Annual Subscription : Rs. 300 /- Edition : Ahmedabad. M.:9687612324 ENGLISH DAILY MORNING REPUTED NEWS PAPER, AHMEDABAD RNI NO.: GUJENG/2014/59629 Editor : Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Deputy Editor : Chirag Rudani October 17, 2015, Saturday Mo : 98250 98053 Ph: 079-32452269 Web: www.sunvillasamachar.com/en Corpo. Office: A/41, Madhav Chamber’s, Shaktidhara Colony, Opp-Sayona Arcade, L.B.S. Road, Toll Naka, Bapunagar, Ahmedababad - 380024 Email: [email protected]Mo : 98250 98053 17 th October, 2015 - Saturday Year :01 Issue : 246 Pages:4 Price :Rs.1/- News Brief Mira not doing any film: Shahid Kapoor Agency | New Delhi Actor Shahid Kapoor has laughed off reports about wife Mira’s acting debut. “No. She is chill- ing with her family right now,” said the “Haider” star, when asked if there is any truth to the spec- ulation. The actor, who will be next seen in Vikas Bahl’s “Shaaandaar”, has lately been quite open about his personal life, a departure from the secrecy he maintained before marriage. 10 injured in road mishap in Rajouri Two injured in police firing in Pulwama Agency | Jammu Around 10 persons were injured when a minibus collided with a truck at Rajouri district of Jam- mu and Kashmir today, police said. The mini passenger bus collid- ed with a truck coming from opposite direction near Majakote area of the district this morn- ing in which around 10 persons received minor injuries. Agency | Srinagar Two civilians were in- jured when police al- legedly opened fire during an operation to arrest a suspect from Pulwama town in south Kashmir today. Police received information about presence of a bur- qa-clad male suspect moving around Pulwa- ma town, 32 kms from here, and launched an operation to arrest the suspect, a police official said. The suspect was overpowered and arrest- ed, he said, adding po- lice fired few rounds in air while whisking away the detenue. Rs 20 crore seized from suppliers “Supply of cheap packaged drinking water” CBI said directions of Railway Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” in premium trains were also ignored by the officials CBI busts Rail Neer racket Alleged cow smuggler lynched by villagers in Himachal Agency | Nahan An alleged cow smuggler was lynched by a mob while his four accomplices were apprehended by po- lice with the help of local people after nearly four hours of chase in the for- ests in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh today. DSP Pachhad, Yogesh Rol- ta, said that five cow smug- glers, who were attacked and injured by local peo- ple, were arrested and ad- mitted to hospital. A truck carrying five cows and ten oxen, was spotted by local people who chased the ve- hicle. Sensing trouble, the Agency | New Delhi The CBI today recov- ered Rs 20 crore in cash during searches at 13 lo- cations against two for- mer Northern Railways officials and seven pri- vate firms in connection with alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains. CBI sources said a case has been registered against the then Chief Commer- cial Managers (PS and Catering) of Northern Railways M S Chalia and Sandeep Silas. The agen- cy has also booked pri- vate companies RK As- sociates Pvt Ltd, Satyam Caterers Pvt Ltd, Ambuj Hotel and Real Estate, PK Associates Pvt Ltd, Sun- sine Pvt Ltd, Brandavan Food Product and Food World under Prevention of Corruption Act provi- sions. Silas has served as the private secretary of a former Union Minis- ter. The sources claimed cash recovery of Rs 20 crore was made from the residence of Shyam Bi- hari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal who own RK Associates and Bran- davan Food Product. It is Agency | Mumbai A Pakistani family that arrived in Mumbai to vis- it the Haji Ali ‘dargah’ to pray for their mentally challenged son was re- fused accommodation by several hotels in the city, after which they spent the night on a pavement. A sub-inspector of Rail- way Police Force (RPF) provided some succour to the family of around five members after they reached the Mumbai Cen- tral Railway Station on Wednesday, but the fam- ily failed to find accom- modation in any hotel or lodge, its senior inspector RK Arya said. On October 4, the Pakistani family had arrived in India on a 40- day visa. On Wednesday afternoon, they reached Agency | Mumbai Eight persons died after a fire broke out at a restau- rant in Kurla on Friday afternoon. The restaurant ‘Hotel City Kinara’, a Chinese food joint, is lo- cated some distance away from the Kurla railway station. DCP Mahesh Pa- til said, “Today at Kurla about 13:00 hrs, fire broke out in Hotel City Kinara, in front of Holy Cross Church.” He added,” 8 people are dead and bod- ies sent to Rajawadi Hos- pital. Fire engines are on the spot and inquiry is in progress.” An officer said that prima facie it appears Pak family refused accommodation in Mumbai, spends night on pavement truck driver allegedly tried to smash one of the vehi- cles by hitting it from the rear, Rolta said. But when the police and people kept up the chase, the truck driver stopped the vehicle at Lawasa Chowki square and allegedly threw some cows out of truck, he said. One cow died on the spot while five others received grievous injuries. Aban- doning the truck, the five alleged cow smugglers took shelter in a nearby forest at Lawasa Chowki adjacent to Sarahan-Chan- digarh road, said the DSP. The police, with the help of local villagers, arrested all the five cow smugglers, after several hours of chase in the forest. The villagers, who far outnumbered the policemen, beat up the al- leged cow smugglers after they were overpowered, police sources said. Mumbai Central Railway Station by Suryanagri Ex- press from Jodhpur and their ordeal began soon. They were refused ac- commodation by several lodges and hotels they had approached in south Mumbai. “The only rea- son for refusal by lodges and hotels was that they (hotels) didn’t want to complete the formality of filling ‘Form-C’, which is to be submitted to a government department if people from outside the country come to the city on visa and stay in their lodges and hotels,” said RPF sub-inspector Mahesh Chauhan, who helped the family in their time of distress. “They also said that the owners of the lodges and hotels told them that they were very small establishments and have no manpower to do the extra work of filling and submitting the ‘Form-C’,” he said. 8 killed in cylinder blast at Mumbai hotel to be a case of short cir- cuit that led to the inci- dent. Police said only 1 person among the 8 dead have been identified. The bodies of seven men and one woman, who were seated in the family room of the restaurant on the first floor, were found, officials added. “We sus- pect there was a gas leak on the first floor along with a short circuit that led to a blast. Those on the first floor got trapped over there and could not rush down where there was no damage,” said ACP Srirang Nadgouda. “We suspect there were one or two waiters and rest of them customers who lost their lives.” alleged that the accused had shown favour to these private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water (PDW) other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express. CBI spokesper- son Devpreet Singh said it was further alleged that the Railway Board had prescribed that IRCTC shall provide Rail Neer at a rate of Rs 10.50 (ap- prox) per bottle to the pri- vate caterers and the pri- vate caterers will be paid Rs 15 (approx) per bottle for supplying the same to passengers in premi- um trains. However, the private suppliers in or- der to obtain undue gain, were allegedly supplying cheap packaged water, other than “Rail Neer”, available in the market at a rate of Rs 5.70 to 7.00 (approx) per bottle, thereby causing gain to themselves and loss to the exchequer, the offi- cial said. “The accused public servants allegedly did not take any action against the private par- ties providing catering services in the premium trains despite repeated requests of IRCTC for non-picking of allotted quota of ‘Rail Neer’ by Private Caterers,” the spokesperson said. CBI said directions of Rail- way Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” in premium trains were also ignored by the officials thereby causing undue pecuniary advantage to the private parties and corresponding loss to IRCTC. “Searches are being conducted today at 13 places in Delhi and Noida which led to re- covery of cash amount of more than Rs 20 crore(approx) and a large number of incriminating documents,” the spokes- person said.
Actor Shahid Kapoor has laughed off reports about wife Mira’s acting debut. “No. She is chill-ing with her family right now,” said the “Haider” star, when asked if there is any truth to the spec-ulation. The actor, who will be next seen in Vikas Bahl’s “Shaaandaar”, has lately been quite open about his personal life, a departure from the secrecy he maintained before marriage.
10 injured in road mishap in
Rajouri
Two injured in police firing in
Pulwama
Agency | Jammu
Around 10 persons were injured when a minibus collided with a truck at Rajouri district of Jam-mu and Kashmir today, police said. The mini passenger bus collid-ed with a truck coming from opposite direction near Majakote area of the district this morn-ing in which around 10 persons received minor injuries.
Agency | Srinagar
Two civilians were in-jured when police al-legedly opened fire during an operation to arrest a suspect from Pulwama town in south Kashmir today. Police received information about presence of a bur-qa-clad male suspect moving around Pulwa-ma town, 32 kms from here, and launched an operation to arrest the suspect, a police official said. The suspect was overpowered and arrest-ed, he said, adding po-lice fired few rounds in air while whisking away the detenue.
Rs 20 crore seized from suppliers“Supply of cheap packaged drinking water”
CBI said directions of Railway Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” in premium trains were also ignored by the officials
CBI busts Rail Neer racket
Alleged cow smuggler lynched by villagers in Himachal
Agency | Nahan
An alleged cow smuggler was lynched by a mob while his four accomplices were apprehended by po-lice with the help of local people after nearly four hours of chase in the for-ests in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh today. DSP Pachhad, Yogesh Rol-ta, said that five cow smug-glers, who were attacked and injured by local peo-ple, were arrested and ad-mitted to hospital. A truck carrying five cows and ten oxen, was spotted by local people who chased the ve-hicle. Sensing trouble, the
Agency | New Delhi
The CBI today recov-ered Rs 20 crore in cash during searches at 13 lo-cations against two for-mer Northern Railways officials and seven pri-vate firms in connection with alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains. CBI sources said a case has been registered against the then Chief Commer-cial Managers (PS and Catering) of Northern Railways M S Chalia and Sandeep Silas. The agen-cy has also booked pri-vate companies RK As-sociates Pvt Ltd, Satyam Caterers Pvt Ltd, Ambuj Hotel and Real Estate, PK Associates Pvt Ltd, Sun-sine Pvt Ltd, Brandavan Food Product and Food World under Prevention of Corruption Act provi-sions. Silas has served as the private secretary of a former Union Minis-ter. The sources claimed cash recovery of Rs 20 crore was made from the residence of Shyam Bi-hari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal who own RK Associates and Bran-davan Food Product. It is
Agency | Mumbai
A Pakistani family that arrived in Mumbai to vis-it the Haji Ali ‘dargah’ to pray for their mentally challenged son was re-fused accommodation by several hotels in the city, after which they spent the night on a pavement. A sub-inspector of Rail-way Police Force (RPF) provided some succour to the family of around five members after they reached the Mumbai Cen-tral Railway Station on Wednesday, but the fam-ily failed to find accom-modation in any hotel or lodge, its senior inspector RK Arya said. On October 4, the Pakistani family had arrived in India on a 40-day visa. On Wednesday afternoon, they reached
Agency | Mumbai
Eight persons died after a fire broke out at a restau-rant in Kurla on Friday afternoon. The restaurant ‘Hotel City Kinara’, a Chinese food joint, is lo-cated some distance away from the Kurla railway station. DCP Mahesh Pa-til said, “Today at Kurla about 13:00 hrs, fire broke out in Hotel City Kinara, in front of Holy Cross Church.” He added,” 8 people are dead and bod-ies sent to Rajawadi Hos-pital. Fire engines are on the spot and inquiry is in progress.” An officer said that prima facie it appears
Pak family refused accommodation in Mumbai, spends night on pavement
truck driver allegedly tried to smash one of the vehi-cles by hitting it from the rear, Rolta said. But when the police and people kept up the chase, the truck driver stopped the vehicle at Lawasa Chowki square and allegedly threw some cows out of truck, he said. One cow died on the spot while five others received grievous injuries. Aban-doning the truck, the five alleged cow smugglers took shelter in a nearby forest at Lawasa Chowki adjacent to Sarahan-Chan-digarh road, said the DSP. The police, with the help of local villagers, arrested all the five cow smugglers, after several hours of chase in the forest. The villagers, who far outnumbered the policemen, beat up the al-leged cow smugglers after they were overpowered, police sources said.
Mumbai Central Railway Station by Suryanagri Ex-press from Jodhpur and their ordeal began soon. They were refused ac-commodation by several lodges and hotels they had approached in south Mumbai. “The only rea-son for refusal by lodges and hotels was that they (hotels) didn’t want to complete the formality of filling ‘Form-C’, which is to be submitted to a government department
if people from outside the country come to the city on visa and stay in their lodges and hotels,” said RPF sub-inspector Mahesh Chauhan, who helped the family in their time of distress. “They also said that the owners of the lodges and hotels told them that they were very small establishments and have no manpower to do the extra work of filling and submitting the ‘Form-C’,” he said.
8 killed in cylinder blast at Mumbai hotel
to be a case of short cir-cuit that led to the inci-dent. Police said only 1 person among the 8 dead have been identified. The bodies of seven men and one woman, who were seated in the family room of the restaurant on the first floor, were found, officials added. “We sus-pect there was a gas leak
on the first floor along with a short circuit that led to a blast. Those on the first floor got trapped over there and could not rush down where there was no damage,” said ACP Srirang Nadgouda. “We suspect there were one or two waiters and rest of them customers who lost their lives.”
alleged that the accused had shown favour to these private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water (PDW) other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in
premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express. CBI spokesper-son Devpreet Singh said it was further alleged that the Railway Board had
prescribed that IRCTC shall provide Rail Neer at a rate of Rs 10.50 (ap-prox) per bottle to the pri-vate caterers and the pri-vate caterers will be paid Rs 15 (approx) per bottle for supplying the same to passengers in premi-um trains. However, the private suppliers in or-der to obtain undue gain, were allegedly supplying cheap packaged water, other than “Rail Neer”, available in the market
at a rate of Rs 5.70 to 7.00 (approx) per bottle, thereby causing gain to themselves and loss to the exchequer, the offi-cial said. “The accused public servants allegedly did not take any action against the private par-ties providing catering services in the premium trains despite repeated
requests of IRCTC for non-picking of allotted quota of ‘Rail Neer’ by Private Caterers,” the spokesperson said. CBI said directions of Rail-way Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” in premium trains were also ignored by the officials thereby causing undue pecuniary advantage to
the private parties and corresponding loss to IRCTC. “Searches are being conducted today at 13 places in Delhi and Noida which led to re-covery of cash amount of more than Rs 20 crore(approx) and a large number of incriminating documents,” the spokes-person said.
DAYClosing of the Muslim mind is a global development
A Hindu mob in Dadri, just outside Delhi, broke into 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq’s home last month, accused him of eating and storing beef be-fore beating him to death. This year, Bangladeshis have been killing secular bloggers “for offering in-sult to Islam”, before escalating to killing foreign-ers and flagging the presence of the Islamic State in the country — a Japanese and an Italian were sac-rificed so that “hardliners who have been shut out of the political mainstream”, according to experts, could be appeased. Australia cancelled its cricket tour to signal what the world thinks of Bangladesh now. Pakistan is already a cricket pariah because of terrorism. Pakistan has been punished. Its Islamis-ation under General Zia-ul-Haq’s martial law in the 1970-’80s transformed it into a jihadi state until its institutions couldn’t protect its people any more. This change coincided with the changing Muslim mind in South Asia and the Middle East. After the breakup of 1971, Bangladesh and Pakistan chose secular-democratic governments. Leaders of both governments were killed and the generals took over, strangely aping each other: Even the Islamis-ing amendment in their constitutions had to be the eighth amendment! That India was bent on join-ing the Islamist bandwagon was noted by Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz, who stayed on in India after attending a mushaira in 1981 to avoid the generals’ wrath — only to be called an Indian spy by the Mus-lim League government in Islamabad. She wrote in Urdu, “tum bilkul hum jaise niklay (You turned out to be just like us!/ Where were you hiding all this time, buddy?/ That stupidity, that ignorance/ We wallowed in for a century/ Look, it arrived at your shores too!)” Then Sri Lanka joined in with its ethnic-based violence, to which its Tamils respond-ed with such original mayhem that al-Qaeda had to adopt its novel technique of killing. A Tamil sui-cide-bomber in India took the life of ex-prime min-ister Rajiv Gandhi. Today, Colombo faces a tough job in getting back to normal while religious tem-peratures still run high. Its next-door neighbour and a member of Saarc, the Maldives, a sinking bunch of islands, has succumbed to religion too, impris-oning its secular former president and sending out its madrassa-trained youth as Islamic State terror-ists. The Saarc member in the northeast of South Asia, Afghanistan, is more primal and Hobbesian, spreading its savagery downwards into Pakistan.
“Religion cannot be the basis of a state. For instance, in a large number of Arab countries, Islam is the religion. But on the basis of religion the Arab countries have not converged into one state.” - President Pranab Mukherjee insisted religion should
not be the basis for formation of a state, as this has never been successful.
Birthday Special with Hema Malini
Speech by Shah Rukh Khan on receiving a Honorary degree from university Of EdinburghAgency | New Delhi
One of the most cele-brated actors in the Hin-di Film industry, Shah Rukh Khan is all heart when it comes to words. He has a way with them and the sheer enormity of experiences he has had in his Bollywood journey transform them into pearls of wisdom. SRK was invited to be-stow these pearls on the students of the Univer-sity of Edinburgh, UK, on Thursday (October 15) and as expected, King Khan held the au-dience in awe with his ‘life lessons’. And gave a whole lot of reasons as to why he still rules the bylanes of Bolly-wood. Shah Rukh Khan was presented with the degree of Doctor Hono-ris Causa from the Uni-versity Chancellor HRH The Princess Royal in Edinburgh. Thereby, be-ginning with gratitude, but not ‘humility’ as he
Agency | Mumbai
Yesteryear’s Bollywood superstar, Hema Malini, who can still make heads turn with her beauty and radiant personality, turns a year older today. The B-town’s Dream Girl, who had an iconic rise to stardom, is still an inspiration for many not just for her acting but for her beauty and fitness as well. A poli-tician, Bharata Natyam dancer, actress, direc-tor, producer and moth-er of two, Hema juggles many hats. On her 67th birthday today, the ac-
tress takes time off for Pinkvilla and lists her personal favourites out of 200 odd films that she has done so far in her career spanning four decades. Sholay(1975): Hema played a double role in ‘Seeta Aur Gee-ta’ and she won her only competitive Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career for the film. Hema, who essayed the memorable role of Bas-anti in ‘Sholay’, says even 40 years after the movie released, there are people who still call her by the character’s name
Agency | Mumbai
Bhojpuri and Bollywood actor Ravi Kishen has filled a missing person’s complaint for his 19-year-old daughter with police in Mumbai. “A complaint has been filed at the Ban-gurnagar police station
few days ago by the actor (Ravi Kishen) and the po-lice is probing the case,” said DCP (Detection) Dhananjay Kulkarni. Po-lice sources claimed that his daughter had left the 44-year-old actor’s house for the second time.
Agency | Mumbai
Boys will be boys. No issues. But must they be such insensitive dolts? Luv Ranjan, director of Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, seems to think that the worse they are the bet-ter. His film homes in on a trio of Delhi-NCR boys who share a swanky flat, drink like fish, party hop, and rib each other endlessly as they hunt for love. By the look of their spacious pad and the abandon with which they blow up money, the threesome appear to be doing fine in life. What
they clearly lack is tact, common sense and luck in relationships. The girls that they hook up come with their own set of problems and the three boys have no clue how to tide over them. They sink deeper and deeper into a quagmire because, like the film they are in, they believe a girl is only an object of desire to be acquired and controlled. Each of them hits upon a girl without so much as a by your leave, and pro-ceeds to boorishly force himself upon her. The first encounters take place in a party, at a wedding and in
the gym and the film has no room for either subtle-ty or finesse in the way the relationships evolve. The 2011 sleeper hit of which Pyaar Ka Punchna-ma 2 is an ill-advised re-peat act was a passable, if seriously dodgy, romantic comedy in which wom-en were blamed for all the troubles of mankind. Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 does pretty much the same, but the novelty has worn off and it is saddled with an insufferably inept screenplay. The result: this tawdry boys-meet-girls rigmarole is a whole lot of unbearable blather.
said, his speech was a perfect amalgamation of wisdom and humour. What made his speech even more endearing was him intercepting it with references from the movies he has done like ‘Deewana’, ‘Dil Se’, ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ and ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ among others. The
best part, however, was his ref-erence to the famous ‘Lungi Dance’ from his movie ‘Chen-nai Express’, which the audience cannot get enough of, and we think neither can SRK. It is in-deed an honour for me to receive this doctorate today. “Humbled” is a word often used by people in
my profession. I dislike the hyp-ocritically obsequious connota-tion of it in these contexts so I’m not going to use it, but I will say that such occasions have a way of putting me right in my place! I get invited to conferences and inaugurations now and then to speak. When I receive the invi-
tations, I also receive my brief. It’s usually about “success” and my “tips” on it (not my toes- those are covered by the “I will never show my toes” clause in my acting contracts. It’s my at-tempt at gender equality. My co-stars have no nipple clauses; I have a no toes one).
Jennifer Lawrence out of Richard Linklater’s ‘The Rosie Project’, in for darren Aronofsky’s next
Agency | London
Jennifer Lawrence has walked away from Boy-hood director Richard Linklater’s upcoming ro-mance, The Rosie Proj-ect. The Oscar-winning actress, 25, was slated to star in the filmmak-er’s new project, which is an adaptation of au-thor Graeme Simsion’s best-selling novel of the same name, report-ed Guardian online. The Rosie Project centres on a socially inept genetics professor, who creates a scientifically-crafted
survey in order to
find the perfect wife, but his system is thrown off the rails when he falls in love with a woman called Rosie, who meets none of his carefully-craft-ed criteria. Following the news of her
departure, reports surfaced she is now in talks to star in Black Swan direc-tor Darren Aronofsky’s untitled inde-pendent film, which he hopes to begin shooting in the spring.
Ravi Kishen’s daughter missing, actor files police complaint
SPORTS ROUNDUPIntex Cloud Swift With 4G LTE Support, 3GB RAM Launched at Rs. 8,888
Facebook is launching a real-time news app called Notify
Amazon Poised to Win Big as Annual Festive Shopping Spree Kicks Off
Agency | New Delhi
Intex has launched a new smartphone in India on Friday - the Cloud Swift - priced at Rs. 8,888. The Intex Cloud Swift will be exclusively available online via Snapdeal. Pre-orders for the handset begin Friday while the handset will go on sale from Tuesday. The smartphone will be available in Champagne and Grey colour variants. The company is also offering a 1-year screen break-age warranty with the Cloud Swift smartphone. The dual-SIM Intex Cloud Swift runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, and features a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) IPS display with a pixel density of 320ppi. The new Intex smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735A SoC, coupled with 3GB of RAM. The company says the hand-set’s 3GB RAM is the highlight of the device at this price point.
Agency | New Delhi
Facebook is planning another addition to its already varied repertoire of offerings, this time attempting to take over news distribution. The social media gi-ant has been working on a new real-time news app, called “Notify”, that it expects to launch. Notify lets users subscribe to various news organisations on Facebook, called “stations”, and then send them notifications whenever the media outlet puts out a story. This is another push in the news direction for Facebook, accompanied by their recent addition of Instant articles, which repackages new stories to load them quickly and smoothly within the Face-book app itself. Notify’s direct competition will, obviously, be Twitter, which prides itself on being the bearer of breaking news. Twitter, it’s worth noting, also launched the “Moments” feature last week; a tab next to notifications that letss a user gather and sort tweets based on sections like tech-nology, entertainment, or sports.
Agency | Mumbai
Amazon.com Inc could emerge as the biggest win-ner from one of India’s most important festive - and shopping - seasons, after the e-tailer offered steep discounts, swift delivery and even gold bars to grab market share. The month-long festive sea-son, which began on Monday, culminates in Di-wali, or the Festival of Lights, but the first nine days are considered an especially auspicious time to make big purchases. Analysts say e-commerce firms in India could make as much as a quarter of their annual sales during this period, with the glob-al experience, logistics network and deep pockets of Amazon putting it in a good position to grab customers from local market leader Flipkart and smaller firm Snapdeal. “Amazon has been closing in,” said Harish Bijoor, an independent brand ex-pert and business analyst. “It has global play and is very nifty in terms of delivery.” India current-ly contributes the most new customers to Amazon outside the United States, the company said, mak-ing growth there a priority.
Correspondent | Rajkot
Test regular Cheteshwar Pujara hosted a dinner party for the Indian crick-et team members at his residence in Rajkot on Thursday. The players are stationed in the city ahead of the third one-day in-ternational between the hosts and South Africa. A photo posted by BCCI’s official Twitter handle shows Pujara posing with the ODI team members. Indian skipper MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli are seen standing next to Pujara. Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Umesh Yadav, Amit Mishra and Rohit Sharma were also part of the dinner team. Injured
Agency | Indore
Some 2,000 people gath-ered to watch Team In-dia practice at the Hol-kar Stadium in Indore on Tuesday. They egged on every member of the team during the custom-ary football game and ensuing net sessions. But the crowd went mad when Virat Kohli waved at them, twice. Even so, the loudest cheers were reserved for MS Dhoni. It provides a rich picture of Indian cricket at the mo-ment. Kohli’s graph soars higher everyday, and the future – both in batting and leadership – looks exciting with him at the helm. The other colossal figure meanwhile is be-ginning to take his walk
Agency | Kolkata
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly today vowed to focus on junior cricket and create a system which produces players as he was unanimously elect-ed President of Cricket As-sociation of Bengal. “For us the entire focus will be on the 22 yards. That’s what the association is for and try and produce the best facilities. We have good facilities we will try to make it better and cre-ate a system which pro-duces players. It’s a new challenge but I believe the
Correspondent | Odense
On an extremely bad for India’s badminton hopes at the Denmark Open, top seed Saina Nehwal suffered a shock second round defeat while Kid-ambi Srikanth also failed to clear the second round in men’s singles of the USD 650,000 Super Se-ries Premier event. Also making an exit was men’s doubles pair of Manu At-tri and B Sumeeth Red-dy. World number one Saina lost 18-21 13-21 to world number 18 from Japan Minatsu Mitani in 39 minutes in the wom-en’s singles second round on Thursday. World no 5 Srikanth, who had a 1-1
When Team India visited Cheteshwar Pujara’s residence in Rajkot
Sourav Ganguly vows to focus on development of junior cricket
Denmark Open shock for India: Saina, Srikanth, Manu-Sumeeth lose
don’t write him off yet: dhoni may not be India’s finisher but he’s far from finished
Ranji Trophy: dabholkar keeps Tamil Nadu in check
Indian Super League is better than I-League, says Mumbai City FC’s Subhash Singh
Agency | Mumbai
Mumbai City FC’s attack-er Subhash Singh is not shy in pointing out that the Indian Super League (ISL) is a better tourna-ment than the I-League, and it is the way forward for Indian football. “ISL is the way forward for Indian football. I-League and ISL are two different leagues. I will say ISL is better than I-League. It’s an honour to play here and it gives you the op-
portunity to improve and from my point of view ISL is the way forward if Indian football needs to improve,” the striker. The first season of ISL was a huge success and so far the second edition has started on a positive note with decent fan-following on the ground and on tele-vision. Subhash’s team Mumbai has made a slow start to the tournament but the striker is confident that the team will start
getting desired results in the coming matches despite the slow start. Mumbai have lost one and drawn one so far and are seventh on the points table. “It has been a slow start so far for us, but we are all working very hard in training. We are work-ing hard as a team on the training ground and the pitch. So hopefully we will have positive results in the upcoming match-es,” he said.
Agency | Mumbai
BABA Aparajith and Baba Indrajith were born 12 minutes apart. On Thursday at the MCA-BKC ground, Vishal Dab-holkar sent them both on their way in less than 5 minutes. Not to forget in the space of two deliver-ies. As far as bowlers pro-ducing twin-strikes goes, it couldn’t have been more literal than this one. By getting rid of the influen-tial twins — Indrajith the older of the two and the stand-in captain in this match and Aparajith his fill-in deputy — in rapid succession, the diminutive Mumbai left-arm spinner
had also turned the game on its head. Tamil Nadu had finished the first ses-sion rather comfortably with their score reading 102/1 and with the pros-pect of feasting on the al-ready harried home team bowling attack, which looked set to get baked further under the searing October heat of Mumbai as afternoon beckoned. But in a jiffy — Dabhol-kar had dismissed the well-set Kaushik Gandhi two overs earlier — the visitors had self-destruct-ed to slip from a position of strength to a state of disarray, their score read-ing 107/4 as the Baba
twins left the scene. Amid the mayhem and witness-ing the tailspin from the other end, stood Dinesh Karthik. On his shoul-ders lay the responsibility of steadying the ship and lifting Tamil Nadu from the significant hole they had dug themselves into. But you can never tell which Dinesh Karthik had turned up at the crease. The one who would justi-fy his talent and stroke his team out of trouble or that other impudent alter-ego of his that could easily as well attempt an audacious swipe in the name of a counterattack and throw it all away?
into the sunset, after safeguarding the team’s interests. Dhoni alone can see the last steps of this journey. It has made for some uncomfortable tidings in the past four months. The loss to Ban-gladesh in June didn’t help. Kohli’s first Test series win in Sri Lanka only increased the vol-
ume of this unrest. Much has been said about Dho-ni’s leadership, and bat-ting. Most of it has been unfair. It is one thing to discredit one of its best captains on results alone. But to ask for an end to his tenure, solely because a ready-made captain is waiting in the wings is unjustified.
offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who is touring with the team, was also among the guests. Pujara, who is not part of the ODI squad, is a key member of the Test squad. Pujara marked his return to Test cricket with a series-win-ning century against Sri Lanka in the third and final Test of the tour. In-dia, under skipper Kohli,
went on to create history by winning a series on the Lankan soil after 22 years. The ongoing five-match ODI series against South Africa is leveled at 1-1, after Dhoni led India to a 22-run victory in the second ODI in Indore on Monday. Team India had a lovely dinner last eve-ning at the Pujara resi-dence in Rajkot.
knowledge of the game is important. We are a team. I learn also. There’s no mag-ic wand. I have learnt as a secretary, It’s same with Avishek also,” Ganguly said at a news conference after the Special General Meeting. The SGM, which lasted less than 10 min-utes, was just a formality as he was garlanded be-
fore taking over the hot seat in the BC Roy Club House where once Dalmi-ya ran the world cricket administration. A former joint secretary since 2014, Ganguly took over as the president, while junior Avishek Dalmiya was for-mally inducted into the cricket administration as joint-secretary. The two appointments were an-nounced by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secre-tariat Nabanna three days after Jagmohan Dalmiya’s demise on September 20.
record against Tommy Sugiarto of Indonesia coming into the match, failed to come up with his best game and lost 15-21 17-21 in the men’s sin-gles second round. The top Indian men’s doubles pair of Manu and Su-meeth, who reached the finals of Dutch Open last week, put up a brave fight before going down 19-21 22-20 19-21 to eight seeds Lee Sheng Mu and
Tsai Chia Hsin of Chi-nese Taipei. Last night, H S Prannoy went down fighting against Hsu Jen Hao of Chinese Taipei in the opening round. World no 16 Prannoy, who had lost to Hao at the 2011 Bulgarian International, could not exert enough pressure on his opponent and suffered a 21-23 21-19 15-21 loss in a match that lasted an hour and 21 minutes.
Come winter and Diu is all set to sizzle! The tiny Union territory , famed for its pristine seashores, will host the world’s lon-gest beach festival start-ing December 1. The 75-day festival ̀ Festa Di Diu’ will go on till February 2016, giving Goa’s Sun-burn a run for the money . The administration is set-ting up a festival village with luxury beach tents, spa, dinning and confer-ence space facilities.Diu has 2,500 hotel rooms. In addition to water sports, which is available round-the-year, adventure sports like bungee-jumping and hot air balloon rides are also planned. Rock bands Indian Ocean and Asia Elektric will also perform
at the festival that will witness top actors and artists such as Kailash Kher, Milind Soman, Vir Das, Hard Kaur, Neeraj Shridhar and Benny Day-al to name a few. “Our aim is make Diu a glob-al tourism destination. This year is a beginning and we plan to hold this festival every year,” said Manish Kumar Agrawal, IGP , Union Territories of Daman, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. With this festival, authorities are expecting tourist num-bers to double this year. “In 2014, around 17.5 lakh tourists visited Diu and this year we expect to cross 35 lakh mark,” add-ed Agrawal. Air India will also begin a daily flight for Diu from Mumbai by the end of this month.
Correspondent | Wanakbori
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel Thurs-day laid the foundation stone of the eighth and the biggest unit of state-owned Wanakbori ther-mal power station in Kheda district, with an investment of Rs 4,465 crore and power genera-tion capacity of 800 MW. Patel accused the erst-while UPA government of causing a six- year de-lay in giving necessary clearances to this power project. “We had sent an application to Govern-ment of India in 2009 for this project. Had timely environmental clearance been given, we would have been commission-ing the unit today,” said Patel about the Gujarat State Electricity Corpo-ration Limited-owned project that is expected to be completed by 2018-19. “When the project is completed, it will a BJP
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Head constable Reva Ra-thod and assistant sub-in-spector Rajendrasinh Va-ghela of the city crime branch became the sav-iours for two sisters, Meena, 22, and Fatima, 35, who were drown-ing in the Sabarmati near Subash bridge on Wednesday evening. Riding their bikes on the riverfront road to Sardar-nagar police station, both policemen saw these two girls clinging to each other in the waters of the Sabarmati near Sub-hash Bridge. “A crowd had gathered on the riv-erfront and bridge. Peo-
ple were recording the incident on cell phones as the girls were strug-gling for their lives,” said head constable Reva Rathod. Without wast-ing a minute, Reva took off his shirt, handed it over to Ran jendrasinh and jumped into the riv-er.”I am expert swimmer right from my childhood. When I reached the spot where the two girls were struggling to stay afloat, I found that one them had already fainted and the other one in desperation caught my hand,” said Rathod. The problem was that Reva couldn’t swim as the girl had caught hold of his hand.”
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Dr Nayana Patel of Akank-sha Fertility Clinic in Anand has created a mile-stone in surrogacy.She re-cently oversaw the delivery of the 1001st child carried by a surrogate mother for a childless couple. In fact, twin boys were delivered for a Bengalurubased cou-ple. With this, Dr Patel has single-handedly made Anand the surrogacy capi-tal of the world. Now, she has to her credit the deliv-ery of 1,001 children born to surrogate mothers.These include 507 boys and 494 girls. Dr Patel says she shares the credit for this milestone with the surro-
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
Following the immense popularity and phenom-enal success of the first season of its acting-based talent hunt show for kids - ‘India’s Best Dramebaaz’ that aired in 2013, Zee TV announces auditions for the second season of the show. The show promises to be a complete family entertainer as the cama-raderie between the judg-es, host and kids presents a fun-filled atmosphere that makes everyone feel at home. While the first season unearthed some exceptionally talented kids like Nihar, Pranit, Mehnaaz, Aditya Singhal
amongst others, this year, the search for India’s youngest and most talent-ed entertainers only gets bigger and better!...So, audiences can get set for some electrifying perfor-mances from an all-new set of powerhouse per-formers who will bring the house down with their awe inspiring talent. So what are you waiting for? The hunt for the ultimate draamebaaz begins as the auditions of India’s Best Dramebaaz 2 will happen in Ahmedabad on Thurs-day 22nd October. 9 AM onwards, India’s Best Dramebaaz will open its audition gates to every
Agency | New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking legal action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for al-legedly filing a defective affidavit relating to his marital status during the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections. A bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar rejected the plea filed by an Ahmedabad resident who had challenged the Gujarat high court order which refused to entertain his plea on the ground that it lacked merit. The complaint filed by Nis-hant Varma in April 2014 had sought an FIR against Modi for “hiding” his marital status in the affi-davit he had filed with his nomination for 2012 As-
Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad
At least one fisherman from Gujarat was injured in firing on Thursday by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (MSA) which also captured 24 fishermen and seized four of their boats near the International Maritime Boundary Line off Gu-jarat coast. However, the MSA later released the injured fisherman, identi-fied as Dhanji Bamaniya, on humanitarian grounds along with five others who sailed back to Jakhau coast on Thursday night. According to Nation-al Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) Secretary Manish Lodhari, Bamaniya, a res-ident of Union Territory of Diu, was hit in his arm in firing that took place in
the afternoon. “Showing some mercy on the injured fisherman, the Pakistan MSA allowed him to sail back to Gujarat with five other fishermen who were on board ‘Surya Kiran’ boat. Bamaniya and oth-ers ventured into the sea on October 7 from Mang-rol,” he said. The incident occurred as the MSA fired some rounds on their boat as “warning”, which re-sulted in injuries to Bam-aniya. “He was hit on his arm. Luckily, he is out of danger and admitted to a hospital in Bhuj,” Lodhari said. The released fisher-men took help of Coast Guard to return to Jakhau. “After these six fisher-men on one boat were al-lowed to go, they contact-ed Coast Guard for help. A Coast Guard boat went
Akshesh Patel | Ahmedabad
The Gujarat Second-ary and Higher Second-ary Education Board (GSHSEB) will tie up with Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited (UGVCL) to ensure un-interrupted power sup-ply to exam centres, mainly to ensure that the surveillance camer-as do not go off when the board examination is on. This is one of the solutions GSHSEB has come up with, apart from employing information technology (IT) experts at the centres, to count-er students and staff at examination centres de-vised to “outsmart” the policing measures to en-sure a cheat-free exam-ination. The surveillance project using CCTV cameras connected to a tablet, won the Skoch
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Gujarat fisherman hurt in Pakistan firing near IMBL, 24 in captivity
CM Anandiben Patel lays stone for 800-MW unit at Wanakbori station in Kheda
For continuous power supply to exam centres, state education board to tie up with discom
SC dismisses plea against Modi over 2012 election affidavit
According to NFF Secretary Manish Lodhari, Bamaniya, a resident of union Territory of diu, was hit in his arm in firing that took place in the afternoon.
into sea and guided their boat safely to the coast,” said Lodhari. Howev-er, 24 fishermen are still in captivity of MSA and they were taken to Ka-rachi during afternoon. “Though one boat and 6 fishermen were allowed to go, the MSA has captured 24 of our fishermen and seized four of their boats and took them to Karachi port. The fishermen told us that the MSA person-nel fired on Bamaniya’s
boat as a warning,” he said. The four boats cap-tured by MSA are- ‘Ma-heshwari-2’, ‘Shiv Shak-ti-5′, Matrubhoomi-2′ and Raj Laxmi-3’ and each of them was carrying six fishermen and sailing from Mangrol a week back. This is the second such incident of firing on Gujarat fishermen with-in one month. Earlier on September 18, one fisher-man from Okha port was killed in firing near IMBL.
Anandiben Patel accused the erstwhile uPA government of causing a six- year delay in giving necessary clearances to this power project
government that will come here to inaugurate it,” Patel added, sending a message to her political rivals that BJP will return to power in 2017 when the next state assembly elections are due. The project also marks a first in the history of GSECL (that was created as a en-tity responsible for power
generation after the Gu-jarat Electricity Board or GEB was unbundled) for setting up a super critical thermal power project that will have less emis-sion, low heating and lesser fuel consumption. “Today there are seven units of 210 MW each at this power plant. This unit will add another 800
MW and it will consume 25 percent less coal than the other seven units and will bring down the cost of power generation from Rs 3 per unit to Rs 2.40 per unit,” said Energy Minister Saurabh Patel. Once ready this 800 MW is expected to add to Gu-jarat’s existing quota of surplus power.
award 2015 under the smart governance cate-gory. The GSHSEB has decided to fix respon-sibility on UGVCL for continuous electricity supply to all the exam-ination centres. Another precaution taken by the GSHSEB is to depute IT technical experts at each examination cen-tre to ensure all proce-dures from installing of CCTV cameras, record-ing of examinations to submission of CDs have been duly followed.
These steps are after the board discovered that corrupt compact discs (CDs) were submitted to the board, or the power supply intentionally dis-rupted to dodge camera footage during the few critical minutes. On en-quiry from the board, this was then blamed on the erratic electricity supply for non- compli-ance of submitting the CCTV recorded footage and submitting ‘edited’ CDs with missing re-cordings.
sembly polls (when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat) for Maninagar seat. Verma had further contended that when Modi contested the Lok Sabha election in 2014, he mentioned his wife’s name in the affidavit for the first time, disclos-ing the earlier omission. Thus, Modi, in 2012, had committed an offence un-der section 125(A)(3) of Representation of Peo-ple Act, he said. Section
125 A(3) deals with con-cealment of information while filing affidavit and provides for imprison-ment up to six months. The high court had on July 3 dismissed the pe-tition demanding legal action against Modi and set aside the lower court’s finding that the offence had been committed but no action could be taken as the petition was filed after a delay more than one year.
Diu to host longest beach festival from December
Anand surrogacy creates milestone with 1,001st baby
gate mothers who helped Anand achieve this feat at a time when it is being debated whether surrogacy should be banned. “Ban-ning surrogacy will take away the right of an adult woman to choose how to support her family. It will also deny childless women the right to be moth ers,” she said. Dr Patel says sur-rogate mothers were paid Rs 1.5 lakh for each deliv-
ery in 2004. Now, they are paid anywhere from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 11 lakh. The av-erage compensation is Rs 6 lakh. Dr Patel’s first sur-rogate was a 46-year-old grandmother who chose to carry her daughter’s em-bryo to save the girl’s mar-riage. The 1,001 children born through surrogates include those born to cou-ples not only from India and NRIs but also to for-eign couples from 42 coun-tries. Dr Patel says hers is the only hospital that has formed a trust for surrogate mothers from which the women can take a loan of Rs 25,000 anytime to meet a family emergency.
Cop dives into river, rescues two sisters After the stupendous success of ‘India’s Best
dramebaaz’, Zee TV announces Auditions of Season 2
kid in Ahmedabad at Shri Narayan Guru Vidyalaya, Opposite ISRO, Ramdev Nagar, Jodhpur Tekra, Satellite, Ahmedabad.
