News BriefAkshay Kumar likes his action star image

Agency | New Delhi

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar, who will be seen doing a lot of stunt in his upcoming film “Brothers”, says he likes his action star per-sona. The 47-year-old actor belives the film is the best when it comes to showing stunts in Hindi cinema.

Decomposed body of woman found in city

house

US dollar ends dearer against the rupee

Agency | Kolkata

The decomposed body of a middle-aged wom-an was recovered from a house in the southern part of the city, the police said today. The decomposed body of Nandini Roy Chowdhury, aged around 43 years, was recovered from her house at Ram-moni Bagan under Sur-vey Park Police Station of Santoshpur in south-ern part of the city, they said. Acting on a miss-ing complaint of Chow-dhury’s brother, the po-lice went to the Survey Park house to found her decomposed body on a bed in her room.

Agency | Mumbai

The US dollar ended dearer against the rupee at 64.19/20 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished higher at Rs 100.01/03 per pound at the close of the Inter-bank Foreign Exchange market today. Following are the Interbank Forex and RBI rates: (In Rs Per Unit) Unit Interbank RBI Reference US Dol-lar 64.19/20 US Dollar Rs. 64.1732 Pound Ster-ling 100.01/03 Euro Rs. 70.3595 Euro 70.84/86 Japanese Yen(100) 51.

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J&K govt orders probe into death of youth in protest rally“Two militants of (LeT) killed”

Indian soldiers killed on Tuesday two ‘suspected separatists’ in occupied Kashmir after police and troops battled scores of stone-throwing residents who were trying to help them escape, police claimed

India forces kill 2 militants in Kashmir

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Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Aad-haar card is not manda-tory and should be used only to disburse LPG, food grains and other subsidies. The apex court has said that no personal information of Aadhaar card holders shall be shared by the concerned government authorities. The SC has given 4 di-

Agency | New Delhi

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday came down heavily on the Gandhi family, saying it has not been able to ac-cept the fact that some-one else can also rule the country as the govern-ment efforts to push for the GST bill did not take off over Congress’ refus-al to allow a discussion in Rajya Sabha. “Unfortu-nately, the Congress is in a self-destruct mode. But in the process it wants not only to disrupt In-dia’s Parliament but also create obstacles in the path of national growth,”

Agency | New Delhi

The National Investiga-tion Agency (NIA) has decided not to oppose the conditional bail granted to Swami Assemanand, chargesheeted in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case, as it did not find any grounds for it. The Government has also declined to grant permission to challenge a bail order granted to two other accused in Mec-ca Masjid blasts case — Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma — on the “grounds of parity” since bail had been granted to Bharat Mohal Lal and Tejaram Parmar which had not been challenged by the prosecution. Min-ister of State for Home

Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said Swami Aseemanand continued to remain in jail as he “could not comply with the conditions of bail specified” in the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court last August. The certified copy of the said order was issued by the court on May 1, 2015. “The NIA examined the feasibility of filing a Spe-cial Leave Petition and decided that there were no grounds to challenge the order in Supreme Court,” the Minister said. In a related development, a Public Interest Litiga-tion (PIL) was filed in the Supreme Court on Tues-day in which a plea has been made seeking an ap-

Agency | Chandigarh

Fed up of being sexually harassed by four youth from the Jat community, a 16-year-old Dalit girl from a village in San-grur town of Punjab set herself ablaze on Satur-day and succumbed to 70% burns at Chandi-garh’s Postgraduate In-stitute of Medical Edu-cation and Research on Tuesday morning. The daughter of a brick-kiln worker put up with the harassment for 20 days at Kal Banjara village of this district before tak-ing the extreme step on Saturday. Police regis-tered the case only on Monday as they were reportedly busy with se-

SC rules Aadhaar card not mandatory

Govt introduces GST bill in Rajya Sabha as Cong protests continue

Agency | Shinagar

India — Indian gov-ernment troops killed two militants in a pro-longed gunbattle that also wounded one police of-ficer in the Indian-ruled portion of Kashmir, an official said Tuesday. A

protester died in a sep-arate incident. Senior paramilitary officer Nalin Prabhat said the gunbat-tle began Monday after security forces cordoned off some houses in Rat-nipora village. Shooting resumed Tuesday with

the militants slipping into nearby rice fields under the cover of darkness and continued for about eight hours. Also Tues-day, hundreds of young people chanting pro-inde-pendence slogans hurled stones at Indian troops in

Sexually harassed Punjab girl immolates self, dies at Chandigarh

the finance minister told reporters outside Parlia-ment. He said the policies of the Congress were a li-ability on the economy of this country when it was in power and now it con-tinues to be same when it is in the opposition. “It stands today isolated with almost no political par-

ty supporting its disrup-tionist program,” he said. “We appeal to the Con-gress party to see reason and come on a path of co-operation particularly in relation to policies they themselves at one stage proclaimed.” He accused the Congress party of reneging on its promise

on GST. “The Congress mooted the proposal in 2006 and introduced GST in 2011, they failed to bring a consensus. In less than a year, Prime Minis-ter Modi’s NDA brought about a consensus,” he said. He enlisted the ways in which the tax reform will help the Indian econ-omy and said GST with its many special features and advantages will be able to create a uniform market in the country. “It will eliminate corruption, eliminate harassment to the entire trading com-munity and will be to the advantage of consuming states.

rections to the govern-ment regarding the same. SC had earlier referred the matter to a bench of 5 judges after the gov-ernment said that Right to Privacy is not a fun-damental right under the Constitution. The Centre

has so far maintained that there is no maintainabil-ity to the plea that de-mands the scrapping of the Aadhaar scheme on the ground there is vio-lation of the right to pri-vacy. The apex court had earlier reserved its verdict on Centre’s plea that peti-tions challenging govern-ment’s ambitious project to grant Aadhaar cards to all citizens be referred to a Constitutional bench.

curity arrangements for chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s visit to Sangrur on Sunday. The girl named four youth from the Jat communi-ty – three from her vil-lage and the fourth from neighbouring Khadew-al – for stalking her and making lewd gestures and comments for the past 20 days. The youth had been telling her to accept a mobile phone to take their calls. All

four are absconding and efforts are on to ar-rest them. A few days ago, one of them, Mani, slapped her in public when she objected to his indecent behaviour. “I was shocked. I feared that if my parents came to know about the harass-ment, they would pull me out of school. I thought it better to burn myself to death,” she said told a judicial magistrate from the hospital bed.

NIA not to challenge Assemanand’s bail: Govt.

propriate “writ, direction or order appointing an ad-vocate of eminence and reputation having high standards of integrity as the Special Public Pros-ecutor for conducting the trial in the 2008 Malega-on blasts case.” Seeking a court-monitored inves-tigation into the case, the

PIL also wanted a direc-tion to the CBI for regis-tering a case against NIA officials. Four Impro-vised Explosive Devices were planted on Sam-jhauta Express, the only rail link between India and Pakistan, on Febru-ary 18, 2007, in which 68 lives were lost.

the area, injuring 26 of them, Prabhat said. The troops fired tear gas and live ammunition in the air to disperse the protesters. In a separate incident, the protesters threw stones at a vehicle of the para-military Border Securi-ty Force passing by the area. The soldiers opened fire, wounding one pro-tester who later died in a hospital, police said. The area is 25 kilome-ters (15 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-held portion of Kashmir. Many residents

in the Himalayan region oppose Indian rule over it and favor independence

or merger with Pakistan. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the

region’s insurgency and subsequent Indian mili-tary crackdown.

2 held at Ahmedabad airport for traveling on fake passport

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Delhi-based man and woman were held on Tuesday for travelling on fake passport at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel interna-tional airport. Anil Kumar Lamba and Rajveer Kaur were to travel to Germa-ny via Dubai before they were detained by immi-

gration officials at the in-ternational terminal. The bureau of immigration after questioning the duo for hours filed a complaint with Sardarnagar police. The police has detained the duo and are further investigating the case. “Anil Lamba lives in Ger-many and he was taking

Rajveer Kaur with him. They both had fake arrival and departure stamps on their passports of Bathin-da airport. They were sup-posed to board Emirates early morning flight to Dubai before they were detained,” said V R Patel, senior police inspector, Sardarnagar.

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DAYNaga insurgency, India’s oldest, really ended?

The signing of the agreement between the Nation-alist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), or the NSCN-IM, and the Central government had all the drama of a reconciliation ceremony. But the details remain shrouded in secrecy. There appears to be much less to it than meets the eye. The cere-mony had the telltale signs of a pseudo-event. Pseu-do-events are occurrences designed to generate press coverage. Their relationship to reality is uncertain. But it is their inherent ambiguity that explains public interest in them. Ambiguity has marked all official pronouncements about the ceremony. The Press In-formation Bureau headlined it as the prime minister having witnessed the signing of a “historic peace accord.” However, it referred to it later as a “frame-work agreement”. The news took key stakeholders by surprise. Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh of Manipur said that he did not know what the agree-ment says and reiterated his government’s position that it will not accept any accord that disturbs Ma-nipur’s territorial integrity. The demand for the inte-gration of all contiguous Naga-inhabited areas has been a highly contentious subject, nowhere more so than in Manipur. But the protracted Assam-Naga-land border dispute is also part of the same faultline. The structural flaws in the design of the Naga peace process have been obvious for a while. The format — bilateral and secret meetings between NSCN-IM leaders and the government’s interlocutor — leaves out critical stakeholders. It is unlikely to produce a durable settlement. NSCN-IM leaders have said from time to time that they are not asking for greater or smaller Nagaland, but only for the integration of areas where Nagas live. The formulation is clever, but it does not resolve the fundamental contradic-tion. The Central government is expected to make territorial concessions that evoke intense emotions in neighbouring states over the heads of popularly elected state governments. However, there has been significant movement in this area in the course of the negotiations. Public statements that both par-ties recognise each other’s “compulsions” and talk of a solution that accepts “contemporary realities” point in that direction. But the structural flaw of the peace process becomes painfully apparent in what an unnamed official source told The Hindu about the procedures that will be followed. Apparently, the in-terlocutor to the Naga talks will prepare a draft note for the home ministry. The views of relevant Central government ministries and state governments will be elicited. Following that exercise, a draft bill will be presented to the Central cabinet. Once the cabinet approves it, the bill will be submitted to Parliament.

“I agree with her (Patel). If I had chosen to be in BJP, sir (Modi) may not have become the prime minister and Patel our (Gujarat) chief minister,” - Senior Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela,

who is the Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly, said.

Agency | Mumbai

Jacqueline Fernandez has had a very colorful life, and her list of boy-friends is impressive and long. Of course, the name that comes to mind immediately is that of Salman Khan. But that came as a whiff of fresh air and passed away with Kick. Then the news of her affair with Arjun Kapoor was also do-ing the rounds. The two

have not confessed any-thing in public. News of her teaming with Sajjid Khan was also being re-ported. Sajjid happens to be her ex boyfriend, with whom she was very close. It is also rumored that Sajjid was totally shattered when Jacque-line called it quits. Be-fore that she was said to be in love with a very rich sheikh of a Gulf country.

Agency | Lahore

A day after JuD (Ja-maat-ud-Dawa) chief and alleged Mumbai at-tack mastermind Hafiz Saeed pleaded a ban on the release of Kabir Khan’s Phantom, a Pa-kistani court has issued notices to the federal and Punjab government as well as the censor board asking them to reply to the petition. Lahore high court Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan heard the petition and asked the Pakistan censor board and the federal and Pun-jab governments to fur-nish a reply on Saeed’s petition on August 13.

During the hearing, Hafiz Saeed’s counsel AK Dogar requested the court to issue a stay order but the judge refused. “It is necessary to hear the respondents first,” the judge observed. Dogar also told the court that “there is a direct threat to the life of the peti-tioner (Saeed) and his associates emanating from the content of the trailer of Phantom.” He said the grievance of the petitioner is that Phan-tom has been advertised to be exhibited in Paki-stan. “It is obvious that dialogues coming out of the lips of the differ-ent Indian actors and

actresses will poison the minds of Pakistani public and will portray Hafiz Saeed as terrorist even though JuD has not been declared as a pro-scribed organisation,” Dogar said. “The Unit-ed Nations has also ad-mitted that the JuD is a charitable organisation and is working not only in Pakistan but also out-side the country,” he ar-gued in the court. Dogar said the movie is sched-uled to be exhibited in India and Pakistan on August 28. “The gov-ernment should be re-strained from allowing exhibition of this movie in Pakistan,” he said.

Agency | Mumbai

It was an usual day for the people of the city here until they spotted

something very strange over the street which broke the crowd into frenzy. In what has now

Agency | Mumbai

Salman Khan watched Sholay in his school uni-form while Abhishek Bachchan was not even born when it released but the movie, which turns 40 this month, was a de-fining part of their child-hood. Salman’s father Salim Khan co-wrote the script of the cult movie with Javed Akhtar, star-ring Amitabh Bachchan as Jai, Dharmendra as ‘Veeru’, Hema Malini as ‘Basanti’, Amjad Khan as the dreaded ‘Gabbar’ and Sanjeev Kumar as ‘Thak-ur’ in the Ramesh Sip-py-directed movie, which released on August 15, 1975. Recalling his ear-liest memories about the film, Salman said he at-tended the premiere with brother Arbaaz in Min-erva theatre. “I remem-ber we went to see the premiere of Sholay. Ar-baaz and I were in Scin-dia school, so we were dressed in our school blazers when our father took us there,” Salman said, adding “the film sur-prisingly for two weeks was a huge disaster. Ap-parently, they went back to shoot the climax to make Bachchan Saab re-live in the movie but after two weeks, it just took it

to the next level.” Sholay has some of the most memorable dialogues ever written in a Hindi film be it “Kitne aad-mi the?” by Gabbar, or “Tumhara naam kya hai Basanti?” by Bachchan and Dharmendra’s “Bas-anti, in kutton ke saamne mat naachna”. Salman, 49, said this is one film where i n f o r -ma to ry l i n e s b e -c a m e hit di-

a l o g u e s . The actor said he always want-ed to get lines like Sholay in his films. A b h i s h e k , who was in Delhi to promote his up-coming film All Is Well, said he was actually in his mother’s stomach when he went for the premiere of Sholay. “The thing I love about Sholay is even

Controversial love affairs of Jacqueline Fernandez

Salman and Abhishek reminisce ‘Sholay’ 40 years later

Agency | Chennai

Tamil actor Dhanush will soon be working with di-rector RS Durai Senthil Kumar of Kaaki Sattai fame. The two will work in the yet-untitled Tam-il film after Dhanush is done with new Tamil he currently filming with di-rector Prabhu Solomon. “The official announce-ment is yet to be made but Dhanush has already giv-en his nod in principle. This project, which also

features comedian Satish in an important role, would go on floors later this year,” said a source privy to the development. Interestingly, it was Dha-nush, who launched the career of Durai by pro-ducing two of his earlier films Ethir Neechal and Kaakai Sattai. The team will soon start the casting process. Dhanush cur-rently awaits the release of Tamil actioner VIP 2, a sequel to his last year’s blockbuster VIP. He is

An anaconda pops out of pot hole in Bengaluru!

Dhanush to act in Kaaki Sattai director’s next film

Saeed says Phantom a threat, Pak court seeks govt reaction

'Sholay' turns 40

if you see it today, it’s very contemporary. A lot of films age, I feel Sholay is ageless. It is as close to what we can get to a perfect masala potboil-er that we have. Even if you see it today, it’s very

believable. It’s an iconic film,” Abhishek, 39, said. “My entire childhood has been full of hearing sto-ries of Salim-Javed un-cle, Ramesh uncle, my parents and those were such wonderful stories. I

believe the film was shot over three years. There were great anecdotes. Ro-han, Ramesh’s son went school with me and we did films together as well. Sholay is the greatest film we have ever made and

we are very happy that it is here, 40 years down the line. To make a film that today’s youth can connect with, I think that would be something all of us would aspire to do at some point.”

also soon expected to team up with Raanjhanaa direct Anand L Rai again.

become a series of at-tempts to embarrass the Bruhat Bengaluru Mah-anagara Palike and force them to take a swift ac-tion over the quality of roads, a civic group in the city has installed an anaconda in a pot hole in Yeshwanthpur area here. Notably, the impact of the anaconda is such that it can scare the hell out of someone caught un-awares.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Excited about leading team in first full series: Kohli

Facebook offers benefits worth $20 million to Indian developers

Google to be part of new holding company, ‘Alphabet’

yamaha launches sports bike ‘YZF-R3’ at Rs. 3.25 lakh

Agency | New Delhi

Social networking giant Facebook has distrib-uted benefits worth $20 million to developers in India, its second largest market globally to help them build and monetize apps. Under its FbStart initiative that was started last year, the US-based firm has provided free tools and services worth $50 million to help developers in the Asia Pacific re-gion. “Developers are an important part of our eco-system. We have grown from a small size and we know the hurdles that developers can face while developing products,” Facebook director product platform partnerships Ime Archibong. Through this initiative, Facebook wants to help take care of certain aspects, so that the developers can focus on building world-class products, he said. Archibong added that India is an important market since the country has the second highest number of develop-ers after the US under the FBStart initiative.

Agency | San francisco

Google, which has been expanding far beyond its original business of Internet search advertising, is changing its operating structure by creating a new holding company called Alphabet. The company says its new structure will give more independence to many of its wide-ranging and ambitious proj-ects.Under the plan announced Monday, Alphabet will be comprised of the core Google business — including Internet search, mapping and YouTube — along with newer businesses that will be man-aged separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.Google CEO Larry Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his co-founder Sergey Brin serving as pres-ident. Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai, who has taken on increasingly important roles at the company in recent years, will be CEO of the core Google business.

Agency | New Delhi

Yamaha Motor India Group today launched its new 321cc engine sports bike ‘YZF-R3’ priced at Rs. 3.25 lakh (ex-showroom price Delhi). “With all-new engine and chassis designs, the YZF-R3 sports a solid combination of class-leading pow-er and a lightweight body that achieves high levels of riding performance and styling worthy of the ‘superbike’ moniker,” Yamaha said in a statement. The team had put all their engineer-ing skills and passion into developing this model and achieved especially notable results in areas like high-speed performance, passing accelera-tion and thoroughly enjoyable performance on winding roads, Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt Ltd Managing Director Masaki Asano said. The company said the new R3 model being launched in the country will be assembled at India Yama-ha Motor’s plant from the completely knocked down (CKD) sets.

Agency | Galle

“It’s a great opportuni-ty to create some mo-mentum knowing it’s a three-Test series, having some plan in mind, hav-ing the opportunity and time to execute them.” India skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said he was excited at the prospect of leading the team in his first full series as captain and would like to cre-ate the right momentum when they clash against Sri Lanka in the first Test here on Wednesday. “It is my first full series. It’s a great opportunity to create some momentum knowing it’s a three-Test series, having some plan in mind, having the op-portunity and time to ex-ecute them,” said Kohli at the pre-match press conference. “Even if it’s an off day, you still have time to re-group and think about what went wrong. If it’s a good day, you can learn from it — the positives and

Agency | Chennai

In view of the illness of 10 South African play-ers, the schedule of the cricket triangular series has been reworked with the South Africa A and Australia A match to be held on Wednesday, while the final league game will be played on August 13 at the MA Chi-dambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Chennai. The rescheduling was done at the last moment as Me-dia Officer of the BCCI in Southern India Dr. Baba informed about the changes and confirmed that the final would hap-pen on August 14, a day after the India A-South Africa A clash. “All the South African players

Agency | Hyderabad

Parupalli Kashyap and HS Prannoy got off to a fluent start registering straight game victories in the men’s singles first round of the BWF World Championships in Jakar-ta on Monday. Women’s doubles pair of Pradnya Gadre and Sikki Red-dy, men’s doubles duo of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar joined the two men’s singles shuttlers in the second round while two other doubles teams - Ta-run Kona/Sikki Reddy and Arun Vishnu/Apar-

na Balan - bowed out of the event. Kashyap made short work of Erik Meijs of the Netherlands 21-17, 21-10 while Prannoy eased past Alex Yuwan Tjong of Brazil 21-12, 21-18. Though he took some time to get off the blocks Kashyap looked quite comfortable once he got his range. The World No.10 toyed with his opponent from the 15th point of the first game and was even more dom-inant in the second game. He started with a 7-1 lead and gave no chance for his rival. He will now face Tien Minh Nguyen

of Vietnam in the second round. Despite having a 4-4 record against the veteran, Kashyap is the overwhelming favourite. Eleventh seed Prannoy faced no fitness issues as he rolled over Alex Yuwan Tjong of Brazil 21-12, 21-16 in just 31 minutes. Prannoy, who is playing his first match after recovering from in-jury, will get more time to get into the groove as he will face world No. 137 Edwin Ekiring of Ugan-da, who downed Dmy-tro Zavadsky of Ukraine 21-18, 21-17 in the first round.

Agency | New Delhi

Sania Mirza is all set to become the first woman tennis player to be con-ferred India’s highest sports award Rajiv Gand-hi Khel Ratna, Times Now reported on Tues-day. Sania is only the sec-ond tennis player to get the coveted award after Leander Paes in 1996-97. Earlier this month, the Sports Ministry had recommended the Wim-bledon doubles champion for the award but had also made it clear that the final decision rests with only the Awards Committee. Sania won her career’s first ever women’s dou-bles Grand Slam title with Swiss partner Martina Hingis in July. She also became world number one before winning the Grass Court major. Sania, who has won three mixed doubles Grand Slams in her career, was reported-ly competing with squash player Deepika Pallikal

Agency | Pune

London Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang, who was out of the 10m air rifle squad for nearly 18 months, announced his comeback in the event with a fifth-place finish in the ISSF World Cup in Gabala

(Azerbaijan) on Monday. This was Narang’s first ISSF final in 10m after winning bronze in the London Games in 2012. Narang has been compet-ing in the air rifle event at World Cups at his own cost, as only two Indians - Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput - have

managed to fulfill the stringent selection cri-teria set by the national federation (NRAI), leav-ing the third available spot vacant. That scenar-io is set to change as the Hyderabadi shot 626.7 in qualification and 144.5 in the eight-man final to finish fifth.

Agency | Jakarta

Top Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth earned con-trasting wins in their respective categories to advance at the World Championships being held at the 9000-seater Istora Senayan on Tues-day. Coming back from a long injury layoff, 11th seed Sindhu had to work hard for 50 minutes to move past Danish Line Kjaersfeldt 11-21, 21-17, 21-16 in the women’s singles second round. Though the two-time

Kashyap, Prannoy warm up with easy victories at World Championships

Ailing South Africa ‘A’ players force rescheduling of matches in tri-series in Chennai

Sania Mirza to be conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

since having been dis-charged from hospital requested for one day’s rest tomorrow,” read Dr. Baba’s WhatsApp mes-sage yesterday. Later Dr.Baba that extending a day’s rest on Tuesday was based on the South African team’s request as all 10 Proteas players were discharged around noon yesterday. The

changes in match sched-ule would mean that Tuesday instead of 13 August, would be a ‘rest day’ and there would no cricket activity in re-spect of the tri-series. South Africa A’s one-day match against Austra-lia A, who have already booked their final berth, has been postponed for the second time.

the areas that need im-provement. As a captain, you always need more time with the team, more games to play and bet-ter chances of creating an environment that you require the team to be in. So I am very excited. It’s an opportunity not only for me but all of us for a new Indian team. We are all pretty early in our ca-reers and it’s exciting,” he added. India haven’t won a Test series in Sri Lanka since 1993 when they won the three-match rubber 1-0. But the visit-ing team’s record hasn’t

been too impressive. “I have been reminded of that quite a few times and I know that now,” he said, about India’s poor record. India’s prepara-tions, however, suffered a blow as their pre-match practice session was washed out owing to heavy rains, and even on Monday, their ses-sion had been disturbed by the rain, leaving the three-day tour match in Colombo as the only proper workout before this first Test.But Kohli doesn’t seem to be too worried about it.

and discus thrower Vi-kas Gowda for the pres-tigious award. Sania also won the gold medal and the bronze medal in the mixed and women’s doubles categories in the 2014 Asian Games. Sania had received the Arjuna award in 2004 while two

years later she was award-ed India’s fourth highest civilian honour -- Padma Shri. Sania has also won the mixed doubles titles at Australia Open (2009), French Open (2012) and US Open (2014) and is currently the world’s No. 1 ranked doubles player.

Fifth-place finish is a boost for Gagan Narang

Sindhu, Srikanth advance in World Championships

World Championship bronze medallist lost the first game, she found her rhythm to bounce back and win the next two games. In the third round, the 20-year-old

faces a tough task as she will go up against reign-ing Olympic champion and third seed Li Xuerui. The Chinese has a 2-1 advantage over Sindhu in career meetings.

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Correspondent | Navsari

A 40-year-old man, ac-cused of raping a two-year-old girl, was beaten to death at Amalsad vil-lage in Navsari district of Gujarat on Monday. Mangal Halpati, a farm labourer, lured the two-year-old girl to his house this afternoon and raped her, sub-inspector, Gan-devi station, D S Soni, said. When villagers got to know about it, they stormed into his house and rescued the girl, he added. Halpati fled to escape the villagers and jumped into a pond. “But eventually he was cap-tured by the angry mob. They thrashed him merci-lessly and he died shortly after being admitted to a hospital in Navsari,” the

Correspondent | Vadodara

Veteran Congress lead-er and chairman of the Gujarat Congress OBC Committee for the last one decade, Dalsukh Prajapati Tuesday quit the party that he served for nearly five decades, even though he denied joining BJP. Prajapa-ti, 76, who has served as the Vadodara mayor and MLA of Sayajaigunj constituency in Vadodara in the past, said he de-cided to quit Congress because of the party’s “anti-poor” stand, stat-ing that the party has not been putting up good fight before Gujarat’s BJP government against its “anti-poor policy de-cisions.” “I have served the party for forty eight years, but over the last three years, the party has been behaving like anti-poor, showing lit-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A bench of the Gujarat High Court, led by out-going acting Chief Justice V M Sahai, today issued notices to 27 judges (both sitting and retired) of the court; the state Reve-nue Department; and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation among oth-er government agencies, seeking their replies on the 2008 allotment of resi-dential plots to sitting and retired judges. The judg-es, to whom notices have been sent, include eight sitting Gujarat High Court judges, Chief Justices of Bombay and Orissa High Courts and a sitting judge of Supreme Court. The court took suo motu no-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Special judge PB De-sai who is hearing the Gulberg massacre case, visited Monday after-noon the society where 69 people were killed in the post Godhra riots on February 28, 2002, close-ly examining every nook and corner especially of Bungalow number-19, home to Congress’s ex-MP Ahsan Jafri, who was among those killed that day. Many of the victims had taken shelter in Jafri’s house thinking it was the safest place considering Jafri’s status as a lead-er. The society which is covered with thick brush, was abandoned by all res-idents soon after the riots. Ahmedabad Municipal corporation authorities cleaned up and sprayed the premises with bleach-ing powder ahead of the judge’s visit. Amidst

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The four Gujarat state power distribution utili-ties have for a third year in a row emerged as top performers in the country. Punjab is in the same top ‘A+’ bracket as Gujarat, with the utilities of Maha-rashtra and Uttarakhand closely following with an ‘A’ rating. According to the ‘Integrated rating for state power distribution utilities’ done by the min-istry of power, 10 of these got a rating of ‘B+’ and 13 were rated ‘B’. Eight got ‘C+’ and two – Jharkhand State Electricity Board and Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam in UP — got the lowest, a ‘C’ rat-ing. The methodology for this rating was developed by the ministry in 2012. It covers 40 state utilities and no private ones. The

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The mammoth Gujarati classic looks at society in it’s entire complexity and is literally a cultural text on Gujarat. It deals with the idea of a state, fami-ly, individual and looks at a then modern married couple in the context of a then-prevailing social reform — widow remar-riage. “If you were to understand the shaping of modern Gujarati sen-sibilities, you cannot es-cape the canonical text of Saraswatichandra. Even before Gandhi, Govard-hanram was the most im-portant cultural influence

in Gujarat,” says Tridip Suhrud. Very few liter-ary works, according to Suhrud, come anywhere close to the Saraswati-chandra in terms of scope of the text and reach. So-ciologist Achyut Yagnik says, “If you were to un-derstand Gujarati culture, its joint family system and the idea of an ideal nation, you must read this epic novel by Govardhanram Tripathi. For more than a century no one attenmpt-ed an English translation just because it was such a complex novel. Now it is finally ready for a global audience.”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The rising number of dengue cases are becom-ing a concern for the civic health department. This week alone there were 37 new cases, taking the total number of dengue cases to 327 since Jan-uary. These are just cas-es that belonging to the city. The civil hospital of Ahmedabad reported a number of cases from surrounding talukas of Ahmedabad as well. Last year there were a total of 1,180 dengue cases in the entire year while in 2013 there were 1,575 dengue cases. “There are certain pockets in the city

which have emerged as mosquito breeding areas. Mostly in the western part of the city. We have mapped these areas and will begin our anti-vector activities,” says a senior AMC health official. The health department has also started surveys of dengue cases detected by various private hospitals to confirm dengue cases. “Most of these hopsitals have been using import-ed rapid dengue test kits which are not applicable to Indian conditions and blood types and hence there are more dengue cases being reported from private hospitals,” adds the health official.

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27 judges, sitting & retired, get High Court notice for plots they got from Gujarat govt

In Gujarat local body polls this October, vote or elseSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat Local Au-thorities Laws (Amend-ment) Bill, 2009, was notified last month, six years after it was ta-bled by the government of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.When does compulsory vot-ing come into effect? This October, during the elections to 300-odd local bodies, including municipal corporations, municipalities and pan-chayats. Why has the law been enacted? To ensure greater participa-tion in the electoral pro-cess. Local body elec-tions have rarely seen the turnout cross 60 per cent. What is the pun-ishment for not voting?

tice of two letters written last month by retired judg-es Justice B J Sethna and Justice K R Vyas alleging irregularities in the allot-ment and took these up as a PIL. These plots consti-tute Neetibaug Coopera-tive Housing Society and are located in the Sola and Gota areas which have emerged as plush neighbourhoods in the city. Justice Sethna, who

was appointed chairman of commission of inquiry for polarisation of popu-lation on the basis of dif-ferent religions, in 2009, had sought a 400 sq m plot, saying his appoint-ment equated him with a sitting High Court judge and, therefore, he was en-titled to one. His letter of July 3, 2015 claims there were 48 plots in this so-ciety.

If you are a registered voter, do not feature in the “exempted” list, and fail to vote, you will be liable to be fined Rs 100. Who are exempt from compulsory voting? 10 categories of voters. (1) Those who are physical incapable due to illness; (2) those in hospital for medical treatment; (3) those with 75% or great-er physical disability; (4) those who are taking an entrance or employment examination on voting day; (5) those who have a job interview; (6) per-sons aged 75 or above; (7) those attending so-cial events like a wed-ding or funeral, or who are faced with a medical emergency in the imme-

diate family; (8) those who are out of the state or country on voting day; (9) those who have mi-grated six months before polling day; and (10) em-ployees of the central or state government, or of a board, corporation or company owned by the

state government, or of the private sector who have been transferred prior to the election date. What proofs are need-ed to claim exemption? Hospital invoices, doc-tor’s certificate, travel tickets, photographs of social events, etc. The

election officer can cross-check details and dates of weddings, funerals, etc. ‘Immediate family’ includes parents, grand-parents, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, husband, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.

2002 Gujarat riots: Special Judge visits Gulberg Society

Gujarat again leads in power discom ratings, Jharkhand comes last

heavy police presence and surrounded by law-yers from the prosecu-tion, victims and defence, special judge Desai spent nearly 45 minutes. He went to the house of Jafri and inspected all the sites mentioned in the court records-the entrance, first floor and its terrace. The society, situated in the Chamanpura area of Meghaningar police sta-tion, was abandoned by its residents following the massacre. “It is not a live-able place anymore but the AMC sweepers cleaned up everything ahead of

the judge saheb visit. I saw such a mehfil (gather-ing) for the first time af-ter several many years,” said Rafiq Mansuri, a riot survivor whose family was the last to abandon the society. But Mansuri and his father still use the house as a godown and rest room. The father-son duo run a small cotton factory in the nearby area. A picture of Rafiq’s moth-er is hung at the entrance who was killed during the riots. Rafiq said he him-self lost one of his eyes after he was attacked by the rioters.

Central Electricity Au-thority, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Power Finance Corpora-tion, Rural Electrification Corporation, distribution utilities and credit rating agencies CRISIL, ICRA and CARE are involved in the exercise. The meth-odology is given final shape in consultation with the department of finan-cial services (ministry of finance), Indian Banks’ Association and major public sector banks. Fi-

nancial performance has a weightage of 60 per cent. This covers subsidy, cost coverage ratio, aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, financial planning and the likes. Efficient regulatory prac-tices hold the second best weightage of 15 per cent. The report noted the abso-lute subsidy dependence for most states remained high, mostly due to the subsidised nature of rates, particularly for agricultur-al consumers.

Canon on Gujarati society finally gets global audience

Villagers lynch rape-accused in Navsari district of Gujarat

police officer said. The rape victim was admit-ted to Surat civil hospital after the parents lodged an FIR against Halpati

for rape. “We will also file FIR against those in-volved in killing Halpati. Further investigations are on,” added Soni.

Veteran Gujarat Congress leader Dalsukh Prajapati quits party

tle concern for poor cit-izens and their plight. It has not been putting up good fight against ruling BJP over issues that ad-versely affect the poor, such as land acquisition policy, to name one,” Prajapati said at a press conference. Prajapati joined Congress in 1967, then went on to serve as Congress councilor in 1987 and Vadodara may-or between 1989-1992. He then served as depu-ty mayor from 1992. He spent 18 years at differ-ent positions in the civic body, during which the

party offered him ticket to fight by-election from Sayajigunj constituency in 2002. For five years, between 1995-2000, he served as the leader of opposition in the Vadoda-ra Municipal Corpora-tion. Without elaborating much on the reason of his resignation, Prajapati said he was going to remain active in politics, without committing to join BJP. “I have not talked to any-body in the BJP, nor have I heard from them. BJP has made me many offers in the past but I refused to join them.

37 new dengue cases this week