News BriefAggressive cricketers

like Kohli make it big: Dravid

Agency | Chennai

Rahul Dravid expects Virat Kohli to to deliv-er in his first full series as Test captain when the Indian cricket team leaves for Sri Lanka, besides backing the star batsman to continue playing in his “aggres-sive” style. “I think you have to be who you are. The beauty of this game is that it allows different people to succeed. Most people who succeed in this game over a period of time are aggressive. It is just that they show it differently. Some are more expressive and some are not,” said India A coach here today when asked about Kohli’s on-field behaviour.Gold, silver rebound

on good buying, global cues

Agency | Mumbai

Gold prices rebounded smartly at the bullion market here today fol-lowing good buying by stockists as well as local consumers amid bullish global cues. Silver too witnessed higher specu-lative and industrial offtake after its overnight fall. Standard gold (99.5 purity) climbed by Rs 250 to close at Rs 24,890 per 10 grams from Fri-day’s closing level of Rs 24,640. Pure gold (99.9 purity) rose by a similar margin at Rs 25,040 per 10 grams as compared to Rs 24,790 previously.Kejriwal moves HC seeking quashing of

case in AmethiAgency | Lucknow

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking quashing of a case against him for his al-leged inflammatory speech in Amethi during Lok Sabha elections last year.According to state government advocate Rishad Murtaza, the case was lodged against Kejriwal in Musafir-khana police station of Amethi in which charge sheet was filed and bailable warrant issued against him on July 20 this year, directing him to be present before the judicial magistrate.

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After heavy rain, several families homeless in Manipur near Myanmar border“Landslide triggered by heavy rain”

Incessant rains have left thousands of people homeless in Manipur amd Mizoram

Landslide buries a whole village, 20 dead

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Agency | New Delhi

A Supreme Court deputy registrar has resigned to protest against the judge-ment clearing the death penalty of 1993 Mum-bai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, saying two decisions within a span of hours are instanc-es of “judicial abdication” that should count among the “darkest hours” of the apex court. Professor Anup Surendranath, dep-uty registrar (research), who was appointed more than a year ago on con-tract, resigned on July 30, the day Memon was hanged to death, two hours after the court had upheld the death warrant. His res-ignation, which has come in the midst of a raging debate over death penalty and whether it should be used as a form of the State avenging a crime, has been accepted and he has been relieved, court sourc-

Agency | Patna

Yadav spoke to his “faith” in Kumar and his “old enmity” with Modi. How do you explain the contradiction in your alliance with Nitish Ku-mar who came to pow-er by criticising you? I’m not going to be swayed by what other people are thinking. Media, sponsored media of BJP and RSS, they are very perturbed and disturbed. So they will say the kind of thing you are saying. The discussion which the media is having in Delhi is anti-poor, an-ti-backward and anti-mi-nority. You nominated Nitish Kumar for chief minister. Was that a dif-ficult decision to make? I support Nitish despite all our differences, our fights and all the things we have said against each other. If

Agency | New Delhi

Nestle , the foods com-pany that has had a 103-year presence in India, is undergoing its worst crisis ever and its new country head is focused on fighting it and emerg-ing stronger. The compa-ny’s iconic Maggi noo-dles -- which had a 70 percent market share in its Rs 3,800-crore seg-ment, and which contrib-uted about 30 percent to the company’s revenues

Agency | Aizawl

Twenty people were killed in a landslide trig-gered by heavy incessant rain at Zoumoal village in Manipur’s Chandel district today, police said. Superintendent of Police of Chandel dis-trict Herojit Singh said 20 people were killed in the landslide at the vil-lage under Khangbarol sub-division of the dis-trict. The SP said that a police team has been sent to the spot which is located near Indo-Myan-mar border. Police rein-forcements reached the

New Nestle chief’s first job: ‘Bring Maggi noodles back’

Supreme Court deputy registrar quits over Yakub Memon’s hanging

es said. There are nearly 20 deputy registrars, a few of whom have been inducted from outside ju-diciary. “It would be silly and naive to see the events of the last 24 hours at the Supreme Court as some triumph of the rule of law -- the two orders at 4pm on 29th July and 5am on 30th July (and the reason-ing adopted therein) are instances of judicial ab-dication that must count amongst the darkest hours

for the Supreme Court of India.,” Surendranath had remarked on July 30. Surendranath is a faculty member of the Nation-al Law University, Del-hi, and director of Death Penalty Research Project. He was also associated with the filing of the peti-tion for stay of Memon’s death warrant. “I have been contemplating this for a while now for a va-riety of reasons, but what was played out this week

at the Supreme Court was the proverbial final nail -- I have resigned from my post at the Supreme Court to focus on death penalty work at the University. It is in many ways liberat-ing to regain the freedom to write whatever I want and I hope to make full use of that in the next few days to discuss the events that transpired at the Su-preme Court this week,” he wrote on a social net-working site.

area and were trying to remove the rubble to find the missing people, the officer said. T.S. Warn-gam, a vice president of

the United Naga Coun-cil, a civil society or-ganization, said that 20 villagers were feared to have been swept away

by the landslide and that one villager was rescued. Moderate to heavy rain-fall in the last few days has increased the water levels of several rivers, which are flowing above the danger mark. As a re-sult, many parts of Thou-bal and adjoining Chan-del districts are partly submerged, while resi-

dents have been moved to relief camps. In capital Imphal, the low-lying ar-eas and it’s outskirts are completely inundated. Meanwhile, swollen riv-ers in southern Mizoram rendered about hundred families homeless while one house was swept away by swirling Chhim-tuipui, officials said. Two

houses were also vacat-ed by the inhabitants in Darzokai village, on the banks of the Chhimtuipui river who took shelter in the village community hall. Flood in the Khaw-thlangtuipui river on the Bangladesh border sub-merged around 30 houses rendering around 70 fam-ilies homeless, adminis-

tration officials of south-ern Mizoram Lunglei district said. Submerged houses included a waiting shed constructed to com-memorate the arrival of the pioneer missionaries – Rev. J.H. Lorraine and Rev. F.W. Savidge – by boat in southern part of Mizoram ages back, the officials said.

‘What Modi Did In Gujarat... Was That Mangal Raj?’ - Lalu

you are always suspicious then it’s done. It’s finished. Difficult mean taking a decision like this and then the public approves it. Modi targeted you in his first campaign speech in Bihar. How do you re-spond to what he said about you dragging the state back to Jungle Raj? He will target the person who is powerful. What is Narendra Modi com-pared to me. The way that Krishna decimated Kans, the Yadhuvanshi sena will finish them. Why does he say Jungle Raj? I gave a voice to the poor, the backward, the Dalits. He calls this Jungle Raj? What he did in Gujarat...

was that Mangal Raj? Our enmity goes way back, Modi helped Advani climb the Rath Yatra, he is an enemy of backward castes, you think I will just leave him. I won’t leave him.The Congress has blocked all days of this Monsoon Session, so far, over the Lalit Modi scandal and Vyap-am scam. Taxpayers’ money is being wast-ed. Do you agree with the Congress strategy? What did the BJP do when it was in opposition? The Vyapam is such a massive scam -- should Congress and other parties keep quiet, they want to take land from the farmers and give it to foreigners, do you think we will be quiet about it? What else is the parliament for. They are doing the right thing.

-- is off the shelves, after it was banned by sever-al state food regulators amid reports it contained unusually high levels of lead and monosodi-um glutamate. A few days after taking over as the managing director of Nestle India, Suresh Narayan sat down with CNBC-TV18’s Shereen Bhan, and explained that his “first mandate was to bring Maggi noodles back in the market” and that his company would

work overtime to make sure it meets customers’ expectations on quality. But he steered cleared of getting into the minuti-ae of the Maggi noodles case -- except to say that Nestle was utmost fo-cused on quality and that it would focus on boost it further in the future.

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYFighting corruption won’t end poverty

Countries are poor because governments are corrupt. And, unless they ensure that public resources are not stolen, and public power is not used for private gain, they will remain poor, right? It certainly is tempting to believe so. Here, after all, is a narrative that neat-ly aligns the promise of prosperity with the struggle against injustice. As Pope Francis said on his recent trip to Latin America: “corruption is the moth, the gangrene of a people”. The corrupt deserve to be “tied to a rock and cast into the sea”. Perhaps they do. But that won’t necessarily make their countries more prosperous. Consider the data. Probably the best mea-sure of corruption is the World Bank’s Control of Cor-ruption Indicator, or CCI, which has been published since 1996 for over 180 countries. The CCI shows that while rich countries tend to be less corrupt than poor ones, countries that are relatively less corrupt for their level of development, such as Ghana, Costa Rica or Denmark, do not grow any faster than others. Nor do countries that improve in their CCI score, such as Zambia, Macedonia, Uruguay or New Zealand, grow faster. By contrast, the World Bank’s Government Effectiveness Indicator suggests that countries that, given their income level, have relatively effective governments or improve their performance, do tend to grow faster. For some reason—probably related to the nature of what New York University’s Jonathan Haidt calls our “righteous minds”—our moral senti-ments are strongly related to feelings of empathy in the face of harm and unfairness. It is easier to mo-bilize against injustice than for justice. We are more enthusiastic to fight the bad—say, hunger and pov-erty—than to fight for, say, the kind of growth and development that makes food and sustainable liveli-hoods plentiful. Sometimes switching from the “bad” to the corresponding “good” is simply a matter of se-mantics: to fight against racism is to fight for non-dis-crimination. But, in the case of corruption, which is a bad that is caused by the absence of a good, attacking the bad is very different from creating the good. The good is a capable state: a bureaucracy that can protect the country and its people, keep the peace, enforce rules and contracts, provide infrastructure and social services, regulate economic activity, credibly enter into inter-temporal obligations, and tax society to pay for it all. It is the absence of a capable state that causes corruption (the inability to prevent public officials, of-ten in collusion with other members of society, from subverting decision-making for private gain), as well as poverty and backwardness. Some might argue that reducing corruption entails the creation of a capable state; the good is created out of the fight against the bad. But is it? Teachers and nurses often do not show up for work, but that does not mean that performance would improve much if they did.

“Sedition charges should be slapped against people sympathising with Yakub Memon and those who have no faith in the Indian Constitution should go to Pakistan” - BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj today dubbed as “anti-national”

those mourning the death of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon...

Agency | Mumbai

Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan has wrapped the Bulgaria shooting sched-ule of Rohit Shetty’s up-coming family entertainer “Dilwale”. The 49-year-old “Chennai Express” star took to Twitter and shared the news, along with a sketch of Shet-ty. “Another schedule wrap… Another dream being weaved. Another hope being built, to en-tertain as only he can. Rohit,” he captioned the picture. “Dilwale” will

reunite the iconic pairing of Shah Rukh with ac-tress friend Kajol, who were last seen on the big screen in Karan Johar’s 2010 drama “My Name Is Khan”. Produced by Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainments and Ro-hit Shetty Productions’, “Dilwale” also stars Var-un Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, Vinod Khanna, Boman Irani, Kabir Bedi, Sanjay Mishra and Varun Shar-ma among others. The film is set to hit theatres on December 18.

Agency | New Delhi

The actress is excited about her upcoming re-lease with the Prince of Tollywood, Mahesh Babu, and she can’t stop gushing about the film. Shruti Haasan’s film with Mahesh Babu, Sriman-thudu, is hitting theatres in August and the audi-ence is looking forward to the film. Asked what

she liked about Mahesh Babu, the actress said in an interview that the star was ‘disciplined, well-mannered and had no airs’. Mahesh Babu is an actor who is ground-ed and committed to his craft she added. Ma-hesah Babu and Shruti Haasan have worked to-gether in Aagadu before which was a Telugu ac-tion comedy film. Sri-

manthudu is said to be an entertainer too but with a twist. The distribution rights for this film have been sold for a whopping profit already. Director Koratala Siva’s previous films have been hits and expectations are high from this film. The au-dio of the film is already a superhit. No wonder Shruti can’t stop gushing about the Prince!

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Aditi Rao Hydari and filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar are to head-line the Yoube Jewellery show at India Internation-al Jewellery Week (IIJW) 2015. A diamond jewel-lery design house, Yoube Jewellery will present its line for the first time at IIJW on August 5. While

Bhandarkar will be open-ing the show, Rao Hydari will close the show, read a statement from the or-ganisers. Amare, the line, is a conglomeration of Indian statement piec-es with European influ-ences. The brand’s head Aakash Barmecha said: “I’m ecstatic about being a part of IIJW for the first time as it is the biggest

platform for jewellers to display their creativ-ity and talent. There has been a lot of hard work invested in the research and development, con-ceptualisation and exe-cution of the jewels. “We delayed participation in the previous years as we wanted to be completely ready for such a presti-gious event.

Agency | New Delhi

Director Vijay is known for his mild-paced mov-ies, which throw light on various facts of life. While ‘Kireedam’ is about a youngster who aspires to become a cop, ‘Madrasapattinam’ took us to a bygone era. ‘Deiva Thirumagal’ spoke about a kid and her kid-like fa-ther, while his much re-cent attempt, ‘Saivam’, is about embracing vege-terianism. And there are films like ‘Thalaiva’, ‘Poi Solla Porom’ and ‘Thaan-davam’. Cut to the pres-ent, ‘Idhu Enna Mayam’ is one more to the list. The urban movie is a romantic entertainer which is clean to the core. But it is slow and takes the template route till the climax. Arun (Vikram Prabhu) runs

a drama group with his friends. Since it fails to bring in money, he starts a new venture called Unnal Mudiyum Thambi, which tries to help out those suf-fering from love failures. So what UMT will do? It will come out with a script suiting the needs of its clients, execute it with surgical precision and make them succeed in their love life. Santhosh (Navdeep), a business-man, approaches UMT, as he wants to marry Maya (Keerthi Suresh). Call it fate, Maya is the ex-lover of Arun. They saw each other during their college days, but parted ways due to ego. But Arun takes up Santhosh’s offer and does all things possible to unite him with Maya. At one point of time, he realises that his love for

Maya is still alive. What he does after that? Vikram Prabhu, for the first time, plays a lover boy in a city. His energetic per-formance adds zing to the movie. Keerthi Suresh (who has dubbed on her own in first Tamil film itself) is a welcome ad-dition to K-town’s hero-ines. Nasser, Ambika and RJ Balaji are also there. G V Prakash Kumar’s background score touches our heart, while his songs stay away from the ears. And here is the real hero of the movie- Nirav Shah. He lens do all the talking when the script fails in some scenes. All said, ‘Idhu Enna Mayam’ is a neat romantic entertainer. But its weakness lies in its pace, predictability and familiarity. If you are okay with it, go grab a ticket.

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Jacqueline Fer-nandez is going through a great phase, working with big stars under big ban-ners, and her first hero, Riteish Deshmukh has a great opinion of her, term-ing her a “live wire” on the sets of their latest film “Bangistan”. Asked at a media interaction about the equation he shared with Jacqueline, Riteish said: “One thing that has not changed about her is her intention to work harder every time. She

is extremely hardwork-ing. Whenever she comes on the sets, she is like a live wire, there’s a certain amount of energy she has that she brings on the sets or wherever she is. “What has changed is the fact is that she’s become a bet-ter performer, even more confident dancer, you can see that in her perfor-mance in songs, there is a certain level of perfec-tion that she’s attained. Hats off to her and I wish her all the best. I’m really happy for her that she’s

doing so well.” Jacque-line’s first two films were with Riteish – “Aladin” and “Jaane Kaha Se Aayi Hai”. But she got more recognition for her song in “Housefull” which Riteish was also a part of. They worked again in “Housefull 2″ and then she went on to do many successful films like “Murder 2″, “Race 2″ and “Kick”. “Bangistan” also stars Pulkit Samrat and is produced by Excel Enter-tainment. It is scheduled to release on August 7.

Shah Rukh wraps Bulgaria shoot of ‘Dilwale’

Shruti Haasan says Prince Mahesh Babu is a gentleman!

Jacqueline Fernandez was a live wire on ‘Bangistan’ sets: Riteish

‘Idhu Enna Mayam’ Movie Review by NaveenAditi Rao, Madhur Bhandarkar

to dazzle IIJW 2015 ramp

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Agency | Mumbai

The Bombay High Court has reserved its order on the ongoing case be-tween Nestle India and the Food Safety and Stan-dards Authority of India (FSSAI) over the na-tion-wide ban enforced on sale of its popular 2-minute Maggi noo-dles. The court has said that as there was no con-sensus on fresh tests, the matter would be posted for a fresh hearing next week. Nestle had moved the high court against a June 5 ban imposed on sale and manufacture of Maggi noodles and a ban issued in Maharash-tra on June 6 after 30

samples out of 72 tested high for lead content. A two-judge bench of the high court, comprising of Justices V M Kanade and B P Colabawalla has asked the FSSAI to con-duct a retest of the sam-ples. Mehmood Pracha, counsel for FSSAI CEO Yudhvir Singh told the court that a retest was not permitted under the Food Safety Act, and said that if permitted, it could open up other sim-ilar cases for legal scru-tiny. Darius Khambata, counsel for the Maha-rashtra food authorities, said the extra preserved samples already taken could be tested, but only in referral labs.

Agency | New Delhi

The government plans to infuse Rs.70,000 crore into state-run banks over the next four years to re-inforce their capital base, help them meet demand for credit and adhere to new international stan-dards that will take ef-fect by the end of 2017, signalling a rethink of its strategy. The Nation-al Democratic Alliance government will pro-

vide public sector banks Rs.25,000 crore this fiscal year and again in 2016-17, and Rs.20,000 crore over 2017-18 and 2018-19, the finance ministry said on Friday. “Alloca-tion for first-year recap-italization is adequate,” Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghu-ram Rajan told report-ers after meeting finance minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi. “It’s a good beginning,” he added.

Agency | California

Facebook says it will be-gin test flights later this year for a solar-powered drone with a wingspan as big as a Boeing 737, in the next stage of its campaign to deliver Internet con-nectivity to remote parts of the world. Engineers at the giant social network say they’ve built a drone with a 140-foot wing-span that weighs less than 1,000 pounds. Designed to fly at high altitudes for up to three months, it will use lasers to send Internet signals to stations on the ground. Though Facebook is better known for online software that lets people share news with friends, watch viral videos — and view commercial adver-tising — engineers in a unit called the Connectiv-ity Lab are working on a

different set of problems. For one thing, they are de-signing a laser communi-cations system they hope will be accurate enough to hit a target the size of a dime at a distance of 11 miles, said Yael Maguire, director of the unit, which is responsible for drones, satellites and other high-tech communications projects. “There’s a lot of moving parts here that have to work in concert,” said Maguire, during a press briefing at the com-pany’s headquarters. The project is part of a broader Facebook effort that also contemplates using satel-lites and other high-tech gear to deliver Internet service to hundreds of millions of people living in regions too remote for conventional broadband networks.

Virat Kohli seeks session with physio to battle Chennai heat, stress

unmukt Chand named captain of India ‘A’ squad for tri-series

Govt to infuse Rs.70,000 crore in state-run banks over 4 years

Bombay HC says will rule on Maggi case next week

Facebook ready to test giant drone for Internet service

Agency | Bangalore

Young Delhi batsman Unmukt Chand was on Saturday appointed India A captain for the upcom-ing ODI cricket tri-se-ries involving Australia A and South Africa A starting here on August 5. Karnataka batsman Karun Nair has been ap-pointed Unmukt’s depu-ty as the All-India Senior Selection Committee picked a 15-member squad. All the matches

will be played in Ban-galore at the MA Chid-ambaram Stadium with the final scheduled on August 14. Meanwhile, Ambati Rayudu has been picked to lead the India A side in the two-Test series against South Af-rica A starting August 18 in Wayanad. Tri-series: Unmukt Chand (capt), Mayank Agarwal, Man-ish Pandey, Karun Nair (vice-captain), Kedar Jadhav, Sanju Sanson, Axar Patel, Parvez Ra-

sool, Karn Sharma, Dha-wal Kulkarni, Sandeep Sharma, Rush Kalaria, Mandeep Singh, Gur-keerat Singh Mann, Rishi Dhawan. Tests: Ambati Rayudu (capt), Karun Nair, Abhinav Mukund, Ankush Bains, Shreyas Iyer, Baba Aparajith, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Axar Patel, Karn Sharma, Abhimanyu Mithuin, Shradul Thak-ur, Ishwar Pandey, Shel-don Jackson, Jiwanjot Singh.

Agency | Chennai

India Test captain Virat Kohli, who played for India ‘A’ in the second unofficial four-day Test

against Australia ‘A’ in Chennai, found a way out to battle the heat of the city and the stress. In a re-cent Facebook post, Kohli

posted a picture of his with the physio and wrote “Post match session with the physio. Much needed in the Chennai Heat.

Agency | Chennai

Tennis ace Sania Mirza is set to be conferred the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna for the year 2014-15. Even though her Wimbledon perfor-mance last month — she bagged her maiden Grand Slam women’s doubles title with Martina Hingis — will not be counted, her performance in oth-er major events makes her the favourite. Sania,

Agency | kuala lumpur

Throughout more than 120 years of Olympic history, no city has hosted both the winter and sum-mer games. Now, Bei-jing will be the first do it -- and in the span of just 14 years. The Chinese

capital was awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, beating Kazakh rival Almaty 44-40 in a surprisingly close vote marred by technical prob-lems, taking the games back to the city that host-ed the summer version

Agency | London

Roll up, roll up! Pit your wits against the best! See if you too can fail to predict what will hap-pen in the greatest sport-ing battle on Earth! This summer’s roller-coaster Ashes series, this an-cient display of snorting sporting enmity, has so far proved that successful punditry is neither art nor science. It is a futile ex-ercise in turning round a few times in a makeshift blindfold and stabbing wildly at a small balloon with a rolling pin. In an exhilarating series of car crash TV the only thing that has been predictable is its capriciousness. Who honestly knew which En-gland team would turn

up at Edgbaston – the supine batting side who collapsed into themselves at Lord’s, losing by 405 runs, or the carefree Car-diff cavaliers? Who had a clue which Jimmy An-derson would puff up his quiff at Birmingham – the busted flush accused of giving up on the Lord’s featherbed or the artful, unplayable seam-demon who would take six for 47 on Wednesday. Who cor-rectly foresaw either the fairytale in motion that was Steven Finn’s rebirth or the brutal realpolitik of the Australian selec-tors who dropped Brad Haddin while he was in a personal crisis. Winning the toss on Wednesday was vital, and then it was

not. Stodgy captain Cook has not turned out to be that way at all, and the pressure is now on wiry, wily Michael Clarke (94 runs in three Tests). And so we run alongside fast-er and faster, talking and listening and writing and tweeting and comment-ing below the line and working ourselves into a frenzy of confusion – red lorry, yellow lorry, red lolly, lellow lorry, led lol-ly, lellow lolly... Which side are the more unit-ed? Who has the great-er mental strength? The upper hand the commen-tator holds is his or her knowledge. But the past few weeks seem to have rendered evidence-based decisions superfluous.

Agency | New Delhi

India off-spinner Rav-ichandran Ashwin was presented the Arjuna Award on Friday, which was conferred on him last year, by the Sports Minis-ter Sarbananda Sonowal. Ashwin was not present during the Award Cere-mony at Rashtrapati Bha-wan on August 29, 2014 as he was a part of the In-dia ODI team, which was touring England at that time. The 28-year-old Ashwin, who has taken 124 wickets in 25 Tests, 139 in 99 ODIs and 26 wickets in 25 T20 inter-nationals, was expressed his delight after receiv-ing the prestigious award. “The journey has been pretty good so far. I have been very lucky, in a lot of aspects I thank God for that. To a greater degree I just played for the coun-try and felt that I was very lucky and then to be con-ferred the Arjuna award today from the Sports

The Ashes 2015: Switchback ride between England and Australia leaves pundits in a daze

Ravichandran Ashwin presented with Arjuna Award

Minister is a big honour. I hope I serve the coun-try in a better fashion and get more awards,” Ash-win told reporters. With Sri Lanka tour round the corner, first Test begins August 12, Ashwin is not under any sort of pressure and is busy enjoying his game. “Honestly, pressure is something that we are used to all the time. So pressure is not something that is a factor. I want to

go there and get used to the conditions. I just want to enjoy my game. I am doing really well, the ball is coming out well so I just want to enjoy myself,” he said. He became the fast-est bowler in 80 years to complete 100 wickets in his 19th Test in November 2013 against the West In-dies at the Wankhede Sta-dium, which was the the farewell game of Sachin Tendulkar.

Sania Mirza set to win Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award

recipient of the Arjuna Award in 2004 and Padma Shri in 2006, won gold in mixed doubles with Sa-keth Myneni and bronze in women’s doubles with Prarthana Thombare at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. She also won the US Open mixed doubles

title with Bruno Soares last year. HT has reliably learnt that the sports min-istry took the decision to forward Sania’s name to the awards committee on Friday. The panel will meet shortly to decide on the list of awardees. The ministry took the decision after the All India Ten-nis Association (AITA) missed the deadline for sending the application by over two months.

Beijing selected to host 2022 Winter Olympic Gamesin 2008. Beijing was seen by the International Olympic Committee as a secure, reliable choice that also offered vast commercial opportunities in a new winter sports market of more than 300 million people in north-ern China. “It really is a safe choice,” IOC Presi-dent Thomas Bach said. “We know China will deliver on its promises.” The IOC’s secret vote was conducted by paper ballot, after the first elec-tronic vote experienced technical faults with the voting tablets and was not counted.

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Correspondent | Banaskantha

Rains have stopped in Gujarat, but flood waters are killing people even while in retreat. In Ban-askantha, north Gujarat, a 21-year-old youth lost his life after he was washed away in flood waters while walking through his fields with his father. Over 600 villages in the district have been affect-ed by floods and despite two days of negligible rainfall, the administra-tion has failed to reach the distressed areas. Ac-cording to residents, the beginning of restoration work remains on paper. The biggest roadblock to the efforts of government agencies remains the lack of connectivity. Villagers have been complaining of scarcity of food and potable water while road and mobile connectivi-ties remain suspended. According to govern-ment sources, a survey to gauge the extent of dam-age and the correspond-

Correspondent | Kutch

Three persons including a girl were killed and six others sustained injuries on Saturday when a used artillery shell exploded at Mota Dinara village of Khavda tehsil in Kutch district of Gujarat, offi-cials said. A firing range of Army is located in this area. “The victims tried to break an Army shell with a hammer and it exploded,” in-charge deputy superintendent of police, Bhuj, AN Vala said. The deceased were identified as Vali Mohammad Gani Sama

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The death toll due to heavy rains earlier this week which created a flood-like situation in north Gujarat and Kutch has reached 40, includ-ing 14 deaths in the worst-affected Banas-kantha district. “As per the reports received till Friday, at least 40 per-sons have lost lives in different parts. 14 deaths were reported in Banas-kantha alone, while five deaths reported in the adjoining Patan district and four in Kutch,” said state relief director Bi-pin Bhatt. Though the rains have stopped or let up for the last two days, many areas of north Gu-jarat remain inundated. The state government has deployed 16 teams of National Disaster Re-sponse Force for relief and rescue work in these areas. As per an official release, some 1,100 peo-ple were evacuated from

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Mufti Abdul Qayum Mansuri, who was ac-quitted by the Supreme Court in the Akshardham temple attack case, on Friday rebutted allega-tions made in retired IPS officer D G Vanzara’s Rs 101-crore defamation suit over the contents of the former’s book, ‘11 years Behind Bars’. In his reply, Mufti has in-sisted that the graphic description of custodial torture given in his book is true. He has, however,

added that publication of his book cannot damage the reputation of a per-son who is already an ac-cused in several fake en-counter cases, including the murder and abduc-tion cases of Kauserbi, Ishrat Jahan and others. The acquitted cleric also questioned Vanzara’s claims of being patriot-ic. “His claim that he is a patriot doesn’t befit a murder accused,” Muf-ti has said in his reply. “It is not fair on his part to tell the court that he

(Vanzara) is a patriot and others are traitors.... He is accused of killing two helpless women. and of destroying ev-idence. A person who was entrusted with the responsibility of protect-ing people is accused of killing innocent people.” Mufti has termed the lit-igation an effort on the part of the government and politicians to intimi-date him. He also called it an attempt to discredit his demand made in the Supreme Court for crim-

inal prosecution of Van-zara and other cops. He has alleged that Vanzara does not seem to have studied the government records or the SC or-der and had deliberate-ly avoided placing all documents with his suit.Mufti has further stat-ed that the claims made in the book were first made in his retraction to forced confession in 2003. He has been main-taining this for 11 years but only the apex court paid heed to it and men-

tioned these details in its judgment also.Taking a dig at Vanzara’s im-age, Mufti has submit-ted that the former is an IPS officer but the state government put him be-hind bars in serious cas-es and he has not even mentioned this in his plea. Mufti has written, “All details mentioned in the book are correct and I stand by that today also.” City civil judge J V Pandya has permitted Vanzara to file a rejoin-der to this.

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A teenager was allegedly gangraped by four boys at a city hotel, police said on Saturday. The 17-year-old girl filed the complaint on Friday alleging that she was gangraped by her boyfriend and three of his friends while two others helped them in the act, police inspector of Maninagar Police Station A G Gohil said. “We have arrested five persons in the case so far while the sixth accused is absconding,” Gohil said. The girl re-portedly went missing on July 26 after which her father lodged a complaint of

abduction with Maninagar Police Sta-tion, he said. On Friday, the girl reached our police station and said that her boy-friend had lured her to go with him, po-lice said. “As per the girl’s complaint the boy took her to a hotel in Kagdapith area of the city and raped her. She also alleged that later he called up his five friends to the hotel where three of them raped her and two others helped them,” Gohil said narrating girl’s complaint. Police swung into action after receiving the complaint of the girl and arrested five persons overnight, he said.

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The Gujarat High Court on Friday issued notices to state government and the Enforcement Direc-torate (ED), Ahmedabad on a Public Interest Liti-gation (PIL) seeking the investigation of two po-lice cases in Surat in con-nection with Rs10,000 crore hawala scam to be handed over to An-ti-Terrorism Squad-like agency, or a team be formed by the court. The petitioner has sought di-rection from the court that it should hand over the investigation to ATS or any agency “having expertise in the field of detection of crime of or-ganized gangs as well as high-tech communica-tion devices.” The pe-titioner has also asked that the court may direct to form a special team and monitor the day-to-day progress. The

Rs10,000-crore hawala case : Gujarat HC notices to govt, ED on PIL seeking SIT probe

Death toll due to heavy rain hits 40

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petitioner, identified as Dharmesh V Patel, has alleged in the PIL that the main accused Afroz Hasan Fatta has generat-ed huge amount of mon-ey running into billions of rupees “as a result of systematic, white-collar criminal activity of mon-ey laundering as well as siphoning of the amount abroad.” Following a brief argument, the divi-sion bench led by Act-ing Chief Justice VM

Sahai issued notices and adjourned the hearing till August 17. The peti-tion claims that Fatta in-dulged in hawala activity for the past five to six years and had amassed huge wealth which he allegedly diverted and invested in “real estate, stock market and fund-ing criminal activities.” The petitioner has also alleged that the main ac-cused has allegedly “per-petrated fraud with the

economy of the nation” and “have in all probabil-ity facilitated the anti-na-tional/terrorist/criminal activities.” The Surat police had lodged two FIRs against Afroz Fatta among others based on which the ED launched an investigation. The ED has so far detected a total of Rs 10,000 crore hawala transaction and the money went abroad mostly to Dubai and Hong Kong.

Banaskantha, Kutch and Patan districts in the last 96 hours, it said. Indian Air Force has pressed four MI-17V5 helicop-ters from Jamnagar into the rescue operations. Around 3.62 lakh food packets were airdropped over 101 villages in Ban-askantha and Patan dis-tricts, the release stated. Four Army columns were sent to Bhuj to assist the district administration in the inundated village of Hodka near Khavda. So far the Army has rescued

600 people. In a separate operation, in Dholka, of Ahmedabad district, the Ahmedabad fire brigade rescued 37 tribal labour-ers from Dahod district who were working in the paddy fields in Pisawada village and got stranded when the waters released from the Sabarmati in-undated the areas. Min-ister of State for Health Shanker Chaudhary and Chief Secretary G R Al-oria Friday conducted an aerial survey of the affected region. Later,

they held a review meet-ing at Palanpur. Accord-ing to Aloria, around 2.5 lakh food packets were being distributed daily in the affected areas and this would continue for another four to five days. The state health depart-ment has sent 34 medi-cal teams to the affected region with 12 mobile clinics, called ‘San-jivani Raths’. To prevent malaria outbreak, two specialist doctors and 25 health workers have been sent.

Hundreds of villages in Gujarat struggling to find food and drinkable water in aftermath of devastating floods

ing aid and compensa-tion would begin shortly. Damage to crops as well as loss of livestock has crippled Banaskantha. A heavy downpour caused by depression over north Gujarat and Kutch re-gions had thrown life out of gear as torrential rains caused flood-like situations in several areas such as Banaskantha, Pa-

tan and Mehsana districts of north Gujarat. The government as well as the local administration claimed that relief and rescue operations were in full swing as also efforts to evacuate people to saf-er locations. “A team of Army from Dhranghdhra base in Gujarat’s Suren-dranagar district and four teams of National

Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Pune were sent to Banaskantha dis-trict, which is worst af-fected,” state disaster control room officer TB Patel had said. Besides this, two Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters were pressed into service for rescue operations in the district, he said. A large number of cattle have also been killed in the floods and several shel-ters had been devastated. Many parts of Banaskan-tha district have been cut off from the mainland and power supply has been disrupted in several areas. In the 24 hours, Vadgam

in Banaskantha district had received 495 mm of rains, followed by Deesa (410 mm), Palanpur (317 mm), Amirgadh (314 mm) and Dhanera (302 mm). Meanwhile, the sit-uation in flood-affected Jalore and Sirohi districts of Rajasthan was limping back to normalcy, even as Nagaur got the maximum rainfall of 13 cms in the state on Friday, officials said. There was no fresh casualty due to rain re-lated incidents anywhere in Jalore and Sirohi dis-tricts, officials said, add-ing Nagaur recorded the maximum rainfall of 13 cm till 8:30 am on Friday.

Gujarat: Three killed in Army shell explosion in Kutch

(18), Sama Gafur Kudi-ya (16) and a girl called Ashaben Gani Sama (12). While the two boys died on the spot, the girl died at the Bhuj civil hospital, Vala said. Ac-

cording to the police, the brass shell had been col-lected by a scrap dealer and the victims some-how got hold of it. The police were conducting further investigation.

Five arrested for gangrape of 17-year-old girl in Ahmedabad

Mufti stands by his book, rebuts Vanzara’s charges