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News BriefProfit should not supersede

humanity: KejriwalAgency | New Delhi

In the wake of reports claiming that private hospitals were turning away dengue patients, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that though his gov-ernment was working towards making the city a ‘business hub’, prof-it should not supersede humanity. Referring to the death of a seven-year-old boy due to den-gue after being denied admission by various hospitals in the national capital, Kejriwal said, “It is very heartbreak-ing.. I feel very sad after hearing such incidents.”

Doctor accused of negligency

acquitted

4 injured in clash over property in

UP

Agency | Pathankot

A local court today ac-quitted a doctor who was accused of perform-ing hernia operation in a rash and negligent man-ner which caused the death of a 35-year-old man. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Randhir Verma, while delivering his verdict in the case, observed that the prosecution failed to proved its case beyond reasonable doubts.

Agency | Etah

Four persons were in-jured after a clash broke between two groups over a property dispute at Pardhanapur village in Nayagaon area here, po-lice said today. A scuffle broke out between Tale-war and Chintaram over claims on a piece of land leading to heated argu-ments between them. Later they were joined by their supporters when gunshots were fired from both the sides resulting in injury to four of them, police said. The injured have been admitted to a hospital, they said add-ing that all persons, from both the sides, engaged in the clash have been booked, police said.

Ban politicians’ entry in villages and society“Gujarat quota stir”

Patel demands that police officers who carried out atrocities against the Patel community be punished and people arrested for the violence be released

Patel-community withdraw bank deposits

Agency | New Delhi

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal made surprise visits to city hos-pitals on Tuesday to take stock of the steps taken for the treatment of den-gue patients, appealing to people not to panic in the wake of the national capital’s ‘worst outbreak in five years’. “The gov-ernment is making ar-rangements in hospitals by adding extra beds and space,” Kejriwal told mediapersons. On Sep-tember 8, seven-year-old

Agency | New Delhi

The Congress on Tuesday condemned the Centre`s decision to discontinue two postal stamps on In-dira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, saying people “will not let the govern-ment get away with low-ly politics of revenge.” In a statement, Congress chief spokesperson Ran-deep Singh Surjewala said that Right to Infor-mation replies and news reports have revealed that the government has decid-ed to discontinue postal stamps that were issued in memory of the two prime ministers. “The distaste-fully brazen manner in

Agency | Paris

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticised for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kur-di as its own controversial take on the refugee and migration crisis, the me-dia reported on Tuesday. The cartoon attributed to the publication and cir-culating on social media features Aylan lying face down on a beach with the words “So close to his goal...” written above him, The Huffington Post re-ported. In the background a McDonald’s-style Hap-py Meal Board states, “Two children’s menus for the price of one.” Aylan drowned along with his brother and mother on September 2 when the boat they were travelling

Agency | New Delhi

India has been pressing Sri Lanka to implement the 13th amendment on devolution of powers to fulfil the aspirations of the ethnic Tamils. Sri Lank-an Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tues-day said his government was looking at devolution of power to ethnic Tam-ils under the provisions of the Constitution, an issue India has been pur-suing with the island na-tion. After his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wickremesinghe pitched for deeper eco-nomic engagement with India and hoped that both countries will be able to finalise the long-pending Comprehensive Econom-ic Partnership Agreement by next year. On devolu-

Dengue outbreak: Kejriwal makes surprise checks at Delhi hospitals

Charlie Hebdo publishes controversial cartoon of Aylan Kurdi

Avinash Rout had died due to the vector-borne disease after allegedly being turned away by five hospitals which had driv-en his parents to suicide. Kejriwal’s surprise visit to the hospitals, including

Guru Teg Bahadur hospi-tal and Dr Hedgewar Aar-ogya Sansthan in Kark-ardooma, came in the backdrop of another boy succumbing to dengue and his family alleging negligence by hospitals

in the city. The CM said strict action will be taken against hospitals which turn away patients citing excuses. Profit should not supersede humanity, he added. Odisha chief min-ister Naveen Patnaik has urged Kejriwal to take ac-tion against the health fa-cilities that allegedly did not admit a Rout, a boy from Odisha, and help his family. Referring to the death, Kejriwal said, “It is very heartbreaking.. I feel very sad after hear-ing such incidents.”

Looking at devolution of power to Tamils: Wickremesinghe

Congress condemns decision to discontinue Indira, Rajiv stamps

tion of power to Tamils in Northern and Eastern provinces, he said “We are looking at how pow-er sharing takes place within the Constitution.” India has been pressing Sri Lanka to implement the 13th amendment on devolution of powers to fulfil the aspirations of the ethnic Tamils. The 13th amendment that followed the Indo-Sri Lankan Ac-cord of July 1987 signed between then Prime Min-

ister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J R Jayewardene envis-aged devolution of pow-ers to the provinces in the midst of the island’s bitter ethnic conflict. The Sri Lankan PM said various issues, including those relating to ethnic Tamil population, and the UNHRC resolution re-ferring to alleged human rights violation in Sri Lanka figured in his talks with Mr. Modi.

from the Greek island of Kos to the Turkish town of Bodrum capsized. The family fled after Islamic State militants advanced upon their home town of Kobane. Another cartoon said to be from the same edition of the magazine is entitled The Proof that

Europe is Christian and features a man believed to be Jesus standing on the surface of the ocean while a child’s legs’s (presum-ably meant to be Aylan’s) protrude from the water. It says: “Christians walk on water… Muslim kids sink.” The cartoons have

been met with a mixed response. Turkish news-paper The Daily Sabah claimed the images mock the drowned toddler. Mo-rocco World News con-curred, accusing the pub-lication of “hiding behind the freedom of speech.” “Charlie Hebdo is a pure-ly racist, xenophobic and ideologically bank-rupt publication that rep-resents the moral decay of France,” Barrister Peter Herbert, who is Chair of the Society of Black Law-yers and former vice chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, tweeted.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Intensifying their quo-ta stir, residents of some Patel-community dom-inated villages in Guja-rat are withdrawing their bank deposits with one cooperative bank report-ing that about Rs 20 lakh was withdrawn in just one day. The residents also banned the entry of politi-cal leaders into their ham-lets as part of their protest against alleged police atrocities during the vio-lence in connection with the quota agitation by the Patel community. Banners carrying a stern ‘warning’

to politicians against en-tering the villages have been put up by angry lo-cal Patel residents who are targeting them for ap-parently not coming out in support of the communi-ty after the violence, The Patel leaders demanding reservation under OBC quota had earlier made an appeal to their communi-ty members to withdraw their money from banks to give a message to the state government for not acced-ing to their reservation de-mand. Responding to an appeal made by the Sardar Patel Group (SPG-an or-ganisation headed by Lal-

ji Patel seeking quota for Patels), several locals of Patel community queued up outside the Sabarkan-tha District Cooperative Bank in Vadrad village of Sabarkantha district yes-terday to withdraw their deposits. “To support the demand of reservation for our community, I have withdrawn Rs 50,000 from this bank. There are many others from our communi-ty who will also withdraw their deposits. We will not put the money back into the bank till our demands are not met,” a local Ma-hesh Patel said. According to the cooperative bank

which the government has decided to discontin-ue the postal stamps de-picts that hatred of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government in seeking personal vendetta has reached its zenith,” he said. “How low can Modi government stoop in its sinister attempt to erase the memory of the two

martyr prime ministers?” he asked. The spokes-person said the Modi government had also changed names of two awards - `Indira Gandhi Raj Bhasha Purushkar` and `Rajiv Gandhi Rash-triya Gian-Vigyan Pustak Lekhan Purshkar` by re-moving names of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

manager K K Patel, about Rs 20 lakh was withdrawn in just one day. “As part of

the Patel agitation, these people are withdrawing their deposits. We cleared

several cheques worth Rs 20 lakh till yesterday afternoon. This may con-tinue in coming days,” K K Patel told reporters today. The Patels are en-raged over alleged police atrocities and deaths of at least eight persons of their community during the vi-olence after quota rally in Ahmedabad on August 25. Many Patel-dominat-ed villages put up banners warning political leaders

(irrespective of their party affiliations) and workers, who did not come out in the support of the commu-nity after the violence, not to enter the village or hold any meeting to seek votes for the upcoming local body polls. Such banners have been put in Lodara village of Gandhinagar district, Kansa in Mehsana, Vaniyad and Khambhisar in Aravalli district of north Gujarat among others.

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DAYGujarat to connect 26 APMCs under e-market program

Come November, a farmer in Ahmedabad would be able to check stocks, buy or sell his farm produce to another sitting at Unjha at the click of a button. If things go according to plan, by November, Gujarat to begin the electronic market (e-market) platform for its Agricultural Produce Market Committees (AP-MCs) under the online National Agriculture Mar-ket (NAM) initiative. Initially 26 out of a total 210 APMCs will be connected on the e-market platform while the rest will be implemented in a phased man-ner. The 26 APMCs include those from Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Himmatnagar, Unjha, Surat, Da-hod and Gondal, among others. “In the first phase we will connect 26 APMCs in Gujarat on e-mar-ket platform. The total project cost is about Rs 21 crore and we have submitted our proposal to central government to get financial assistant,” said Mona Khandhar, secretary, agriculture and cooperation de-partment, Gujarat. Gujarat government is planning to develop two type of markets under e-market plat-form, one is local real time market and second is virtual market. Khandhar said, “The local real time market will see trading of smaller lots by local trad-ers on the e-platform wherein traders will have some time to study before bidding. On the contrary, virtual market will allow all traders who have valid license from anywhere to trade in larger lots. Laboratory re-sults can also be shared on the lots during trading (which will give idea on quality of goods offered for trading).” Currently traders can participates only in single APMC for physical trading but in e-market, traders can participate in multiple APMCs with sin-gle license. The idea is that a farmer should be able to get the best price for its produce offered within the state which as now not possible due to limited area covered under each APMC. On its part, the Centre is willing to provide all kinds of financial support to ensure APMCs join a single platform for better realisations for farmers, “Our aim is to put all the AP-MCs in one platform so that farmers can get better price for their products. Union government will pro-vide all kind of financial support to develop e-market platform,” said Mohanbhai Kundariya, minister of state for agriculture, Government of India. Govern-ment is aiming to put up at least 100 APMCs on the e-market platform by end of March 2016. For this, the Union Government has allotted a total of Rs 200 crore for the National Common Electronic Market, a project being implemented through the Small Farm-ers’ Agri-Business Consortium SFAC).

“Prime Minister narendra Modi is furious after the loss in Delhi, so he wishes to win in Bihar by hook or by crook, but he will not succeed in his expansionist plan”

- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today claimed that...

Agency | New Delhi

Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who is of Kashmiri ethnicity, was presented a “Certificate of Recog-nition” by the California legislature for his ded-icated efforts towards helping the community, which was displaced from the Kashmir valley due to militancy 25 years ago. Humbled by the recogni-tion, the actor says that with the honour comes a sense of responsibility. “I feel honoured to get these recognitions in the US. But they also add to my sense of respon-sibility towards human-

kind,” Anupam tweeted on Tuesday. The actor, who was touring the US and Canada for his play “Mera Woh Matlab Nahi Tha”, felt ennobled with the honour on September 12. The document read: “Certificate of Recogni-tion presented to Anupam Kher in recognition as an agent for change, he is a champion in achieving gender equality, wom-en’s right and a defender of human rights, repre-senting the community of 500,000 Kashmiri Hindus displaced and dislodged, many whom immigrated to the United States.”

Agency | Toronto

The Man Who Knew In-finity, a biopic on math-ematician Srinivasa Ra-manujan, will get a gala opening at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 17. The tick-ets for the much antici-pated film are said to have been sold out already. Written and directed by Matthew Brown, the movie features Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Pa-tel and actress Devika Bhise in the lead roles. It follows Ramanujan’s journey from his humble roots in Madras - where opportunities for some-one of Ramanujan’s abil-ities are few - to Cam-bridge University, where the young prodigy’s vi-

Agency | New Delhi

Rumour mills are abuzz with the speculations that Hrithik’s ex-wife Sussanne Khan set to re-marry. According to the reports, Sussanne is get-ting married to one of Hrithik’s closest friends. If rumours are to be be-lieved, this friend is the reason behind Hrithik and Sussane’s separation. Hrithik and Sussanne tied the knot in December 2000. They separated in December 2013 and they filed for divorce with mutual consent in May 2014. A family court in Bandra finalised the di-vorce in November 2014. After the termination of their 13-year-long mar-

Agency | New Delhi

If sources are to be be-lieved, Deepika Padu-kone has turned pricey. The actress is said to have hiked her fee by nearly Rs 2 crore to continue as the brand ambassador of a leading private sector bank, which had signed her on last year. An indus-try insider says, “Deepi-ka’s contract was recently extended by 18 months for which she demand-ed Rs 5.5 crore. That’s a hike of about Rs 2 crore.” The actress is currently enjoying her time in the sun, says another source and adds: “Therefore, an increase in her endorse-ment fee is well justi-fied.” Deepika was not available for comment

Agency | New Delhi

We stumbled upon a picture of actress Asin flaunting a grand solitaire on her ring finger. Now for all we know, Asin, who has lately been mak-ing headlines due to her impending marriage, is not officially engaged to fiance Rahul Sharma, Mi-cromax co-founder. The report says, “Rahul gifted Asin a 20-carat solitaire (specially imported from Belgium), that he person-ally got designed from one of their common de-signer friends. The ring is currently valued at Rs 6 crore. It has a mono-gram of the couple ‘AR’ (A for Asin and R for Ra-hul) under the diamond and the band of the ring, that is also made of dia-monds, carries a person-al message from Rahul to Asin engraved on it.” Around the release of ‘All Is Well’ starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor and Asin, it was revealed

Aamir Khan Laughed at the Jokes About Him Crying in Films

Anupam Kher gets certificate of recognition in US

Agency | Chennai

Bollywood actor Tisca Chopra, known for her work in films like Taare Zameen Par and TV show 24, will soon be making her Telugu film debut in Ram Charan-starrer Bruce Lee. “Tisca plays a rich, powerful and in-dependent woman in the film. It was director Srinu Vaitla, who has followed Tisca’s work closely, de-cided to cast her as he felt she was apt for the role,” said a source from the film’s unit. Ram Charan

Agency | Mumbai

At least twice in two months, Aamir Khan’s weepiness has been the reason Twitter was dou-bling over in laughter. It appears that the 50-year-old actor couldn’t sit through a movie with-out an XL-sized box of tissues to sob into. In August, he trended for two consecutive days with a raft of quips and jibes being made about him crying every time he watched nephew Imran’s new film Katti Batti. Ap-parently, the joke wasn’t lost on Aamir. Katti Bat-ti director Nikhil Advani last month, “It’s a tear-jerker. The last 22 min-

Ram Charan’s Bruce Lee to be Tisca Chopra’s first Telugu film

Is Sussanne Khan set to marry Hrithik Roshan’s close friend?

Deepika Padukone Hikes Her Fee by Rs 2 Crore to Endorse a Bank?

Dev Patel’s Ramanujan Biopic Tickets Sold Out at Toronto Fest

Asin was proposed to by fiance Rahul Sharma with a 20-carat solitaire worth Rs 6 crore

utes and I literally had to sit and hold the tissue box for Aamir. He has copious tears! And he was crying and crying and crying. And I was so happy. He sat with me 10 days in the edit and every day he would cry! Every-one would be like - ‘?’

And he would be like, ‘I can’t help it yaar.’” Imran backed his director up: “Properly he cries! And the thing is, even later on. So he’s watched the film, he’s given us feedback, he’s watching this section for the second or third time and he’s...”

plays a fighter in the film and even sports a tattoo of legendary martial arts artist and actor Bruce Lee. The film, which is slated for theatrical re-lease on October 16, stars Ram Charan, Rakul

Preet Singh, Arun Vijay and Sampath Raj among other in important roles. Bruce Lee, however, is not Tisca’s first southern outing as she has already worked in two Malay-alam films.

riage it was speculated that Sussanne will get together with Rock On star Arjun Rampal, who was also close to the cou-ple. But earlier this year, Meher Rampal and Ar-

jun dismissed rumours of their divorce. Father to two sons, Hrithik is still flaunting his ‘single’ sta-tus though he is alleged-ly being linked to Queen star Kangana Ranaut.

that the actress would be tying the knot soon with her long time beau and now fiance Rahul Shar-ma. Asin was also quoted as saying that it was Bol-lywood superstar Akshay Kumar, who made Asin and Rahul meet for the

first time. It’s also report-ed that both the families have been waiting for Asin’s professional com-mitments to get over and now that they are over, the formal fesivities of the wedding are expected to soon begin.

while a source close to her says, “Yes, she has re-newed her contract with the bank, but as far as the money part is concerned, we are not keen to get

into the details. An annu-al hike in fee is standard procedure for all stars and it’s got nothing to do with her recent success at the box office.”

sionary theories attract the attention of English mathematician GH Har-dy played by Jeremy Irons. Ramanujan’s con-tributions to the Number Theory, Continued Frac-tions and Infinite Series revolutionised the field of mathematics. Devika, who plays Ramanujan’s wife in the film, found the role very challeng-

ing. “In her time, it would have taken her a lot of courage to send her husband to Cam-bridge knowing that it would be hard on her. What inspired me was to know how ahead of her time she was. It was challenging to get the complexity of her char-acter across,” Devika said in a statement.


SPORTS ROUNDUPOla to raise $500 mn to fuel expansion

Moto X Play Review: Boringly Good

Rolls-Royce unveils Dawn; likely to debut in India next year

Agency | New Delhi

Taxi aggregator Ola is in talks with investors to raise over USD 500 million (about Rs. 3,320 crore) to drive growth across smaller cities and compete head-on with rivals like U.S.-based Uber and home-grown Meru. In April this year, Ola had raised USD 400 million (about Rs. 2,500 crore) from a clutch of investors led by DST Global. According to sources, the Bengaluru-based firm is looking at raising upwards of USD 500 million in a series F round, which will value Ola at about USD 5 billion. An announcement is expected re-garding this in the next few weeks. When contact-ed, an Ola spokesperson said the company does not comment on market speculations. On Monday, Ola introduced a cab leasing programme for drivers and said it will spend Rs. 5,000 crore through a subsidiary that will enable drivers to own the cars eventually. According to reports, the company has already secured about USD 250 million funding from Falcon Edge Capital, Tiger Global, Softbank and others.

Agency | New Delhi

The Moto X name has been associated with Mo-torola’s flagship smartphones ever since the origi-nal X was launched over two years ago. The Moto X was a good phone that was let down by its poor camera and battery life, though its successor fixed the battery problem to a large extent. 2015 rep-resents a dilution of the Moto X brand, first with the launch of the ‘super flagship’ Moto Turbo, and more recently, the unveiling of not one, but two new Moto X smartphones - the Moto X Play and the Moto X Style. The latter is closer to Moto X’s flagship ethos, while the Play is a mid-range of-fering by today’s standards. So how does Moto X Play perform in the real world? Let’s find out. The Moto X Play is another solid, good looking phone from the Motorola’s stables. The phone is pretty traditional in its design and layout, apart from the SIM-plus-microSD tray that sits on the top edge. The tray pops out to reveal two Nano SIM slots on one side and space for a microSD card on the other. We quite liked this idea, but if you are some-one who likes to pop microSD cards in and out fre-quently, you may be perturbed by the fact you will lose cellular coverage every time you do that.

Agency | Mumbai

Super luxury car maker Rolls-Royce on Tuesday unveiled its new open-top model Dawn that is likely to be launched in India in 2016. “Our new Rolls-Royce Dawn promises a striking, seductive encoun-ter like no other Rolls-Royce to date, and begins a new age of open-top, super-luxury motoring,” Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Chief Executive Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes said while unveiling the vehicle at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Dawn offers the most uncompromised open-top motoring experience in the world, he added. Mueller-Oetvoes said the com-pany has been witnessing record sales in the last five years successively. The new model revives a rare Rolls-Royce name, which was first used in 1949. It sold 28 units between 1950 and 1954.

Gayle might play in the Pakistan T20 league: najam Sethi

Spotlight on Suresh Raina, fringe players as India ‘A’ take on Bangladesh ‘A’

Jason Holder reminds me of another version of a Clive Lloyd: Brian Lara

Indian pacers lacked discipline in Australia: Jeff Thomson

India coach Roelant Oltmans turns down HIL job to avoid ‘conflict of interest’

Sania to decide mixed doubles partner for Olympics: Bopanna

Agency | Bengaluru

Star batsman Suresh Raina will look to get some batting practice ahead of the upcoming South Africa series along with some of the other fringe players as India A take on full-strength Bangladesh A in a three-match One Day series, starting on Wednesday.

Some of the other play-ers, who will be aiming to impress the selectors are Karun Nair, Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, Dhawal Kulkarni and Karn Sharma to name a few. Jadhav and Pandey had in fact played well in India’s last limited overs series in Zimbabwe and are in the 30-member probables lost announced

for the South Africa se-ries. With all the senior players set to be available provided they are injury free, at the most couple of slots will be up for grabs, when Sandeep Patil led selection committee sit down to pick squads for the three T20 Internation-als and five ODIs against the Proteas starting next month.

Agency | Roseau

Legendary former West Indies batsman Brian Lara has thrown his full backing behind newly appointed Test skipper Jason Holder. Lara, him-self a former captain, said here on Monday the way Holder handled the ODI captaincy during this year’s World Cup proved that he possessed the mettle to deal with the challenges of the Test captaincy, reports CMC. “I think it’s an excellent choice. I saw the young man while working during the World Cup in Australia,” Lara said. “And the pressure that he came under, personal-ly with his bowling and even as a captain, and the

Agency | Mumbai

The focus of the afternoon was on his month-long stint with Mumbai Cricket As-sociation’s (MCA) bowl-ing foundation, but Austra-lian Jeff Thomson, one of the fastest bowlers to have ever played the game, was game to share his thoughts on Indian bowling. For a moment he seemed a touch unsure when asked about

Agency | Karachi

A top official of the Paki-stan Cricket Board (PCB) said that West Indian T20 specialist Chris Gayle had given his consent to take part in the Pakistan Super League scheduled to be held in Doha from February 4 to 24, next year. Najam Sethi, who is heading the PSL secretar-iat in the board, said that they were now in touch with the hard hitting West Indian opener. “We are in direct contact with him now after we spent lot of time trying to trace him and I am happy to report that he has consented to be part of the PSL,” Sethi said. Sethi, a former Chairman of the PCB, who heads the powerful

Agency | New Delhi

Roelant Oltmans is taking every care to avoid ‘con-flict of interest’ as India’s hockey coach leading up to the Rio Olympics Games next year, and that is the reason behind him turning down the offer to coach UP Wizards in the Hockey India League (HIL) in the coming sea-son. Oltmans has been handed over the senior men’s team’s reins after Hockey India’s fallout with Paul van Ass that

led to his unceremonious ouster. The High Per-formance Director will now double up the team’s chief coach until the Rio Games. And the Dutch-man wants to take every care so as nobody can ac-cuse him of “favouritism” or bias. “I have said no to the coaching offer from UP Wizards so as to avoid possible conflict of inter-est. This I have done be-cause of two simple rea-sons. Let’s say if a player selected in the Olympics core probables list be-

longs to UP Wizards, then the other players or hock-ey fans might just accuse me of favouritism,” he.“It might attract criticism that I am selecting play-ers from the franchise which I have been asso-ciated with. Even if the players from UP Wizards are genuinely good,” Olt-mans said on the sidelines of a training session at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in Del-hi,” he said. Oltmans was coach of the UP team last HIL season.

Agency | New York

Indian tennis player Ro-han Bopanna said it is up to Sania Mirza to decide whether she wants to part-ner him or Leander Paes in mixed doubles at next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Sania partnered Paes at the 2012 London Games where the pair lost in the quarter-finals of the event. “In mixed doubles, it is up to Sania to take that decision. She is No.1 in the world, she is out there playing the best ten-nis of her life. So she has

to make that call on who she wants to play with or who she is comfort-able with,” Bopanna said at the Delhi Lawn Ten-nis Association (DLTA) Complex here on Tues-day. “Obviously, I want to play with Sania, Leander wants to play with Sania, so it depends on who she wants to play with, that is the bottomline.” When it comes to men’s doubles, it is likely Paes will part-ner Bopanna for the best chance of bringing back a medal from the discipline

as Mahesh Bhupathi is currently not playing on the circuit and is con-centrating on his venture -- International Premier Tennis League (IPTL). “Of course, if you take Rio, apart from Leander and me there is no one else playing doubles. If I am not mistaken, to qual-ify for the Olympics you have to be a combined 60 or 65 (in the rankings). So there is no other player in that category,” added Bopanna, who is ranked World No.13.

the progress of Ishant Sharma before indicating an imaginary tousle of hair, cuing up laughter in the audience. Once he had placed Ishant in his mind, Thomson let rip. “He has got very good skills, but

needs a rocket… I hope you understand what I am saying. I (Ishant) think he lacked a bit of discipline. Eight years ago I thought he will be a world beater, but he lost the plot some-where.” Referring to In-dia’s last tour of Australia, Thomson picked a loss in concentration as one of the key reasons for the mis-takes of the bowlers.

executive committee in the board, had last week signed on former Pakistan greats Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja as brand ambassadors for the T20 league which is being hyped up by the PCB. Gayle, a specialist T20 player has featured in all the foreign T20 leagues in the cricket including

the Bangladesh Premier League and is a regular crowd puller in the Indi-an Premier League. Ac-cording to Sethi, nearly 80 foreign players have signed consent forms to take part in the PSL and the process of short-list-ing the best available 20 to 25 players would be completed soon.

way he handled it. He’s very eloquent and big in stature and he reminds me of another version of a Clive Lloyd.” Holder’s elevation, first as ODI captain last December and more recently in the Test format, has drawn criticism in some quar-ters because of his rel-ative inexperience. The Barbadian seamer is the second youngest ever Windies Test captain at

23 and has played just eight Tests and 33 One-Day Internationals. He replaced the more expe-rienced Denesh Ramdin who was sacked after just 15 months in charge. However, Lara, who led West Indies in 47 of his 131 Tests, said once Holder received the nec-essary support from the team and the West Indies Cricket Board, he could succeed.



Vegetable prices in the retail market are al-most 25% higher than last year. Moreover, the prices in the wholesale market this year are con-siderably lower than in the retail market. It is, however, onion whose prices have shown the steepest rise compared to prices in 2014. In September last year, on-ion was selling in the wholesale market at Rs 10 per kg but, this year, its wholesale price is Rs 50 a kg. Last year, in the retail market, onion was selling at Rs 30 a kg but this year it costs Rs 100

a kg in some parts of the city while in other parts it is selling at Rs 75 to Rs 85 per kg. Sources in the Agriculture Pro-duce Market Committee (APMC) at Jamalpur said that the prices are stable in the wholesale market but retailers are taking advantage of the delay in monsoon and have been inflating pric-es. For example, the lady-finger which costs Rs 20 per kg in Jamalpur mar-ket is being sold at Rs 30 a kg outside the market. By the time this vegetable reaches the consumer in Satellite or Vastrapur, its rates go up threefold.


Despite economic slow-down, large volume of business and revenues are expected to be generated during the 10-day annual Ganesh Chaturthi festival starting from Thursday. As per a paper by indus-try body Assocham, Ga-neshotsav generates rev-enues of Rs 20,000 crore across the country. “Ga-nesh Chaturthi is estimat-ed to be an over Rs 20,000 crore extravaganza and is clocking over 30% annual growth,” estimated a pa-per ‘Analysing economic boom around Ganeshot-sav in India,’ conducted by The Associated Chambers


The 45-year-old mechan-ic, who has studied only till Class 10, did a diplo-ma course to understand the basics of mechanical engineering and make a career as a repair person. But the lack of a profes-sional degree did not stop him from becoming an in-novator. The idea for the AC sofa came to Dashrath when he attended a fam-ily function in Gandhi-nagar, Gujarat, in 2007.He started working on the idea and initially planned on installing the air con-ditioner inside the sofa. But once the prototype was ready, he became concerned about the huge weight of the sofa — it weighed a hefty 175 kgs. But Dashrath was deter-mined to work more on his idea and come up with


Jammu and Kashmir Tour-ism Department show-cased the state’s beauty to travel enthusiasts in Guja-rat at the Travel & Tourism Fair (TTF) Ahmedabad in a bid to draw more tourists. “Despite the disastrous floods that hit Kashmir in 2014, it was only 10% of the overall infrastructure that was affected. This too, was rebuilt in two months leaving no stone unturned for travel infrastructure to deliver ease of movement. During autumn, visitors to Jammu and Kashmir will be given 40% discount on accommodation in all government and private establishments,” said R K Verma, Director, Tourism (Jammu). “Gujarat has been our primary mar-ket and always our focus

when it comes to market-ing our tourism products. Group tours and lately we have seen many adventure lovers especially bikers from Gujarat coming to Jammu and Kashmir. TTF is one of the biggest trav-el show network of India and participating in these shows strengthen our age old trade relations besides developing fresh business relations. The Jammu and Kashmir Tourism stall witnessed huge response during the opening day of the TTF,” he added. He threw open doors to the cascade of splendor at Ahrabal, the mesmerizing meadows of Yousmarg, an adventurous trekker’s paradise at Daksum, and the eternal spring at Verinag and Gurez that is known as a part of the world yet apart.


There is only one state in India which allows an industry to file an online application to cut a tree (Andhra Pradesh). The other states do not leave even this opportunity to make the business owner visit the government of-fices. There are more such evidences strewn around in the Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms report

released by the depart-ment of industrial policy and promotion under Am-itabh ‎Kant and his team. All of them add up to a single point. The ranks of the states in their Ease of Doing Business broadly correspond with their lev-el of corruption. To that extent one could also call this report a corruption index. One is not mak-ing a generalization. Of the 98 point action plan


The Gujarat High Court on Monday reserved its order on two petitions seeking removal of a public prosecutor who conducted the 2002 Best Bakery riots case in Va-dodara district court. The petitions have alleged that due to his dubious role in hampering the trial, as observed by the Supreme Court, the state government should not have appointed him to the post. Justice J B Pardiwa-la after hearing the peti-tions reserved the order. The petitioners, Laxman Rupchand Meghwani, a Vadodara-based social activist, and Mahesh Pa-tel, moved the petition ar-guing Raghuvir Pandya, posted as District Gov-ernment Pleader, should be removed from the post

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Correspondent | Surat

BEHIND THE rapid turn of events through Satur-day night and Sunday, when Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel decid-ed to put off the “reverse Dandi march” and hold talks with the Gujarat government Monday, is said to be IGP N D Solan-ki and Dinesh Navadiya, president of Surat Dia-mond Association, who decided to bring the Pa-tidar leaders to the table. Solanki, currently posted with CID (Intelligence) in Gandhinagar, has done a long stint in Surat. He was seen outside the CM’s of-fice, monitoring the sit-uation Monday. Solanki said: “I am an intelligence officer. I tour everywhere as part of my job.” The countdown to the talks began Saturday night, but not without its share of differences between Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti convener Hardik Patel and his Surat lieu-tenant Alpesh Katheriya.


The ire of the Patel com-munity in Gujarat which has been protesting for reservation is still sim-mering. On Monday eve-ning, Hardik Patel, con-venor of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) who is spearheading the agitation, met state chief minister Anandiben Patel at her residence in Gand-hinagar with a set of de-mands. The meeting was fixed for 4.30pm on Mon-day, but at the eleventh hour, 22-year-old Hardik said that he would be ac-companied by another 144 Patel community mem-bers, putting the meeting on hold. After some con-fusion, the meeting took place around 6.30pm. Hardik and about 15 other members were allowed to attend the meeting along with some ministers and state government officials. In the meeting, he sought action against police offi-cers for using force against

the during a rally at the sprawling Gujarat Miner-al Development Corpora-tion (GMDC) grounds on 25 August and release all arrested. The state gov-ernment has sought 10 days’ time to consider his demands. The 25 August rally attended by about five lakh people witnessed violent incidents when the police briefly detained Pa-tel. Ten people from the community were killed in the incident and army and paramilitary forces had to be deployed to control the

situation. “In our meeting [with the chief minister] we have demanded that all police officials involved in the lathicharge at GMDC Ground be suspended and action be taken against all police officials who were posted at the police sta-tions where as many as 10 people died. We have also demanded that the Pa-tels arrested by the police during our agitation last month be released and that there should be no further arrests,” said Hardik, af-ter a three-hour meeting

with the chief minister. He also demanded that the state should bear the med-ical expense of all those who were injured in the two-day violence. Hardik also announced that on 19 September PAAS will take out a reverse Dandi March, a throwback to Mahatma Gandhi’s iconic protest against the Brit-ish a century ago, from Navsari to Ahmedabad. The march was to be held on 13 August but was put off in view of the meeting with the chief minister.

The other factors that contributed to the deci-sion to put off the “re-verse Dandi march” was the possibility of clashes with other OBC commu-nities like Kolis, who had threatened to counter the rally. Besides, there was an apparent loss of sup-port following differenc-

es within the communi-ty over its people facing another round of police assault, as the rally did not have permission and the administration had decided to bar all internet services. Differences also emerged between Kadva and Leuva Patidars, who had supported the quota

agitation so far. Pressure had started mounting with the police forbid-ding entry of all vehicles beyond Eru Cross Road in Navsari district, from where Dandi is 18 kms away. Katheriya admitted that many Patidars who had earlier offered night halts had backed out.

as there were adverse re-marks against him by the Supreme Court in 2004. The petitioners said that Pandya was public pros-ecutor in the 2002 Best Bakery riots case in which all the 21 accused were acquitted by the trial court and the order was upheld in the Gujarat High Court. “The apex court ordered for a fresh trial in 2004 and trans-ferred the case to Mum-

bai. The court made an adverse remark against Pandya for the manner in which he conducted the trial as public prose-cutor. The court went to say that he should be re-moved. Even after such a strong observation the state government ap-pointed Pandya as public prosecutor for various terms,” said advocate R J Goswami who appeared for Meghwani.

on which the states were assessed in the report, the answer points to one di-rection–how corruption free is the state As the tree cutting example shows no state government (not even AP) will hand over an approval certificate to cut a tree, online. So it is not surprising that none of the states have scored above 75 per cent in their overall score card. For a business person this is a sobering thought. In the list except for Gujarat, none of the top industri-al destinations figure in the top five. Maharashtra and Karnataka are at the 8th and 9thposition, while Tamil Nadu is not even in the top ten. Haryana and Delhi in the NCR are even further afield.

a feasible and usable de-sign. He had heard of the ‘Design Clinic Scheme’ at the Ministry of Mi-cro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), so he approached them. MSME works in collab-oration with the National Institute of Design (NID). It asked Ankit Vyas, an NID alumnus, to support Dashrath in modifying his design. With Ankit’s

help, Dashrath was able to change the materi-al and design and bring down the weight of the sofa to just 35 kgs. The first prototype had been made entirely of wood — even the hosepipe was made of wood, which made the design heavy. In the new design, all the wood parts were replaced with fibre and PVC was used for the pipe.

Jammu and Kashmir Tourism offers 40% discount to tourists

Ganesh festival to generate Rs 20,000 crore revenue across country

of Commerce and Indus-try of India (Assocham) under the aegis of its So-cial Development Founda-tion. Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with great fer-vour across Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and various other cities with people from all walks of life contributing

generously for setting up Ganpati pandals for public celebrations. According to the industry body, cost of Ganesha idols have in-creased by about 20-25% due to rise in price of raw materials including clay, colours and bamboo, but that is not deterring people from buying idols of their favourite god.

Veggie retailers making threefold profit in Ahmedabad

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