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News BriefPolice to make more arrests in

Gilani caseAgency | New Delhi

A day after former DU lecturer SAR Gilani was arrested under sedition and other charges, Delhi Police today said that a few others “involved” in the same case are likely to be apprehended soon. “In SAR Gilani’s case, we are interrogating a few others and those involved will be arrest-ed soon,” Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bas-si told reporters. Gilani was arrested yesterday under charges of sedi-tion, criminal conspiracy and being part of an un-lawful assembly in con-nection with an event or-ganised at Press Club of India here on February 10, in which a group had allegedly raised anti-In-dia slogans.

2 youths killed while trying to

save stray animal

All India Inter-Agri Varsity sport

meet

Agency | Jaipur

Two youths were killed when a pick up van in which they were trav-elling rammed a road-side tree while trying to save a stray animal in Poogal area here, the police said today. The deceased were identi-fied as Ramdhan (26) and Umedaram (20), the police said. The victims, who hailed from Bikan-er, were going to Nada Village last night when the stray animal came in front of their vehicle while crossing the road, they said.

Agency | Coimbatore

Over 2,500 students from 62 agricultural univer-sities across the country will display their talent in sprint and games at the 16th All India Inter-Agri-cltural Unversities Sports and Games 2016 meet, beginning here from Feb-ruary 22. Besides, 13 ath-letic events, there will be seven and five different games in men and wom-en categories respectively during the five-day meet, the host Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) vice-chancellor, Dr K Ramasamy, told re-porters here today.

Kanhaiya Kumar beaten up by lawyers at Patiala House Court“JNU row, New Delhi”

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Fathers of Patidar agita-tors Dinesh, Ketan and Chirag Patel who are in jail under sedition charge today met Gujarat Chief Minister with mediator Jayrambhai Patel(Vans-jaliya) and another mem-ber of community Amul Patel. Dinesh, Ketan and Chirag have given in writing that a committee led by Jayrambhai will play mediator role be-tween the agitators and government, and it is ac-

Kanhaiya sent to 14 days of custody

Agency | Hyderabad

A city-based advocate has filed a complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of hurting religious sentiments of Hindus by posting a cartoon over JNU row on Twitter, police said on Wednesday. K Karu-na Sagar, in a complaint lodged with Saroornagar Police Station on Tuesday, said that the Delhi CM had posted a cartoon over the

Agency | Bhopal

The BJP’s strategy of not turning the Maihar cam-paign into a high-profile one, unlike the Ratlam Lok Sabha bypoll in November where it lost, seems to have paid off. Narayan Tripathi of the BJP won the by-elec-tion for Maihar assem-bly segment in Madhya Pradesh by 28,281 votes. Tripathi had earlier won the Maihar seat in 2013 assembly elections on a Congress ticket but had resigned from the party to join the BJP, neces-sitating the bypoll. The BJP’s victory at Maihar is a shot in the arm for chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, since a whisper campaign had begun taking root in the

Agency | New Delhi

Public sector oil mar-keting companies an-nounced a cut in retail selling price of petrol by 32 paise a litre and in-creased diesel prices by 28 paise a litre in Delhi on Wednesday. The price cut is inclusive of state levies and will vary from state to state and will be effective midnight Feb-ruary 17/February 18. After the change petrol will cost 59.63 a litre in Delhi while diesel will cost 44.96 a litre. “The current level of interna-tional product prices of

Agency | New Delhi

The Freedom 251 smart-phone will official be un-veiled by manufacturer Ringing Bells in India shortly, and it seems to be the cheapest smartphone in the whole world. Running Android 5.1, it sounds on paper like a usable phone - it might not impress any-one, but at a price of just Rs. 251, it doesn’t exact-ly need to blow you away in terms of performance. However, there are some

Agency | New Delhi

JNUSU president Kan-haiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges, was al-legedly beaten up by law-yers on Wednesday while he was being produced at Patiala House court. De-spite the Supreme Court putting restrictions on who can enter the court during his appearance, a group of lawyers assem-bled inside the complex shouting slogans. The lawyers have also al-legedly beaten up a jour-nalist and student. Taking note of fresh ‘violence’ at Patiala House, the apex court have appointed a

Complaint against Arvind Kejriwal for posting a cartoon on Twitter related to JNU issue

Freedom 251 Smartphone: More Questions Than Answers

JNU row on Twitter which was carried by an English daily. He alleged that the cartoon “hurt” his reli-gious sentiments and also

the sentiments of crores of Hindus, and sought for necessary action against Kejriwal by registering a case, Inspector S Linga-

iah said. “No case has been registered so far...the com-plaint has been forwarded for legal opinion. We will act accordingly based on the legal opinion,” the In-spector said. Kejriwal had posted a cartoon yesterday which depicted a Hanu-man-esque figure assuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi that public attention has been diverted towards JNU from other pressing issues.

MP: Shunning high-profile campaign pays off for BJP in Maihar

Jayram Patel led committee formed to resolve Patidar issue

Petrol price cut by 32 paise, diesel increased by 28 paise a litre

state BJP insinuating that Chouhan’s popular-ity was on the wane, as reflected in the party’s defeat in the Ratlam Lok Sabha by-election. The BJP victory proved poll pundits wrong, who had all along been giving the Congress an upper hand in Maihar. Sources in the BJP said a strategy was worked out to not make the campaign in Mai-har a high-profile. In the post Ratlam defeat anal-ysis, the party felt that by sending a large number of ministers and top leaders

who moved around in the Ratlam campaign with all the trappings of pow-er, the party had alienat-ed the local people. Only two ministers, Rajendra Shukla and Lal Singh Arya were permanently in Maihar in run up to the polls. Other ministers visited Maihar but did not stay there long enough. “The Congress made the same mistake in Maihar. All top leaders were in-vited in a show of unity but it did not serve any purpose,” said political analyst Girija Shankar.

petrol and diesel and ru-pee-US dollar exchange rate warrant a decrease in prices, the impact of which is being passed on to the consumers with this price revision,” In-dianOil said in a state-ment. “The movement

of prices in the interna-tional oil market and ru-pee-US Dollar exchange rate shall continue to be monitored closely and developing trends of the market will be reflected in future price changes,” it added.

points for concern about the phone, as was noticed when we first got our Free-dom 21 unit. For starters, the Freedom 251 unit we received bears the logo of Adcom, which has been covered with a sticker. Ad-

com is a Delhi-based im-porter of IT products that deals in smartphones and tablets. At first glance, the Freedom 251 appears sim-ilar to the Adcom Ikon 4 and has reasonably simi-lar specifications as well.

The Adcom Ikon 4 has also got a similar design, and has a 4-inch display, Android 5.1, a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 5-megapixel rear cam-era, and 1.3-megapixel front camera, with 8GB of storage, and 1GB of RAM. What’s more, the UI of the Freedom 251 has been customised to look a lot like an iPhone. In fact, many of the icons look identical to apps that ship with Apple’s phone, which makes us wonder if it will attract some at-tentions from lawyers at Cupertino. That’s not the only cause for concern though. All phones sold in India must be certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Getting this certification done is both time consuming and expensive.

cepted to them. Dinesh, Ketan and Chirag are core members of Patidar agitation led by Hardik Patel. Hardik’s father was not part of today’s meet-ing. Jayrambhai said, “we handed over the letter(-signed by Dinesh, Ketan and Chirag Patel) today to government”. When

asked whether leader of agitation Hardik Patel agrees to this committee, Jayrambhai said, “he is like our son, we will con-vince him and we have faith that he would be positive.” Gujarat govern-ment spokesperson Shri Nitin Patel said, “the State government had already

proposed discussion be-tween the leaders of com-munity, representatives of agitators and representa-tives from government. A discussion on names of committee members was going on for last 15 days with leaders of agitators and mediator Jayrambhai. Names of members of committee are accepted to leaders of agitation. Dis-cussion with other lead-ers of agitation will be smoother now. The com-mittee has limited names, but we will keep all lead-ers of community with us and try to bring amicable solution soon.”

five-member team to as-sess the ground situation and report back to it. The top Court on also asked Delhi Police commis-sioner BS Bassi to sub-mit an explanation by to-morrow on his failure to ensure law and order at Patiala House today. The court asked Bassi to take

responsibility or else its would issue orders to stop the law and order situation at Patiala court from spi-raling out of control. The Supreme Court asked au-thorities to evacuate Del-hi’s Patiala House court and rushed six top advo-cates to assess the situa-tion after two groups of

lawyers violently clashed, attack-ing journalists and throwing stones at media vehicles. It also asked for reports on the violence from the Delhi high court registrar gener-al and the city police. As Kumar stepped out of a police van, a group of lawyers lunged at him, landing kicks and punches, while officers quickly dragged him away. Al-

though some 400 policemen were deployed at the court gates, Kumar was also slapped and abused by the lawyers shouting “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, leaving him seriously injured. A team of doctors was brought to the court to examine him after the hearing. Later, Metropolitan Magis-trate Loveleen sent Kumar to Tihar Jail till March 2. But he was kept in

the courtroom till 5pm by when the crowd outside dispersed. This is the second time in as many days that the same group of lawyers has turned violent and beaten up journalists for “supporting a traitor”. “We are shocked. There is an atmosphere of terror. Small stones were thrown on us,” the six-member advocates’ panel told the top court.

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DAYJNU protesters ‘have a sadistic mindset and an anti-India agenda’“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambi-tious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whis-pers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he ap-peals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero What is now happening across India over the JNU ‘protests’ or so-called ‘unrest’ reminds me of the Cicero’s immortal statement. There can be no second opinion or view over what constitutes an anti-national act, if people support hanged terrorist Afzal Guru and openly shout that they will not rest till India is destroyed. It is the most heinous act on the part of a citizen to denounce his own country and back terrorists. The same thing has happened at the JNU campus in Delhi. The backers of these so-called protestors argue that it was a mere voice of dissent. But the reality speaks of a different situation. None of the protesting students were actually expressing a civilised voice of dissent over something. They were indulging in a clear case of anti-national act by rais-ing slogans in favour of Pakistan. I agree that those who oppose the BJP or RSS have every right to do so under the Constitution of India. India is a true democracy and it allows a greater degree of dissent. But, these ‘protestors’ with a vested interest and a hidden anti-India agenda were not exercising their democratic right in a non-violent and Constitutional manner. They were actually calling for a bloodshed, worse toppling our cherished democratic institutions including the government. If it is not sedition, then nothing else is. The Left wing radicals have not been able to digest the fact that the people of India vot-ed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in a his-toric election almost two years ago. Their hatred for the BJP has now turned into their hatred for Mother India. Out of frustration, these elements which have always been directly and indirectly backing anti-na-tional forces have now become truly anti-India. They must realise that being anti-BJP is democratic, but be-ing anti-India is not. These elements have been living in the same India, benefit from the same democratic institutions and invoke the same Constitution when in trouble. But, they work against all these cherished ideals and would not mind if India is destroyed.

“The State government had already proposed discussion between the leaders of community, representatives of agitators. A discussion on names of committee members was going on for last 15 days with leaders of agitators and mediator Jayrambhai. The committee has limited names, but we will keep all leaders of community with us and try to bring amicable solution soon.” - Gujarat government spokesperson Shri Nitin Patel said...

Aamir Khan likely to be brand ambassador for drought-free Maharashtra

Priyanka Chopra is Baywatch’s very dangerous villain, says The Rock

Listen to Neerja Bhanot’s last flight announcement before she was shot

Veteran designer Manish Arora conferred France’s highest honour

When Anushka Sharma’s ex-lover Virat Kohli ShuT the media for getting personal!

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Manoj Bajpayee has addressed ignorance about and prejudice against ho-mosexuality by saying he is ‘still straight’ after play-ing a gay character in the film Aligarh. Social activ-ist Harish Iyer, who was present with the cast and crew of the film at a press meet on Tuesday, said, “I promise you that you will not become gay if you support this film.” Manoj Bajpayee, 46, replied, “He is right. 30 days of prepa-

ration, and 35 days of shooting for this role, I’m still straight.” “Gulzar sa-hib says that all characters, if you really play them se-riously, leave a mark in your brain. Most of the actors who take their work very seriously and work in these kind of films, you’ll find them having mood swings. It creates a vacu-um inside you, your mind is bruised after playing so many various charac-ters from theatre days till now,” the actor said.

Agency | New Delhi

“Meet the beautiful Pri-yanka Chopra, the big-gest star out of India, one of the biggest stars in the world.” You know you have arrived in Hol-lywood when Dwayne Johnson, or The Rock, welcomes you onboard Baywatch Movie with these superlatives. Pri-yanka’s quantum, make it Quantico, leap in Holly-wood was announced by Johnson via his Instagram account and the clip is go-ing viral. He captioned it, “She’s one of the biggest stars in the world. Insane-ly talented, relentlessly smokin’ and extremely dangerous - perfect for #BAYWATCH. Welcome @PriyankaChopra to our bad ass and incredi-bly dysfunctional family. Cue RATED R slo-mo running on the beach. We start shooting next week. World.. #Welcom-eToBaywatch.” Against

Agency | Chennai

Actresses Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nithya Me-nen will pair up with Junior NTR in upcom-ing Koratala Siva-direct-ed Telugu family drama ‘Janatha Garage’, which is slated to go on the floors later this month. “Several actresses were under con-sideration but the makers have finally decided to go ahead with Samantha and Nithya. The regular shoot-ing will start from next week in Saradhi Studios in Hyderabad,” a source from the film’s unit said.

Agency | New Delhi

Sonam Kapoor’s epon-ymous biopic on flight stewardess Neerja Bha-not is days away from release and its latest pro-mo material will leave you choked. A new sound clip released by the film’s producer, Fox Star In-dia, has Neerja making the flight announcement reportedly on board the ill-fated PanAm Flight 73 on 5 September 1986. She was dead a few hours later after saving the lives of 359 passengers from four Abu Nidal terrorists

Agency | Mumbai

Less than three months after actor Aamir Khan found himself in the midst of an ‘intolerance debate’ earning the ire of the right wing, the BJP-led state government has got the Bollywood star on board to partner with it for one of its flagship schemes. On Wednesday, Khan and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis are expected to make a joint announcement of the ini-tiative at Sahyadri, the government guesthouse. While government sourc-es are tightlipped about the ‘surprise announce-ment’, officials admitted that the project will see Khan proactively work with the government

Agency | New Delhi

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s love affair and the recent break up has been talked about a lot. But India’s star cricket-er is not ready to open up or reveal what went wrong between them. While Virat’s ladylove is busy filming Sultan with Salman Khan and has re-frained from commenting on her split, Virat too is not willing to talk. Kohli was at a recent event for a luxury watch brand and there were bound to be questions on his Bolly-wood heroine girlfriend and his break up. Virat batted them all with style and grace. Anushka’ ex was in no mood for beat-ing around the bush and literally shut the media from invading his pri-vacy. Virat was asked if he would like to gift a Bollywood celebrity the watch he was endorsing to which he answered, “I would gift it to some-one in my family first.

Agency | New Delhi

French Ambassador Fran-cois Richier on Tuesday conferred the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, his country’s highest hon-our, on veteran designer Manish Arora in recog-nition for his renowned and critically-acclaimed contribution to the fashion world. “I’m thrilled and honoured by the recogni-tion I have received from the country that I love with all my heart. France

has been an inspiration al-ways. I now live between Paris and Delhi and for me France is literally my own country. I hope to keep getting inspired by France, the beauty and elegance of the French people,” said Arora at the investiture ceremony at the French embassy here. The event witnessed the attendance of socialites including Priya Paul, Am-bika Pillai, Kalyani Saha, Rahul Mishra and Subodh

Manoj Bajpayee’s Post-Aligarh Status, For Those Who Asked

a stormy seascape, John-son and Chopra exchange some interesting banter. As Johnson says that he has his hands full with the “beautiful Priyan-ka Chopra”, she replies he has no idea. “She is mean,” is Johnson’s re-tort, to which Chopra says, “I am really mean.” The Rock also wrote on Twitter that the actress plays bad roles “bet-ter” than the good ones. “She’s (Priyanka) cool, but does bad even bet-ter. Can’t wait. #Bay-

watch,” Johnson posted on Twitter on Tuesday. People magazine had an exclusive picture of Chopra and The Rock, and confirmation that the actress will play the vil-lain, Victoria Leeds, in the film. One of the most watched TV shows glob-ally, Baywatch was about the Los Angeles county lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles, California. It starred Da-vid Hasselhoff and Pa-mela Anderson among others.

for its Jal Yukt Shivar scheme, Fadnavis’ pet project that aims at mak-ing state villages drought free in five years through water conservation pro-grammes. “It will proba-bly be one of the biggest partnerships of such a kind in the country. He will work with us through a structured programme to aid Jal Yukt Shivar.

He will give us his time, focus and help in execu-tion,” said a bureaucrat. Officials said they were in talks with Khan since May last year and the actor was keen on work-ing with the state gov-ernment. Khan had also contributed Rs 11 lakh to the chief minister’s relief fund as donation to the scheme in 2015.

Samantha, Nithya to team up with Junior NTR in ‘Janatha Garage’

Also starring Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, who will be playing NTR’s uncle, the film also stars Devayani and Unni Mukundan in important roles. NTR and Unni will

be seen as cousins in the film, which will revolve around the relationship between the lead charac-ters within a family.Devi Sri Prasad has been roped in to compose the tunes.

who hijacked the flight. She was 22. Neerja was the first civilian to be awarded Ashok Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award. The film

is directed by Ram Madh-vani. The film, which stars Shabana Azmi and Shekhar Ravijiani in piv-otal roles, hits theatres on 19 February 2016.

I don’t know why that question, what’s the con-nect? Could be a cricket team member as well.” Virat picked the cue and even slammed the jour-no, he added, “Let’s be professional and stick to what we’re here for, not try to be swinging things in the other direction.” The cricketer impressed the gathered crowd with his brazen yet honest at-titude. Kohli was also quizzed about ‘relation-ship advice’ and his re-sponse to this generic

question was – “Relation-ship with who? Anyone? I am not a relationship counsellor. So that’s not a question you should be asking me. Ask the expert please.” Clearly, neither Virat nor Anushka want to indulge in any kind of mud slinging in the pub-lic. The cricketer was in fact recently spotted chilling and partying at Angad Bedi’s birthday bash with Yuvraj Singh. As for Anushka, she is busy with her film Sultan at the moment.

Gupta. The Chevalier de laA Legion d’Honneur is France’s premier award to recognise eminent ac-complishments of service to France. It is bestowed on both citizens of France as well as foreigners. Pin-ning the insignia on the celebrated designer, Rich-ier said: “Manish has a long-standing connection with France, which is like a second home for him. He is a pioneer in bring-ing the fashion culture of both countries together with his exuberant imag-ination. I am delighted to confer this high honour on him.” In the past, eminent personalities such as Pan-dit Ravi Shankar, Amitabh Bachchan and J.R.D Tata have been honoured with the prestigious award.

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SPORTS ROUNDUPTax notice on Vodafone shows disconnect within govt

Gold Rises by Rs 215, Snaps 3-day Losing Streak

here’s how mango pulp helps you fight cancer, inflammation

Agency | New Delhi

The income tax (I-T) department’s “pay-up or we seize your assets” kind of a notice to British telecom giant Vodafone have raised questions on whether the NDA government’s top functionaries and the bureaucracy are speaking in opposing lan-guages. Only last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured foreign investors that India’s controversial retrospective tax that had unnerved businesses at home and abroad was “a thing of the past”—a measure that would not be reintroduced by his or any other government. The assurance came as on the first day of French President Fran-cois Hollande’s visit to India. “Many business rep-resentatives here raised the importance of a stable business environment and a predictable taxation system,” Modi said in his address to the meeting where Hollande, the chief guest at the 67th Repub-

lic Day celebrations, was also present.

Agency | New Delhi

Snapping a three-day losing streak, gold prices firmed up by Rs 215 to Rs 28,850 per 10 grams at the bullion market on Wednesday, tracking a firm trend overseas and fresh buying by jewellers to meet the wedding season demand. Silver followed suit and reclaimed the Rs 37,000 mark by rising Rs 250 to close at Rs 37,100 per kg on increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers. Trad-ers said a firming global trend as investors await the release of minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting for further clues on the outlook for US borrowing costs, mainly led to the recovery in the precious metal prices. Globally, gold advanced one per cent to $1,212.21 an ounce in Singapore, while at London it was up 0.42 per

cent at $1,205.40 an ounce in early trade.

Agency | Washington D.C

Here’s one more reason to make mangoes your fa-vourite fruit. Did you know they have numerous compounds that have antioxidant properties? These include vitamin C and beta carotene, as well as several polyphenolic compounds including gallic acid and their larger polymers gallotannins, which have been linked to anti-cancer and anti-inflam-matory activities in previous in-vitro and in-vivo studies. The absorption, metabolism, and excretion of mango galloyl derivatives have not previously been investigated in humans. In this human pilot trial published in the journal of Molecular Nutri-tion & Food Research, 11 healthy volunteers be-tween the ages of 21 and 38 years old consumed 400gm/day of mango-pulp for 10 days, with blood and urine samples taken on days one and 10 of the study following mango consumption. Participants refrained from consuming dietary supplements and foods which could be sources of gallic acid such as berries, grapes, and tea for one week prior to the beginning of the study and during the 10 days of mango consumption.

Agency | Paris

Paris St Germain sub-stitute Edinson Cavani, criticised by French me-dia lacking composure in front of goal, responded in style to earn a 2-1 home win over Chelsea in their Champions League last-16 first leg on Tuesday. The Uruguay forward, who has scored only once in Ligue 1 this year, fired a low angled shot past goal-keeper Thibaut Courtois in the 78th minute after John Obi Mikel had cancelled out Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s opener at the end of the first half. That did not surprise PSG coach Lau-rent Blanc, who brought Cavani on for Lucas four minutes before he got the winner. “I’m not just say-

Agency | New Delhi

The stage is all set for the Asia Cup to begin from February 24. This year’s edition would be totally different as for the first time, the tournament will be played in the T20 for-mat. Here are ten facts you must know about the tournament: The Asia Cup will be played in Bangladesh from Feb-ruary 24 to March 6. A qualifying round will be-gin on February 19, be-tween Afghanistan, UAE, Hong Kong and Oman. The winner of the quali-fying round will join the four Full Member teams in the region for the main draw which starts from February 24. For the first time in Asia Cup histo-ry, the tournament will be played in T20I format

South Asian Games REVIEW: India top medal charts with record-breaking tally of 308 medals

Nadal, Ferrer and Thiem off to winning start at Rio Open

If Afzal Guru is martyr, who is Hanamanthappa: Yogeshwar Dutt

Champions League: PSG take slender advantage over Chelsea after first leg win

Agency | Guwahati

For the 12th successive time, none could match up to India’s regional might but the host country’s re-cord-breaking medal haul of 308 can hardly hide the fact that the standard of competition in the South Asian Games has failed to rise significantly. This was the best performance by any country in the Games’ 32-year history but what is worrying for the relevance of the event is that it has been re-duced to an Indian show of dominance for most part. This time too, the

Agency | Navi Mumbai

A delegation led by Fifa head of events Jaime Yarza on Wednesday ex-pressed satisfaction with the facilities at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai, one of the venues which will host U-17 football World Cup matches in 2017. Navi Mumbai is one of the six provision-al venues for hosting the 17th edition of the tour-nament that India will host next year in Septem-ber-October. The other venues are Goa, Kochi, Kolkata, Guwahati and New Delhi. Besides Yar-za, tournament director Javier Ceppi and Vijay Patil, owner of the state-of-the-art D.Y. Patil Sta-dium, were also present. “We think this is a fan-tastic stadium, as you can see it is high quality. One

Agency | Rio de Janeiro

After an hour-long delay for rain, Rafael Nadal advanced to the second round at the Rio Open on Tuesday with a 6-1, 6-4 win over fellow Span-iard Pablo Carreno Bus-ta. Nadal won gold in the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but missed the 2012 London Olympics with an injury. Despite being asked about it repeat-edly, he’s staying away from talking about the Rio Games that open in six months. “The Olym-pics is a very important event, a very special one, and I’m going to try my best when the Olympics arrive,” Nadal said. “But for now I’m playing the ATP tournament in Rio. That’s the most import-ant thing for me.” Also advancing on Tuesday were No 2 David Ferrer, who beat Nicolas Jarry of

ing it because he scored tonight, I always say it, Eddy is a player who can score,” Blanc told a news conference. “He was go-ing through a tough peri-od so I hope it will give him his confidence back.” PSG knocked Chelsea out on away goals at the same stage last year after the Blues had prevailed the previous season in the quarter-finals and have the edge going into the sec-

ond leg. It was Chelsea’s first defeat in 13 games since Dutchman Guus Hiddink took over from the sacked Jose Mourin-ho but they will fancy their chances at Stamford Bridge on March 9. With Chelsea’s inspirational captain John Terry ruled out with a hamstring in-jury, Branislav Ivanovic moved from full back to central defence and wore the skipper’s armband.

Agency | New Delhi

Ace wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s poem about the controversy that erupted last week at Delhi’s Jawa-harlal Nehru Universi-ty (JNU) over the Afzal Guru event has gone vi-ral on the internet. Dutt, who won a bronze at the Olympics in 2012, shared the 19-line poem on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts on February 13 urging pro-testers to stop their activ-

ities at JNU. Anti-India slogans were allegedly raised at the event and the hanging of Guru, the 2001 Parliament at-tack convict, was also denounced by some par-ticipants. JNU students’ union president Kanhai-ya Kumar was arrest-ed on sedition charges, following complaints by BJP MP Maheish Gir-ri and the ABVP. In his poem, Dutt compares the ‘anti-national ele-ments’ to the Bollywood

movie character Gha-jini and questions their right to expression as they choose to demean the country. He mentions Lance Naik Hanaman-thappa Koppad, who died a week after being buried by an avalanche while patrolling in Siachen. Several other army men also died after they were buried in the snow. “If Afzal Guru was a martyr, then what should we call Lance Naik Hanaman-thappa?” he writes.

Asia Cup 2016: 10 facts you must know ahead of the much-awaited tournament

Fifa satisfied with dY Patil Stadium facilities for U-17 World Cup

considering the upcom-ing ICC World Twenty20 to be held in India. Sri Lanka are the defending champions. Under Ange-lo Mathews’ captaincy, the Lankans defeated Pa-kistan by 5 wickets in the final of the previous edi-tion. India and Sri Lanka are the two most success-ful teams in the tourna-ment with five titles each. Pakistan have won the tournament on two occa-sions while Bangladesh’s best finish has been their

runner-up performance in the 2012 edition. All the matches will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla Na-tional Cricket Stadium, Mirpur. India have played 43 matches, winning 26, losing 16 and one end-ing in no result. Sanath Jayasuriya is the highest run-scorer in Asia Cup with 1220 runs followed by Kumar Sangakkara (1075) and Sachin Ten-dulkar (971). Dhoni has captained India in 13 Asia Cup matches.

Indian athletes ran away with 188 gold, 90 silver and 30 bronze medals. The host country bagged more than three-fourth of the total 239 gold on of-fer in the February 5-16 showpiece. Sri Lanka were a distant second with 25 gold, 63 silver and 98

bronze while Pakistan fin-ished at third with 12 gold, 37 silver and 57 bronze. The only edition in which India’s domination was near comparable was the 1995 Games in then Ma-dras where India won 106 gold -- just less than three-fourth -- out of 143.

colleague of mine was saying, with few amend-ments this could be a big World Cup level stadi-um. We are satisfied and happy to be here. Obvi-ously and they know it very well. We need to do some construction work and renovations for dressing rooms, various areas, doping techni-cal rooms and medical, all this is in the plans,” Yarza told reporters af-ter the inspection. “We have come here today, did the review of the

plans and the facilities and suggested some changes to make it a high level standard from what we expect from a World Cup level stadi-um. They have agreed to all these changes and the whole planning was to 95 percent correct in the sense that there will be some minor adjust-ments. So we are very satisfied from this visit today and we think this is going to be one if not the best,” the Fifa head of events said.

Chile 6-3, 7-6 (3), and No 5 Dominic Thiem, who had a 6-3, 6-4 win over Pablo Andujar of Spain. Not much will faze Thiem in this week’s Rio Open. He beat Nadal — the king of clay — last week in the semifinals in Bue-nos Aires, and then won the event for his fourth career title, all of which have come on the red dirt. “Both things gave me a lot of confidence, but af-ter the match with Nadal I wanted to give every-thing to win the tourna-

ment,” the 22-year-old Austrian said. “The win against Rafa would have been worth only half if I had lost the final.” No 3 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had his match against Thiago Monteiro rained out . They will play on Wednesday. In first-round upsets, Federico Del-bonis of Argentina beat sixth-seeded Jack Sock of the United States 7-5, 6-1 and Alexandr Dol-gopolov upset No 8 seed Thomaz Bellucci 6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-2.

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Correspondent | New Delhi

The mines auction in Ma-harashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan has failed to find many interested par-ties, forcing the state gov-ernments to talk to the industry and working on re-auctioning the blocks. As of January 15, Gujarat has put 5 limestone blocks for auction, followed by Gujarat putting three lime-stone blocks, while Maha-rashtra has offered a block each of limestone, tung-sten, iron ore and baux-ite. “Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra are not getting adequate respons-es for the auction. Now, the state governments are talking to the industry on how to do it again,” Union Mines Secretary Balvin-der Kumar told reporters here when asked about the response to the auctions. In total, states have so far put 46 blocks containing minerals such as iron ore,

Correspondent | Surat

The state transport de-partment, along with traffic police and Re-gional Transport Office, launched a training pro-gramme for bus drivers in order to avoid acci-dents like the ones in Navsari and Savarkund-la in Amreli. If any bus driver is found talking on the phone while driv-ing, he would be imme-diately suspended and strict action will be taken against him. On February 6, around 42 passengers were killed on the spot and few others escaped with major and minor injuries after a state transport bus from Navsari, on the way to Tapi district, plunged from Gurukul bridge into the Purna river, near Supa village, in Navsari. On February 13, around seven passengers were

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Even Kashvir would not have thought that the na-tional record for 600 m for U-14 boys would be written in his name in golden words in the pag-es of history. Last year in Jharkhand, Kashvir Vasani, a young athlete from Sports Authority of Gujarat’s (SAG) ath-letics academy in Nadi-ad broke the record by crossing the finish line in 1:22:40s. Kashvir comes from a very sim-ple family background; his father is a farmer and he is now receiving training to take part in

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court today directed the state Government to fulfil all the conditions laid down by the Central Zoo Au-thority (CZA) while set-ting up a Safari Park near the Gir Wildlife Sanctu-ary. With this directive, the bench of Chief Jus-tice R Subhash Reddy and Justice Anant Dave disposed of a PIL seek-ing ban on the Safari Park project claiming it will hinder the movement of lions. Biren Pandya, the petitioner, had contended that the Park, to be set up

over 450 hectares of land near Ambaradi village in Amreli district, will have all kinds of animals except lions. The lions, forced out of the area, would stray into nearby villages in search of food and may attack humans. Also, fencing for Safari Park will block the cor-ridors used by lions in that part of forest, Pandya said. The HC today not-ed that CZA had given a conditional permission to the government in 2008 for the Safari Park, and the government must ad-here to all the conditions.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Gujarat Internation-al Financial Tec-City Co Ltd, popularly known as GIFT city, coming up in Gandhinagar on a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging financial and ad-ministrative irregularities. The petitioner, 69-year-old Divyabhash Anjaria, former director of GIFT city, has sought court’s intervention to bring this project under the RTI Act and also under the purview of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). Alleging finan-cial irregularities, Anjaria also sought formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the fi-nancial transactions. The division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice Anant S Dave issued notice to GIFT city and kept the further hear-ing on March 15. The PIL was registered on Decem-ber 18, last year. The pe-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, India, Feb-ruary 17th, 2016: Sam-sung Electronics today an-nounced the launch of the 2016 edition of the highly successful Galaxy A smart phones showcasing a per-fect blend of unmatched style and latest features. Equipped with sophisti-cated glass and metal de-sign, an advanced camera and long-lasting battery; the dual-sim Galaxy A7 (2016) and Galaxy A5 (2016) have been designed keeping in mind the young consumers who wish to Mr. Manu Sharma, Di-rector, Mobiles Business, Samsung India Electron-ics said, “At Samsung, we are committed to contin-ued innovation, inspired by the deep understand-ing and insights from our wide range of consumers. Continuing the Galaxy A legacy in India, the Gal-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Iron man of In-dia, Sardar Patel had set aside a huge parcel of land, almost 120 acres, to provide shelter to thou sands of refugees fleeing from Sindh in Pakistan during Partition. But to-day Sardaranagar reeks of corruption and a major land scam. The Ahmed-abad collector on Tuesday declared that its prelim-inary investigations has revealed that nearly 350 land parcels that belonged to the revenue depart-ment in Sardaranagar has been swindled off by land sharks and construction mafia, by creating fake property papers and cards.Collector Rajkumar Beni-wal has formed a special in vestigation team (SIT) to investigate the matter. The collectorate had to cancel 350 such property cards and withdrew property pa-pers fearing that there may be more such cases in oth-er parts of the city. Close

to 10,000 property papers were analyzed by the col-lector’s office. All these land parcels had be longed to the state government, with “Shri Sarkar’, or the government, as the own-er. Beniwal said, “We will proceed with filing a po-lice complaint in the issue. The investigations will re-veal who all were involved in the scam,” says Beniw-al. Explaining the scam, a senior revenue official said that the 120 acres of land was earmarked under the Refugee Resettlement Act, 1950. This Act had ceased to exist in 2005. “Only open parcels of land that were marked `Shri Sarkar’ under the RR Act were targeted by the land mafia. Fake property pa-pers were generated with the help of officials in the city survey superintendent office. Based on these fake papers the municipal cor-poration, too, would pass building plans,” said the official.

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Bid to woo investors: Gujarat plans desks in 5 global cities

Correspondent | Mumbai

A day after Maharash-tra pulled out all stops to position itself as the country’s most favourable industrial destination, its closest competitor Gujarat too wooed investors here highlighting top-notch infrastructure, vast indus-trial cities, and its lead in the ease of doing business index. Gujarat promised to set up desks in five global cities — Frankfurt, Dubai, New York, Tokyo and Wenzhou — to attract foreign investors to Gu-jarat, and to unveil more policies offering incen-tives to mega industrial projects as well as small and medium enterprises. “The Gujarati commu-nity is a global one. We have a large number of people from our state set-tled in other parts of the world. They are always

National Record winner athlete from Nadiad to run in Khel Mahakumbh

Gujarat hC notice to GIFT city over PIL alleging irregularities

Mines auction in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan fails to find interested parties

Galaxy A7 (2016) and Galaxy A5 (2016)

Gujarat hC asks govt to follow CZA conditions while setting up Safari

Land sharks created fake papers for govt plots in Sardarnagar

axy A7 (2016) and the Galaxy A5 (2016) come with a stunning glass and metal design and Flagship like features such as enhanced cam-era, long lasting battery space with fast charging capability and a powerful Octa-Core processor that can tackle heavy usage.” The design of Galaxy A7 (2016) and the Galaxy A5 (2016) is a perfect fusion

of glass and metal. The seamless combination gives the smart phones a stylish look and feel that adds to the consumer’s style quotient. The smart phones provide an im-mersive viewing experi-ence with a large Full HD sAMOLED screen while the narrow 2.7mm bezel ensures the overall size of the Smartphone is very comfortable to hold.

Transport dept, RTO start training bus drivers in Gujarat

Samsung Reinvigorates Style quotient for Smartphones with the

all new glass and metal design

Regional Transport Office, launched a training programme for bus drivers in order to avoid accidents

like the ones in Navsari and Savarkundla in Amreli

killed on the spot and few others injured after state transport bus overturned near Savarkundla in Am-reli district. Following the instruction from state transport department, a training camps for all bus drivers were held in Surat, Tapi, Navsari, Valsad and

the Dangs. The bus driv-ers’ training camps were organised in different bus depos in south Gujarat. Surat Region Divisional controller of traffic N M Rajyaguru said, “We have started the drive from Feb-ruary 14 onwards and till date we have given train-

ing to around 699 driv-ers. There are over 1,011 drivers in Surat and Tapi districts. The training will continue for a few more days till all the drivers are covered. The training is being given with the help of RTO officer and Traffic police.”

ready to help in bringing investments to the state. We have decided to start foreign desks at Frank-

furt, Dubai, New York, Tokyo and Wenzhou,” said Chief Minister Anandiben Patel while

speaking at ‘Gujarat In-vestor Summit’ during the ongoing Make in In-dia week in Mumbai.

titioner, a retired banker who served as adviser to the central government, claimed that he “present-ed the concept and plan to develop International Financial Service Park to then chief minister (Narendra Modi) who approved it”. The peti-tioner said that despite an estimate that the proj-ect would cost around Rs70,000 crore and would be executed on a public private partnership (PPP) model, “no public bids were invited to iden-tify private partner by the Government of Gujarat.”

The petition mentioned that “as the terms that have been finalised with respondent no-2 (Infra-structure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd or IL&FS) apart from 50 per cent share in the profits of respondent no-1 (GIFT city), 1per cent premium on Landed Project Cost that approx-imately translate to Rs 700 crore, the necessity to widely advertise pub-lic bids for identifying private partners to exe-cute International Finan-cial Service Park can’t be over-emphasized”.

bauxite, limestone, gold and tungsten, for auction. Kumar added that two small blocks of limestone have been auctioned in Jharkhand, making it the first state to auction a mine. Besides, on March 18-19, one block of lime-stone will be put for auc-tion by Chhattisgarh, he

added. “In the current on-going auction 46 blocks have been offered and an additional 15-20 blocks are also there with states, but they are waiting to see the response of the blocks that are already on auction. In one or two months they will come,” Kumar said.

the Khel Mahakumbh. “I have been passion-ate about running, ever since I remember. I am learning new techniques

and keeping myself fit so that I win all the future tournaments at Khel Mahakumbh”, he shares.

A Gujarati kid who’s breaking national level records and

participating in Khel Mahakumbh, now wishes to win the Asian Games