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jeep mishap in Uttarakhand

Agency | Mumbai

Gold prices slipped marginally at the bullion market here today on lower offtake from stock-ists and investors amid subdued lo-cal buying interest, reflecting weak global cues. Silver too remained un-der selling pressure and dropped by Rs 200 to trade at Rs 37,410 per kg, amid weak buying from industrial units.

Agency | Gopeshwar

Three people, in-cluding a woman, were killed and as many injured when a jeep in which they were travel-ling fell into a pit near Lasyari vil-lage in Chamoli district, police said today. The incident occurred last night on the Chamo-li-Bairaskund road when the six per-sons were return-ing from a wedding ceremony and their vehicle went out of control, skidding into a 20-feet-deep pit, they said.

Agency | Vasco

Defending champi-ons and table-top-pers Mohun Bagan will be the outright favourites when they take on lag-gards Salgaocar FC in an I-League match here tomor-row. Unbeaten so far, Bagan have 18 points after eight matches (5 wins and 3 draws). Sal-gaocar, on the oth-er hand, are second from bottom with one win, two draws and five losses.

Gold, silver slip on global cues

Dominant Bagan take on

Salgaocar

FM Jaitley on Friday pegged India’s growth for the next fiscal at 7-7.5 percent

India’s growth at 8% for 2016-17India’s economic growth is amongst the highest

in the world, helped by a reorientation of govern-ment spending toward needed public infrastruc-

ture, the survey said

“Rail Budget 2016-17”

Ishrat Jahan case: Congress’ only objective seems to be to harass Gujarat government

27th February, 2016 - Saturday

Agency | New DelhiThe misuse of the Central Bureau of In-vestigation (CBI) by the UPA Government has been repeated-ly commented upon. This misuse is essen-tially for a political purpose. Not only has this seriously dam-aged the credibility of the CBI but it has also lowered the level of professionalism in the organisation. The gathering of evidence during investigation has seriously suffered. Investigations are in-creasingly becoming tainted with a political motive. The convic-

Agency | New DelhiThe Economic Sur-vey for 2015-16 ta-bled in parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Fri-day pegged India’s growth for the next fiscal at 7-7.5 percent. For the current fiscal, the survey estimated the GDP growth at 7.6 percent. Authored by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Ad-visor in the Finance Ministry, the survey said: “India’s long run potential GDP growth is substantial,

about 8-10 percent.” The survey has said that ‘India stands as a haven of stability amidst gloomy in-ternational econom-ic landscape” and comes just days ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget by the Finance Minister which will point to the economic agenda of the present dis-pensation. India’s economic growth is amongst the highest in the world, helped by a reorientation of government spending toward needed pub-

lic infrastructure, the survey said. Howev-er, it cautioned that if the world econo-my remained weak, India’s growth will face considerable headwinds. On the domestic side, two factors can boost con-sumption, increased spending from high-er wages and allow-ances of government workers if the 7th Pay Commission is im-plemented and return of normal monsoon. At the same time, the Survey enumerated three downside risks

Agency | ChandigarhThe Haryana govern-ment Friday set up a committee consist-ing of three women officers, including a DIG, for receiving any complaint of rape of women in Murthal near Sonepat during the Jat stir. Addition-al Chief Secretary of Haryana P K Das said a three-member com-mittee of women po-lice officers has been set up for receiving complaints. The wom-en police officers are DIG Rajshree Singh, DSP Bharti Dabas and DSP Surinder Kaur, he said. The state gov-ernment has also set up a helpline num-ber — 18001802057 — whereby any per-son having informa-tion about any such

Agency | KottayamExpressing concern over Indian institu-tions of higher learn-ing not getting?their deserving place in global rankings, Pres-ident Pranab Mukher-jee today asked stu-dents and teachers to strive hard and oc-cupy their “rightful” place in the comity of nations. “We shall have to find out our ap-propriate place in the realm of higher edu-cation and occupy our rightful place in the comity of nations,” he

tion rate in CBI cas-es has declined. The reports that the CBI has been interrogating senior officers of the Intelligence Bureau assume significance in this regard. The case in which the Intelli-gence Bureau officials have been investigated relates to the alleged encounter of Ishrat Jahan. Media reports and court documents

available with regard to this case reveal that the IB through its’ in-telligence gathering network including electronic surveillance received information that a Lashkar-e-Tai-ba module was active in Western India in the year 2004 with the object of wanting to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister – Na-rendra Modi. In ac-

cordance with its own practice, the IB alert-ed the Gujarat police. It can be safely pre-sumed that the central intelligence agency was also a part of the operation in which the four activists of the module were in-tercepted, and killed in an encounter with the police and security agencies. The Lashkar in its’ Lahore-based mouth-piece Ghazwa Times admitted to her being an LeT activist, paid homage to her martyrdom and took umbrage in removing her veil by the Indian police.

Jat quota stir: Haryana govt forms committee to receive rape complaints

Mayawati, Smriti Irani spar again in Rajya Sabha over Rohith Vemula’s suicide

incident can share it with the authorities, he said. Das said the Haryana government was ready to coop-erate with statutory bodies like Human Rights Commission and appealed to the public to provide any information they have in this regard to po-lice. Haryana DGP Y P Singhal said police have not received any

such complaint yet but will act swiftly as and when any case is reported. “No report of any such incident has been received so far. No eyewitness has contacted police. The state govern-ment and police are fully sensitive and we will act swiftly if anyone provides any information in this re-gard,” Singhal said.

The state government has also set up a helpline number -- 18001802057 --

whereby any person having information about any such incident can share it with

the authorities.

Agency | New DelhiHRD Minister Sm-riti Irani on Friday was reminded of her promise to place her head before BSP Su-premo Mayawati’s feet if the latter was not satisfied by her reply on the suicide of Hyderabad Dalit scholar Rohith Ve-mula. Responding to Mayawati’s question in Rajya Sabha, Irani said it is incorrect to

say there is no mem-ber of Dalit commu-nity in the inquiry committee constitut-ed to probe Vemula’s suicide. To which Mayawati said: “I am not satisfied with the answer of HRD Minister, the truth is that the inquiry committee has no Dalit member. Will you now keep your word?” On Wednes-day, Irani and May-awati clashed in the

Rajya Sabha after BSP chief repeated-ly asked if a member of the Dalit commu-nity is on the panel to probe Vemula’s death. Irani respond-ed saying: “Mayawa-ti ji, I request, you are a senior member and a woman, you want an answer, I am ready to reply. If you are not satisfied with my answer, I will cut my head and put it in your feet”.

said at the bicentena-ry celebrations of the CMS college here. He said education builds character and teach-es how to accept and celebrate diversity and

unity. The varsity set up in 1817 holds the distinction of being the second oldest college in the country after the Presidency college of Kolkata and boasts of

an illustrious alumni with former President K R Narayanan and Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy be-ing its students. The President, who is on a two-day official visit to the state beginning today, also asked the private sector to do their bit in enhancing capabilities of higher learning institutions in the country.

Indian higher learning institutes lagging behind in global ranking: President

– turmoil in glob-al economy could worsen the outlook of exports, contrary to expectations oil price rise would in-crease the drag from consumption and the most serious risk is the combination of

these two factors. The services sector, a key driver of growth, is expected to be 9.2% in 2015-16. One area the survey has expressed con-cern about is the de-lay in the passage of the Goods and Ser-

vices Tax bill which remains stuck in the Rajya Sabha. The legislation is the sin-gle-most important reform for the Nar-endra Modi-led gov-ernment and it hopes to pass it in the on-

going budget session of Parliament. “One of the most criti-cal short-term chal-lenges confronting the Indian economy is the twin balance sheet problem – the impaired financial positions of the pub-lic sector banks and some corporate hous-es. The twin balance sheet challenge is the major impediment to private investment and a full-fledged economic recovery,” the Survey said.

It was wonderful meeting children and women from different cities of Gujarat who were on a visit to Vidhan Sabha. While interacting with women, briefed them about health initiatives for women and exhorted them to get their check-up done at any health center.

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Smriti Irani’s reply to the Opposition was powerful

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani made an impassioned defence of her ministry in Parliament as the House debated Rohith Vemula’s suicide and the police action on Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-sity students. In both style and substance, it stood apart from other speeches from the treasury benches. The speech, later en-dorsed by the prime minister himself — with a satyamev jayate postscript — was a clear articulation of her party’s views on both issues. The message is disturbing. It underlines the BJP’s resolve to go on the offensive against what it calls the anti-na-tional views of the JNU students and to leverage that issue to one of politics and identity. She targeted the TRS, the party in government in Hyderabad, for neglecting Rohith and accused the Opposition, Con-gress leader Rahul Gandhi in particular, of politicising his death: “A child’s body was used as a political tool” was her refrain. Ira-ni’s speech, in its essence, echoed the shrill rhetoric of BJP supporters in the street, of the men who assaulted students, teachers and journalists in court and the Delhi BJP MLA who wanted to gun down “anti-na-tionals”. She sought to claim victimhood, talking of her being hanged and offering her head if that’s what the Opposition wanted. She also spoke of being a mother to raise an emotional pitch about Rohith but was relentless against the JNU students. Her in-vocation of Cicero was revealing. The ene-my at the gates was less dangerous than the traitor within who rots the soul of a nation, she recalled the Roman philosopher, adding that “a murderer is less to fear”. Really? In the India of 2016, with its vibrant democra-cy, which she eloquently referred to as well, are dissenting students traitors? In her fire and fury, there was a moment that showed what this speech could have been. She kept referring to Rohith as a “child”. She was spot-on — the university-student compact is, in a way, similar to that of a parent and a child. Certainly not what she invoked when she quoted Cicero and alluded to the JNU students being ones who appeal to the “baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men” and “rot the soul of a nation”.

“We shall have to find out our appropriate place in the realm of higher education and occupy our rightful place in the comity of nations,” - President Pranab Mukherjee today asked students

and teachers to strive hard and occupy their “rightful” place in the comity of nations at the bicentenary celebrations of the CMS college in Kottayam.

Agency | Mumbai

Biopics are a big trend in B-Town from the last couple of years. The lives of the film (The Dirty Picture) and sports celebrities (Mary Kom, Milkha Singh) and even criminals (Charles Sobraj) have been captured on film. Last week’s Neer-ja and this week’s Aligarh have some-

thing in common. They are both capture the lives of regular people on-screen. Di-rector Hansal Mehta, after Shahid and City Lights, returns with Aligarh, a true story Dr. SR Siras, (Manoj Bajpayee) a professor of Marathi and the head of the Classical Modern Indian Lan-guages Faculty at the Aligarh university, who was a victim of

Agency | Mumbai

O s ca r-nomina t ed feature Spotlight helmer Tom McCar-thy is all set to direct the first two episodes of Selena Gomez’s Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, from Anonymous Content and Paramount TV.

McCarthy also will be the executive pro-ducer for the 13-epi-sode series, based on the 2007 New York Times bestselling YA book by Jay Asher, reports the Deadline. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Brian Yorkey creat-

Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court Thursday stayed Jiah Khan’s trial which is being heard by a trial court for two weeks while hearing a petition filed by her mother Rabiya Khan which points out anomalies in CBI’s report sub-mitted in December 2015. The petition has challenged the CBI report which catego-rised her daughter’s death as a suicide and not a homicide. Jiah

was found hanging in her room on June 3, 2013. Pointing at various inconsisten-cies in the report, the petition sought the formation of a Special Investigation Team and the monitoring of the investigation by the High Court. The CBI will be filing its reply in response to the petition during the next hearing which is scheduled for hearing in two weeks. The petition also sought directions to enable

the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist this SIT as Jiah was a US citizen, and sought a probe into the role of erring po-lice officers who have helped the accused by sabotaging the matter. Jiah’s boyfriend actor Sooraj Pancholi was arrested for allegedly abetting her suicide on June 10, 2013, a week after her death, but was released on bail on July 2 after the High Court granted him bail.

Oscar Awards 2016: Guess who will be Priyanka Chopra’s date at the 88th Academy Awards

Aligarh movie review: Manoj Bajpayee carries the film with his fine performance

Tere Bin Laden - Dead Or Alive review: Not as funny as the original

Mumbai: Court stays Pancholi’s trial in Jiah Khan case

Spotlight’ director Tom McCarthy to helm Selena Gomez’s Netflix series?

You will be shocked to know what award Ranveer Singh has bagged!

Agency | MumbaiOscars 2016 is about to take off and ev-eryone is keen to get their hands on the lat-est buzz from the red carpet. Bollywood ac-tress Priyanka Chopra will be one of the pre-senters at the award function this year. The Gunday star will be representing the tri-color on this interna-tional platform. She is pretty much excit-ed about the event and is keenly looking forward for it. After venturing into Holly-

wood with Quantico, Priyanka Chopra has no looking back. The leggy lass has come a long way since her debut in Bollywood with Andaaz. Be it her style statement or performance in films, Priyanka has grown from strength-to-strength all these years. Though she has been quite successful on the professional front, her personal life is still a mystery for her fans. Her follow-ers are keen to know the secret man behind

her accomplishing ca-reer. Priyanka Chopra has recently bagged her debut Hollywood film, Baywatch, with Dwayne Johnson (The Rock). She is currently shooting for her international TV show Quantico. Back in Bollywood, Priyan-ka is working with Prakash Jha for his crime drama Jai Gan-gaajal. She has given her nod for Reema Kagti’s Mr. Chaloo alongside Fawad Khan and Madhur Bhandarkar’s political drama, Madamji.

Agency | New DelhiWhen Abhishek Shar-ma was given the ‘Baawra ho gaya hai ke’ award for his film The Shaukeens at the Golden Kela Awards 2015, he looked in-trospective despite a laughing exterior. In his acceptance speech, he promised to make ‘meaningful’ films without getting into the rat race for stars. So has he made a better film this time around, with the sequel of his hilarious 2010 fare Tere Bin Laden? The answer is somewhere in the middle. Tere Bin Laden – Dead or Alive is way better

Agency | New DelhiWhoever has seen him act has become a fan of his impecca-ble acting skills, es-pecially after the way he performed in ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’. The way Ranveer stunned the audience with diametrically op-posite films and char-acters in one calendar year is absolutely fan-tastic. And one name that has been added to his never ending list of fans is that of legendary singer, the nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar. But wait, it just doesn’t end here. The actual

news is way bigger than you could even think of. Interesting-ly, what lies in the pipeline for the actor will surely make him feel extremely proud. Ranveer, at such a young age, will be awarded with Pandit Dinanath Mangesh-kar Award! Yes, you read that right! Every year, the Mangeshkar

clan comes togeth-er to celebrate their father, late Dinanath Mangeshkar’s death anniversary and com-memorate young ac-tors and their accom-plishments. This year too, the award cere-mony will be held on April 24 where Ran-veer will be decorated with such an enviable laurel.

a sting operation and was suspended on grounds of morali-ty. Miscreants broke into his home and filmed sharing an in-timate moment with a rickshaw puller at his apartment on the campus. Siras’ story was carried in some paper till a young newspaper report-er Deepu Sebastian (Rajkummar Rao) decided to follow it up and it becomes na-tional news. The film is about how Siras is shunned from every-where, including his workplace and how he then fights the system.

than The Shaukeens, but doesn’t match the wit of the original. The film is very self indul-gent. Everybody gets their share of screen time. From newspaper clippings featuring the producers Shetty sis-ters to a film director called Sharma, a lot of throwback props are used. Sometimes they work, but most-ly they don’t. The tentative storyline goes like this: A film

called Tere Bin Laden has been a blockbust-er, but its lead Ali Za-far has grabbed most of the credit leaving its director Sharma (Manish Sharma) in the same lurch he was before the film. Sharma can’t take things lying down, so he decides to shoot another film with Paddi Singh (Pradhu-man Singh), the guy who plays Osama in Tere Bin Laden.

ed and wrote the TV series adaptation, which follows a boy named Clay through an emotional night when he receives a shoe box of cassette tapes from his late classmate and crush Hannah, after she recently committed suicide. On the tapes, which are mailed with instructions to pass along from one student to another, Hannah explains to 12 peers how they each played a role in her death, by giving 13 reasons explain-ing why she took her life.

Agency | Mumbai

Bollywood actor Kar-tik Aryan of ‘Pyaar Ka Punchnama’ fame has been roped by a perfume body spray brand Envy1000 to be its brand ambassador. ”I am delighted to be on board with brand and looking forward to contribute by con-necting with youth of our nation. This is one of my first brand as a brand ambassador and I am sure we are going to have plen-ty of fun together,” Kartik said in a state-ment. The company has recently launched its new range un-der brand Envy1000 ‘Crystal’ series for

men and women. It is the company’s focus brand for 2016. “Our focus is to ‘young-ify’ the brand and connect it with youth of today, and that’s where Kar-tik comes in. We see a perfect ‘goodness of fit’ between Kar-tik and our brand as from where I see both represent same ethos. “Kartik is truly a su-perstar among youth of today who is popu-lar among boys for his attitude and is heart-throb among girls,” Saurabh Gupta, direc-tor, Vanesa Care said. Gupta also said that the new campaign will show Kartik in a new avatar.

Kartik Aaryan to endorse perfume body spray brand


SPORTS ROUNDUP

Unbeaten Vijender to take on Hungary’s Alexander Horvath in fourth pro bout

Sania-Martina’s winning streak ends at 41!

‘Don’t know how many months or years left in me’: Malinga hints at retirement after World T20

Agency | Mirpur

Sri Lanka’s T20 cap-tain and strike bowler Lasith Malinga has hinted that he might call time on his inter-national career after the ICC World T20 in India as he is finding it difficult to manage a grave knee injury. At the post-match media conference, Malinga was asked if he would like to quit after the upcoming edition of World T20, just like Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangak-kara did after winning the last edition, he replied: “Might be”. The Lankan slinger elaborated that his current injury is so bad that complete re-

Agency | Doha

The streak is finally over! The world’s top tennis team of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis had not lost a match since last Au-gust in Cincinnati. But their 41-match winning run came to a sudden halt at the hands of Russian duo Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina with the Indo-Swiss top seeds losing 6-2, 4-6, 5-10 in the women’s doubles quarter-final of the $2.8 million Qatar Total Open here on Thursday. An accomplished dou-bles player, Elena won her most recent Grand Slam doubles title over Martina at the 2014 US Open

Agency | London

Unbeaten with de-molishing victories in the previous three contests, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh will take on a slight-ly more experienced Hungarian Alexan-der Horvath in his fourth professional bout on March 12 in Liverpool. Vijender is preparing for a homecoming to India in June when he will fight maiden title bout -- the WBO Asia belt. The in-form mid-dleweight has been unbeaten in the cir-cuit, having clinched all his three wins by knockouts in only six rounds of action since his pro debut last October. Vijender will have no time to

cuperation might take close to two years, which effectively ends his career now that he is nearly 33. “I have played 12 years for the nation-al team. I am now 32 and will soon be 33. I have had a bad inju-ry and if at this stage I have to take one or one and half years of rest, I would rather have to finish my ca-

reer. If I need to play tough cricket for my country, I don’t think I can then totally re-cover from the inju-ry. That’s why I am saying I don’t know how many months or years are left in me. Whatever little I play, I want to serve the national team and my IPL team (Mumbai Indians) well,” Mal-inga said.

when the Swiss part-nered Flavia Pen-netta. That script flipped in dramatic fashion less than a year later at Wim-bledon after Martina paired up with Sania -- the two roaring back from a 2-5 fi-nal set deficit to beat Elena and long time partner Ekaterina Makarova for their first Major title. “That was an amaz-ing match for us. We

played against them just a week ago, and they’re one of the greatest doubles teams we have in women’s tennis. Ev-erything worked for us to win and we’re just so excited about it. We changed our tactics a little bit in the second set and we saw that it start-ed to work,” Elena said after the match which lasted an hour and 18 minutes.

rest as he has anoth-er big fight lined up just three weeks’ later at the Harrow Sports Centre, London, as he builds towards his ground-break-ing title opportuni-ty in India. Horvath comes into the fight against Vijender with a record of five wins from seven fights. The 20-year-old has the edge in experi-ence over Singh with 31 rounds under his belt and has no fear of fighting abroad,

taking bouts in Slova-kia and France. “It’s my absolute dream to fight back home in India in front of my countrymen and women so I won’t let Horvath get in my way of that at all,” stated Vijender Singh. “I need to continue my unbeaten record and it’s important that I put on a com-manding performance against Horvath and then next at Harrow to keep on course for my title shot and my homecoming,” said.

India vs Pakistan, 4th match, Asia Cup 2016 at Mirpur, Dhaka: Pakistan’s likely XI

WWE star ‘The Great Khali’ severly injured during wrestling event in Uttarakhand

Harbhajan not treated well by Indian cricket, says Saqlain

Agency | Mirpur

India take on arch ri-vals Pakistan in the fourth match of the Asia Cup 2016 on Saturday at the Shere Bangla National Sta-dium, Mirpur, Dhaka. India have already faced the hosts Ban-gladesh in the inau-gural fixture of the this edition of Asia Cup Twenty20 (T20), which involve crick-eting nations of the Asian continent. They triumphed over them registering first victo-ry of the tournament

Agency | Dehradun

Former WWE wres-tler Dalip Singh Rana, better known by his ring name ‘The Great Khali’, suf-fered a severe head injury during the Continental Wres-tling Entertainment show at Haldwani, Uttarakhand. Khali sustained a head in-jury last night during the first show of ‘The Great Khali Returns

Series’ while fighting against foreign wres-tlers — Mike Knox and Brody Steel — at the Rajiv Gandhi In-ternational Stadium, Gaula Par, Haldwani. The doctors suspect that Khali has suffered injuries to his chest as well but the exact na-ture of injuries are yet to be known. ”Khali has been under obser-vation and tests are being conducted on

Agency | Mirpur

Practitioners of the same art do have fellow feelings and no wonder pioneer of ‘doosra’ Saqlain Mushtaq feels sad about the manner in which the senior In-dia off-spinner Har-bhajan Singh has been sidelined by the team management. While he terms Rav-ichandran Ashwin as a “world class bowl-er”, he feels that Har-bhajan not getting a single start during the last seven T20 inter-nationals is “not do-ing the bowler’s con-fidence any good”. “I am afraid that Indi-an cricket board and team management’s treatment to Harbha-

jan has not been great. He was a world class bowler and is still a world class bowler. The emergence of Ashwin doesn’t mean that you drop Harbha-jan or put him under tremendous pres-sure,” Saqlain told said during an inter-action. The 39-year-old Saqlain, who has 208 Test and 288 ODI wickets, said dropping a top grade performer according to conve-nience is not the best example to set. “Look from the time he got dropped (in 2011), he has made three come-backs which meant that when you needed him, you picked him and when the need was over, you dumped him. So the pressure

that you have created on him, you have al-ready negated his past achievements. “But what logically should have been done is that when his graph was going down, one should have given him a short break and brought him back. He should have been the first choice spinner supported by Ash-win. Instead you put self doubts in him and now made him the third or fourth choice spinner in the side,” Saqlain did not mince words while explaining. He feels when a player is mak-ing comeback, he is shaky and one needs to give him the con-fidence that he would be back to his best.

while Pakistan will play their first match of the same with neighbours India. So far Asia Cup has been played in the 50 over format and of the 11 times these teams have faced each oth-er, the win loss ratio is equal with both winning 5 matches while one was wash out. The February 27

fixture will decide which of the neigh-bours will take the lead in the Asia Cup win-loss count. For the ever-exciting com-petition between India and Pakistan, Paulami Chakraborty lists the XI players that Paki-stan may go with in their crucial series opener.

him to know wheth-er he has suffered injuries to his chest as well,” one of the organisers of ‘The Great Khali Returns Series’ told said. Af-ter Khali sustained severe head injuries, he was airlifted from Haldwani this morn-ing and bought to a speciality hospital in Dehradun. Khali re-ceived seven stitches on his head last night before being flown to Uttarakhand capital. The second show of this series is sched-uled to be held here on February 28. Kh-ali was crowned the World Heavyweight Champion in 2007.

SC Queries Centre on Measures to Ban Child Pornography Sites

InFocus Launches Range of LED TVs Starting Rs. 9,999

Beware! High-salt diet may cause liver damage

Agency | New DelhiThe Supreme Court Friday asked the Cen-tre to suggest ways to ban child pornog-raphy in all forms in the country saying that the nation cannot “afford to carry on any experiment” in the name of “liberty or freedom of speech and expression”. “The Centre shall file affidavit to suggest ways and means to curb child pornography. Innocent children can’t be made prey to this kind of painful situation and a nation cannot afford to carry on any experiment on children in the name of liberty or for that matter freedom of speech and expres-sion,” a bench of justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh said. It said that one needs to draw a distinct line between art and obscenity and child pornography can-not be justified on the name of freedom of

speech and expression.

Agency | New DelhiInFocus, the US-based company, after launching its range of phones in India has now announced new range of budget LED TVs. The new range of LED TVs from InFocus includes a 24-inch HD LED TV priced at Rs. 9,999; a 32-inch LED HD TV at Rs. 15,999; a 50-inch full-HD LED TV at Rs. 34,999, and a 60-inch full-HD LED TV at Rs. 69,999. The compa-ny announced Snapdeal as the exclusive e-commerce partner for its new range of LED TVs in India and it will be avail-able from Monday. The company also an-nounced what it claim is “an industry-first approach” where it will offer a “free demo at home”. The company says under the initiative, customers can experience the demo of InFocus 50-inch full-HD TV at their home or office and then decide on

the purchase.

Agency | BeijingOur bodies need a small amount of salt, the US government recommends one teaspoon per day if you are a healthy adult, research-ers said. Among other functions, the sodium ions from the savoury mineral help regu-late water movement within the body and conduct nerve impulses, they said. Some research indicates that in addition to high blood pressure, overconsumption of sodium can damage the liver. Xuesong Yang from Jinan University in China and colleagues wanted to explore the potential effect at a cellular level. The researchers gave adult mice a high-salt diet and exposed chick embryos to a briny environment. Exces-sive sodium was associated with a number of changes in the animals’ livers, including oddly shaped cells, an increase in cell death and a decrease in cell proliferation, which can contribute to the development of fibro-sis. The study was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.


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RAIL MIN BREATHES LIFE INTO OLD SUBURBAN TRAIN PROJECT

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

There has been a con-siderable decrease in cultivation area as well as overall pro-duction of food crops and non-food crops in Gujarat in 2015-16 vis-a-vis the previ-ous year, according to the latest estimates presented in the So-cio-Economic Re-view of Gujarat. This is the second consec-utive year when Gu-jarat has registered

a negative growth in agriculture sector, as the previous year’s socio-economic re-view gave similar estimates. According to the latest review which was tabled in the Assembly re-cently, production of foodgrains during 2015-16 is estimat-ed at 61.92 lakh tonnes compared to 77.95 lakh tonnes in 2014-15, a reduc-tion of 16.13 tonnes

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Chief Minister Anan-diben Patel has wel-comed the Railway budget calling it ‘public need orient-ed’. Patel specially welcomed specific provisions for clean-liness, women pas-sengers’ safety, old persons and infants. However, state Con-gress president Bhar-atsinh Solanki said Railway budget as highly “disappoint-ing.” She cited var-ious Gujarat-centric announcements like formation of a spe-cial purpose vehicle (SPV) for implement-ing Mumbai-Ahmed-abad Bullet Train

project. Thanking the Union Railway Minister over Gujarat specific projects, she mentioned proposals for a Railway Uni-versity at Vadodara, suburban train ser-vice for Ahmedabad, inclusion of Dwar-ka in Astha Circuit and development of Nargol-Hazira Port connectivity on PPP mode. The Ministry of Rail-way will enter into an agreement with the state government for implementation and financing of the proposed suburban system under new investment frame-work.

Gujarat govt spends Rs 3,000 cr on gas exploration in KG Basin

18 fishermen captured by Pakistan off Jakhau coast

Congress slams govt over VAT on fertilisers


Kandala Port in Kutch district of Gujarat will soon become only the second port af-ter Mumbai in the western region and seventh in the coun-try to have a quality evaluation lab of the spices board. ‘The decision to start the lab from next month has been taken in the wake of rising spices export from Gujarat. The lab will have fa-

cilities like testing of the pesticide residuals and physical and mi-crobiological contam-inations,’ Chairman of the spices board Mr. A Jayathilak who is here in connection with the 13 th edition of World Spice Con-gress to held in Gu-jarat for the first time between February 27 to 29, told newsmen today. The other five labs in the country are in Kochin, Tuticorin,

Correspondent | Surat

In second such inci-dent within a week, 18 fishermen on board three fishing trawlers of Gujarat were abducted by Pa-kistan Marine Secu-rity Agency (PMSA) while they were oper-ating near the notion-al International Mar-itime Boundary Line of India and Pakistan in the Arabian sea off Jakhau coast in Kutch on Thursday. “Initially, we had re-ports that two fishing boats with 12 fisher-men on board were detained by PMSA while they were

operating near the IMBL. But now we have the confirma-tion that three boats and 18 fishermen have been abducted. Two of the abducted boats are registered at Porbandar port while the third belongs to Okha port,” Manish Lodhari, secretary of Gujarat chapter of National Fish Work-ers Forum, said. Lodhari said that the incident took place between 11 am and 12 pm on Thursday. “We are not certain as yet if the seized boats had crossed the IMBL or they were detained


Gujarat State Petro-leum Corporation (GSPC), the Gujarat government public sector undertaking, has not been able to start commercial pro-duction of gas from Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin despite spending nearly Rs 3,000 crore on it in last two years. Ener-gy & Petrochemicals Minister Saurabh Patel said this before Gujarat Assembly, Thursday, in reply


Gujarat govern-ment and the oppo-sition Congress had a heated exchange of arguments in the Assembly Thursday on the issue of levy-ing value-added tax (VAT) on fertilisers. Chief Whip of Con-gress, Balvantsinh Rajput, said that ini-tially VAT was intro-duced on fertilisers only for one year, but it had continued for seven years. To this, Finance Min-ister Saurabh Patel said that Empowered

Group of Ministers took decision on the issue while add-ing that many other states of the nation also levy VAT on fer-tilisers. The argument started with a starred question asked by Congress MLA from Bhiloda, Anil Joshi-yara seeking details on how much VAT and Additional Tax was being levied on fertilisers in Guja-rat. Finance Minister Saurabh Patel provid-ed information that Gujarat was levying 4 per cent VAT and

Correspondent |vadodara

Proposed Railway University in Va-dodara which was as per earlier plan was to come up in exist-ing National Acad-emy of Indian Rail-ways(NAIR) campus in city will now come up in separate cam-pus possibly over 31 acre plot on Vagho-dia-Pipariya road. As per original plan, the university was to come up in NAIR campus but later it was felt that the cam-pus would be too small for proposed university and there-fore there should be a separate campus. In response to demand of land by Railways

department, the State government gave op-tion of three locations – Padra, Desar and Vaghodia-Pipariya road. A team of rail-way officials visit-ed all three sites and selected 31 acre lad on Vadhodia-Piparia road. Till the time, building of new uni-versity is construct-ed, the students will use M.S. University facilities. Academic activity is likely to kick start from up-coming academic year with introduc-tion of M.Tech and MBA courses. Once the university build-ing is ready, Diploma and B.Tech courses will also be launched.


Union minister Suresh Prabhu announced a suburban railway sys-tem for Ahmedabad in the rail budget an-nounced on Thursday. While it is good news that Ahmedabad will be serviced by local trains like Mumbai, this project is just old wine in a new bottle. The multi-crore proj-ect to build a local rail network had been proposed almost 15 years ago. Mirror had reported about the proposed project ‘Rail India Proposes Am-davad Local’ (AM, Sept 28, 2009). The minister on Thursday declared he would de-velop suburban sys-tems in Ahmedabad by deploying innova-tive financing mech-

anisms. However, the Rail India Technical and Economic Ser-vices had present-ed a report on the multi-thousand crore project to the state government for ap-proval in September 2009. The objective was to encourage peo-ple to stay in satellite townships of Ahmed-abad by ensuring easy connectivity to their workplace. The proj-ect would have en-abled Amdavadis to hop on to comfortable and speedy air-condi-tioned local trains in-stead of buses and au-torickshaws. This was apart from a proposal to have a metro link between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The regional rail sys-tem for Ahmedabad was an outcome of

Rail Budget ‘public need-oriented’: Gujarat CM

31 acre land finalized for Railway University in Vadodara

Patel has replied that GSPC spent Rs 2,052.31 crore in 2013-14 and Rs 9,45.77 crore in 2014-15 for KG Basin gas exploration site near Andhra Pradesh.

The heated arguments commenced in the subqueries by Congress MLAs on whether the state government wanted to waive the VAT and additional tax on

fertilisers since it caused financial burden on farmers.

to a starred question raised by Chief Whip of opposition Con-gress party, Balvan-tsinh Rajput. Rajput had sought details of money spent on KG Basin in last two years and how much gas was produced from the area in the

same period. Patel has replied that GSPC spent Rs 2,052.31 crore in 2013-14 and Rs 9,45.77 crore in 2014-15 for KG Basin gas explora-tion site near Andhra Pradesh. Though, Pa-tel has added that so far no commercial gas

production from the KG Basin Block of Gujarat has happened. In 2005, the then Gu-jarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had announced that GSPC had discovered gas in one of the blocks of KG Basin, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh. He had also added that it was the biggest gas discovery of India and named the block where the gas was reportedly discovered after RSS ideologue, Deen Day-al Upadhyay.

1 per cent additional tax on fertilisers and in last two years in-come through those taxes was around Rs 227 crore. The heat-ed arguments com-menced in the sub-queries by Congress MLAs on whether the state government wanted to waive the VAT and addition-al tax on fertilisers since it caused finan-cial burden on farm-

ers. Rajput said that the VAT on fertilisers was introduced by the then finance min-ister Vajubhai Vala while stating that it was being intro-duced only for one year to strengthen the economy. “De-spite this, the state government has been levying VAT on fer-tilisers for the past seven years,” Rajput said.

while they were op-erating towards the Indian side of the IMBL,” he said. This is the second such in-cident within a week. On February 19, PMSA had abduct-ed 16 Indian fishing trawlers, along with 88 fishermen aboard, for allegedly violat-ing Pakistan waters. This was preceded by the seizure of 2 Indian boats and 12 fishermen from the Arabian sea. ndia and Pakistan have dispute over their waterfront at the Arabian Sea. Despite repeated warnings from secu-rity agencies, like the Indian Coast Guard and fisheries depart-ment of Gujarat gov-ernment, fishermen continue exploring the troubled waters and getting caught by the Pakistani se-curity agencies year after year.

Railway University at Vadodara, suburban train service for Ahmedabad

Guntur, Chennai and Delhi, he said adding that from the total pro-duction around 10 % of spices are export-ed from India which contributes to almost 50 % of the world spice trade. India is the world leader in spices export but due to stringent new laws including the one introduced last year by the US food and drug administration, we are giving par-amount importance to the quality. Main-taining good quality is the only challenge before us. The new lab will help us en-sure quality of the exported spices, he said.

in one year. During the year 2014-15, production of cotton bales, each of 170 kg, was 96.24 lakh bales. This has de-creased to 88.01 lakh bales during 2015-16, stated the sur-vey. Similarly, pro-duction of oilseeds is estimated at 46.05 lakh tonnes during 2015-16 against the production of 48.82 lakh tonnes during the year 2014-15. Groundnut produc-tion is estimated to remain 28.92 lakh tonnes in 2015-16 against 30.18 lakh tonnes in the previ-ous year. According to the figures given in the review, ma-jor agro- produc-es showed negative growth over last year.

an Intelligent Public Transportation Sys-tem study for Ahmed-abad city to identify solutions for urban transport problem. The project was ini-tially conceptualised by the Delhi Metro Board around 2003 and submitted to the Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board in 2005 which later forwarded it to RITES for verification. The project was to use the existing Right of Way of Indian Railways, passing through the city by upgrading and integrating existing facilities. Two routes were identified. The first, a 43.5-km stretch connecting Barajedi, Kalupur and Kalol with stops at Geratpur, Vatva, Maninagar, Sabarmati, Chand-kheda, Khodiyar, and Saij Sertha Road. The second route was pro-posed on a 9-4 km stretch connecting Kalupur and Naroda with halts at, Asarva, airport, Saijpur and Sardargram.

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