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Muhammad Nisham, a beedi tycoon had rammed his Hummer SUV into a security guard

leading to the latter’s death two weeks later

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News BriefLower demand

drags down spice prices

Agency | Mumbai

Black pepper, ginger and copra prices fell in an otherwise sluggish spices market here to-day on lower demand from stockists and re-tailers amid subdued export off-take. Black pepper, ginger bleached and unbleached eased Rs 5 per kg to Rs 685/740, Rs 165 and Rs 185 from Wednes-day’s closing level of Rs 685/745, Rs 170 and Rs 190, respectively. Copra Rajapur Mum-bai dropped by Rs 500 per quintal to Rs 12,500 from overnight level of Rs 13,000 and copra edible Mumbai slid by Rs 200 per quintal Rs 7,800 from Rs 8,000.‘Goa Carnaval’ to begin from Feb 6

Suspension of 4 dalit research

scholars revoked

Agency | Kolkata

‘Goa Carnaval’ this year will begin on Feb-ruary 6 and will be one of the most colourful and vibrant editions of the festival, the state’s tourism minister Dilip Parulekar said today. The Carnaval, which will continue till Febru-ary 9, will aim to spread the message of peace, unity and harmony and be a tribute to the state’s diverse population and heritage, he said.

Agency | Hyderabad

Yielding to intense pressure, the Hyderabad Central University(H-CU) today revoked the suspension of four dalit students against whom action was taken along with another research scholar Rohith Vemula Chakravarthi, who al-legedly committed sui-cide in his hostel room on January 17. On a day of dramatic develop-ments, 13 SC/ST faculty members of the unversi-ty, who backed the pro-testing students and had threatened to resign, an-nounced that they were giving up their adminis-trative posts.

Tycoon jailed for 39 years, fined Rs 80.3 lakh“Hummer horror case”

Correspondent | Rajkot

At least three students and two women cooks were killed while 18 oth-ers were seriously injured when a luxury bus carry-ing students of a munic-ipal school of Surat on an educational tour over-turned near Keshod town of Junagadh district on Thursday. Police said the accident took place near Agatray on Keshod by-pass of National Highway 8D when driver of the bus lost control and hit divid-er of the highway. The bus skidded and tipped on its side, killing the five

Agency | New Delhi

Virtually kicking off BJP’s campaign for the coming assembly poll in West Bengal, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday at-tacked Trinamool Con-gress government on the issue of law and order saying that women, peo-ple and even policemen are not secure here. Hold-ing business summits will not be able to bring in investments in the state unless the TMC govern-ment improves law and order and ensures good governance, he said. De-spite TMC’s slogan for ushering in change “’Ma-mati-manush’ (mother, earth and people) and even police are not se-cure in West Bengal. The TMC government has not

Agency | Thiruvanan-thapuram

A court in Thrissur on Thursday sentenced bee-di tycoon Muhammad Nisham to rigorous life imprisonment and an-other 24 years in jail for causing the death of a security guard with his Hummer at the Sobha City apartments last year. The 39-year-old businessman, reported-ly with assets worth Rs 5,000 crore, will also have to pay a fine of Rs 80.30 lakh of which Rs 50 lakh is to be paid to the widow of the victim, K Chandrabose. Quoting

Kerala Nisham sentenced to life

been able to bring in any change in Bengal,” Singh told a rally at Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas dis-trict. Mentioning the vio-lence in Malda, he refuted Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement that it was a result of tussle between BSF officials and locals. “The incident in Malda is not a small incident. I want to tell the TMC government that the Malda case should be solved. Whoever may be involved in the incident

should be arrested. Only few arrest can’t solve the case,” he said. “It is be-ing said that the (Malda) violence was a result of tussle between BSF and locals. But it is not true. Are they trying to safe-guard those forces which attacked the BSF official? Will those who attacked the BSF roam free? This is the same BSF which had given befitting reply to Pakistani forces in the Indo-Pak border,” Singh said.

Correspondent | Kutch

A team consisting of a German archaeologist and two Indians discovered dinosaur fossils during an ongoing research in Gujarat. Archaeologists claimed that the fossils found in the Kaas Hills near Kutch city were 16 billion years old. They also claimed to have dis-covered more than 150 geological sites adding it might be possible to find more fossils and other ancient relics in the fu-ture. “We are getting the fossils of dinosaurs from the time when dinosaurs lived in the coastal areas. This couldn’t be found earlier. 15 years ago, we

Archaeologists discover dinosaur fossils in Gujarat

had collected fossils, then the ONGC (Oil and Nat-ural Gas Corporation) collected fossils of di-nosaurs. And now again, we have discovered the fossils of the dinosaurs,” said an archaeologist, DK Pandey. The scholars were researching on the possibilities of ancient fossils in the Kutch city for the last 25 years. One of the largest dinosaurs ever found was in 2014 in Argentina’s Patagonia region, where titanosaurs roamed the forests about 100 million years ago.

Whoever is responsible behind Malda incident will not be spared: Rajnath

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court last week (Jan 15) de-clared a March 2008 state legislature enactment “ul-tra-vires”— meaning be-yond one’s legal power— that permitted premature redemption at reduced interest rates of a bond issue floated by a public limited company, Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNL) in Novem-ber 1993. The issue dates back to November 1993 when the state-owned SSNL raised Rs 250 crore through 20-year deep dis-count bonds at Rs 3,600 with a redemption value of Rs 1.11 lakh at matu-rity. The bonds were also guaranteed by the Gujarat state government to en-sure investor-confidence and full subscription to fund the Sarovar dam project. For the compa-ny, the amount it would have to fork out in ma-turity payments was Rs 7,500 crore. SSNL, after 10 years of its initial of-fer, expressed its desire of lowering rates and seek-


Congres chief Sonia Gandhi’s political secre-tary Ahmed Patel has ex-pressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of noted danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai. In a condolence message, Patel said that the state had lost a dynam-ic woman who provided leadership in the field of classical dance and social works. State Congress

HC calls Gujarat govt enactment to recall PSU bonds ultra vires

ing premature redemp-tions to the bonds holders at a special general body meeting held in 2004. The investors rejected the proposal outright. The market watchdog, Securi-ties and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), then came to the rescue of four lakh-odd investors and filed an affidavit in Novem-ber 2008 stating that the state legislative Act was unconstitutional. The Gujarat state legislature, in March 2008, enacted a law that empowered SSNL to make amend-ments to the terms of bond issue with an additional clause that permitted the company to lower rates and the right to seek pre-mature redemption of the 6.70 lakh bonds issued. The said right was absent in original contract.

Gujarat Congress leaders condole Mrinalini Sarabhai’s death

president Bharatsinh So-lanki and Leader of Oppo-sition in the state assembly Shankersinh Vaghela said

that Mrinaliniben would always be remembered for her great contribution to the field of dance.

Five killed as bus carrying school students overturns in Junagarh

Police said the accident took place near Agatray on Keshod bypass of National Highway 8D when the driver of the bus lost control and hit a divider on the highway

on the spot and injuring 18 others seriously. The private luxury bus was carrying students of Tar-vadi-II Primary School of Surat on an educa-tional tour. The students

were on their way back from Somnath temple in nearby Gir Somnath district when their bus overturned after hitting the highway divider at around 8:30 AM. “Three students and two women cooks who were part of the tour have been killed. Injured have been rushed to Junagadh civil hospi-tal and instructions have been given to ensure best treatment to them,” Edu-cation Minister Bhupen-drasinh Chudasama who was in Gir Somnath said. The dead were identified

as Bhavu Bambhva (11) Nisha Rabari (11), Divya Bharati (13), Champa Ra-jkotiya (40) and Ramila Rathod (45). Rajkotiya and Rathod were two of the three cooks accompa-nying the students. SMC announced Rs1 lakh ex-gratia to the kin of each of those killed and Rs50,000 to the serious injured. Sub-divisional magistrate of Keshod, MM Joshi said that there 78 students, 12 teachers, three cooks, a bus cleaner and driver on board the bus when the accident took place.

the verdict of judge K P Sudheer, special public prosecutor C P Uday-abhanu said the life term served for murder and 24 years of jail term for other six offences would run consecutively. The appellate courts have

to uphold the quantum of punishment. Nisham was convicted under sec-tions of 302, 326, 323, 324,427,449 and 506(1) of IPC. The court also asked the prosecution to initiate criminal proce-dures against Nisham’s

wife Amal on charges of perjury. Amal, who had been a prosecution wit-ness, had earlier given a statement to the mag-istrate that she had seen injured Chandrabose in the Hummer SUV of her husband. Later, during the trial, Amal turned hostile. Reacting to the

verdict, Chadrabose’s wife Jamanthi said the culprit should have been hanged. “We did not get justice. We are not en-thused to hear about the compensation ordered to be paid to us. It was not an accident. He ran the vehicle into my hus-band. When he tried to

escape, Nisham crushed him against a concrete wall using his vehicle. We are not satisfied by the verdict,’’ said Ja-manthi, who was given the job of a lower divi-sion typist with a pub-lic sector firm in Thris-sur after Chandrabose’s death. Nisham’s family

members also said they would move an appeal in the High Court as the trial court did not look into the attack against Nisham. Home Minis-ter Ramesh Chennithala said the prosecution was asked to move an appeal seeking maximum pun-ishment for the culprit.

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DAY‘Comedy Nights’ did raise a few laughs, Why we don’t do comedy well

In the end, they all wept. The tears of a clown. For two and a half years they’ve done nothing but have fun at others’ expense, presumably laughing all the way to the bank — including Navjot Singh Sidhu, who played the human laugh box to perfection with non-stop guffaws for 30 months. Now, when they had to take their leave of us, they began to cry — hey, that’s no way to say goodbye Comedy Nights With Kapil (Colors). The fi-nal episode was to air on Sunday but it wasn’t shown — somebody’s idea of a joke, you suppose? However, excerpts from the episode have made the rounds on so-cial media, so we have seen Bittu Sharma (Kapil), his wife Manju (Sumona Chakravarti), Dadi Dolly Shar-ma (Asgar Ali in drag), Gutthi (Sunil Grover doing an Asgar Ali), et al, choke up and ostentatiously wipe their eyes. We’ve never had it so good, was their common refrain and they were right: Comedy Nights With Kapil made them laughing stocks in households across In-dia, and so what if the humour was often sexist, rac-ist, class-ist (you know what we mean) and tasteless? When it began in the summer of 2013, the comedy sketch show was far more wholesome entertainment. Kapil as Inspector Shamsher Singh was genuinely fun-ny in stock situations — along with his rumble-tumble co-stars. However, the more successful/ popular it be-came, the more slapstick became the humour and near-ly always bordered on the bawdy. When Kapil tries to get a laugh by saying he’s not wearing underwear be-cause why wear a garment that nobody can see — ha-ha or eow? And then there was the monstrous regiment of Bollywood. Like so many other reality shows — or all reality shows — actors appeared as guests on Com-edy Nights whenever they had a film release. They were meant to be part of the sketches, but honestly? They were a joke — they played no role at all. And they found everything so funny you’d think they’d in-haled nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Did you catch Ka-jol splitting her sides, her mouth, her clothes in a recent episode when Dilwale was released? Comedy Nights did raise a few laughs but, frankly, it’s nothing to cry over. We don’t do comedy well, we might as well ac-cept it. For instance, Bindass has a series called Kota Toppers that is supposed to be a sitcom about coaching institutes in Kota. Anyone who has read the reports of suicides by students unable to handle parental, social and educational pressures of studying at such institutes, realises this is no laughing matter — unless it was done tastefully. Ha. Aadhe Adhure doesn’t make you laugh but Bhaage Re Mann (Zindagi) does. Last week, we had lamented the lack of serials that wore their make-up lightly and told a good story more realistically.

“despite TMC’s slogan for ushering in change, ‘Ma-mati-manush’ (mother, earth and people) and even the police are not secure in West Bengal. The TMC government has not been able to bring in any change in Bengal,”

- Virtually kicking off the BJP’s campaign for the coming assembly poll in West Bengal, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday attacked the Trinamool Congress government

Sad that student chose death over life: Prakash Jha

Agency | Mumbai

The world has been speculating about Ran-bir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif calling time on their five-year romance, but on digging deeper, we found out that they ha-ven’t officially broken up; they merely had a lovers’ tiff which may have been stretched a bit too far by Ranbir, say sources. Of course, he has his reasons, but Kat, on her part, is apparent-ly still trying to cement the cracks in their rela-

tionship. Last week, the break-up rumours were further fuelled when Kat was spotted at the same party as her ex, Sal-man Khan. Soon after, though, the actress issued a statement through her spokesperson rubbishing the reports and called it a meeting by chance. Now, in a bigger step, she is believed to have decid-ed against promoting her next, Fitoor on the finale of Salman-hosted reality show, Bigg Boss 9 de-spite having committed earlier.

Katrina Kaif May ditch Salman Khan to Soothe Ranbir Kapoor

Agency | New Delhi

John Abraham’s next project Rocky Handsome might be making news for its heavy-duty action and stunt scenes but the ac-tor said that the film is an emotional story about the bond between a man and a little girl. Rocky Hand-some, directed by Nishi-kant Kamath, is about a seven-year-old girl, who is kidnapped, and a man, (John) who embarks on a journey to get her back. The 43-year-old Force star is happy that the action in the film is backed by an emotional story. “Any amount of action is not enough if it is not backed by great emotion. The ac-tion is bound to work for the film as it is backed by the emotions. Rocky Handsome is an emotion-al film between this man

Agency | Kolkata

Filmmaker Prakash Jha, known for his political-ly charged movies, on Wednesday (January 20) said it was sad that a Dalit student chose death over life. “… a student felt death is better than life. What kind of a situation he was in that drove him to commit suicide… it is pathetic,” Jha told the media when asked about his views on the suicide of Dalit research schol-ar Rohith Vemula. In the city to promote “Jai Gan-gajal”, Jha said he had put together a research team which found that

John Abraham Says ‘Emotion Backs Action’ in Rocky Handsome

Priyanka Chopra ventures into mobile series ‘It’s My City’

Shilpa Shetty-Baba Ramdev’s Yoga Session Together

Akshay Kumar’s ‘Airlift’ to release across 70 screens in Middle East

Sonam Kapoor meets Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis

Agency | Mumbai

Indian film actress Pri-yanka Chopra, who has found international fame with American TV series “Quantico”, has turned co-producer for a mo-bi-series “It’s My City” for video entertainment mobile app. The flamboy-ant actress will also fea-ture in it. Announcing the new project via a tweet and a sneak-peek video of the show, Priyanka post-ed on Thursday (January 21): “It’s here @ItsMyC-ity_ @PurplePebblePic’s 1st mobi-series with @nexgtv_mobileTV on Jan 22. Got Newbie producer jitters.” The story of four girls on a journey of life,

and this little girl,” John. The Madras Cafe actor trained hard for the film as he learnt various forms of martial arts. “I trained for about one month in a special art form on knifes. Working with knifes is dangerous, I trained in Thailand. I also trained in art forms like Aiki-do, Hapkido and others. When you have an athlet-ic body and you couple it with great action the re-

sults can be astounding,” he said. Of the film’s the title, John said, “The story is about this man and this little girl who keeps call-ing him handsome. It is a very sweet relationship. So it was important for us to have ‘Handsome’ in the title and ‘Rocky’ because that is his code name. So Rocky Handsome seemed like the best title. People have liked the title and found it cool.”

there was one suicide ev-ery 10-15 days in Kota in Rajasthan, known as the hub for tutorials and coaching classes. “I am worried about it. Why have we stopped study-ing humanities? Every

student either wants to become a manager or an engineer,” he lamented. Asked whether he would be making a film based on his research, Jha said: “I am not sure, it may take a few years.”

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Akshay Kumar is “delighted to inform” that his forthcoming film “Airlift” has been cleared for release in the UAE. The “Khiladi” actor also adds that the film, which is based on Kuwait-based Indians’ evacuation during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, will be releasing across 70 screens in the Middle East on January 21. “Delighted to inform fans of #Airlift in UAE that our film has been cleared for release. Its releasing across 70 screens in the Middle East today,” Akshay tweeted

love and lunacy in Mum-bai, the bi-weekly 14-part series, which will begin on Friday (January 22), will have new mobisodes every Tuesday and Friday. It is created by celebrity digital network Fluence and produced in associa-tion with Priyanka’s pro-duction company Purble Pebble Pictures India and Endemol-Shine India.

Speaking in her capacity as mentor and co-produc-er of the show, Priyanka, who earlier sang a single titled “In my city”, said in a statement: “Digi-tal is the new frontier of content and I’m diving right in. It’s a super excit-ing world in which I find myself equally fascinat-ed with and immersed in completely.”

Agency | Mumbai

Shilpa Shetty, also called the yoga queen of Bol-lywood, recently collab-orated with Baba Ram-dev and shared the stage practicing ‘asanas’. It is said that the actress was called by India’s favour-ite Yoga Guru at his five day camp in Mumbai, which attracted a lot of people. Shilpa who was

happy to be sharing the stage with Ramdev said that he is her “lucky mas-cot”. Shilpa told Mum-bai Mirror, “In 2009, I presented Baba with my yoga DVD and it went on to become a huge suc-cess. Seven years later, I gifted him my just-re-leased book. He’s my lucky mascot and I’m looking at this as a good

omen”. This is not the first time that the duo has shared the stage. They have been photographed together on the actress’ 40th birthday. Keen on spreading awareness about the power of Yoga, Shilpa Shetty has also launched her yoga DVD and a book in the past, which reportedly she gifted to the Yoga Guru.

Agency | Mumbai

All set for the release of her first biopic, “Neerja”, actress Sonam Kapoor, in Mumbai, met Maharash-tra Chief Minister Deven-dra Fadnavis. Sonam, 30, will be seen in the role of Neerja Bhanot, a 23-year-

old girl who is the young-est Ashoka Chakra award winner in India, in Ram Madhvani-helmed film. The biopic is an untold story of Neerja, a flight attendant on Pan Am 73 which was hijacked by Libyan terrorists in Kara-chi, saved 359 passengers

at the cost of her life in 1986. “‘Neerja’ is a spe-cial film. Sonam met the chief minister regarding her the film last night,” sources said. The film, which also has veteran actress Shabana Azmi in a key role, is scheduled to release on February 19.

on Thursday. This is not the first time that Akshay has featured in a film that promotes the spirit of pa-triotism. “Baby”, “Holi-day: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty” and “Gabbar” are some of the films in

which he has essayed a responsible countryman. “Airlift” also stars Nim-rat Kaur and Purab Kohli in key roles. Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, the film will release in India on January 22.

All set for the release of her first biopic, “Neerja”, actress Sonam Kapoor, in Mumbai, met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.


SPORTS ROUNDUP4G-ready Voadfone SIMs now available in New Delhi

PHd CCI to debate Net Neutrality and Free basics today

Ford drives in New Endeavour to take on fortuner, Santa fe

Agency | New Delhi

Vodafone has started selling 4G compatible SIM cards to Delhi customers as the company preps the consumer launch of its LTE data services in the na-tional capital. Vodafone has already rolled out its 4G services in some parts of southern India, and plan expansion to other metros including Kolkata, Mumbai and Bengaluru by the end of March. Ac-cording to the company, existing Vodafone cus-tomers who upgrade to 4G-Ready SIMs will get 1GB of 4G data at the time of launch. To switch over to a 4G-ready Vodafone SIM, just walk into any Vodafone store and apply for 4G data services. Once the necessary identification and 4G-enabled handset compatibility check is done, you’ll be pro-

vided with a new 4G-enabled SIM card.

Agency | New Delhi

On a cold Thursday afternoon, arguments and counter arguments on Net Neutrality and Face-book’s ‘Free Basic’ could well heat up the Lakshmi-pat Singhania Auditorium in the Capital. It is here that the telecom regulator’s open house is scheduled to discuss ‘differential prices for data services’, with telecom operators, the regulator and consumers in full attendance. If the arguments, till now on paper, are any indication, the debate on net neutrality and free basic are sure to inflame passions. Allegations and counter allegations by telecom regulator, oper-ators and consumers in telecom sector are not new. But there have been a few issues that have witnessed rush of high adrenaline among the stakeholders that included one of the first major debate after TRAI was set up in 1997. It was related to allowing Mah-anagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to offer mo-bile services, supported by government, consumers

and opposed by operators in 1999.

Agency | Chandigarh

Rupinder Pal Singh scored twice from penal-ty corners to set up Delhi Waveriders’ 5-4 win over hosts Punjab Warriors at the Hockey India League on Wednesday. The Sec-tor 42 hockey stadium in Chandigarh is where Rupinder honed his skills during his growing up days and the 25-year-old returned ‘home’ after five years to guide his team to victory. Rupinder’s team-mate Yuvraj Walmiki put Delhi ahead with a quick reverse flick from inside the box in the ninth min-ute. Matt Ghodes restored parity for the hosts, guid-ing the rebound home following a deflection of teammate Satbir Singh. With the scores tied 2-2, it was Rupinder’s turn to show up. This edition of the HIL has witnessed a

Agency | Mumbai

Despite the bad press diesel is getting of late, Ford India on Wednesday drove in a premium sports util-ity vehicle, New Endeavour, betting that sales in smaller Tier 2 and 3 cities will offset a loss of vol-umes in the biggest market in National Capital Re-gion (NCR). Registration of SUVs and other diesel cars with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc or more is banned in NCR till March 31. Anurag Mehrotra, ex-ecutive director (marketing sales and service), Ford India, said, “By expanding service outlets in such cities we are exploring untouched markets. These smaller cities currently contribute 40-50% of Ford’s sales volume across segments.” “We will be add-ing more service centres in sale outlets as they will contribute a significant portion to the volumes,” he said. At present, Ford India has 300 service centres across 185 cities. “The cost of customer acquisition in smaller cities is low, the dealer profitability hence tends to be higher. The market share of such markets are 2 to 3 times higher than that of Tier 1 cities.” The company is looking for expansion in smaller cities that have population of over a lakh.

End of road? CSK’s plea to lift suspension dismissed by Madras HC

Thailand Masters: Saina Nehwal likely to meet Intanon Ratchanok in finals

Australian Open 2016: Sania Mirza advances in women’s doubles; Rohan Bopanna wins too

HIL 2016: Local boy Rupinder guides Delhi Waveriders to victory How Chris Gayle hotly attacked current

and former cricketers after BBL ban

Dhoni is still the best man to lead India, says Michael Hussey

Agency | Canberra

Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by owner of Chennai Super Kings challenging Justice Lodha Committee’s order sus-pending the IPL team for two years over the 2013 betting scam involving its top official Gurunath Mei-yappan. The First bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice P S Sivagnanam, who had reserved orders on the plea on Decem-ber 14 last, dismissed the petition filed by Chen-nai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKL) as not maintainable. The bench also dismissed a PIL filed by BJP leader Subrama-nian Swamy challenging the suspension of CSK

Agency | Sydney

Beleaguered Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thurs-day found backing from former Australia cricket-er Michael Hussey, who says the Indian ODI cap-tain was the most suit-able to lead the team as he still has a lot of fire in his batting. In yet another poor showing for Dhoni, he scored a duck in the fourth ODI and the side slipped to a 25-run defeat from a very strong posi-tion. Dhoni has been fac-ing a lot of flak for not be-ing able perform the role of a finisher for a long time. “I would back MS to do the job and he has been doing it for so long now. He is best suited to handle most situations out there. People forget that it is not easy job to

Agency | Melbourne

Indian tennis stars en-joyed comfortable wins in the Australian Open on Thursday as Sania Mir-za eased into the second round with partner Mar-tina Hingis while Rohan Bopanna also registered a straight sets win in the men’s doubles first round in Melbourne. Sania’s rampaging run with her Swiss partner continued as the duo stretched its winning streak to 31 af-ter brushing aside Mar-iana Duque-Marino and Teliana Pereira 6-2, 6-3 in the women’s doubles opening round. The duo hardly broke a sweat in its 70-minute win against the unseeded Colombi-

Agency | New Delhi

A fuming Chris Gayle on Tuesday blasted cur-rent and former cricket-ers for not standing by him when he was roundly criticised for flirting with a TV presenter during an interview at the Big Bash League. The marauding batsman had drawn flak when he asked channel 10 presenter Mel Mc-Laughlin out for drinks during an interview. The furore had blown up to such an extent that for-mer Australia skipper Ian Chappell called for a ban against him. The West Indian, after play-ing his last BBL match, posted an expletive-rid-den rant on his instagram account saying it was he who made Leagues, including the Big Bash

Agency | New Delhi

Olympic bronze med-allist Saina Nehwal and former World Champi-on Intanon Ratchanok are likely to clash in the finals of the Thailand Masters as the two have been drawn in oppo-site halves in the USD 1,20,000 Grand Prix Gold tournament to be held in Bangkok from February 8 to 13. World No. 2 Saina, who will open her new season as the defending champion at the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold, will also look to clinch the Thailand Masters title and pock-et some valuable points for 2016 Olympic qual-ification.The top seeded Indian have been handed an easy draw as she will take on Singapore’s Ji-ayuan Chen in her open-

and Rajasthan Royals on the same grounds. Star-studded CSK, then led by M S Dhoni, and Rajasthan Royals were on July 14 last year sus-pended for two years from the Indian Premier League in a clean-up ex-ercise following the 2013 betting scam involving their top officials Mei-yappan and Raj Kundra. Meiyappan, son-in-law of the then BCCI chief N Srinivasan and a former

Team Principal of CSK, and Kundra, co-owner of Jaipur IPL that runs Rajasthan Royals (RR), were suspended for life from any match conduct-ed by BCCI. The punish-ments were handed down by a three-member panel headed by former CJI R M Lodha which was asked by the Supreme Court to decide the quan-tum of punishments after finding them guilty of betting.

an-Brazilian pair. Sania and Hingis, who are slat-ed to face the twin sisters from Ukraine — Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok — in the next round, are also sitting pretty at the top of the women’s doubles rank-ings. The Indo-Swiss pair has been on a roll after clinching its 11th straight

WTA title at the Sydney International last week. Bopanna, who took court soon after, combined well with Romanian partner Florin Mergea to out-play the Australian duo of Omar Jasika and Nick Kyrgios 7-5 6-3. The fourth seeds play Lukas Dlouhy and Jiri Vesely in the second round.

League, and questioned his fellow players’ timid approach. Gayle went out of BBL on a high with a record-equalling 12-ball 50 even as his side, Mel-bourne Renegades could not make it to the summit clash. It is widely believed that he may not be invit-ed to return to BBL. “Ppl think I may have played my last innings in Aus but my memory with the fans will live on forever!! I build leagues around the world and Big Bash is

one of them ??,” the ex-plosive batsman wrote. “The Haters, I Thank you even more ????. I think a lot of past and present cricketers who smile in front my face could’ve have there say In the pub-lic when my so call issue was going on, but y’all don’t have the B**** to stand firm when it matters - but yet when u see me you’re like, Chris that’s BS against you, it was blown out of proportion ??” he added.

do. You cannot just come in and smash 60 off 30 balls every single time. You have got good bowl-ers, and they have gotten smarter, and they know what Dhoni’s strengths are, so things will not always happen the same way,” Hussey said. The Australian, known as Mr. Cricket, said the young Indian batsmen need to bat around him to learn how to finish close games. “You cannot ex-

pect him to do it every single time, and he has done well for India for such an amazingly long period of time. I would keep backing him to do this job for as long as he feels he can do the job. At the same time, India will be looking at their young-sters. In that situation, it would be ideal if they can bat with and around MS, and learn from him how to get through such situ-ations,” he said.

ing match and is likely to meet sixth seed Bu-sanan Ongbumrungphan of Thailand in the quar-terfinals at Bangkok’s Nimibutr Building. The Olympic bronze medal-list is likely to face Chi-na’s World No.11 Sun Yu in the last four. The In-dian had lost to the Chi-nese in 2013 China Open but overall she has beat-en her five times.Local star Ratchanok too seems to have an easy road ahead as she is likely to face compatriot Nicha-

on Jindapol in the quar-ter-finals and World No.8 Sung Ji-Hyun of South Korea in the semi-fi-nals. Sung will open her campaign against India’s Saili Rane Saina has not been in the best of form as she is still nursing a foot injury and also didn’t play all her match-es for Awadhe Warriors at the recently-conclud-ed Premier Badminton League (PBL).Another Indian, Tanvi Lad will face USA’s Rong Schafer in her opening match.

flurry of goals, thanks to the rule which makes a field goal count as two. With field-goal scorers ruling the roost, Rupinder showed that goals from penalty corners can still end deciding the match. He scored his first fol-lowing a deflection in what was Delhi’s second penalty corner. Rupinder would again play his part in the visitor’s next goal when his rasping shot was partially parried by War-riors’ goalkeeper Tristan Clemons and Mark Pear-son did the rest. The pen-

alty corner specialist then added his second in the final quarter with a low drag-flick that raced past Clemons. I always want-ed to play at this stadi-um,” said Rupinder, who was adjudged the man of the match. The Warriors fought back, with Chris-topher Cirello scoring the third goal in the second quarter before Mark Gleg-horne converted a penalty corner in the last quarter. But their inability to con-vert three penalty corners in the last two quarters cost therm the match.


Correspondent | Rajkot

Cotton farmers in Guja-rat, the country’s largest producer of the fibre, are seeing some recovery in prices this year — thanks to a combination of Pa-kistan’s crop hitting an 18-year-low and the an-nouncement of a Rs 550 per quintal bonus by the state government over and above the Centre’s minimum support price (MSP). “I sold 25 quin-tals of my kapas (raw, un-ginned cotton) last week at Rs 4,625 per quintal. This is more than the av-erage of Rs 4,125 that I got last year, but nowhere near the Rs 6,750 peak of 2011-12,” says Pravin Patel from Goral village of Idar taluka in North

Correspondent | Jamnagar

Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel today dedicated Reliance Industries Ltd’s Corporate Social Re-sponsibility(CSR) proj-ects that include a main district road and veteri-nary clinic. A 30-km long all-weather road which has been named as Sir P.N road connects State highway number 25(Jam-nagar-Dwarka) and State highway number 27(Jam-nagar-Porbandar) or in other words Padana Pa-tiya to Changa Patiya. Several villages and Re-liance refinery is located on both sides of the road. This road has eight small bridges and two ma-jor bridges at Sasoi(272

meter) and Panna(100 meter) and two railway crossings. The road will be helpful as alternative highway to reach Dwar-ka from Rajkot bypass. Chief Minister dedicated this road at Padana Pati-ya in presence of Minis-ter Shri Babubhai Bokh-iria, RIL group president and Rajay Sabha MP Shri Parimal Nathwani and Senior Vice President Shri Dhnraj Nathwani among others. Chief Min-ister also visited Pashu Chikitsalaya (veterinary clinic) for its inaugura-tion. Amid chanting of mantras the veterinary clinic was opened af-ter Gau Puja. The clinic will provide free of cost

diagnose and treatment services. Equipped with laboratory, laminar flow, hot air oven, incubator, operation theater, auto clave, surgical equip-ment, animal weight ma-chine, pharmacy, animal shade, stable, fire safety equipment, the clinic has also facilities of mobile clinic and specially de-veloped ambulance. Jam-nagar has total 8.25 cat-tle. The clinic and mobile facility will serve daily 3-4 villages. This 24-hour clinic has 2 doctors, 3 as-sistants and caretakers/govaals. Training camps, awareness and education activities. Local MP Smt Poonamben Madam was present on this occasion.


The Ahmedabad Detec-tion of Crime Branch (DCB) on Thursday picked up Suresh Lang-do, a convict serving life imprisonment in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre, for allegedly assaulting a woman journalist when she went to his house for an interview on Wednes-day evening. Deputy Commissioner of Police Deep a n Bhadran said that Landgo was picked up from his residence after the case of alleged assault was transferred to DCB. Officials said that Landgo is being questioned based on the complaint filed by the journalist Revati Laul.


Six years after it made its debut in Wimbledon, textile major Welspun In-dia has started manufac-turing towels for another tennis grand slam event - the ongoing Australian Open-2016. The towels are being manufactured at Welspun’s facility in Vapi, Gujarat. Dipali Go-enka, CEO and jo Dipali Goenka, CEO and joint managing director, Wel-spun India, said: “We have supplied 4,000 pieces of ‘Performance Gym Tow-els’ to Sheridan Towels who are the official part-ners for Australian Open-2016. These towels were manufactured using Nano

Spun Technology.” “With a GSM (grams per square metre) of 525, these are 100% cotton terry towels with excellent absorbency . Available in the Midnight shade, they measure 50 x 100 cm, weigh 270 gm and are priced at $49.99 apiece,” said Goenka. Wel-spun has supplied directly for Wimbledon Champi-onship and Rugby World Cup (RWC)-2015 through its UK-based brand, Chris-ty. The home textile major, which is a licence holder of RWC-2015 for towels, had designed and devel-oped a capsule collection of beach towels, quick dry sports towels and blankets under the Christy brand.


With the 2017 Assembly elections in sight, Con-gress on Wednesday held a day-long “Swabhiman Dharna” for the rights of SCs, STs and OBCs in Gandhinagar. The dharna was held amid nationwide heated political debate over the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, a student of Hyderabad University. Addressing party workers gathered from across Gujarat, state Congress president Bhar-atsinh Solanki said his party would make the fight for justice for the deprived classes a major issue for the 2017 As-sembly elections. “This is just the beginning of


Protecting teachers of granted secondary and higher secondary schools against getting surplus and thus relieved from their service, the Gu-jarat government has made major changes in the minimum number of students per class norm for grant-in-aid second-ary and higher second-ary schools. This change, made in the middle of the academic session, has directly benefitted some 700 schools and over 1,500 teachers, who were identified as sur-plus. As per the Govern-ment Resolution (GR), issued on December 17,


Annual Commanders’ Conference of South Western Air Command (SWAC) was inaugurat-ed by Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Commit-tee & Chief of the Air Staff, on 21 Jan 2016 at Gandhinagar. Command-ers of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharasthra are at-tending the conference. Earlier, the Chief of the Air Staff and Mrs Lily Raha, President Air Force Wives Welfare Associ-ation (AFWWA) were received by Air Marshal RK Dhir, AOC-in-C, SWAC and Mrs Neelam Dhir, President AFWWA (Regional), at Ahmed-abad Airport. On arrival at HQ SWAC, Gandhi-nagar, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha inspected an impressive Guard of Honour presented to him. In his inaugural address,


The state com mercial tax department sleuths on Wednesday detected val-ue added tax (VAT) eva sion to the tune of Rs 75 crore by traders and deal-ers of pan masala in the city during the past two years. Pan masala attracts VAT of 15% in Guja rat. As many as 38 teams of 120 officials began search operations at 45 premises of 24 traders and deal-ers and five transporters in Navrangpura, Aslali, Sarkhej, Naroda, Nikol, Maninagar and Thaltej from Tuesday evening. Several documents have been seized and searches

are likely to continue till Thursday. According to the officials, the tax eva-sion was in the sale of a particular brand of pan masala which is manufac-tured in Noida and other parts of the country. The branch offices and depot of the manufacturer in the city were also searched during the operations. “ As per our information, the manufacturers had allegedly created 12 fake traders and dealers in the city. The manufacturer would send the consign-ments of pan masala in the name of these dealers to Ahmedabad,” said a commercial tax depart-ment official.

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With eye on 2017 polls, Congress holds dharna for SC, ST, OBC rights in Gandhinagar

Gujarat Govt changes intake norms to retain ‘surplus’ teachers

Cotton prices: Pakistan comes to Gujarat farmers’ rescue

2002 Gujarat riots convict arrested for allegedly assaulting woman journalist

Urges Commanders to keep abreast with latest technologies

Gujarat CM dedicates Sir PN Road, Veterinary clinic built by Reliance at Jamnagar

the Chief of the Air Staff acknowledged the high degree of professionalism and hard work displayed by the Air Warriors in achieving the assigned goals and highlighted the need for operational pre-paredness with optimal utilization of available re-sources. He emphasized the need to keep abreast with the latest technolo-gies and to focus on the as-sociated challenges while the IAF marches ahead towards major upgrada-tion of capabilities and infrastructure. The Chief

urged every Air Warrior to exhibitimmaculate dis-cipline and unwavering integrity. The annual con-ference is a forum for the Station Commanders to exchange views on oper-ations, maintenance and administrative matters requiring deliberation with Senior Officers at Command Headquarters. During the conference, the Air Chief recognised the efforts of various units for their noteworthy performance in different spheres, by awarding var-ious trophies.

the fight for justice for SCs, STs and OBCs, who account for about 85 per cent of the state’s popu-lation. We will soon take the fight to each and ev-ery corner of the state by holding such dharnas in every district headquar-

ter and taluka,” Solanki said. He said the state BJP government has failed to make sufficient budgetary allocations for boards and corporations set up to uplift those belonging to the the de-prived classes. Solanki

claimed Congress during its rule in the state had came out with a number of schemes and projects and provided for special facilities in schools and other educational institu-tions for development of SCs, STs and OBCs.

2015, by the state edu-cation department, the norm of minimum num-ber of students per class in secondary and higher secondary schools has been reduced keeping in view the poor Class X re-sults and thus a shortfall of students emerging out of it. This revised norm would be applicable for the current academic

year 2015-16 and only for those schools (nearly 700) affected by the poor results where classes were to be closed down. The GR further states that this would be re-viewed in the beginning of the coming academic session 2016-17 to de-cide whether to continue with the reduced number intake or not. “During

the current academic ses-sion, a large number of classes has been closed down because of low re-sults in schools. Due to this, a large number of teachers was in surplus. To avoid this scenario where teachers could be adjusted as well as to avoid classes from being closed down, a meeting was conducted which was chaired by the chief minister. The decision to make amendments in the minimum number of student intake norm in granted secondary and higher secondary schools was taken during this meet chaired by the CM,” the GR states.

Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district. This 43-year-old farmer has planted cotton in three out of his nine-hectares holding. While his production is 10 quintals below last year’s 60 quintals, it has been compensated by higher realisations. “I won’t sell my balance 25 quintals until prices climb further,” adds Patel. Farmers in Saurashtra, too, are realising an aver-

age price of Rs 4,600 per quintal since December, way above the Rs 4,050 MSP declared by Centre for long-staple Shankar-6 and Shankar-10 variet-ies grown in Gujarat in the current 2015-16 sea-son. “Farmers are hold-ing back their crop. And that itself is contributing to better prices,” notes Bharat Wala, president of the Saurashtra Ginners Association.

She first lodged the com-plaint at Vejalpur police station which was then transferred to DCB. Laul is said to have been living in Ahmedabad for the past one year researching for her upcoming book based on 2002 riots. The wom-an journalist told a TV news channel that Langdo turned violent when she went to his house to in-

terview him. Langdo was released on one-month bail by the order of Gu-jarat High Court. He had sought bail on the ground of finding his “missing daughter.” In his interim bail plea, he had also said that his wife had left him. Langdo’s wife had ac-cused him of marital rape and filed a complaint with the police.

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