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Pleasant day forDelhiites

NC appoints newoffice bearers forKashmir Province

Agency : New Delhi, Apr 8It was a pleasant day in thenational capital wednesday as the mercury settledat around 32 degreesCelsius. The maximumtemperature was recordedat 32.2 degrees Celsius,two notches below theseason's average while theminimum temperaturesettled at 18.2 degreesCelsius, a notch below thenormal, a MeTDepartment official said.The humidity in airoscillated between 36 percent and 87 per cent.

1445 kgs of red sanders seized in Ah’d

No loss of facefor UDF, says

ChandyAgency : Thiruvana., Apr 8

Putting up a brave face,Kerala Chief MinisterOommen Chandy todayrejected criticism that therow in KeralaCongress(M), a coalitionpartner, had affected theimage of the ruling UnitedDemocratic Front. Theremoval of P C George,KC(M) dissident leader,from the post of chief whipwas not at all a 'pitifulsurrender' before anybody.

Agency : Srinagar, Apr 8Opposition National Con-ference working presidentOmar Abdullah today ap-pointed new office bearersfor high-level committees inthree zones of KashmirProvince. Omar, along withNC's general secretary AliMohammad Sagar, alsoappointed new districtpresidents and vice presi-dents for Pulwama,Ganderbal and KulgamDistricts.

The value of the red sanders contraband is estimated to be Rs 1.73 crore in international market

Two vehicle liftersgang nabbed in

GhaziabadAgency : Ghaziabad, Apr 8

Two members of a gang ofvehicle lifters were todayarrested and two luxurycars were recovered fromtheir possession, policesaid wednesday. Duringroutine checking of ve-hicles in the wee hours to-day, police signalled a car,in which the duo was trav-elling, to stop, SHOHaridayal Singh Yadavsaid. Upon interrogation,the two confessed to hav-ing stolen the car from Sun-light colony of Delhi.

MUDRA Bill to be in Parlia-ment within one year: Govt

Agency : New DelhiA legislation on MUDRABank is expected to be in-troduced in Parliamentwithin a year and it will in-corporate provisions of theMicro Finance InstitutionsBill that was prepared by theprevious government, theFinance Ministry saidwednesday. The MUDRABill will seek to create a fi-nancial institution for provid-ing funding to 5.77 croremicro and small businessentities engaged in manufac-turing, trading and services.The roles envisaged forMUDRA Bank include lay-ing down policy guidelinesfor micro enterprise financ-ing business as well as reg-istration of MFIs, their ac-creditation and rating.Speaking on the launch ofPradhan Mantri MUDRAYojana, Financial ServicesSecretary Hasmukh Adhiasaid there will not be a sepa-rate bill on MFIs as manycomponents of that would

be incorporated in the pro-posed MUDRA Bill. Askedif there is a plan to mergeold MFI Bill into MUDRABill, he said, “some compo-nents of MFI Bill will defi-nitely come to MUDRABill”. So, there will not be aseparate MFI Bill, Adhiasaid, adding that “it will bea part of MUDRA Bill… Itwill be tabled in Parliamentin the next 6 months to oneyear”. On a question ifMUDRA would regulate theNBFC (MFI), Adhia said,“That decision would betaken when the Bill will beframed.” On whether

MUDRA, a subsidiary ofSIDBI registered as NBFC,would be transformed intoa universal bank, he said thegovernment is yet to firm upidea on this. “Governmentcan decide to make it aspolicy bank like NHB or itcan decide to make it uni-versal bank,” he said.Speaking about the broadcontours of the proposedBill he said, “it will definewhat is going to be the MFI.What is our definition ofMFI. It will try and put insome process of registeringnew MFIs with MUDRABank.”

Dr. HL Trivedi, Gunvant Shah,Rajesh Kotecha get Padma Shri

Agency : New DelhiKidney InstituteAhmedabad founder Dr.H.L. Trivedi, Vadodarabased famous Gujarati au-thor Gunvant Shah and sonof Gujarat but active inRajasthan as Ayurved doc-tor Rajesh Kotecha wereamong the eminent person-alities awarded the PadmaShri by President PranabMukherjee herewednesday. Shri GunvantShah was awarded in Lit-erature and Education whileDr. Hargovind

Laxmishanker Trivedi inMedicine. Bollywoodmegastar AmitabhBachchan and Prince KarimAga Khan were among theeminent personalitiesawarded the PadmaVibhushan, country’s sec-ond highest civilian honour.Besides them, senior Su-preme Court advocateKottayan K Venugopal andD Veerendra Heggade ofthe famous DharmasthalaJain temple in Karnatakawere also conferred thePadma Vibhushan.

HC seeks report on Chittoor police firing fromAndhra even as govt justifies it as 'self-defence'

Agency : HyderabadThe Hyderabad high courton Wednesday directed theAndhra Pradesh govern-ment to submit a report intwo days on the killing of 20woodcutters by police in analleged gun battle even asthe governmnent justifiedpolice firing, saying it wasdone in self defence. Thecourt asked the governmentand the director general ofpolice to submit the report,

giving details of Tuesday'sincident in Chittoor and alsowhether it followed theguidelines issued by the Su-

preme Court for the statesto follow in case of such en-counters. The high courtgave the direction on a pe-

tition filed by a human rightsactivist, seeking a probe bythe Central Bureau of Inves-tigation (CBI) into what hesaid was a fake encounter.Raghunath, the counsel forthe petitioner, said the courtasked the government togive details of the peoplewho were killed. The peti-tioner alleged that thelabourers were murdered bythe police in cold blood. Hesaid the police fired to killthe innocent labourers. Hepointed out that the policefired at their vital parts. TheAndhra Pradesh govern-ment, on the other hand, jus-tified the police firing sayingit was done in self defence."It was an incident where thepolice had to open fire inself-defence because theywere terribly outnumbered,"government's communica-tion advisor, ParakalaPrabhakar. The police op-eration has come under se-vere attack from the gov-ernment, political parties andcivil liberties groups inneighbouring Tamil Nadu,which claimed that many vic-tims were labourers fromtheir state.

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadIn one of the biggest sei-zures, police on Wednesdayrecovered precious red san-dalwood weighing 1445kgs from a garage, whichwas supposed to be

smuggled out of the countryen route Delhi. Police esti-mated the value of the sei-zure at Rs 1.73 crore in in-ternational market, and ar-rested a 25-year-old manfrom Uttar Pradesh in this

connection. "A team of Spe-cial Operation Group(SOG) of the city crimebranch arrested DineshRajput and seized a stockof 1445 kgs of red sandersfrom his custody in a garageat Shah-e-Alam toll nakaarea here," police said in astatement. The value of thered sanders contraband isestimated to be Rs 1.73crore in international marketand the consignment wasbrought here with the pur-pose to smuggle it out of thecountry, it said. The SOGsuspects involvement of aninter-state smuggling syndi-cate. The alleged smugglingracket was busted when anSOG team comprising three

police sub-inspectorsraided the auto-garage oninstructions of senior policeofficials and found somewoods wrapped in as manyas 55 gunny bags, the state-ment said. The SOG then

informed a team of Forestdepartment, which con-firmed that the consignmentwas indeed of red sanders.In the primary questioning,Rajput, a native of Gondadistrict, said his younger

brother Brij Singh hadasked him to collect redsanders from Chhatral areahere and keep it in a garagein Shah-e-Alam area, thestatement said. Rajput wassupposed to travel to Delhi

with the consignment in trainand deliver it to Brij Singhthere. As per the statement,Rajput has been staying heresince last two years and run-ning a transport firm, ShivCargo. The SOG is investi-gating possible involvementof racketeers from otherstates. Red sandalwood orred sanders is prized for itsrich red wood, used mainlyfor making furniture, and isoften smuggled to meet itshigh demand in internationalmarket. Incidentally, around20 persons, suspected to beworking for the red sandal-wood mafia, were gunneddown in an encounter withpolice in Andhra Pradeshyesterday.

Eyeing 20% market share inGujarat, Intex plans retail expansion

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadWith the Rs 4000-8000range of smartphones see-ing highest traction inGujarat, Intex Technologiesis looking to extend its mar-ket share to 20 per centthrough expansion of its re-tail network. "Gujarat is themost prominent and a vitalstate for us as we are sellingmore than 160,000 hand-sets and the state contrib-utes around 10 per cent ofnational sale. As per GFKreport, Intex has over 15per cent market share in

Gujarat and Intex is secondbrand in Gujarat in smartphone sale in volume. Weare selling close to 60,000smartphone per month inGujarat. We are furtherstrengthening ourselves andlooking at 20 per cent mar-ket share," said KeshavBansal, Director- Market-ing, INTEX Technologies(I) Ltd. The mobile phoneplayer already has over8000 retail network in thestate. According to Bansal,Gujarat is one of the mostimportant state for Intex

with customers in Gujaratbeing highly educated andseeking more feature richphone. "There is more de-mand of high-end devicesand smartphone acceptabil-ity and contribution inGujarat is much higher thanrest of the states," Bansalsaid. The handset maker hasone branch office each inAhmedabad and Surat,apart from close to 25 di-rect distributors and over 50micro distributors in Gujaratthrough which Intex is cov-ering all tehsil and district.

Pipavav Port trainkills 3 more lions

Sunvilla News, AmreliIt has happened once again.In a tragic incident, three

lion cubs were run over bygoods train near PipavavPort in Rajuka taluka ofAmreli district in Gujarat.Forest department teamrushed to the place to doprocedures. The total num-ber of lions killed by trainssince January 2014 is 8 now.

Sensex at 3-week high; RIL, CIL surgeAgency : Mumbai

Extending the winning run tofourth consecutive sessiontoday, the benchmark BSESensex rose by over 190points to close at a three-week high of 28,707.75mainly led by gains in RIL,Infosys and Coal India amidsustained foreign capital in-flows. The barometer hasgarnered 750.26 points infour-day gaining spree. “Thesentiments were optimisticafter a RBI survey projecteda higher economic growth

rate for the country,” saidJayant Manglik, President-retail distribution at ReligareSecurities. The Sensexopened higher at 28,601.49and traded in a wide rangeof 28,763.06 to 28,566.61before finishing at28,707.75, showing a gainof 191.16 points of 0.67 percent. The previous high wason March 17 when it ended

at 28,736.38. The 50-shareNSE Nifty also rallied by54.10 points or 0.62 percent to close at three-weekhigh of 8,714.10. It had lastended at 8,723.30 on March17. “Though Nifty is gradu-ally inching higher with everypassing day but lack of par-ticipation from the bankingspace is still a major con-cern,” Manglik added.

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DAYSex ratio kills honeymoondream in Gujarat

PM Narendra Modi may be the most famous 'bachelor'from Gujarat, but the state is home to 6.29 lakh unheraldedmen above 30 and 40 years who are unmarried —according to Census 2011. And the majority of them arenot single by choice. The number is a manifestation of theskewed sex ratio in Gujarat, which has 919 women per1,000 men and only 886 girls per 1,000 boys in the 0-6age group.At the grassroots level, this imbalance keepseven the most eligible bachelors engaged in the fruitlessmission to find brides. Take Haresh Patel, for instance.He is highly qualified and his name is laden with degrees:MSc, MEd, MPhil and PhD. The son of a landed man,Haresh earns well taking science and maths tuitions forHSC students. In short, he is the perfect bachelor; andmay remain so."There is no marriage bureau where I havenot registered, no mass marriage sammelan that I havenot attended," says Haresh. "But the bride is still elusive.My agony is shared by at least 60-odd men in the villagewhere there are 70-odd girls per 100 boys." The mathsteacher's marital woes have made him crunch sex rationumbers now!Census data reveals that the number ofunmarried men above 30 and 40 is three times higherthan the 2.6 lakh figure of women in this age group whohave never married. These figures discount the numberof unmarried youth in their 20s who are struggling to findwives."Finding a bride has become a Herculean task.There are 40 bachelor boys on the wrong side of 30s inmy village," says Bipin Patel (29) of Gadhan village inPrantij, Sabarkantha. Bipin's qualifications — MA, MEd,and MPhil — have thus far not helped him impress anyonein the tiny circle of available brides. Bipin runs anelectronics shop and earns Rs 25,000 per month. Earlier,families would find brides through agents from tribal areasbut a number of cheating cases have made many wary.There have been instances of girls running away withjewellery and cash within days of marriage.In Chandralavillage in Gandhinagar, Natwar Patel has done theimpossible: secure a bride for his 32-year-old son Gaurav,just two weeks ago. "I had no problem in getting mythree daughters married, but arranging a match for myson sapped me," says Natwarbhai. He is now beinghounded by families of 60-odd ageing bachelors in thevillage which want him to locate bahus.

“The user needs to enter the required data such as PNRnumber, station name, STD code of station while calling up139 for getting the wake-up alarm,”

- a senior Railway Ministry official said.

- Kapilkumar M. HirparaEditor

Sunny Leone on live-in relation-ships, personal life and Bollywood

Agency : New DelhiIn an interview with TheTimes Of India, SunnyLeone, who is busy promot-ing her upcoming film, EkPaheli Leela, spoke aboutpeople's perception of herand the role of media.Sunny said, "I can't changepeople's perception, unfor-tunately, because I can'terase the internet. But I hopethat as I meet each new per-son, I change that person'sperception and how they seeme as a person, a brand andan actress. There wasn't aplan of how to changepeople's perceptions. I stilldon't believe that I can dothat on my own. It's actu-ally the media that can do it.Because when they stopputting that tag right in frontof my name, that's when thepublic will forget about it aswell. So as soon as the me-dia deletes those twowords, my fans will alsodelete it from their mind. It'sall about trying to getpeople to take me seri-ously. I think there are a lotof people — companies,

production houses, maybeactors and actresses —who see me as somebodywho is here today and willbe gone tomorrow. I don'twant that. I wanna be here.I wanna stay here. I wantpeople to take me seri-

ously. I do believe that af-ter each movie releases, alittle bit of that mightchange, hopefully, if peoplelike my acting or they likethe movie. Because that'swhat it is gonna comedown to."

Amitabh Bachchan, Prince KarimAga Khan get Padma Vibhushan

Agency : New DelhiBollywood megastarAmitabh Bachchan andPrince Karim Aga Khanwere among the eminentpersonalities awarded thePadma Vibhushan,country's second highest ci-vilian honour, by PresidentPranab Mukherjee here to-day. Besides them, seniorSupreme Court advocateKottayan K Venugopal andD Veerendra Heggade ofthe famous DharmasthalaJain temple in Karnatakawere also conferred thePadma Vibhushan. Re-nowned Assamese Film-maker Jahnu Barua and

computer scientist VijayBhatkar were given thePadma Bhushan, third high-est civilian honour, duringthe civil investiture ceremonyheld at the majestic DurbarHall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.Hockey player Saba Anjum,women cricketer MithaliRaj, economist BibekDebroy, IT honcho T VMohandas Pai and musicianRavindra Jain were givenPadma Shri. Vice PresidentHamid Ansari, Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, HomeMinister Rajnath Singh, Fi-nance Minister Arun Jaitleyand Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal were

among the prominent digni-taries present during theevent. Amitabh's sonAbhishek Bachchan, daugh-ter-in-law Aishwarya RaiBachchan and daughterShweta Nanda were alsopresent at the ceremony.The Padma awards wereannounced on the eve ofRepublic Day this year. Itincluded nine PadmaVibhushan, 20 PadmaBhushan and 75 PadmaShri. 17 recipients werewomen and as many in thecategories of foreigners,NRIs and PIOs while therewere four posthumousawardees.

Shahid Kapoor bangs bike, breaksstage at IPL 8 opening ceremony

Agency : MumbaiNewly engaged heartthrobShahid Kapoor had a minor

accident during his perfor-mance at the opening cer-emony of Indian Premiere

League 8 in Kolkata onTuesday (April 7). The ac-tor missed a tumble with hisbike when he took the stageat the Salt Lake Stadium.Though unhurt, Shahidseemed a bit shaken whenit happened. But, he quicklyrecovered from the incidentand performed his usualbest. The ‘Haider star alsotweeted about accident.Shahid Kapoor, who will besoon seen in ‘Udta Punjab’,also shared pictures fromrehearsals.

Emraan Hashmi: 'Mr X'could take on 'Avengers'

Agency : New DelhiEmraan Hashmi, who isgearing up for the release ofhis sci-fi 3D film 'Mr. X' doesnot want it to be comparedwith the Hollywood-basedtechnologically superiorfranchise 'The Avengers'.The actor contends that 'Mr.X' has so strong a philoso-phy and emotional base thatit could also take on the hitHollywood superhero fran-chise. "I think those (Holly-wood superhero) scriptsdon't have the stories ofKrishna and Arjun (asshown in 'Mr. X') ... thestory of 'Mr. X' is deeplyrooted in our culture," theactor said here on Mondayduring the promotion of thefilm. "I wouldn't really wantto put 'Mr. X' into compari-

son with superhero films like'Avengers'. I think with thestory, with the emotionalbase and with the philoso-phy that the film has, it couldalso take on 'Avengers'," headded. Produced by

Vishesh Films and directedby Vikram Bhatt, the filmfeatures Emraan as an invis-ible guy, who seeks revengefor all the wrong done tohim. 'Mr. X' will be releasedin 2D and 3D on April 17.

Salman Khan in trouble again:Police to probe assault case

Agency : MumbaiA local court has directedthe city police to probe acomplaint of assault filedagainst Bollywood actorSalman Khan by an activ-ist. "Concerned police of-ficer of Airport Police Sta-tion is hereby directed toinvestigate the matter andfile their report at the earli-est," observed Magistrate AD Lokhande in a recentlypassed order. ComplainantRavindra Dwivedi, in hiscomplaint alleged that inNovember last year he wasto board a flight when

Salman Khan and othersstarted abusing him and as-saulted him. Dwivedi al-leged that Khan instructedhis body guards to assaulthim and snatch all the docu-ments in his possession.

"They snatched all the im-portant case papers relatingto the death of senior BJPleader Gopinath Mundefrom my possession,"Dwivedi said in his com-plaint.

First Look: Ranveer Singh as DilDhadakne Do's Kabir Mehra

Agency : New DelhiIn the first look of hischaracter from new film DilDhadakne Do, actorRanveer Singh trades histrademark flamboyantstyle for a white T-shirtand jeans, all the better toset off the blue Mediterra-nean sea behind him.Ranveer stars as KabirMehra in the Zoya Akhtar-directed film. This is not theRanveer of Band BaajaBaaraat or Ram-Leela, but

an infinitely more polishedversion of the actor. DilDhadakne Do, a film basedon a dysfunctional Punjabifamily who take a cruise,also stars actors FarhanAkhtar, Priyanka Chopra,Anushka Sharma, AnilKapoor and Shefali Shah.Producer Ritesh Sidhwanihad earlier tweeted AnilKapoor's look as the so-phisticated Mr Mehra. DilDhadakne Do is set to re-lease on June 5.

Ahmedabad based Hindi Feature Film ‘Beyond Blue’ willbe World Premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadAhmedabad basedNanoland Ltd released thefirst look of upcoming film‘Beyond Blue’ at the Court-yard by Marriott inAhmedabad. The film Be-yond Blue is psychologicalthriller film which is entirelyproduced in Ahmedabad, byNanoland Ltd, Ahmedabad.Beyond Blue is a psycho-thriller film which stars TusharPandey as a lead characterin the film. The film also in-cludes Isheta Sarckar(Femina Miss India 2009 fi-

nalist), Ashish Kakkad (anActor & Director of otherfilms), Dipti Joshi (WellKnown Gujarati theatre Ac-tor), Vikas Rathod, DeepDholakia (Roles in movieslike Aashiqui 2, Ajab GajabLove and many more) invarious principal roles. Thefilm beyond blue has beenentirely shot and producedin Ahmedabad, and also in-cludes a few shots of Bopaland Khatraj. ZananeRajsingh said that “the movieBeyond Blue movie will beworld premiered at 68

Cannes film festivals.”Shooting for the film beganin 21st September 2014and ended in 20th October2014. Shooting did takeplace in IIM A, CG Road,Stadium, Gujarat Universityroad, Helmet circle Road &SG Highway. “Shooting lo-cations of the film inAhmedabad was finalized inAugust 2014. Shooting didtake place in IIM A, CGRoad, Stadium, GujaratUniversity road, HelmetRoad & SG Highway,” saidcast member.

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Dhoni fined Rs 500 forviolating traffic rules

Agency : RANCHITeam India skipperMahendra Singh Dhoni wasfined Rs 500 on Tuesday forviolating traffic rules. Thevintage bullet BSA GoldStar DBD 34 (MHP-6518),which he rode on the citystreets on Monday, violatedMotor Vehicle Act guide-lines pertaining to displayand use of numberplate,Ranchi traffic police said onTuesday. Traffic SP KartikS said Dhoni was fined Rs500 under section122/179of Motor Vehicle Act in theevening. "We had sent thechalan to his house andDhoni's family paid the fineand said he violated the rulesdue to ignorance," he said.Motor Vehicle Act says a

vehicle should have its reg-istration number displayedhorizontally without ob-struction on its rear andfront (which is clearly vis-ible). Dhoni's bike did nothave its registration numberdisplayed horizontally in thefront, instead the number

was written on the mudguardof the front wheel which wasnot visible from the front.Traffic SP Kartik said: "Thephoto of the vehicle (pub-lished in newspapers) wasbrought to my notice. It vio-lated rules related to displayof numberplate."

IPL 8: 8 Indian cricketers in elite club

Agency : BengaluruIt is the 8th edition of IndianPremier League (IPL 8) this

year and 8 Indians are partof an elite club in this cash-rich Twenty20 tournament.

Chennai Super Kings(CSK) batsman SureshRaina heads this list with 115caps. The left-hander is themost capped IPL player.Raina and 7 other Indiansare part of the 100 plusmatch club. Only 8 cricket-ers have so far played 100or more IPL games. Of the8 players, 4 are captains inthis edition. MS Dhoni,Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohliand Gautam Gambhir arethe skippers who feature inthis 100 plus club.

IPL opening gala fails to lift off

Agency : KolkataA lacklustre emcee in SaifAli Khan, Shahid Kapooralmost taking a tumble andMumbai Indians skipperRohit Sharma stepping on alight were part of the IPLopening ceremony on Tues-day that veered from thescript and seemingly failedto live up to expectations.Starting after a rain delay, thegala event with perfor-mances from the likes ofBollywood heartthrobHrithik Roshan and beautyAnushka Sharma among

others failed to create a flut-ter as the twitterati got busypanning the show and tar-geting Saif who hosted it.From calling it a "dampsquib" to "Even mehendiceremony of Indian wed-dings are more entertain-ing", people chose socialnetworking sites to pour outtheir frustration. “This maysound harsh, but Saif AliKhan seems quite losthosting this ceremony,”Rooting for their favouritecine and cricket stars, thecrowd had a lighter mo-

ment when a seeminglyfidgety Rohit stepped on alight while climbing thestage. Looking embar-rassed, the batsman man-aged to find his place onthe stage but not before thecrowd had a hearty laugh.Shahid Kapoor too had hisoops moment when he al-most had a tumble whilecoming on to stage for hisperformance. Taking a fewseconds to regain his com-posure, the actor immedi-ately broke into his dancesteps amid loud cheers.

Hockey: ‘India can be ratedamong top five fittest sides’

Agency : IpohFitness is key to any team'ssuccess in fast-paced mod-ern-day hockey and the In-dian men's national team canbe rated among the top fivefittest sides in the world cur-rently, said the country'sAustralian physical trainerMatthew Eyles. Eyles, whotook over as India's scien-tific advisor (strength andconditioning) 18 months agofrom country-mate JasonConrath, feels even thoughthere is still room for im-provement, India can nowmatch the fitness levels ofteams like Australia andNew Zealand on the turf."Physically they (Indianplayers) have improved alot. When I got here 18months ago, they were

good, lot of them were verygood natural athletes butnow they have developed agood base. I think anystrength and conditioningcoach can't feel content,they always want more fromtheir athletes," Eyles toldPTI in an interview on thesidelines of the ongoing 24thSultan Azlan Shah Cup."Their speed is good, en-durance in good. They are

looking really sharp at themoment. So I am happywith them," he said. Askedwhere India currently standsin the world map in terms offitness, Eyles said, "I don'tthink we are the fittest sideat the moment. It's hard tocompare. Australia andNew Zealand are alwaysphysically good sides. But Ithink we can definitely matchany team now.”

Fans get into the grooveas IPL ticket sales begin

IPL 2015

Agency : ChennaiThe eighth edition of the In-dian Premier League (IPL)is all set to begin onWednesday, andChennaiites are excited asever to watch the men inyellow. The Chennai SuperKings (CSK) team beganpractising at the Chepauknets from Monday evening.No controversy or WorldCup performance candampen the spirits of CSKfans, they say. “CSK willdefinitely win this time.Dhoni is our plus point,”says Ricardo. What maycome as a surprise is thesight of elderly men waitingunder the hot sun to buytickets. “These days, young-

sters prefer T20 matchesover Test cricket. Everythingis becoming so fast thesedays. We too must movewith the times,” saysTriplicane residentLakshminarayanan, who iseager to see BrendonMcCullum on the field. Thesale of tickets at Chepaukbegan at 9.30 a.m. on Mon-day, and there has beengood response, say the se-curity guards at M.A.Chidambaram Stadium. Thequestion of using the I, J andK stands still remains unan-swered, but there is alwaysthe rest of the stadium. “IPLis all about enjoyment.Dhoni, we want the cham-pionship,” shouts Deva,

who has come with a bunchof friends to buy tickets. Hisfriend Ram Kumar feels theCSK team compilation isexcellent this time. “We haveIrfan Pathan now and MikeHussey is back. It’s all goodfor us,” he says. But not ev-erybody is as enthused overthe tournament. “I’m not asexcited as I used to be.Something crept into thegame by the sixth season andsince then, it’s not been aboutthe sport anymore. But, CSKplayers are fair andhardworking and that’s whyI’m still passionate aboutCSK,” says software pro-fessional Sudarshan. Withouta doubt, IPL fever is slowlydescending on Chennaiites.

Indian ice hockey team seeks crowd fundingAgency : NEW DELHI

Short of finances but des-perate to participate in theupcoming Asian Champion-ships, India’s ice hockeyteam has sought crowdfunding to make the trip toKuwait and has also man-aged to get leading industri-alist Anand Mahindra’s sup-port in the endeavour. Theteam set up a website toseek funds to travel to Ku-wait for the event and hasfound support. The IndianTeam doesn’t have enoughfunds to participate. It willbe a shame because in 2012

we hosted the Champion-ship in Dehradun Indoor IceRink. “Government onlygives funds to the teams

travelling for Asian Gamesor Olympics but not for anAsian Championship. Butwe as citizens can still helpour national team by help-ing them financially to takepart in the ChampionshipCup of Asia 2015,” the mes-sage reads. The minimalisticcost of going to the Cham-pionship is Rs. 12 lakh with-out the cost of internationalcoach and cost of training.“Friends of Ice Hockey Fra-ternity have already raised5 lacs and also each playerhas personally contributed20000. However, we arestill short by 7 lacs,” thewebsite states. The fundsgenerated will be used forproviding the team withtraining, accommodation, airfare, visa, insurance, teamjersey and equipment.

Four held for manhandlingnational boxing coach

Agency : UDAIPURFour persons, including themanager and stewards ofa restaurant, have been ar-rested on charges of man-handling Hemlata Gupta,one of the coaches in thenational woman boxingteam, and her family mem-bers while they were hav-ing dinner here on Mondaynight. According to police,a verbal spat overHemlata's missing mobilephone turned ugly after thestaff allegedly manhandledthe guests. The complaintwas made by Anup,

Hemlata's husband, at theAmbamata police stationsoon after the incident.However, the police re-fused to lodge the com-plaint at night and insteadregistered it on Tuesday.According to the com-plaint, Hemlata was click-ing pictures with her ex-pensive phone worthabout Rs 40,000. She thenkept the phone by her sidewhile the waiters servedfood. After some timewhen Hemlata searchedfor her phone, it was notthere on the table.

US regulator upgradesIndia's aviation safety rating

Agency : NEW DELHIThe US Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) hasupgraded India's aviationsafety rating, in a boost forIndian airlines which cannow increase the number offlights they operate to theUnited States. US Trans-portation Secretary An-thony Foxx said in a state-ment on Wednesday thatIndia had taken correctiveaction to address the FAA'sconcerns after the aviationregulator downgradedIndia's rating to category 2from category 1 in January

last year, citing a lack ofsafety oversight. The deci-sion, which takes the ratingback to category 1, was notunexpected as India's avia-tion authorities have saidthey were working hard towin back the higher rating.The upgraded rating is ex-pected to help Jet Airwaysand state-owned Air India,the two Indian airlines whichcurrently fly to the UnitedStates. The downgrade hadmeant both carriers couldnot increase flights to theUnited States and faced ex-tra checks for existing ones.

Asus to launch ZenFone2 on April 23 in India

Agency : NEW DELHISmartphone maker AsusWednesday said that it willlaunch its latest flagshipsmartphone, ZenFone 2 onApril 2 in India. The com-pany has sent out media in-vites to the Indian press in-forming about the launch.The smartphone was origi-nally launched earlier thisyear in January at CES2015 in Las Vegas. The de-vices will be launched inthree variants. The top-endvariant of ZenFone 2 ispowered by up to 2.3GHz64-bit Intel Atom processorZ3580 and has 4GB RAM.The device features a 5.5-

inch Full HD and a(1280x1920p) IPS displaywith a wide 178-degreeviewing angle and comeswith a new ergonomic de-sign. The ZenFone 2 comeswith built-in 4G/LTE con-nectivity and supports dual-SIM with dual active mode,allowing users to have twoactive phone lines on theirdevice. It will come in 16,32 and 64GB storage vari-ants. Asus ZenFone 2 sportsa 13MP camera with an f/2.0 wide-aperture lens. Itcomes equipped with a5MP front-facing camerawith a wide, 85-degree fieldof view for taking selfies.

‘Food-borne diseases a challenge ’

Agency : KOZHIKODEAll stakeholders, fromfarmer, vendor, cook, toconsumer, have a key role inensuring the safety of food,a seminar organised by thedistrict unit of the IndianMedical Association (IMA)in connection with the WorldHealth Day has observed.The seminar on the theme‘Food Safety—from Farmto Plate’ was held at the IMAHall in the city on Tuesday.Presenting a paper on ‘food-borne infections’ on the oc-casion, Associate Professorof Medicine, GovernmentMedical College,

Kozhikode, R. Chandni,said that food-borne dis-eases were a serious publicchallenge for all countries.Quoting from the Worldhealth Organisation’s dataDr. Chandni said that therewere about 200 diseasesspread through food andaround 20 lakh peopleacross the globe fall sick byfood-related infections everyyear. She also stated thatKerala was facing the con-tradiction of having frequentoutbreaks of infectious dis-eases such as jaundice evenwhile having a relatively highstandard of life.

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Bhadar river bridge on Porbadnar-Veraval highway collapses

Correspondent, PorbandarOver two dozen years oldhighway bridge connectingPorbandar and Veraval incoastal Saurashtra col-lapsed early in the morningtoday. The bridge sufferedcrack in middle part and itsroad surfaced collapse andtouch water. Traffic on thisstretch was diverted to in-terior villages on both sidesof river. This caused trafficjam and delay. The riverbridge is located on riverBhadar. None is injured inthis incident and there hasbeen no damage to any ve-

hicle. But the bridge willneed reconstruction and itwill cause terrific problem totraffic on this stretch thatconnects Dwarka andSomnath via Porbandar,Mangrol and Veraval. Moredetails are awaited. Photo-graphs are attached. Thebridge is located 25 kmsaway from Narvai MataMandir. 100 ft portion hascollapsed in ‘V’ shape. Traf-fic fro Somnath side wasstopped near Navi Bandar,while traffic from Porbandarwas stopped at VirbhunKhambhi. The bridge was

constructed in year 1991.The incident of collapsecame to light when someoneon vehicle called Fire Bri-gade.

NERPAP meeting held in Gujaraton linking Aadhar and EPIC data

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadElection Commission of In-dia wednesday held WestZonal Conference of ChiefElectoral Officers on Na-tional Electoral Roll Purifi-cation & AuthenticationProgramme(NERPAP).The aim of the programmeis linking and authenticationof EPIC data of electorswith Aadhar data of UIDAI,corrections of errors or any

To link Adhar Card and Election card- Go to www.ceo.gujarat.gov.in website- SMS ECI link >EPIC number> >Adhar number>- Dial toll free number 1950 during working hours- Visit polling booth on 12 April Sunday in person and submit the details to Booth Level Officer.- Share details of Adhar Card to Booth Level Officer during his door-to-door visit during 16 April and 15 June.

relevant entry pertaining toelectors within 15 days onproduction of documentaryevidence, improvement ofimage quality, obtaining andfeeding in the ER database,the mobile and email ad-dress of the electors so thatperiodic information of pollday, revision schedule, de-letion/correction notice etcand other facilitation ser-vices can be provided to

them. A nationwide specialcamp will be organized atbooth levels in all the As-sembly Constituencies inthe State on April 12, 2015and thereafter, at least onespecial camp will be orga-nized every month on anySunday. Camp on 12 Aprilwill be held during 10.30am to 5.30 pm. BoothLevel Officers will guide thevoters in this camp. Alsonew voters registration willbe done by BLO afterchecking proofs, throughform no.6. Migrated ordead voters will be cor-rected in list through formno.7. BLOs will be ondoor-to-door visits during16 April and 15 June. Theprogramme has beenlaunched with the objectiveof bringing an error-freeand authentic electoral rollin the country. Voters withmultiple registrations in theelectoral rolls can come for-ward to delete their names.

Ailing crew member of foreignship rescued by Coast Guard

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadThe Indian Coast Guard(ICG) today rescued a sickcrew member of a Malta-based cargo ship off theGujarat coast nearPorbandar in Arabian Sea.“The Coast Guard todayevacuated one crew of aMalta- based cargo ship offthe Gujarat coast and pro-vided him necessary medi-cal treatment,” Inspector

General KuldipsinghSheoran, CommanderCoast Guard region (north-west), said. “We received atelephonic message for anurgent medical evacuationfrom a Malta-flagged LPGcarrier ‘Motor TankerHellas Serenity’ that one oftheir crew members, namedKaloudis Gerasimos, wassuffering from acute appen-dicitis,” Sheoran said. The

ship was about 305 nauti-cal miles from Gujarat coastand was advised to proceedto Porbandar for subse-quent air-lifting of the crewmember and medical treat-ment, he said. The vesselarrived near Porbandar inthe wee hours today and theCoast Guard’s advancelight helicopter successfullyairlifted the patient and pro-vided him first aid andmedical treatment, Sheoransaid. The condition of thecrew member is stable andhe has been shifted to aRajkot hospital for furthertreatment with the help ofthe vessel’s local agent, hesaid. The cargo ship is anLPG carrier, on passagefrom Fujairah in UnitedArab Emirates (UAE) toIndonesia.

Crime Branch arrests 3 for runningrailway job racket in Vadodara

Correspondent, VadodaraThe Detection of CrimeBranch (DCB) arrestedthree people here today forallegedly duping around 15youths promising them cleri-cal jobs in the Indian Rail-ways. “The Detection ofCrime Branch (DCB) ar-rested three youths from thecity in connection with aracket of providing job ofclerks in the Indian Railwayhere Wednesday,” Police In-spector Pradipsinh Jadeja of

the DCB said. The three ar-rested youths have been iden-tified as Hitesh Joshi, VipulJoshi and Jayesh Patel fromwhom the police seizeddocuments related to the of-fences along with cash worthRs 5 lakh from them. It is be-lieved that the job racket alsoinvolves some persons fromthe neighbouring town ofAnand and other parts ofCentral Gujarat, Jadeja said.The case is being investi-gated, Jadeja said.

PM Modi Shares How He HelpedGujarat's Kite Industry Soar

Agency : NEW DELHIPrime Minister NarendraModi today shared that hisspecial attention helped thekite industry in Gujarat,which, he said, employsover 90 per cent Muslims."When I was the GujaratChief Minister, I paid atten-tion to the kites industry.Kite-making is an environ-ment-friendly cottage indus-try that employs over 90 per

cent Muslims," PM Modisaid at the launch of a bankto fund micro-finance com-panies. "A Rs. 35 crore sec-tor soared to a 500-croresector," he added, arguinghis point that small industriesemploy a much bigger workforce and therefore needmore investment. Mr Modisaid he asked ad companiesto project Gujarat's kite in-dustry.

Gujarat Model: State to have SafaiKarmacharis Development Corporation

Correspondent, KOLARNarayan, Chairman ofKarnataka State Commis-sion for Safai Karmacharis,has said a Safai KarmachariDevelopment Corporationwill be set up in Karnatakafor the betterment of thekarmacharis and their fam-ily members. “Only Gujarathas such a corporation in thecountry. The Commissionhad submitted a proposal toset up such institution in theState and the governmenthad positively responded tothis”, Mr. Narayan told re-porters here on Wednes-day. Safai Karmacharisworking in Vidhana Soudhaand Vikasa Soudha werealso subjected to exploita-tion, he said. Mr. Narayan,who chaired the progressreview meeting at theDeputy Commissioner’s of-fice, said the governmenthad also approved in prin-

ciple to abolish outsourcingof Pourakarmikas andmake direct payment to thesafai karmacharis in order toensure reach the wages tothe genuine workers. Aboutsix crore rupees has beenmisappropriated by B.R.Ambedkar DevelopmentCorporation in the district.An enquiry will be con-ducted in to the scam, Mr.Narayan said. While the

number of SafaiKarmacharis in the districtwas 559 in Kolar district,more than 8,000 peoplewere given benefits by theCorporation. This hints atthe misappropriation offunds, Mr. Narayan said.Commission secretary M.S.Sangapur and Deputy Com-missioner K.V.Thrilokchandra partici-pated.

Dextra 2015:Mobile app operateddriverless car, a major attractionSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

Dextra 2015 – the first an-nual science and technologyfestival of Amiraj College ofEngineering & Technologyin Ahmedabad began fromtoday. More than 700 par-ticipants from engineeringand degree colleges acrossthe state will be participat-ing in this two days tech-fest.The annual festival will wit-ness various technical andnon-technical events. Dextra

2015 will witness technicalevents like ‘Debugger’ (De-bugging the circuit), ‘KrollaK1000’ (to construct atower crane from providedpopsicle sticks), ‘DextraFurious’ (to design a manu-ally controlled robot that hascapacity to cover maximumdistance in shortest possibletime), ‘C-Scavengers’ and‘Dextra Latertronics’.There will also be many nontechnical events like ‘Box –cricket’, ‘Dextra Detec-tives’, ‘Dextra Cartel’(Poster making competi-tion), ‘Birota’ (to ride a two-

wheeled bike over a fixedcourse in the longest inter-val of time) and variousother games like ‘NFS Warzone’ and ‘Counter strike’.The major attraction at thetech-fest – Dextra SMART– A mobile app based driv-erless car. This smart carcan be operated by mobilephone or laptop from anyplace of the world with thehelp of sensors and smarttechnologies. This is betterdescribed as next genera-tion robo fighter, which canalso run on unmapped offroads.

Class-4 and Nursing staffstrike hit AMC run hospitals

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadClass-4 employees ofAhmedabad MunicipalCorporation(AMC) runhospitals including VS Hos-pital, LG Hospital,Shardaben Hospital andNagri Hospital went onstrike on Wednesday.AMC has invoked ESMAagainst the strike and askedemployees to rejoin theduty or face action. Thestrike started with someclash between a ward boyand relatives of a patientwho died allegedly due tonegligence by nursing staffin AMC run LG Hospitalon Tuesday night. First thenursing staff went on strike,and later class-4 employ-ees joined the strike de-

manding recruitment on va-cant posts, permanent jobto those who have com-pleted 900 days as tempo-rary worker. ‘NaukarMandal’ a union of class-4employees is trying to ex-pand the strike by invitingAMC run local bus trans-port service(AMTS) staffand pumping staff at water

works to join it. Strike inhospital resulted into sus-pension of nearly 100 op-erations in AMC run hospi-tals. 108 emergency ambu-lance service was asked totake emergency patients tostate government run Civilhospital. Also some seriouspatients were transferred toCivil hospital.

Heavy police bandobastfor Isanpur demolitions

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadA major demolition opera-tion is being planned at 3 pmin Isanpur area ofAhmedabad on Wednes-day. Heavy policebandobast has been ar-ranged. Nearly 200 smallhouses and a major sectionof a school building wouldbe pulled down. For the

past many months thedemolition was being post-poned owing to protests bylocals. The houses are lo-cated in Govindwadi, whichmostly consists of chawlsand semi-pucca structures.The Isanpur demolitions arebeing carried out for thecompletion of a 100 feetroad.

Passenger held for smuggling gold worth Rs 18 lakhSunvilla News, Ahmedabad

The Air Intelligence Unit ofCustoms department onTuesday morning held aPunjab based man forsmuggling 659 grams ofgold worth Rs 17.89 lakh atSardar Vallabhbhai Patel in-ternational airport. HarpreetSingh was with six gold barswhich were concealed inrectum. Interestingly, Singhwas a domestic passengeras he had flown in from

Delhi. Singh had arrivedfrom Air India's flight AI-019from Delhi on Tuesdaymorning. "He was a domes-tic passenger and he hadpicked up the gold bars froman international passenger.The exchange of gold barshappened inside the toilet atthe international terminal,"said a Customs official.Since the end of 2014, "Theinternational passenger hadhanded the gold bars to

Singh believing that sinceSingh is a domestic passen-ger he will not be checked.We found his movementsuspicious and upon searchsix gold bars were recov-ered," added Customs offi-cial. Since January 2014,around 74.33 kg of gold,worth Rs 19.46 crore hasbeen seized at the airport bycustoms and DRI and 79smugglers have been de-tained.

MehAir to partner Diamond Aeronauticsfor intra-state flight operations in Gujarat

Sunvilla News, AhmedabadAfter it failed to attract pas-sengers for its intrastateflight services, Maritime En-ergy Heli Air Services Ltd(MehAir) is set to partnerSurat based DiamondAeronautics Ltd (DAL), anairline company owned bythe diamond barons.MehAir in collaboration withGujarat State Aviation Infra-structure Company Ltd(GUJSAIL) had launchedservices to three locationsjust 10 days before VibrantGujarat Summit 2015.MehAir began with firstflight to Porbandar on Janu-ary 2 this year and was tooperate 20 flights per weekto Porbandar, Bhuj andJamnagar. However, ac-cording to sources, MehAirhas clocked merely 85 hoursof operations in last threemonths and only 60 passen-gers used its services. Also

MehAir has not operatedfor last 10 days fromAhmedabad airport."MehAir officials has sub-mitted an application for sur-rendering their space at theairport," said a senior Air-ports t Authority of India(AAI) official. "We are go-ing to partner with DAL.Since the space atAhmedabad airport is lim-ited, we are giving it up toshare it with DAL. Howeverour base will remainAhmedabad," saidSiddharth Verma, co-founder and director,MehAir. For the regionalairline service, the companyhad deployed Cessna 208BGrand Caravan aircraftworth Rs 15 crore with ca-pacity to carry 9 passengersand two pilots. The ticketswere priced between Rs4,500 to Rs 5,000 per pas-senger per flight.