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News Brief

Kejriwal unlikely to campaign in the

MCD by-polls

Gujarat V/s

Hyderabad(Rajkot)

(08:00 PM)

Agency | Patna

Bihar Deputy Chief Min-ister Tejaswi Yadav to-day supported RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s backing of Nitish Kumar as Prime Ministerial candidate but evaded a direct reply when asked who would be better choice for the post between Kumar and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Asked to comment that his father and RJD President Lalu Prasad has supported Ni-tish Kumar for the PM post, Tejaswi Yadav told reporters “Why not? He is honest and has a clean image.” Besides, being Chief Minister for five times he (Kumar) has been a minister at the Centre too, younger son of Prasad said.

Agency | New Delhi

With by-polls in 13 MCD wards scheduled next month, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aad-mi Party National Con-venor Arvind Kejriwal is unlikely to campaign for the party in the elec-tions. The AAP has fielded candidates in all 13 wards that are going to polls, in which the BJP, the Congress and Swaraj Abhiyan backed independent candidate are also in fray. “The Chief Minister is un-likely to campaign in the by-polls. He visits 22-30 constituencies ev-ery month on account of attending different func-tions and events.

Uttarakhand Police’s horse dies

Tejaswi backs Lalu’s support to

Nitish as PM

Today MaTch IPL 2016

Bombay High Court allows BCCI to hold May 1 IPL match in Pune

Agency | Mumbai

He Bombay High Court today permitted the BCCI to hold the May 1 IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants in Pune, a week after it ordered shifting to other venues all post-April 30 match-es planned in drought-hit

Maharashtra. A division bench of justices V M Kanade and M S Karnik granted the permission while hearing an appli-cation filed by BCCI’s general manager (games development) Ratnakar Shetty urging the court to allow the cricket body to hold the May 1 match as scheduled in Pune, cit-

Brave Shaktiman, police horse injured at BJP rally in Dehradun“Shaktiman’s Death”

Women denied entry, assaulted inside Nashik’s Trimbakeshwar temple

Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Subramanian Swamy slams’ unpatriotic’ Jayalalithaa

Correspondent | Pune

A group of women dev-otees was allegedly as-saulted and denied entry inside the inner sanctum of the Trimbakeshwar temple on Wednesday by local residents of Trim-bak in Maharashtra’s Na-

shik district. The Trim-bakeshwar Devasthan Trust had decided last week to allow women into the Lord Shiva tem-ple’s sanctum sanctorum for an hour every day, but with a rider that they must wear wet cotton or silk clothes while offer-

ing logistical and other difficulties in moving it to another venue. “As an exception, due to logis-tical reasons mentioned by BCCI in the appli-cation we are allowing the match to he held in Pune on May 1,” the or-der said. The application was filed after the high court passed the order on April 13 directing all IPL matches from April 30 onwards to be shifted out of Maharashtra to avoid use of huge quantities of water for maintenance of stadiums when the state was reeling under a grim drought. By that order, 13 matches were to be shifted to other states.

ing prayers in the core area. The temple trust took the decision follow-ing an agitation by Pune-based Swarajya Mahila Sanghatana, headed by Vanita Gutte. The wom-en activists, however, had refused to follow the con-ditions. Members of the Sanghatana alleged that when they reached the temple early on Wednes-day, they were asked by officials of the temple trust to come in wet cot-ton cloths. “When we re-turned to the temple after having a bath, we were told that the time to enter the inner sanctum is now

over. When we resisted, the local residents as-saulted us right in front of the god,” a woman devo-tee said. The police have booked some 150 persons for assaulting the women seeking entry inside the “garbha griha”. This the second time Sanghata-na activists have tried to enter the temple’s inner sanctum. Last Thursday, Gutte and fellow cam-paigners refused to enter the core area of the tem-ple on Thursday morning wearing wet clothes and got into an argument with several local priests over the rule.

Agency | New Delhi

Slamming Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayala-lithaa for demanding the release of seven convicts in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassi-nation case, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lead-er Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday dubbed the AIADMK chief as perfidious and accused her of being unpatriotic. Swamy said. that the re-quest made by Jayalali-thaa is against the nation as the convicts booked

for Rajiv Gandhi’s as-sassination were terror-ists, who should not be spared. “Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister of India and the LTTE is a foreign organisation, it’s a terrorist organisa-

tion. They come to India say we don’t like Rajiv Gandhi’s policy and kill him, is it that simple’ Can we accept that’ It is the most unpatriotic thing if anyone says any-thing in this regard,” said

Swamy. ”Rajiv Gandhi did not die alone 18 po-licemen died. Jayalali-thaa does not have a drop of patriotic blood in her, very selfish women she only thinks of herself. This is against the nation. Tamil people will reject this, they are all patriotic people they don’t want this. The punishment has been reduced from death sentence to lifetime im-prisonment and now they want that the guilty should be freed, it cannot be done,” he added.

AAP vs Jung again? Appointed by govt, Tihar prisons chief steps down

Agency | New Delhi

Senior IPS officer JK Sharma stepped down as Tihar prisons chief, hours after being given the appointment order by the Delhi home de-partment on Tuesday. Sharma, a 1982-batch IPS officer – presently posted as director general (Home Guard) – was giv-en additional charge of prisons in the afternoon, an order which was re-portedly passed without

consulting the lieutenant governor. In Delhi, the transfer and appointment of all gazette officers is approved by the lieu-tenant governor. Howev-er, Sharma’s appointment to Tihar was signed by an additional secretary of the home department. Taken by surprise, L-G Najeeb Jung is said to have nul-lified the order, a move that can become anoth-er flashpoint in the tus-sle between Delhi chief

minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jung. The two have been at loggerheads since the appointment of joint commissioner of police Mukesh Meena as the Anti Corruption Branch chief in June last year. By Tuesday evening, Shar-ma returned the charge to the earlier officer as the appointment was not approved by ‘competent authority’. Prison sourc-es said Sharma took the decision when he learned that the home department passed the appointment without Jung’s approv-al. In a letter issued un-der the DG (Prison) cre-dentials, Sharma further said he will be “happy to resume the above men-tioned charge on approval of competent authority”.

Agency | Dehradun

Shaktiman – the horse of Uttarakhand Police that had a leg amputated after being allegedly assault-ed by a politician – died on Wednesday It was in-jured during a BJP protest in Dehradun. A couple of days ago, reports had stated that Shaktiman was recovering well and had started walking af-ter a prosthetic leg was arranged for and fixed by Jamie Vaughan, an American animal lover who lives in Paro, Bhutan and runs an animal shel-ter there. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat expressed condo-lence over Shaktiman’s death and said, “I am shocked, can’t express

my feeling in words, we all thought Shaktimaan was recovering well.” Meanwhile, blaming the Congress government in the state, BJP leader Ajay Bhatt said, “An innocent animal died because of the state govt’s mistake and no proper treatment was given to it.” Contra-dicting Bhatt’s claims, doctor who was attend-

ing Shaktiman said, “We are very sad. Everybody did everything possible, what happened today is sad.” “It was unexpect-ed as Shaktimaan was recovering well. A brave horse has died and we must respect it,” said Dr Khambatta. Demanding strict action against those responsible for Shakti-man’s death, Union Min-

ister Maneka Gandhi said, “Shaktimaan was a police officer on duty and went through so much pain which ulti-mately killed him. The culprits should be arrest-ed for killing a police officer.” Shaktiman was part of the Uttarakhand Mounted Police. It had fallen down during the protest after BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi alleged-ly tried to pull it down. Joshi was seen trying to hit the horse with a stick and was also accused of breaking its leg. He has, however, maintained his innocence claiming he was just trying to scare the animal. Joshi, who was arrested on charges of attacking Shaktiman,

was later granted bail on March 22 by a local court here. District and Sessions Judge Ramdutt Paliwal had granted bail to Joshi on furnishing two bail bonds of Rs 25,000 each, his lawyer R S Ra-ghav had said. He was sent to 14 days’ judicial custo-dy in the case on March 18. His bail petition had been rejected just a day later by the court of Ju-dicial Magistrate Akram Ali. Non-bailable offenc-es under which Joshi was

charged include stopping government officials

from discharging their duties.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016

QUOTE OF THE

DAYNo new sugar mills in Marathwada for 5 years, is what needs..?

In what can only be called a knee-jerk reaction, the Maharashtra government has decided to ban the setting up of new sugar mills in the drought-hit Marathwada region. The underlying logic behind the move is to discourage cultivation of an ostensi-bly water-guzzling crop. Now, there is no doubt that sugarcane requires over 2,000 mm of water through conventional flood irrigation methods. This is much more than the Marathwada region’s normal average annual rainfall of 821.6 mm, leave alone the 532.2 mm received in 2015 and 548.9 mm the year before. But it raises the question: How does a ban in sanc-tioning new mills, that too for five years, help? If, in-deed, sugarcane is the main cause of Marathwada’s troubles, as some contend, why limit the ban to just five years? And what about the existing mills: Why allow them to crush at all? If the Devendra Fadna-vis government’s latest decision is aimed at making Marathwada’s farmers grow crops that consume less water, the right way to do so is by ending the regime of subsidies on canal irrigation as well as electricity for pumpsets. It is these subsidies, besides payment of an assured price for their crop supplied to mills, that has led farmers to cultivate more sugarcane by overdrawing both canal and underground water. If water is properly metered and priced to reflect its scarcity value, they may well choose to reduce the area under cane and plant more pulses, oilseeds or cotton instead. Alternatively, they may continue to grow sugarcane, but by employing drip irrigation that will reduce the water requirement for sugarcane to below 1,000 mm. Those gunning for sugarcane fail to see that this is a crop that also produces green fodder, which farmers would otherwise have had to grow separately. Moreover, unlike other industries, sugar mills neither require water nor electricity from outside; these are present either directly in the cane or generated as a byproduct. Clearly, there is an element of exaggeration to the view that blames Marathwa-da’s water woes entirely on sugarcane, while ignoring the impact of monsoon failure itself in three out of the last four years. This view, perhaps, also underesti-mates the benefits sugar may have brought to the re-gion’s farmers, including generating employment op-portunities. While not permitting new mills may help the Fadnavis government to score political brownie points — the earlier Congress-NCP dispensation was, after all, synonymous with the state’s powerful “sugar lobby” — it does not address the core issue of ratio-nal water use. If canal water is made available to all crops on a uniform per-hectare basis sans any subsi-dies, farmers can be trusted to make the right planting decisions based on market signals. They don’t have to be told what to grow — and what not to grow.

“Chandigarh is a modern city and administration can never thing of taking such absurd decision, no dress code has been prescribed in the Controlling of Places of Public Amusement policy 2016.”

- UT Home Secretary Anurag Agarwal on Wednesday clarified that...

Agency | Mumbai

There was a big buzz in Bollywood when this ru-mour came out. Sunny Deol was stated to have roped in none other than Baahubali director SS Rajamouli for his next film. The movie titled Mera Bharat Mahaan is one of Sunny Deol’s up-coming flicks. The story is reportedly being writ-ten by Vijayendra Prasad, director SS Rajamouli’s father. Vijayendra Prasad has been in great demand after the massive success of Salman Khan’s Bajran-gi Bhaijaan and SS Ra-

jamouli’s magnum opus Baahubali. Sunny Deol, who is looking to deliver a massive hit, has roped in Vijayendra Prasad to pen the story for Mera Bharat Mahaan. Then news spread that SS Rajamouli might come in to direct the film as well. However, director Rajamouli’s spokesperson said. that SS Rajamouli is tied up till April 2017 with Baahubali part 2. “He absolutely doesn’t have time for anything else at this point of time. He will decide on his next project only post April next year,” clarified the spokesperson.

Agency | Mumbai

She became a well-known name after the stupendous success of Malayalam film Premam. Sai Pallavi, who played the role of Malar in the film starring Nivin Pauly, is now being approached by other south film indus-tries. She was reportedly signed on for a Mani Rat-nam film starring actor Karthi. The audience was excited about this as they would get to see her in a Mani Ratnam film. The

ace director is known for his strong portrayal of relationships on screen. However, now there are reports that she is no lon-ger in the film and it was rumoured that she opted out. Sai Pallavi is current-ly shooting in Georgia but the rumours reached her as the media had been calling her mother. The talented actress took to social media to clari-fy what had happened as far as this film goes. She stated that the actress re-

quired for the role was someone more mature as there had been changes in the script. As a result, Mani Ratnam explained this to her and thus they would be getting someone else on board now. Sai P a l l a v i said she is excit-ed about the film though she is no longer part

of it. But then who knows, she might end up working with Mani Ratnam some-t i m e in the future!

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Sunny Deol teams up Baahubali director SS Rajamouli for his next

‘Premam’ actress Sai Pallavi clarifies about Mani Ratnam film

Mammootty and Huma Qureshi’s onscreen chemistry is intriguing!

Agency | New Delhi

The upcoming Malayalam movie ‘White’ has become talk of Mollywood movie buffs. It is one of the most await-ed films of the year as the fans would be seeing a fresh face on the silver screens opposite megastar Mammootty. It is none other than Bollywood beauty Huma Qureshi. Yes, the 29-year-old actress is making her debut in the Malayalam film industry with Uday Ananthan directorial film ‘White’. The first poster, bloopers teaser of ‘White’ left everyone enthralled. And with the trailer of the film that released yesterday (April 19), fans just can’t stop praising the onscreen chemistry of Mammookka

and Huma. Mammootty who is fondly called Mammook-

ka has played varied roles throughout his career. We doubt any star in Malayalam Cinema

can match up to the 64-year-old superstar. In this upcoming film, Mammootty plays the role of Prakash Roy who is a billionaire settled in London. He falls in love with a 25-year-old beauty named Roshni Menon, the character played by Huma Qureshi. This is definitely one of the most unusual

love tale in the Malayalam cinema. The trailer of the film looks very intriguing – one really can’t their eyes off from the sizzling chemistry between Mammoot-ty and Huma and off course the beauti-ful locations.

Mammootty, Huma Qureshi

starrer Malayalam film ‘White’s trailer

launched ‘Baahubali’ update: Heat wave forces director SS Rajamouli to stop shoot

Rajamouli was keen

to spend more time on post-

production but it looks like that may not be a

possible

Agency | Hyderabad

The high temperature in Andhra Pradesh and Tel-angana is wreaking hav-oc for people in the two states. Director SS Ra-jamouli who was shoot-ing for Baahubali 2 at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad was forced to stop shooting thanks to the soaring tempera-ture. According to sourc-es, the director was busy shooting the film but the heat started to adversely affect the people on set. Rajamouli was trying to finish certain portions quickly but the heat did not allow the team to work efficiently. In the end, the ace director was forced to give the entire team a month-long break from the shoot. The team will now relax during the peak summer and come back to sets when the temperature hopefully dips. Currently, the tem-perature there is around 45 degrees celsius. Ra-

jamouli was keen on spending more time on post-pro-duction but it looks like that may not be a possibility.

He wants to wrap the shoot as early as possible and

release the film on April 14, 2017. This month-

long break is likely to have caused some upheavals in his shoot schedule. The

film was rumoured to release in Decem-

ber 2016 earlier, but the shoot for the second

part was delayed due to unknown factors.Several

people in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have died of sunstroke because of the scorching heat. The state governments have advised people to keep themselves hydrated and remain indoors during the peak hours of the day.


SPORTS ROUNDUPCutting sitting time by 71 minutes may help you live longer

Bharti Airtel to Sell Over 5% Stake in Telecom Tower Unit

Google Study Reveals 760,935 Websites Were Breached Last Year

Agency | Mumbai

Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel is looking to mone-tise another tranche of its holding in the company’s tower arm Bharti Infratel. The telecom company will use funds for the upcoming spectrum auctions and to pare debt. The stake sale could be done via block deals in Infratel. Bharti has been cutting its stake in Infratel, which got listed a few years ago, and this time it could be pared by over 5 percent. At current market capitalisation, this will help the company raise over Rs 3,200 crore. As of now,

Bharti holds around 71.7 percent in Infratel.

Agency | London

The results which were followed up for three months showed a reduction of 0.61 percent in body fat in study participants. This was as a result of 71-minute shorter sitting time per day during working hours after one month. “A reduction in sitting time by 71 minutes per day could have positive effect in the long run as this could be associated with reduced risk of heart diseases, diabetes and all-cause mor-tality, especially among those who are inactive,” said professor Janne Tolstrup from National Insti-tute of Public Health, Denmark. Researchers from University of Southern Denmark, the National Re-search Centre for Prevention and Health and the University of Sydney conducted a multi-component work-based intervention to reduce sitting time and prolonged sitting periods. The team analysed 317 office workers in 19 offices across Denmark and Greenland randomly put into the intervention or control groups. The intervention included environ-mental office changes and a lecture and workshop, where workers were encouraged to use their sit-stand desks. By wearing an accelerometer device, the researchers were able to measure results across

a five-day working week.

Agency | Mumbai

Google teamed up with UC Berkeley for a study that reveals as many as 760,935 websites were breached in just one year. The research was made with the help of Google’s Safe Browsing Alerts initiative that no-tifies network administrators of potential security breaches and doctored URLs on the websites. The study showed the data collected from July 2014 to June 2015 and the researchers add that continuous communication with webmasters is likely to make admins eliminate reported issues by 50 percent. Also mentioned was that the infection length of a website could be decreased by at least 62 percent by send-ing the Safe Browsing alerts initiative notifications to website admins. ”Based on appeal logs where web-masters alert Google that their site is no longer com-promised, we find 80 percent of operators success-fully clean up symptoms on their first appeal,” says the research. However, it was also revealed that over 12 percent sites fell victim to a new attack within 30 days as the site owners did not address the root cause of compromise.

RCB, MI will look to climb up the points table

Ageing Gujarat Lions spinner Pravin Tambe racks up numbers that matter

IPL 2 6

Hong Kong’s Irfan Ahmed suspended for two years and six months

Lodha panel reforms: BCCI appoint media veteran Rahul Johri as CEO

Agency | Dubai

The ICC has suspended Hong Kong allrounder Ir-fan Ahmed for two years and six months after he admitted to breaching the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Code. Ahmed has accept-ed the suspension and waived his right to ap-peal. Ahmed has not been charged with any offence involving corruption. The ICC’s anti-corruption unit, however, established that he failed to disclose “full details of approach-es or invitations to en-gage in corrupt conduct that had been made to him between January 2012 and January 2014”. The allrounder was charged under Article 2.4.2 of the ICC Anti-Corrup-tion Code which states, “Failing to disclose to the

Agency | Mumbai

A star-studded affair awaits us at Wankhede, with two heavyweight teams looking to gain momentum as the tour-nament begins to enter a phase that many believe is the most crucial one. While RCB have played only two games and won one of them, Mumbai Indians are languish-ing in the bottom half of the table, with one win in four matches. RCB’s top-heavy batting line-

up -- consisting of Virat Kohli, A.B. de Villiers and Shane Watson -- has done the bulk of the scor-ing so far, ac-counting for near-ly 80% of the t o t a l r u n s s c o r e d and have, in many ways, made up for Chris Gayle’s woeful form. But it’s only a mat-

ter of time before Gay-le, who’s scored only 13 runs in his last five T20 outings, begins to stamp his authority on the pro-ceedings. When asked about Gayle’s lacklustre performances, skipper Kohli reposed faith on the West Indian, saying he expects the him to come good at some stage in the tournament and that he’s not worried about his batting form. How-ever, bowling remains a cause for concern. The absence of Mitchell Starc

continues to haunt the Bangalore

team. They’ve been served well by Wat-son’s canny off-cutters and

subtle chang-es in pace in the

middle overs but the rest of the pack seemed not-so-effective and non-threatening.

RCB have played

only two games and won one of them, Mumbai Indians are

languishing in the bottom half.

Agency | Mumbai

For Pravin Tambe, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is the only time of the year to showcase his talent on the big stage. After Rajasthan Royals were suspended from the IPL, the veteran spinner has found a new lease of life with Gujarat Li-

ons. He was brilliant in the two games he fea-tured in, playing a de-cisive role in wins over Rising Pune Supergiants and Mumbai Indians. His wickets included that of Pune’s Ajinkya Rahane and Kevin Pietersen, and Parthiv Patel and Kieron Pollard of Mumbai. The four wickets have come

at an economy rate of 7.5. The Mumbai-based bowler said it’s about variations and out-think-ing the batsmen in the shorter format. “If you vary your length and pace then spinners will survive in this tournament. Even pace bowlers are trying to bowl slower ones, or slow bouncers. It really helps if you bowl slower, if you mix it up, to contain the batsmen.”Tambe will turn 45 this year. He said age didn’t matter for players like him and Aussie spin-ner Brad Hogg (45). “It is just a number for me and I think that’s what Hogg also thinks. We are enjoy-ing the game. The main thing is if you are enjoy-ing, then you will keep playing.

“Finally our own Nadia Comaneci”, SRK hails Dipa Karmakar for historic achievement

Agency | New Delhi

Shah Rukh Khan, on Wednesday, shared his words of appreciation for Dipa Karmakar, who after creating history by becoming the first Indi-an woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, sealed a gold medal in the women’s vaults finals at the test event of the Rio Games. “Finally our own Nadia Comaneci. Dipa Karmakar u r the pride of our Nation.Ur achieve-ments inspire us. Some other B-Town celebs too tweeted to congratulate the 22-year-old gymnast from Tripura. “Congrat-ulations Dipakarmakar ! Super proud!!!,” wrote

Lara Dutta Bhupathi. ”Go DipaKarmakar! Make India proud! Jai Hind! WomanPower,” read Vishal Dadlani?s “Congrats Dipa Karma-kar for Olympics qual-ification.The first ever Indian women gymnast who qualify for Olym-pics. TrueInspiration Girl_Power,” wrote Ari-jit Singh. Karmakar dis-

played her best efforts as she scored 14.833 points in her first attempt to become the first Indian woman to clinch gold in a global gymnastics event. Karmakar, who already created history by win-ning bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, scored 14.566 in her second and last tries, respectively.

Agency | New Delhi

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday appoint-ed Rahul Johri as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Rahul, who was last serving as Discovery Networks Asia Pacific’s Executive Vice-President and General Manager for South Asia, will take on his new role starting from June 1 and will report to BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur, a statement from the Board said. He will be based in the Board’s Mum-bai office. Rahul brings immense experience and knowledge onboard and will be responsible for the smooth functioning

of operations, stakeholder management and building robust strategies for fur-ther promoting the sport. Commenting on the ap-pointment, BCCI Presi-dent Shashank Manohar, said, “We are pleased to have Rahul with us and are sure his vast experience and knowledge will ben-efit the Board. His vision, guidance and support will

contribute towards the successful working of the BCCI.” BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said, “We welcome Rahul aboard and wish him luck for his new role at BCCI. In the past one year, BCCI has undertaken various initia-tives aimed towards trans-forming the working of BCCI in order to make the functioning more robust.

No proof against Lt Col Purohit in Samjhauta blast case: NIA chief

Agency | New Delhi

NIA today said there was no proof against Lt Col Prasad Purohit in the Samjhauta blast case but investigation against him is underway in connec-tion with the Malegaon blast case. “There is no proof against him in Sam-jhauta blast case. He was never an accused. I won-der why his name is be-ing linked to Samjhauta blast case,” NIA Director General Sharad Kumar said. He said Purohit has been chargesheeted by ATS Mumbai in Male-gaon blasts in 2008 and NIA was carrying out further investigations in the matter. The NIA has filed charge sheet against eight people in connection with Samjhauta blast case which includes Naba Ku-mar Sarkar alias Swami Asimanand, Late Sunil Joshi alias Sunilji, Ram-chandra Kalsangra, Sand-

eep Dange (both abscond-ing), Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan, Amit and Rajender Choudhary. The case pertains to the criminal conspiracy which resulted in bomb blasts in the Attari Express (Sam-jhauta) train near Panipat, Haryana on February 18, 2007. This blast and the consequent fire in the train coaches resulted in the loss of 68 lives and inju-ries to 12 train passengers including women and chil-dren travelling in the train. The other case, in which Purohit is an accused, pertains to bombing in

Malegaon area of Maha-rashtra on September 29, 2008. A blast rocked the area in which four persons were killed while several others injured. The probe was initially conducted by the Maharashtra ATS and later handed over to the NIA. Besides Puro-hit, Pragya Singh Thakur, Shivnarayan Kalsangra, Shyam Sahu, Ramesh Upadhya, Sameer Kulkarni, Ajay, Rakesh Dhawade, Jagdish Mha-tre, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and Pravin Takalki have been arrested.

ACU (without undue de-lay) full details of any ap-proaches or invitations re-ceived by the Participant to engage in conduct that would amount to a breach of the Anti-Corruption Code.” Ahmed was provi-sionally suspended in No-vember 2015 following an investigation by the ACU “relating in part to the ac-tivities of another individ-ual known to the ACU and

suspected of making cor-rupt approaches to partic-ipants”. His period of in-eligibility will take effect from the date of the pro-visional suspension (No-vember 4, 2015) and will end on May 4, 2018. Ron-nie Flanagan, chairman of the ACU, said the sus-pension should serve as a reminder to participants of the need to comply with the code.


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Gujarat govt decides to continue Mahila Samakhya under education department

Depleting water in Maharashtra’s reservoirs; falling steadily since January

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Most colleges and univer-sities in the state are out-sourcing invigilators for examination duty. While the main reason for this is the shortage of staff, there are several teachers who refuse to do invigilation duty, arguing that it is not a “part of their job”. Of-ficials in the Gujarat Uni-versty (GU) examination

department said that 80 per cent invigilators on duty during the ongoing examinations for semes-ter VI in BA, B.Com and B.Sc and semester IV for post-graduate examina-tions were from outside. GU vice-chancellor M N Patel said, “None of the colleges has enough staff to conduct exam-inations without hiring


Dwindling sales of figo twins has forced Ford india to shut its sanand plant operations by a week. Ford launched its latest generation figo and sub 4-m compact sedan figo aspire in 2015 fol-lowing the success of ecosport. However the figo twins failed to set the sales chart on fire. While sales of the Figo hatch-back declined over 60% in the six-month period between Oct 2015 and March 2016, sales of the Figo Aspire declined by 74% between its launch and March 2016. Ford

has sold only 1396 units of Figo hatchback in march 2016 against the segment leader Maru-ti Swift sales of 14524 units. Given the poor sales of these cars, Ford has halved its monthly production targets for the Figo and Aspire at its sanand plant in Gujarat. The production of figo twins has come down from 20000 to 6500 units a month. Ford’s sanand plant was built at a cost of USD 1 billion on the hope of achieving more market share now con-tinues to operate a single shift.


Even as the Centre is con-templating to merge the Mahila Samakhya pro-gramme (Education for Women’s Equality) with the National Rural Live-lihood Mission (NRLM), the Gujarat government has decided to take over and continue the scheme under the state Educa-tion Department from April 1. Gujarat was the first state from where the women empowerment programme was launched in 1989. “Mahila Sa-makhya Society Gujarat, registered under Indian

Societies Registration Act, 1860, is the first in the nation to get approv-al from the state govern-ment. It will continue to function as the state government funding will be routed through state education department from April 1,” confirmed the state project direc-tor Apexa Bhatt. “The scheme has successfully mobilised marginalised women — nearly 90 per cent of the sangha mem-bership is drawn from the disadvantaged sections of society. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe con-

stitute 56 per cent of the sangha membership at the national level,” says the report on ‘Third Nation-al Evaluation of Mahila Samakhya Programme’, carried out by the Ravi J Matthai Centre for Ed-ucational Innovation, Indian Institute of Man-agement, Ahmedabad, in 2014. The scheme will continue to function in Gujarat. As per sources, after series of meetings and discussions with senior most officials of various departments, in-cluding finance and ed-

ucation, the proposal has been finally approved by the Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. Initial-ly implemented in three districts — Sabarkantha, Vadodara and Rajkot — and later expanded to nine more districts — Banaskantha, Suren-dranagar, the Panchma-hal, Dangs, Valsad, Nar-mada, Dahod, Bhavnagar and Patan — the state government has already approved a budget of Rs 70 crore and aims to ex-pand to 19 districts in an-other five years.


Water from the al-ready-depleted reservoirs in Maharashtra have been drawn at a faster pace than any other part of the country since the start of this year, one reason why the state is facing such a severe water cri-sis. The 17 big reservoirs in the state are left with just about 2 billion cu-bic metres (bcm) of wa-ter now, which is barely 14% of their total capac-ity. At least three of these reservoirs have run dry, and there is no water in them that can be released by opening the gates.

Cumulative storage in India’s 91

biggest reservoirs is currently about

half of their January levels

The minimal water they have, below the height of the gates, needs to be pumped out to be sup-plied. Data from the Cen-tral Water Commission (CWC) show that water levels in Maharashtra’s reservoirs was just over 30% of full capacity in

the first week of January. Between then and now, water levels in all 91 big reservoirs in the country, including the ones in Ma-harashtra, almost halved from a cumulative 44% of capacity to 23%. The reservoirs now together hold about 36 bcm out

of their total capacity of about 158 bcm. It is im-portant to note that the reservoirs are not expect-ed to be full at this time of the year. Normally, they should have been holding around 46 bcm of water at this time. Last year, unexpected rain in March had ensured that they had 53.5 bcm water around this time. Thanks to that rain, and then a short burst in June, the reservoirs had above nor-mal storage levels till the first half of August 2015, before the bad monsoon started taking its toll.

Police ‘excesses’ on Patidars: BJP MP writes to Anandiben Patel

BJP targets Sonia Gandhi, says she ‘suppressed’ info on Ishrat Jahan


Dinesh Patel, BJP legis-lator from Padra constit-uency of Vadodara, has shot off a letter to CM Anandiben Patel, express-ing his displeasure at the turn of events in Mehsa-na during the “jail bharo” programme of Patidars on April 17. Dinesh Patel, BJP legislator from Padra constituency of Vadoda-ra, has shot off a letter to CM Anandiben Patel, expressing his displea-sure at the turn of events

in Mehsana during the “jail bharo” programme of Patidars on April 17. Asserting that he was a member of the commu-nity first and a political leader later, Patel wrote in his letter, dated April 18, 2016, expressing pro-found unhappiness over police “excesses” on lo-cal Patidars and jail bharo participants and cases un-der section 307 of the In-dian Penal Code. “This is a serious matter and caus-ing immense damage to

our government. Because of this, the Patidars in the BJP have suffered a lot,” he wrote, asking the CM to “wake up” at a time when she was leading the state to an all-round de-velopment, and bring an amicable end to the stir. Patel wrote that if the Jat community in Haryana could be given reserva-tion by the government there, why couldn’t it be given in Gujarat? “I per-sonally support the reser-vation for all Patidars and high castes,” he wrote. He urged the CM to see to it that no such incident were repeated in the future. He made a fervent plea to Patel to ensure “sab ka vikas” by taking along all communities together and march forward on the path of development.

The BJP attack came a day after Times Now cited an RTI response to report that Chidambaram had cleared the first affidavit.

Correspondent | New Delhi

The war of words be-tween the BJP and Con-gress over fresh develop-ments in the Ishrat Jahan case escalated on Tues-day with the ruling party alleging that Congress president Sonia Gand-hi had asked then Home Minister P Chidambaram to file a second affidavit in the case as the UPA could “tolerate terrorists but not Narendra Modi as Prime Minister”. The BJP attack came a day after Times Now cited an RTI response to re-port that Chidambaram

had cleared the first af-fidavit. At a press con-ference on February 29, Chidambaram had said the first affidavit was filed without his approv-al. “As minister, when it was brought to my notice that the first affidavit was ambiguous — which was filed without my approv-al — and it was being misinterpreted, it was my duty to correct the first affidavit. So we filed a supplementary affidavit after consulting the home secretary, the director of Intelligence Bureau and other officers,” he had

said. On Monday, Chid-ambaram issued a state-ment saying that while he couldn’t comment with-out checking the files and notings, “my public state-ments on why the second affidavit was filed, after due and full consultation with the home secretary and the attorney gener-al, are self-explanatory”. He said the “real issue is, even if a person is sus-pected to be a terrorist, can that person be killed — as alleged — in a fake encounter?” Today, BJP spokesperson Sambit Pa-tra asked Chidambaram to name the “culprit” who had asked him to change the affidavit. “Mr P Chi-dambaram, let the nation know. Who is she who wrote the conspiracy? Because we all know that in the Congress party, diktats come from a sin-gular address. You know the address.

DIGIworld Brings Maximum Cooling At Minimum Price Especially For Consumers in Ahmedabad

R3 Agency | Ahmedabad

Get set to triumph over the ruthless summers as DIGIworld, proud win-ner of the prestigious ‘Indian Power Brand 2016’ award announces its ‘Maximum Cooling at Minimum Price’ savings offer on its wide range of Air Conditioners. Con-sumers in Ahmedabad can ‘keep it cool’ this season and bring home a brand new Air Condition-er from just Rs. 2,099. In addition to the easy pay-

ment scheme, the fastest growing consumer elec-tronic retail chain from the house of Techno Kart, is also offering a whop-ping 5 year compressor warranty to conquer the scorching summer. Com-menting on the offer, Mr. Sanjay Karwa, CEO, Techno Kart India Ltd said, “Summers in most parts of our country can be really harsh and this season we want our con-sumers to overcome it in the best possible way.

We are dedicated to mak-ing the lives of our con-sumers comfortable by bringing them an array of offers on our wide range of products. Our com-mitment to bring the best to our consumers helped us bag the much covet-ed ‘Indian Power Brand award this year and we are sure that our latest en-deavor will delight them even more.” The offer also has something spe-cial in store for the crick-et lovers in Ahmedabad. By just giving a missed call on a toll free number 1800 1377 123, lucky DIGIworld customers will stand a chance to win an IPL ticket and also meet their favor-ite players Keeping the comfort of the consum-ers in mind, the state of the art DIGIworld stores are conveniently located and equipped with ex-ceptional services.

Ford shuts its Gujarat Operations for a week

Ahmedabad – Mumbai Jet Airways flight delayed due to bomb scare

Gujarat: Universities, colleges outsource invigilators due to staff shortage

people from outside. All colleges have a list of people to be hired for examination purposes.” Gopal Pathak, Principal, H K Commerce College in Ahmedabad, said, “We need a large number of invigilators but the staff available in our college is not adequate. Hence, we have to hire people on temporary basis from outside.” Bhikhabhai Chaudhary, principal, Navjivan Arts and Com-merce College, in Dahod, said: “We have 70 exam-ination halls and there are only 22 teachers. With this strength, it is not possible to conduct ex-aminations without hir-ing staff from outside,” said Chaudhary. He add-ed, “We have hired 45 in-vigilators from outside.”


A Jet Airways flight car-rying 125 passengers and six crew members from Ahmedabad to Mumbai was taken to the isola-tion bay on Wednesday morning due to a bomb scare. All the passengers who were already there in plane for 45 minutes were deplaned and ex-tensive search of the pas-senger and their baggage, cargo and aircraft was carried out by the securi-ty agencies. A passenger said, “we reached airport at 4.00 pm and counters opened at 5.00 am. We boarded flight and were inside for 45 minutes af-ter which we were de-planed.” DCP Zone-4 in Ahmedabad Mr. Gadhvi said, “cleaning staff in flight found a chit men-tioning a word ‘bomb’ when plane was being made ready to fly back

to Mumbai. Security in-charge informed CISF about this. As per the standard operative proce-dures(SOP) boarding was stopped and plane was taken to isolation way for checking.” “Aircraft was thoroughly inspect-ed by security agencies and flight with 125 pas-sengers and 6 crew has now been cleared for departure,” Jet Airways said in a statement. A Jet Airways spokesperson said the search yielded nothing and the plane has been cleared for fur-ther journey. Investigat-ing further, Sardarnagar police found that one chartered accountant Mr. Subramaniam was lastly traveling on seat number 24A under which the chit mentioning ‘bomb’ was found out by cleaning staff before return jour-ney of plane.

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