News BriefOdisha flood

situation improvesAgency | Bhubaneswar

The flood situation in Odisha slightly im-proved today with the rains relenting even as the state government asked collectors of five north and coastal dis-tricts to remain watchful of the IMD report on the impact of cyclonic storm ‘Komen’. Though the water level in the Bai-tarani and Budhabalang rivers was receding, the flood water continued to flow above the dan-ger level in the Sub-arnarekha river, Special Relief Commissioner sources said.

Nepalese national held for making hoax

callAgency | Panaji

A Nepalese national was today arrested by Goa police for allegedly making a hoax call about terrorists having “en-tered the state.” “We re-ceived a call in our con-trol room which claimed that seven terrorists have entered the state and they are planning an attack. We immediately swung into action and traced the caller. We found that he made a hoax call,” a senior police officer. The caller, identified as Nim Bahadur from Nepal and currently staying in Goa, was picked up from the Panaji-Margao highway, 10 kms away from the capital city.

114-year old Toda woman

passes awayAgency | Udhagamandalam

A 114-year-old wom-an, said to be the old-est member of the Toda community, passed away at Glenmorgan, near here today following an age-related illness. Rujjammal is survived by five daughters, aged between 72 and 86, and 265 descendants - grand-sons, great-grandsons and great-granddaughters, including six children out of the 2,000-strong Toda population, family sources said. Her hus-band, two other daugh-ters and six sons died be-fore her. The woman had been healthy till recently and had never gone to a hospital or taken medi-cine, they said.

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Kalam and Memon: Does India hate Muslims?“Two funerals”

Kalam’s compassion is the reminder of what we denied Memon, While one worked to build the country, the other wanted to leave it in ruins

‘Commute death penalty of Yakub to honour Kalam’s principles’

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Agency | New Delhi

“Areas where such rain-fall is expected to oc-cur are West Madhya Pradesh, East & West Rajasthan, Gujarat, Sau-rastra & Kutch region”, read a government state-ment. “And with this system gaining more strength, heavy to very heavy monsoon showers are expected to lash parts of Gangetic West Ben-gal, adjoining Mizoram and Tripura and southern parts of Bangladesh”. Heavy to very heavy is also predicted at a few places on 30 July and iso-lated heavy to very heavy on 31 July 2015 over the same region. The current spell of monsoon rains in Gujarat, caused by low

Agency | New Delhi

Government on Thurs-day asserted that the Gurdaspur attack had Pa-kistan connection, saying there is “overwhelming-ly conclusive” evidence that the three terrorists had infiltrated from there to carry out the strike. Home minister Rajnath Singh, who made a state-ment in Rajya Sabha on Monday’s attack amid din created by Congress members, said the ter-rorists had sneaked in possibly because of the “difficult terrain coupled with recent heavy rains, resulting in excess flow in the rivers and canals along the border.” He said the government will do everything possible to prevent cross-border terrorism and “any effort by the enemies of our nation to undermine In-dia’s territorial integrity and security or imperil

Agency | New Delhi

Ending more than four decades of wait, India and Bangladesh will start the exchange of 162 ad-versely-held enclaves from tomorrow, marking the start of implemen-tation of their landmark Land Boundary Agree-ment (LBA). While In-dia will hand over 51 en-claves, comprising 7,110 acres to Bangladesh, the neighbouring country will give India 111 en-claves comprising around 17,160 acres. Bangladesh and India will implement the LBA of 1974 and the enabling Protocol of Sep-tember, 2011, in a phased manner over the next 11

Agency | New Delhi

Former West Bengal Gov-ernor Gopalkrishna Gand-hi has appealed to Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider the mercy petition of death row con-vict Yakub Memon as a “fitting tribute” to former President APJ Abdul Ka-lam whose “conscientious opposition” to capital pun-ishment is widely known.

In his appeal to the Presi-dent, Gandhi said Kalam had, as recently as earlier this month, expressed his opposition to the concept of capital punishment. “He expressed this opinion to the Law Commission, which has been holding deliberations regarding the desirability and efficacy of the death penalty. It would, I suggest, be a fitting trib-

Gujarat, MP, Odisha to receive heavy rainfall; IMD issues alert

Overwhelming evidence that Gurdaspur attack had Pak link: Govt

Implementation of India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement to Start Tomorrow

pressure over West Mad-hya Pradesh and Eastern Rajasthan, is likely to bring down the overall rain deficit in the state by 10 to 15 per cent, of-ficial sources said today. “Heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few plac-es over south Rajasthan during the next 72 hours and over north Rajasthan

on July 30 is expected”. The low pressure, formed under the influence of cyclonic circulation over the northeast Bay of Bengal and neighbour-hood, would concentrate into a depression short-ly, the Meteorological centre here said. There-after, it would move slowly northwestwards

and weaken gradually, the release said. Squally surface wind with speed reaching 45 to 50 kmph and gusting upto 60 kmph would prevail along and off Odisha coast. Fishermen are advised not to venture into the sea along & off Gujarat & north Konk-an coasts during the same period. Fishermen are advised not to ven-ture into the sea along and off West Bengal and north Odisha coasts during the same period, the release added. The IMD said a depression over southwest Rajas-than intensified into a deep depression and lay centred over the region on Tuesday

the safety and security of our citizens will meet an effective and force-ful response from our security forces.” Giving details about the attack, Singh said, “preliminary analyses of GPS data in-dicates that the terrorists had infiltrated from Pa-kistan through the area near Tash in Gurdaspur district where the Ravi river enters Pakistan.” He said, “The security forces in the border are alert but the difficult terrain cou-pled with recent heavy

rains, resulting in excess flow in the rivers and canals along the border, could have been a factor, in this particular group sneaking into Punjab.” Minister for finance and information and broad-casting Arun Jaitley later told reporters outside Par-liament that the evidence that the Gurdaspur attack had Pakistan connec-tion is “overwhelmingly conclusive” but refused to say whether dialogue with Pakistan was still possible after this.

months. According to an estimate, around 37,000 people are living in Indian enclaves in Bangladesh while 14,000 people are staying in Bangladeshi enclaves in India. India and Bangladesh have al-ready completed an ex-ercise in July to ascertain the views of the residents in the enclaves whether

they would like to take Indian or Bangladeshi citizenship. None living in Bangladeshi enclaves in India wants to shift to that country, as per a joint survey. However, an es-timated 600 people want to migrate to India. The Centre has already sanc-tioned a Rs. 3,048 crore- package for rehabilitation

of the people affected by the exchange of enclaves under the LBA implemen-tation. Between July 31, 2015 and June 30, 2016, the entire process, includ-ing physical exchange of enclaves and land parcels in adverse possession along with boundary de-marcation, is expected to be completed. India and Bangladesh will print, sign at plenipotentiary level and exchange the strip maps of un-demar-cated sectors. Both gov-ernments will facilitate “orderly, safe and secure passage” to the enclave dwellers along with their “personal belongings and movable property” to Bangladesh or India through proper “travel documents”, according to a letter exchanged by the two countries.

GM to shut down manufacturing unit in GujaratSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

General Motors (GM) has announced that it will cease its operations in Ha-lol, Gujarat. The Amer-ican automaker, how-ever, announced plans to invest Rs 6,399 crore in the country, majority of which will go into its plant in Talegaon, Ma-harashtra. The carmaker was among the first au-tomakers to enter Guja-rat in 1996. The carmak-er’s decision to move out from Gujarat is opposing to the current trend where

most of the industries are making a beeline to Gu-jarat. GM’s decision to move out of Gujarat will affect 1,100 employees at its plant in Halol that has a total annual manu-facturing capacity of 1.1 lakh units annually. The capacity at its plant in Maharashtra is about 1.3 lakh units now, which will be ramped up to 2.20 lakh units. The company said this would lead to creation of about 12,000 jobs and those employed at Halol would be given

opportunity to apply for jobs here. In 2010, 2011 and 2014, General Mo-tors faced labour prob-lems at its Gujarat plant. The protests were against poor working conditions and pay. Shutting down operations at the plant in Gujarat will be complete by the end of 2016. GM plans to launch 10 new domestically manufac-tured vehicles in India over the next five years in an attempt to double its market share in the coun-try by 2020.

ute to the humane legacy of President Kalam to grant Yakub Memon his life, for which course there are also other compel-ling reasons,” Gandhi wrote. President Mukherjee had last year rejected Yakub’s mercy plea. Underlining that he was writing this appeal as matter of urgent, general and public interest, the former Governor cited a case of 1997 when the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma reversed earlier decision and commuted death penalty of two boys from Andhra Pradesh on the appeal of Mahashwe-ta Devi and other eminent citizens on the eve of their scheduled execution.

Gandhi said it established “the supreme constituent power of the President of India under Article 73 of the Constitu-tion, to reverse his earlier decision, and heed voices of conscience to commute a death sentence.” “Yakub Memon sub-mitted to Indian jurisdiction, when he may quite easily have evaded justice. A respected officer of Indian intelligence has spoken of his cooperation with the law, thus rendering the death penalty completely inappropriate in this case. Former Supreme Court judges have openly said that his execution would be unjust,” he said.

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DAYInhuman and unconscionableJudicial finality need not necessarily mean that India should hang Yakub Memon. Even in this situation, as his life hangs on the slender thread of a fresh mercy plea to the President, is the irreversible and inhuman sentence of death the only recourse for a democrat-ic government? Carrying out the sentence will only have the appearance of a justice that is retributive and vengeful, not substantial or morally different from the very offence that gave rise to the proceedings. In recent times, we saw the horrific judicial murder of Afzal Guru, who was hanged in secret without a final opportunity for his family to meet him, marking an unprecedented abandonment of morality on the part of the state. It was only in apparent cognisance of this that the Supreme Court ruled early last year that a formal communication to the convict and his fami-ly, intimation to the local legal aid centre and a clear gap of 14 days between the communication and the execution were necessary. Further, there are bound to be questions each time someone is hanged or spared. Even in the Mumbai blasts case, the 10 men sentenced to death by the trial court for planting the explosives were given only life terms by the Supreme Court on appeal, while Yakub Memon alone was awarded the death penalty. Such distinctions may seem arbitrary to the layman. As also, the revelation that the Memon family may have been induced to return to India will cast a shadow on the legitimacy of hanging a man who cooperated with Indian agencies. The debate on the need and desirability of retaining the death penal-ty has been overshadowed by much intellectual exer-tion on the nature of the crime involved, its gravity, its heinousness and the fatalities it caused. The time has come to end this debate once and for all by ascending to a moral position that there shall be no death penalty on the statute book, regardless of the heinousness of the offence, the circumstances or the number of fatal-ities involved. Anyone following closely the evolu-tion of the law on death sentences and the clemency jurisdiction in India will understand that the Supreme Court is making it more and more difficult for the ex-ecutive to carry out death sentences. It has evolved a jurisprudence that limits capital punishment to the ‘rarest of rare cases’, allowed a post-appeal review as well as a curative petition, and made decisions on ap-peals for mercy justiciable. It has laid down a cast-iron rule against undue delay in disposing of such mercy pleas, and it has humanised the process by repeatedly intervening in favour of condemned prisoners, often at the very last minute. A truly lasting solution to the moral dilemma that each instance of capital punish-ment poses will be to abolish it altogether and replace it with a sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the convict’s life. The quality of mercy is not strained. The President, under Article 72 of the Constitution, has the power to grant pardon, and to suspend, remit or commute sentences.

“Even though, 30 per cent of jewellery is now hallmarked, there are concerns about the quality and credibility of some hallmarking centres. This means the percentage of jewellery hallmarked accurately is expected to be even lower than 30 per cent,”

- The World Gold Council (WGC) today said while calling for urgent steps to improve quality standards in the world’s largest gold consuming nation

Agency | Mumbai

While watching the trailer for Dharma Pro-ductions’ Brothers, star-ring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra, chances are your first re-action will be amazement at how effortlessly both actors turn into fighters. There’s animosity and violence punching its way through the frames. Especially from Malho-tra, who’s usually seen

looking cute and squeaky clean, it’s quite a perfor-mance. Based on the Hol-lywood action film War-rior, Brothers is about two desperate but determined brothers who are pitted against one another in the wrestling ring. The film’s trailer quickly reached al-most 8 million views on Youtube. Now we’ve got Brothers’ anthem, com-posed by Ajay-Atul and sung by Vishal Dadlani. Released on 27th July,

it’s already had more than 80,000 views. The song shows the journey of Da-vid Fernandez (Kumar) and Monty Fernandez (Malhotra). who are prep-ping up for their fights. David appears to have the benefit of a proper gym, equipment and trainers. Meanwhile, Monty is seen working out in a construc-tion site, climbing cranes and using machines that have been fashioned out of rusty spare parts. Dad-

lani’s rough-edged voice matches the energetic beat of the anthem. You’ll be thoroughly revved up to watch these two broth-ers go at each other. Ku-mar plays a teacher who gives up his job to train for this fight. Malhotra’s Monty is someone best known for breaking rules, we’re told. Both actors are pretty darn awesome with their physical prow-ess. Keep in mind Kumar is 47 years old.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma said that she is going through a “shiny phase” in her ca-reer. Anushka made her Bollywood debut oppo-site Shah Rukh Khan in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and gave hit films like Band Baja Baarat, PK and Dil Dhadakane Do. At an event, Anushka said: “As long as I am doing films that excite me, I am hap-py. I am happy with the way things are going for me. I have also pro-duced a film. It is a shiny phase.” Being honest is the most important thing for the PK actress. “I give importance to honesty. It is important to be honest and be a true person. All

Agency | New Delhi

The title of Kareena Ka-poor and Arjun Kapoor’s next film with R Balki has finally been revealed. No, it not Ka And Ki as reported. It’s Ki And Ka instead. Known to al-ways spring a surprise on his audience, filmmaker R.Balki finally announc-es the title of his ambi-tious next starring Arjun Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan. While the film has been in the lime-light ever since its an-

nouncement, thanks to its interesting casting coup, R.Balki announces the title “Ki And Ka” (taken from ladKI and ladKA)for his film. Ki And Ka is a love story between two people with different ideologies taking the au-diences through their in-teresting journey. While Arjun is a progressive house husband who lov-ingly supports his wife’s ambitions, Kareena, on the other hand, is a super ambitious career woman.

Agency | New Delhi

Indian Cinema’s biggest blockbuster Baahubali is hailing on worldwide box office, it has grossed the amount of around 450 crores in total that includes 330+ crores from India and rest from overseas screens. In In-dia the movie is heading towards to become the highest grosser movie of all time by breaking the record of Aamir Khan’s PK that was around 340 crores*. Baahubali has al-ready registered its name as highest grosser South Indian movie & highest grosser Hindi dubbed movie of all time, and now it eyeing on the title of highest grosser movie of all time in India. On its

Hindi screens, the movie started loosing its pace but in south regions it is running smoothly. Fans of South Indian Cinema, are still having good ex-citement for the movie and creating huge buzz on social media about it. Currently only two movies are ruling on box office, first is Baahuba-li and the second one is Salman Khan starrer Ba-jrangi Bhaijaan. Both the movies have set a giant benchmark for upcoming movies that is really not easy to chase. It seems like, Baahubali craze will not end till the release of its second part Baahubali- the Conclusion which is scheduled to be released in mid of next year.

Agency | Kolkata

He is an 80-year-old who became an Internet sen-sation recently with his 14-minute film Ahalya, but Soumitra Chatterjee is not too moved by all the fuss. Probably be-cause he is yet to join so-cial media where he has been a top trend for play-ing the older, amorous husband to a seductress played by Radhika Apte. “It’s not difficult follow-ing social media but I

usually hear about the feedback through phone calls and text messages,” said the veteran actor. Did he know about Buzzfeed? Not really, and neither is he on Twitter but he’s not at all intimidated by new forms of storytelling. “I have done more than 300 films and am not limited to Satyajit Ray films,” he said, adding that he was excited by the novel form offered by Ahalya. “I thought it would be car-

Kareena Kapoor-Arjun Kapoor’s film titled ‘Ki And Ka’

Watch: Brothers’ anthem, with smoking hot Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra

Anushka Sharma: It is a Shiny Phase For Me“AS LONG AS I AM DOING FILMS THAT EXCITE ME, I AM HAPPY,”

SAID ANUSHKA SHARMAthis gives me strength. I feel stronger because I don’t have anything to hide,” she said. Freedom is also very important

for the 27-year-old ac-tress. “Freedom means everything. Freedom to act out my feeling. I cannot confine or re-strict thoughts. I am a responsible person and I want to exercise my thoughts,” added Anushka.

19th Day Collection: ‘Baahubali’ grosses 450 Cr at Worldwide Box Office

Soumitra Chatterjee on Ahalya and Co-Star Radhika Apte

ried by channels,” he says when asked if he expect-ed it to be such a sensa-

tion, adding that he never gave too much import to audience reaction.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Agency | New Delhi

Nestle India, the subsid-iary of Swiss food giant Nestle SA, slipped to a second-quarter loss as sales plunged after its hugely popular Maggi noodles were pulled off shelves over safety con-cerns. Nestle India report-ed a net loss of Rs 64.4 crore in quarter ended June 30 as compared with a profit of Rs 288 crore in the year-ago period. Nes-tle’s sales declined over 19 per cent to Rs 1,957 crore as against Rs 2,432 crore year-on-year as the company had to reverse revenues of Rs 288 crore due to withdrawal of its popular Maggi noodles from the market. Maggi

is estimated to contribute 20-25 per cent to Nestle India’s total sales. Nestle India also incurred a one-time loss of Rs 452 crore in the April-June quar-ter. Domestic brokerage Nirmal Bang in a note to clients said, Nestle In-dia’s Q2 earnings are be-low estimates even after adjusting for the Maggi noodle impact. “Even af-ter adjusting for Maggi noodle reversal of Rs 288 crore, net sales of Nestle India declined in the June quarter. Shares of Nestle India, which has a market value of above Rs 60,000 crore, have slumped 12 per cent since mid-May amid the Maggi contro-versy.

Agency | New Delhi

Public sector Dena Bank’s net profit plunged 81.4 per cent to Rs 15.16 crore in the first quarter ended June 30 on a sharp rise in bad loans. The public sector lender’s net profit in the same quarter of last fiscal, 2014-15, was at Rs 81.52 crore. The steep fall was at-tributed to a sharp rise in non-performing assets (NPAs) and consequent-ly a higher allocation to-wards provisioning. Its income increased mar-ginally by 3.2 per cent to Rs 2,914.87 crore in the first quarter of 2015-16,

as against Rs 2,824.58 crore in the year-ago pe-riod, Dena Bank said in a BSE filing. The asset quality deteriorated fur-ther as gross NPAs or bad loans shot up to 6.2 per cent of gross advanc-es during the quarter under review as against 4.21 per cent a year ago. Its net NPAs too rose further to 4.24 per cent from 2.94 per cent of net advances. Thus the pro-vision towards bad loans and contingencies was raised by over 42 per cent to Rs 324.75 crore during the quarter, from Rs 228.06 crore a year ago.

Agency | New Delhi

Yes, we know, Windows 10 is free — but only if you already run Win-dows 7 or 8 on your com-puter. If you’re building a PC from scratch or are unlucky enough to be on Windows XP or Windows Vista, though, you’re going to have to buy a full retail copy of Windows. the launch of Windows 10 on Wednes-day in 190 countries as a free upgrade for Win-dows 7/ 8/ 8.1 users and new PC and tablet users, Microsoft on Thursday made the latest version of its desktop and tablet

operating system avail-able to buy for new us-ers in India. Windows 10 Home has been priced at Rs. 7,999, while Win-dows 10 Pro has been priced at Rs. 14,999. Microsoft has now an-nounced the official In-dia pricing for Windows 10 a day after it launched the operating system in 190 countries around the world. You’ll shell out Rs. 7,999 for Windows 10 Home and Rs. 14,999 for Windows 10 Pro. You can buy the operating system from Microsoft’s official online store as a digital download.

Agency | Kolkata

A Davis Cup tie is never easy. To add to the pres-sure, it’s a World Group play-off. It’s how the In-dia team coach Zeeshan Ali puts it, “We would rather play a top team

like the Czech Republic at home than play them at their home.” The fact that India would be playing the top seeds and thrice champions at home had been announced earlier but on Wednesday the venue — New Delhi —

Agency | Karachi

Pakistan’s former captain and fast bowling great Wasim Akram has been given the task of working with the country’s 12 best young pacers during a 12-day camp in Karachi. The Pakistan Cricket Board today named 12 young fast bowlers to attend the camp with Akram at Ka-rachi’s National stadium from August 1. The 12

have been selected after a series of trials held at four centres in Pakistan this month. The PCB’s deci-sion to secure the services of Akram came after a leading electronics giant agreed to sponsor the en-tire talent hunt scheme on condition that the for-mer Pakistan speedster would head it. According to sources Akram will be paid directly by the spon-

Give me two-three Tests and if I don’t perform, drop me forever: Raina

Politicising Sreesanth ban further harms Indian cricket

Dena Bank’s Q1 Profit Plunges 81% to Rs 15 Crore

Nestle India Reports Loss in Q2: Should You Sell or Buy?

Windows 10 Pro actually costs a crazy Rs. 14,999 in India

Agency | New Delhi

The trend of regional voices masquerading as defenders of their state’s identity and their pride by poking their nose in affairs cricketing is dis-turbing. They are becom-ing shrill and loud after Sreesanth and two other cricketers were held not guilty of any criminal of-fence by a lower court in Delhi. It may be under-standable that those who feel victimized by a very insensitive system will always feel aggrieved even if justice is being meted out to them. And when it comes to cricket,

fans will always be more sympathetic towards the players as they are the ones because of whose skills we watch a match. Since a nation state is a conglomerate of various regions, though, it gets subsumed by the larg-er national identity, it is natural that Bengalis will take greater pride in a Sourav Ganguly and Mumbaikars in a Sachin Tendulkar. Re-member when Ganguly was removed as captain of the Indian team and subsequently dropped, Bengalis protested the most. There are many

similar examples across the country, when a re-gion/state has felt that their players are being ignored because of the Board politics, where the ruling dispensation favours players of their own state. When N Sri-nivasan was Board pres-ident, there were allega-tions that players from the south were getting greater representation in the Indian team. Now that Anurag Thakur is at the helm, one may suddenly find that more players from the north are finding their way into the Indian team.

Agency | New Delhi

Suresh Raina has been a vital cog in India’s limited overs side. He’s been one of the main-stays since his interna-tional debut but the one format he’s failed to es-tablish a regular spot is the Tests. Raina believes that he hasn’t been giv-en enough opportuni-ties to prove himself in the longer format of the game. “I have not been given enough chances

to prove my calibre as a Test cricketer. You can’t judge a player on the ba-sis of just one match af-ter a hectic series of one-day and T20 games.” Raina. “I am not asking for five Test matches to prove myself. Give me two-three games. And if I don’t perform, drop me forever,” he added. Raina’s Test career got off to a brilliant start as he hit a century on debut (120) against Sri Lanka in 2010. But since then

Kohli’s arrival generates a buzz around second unofficial Test

Agency | London

The ICC chief execu-tive David Richardson on Thursday warned that the growing popularity of the domestic Twen-ty20 leagues like the IPL, Big Bash and CPL are threatening the survival of bilateral series with the exception of Ashes and big-ticket tours involving India. To arrest the de-cline of bilateral series, Richardson said a number of possibilities were dis-cussed at the ICC annual conference in Barbados in June and would again be one of the highlights at the next Board meeting in October. “Apart from series such as the Ashes — which has an iconic,

traditional status — and series between India and the top Full Members, many bilateral series are perceived as having little relevance. Attendances in most series, especially for Test cricket, have fall-en and the revenues gen-erated from these series are not growing. “The international cricket land-scape has changed over the years and even more significantly in recent times with the advent and success of domestic T20 leagues such as the Indi-an Premier League, the Big Bash and the Caribbe-an Premier League.These events are attracting wide-spread support from fans and hence the interest of

broadcasters, sponsors and other commercial partners.” “Similarly the interest in and value of ICC events such as the World Cup, the Champi-ons Trophy and World T20 has grown significantly over the last eight years or so. The increase in interest in ICC events and domes-tic T20 leagues effectively provides competition for the interest in bilateral in-ternational cricket series (FTP series),” Richard-son told ‘ESPNcricinfo’. In order to enhance the appeal of bilateral series, Richardson felt that im-proved marketing and a more certain and coordi-nated schedule could be a solution.

T20 Leagues threatening future of bilateral series: ICC

he has played just 18 Tests in five years. In the same period, he’s played 218 ODIs and 44 T20Is. Raina is now looking to nail down the Test spot and for that he is aiming to use domestic cricket as a platform to show that he is good enough for the longer format. “I foresee a lot of matches coming my way in first class cricket and I will certainly work harder to show my calibre and prove (myself) to be a perfect candidate for up-coming Test matches,” Raina. Raina also said that he was disappoint-ed at being overlooked for the Sri Lanka Test series as he had been performing consistently in ODIs, T20Is and also IPL. Raina has averaged just 26.48 in the 18 Tests he’s played so far. He has been in and out of the team since the South Africa tour in 2010 and his last comeback was a horror one — mak-ing a return to the Test side after three years, he managed ducks in both innings against Austra-lia at the Sydney Cricket Ground earlier this year in January.

In order to enhance the appeal of bilateral series, Richardson felt

that a more certain and coordinated

schedule could be a solution

sors instead of receiving any payments from the board with whom he has had a hot and cold rela-tionship for a while now. Only recently Akram criticised the national selectors and team man-agement for mishandling left-arm pacer Junaid Khan and senior batsman Younis Khan. This is the second time that Akram will hold such a camp for fast bowlers in Kara-chi with the involvement of a sponsor as he did it in 2013 as well when he worked with Pakistan team bowlers like Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Irfan, Sohail Khan and Junaid. The former pace great has always said that he is keen to help Pakistan cricket in any capacity and would love to work with young pace bowlers.

Delhi courts will host India vs Czech Republic Davis Cup tie

was formally selected at a meeting. “I’m glad that the AITA officials agreed to listen to the re-quest of the players and chose Delhi as the ven-ue,” said Zeeshan when contacted by HT. The tie will be held from Sep-tember 18-20 at the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium. Though Pune had been shortlisted as a possible venue, the players were against it. “The higher altitude would have suit-ed the Czechs more. For the players, Delhi was al-ways the first choice.”

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Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Taking a stand on the ongoing Patidar agita-tion over the OBC status demand, the BJP cited Supreme Court ruling of 50 per cent caste-based reservation, indirectly turning down their de-mand. The party termed the stir by the Patels a “political ploy to disturb peace in Gujarat”. In the party’s Gujarat unit meeting held at its head-quarters at Shree Ka-malam in Gandhinagar, state president Ranchod-das Faldu said, “There should be representation to the government at the right platform. The peace should not be disturbed.” He was referring to last’s week incident where a rally at Visnagar in Me-hsana by Patidar Anamat Samiti (PAS) — which demands OBC status for getting admissions in colleges and govern-ment jobs – had taken a violent stand. There has been nearly 10 rallies by

now, including two huge in Visnagar and Vijapur. Though the permission was withdrawn by the administration, the PAS took out the rally in Vi-japur on Tuesday. It is for the first time that the BJP, which enjoys the loyalty of the influential Patidar community, has cleared its stand over the issue that has rocked the Pa-tel government. On the other hand, PAS main-tained that the represen-tation has always been done with the govern-ment. “After every rally since July 16, we have submitted memorandum to mamlatdar or collec-tor. It is the right plat-form,” said Hardik Patel of PAS. As the PAS has announced to intensify the agitation by holding rallies across Gujarat, the BJP, which has sig-nificant number of lead-ers from this community, decided to address it by taking recourse to legal issues. Along with Chief

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad fire depart-ment has dispatched seven different teams to Banaskantha, Shankesh-war and Ramol to rescue people stuck in the flood waters. The team rescued 35 passengers who were stuck in flood waters near Shankeshwar, while an-other team of fire depart-ment rescued 100 people as the level of Khari riv-er rose dangerously on Wednesday evening. Two persons — Krishnakumar, 21 and Arunkumar 20 — were electrocuted as they touched a metal ladder to climb up to their room situ-

ated in the premises of Za-veri Estate in Odhav area of the city where they used to work.Odhav police said the loose electric wires were touching the metal ladder. “As a result both were electrocuted when they touched the ladder to climb to the first floor,” said a police official. Chief fire officer M F Dastoor said that the department had deployed its teams on low lying areas near Sa-barmati river bed for emer-gency situation. Moreover, there were about 136 res-cue calls made to the fire department control room. “79 calls were related to falling of trees on roads.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat chief minis-ter Anandiben Patel on Wednesday visited flood affected Mehsana, Banaskantha and Patan districts and other areas of north Gujarat to ob-serve the situation fol-lowing heavy rain. Due to torrential rains during last three days across the state, as many as 27 talukas of Kutch of North Gujarat had re-ceived more than 100% of the season’s rains. All the taukas of Ban-askantha received 100% and Suigam witnessed highest 510% of rains. Moreover, due to heavy

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Following the Supreme Court’s directive, a med-ical team here this eve-ning gave permission for termination of a minor rape victim’s 25-week-old pregnancy though the law allows abortion only until the 20th week. “A panel of five doctors — four from civil hospital and a private practitioner — has given the nod for abortion,” su-perintendent of the civil hospital M M Prabhakar said. The Supreme Court had Tuesday last come to the rescue of the 14 years old victim who had been

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Close to 42,000 newly constructed homes are ly-ing unsold in Ahmedabad, states a report released by global real-estate con-sultants Knight Frank on Wednesday. The report states that builders are under tremendous pres-sure as the sale of houses in the city has touched a “record five-year low”.

In the last six months between January-June 2015, real-estate devel-opers in the city managed to sell only 7,750 housing units. “This is the lowest sales recorded in the last five years and is 26 per cent less than those sold during the same period in 2014,” said Dr Saman-tak Das, chief economist and national director re-search of Knight Frank

while releasing the report titled “Ahmedabad Res-idential Market”. “Slow-er-than-expected recov-ery in the economy, poor business sentiment and a delay in reduction of home loan interest rates by banks have hampered the revival of sales vol-ume. Moreover, majori-ty of investors who were active during 2011-13 have refrained from fresh

investments in the last six months due to slow-er-than-expected rise in prices,” states the report. It adds that the year-on-year price rise has just been around three per cent in the Ahmedabad property market which has driven away investors from housing market. The unsold inventory (read homes) in Ahmedabad is close to 42,000 units.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The NDA government at the Centre has sent back the controversial Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GC-TOC) Bill, 2015 to the state, government after certain objections were raised by the Ministry of Information and Technol-ogy (IT). The IT ministry has objected to a provi-sion in the Bill which allows authorisation of interception of telephone conversations and their admissibility as evidence before a court of law. The Ministry of Home Af-fairs (MHA) had sent the Bill to the IT ministry as part of inter-ministerial consultation. The Bill is pending presidential as-sent for becoming a law as some aspects are in conflict with central laws. On March 31, the Gujarat

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Heavy rains in north and central Gujarat claimed more lives on Wednes-day, taking the total toll in the state to at least 27 since Tuesday. Banaskan-tha, Patan and Mehsana districts are the worst-af-fected, besides Kutch. Banaskantha alone re-ported nine more deaths on Wednesday. As rains eased off a bit, three he-licopters from Indian Air Force (IAF) and Border Security Force (BSF), along with 15 teams —

comprising 510 trained NDRF personnel and 180 jawans of the BSF — conducted relief and rescue operations in north Gujarat where hundreds of villages remained ma-rooned due to large-scale flooding. Seven columns of the Indian Army have also been sent to Banas-kantha. The NDRF teams, with 57 rubber boats, have been deployed at various flood-affected parts of the state, like Suigam (one team), Dee-sa (two teams), Hahara (one team), Banaskantha

(two teams), Bhuj (one team) and Ahmedabad (four teams). Further two teams of NDRF are being airlifted from Bhisinia airfields to Gandhinagar and two teams from Pune airport to Ahmedabad. So far, NDRF teams have evacuated 283 persons (including 111 persons at Varun village and 87 persons at Chatara vil-lage) from affected areas of Banaskantha district to safer place, stated an offi-cial release. Among those rescued include 24 people stranded inside a GSRTC

bus near Shankeshwar in Patan district where ris-ing flood waters had sub-merged the bus. Those stranded were airlifted. Two helicopters from the Indian Air Force and one from Border Security Force are being deployed. They have been rescuing people from 21 marooned villages in Banaskantha. Apart from this, 24 mo-bile medical teams have left for flood-affected ar-eas in north Gujarat and distributed more than four lakh food packets.

Flood-like situation in parts of Gujarat, toll reaches 27

OBC Status: BJP cites SC ruling

City fire dept 7 teams sent for rescue operation

Gujarat CM visits flood affected areas North Gujarat districts

Medical experts allow abortion in 14-yr-old rape victim’s case

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denied permission to abort the foetus by the sessions as well as the High Court. The apex court said she can undergo abortion if medical experts allow it. The abortion is likely to

be performed tomorrow, Prabhakar said. The girl became pregnant after being allegedly raped by doctor Jatin Mehta whom she had visited for treat-ment of typhoid earlier this

year. The Supreme Court bench of Justices A R Dave and Kurian Joseph had said it would ask the civil hospital here to get the girl examined by gy-naecologists and a clinical psychologist. “If they say that she has to be operat-ed upon then let them do it with the consent of the girl and her parents,” the apex court had said. Ear-lier Gujarat High Court’s Justice Abhilasha Kumari had refused permission for abortion on July 24 on the ground that the law does not allow it after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Minister Anandiben Pa-tel, who is a Patel leader from Mehsana, Faldu and BJP national vice-pres-ident Purshottam Rupa-la are also Patels. Apart from Anandiben, there are six other Patel min-isters in her government. “The Supreme Court’s guideline is very clear that there shouldn’t be more than 50 per cent reservation. Gujarat has reached that mark. Oth-ers state’s attempt to cross 50 per cent mark has been turned by the SC in the past,” said Fal-du. He added: “There

may be political attempt to disturb peace, but the BJP leaders and work-ers should try to make people understand the fact.” The meeting was attended by all MLAs, MPs and ministers. The Patel Government had also cancelled the week-ly cabinet meeting that was coinciding with the state party meeting. However, Chief Minister Anandiben Patel left the venue early to reach the flood-affected Mehsana and Patan districts, along with health minister Ni-tin Patel.

Narendra Modi govt returns Gujarat terror Bill

assembly had passed the stringent anti-terror Bill, retaining controversial provisions that had thrice earlier led to previous such Bills being rejected by the President. The GC-TOC Bill, 2015 makes only minor changes in the controversial Guja-rat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill, including adding the word “terrorism” in the name. However, it retains clauses such as permitting admissibility of evidence

collected through inter-ception of telephone calls of an accused or through confessions made before an investigating officer, in a court of law. The Gu-jarat government, then led by Narendra Modi, first introduced the GU-JCOC Bill in 2003, with the same clauses, includ-ing increasing the period to file a chargesheet from 90 to 180 days, and laying down strict conditions for bail to be given to the ac-cused.

rainfall in various areas of Rajasthan as well, amount of water had to be realeased from dams of north Gujarat. In this regard, state administra-tion preferred for res-cue works and the res-cue operations has been initiated as well. Patel visited Mehsana, Patan, Banaskantha and nearby areas by road to observe the situation personally and to provide necessary guidelines. She instruct-ed to expedite relief work after the flood and restore drinking water supply and electrici-ty and food supply. At present total 14 teams of NDRF are active in Ban-askantha for rescue re-lated procedures. These teams are performing rescue operations in Bhabhar, Diyodar, Dee-sa, Tharad and Vav areas and more than 248 peo-ple have been rescued so far. More 6 teams of NDRF have been ar-ranged as stand-by for Banaskantha district. Further, 180 jawans of BSF from Dantiwada reached in Banaskantha and started rescue work. Besides, 24 mobile med-ical teams had departed for these areas and dis-tributed more than 4 lakh food packets. Presently as many as 815 people from 200 families leav-ing in 6 villages of 4 talukas of Mehsana dis-trict have been migrated to primary schools. It has been informed in a meeting that the 585 vil-lages which are affect-ed for electricity supply will be in order shortly.