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Man sentenced to life for

murdering wife

Agency | Balrampur

One person was sen-tenced to life imprison-ment by a court here for the murder of his wife four years back. Kamal Prasad was found guilty of killing his wife in April, 2012, at Pachper-wa village here, district government counsel Uma Shanker Singh said today. A case had been registered against Prasad on the basis of a com-plaint lodged by his son.Minor Dalit girl

raped; accused held

Salman’s sister Arpita delivers

baby boy

Agency | Ballia

A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gan-graped by two persons in Sikanderpur area here, police said today. The accused, Dharmen-dra Chauhan and Ajay kidnapped and raped the minor on Monday, they said. However, they were arrested yesterday after the victim’s father lodged an FIR, police said.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s sister Arpita Khan Sharma and her husband Aay-ush Sharma have wel-comed a baby boy. This is the first child of the couple, who got married in 2014. Aayush took to social media to share a photo to announce the arrival of their son, Ahil. “Our wait is over. Our little prince Ahil has arrived. Love Arpita and Aayush. P.S. mother and son are doing fine,” the post on Instagram read.

Several injured in a blast by Maoists in Dantewada“In Naxal Attack”

7 CRPF men killed in Chhattisgarh

Facing backlash, Kanhaiya Kumar forced to clarify on 1984 vs 2002 riots remark

High Court stays Uttarakhand floor test, hearing adjourned till April 6

Agency | New Delhi

Facing criticism for his remarks suggesting that there was a difference be-tween the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the 2002 Guja-rat riots, JNUSU pres-ident Kanhaiya Kumar was forced to clarify his stand, now saying: “both 1984 and 2002 were in-deed state led pogroms for which justice is still awaited.” Kanhaiya, during a panel discussion on “Voices of Azaadi” at the “Jashne-e-azaadi” festival, said: “there’s a difference between Emergency and fascism. During Emergency, goons of only one party were engaged into goon-daism, in this (fascism) entire state machinery

Agency | Mumbai

In a major development, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday backed the entry of women inside the core shrine area of Shani Shingnapur temple located in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Responding to a bunch of petitions challenging the ban on women’s entry inside the ancient tem-ple, the court observed that ‘’women cannot be barred from entering the Shani Shinganapur tem-ple.’’ ‘’Even women can go where men can,’’ the high court said. There is no law preventing en-try of women, if men

Agency | Mumbai

Kingfisher Airlines chair-man Vijay Mallya on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court through a sealed envelope his willingness to repay Rs 4,000 crore to an SBI-led consortium by Septem-ber. A bench comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman allowed the consortium of banks a week’s time to respond to the proposal and post-ed the matter for further hearing on April 7. In an emailed statement, SBI said, “In respect of

Agency | Raipur

Seven personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed on Wednesday after their vehicle was hit by a land-mine planted by Naxals in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh. The at-

tackers also took away their weapons. CRPF officials said a Tata-709 mini-truck ran over the landmine at 4pm in Mel-awada village. The blast killed all the seven occu-pants of the vehicle. The landmine was planted by Maoists under a black top

or puccka road and the soldiers were travelling in a three-vehicle convoy, the officials said. The im-pact of the blast was such that it created a four-feet-wide crater on the spot, they said. The officials said the troops belonged to the 230th Battalion of

Agency | Nainital

Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday stayed the floor test scheduled for March 31 while adjourn-ing the hearing of the case till April 6. The court ob-served that several legal issues have to be consid-ered while putting a stay on the floor test scheduled for March 31. Appearing on behalf of the Centre, Attorney General Mukul Rohtag had argued that the court order on Tues-day directing a floor test amounted to suspending presidential proclamation and no purpose would be

Bombay High Court backs entry of women in Shani Shinganapur temple

Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines loan: Offer made to pay Rs 4,000 crore to settle case

are allowed, even wom-en should, the high court maintained. The Bombay HC, while agreeing to hear the matter on April 1, also asked the Maha-rashtra government led by Chief Minister De-vendra Fadnavis to make a statement before it on the same day. The ruling

came several weeks after a bunch of Public Interest Litigations (PIL) were filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the century-old tradition of prohibiting entry of wom-en inside the core shrine area of Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.

One such PIL was filed by two women activists - Vidya Bal and Nilima Varta – sought directions to the state government and temple authorities to ensure that the prohibi-tion is set aside and wom-en are given entry not just inside the temple but also in the sanctum sanctorum. The petition claimed that the prohibition is arbi-trary, illegal and violative of the fundamental rights of a citizen. Besides, such a prohibition also encour-ages gender disparity, the petition said. Women, as per an over century-old tradition, were not al-lowed to enter the Shani temple till 2011.

is resorting to goonda-ism. There is a difference between riots of 2002 and 1984 Sikh riots. A day later, his colleagues in the Left movement refused to back his re-marks saying one must not draw comparisons between the two events. “Why should a left lead-er try to defend the Con-gress government’s role in the anti-Sikh riots, something that even Ra-

hul Gandhi and his party cannot defend?” AISA president Sucheta De, said. Shehla Rashid, also of AISA, chose to steer clear of Kanhaiya’s re-marks saying that while she wasn’t present at the event where the remarks were made, “both 1984 and 2002 were acts of state sponsored violence and we must not draw contrasts between two human tragedies.”

On Wednesday afternoon it was revealed, in a proposal in sealed cover given to SC by Kingfisher

Airlines, that Vijay Mallya has indicated his willingness to repay around Rs 4,000 crore loan to

banks by September this yeardues of Kingfisher Air-lines to the consortium of Banks, State Bank of In-dia has received an offer for settlement of dues on Wednesday which is be-ing examined.” Appear-ing for Kingfisher and Mallya, C S Vaidyana-than said that the copy of the proposal was given to the consortium of banks on Wednesday. He also requested the bench that the proposal should be kept in a sealed cover for the time being, as negoti-ations were going on for

the settlement and media hype could vitiate the at-mosphere. Mallya offered to pay Rs 2,000 crore to settle all claims. How-ever, the consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India (SBI) turned down the offer saying they were not willing to take a haircut. Kingfisher

Airlines (KFA), now de-clared a wilful defaulter by multiple banks, owes lenders Rs 6,963 crore. Two senior bankers who are part of the consortium confirmed Mallya had ap-proached lenders through one of his companies ask-ing for a settlement by paying Rs 2,000 crore.

served by a floor test as there was no government in place. The A-G asked the court to suspend the floor test order for three days and hear the mat-ter fully next week. The High Court had earlier on Wednesday pulled up the Centre over the imposi-

tion of President’s rule in the state. The High Court said that the floor test is the best test and correct arena to prove majority in state assemblies, add-ing that President’s rule was imposed despite the state Governor calling for a floor test.

the CRPF deployed in south Bas-tar area for anti-Naxal operations. Preliminary reports said the squad was led by a sub-inspector rank officer and was moving on an administrative task as they were not wearing uniform. “All the weapons of the troops have been looted by Naxals. Reinforcement squads have reached the spot,” an officials said. Chhattisgarh acting home minister Ajay Chandrakar has also informed the state assem-bly that seven security personnel were killed in the landmine blast.

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DAYthe rapid rise of Patanjali AyurvedIn the case of Patanjali Ayurved, a home-grown firm with interests in businesses such as food, consumer packaged goods and healthcare. IIFL Institutional Eq-uities, for instance, in a recent report termed Patanjali a credible threat for consumer goods firms—not try-ing to beat others at their game but changing the game for them. It expects the company to clock revenues of Rs.20,000 crore by fiscal year 2020. Patanjali is estimated to have more than doubled its sales to about Rs.5,000 crore in the current fiscal year. These are big numbers and the firm’s growth trajectory is reported to be spreading nervousness in some boardrooms as well. It is also one of the biggest advertisers on Indi-an television. Patanjali Ayurved started in 2007 and has benefited from close association with well known yoga guru Baba Ramdev. The company is different from a typical business and the stated philosophy is to plough back profits into the company or to be used for social causes. The idea is to be present in as many cat-egories as possible in order to give consumers more choices, and profits are to be reinvested in innovation and capacity expansion so pricing can be made more competitive.The firm, in fact, has priced its product at a significant discount to others in a number of cat-egories, which is helping drive sales. Patanjali is also said to be benefiting from a shift in consumer prefer-ences towards herbal and ayurvedic products which are considered to be closer to nature. It has also posi-tioned itself as a swadeshi brand, which has an appeal among a category of consumers. However, the critical question now is, what does the rapid rise of Patanjali mean for other businesses in categories where it has a marked presence or plans to enter? To be sure, the rise of Patanjali has increased competition for incum-bents in a number of product categories. But the effect of competition is likely to be different for different companies. While the impact is likely to be more pro-found on smaller businesses with a limited product portfolio, the effect on established companies with leadership positions and strong balance sheets is like-ly to be limited for a number of reasons. For instance, Patanjali is currently focusing on adding more cate-gories and products, which will give time to compa-nies with scale and depth to adjust if required. Firms with leadership positions in respective categories are there for good reasons and not necessarily because of lack of competition—they can always adjust their product portfolios if consumer preferences actually begin to shift. There are also potential difficulties that Patanjali could face as a business. For instance, it has ventured into too many products and categories and all may not do well. It is not clear what the company will do in that case.

“there is no law that prevents entry of women in any place. If a male can go and pray before the deity then why not women? It is the state government’s duty to protect the rights of women,” - the Bombay High Court observed Wednesday while stating that any

temple or person imposing such restriction can face a six month jail term under a Maharashtra law...

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan is not only fond of her Ki And Ka co-star Ar-jun Kapoor’s acting, but now she also admires his confidence on the ramp. Arjun walked for ace de-signer Manish Malhotra at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week and Ka-reena, who cheered both her friends (Arjun and Manish) sitting in the au-dience was all praise for the 30-year-old actor’s stint as show-stopper. “Since this was the first time I saw him walking the ramp, I think he did

the catwalk quite well. He was quite confident and that’s what I liked,” the Bajrangi Bhaijaan actress said. Kareena, 35, who herself looked gorgeous in a sari, praised Manish and said the 50-year-old designer is one of the per-sons to whom she owes her success. “I am short of words. The reason I am what I am today, there are a lot of people behind that and one of them is Man-ish. The long journey of 16 years, it wouldn’t have been possible without Manish. I am very happy to be a part of this show,” she said.

Agency | New Delhi

Superstar Salman Khan is very active on social media sites and Twitter is one place where he directly talks to his fans. The latest to make debut on Twitter from the Khan clan is Salman’s father Salim Khan. Noted script-writer Salim Khan joined Twitter on March 29. In a series of tweets, Salim Khan wrote about what Mohan Bhagwat – Sar-

sanghchalak, of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang said about creat-ing India great that peo-ple will themselves say Bharat Mata Ki Jai. He wrote, “Mohan Bhagwat has said we have to cre-ate an India so great that people will themselves say Bharat Mata Ki Jai. Salaam Bhagwat Saab! Lot of people say with pride that they haven’t changed. That means

they are not growing. change is growth. Bharat Mata Ki Jai. -Luv, Salim Khan.” Father Salim Khan was welcomed by Dabangg actor Salman Khan on the social net-working platform. Sal-man wrote, “Luv u dad, wlcm to twitter @lu-vsalimkhan.” After read-ing the very first tweets of Salim Khan, we no-ticed a similar pattern of writing in Salman and his tweets.

Agency | New Delhi

A court in New Delhi on Wednesday acquitted Irom Sharmila, who has been on a 15-year-long hunger strike to press for the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, from charges of at-tempt to suicide. Metro-politan Magistrate Har-vinder Singh acquitted Sharmila in the case reg-istered in 2006. The court on March 4, 2013 framed

Agency | New Delhi

An injunction suit has been filed against Tam-il superstar Rajnikanth and his fans, for wasting thousands of litres of milk during the release of his films. Petitioner Dr IMS Manivanna has asked the superstar to come for-ward wilfully and stop the wastage. The petition-er has also appealed to the court to give directives to the actor and his fans. A notice has been sent to the actor and the court has asked him to respond to it. The case was filed on March 26 and the next hearing will be on April 11. Of late, Rajinikanth has been dragged into a number of controversies. His last outing Lingaa has been mired in one controversy after another

Richa Chadha rushed to hospital after fainting

Trailer: Randeep Hooda turns Haryanvi blood mafia in ‘Laal Rang’

Delhi court acquits activist Irom Sharmila from suicide charge

Raees: When Sunny Leone was Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Laila’

Rajinikanth in legal trouble again, this time over milk wastage

Kareena Kapoor Likes Arjun’s Confidence on Ramp

Salman Khan welcomes father Salim Khan on twitter, here are his first tweets

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Agency | Mumbai

Richa Chadha, who is a trained Kathak and con-temporary dancer, was recently rehearsing for a dance show (which is set to take place in Lucknow), when she collapsed due to low blood pressure. Besides practising for the event, the actor has also been shooting for two of her upcoming movies. As a result, she felt weak and fainted at the rehears-al venue on March 27. A source close to Richa re-veals, “She has been on a strict diet to keep herself in shape for her roles. She has literally been juggling all these projects. Since she had made a commit-ment to the dance event

Agency | Mumbai

While Randeep Hoo-da is keeping his fans anxious about his next big flick, ‘Sarbjit,’ the trailer of his upcoming film, ‘Laal Rang’ is out and presents him as a colourful Haryanvi lad. The film deals with the prevalent blood trade in Haryana of which very few know about. Flaunt-ing raw Haryanvi accent, Randeep plays Shankar, a blood merchant, who swears by Lord Shiva and believes that the job being done, irrespective of whether good or bad, must be done with full honesty. He sells blood in exchange of blood in the film. The ‘Rang ragad ke’

Agency | Mumbai

Expressing her happiness, the 34-year-old actress re-cently took to her Twitter handle and shared a pic of herself showing ‘Raees’ batch and wrote, ‘So hap-py I got to be a part of the 100th day of @RaeesThe-Film with @iamsrk @ra-huldholakia @ritesh_sid #thegoodlife.’ Producer Ritesh Sidhwani also took to his Twitter to thank the ‘Jism 2’ actress for being a “fab Laila O’Laila.” Nota-bly, Sunny and King Khan will be dancing on the re-mix version of the pop-ular song ‘Laila O Laila’ from the movie ‘Qurbani,’ which originally featured Feroz Khan and Zeenat Aman. The movie, which is directed by Rahul Dhola-kia and produced by Gauri Khan, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under their banners Red Chillies Entertainment and Excel Entertainment, also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and

a while back, she did not want to back out at the last moment. So, she was rehearsing for her per-formance whenever she found the time for it, es-pecially late at night, af-ter wrapping up her films’ shoots.” Eventually, though, the hectic sched-ule ended up taking a toll on her health. She was immediately rushed to a hospital, where the doc-

tor told her that her strict diet and stressful sched-ule were the reasons for her low blood pressure. The source says, “Richa was kept under obser-vation for almost three hours and was discharged with a long list of dos and don’ts.” Because of the condition of her health, however, the Masaan (2015) star will not be able to attend the event.

charges against Sharmila for attempting to com-mit suicide in Delhi and put her on trial after she

refused to plead guilty. Sharmila denied attempt-ing suicide while fasting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

song teaser from the film was received well by the audience. Also starring Akshay Oberoi of ‘Piz-za 3D’ fame, Pia Bajpai, Rajniesh Duggall and Meenakshi Dixit, ‘Lal

Rang’ highlights the less talked about blood mafia festering in the country. Directed by Syed Ahmed Afzal, ‘Laal Rang’ is set to hit theatres on April 22, 2016.

Pakistani actor Mahira Khan in the lead roles. The film is slated to hit theatres on 3 July. “It’s a dance track, an item number which is part of the film

and not an end-credit song. The set is that of an old ret-ro bar. The situation is that it is a bar where they are selling alcohol in the pre-text of selling cold drinks.

from the time of its mak-ing. The film’s distribu-tors had made a demand that Rajinikanth pay for the losses they suffered as the film turned out to be a dud. Lingaa had an-

other case of plagiarism against it, with two dif-ferent people, Sakthivel and aspiring filmmak-er KR Ravi Rathinam, claiming that Lingaa’s story was theirs.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPDollar bulls retreat as Yellen stresses need for caution

Modi govt cuts e-commerce price advantage to save retail

Pvt investment, rural consumption must for India’s growth: ABD

Agency | New Delhi

At first sight, it seemed like a simple three-page document that arrived by post. A closer look, however, showed how it was capable of having a far-reaching effect on the country’s retail sector and e-commerce marketplace. The press note titled Guidelines for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on e-commerce, issued by the Department of Indus-trial Policy and Promotion on Tuesday evening, made a policy-level attempt to rein in the Indian e-commerce business by creating a ‘level-playing field’ in the overall Indian retail market. The stated intention of the note was to clarify that the gov-ernment allows 100% FDI in business-to-business e-commerce companies but not in business-to-con-sumer ones. This also means that the said automat-ic approval applies only to companies that do not hold any stock, but act as a marketplace where

vendors can sell their products and services.

Agency | Tokyo

Dollar bulls were on the defensive on Wednesday after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s cautious tone left markets wondering if there will be even one hike to US interest rates this year. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Yellen stressed the need to be cautious in raising rates and high-lighted external risks, including low oil prices and slower growth abroad. Her stance was in contrast to some of her colleagues who last week suggested another tightening may be around the corner. “The communication from global central banks at the moment is causing a bit of consternation for mar-kets in terms of consistent policy signals, or lack thereof,” said Sue Trinh, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets in Hong Kong. “But Yel-len has spoken, and that’s seen a reversal for the

U.S. dollar,” she said.

Agency | Goa

A revival of private investment and rural consump-tion is critical for India if growth is to remain strong in 2016-17 and the following year, Asian Develop-ment Bank (ADB) said Wednesday. Unveiling the economic prospects for India in its Asian Devel-opment Outlook (ADO) 2016, ADB said: “While, public investment and urban consumption were the major drivers for growth last fiscal, a revival of private investment and rural consumption is crit-ical if growth is to remain strong in 2016-17 and 2017-18, given the likely sluggish recovery in the advanced economies and the anemic outlook for global trade.” ADB said India’s economic growth is expected to decline to 7.4 percent in the 2016-17 fiscal, from 7.6 percent in the current financial year ending tomorrow, due to weak global demand and falling exports. India’s urban consumption may be boosted due to impending salary hike for government employees, however, revival of rural consumption hinges on the quality of the monsoon because a major part of the rural economy contin-ues to depend heavily on agriculture.

Gujarat Lions announce Oxigen Services as title sponsor for IPL 2016

Indian Open: Saina Nehwal ready for the grind again

Batsmen except Kohli need to bring ‘A’ game for semifinal: Shastri

Shahid Afridi begs for forgiveness after Pakistan’s horror show

India vs West Indies: this could be the year for West Indies, says Darren Sammy

Agency | Mumbai

West Indies captain Dar-ren Sammy on Wednes-day insisted that his side would be no pushover in the World Twenty20 semifinal clash against India on Thursday even though it seems like a “David vs Goliath con-test”.“I think it is 80-20 to India, so it feels like David vs Goliath contest but people tend to forget David won the fight, so it’s something similar to that,” said Sammy on the eve of the clash in Mum-

bai. “We haven’t played the perfect game yet. We are stressing on rotation of strike. It is clear that we are a big boundary -hitting team. We look at the dot-ball percent-age, probably it is 40-50 per cent for us, and we could improve on that. So far, we have bowled really well in the tourna-ment and on a few occa-sions, one batsman has taken responsibility,” he said. Sammy said he has a feeling that it is going to be West Indies’ year.

Agency | New Delhi

Intex Technologies-owned Gujarat Lions (GL) has announced Oxigen Ser-vices, the leading digital payment solutions com-pany, as its ‘Title Sponsor’ for next month’s ninth edi-tion of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Besides cricket, Oxigen has also been associated with var-ious sports like football – Kerala Blasters Team for the Indian Super League,

hockey during the ‘Hock-ey India League’, a cricket tournament between India and Sri Lanka, for the spe-cially abled, in alignment with its sports-focused marketing strategy. Oxi-gen has also announced a budget of Rs. 100 crores for sports marketing ac-tivities for the current fis-cal year. Commenting on their new association,Gu-jarat Lions owner Keshav Bansal said, “We are very

Agency | New DelhiThe badminton hall at the Siri Fort Complex is buzzing. Shuttles float in the air, with intermit-tent echoes of hysteri-cal laughter amidst loud chattering. All six courts are occupied with players getting one final feel of the venue before the main rounds of the India Open begin Wednesday. The

Japanese, Chinese, Indo-nesians, Koreans and the Danish are all there. So is Saina Nehwal, among the first to be there for practice. By the time she steps off the court, nearly two-and-a-half hours lat-er, everyone else except the three Danish boys and a few autograph – rather, selfie – hunters have left.It’s been a long

Agency | Mumbai

India’s top order bats-men have not performed well enough at the World Twenty20, with the ex-ception of Virat Kohli, and must improve against a dangerous West In-dies side in Thursday’s semi-final, team direc-tor Ravi Shastri said on Wednesday. You need it (a performance) in a big game like the semi-fi-nals,” Shastri told report-

ers on Wednesday. “I still believe we have played to 70% of our ability in this tournament so there’s 30% where we can im-prove. “So let’s hope it happens tomorrow be-cause in a semi-final you have to get your ‘A’ game.”Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma have failed to build a solid foundation for India and their opening stands of five, 14, 42 and 23 have put pressure on the mid-

Agency | Mumbai

Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out of the remain-der of World Twenty20. The left-handed batsman has been replaced with Manish Pandey, who had joined the squad in Mumbai as cover ahead of Thursday’s semifinal against the West Indies. The International Crick-et Council (ICC) in a statement on Wednesday confirmed that the event

technical committee has approved Pandey’s inclu-sion in place of Yuvraj, who suffered a ligament injury during India’s last league game against Aus-tralia on Sunday. Team director Ravi Shastri said Yuvraj will be missed and his absence have an im-pact on the Indian team’s c o m p o s i t i o n . “ I t w i l l have an impact because he’s had his moments. I thought his three overs

Agency | New Delhi

Sahid Afridi has apolo-gised to his countrymen after Pakistan’s shambolic performance in the ICC World Twenty20. The team got off to a great start against Bangladesh in their opening encounter at the Eden Gardens but lost their next three matches to arch-rivals India, New Zealand and Australia. Afridi said he owed an apology to the nation after

the team failed to deliver “Today, I would like to apologise to the whole na-tion for not performing to the standards of what was expected from us,” Afridi said. “I just want to tell you all that I have repre-sented this green colour for 20 years, and whenev-er I stepped into the field, I carried the emotions of the people of this coun-try with me,” he added. (Waqar Younis offers to

Manish Pandey replaces injured Yuvraj in Wt20 squad

India vs West Indies: this could be the year for West Indies, says Darren Sammy

“It (tournament) means a lot. No team has won the event twice. Later today, we will know if New Zealand or England wins, if we will have a possibility of that. Our game tomorrow creates that opportunity as well. For me, I have always enjoyed playing for the West Indies. “I think this year could be the year for the West Indies. The Under-19 team started it in Bangladesh (by win-ning the U19 World Cup) and both the men and the women’s teams took that as inspiration. “Come tomorrow, we have two West Indian teams (men and women) vying for a spot in the final. I really wish both teams could go to the finals and win it. So, 2016 could be the year where West Indies take home everything,” he concluded.

happy to have a leading brand like Oxigen to be associated with Gujarat Lions as the title sponsor. Considering the synergy between the two leading brands in consumer tech-nology space, it is indeed a value addition to the Gujarat Lions.” “Inte-grating Gujarat Lions with our parent brand, Intex will help in cross-lever-aging the strengths and create a strong brand re-call amongst consumers.” he added. Ankur Saxena , Director and Chief Men-tor of Oxigen Wallet, also expressed his views on the new development. “We are delighted to sponsor Gujarat Lions, the “new-est” IPL team with the” youngest owner”.

and strenuous session. But Saina and her coach Vimal Kumar leave con-tent – Vimal with a broad smile and Saina looking slightly pensive initially but then grinning when prompted by her mother from the stands. Accord-ing to Vimal, this is the fittest his ward has been since the World Champi-onship last August. The intervening period has seen Saina go through what, by her admission, has been the ‘most chal-lenging phase of her career’ – an Achilles tendon injury that threat-ened to lay her low for a long period and loss in confidence.

dle and lower order to provide the bulk of the scoring. Left-hander Suresh Raina’s scores of one, zero, 30 and 10 have not been that helpful either, and calls for the number four batsman’s omission from the team have gained momentum.Kohli has scored most of the runs for the world’s top-ranked team, with two half-centuries in the tournament, and almost single-handedly guided India to victory in their steep run chase against 50-overs champions Aus-tralia on Sunday. “You can’t depend on one or two players, you need six to seven players to step up. It has not happened really in this tournament, let’s hope tomorrow it’s a start.

were brilliant in the last game. That really put the brakes on the scoring and allowed us to come back into the game,” Shastri said. “After the first four overs it was a no-con-test, because at one stage it looked like 200-plus which would have been very difficult to chase on that surface. So he will be missed. Unfortunate it’s an injury that happened during the game. Looking to take off, he did his an-kle in and I believe it’s a minor tear in the ankle.” Yuvraj’s injury will mean the Indian team manage-ment will have to decide on whether to draft in a specialist batsman – Pan-dey or Ajinkya Rahane – or get in a spin-bowling all-rounder, like Pawan Negi, in the eleven. Shastri said the team composition was yet to be discussed.

quit as Pakistan coach ) Pakistan coach Waqar Younis had yesterday slammed the players and held them responsible for their poor show. More-over, in his report submit-ted to PCB’s fact-finding committee, Waqar laid the blame for the sloppy campaign solely on the players. According to a report in Pakistan daily, The Express Tribune, Af-ridi declined to appear be-fore the fact-finding team constituted by PCB to find out the reason behind Pa-kistan’s poor form in re-cent tournaments.“What will happen tomorrow or what people are saying, I swear to God, I don’t care about it because I’m an-swerable to you all,” Af-ridi was quoted as saying.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Pakistan Marine Secu-rity Agency (PMSA) on Wednesday apprehend-ed 55 Indian fishermen and seized their boats for allegedly violating its territorial waters at the Arabian Sea off Jakhau coast. “PMSA arrested 55 fishermen with their 10 boats while they were operating near the Inter-national Boundary Line

(IMBL) off Jakhau coast. Majority of these boats are from Okha and Man-groal ports of Gujarat,” Manish Lodhari, gener-al secretary of Gujarat chapter of National Fish-workers Forum said. But fisheries officers said that they received reports of 11 boats being alleged-ly abducted by the Pa-kistan agency. But they could only confirm the

Correspondent | Vadodara

After missing out the race of the first 20 Smart Cit-ies chosen under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart City Project, Va-dodara Municipal Corpo-ration (VMC) has stepped up its Swachh Bharat Mis-sion, doling out the awards to the winners of the Swa-chhata competition organ-ised between January 26

and March 20 to encour-age cleanliness in the city. At the award ceremony of Swachhata competition on Tuesday, Gujarat Gov-ernor Om Prakash Kohli awarded the 105 win-ners — local authorities, schools, slums, residential colonies, places of reli-gious worship and institu-tion — a cash prize of Rs 5,001, a winner’s trophy

Correspondent | gandhinagar

All Congress MLAs pres-ent in the Gujarat As-sembly on Tuesday were suspended for a day by Speaker Ganpat Vasava after they protested the re-jection of one of their res-olutions on preservation of forest land around Gir National Park, alleged-ly against rules and past decisions of the House. Later, addressing media-persons, Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil alleged

that the Speaker had re-jected the resolution of a Congress MLA, following a request from the state government, since they realised that a discussion on the same would bring the land deal involving Wildwood Resort — own-ers of which are business partners of Chief Minister Anandiben Patel’s daugh-ter, Anar Patel — on the record of the House. As soon as the proceedings of the House commenced, Congress MLAs demand-

Correspondent | gandhinagar

The Government of Gu-jarat today announced ‘Gujarat waste to energy policy 2016’ and ‘Gja-rat Small Hidel Policy – 2016’ for power gener-ation through solid waste and water resources. Sharing details of these policies, Finance Min-ister Shri Saurabh Patel said, The waste to energy policy will be effective for next five years. Units established in these five years will get benefits of this policy for maximum 25 years. Such projects

will be given land for the project on lease for token rate of Re. 1 by respec-tive local body. The proj-ect will not attract stamp duty. No tax or royalty by local body will need to be paid. Electricity generat-ed will not attract elec-tricity duty. 50% relief will be given in wheeling charge and distribution loss. Local body will supply waste for free to power generation proj-ect up to the project site. Generic tariff will be de-cided by Gujarat Energy Regulatory Commission.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Fate brings two people together but it is love that holds them togeth-er; COLORS Gujarati, the State’s only Gujara-ti GEC hopes to enthrall viewers with its new fic-tion showShukraMangal Premni Vaat, Aema Niya-tino Haath. The show fol-lows the story of Tulsi, a naïve 22 year old woman but with a childlike ap-proach towards life after a misfortunate accident in her childhood. She is left brimming with energy and enthusiasm like that of a little girl and an inno-cence that is her biggest strength. Premiering on 4th April, the show will air every Monday to Sat-urday at 8pm. Produced by veteran producer and theatre actorSanjay Go-

radia under the “SanGo Telefilms” banner, the show is penned by Vip-ul Mehta, who has writ-ten for iconic shows like KyunkiSaasbhiKabhiBa-huthi and Kya HogaNim-mo Kya amongst others. Moreover - Riddhi Dave, granddaughter of the stalwart Sarita Joshi and daughter of the famous Ketki and Rasik Davewill debut as the lead (Tulsi) in the show opposite the charming Vikram Mehta.Elaborating on the same, Sanjay Upadhyay, Pro-graming Head - COLORS Gujarati, “ShukraManga-lquestions the power of fate versus that of love. The show questions val-ues set on the surface by the society as against de-signed by the cosmic forc-es…through the eyes of the protagonist Tulsi.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Residents from Vejalpur area, facing eviction due to the proposed route of Metro-for Gandhi-nagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Company Lim-ited, have refused to shift to the area offered by the government for their relocation saying

that the area falls under “disturbed area” catego-ry which shares its bor-der with Muslim ghetto of Juhapura. At least 22 residents, who have filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court, informed the court Tuesday that the relocation is not accept-able since it falls under disturbed area as notified

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Minster of State for Cul-ture Nanubhai Vanani Tuesday said the gov-ernment and people are duty bound to sustain languages as tools for ensuring cultural integ-rity and strengthen them by honouring their au-thors. He was address-ing an awards distribu-tion function of Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Academy here on Tuesday. He said language was insepara-ble part of a culture and it was peculiar of Indian culture that it never treat-ed any language and cul-

ture as outsiders. “In the Indian context, the beau-ty of this nation is that its civilisation knows no boundaries.” “Like an attempt to split waters would definitely fail, any attempt to separate unity of cultures would amount to perversion which could not replace culture, he said. He said that the government has not obliged writers of Urdu by awarding them, but it was duty-bound to promote every language. He said that a language was not linked to com-munity though a larger

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Around 4,000 villages are now open defecation-free (ODF) in Gujarat while 36,000 women are being trained in changing tra-ditional mindsets of their villages, in alignment with the Modi government’s Swachh Bharat Mission. Speaking at the sidelines of a seminar on ‘Business opportunities in Swachh Bharat Mission’ held at the Entrepreneurship De-velopment Institute (EDI) here Tuesday, Jayanti S

Ravi, Commissioner and Principal Secretary of Ru-ral Development, Govern-ment of Gujarat, said, “The number (of villages) is now about 4,000 approx-imately; we are not yet formally declaring them as open defecation-free. These are certainly vil-lages with 100% individ-ual household latrines and the protocol of this pro-gramme is just starting. We are going to start this process of Nigrani Samitis (in villages) for the pro-

Row over Gir land deal: All Congress MLAs suspended for a day

Pakistan arrests 55 Indian fishermen for allegedly violating its territorial waters

COLORS Gujarati Announces the Launch of ShukraMangal

Govt duty-bound to sustain languages as tools for ensuring cultural integrity

Metro rail project: Residents of Vejalpur junk relocation offer

Vadodara: Swachhata awards for 105, Congress says competition ‘only on paper’

Gujarat: 4,000 villages are open defecation-free in state

Governor O P Kohli recited a slogan from Bhagavad Gita, stating the message of Lord Krishna on cleanliness being a divine quality

As soon as the proceedings of the House commenced, Congress MLAs demanded that a resolution by

Congress MLA from Prantij, Mahendrasinh Baraiya, which was selected for discussion following a draw and

was rejected at the last moment

Say they don’t want to shift to the ‘disturbed area’ which shares its border

with Juhapura, a Muslim ghetto

Gujarat govt announces Waste to Power, and Small Hydel Policy 2016

abduction of five boats which had 28 fishermen on board. “As of now, we have details of five fish-ing boats with 28 fish-ermen on board having been abducted by PMSA. Owners of these boats have formally informed us that they have been detained by Pakistan,” said a fisheries officer posted in Okha. The five boats which have been abducted are Rundra Raj, Macch Raj, Vayu Raj, Anjani Putra-7 and Megh Raj. “All of these boats are registered at Veraval port but had been oper-ating from Okha port of late. They had set sail for a fishing trip on March 14,” the officer further said.

ed that a resolution by Congress MLA from Pran-tij, Mahendrasinh Baraiya, which was selected for dis-cussion following a draw and was rejected at the last moment, be allowed to be discussed in the House. Baraiya even sought clar-ification from the Speaker for rejecting his resolution. However, the Speaker said that the issue was final-ised on Monday evening and it could not be dis-cussed in the House during Question Hour. Then, all Congress MLAs rose on their seats in protest and started showing placards with messages like “Anar ni Mata, Bhrashtachar ni Daata (Anar’s Mother, Donor of Corruption)”, “Gaushala Mate Jamin Monghi, Anar mate Jamin Songhi (Land: expensive for Gau-shala, but cheap for Anar)”, “100 sunar ki, 1 Anar ki”, and “CM-PM Give Resignation”.

cess of checking this pro-gramme. The total number of villages in rural Gujarat is 14,000 (gram pancha-yats) and out of that 4,000 of them are now open def-ecation-free.” Ravi spoke about her department’s ef-forts in roping in women and community leaders in villages to change mind-sets about open defecation and for construction of toilets. “We have started a programme called Swa-chhata Shilpis. We have an excellent network of women self-help groups across Gujarat. So we have decided to identify one such group each from all the 18,000 villages of Gujarat and have 2 of their leaders trained. So we are talking about 36,000 women trained on 3 as-pects of Swachh Bharat Grameen mission.”

and a certificate. Gover-nor O P Kohli recited a slogan from Bhagavad Gita, stating the message of Lord Krishna on clean-liness being a divine qual-ity. Kohli said, “I would like to congratulate all the winners and all those who participated. In In-dia, cleanliness isn’t only a part of basic hygiene, but it is a part of religion. I am glad the Mayor and the VMC decided to turn Swa-chh Bharat Mission into a public movement where the people of Vadodara could participate. In or-der to achieve the cleanli-ness goal, one needs to be self-motivated, have first person approach to partici-pate in activities organised by the government and motivate others to do the same.”section might be using it

as a medium of expres-sion. Later, the minis-ter handed over Sahitya Gaurav awards to five Urdu authors and poets nominated form 2010 to 2014. They are Vasim Malik (2010), M A Ab-basi (2011), Shakil Azmi (2012), Nisar Ahmed Ansari (2013), Musafir Palanpuri (2014). M G Bombaywala, advisor to Academy on selection of winners, said it was heartening to see as many as five Gaurav awards and 11 other prizes in a single programme after a long time. He thanked Academy president Bh-agyesh Jha profusely for the bold initiative of awarding writers living in far-off places. ha said the medium of language helped in creating an at-mosphere of harmony in the society in different region.

under Disturbed Areas Act. Under this act, sale of property is restricted by the government since such areas are considered to be communally sensi-tive. “The suggested area for relocation in Vejalpur is situated in disturbed area and therefore it is not acceptable to the res-idents and the petition-ers. We have given our counter suggestion to the MEGA in the last meet-ing held between the res-idents and the company CEO. We have suggested to relocate the petitioners and other residents either near Manekbaug hall or Prahladnagar,” said ad-vocate Vikram Thakor who represents the peti-tioners in the High Court.