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News BriefArmy jawan

injured in militant firing in Kashmir

Agency | Srinaga

An army jawan was injured today when militants opened fire on a patrol party in Shopian district of south Kashmir. “One army jawan was injured in mil-itant firing on an army party at imam sahib Shopian at around 7.30 pm,” police said. Securi-ty forces have cor-doned off the area and launched house to house searches to track down the militants, they said.

Agency | Shimla

Several parts of Himachal Pradesh were lashed by heavy rains to-day triggering landslides which caused damage to property even as a high alert has been sounded with the major rivers flowing above the danger mark. Five houses were dam-aged in Shimla and Kullu districts while a retaining wall caved in near central school here.

Agency | New Delhi

With Congress upping the ante against Modi gov-ernment on issues including ‘Lalit-gate’, and Vyap-am, its women wing will hold a ‘gherao’ of Par-liament on Au-gust 8 days before Monsoon session comes to an end. The decision was taken at a two-day national executive meeting of Mahila Congress, which will conclude to-morrow with an address by party Vice President Ra-hul Gandhi during which the roadmap of action by party’s women wing for next three months will be chalked out.

Heavy rains trigger landslides

in Himachal

Mahila Congress workers to gherao

Parliament on Aug 8

Vyapam scam: As Madhya Pradesh Police decided to reopen the case of her death

Namrata Damor’s death was not suicideThe doctors who conducted the post-mortem said they never mentioned in their report that it was a case of suicide

“autopsy reveals”

Rahul Gandhi expresses support for kin of missing Coast Guard Dornier

Agency | UjjainMBBS student Nam-rata Damor, whose body was found near rail tracks in Ujjain district in 2012 after her name figured in the Vyapam scam, had died a “homicid-al” death caused by “violent asphyxia as a result of smothering” and nail injuries were found on her face. As Madhya Pradesh Po-lice decided to reopen the case of her death, the doctors who con-ducted the post-mor-

tem said they never mentioned in their re-port that it was a case of suicide. Earlier police had registered a “murder” case in this regard and later termed the incident as an “accident” and closed the case, a po-lice official said. The post-mortem report, a copy of which is with describes Namrata’s cause of death, as “asphyxia (violent as-phyxia)…as a result of smothering.” The findings were sug-

Agency | New DelhiCongress Vice Pres-ident Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday came out in support of the family of the three Coast Guard officials who are missing after their aircraft crashed a month ago. “One month on still no trace of missing #IC-GDornier &its brave crew. My prayers are with the families,” Rahul, who is likely to meet the distraught family soon, tweeted. With no clue emerg-ing about the where-abouts of the missing

Coast Guard aircraft and its three per-sonnel onboard, the father of one of the officers has written an ‘open’ letter to Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi saying they are “dying every second” and long-ing to get some bit of news about these men. The parents of Deputy Commandant Manoj K Soni (Navi-gator of the aircraft), who were till now in Chennai with their daughter-in-law, are now camping in Del-hi to urge the Prime

Minister, the Defence Minister and other senior functionaries to seek international help in getting a clue about their son and his two colleagues. The Coast Guard Dornier plane, CG-791, had taken off for a routine maritime surveillance sortie in coastal Tamil Nadu on June 8 and since then has been un-traceable despite the CG and the Navy un-dertaking a massive search operation in the sea and the land areas.

Agency | New YorkThe New York Stock Exchange halted trad-ing on all stocks this morning because of a technical problem, the company said, further roiling markets when stock values were falling over news from China and Eu-rope. The halt, which started at 11:32 a.m., occurred on a “heavy volume day,” and could have a broad impact on markets if the exchange stays down for several hours, Randy Freder-ick, a managing direc-tor at Charles Schwab, told The Post. “The issue we are experi-encing is an internal

technical issue and is not the result of a cy-ber breach,” the com-pany announced over Twitter. “We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue.” While NYSE, which is operated by InterContinental Ex-change, was down, trading was still go-ing on on the rough-ly 10 other exchang-es, like Nasdaq. “It wasn’t like from my seat that all of a sud-den you had to call the trading desk to get something ex-ecuted manually,” one broker told The Post. “Everything

Agency | New DelhiThe statements of two CBI officers who had conducted searches at the office and resi-dence of the accused in a coal scam case in-volving Jharkhand Is-pat Pvt Ltd (JIPL) and its two directors, were recorded before a spe-cial court today. The court recorded the testimonies of CBI inspector Vijay Chet-tiar, who had gone to Ranchi to carry out search at JIPL’s office,

and inspector Sanjay Sehgal who had par-ticipated in a search operation at the house of accused R S Rung-ta at Panchsheel Park in South Delhi. Chet-tiar told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that he had gone to Ranchi in March 2013 on the instructions of his seniors and carried out search at the office premises of JIPL at Ramgarh. A number of documents were recovered during the

Agency | Ufa After visiting two Central Asian coun-tries, Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on Wednesday on a three-day trip during which he will attend the BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organi-sation summits. Modi flew in from Kazakh-stan, which was his second stop after Uz-bekistan in his six-na-tion week-long tour. He will first attend

the summit of five-na-tion BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- which is expected to be dominated by dis-cussions on enhanc-ing cooperation in the economic area. With the BRICS Develop-ment Bank already set up, the summit could also look at the possibility of starting trade and credit facil-ity in local currency. The first head of the bank is noted Indian banker KV Kamath.

NYSE halts trading due to tech issue

systems-wise is flaw-less.” It wasn’t the only glitch of the day. United Continental had grounded all their planes worldwide in the morning for more than an hour because of a “network con-nectivity issue,” the company said in a statement. Trading volume on United’s stock was lower than normal during the

outage, the broker said. US officials said there was no connec-tion between the two. After the NYSE halt-ed stocks, the Wall Street Journal home-page was also down for unconfirmed rea-sons. Stock trading continued on other exchanges and “dark pools,” with the Dow down 1.3 percent by noon at 17,548.95.

PM Narendra Modi arrives in Russia; BRICS, SCO summits on itinerary Coal scam: Court records

statements of two CBI officials

Besides Modi and Xi, the BRICS Sum-mit is being attended by Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and

South African Presi-dent Jacob Zuma. “I expect positive out-comes in economic cooperation and cul-tural ties among the BRICS nations. The (BRICS) Summit in 2014 was productive and I am sure we will build on the ground covered during the last Summit,” Modi had said in a state-ment prior to his de-parture from Delhi on Monday.

search operation from the JIPL office, he said. During cross-exam-ination by the counsel appearing for JIPL and co-accused R C Rung-ta, he denied the sug-gestions that no doc-uments were seized from the office prem-ises of the firm. “It is wrong to suggest that I did not visit Ranchi CBI office on March 11, 2013 or carry out any search operation as stated by me at Ramgarh at the of-fice of M/s Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd. It is wrong to suggest that no documents were at all searched or seized by me at the office of M/s Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd at Ramgarh,” he said.

gestive of the death being “homicidal”, as per the autopsy report issued on January 9, 2012. The post mor-tem report was signed by Dr B B Purohit (Forensic Medicine), Dr O P Gupta (Med-ical Officer) and Dr Anita Joshi (Gy-naecologist). That

“the panel of doctors that conducted the post-mortem has nev-er mentioned in their short PM report as well as the detailed PM report that it was a case of suicide.” “We also found nail injuries at three plac-es on her face,” he said. When the body

was brought for post-mortem, at that time it was unidentified, Dr Purohit said. The report also advised for “histopathological examinations to rule out any sexual inter-course prior to death.” The autopsy was conducted at district hospital in Ujjain. Namrata’s body was

found near railway tracks under Kaytha police station limits in Ujjain. Her case came back to focus after the sudden death of TV journalist Ak-shay Singh in Jhabua district’s Meghnagar town recently after he interviewed Nam-rata’s father. Ujjain District’s Superinten-

dent of Police Mano-har Singh Varma said, “We have ordered a review of the death of Namrata Damor. Sub Divisional Offi-cer of Police (SDOP), Tarana, R K Sharma will reopen the case.” Namrata was study-ing at the Govern-ment MGM Medical College in Indore and it was suspected that she took admis-sion with the help of the racket involved in the high-profile Vyapam scam that is said to have claimed 45 lives so far.

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Police Reformer Of IndiaFormer Chief Justice of India Y.K. Sabharw-al’s passing would be mourned, among oth-ers, by the country’s police fraternity. There are few people who really empathise with the police, understand its problems, and appreci-ate the need to improve its working condi-tions. Justice Sabharwal was one such per-son. He knew the police had to be insulated from extraneous pressures to be able to en-force the rule of law, and that without a pro-fessional police, the country could not have a stable democracy or achieve sustained eco-nomic progress. The petition for police re-forms had been filed in 1996. It got an initial push from Justice J.S. Verma, but after that, with the exception of Justice S.P. Bharucha, no other judge took significant interest in the matter. The case meandered for almost 10 years — until it was taken up by Justice Sabharwal. He decided to clinch the issue. In a historic judgment delivered on September 22, 2006, Justice Sabharwal recorded that “having regard to (i) the gravity of the prob-lem; (ii) the urgent need for preservation and strengthening of rule of law; (iii) pendency of even this petition for last over 10 years; (iv) the fact that various commissions and committees have made recommendations on similar lines for introducing reforms in the police set-up in the country; and (v) total un-certainty as to when police reforms would be introduced, we think that there cannot be any further wait, and the stage has come for issue of appropriate directions for immediate com-pliance so as to be operative till such time a new model police act is prepared by the Cen-tral government and/ or the state governments pass the requisite legislation.” The court’s directions included setting up three institu-tions: state security commissions to insulate the state police from extraneous pressures; police establishment boards to give autono-my to the department in personnel matters; and police complaints authorities to ensure better accountability of the force. The court also laid down a procedure for appointment of the DGP and gave him a fixed tenure of two years, mandated a two-year tenure for officers performing operational duties in the field, and gave directions for the separa-tion of investigation from law and order in towns with a population of 10 lakh or more. The directions were to be implemented by December 31, 2006. The judgment caused a huge flutter. The states never expected such far-reaching directions. They mobilised the best lawyers to stall the reforms. The big question is: Will the SC remain a spectator to its directions on police reforms being tri-fled with by the state governments?

“Only the media is saying this. My leadership trusts me fully and that is something I am proud of. No one told me that you should request for a CBI probe. I felt it myself. Earlier I did not ask for a CBI probe as court was monitoring the probe…so what was the need?”

- Beleaguered Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today claimed that none in the party brass told him to ask for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam

Agency | New DelhiThere was buzz that superstar Salman Khan has been ad-vised bed rest due to backache, which sent his fans and well-wishers into a tizzy. But his sister Arpita Khan Sharma says Salman Khan is fit as a fiddle. Ar-pita, who is married to businessman Aay-ush Sharma, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share Sal-man Khan’s health update. “Salman Bhai is Fine, there’s noth-ing to be Alarmed about. Thank you for your love & concern as always,” Arpita Khan tweeted. The 49-year-old is caught up in the promo-tional activity of his

much-awaited film “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, which will hit the screens on July 17. The Kabir Khan di-rectorial, which also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Nawazud-din Siddiqui, will unfold the story of a man’s emotional yet thrilling journey from India to Pakistan. He is on a promotion spree for his film and has been shooting for the same back to back. So, the hectic schedule took a toll on his body. He was advised a two-hour break.” Salman is on his toes as he is visit-ing several TV shows’ sets like singing real-ity TV show “Indian Idol Junior” and “Yeh Hai Mohabbatein”.

Agency | New DelhiThe last time Govinda was in the news for Anurag Basu’s Jagga Jasoos, wherein he said that he is walking out of the movie. The latest update on this versatile actor now is that he has green-lighted an untitled Marathi film and has even started shooting for the same. The said film is being directed by Devdatt Manjrekar. Reports state that Govinda plays a man

Agency | New Delhi

Actress Alia Bhatt says as a viewer she likes reality shows, but feels she is too young to judge them as of now. “I don’t think judging is some-thing I can do now as I am too young, I am still learning it. I can’t judge but cre-atively I will be part of singing and music stuff (shows),” Alia. “Whenever the time is right I would do it. When I am not doing films and have time, then may be I can do reality shows. But I also think I need to explore the singing space to be on a show and judge someone,” she said. Alia along with filmmaker Karan Johar will now be seen as co-curators of Viacom18’s En-glish entertainment

channel Colors In-finity. When asked if she would be doing a show for the channel in near future, Alia said, “Not right now, but never say never, let’s see. For me real-ity television is some-thing I get hooked on to…like ‘Bigg Boss’. I get attracted to it. So doing something like that will be a great idea on Colors Infin-ity.” Alia says people are wise enough to chose what they like to see and there are particular slots for bold shows. “I think there is a particular time slot for that. We all are wise enough to make our choices. There are some shows that will be very inter-esting for the children to see, like the super-hero show and other shows,” she said.

Agency | New Delhi

Shraddha Kapoor is on a roll after the success of her latest outing ‘ABCD 2′ and has managed to gain a lot of appreciation and love for her role in the film. Shraddha Kapoor, who had put a lot of hard work in the film, had thanked her “ABCD 2″ team for being so passion-ate and hardworking and her choreogra-pher – director Remo D’Souza, for giving

her the opportunity of a lifetime. But apart from Remo D’sou-za, Shraddha Kapoor owes her success to her first dance teach-er, who taught her the first steps of dancing in her school days. Shraddha feels that the basic foundation of the art was very important to reach this level of dancing and she handpicked a special gift for her guru to acknowlegde the teacher’s contri-bution.

Agency | jaipurThe victim’s father Hanuman Khandel-wal alleged that it was Hema’s Mer-cedes which was speeding above 100 kms per hour when his car was hit, leav-ing five persons in-jured near Dausa on July 2. “I feel very sad that Hemaji, an MP, has such a small ‘soch’ (thinking) that she tweeted that I was not following traffic rules”, Ma-hajan, who is con-valescing in Trauma Hospital in the Pink City. Hanuman’s two-year-old daugh-ter Sonam was killed while five others were injured includ-ing the actress when

Agency | BhubaneswarIn a new turn to the controversy sur-rounding the remix of cult Sambalpuri song Rangabati, the youth wing of BJP has lodged a complaint against Bollywood singers Sona Mo-hapatra and Rituraj Mohanty at a police station in Odisha’s Sambalpur district. “Our complaint is on two counts – first, they did not take permission from the original lyricist and

composer and, sec-ond, they have dis-torted the song hurt-ing the feelings of millions of people in western Oridha,” said Aswini Majhi, dis-trict vice president of Bhartiya Janata Yuba Morcha. Sambalpur’s additional superin-tendent of police Su-shil Panigrahi said: “We have received the complaint. We are examining the legal issue over copyright and take action ac-cordingly.”

Rangabati: Police files complaint against Sona Mohapatra

Too young to judge a show, says Alia Bhatt

Dausa Crash: Victim’s father hits back at Hema Malini, says the BJP MP has ‘small soch’

Hema’s car collid-ed with another car. “Big people can say anything from any-where…If she has courage…she should come before me and say what she has to. I like to know from her one traffic rule that I violated…whether I was driving at very high speed, or wheth-er I was on the wrong

side, or I did not give an indicator..or I did not put seat belt”, he said. “My mistake was that I was driv-ing at a very slow speed and her car was at high speed”, he said, adding, “Why was her driver arrest-ed and released on bail. We have filed the case with the Kot-wali Police Station in

Dausa district”. Ha-numan’s wife Shikha, five-year-old son and brother’s wife Seema have been admitted to a hospital here. In her tweet, Hema said, “My heart goes out to the child who un-necessarily lost her life and the family members who have been injured in the accident.

Shraddha Kapoor’s special gift for someone special

Bhai is fine, tweets Arpita post Salman Khan’s health scare

Govinda to make his Marathi movie debut

from the rural interi-ors in this out-and-out commercial film that should be wrapped up by September. While

TV actress Ketaki Pa-lav will be seen play-ing Govinda’s leading lady in the film, the film’s makers have

also roped in Govin-da’s ‘partner-in-crime’ for many years Johnny Lever to play an im-portant role in the film.


SPORTS ROUNDUP

Agency | New DelhiThe recently an-nounced Lenovo K3 Note smartphone was sold out on Flipkart on July 8 seconds after the first online sale kicked off at 3 PM. Lenovo had re-ceived 5, 38,096 reg-istrations for the first flash sale, and sold about 47,440 smart-phones. For the next sale on July 15, the company is lining up a white version of the Lenovo K3 Note as well. The black ver-sion will go on sale at 12 noon, followed by the white at 3 pm on July 15. The K3 Note is a dual SIM smart-

phone with support for 4G connectivity. It sports a 5.5-inch 1080p Full HD dis-play along with a 13MP rear camera with LED Flash and a 5MP front cam-era. t runs on a 64-bit 1.5GHz Medi-aTek MT6572 CPU with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal stor-age which can be ex-panded up to 32GB. It has one of the best benchmarking scores among smartphones at the moment. Pow-ered by a 3,000 mAh battery, the device runs on Android Lol-lipop OS with Vibe UI.

Agency | New yorkWhen Facebook de-sign manager Cait-lin Winner started at the company, she noticed something about the Friends icon on the site. She felt compelled to act, and has now spoken about how she went about changing the look of the icons. “As a woman, edu-cated at a women’s college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite lit-erally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a position to lean in,” she says in a post on Medium ex-plaining the change that has been made. The old logo on the left, and the new on

the right (Facebook)Winner has now flipped the position of the two silhou-ettes, as well as re-placed the “Darth Vader-like” female outline by giving her a “slightly more shapely bob”. The move comes after a subtle re-design of the main Facebook logo last week, and also with the de-bate over the gender gap in the world of technology continu-ing. “Much to my dismay, not long into my tenure as a Facebook designer I found something in the company glyph (logo) kit worth get-ting upset about,” said Winner of dis-covering the prob-lem.

Agency | CaliforniaApple Inc is asking suppliers to man-ufacture up to 90 million units of two new iPhone models with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays by Dec. 31, the Wall Street journal re-ported. The phones are also expected to feature Force Touch technology which

Agency | KolkataAtletico de Kolkata head coach Antonio Habas, who is back with his ISL-winning team for a second season, is excited that they would get to play on natural grass at the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan here. The work for re-laying of natural grass is almost over and

ATK’s home ground would be ready when they return from Ma-drid after a two-week pre-season training in September. “It’s fantastic that the ar-tificial turf is now a thing of past. Great to hear that they have changed the pitch to natural grass,” Habas said on Wednesday. The Spaniard has a reason to say so as

he felt this would si-lence the critics who had alleged that ATK got some advantage because of the artifi-cial surface at the Salt Lake Stadium. “Peo-ple talked last time that we had the ad-vantage but let me tell you we had to strug-gle the most because we kept switching from artificial to natu-ral in away matches.”

47,000 Lenovo K3 Note smartphones sold on Flipkart registrations now

Apple plans record initial production of new iPhones: WSJ

Facebook has given its friends icon a feminist redesign

Agency | BengaluruIndian women pro-duced a clinical per-formance to crush New Zealand by nine wickets in the fifth and final ODI and won the series 3-2 on Wednes-day. After the win, the BCCI announced a cash award of Rs 21 lakh for the team as they fought back from being 2-1 down to win the series. The final match turned out to be an anti-climax of sorts with New Zea-land being shot out for 118 in 41 overs as seven of their batsmen failed to reach double digits. Suzie Bates top-scored with 42 while left-arm spinner Rajeswari Gayekwad had the best figures of 2/15. Jhulan Goswa-

mi, with 2/17, was as economical as ever while Deepti Sharma took 2 for 22. In reply, India surpassed the target in 27.2 overs with DT Thirush Ka-mini scoring 62 off 78 balls with 13 bound-aries. Deepti showed her all-round prowess by scoring an unbeat-en 44 off 78 balls with 8 boundaries. BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said: “Con-gratulations to our skipper Mithali Raj on leading the team with distinction and reg-istering a series win against New Zealand. The team has shown remarkable character to come back from 1-2 to and win the series. BCCI would like to announce a

reward of Rs 21 lakh for the team.” Secre-tary Anurag Thakur stated, “On behalf of BCCI, I would like to congratulate the team on the series win. It was a dom-inant performance today (Wednesday) and they deserve all the accolades.” “This five-match ODI series proved to be compet-itive and was a won-derful showcase for the skill and class of women’s cricket. It augurs well for the future. I would also wish to congratulate Mithali for reaching yet another milestone in her illustrious ca-reer - of crossing 5000 runs. Well done once again for a stellar per-formance,” he added.

Indian women thump New Zealand to clinch ODI series win

Agency | New DelhiCurrent Indian ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wished his former skipper Sourav Ganguly on the occasion of Gan-guly’s 43rd birthday on Wednesday by posting on his Face-book page a poignant photo of the two shar-

ing a light moment during a Test match, while wishes poured in for ‘Dada’, as Gan-guly is fondly known, on Twitter, with mes-sages from Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kum-ble, and others. On the eve of his birth-day, Ganguly had said about his plans for the

Agency | BengaluruIndian striker Sunil Chhetri said that the football team owes the country an apol-ogy for their defeat against Guam in a World Cup qualify-ing match played last month. Guam, ranked 33 places below In-dia, won on their home turf 2-1 — a re-sult which left India bottom of their group

after two matches. Iran, Turkmenistan and Oman are also part of the group. “We owe India an apology. We lost because we were very bad from the goalkeeper to the strikers. I have never seen something like that happen against a team of Guam’s ability in my time for India,” Chhet-ri. Chhetri also rued

Indian football team owes an apology to fans after Guam loss, says Sunil Chhetri

Fantastic to play on natural grass this time: Antonio Habas

Dhoni, Sachin, Kumble wish former skipper Ganguly on his birthday

Agency | LondonProfessor Lord Kam-lesh Patel of Brad-ford, an OBE and a leading voice on health, social care and community co-hesion in the UK, has become the first Brit-ish Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour Peer and formerly worked for the Yorkshire Cricket Academy as a part-time coach. Last year, he served on the judg-ing panel of the inau-gural Asian Cricket Awards supported by ECB. He succeeds Lord Morris of Handsworth, who is stepping down after 11 years as an ECB Director. Comment-ing on his appoint-ment, ECB Chairman Colin Graves said: “Lord Patel’s instinc-tive grasp of the role

losing to a penal-ty against Oman in the first qualifying match in Bengalu-ru, where he scored a stunning goal from the edge of the box to bring India level. India take on Iran on 8 September in what can be termed as a must-win encounter if they are to keep any hopes to qualify for the World Cup in 2018. India must finish in the top two to go through to the third round of qual-ifiers. “We don’t have the abilities of a Japan or Austra-lia. There is no Ney-mar or Messi in our team. So, we can’t afford not to work hard,” Chhetri said.

Lord Patel becomes first British-Asian appointee to England and Wales Cricket Board

occasion, “Nothing new... This time, I’m in Kolkata and will spend the time with my family.” Having represented the na-tional cricket team in 113 Tests and 311 ODIs, Ganguly has been one of the most successful Indian captains. Leading the Men in Blue to the famous Natwest ODI series triumph in 2002, Ganguly was instrumental in instill-ing confidence and ag-gression in the Indian side -- a quality that was often perceived as being conspicuous by its absence until then. Sachin Ten-dulkar, arguably In-dia’s favourite crick-eter and Ganguly’s India teammate for several years, wished Ganguly.

cricket plays in unit-ing communities and crossing social barri-ers will be all import-ant as we continue to change how we work as an organisa-tion. Commenting on the unity that cricket can bring, Lord Pa-tel said “Cricket has been a life-long pas-sion of mine and this is a great honour for me. I am a huge ad-vocate of what the sport can bring to the wider community – from instilling life-

skills like self-disci-pline and leadership to improving fitness and tackling wider issues like obesity.” Lord Patel moved to West Yorkshire at the age of one, and first played the game in the back-streets of Bradford. He sub-sequently joined a number of local club sides where he played alongside famous cricketing names in the Bradford League like Phil Sharpe and Geoff Cope.

can distinguish be-tween a light tap and deep press, people familiar with the matter told the Jour-nal. The screen sizes are the same as in the iPhone 6 and iP-hone 6 Plus. Apple is also expected to maintain the screen resolution, the news-paper reported. The company could not immediately be reached for com-ment. Apple’s shares were down 1.5 per-cent at $123.84 in midday trading on the Nasdaq.


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A sessions court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday allowed the application of state government seeking abortion of a mental-ly challenged wom-an who was found abandoned in the city sometime back. The 21-year-old woman is 14-weeks pregnant.

Special Public Prose-cutor Sudhir Brahm-bhatt confirmed the development and said that the court has al-lowed the applica-tion considering the state government’s stand that the wom-an wouldn’t be able to take care of the child. He said that the woman herself needs round the clock watch as she is unable to


A team of the An-ti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat detained a 42-year-old alleged bootlegger, Masum Kalu Mahida, who eloped with a Hin-du girl half his age from central Gujarat town Nadiad. As Ma-hida already has two wives, the entire Na-diad town remained shut for two days to protest against the alleged incident of love jihad. Later, a video was released from Mahida’s side and circulated on so-cial media in which the girl belonging to Patel community said that she left her home on her own wish and without any pressure. But even then the relatives of


Had you invested Rs 5,000 to buy 1,000 shares of Symphony Ltd in 2005, your in-vestment today would have grown to Rs 18.85 lakh. The city-based air-cooler mak-er is one of the few Gujarat-based com-panies giving returns in excess of 1,000% to shareholders in the past decade. Sympho-ny is leading the pack of best-performing Gujarat companies in terms of increase in share prices. The stock of the company has surged 36,934.38% to

touch Rs 1,885.05 on July 7, 2015 from Rs 5.09 a share on Janu-ary 3, 2005. The rapid rise has catapulted its promoter Achal Bak-eri to the elite club of billion-dollar busi-nessmen in India this year. Other companies to have had a dream run on the bourses during the past de-cade include Cera Sanitaryware, Vadilal Industries and Hitachi Home and Life Solu-tions India. The share prices of these firms rose by 5,163.10%, 4,250.29% and 3,830% respectively since 2005.


As Gujarat, which accounts for for 74% of the traffic by all non-major ports in the country and the lon-gest coastline amongst maritime states in In-dia (1,600 km), readies its new port policy, it might include a clause that the Gujarat Mar-itime Board (GMB), an autonomous State Board which admin-isters and regulates the 41 state-owned non-major ports of Gujarat, would no lon-ger acquire land for port development. The private port developer would purchase the required land parcel directly from land owners. A K Rakesh, vice chairman and

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State government has decided to issue the final notification, af-ter July 12, making voting compulsory in the local bodies’ elections. Nitin Pa-tel, state government spokesperson and the senior-most minister in the Cabinet, said, “As the elections in 690 gram panchayats are schedule on July 12, the state govern-ment has decided to announce the com-pulsory voting notifi-cation after the elec-tion process is over in these bodies. Right now, it is not possi-ble to conduct these elections in sync with

new law.’’ Patel said that rules regarding fine and other pe-nal action against the defaulting voters will be announced shortly. Section 15A&B, 16A&B and 34A&B of the Guja-rat Local Authorities Laws(Amendment) Act, 2009 makes it mandatory to vote in the local bodies elec-tions which be almost equivalent to state assembly elections. The bill was passed twice during the ten-ure of Narendra Modi as state chief minis-ter amid high voltage drama. Congress has been opposed to the move since day one.


The heavy rains in the last week of June had resulted in increase in sowing activity. The activity was complet-ed in about 50 per cent of the 85.53 lakh hectares of land. Con-trary to past year, the sowing of groundnut was more than cotton. According to the sow-ing figures released, sowing of groundnut has been completed in 11.47 lakh hectares of area which was 83.77% of the total sowing area of 13.70 lakh hectares. Cot-ton crop usually has more sowing in terms of percentage, but this year groundnut sowing was around seven per cent more than cotton sowing. The sowing of cotton takes place in 27.27 lakh hectares while the sowing was only in 20.91 lakh hectares which was 76.70% of

the total area. The of-ficials in the agricul-ture department said that the cash crop in-cluding Bajari, Millet, is still to pick up. The officials said that the sowing of Maize was only in 1300 hectares last year, while it was in an area of 1.85 lakh hectares this year. The officials said that sowing in the state last year was only in an area of 16.18 lakh hectares while this year it was in 42.41 lakh hectare this year. The officials said that the sowing was high-est in Saurashtra re-gion. OF the 36.30 lakh hectare where sowing takes place in the Saurashtra region, the sowing was com-pleted in 30.56 lakh hectare area. Officials said that the sowing part from Saurash-tra is yet top pick up in North, South and Central Gujarat.


The state will add three hatcheries to the existing two to give a shot in the arm to the conservation of the endangered green tur-tle and Olive Ridley turtle in Gujarat. Cur-rently, the state releas-es over 70,000 hatch-lings into the Arabian Sea every year. The forest department runs two hatcheries in Madhavpur (Por-bandar) and Okha Madhi (Jamnagar) where eggs are col-lected and brought to an enclosure to en-sure their hatching. Three hatcheries will

Correspondent | Modasa

Gulam Mohammed Dholkawala, 51, re-members sitting on a scooter outside a mutton shop in Mo-dasa’s Suka Bazaar when the locality was rocked by a blast. He could feel his cheeks burn and a loud ring-ing in his ears, which took weeks to go away. Almost seven years have passed since the Septem-ber 29, 2008 blast, but the trauma still haunts the victims. The National Investi-gation Agency (NIA) has filed a closure re-port in the case, citing lack of evidence and the inability to trace the main culprits be-hind the blast, which claimed the life of

NIA closes Modasa blast case in which Hindu extremists suspects

Ahmedabad court allows abortion of mentally challenged woman

15-year-old Zainud-din Gori and left 10 injured in the month of Ramzan. The spe-cial NIA court closed the case on April 22. The 16-page final re-port named no sus-pects but only said that “the complainant is the victim of the blast and is fortunate enough to have sur-vived”. The closure report comes at a time

when reports have emerged of a slew of cases, allegedly involving Hindu ex-tremists, falling apart. On Monday, a key witness in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case turned hostile — the fif-teenth so far to have turned hostile since June last year. There were striking simi-larities between the

Modasa blast and the Malegaon bombing, which took place a day before. Both cas-es took place around the same time — 9.30 pm — and in both in-stances the explosives were concealed inside a motorcycle. Dholk-awala, who trades in chilli powder, said he is not surprised by how this particular probe concluded.

take care of herself. The woman’s where-abouts is not known who was found preg-nant during a medi-cal check up after she was admitted in a hos-pital. She was found by Meghaninagar po-lice station officials who got her admitted in a mental hospital. According to Brahm-

bhatt, all efforts to find the woman’s relatives right from Ahmed-abad to Bengal have not yielded any re-sults. Subsequently, the hospital author-ities approached the concerned metropol-itan court seeking permission to abort her pregnancy. The court rejected the ap-

plication stating that it can’t allow such action. Following this a revision application was moved in the ses-sions court. Brahm-bhatt said that the medical reports have found that the girl is 14-weeks pregnant and abortion is per-missible if the preg-nancy has not crossed 20 weeks. He said that if she is allowed to deliver the baby it will have an adverse effect on the baby as well as the mother who is mentally un-stable.

Gujarat ATS arrests bootlegger for deceiving Hindu girl

the girl lodged a case against the bootleg-ger and alleged that the girl was forced to fall for Mahida. The police are now trying to track the girl and bring her to the police station for her state-ments. Mahida’s fate is depending upon her statements be-fore the cops. How-ever, the police said that even if Mahida gets released in this

case, he would be booked for the illicit liquor trade. Right-wing organisations like the Vishva Hin-du Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal supported the rela-tives of the girl. Lo-cal units of both the organisations have threatened to inten-sify their agitation if police fail to take ac-tion against Mahida and his aides.

Gujarat releases 70,000 turtle hatchlings

be commissioned this October — in Ko-dinar (Gir-Somath), Jhalna (Amreli) and Chorwad (Junagadh). “Gujarat will have one of the highest numbers of hatcher-ies in India. Partici-pation of locals has helped boost the con-servation of turtles,” says Dinesh Goswa-

mi, spearheading the campaign along the Saurashtra coast. P T Siyani, range for-est officer, Porban-dar and in-charge of Madhavpur hatchery, said, “In 1990s, only one out of 1,000 eggs laid would survive. Over the past two years, 85% of collect-ed eggs hatch.”

Gujarat may no more acquire land for projects under new port policyunder new policy, private port developer would purchase the required land parcel directly

from land owners.chief executive officer of the GMB said, “We are working on fine tuning our existing port policy which is over two decades old. While we plan to re-tain the basic features of the policy, we are planning to make sub-tle changes. Like there is a plan to allocate the responsibility of buying land for a port project to the private developer.” Rakesh added that so far GMB has been acquiring

the land for port proj-ects, but if this change was brought about, it would avoid liti-gations as well bring down delays in proj-ects. The new policy is likely to come up by the end of the year. Gujarat had come up with a port policy in 1995, and had planned for an integrated port-led development with focus on public-pri-vate-partnership proj-ects. Rakesh informed that the build-own-op-erate-transfer (BOOT) policy came up in 1997, and by 1999 the state came up with a model conces-sion agreement which

governs the terms and conditions according to which the PPPs in ports would be regu-lated and monitored. GMB so far was un-dertaking the work of land acquisition for ports. As Rakesh said, “If land is purchased directly by the devel-oper, it would avoid litigation, and hence subsequent delays in projects.” As for the new port policy, GMB is basically aiming to come up with a com-prehensive port policy that would lay down the necessary policy framework for effec-tive port led develop-ment in the state.

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