career down south thanks to films like ‘Kadhal Kondein’, where he played a men-tally disturbed boy and ‘Polladhavan’, which is based on ‘The Bicy-cle Thieves’. His other memorable performance

was in ‘Aadukalam’, where he portrayed the role of a local cockfight-er. The film did well both commercially and critically, earning Dha-nush the National Award for Best Actor. While the actor was considerably popular down South, it was only when he sang ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’ in 2011 that Dhanush shot to fame in Bolly-wood. The song, which was a soundtrack to his wife Aishwaryaa’s di-rectorial debut, ‘3’, be-came the most searched video in India and gained wide popularity across Asia as well.

On Sanjay Dutt’s Birthday, Wishes on Twitter From Celeb Friends

“Take a chill pill” – Huma reacts to Rishi Kapoor’s tweet

ogy. It was my personal joke with Huma on her birthday. If people took umbrage to it and some abuse just for the sake, I retract the same.” But a sweetheart Huma, took the tweet sportingly and

asked fans to take a chill pill. She wrote: Thank you to one of my fave costars the ever amaz-ing @chintskap for bday wishes and love.. Guys , it was a joke ... take a chill pill yaar

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Agency | New Delhi

Gold prices in India may even dip to Rs 20,500 per 10 grams, a level last seen about 5 years ago, in case of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve lat-er this year, according to India Ratings and Re-search.Maintaining the negative outlook on gold prices for the current fis-cal year (2015-16), the rating agency said do-mestic rates may decline and range between Rs 20,500 and Rs 24,000 per 10 grams if the US cen-tral bank hikes interest rates, as widely expected.It also added global pric-es of the precious metal could drop and stay in the range of $900-1,050 per ounce.“Till such time the uncertainty around glob-al growth is reduced, the chances of international gold prices falling below

$900 ounce correspond-ing to pre-2009 levels are remote,” India Rat-ings said. The prices of gold, which is considered a hedge against an eco-nomic uncertainty, may weaken with the expec-tation of an increase in the US real interest rates. “US real interest rates and gold prices have also more or less remained negatively correlated, similarly gold prices and the dollar index histori-cally have a negative cor-relation, but there have been occasional bouts of a positive correlation for a short term,” it further said. On demand side, the rating agency said China and India form close to half of the total world de-mand for gold and they have been maintaining their pace of purchases around the 2011-2012 levels.

Agency | New Delhi

FMCG major Dabur In-dia on Wednesday re-ported 23.86 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 261.11 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2015-16, main-ly on account of robust sales. The company had posted a net profit after taxes, minority interest and share of profit of associates of Rs 210.81 crore for the April-June period of the previous fiscal, Dabur India said in a filing to the BSE. Consolidated total in-

come from operations of the company also rose to Rs 2,069.49 crore for the quarter under review as against Rs 1,868.86 crore in the year-ago pe-riod. Dabur India CEO Sunil Duggal said: “We continue to strengthen our business for long term by driving innova-tion and investing behind our brands. With these initiatives we are confi-dent of growing ahead of the market and improv-ing our market share.” Dabur India stock closed at Rs 290.45, down 1.24 per cent, on the BSE.

Agency | New Delhi

Chinese smartphone mak-er Meizu, after launch-ing its MX5 handset last month, has now intro-duced a successor of its M1 handset, Meizu m2. The entry-level smartphone has been launched in Chi-na at CNY 599 (roughly Rs. 6,200) in Blue, Pink, Grey, and White colour variants. The Meizu m2 smartphone sports a poly-carbonate unibody and

runs the firm’s proprietary Flyme UI 4.5 that’s based on Android 5.1 Lolli-pop. It bears a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) reso-lution display covered by AGC Dragontrail protec-tive glass with pixel densi-ty of 296ppi, and is pow-ered by a 64-bit quad-core MediaTek MT6735 pro-cessor clocked at 1.3GHz, clubbed by 2GB LPDDR3 RAM and Mali T720 GPU.

Agency | New Delhi

Rivalry between two Odisha sprinters — Sar-bani Nanda and Dutee Chand is expected to gain more credence now and that could see them

achieve the Rio Olym-pic Games qualification mark of 23:20 seconds in the women’s 200m. Both Chand and Nanda have clocked below 24secs in the past and this has

Agency | Chennai

The visitors say they will relish the challenge. It was amidst inquisitive stares and sudden bursts of ‘clicking’ generated by the shutterbugs that he ar-rived at the practice ses-sion, his gait confident, unaffected by the awk-wardness that self-con-sciousness imparts. Un-wittingly, Virat Kohli had made himself the focal point of hype ahead of the second unofficial Test between India ‘A’ and Australia ‘A’. If any-thing, the announcement that he would feature in the game, beginning on Wednesday, to gear up for next month’s tour of Sri Lanka has only ac-centuated the sense that the current series is be-ing viewed as little more than a dress rehearsal. And bowling coach Paras Mhambrey did not say anything to change this perception. Asked about

Ban on Sreesanth, Chavan, Chandila to stay: Anurag Thakur

Ashes 2015: More batting woes for Clarke as Australia lose three before lunch

Dabur India Q1 net up 24% at Rs 261 crore

Gold May Plunge to Rs 20,500 Level: India Ratings

Meizu m2 With 13-Megapixel Camera, Android 5.1 Lollipop Launched

Agency | Birmingham

Alastair Cook came into the third Ashes Test des-perate to avoid another 3-30 start. Presumably that did not extend to inflicting it on the oppo-sition, as they did on the opening morning at Edg-baston. David Warner, Steve Smith and, most concerningly for the Aus-tralian hierarchy, captain Michael Clarke were all back in the pavillion with-in the first hour as Jimmy Anderson regained his new-ball aura and Steve Finn gave an emphatic early endorsement of the

decision to pick him for the first time in two years. The captain’s departure for 10, having been com-prehensively bowled by a Finn yorker, extended his barren run of form. In his 15 innings since his courageous 161 not out in Cape Town in March last year, when he withstood a fractured shoulder caused by a buffeting from South Africa’s Morne Morkel, he as only once reached 50: in last summer’s Adelaide Test, when he made 128 in his first in-nings since the death of Phillip Hughes.If Clarke does not score at least 48

before his next dismissal his average will fall be-low 50 for the first time since Australia’s April 2012 tour of the West In-dies. Because of the poor start Australia were given more cause to be grateful Chris Rogers recovered sufficiently from his head blow at Lord’s to retain his place at the top of the order. But even he was not immune to the threat posed by England’s bowl-ers. He almost nicked the first ball of the match, and later cut a Stuart Broad delivery just out of reach of Ben Stokes at back-ward point.

Agency | New Delhi

The BCCI on Wednesday made it very clear that it was not having second thoughts on revoking the ban on former India pac-er S Sreesanth, Mumbai spinner Ankeet Chavan, and Rajasthan off-spin-ner in the wake of a Del-hi Court dropping all charges against them in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case. All the 36 accused persons including Sree-santh, Chavan and Ajit Chandila were discharged in the IPL 6 spot-fixing case by the Patiala House Court last week but the Indian board had refused to lift their ongoing ban.

The Kerala Cricket Asso-ciation had made a plea to the BCCI for allowing Sreesanth to play again but Thakur said there will be no rethink on the life ban of the two cricketers. Earlier on Wednesday, it was reported that Chavan had written a letter to the Mumbai Cricket Associ-ation (MCA), requesting his ban be revoked and he be allowed to resume his cricket career. The MCA was set to meet on August 2 to discuss the request. “The earlier decision of BCCI’s disclipinary commitee ban on this case will stay on,” Thak-ur told reporters. “Disci-plinary proceedings are

different, criminal pro-ceedings are different. The action taken in the past were based on the disciplinary action for the indiscipline of these players, reports subm-mitted by the the an-ti-corruption unit. So the same decision of ban will continue on these play-ers,” he added. All the three accused cricketers had to spend time in jail during the course of in-vestigation. Of the three, Sreesanth and Chavan are currently serving life bans imposed by the BCCI after the scandal shook the high-profile league, while Chandila’s hearing is still on.

Kohli’s arrival generates a buzz around second unofficial Test

Agency | Colombo

Sri Lanka will look to prevent a clean sweep by Pakistan on the cur-rent tour when they clash in two Twenty20 internationals in Co-lombo tomorrow and Saturday. Pakistan won the preceding Test series 2-1 and also clinched the one-dayers 3-2 to earn a double triumph in the is-land nation for the first time since 2006. But Sri Lanka, the reigning World Twenty20 cham-pions and the top-ranked side in the shortest for-mat, get a chance to sal-vage pride in the two end-of-tour games at the Premadasa stadium. Both sides wear a fresh look under new cap-tains, with sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga leading Sri Lanka and veteran Shahid Afridi taking over at the helm for fifth-ranked Paki-stan. While Malinga has retired from Test cricket and played in four of the five one-dayers, Afridi has quit the other two formats and will make his first appearance on the tour. With the next

Sprinters Nanda and Chand hope to qualify for Rio Olympics

Sri Lanka seek comeback in Twenty20s after losing Test and ODI series to Pakistan

World Twenty20 in India just eight months away, both sides have blood-ed new players to give them experience in the nuances of T20 crick-et. Sri Lanka’s 15-man squad includes five un-capped players in bats-men Shehan Jayasuri-ya, Dasun Shanaka and Dhananjaya de Silva, fast bowler Binura Fernan-do and leg-spinner Jef-frey Vandersay. Test and one-day regulars Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne have been

omitted, but seasoned seamer Nuwan Kulase-kara has been recalled after being ignored for the one-day series. “We need to get the younger brigade in the stream so that we have a gradual transition leading up to the next World T20 and the 50-over World Cup beyond that,” Sri Lan-ka’s chief selector Kapi-la Wijegunawardene was quoted as saying in local media. “We need to put them on the ground and see how they perform.”

the likely nature of the brainstorming session in-volving Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav, who are in the squad for Sri Lanka, and their just-arrived Test captain, Mhambrey said: “I’m sure Virat will have his own plans. The way I look at it is that you have young fast bowlers who are clocking speeds of 140 and above. “They are wicket-taking bowlers. At times, they’ll go for runs. But as long as they come

in and do the job required — that’s bowl fast and pick wickets — as a cap-tain, I think he’ll be hap-py.” He reflected on the plight of the pacers in the first match saying: “There wasn’t enough purchase for the seamers. The ball wasn’t coming on, and it was pretty hot out there.” “In terms of the way we bowled, I think they played their roles. That’s what we wanted, and I’m pretty happy with that.”

raised hopes. The day af-ter a landmark judgement of Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) allowed Chand to compete in in-ternational events after overruling a hyperandro-genism case against her, Chand has her eyes firmly focused on the upcoming national meet in Septem-ber. Last year, Chand was at the peak of her per-formance. She clocked 23:57secs in 200m during the junior Asian meet in Chinese Taipei.

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At least 14 persons died after heavy rains battered several districts of north Gujarat on Tuesday, throw-ing normal life out of gear, cutting off power supply to over 2,900 villages, shutting down schools and leading to rain-re-lated accidents. Lakhni taluka of Banaskantha re-ceived a phenomenal 21 inches of rain during the day. Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Reserve Police (SRP) and Bor-der Security Force (BSF) were deployed for rescue operations. Twelve vic-tims who died are from

Banaskantha — one of the worst-affected districts — while two others died in rain-related incidents in Ahmedabad and Kheda districts. “Twelve persons have died in Banaskantha district,” said Banaskan-tha resident additional collector N D Mistry on Tuesday evening. Six bodies have been recov-ered while the authorities are searching for others who went missing in the flooding caused due to heavy rains in Dhanera, Lakhni and Vav talukas of the district. “Banaskantha district received 15 inch rainfall overnight since Monday, of which Lakh-

ni alone had a rainfall of 21 inches,” Mistry add-ed. In Ahmedabad, Ran-jitsinh Thakor (30) died when a tree fell on an au-to-rickshaw opposite No-bel Nagar police station around noon on Tuesday. Chief minister Anandiben Patel held a high-level meeting to take stock of the situation in the north. Last month, a flash flood claimed nearly 70 hu-man lives in Amreli. It also claimed a dozen li-ons and hundreds of blue bulls. In the meeting, it was decided to keep the schools and anganwadis in these districts closed for 2-3 days. The chief

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A repairman from Gujarat has successfully designed ‘an AC sofa’ which can be used even at outdoor events and consumes less electricity than the tower air-conditioners. Gandhi-nagar resident Dashrath Patel, who repairs ACs, came up with the idea some years ago. He was helped by the Nation-al Institute of Design in developing the product. “I first thought of install-ing air-conditioner in a sofa in 2008 and started

working on it. But the first sofa I made weighed around 175 kg, which was way too heavy,” Patel. “Then I heard of ‘Design Clinic Scheme’ of MSME ministry and I approached them. They provided me a designer who modified the design and changed the materi-al, reducing the weight to 35 kgs,” Patel said. The design clinic scheme of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium En-terprises is being run in collaboration with NID since 2010, said Kumar-

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The sting of the mosquito is already getting sharper with the rising number of dengue cases stok-ing fears of a possible outbreak in the coming weeks. Since July 1, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run VS, LG, and Shardaben hospitals have together registered 92 dengue cases, against only 16 last year. Vari-ous private hospitals in Gurukul, SG Highway, Thaltej, Rakhial, Sola and Memnagar regis-tered 190 cases this July.Even as the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

attributed the spike in the number of patients to intermittent rain, doctors said this is only the be-ginning as the monsoon has just gained momen-tum in the city. “We’ve seen 50 dengue cases this month,” said Jayesh Trivedi, MD, internal medicine. “The condi-tions have become con-ducive for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. In fact, there will be more cases once rain activity subsides as mosquitoes will breed in stagnant pools of water.” Not only has there been a sharp rise in the cases, but dengue is also more virulent this time.

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Despite heavy rain, Pati-dar community members trickled to Vijapur in Me-hsana district on Tuesday morning to take out a rally demanding reservation for Patels in government jobs and education. The rally was peaceful and ended after a memorandum was submitted to Vijapur mam-latdar. On the ground, lead-ers threatened that peaceful protests will turn violent if administration attempts to intimidate Patidar leaders or police attempt to arrest them. Hardik Patel, conve-ner of Patidar Anamat An-dolan Samiti, Gujarat, said, “Our peaceful protests will turn violent if any of our taluka or district leaders are threatened or police at-tempt to arrest any conve-ner of the stir. Gujarat will see never-witnessed-be-fore violence for which the party in power (BJP) and opposition (Congress) will be responsible.”

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A division bench of Gu-jarat high court com-prising Justice Mohin-der Pal and Justice R D Kothari on Tuesday began hearing the ap-peals in the 2002 Naro-da Patia massacre case. Refusing to give pref-erence in hearing to the appeal filed by former minister Maya Kodnani, the bench said it would hear appeals filed by all the accused, the SIT and the witnesses together, and move ahead with the proceedings step by step. Thirty-two convicts, in-cluding Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi, have appealed

against their conviction by the special SIT court for their role in the kill-ing of 97 persons, main-ly women and children on February 28, 2002. The Supreme Court-ap-pointed SIT has sought enhancement in punish-ment and also challenged the acquittal of 29 per-sons. The witnesses, too, have questioned the ac-quittals. Earlier attempts to hear the appeals had attracted controversy af-ter three judges declined to hear them while a for-mer judge’s willingness to hear them despite the opposition of some wit-nesses, took the matter to the Supreme Court.

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With continual rains lash-ing parts of Gujarat, so far nine of the total 202 small and large dams and res-ervoirs in the state have filled to the capacity, a government release said

in Ahmedabad on Tues-day. Water level in Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada River touched the mark of 120.72 meters on Tues-day, just a meter away from the dam height of 121.92 meters, the release

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Even as the nation mourned the loss of for-mer President APJ Ab-dul Kalam, who passed away on Monday evening while delivering a lecture at IIM Shillong, his ties to Gujarat and many of its institutions endeared him to the state, which he visited frequently over the years. Speaking about Kalam’s penchant for Gujarat, IIM-A gold medalist and adviser to Kalam for six years, Sri-jan Pal Singh, says, “Few people know that Ka-lam’s tryst with Gujarat began with his fascina-tion with state’s agricul-tural growth at 8.9 %. In fact, during my MBA at IIM-A, I had made a pre-sentation to him on the ‘Gujarat model of agri-culture’. The book Tar-get 3 billion that I co-au-thored with him has 14

14 killed as heavy rain lashes northern parts

APJ Abdul Kalam wanted Gujarat to take lead in becoming the green energy corridor

Gujarat mechanic designs ‘AC sofa’ with help from NID alumnus

minister also announced Rs 4 lakh compensation to the kin of those who have died in rain-related accidents. Power supply to over 2,929 villages in this region have been af-

fected after rain water flooded power sub-sta-tions in the region. Four teams of NDRF and two companies of SRP have been sent to Banaskantha which is one of the worst

affected. One team of NDRF and two teams of BSF have also been posi-tioned in Kutch. About 10 mobile dispensaries have also been kept on standby in Gandhinagar.

pages on Gujarat’s agri-growth model as well. Kalam, while speaking to the industry at Bharuch almost six months back, said he wanted Gujarat to take lead in becoming the green energy corridor for the nation. He had also spoken of a huge plan for solar power (generation) at Kutch during the Chin-tan Shibir headed by then CM and now PM Naren-dra Modi back in 2009.”

Singh, a mechanical engi-neer and an IIM-A alum-nus did a two-month-long internship with Kalam after graduating from IIM-A, before joining him full time as an advis-er. Singh, who graduated from IIM-A in 2009 and was with Kalam in his fi-nal hours, recalls, “I hap-pened to briefly meet him during my MBA course in 2008 when he asked me to use my education

to transform the lives of the needy. His words in-spired a lot of us to get into this area as Kalam had this quality to inspire in you, things greater than yourself. Many of us will continue to work in mis-sions started by him like ‘India 2020’ and Provi-sion of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA). He was like the sun and we were all planets orbit-ing around him.

pal Parmar, Project Ex-ecutive at the institute. It was Ankit Vyas, an NID alumnus, who helped Pa-tel make his innovation

lighter and affordable. Patel said he will launch the sofa in the market with a price tag of Rs 1-1.25 lakh.

Spike in dengue cases, outbreak fears rise

Patels take out peaceful rally at Vijapur

HC begins hearing of Naroda Patia appeals

On a complaint filed in the apex court by the SIT and the witnesses against the hurried man-ner in which Justice R R Tripathi was conducting the hearing by taking up Kodnani’s appeal sole-ly, the Supreme Court stayed the proceedings

for two months. Later, three judges - Justice G B Shah, Justice M R Shah and Justice K S Jhaveri — recused them-selves from hearing the matter. Two judges even complained that some accused had tried to ap-proach them.

9 Dams in Gujarat Filled to Brim Due to Incessant Rainssaid. As per the govern-ment figures, three of the 137 dams in Saurashtra region, four out of 20 in Kutch region, one out of 17 in central Gujarat re-gion and one out of 13 dams in south Gujarat have filled to the brim. With the continuous in-flow of water, 17 dams were put on high-alert, while 10 others on alert, as they have filled up to 80 to 90 per cent, the re-lease added. Apart from these 27 dams, nine other dams are filled up 70 to 80

per cent of their total ca-pacity, while the remain-ing 166 dams are having less than 70 per cent of water of their holding ca-pacity, stated the release. With this recent spell of showers, Gujarat’s aver-age rainfall for the sea-son now stands at 51.67 per cent, in which, Kutch received 82.17 per cent, north Gujarat 68.22 per cent, east-central region 39.94 per cent, Saurashtra 58.33 per cent and south Gujarat received 42.35 per cent, the release said.

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The EPIC Channel, India’s first segment-ed Hindi entertain-ment channel recently launched ‘Stories by Rabindranath Tagore’ recreated by the ac-claimed director, Anu-rag Basu. The show fo-cusses on strong women protagonists who pushed boundaries and defied society in 19th century

Amrita Puri Makes Her Television Debut With The EPIC Channel

The Actress Enacts‘Charulata’ On

Anurag Basu’s ‘Stories by Rabindranath Tagore’

Bengal through songs, cultural references and newfound political and social manifestations. The strong, confident ac-tress, Amrita Puri takes on the role of ‘Charula-ta’ in a Tagore story ti-tled, ‘The Broken Nest’ as her television debut

on The EPIC channel. This episode will air on August 3 at 10pm on The EPIC Channel.