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News BriefPenguin to

publish Disney books in India

Agency | New Delhi

Disney’s iconic Mickey and Friends characters as well as - Aladdin, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Dumbo and the cast of ‘The Jungle Book’ will now be published in the country by Pen-guin Random House which today announced the launch with Dis-ney India’s Consumer Products business. Pub-lished under the Puf-fin imprint and aimed at young readers, the fully-illustrated books will include readers, storybooks, colouring and activity as well as novelty books.

‘Don’ was a masterpiece:

Amitabh Bachchan

Rupee sinks 19 paise vs dollar in

early trade

Agency | New Delhi

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says the Chandra Barot-directed 1978 action film “Don” was a masterpiece. Bachchan, 73, played the titular character of the most wanted crimi-nal in the movie, which also starred Zeenat Aman and Pran in piv-otal roles. “DON com-pletes several years... And what a masterpiece it was... For me just an-other day of apprehen-sions!,” he posted on Twitter.

Agency | Mumbai

Breaking its sixth-day rising streak, the ru-pee weakened by 19 paise to quote at 67.27 against the dollar at the Interbank Foreign Ex-change (forex) market today on fresh demand for the American cur-rency from importers and banks. A firm dol-lar against some glob-al currencies overseas weighed on the rupee, but further gains at the domestic equity market capped the losses, deal-ers said. Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex advanced 63.62 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 24,710.10 in early trade.

Free speech can’t advocate break-up of nation : Arun Jaitley slams Opposition“Jaitley in Rajya Sabha”

Congress tried to fix a BJP leader

Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan rides on Harley to Parliament on Women’s Day

Why wasn’t Art of Living asked for green clearance: NGT to Centre

Banks ask Supreme Court to ban Vijay Mallya from overseas travel

Indian Air Force will get first woman fighter pilot on June 18, says Arup Raha

Agency | New Delhi

It’s not often that an MP makes an impression in Parliament before even parking their vehicle, but Congress MP Ran-jeet Ranjan bucked the trend on Tuesday after arriving on an orange Harley-Davidson motor-cycle to make a state-ment on Women’s Day. The 42-year-old Lok Sabha who represents Supaul in Bihar rode around the Parliament complex before enter-ing the House. A mother of two, Ranjeet said she does not allow even her husband Rajesh Ranjan,

Agency | New Delhi

The first batch of women fighter pilots, compris-ing three cadets, will be inducted in the Indian Air Force on June 18. Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said three women trainee officers have vol-unteered to be inducted in the combat role. “We inducted women as pi-lots in 1991, but on only helicopter and transport (planes). I must thank the Defence Minister

Agency | New Delhi

With key bills stuck in Parliament, Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley on Tues-day reached out to oppo-sition asking them to shed “disruptive” politics and sought their cooperation while countering Rahul Gandhi’s attack over is-sues related to JNU, intol-erance, inflation and for-eign policy. Responding to attack on JNU row, he

said the government has nothing against a “partic-ular student”, an apparent reference to student lead-er Kanhaiya Kumar, but asserted that free speech cannot be allowed to be used to advocate break-up of the country. “I ex-pect mainstream political parties like Congress to be in the forefront of be-ing against these people. Please don’t do anything

Agency | New Delhi

Buckling under pressure, the Modi government on Tuesday announced in Parliament that the pro-posal to tax 60 per cent of Employees’ Provident Fund has been withdrawn. “We propose to withdraw the tax… the tax proposal for NPS scheme has been retained,” Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, adding that “the intention

was to encourage a pen-sioned society”. In his budget proposal, Jaitley had proposed that 40 per cent of the EPF withdraw-als would be tax exempt and the remaining 60 per cent would also get the same treatment provided the amount is invested in pension annuity schemes. This proposal was criti-cised by the parties and the unions which said it amounted to forcing em-Agency | New Delhi

A high-profile controver-sial event planned on Del-hi’s eco-sensitive Yamu-na floodplain appeared uncertain on Tuesday after the national green tribunal asked the Centre to explain why the organ-isers weren’t asked to get an environmental clear-ance. The organisers of the World Culture Festi-val, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s the Art of Living Foundation, ad-mitted before the green court that with three days to go, no fire department or transport department permissions had been obtained. The NGT ad-

Agency | New Delhi

Worried about the fate of loans worth thousands of crores of rupees given to the now-defunct King-fisher Airlines, a consor-tium of 17 banks on Tues-day moved the Supreme Court seeking to restrain industrialist Vijay Mal-lya from leaving India. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought an urgent hearing of the petition filed by 17 banks, includ-ing the State Bank of In-dia, which also sought the impounding of Mallya’s passport. A bench head-ed by Chief Justice of India TS Thakur agreed to hear it on Wednesday. The banks’ move comes a

also a Lok Sabha mem-ber from Bihar, to touch the bike, which she had purchased from her own earnings. However, he does get a chance to sit pillion as she rides the American classic. Pric-es of Harley-Davidson motorcycles start from around Rs 4.5 lakh. Ran-

jeet said she can come to Parliament on motorcy-cle and cycle daily. “My life has been such that my parents have never objected to whatever I have done so far,” she said. She later also par-ticipated in the discus-sion on Women’s Day in Lok Sabha.

day after the Enforcement Directorate registered a money laundering case against Mallya and the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) barred him from touching the Rs 515 crore settlement he reached with Diageo. The DRT will hear the matter again on March 28. The ED case

is based on a CBI probe into alleged “wilful de-fault” by the high-flying owner of Kingfisher Air-lines on a Rs 900-crore loan in conspiracy with IDBI Bank representa-tives. The SBI, the larg-est lender of Kingfisher, had approached the DRT in Bangalore to restrain

Mallya from withdraw-ing Rs 515 crore he got as a severance package from London--based Di-ageo. Mallya had quit the chairmanship of its Indi-an company, United Spir-its Ltd, last month. Banks Kingfisher Airlines owes money to have demanded “first right” to the Diageo cash, arguing that they were left with unpaid debts worth Rs 7,000 crore when the compa-ny collapsed more than three years ago. The SBI declared Mallya— once known as “The King of Good Times” for his flashy lifestyle and lavish parties— a wilful default-er last month.

journed the matter until Wednesday, when a ver-dict is expected. The de-velopments came a day after President Pranab Mukherjee pulled out of the three-day cultur-al extravaganza in east Delhi that is under fire for flattening the flood-plain, destroying birds’ nesting sites and chok-

ing the polluted Yamuna with construction debris. “You (ministry of envi-ronment and forests) file an affidavit by tomorrow and tell us why no envi-ronmental clearance is needed for raising tem-porary structures in flood plains,” a bench head-ed by NGT chairperson Swantanter Kumar said.

for having approved the IAF’s proposal to induct women as fighter pilots. Very soon…on June 18, the Air Force will get women fighter pilots. “As of now three wom-en trainees have volun-teered to join the fighter stream. They are under

the second phase of their training. Once they com-plete their training…they are on par with their male colleagues and the pass-ing out parade is sched-uled on June 18,” Raha said. He was speaking at a seminar on ‘Women in Armed Medical Corps’

organised to mark Inter-national Women’s Day here, which was also at-tended by Defence Min-ister Manohar Parrikar. The Defence Ministry had cleared the proposal of inducting women as fighter pilots in October last year. Parrikar also lauded Raha’s insistence to push forward the pro-posal to induct women as fighter pilots in the Indi-an Air Force. “Though I approved and support the proposal, it was he who was consistently pushing the file to the MoD (Min-istry of Defence) level.

that lends respectability to such people,” he said.

He also talked about the present NPA crisis in banks, saying it was “not a big crisis but cer-tainly a challenge” and questioned why the pre-vious government did not take steps to avert the situation. Intervening

in the debate on Motion of Thanks to President’s Address in Rajya Sabha, Jaitley rejected Rahul Gandhi’s charge that the government has “giv-en away” the benefits of previous years on Pa-kistan, saying “We are compelling Pakistan for first time to own up that attack in India is taking place from their land.” To hit back, he attacked pre-vious UPA government by raking up the ‘Sharm el-Sheikh’ episode, say-

ing “you agreed to hold talks with Pakistan irre-spective of whether ter-rorism stops or not.” In his 45-minute speech, Jaitley said, “This is the time when we don’t need obstructive democracy.

Our approach will have to be to work together. This is the spirit with which this government needs to function.” Reacting to charges made by Rahul Gandhi on various issues, including the government

not passing the benefit of reduction in crude oil pric-es to consumers, Jaitley took a dig at the Congress Vice President, saying the “most dangerous calcula-tion is the one done at the back of an envelope”.

EPF tax: After a taxing week, Jaitley rolls back contentious proposal

ployees to invest in pen-sion annuity schemes. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi reacted to the development in Par-liament, saying: “I felt middle-class people were being hurt by govern-ment, so I decided to put some pressure. Happy that they’ve got some relief”.

“We propose to withdraw the tax,” Jaitley said in Lok

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DAYPM Modi, walk the talk on women empowermentBeti Bachao Beti Padhao. Selfie with daughter. A day when only female parliamentarians speak.Since com-ing to power two years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a string of schemes for the uplift-ment of women – he has spoken publicly about the importance of the girl child, the need to stop female foeticide and boost women’s education. In an address to a convention of female legislators last week, he re-peated many of these themes, asking the women to use technology and become more effective. A few days before, speaking in the Lok Sabha, Modi had suggested Parliament mark Women’s Day by letting only female legislators speak. With just 12% of the Lok Sabha’s 543 elected members being women, this is just an exercise in making headlines. A far more substantive measure would be to increase the num-ber of female parliamentarians – and there’s a ready way to do that. The women’s reservation bill that has been stuck in Parliament for decades, came close to fruition in 2010, when the bill passed Rajya Sabha. With a commanding majority in the Lok Sabha, Modi can easily make 33% reservation for women in Par-liament a reality – but it appears he isn’t interested in substantive steps. In both elections last years – Bihar and Delhi – the BJP gave around 10% of its tickets to female candidates, underlining the fundamental barri-ers that women face while entering politics when not related to a male leader. In both elections, Modi played a crucial campaign role and could have changed the statistics if he so wished. Outside the sphere of political decision making, little has happened. The funds for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme has been increased to Rs 100 crore now from Rs 75 crore but the mandate of the project remains unclear. One of PM Modi’s flag-ship schemes, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao was supposed to boost female education and initiate a nationwide campaign against female foeticide. But apart from high-voltage campaigns, it appears to have achieved little else. It is unclear how much a measly allocation of Rs 75-100 crore can achieve on a national scale. Even the West Bengal’s Kanyashree scheme that supports female school students, works off a Rs 1,000 crore cor-pus. One of Modi’s other ideas, Selfie with Daughter, drew social media scorn for being obviously publicity driven. Modi asked fathers to take a selfie with their daughter and post it on Twitter and Facebook.

“I used to have a lot of spinal pain and I used to feel very exhausted in the mornings when I used to get up,”

- As the Indian government’s brand ambassador for the “Call to Action for a TB-free India”, Big B said during an interaction with media persons here ahead of World Tuberculosis Day that falls on March 24.

Agency | Mumbai

Farhan Akhtar has been addressing women’s is-sues through his mu-sic and various social endeavours including MARD (Men Against Rape & Discrimination) an organisation devoted to protecting women’s rights and the non-viola-tion of a woman’s private space. This Women’s Day Farhan will release a new song addressing the voice of innocence before it is corrupted by extraneous influences. Says Farhan, “Yes, I am doing my bit for Women’s Day. I am releasing a song called

‘We are all on the Good-Side’ . A song about the world as a child sees it before his or her mind is corrupted with adult influences of prejudice, discrimination and bias. A song that calls for all of us to celebrate equali-ty, not challenge it.” It is composed by Assamese guitar-musician-com-poser Kalyan Barua with whom Farhan has collab-orated for the first time. Interestingly the lyrics for ‘We Are All On The Goodside’ are penned by Farhan. He has been ex-ploring the poet’s side to his personality in some of his recent songs.

Agency | Mumbai

A court in Madurai has issued summons to su-perstar Rajinikanth and others asking them to ap-pear before it on March 8 in connection with a suit filed against his film “Lin-gaa” on the charge that its storyline had been stolen from another script writ-er. The Additional District Munsiff Court Judge also summoned K R Ravirathi-nam (plaintiff), film pro-ducer Rockline Venkatesh, B Ponkumar, Director K S Ravikumar and the Gen-eral Secretary of South Indian Film Writers Asso-ciation directing them to

Agency | Mumbai

In a mark of respect to their resilience and un-tiring efforts in ensuring decent careers for their children in the absence of their husbands, a group of widows from Mumbai and surrounding areas will be treated to a free helicopter ride here on In-ternational Women’s Day on Tuesday. Shivshakti Women’s Association, which has been organis-ing events in a unique way to mark the International Women’s Day for past 18 years, in association with India Media Links and Event Management, has chosen to honour widows hailing from simple and ordinary families who have raised their children against all odds. Between 11 AM and 2 PM today, the widows will be taken in turns for the helicop-ter ride covering all of Mumbai, said Pancha-sheel Shirsat, one of the organisers. “This year we

Agency | Mumbai

The first poster of Swara Bhaskar-starrer Nil Bat-tey Sannata was unveiled today online by her good friend Sonam Kapoor. Nil Battey Sannata marks the debut of Bhoothnath Re-turns director Nitesh Ti-wari’s wife Ashwini Iyer Tiwari and is said to be about the relationship be-tween a mother and her daughter. Swara had re-ceived best actress award at a film festival for her role in the movie. The poster sees Swara (play-ing the role of the mother)

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Fawad Khan says that he didn’t expect his ‘Kapoor & Sons’ co-star Alia Bhatt to be as con-fident and spontaneous as she came across on the first day shoot of the film. “When I saw her on the first day on the sets, she was so confident and spontaneous, which I was not expecting at all. She didn’t even rehearse,” said the ‘Zindagi Gulz-ar Hai’ actor about Alia at the unveiling of their Filmfare magazine cover. Alia however said Fawad was exaggerating, and also added that he didn’t like her over-competitive spirit when they played games together. Fawad

Farhan Akhtar on his song for Women’s Day

My fans like me when I kiss and make girls pregnant: Telugu actor Balakrishna

Lingaa script case: Madurai court summons actor Rajinikanth

Sonam Kapoor unveils poster of Swara Bhaskar’s ‘nil Battey Sannata’

Katrina Kaif Hunts For A new House With Salman Khan’s Manager In TowMumbai: Free helicopter ride to

widows on International Women’s Day Agency | Mumbai

Ranbir Kapoor and Ka-trina Kaif’s alleged break-up has been the talk of tinseltown for the last few months. The ac-tor was the first to move out of their sea-facing Silver Sands apartments, and reportedly shift to a new bachelor pad close to his parents’ Krish-na Raj bungalow. Kat, on the other hand, had been alternating between their love nest and her old house on Waterfield Road. Now we hear that the actress has decided let go of the former and is keen to move into anoth-er highrise. Katrina Kaif with Salman Khan’s busi-ness manager Reshma Shetty exiting a Bandra restaurant where they had lunch during the house hunt. Says a source, “On Sunday afternoon, Ka-trina was seen with Resh-ma Shetty, business man-ager of ex beau Salman Khan, hunting for a flat to rent out. She checked

appear. The Judge said the Madras High Court had last month directed him to complete the trial in the case within April 30 next and hence asked them to appear before his court to-morrow. Passing orders on a petition by the film pro-ducer seeking transfer of the case to another court on

grounds on prolonged de-lay in the trial, Justice V M Velumani of the high court had directed the Munsiff court to conclude the case within April 30. The matter pertains to an allegation by plaintiff Ravi Rathinam of Madurai that his script was stolen by the makers of ‘Lingaa’.

Agency | Mumbai

Telugu actor and TD MLA N Balakrishna has courted controversy af-ter making unpleasant remarks against women during a function last week. A complainant named Ravi Kumar in his complaint with the Saro-ornagar police said that Balakrishna’s remarks were provocative. Kumar also said that being a ce-lebrity, Balakrishna had to empower women and not make such offensive remarks. “I have always tried to do different roles. If I simply run behind the actresses, my fans will be disappointed. They like it when I either kiss the girl or make her pregnant,”

said he has watched only one film of Alia till now but was impressed by it. “I’ve seen ‘Highway’. She has given a tremen-dous performance in the film. As an actor I think her work speaks for her-self. She is a phenome-nal performer. To excel at such a young age so fast and be able to stand toe to toe with experi-enced actors, is quite an

achievement.” The two share a romantic bond in the film, even sharing a kiss, as seen in the trailer. Sidharth Malhotra plays Fawad’s brother, who also shows interest in Alia, but is seen having differences with Fawad. He will also be sharing screen space with the likes of Rishi Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor in the Shakun Batra directorial.

Deccan Chronicle quot-ed the actor as saying during the audio launch of Nara Rohith-starrer ‘Savitri’. Balakrishna also said that he acts naughty with the ac-tresses and even pinches them sometimes, report suggests. Following pro-tests, the actor-politician apologised for making such remarks and said that they weren’t meant

to offend anyone. “I have utmost respect towards women. The comments which I made were not to target anyone. Recollect-ing my previous movies, I made the comments. I extend my greetings to all women from the Telugu states and across the country on Women’s Day,” Deccan Chronicle quoted the official state-ment of the actor.

Fawad Khan caught off-guard by Alia on ‘Kapoor & Sons’ sets

and her teenage daugh-ter jumping in happiness. “On woman’s day, I have the privilege of launching my behen @ReallySwara poster!,” Sonam posted on Twitter. The Neerja star and Swara have worked together in Aanand L Rai’s

Raanjhanaa and super-star Salman Khan-starrer Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Produced by Aanand and Ajay Rai, Nil Battey San-nata will also be released simultaneously in Tamil. The movie is slated to re-lease on April 22.

decided to honour wid-ows who have toiled hard to raise their children making them doctors, en-gineers and other profes-sionals. Till now we have received names of more than 21 such women from Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai,” Shirsat said. Among those who will be taken for the he-licopter ride include Sa-tyavatibai, Vatsalabai, Shardabai and Panchfu-labai – from Mumbai and surrounding areas. Lat-

er in the evening, these women will narrate their life experiences and how they raised their children in the face of adversi-ty, at Bharatiya Vidya-laya near Sion Hospital. The women will also be treated to a musical pro-gramme which will be graced by Mumbai May-or Snehal Ambekar, Shiv Sena’s Lok Sabha MP Rahul Shewale, former bureaucrat J P Dange, actor Tushar Kapoor and others.

Shivshakti Women’s Association has chosen to honour widows hailing from simple and ordinary families who have raised their children against all odds

out a few buildings in and around Bandra, but didn’t like any.” A source close to Katrina, who remained unavailable for comment, confirms the buzz, saying: “Yes, Katrina is looking for a new place to stay, but hasn’t zeroed in on anything at the moment. She recently returned from the Bangkok sched-

ule of her next, Baar Baar Dekho, and will soon be flying out to Morocco for Jagga Jasoos. So, she is keen to finalise a house before zooming off.” Jag-ga Jasoos will bring Ran-bir and Kat back on the big screen and its shoot in Thailand and South Africa has already been wound up.


SPORTS ROUNDUP

As big shots fly off MS Dhoni’s willow, talk of revival gains ground

neither Lewis nor me, Bolt is the greatest: Michael Johnson

ICC warns about fixers targeting associate members ahead of World T20 qualifiers

ICC World T20 2016: India assures Pakistan ample security at Dharmasala

ICC T20 World Cup 2016: Cricketers who may retire after World T20

Women Spending More Time on Search, Says Google India

India will miss total solar eclipse on Wednesday

Kotak Realty Raises Rs 1,600 Crore For Residential Projects

Agency | KolkataWith ICC Twenty20 (T20) World Cup 2016 beginning from March 8, there are already rumors and speculations making the round of cricketers who might retire from ei-ther T20 format or from international cricket alto-gether. On one side you have India’s limited-over skipper MS Dhoni who is dropping no comments on his exit from interna-tional cricket while on

the other end Pakistan’s T20 skipper Shahid Af-ridi who took a U-turn from his retirement plans again. Even South Africa Test and ODI skipper AB de Villiers said that he is contemplating to quit from either of the format of cricket due to hectic schedule also seems to keep mum about his re-tirement plans. There are some cricketers who have started building their per-formances in T20 format

Agency | Dhaka

In almost every press conference that Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni attended over the last three months, he had to answer at least one retirement-related question. Dhoni’s replies had certain amount of mischief and occasion-ally a touch of contempt.

He revelled in teasing the reporters, in pursuit of breaking news. He even-tually made a statement, with his bat; in the Asia Cup final against Ban-gladesh at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. Up to a point, it was a tight contest, for the game had been trun-cated to 15 overs per side.

Agency | Berlin

Athletics legend Michael Johnson feels Usain Bolt has surpassed the likes of him and Carl Lewis by his sheer consistency and can easily be consid-ered the “greatest” track-and-field star in the world at this point. Johnson, a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, said the triple Olympic sprint champion would be unstoppable in this year’s Olympics in Rio de Ja-neiro if he manages to remain injury-free. “Nei-ther Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis or myself has pro-duced, in my opinion, the consistency and longevity

Agency | New Delhi

Cricket’s governing body has warned that match-fix-ers are now targeting the game’s minnows as they prepared to get the World Twenty20 under way in India on Tuesday. Hong Kong, who play Zimba-bwe in the opening match, have been rocked by a corruption scandal in the build-up to the T20 world championship which has already led to the suspen-sion of their all-rounder Irfan Ahmed. And in an eve-of-tournament press conference, International Cricket Council chief ex-ecutive said it was clear that non-Test playing na-tions, known as associate members, are vulnerable to corruption. “Unfortu-nately this is the world we are living, there are cor-rupt individuals all over trying their best to get

Agency | Kolkata

India will miss the spectacular phenomenon of a total solar eclipse on Wednesday as only a partial eclipse will be seen from some places in the coun-try. “In India, partial eclipse will be seen from the eastern half of the country. In most of the places in India, the eclipse will start either before sunrise or around sunrise – making the viewing of this spec-tacular cosmic event quite difficult,” Dr Debiprosad Duari, director of M P Birla Planetarium, Kolkata, said. The total solar eclipse will be visible from with-in a narrow region which extends from the Indian Ocean through the east Asian countries like Suma-tra, Borneo, Sulawesi passing through some islands belonging to Australia and ending at the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far away from any country. Un-fortunately for people in the Indian subcontinent, the spectacular phenomenon of total solar eclipse, which is when the disc of the moon covers the sun entirely and thus creating darkness during daytime will not be visible, instead “we will observe a partial

eclipse of the Sun”, he said.

Agency | New Delhi

When it comes to Google Search, more and more Indian women across age groups are using the search engine on issues ranging from beauty and fashion to health and fitness, the company has re-vealed. Middle-aged women in the age group of 35-44 years are spending more time on Google Search, outnumbering the growth of middle-aged men by a whopping 123 percent, the company has revealed. This is year-on-year (YoY) growth measured in terms of “time spent in minutes” on Google Search, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Internet is playing an incredibly important role in changing the lives of women in India. It is great to see how women are taking to the internet in greater numbers and increasing their time spent, even outpacing the time spent by men,”

Google said.

Agency | Mumbai

Kotak Mahindra Group’s private equity arm has raised Rs 1,600 crore to invest in residential projects across six cities over the next 3-4 years. “We have closed a fresh commitment of Rs 1,600 crore from institutional investors for equity in-vestments in residential projects in the six major metros,” Kotak Realty Fund Chief Executive S Sriniwasan said here today. He said the compa-ny will invest in projects coming up in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. Sriniwasan further said the recent clar-ifications by the government enabled the compa-ny to structure this as an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF). “Currently, there is enough liquidity for addressing debt requirements of the sector, so we felt probably there was need for equity as well. We feel this investment will help address the growing equity needs of the real estate industry in India,” he said.

Agency | London

Two of Maria Sharapo-va’s top sponsors have suspended ties with the Russian tennis star af-ter she admitted failing a doping test. Sportswear giant Nike suspended its sponsorship, saying in a statement that it was “sad-dened and surprised by the news.” Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer says its deal with the Russian will not be renewed. TAG Heuer

said in a statement that its previous contract with Sharapova had expired at the end of 2015 and it has pulled out of negotia-tions on a new agreement. Sharapova, a five-time major winner, on Monday said she failed a test at the Australian Open in Jan-uary for the banned sub-stance meldonium, a heart medication commonly sold in Eastern Europe. Meldonium was added

Agency | Dharmasala

ICC World T20 2016 Di-rector M.V. Sridhar on Tuesday revealed that the Pakistan security team has assessed the security measures taken in Dha-ramsala, adding that they have been categorically assured by the district ad-ministration that ample security would be provid-ed to the players during the much-awaited clash against India on March 19. Sridhar revealed that the PCB security team, which assessed the security mea-sures taken in India for the safety of their players, had inspected the venue and

also had a discussion with the BCCI and tournament officials. “The PCB dele-gations visited Dharam-sala yesterday. There they have seen the entire prem-ises. They have engaged with us [BCCI] and the tournament officials and the local officials of the HPCA [Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association] also.” “After that, we have had the conversation with the district administrative officials, which includes the District Commissioner and the Inspector General of Police. We have met all of them and they have given their feedback,” he

said. The tournament di-rector said that both the district administration and the police have as-sured to take appropriate measures for the security of any team which visits the state, adding that the information in this regard had been clearly commu-nicated to the Pakistani delegation. “The outcome is that the district admin-istration has very clearly categorically stated that they are committed to giving complete security, not only for India vs Paki-stan match, but for all the matches which are going to be held in Dharamsala.

After nike, Tag Heuer drops dope-tained Maria Sharapova

MS Dhoni’s batting throughout the Asia Cup confirmed that he was showing signs of being able to play the big shots at will

When Dhoni promoted himself at No.4, India still needed 22 runs for victory off 14 balls. The captain finished it off in just six deliveries, taking Al-Amin Hossain to the cleaners. The winning hit was a six over wide long-on. Forget retire-ment talks, here’s a man who had promoted him-self up the order in the 2011 World Cup final and took his team to crown-ing glory, hitting a six off Nuwan Kulasekara. Five years down the line he did something similar to give India their sixth continen-tal title. Maybe the fans can’t ask for something more reassuring ahead of the World T20 about to begin.

with likes of Ashish Neh-ra and Yuvraj Singh prov-ing age has no barriers. In a recent conclave held at Delhi on Monday, West Indies cricketer Dwayne Bravo hinted on the mighty Caribbean Chris Gayle could be playing his last T20 World Cup. There are some cricket-ers who have been out of scene due to injury be it South Africa’s Dale Steyn or Lasith Malinga, who recently backed out of captaincy responsibilities for Sri Lanka or Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh, who has been out of ac-tion for a while. With so many twists and turns just ahead of the mega event, let us look at some crick-eters whom we might miss in the next World Cup.

to the banned list on Jan. The former world number one from Russia yesterday said a change in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list for 2016 led to an inadvertent viola-tion, for which she will be “provisionally suspended” by the International Ten-nis Federation. In a sign of what the affair could mean to Sharapova’s mass of money-spinning endorse-ments, US sportswear maker Nike said it would halt its relationship with her as the case moves for-ward. “We are saddened and surprised by the news about Maria Sharapova,” Nike said in a statement. “We have decided to sus-pend our relationship with Maria while the investiga-tion continues.”

that Usain Bolt has and so to this point he has to be considered the greatest. If he’s healthy, I don’t think anyone can stop him in the Rio,” Johnson said. Bolt is in the running for the Laureus Sports-man of the Year award

along football icon Lio-nel Messi and tennis ace Novak Djokovic among others. But Johnson said the Jamaican sprint king is a clear favourite. “Who can stop Bolt for the Laureus Award?” he said.

hold of players,” he said. ”We are finding that the corrupters are now focus-ing on associate members, women’s team etc, etc. So we are going to make sure the players from all the teams are very well educated, understand their responsibility and will not get involved.” Hong Kong are one of eight teams try-ing to qualify for the main phase of the tournament which begins next Tues-day, alongside cricket’s eight more established powers such as Austra-

lia, India and England. But their preparations have been badly shaken by the scandal which led to Ahmed’s suspension by the ICC in January as part of an ongoing inves-tigation. Ronnie Flanagan, who heads the game’s an-ti-corruption unit, said on Sunday that his investi-gators were looking into allegations that “members of a particular team had intentions to manipulate events in forthcoming matches”, without giving further details.


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Correspondent | Gandhinagar

On the International Women’s Day today, the legislative assembly of Gujarat, which is current-ly under the regime of its first ever women Chief Minister Mrs. Anandi-ben Patel, gave a befitting honour to the women folk by handing over all the important functions of the house to ladies for the day. Assembly Secretary D M

Patel said that the seat of speaker for the whole day was occupied by woman MLA of the ruling BJP from Bhuj, Dr Nimaben Acharya instead of the permanent speaker Gan-patbhai Vasava. ‘Not only this but the job of the as-sembly secretary was also taken up by a lady officer Ms Ritaben Mehta instead of me,’ Mr. Patel said add-ing that in her job she was

assisted by an all women group of three. Mr. Patel said that the house not only showed respect to the women folk by this all woman show but also sent out a message regard-ing women’s empower-ment and capability. In-ternational Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrat-ed on March 8 every year.

Correspondent | Gandhinagar

A delegation of Patidar community leaders in-cluding BJP MP from Por-bandar Vitthal Radadiya, who had met jailed quota stir leader Hardik Patel twice in Surat jail as gov-ernment backed negotia-tor, a prominent leader of a religious trust of the com-munity in Sidsar, Jairam Patel along with Hardik’s father Bharat Patel today met Chief Minister Mrs. Anandiben Patel here. The delegation which also included among others Patidar leaders from Su-rat had with them a list of 27 issues agreed upon by Hardik Patel for bringing the vexed agitation issue

Sunvilla news | Ahmedabad

Dozens of people across the state were detained as a preventive measure in view of the terror alert. In Kutch, the police de-tained two persons who were reportedly found

taking pictures of a de-fence installation. The police also rounded up several people from Ahmedabad, Anand, Su-rat, Vadodara and Silvasa and questioned dozens of people who were us-


Nidhi Yadav lost four fam-ily members in an accident in October of last year but that has not stopped her from preparing for her Higher Secondry Cer-trificate exam which be-gan Tuesday. Nidhi lost her mother, grandmother and two sisters, and had a fractured hand herself. While the physical pain has taken its toll, the me-natal agony that Nidhi

has undergone has been tremendous. She howev-er remained determined and will now appear for the exams with the help of a writer as her hand has not fully recovered yet. Nidhi’s father - Hasmukh Yadav - has played a cru-cial role in helping her stay focused despite the setback suffered himself. An employee in a local court, Hasmukh helped Nidhi in her studies.


A total of 18.75 lakh stu-dents will be appearing in Std X and XII exam-inations conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Educa-tion Board (GSHSEB) that begins Tuesday. Out of them, 10,81,316 students are appearing in Std X ex-aminations and 7,93,684 in Std XII exams. Ac-cording to GSHSEB sec-retary R I Patel, a total of 1,38,312 students will be appearing for Std XII (sci-ence stream) and 5,14,279

for general stream. The rest will be appearing for commerce stream. There are a total of 1,607 exam centres, with a total of 66,768 exam halls. Of the total exam halls, 61,868 will be equipped with CCTV cameras installed inside them to prevent copying. The rest of 4,900 exam halls will have tab-lets and live pictures will be reaching GSEB head-quarters in Gandhinagar which will be regularly monitored by the staff de-puted for the purpose.


Former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel today praised jailed Pati-dar quota stir leader Har-dik Patel, saying he has “brought the community together”. “When I was coming, people shouted ‘Jai Sardar (an invocation to Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa-tel). I also shouted ‘Jai Sardar’. We are all march-ing ahead on the call of ‘Jai Sardar’. This commu-nity (Patidar) has today come together because of

that boy,” he said without taking the name of the 22-year-old Hardik. The 87-year-old politician, an important leader of Patels who still enjoys clout in the State, was speaking at an event organised by the Patidar community near the temple town of Som-nath, around 400km from here. Keshubhai, once a rival of the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, quit BJP in 2012 and float-ed Gujarat Parivartan Par-ty to contest the Assembly


A sessions court in Ahmed-abad on Tuesday reject-ed the bail application of jailed Patidar reservation movement leader Hardik Patel in connection with the sedition case lodged by Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB). Hardik is in Surat jail since October 18 facing charges of “waging war against the nation” among others. Additional sessions judge NG Dave pronounced his verdict in the open court

while refusing to grant any relief to Hardik. The court had reserved the order on Friday following conclu-sion of hearing. Hardik had moved the court on January 22 days after the DCB filed a 2700 page chargesheet against him, claiming that sedition case against him is false and fabricated. He had stated that the case is “political-ly motivated and has been lodged “with a view to suppress the voice of dis-sent of Patidar communi-


National Bank for Agricul-ture and Rural Develop-ment (NABARD or Issuer) - India’s apex develop-ment institution entrusted to provide credit and other facilities for the promotion and development of rural and agriculture sector - an-nounces the public issue of tax-free, secured, re-deemable, non-convertible bonds of face value of Rs 1,000 each in the nature of debentures, having bene-fits under Section 10 (15) (iv) (h) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for an aggregate amount of Rs 3,500 crores. The Issue will open on March 9, 2016 and close on March 14, 2016 with an option for early closure or extension. The Bonds will be listed on BSE. 60% of the Issue Size shall be re-served for Category IV in-vestors, i.e., Resident Indi-an Individuals and HUFs

through the Karta applying for an amount aggregating up to and including Rs 10 Lakh across all series of Bonds in the Issue. 15% of the Issue Size shall be reserved for each of Cat-egory I investors (Quali-fied Institutional Buyers) and Category II investors (Corporates) and 10% of the Issue size shall be re-served for Category III investors (High Net worth Individuals). Interest on Bonds will be exempt from levy of income tax, in the hands of the bond-holders. Allotment would be done on first-cum-first served basis. NABARD is offering Bonds with 10 and 15 years option. The coupon rates for Category IV would be 7.29% and 7.64% for 10 years and 15 years respectively. For investors in Category I, II and III, it would be 7.04% and 7.35% for 10 years and 15 years respectively. The

interest on Bonds shall be paid annually. The Bonds proposed to be issued have been assigned a rating of ‘CRISIL AAA / Stable’ by CRISIL and “IND ‘AAA’ / Stable” India Ratings. The instruments with these ratings are considered to have the highest degree of safety regarding timely servicing of financial obli-gations. Such instruments carry low credit risk. The proceeds of the Issue shall be mainly utilised for di-rect lending to certain ir-rigation projects in India and refinancing irrigation projects. For the aforesaid Issue, Axis Trustee Ser-vices Limited is the Bond Trustee. A K Capital Ser-vices Limited, Edelweiss Financial Services Limit-ed, ICICI Securities Lim-ited, RR Investors Capital Services Private Limited and SBI Capital Markets Limited are the lead man-agers to the Issue.

Radadia led Patidar delegation including Hardik’s father meet CM, Rupani

Keshubhai praises Hardik, says he has brought Patels together

nABARD announces the Public Issue of Tax-Free Bonds Issue to open on March 9, 2016 Ahmedabad girl, who lost four family

members, all set for HSC exams

Gujarat: Board exams commence today

Gujarat assembly gives befitting honour to the women MLAs on women’s day

Setback for Hardik patel, Ahmedabad court rejects bail plea

to an end. A cover con-taining the list of issues was handed over to the Chief Minister and also BJP state president Vi-jaybhai Rupani who was also present during the meet. Health Minister Nitinbhai Patel was also present on the occasion. Later, talking to news-

men Radadiya said that they have handed over the cover containing the list of issues to the CM and the BJP president. ‘The government will study the issues and hopefully express its view in three to four days. I will meet Hardik again after that,’ he said. To a query, Ra-

dadiya said that he had called Hardik’s father to join the delegation and he had come. Earlier Har-dik’s father had expressed unhappiness over his ex-clusion from the delega-tion that had met the chief minister last month in connection with the reso-lution of the issue. Rada-diya, though, refused to divulge about the issues, it is understood the 27 is-sues include reservation to the community, set-ting up of a Patidar com-mission, withdrawal of all cases related to quota stir and release of all the jailed agitation leaders. It also has farmer’s issue and compensation related points in it.

The police also rounded up several people from Ahmedabad, Anand, Surat, Vadodara and Silvasa and questioned dozens of

people who were using SIM cards procured on forged documents

ing SIM cards procured on forged documents. “These are all preventive measures that the police have been taken since the input was received,” said a top police officer. “Checking is still going on with the same inten-sity. We are focusing on

villages bordering the Great Rann of Kutch and the coastal areas,” said A K Jadeja, Inspector Gen-eral. “Police came to our premises… Saturday and sought details of guests. They came back again after about one-and-a-half hours. Nothing un-toward was found and we extended all support,” said Abdulsattar Akbany, trustee of Memon Sheth Haji Aboobakar Usman Sarvajanik Musafir-khana. The police also searched Hotel Noorani Mahal in the same local-ity. Jadeja said no specif-ic inputs were received about the Musafirkha-na and Noorani Mahal. Meanwhile, an NSG team was deployed at the Somnath Temple, where Maha Shivratri festivi-ties were held.

elections that year. How-ever, he resigned from the fledgling outfit after it won just two Assembly seats in a 182-member House. The veteran politician, who himself won from Visa-vadar in Junagadh district, later resigned as MLA due to ill health. Though the two-time BJP Chief Minister had met Hardik at least once during the height of the quota agita-tion last year, this is pos-sibly the first time he has showered praise on the young community lead-er from a public forum. Before his arrest, Hardik had come calling on Ke-shubhai before meeting Chief Minister Anandiben Patel in September last year. Hardik, lodged in Surat’s Lajpore Jail, faces charges of “sedition” and “waging war against the government” in cases filed in Ahmedabad and Surat. An order on his bail plea in Ahmedabad is likely to be pronounced by a court tomorrow.

Hardik is in Surat jail since October 18 facing charges of “waging war

against the nation” among others

18.75 lakh Std X, XII students take exams under strict electronic surveillance

ty.” “Agitation for reserva-tion can’t be said unlawful in any manner as the aim and object of the applicant were reservation and not to strike the sovereign au-thorities of the state of Gu-jarat. It is the fundamental right of the citizen to ques-tion the legitimacy of the state with regard to devel-opment and upliftment of his caste,” his bail plea had claimed. He also contend-ed against the chargesheet by claiming, “The theoret-ical views of the applicant may or may not be possi-ble but the applicant can’t be termed as the enemy of the state for raising the voice for his caste.”

Dozens detained in Gujarat

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