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Sensex sinks 238 pts on Sun Pharma’s biggest ever fall

Agency | Mumbai

After trading range-bound for most part of the day, the benchmark BSE Sensex lost ground at the fag-end today to plunge by 238 points due to a biggest ever single-day fall in Sun Pharma shares, while heavy selling in bank-ing and FMCG stocks also added to the rout. The support, however, came in from software firm Infosys, which surged 11 per cent on better-than-expected Q1 earning. Brokers said sentiments turned some-what weak on investors concerns over the fate of land and GST bills to be presented in Parliament.Man set ablaze over property dispute in

UPAgency | Unnao

A 45-year-old man was set ablaze allegedly by three persons over a property-related dispute but he survived after jumping into a pit of water in Kaithankheda village here. Accord-ing to the victim’s son Ajay, the trio was angry with his father not only because of the proper-ty dispute but also over his complain to police against them for alleged-ly harassing a woman in the village. Ram Sewak was set ablaze last night by three persons when he had gone to relieve himself under Ajgain police station area, po-lice said today.“Nilkanth Master” to

release on August 7Agency | Panaji

National-award-win-ning director Gajen-dra Ahire’s period film “Nilkanth Master” will release across Maha-rashtra and in London on August 7. “The mov-ie will have theatrical release across Maha-rashtra on August 7. On the same day, the mov-ie will also be released at five locations in Lon-don,” the film’s produc-er Balbheem Pathare today. “Nilkanth” was the closing film for re-cently concluded Goa Marathi Film Festival held in Panaji.

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Yakub Memon’s mercy plea rejectedA Mumbai court has issued a death warrant to hang the 1993 Mumbai serial

blasts case convict at the Central jail in Nagpur at 7 a.m. on July 30

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Agency | Srinagar

In a move to reflect soft approach towards sep-aratists in Kashmir, the authorities on Tuesday decided to issue a short-term passport to Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Gee-lani. Kashmir’s regional passport officer Firdous Iqbal confirmed that a short validity passport has been sent to Geelani on his address through a post. It will be for the first time in the past two de-cades that Geelani will be allowed to travel abroad. In the past, Geelani was refused passport thrice in year 2007, 2008 and 2011. The issuance of the pass-port comes after a Geelani competed the form and mentioned Indian as na-tionality. Though he later said, “I am not by birth an Indian. It is a compul-sion.” Geelani has already fulfilled the formalities

Agency | New Delhi

The Supreme Court ver-dict clearing the way for the execution of Yakub Memon, the only per-son condemned to death in 1993 Mumbai blasts, was widely welcomed to-day as historic and which would send a message that those who indulge in terror acts against India will be hanged. “Prime

Agency | New Delhi

A combative govern-ment today accused the Congress-led opposition of running away from debate after they stalled Rajya Sabha demanding resignations of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and two BJP chief ministers over Lalit Modi controversy and Vyapam scam. Opposition parties rejected the government offer of a statement by Swaraj, who is accused of helping Lalit Modi in getting the UK travel documents, and a debate

Agency | New Delhi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed on Tuesday for opposi-tion support in pushing through key reforms, as parliament began a new session set to be domi-nated by corruption al-legations against mem-bers of his party. Modi’s right-wing government, which swept to pow-er last year on a pledge to revive the economy, aims to push through a series of reforms during the 21-day session in-cluding introducing a new national sales tax. “We all have to work to-

gether to take important decisions for the devel-opment of the nation,” Modi told reporters out-side parliament in New Delhi. “I am hopeful that the parliament will live up to the country’s expectations to act as a medium for constructive debate.” Modi is keen to pass a long-pending national goods and ser-vices tax, which aims to replace a myriad of overlapping state duties that often deter invest-ment, as well as a con-troversial bill that makes it easier for businesses to buy land. But the op-

Agency | New Delhi

IDBI Bank plans to raise Rs 26,000 crore through a mix of equity and bonds to fund its business growth. The public sector lender proposes to “issue such number of equity shares of the face value of Rs 6,000 crore (inclu-sive of premium amount) to be added to the exist-ing paid-up capital of IDBI Bank in such a way that the central govern-ment shall at all times hold not less than 51 per cent of the paid-up cap-ital of the bank”, it said a filing to the BSE. The fund from sale of shares

would be raised in one or more tranches. Besides, the bank plans to raise Rs 20,000 crore from bonds in one or more tranches during the current fiscal year. Permission has been sought by the bank for “mobilisation of in one or more tranches up to Rs 20,000 crore comprising of senior or infrastructure bonds, Basel III com-pliant or Additional Tier I Bonds by way of pri-vate placement or pub-lic issue during 2015-16 or during one year from the date of passing this resolution whichever is later”, it added. The bank

would seek nod from shareholders for these proposals during its an-nual general meeting on August 12. In addition, the bank would also seek approval for increase in the number of whole-time directors (depu-ty managing directors) from two to three. IDBI Bank’s board has also approved the proposal for separating the post of chairman and managing director into 2 posts of a chairman and a man-aging director and CEO by effecting amendments in the articles of associ-ation.

Geelani gets passport first time in 20 years, may travel to Saudi Arabia

Government accuses Opposition of running away from debate

for it. Geelani (86) had applied afresh for travel documents to visit Sau-di Arabia in May to see younger daughter Farhat Jabeen Geelani, who is not keeping well these days. “She is suffering for se-rious nerve problems and is looking forward to see her father. Geelani sahib is very much attached to her too and is desperate to see her,” Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said. Married in Meerut, Farhat, in her 30s, is staying with her husband in Saudi Arabia’s capital Jeddah for sever-

al years now. It remains to be seen how political parties take the BJP-PDP government’s move to allow Geelani to travel abroad. Though a senior PDP leader said, “Noth-ing more should be read in it than allowing him to travel on humanitarian grounds”. Coincidentally, the passport was issued on the day when nation-al security advisor Ajit Doval is in the town and held a series of meetings with chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, army and police officials.

“in any format, at any time”, saying she must resign first. Their refus-al of government’s offer prompted Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley to say they were interested in disturbance not debate. Telecom Minister Ravi

Shankar Prasad attacked Congress over its demand that Rajasthan and Mad-hya Pradesh chief minis-ters Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan quit, saying if discussion on state issues is allowed, then Robert Vadra’s land

deal and CBI’s probe against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh could also be dis-cussed. On demand for discussion of Vyapam scam, in which Congress is targeting Chouhan and Raje’s alleged help to Lal-it Modi, BJP said state is-sues cannot be discussed in Parliament. Jaitley, who is Leader of the Ra-jya Sabha, said govern-ment offered that the issue can be discussed in the House with Swaraj mak-ing a statement on it, but the opposition rejected it.

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India’s Modi appeals for support as parliament reopens

position Congress party has indicated it will use the current monsoon ses-sion to demand the res-ignation of a number of scandal-hit Bharatiya Ja-nata Party (BJP) leaders. The opening of the upper

house was immediately disrupted by opposition members protesting at Foreign Minister Sush-ma Swaraj’s role in help-ing corruption-hit former cricket boss Lalit Modi to obtain a passport. The opening of the upper house was immediately disrupted by opposition members protesting at Foreign Minister Sush-ma Swaraj’s role in help-ing corruption-hit former cricket boss Lalit Modi to obtain a passport.

IDBI Bank Plans to Raise Rs 26,000 Cr via Equity, Bonds

Minister Narendra Modi has given a message that those who indulge in ter-ror acts against India will be hanged. I welcome this message and I thank the Prime Minister,” senior Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam told reporters. Sa-majwadi Party legislator Abu Azmi said he wel-comed the apex court ver-dict with “bowed head”.

Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who had led the prosecution team during the Mumbai blast trial in TADA Court, said the dismisal of the Me-mom’s curative petition was “historic” and that it would send a “strong signal” to the people in the country and across the border that the guilty would not be spared.

Fugitive accused in this case, Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon (broth-er of Yakub), who are suspected to be hiding in Pakistan, would learn a lesson from this verdict that no one was above the law and would have to pay for his act, Nikam said while welcoming the SC judgment. The Government of India

would get a boost with this judgement to prevail upon the international community to bring pres-sure on Pakistan to deport Dawood Ibrahim and Ti-ger Memon who had al-legedly masterminded the bomb blasts in which 257 people were killed and 713 were injured, Nikam said. BJP leader NC Shaina said the apex court verdict has sent a message that terror has no place in our society. Spe-cial TADA Court Judge PD Kode, who conduct-ed the trial, termed the rejection of the curative

plea as “a solace” after 22 years and a victory for those who believe in the rule of the law”. “The

Supreme Court judgment shows that indulging in criminal activities is not a profitable business.

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DAYShould early PF withdrawals be penalised?

The Employees Provident Fund Act, 1952 was en-acted to provide a savings fund for workers that they could access in times of needs and accumulate a cor-pus at retirement. It was never intended at that time, to be a pension fund, which would provide a monthly pension. The savings today consist of 12% wages of workers and a contribution of 12% by employers, a total of 24% of wages per month. In November 1995, 8.33% of employers’ 12% contribution was diverted into a pension fund, from which pension was given after 10 years of contribution, based on certain condi-tions. While the National Pension Scheme is individ-ual pension fund accounts, the EPF pension scheme is based on “Defined Contribution and Defined Pen-sion” with no connection whatsoever to the contribu-tions made. In its present form, the EPS is a ponzi scheme, which sustains so long as more people con-tribute than withdraw (it is at 10:1 now). However, that is a different story. There is a provision in the scheme that if a worker is unemployed for more than 60 days, he or she can withdraw the entire amount, including pension contribution. This provision is be-ing misused by workers by withdrawing their entire savings. A check in one of the 120 regional offices in 2011 showed that the average time for which a worker accumulated the funds, was only 18 months. So EPF accounts are being used by workers like a savings bank account. Note, EPF deduction is mandatory for employees earning upto R6,500 per month, recently increased to R15,000. At even this enhanced wage, even if the employers’ 12% contribution is added, the salary/wage will be below threshold level for income tax payment. Of the 1 crore withdrawals from EPF accounts every year, only 2.5 lakh are on superannu-ation (there are about 45 lakh pensioners over last 20 years ), while 7.5 lakh could be by employees with high incomes. The higher paid employees belong to the 3,000 ‘exempted establishments’ which maintain their own accounts, control a corpus of over R2 lakh crore, have their own investments, and are out of the purview of EPF-controlled funds. So, about 90 lakh EPF members withdraw funds every year, and do not come under the income tax net even if the employer contribution of 12% is added to their income. If 30% of the dues are deducted as income tax, 90 lakh em-ployees who have never filed tax returns would have to file returns to get back the amounts as refunds. The EPFO would have to file TDS returns for each of them, and subsequently, the income tax (I-T) department would have to give them refunds. It would lead to huge amount of paperwork, wastage of time for members, EPFO and the I-T department, without any addition to tax revenues. Since many workers in this income category would not be able to file tax returns, the I-T department may earn a few hundred crores, without it being actually due to the revenue department.

“We want relations to improve. We should live like good neighbours and become an instrument for each others development, We have seen 67 years of conflict. We should move from confrontation to cooperation. We pray this becomes possible,”

Radhika apte has given her best in Ahalya Short film

- Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit today said while adding that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is keen to normalise bilateral relations

Agency | New Delhi

Radhika’s wobbly Ben-gali accent notwithstand-ing, the performances are rather fine, bollywood actress Radhika Apte gained a lot of attention after her performance in film Badlapur. The ac-tress proved that she is capable of anything and immensely talented. Af-ter Badlapur, the audienc-es saw Radhika in Man-jhi: The Mountain Man’s trailer. And now, the ac-tress recently shot for director Sujoy Ghosh’s short film named Ahalya. Director Sujoy Ghosh is known for his excellent films, be it feature films or short films, his work often leaves audiences speechless. In this Ben-gali-English film Ahalya, Radhika Apte shared the

Agency | New Delhi

There can be innumerable reasons for fans to watch their favourite actor’s films. ‘Khiladi’ Kumar is ready to entice his followers one more time with ‘Brothers’. This Dharma productions venture also stars their blue-eyed boy Sidharth Malhotra in the lead along with Akshay. The movie has created a lot buzz ever since its first look was released. The film promises to

be different, and surely appears to be so from the looks of it. We list out top five reasons for you to book your tickets much in advance for ‘Brothers’. Take a look at why you must this masala film in big screens. Action star Akshay Kumar will once again be seen punching some great packs on-screen. The 47-year-old actor will this time be seen inn a boxing ring and not street-fighting with goons. Akki will play the role of David Fernandes

in the film. This is for the first time that Akshay will be seen playing a Christian on-screen. We are ready for some great action! We all have loved him so far as the cute-looking chocolatey hero on-screen. But with ‘Brothers’ this image of Sid is all set to break. The young actor will be rather seen in the boxing ring, fighting some serious stuff. This film will present Sidharth in a new light. So, all the female fans, keep watching!

Agency | New Delhi

Riteish Deshmukh, who plays one of the leading roles in Bangistan, says that the film is a poker face comedy. “House-full, Dhamaal, Masti were physical comedies having slapstick and loud humour but Bangistan is poker face,” Riteish. “There are a lot of films where there are extraordinary reactions to ordinary situations but in this film, there are extraor-dinary situations so you

have to be ordinary to get the humour out,” he add-ed. The story of Bangistan revolves around two wan-nabe terrorists who decide to swap their religion in order to finish the other community. Directed by Karan Anshuman and pro-duced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidwani, the film also features Pulkit Samrat. Talking about his character in the film, Pulkit Samrat said, “In Bangistan, my character is pretty in-

teresting and I enjoyed playing my part in the film. It is also the first time that I was getting an opportunity to act with Riteish, so I was very excited. The script was very nice and intelli-gently written. A serious issue has been portrayed in a funny manner in the film,” he said. Apart from Riteish and Pulkit, the film also stars Jacqueline Fer-nandez and Arya Babbar. Bangistan is set to release on July 31.

Agency | New Delhi

Indo-Canadian actress Lisa Ray is currently in Lucknow and says she is “thrilled” to be in the city. The “Kasoor” actress took to micro-blogging website Twitter, where she also shared that she admires “the Lucknow Gharana style of Kathak”. “Thrilled to be in the city of Nawabs, Tehzeeb and the home of the Lucknow Gharana style of Kathak, of which I am a huge admirer...#Luc-know,” Lisa tweeted on Tuesday. The actress will next be seen playing a secret agent in the film “Ishq Forever”. Directed by Sanjay Dayma, the film is produced by Ajay Shah,

Agency | Kochi

Days after the arrest of three youngsters by Ker-ala police for allegedly uploading a copy of the newly-released Malay-alam movie Premam on the net, comes a welcome step that will go a long way in curtailing pira-cy and yet be a boom to movie lovers. A group of film buffs has come up with an online site which will enable people to watch the latest Mala-yalam movies on the dig-ital platform legally at a

download cost of Rs 180 for an ordinary print and Rs 300 for a high defi-nition print. Reelmonk.com, created by Xincoz Labs, is the brainchild of three 22-year-olds from Kochi -- Blaise Crowly, Vivek Paul and Gautham Vyas -- and is promoted by Konglo Ventures. It aims to bring Malayalam cine-ma to its users’ homes the same day the film releas-es in India. “We are set to launch on July 20 with 15 movies for users to down-load including Nee-Na by

Lal Jose and Njan Steve Lopez by Rajeev Ravi. An idea that originated over a midnight phone call with a friend is today ready to launch after a long and exciting journey that was full of challenges, set-backs, straight-out crash-es and amazing moments to cherish”, said. “Piracy happens due to non-avail-ability of content. When content is easy to access at a reasonable price, we believe piracy will take a back seat,” he added.

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big screen with veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee and Tota Roy Chowdhury. The Badlapur actress was absolutely thrilled to work with director Sujoy Ghosh in this short film. The film tells the legendary story of Ahalya, the wife of Gau-tama Maharishi in Hin-di mythology. The story

somehow goes like this; Ahalya was seduced by the King of Gods, Indra and later cursed for infi-delity. Ahalya’s curse was then broken by Lord Ram. The short film was recent-ly released on digital plat-forms. Radhika Apte has yet again mesmerized the audiences with her mind

blowing performance in Ahalya. On work front, we will soon get to see Radhi-ka Apte opposite to actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Manjhi: The Mountain Man. The movie is about Dashrath Manjhi, also known as Mountain Man, who broke a mountain for love.

Bangistan is not a slapstick comedy: Riteish Deshmukh

Lisa Ray thrilled to be in Lucknow

Harry Gandhi and Shab-bir Boxwala. “Ishq Forev-er” is being shot in Cape Town, South Africa. The film, will release in No-vember.-*- Rishi, Padmini Kolhapure fly together ‘af-ter years’ Veteran actor Ri-shi Kapoor was seen with yesteryear actress Padmini Kolhapure while travelling back from Hyderabad.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Agency | New Delhi

Almost a week ahead of the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has an-nounced that Cortana, its virtual assistant, will be rolled out (on Windows 10) in India and other new markets via the Windows Insider Program for beta testers. Microsoft did not announce the exact time of the rollout but said that it would be introduced in the coming months. At the moment, Cortana is available only in an Al-pha version on Windows Phone 8.1 devices in In-dia and doesn’t support all features. Detailing how Microsoft will local-

ise Cortana in accordance to the local market’s need and culture, the compa-ny said in a blog post, “Cortana is also aware of important cultural touch-stones in each market. In France, Cortana cel-ebrates the Cannes Film Festival. In Canada, Cor-tana loves hockey, and in India, Cortana celebrates cricket star and national hero Sachin Tendulkar.” The post also iterates how Cortana will offer jokes catering to the local taste - “What did the half eaten naan say? I wish I was puri.” This implies Cortana will understand all colloquial terms.

Agency | Mumbai

Sun Pharmaceutical In-dustries shares slumped 16 per cent on Tuesday, after the drugmaker’s warning that 2016 sales would be flat at best due to costs related to reme-diation work at its plants. Analysts estimate a roughly 8-10 per cent hit to profit for the year as Sun Pharma struggles to fix manufacturing prob-lems at one of its own key plants and those of Ran-baxy Laboratories, the troubled rival it bought last year. “FY2016 is likely to be a washout for revenue growth as well as profitability,” Kotak analyst Chirag Talati said

in a note to clients, reit-erating his “sell” rating on the stock. Sun Pharma said late Monday it was trying to expedite the resolution of at least of Ranbaxy’s plants, which are barred from export-ing to its largest market, the United States, over manufacturing quality issues. This would most likely be the Mohali site in northern India, analyst Talati said. Supply con-straints due to issues at Sun Pharma’s own Halol plant in Gujarat, which also has a US ban, are expected to continue “for some time,” the world’s fifth-largest generic drug-maker said.

Agency | SAN FRANCISCO

Facebook-owned Insta-gram just made a bunch of third-party web clients ob-solete: The popular social image sharing platform added search functional-ity to its website yesterday (July 20), allowing users to search for hashtags, lo-cations and user accounts directly on the web. The service also tweaked tag pages to make it easier to discover popular content. Instagram long focused on its mobile app experi-ence, and initially didn’t make its users’ photos available on the web at all. The service added a very bare-bones web experi-

ence at the end of 2012, but still delivered the best experience through its mobile apps. This led to the launch of a number of third-party websites, in-cluding Webstagram and Findgram, that provided tag search and discovery of popular Instagram con-tent. However, Facebook is increasingly looking to monetise Instagram, so it only makes sense for the company to add these fea-tures to its own website as well. Tag search and other discovery-focused fea-tures should also make it easier for Instagram to sell ads and attract brands to its platform.

Agency | Karachi

Sania Mirza and her Pakistani cricketer hus-band Shoaib Malik seem to have finally got the time to celebrate their double victory as the pair posted their dancing Dubsmash video with a Bollywood party song “Abhi to party shuru hui hai”. The Indian tennis player took to Twitter to post a Dubsmash clip showing her and Ma-lik with his co-players Mohammad Irfan, Eh-san Adil, Babar Azam, Bilal Asif and Mukhtar Ahmed, and captioned it saying she celebrat-ed their win togeth-er, the Dawn reported. Also, Shoaib posted the same Dubsmash video on Twitter along with a picture of him with co-players with caption “All of us ready and

Agency | New Delhi

Amid all the flak for his allegedly dictatorial ad-ministration, Hockey India (HI) president Na-rinder Batra has found support in former India coach Michael Nobbs, who says he is the “only person who can do this job”. With coach Paul van Ass’s association with Indian men’s hock-ey team likely to end un-der bizarre circumstanc-es, Nobbs disagreed with the notion that Batra runs HI according to his own whims and fancies. “Dr. Batra is just so passion-ate and wants the best,” Nobbs told IBNLive from his home in Can-

Agency | Kolkata

Kolkata’s Eden Gardens will host the final of the ICC World T20, to be held in India from 11 March to 3 April next year, across eight cities, the BCCI announced on Tuesday. Matches will take place across Benga-luru, Chennai, Dharam-sala, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi and Kolkata, which gets to host the summit clash at the iconic Eden Gardens. The popular ground had missed out on hosting big ticket games during 50-over World Cup held in India four years ago.

The India versus En-gland game was shifted to Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru after ICC found that Eden Gardens’ renovation work was not complete. However, Eden Gardens have organised marquee matches in the past, notably the 1987 Re-liance Cup final and 1996 World Cup semi-final, which India forfeited the match to eventual cham-pions Sri Lanka due to a crowd disruption. BCCI said the chosen venues will have to meet the prescribed requirements. “These venues will host the matches subject to fulfilling the prescribed

requirements of the ICC and BCCI while adhering to the statutory obliga-tions that are mandatory for hosting an Interna-tional match,” said the BCCI in a statement. The showpiece event of the shortest format will take place for the first time in the cricket-crazy na-tion. India had won the inaugural World T20 in 2007. Talking more about the much-awaited tourna-ment, BCCI secretary An-urag Thakur said: “BCCI is extremely proud to host this prestigious event. All the venues identified have hosted many prestigious matches.

Agency | New Delhi

India A skipper Chetesh-war Pujara on Tuesday asserted that there were no technical flaws in his game and his County stint with Yorkshire has actu-ally prepared him men-tally for the demands of the modern-day cricket. Pujara lost place in the playing XI in the Indian Test side after a below par show in England and Australia Test series and has been struggling to regain his spot. Experts had opined that Pujara had technical flaws in his game and that is why he struggled to perform in overseas conditions. Pu-jara, who will lead In-dian A in the unofficial Test series against Aus-tralia A, is confident that his run drought will end soon. “Having played in Yorkshire is definite-ly going to help me be-cause of the conditions are challenging,” Pujara said ahead of the four-day match. “Technically you need to be correct and concentration level has to be up to the mark to score runs over there. There is not a major change I have done in my technique. It is more about mental preparation and correcting few things

No technical flaws in my game: Cheteshwar Pujara

Eden Gardens to host final as BCCI announces World T20 2016 venues

‘Abhi to party shuru hui’ for sports couple Sania Mirza, Shoaib Malik

Narinder Batra is passionate, best man to run Indian hockey: Michael Nobbs

Ashes 2015: Cricket Australia to recommend universal use of Chris Rogers’ clip-on helmet guardSun Pharma Slumps 16%

on Sales Warning

Microsoft’s Siri-rival Cortana coming to India

Instagram adds search to its web interface

Agency | London

The clip-on helmet guard worn by Chis Rogers when he was struck in the head during the sec-ond Test at Lord’s will be highly recommended for use by all Australian first-class cricketers when Cricket Australia adopts new guidelines. Rogers had the stemguard, de-veloped by British manu-facturer Masuri, attached to his helmet at Lord’s last Friday when he was struck behind the ear where the device sits. The

dizzy spell the 37-year-old experienced on the ground while batting two days later was not a re-sult of concussion from that head knock Austra-lia’s team doctor Peter Brukner said after Rogers underwent initial scans in London, but more likely to be a delayed problem with his ear. That fact that the left-hander, who was concussed by a blow to the head in the Caribbean last month, was wearing the safety device on his helmet, though, may well have served him well in

absorbing the impact. It was in the area where the guard, which is made of plastic and foam, sits be-hind the ear that Rogers appeared to be hit. “The initial scans have cleared him of any serious dam-age and we await the results of further tests,” Brukner said. “It appears the most likely diagnosis is a delayed ear problem related to being struck on day two of the Test match. We are confident that this is something we can man-age in the lead up to the third Test at Edgbaston.

which will help me in my batting. It was just a phase that I have not scored many runs,” the youngster added. “Over-all, if you see my career, I have scored runs with the same technique. There is nothing wrong with my technique and I just need to stick to what I know. I will be working hard on my game and hopefully I will get some success.”

Pujara is confident that he will be able to score in the new assignment. “I want to enjoy my cricket wherever I play. I want to score runs and help the team succeed. Here, I have added responsibil-ity leading the team and guiding the players. I have been batting well in the nets and I hope I will be able to score some runs in the game.”

berra, Australia. “I nev-er had an issue with him at any time. Batra is the only person who can do this job.” On Monday, Dutchman Van Ass told that he is no longer want-ed by HI and that High Performance Director Roelant Oltmans, who incidentally is also from

the Netherlands, has told this to him via an e-mail. According to Van Ass, who broke the news about his sacking to IB-NLive, the decision was based on a spat he had with Batra after the quar-terfinal against Malaysia at the FIH World League semi-finals in Belgium.

looking good for the dinner with the Pak Am-bassador to the beautiful country of Sri Lanka”. Notably, the Pakistani cricket team decisively beat Sri Lanka in Co-lombo on July 19 while Sania had recently won 2015 Wimbledon dou-bles championship. The latest video impressed everyone but it seems to

have failed to impress Yuvraj Singh. The Indi-an cricketer tweeted, “@realshoaibmalik @Mir-zaSania such outstand-ing players ! But terrible dancers.” However, the two cricketers shared a friendly relation. Shoaib Malik did not take any offence and re-tweeted the tweet shared by Yu-vraj Singh.

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The gangs of eastern Ahmedabad seem to be raising their ugly heads once again. In a battle of supremacy in the area, two rounds were fired on the office of Hirendra Ra-jput during early hours of Monday at Viratnagar. Rajput is an associate of Fracture gang and has been booked earlier in serious offences. “How-ever, nobody was injured in the incident. It was just an attempt to intimidate Rajput. We suspect land deals and contract assault-ers are involved in the in-cident,” said Inspector D H Desai of Odhav police station. On the other hand, sub-inspector H V Sisara

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Chief Minister Anandi-ben Patel on Monday as-serted that malnutrition in Gujarat has fallen by 25 per cent over the last five years, and figures in the contentious UNICEF report were based on old statistics from 2004-2005. Patel, who was attend-ing a local body event in Kheda district, also ap-pealed to philanthropists to “adopt malnourished children”. At a function to mark the commissioning of Seva Sadan of the new-ly-created Vaso taluka, the Chief Minister, according to an official release, said: “Philanthropists should contribute generously to the state government’s campaign against mal-nutrition and adopt such children in the anganwa-

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A 19-year-old waiting to board a train to Rajasthan in the waiting room at Kalupur railway station was lured by four people and then gang raped on the terrace of an aban-doned house in Saraspur on Sunday night. How-ever, a concerned citizen spotted the girl battling with her rapists and in-formed Gomtipur police, who were able to arrest three rapists and are on the look out for the one who escaped. A senior

cop from Gomtipur po-lice station said, “We arrested Devisinh Patil, 24, Deepak Mahavat and Dayaram Joshi. The wit-ness also tried to catch the rapists but they fled on their bikes and aban-doned the girl.” Police sources say the girl had run away from her home in Maninagar after fight-ing with her parents who refused to let her marry her boyfriend. She was waiting to board a train to go to her maternal un-cle’s home in Rajasthan.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Nearly half of the house-holds in Gujarat lack toi-lets, according to the 2011 census. Of the 1.20 lakh households in Gujarat — the census says — 47.25% do not have toilets. The Gu-jarat figure, though grim, is better than India’s: around 61% of the country’s house-holds do not have toilets. The report also states that in around 15% of the Guja-rat households that do have toilets, the amenity is either not used or is defunct. Of-ficials said that these toilets lie in the rural areas where there are no soak pits or

water. Interestingly, accord-ing to the report 20.56% of India’s household toi-lets are non-functional. As for schools in Gujarat, a surprising statistic was revealed. The report says that 2.07% of government schools did not have toi-lets, while the figure was 3.62% in the case of private schools. Officials said that private schools fared poorly even on the count of drink-ing water. While 5.10% of private schools did not have water facilities, the number was 4.90% for government schools.

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Three youths from Ahmedabad’s Odhav area were held hostage and assaulted by villagers of Faloli in Mahudha taluka of Kheda district on Sun-day, after being mistaken to be the dreaded Dafer gang of robbers. The po-lice, however, rescued and admitted the youths to an Ahmedabad hos-pital. According to the Mahudha taluka police, the rumors about an ac-tive gang of robbers, the Dafer gang, has left most villages in the district edgy and suspicious of passersby. On Saturday evening, the three youths from Ahmedabad, Hem-raj Khatik, 22, Chetan Marwardi, 26 and Nathu Marwadi, 21, had arrived in Kheda from Ahmed-abad to visit the Dashama temple in Minawada vil-lage. Police said the three had “struck a deal” with a local trader for three

swords to be placed in the temple of their individu-al homes for performing puja. However, when the trader asked them to stay for one day for them, they decided to spend the night in Kathlal vil-lage. On their way from Minawada to Kathlal, while crossing the Faloli village post on Saturday night, a group of villagers intercepted them. “The villagers asked them for their details and when the three said that they were returning after a visit to the Dashama temple, the villagers let them off. However, on Sunday, they returned to Minwa-da to collect the swords arranged by the trader. On their way back, the villagers stopped them again and demanded to see their ID cards. When they could not produce them, the villagers forc-ibly searched their jeep and found the swords,” a police officer said.

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Two Wushu players from Gujarat, who were part of the 15-member Indian contingent that participated in the 8th International Wushu Tournament held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the first week of July, have returned home with sil-ver and bronze medals. Twenty-year-old Ru-shikesh Patel won the silver medal in the 75-80 kg category, while 18-year-old Amandeep Singh Ghotra won the bronze in the 65-70 kg category. Both the play-ers from Ahmedabad had participated in the Sando competition of this traditional Chinese marital arts where play-ers use kicks, punches, holds, push and throw-ing techniques to score points in this free-com-

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UNICEF figures based on old data, malnutrition down by 25%, says CM Anandiben Patel

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Three youths mistaken for robbers, thrashed

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of Sector-2 squad late on Sunday night nabbed for-mer member of the Frac-ture gang Jeetendra Chau-han, moments before the firing incident happened, from Bapunagar area. “We have recovered two

country-made revolvers and eight live cartridges from him. Chauhan had procured these weapons to kill Hirendra Rajput hence we suspect that he might have asked someone to open fire at Hirendra’s

office” said sub inspec-tor HV Sisara of Sector-2 squad. Police sources said that the pattern of firing on Hirendra’s office too seemed unusual. “The first shot was fired at the closed office. Thereafter, the shooters turned back as a man opened the door and fired another shot at the office” said Desai. Police sources said the gangs are involved in land grabbing, liquor trade and even extortion in the east-ern parts of the city. “They intimidate each other by such acts. However, it is worrying that the gangs are again making their way and indulge in gang wars” said a senior police official.

bat sport that is part of Asian Games. While this was the second in-ternational medal for Rushikesh, it was the first international outing for Amandeep.“There were only two players who were selected from Gujarat for selected to represent India and it is a matter of pride that both of them have re-turned with medals,”

said Badrinath Pandey, who has been training both the players and is coach associated with the Wushu Association of India. “This year we had a larger contingent than last year (seven members) and we have managed to win about five medals,” Pandey added. Recalling his experience, Amandeep, son of a retired box-

er from the Army and first-year Bachelor of Commerce student from the Lokmanya Col-lege in the city, said, “I have been training nine hours a day for the last 8-9 months. It is real-ly encouraging to have won in the very first in-ternational tournament I played. I am keen to represent India in Asian Games as well.”

dis and perform the social responsibility.” The Chief Minister’s statement that the state has witnessed de-cline in malnutrition came amid claims and count-er-claims over yet-to-be released UNICEF’s Rap-id Survey on Children. Union Health Minister J P Nadda on the floor of Lok Sabha in December 2014 had said that a Gov-ernment of India child-

care programme for age group of 0-6 years — for the last three financial years — shows that the number of moderately and severely malnour-ished children in Gujarat had reduced from 13.30 lakh in 2011-12, to 9.07 lakh in 2013-14. He added it was better than the na-tional average, where the number of malnourished children was over 27 per

cent. The CAG, however, in its performance audit of Integrated Child Develop-ment Programme in 2013 had said that every third child in Gujarat was un-derweight. The report was tabled in the Assembly that year. The state gov-ernment’s own reply in the Assembly in February 2014 said that there were 2,270 highly malnour-ished children in Kheda district itself from where Patel made the appeal on Monday. According to reply by the then child and women development minister Ganpatsinh Vasa-va, more than 1.62 lakh malnourished children were in six districts alone, including Ahmedabad, and 31,300 highly mal-nourished children in 16 districts of the state as of December 31, 2013.

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Nearly half of Gujarat households lack toilets