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Nigerian student; two held

Agency | Hyderabad

Two local youths have been arrested for al-legedly assaulting a Ni-gerian student this week even as police today as-serted that the allegation that the foreigner was “racially abused” has not been established. Ex-pressing solidarity with the Nigerian student and seeking justice for a Tan-zanian girl student (who was allegedly attacked in Bengaluru), a group of around 70 students under the banner of Afri-can Students Association and other organisations held a peaceful protest at Indira Park.Indians sweep all gold on offer in

cycling

We were keen on buying back Yuvi:

RCB

Agency | Guwahati

India today grabbed both the gold and sil-ver medals on offer, establishing early dominance in the cy-cling competition of the 12th South Asian Games here today. In-dians finished first and second each in both the men’s 40km individual time trial and women’s 30km individual time trial finals to begin the cycling competition on a high.

Agency | Bengaluru

RCB Director Amrit Thomas today said the franchise team was in-terested in buying back Yuvraj Singh, who was eventually snapped up by Sunrisers Hyder-abad for Rs. 7 crore in the IPL players’ auc-tion here. “I don’t agree (that Yuvraj did not evoke interest among bidders). If you look at the bidding we were very interested, but is-sues of bidding and price ceiling issues, did not allow us to go for him. He is really a mar-quee player and hope he plays for us sometime in the future,” Thomas said told reporters here.

Negi gets Rs 8 cr, Yuvraj goes to SRH for Rs 7 cr; Watson fetches Rs 9.5 cr“IPL Auction 2016”

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The death toll in the mis-hap involving a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) bus at Navsari in South Gujarat has gone up to 41, police said on Satur-day. Among the dead are 21 women, five children and 15 men, they said. The Gujarat government announced a compensa-tion of Rs 4 lakh to the next of the kin of each of the deceased. The gov-ernment will bear the en-tire cost for the treatment of the injured, Navsari collector Ramiya Mo-han said. Chief Minister


Thirty nine senior IPS officers have been trans-ferred, including four of the 2001 batch - S K Dave, J R Muthaliya, MA Chavda and DN Pa-tel - who were awarded long due promotions to the rank of DIG by the state government on Fri-day evening. These four officers have waited for promotions even as their batchmate, Ishrat Jahan encounter accused G L Singhal, was promot-ed last year. Certain IPS officers of the 1989 and 2012 batches are still waiting for their promo-tions from IGP to Addi-tional DGP and ASP to SP respectively. Among important transfers, Su-rat police commissioner Rakesh Asthana, who once headed the Godhra

Negi, Watson emerge biggest millionairesAgency | Bengaluru

Shane Watson emerged the biggest of purchas-es from the 2016 IPL player auction in Banga-lore, finding his second franchise in Royal Chal-lengers Bangalore who forked out Rs 9.5 crore for his services, but the real head-turner of the day was uncapped Indian allrounder Pawan Negi. A day after he was named in India’s squad for the Asia Cup and ICC World Twenty20, the 23-year-old found his IPL value skyrocket from a base price of just Rs 30 lakh to a whopping 8.5 crore with Delhi Daredevils putting in the highest bid. That made Negi the most

Agency | Taipei

A powerful earthquake in Taiwan felled a 16-sto-rey apartment complex full of families who had gathered for Lunar New Year celebrations today , with at least eleven dead and more than 30 feared trapped. The death toll was rising in the histor-ic city of Tainan, which bore the brunt of the 6.4-magnitude quake, as rescuers scoured rubble for survivors. An entire

Agency | Vellore

One person was killed and three others were in-jured when a mysterious heavy object fell close to the building complex of a private engineering college near Vellore in Tamil Nadu, causing an explosion. The explo-sion, which created a

crater, occurred near the Bharatidasan Engineer-ing college complex at Natarampalli with eye-witnesses claiming that the object fell from the sky. A driver working in the college lost his life after the object fell near him as he was walking past the building. Three gardeners suffered inju-

Death toll in Navsari bus accident rises to 41

11 Dead After Powerful Taiwan Earthquake Fells Buildings

Gujarat govt transfers 39 IPS officers across state

Tamil Nadu: Explosion at engineering college kills one, several injured

Anandiben Patel was vis-iting Navsari on Saturday afternoon to meet the 27 injured, who are admitted in four different hospitals there, the collector said. “Death toll has risen to 41 in yesterday’s mishap where a Gujarat State Transport bus plunged into Purna river near Supa

village,” said Navsa-ri rural Police Inspector and investigating officer in the case S B Sheikh. According to police, the accident occurred when the bus took a sharp turn on a bridge with a width of 23 feet while trying to avoid collision with a four-wheeler coming

from the opposite side. “The bus was running at a high speed when it had to take a sharp turn to avoid collision with a vehicle coming from the other side and the driv-er lost control over the steering. It hit the railing of the bridge and broke it to plunge into the riv-er,” said Sheikh. The bus was on its way to Ukai from Navsari last eve-ning when it fell 20 feet down into the Purna riv-er. A total of 68 persons were travelling in the bus and of most of them were daily commuters on the route, Sheikh said.

train carnage probe of 2002, was shunted to the post of ADGP Armed Units at Gandhinagar. However, Ahmedabad police chief Shivanand Jha, who it is speculat-ed is in the race to be-come Delhi police com-missioner along with Asthana, continues to lead the city police. An-other much-talked-about transfer is ADGP Ashish Bhatia, who has replaced Asthana as Surat police chief. Bhatia being as JCP crime branch was credited with busting a

module of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, al-legedly responsible for the July 2008 serial blasts in Ahmedabad. Bhatia is replaced by DGP P P Pandey as Director ACB. 1984 batch IPS officer Tirth Raj has been post-ed at Pandey’s place. J K Bhatt, of the 1993 batch, got his expected posting as joint commissioner of police Ahmedabad city crime branch. The post was vacant for eight months after ADGP A K Sharma went to the CBI on deputation.

ries and were admitted to a local hospital. Accord-ing to the principal of the college, Bhaskar, all the students who were there in their classes at the time of the incident were safe. The explosion dam-aged many glass planes of the college buildings, official sources said. It also created a small crater near the building complex. The police is looking into the incident, sources said. Accord-ing to eye witnesses, the object fell from the sky though there was no of-ficial confirmation.

residential complex of four buildings containing almost 100 homes top-pled, left on its side with twisted metal girders ex-posed and clouds of dust rising from the jumbled

concrete. Among the nine people killed when the apartment complex collapsed were a 10-day old baby girl and two other children, the Na-tional Fire Agency said.

The other two victims were killed in different parts of the city by falling debris, the agency said. Officials say they are unsure how many resi-dents may still be inside, but media reports esti-mated at least 30 could be trapped. Around 800 troops have been mobil-ised to help the rescue effort, with sniffer dogs also searching through the rubble. Residents at the felled 16-storey Wei-kuan Building told of their terror as the quake hit, with survivors pulled bleeding and crying from the ruins, some just in their underwear. “I saw buildings shake up and down and left and right,” said one resident.

expensive Indian player, surpassing the likes of Yuvraj Singh (7 crore) and Mohit Sharma (6.5 crore) on a day in which 136 crore was spent on 94 cricketers across the eight IPL franchises. Noticeable among those

to fetch multi-crore pay-checks were South Af-rican allrounder Chris Morris, who went for Rs 7 crore to Delhi Dare-devils (14 times his base price), Ashish Nehra (5.5 crore) and Deepak Hoo-da (4.2 crore) to Sunris-

ers Hyderabad, Mitchell Marsh (4.8 crore) and little-known Tamil Nadu spinner Murugan Ash-win (4.5 crore) to Rising Pune Super Giants, Sanju Samson and West Indies allrounder Carlos Braith-wate for 4.2 crore each

to Daredevils. Negi, who two seasons ago had been signed by the suspend-ed Chennai Super Kings, saw new IPL franchise Pune, led by his former CSK captain MS Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming, engage in a bid-ding war with Daredevils. In the end, the GMR-owned franchise put in the highest bid. That gave the Delhi cricketer the

second highest price tag of the day after Watson. The Australian, who for eight seasons has repre-sented Rajasthan Roy-als until their suspension last year, attracted heavy bidding from RCB and Mumbai Indians, but it the Vijay Malya-owned franchise nabbed his ser-vices from a base price of 2 crore. Watson recently scored the second-high-

est individual score in Twenty20 internationals, and apart from his all-round value he also offers RCB a strong leadership role. The third highest earners were Yuvraj, who went to Sunrisers, and Morris. After an ini-tial moment of inactivity around the auction room in Bangalore, Sunrisers and Mumbai started a bidding tussle for Yuvraj, which eventually ended at 7 crore. From the pool of allrounders, the most bidding was for Morris, with Mumbai and KKR chasing the South African eagerly until the paddle went down at a huge Rs 7 crore by Daredevils, in their first bid of the round. At 6.5 crore, Mohit Shar-ma was Kings XI Punjab’s biggest spend, from his re-serve price of 1.5 crore.

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DAYMGNREGA does not help poor, any proof required..?

India has suffered two droughts in a row, and there is obvious concern about rural incomes, especially in-comes of the poor. To alleviate poverty, Indian govern-ments have experimented with various schemes, and two that have survived the test of time are the public distribution system (PDS) and the MGNREGA. Many programmes and institutions last a long time, but that does not mean they should be persisted with. I have consistently maintained that out of the four most cor-rupt institutions in the world, three are in India. My ranking of corrupt institutions is as follows. First place to the world football body, Fifa. Not far behind is the Indian cricket body, the BCCI. Third place to the PDS and fourth place belongs to the MGNREGA. In terms of corruption per se, both poverty reduction programmes are equally bad, but the PDS is a much larger corrupt programme and has been there for lon-ger. It is heartening to note that the first two are now universally recognised as corrupt, and acknowledged as such by many judicial systems. The other two, while involving unbridled corruption, have escaped censure for two reasons. First, the programmes are targeted to the poor, and so are “noble” in intent, if not in exe-cution. Second, in a large, diverse country like India, there will be some states where corruption is low and scheme performance is high. This leads the defenders to cite the exception as the rule. From a policy point of view, we should be interested in the efficiency of transferring incomes to the poor. What is the goal of the MGNREGA? To provide income support to any fami-ly that seeks jobs that entail “back-breaking” work like digging ditches, construction of roads, etc. The primary target of this programme is very, very poor families. But how well has it succeeded in this objective? Not very, and indeed it is just as good (or, more realistical-ly, bad) as the PDS. How do we know how well the MGNREGA, or for that matter any poverty alleviation programme, is working? Why, by looking at what the government says on the matter. This love and respect for what the government of the day says is so sweet only because it is so rare to hear it from the left intel-lectuals whose fondness for “in the name of the poor” programmes is only exceeded by the fondness of the Hindu right for preventing people from making choic-es about their life and what they eat. The average pov-erty gap (difference between average incomes of the poor and the poverty line) is Rs 1,700 a year. The gov-ernment spends, via the MGNREGA alone, Rs 32,500 a year or 19 times (32,500/1,700) what is needed to make an average poor person non-poor.

“IPL scheduling has nothing to do with Lodha recommendations. We are going ahead with our schedule and everything,”

- IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said that IPL is scheduled to begin on April 9 this year but if India play the final of the World T20 on April 3, it will be a straightaway violation in case the recommendations are implemented in toto.

Ghayal Once Again review: This one can injure your brain

Agency | New Delhi

Actor Manoj Bajpay-ee, who will feature in the short film, “Taan-dav”, says that he went to numerous producers for a film on the subject but was spurned by all, and is now stern that the film will be made. “My honesty with regards to the project (film) is such that we are pursuing it since two years. And all the producers that I have gone to, would run away after the narration. They would call me and say that if there was anything else, they would be keen but not this one because they could face issues,”

Bajpayee said at the launch of the film direct-ed by Devashish Makhi-ja. “There is a fear which is completely understand-able, since a person who is ready to put in mon-ey, does not want to take risks. And I am complete-ly sure that this film will be made definitely and I am very stern about it,” the actor stressed. Film-makers Tigmanshu Dhu-lia, Sudhir Mishra and Anurag Kashyap were present at the launch. Considering the fact that all three are producers, Manoj was asked if he wants them to produce the feature.

Agency | New Delhi

A lot of talks with respect to actresses being paid less than actors has become the centre of debates. The ladies of B-Town feel that there are gender dispari-ties with respect to remu-neration. Actresses like Kangana Ranaut, Anush-ka Sharma, Deepika Padu-kone, have all raised their voice over this issue and pointed out the fact that even when the ladies are the ones running the show, they should be given just as much as their male co-stars. But looks like the Fitoor team decided to put an end to this hassle. Next week’s big release Fitoor seems to have solved the pay-parity issue. Appar-ently, both Katrina and Aditya were paid 4 crore each for the film. Says a

Agency | New Delhi

Helmed by Vetrimaaran, the movie starring Dinesh, Aadukalam Muru-gadoss, Samuthirakani and Kishore has created a storm with its raw effect. Check out the quick review of the movie: The story re-volves around four friends who run away from their homes. Striving for better life and jobs--kicking off their real struggle in life. Beginning with menial jobs and toiling hard, they form a routine until they witness a life changing day of being taken by the

Agency | London

Hollywood star Matt Da-mon does not think he de-serves the best actor Os-car. In just a few weeks’ time, Hollywood’s elite will be honoured at the Academy Awards, with Oscar-winner Damon once again in the running for a statue for his perfor-mance in The Martian. He is pitted against Leonardo DiCaprio for The Reve-nant, Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Michael Fass-bender for Steve Jobs, and Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl. All four stars portray real life peo-ple. “Oh, I think there are other performances that might deserve it more.

Agency | New Delhi

The identity of Neer-ja Bhanot was just con-fined to the small tube in the 80s, when she was a model. Her face was plas-tered on newspapers and TV because of the various commercials she mod-elled for. But her life took a turn when she board-ed the Pan Am Flight 73 to New York in the wee hours of September 5, 1986. A model by choice and a flight attendant by profession, Neerja was like any other 22-year-old girl. Little did she know that her extraordi-nary courage, that made her stand tall between the passengers and terrorists on that fateful flight, will make her a real-life hero and earn her the title of the Hijack Heroine. Neer-

Agency | Chennai

Singer and music compos-er Shan Johnson, daugh-ter of late music director Johnson, was found dead in her apartment in Chen-nai on Friday, police said. They said her mother and another close relative went to her flat in Ashok Nagar this morning after she did not respond to repeated phone calls on her mobile and found her dead. Police said Shan (29) had come to her flat after completing a re-cording session and was scheduled to go for an-other assignment Friday morning. Other details were not known imme-diately. Shan, a trained Carnatic and western musician, had rendered songs for Engeyayum Eppothdum and Paravai

Agency | New Delhi

Sunny Deol’s Ajay Meh-ra hasn’t been healthy off-late (read mentally). Well, he never was. Who kills so many people in one go? Still, we loved him in Rajkumar San-toshi’s Ghayal (1990) for taking Balwant Rai and his dogs to task. We knew only he could do this, but what we didn’t know was that he would be return-ing with a sequel 26 years later. He does so with a hangover which refuses

to go before thrashing at least 500 people. What we finally have is a film still stuck in the ‘90s. Tell us, what’s more amus-ing: A badly animated helicopter destroying a mansion or foreign body-guards creating mayhem in Mumbai because they have access to the city’s CCTV system? There is a third option, one that I found more hilarious: Om Puri calling Sunny Deol ‘beta’. So Mehra is still coping with the loss of his wife and child in an

accident. Dr Riya (Soha Ali Khan), his neurolo-gist, loves to flaunt him to other potential patients with a candid: “Ab aap Ajay ko hi dekhiye, pe-hle isse bhi nightmares aate the lekin ab ye bilkul theek hai, kyon hain na Ajay? (Ajay used to have nightmares, but he is fine now).” Mehra’s expres-sions are even more en-tertaining. Whatever hap-pened to medical ethics! But Mehra is also a fear-less journalist, and also into ethical hacking.

I am stern that ‘Taandav’ will be made: Manoj Bajpayee

Singer Shan Johnson, 29, found dead in her Chennai apartment

4 crores! That’s how much Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur got paid for Fitoor!

Sonam Kapoor was our first choice for Neerja, says director Ram Madhvani

I don’t deserve Oscar, may be Leonardo DiCaprio will win: Matt Damon

Visaranai quick review: Thrilling ode by Vetrimaaran!

(both Tamil), Praise the Lord and Thira (Malay-alam), among others. She had also composed mu-sic for a Malayalam film, His Name is John. Shan’s father Johnson, fondly known as Johnson Mas-ter, was a renowned and respected music composer in Malayalam film indus-try. He passed away on August 18, 2011. In Feb-

ruary 2012, his son Renn Johnson (23) was killed in a motorbike accident. “When we broke open the door, she was lying on the bed. There were no signs of a suicide. She has been suffering from health problems and was under medication. That could also be a reason for the sudden death,” sourc-es said.

ja, now soon to arrive on the big screen, is the story of an ordinary girl with extraordinary courage. And first-time director Ram Madhvani has roped in actor Sonam Kapoor to bring the incredible story of Neerja Bhanot on 70mm. Ram Madh-vani’s Neerja is slated for a February 19 release. The filmmaker says there couldn’t have been a bet-ter choice than Sonam to play the role of Neerja.

“Sonam was actually our first choice for the film. Only after she would have said a no, would we have approached some other actor for the titular role. We had Sonam very much in mind while writ-ing the script of the film because Neerja has cer-tain qualities that Sonam also has. Both the wom-en are family-minded. Moreover, there is a cer-tain kind of energy about Sonam.

Maybe it will finally be the turn of five-time nom-inee Leonardo? Leo’s my buddy,” he said. He went home a winner at this year’s Golden Globes, but his nomination in the comedy category for sci-fi drama The Martian didn’t sit well with some, reported Independent on-line. As well as Oscars aspirations and acting,

DiCaprio and Damon are both big on charity work. Damon has invest-ed a lot of his time into helping the poorest parts of the world have access to clean water with his charity water.org, starting the campaign #buyalady-adrink. “I don’t want to speak for Leo, but I imag-ine that he’s like me,” he started.

source, “Katrina is senior to Aditya Roy Kapur. So it was felt she should be paid on par with Adi. In fact, the actor should have been paid much less. Since he is produc-er Siddharth Roy Kapur’s brother, he got the kind of money that he wouldn’t have otherwise demanded and got.” The Fitoor direc-tor, Abhishek Kapoor has

been paid more than what his lead pair was paid: 10 crore! Says a trade insid-er, “Wonder what quali-fied Abhishek for the 10 crore fee that he has de-manded and got for Fi-toor. Rock On!! and Kai Po Che were hardly the kind of raging success-es that would justify that kind of remuneration.”

police. The boys get ac-cused and beaten up in re-turn. Kudos to the Nation-al Award-winning director Vetrimaaran for portray-ing the movie well. Con-centrating on the harsh realities of life, the movie won the hearts of all and

sundry. The vicious web of the basic system that engulfs you and the help-lessness makes the movie look more real. A gripping film that is backed well by the music leaves a never ending impression with its intensity.


SPORTS ROUNDUPMusic and meditation: Allies against breast cancer

Call drop: Most telcos failed Trai’s test, improvement seen in Delhi

Tata Sky, Videocon d2h to launch Internet browsing apps on set top boxes

Agency | New Delhi

Taking a long vacation can increase the risk of weight gain in adults, a US study warns. Research-ers from University of Georgia found that adults going on a one- to three-week vacation gained an average of nearly 1 pound. They examined 122 adults in the ages group of 18 to 65 years who were on vacation for one to three weeks. They found that 61% of the participants gained on an average 0.7 pounds while on vacation, while in some cases weight gained throughout the entire study averaged 0.9 pounds. Researchers feel increased calorie in-take during the vacation is one of the key factors leading to weight gain. The study was published in the journal Physiology and Behaviour. Meditation and music can help ease anxiety, fatigue and pain in women undergoing biopsies for breast cancer, a

study suggests.

Agency | Bangaluru

IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla today said that the scheduling of the league has not been related to Lodha Pnael recommen-dations about having a 15-day gap between start of the cash-rich league and India’s national calender. The IPL is scheduled to begin on April 9 this year but if India play the final of the World T20 on April 3, it will be a straight-away violation in case the recommendations are im-plemented in toto. “IPL scheduling has nothing to do with Lodha recom-mendations. We are going ahead with our schedule and everything,” Shukla told reporters during the IPL auctions today. IPL’s

Agency | New Delhi

For the chairman of se-lectors, Sandeep Pa-til, this must have been among the more peaceful post-team-announcement press conferences he had. For most past of the media interaction, it was BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, sitting next to him, who was getting grilled. Final-ly, after Thakur had an-swered a series of Lodha report queries, Patil got a chance to justify his selec-tion. He would start with a smile on his face. “For-tunately, no eyebrows were raised,” he said. It was true, when Thakur had announced the squad for the Asia Cup and World T20 there was no gasps in the room, nor did

Agency | New Delhi

The Maharashtra Crick-et Association (MCA) President Ajay Shirke has said that he finds the recommendations of Lodha Committee baf-fling and not very well researched. At the ses-sion, Shirke pointed out at several shortcomings from the report. “In the committee, there is a rec-ommendation to install astro turf on the pitches so that the cricket sta-diums are accessible to other sports like tennis and hockey, which will generate revenue for the state associations. How does one implement that? If a centre does it, the next day, the Inter-

Agency | Mumbai

Most of the telecom operators, including state-run MTNL, failed random drive tests conducted by the regulator Trai to check the quality of their net-work and services as part of its efforts to rein in call drop menace.As per the test report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today, none of the telecom operators showed im-provement in call drops in Mumbai, Pune and Bhubaneswar. As per the test report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today, none of the telecom operators showed im-provement in call drops in Mumbai, Pune and Bhubaneswar. Telecom operators, however, ques-tioned the tests conducted by Trai. Airtel, Idea and Vodafone asked Trai not to publish the report as they claimed there was huge variation between tests conducted by Trai and their reassessment done by them. The regulator conducted drive tests during December – January this fiscal on select-ed route of seven cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Bhubaneswar and Indore — and shared the

findings with telecom operators.

Agency | Mumbai

Direct-to-home (DTH) players like Tata Sky and Videocon d2h are bringing Internet browsing ap-plications on their set-top boxes (STB), which will enable subscribers to browse and interact with certain applications. “This launch of gen-next HD Smart Set Top Box demonstrates our un-rivalled expertise and innovation in creation, de-livery and execution of technologically advanced products,” Videocon d2h Executive Chairman Saurabh Dhoot said in a statement. “This product promises to make your existing TV into a smart TV and ensure connectivity with the world. We are enabling the convergence of TV, DTH and Internet all in one place,” he said. Tata Sky in a statement said the service will be available at no additional cost to Tata Sky subscribers in the coming months.

No relation between IPL schedule and Lodha Panel, says Shukla

Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League: u Mumba emerge victorious over Dabang Delhi

Find Lodha panel recommendations baffling, says MCA chief Shirke World T20 2016: India retain

winning team, well almost

Warner, Marsh give Aussies series-levelling win over Kiwis in 2nd ODI

Archers on target, women’s football team disappoints in South Asian Games

Agency | Wellington

Propped up by a knock of 98 by David Warner, Australia held their nerve to win the second ODI in Wellington by four wick-ets on Saturday, sending the series to a decider. After Warner’s dismiss-al, Australia were still 90 runs short of their 282-run target with an unbeaten 69 from Mitchell Marsh and John Hastings not out on 48, getting them over the line. Warner was nudg-ing his sixth ODI century when he was undone by New Zealand’s match ace Mitchell Santner, but by then he had done enough to ensure the world cham-pions were in a domi-nant position. Australia lost six wickets as they

Agency | Shillong

Returning from a pro-longed layoff, defend-ing champion Tarundeep Rai produced his best along with country’s Olympic hope Deepi-ka Kumari to top their respective qualification rounds as India reigned supreme in recurve ar-chery competitions of the 12th South Asian Games in Shillong on Friday. India also topped in the compound section with Abhishek Verma and Purvasha Shende claiming the honours in men’s and women’s sec-tions respectively at the Polo ground. Following the Asian Games pro-tocol, two archers from each country made the cut into the elimination round as India’s Olym-pian archer Jayanta Ta-lukdar made an exit with promising Army archer Gurucharan Besra (666 points) making the last-

Agency | Bengaluru

On Friday in a match against Dabang Delhi, defending champions U Mumba made a strong comeback in season 3 of the Star Sports Pro Ka-baddi League in Benga-luru. Dabang Delhi KC suffered their fourth suc-cessive loss in season 3 of the PKL. U Mumba, who had recently lost to the Jaipur Pink Panthers cruised to a comfortable win against Dabang Del-hi by 30-17. Their clinical performance on Friday has placed them at the fourth spot in the PKL points table. Dabang Del-hi are reeling at the last and eighth spot with a solitary point. The match was set up in favour of U Mumba in the ninth minute with Anup con-ducting a raid to acquire three points. U Mumba’s defence joined the party

chased down New Zea-land’s 281-9 with 21 balls to spare. After New Zea-land won the first match by 159 runs, the series will now go to a decider in Hamilton on Monday. Both sides suffered mid-dle-order batting blues, but Australia had better padding with Warner and Usman Khawaja in a 122-run opening stand. Warner’s 98 came off 79 deliveries and included

eight fours and four sixes, while Khawaja batted at a run-a-ball for his 50. They made it clear at the start of the innings they would at-tack New Zealand’s strike bowlers Trent Boult and Matt Henry. Khawaja hit the first and fourth balls he faced in Boult’s open-ing over to the boundary while at the other end, Warner also smacked Henry’s first delivery for four.

16 along with topper Tarundeep, who logged 676. The next best was Bangladeshi Sojeb Shiek who had a score of 653 to finish third in the men’s recurve. Hav-ing finished top two, the Indian duo will get a bye into the quarters as they also topped the team event along with Jayan-ta Talukdar as the hosts will get a bye into the semifinals of the team event which has a draw of eight. In the women’s recurve event, former world number one Deep-ika lived up to her expec-tation to finish top along with Bombayla Devi

Laishram with scores of 668 and 646 respectively as Laxmirani Majhi, who had won the national ranking here in January, failed to make the cut. Laxmirani with scores of 632 joined Deepika and Bombayla in the team event as India also topped in the women’s recurve section. However, there was disappointment for reigning champions In-dia as they had to be con-tent with a goalless draw against lower-ranked Maldives in the women’s football competition, the only other discipline that kicked off the Shillong leg of the SAG here.

Chief Operating Officer Ratnakar Shetty said: “I am sure that when we prepare the schedule for the season, there are sev-eral factors that are taken into account and the best possible window that are available to BCCI for the IPL is concerned. I am sure we will be able to put across our views to the committee.” Replying to another query, Shuk-la said the mushrooming

cricket leagues across the globe, are no match to the IPL. “No league is near to IPL. So let them run their leagues, but I don’t think they can really compete with IPL and match with it,” he said. “Everybody is entitled to launch its own league, we can’t prevent them, but IPL stand alone is doing very well, and as I said before IPL 9 will be bigger than the previous editions,” he said.

the reporter run out of the room to transmit a news break. As it happen with winning teams, Patil and his colleagues didn’t tam-per much with the squad that had blanked Austra-lia Down Under. Apart from the addition of left-arm spinner Pawan Negi, who was also included in the three T20I series against Sri Lanka as well, there wasn’t any decision that merited deliberation.

Among those that toured Australia, the names of Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeer-at Singh Mann, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were duly struck out, harrowing as their experiences had been in Australia. However, Ne-gi’s inclusion was slightly surprising, but not entire-ly shocking. Surprising because he is pure green in the international cir-cuit.

national Cricket Council will strike off that venue as an international match centre. I don’t under-stand how such recom-mendations get into such a well-researched doc-ument ,” asked Shirke. He also pointed out at the advertisement-free television recommenda-tion in the report. “If you stop advertisements, the whole revenue comes to

an end. There will be a net loss of over Rs 1,000 crore. How do you re-cover that amount, how do you pay the cricket-ers? The whole argument that fans are deprived of cricket during ads and it is their right to see what happens between overs is not right . There is so much chaff that it is hard to pick wheat,” said Shirke.

with Surender Nada and Rishank Devadiga guard-ing the territory. Dabang Delhi’s South Korean player Seong Ryel Kim lost his cent, gifting two more points to U Mum-ba. The losing team did not get any respite after they lost raider Kashil-ing Adake and the star defender Ravindra Pahal

to injuries. Dabang Del-hi could manage just one raid point in the first half which left them trailing at 7-16. Going by the cur-rent form of Delhi, this slender lead proved too much for them. With the scores reading 28-12 in favour of U Mumba in the 34th minute, the writing was on the wall.



The Indian Coast Guard detained a Pakistani boat with 11 crew members on Saturday. The boat will be brought to Jakhau later in the day. Further details are awaited. In the coun-try’s anti-terror crack-down, one more person suspected to be working for the Islamic State (IS) has been arrested from Delhi by the capital’s spe-cial cell police on Friday. Mohsinh Ibrahim Sayyed, who hails from Mumbai was arrested from Del-hi’s Kashmere Gate ISBT


Gujarat’s top companies and industries associa-tions have made a writ-ten representation before the Gujarat Government and demanded reduction in the electricity duty, water charges and wa-terfront charges on the state owned ports in the coming state budget. In a pre-budget representa-tion before chief minis-ter Anandiben Patel and finance minister Saurabh Patel, they demanded reduction in electricity duty, water charges and

port waterfront charges. It also demanded putting a stop to undue harassment from commercial tax and other authorities in the state. The top compa-nies represented includ-ed Reliance Industries Ltd, Essar Group, Arvind Mills Ltd, Wespun Ltd, Ambuja Cement, Nirma Ltd, Sanghi Industries Ltd, United Phosp horus Ltd, ABG Shipyard, Tata Chemicals and several other industry associa-tions, which submitted a joint representation to the state government over key industrial issues.


A woman and her son died and two others in-jured while around 40 two wheelers gutted in a fire that broke out in a multi storied building near GST crossing of the city late last night. Addi-tional Chief Fire Officer Rajesh Bhatt today said

that the fire started from the basement of block D of the Sanket flats at around 2 am. It engulfed the building quickly and reached the fourth floor. ‘Most of the residents of around 34 flats of the building evacuated but one Ninaben Shah and her son Shreyansh died. Two injured have been

admitted to hospital,’ he said. The most likely rea-son behind the accident is either self ignition in an overheated vehicle in the parking area or short cir-cuit in the electric wires of the building, he said adding the fire was con-trolled after two hours of operation by four fire fighting vehicles.


The Gujarat Universi-ty and its affiliated col-leges’ academic staff and employees have decided to use bicycles or public transport for commuting to the colleges or the uni-versity twice every month on first and 15. Mayor Gautam Shah said that a couple of principals had already started using bi-cycles as they had cycled their way to the meeting on Wednesday. He said that a couple of princi-pals have already imple-mented it and they had come for the meeting on Wednesday on their cycle. The Mayor said that the

principals have been ob-serving cleanliness in the college and even convinc-ing their students to ob-serve two days in a month as a no vehicle day. Shah said that this is to ease of congestion on the road and divert majority of the students to mass transport as they have to reach their college or school only for studies. The mayor said that the principals have been asked to maintain cleanliness on the campus of their colleges and con-vince their students to ob-serve two days in a month as ‘no vehicle day.’ Shah said the move was aimed at easing vehicular con-gestion on roads.

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Correspondent | New Delhi

We shared many things: A Mumbai local train, jokes and mirchi-wali roti. But I am sad that I could not meet Sudhir Tailang in his last year of life, de-spite his being only a mile away from where I lived. We met in the training room of the Times of In-dia, Mumbai, then Bom-bay. He had joined six months earlier as a trainee journalist in Hindi, while I was an English lan-guage trainee. As it turned out, his cartooning skills were so good that the es-tablishment suggested he become a Trainee Car-toonist. I don’t recall there ever being another trainee cartoonist anywhere. He took to the task with de-light--and the task of being a “Hindi” cartoonist (Do cartoons have language?) in the same company and floor as the venerable R K Laxman was a daunting one. But Sudhir took up

Correspondent | New Delhi

Congress targeted PM Narendra Modi Friday over reports of land deal-ings in Gujarat involving CM Anandiben Patel’s daughter Anar Patel. The party demanded that the land deals be probed by an SIT under Supreme Court’s supervision and sought Patel’s resignation to ensure a fair probe. The party said it would raise the issue in Parliament. a business associates of Anar Patel, Dakshesh Shah and Amol Shripal Sheth own Wildwoods Resorts and Realties, which was allotted 400 acre near Gir Sanctuary. Of this, 250 acre was given away at an offi-cial rate of Rs 15 per

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area. He was found to be in possession of Rs 85,000. Ahead of Repub-lic Day, the NIA has ar-rested 13 suspected ISIS sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts

of the country. Of the 14 suspects detained yester-day, 13 have been arrest-ed, according to a Home Ministry spokesman. The arrests were made follow-ing simultaneous search-

es and raids conducted at 12 locations in six cit-ies--Bangalore, Tumkur, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow on Saturday with the support of local police forces.

sq m. “Filings with the Registrar of Companies, accessed by ET, show a number of transactions between her (Anar) and her business partners that started when the Guja-rat government allotted 250 acres of public land to Wildwoods Resorts and Realties,” he said. Congress leader Anand Sharma said, “Shocking revelations in public do-main make it clear that

PM Narendra Modi, as Gujarat CM, allowed nepotism, conflict of in-terest and brazen plun-dering of public land to promote commercial in-terests of entities closely connected to the kin of then Revenue Minister and present Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel…The PM must come clean. He and his colleagues said, ‘Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion’. Here

the King himself is there, he was Gujarat CM,” he said. He said allotment of 250 acre of government land next to Gir lion sanctuary “without any valuation or price deter-mination for a pittance” was made when Modi was CM. He said the land was given to Wildwoods Resorts & Realties Pri-vate Limited at Rs 15 per sq m. “That means Rs 60,000 per acre. The estimated market price of this land was to the tune of Rs 50 lakh per acre i.e. a total of Rs 125 crore for 250 acres,” he said.


One needs special talent to create a good film. But one needs more spe-cial kind of talent to cre-ate such a horrible film. This new Gujarati re-lease named ‘Samband-ho Ni Sonography’ is such an example of bad film. This film should be shown to budding movie makers, to teach them how NOT to make a film. Dr. Jayram Palan-puri (Jaykrushna Rathod) is a widower and a re-tired man who comes to Ahmedabad from Palan-pur to live with his son Dipak (again, Jaykrushna Rathod in a double role). His son and daughter in

Review of Gujarati movie Sambandho Ni Sonography

law are rude and mean to him for no reason. They do all sort of bad things to his father you can imagine. One day, our Mr. Unhappy Palan-puri meets a happy go lucky retired man named Hasmukh ‘Chhatri’ (Has-mukh Bhavsar). Accord-

ing to Hasmukhbhai, he lives with his big happy family of three sons, their wives, and grandchil-dren. Jayram rediscov-ers the joy of life in the company of Hasmukh. But some twists and a se-cret is waiting for him to jump in.

Agency | Chennai

The 2016 Indian Premier League auctions got off to an exciting start with big bids involved and two new franchises — Rising Pune Supergiants (RPSG) and Gujarat Lions making their presence felt. Aus-tralian all-rounder Shane Watson, who had a base price of Rs 2 crore, attract-ed the highest bid from the Vijay Mallya-owned Roy-al Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The only player to twice win Player of the Tournament went for Rs 9.5 crore. The former Ra-jasthan Royals star was the subject of intense bidding from RPSG, before Mum-bai Indians (MI) joined the race. However, RCB won the race for his sig-nature. Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh remained in the list of most ex-pensive players after he

was sold for Rs 7 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). He was joined by 36-year old Ashish Neh-ra, who was snapped up for Rs 5.5 crore. Both Yu-vraj and Nehra are mem-bers of the India’s World T20 squad. The two new franchises snapped up a few high-profile names in Saturday’s opening rounds. Kevin Pietersen, who has done well in the recently concluded Big Bash League, went to the Pune franchise for Rs 3.5 crore. He was joined by

Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma for Rs 3.8 crore. The Intex-owned Gujarat Lions opted for West Indi-an T20 specialist Dwayne Smith, who they bought for Rs 2.3 crore. They also added South African pace-man Dale Steyn for Rs 2.3 crore. Wicket-keepers were highly sought after this time around. Young keeper Sanju Samson, who impressed for his state Kerala in the national T20 meet, was snapped up by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.2 crore.

Gujarat University staff to use public transport twice in a month

the challenge with a dedi-cation that never left him. We talked news and car-toons a lot. Myself from Delhi and he from Bikan-er were both lost souls in the mangled urban wil-derness of Bombay, strug-gling to put ourselves into its machine-like routines. We both would squeeze into the Harbour Line lo-cal train from the King’s Circle station. We sim-ply could not get into the Central Line. Inside the crowd, we would dis-cuss everything under the sun, but his passion for cartooning was often a theme. Later, we both shifted to the Delhi of-

fice of the same compa-ny. Being a cartoonist for Navbharat Times, he had the luxury of a corner cab-in, where we would meet for quiet lunches from our tiffin boxes. It was during those days that he announced he wanted to create a character resem-bling Laxman’s Common Man. “Hum usko jour-nalist banate hain, jhole-wala,” he said. So a jhola journalist was born in his cartoons as an observ-er of the world around him. As it turned out, he fashioned it after Sushil, one of his goatee-beard-ed journalist friends who used to drop by.

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