Ss eng 05 06 2015

News Brief

Dharma, Star India ink 9 films deal

Agency | Mumbai, Jun 4

Star India and Karan Johar’s Dharma Pro-ductions have joined hands to co-produce and distribute nine films worldwide. Fox Star Studios, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox and Star India, and Johar’s pro-duction company will make these films in the course of three years. “The Indian film in-dustry is an important market for us and this strategic partnership offers us an excellent opportunity to funda-mentally change the content quality para-digm,” Uday Shankar, CEO, Star India said in a statement.

Ashram attack case: Maha CM orders inquiry

Agency | Mumbai, Jun 4

Maharashtra Chief Min-ister Devendra Fadnavis today ordered an inqui-ry into the alleged ran-sacking of an ashram of a spiritual leader at Ingaon village by a mob led by an NCP corpora-tor which also looted Rs 1 lakh. “I have ordered an inquiry,” Fadnavis. The incident took place on Tuesday night when the mob of around 20-25 persons, led by NCP corporator Ashish Dam-le, attacked the ashram of Ratnakar Maharaj and damaged its prop-erty.

One army jawan killed, four injured in Manipur ambush

Agency | Imphal, June 4

One army jawan was killed and four injured when an insurgent group ambushed an Army pa-trol in Chandel district of Manipur this morn-ing, police said. A team of 6 Dogra Regiment was on a road opening patrol (ROP) as part of their daily routine along Tengnoupal-New Sam-tal road, about 80 km from here, when they were ambushed by the unidentified insurgent outfit with a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED), a police official said. The am-bush took place when the convoy reached a place between Paralong and Charong villages.

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54.42% pass GSEB Std 10th exam, lowest in a decadeSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Ed-ucation Board (GSEB) declared the results of the Class 10 examinations in the state on Thursday. The pass percentage this year is 54.42%, which is the lowest in a decade and 9% less than 2014. “The results for the class 10 exams have been de-clared, the pass percent-age is 54.42%,” said a se-nior official of the board. Predominantly tribal Ch-hota Udepur district has the worst pass percetage of just 20%, while Jun-agadh has the best pass

percentage of 74%. This year 303 schools in the state had 100% pass rate,

while whopping 2,389 schools had just 30% pass rate in the class 10 re-

Manipur insurgent ambush: 20 army men killed, 11 injured; PM says ‘mindlesss attack very distressing’

Agency | New Delhi

Militants armed with advanced weapons am-bushed an army convoy in Manipur’s Chandel district bordering Myanmar on Thursday morning, kill-ing about 20 soldiers and wounding over a dozen others in one of the dead-liest attacks in the restive region. Officials said a Dogra Regiment team was on a routine road open-ing patrol (ROP) along Moltuk village, around 110 kilometres south of state capital Imphal, when the guerrillas attacked the group with rocket-pro-pelled grenades. A team of 6 Dogra Regiment was on the patrol as part of its daily routine along Teng-noupal-New Samtal road when it was attacked by an unidentified insurgent outfit first with a power-ful Improvised Explosive Device (IED), a police official said in Imphal. After the IED blast, the in-surgents resorted to heavy

Agency | Patna

BJP on Thursday hit out at Nitish Kumar for al-legedly deploying per-sonnel to guard fruits at 1, Anne Marg, the offi-cial Bihar CM bungalow occupied by Jitan Ram Manjhi, saying the epi-sode has proved that the Chief Minister’s “Dal-it love” was merely a “show piece”. “Nitish Kumar ko aam janata ki nahi, aam ki chinta hai (Nitish Kumar is worried about mangoes, and not about common people),” senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said. “His love for Dalits is merely a show piece as reflected by the latest episode,” Su-shil Modi said in a state-ment in Patna. Attacking Kumar for deploying 24 policemen, including 8 inspectors and 16 consta-bles, to guard hordes of mango and litchi trees at 1, Anne Marg, presently occupied by Manjhi de-spite demitting the CM office, Sushil Modi said while the crime situation

firing at the convoy of four army vehicles with rock-et-propelled grenadess and automatic weapons, army sources said in Delhi. “Twenty armymen were killed and 11 injured in the attack,” army spokeperson Col Rohan Anand said in Delhi. An Assam Rifles (South) spokesperson said, “All the victims have been evacuated to the military hospital at Leimakhong.”

The official said that one of the militants was also killed though his identity had yet to be established. A reinforcement party of security personnel was rushed to the spot for a combing operation to catch the militants, said sources. Defence minis-ter Manohar Parrikar said those who committed this “cowardly act” will be brought to book. Parrikar

also conveyed his con-dolences to the bereaved families of the armymen who lost their lives, a de-fence ministry statement said. Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi termed the attack ‘mindless’. Min-ister of state for home Kiren Rijiju announced the Centre will not enter into peace talks with any emerging militant outfits in the northeast as the Na-rendra Modi government decided to take a “tough line” against the insur-gents. He also said the contentious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (Af-spa) will stay on in the north-eastern states other than Tripura where the law was repealed on May 27 by the state government after 18 years. Analysts say the attack may have been provoked by the re-ported killing of a woman by soldiers this week fol-lowing which the district observed a complete shut-down on Wednesday.

was deteriorating, the state government’s pri-ority was to guard fruits. “Nitish Kumar does not have policemen to check crimes but he has two dozen policemen to pre-vent a ‘Mahadalit’ to eat mangoes and litchis and send others to Delhi to join anti-corruption bu-reau there,” the senior BJP leader said. He al-leged that initially to teach a lesson to Manjhi for going against him, Kumar deployed person-nel to spy on Manjhi and later got the telephone and cable connections snapped at 1, Anne Marg bungalow which Man-

jhi continues to occupy. On Kumar sending po-licemen to Delhi, Sushil Modi said Kumar knows that Delhi does not have full-statehood status and in such a condition no official can be deployed there without permission of the Lt Governor. “Still in order to pick confron-tation with the BJP-led NDA government at the centre, Kumar sent half-a-dozen policemen to join anti-corruption bureau on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s request for political reasons,” Sushil Modi who played depu-ty to Kumar during NDA rule in Bihar, said.

Nitish worried about aam, not aam janata, says Sushil Modi

According to reports, 10,12,581 students are said to have appeared for the board exams, out of which 5,35,662 were boys and 4,76,919 girls.

sults. More than 10 lakh students had appeared in the examination which

was conducted in March 2015. The students can check their results on the state board’s web-site www.gseb.org. The students can access their results and also print the score card in PDF form from the website. Howev-er, the score card will be for the reference purpose only as the original mark

sheets is to be issued by the respective schools. The results are accessible using exam role number. Those who don’t have ac-cess to the internet facility can get the results through their mobile phones. Can-didates can also contact the Examination Control Department of Gujarat Secondary Board. Mean-

while, as compared to the previous years, more students wrote the exam this year. “On an average, nine lakh students take the exam every year but this year the figure crossed 10 lakh,” said an official from the board. The exam was conducted in 335 centres spread over 30 districts in the state.

One month ban on storage and sale of Maggi noodles in GujaratSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The government of Gujarat has banned storage and sale of Maggi noodles for 30 days as proportion of lead has been found in range of 2.8 to 5.0 ppm against prescribed level of 2.5 ppm. Maggi noodles maker company Nestle will need to recall the stock from the markets. MSG has also been found in the samples of Maggi, SK Food and Sun

Feast. Samples of SK food Valsad have failed so far as lead and MSG presence is concerned, and it has also attracted ban. About Sun Feast noodles, the government will take more samples

and then will take decision. According to state Health Minister Nitinbhai Patel, state Food control department had taken 37 samples of three noodle brands. Results of 27 samples are out so far. Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation teams have collected more samples of various brands of noodles from different stores for laboratory tests.

Paswan condemns entry restriction for non-Hindus in Somnath templeSunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Pub-lic Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday criticised the move by Shree Somnath Trust (SST) that restricted the entry for non-Hindus to the famous Shiva Tem-ple - Somnath, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas. Reacting

to the news about SST discriminating between the devotees visiting Somnath temple, Paswan said, “It is wrong. You cannot prevent someone from entering temple on the basis of caste or re-ligion. Irrespective of a temple or a Mosque, such discrimination should not take place.” The tem-

ple authorities had put up a notice at the gates of the temple asking the non-Hindu visitors to take permission from the Trust authorities be-fore entering the temple, which is located near Ver-aval in the coastal district of Gir Somnath in Sau-rashtra region of Gujarat.The Trust, which has for-

mer Gujarat chief min-ister Keshubhai Patel as its chairman, and former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi its trustees, want-ed to regulate the flow of non-Hindu visitors.

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Prepare for the rainless dayThe Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that India will get deficient rains in 2015, likely to be 88 per cent of the long period average (LPA) of 89 cm, which is the average seasonal rain (June-September) received by the country in the 50 years between 1951 and 2000. The probability of getting below normal or deficient rainfall is 93 per cent, which is in contrast to the first forecast by the IMD, which pegged a less than 70 per cent probabil-ity on below normal or deficient rains (at 93 per cent of the LPA) for the upcoming monsoon season. But Skymet, a private sector forecaster, is still holding on to its first forecast of a normal monsoon, with rainfall likely to be 102 per cent of the LPA. It ap-pears now that there is an open challenge and com-petition between Skymet and the IMD — and var-ious stakeholders are keenly watching this contest. While one would wish that Skymet’s forecast came true, so that farmers would not suffer another year of increased distress, the government cannot take any chances and remain passive. In any case, the gov-ernment will rely on its official agency, the IMD, rather than a private forecaster. Also, the IMD’s June forecast is taken very seriously due to its proximity to the monsoon season. The international weather agencies, especially the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administration (NOAA), the US feder-al agency monitoring El Niño developments in the Pacific Ocean, declared the onset of El Niño, with a 90 per cent chance of it continuing in the summer of 2015. This means that the Pacific Ocean waters are likely to continue heating and, thus, will be dis-rupting the Indian monsoons during the year. Accu-Weather, another weather agency, says that “while there will be some rainfall in the region (India), the pattern could evolve into significant drought and negatively impact agriculture from central India to much of Pakistan”. But this agency also recognises the positive role of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), the warming of the Indian Ocean that could counter the impact of El Niño, provided the IOD strengthens further, and India may even get normal rainfall. The IMD’s Australian counterpart, the Bureau of Mete-orology, is also predicting drier-than-normal weath-er conditions in the ensuing months. So, overall, it seems that a tussle is going on between El Niño (Pa-cific warming) and the IOD (warming of the Indian Ocean), and the net result will depend upon which factor emerges stronger. Skymet seems to be rely-ing more on the IOD, which currently is neutral to slightly positive, and the IMD is leaning towards the strengthening of El Niño. Needless to say, there are many other weather factors that go into their sophis-ticated modelling. But these, in brief, are the import-ant factors for a layman to understand what is going on. It would be interesting to see what the historical relationship between El Niño and drought is.

“A day or two reaction in the market itself never indicates a trend... I don’t read too much on daily movements as far as markets are concerned,”

Agency | Mumbai

It seems that all is not well between Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez. The actor recently talked about Kick’s sequel and said that Jacqueline Fer-nandez has been kicked out of the film. Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernan -dez be-came very good friends on the sets of their film Kick. But ac-cording to ru-mours they are no longer on talking t e r m s . D u r i n g A I B A awards in D u b a i , Sa lman K h a n talked

about Sajid Nadiadwala, who directed Kick, and will also direct Kick 2, “Sajid and I will work t o g e t h e r

then... whenever it hap-pens.” Salman Khan further added, “Howev-er, there will be no Jac-queline. She has been ‘Kick’ed out. Now we will find someone else.” Talking about the state-ment a source told Mid Day, “Salman Khan

may have made this state-

ment in his inimitable humorous style, but it is a tell-tale sign of t h i n g s not be-

ing well be tween

him and Jacky.” “Sal-man Khan is known to reveal what

is on his mind through his t r a d e m a r k wisecracks.”

Agency | Kuala LumpurThe International Indian Film Academy has an-nounced the winners of the technical categories of India’s most prestigious international awards, the Internatuiional Indian Film Awards IIFA 2015 which will be handed over at Kuala Lumpur this weekend. This years’s Vi-doecon D2H IIFA week-end celebrations are slat-ed for the first weekend of June, From 5th to 7th starting with IIFA Rocks and Technical Awards in Kuala Lumpur. Haid-er takes over the list this year and walks away with 6 awards in the techni-cal category which in-cludes Costume design-ing, background score, sound mixing, sound de-

Agency | Mumbai

Yami Gautam, who made her debut on silver screen with ‘Vicky Do-nor’, draws inspiration from the Waheeda Reh-man. Yami is intrigued by Waheeda’s journey and wanted to learn more about her, hence fetched an autobiog-raphy on the veteran actress. Waheeda Rehman is tagged as Bollywoods most beautiful actress of her time and Yami felt that there was a lot that she can learn from Wa-heedajis experiences in life and how she dealt with situations. Waheeda, who is considered to be one of the most beautiful

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Agency | New Delhi

If you are in Vegas, you party like the ABCD 2 crew or you don’t party at all! The latest song Naach Meri Jaan from the Varun Dhawan- Shraddha Kapoor star-rer is set in Vegas where the ABCD 2 team has arrived for the World Dance Competition in the movie. The song is composed by Sachin-Ji-gar and crooned by

Benny Dayal, Shalma-li Kholgade, Siddharth Basrur and Rimi Nique. Varun and Shraddha’s crackling chemistry is the highlight of this song. But in some bits Varun is seen flirting with Lauren Gottlieb and we are looking for-ward to see how their chemistry in the film works out. The Naach Meri Jaan song looks like a lot of fun was had

Agency | Chennai

All that Professor Hig-gins wanted in My Fair Lady was “a room some-where”. All that two little boys in first-time direc-tor Manikandan’s Kaa-ka Muttai (Crow’s Egg) desire is a pizza. From

IIFA 2015 Awards in Technical Fields, Main Awards on Sunday June 7; Schedule

- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the slide does not indicate a trend as economy is on a recovery path.

Jacqueline Fernandez Has Been Kicked Out: Salman Khan

Wazir trailer: Amitabh, Farhan as mysterious and intriguing as a game of chessAgency | Mumbai

The trailer for Bejoy Nambiar’s upcoming film Wazir was released on Wednesday, and it stars Amitabh Bachchan, Far-han Akhtar and Aditi Rao Hydari, among others. Produced by the biggies, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani, Wa-zir’s trailer sets one thing straight. This is going to be a gripping film, pos-sibly a political thriller too since the trailer hints at several mind games to keep you intrigued. The first look of the film was released with Aamir Khan’s PK last year in December, and since then, we’ve been waiting for an extended trailer of the film. The trailer starts off slow, with a Neil Ni-tin Mukesh playfully

voicing the tongue-twist-er in a villainous manner, “Lakdi ki kaati.. kaati pe ghoda..” We then see snappy visuals of what the film has to offer: Far-han’s serious mode cou-pled with a moustache and ripped biceps, there’s action, there’s a back-ground score that would give Hans Zimmer a run

for his money, and Adi-ti Rao Hydari’s svelte presence that promises a back story. And there’s also Amitabh Bachchan towering presence that immediately grabs your attention. Also, don’t miss John Abraham’s cameo. Eye candy apart, every character in the trailer seems to be on

some mission and you are drawn into the drama. Amitabh Bachchan is in a wheelchair, presumably a Stephen Hawking type character who is a mas-termind, Farhan’s a cop who is predictably facing several road blocks in his way. Thrown in are some masterful chess moves, and we’re intrigued.

Kaaka Muttai review: A small film with a big heart

the slums of Chennai, the lads, who call themselves as Periya Kaaka Muttai (Vignesh, 14) and Chinna Kaaka Muttai (Ramesh, 12), go to the quirkiest of extent to earn that Rs 300 needed to buy themselves this Italian delicacy from an outlet which opens next

to their shanty. It is both novel and hilarious when the two get a makeshift pull-cart to transport soz-zled men from the road-side bar to their homes. At other times, the children pick coal that drops from passing steam engines (but I thought they had been re-placed with diesel and elec-tric locomotives) to feed their family of a mother (played with extraordinary ease by Iyshwarya Rajesh) and a grandmother. The fa-ther is in jail, and the wife is struggling to get him out on bail -- grappling as she is with crooked lawyers.

sign, production design and make-up. Queen and Kick both bagged two awards each. Queen for screenplay and editing, while Kicked walked away with Choreograghy and special effects-visual. Besides Ek villian won an award for song recording, PK was honoured for Di-alogue, 2 states for cin-ematography and Bang Bang took home a acco-lade prize for Action. The IIFA Weekend this year will also see a night exclu-

sively dedicated to fash-ion which will be hosted by friend of IIFA, Neha Dhupia. IIFA Rocks, mu-sic extravaganza will see a host of fantastic musical performances by Shan-kar-Ehsaan-Loy, Mika, Ankit Tiwari, Kanika Ka-poor, Jawed Ali and the Nooran sisters. Superstars like Jacqueline, Aditi Rao Hydari, Lisa Hayden and Lauren Gotlieb will also take the IIFA Rocks stage for some incredible per-formances.

ABCD 2 song Naach Meri Jaan: Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor show you how to party in Vegas!

while shooting for it. Director Remo D’Souza told us EXCLUSIVE-LY that he had the most fun while shooting for this song as Varun and Shraddha super friend-ly with the crew and the entire team had a blast in Vegas. Check out the Naach Meri Jaan song right here and tell us if you like the way Varun and Shraddha tear the house down in Vegas!

acted in movies like ‘Guide’, ‘Sahie Biwi Aur Ghu-lam’, ‘Neel Kamal’, ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’, ‘Ram Aur Shyam’ and many more. Yami Gautam is very fond of reading books and makes sure to have at least two books with her all the time, especially while she is traveling. Yami Gautam, who made her debut on silver screen with ‘Vicky Donor’, draws inspiration from the Waheeda Reh-man.Apparently, she is reading about Waheeda Rehman as she feels that she can draw inspiration and learn a lot

from her. She is absolutely enjoying the whole pro-cess of reading the biography and is looking for more books on Waheedaji. Yami said: “Waheedaji has al-ways been a huge inspiration in my life. I was very intrigued by her journey and so I decided to pick up her biography. The process of reading her story was absolutely enriching. She is like a dream.” The ac-tress is currently in midst of her shooting schedule

for her upcoming film opposite Pulkit Samrat.

Yami Gautam inspired by Waheeda Rehman, reads the actresses’ biography

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SPORTS ROUNDUPDe Villiers crowned South African cricketer of the yearAgency | Johannesburg

AB de Villiers won as many as five awards, in-cluding the South African Cricketer of the Year for a second consecutive time at a gala function, hosted by Cricket South Africa (CSA) in Johannesburg. Besides being voted the Cricketer of the Year for the second successive season, the South African batting great on Wednes-day night bagged four more accolades out of total nine major awards. The 27-year-old bats-man was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year, Cricketers’ Cricketer of the Year, SA Fan’s Crick-eter of the Year and also got the ‘So Good Award’ for scoring the fastest century in the history of ODI cricket against the West Indies in December 2014. Having won the South African Cricket-

Parupalli Kashyap in quarters, Kidambi Srikanth ousted from Indonesia Open

Agency | Jakarta

Parupalli Kashyap stunned World No.5 Son Wan Ho in straight games to enter the men’s singles quarterfinals but Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the Indonesian Open Super Series badminton tourna-ment after going down to a lower-ranked opponent in a hard-fought con-test here on Wednesday. Kashyap posted an upset win over Wan Ho of Ko-rea 21-11 21-14 in just 36 minutes, while Srikanth conceded one-game ad-vantage to go down 21-14 20-22 13-21 to Gint-ing Anthony of Indonesia in a battle that lasted 54 minutes. World no. 12, Kashyap came up with

a clinical display against Wan Ho, winning a total of 42 points as compared to just 25 won by the Ko-rean. The opening game turned out to be a cake walk for Kashyap. Hav-ing opened up a 4-0 lead, the shuttler from Hyder-abad simply dominated the proceedings.Kashyap continued to surge ahead and the closest the Kore-an could reach was 4-7 at one stage in the first game. In the second game, Wan Ho bounced back with a 2-0 lead to begin with but Kashyap soon caught up with him at 3-3 and the battle continued till 6-6 before the Indian reeled off six points on the trot to make it 12-6. There

was no looking back for Kashyap thereafter and he eventually sealed the game and the match pret-ty comfortably. Kashyap will now take on top seed Chen Long in the quar-terfinal. Srikanth, ranked fourth in the world, began with bang. Living up to his reputation, he quickly took the lead and easily wrapped up the opening game in his favour. But Anthony quickly got his act together and the sec-ond game was a closely fought affair, where both the players went neck-and-neck till 20-20 be-fore the unseeded Indo-nesian managed to earn two crucial points to take the match to the decider.

Agency | Singapore

Sepp Blatter and his Once a football minnow, the Middle East has emerged as one of the sport’s most powerful blocs during Sepp Blatter’s 17-year reign at FIFA, and is like-ly to have a big say in who will replace the 79-year-old Swiss, who is step-ping down amid a deep-ening corruption scandal at the organisation. The Middle East holds power at the 46-member Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the third largest of FIFA’s six regional bod-ies but boasting the big-gest and fastest growing population, a dream tick-et for FIFA sponsors like Coca-Cola and Adidas. The region also boasts an abundance of sponsors willing to plough money into the sport, with Qa-tari finance behind Eu-ropean giants Barcelona and Paris St Germain, while the emergence of BeIn Sports in the TV rights market has helped the money flow in many other leagues. The power and oil wealth allowing the Middle East to muscle in among the king mak-ers at football’s top table, once monopolised by Eu-rope and South America, helped Qatar surprisingly land the right to host the 2022 World Cup, despite the small Gulf nation’s

Agency | New Delhi

India today rose six places to occupy the 141st position in the latest world foot-ball rankings issued by the game’s gov-erning body FIFA. India, who were placed 147th previously, are lying at the 22nd spot among the Asian coun-tries. Iran (41) are the top-ranked Asian team in the latest FIFA rankings, fol-lowed by Japan (52) and South Korea (58). World champions Germany has managed to hold on to the top spot ahead while, at No. 2, Belgium reached

Agency | New Delhi

This would send a chill down any woman tour-ist’s spine. Two women, who recently went on a holiday to Goa, were ab-ducted and gangraped by a group of five men who were posing as po-licemen. All five were arrested by police later after a taxi driver who was driving the women managed to escape. The incident was reported on Monday evening, when the two women aged 20 and 34 years were report-edly on their way to An-juna beach. According to reports, five men posing as officers with the CID and narcotics cell of Goa police stopped their cab around 8.45 pm and ab-ducted the women as well as the taxi driver. They allegedly confined them in two rooms at a studio apartment-style hotel in Calangute till Tuesday morning and assaulted them with wooden sticks, Sunil Garg, Inspector General of Goa Police. “The accused took turns to sexually abuse the vic-tims,” Garg said, adding

Volvo exits Eicher Motors

Agency | New Delhi

The divestment of shares has no effect on ownership or development of the long-standing joint venture, VE Commercial Vehicles. Swedish commercial vehicle major Volvo on Thursday exited Eicher Motors by selling its residual 3.7 per cent stake in the Indian firm for about Rs 1,695 crore. “The Volvo Group has sold its remaining holding in the listed Indian automotive manufacturer, Eicher Motors Limited. The sale corresponds to 10,05,610 shares with a total value of approximately SEK 2.2 billion (about Rs 1,695 crore),” Volvo said in a statement. The divestment of shares has no effect on ownership or development of the long-

standing joint venture, VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV), it clarified. The sale will have a positive impact on the Volvo Group’s cash flow after net investments and net financial debt in a corresponding amount in the second quarter of 2015, the company said. Volvo said the sale will also “generate a capital gain of approximately SEK 2.1 billion, which will impact operating income in the trucks segment in the second quarter of 2015“. Eicher Motors was trading at Rs 17,200 in the afternoon trade, down 5.55 per cent. Earlier in March, Volvo sold around 4.7 per cent stake in Eicher Motors for over Rs 1,920 crore by selling 12.7 lakh shares.

Can the Uber, Ola apps be blocked?

Airtel raises Rs 6,400 crore from global investors

Agency | New Delhi

Indian ace Saina Nehwal was displaced from the top spot in badminton world rankings, slipping to third in the latest wom-en’s singles list. Saina, the first Indian woman bad-minton player to be world number one, dropped two spots and is placed below Spaniard Carolina Marin (80752). Olympic cham-pion Li Xuerui claimed the top spot, going up a place with 85217 points. In men’s singles, Kid-ambi Srikanth was the highest-placed Indian, climbing a position to

Agency | New Delhi

The Delhi government is trying to block taxi hail-ing apps like Uber and Ola Cabs, but is it really possible? Taxi aggrega-tors are in the firing line over passenger safety again after a 21-year-old Delhi woman alleged she was molested by a driver in an Uber cab near Gur-gaon on Saturday morn-ing. The allegation came just six months after a 25-year-old financial an-alyst was allegedly raped in an Uber cab in Delhi, over which the victim took the cab aggregator’s parent company to court in the US. Following an

Agency | Mumbai

India’s largest telecom company Bharti Airtel has raised $1 billion, or around Rs 6,400 crore, by selling bonds to glob-al investors. Those bonds have been priced at 210 basis points over and above the 10-year US Treasury bond yields, which would offer a fi-nal rate of 4.37%, two persons associated with the deal told ET. A basis point is 0.01%. “This has enabled Bharti Airtel to achieve the tightest ever price on its bond offer-

Football: Central Asia to pick next FIFA chief

Saina loses No. 1 spot; Srikanth climbs to No. 3

Two Delhi Women Abducted And Gangraped In Goa By Men Posing As Police Officers

that their cellphones were snatched from them and the taxi driver was asked to withdraw cash from an ATM nearby. The inci-dent took place on Tues-day when the accused posed as policemen and locked them up in a re-sort in Calangute. They also allegedly demand-ed Rs 1.50 lakh from the two girls. However, the driver managed to escape and reach a local police station, where he lodged a complaint. Police raid-ed the apartment where the women were held and

arrested the accused, who are mostly in their 20s. By the time police reached the place, the men had al-ready let the women go. The men have been iden-tified as Ajaykumar Kush-waha (39), Jeevan Pawar (26), Nadeem Khan (28), Trebor Joseph (27) and Kamlesh Chaudhary (21). They have been charged with gangrape, kidnap-ping and robbery. Goa police were later able to reach the women and send them for medical exam-ination, which confirmed sexual assault.

third with 67157 points. He is placed ahead of Chinese star Lin Dan, who has slipped a couple of positions. Common-wealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap is the

next best Indian at 12th, followed by H.S. Prannoy at 13th. In the women’s doubles list, Jwala Gut-ta and Ashwini Ponnap-pa went up a place to be ranked 17th.

order from the Delhi gov-ernment, the Department of Telecommunication had issued an order to In-ternet Service Providers to block the websites and apps of taxi hailing aggre-gators like Uber, TaxiFor-Sure and Ola Cabs. But Internet Service Providers (ISP) have apparently ex-pressed inability to block Uber, Ola as the web ser-vices feature strong end-to-end encryption. Most users book cabs from Ola or Uber using the com-pany’s apps, which use strong encryption effec-tively making their data virtually undetectable to ISPs.

lack of success on the pitch. The power shift had been evident even be-fore Mohamed Bin Ham-mam took charge of the AFC in 2002, but it was

under the Qatari’s watch that the gap widened on traditional Asian powers Japan and South Korea, who lost out on the 2022 World Cup.

Football: India jump 6 spots to 141 in new FIFA rankings

their highest position since the launch of FIFA rankings. World Cup runners-up Argentina are placed third, while five-time world champions Brazil are fifth, a spot be-low Colombia. Brazil are followed by the Nether-lands (6), Portugal (7), Uruguay (8), France (9) and 2010 World Cup champions Spain (10).

er of the Year for a sec-ond consecutive year, De Villiers has matched the performance of former paceman Makhaya Nti-ni, who had received the award in 2005 and 2006. Jacques Kallis (2004 and 2011) and Hashim Amla (2010 and 2013) are the other players to have been awarded the South Afri-can cricketer of the year twice, while previous win-ners were Shaun Pollock (2007), Dale Steyn (2008),

Graeme Smith (2009), and Vernon Philander (2012). The Test cricketer of the year award went to Hashim Amla, who is the only oth-er South African player to have won five awards ear-lier in 2010. Other major awards were clinched by Morne van Wyk, who won the T20 Cricketer of the Year, Dale Steyn received the Delivery of the Year and Rilee Rossouw was named the SA Newcomer of the Year.

ings.” Last year the com-pany obtained a spread or gap of 270 bps when they had sold 10-year bonds offering 5.35%. Bharti Airtel has approached investors for issuance of debt instruments in the form of dollar-denomi-nated senior unsecured notes with 10-year ma-turities, the company said in a notice to the stock exchanges. It will use the bond proceeds for its capital expenditure.

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4,85,565 unsuccessful in Gujarat Board std 10th exam, 2,57,000 in std 12th!

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Recently standard 12th Gujarat Board exam re-sults were announced. In total around 2,57,000 students were declared unsuccessful(popular-ly called failed). Today Gujarat Board standard 10th exam results are out and 4,85,565 students are declared unsuccessful. Thus in total more than 7,40,000 students are declared unsuccessful in board exams this year. This is a huge number. It is equal to almost 15 Sardar Patel Motera sta-diums at their full capac-ity. The result of standard 10th is 54.42%. Among total 4,85,565 unsuccess-ful students, 4,70,920 are from Gujarati medium schools, 6,318 Hindi me-dium, 4947 English medi-um, 2981 Marathi medi-

um, 329 Urdu, 46 Sindhi, 22 Tamil and 4 Udiya medium. Overall 61.53% girls and 50.17% boys are successful. It means half of the boys who appeared in 10th board exam this year are unsuccessful. 16,182 students have been unsuccessful in one sub-ject while 57,084 in two subjects. Ras in Anand

district has offered high-est result of 97.83% while Gothimb(Mahisagar dis-trict) has witnessed only 5.68% result. Junagadh district has offered high-est 74.61% result while tribal Chhota Udepur has 20.16% result. Only 303 schools from across the state have offered 100% result.

Over 40L covered under PM’s insurance schemes


The ambitious insurance schemes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month has found over 40 lakh takers in his home state with cities and towns in north Gujarat and Saurashtra racing ahead of the rest of the state to be covered. The PM had launched accidental in-surance scheme Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and life insurance scheme Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY). State Level Bankers’ Commit-tee (SLBC) revealed that more than 40 lakh peo-ple have been covered in Gujarat under these two schemes. Until May 10, under PMSBY around 31 lakh people were covered in the state while under PMJJBY 9 lakh were covered. In PMSBY, with an annual premium of Rs 12, a person is insured of Rs 2 lakh while in PMJJ-BY the premium is Rs

330 per annum and insur-ance amount is Rs 2 lakh.There are around 60 lakh active bank accounts in the state and SLBC aims to meet the target soon af-ter having covered almost 70% of the target. “It is a yearly scheme from June 1 to May 31 every year. Though it has been tar-geted only at the people who have bank accounts, it is to be seen how the scheme sustains. Most of the accounts opened un-der PM Jan Dhan Yojana are still zero balance,” said an SLBC official. State Bank of India is leading with 7.4 lakh in-surances, followed by 6.6 lakh by Dena Bank, 6.2 lakh by Bank of Baro-da and rest by others in PMSBY. “We have seen maximum insurances is-sued in Mehsana, Sabar-kantha, Banaskantha, Ra-jkot and Jamnagar. Cities like Ahmedabad and Su-rat are slowly catching up,” said a Dena Bank official.


A recent study has re-vealed that in over 60% of the schools surveyed, students avoid using the school toilets. The main reason for this is lack of hygiene or (in the case of girls) privacy. This raises questions about Union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s statement on Tuesday that the cen-tral government hopes to have toilets in all schools by June as part of its am-bitious Swachh Bharat campaign. What purpose will these toilets serve if students avoid using them due to lack of hy-giene or privacy? For example, the primary school in Dudhala village in Jungadh district has

proper sanitation facili-ties and has separate toi-lets for girls and boys. Yet the girls rarely use these toilets as they are close to those for boys and, sec-ondly, because they face the main road. These facts were highlighted during a study conducted by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) to know the status of sani-tation in schools. For the study, 933 schools in 765 villages of Gujarat, Mad-hya Pradesh and Bihar were surveyed. The study further revealed that in several cases, the villag-ers used the urinals and toilets after school hours. Hence students had to lock these toilets. The pri-mary school in Dudhala

Correspondent | Junagadh

Gir Lion sanctuary will be closed for visitors from 16 June for four months of monsoon season con-sidering breeding period for lions. This year, the total number of visitors has been up by 16.4% with 5.60 lakh head-count, through which the forest department has earned revenue of Rs 6 crore. Last year the to-tal number of visitors was 4.81 lakh. Accord-ing to Forest officer Dr. Sandeepkumar, breeding


Former IPS officer Ra-hul Sharma, who is now a lawyer, will be starting his legal practice as a de-fence advocate for 1988 batch IPS officer, R S Ya-dav, currently posted as commandant of Group-9, State Reserve Police, in Vadodara. Sharma will begin his legal practice

Agency | New Delhi

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday made a case for greater use of plastic currency even as he stressed that develop-ment of new facilities at Hoshangabad and My-sore would help in reduc-ing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes. “The developed world has moved sub-stantially to plastic cur-rency and payment gate-ways. I think there is need for India and our deter-mination is there to grad-ually take steps to move

60% of school toilets not used: Survey

Gir Lion Sanctuary to be closed for four months from 15 June

season is just one of the reasons for which visitors are disallowed during the monsoon. The oth-er reason is poor shape of jungle roads inside

the forests which makes journey unsafe. He said, Devalia Lion safari park will continue to remain open during the monsoon period for visitors.

is not the only one whose toilets are not used by its students. There are sever-al schools in Gujarat, Bi-har and Madhya Pradesh which have the necessary sanitation facilities but they are not used by the students, particularly the girls. In some cases, these toilets are either in the open or face playgrounds because of which girls don’t use them.

Rahul Sharma to defend IPS officer denied promotions

when courts reopen after vacation. His first case will be as a defence law-yer for IPS officer R S Ya-dav who has been denied several promotions and is still an SP. “After the summer vacation, I will begin my legal practice right away. IPS officer RS Yadav is my first cli-ent,” said Sharma. Sourc-es said the former IPS officer will also be de-fending Yadav in six de-partmental inquiries and the cases related to them. Sources said this includes departmental proceeding over the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl in the state capital when Yadav was SP, Gandhinagar from 1995 to 1997. It may be noted that Sharma, in No-vember 2014, had given the State Home Depart-ment a three-month no-

tice while seeking prema-ture retirement from the IPS. In February 2015, the state government ap-proved his resignation. Later, Sharma, who is also a law graduate, sub-mitted an application to the Bar Council of Guja-rat (BCG) for registration as a lawyer. The BCG lat-er registered Sharma as lawyer. During the 2002 riots, Rahul Sharma was posted as SP, Bhavnagar. Here he had saved about 400 children trapped in a local madrassa from a mob of rioters. After that, Sharma was transferred as deputy commission-er of police, Ahmedabad city control room, where he was also asked to as-sist the city crime branch in investigating the mas-sacres that had occurred during the riots.

Narmada making Nalsarovar too deep for birds

A river bridge connecting Kheda and Dholka to be opened tomorrow


A river bridge connect-ing two districts Kheda and Ahmedabad will be inaugurated by Gujarat Chief Minister on Fri-day near Dholka. The bridge is located at ven-ue of famous Vautha fair over river Sabarmati. It is popularly called Vau-tha-Palla bridge. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs 43.42 crore in two years period. Foundation stone for its construction was laid by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi just ahead of the general elections of Gujarat as-sembly in year 2012. The

new bridge will open new horizons of prosperity for 3.10 lakh population of 106 villages in Dholka town/taluka and Kheda taluka. A 45 meter long bridge will cut road dis-tance between Dholka and Kheda sides of river by 49 kms. Thousands of farmers of Dholka and Kheda taluka will be ben-efited with this new bridge as it will connect them easily to Dholka and Bav-la APMC. According to Dholka APMC Chairman Merubhai Bharwad the revenue of market yard will go up from Rs 54.43 crore at present to Rs 70-80 core with construc-

tion of new bridge due to more arrival of produce from other side of the riv-er. With this bridge, the distance from Dholka and Asamali, Palla, Baroda, Nadhanpur, Khareti, Ka-lodara, Limbasi, Vastana in Matar and Tarapur ta-lukas will be shorter by 50 kms. Vautha fair will attract more visitors from Kheda side due to this bridge with additional in-come of Rs 8-10 lakh due to this bridge. According to Dholka GIDC Asso-ciation Secretary Shri Kiran Patel, the GIDC will get skilled labourer and youths from Kheda, Matar taluka.


Nalsarovar, a fresh water body and the only Ram-sar site in Gujarat, seems to be turning into an arti-ficial lake. The wetland, which attracts lakhs of winged visitors from for-eign shores and has been a haven for Greater and Lesser Flamingoes, turns into a six-ft-deep lake when excess water from Narmada canals flows into

it. If this is not checked, it is likely to discourage the migratory birds that come here to spend winters in its shallow waters which are usually three feet deep. However, if the water lev-el rises to anywhere near six feet, the birds fly to other sites.An internal sur-vey by the forest depart-ment has confirmed what was suspected for some time — water overflow-ing into Nalsarovar from Narmada distributary ca-nals from Surendranagar is fast altering its ecology. “Though none of the Nar-mada canal branches pass anywhere near Nalsarovar or its catchment areas, our study found that Narma-da water released in river Bhogavo and distributary canals of Narmada over-flow into small rivulets which empty into Nalsa-rovar. This leads to a rise

in the water level in the lake,” said a senior official of the forest department. An official of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited department said a fixed amount of water is released from the Narma-da canal according to the requirement of farmers. “On several occasions, the farmers do not use their quota, leaving excess water to flow into Nal-sarovar through a num-ber of rivulets,” said the official. Officials woke up to the threat when the count of migratory birds dropped to half — from nearly three lakh birds in early 2000 to 1.5 lakh in 2014. Significantly, more than winged visitors from abroad, Nalsarovar had become home to locals birds of the swimmer and diver species that favour deep waters.

Need to move towards plastic currency: Jaitley

in that direction,” he said. Jaitley was speaking at a conference on ‘Make in India - Indigenisation of Currency’ here. The min-ister said that the country needed to get rid of “ob-solete methodologies” and catch up with the technologies of future to promote industrialisation

and create jobs. The plas-tic currency refers to the usage of credit and debit cards. It also reduces re-liance on paper currency notes. Meanwhile, Jaitley said that development of paper manufacturing fa-cilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in printing currency notes on domestically pro-duced paper and promote ‘Make In India’ initiative of the Modi government. “It’s about time that we start at least printing our own currency with our own ink and paper.


Got the opportunity to address children, teachers and parents, while ded-icating new Engineering College in Amreli. Shared with them the impor-tance of multifaceted education in upbringing of children, that can prepare our youth for instrumental role in nation-building.

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