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News Brief63 students failed

in IITs in last session: Irani

Agency | New Delhi

Sixty-three students failed to secure the prescribed minimum grade in six Indian In-stitutes of Technology (IIT) during 2014-15 session, Lok Sabha was informed today. Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani provided this in-formation in response to a written question in Lok Sabha about wheth-er students have been expelled from various IITs on the ground of poor performance.Emraan Hashmi to shoot ‘Raaz 4’ in Transylvania

‘The Danish Girl’ to release in India

in January

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Emraan Hashmi is all set to shoot the fourth instalement of “Raaz” in the cold weather of Transylvania, Romania. Hashmi, who almost finished filming biopic on former Indian crick-et captain Mohammad Azharuddin, said “Raaz 4” is nail-biting.

Agency | Mumbai

Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne-star-rer “The Danish Girl”, inspired by the true sto-ry of a transgender, will be releasing in India on January 15 next year. Based on the book by David Ebershoff, “The Danish Girl” is the re-markable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (Redmayne) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina). The film is directed by Tom Hooper of “The King’s Speech” and “Les Miserables”.

Kejriwal vows to fight corruption, says“DDCA controversy”

Reacting to the defamation suit filed against him by Finance Minister Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal on Monday said that the union minister is trying to scare him, but his fight against corruption will continue

Jaitley scaring with defamation case

Correspondent | Godhra

Panchmahal district ad-ministration has orga-nized Panch Utsav at the World Heritage Site of Champaner/Pavagadh during 23-27 December this year. The visitors attending this event will pay visit to Mahaka-li Mandir and heritage monuments of Cham-paner during this festi-val. Heritage walk, local guide facility, tracking, amusement park, cultural performances, craft mar-ket, food market, themes based pavilions, perfor-mances by renown artists, tribal dance performanc-es, Garba competition, parikrama, Maha aarti, light and sound show, Sufi dance, photography exhibition, historical dra-

Agency | New Delhi

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attended the demonstration of the first prototype of a die-sel bus converted into a battery operated electric bus at a function in Par-liament today. Speaking on the occasion he said that pollution has become a matter of grave concern in our everyday lives and finding a solution to this problem is a major chal-lenge today. Referring to the recently concluded COP 21 meet in Paris, the Prime Minister lauded two of its major initia-tives aimed at promoting green energy – one on in-novation and the other on

the Global Solar Alliance of 120 countries. He said the cost effective, envi-ronmentally clean elec-tric buses are a significant step in the direction of combating pollution. The Prime Minister called the retrofitted electric buses a new gift from “Make in India” and called upon the youth to come for-ward to make cost-effec-tive, long lasting batteries to promote the making of more such electric buses which can be incorporat-ed in our public transport system. The Prime Minis-ter presented the keys of the first retrofitted bus to Hon’ble Speaker Smt Su-mitra Mahajan who was also present on the occa-

Agency | New Delhi

“We will take our battle for justice across India to awaken governments and law makers,” said a heartbroken Asha Devi, mother of December 16 gangrape victim Jyo-ti Singh, after Supreme Court on Monday reject-ed a plea against release of the juvenile convict in the case. Devi said not-withstanding the release of the juvenile convict on Sunday, she and her husband Badri Singh will continue their fight to ensure death penalty for rest of the four rapists who are currently lodged in Tihar jail. “Despite

Agency | New Delhi

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday filed a civil defamation suit in the Patiala House court against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for is-suing false and defamato-ry statements against him and his family members over alleged irregularities at the Delhi and District Cricket Association(D-DCA). Making a personal appearance in the court, Jaitley said that he did not

Agency | Mumbai

Three youths from Mum-bai who have been miss-ing for a while are sus-pected to have joined terror outfit Islamic State (IS), police said on Mon-day. The three youths, Ayaz Sultan (23), Mohsin Sheikh (26) and Wajid Sheikh (25), are all resi-dents of Malvani area in western suburb of Mum-bai. “We suspect that the three joined the IS and our probe is on to ascer-tain this,” Malvani police station’s senior inspec-tor Milind Khetle said. The parents of the three men have registered a missing complaint with the Malvani police, he said. An official of the

PM attends Demonstration of First Prototype of Retrofitted Electric Bus

Panchmahal district in Gujarat to hold Panch Mahotsav tourist festival

Three Mumbai youths ‘suspected’ to have joined Islamic State: Police

How many more rapes needed to change laws, ask Jyoti Singh’s parents

sion. The bus is proposed to be used by Members of Parliament. Speaking on the occasion Minister of Road Transport & High-way Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the cost effective, pollution free and import substituting retrofitted electric buses demonstrate the government’s com-mitment towards Make

in India and its resolve for fighting vehicular pol-lution. He said ISRO is making Lithium –Ion bat-teries which will cost only Rs 5 lakh as against the Rs 50 lakh cost of imported batteries. He called upon Parliamentarians to make maximum use of the ret-rofitted buses and make them popular.

Anti-Terrorism Squad also said they suspect that the three youths have been radicalised into joining the Islamic State, and added that the ATS is probing the mat-ter. While Sultan went missing on October 30, the other two have been missing since Decem-ber 16, the ATS official said. According to Khe-tle, Sultan left home on

October 30 after telling his parents that he had to go to Pune in connec-tion with a job offer he got from a Kuwait-based firm. Mohsin left home on December 16, saying he was going to attend a friend’s wedding. Wajid also left home the same day saying he had to get the name on his Aadhar card corrected, the police officer said.

ma, dayro are some of the highlights of this festival in which Manhar Udhas will perform on 23rd, Bharat Bariya’s dance performance will take place on 24th, folk art-ist Bhikhudan Gadhvi’s

dayro will be staged on 24th, Pruthvi Gohil’s per-formance on 25th, Aish-warya Majmudar’s vocal to be performed on 26th and Shaymal Saumil’s Sufi music performance will take place on 27th.

As many as 80 tent hous-es are set up for visitors. Over 100 stalls are to be set up for food and cul-tural items on offering. Swiss tent type facility is going to be set up next to Vada Talav.

our repeated pleas and demands for not setting the juvenile free, he has been released. We are dejected, shattered. But we will not stop and con-tinue our fight to ensure that the other four rap-ists are hanged. We met with disappointment at every door, we are heart broken, but not crushed,”

Devi said. The Supreme Court rejected the plea by Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal against release of the juvenile offender. Devi said both she and Singh had felt that the plea would be rejected and that their sufferings were being used by oth-ers to hog the limelight.

take “a single penny” from DDCA and Kejriwal and others made defamatory and baseless allegations. Jaitley has sought Rs 10 crore as damages from Kejriwal and other AAP

leaders — Kumar Vish-was, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpayee — for their remarks. “AAP leaders’ false allegations have caused irreparable

damage to my client’s reputation,” Arun Jaitley’s lawyer Siddharth Lu-thra said in the court. Jaitley’s action comes in the backdrop of attacks on him by Kejriwal and other AAP leaders over alleged irregularities and financial bungling in DDCA, of which he was the president for about 13 years till 2013. The Union minister had on Sunday said that he would also filed a criminal defama-tion case against Kejriwal and other

five AAP leaders at Patiala House court. He chose not to give any le-gal notice to Kejriwal and other AAP leaders asking them to apologize or face defamation cases. Instead, the case was straightaway filed in the court. Charges baseless and devoid of truth, Jaitley tells Lok Sabha Re-jecting the charges against him in the DDCA controversy as “baseless and devoid of truth”, finance minis-ter Arun Jaitley on Monday claimed

the opposition Congress had spent much more than he did in renovating a stadium in Delhi. “In Rs 114 crore, a stadium with a capacity of 42,000 was made. When Congress was in power, the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium was renovated for Rs 900 crore. The SFIO has accepted the expenditure by the DDCA on building the new stadium and found nothing wrong,” Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha amid loud Congress protest.

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DAYIn Salman Khan case, ineptitude on one side, wrong interpretation on the other

Take your pick. Choice One: No one was driving the car. Choice Two: Salman Khan has the world’s first Google self-driving car. Choice Three: The car was drunk. The facetiousness hides one stark fact: The high court judg-ment absolving Salman of all charges is a travesty of justice. If you look at the judgment, the court did deliv-er a “guilty” verdict. Only, it was not against the Bolly-wood superstar. The court pronounced “guilty” for the police and the prosecution team of lawyers. The police, according to the court, did a shoddy job of investiga-tion, while the prosecuting lawyers did a poor job of presenting their case. But as I understand the laws of contempt, it is permissible to criticise a judgment on the basis that the interpretation of the evidence was erroneous. In this case, in my opinion, it was grave-ly erroneous. The accident involving Salman’s Toyota Land Cruiser took place in September 2002. One per-son was killed and three badly injured. The people in the car were Salman himself, singer Kamaal Khan, and police constable Ravindra Patil, who was assigned the duty of being Salman’s bodyguard. Then, suddenly in March, after a full 13 years and just before the sessions court’s judgment, a certain Ashok Singh came forward to say that he was also in the car. Not only that, but he was driving it! It turned out that he was the Khan fam-ily driver for many years. The sessions court dismissed this out of hand when it pronounced Salman guilty and sentenced him to five years in jail. But the high court accepted the defence contention that Ashok Singh was not a desperate afterthought. Commonsense tells you if Ashok Singh was indeed driving the car, he would be the defence’s first witness, not its last. On the other side, Patil was the prosecution’s star witness. He had said in testimony recorded before a magistrate that not only was Salman driving, but that he was drunk. Un-fortunately for the prosecution, Patil died well before the trial. His death was in peculiar circumstances — he was dismissed from the police and died in poverty. Isn’t it strange that the prosecution’s star witness was so mistreated by the police, instead of being protected and kept safe and healthy for the trial? That in itself is a subject matter for a separate inquiry. That apart, the sessions court found his recorded testimony reliable, while the high court found it not “entirely reliable”, whatever that means. Surely the fact that the defence didn’t summon Kamaal as their witness is clear indica-tion that his testimony would have favoured the pros-ecution, perhaps confirming that Salman was driving the car?And so it goes: Ineptitude on one side, wrong interpretation on the other. The beneficiary: Salman Khan. The loser: Our justice system.

“My government will not allow a chemical hub either at Nayachar Island or Nandigram. We are planning to promote environment-friendly eco-tourism at Nayachar and eco-friendly industry at Nandigram to encourage development without pollution,”

- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeee today said a rally in East Midnapore district of Nandigram.

Why are Pakistanis angry at Nargis Fakhri?

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ smashes box office record , earns $238 million in uS

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach from Philippines is Miss Universe 2015

Agency | Mumbai

Director R Balki’s up-coming romantic come-dy-drama, starring Ka-reena Kapoor Khan and Arjun Kapoor, will hit screens on April 1, 2016. The film follows the sto-ry of a young, married couple and also features cameos by megastar Am-itabh Bachchan and wife Jaya. “Eros and R Balki’s

#Ki&Ka to release on 1 April 2016. Stars Kare-ena Kapoor Khan, Arjun Kapoor with Amitabh & Jaya Bachchan in special appearance,” trade ana-layst Taran Adarsh posted on twitter. This is the first collaboration between Kareena and Arjun. The music of “Ki and Ka” has been composed by Ilai-yaraaja.

Agency | Los Angeles

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” shattered the domestic box office record with an estimated $238 million in U.S. and Cana-dian ticket sales through Sunday, a staggering de-but that re-established the celebrated space saga as a global phenomenon un-der Walt Disney Co. The first “Star Wars” film in a decade took in a total of $517 million at box offices around the world, second only to the dinosaur film “Jurassic World”, which had the benefit of an open-ing weekend that includ-ed China, where “Force Awakens” won’t open for weeks. Financial and crit-ical success for the film mark a victory for Disney Chief Executive Bob Ig-er’s strategy of acquiring

proven brands, including Pixar Animation and com-ic book powerhouse Mar-vel, to fuel Disney’s enter-tainment empire. Disney purchased “Star Wars” producer Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012 and is bet-ting that big-budget films can draw customers even as viewers gravitate to online streaming and mo-bile viewing and theater attendance declines. Over the weekend, fans rev-eled in the chance to visit the “Star Wars” galaxy for the first time in a de-cade. Filmgoers dressed as Jedi or Sith, carried lightsabers and cheered when classic characters such as Princess Leia or Chewbacca appeared on screen. Theaters added showtimes to meet de-mand, Disney said. “Ju-

rassic World” opened in June with $208.8 million in the United States and Canada and a take of $525 million worldwide. “Force Awakens” is the seventh installment in the epic science-fiction fran-chise created by George Lucas in 1977. Disney plans four “Star Wars” movies through 2019, plus major expansions at its U.S. theme parks to incor-porate the droids, space-ships and otherworldly creatures of the universe Lucas invented. “Force Awakens” toys, clothing, home accessories and vid-eo games already pervade stores ahead of Christmas. Nostalgia, plus a carefully planned, months-long re-lease of film trailers and character profiles boosted interest.

Agency | Mumbai

The grand finale round of the Miss Universe 2015 pageant turned out to be dramatic and chaotic as host Steve Harvey mis-takenly took the name of Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the next Miss Universe. But soon he re-alised he had committed a blunder and named Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach as the actual winner of the crown. As expected, Wurtzbach was pleasantly shocked and couldn’t believe her ears when her name was even-tually announced. There were as many as 80 con-testants vying for the cov-eted Miss Universe title on Sunday. After beating others in rounds like na-tional costume, swimsuit

Agency | Karachi

After a senior investigative journalist raised objections to a leading Pakistani Urdu newspaper Jang’s front page advertisement featuring Nargis Fakhri, Twitter went abuzz with mixed emotions. Protested the ‘obscenity’ of the seemingly innocent ad that simply shows a the 36-year-old model lying down with

Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor’s ‘Ki And Ka’ to release on April 1, 2016

and evening wear, beau-ties from the Philippines, Colombia and the US made it to the top three. Earlier while announc-ing the results, Miss US Olivia Jordan was placed third and Wurtzbach was announced as the first runner-up. Miss Colom-bia Ariadna Guiterrez jumped with joy after the host took her country’s name as the winner. She was crowned by anoth-er Colombian beauty --

Paulina Vega, who had clinched the crown in 2014. It could have been two Miss Universe titles in a row for Colombia but soon after Guiterrez took her first walk as the winner, the host admitted to have made a mistake in announcing the winners. “I will take the responsi-bility for this. It’s on the card. Don’t hold it against the ladies. Still a great night,” Harvey told the audience.

a phone in her hand, Abbasi took to Twitter to say “My strong protest to top jang group management for this absurd front page ad in today’s jang,” while other users also responded to his outrage. One moral po-lice wrote, “@AnsarAAbbasi you are right, her beau-tiful body curves have nothing to do with 3G phone and its “cheap price.” I fully agree with you dear,” while another said “@AnsarAAbbasi why newspapers are trying to be like playboy or weekend type of magazine ?? These kind o adds look good in magazine not on NP.” However, some users found the protest absurd instead, with one writing “Jitna shor is pe much rha hai agr Taliban, Sipah Mehdi aur Tehrik e nifaz e Fiqah Jafriya pe mchta tou halaat behtr hotay :P” Another Twitterer said, “@AnsarAAbbasi Ansar has no issues with projecting TTP, killer of 60K Pakistanis but a girl with a phone boils his blood.”


SPORTS ROUNDUPToshiba to cut 7,000 jobs in PC and TV units, sees Fy loss

IndiGo shares fall over 5% on delay in A320 neos aircraft delivery

Air France: Suspicious device on flight was a hoax

Agency | Tokyo

Japan’s Toshiba Corp said on Monday it will cut nearly 7,000 consumer electronics jobs after a USD 1.3 billion accounting scandal, in an overhaul that will streamline the sprawling conglomerate into a company focused on chips and nuclear energy. Toshiba also said it would sell its television man-ufacturing plant in Indonesia, and that eventual job cuts spanning the entire PC-to-nuclear compa-ny could be over 10,000 including previously an-nounced cuts and those seeking voluntary early re-tirement. Due to restructuring costs, which include the sale of its Indonesian TV plant, Toshiba said it expected a net loss of around 550 billion yen (USD 4.53 billion) in this fiscal year ending in March. “By implementing this plan, we would like to regain the trust of all stakeholders including shareholders and transform ourselves into a robust business,” it said in a statement. Toshiba confirmed in August that it overstated profits going back to fiscal 2008/09 by

155 billion yen.

Agency | New Delhi

IndiGo shares fell as much as 5.50 per cent on Monday after the low-cost carrier on Saturday said there is no clear visibility about the delivery of A320 neos as delivery of the first aircraft has been delayed by Airbus due to “industrial reasons”. Earlier, the first A320 neo was to be delivered to IndiGo on December 30. At 1.45 pm, the share price of IndiGo was trading nearly 5 per cent down at Rs 1,086.75. The scrip opened at Rs 1,140 and had touched a high and low of Rs 1,157.75 and Rs 1,080, respectively, in trade so far. Sensex was up 160.69 points at 25,679.91 In a BSE filing, the com-pany said, “At this time IndiGo does not have clear visibility of its future A320 neo delivery schedule and the potential for additional delays exists. We are looking at mitigating the potential shortfall in capacity through other options.” As per the original plan, IndiGo was to induct 10 A320 neos in the cur-

rent fiscal ending March 31, 2016.

Agency | Nairobi

The suspicious device discovered in the bathroom of an Air France flight was a hoax, the CEO of Air France said on Sunday. The Boeing 777 was head-ing to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from Mauri-tius when its pilots requested an emergency landing early Sunday at Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa. The device was made of cardboard, paper and a household timer, said Frederic Gagey, the head of Air France. “This object did not contain explosives,” said Gagey at a news conference in Paris. Gagey congratulated the crew for their cool-headed reaction to divert the plane. A safety check was carried out in the bathroom before the flight, he said. He denied any security failure in the flight, saying that passen-gers are checked and sometimes double-checked on flights. Six passengers are being questioned over the incident, said a Kenyan police official, who is part of the investigation and who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the press.

Agency | Madrid

Gareth Bale scored four times as Real Ma-drid came from behind to beat nine-man Rayo Vallecano 10-2 in a wild game at the Santiago Bernabeu to close the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid to two points. At-letico missed the chance to move clear at the top on their own as they had captain Gabi sent-off in a 1-0 defeat at Mala-ga. Barca have a game in hand as they weren’t in La Liga action this

weekend after sealing the Club World Cup with a 3-0 win over River Plate in Japan earlier in the day. It is the first time in 55 years that a team has scored 10 goals in a La Liga game, howev-er, the Madrid fans still voiced their disapproval towards under fire coach Rafael Benitez after Real found themselves 2-1 down inside 12 minutes. Red cards inside half an hour for Tito and Raul Baena opened the flood-gates, though, as a double from Cristiano Ronaldo and a hat-trick for Karim

Benzema added to Bale’s most prolific day in three years as a Madrid player. “We conceded the goals early, but then the team reacted,” said Benitez. I am not going to judge the decisions of the ref-eree, but from the send-ing-off the team did what it had to do, try to play well and score goals.” Madrid president Floren-tino Perez had restated his support for Benitez in midweek after rumours suggested he was one de-feat away from the sack after losing 1-0 at Villar-real last weekend.

I just try and keep things as simple as possible, says Kane Williamson

ISL 2015: Chennaiyin emerges fitting champions in thrilling final

Gareth Bale scores four in Real Madrid’s 10-2 win over Rayo Vallecano

Corruption scandal: Fifa bans Blatter, Platini for 8 years

yuvraj Singh keen to grab opportunity in Australia

‘Trump Match’ will prove to be turning point: Saina Nehwal on new rule of PBL

Agency | Kolkata

India’s batting all-rounder Yuvraj Singh on Sunday said he needs to grab hold of the opportunity that will come his way playing against Australia in the T20 internationals next month. The 34-year-old who was in town for the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K run has been selected for the T20 matches but will not feature in the One Day Internationals (ODI) that Australia will play during their January 12-31 In-dia tour. The left-handed batsman was offered a place in the squad owing to his blistering form in the ongoing Vijay Haza-re Trophy where he is the third-highest scorer with 341 runs at an average of

Agency | Zurich

Suspended Fifa presi-dent Sepp Blatter and European football boss Michel Platini were both banned from soccer for eight years on Monday by the Ethics Committee of football’s global gov-erning body. The pair, who were also fined, had been suspended for 90 days in October while an

investigation was carried out into a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.02 million) pay-ment by Fifa to Platini in 2011. Both men denied any wrongdoing. The de-cision, which comes as a corruption scandal swirls around Fifa, means that Blatter’s 17 years at the helm of world football will end in disgrace, and spells the end of Plati-

Agency | New Delhi

World No. 2 Saina Ne-hwal feels the new rule of ‘Trump Match’ will prove to be the turning point during the Premier Bad-minton League and the key will be to use it effective-ly. With her team boast-ing names like Christinna Pedersen of Denmark, B Sai Praneeth, Cai Yun of China, Hendra Gunawan of Indonesia and Bodin Issara of Thailand to name a few, Saina is confident of her team giving a strong fight. “It’s a great moment for all of us as Premier Badminton League is all set to commence with the best players of the world

Agency | Hamilton

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum called him ‘The King’ but Kane Williamson swat-ted aside the praise after his record-breaking cen-tury capped a five-wick-et victory in the second Test against Sri Lanka on Monday. Williamson, who was dismissed for one in the first innings at Seddon Park, provid-ed a match-winning 108 not out in the second as the hosts chased down 189 for victory. “It was an innings of sheer qual-ity from ‘The King’ and the rest of us were able to sit back and watch someone at the top of his

Agency | Mumbai

Two last-gasp strikes gave Chennaiyin FC a dramatic 3-2 victo-ry against FC Goa to be crowned champions of the second edition of the Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium in Margao on Sunday. Co-lombian Stiven Mendoza scored in the third minute of injury time to complete the turnaround and break the hearts of the thou-

sands of FC Goa fans who packed the stadium. After a goalless first half, the game burst into life in the second. Chennai took the lead through Bruno Pelis-sari before a Thongkho-siem Haokip strike and a Joffre free-kick gave Goa a 2-1 lead with three min-utes to spare. Chennaiyin FC though retaliated with two goals – first a Laxmi-kant Kattimani own goal seconds before full-time

and then a Stiven Men-doza winner during stop-page time. The first clear-cut chance fell Chennai’s way with Bruno Pelissari exchanging a brilliant one-two with Mendo-za before unleashing a left-footed effort just wide of goal in the 17th minute. Goa respond-ed with a Jonatan Lucca free-kick which keeper Apoula Edel put behind for a corner.

and we will see tough competition between us,” said Saina. “What is excit-ing me the most is the new rule of ‘Trump Match’. I think that will be the turning point for any team during any day. So using it effectively will be the key for each team,” she added. The Premier Badminton League will start from

2nd January where six franchisees - Delhi Acers, Hyderabad Hunters, Ben-galuru Top Guns, Chennai Smashers, Mumbai Rock-ets and Awadhe Warriors - will compete for the top honour. The opening day of the League will witness Awadhe Warriors taking on Mumbai Rockets in Mumbai.

game,” McCullum said in a televised interview. “I thought it was an out-standing innings.” The century, Williamson’s fifth of 2015, was not only a record for New Zealand batsmen in a cal-endar year but also took the 25-year-old past Mc-Cullum’s record tally of 1,164 Test runs in 2014. It moved him top of the

International Cricket Council’s world player rankings, the first New Zealand batsman to reach top spot. McCullum and Williamson are the only New Zealanders to score more than 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year, though Williamson, who will end 2015 with 1,172 runs at 90.15, said he did not re-ally focus on milestones.

85.25. “It feels great to get an opportunity. Playing in Australia will not be easy but I need to make the best of this (chance),” Yuvraj said. Yuvraj also said that he was keen on doing well here so that he can make it to the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup. “Sad to have missed out from the ODI’s but I have to do well here. Hopefully I will be picked in the T20

World Cup squad,” he said. The last time Yuvraj played for the national side was in the loss to Sri Lanka in the World Twen-ty20 final in 2014 where he had a horrendous time with 11 runs from 21 balls. Speaking about the time spent on the sideline, the southpaw added: “It was a terrible phase. But now it’s past and I am a lot stronger now.”

ni’s hopes of replacing the 79-year-old Swiss in a presidential election in February. Platini, a for-mer France international who was one of the finest players of his generation and had led the Europe-an football body Uefa since 2002, had been the favourite to win that election until he was sus-pended. The ethics inqui-ry began in the wake of the Swiss attorney gen-eral’s decision to open criminal proceedings against Blatter over the payment to Platini. The office is also investigat-ing the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup fi-nals to Russia and Qatar.


Correspondent | Kutch

State governments will have to send to the Cen-tre the roadmap for im-plementation of the de-cisions and suggestions that emerged during the three-day DGPs confer-ence held here. ADGP (Intelligence) of Guja-rat Pramod Kumar said, “Implementation reports will have to be prepared and sent to the Union Home Ministry by each state based on the con-clusion that emerged during the conference. The annual three-day conference of Directors General of Police and Inspectors General of Police organised by the Intelligence Bureau, con-cluded this afternoon at the tent city built in Dhor-do here. Prime Minister

Correspondent | Sasan Gir

The Gateway Hotel Gir Forest, located at the edge of the world-renowned Gir Forest is now open for guests. Mr. Farhat Jamal, Senior Vice Pres-ident -Operations (West India) & Africa, Taj Ho-tels Resorts & Palaces said, “We are pleased to welcome guests once again. It is the ideal time of the year to watch the majestic Asiatic lion and wildlife or indulge in a cultural expedition to interesting historical places like Junagadh and Gondal.” “The Gateway Hotel Gir Forest, is the nature lover’s getaway. With its rich surround-ings of dry deciduous and tropical thorn forests, the hotel faces the Hiran Riv-er to offer a picturesque

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Former BJP general sec-retary Sanjay Joshi met former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Pa-tel in Ahmedabad today. What transpired in the 20-minute long meeting between the two Guja-rat BJP leaders has not been revealed but insid-ers are considering the latest development as an important one. Recent-ly, posters were put up across Ahmedabad and other parts of the state de-manding Joshi’s return in the BJP after the party’s dismal show in the state civic polls. Posters with slogans like “Bring San-jay Joshi, save BJP” and “Kaho dilse, Sanjay Joshi firse” were found in Surat. In June, hoarding attribut-


In the wake of his posters popping up in chief min-ister Anandiben Patel’s constituency Ghatlodia, and national BJP presi-dent Amit Shah’s constit-uency Naranpura-Thaltej, senior RSS and former BJP general secretary, Sanjay Joshi, arrived in city to attend the marriage of Pravin Togadia’s son, in Nikol. Togadia is the international general sec-retary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). “I don’t know anything about the posters. I am just a simple BJP worker,” Joshi told media persons on Sunday before reaching the wed-ding venue. The posters that had mushroomed re-cently in key constituen-cies of the city had sported Joshi’s photo and the slo-gan, “Sanjay Joshi Lavo BJP Bachao (Bring San-jay Joshi and save BJP)’’.


IN A bid to win the Smart City challenge and re-ceive the funding under the Centre’s Smart City project, Ahmedabad has a major plan for the re-development of nearly 70 hectares area around the Sabarmati Ashram. Ahmedabad is competing against five other cities —Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Su-rat, Vadodara and Dahod — in Gujarat and among a total of 100 cities from across the country. Out of the 70 hectares that will get the facelift, the ma-jor area covers Ramapir no tekra, which is con-sidered to be one of the largest slum areas on the western bank of Sabar-mati river surrounding Sabarmati Ashram, with nearly 8,000 dwellings. This falls in Ahmedabad


International Copper Association India (ICA India) as a part of its se-ries of organizing semi-nars on Electrical Safety across India, conducted a workshop in Ahmedabad

today, to raise awareness and rectification mea-sures about electrical haz-ards and importance of electrical safety in India. This workshop comes third in line after Delhi and Kolkata, to promote Electrical Safety Prac-

tices and National Stan-dards; strengthening peri-odic electrical inspection of existing buildings and licensing procedure by encouraging skill up gra-dation through enhanced standardized framework for certification.


At a time when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was holding a meeting of top cops on internal se-curity in Kutch, Pakistan Marine Security Agen-cy (PMSA) apprehended 70 fishermen with their 11 boats off the Gujarat coast on Sunday evening. The fishermen are from the Saurashtra region. According to fishermen association, the security agency of the neighbour-ing country also resorted to firing on a boat of In-dian fishermen of Jakhau coast, a leading fishing harbour in Kutch. In last three months, over 150 fishermen and more than 30 fishing trawlers have

been apprehended by the PMSA near the Interna-tional Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL). According to Manidh Lofhari of Na-tiknal Fisher Workers Fo-rum (NFF), 27 fishermen with four boats were tak-en on October 15, while 72 fishermen and a dozen boats were held on Octo-ber 2. One fisherman was killed in a firing launched by the marine police near IMBL. In last few de-cades, fishermen from Gujarat have become victims of aggression by the security agency of the neighbouring country, where more than 300 fish-ermen from the state are still languishing in jail, and more than 800 boats seized and not released.


There has been no respite from the icy chills as cold wave prevailed across the state again on Sunday and minimum temperatures continued to plummet at various places. Ahmed-abad, third coldest city in the state, shivered un-der piercing cold as night temperature plummeted to 8 degrees, four degrees below normal. Maxi-mum temperature in the city was recorded at 28 degree celsius, two de-grees below normal. The minimum temperature at Mount Abu in neighbour-ing Rajasthan was minus one degree celsius, while

Naliya was the coldest place in the state with 5.6 degrees. In Gandhinagar, the mercury dipped to 7.5 degree celsius. Deesa town of Banaskantha dis-trict also recorded a mini-mum temperature of 10.2 degree celsius. Most parts of Kutch and Saurashtra continued to reel under cold wave conditions. Bhuj town in Kutch dis-trict recorded a minimum temperature of 12 deg ree celsius, Kandla was at 10.5 degrees, the lowest in the Saurashtra region. In Rajkot, the mercury fell to 11.3 degrees while Surendranagar also shiv-ered at 12 degree celsius.

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Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Ministers of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary also took part in the conference on all three days. In a marathon session held yesterday, several issues including terror, ISIS and radical-isation of youths were discussed, while oth-er topics like women’s safety, police reforms,

better inter-state polic-ing, reforms at police station level, steps to bring competitive spirit between police officers, bringing uniformity in police uniforms across India. “There was a de-tailed discussion on many issues, a number of de-cisions were also taken. The PMO gave detailed directions to every state on which compliance re-port will have to be sub-

mitted,” Uttrakhand DGP B S Sidhu said. “There was a lot of difference this time as compared to the previously-held con-ferences, like the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) remained present for all the three days and the interactive sessions that were kept this time and the interaction that hap-pened, was not the case in earlier conferences,” Sid-hu added.

Municipal Corporation (AMC’s) West zone and has been selected as the only area proposed to be redeveloped under the “area based develop-ment” for Ahmedabad’s Smart City project. While new houses under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) housing scheme will replace the existing slum on both the sides of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS)

route, starting from Vadaj circle, the area behind this will have a huge garden measuring up to 60 acre. The slum area-based re-development will have two components — de-velopment of transit-ori-ented zones built on the principle of promoting non-motorised trans-port and provisions of smart infrastructure and the second component of in-situ redevelopment

of slum area that will include residential and commercial components to be developed on a pri-vate-public-partnership (PPP) model. “Among the feedback and sugges-tions invited from city residents through vari-ous mediums to choose among these area op-tions, Sabarmati Ashram received the maximum votes. Also, this would give us an opportunity to develop a huge park spread over 60 acre,” said AMC commissioner D Thara. The other three areas that AMC short-listed for redevelopment included Bopal-Ambli, Kathwada and Central Business District (CBD) on Ashram Road.

and serene setting, away from the bustle of the city. Home to the Asiatic lion, the Sasan Gir Forest is one of the only two nat-ural habitats of this sub-species around the world. The latest census record-ed the lion count in Gir at 411. The leopard, jun-gle cat, rusty spotted cat, cheetal, sambhar, four-horned antelope, wild boar and hare are also easy to spot here, along

with over 200 species of avifauna,” he further said adding that “also integral to the experience will be the jungle safaris the ho-tel will provide in an open Gypsy.For those who pre-fer a cultural expedition instead, the hotel is also close to various temples such as the Somnath, Banej and Kankai Tem-ple, and historical desti-nations such as Junagadh, Gondal and Rajkot.”

ed to Sanjay Joshi had ap-peared outside the houses of top BJP leaders like LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Amit Shah. The hoardings were severely critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. One such hoarding said, “You greet Pakistan and Muslims on Ramzan. But, in your

mind you want to finish Sushma, Advani, Gadkari, Rajnath etc. Why should the people of India trust you?” Joshi, once consid-ered to be a close confi-dant of Modi, had to quit from BJP’s general secre-tary post after a CD of him having sex with a woman appeared in 2005.

Previously, during 2014 Loksabha and 2012 As-sembly elections, similar posters of Joshi had ap-peared causing embar-rassment to state BJP. Joshi visited several of his old-time supporters during the day. He is likely to stay in Ahmedabad on Monday, claimed sources, who added that both state and central intelligence bureau personnel were noticed keeping a close tab on Joshi’s activities. Joshi is widely known as PM Modi’s bete noire

and Gujarat BJP leaders and others had avoided meeting Joshi in pub-lic. However, old feuds seemed to have been left behind at the family func-tion of Togadia. While Joshi avoided speaking to the media, keeping a low profile, sources re-ported he also exchanged pleasantries with the CM and other BJP leaders at the function and mingled freely with them. Joshi at-tended both the wedding ceremony and the recep-tion in evening.

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