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News BriefSarbananda Sonowal files nomination

Agency | Majuli

Union Minister and BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Assam Sar-bananda Sonowal today filed his nomination pa-per from Majuli (ST) Assembly seat, which goes to poll in first phase on April 4. Accompa-nied by senior BJP lead-er Mahendra Singh and party’s alliance partner Asom Gana Parishad’s president Atul Bora, Sonowal filed his nom-ination before Majuli Sub-Divisional Officer P Narasingh Sambhaji.

Vaishno Devi pilgrim dies of heart attack

BJP manifesto for TN polls on March

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Agency | Jammu

A pilgrim en route the cave shrine of Vaishno Devi, died due to a heart attack in Reasi district, police said here today. Kameshwar Singh (65), a resident of Aurangab-ad in Bihar, collapsed at Adhkuwari area last evening. He was rushed to a dispensary where doctors declared him brought dead, they said. After conducting med-ical and legal formali-ties, the body was hand-ed over to his relatives.

Agency | Coimbatore

The manifesto of BJP for the May 16 Assem-bly elections in Tamil Nadu would be released on March 31, party Na-tional Secretary H Raja said today. Policy about the prohibition will find a prominent place in the manifesto, Raja, who is heading the manifesto committee. Some of the other features would be the plans to extract eth-anol from sugarcane and upgrading standard of education in state board schools to that of CBSE level, he said.

Amendments introduced in Rajya Sabha rejected“Aadhar row”

Aadhar bill passed in Lok Sabha

Agency | London

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the ranks of prominent global lead-ers at Madame Tussauds in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok next month, the world famous wax museum announced on Wednes-day. Describing him as a “hugely important figure in world politics”, the museum said the Indian Prime Minister had giv-en the museum’s team of artists and experts a sitting at his residence in New Delhi earlier this year. “Madame Tussauds has crafted figures of very distinguished dig-nitaries from around the world - how could I re-gard myself worthy of be-

Agency | Rohtak

A national-level kabad-di player was shot dead just a few yards from his house by two men in Haryana’s Rohtak dis-trict. The murder which took place yesterday was caught on CCTV installed near the play-er - Sukhvinder Singh’s house. Sukhvinder was walking home from practice on Tuesday af-ternoon when two assail-ants on scooter shot him twice in the chest. The attackers then pumped a third bullet in his head when he fell down on the road. “He was returning home when two people

Agency | New Delhi

Petrol price was hiked on Wednesday by Rs 3.07 a litre, reversing its 3-month declining trend, while diesel rates went up by Rs 1.90 per litre. Pet-rol in Delhi will cost Rs 59.68 per litre from mid-night tonight as against Rs 56.61 currently, said Indian Oil Corporation, the nation’s biggest fuel retailer. Similarly, a li-tre of diesel will cost Rs 48.33 compared with Rs 46.43 a litre at present. While the hike in petrol price turns the clock back on the declining trend since January, this is the third straight fortnightly increase in diesel rates. Petrol price was last cut by Rs 3.02 from March

Agency | New Delhi

AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan was on Wednes-day suspended from Maharashtra Assembly for this session after he refused to say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’. This hap-pened three days after AIMIM leader Asadud-din Owaisi’s remark that he won’t chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ even if a knife is put to his throat. There was an uproar in the legislative assembly over Pathan’s refusal to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ with legislators from all the other parties de-manding his suspension. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Girish Bapat said, “Pathan was sus-

Agency | New Delhi

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Aadhar Bill rejecting the amendments proposed by the Rajya Sabha. The lower house was then ad-journed till April 25. The bill to give statutory back-ing to the unique identity number scheme for better targetting of subsidies was returned by Rajya Sabha to the Lok Sabha with several amendments, with Oppo-sition parties also object-ing strongly to treating it as a money bill. The amend-

ing alongside them? But when I was informed that your decision had ema-nated from public opin-ion and public sentiment, I was comforted,” Modi said in a statement to the museum. “During my sit-ting, I observed the team carefully and was deeply impressed by its dedi-cation, professionalism and skill. I have visited Madame Tussauds three

or four times and had the pleasure of getting my-self photographed stand-ing next to the figures of various dignitaries,” he said. The wax figures at each of the museum’s locations around Europe and Asia will be dressed in Modi’s “signature kur-ta” in cream with a jacket and he will be featured in a traditional pose “mak-ing a namaste gesture”.

Modi to join world leaders in wax at Madame TussaudsCaught on camera: Kabaddi player

murdered in broad day light in Rohtak

Maharashtra Assembly suspends MLA of Owaisi’s party for not saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

came on a two-wheeler and shot him just a few yards away from the house. By the time we reached the spot, he was already dead,” Sukh-vinder’s father Chander Singh said. The killers were seen fleeing from

the crime scene immedi-ately. Sources told India Today that the killers had conducted a recce before carrying out the crime. In December 2015, an-other kabbadi player Deepak Kumar alias Deepak Pehalwan was

shot dead by two motor-cycle-borne men. Deep-ak remained unattended on the road for half an hour until his brother ar-rived at the spot. He was taken to PGIMS Rohtak but died during prelimi-nary treatment.

1 and today’s hike has wiped off all of that. Die-sel price on that day was hiked by Rs 1.47. The three hikes in diesel rates since February 16 total Rs 3.65 per litre. In fact, consumers are still to get all the benefits from the sharp drop in internation-al oil prices to a decade low as the government on five occasions since November has raised ex-cise duty on the two auto fuels. The five levy hikes

add up to Rs 4.02 per litre on petrol and Rs 6.97 on diesel, handing the gov-ernment a neat Rs 17,000 crore as additional rev-enue. “The current level of international product prices of petrol and die-sel and rupee-US dollar exchange rate warrant increase in price of pet-rol and diesel, the impact of which is being passed on to consumers with this price revision,” IOC said in a statement.

pended from Assembly for showing disrespect to national heroes and refus-al to say Bharat Mata ki Jai.” When the proceed-ings resumed, Minister of State for Home Ranjit Patil tabled the resolu-tion, seeking suspension of Pathan, which was approved unanimous-ly. “Pathan has misused freedom of speech, vi-

olated Parliamentary traditions and insulted ‘Bharat Mata (Moth-er India),” the minister said. “During his sus-pension period, Pathan won’t be able to attend House proceedings and won’t be allowed near Vidhan Bhawan prem-ises,” Patil said. Speak-er Haribhau Bagade informed the House

that the resolution was adopted unanimously. “Don’t judge anyone’s love for the country by just one slogan. I love my country, I was born here and I will die here. I can never ever dream of insulting my coun-try. Jai Hind Jai Bharat Jai Maharashtra,” said Pathan after the suspen-sion. Pathan said that chanting the slogan was a matter of choice and was not binding. “The Constitution does not say it. We will say Jai Hind. We won’t chant Bharatmata ki Jai,” he said. The house had to be adjourned three times over the issue.

ments to the Aadhar (Tar-geted Delivery of Finan-cial and other subsidies, benefits and services) Bill, 2016, moved by Congress leader and former Envi-ronment Minister Jairam Ramesh, were passed with

a majority voting in favour. The ruling BJP-led NDA does not have majority in the House. Members of BSP, TMC and BJD also walked out of the House raising objections on sev-eral issues concerning the

measure. The process of return of the bill saw an animated debate over why it was brought as a mon-ey bill, with a number of opposition members also raising concern over pri-vacy and national security on the biometric data of In-

dians so collected through the scheme. Brushing aside the objections by the Opposition, Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley said the Aadhar Bill was a money bill as it dealt with the way public money or subsidy will be distributed among

the needy under various government schemes. Moving the Bill in Rajya Sabha, Jaitley said Par-liament cannot abdicate its right to legislate just because the issue is pend-ing in the Supreme Court. The Minister also empha-sised that the present bill was different from the one brought by the UPA government as it had fur-ther tightened the privacy provisions with regard to sharing of information of individuals collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UID-

AI). Several Opposition members including Si-taram Yechury (CPI-M), Jairam Ramesh (Cong), Naresh Agrawal (SP) and K C Tyagi (JD-U) among others, opposed the gov-ernment’s decision to label the Aadhar bill as a money bill. Refuting the objec-tions in a debate marred by acrimony, Jaitley said the Lok Sabha Speaker had the final authority under the Constitution to declare a bill as money bill and nobody can question that. The Lok Sabha has passed the bill on March 11.Petrol price hiked by Rs.3.07/

litre, diesel by Rs.1.90

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DAYThe new energy policy makes essential changes

Last week was a good one for the Narendra Modi ad-ministration. Complaints that it was merely tinkering around the edges of its reform agenda had been pro-liferating for a while. But it has pushed back now with two major moves. The real estate bill, as we wrote in these pages on Tuesday, has considerable potential. The other—the Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy, or HELP, which puts in place a new regime for oil and gas exploration—is even more significant. It could, in fact, signal one of the most important mar-ket-oriented sectoral reforms of the past two decades. The new policy’s overarching theme is plainly to re-duce government intervention at every stage of the upstream industry, from securing blocks to licensing to marketing. The open acreage aspect of the policy—allowing investors to bid for blocks of interest to them at any time—is a step towards casting the government in the role of an enabler. The earlier process of a year-ly auction of a cluster of blocks, on the other hand, saw it operate more as a heavy-handed gatekeeper. And the move towards a single licence for exploration and production of all forms of hydrocarbons is such an obvious prerequisite for streamlining regulation that it’s baffling it has taken as long as it did. But perhaps the biggest gains in incentivizing investment stand to be made from HELP’S switch to a revenue-sharing model, wherein the government is not concerned with the cost of production. The previous profit-sharing model’s pitfalls became more obvious the longer the dispute with Reliance Industries Ltd over declining output from the KG D6 field dragged on. If the gov-ernment’s cut is to be calculated from a revenue mi-nus cost of production base, it has a necessary interest in maintaining oversight of the latter—just as it be-comes profitable for the investor to exaggerate cost. Cue micromanaging, endless rounds of audits and an antagonistic relationship from the get-go, with the government embroiled in a production process it has no business concerning itself with. To see the full po-tential of these policy shifts and HELP’s other chang-es—like market-based pricing for hydrocarbons from deep water, ultra deep water and high-pressure-tem-perature areas where operations are difficult—they must be seen in context. The commodities crash has boosted demand for refined products at a growth rate that hasn’t been seen in 15 years. That may be a short-term phenomenon—although it seems unlikely that oil prices will rise substantially any time soon—but the long-term trend of rising demand is well-estab-lished. According to the International Energy Agency, Indian demand will hit 10 million barrels per day by 2040, the steepest rise for any country.

“I would only say that whether Gandhi understands foreign policy, does he know anything about strategic security? I don’t think he knows these nuances in detail, therefore for him to make these kind of patently false, reckless allegations is required to be condemned,”

- union telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said...

Agency | New Delhi

After shooting in cold conditions in Iceland for international film “Kung Fu Yoga”, Indian actress Amyra Dastur got a warm goodbye gesture from legendary actor Jackie Chan. Jackie got a cake for the whole team of the film on the last day of the Iceland schedule. Ac-cording to a source, the martial arts movie star was impressed with Amy-ra’s professionalism. “On the last day of the Iceland schedule, Jackie Chan got a cake for Amyra and the team as they were shoot-ing in extremely difficult

weather conditions and he was impressed with Amyra’s professionalism. The team was shooting in cold conditions and they did glacier climbing too. Hence, this was his way of thanking them,” said the source. The shooting was taking place at Glacier Lagoon. “Kung Fu Yoga” is a part of the three-film agreement signed be-tween the two countries during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India. It also stars Sonu Sood and it said that the Indi-an stars have performed some adrenalin-pumping action sequences.

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Shilpa Shinde has quit popular come-dy show Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hai, alleging that the makers “mentally tor-tured” her, which has prompted the production house to send a legal notice accusing her of breach of contract. The 28-year-old actress, who played the role of An-goori Bhabhi on the show, said the problem started when the makers asked her to sign a contract that would bar her from doing other shows. “You can-not make anyone sign an exclusivity contract like that. Why are you trying to spoil our career? I am giving you my 25 days

Amyra Dastur gets farewell cake from Jackie Chan

Agency | New Delhi

The tiff between Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut plumbed new depths on Tuesday, with the former sending a le-gal notice demanding a public apology for de-faming him and the latter responding in kind with a 22-page missive of her own. The two were ru-moured to have been a number, and differenc-es surfaced when they slammed each other in public in January, albeit without naming each oth-er. Hrithik’s notice, how-ever, seems to refer to the January interview where Kangana said, “I don’t know why exes do silly things to get your atten-tion.” Sources said the le-gal notice, sent on Febru-

Agency | New Delhi

When MS Dhoni comes on screen, you expect him to walk confidently to the crease as a manic crowd chants his name in the background. In the first teaser of MS Dhoni – The Untold Story, what he says instead is: “Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni Ticket Collector South East-ern Railway reporting for duty sir.” As Sushant Singh Rajput revealed the first teaser of the Dho-ni biopic on Tuesday, he managed to pass that toughest test for an actor – he has melded into the character and you actual-

Agency | New Delhi

British human rights law-yer Amal Clooney, who is married to Hollywood icon George Clooney , says she is looking for-ward to her trip to India and is eager to initiate a dialogue on human rights and freedom of expres-sion in the country. Amal, who specialises in inter-national law and human rights, is coming to India to be a part of India To-day Conclave 2016 here later this week. She will present the closing argu-ment on the right to dis-sent and free speech in repressive regimes. “I am thrilled to be returning to India, and to be partic-ipating in the Conclave with such a distinguished group of professionals. I look forward to a fruitful and timely discussion on human rights and free-dom of expression in In-

Agency | Los Angeles

Moviemaker Garry Mar-shall has revealed he and his leading lady Anne Hathaway are making royal plans for another Princess Diaries movie. Nine months after Disney bosses dismissed reports of a Princess Diaries 3, director Marshall has

confirmed he and Anne are in talks to bring her Mia Thermopolis back to the big screen, reported MTV online. The Oscar winner first played the unlikely royal in 2001 and returned for a sequel in 2004. “I was with Anne Hathaway a couple weeks ago, it looks like we want to do Princess Diaries 3

in Manhattan,” Marshall said. But he has to wait because his leading lady is “very pregnant”, add-ing they’ll start work on the film once the baby is born later this year (16). The original 2001 The Princess Diaries, based on Meg Cabot’s 2000 novel of the same name, was a box office success.

Agency | Hyderabad

Telugu television anchor Nirosha committed sui-cide by hanging herself at a hostel in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the po-lice said. She was 23. According to the police, Nirosha made a Skype video call to her friend in Canada and is believed to have threatened sui-cide after an argument, even as she was on the call. Her friend instantly called a common friend in Hyderabad for help but Nirosha was found dead by the time they reached the paying guest hostel in Sindhi Colony area of Se-cunderabad. ‘’What pro-

All the Dope From hrithik Roshan-Kangana Ranaut’s Bizarre Legal Notice tiff

MS Dhoni teaser: Sushant Singh Rajput introduces us to Dhoni, the tC

Amal Clooney to visit India, discuss freedom of expression

Practice that royal wave! Anne hathaway and Garry Marshall are bringing ‘Princess Diaries 3’

tV Anchor Nirosha, 23, Commits Suicide in hyderabad While on Skype Call

ary 26 through advocate Dipesh Mehta, alleges that Kangana is trying to create an image in the film industry, print and social media of her and Hrithik having had a relationship. Hrithik’s side alleges that there was no such rela-tionship and that she has been trying to propagate false ideas to gain cheap publicity. Source close

to Hrithik suggest that the controversy erupted on May 24, 2014, when they met at Karan Johar’s birthday party. Kangana approached Hrithik and thanked him for appreci-ating her work in Queen (2014) for which she had won a National Award. Hrithik said he had never congratulated her and nor has he seen her movie.

Shilpa Shinde on Quitting Bhabiji and Joining the Kapil Sharma Show

or so, what is the prob-lem if I do other shows in between,” Shilpa said. “I never signed that con-tract. In fact, I came on board after Rashmi De-sai left the part abruptly. I helped them when they needed. Today, they are spreading rumours that I threw tantrums on the

set. That is sheer men-tal torture.” There were reports that Shilpa had demanded a pay hike and wanted her own de-signers on the show. The actress said there was fa-vouritism as the lead of the show, Saumya Tan-don, was given prefer-ence over her.

ly saw Mahi, the man and not Sushant, the actor. The teaser, also, is just brilliant. As the title says, this is MS Dhoni’s untold story, the years of hard work which went into making him an overnight

success. As Sushant gets instructions as a TC on his first day of work, we see the same iron glint in his eyes and the confident walk that has become the Indian captain’s preroga-tive on field.

voked the suicide is not yet clear,’’ Ramgopalpet’s police station-in charge Mohd Waheeduddin said. A case has been registered under suspicious death case under section 174 of the Criminal Procedure

Code. Nirosha’s father K Radhakrishna, a resident of Chittoor, has howev-er said that his daughter might have killed herself because of severe stom-ach ache that she often suffered.

dia today,” Amal said in a statement. The discussion comes at a time when In-dia is seeing a debate on intolerance and freedom of speech and expression. In February, George and Amal visited Germany and met a Syrian mother Mona and her 11-year-old daughter Joudi following their sit-down with Ger-man Chancellor Angela Merkel. The duo solemn-

ly listened to her story as she explained why she needed to escape strife-torn Syria. George and Amal also met two other Syrian families. “It was an honour to meet three Syrian families whose lives have been shattered by war and inspiring to learn that the people of Germany are helping them put their lives back together,” George said.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Bangladesh’s success mantra: If they can, why can’t we?

Candidates Chess: Viswanathan Anand suffers shocking loss to Sergey Karjakin

ICC World t20: Struggling Sri Lanka eye positive start against Afghanistan

Women’s World t20: Confident England take on Bangladesh

World t20, England vs West Indies: Captain Darren Sammy is happy with the preparations

ICC World t20: Get ready to take medicine that you give others, says Sunil Gavaskar

Civil aviation policy delayed; likely to be finalised early FY17

Jewellers strike: Delhi traders to hold rally today

PlayStation VR geared for a global launch in October

Agency | New Delhi

Jewellers on Thursday to hold a rally at Ram Lila Maidan in the national capital to protest against the Budget proposal to impose 1% excise duty on non-silver jewellery. Jewellers are on strike since March 2 demanding withdrawal of the proposed excise duty. The strike entered the 15th day on Wednesday, with gold and jewellery establishments remaining closed across the country. The All-India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) on Wednesday said their pan-India strike will contin-ue till the proposed 1% excise duty on non-silver jewellery is withdrawn. “As the Union Finance Minister fails to address the grievances of the gems and jewellery sector, the jewellers are gearing up for a mega rally on Thursday, March 17, at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi,” GJF said in a statement on Wednesday. The details of actual difficulties faced by the sector have not been acknowledged by the government, it said. The gems and jewellery sector has been bleeding following the bandh which has caused a loss of almost Rs 20,000 crore to the in-

dustry, the association said.

Agency | Hyderabad

The new civil aviation policy is expected to be fi-nalised early next financial year with the govern-ment still working on certain issues including those related to the 5/20 international flying norm. The draft policy was unveiled in October last year and after extensive consultations with various stake-holders, some issues are still being sorted out. Civ-il Aviation Secretary R N Choubey said the minis-try plans to finalise the Cabinet note for the policy by the end of this month after sorting out certain issues. The policy was expected to be finalised in the current financial year as certain proposals were to be implemented from April 1, 2016. Speaking on the sidelines of the India Aviation-2016 event here, he said as many as 15 variations are being

looked at with respect to the 5/20 rule.

Agency | San Francisco

Sony announced on Tuesday that its virtual real-ity headset for PlayStation will launch globally in October for $399 (Rs 26,900 approx), a move that undercuts its biggest competitor by hundreds of dollars. Andrew House, head of Sony’s gaming division, made the announcement during a press event at the Video Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where virtual reality gaming counterpart Oculus Rift announced its headset a day earlier. The headset, a visor-style frame with a 5.7 inch (14.5 centimetres) screen, includes 360 degree head tracking, a 100 degree field of vision and latency of 18 milliseconds between the time a user’s head moves and the time they see the correct image. House said the company wanted the highly anticipated headset released at a price point that would encourage quick and widespread adoption. “We firmly believe getting the price right is crucial to driving consumer adoption of any new technology,” House said. At $399,the package is notably less than the $599 price an-nounced Monday by Facebook-owned virtual re-ality company Oculus Rift.

Agency | Kolkata

What June 25, 1983 is to India, May 31, 1999 is to Bangladesh. On the day, Bangladesh beat Pa-kistan at Northampton in the World Cup, a first for the nation’s cricket team. Till date, that remains Bangladesh’s only One-Day International victory against Pakistan on neu-tral soil. It gave the team the belief that it could hold its own against bigger sides. Khaled Mahmud Sujon, who was adjudged the Man of the Match in that landmark victory for a brilliant all-round per-formance, is currently serving the cricket team as its manager, and re-members the game as if it happened yesterday. “It was our last match in the World Cup. We had already won against Scotland, so already had something to write home

Agency | New Delhi

Former captain Sunil Ga-vaskar feels India got a taste of their own medi-cine in the World Twen-ty20 loss to New Zealand and the hosts should be prepared to handle qual-ity spin if they want to dish out rank turners for their rivals. India lost to New Zealand by 47 runs on the spinner- friendly wicket in Nagpur where the opposition tweakers snared 9 out of 10 wick-ets. “If you are giving this medicine (spinning track) to opposition, then you should be able to take it yourself. We need to ac-

Agency | Moscow

Five-time world champi-on Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fourth round of Candidates Chess tournament here on Tuesday. The loss, com-ing in after a fine start that started with a victory over Topalov and two draws, put Anand on the back-foot in the biggest chal-lenge of this year for the Indian ace. It turned out to be an irregular open-ing choice by Karjakin wherein Anand was close to equalising but could not quite get there as Kar-jakin was on his toes look-ing for the initiative. The middle game was fought hard but Anand was on the defensive and when the queens got traded it

Agency | Kolkata

Lost in transition, defend-ing champions Sri Lan-ka will look to come out of the rut and start well against a spirited Afghan-istan in their World Twen-ty20 Super 10 opener at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. The defend-ing champions, who were also runners-up in 2009 and 2012, have managed to win only four of their 14 matches since they beat India to win the 2014 edition in Mirpur. They are in the middle of a tran-sition phase after Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene’s exit. The build-up to the tourna-ment was also forgettable with series defeats in New Zealand and India fol-

Agency | Mumbai

Darren Sammy is soon developing as a ‘finish-er’ for the West Indies. He is becoming the Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni of the West Indies team. “I have watched Dhoni do it (finish the game) all the time,” he said here on Tuesday, a day before West Indies take on England in the Su-per 10 Group 1 opener at the Wankhede. The West Indies captain said that gaining experience over the years has put him in a position where

Agency | Bengaluru

Riding high on a hat-trick of wins in the warm-up games, En-gland will be looking to open their campaign in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 on a high when they take on Ban-gladesh here on Wednes-day. England, who had been World T20 cham-pions in the past, are on a roll, having thrashed New Zealand twice and

South Africa once in the warm-up matches. In contrast, Bangladesh’s morale has taken a hit owing to a defeat against India in the opening match of the tournament which they lost by 72 runs here last evening. While Bangladesh have the advantage of know-ing the playing condi-tions at the Chinnas-wamy well, England will look to adapt as quickly

as possible. One aspect in which the English would look to improve is the batting and the side would aim to post big-ger totals on the board. The highest total they could during warm-ups was 131 for six against New Zealand. England, runners-up to Australia in the last two editions, would be banking on star batters Sarah Taylor and Tammy Beaumont.

about. When we faced Pakistan we basically had nothing to lose. So we gave it our all,” Sujon said over phone. As Ban-gladesh get ready for the World T20, the current captain Mashrafe Mor-taza said the match was a big turning point in his life. “We were small then and that inspired us to take up cricket,” he said. Sujon said it also trig-gered a spate of changes that reformed the one-time underdogs into a

challenging team in the shorter formats of crick-et. “What we lacked was methodical planning. Af-ter that victory, we be-came more serious. We started planning --- get-ting more grassroots pro-grammes in place, sort-ing out the junior cricket structure. Of course a lot of hard work too went behind it. But most im-portantly that win gave impetus to our demands of getting Test status,” said Sujon.

was clear that the Indian was up for a long defen-sive challenge. Contrary to his known defensive skills, Anand could not put up a stiff defence and his position collapsed in quick time. With his first loss in four games, Anand slipped back to a 50% score while Karjakin rose to be on three points out of a possible four. Levon Aronian of Arme-nia got the draw he was looking for against Peter

Svidler of Russia, while Dutchman Anish Giri got his preparation rolling against Hikaru Nakamura of United States to force a draw in the other games of the day. For Anand, it has always been about comebacks and the Indi-an will be itching to do an encore. It was a missed opportunity in the middle game that cost the Indian dearly and a lot has to be done to control the dam-age the loss incurred.

he can get the job done for his team, or at least take it to the last over. He explained: “I am 32 and have gained a lot of experience playing T20 all over. Especially bat-ting at 6 or 7, most of the times you will get a

maximum of eight overs unless the team real-ly collapses. So, I have developed a formula for my game. I just take the game all the way down to the last over and give ourselves the best chance.”

The Nagpur pitch got an official warning from ICC last year when a Test match between India and

South Africa finished in two and half days

cept that India have strug-gled against quality spin bowling. If they would have won, there would not have been any talk on the pitch,” Gavaskar said on Wednesday. The Nagpur pitch got an of-ficial warning from ICC last November when a Test match between India and South Africa finished in two and half days with some of the deliveries turning square. The leg-end feels that after losing the first match, India have made it very difficult for

themselves not only in terms of playing arch-ri-vals Pakistan in the next game but also the fact that another defeat will mean ouster from the tournament. “Whether you win or lose, the next game against Pakistan is a must-win game. Also if you lose, the you are out of the tournament. They have struggled against New Zealand, they might find it even tougher against Pakistan, if this is the kind of pitches they want,” Gavaskar said.

lowed by an early ouster in Asia Cup. To add to the misery, their 2014 WT20 winning skipper Las-ith Malinga has stepped down as leader of the team, following concern over his slow recovery from a knee injury. Now Test and ODI skipper Angelo Mathews’ task is cutout. Having joined the squad on Tuesday, Malin-ga is a doubtful starter for the match. His presence

in the team would impact the team a lot. History backs them since Sri Lan-ka have done well in the big tournaments and have been one of the most con-sistent side in the most unpredictable format. On spin friendly Indian con-ditions, Sri Lanka will sorely miss an experi-enced spinner and will have to depend on the veteran leftarm orthodox Rangana Herath.

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Correspondent | Rajkot

Khushbu Davda, a 24-year old woman from Rajkot in Gujarat has claimed to have made world’s biggest ceram-ic pearl poster featuring Prime Minister Shri Na-rendra Modi. She along with her husband Akash Davda are in Delhi to hand over this 6 x 6 ft poster to Prime Minis-ter Shri Narendra Modi. The handmade poster has

been carefully created us-ing threads and pearls. It has been completed after hard work of around 850 hours. Khusbu has used five lakh pearls to make this poster. Total length of thread used to make this poster is 10 km. Khushbu says she has used pearls of 11 different colors to make this poster. “We have not used gum any-where in this poster, be-cause gum would make thread harder and less du-

rable. We want to last this poster for at least 400-500 years along with its frame and therefore we have used specialized pearls and thread” said Khush-bu and Akash Davda on phone. “The poster was ready for last month and half but we want to make its frame equally durable to last for next 400-500 years,” they said adding that they have used tuffen glass and best available material for frame.

Correspondent | Rajkot

A woman from a non-res-ident Gujarati (NRG) family from Rajkot today died while six others in-cluding four other wom-en injured in a tragic road accident near Chotila in Surendranagar district in the wee hours today while they were on their way to catch an early morn-ing flight to London from Saradar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. Police said that the family, a native of Patanvav, which is set-tled in London in UK had

come some time ago to their residence in Man-sarovar society here in connection with a family ceremony. They were re-turning to UK today and were supposed to catch the direct to London flight of Air India. At around 0215 hrs their scorpio vehicle being drived by a male member of the fam-ily was hit by a speeding truck on Chotila-Ahmed-aba road near Kandhasar village close to Chotila. Yogitaben H Chavda (35) died in the accident while six other of the family in-jured, police said.

Correspondent | Vadodara

Six members of a fam-ily including two wom-en were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for killing a 20-year-old woman after setting her on fire in Bha-ruch district of Gujarat in 2013. Ankleshwar Addi-tional Sessions Judge S B Christian awarded the sentence yesterday to ac-cused Jitendra Vasava, Ranjit Vasava, Harish Vasava, Raman Vasava, Ramila Vasava and Dhan-iben Vasava. The inci-dent took place on April 4, 2013 in Vadhewad village of Jhagadiya ta-

luka in Bharuch district. The victim, identified as Lilaben Vasava, was set ablaze over a dispute on construction of a wash-room inside her house. The accused initially beat her up then set her afire when she was on her way to aunt Savitaben’s house in the same village. The woman, soon after the incident, was admit-ted to a nearby hospital where she succumbed to burn injuries on April 14, 2013. Later a case under 302,307 and 114 of IPC was registered against all the six members of this family.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

As many as 878 people, mostly Hindus, officially embraced other religions between April 210 and March 2015 under the provisions of the contro-versial Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, Chief Minister Anandiben Pa-tel told the Assembly Tuesday. Patel, who also has the Home portfolio, was replying to an un-starred question raised by Congress MLA from Viramgam Tejashreeben Patel. According to the Chief Minister’s reply, 1,838 people from differ-ent religions — 1735 from Hinduism, 57 from Islam, 42 from Christianity and four from Zoroastrian — had sought permission to

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

Fisheries Minister Babub-hai Bokhiria, Tuesday, in-formed Gujarat Assembly that out of the total 448 fishermen from Gujarat who were apprehended by Pakistan Marine Security Agency (PMSA) 86 were released recently and many of the remaining were likely to be released on March 21. Bokhiria said this while respond-ing to a point of urgent discussion raised by three Congress MLAs and a BJP MLA on PMSA appre-hending Indian fishermen after the latter cross over to Pakistani side of the in-ternational marine border by mistake and the govern-ment’s efforts to prevent such instances and to bring back those in Pakistani

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

In five years, the state gov-ernment received 1,838 applications from people of various religions to convert to another reli-gion. Of them, 1,735 ap-plications (94.4%) were filed by Hindus who wanted to renounce the religion of their birth to embrace some oth-er creed. The state’s anti-conversion law - Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act mandates that a citizen obtain prior approval from the district authority for con-version. The state gov-ernment has not approved half of these applicants, only 878 persons got per-mission to convert. Apart from 1,735 Hindus, 57 Muslims, 42 Christians and 4 Parsis have applied for permission to convert. No one from the Sikh or

Buddhist religions have sought such permission. Experts believe that mar-riage is the reason for some applicants, to con-vert to the religion of their spouse. Applications re-ceived from Hindus were slightly higher than the proportion of the Hindu

popu- lation in the state. These appli-cations were received mainly from Surat, Ra-jkot, Porbandar, Ahmed-abad, Jamnagar and Ju-nagadh. Still, experts believe the administra-tion does not take all ap-plications on record. Gu-

jarat Dalit Sangathan’s president Jayant Mank-andia said, “If govern-ment records reveal only 1,735 applications from Hindus, it is clear that the authorities do not take all applications on record. The figure of Hindu ap-plicants would have been nearly 50,000, if the cor-rect data was presented.” He cited a programme

in Junagadh a couple of years ago, where nearly one lakh per-sons from dalit com-

munities took diksha into Buddhism. Manka-dia further said, “During such conversion pro-grammes, we collect ap-plications for conversion and submit them to the concerned district col-lector. Unfortunately, our volunteers do not follow up and ascertain if these applications are enter-tained by authorities.”

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Correspondent | New Delhi

Acting on an unprecedent-ed alert from Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Naseer Khan Janjua, India has “neutralised” three of the 10 terrorists suspected to have crossed the bor-der to carry out an attack in Gujarat during Maha Shivratri, said a top Home Ministry official. Reveal-ing that the target of the three terrorists, who were killed in “a western state” on Friday, was the Som-nath Temple in Saurashtra on the west coast, the offi-cial said no further infor-mation could be shared as operations were underway to track the other seven. Sources said the terror-ists, who are suspected to have infiltrated through the sea route, could belong to the Lashkar-e-Taiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and could include men from a third country in

No Cost Cyber Security Course brought in by institute of advance Network Technology to build a stronger india

India acts on Pakistan NSA’s tip-off, 3 terrorists killed: MhA official

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Institute of Advance Network Technology (IANT) has taken on the responsibility to empower the Indian youth against the rapidly rising cyber threat menace in a digital era. A target has been set to equip a minimum of 1 crore and a maximum of 10crore youth of the country by 2020 through an educational course to-deal with cyber crimes executed in tandem with the spurt in smart phones and Internet usage. This in turn will help bridge the demand-supply gap in the availability of cy-ber security professionals

in the country. The fight against cyber crimes will be declared at a national level through a strate-gically designed course named ‘Certified Secure Computer User (CSCU)’ that will be taught free of Cost. The mission is a first-of-its-kind initia-tive that supports Prime Minister Narendra Mo-di’s ‘Digital India’ and is a step forward to fortify ‘Make in India’. CSCU will teach the basic foun-dations of security, how to secure operating sys-tems, effective uses of anti-viruses, data encryp-tion, data backup and di-saster recovery, Internet

security, securing online transactions and email communications and the basic tenets of security on social networking sites. The course structure will revolve around social en-gineering and go deep in its dealing with identity theft, information securi-ty, legal compliance mea-sures and the latest on mobile device security. “IANT is international-ly well-known IT Insti-tute and provides holis-tic training in IT and its multifarious aspects. It is necessary to be aware of

hacking hazards. Use of gadgets is on the rise and the youth have taken to so-cial networking like nev-er before. Be it at home, at work or at play, Inter-net has percolated deep into our lives and with it, its many loopholes. Our objective through CSCU is to roll out a zero-cost training that will empow-er the youth to steer clear of cyber traps. The larg-er benefits will strength-en the nation,” said Mr. R.F. Kherani, Chairman & Managing Director, IANT.

the neighbourhood. Jan-jua had warned his Indi-an counterpart Ajit Doval on March 5 of a possible 26/11-style fidayeen as-sault on religious sites and processions in Gu-jarat during the Maha Shivratri celebrations. The tip-off led authorities to order a massive mo-bilisation of state police,

rush four National Secu-rity Guard teams to Guja-rat and sound a multi-city alert. The Centre also is-sued an advisory to Gu-jarat and other states to beef up security at sen-sitive locations such as places of worship and vi-tal installations. Fears of an attack in Gujarat had been mounting over the

last four months with the discovery of five aban-doned fishing boats in Harami Nullah, a channel along the India-Pakistan border. The fifth boat was discovered by the Border Security Force (BSF) just last month. BSF officials, however, believe the boats were most likely used by traffickers.

Pakistan released 86 fishermen out of 448, says minister

878 people converted in Gujarat in 5 yrs: CM Anandiben Patel

Rajkot woman makes 6 sq ft poster of PM Modi using 5 lakh ceramic pearls

In Gujarat, 94.4% of those seeking to convert are Hindu

the issue was raised by Congress MLAs Punja Vansh, Paresh Dhanani, Shailesh Parmar and BJP MLA Vallabh Vaghasiyajails. The issue was raised by Congress MLAs Punja Vansh, Paresh Dhanani, Shailesh Parmar and BJP MLA Vallabh Vaghasi-ya. The issue was raised following two recent in-cidents of PMSA appre-hending 27 fishermen and seizing five fishing boats reported on February 25 and March 6. Speaking on the issue, Vansh said that 18 fishermen have been languishing in Pakistani

jails since long and they continue to remain jailed even after many of those who were apprehended after them have been re-leased. Vansh also said that many fishermen died 84 days ago in Pakistan and their bodies were yet to be received by India for handing over to their rela-tives in Gujarat. He added two of the Gujarati fish-ermen were seriously ill inside Pakistani jails.

convert their faith during the above mentioned pe-riod. Out of them, 878 applications were granted permission. No applica-tion for conversion was received from the people belonging to Sikhism and Buddhism during this pe-riod. Most applications came from Saurashtra — 157 from Jamnagar, 162 from Junagadh, 325 from Porbandar 325 and 388 from Rajkot. The maxi-

mum 515 applications for conversion had came from Surat tops the list with to-tal 515 such applications. The state government had introduced the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act in 2003, but it came into force from April 2008. The controversial legisla-tion makes it mandatory for a person who desires to convert to take prior permission of concerned district magistrate.

Vehicle of NRG family returning to uK hit by truck, woman dead, 6 injured

Gujarat: Six of Family Get Life for Killing 20-year-old Woman