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News BriefDia Mirza tries

her hand at horror with web series

Agency | Guwahati

In deference to new As-sam Chief Minister Sar-bananda Sonowal’s deci-sion to keep his convoy to the minimum, police will strike a balance be-tween his instructions and the fundamentals of security. “We will strike a balance between the Chief Minister’s instruc-tions without compro-mising on security or causing inconvenience to the public”, Assam Director General of Po-lice Mukesh Sahay said.

Agency | New Delhi

Now wait-listed and RAC (reservation against cancellation) train ticket holders can cancel their tickets by dialling 139. Earlier only confirmed ticket holders could cancel their tickets through 139 service and IRCTC website. Now the facil-ity can be used for can-cellation of RAC and wait-listed tickets also.

Agency | Mumbai

Known for playing soft romantic roles, Bolly-wood actress Dia Mirza is making a switch by featuring in an episode of the horror web series, “Shockers”. The “Reh-na Hai Tere Dil Mein” actress will be seen playing the title role in an episode titled “The Good Wife”.

Congress Has ‘Mental Disability’ : BJP

Assam police to strike balance for

CM’s security

Dial 139 for wait-listed ticket

cancellation

Amitabh to host talk show highlighting Modi government’s success“Two years of Modi govt”

LJP leader killed in Bihar, Chirag Paswan demands President’s Rule

Government clears capital goods policy, eyes 21 million new jobs

Agency | Gaya

Maoists shot dead a Lok Janshakti Party leader who was campaigning for his wife ahead of panchayat elections near Dumaria in Bihar on Wednesday. The Maoists left behind pamphlets that said Sudesh Paswan was a police informer. The LJP leader’s cous-in was also killed in the attack. The police have registered a case and a combing operation has been launched to catch the attackers. Senior su-perintendent of police Garima Malik confirmed

Agency | New Delhi

The government on Wednesday gave its green light to India’s first-ever policy on cap-ital goods that intends to make the country a world-class hub and looks to create over 21 million additional jobs by 2025. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. “The policy will help in realising the vision of building India as the world-class hub for capital goods. It will also play a pivotal role in overall manufacturing as the pillar of strength to the vision of Make in In-dia,” an official statement read. “This is the first-ev-er policy for the capital

Agency | New Delhi

The Congress’ “mental disability” has impelled its attack on the govern-ment for featuring ac-tor Amitabh Bachchan prominently in an event to mark the second an-niversary of Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi in office, said the ruling BJP. Mr Bachchan also got support from actor Rishi Kapoor, who re-cently attacked the Con-gress for obsessively naming public proper-ty after members of its first family, the Gandhis. “Are the Gandhis jealous that Amitabh Bachchan

is doing something for the other government?” he said. BJP on Wednes-day came out in strong defence of megastar Am-itabh Bachchan for his association with an event to mark the second an-niversary of Modi gov-ernment despite a probe against him after his name appeared in Pana-ma papers expose. A host of BJP leaders, including Union ministers said the probe against Bachchan has nothing to do with the event linked with a social issue of protect-ing the girl child which the megastar will attend

Agency | Chennai

The Election Commis-sion notices seeking an explanation on the free-bies promised during the Tamil Nadu assembly elections has not deterred Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK government. But the road ahead in rolling them out is going to be tough given the financial position of the state. One of the first schemes that Jayalalithaa rolled out as soon as she assumed office was the 100 units of free power for all domestic consum-ers. This alone is an addi-tional expenditure of Rs 1,607 crore a year for the government. The promise

Agency | Thiruvanantha-puram

A CPI-M strongman, Pinarayi Vijayan, who hails from a poor tod-dy tapper’s family, has earned the reputation of being a hard taskmaster and an organisation man to the core and is proba-bly the most feared poli-tician of Kerala. Vijayan, 72, is perhaps the only party leader in the south-ern state in recent years to have had a complete con-trol over the party for 16 years till he stepped down from the post of state sec-retary last year. Popular-

ly known as ‘Pinarayi’, he pipped his bitter rival V S Achuthanandan to become the chief minis-ter not withstanding the spirited campaign by the 93-year-old leader to en-sure the Left’s victory in the Assembly elections in Kerala. The CPI(M) leader is a party politburo member who belongs to the politically dominant Thiyya community like his party rival Achuthan-andan, who is an Ezha-va from South Kerala. A man of few words, he proved his organisation-al capability in the state during his stint as state

the incident and said initial investigations re-vealed Maoists were be-hind the attack. LJP lead-er Chirag Paswan lashed out at the ruling grand alliance for prevailing lawlessness in the state and said those raising their voices were being

murdered. “Killings are happening on a daily ba-sis. Daily doctors, jour-nalists and leaders are being murdered. People who raise their voice are being killed. We demand that President’s Rule be imposed immediately in the state,” he said.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan: A hard taskmaster and a ‘feared’ politician

secretary. He had a short stint as the state’s power Minister during 1996-1998. The cloud of a graft case in connection with awarding of contract to a Canadian company SNC-Lavalin for mod-ernisation of three hydel projects during that peri-od haunted him with his rivals using it to target

him. Vijayan has always maintained that it was a politically motivated case and there was no wrong doing. While his critics described him as a lead-er “with no smile on his face, and the most feared politician in Kerala”, his party rivals have often accused him of deviating from the party line.

goods sector with a clear objective of increasing production of capital goods from Rs 2,30,000 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 7,50,000 crore in 2025 and raising direct and in-direct employment from the current 8.4 million to 30 million.” The policy envisions increasing the share of capital goods in total manufacturing ac-tivity to 20 per cent by 2025, from 12 per cent at present. “Capital goods manufacturing if it hap-

pens in India along with the manufacturing that is going to happen down-stream, the entire econ-omy gets a fillip,” Union Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said. The policy aims to increase direct domestic employment to at least 5 million from the current 1.4 million and indirect employment to 25 million from the cur-rent 7 million by 2025, potentially providing an additional employment to over 21 million people.

Tamil Nadu: AIADMK’s poll promises and the road ahead for Jayalalithaa’s govt

of free power, given in the AIADMK manifesto, was as follows: 100 units of power every two months, 200 units free power for handloom workers, 750 units of free power for power loom factories. Now with the Tamil Nadu government’s free power roll out to various sectors, the state government will be spending an addition-

al Rs 8000 crore annu-ally. In November 2015, the Minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy, Piyush Goy-al rolled out the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yo-jana (UDAY) scheme to bring down consumers’ power bills and increase efficiency in produc-tion and distribution of power. While states like

UP and Bihar adopted UDAY, Tamil Nadu did not. On March 27, 2016, during a CII summit, Goyal stated that Tamil Nadu was “a state with-in a state, a part of the country where I cannot reach out to the Chief Minister.” He added that unless there was a change in government, he would be unable to make a significant im-pact. But the then Tamil Nadu Electricity Minis-ter Natham R Viswana-than denied this and said that the UDAY scheme was “not people-friend-ly” and had a short-term view.

on May 28 and attacked Congress for its “mental disability” in raising a row over it. BJP leader and Union Law Minister D V Sadananda Gow-da said the probe into Bachchan’s name crop-ping up in Panama Pa-

pers will have no affect if he attends the event to mark two years of Nar-endra Modi government on Saturday. “See, prac-tically, participation of Amitabh Bachchan and the investigation with re-gards to Panama Papers,

certainly, it will not have any connectivity. Inves-tigation will be done by an independent agency, they will take care of things. “Even today, we have seen so many cas-es against politicians. Agencies do their duty independently. There is

no harm,” he said when asked about Congress’ charge that the actor’s presence will not ‘go down well’ with probe agencies. Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the megastar is only hosting a programme and he is not yet prov-en guilty by any court. “You may have ques-tions, but has he been la-belled guilty for that. His name has come. Let the court of law take action. If somebody is hosting

a programme for cele-brating our two years and he is not a criminal, he is a respected person of society. If his name has come, let the court of law take action,” he said. BJP Spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said the superstar has done a lot of good in films and people love him more than Congress Vice Pres-ident Rahul Gandhi, but this should not be a rea-son for Congress to be “jealous about”.

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DAYChabahar takeoff: The agreement marks a new level in India’s

overseas ambitionsIndia’s ambitious plans to develop the small Iranian port of Chabahar into a hub linking the Indian ocean with the energy-rich states of Central Asia may mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most durable strate-gic legacy. The $500 million deal promises to lead to the development of a deep-water port, a 500-km rail line linking it to Iran’s rail network, and new alumini-um and urea plants. The Chabahar agreement marks a new level in India’s overseas ambitions, establishing a genuinely strategic presence not just in one of the world’s great energy markets, but potentially giving Indian business access to some of the fastest-grow-ing economies of the future. Freed of sanctions, Iran’s economy is expected to grow sharply in coming years; Indian businesses will now be in a position to capitalise on the coming boom. Though Central Asia has faced severe economic difficulties in recent years, as a consequence of low energy prices, there’s little doubt about the region’s long-term potential. The deal will also allow India to expand its strategic presence in Afghanistan, allowing businesses in both countries to bypass a Pakistan that has proven reflexively hos-tile to allowing transit rights to trade between them. In short, the deal signals that India, like China, has big-league ambitions. The sad truth, however, is that India’s ambitions haven’t quite been matched by its ability to realise them: past transformational projects, though more modest in scale, are yet to get off the ground. The Kaladan multimodal transport project, which was supposed to link the Northeastern states to Myanmar’s Sittwe port, was supposed to have been operational by 2013. The project is likely to take years to be completed, though. Meanwhile, the cost has ballooned from the Rs 535 crore estimated when it was announced in 2008 to Rs 2,904 crore. There are dozens of similar examples. The India-US nucle-ar deal was meant to usher in a new age of energy production, but not a single megawatt has yet been generated. In many parts of the world, India has de-veloped a reputation for talking big, but failing to de-liver. The fate of the Chabahar project will depend on successive governments showing sustained resolve in the face of geopolitical hurdles. The potential spoilers are several. For one, relations between Tehran and the West, though vastly improved, remain fraught, with many hardliners in Iran believing the country was short-changed in the nuclear deal that paved the way for an end to sanctions. That, potentially, could lead to tensions — as could differences over Iran’s role in Syria and Afghanistan.

“More than 2,000 Indian and foreign liquor bottles, over 10,000 cigarette butts and 4,000 beedis, 50,000 pieces of bones, 2,000 chips and namkeen wrappers were found in the campus on a daily basis, along with 3,000 used condoms and 500 abortion syringes — is now claiming that rapes happen in JNu every day” - The Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyandev Ahuja’s outburst against

the JNu, saying it is a hub of criminal activities and rapes take place in the campus.

Agency | Mumbai

He has been one of the most sought after sing-ers of the Bollywood in the last two decades, but Sonu Nigam feels the music industry today has completely changed leaving artists like him with limited choice. Sonu says most of the artists belong to music compa-nies, which manage them and make sure the sing-ers under them get the most popular track. “The whole music business has changed today. Most of the artists belong to cer-tain music companies. They manage their tal-ent. If the company has a

good song, they will give it to their singers and not others. Only specialised songs will come to me,” Sonu told agency. “If they think that this par-ticular song can only be sung by me, then they ap-proach me. If they have a commercial song, which they know will be a hit, they will make their own artist sing it,” he added. The 42-year-old singer began his career by sing-ing in the 1990 movie “Janam”. He shot to fame with songs like “Sandese Aate Hai” from “Border”, “Ye Dil Deewana” from “Pardes” and released his album, “Deewana”.

Agency | New Delhi

One of the better looking pairs in Bollywood, and rumoured to be dating, Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra have already starred in two films to-gether. And while there were rumours of a third film in the offing, Sidharth Malhotra confirmed the fact. In an interview with a newspaper, he said, “Yes, Alia and I are doing ‘Aashiqui 3’. It’s a great space and I hope people like us.” Their chemistry on-screen as well as off-screen has always made news and filmmakers now hope they can cash in on the popularity of the

Agency | New Delhi

A few days ago it was reported that Abhishek Chaubey’s upcoming film ‘Udta Punjab’ star-ring Shahid Kapoor , Alia Bhatt, Kareena Ka-poor and Diljit Dosan-jh has run into trouble with the Censor Board. ‘Udta Punjab’ focuses on the dark subject of drug abuse in the state of Pun-jab. The movie was re-jected by the Examining Committee due to its ex-pletive-laden dialogues and scenes showing drug consumption. Now, ac-cording to a report on Spotboye.com, producer Anurag Kashyap has di-rectly approached Min-ister of State for Infor-mation & Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Ra-thore to clear the film. Unwilling to run the risk

Agency | New Delhi

It was the last day of pro-duction on xXx: The Re-turn of Xander Cage as Deepika Padukone, Don-nie Yen, Tony Jaa, Mike Bisping stepped out into the Toronto streets. Af-ter months of teasing on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, it’s time for one final round of imag-es from the sets of the film as we begin the next stage: Waiting for the trailer.A whole bunch of new images of the cast, especially Deepika Padu-kone have made their way online. These new imag-

Agency | Mumbai

Aishwarya Rajesh came into the limelight with her stellar performance in the National Award-win-ning Kaaka Muttai. Af-ter bagging a Bollywood film with Arjun Ram-pal, the actress has now signed a film with none

other than Malayalam heart-throb Nivin Pauly. Actress Aparna Gopinath is also reportedly part of this project which is pro-duced by Universal Cin-ema. Another debutante actress could also be part of this film. The Nivin Pauly film is being di-rected by Sidhartha Siva

Agency | Mumbai

Our beloved characters Baburao, Raju and Ghan-shyam are all set to tick-le our funny bone again! Who doesn’t remem-ber Baburao’s hilarious scenes from Hera Pheri?! The film is one the most loved comedy films that Bollywood has ever pro-duced. While some might believe the film belonged to Paresh Rawal, one can-not belittle Akshay Ku-mar and Suniel Shetty’s contributions to the film. According to a recent re-

port in a leading tabloid, Neeraj Vohra, director of Phir Hera Pheri, was keen on roping in Dos-tana duo John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan for Hera Pheri 3. But for-tunately or unfortunately both of them decided to move out of the project because of other work commitments. While, John Abraham withdrew from the film in Septem-ber last year, to wrap up Rohit Dhawan’s upcom-ing action-adventure, Di-shoom; Abhishek Bach-

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Salman Khan said that he constantly tries to increase the level of whatever good he is do-ing and does not like to look behind. In Salman’s upcoming film Sultan, there is a line that says wrestling is not a sport, you are fighting what lies within you. When asked which thing he is fighting in real life, Salman said in a lighter tone: “Where do you get these ques-tions from. How can you put me in a tight spot, this is not fair. You know what, I am fighting with-in. I think even you are fighting the same thing within.” “I am fighting with myself all the time. I constantly try to up my standard a little bit. That is the only thing I keep fighting. I don’t have time to look behind. I

Music companies give commercial songs to their artists: Sonu

‘Kaaka Muttai’ actress Aishwarya Rajesh signs a Nivin Pauly film

Salman Khan Says He’s ‘Fighting’ With Himself All the Time

and the movie will kick-start next week in Kochi. The movie is said to be an entertainer with Nivin Pauly playing a student leader. The director has just wrapped up his Kun-chako Bobon film called Kochavva Paulo Ayyap-pa Coelho. Once Nivin Pauly completes this Malayalam film, he will move on to the Tamil film he is doing with director Gautham Ramachandran. This movie is a remake of the Kannada film called Ulidavaru Kandante and U-Turn actress Shraddha Srinath will be seen with him.

try and take small baby steps. Whatever wrong I have done I am trying to cut it down, and what-ever good I am doing I am trying to increase that level,” the 50-year-old actor said at an event to launch the trailer of Sul-tan. In the film, Salman plays a Haryanvi wrestler named Sultan. He has not learnt the language but has tried to get the accent right. “I have not learnt

it. The dialogues used to come and I used to repeat it. She (Anushka Shar-ma) learnt Haryanvi and she speaks really well,” he said. At that moment, Anushka interrupted and said, “We just got the accent right. We had a coach for it.” The makers of Sultan have shot some portions on real locations, but according to Salman, it is very difficult to shoot at such places.

Yayy! Akshay, Suniel and Paresh to come together for Hera Pheri 3!

Is Deepika Padukone auditioning for Catwoman as xXx 3 wraps?

Sidharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt to star in Aashiqui 3

Anurag Kashyap approaches I&B minister to clear ‘udta Punjab’

The original cast of the Hera Pheri franchise Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty

and Paresh Rawal come to the film’s rescue

chan, who was to play Raju (played by Akhay Kumar) walked out of the project in December in the same year. Nonetheless, everything happens for a reason and we are glad that it’s happening this way. They have zeroed in on the original cast of the Hera Pheri franchise – Suniel Shetty as Ghan-shyam, Akshay Kumar as Raju and Paresh Raw-al as Baburao Ganpatrao Apte. While the actresses are yet to be decided we are excited for the film al-ready! The film was to re-lease in August this year but now has been pushed ahead to 2017.

young pair. Interestingly, the film was supposed to star Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor. Howev-er, since both the actors didn’t want to do that project, the producers cast Alia and Sidharth. Also, Sidharth may even sing in the film. He said

he also may learn a mu-sical instrument. “The plan is to train and sing, so let’s see.” He said. However, Sidharth will first complete two films, including one alongside Jacqueline and the oth-er titled ‘Ittefaq’ before starting ‘Aashiqui 3’.

es make her look, more than ever, a great candi-date for Catwoman - if they ever decide to bring her into the DC Universe ever again. Just one look at Deepika in her leathery black outfit and it’s clear she would be amazing in the role that Michelle

Pfeiffer and Anne Hatha-way famously played pre-viously. While Vin Diesel was missing from the ac-tion - he’s shooting for the eighth Fast & Furious film in Cuba - it was great to see the gang we’ve become so familiar with over the past few months.

of cuts being suggested by the Revising Commit-tee or the Tribunal, the producer decided to skip them altogether and ap-proach the I&B minister instead, stated the report. The report also men-tions that Anurag feels since the movie is based

on the drug menace in Punjab, scenes depicting drug consumption and cuss words in this drug-themed drama is justi-fied. Produced by Bala-ji Motion Pictures and Phantom Productions, ‘Udta Punjab’ is set to release on June 17.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPAmazon launches Kindle instant previews in India

NSE Academy takes off with a global program

uS: Watching India-Iran ties ‘very closely’

Agency | Ahmedabad

In its endeavour to ensure financial well-being of people and quality education, India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) has formed NSE Academy Limit-ed. The newly created structure will henceforth ad-minister all existing educational programs offered by NSE, for different levels of students. Ms Chitra Ramkrishna, MD & CEO, NSE, said, “With India being in the list of top 10 countries in terms of mar-ket capitalisation of around $1.66 trillion (Rs.100 lakh crore) and its market capitalization-to-GDP ratio being as high as about 75%, NSE’s efforts can actually make our students stand out as profes-sionals in the global capital markets. Significantly, they can also play a pivotal role in improving finan-cial well-being of people”. NSE Academy will flag off its journey with NSE’s redesigned flagship pro-gram called Post Graduate Certificate Programme

in Global Financial Markets (PGCP-GFM).

Agency | Bangalore

Amazon today announced the launch of Kindle in-stant previews in India, a feature that makes it easy for readers to read and share eBook excerpts for free. With one tap in line with the article or blog post they are reading, users can just start reading - no need to sign up, sign in or install an app. Kindle instant previews simply bring the book sampling experience online. The reading experience also now includes a quick and seamless way to share excerpts from one’s favorite eBook with anyone. Any website, including bloggers, publishers and authors can now integrate the preview experience by embedding a widget on their sites, blogs or apps. Once the link is embedded on the website or blog, the book cover image changes to a free sample of the book, without needing to redirect the reader. For book review sites, this will deliver an

enriching customer engagement.

Agency | New Delhi

Royal Challengers Banga-lore (RCB) batsman AB de Villiers recently said that Virat Kohli was lead-ing the team by example. RCB’s win on Tuesday in the Qualifier against Gujarat Lions was, how-ever, an example of how the team managed to get going even when Kohli didn’t fire. All it took was for De Villiers to step up. That has been the story of RCB this IPL season. Even when the nucleus of the side has failed to perform, others have tak-en on the onus. While De Villiers contribution will be seen as the main factor in RCB’s hop to the final, there have been other per-formances of note in the

Agency | New Delhi

Monday was a rare rest day in the IPL. It was a disturbing lull after al-most two months of non-stop action. IPL is like an addiction and I can nev-er have enough of it. So a rest day is never wel-comed, at least not for me. I remember reading this tweet by Sony’s pre-senter Gaurav Kapoor: “Our hard-working studio crew get their 1st day off

since the 9th of April. Bet they’ll be hearing ‘thoko band’ in their sleep.” Well, we can all agree to dis-agree. Our Kolkata-Delhi flight on Monday was de-toured to Jaipur due to bad weather in the Capital. As I sat in the aircraft at Jai-pur airport, I was think-ing about the times when cricket matches had rest days. I have always been a cricket tragic and rest days were never welcomed

Agency | London

Despite being crowned as the Premier League champions, Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has said that avoiding relegation will remain his top priority in the next season. Leices-ter finished the season ten points clear at the top after claiming a 3-1 win over Everton at the King Power Stadium earlier

this month. Ranieri be-lieves it would be quite difficult for his side to defend the title next sea-son, especially because of the arrival of top manag-ers like Antonio Conte at Chelsea, Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and with Jose Mourinho likely to be appointed as Manches-ter United?s manager. The Foxes boss insisted that his side would still

remain underdogs, and called on his side to main-tain a right attitude in the next season. Leicester, who escaped relegation in the 2014-2015 season and started the previous season as 5000-1 outsid-ers, overcame their un-derdogs tag by winning the title in what could be termed as one of the most remarkable seasons of the football history.

Agency | London

English football’s biggest club seem to have secured the services of the sport’s most colourful manag-er after Jose Mourinho, according to Sky TV re-ports, agreed to personal terms with Manchester United on Tuesday. Af-ter a trophy-laden career with Porto, Chelsea, In-ter Milan and Real Ma-drid, Mourinho is set to replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal, who was sacked on Monday, with a remit to bring back the glory days the club once took for granted under Alex Ferguson. The 53-year-

Agency | New Delhi

Indian Super League side NorthEast United Football Club Wednes-day announced the rop-ing in of five players, including senior goal-keeper Subrata Paul, for the third season of the ISL this year. Besides Paul, who has played for more than 60 inter-national matches since 2007, the other four players signed by North-East United were Nirmal Chettri, Rowllin Borges, Shouvik Ghosh and Su-mit Passi. The Guwa-hati-based side had re-cently signed Brazilian Sergio Farias as the head coach. Commenting on the new signings, club owner John Abraham said, “I am absolutely thrilled with the sign-ings of these football tal-ents. Football runs in the blood of Nirmal, Subra-ta, Rowllin, Sumit and Shouvik, a character-istic they have in com-mon with the rest of the

Agency | Mumbai

India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani creat-ed history in Abu Dhabi by clinching the Asian 6-Red snooker title. Advani thus became the first in the world to hold both world and continental titles in 6-Red snooker at the same time, according to in-formation received here. The double IBSF World 6-Red snooker champi-on stamped his author-ity again in the short format of the game, de-feating top-seeded Ma-laysian Keen Hoh Moh 7-5 on Sunday night. Advani kept his nerve in a battle of fluctuating fortunes. With a confidence boosting 6-1 semifinal victory against compa-triot Aditya Mehta to book his spot in the finals and coming closer to winning his first continental title, Advani clear-

ly walked to the table with the utmost poise winning the first frame 39-4. With a loss of the second frame, 6-51 to the Malaysian who scored a break of 51, Advani won the third frame 40-14 be-fore losing the fourth frame, 37-0. The

fifth and sixth frame belonged solely to the 30-year-old Ad-

vani who cleared the table 41-7 and 44-8 respec-tively. With the Indian ace leading the match 4-2 at the end of six frames, Keen Hoh Moh

fought back by winning the seventh frame, 38-21

only to lose the eight frame 24-45 with Advani securing a 45

break. By the ninth frame, the match was extremely close with Advani leading the Malaysian by a single frame and extend-ed that lead to a difference of two frames by winning the 10th frame, 45-36.

IPL 2 6

Team effort, not just a Kohli show: RCB’s road to IPL final

KKR raring to go against Sunrisers despite tiring journey: Gambhir

Mourinho agrees to personal terms with Manchester united: Sky TV

Despite being Champions of Engalnd, Leicester City’s primary objective still

remains to avoid relegation

Agency | Washington

The US is “watching very closely” India’s grow-ing ties with Iran after it recently pledged USD 500 million for developing the Chabahar port and will see if its legal parameters and require-ments are being met, the Obama Administration has told lawmakers. As of now, there is no mili-tary or counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries that could be a cause of concern for the US, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told mem-bers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a Congressional hearing. She said the US is “watching very closely” India’s relationship with Iran. “We also track very closely what their economic engagement is and make sure they un-derstand what we believe are legal parameters and requirements,” Biswal said. “With respect to the announcement in the Chabahar port, we have been very clear with the Indians on what we believe are the continuing restrictions on the activities with respect to Iran and what we have done,” she said. She was responding to a question on Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi’s Iran visit from Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Modi’s visit, that saw the signing of a bilateral pact to develop the Chabahar port for which India will invest USD 500 million, came months after the lifting of inter-national sanctions on Iran following Tehran’s his-toric nuclear deal with the Western powers over its

contentious atomic programme.

build-up. These might ap-pear to be minor but when they came together as a whole, the team rocked. On top of this list comes all-rounder Shane Watson, who might have failed with the bat but picked up four wickets on Tues-day to break the backbone of the Lions. Watson also shares the top spot in the wicket-takers list along-side leg-spinner Yuzven-dra Chahal. Both have 20

scalps. Both of them have peaked at a time when RCB’s bowling seemed to be falling apart with the main bowlers conceding a load of runs. This was also a contributing factor to just why Kohli had to produce double the effort during chases. After all, bowling wasn’t helping his team’s cause. This, in turn, led to the opposition putting up big scores. Watson stepped into this breach.

even when I was growing up. I just couldn’t under-stand why a good night’s sleep is not enough for my ‘macho’ knights in whites. Why would they need a full day off to refresh? Besides, a rest day meant no cricket on TV. Without sounding primitive, let me tell young readers that the late 80s and early 90s was a pre-satellite TV, pre-in-ternet, pre-Facebook/Twitter era. Yes, there was a world like that as well. The TV sets came to life only in the evenings. With all due respect to the national broadcaster, there was little for me to cling on to. Maybe there was a Spiderman, The Gi-ant Robot or ‘The World This Week’ presented by a young and still bearded Dr Prannoy Roy. But with cricket on, TV and life had a whole new meaning.

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old, sacked by Chelsea in December seven months after winning his third Premier League title at the London club over two spells, had been constant-ly linked with the United job as van Gaal struggled to make an impression at

Old Trafford. The Dutch-man was dismissed two days after steering United to their first FA Cup suc-cess in 12 years when they beat Crystal Palace 2-1 after extra-time in Satur-day’s Wembley final. Van Gaal’s preferred posses-sion-dominated playing style at a club more readi-ly associated with fast, di-rect attacking, was widely criticised, and it appeared to take his players time to adapt. Mourinho is also known for pragma-tism, however, relying on a strong defensive foun-dation and hard-working midfielders and strikers.

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Correspondent | Vadodara

Sri Mastram Vinay High-er Secondary School in Gujarat’s Utavali village, which was the focus of a 2014 report which high-lighted how students had to cross a river each day to reach the school, has recorded the lowest pass percentage in the state — 19.27%. Of the 358 students from the school who appeared for their SSC (Class X) exams in March this year, only 69 have passed, statistics

from the Gujarat Second-ary and Higher Secondary Education Board show. The school had recorded a pass percentage of 45.21% in 2015. On August 20, 2014, the Gujarat govern-ment cleared a pending proposal for a bridge on the river after the Nation-al Human Rights Com-mission slapped a notice on the state’s chief secre-tary, taking cognizance of agency. The construction of the bridge commenced in October last year.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Wildlife enthusiasts may have some reason to cheer. Gujarat for-est officials say that the leopard and sloth bear census is likely to show a substantial increase in numbers. The three-day census which began on May 21, ended early on Monday. The state forest department has formed a three-member committee headed by SP Sisodiya, chief conservator of for-

est, to finalize the leopard and sloth bear count. Ac-cording to officials apart from Sisodiya, the com-mittee will also have chief conservator of forest, RC Mistry and conservator of forest, Uday Vora. Sourc-es in the department said that the census exercise has thrown up some rath-er encouraging results as there were numerous sightings by teams across the state of both leopards and sloth bears.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Police are now probing the role of a close relative of one of the prime ac-cused in the Rs 2000 crore drug-bust case. The inves-tigators suspect that this relative, who is an export-er, operates from a Gujarat port, and could possibly be exporting raw ephed-rine to the Kenya via a sea route. Sources informed that they have recently got an alert about the person (name withheld) who will soon be summoned and questioned. Investigators believe that this could un-veil the reality behind the export of the contraband out of the country. Mean-while, investigators who are yet to arrest the prime accused — Kishorsinh Rathod and Jay Mukhi — even after a month are clueless about the trade route as to how nearly 100 tonne of raw ephed-rine was exported out of the country to Mobassa in Kenya, January of this year. “During the probe, the name of this person

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Bus Rapid Transport Sys-tem(BRTS) Janmarg ser-vice in Ahmedabad has got two buses manufac-tured by Volvo for two-month trial period. Volvo has started manufactur-ing buses for BRTS un-der UD brand. The buses are manufactured under urban bus specification – 2. Euro 4 emission norms and 250 hp rear engine bus has 37 seats and standing capacity for 30 passengers. It has a system through which bus level can be uplift-ed and down lifted. Bus floor is physically chal-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(C-CEA), Government of India today cleared Rs 10,736 crore railway line projects, among which one project was Suren-dranagar – Rajkot rail-way line doubling project in Gujarat. According a statement issued by gov-ernment, doubling of Surendranagar – Rajkot railway line will involve cost of Rs 1002 crore. The 116 km long railway project will complete in four years. Railway Min-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Government of India will be launching the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for all (UJALA) in Guja-rat tomorrow. The event will be presided by Smt. Anandiben Patel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Guja-rat. The LED bulbs will be available to the con-sumers across Gujarat for an upfront cost of Rs. 80 and at an EMI of Rs 85/- (against a market price of Rs. 350). Residential con-sumers in Gujarat have an option of paying the amount upfront or choose an EMI option where there would be no upfront payment and Rs 20 will be added to per bi-month-ly electricity bill for a pe-riod of eight months. The UJALA programme is executed by Energy Effi-ciency Services Limited

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A special court here will pronounce its much awaited judgement in the 2002 Gulberg soci-ety riot case on June 2. 69 people including for-mer Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed when a mob attacked Gul-berg Housing Society in Meghaninagar area of the city on February 28, 2002, a day after the Sabarmati express train burning incident in Godhara in Central Gu-jarat which sparked riots across Gujarat. Counsel of the Supreme Court appointed special inves-tigation team (SIT) R C Kodekar today said that special judge PB Desai

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

With parts of Gujarat, es-pecially Saurashtra, fac-ing severe water scarcity, the budget for Gujarat Water Supply & Sewer-age Board’s (GWSSB) master plan for drought mitigation has been in-creased by 160 per cent from Rs 70 crore to Rs 183 crore. The GWS-SB is responsible for water supply to the wa-ter-scarce areas and its main source is Narmada river. “Presently, Sau-rashtra region is facing severe water shortage. And, for that GWSSB has been working round the clock while imple-menting a master plan for drought mitigation.

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Correspondent | Mumbai

Arvind Internet, the e-com-merce division of textile manufacturer Arvind Lim-ited which has launched its omni-channel fashion portal NNNow.com, ex-pects to garner 10-15 per cent of its business from online sales in the next three to five years, a top company executive said today. Arvind also expects to double its revenues by 2020 to become a USD 1 billion (around Rs 6,700 crore) company. “Arvind is a half-a-billion dollar company today and we expect revenues of over USD 1 billion dollars by 2020. We expect our om-ni-channel business to ac-count for about 10-15 per cent of the business in the

next three to five years,” Kulin Lalbhai, Executive Director, Arvind Limited told agency. The company expects to integrate all its 1,200 offline stores across its 35 brands by the middle of this fiscal. “We are inte-grating 100-150 stores ev-ery month and by the mid-dle of this fiscal our entire offline stores will be digi-tised and live,” he added. The company will follow a top-down model while in-tegrating stores, covering the top 15 cities first. NN-Now.com will integrate on-line and in-store shopping with same-day hyper-local delivery, store pick-ups for online orders, same-day hassle free returns at stores and India-wide inventory access to customers, the company said.

Ujala:LED bulbs to be distributed in Gujarat for Rs 80 or EMI of Rs 85

Special Court to pronounce verdict in Gulberg society case on June 2

160% rise in budget for Gujarat water board’s drought plan Centre approves Surendranagar

– Rajkot rail line doubling project

(EESL), an organisation under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. EESL procures LED bulbs through com-petitive bidding from leading manufacturers in the country. This trans-parent bidding process brings down the price of the LED bulbs. In the first round of procure-ment, held in 2014, the lowest bid was for Rs. 310. In the recent round

of procurement (Janu-ary 2016), the lowest bid was Rs. 54.90. Since the bulbs are distribut-ed across India, EESL adds administrative costs, distribution and awareness costs along with state-specific taxes and distributes the LED bulbs at a price range of Rs. 75 to Rs. 95 across India. The price variance is subject to the taxes in each state of India.

would pronounce the verdict on June 2. The court had heard the case on day to day basis on the instructions of the apex court which on Feb-ruary 22 this year allowed the court to pronounce its verdict in three months time. Gulberg society case is one of the nine ma-jor cases of 2002 Gujarat riots which were probed by the Supreme Court-ap-pointed special investiga-

tion team (SIT). Earlier the apex court while in-structing the special court to expedite the hearing of the case had also said that the judgement should not be pronounced without its permission. SIT had named 66 accused in the case. Nine of them have been in jail for the last 14 years. The court has asked all the accused to remain present before it on June 2.

Its budget has increased from initial Rs 70 crore to Rs 183 crore due to worsening of water scar-city,” said a government official associated with the development. Ban-askantha and Kutch dis-tricts are also facing severe water scarcity. The increased budget of GWSSB’s drought miti-gation plan is mainly for providing water through

tankers, repairing of hand-pumps, and digging or deepening bore wells. As per official data, the areas where GWSSB’s water network grid is not installed are being provided water through tankers. Currently, the GWSSB is providing wa-ter to 490 villages in 22 districts. In all, 662 water tankers are doing 3,086 rounds everyday.

Gujarat school that kids had to swim to has highest fail rate

ister Suresh Prabhu while making this announce-ment said, “Gujarat in-dustry will benefit from this decision, as this will ease freight traffic be-tween Okha and Rajkot, Porbandar and Kanalus, Veraval and Rajkot, Maliya Miyana and Na-valgadh, Dahisara and Wankaner sections.” Pra-bhu said this will also give major boost to Guja-rat’s ability. Prabhu said Gujarat has highest ship handling capacity and doubling of railway line

will benefit not only Gu-jarat but also the nation. CCEA also approved 5-year project of dou-bling of 467 km Pune-Miraj Londa railway line costing Rs 3,627 crore, 5 year project of 180 km Roza-Sitapur Cantt-Burhwal broad gauge single line costing Rs 1,295 crore, 5-year 3rd line project of 264.4 km Vizianagaram – Titlagarh costing Rs 2,335,68 crore and 5-year 278.7 km Rs 2,478.23 crore Bina-Kat-ni 3rd line project.

Arvind eyes 10-15 pc biz from online sales in 3-5 years

Rs 2000 crore drug-bust: Role of prime accused’s relative being probed from Gujarat

Ahmedabad BRTS service gets two Volvo buses on trial basis

lenged persons friend-ly.42 kv/12 tonne Air conditioning system sup-ported by air curtains in 3 doors, 6 forward and 1 re-verse gear with automat-ic transmission, digital display dashboard, GPS console, 3 cameras, elec-

tronically controlled mir-ror, rear camera visual in dashboard for reverse job, door censor, new gen con-troller area network, auto fire suspension system for automatic sprinkle when fire etc are highlights of the buses.

cropped up who is into exporting rice and sugar to African countries from a port in Gujarat, and later we learnt that he is related to one of the accused in the case. Upon grilling some of the arrested accused, we found that the man was also linked to ports in Goa and Gujarat,” informed the source. “We suspect that ephedrine, under the guise of food items, could be smuggled out of India through a trade route in

Gujarat. We are also ver-ifying if setting up a plant near Ahmedabad could be one of the reason as the transport distance would be minimal,” informed a senior officer. The car-tel, right from exporting the raw ephedrine from Solapur through various trade routes was well-planned till the final prod-uct and one Dr Abdul had identified a spot in Tanza-nia to filter the ephedrine into meth amphetamine.

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‘Leopard, sloth bear population up by 15%’