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News BriefConductor killed as bus overturns

in UPAgency | Badaun

A 45-year-old per-son was killed today and 15 others injured when the private bus in which they were travel-ling overturned and fell into a roadside ditch on Badaun-Farrukhabad road. The driver of the bus,carrying passengers from Badaun, lost con-trol while trying to save another vehicle coming from the opposite direc-tion and overturned near Sanjarpur village under Alapur police station area, Superintendent of Police City Anil Kumar Yadav said.Minor girl raped

by 55-year-old man in UP

Man held with fake currency notes in

Valsad

Agency | Ballia

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 55-year-old man in a village under Ubhaon police station area here this afternoon. The in-cident took place when the girl was alone in her house, police said. The accused barged into the victim’s house and raped her, Superin-tendent of Police, Anis Ansari said, adding, he fled after the incident and warned her against telling about it to her parents. A case has been registered in this con-nection and the accused has been taken into cus-tody, the SP added.

Agency | New Delhi

Sacked Delhi food min-ister Asim Ahmed Khan said on Saturday he was a victim of the Aam Aadmi Party’s inter-nal politics, a day after he was fired over cor-ruption charges on live television by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriw-al. Khan denied all al-legations of corruption against him and said he was in a room with sev-eral other people for over two hours and found out about his sacking only after he switched on his cellphone following the meeting. “Where I was and what happened with me during the two-and-a-half hours I was in that

Agency | Gaza City

Unrest that erupted sev-eral weeks ago at Jerusa-lem’s most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly bor-der clashes with Palestin-ian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Pal-estinian stabbing attacks against civilians and sol-diers. For the first time since the current violence began, clashes broke out along the Gaza border af-ter Palestinians in the ter-ritory ruled by the Islam-

ic militant group Hamas rolled burning tires and threw rocks at Israeli troops on the frontier. Six Palestinians were killed and a dozen were wound-ed, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said “More than a thousand rioters infiltrated the buffer zone engaging the forces at the security fence. Rioters reached the security fence- hurled a grenade, rocks and rolled burning tires at Israe-li forces … threatening to breach the fence and storm the adjacent com-

Agency | New Delhi

A man was arrested to-day with Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) with face value of Rs 52 lakh from Gund-lav village of Valsad district, Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials said. ATS of-ficials received a tip off that two persons will pass through Gundlav bus stop on the NH-8 in Valsad this morning to deliver the fake curren-cy notes. The accused has been identified as Umesh Rathod (25), a resident of Valsad town, while the man who managed to escape was identified as Rakesh, he said.

Another 186 people were injured in the attacks in the Ankara“Turkey twin blast”

The explosions occurred minutes apart near Ankara’s main train station as people were gathering for the Ankara rally, organized by the country’s public sector workers’ trade union and other civic society groups

Peace rally has killed 86 people

India risks backsliding on success against HIV, UN envoy says

Agency | New Delhi

New HIV infections in India could rise for the first time in more than a decade because states are mismanaging a pre-vention programme by delaying payments to health workers, the Unit-ed Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific said. India’s ef-forts to fight HIV have for years centred around community-based pro-grammes run for people at high risk of contract-ing the virus, such as sex workers and injecting drug users. The results won praise globally — annual new infections fell consistently and, overall, were reduced by more than half between 2000 and 2011. But Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi in February cut the central AIDS bud-

get by a fifth and asked states to fill the gap, even though their poorly-run bureaucracies were al-ready slow in releasing funds to their AIDS pre-vention units. As a re-sult, staff salaries have been delayed for months and prevention activities have slowed down. The decision was part of a wider strategy to decen-tralize social spending and focus central govern-ment resources on build-ing roads and railways to boost economic growth. In an interview with Re-uters, the UN secretary general’s special envoy for AIDS in Asia-Pacif-ic, JVR Prasada Rao, warned “primitive” man-agement by states would “ruin the programme”.

Victim of AAP’s internal politics: Sacked Delhi minister Asim Khan

room, I will disclose lat-er,” he said. “I was sit-ting there without any knowledge of my sack-ing on live TV.” “The ‘middleman’ who was the other voice in the audio tape that the party played while sacking me is AAP minority wing vice-president Shakeel

Malik. He is not a build-er,” Khan told a news conference. “The party asked for my resigna-tion and I tendered it,” Khan said. “I am being threatened by unknown people since yesterday (Friday),” he added. “I will make more revela-tions in a day or two.”

Clash at Gaza border kills 6, Israel struggles to contain wave of stabbing attacks

munities.” It said troops fired warning shots and then fired at main insti-gators to prevent their ad-vance. Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wield-ing household items like

kitchen knives, screw-drivers and even a vegeta-ble peeler. The youths had no known links to armed groups who have targeted Israeli soldiers and civil-ians at random, compli-cating security efforts.

Agency | Ankara

Turkey’s Health Minister says the two bomb explo-sions in the Turkish cap-ital have killed a total of 86 people. Minister Meh-met Muezinoglu said that another 186 people were injured in the attacks in Ankara on a peace rally.

Later in the day, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “There are ‘strong signs’ the at-tacks that killed 86 peo-ple were suicide bomb-ings.” The minister also added that 62 people died at the scene while 24 oth-ers died after being taken to the hospital. Minis-

ter Mehmet Muezinoglu said 28 people among the 186 wounded are in intensive care. Asked about security measures at the rally where the at-tacks took place, Interior Minister Selami Altinok in same news conference said that there were no security shortcomings.

The explosions occurred minutes apart near An-kara’s main train station

as people were gathering for the rally, organized by the country’s public sec-

tor workers’ trade union and other civic society groups. The rally aimed

to call for an end to the renewed violence be-tween Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces. It was not clear if the at-tacks, which came weeks before Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, were suicide bombings. An Associat-ed Press photographer at the scene reported see-ing several bodies that were covered with flags and banners that demon-strators had brought with them for the rally.

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DAYcow protection history of medieval Rajasthan

A few hundred years ago, there lived a native in the Rajasthani mofussil town of Khatu-Shyamji by the name of Bharmall. He was said to be an influential zamindar. They say, one day, the local Muslim butch-er was forcibly walking away with some cows to the town for slaughter. Bharmall passionately swore that if the butcher were to take away the cows, he would immolate himself in protest. The butcher paid no heed and mercilessly dragged away the cows. Bharmall, a brave warrior, true to his honour, immolated himself. A stone tablet that narrated this heroic story was erect-ed at the place where Bharmall immolated himself. About 55 years ago, some people unearthed the stone tablet by chance, while digging to build a house. A small shrine was built there that came to be known as Bharmall ka Satta. Since then, supernatural and heal-ing powers have come to be associated with it. It has become a tradition in the area for newly-weds to visit the shrine for a blissful conjugal life. It is also said that an offering at the shrine of a brinjal and a broom is a cure for facial moles. Bharmall is my ancestor from my father’s side. He is supposed to have served as an official at the court of the local raja. I travelled to Khatu-Shyamji over a decade ago with my grand-father to see the shrine. I wish I had asked what this story meant to him. He is no longer alive to answer this question, but as a historian, I continue to wonder. How am I to understand this story? Is this yet anoth-er tale that captures the cruelty and insensitivity of the beef-eating Muslim and the heroism of the Hindu who rescues gaumata? Or is there another reading of this story? The fount of Bharmall’s tale is the history of medieval Rajasthan, where cow protection against diseases and raids was a definitive aspect of the lives of pastoral communities. As outlined in the forthcom-ing book by historian Tanuja Kothiyal, cow protection also differentiated the culture of pastoral communi-ties from that of trading communities. The region of Khatu-Shyamji is littered with tablets commemorating “saint-warriors” (jujhars) who protected cattle from other Hindu adversaries. Bharmall was also one such warrior. However, in Bharmall’s tale, it is the Mus-lim butcher and not just another Rajput cattle-raiding group that is the abductor. When does this shift in the narrative occur? When was it that the Muslim butcher was inserted into the story, and why? This interpolation of the Muslim butcher in commemorative tales and the reasons for it are to be found in the history of colonial and nationalist politics of the late 19th century.

“The country faces a threat from the reservation system. Reservation was needed only for some time after Independence but now political parties have got involved in it.”

- Social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday said...

Tisca Chopra wants to entertain audiences with comedy

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Tisca Chopra, most popular for her work in films such as “Taare Za-meen Par” and “Rahasya”, says that she wants to do comedy films because she wants to “entertain the audiences in a particular way”. “My job is to see myself as an entertainer. Now I think I should do a comedy because I have done dramatic films or crime thrillers like ‘Ra-hasya’. In my upcoming film, I’ve played a lawyer

and done other such roles too but I’ve not done a comedy film since sever-al years. I feel like doing comedy because I want to entertain the audience in a particular way,” Tisca told media after a debate related to Aarushi Talwar murder case at a college here. “If I wanted to give a message, I would’ve become a politician and not an actor. I would have written books, or travelled over villages to spread message or become a so-cial servant.

Agency | Chennai

Director Gunashekar’s “Rudramadevi” is the story of the brave warrior empress, Rudramadevi’ of the Kakatiya Dynasty, who ruled from Orugallu, now known as Warangal in Telegana State, circa 1259- 1289. A prominent revolutionary ruler of the dynasty, she was known

for her bravery and ad-ministrative skills. Inter-estingly, her tale is narrat-ed by the renowned trader and traveller, Marco Polo, who reminisces to the Italians how he had wit-nessed Rudramadevi’s coronation, thus offering a solution to his monarch. The story dates back to 1234, fearing that his ministers, citizens and

other kings won’t accept a girl as his successor, Emperor Ganapatide-va (Krishnam Raju) on the advice of his Prime Minister, Shivadeviah (Prakash Raj) is forced to officially introduce his newly born daughter as a son, “Rudradeva”, during the naming cere-mony, so that she could succeed him.

Harbhajan Singh has invites a high profile guest to his wedding

Bombay High Court dismisses plea over ‘Selfie’ song from Salman Khan’s ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’

Rudramadevi review: Lengthy but interesting period drama

Bollywood’s ‘Umrao Jaan’ Rekha turns 61 Amazing Spider-Man 2’s stuntman sues Sony Pictures for ageism

Agency | New Delhi

Indian off-spinner Har-bhajan Singh on Satur-day met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in-vited him for his mar-riage, scheduled later this month. A photo of an ex-cited Harbhajan shaking hands with the head of the state was posted on the PMO handle with a caption ‘Cricketer Har-bhajan Singh met PM’. Harbhajan, who was part of the Indian T20 squad that lost to South Africa, is tying the nuptial knot with long-time actor-girl-friend Geeta Basra.

Agency | New Delhi

The Bombay High Court today dismissed a public interest litigation seek-ing deletion of the fa-mous ‘Selfie’ song from Salman Khan-starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ as the actor is seen danc-ing with shoes before Lord Hanuman. A divi-sion bench of Justices V M Kanade and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi refused to grant relief to one Raj Rathod who filed the pe-tition. Rathod in his pe-tition sought a direction to the Censor Board to delete the song ‘Selfie’ in which Salman Khan is seen dancing with shoes on before Lord Hanuman and touching an idol of the god. According to the

Agency | New Delhi

Megastar Amitabh Bach-chan will turn 73 tomor-row and he says he finds it difficult to get interest-ing work nowadays. The actor doesn’t seem to have slowed down with age and is gearing up to don new avatars always with distinctive and chal-lenging kind of roles. This year, the audience will be seeing more of Bachchan, thanks to his

Agency | Los Angeles

The stuntman of super-hero film Amazing Spi-der-Man 2 has sued Sony Pictures for alleged mis-treatment on set due to his age. BJ Davis’ allega-tion includes misbehavior by a co-worker with the stuntman’s age in mind, said The Hollywood Re-porter. Davis, 63, worked in stunts from 1978 until

2013. In the latter year, he said, mistreatment on the set of Sony’s film ended his career. He said, he nearly could not get work on the superhero sequel, despite his formidable ca-reer. He alleged that stunt coordinator James Arm-strong of Armstrong Ac-tion told him the produc-tion would only hire New York stuntmen, so he

Agency | New Delhi

The ‘Queen of Bolly-wood’ Rekha turns 61 on Saturday. Rekha has successfully crossed all the hurdles in her life to etch an indelible mark in the history of Indian Cin-ema. The wonderful per-formances, breathtaking beauty and the personal struggles will definitely leave one in awe of Rekha. The ‘Umrao Jaan’ of Bol-lywood practices regular Yoga in order to keep her-self fit. Even today, when Rekha graces an event or an award ceremony, she looks bewitching in her usual kanjivaram saree! The actress has worked in a number of movies ever since she stepped into the film world. Rekha has worked in a number of movies with Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bach-chan and to whom she was romantically linked with. Rekha has piled up a number of awards and credentials in her kitty. Her acting prowess and

the evergreen beauty is reflected in many of her movies. She has never re-frained from taking risks nor was appalled by the controversies. The ac-tress best known for her

grandeur performances in films like ‘Khubsoorat’, ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’ and ‘Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi’ also happens to be in the best books of the industry for her versatility.

moved from Los Ange-les to New York, only to learn when the production hired him that numerous nonlocal stuntmen were flown in to work on the set. “Plaintiff realised that he had been told that only New York stunt profes-sionals were being hired in an attempt to prevent him from working on the movie due to his age,” stated the complaint. On set, Davis said Arm-strong consistently as-signed younger stuntmen the “premium” stunts that were worth more pay. He added younger stuntmen made disparaging re-marks about Davis’ age, and Armstrong “shared the same discriminatory view, and his attitude ac-tually encouraged the ha-rassment.” “Then, things got even uglier,” contin-ued the complaint. He claims US $50,000 on 13 clauses.

petitioner, such acts hurt religious sentiments. The high court, however, ob-served that the Censor Board has already seen the movie and granted certificate and has not

found anything objec-tionable. “If the Censor Board has given its cer-tificate, we are not going to interfere,” the court said while dismissing the petition.

At my age, it is difficult to get work: Amitabh Bachchan

upcoming film “Wazir” and his new TV show “Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zind-agi”. “At my age its dif-ficult to get work, and I am no different from any other in such condition.

Yes I have had three films this year – ‘Shamitabh’, ‘Piku’ and ‘Wazir’– and they have been most re-warding for me purely because of its diverse content,” Bachchan.


SPORTS ROUNDUPCBI searches Mallya residences, offices in Rs 900-cr loan case

Income tax department employees to hold strike today

Twitter planning to fire 4,200 employees

Agency | New Delhi

The CBI on Saturday raided the houses and offic-es of Vijay Mallya and his now grounded King-fisher Airlines in connection with alleged fraud in Rs 950 crore loan to him by IDBI bank which has been declared as non-performing asset. The raids were made at five places, officials said. The IDBI bank came under the scanner in 2014 for granting an alleged bad loan to Kingfisher Airlines despite knowing its precarious financial position and neg-ative credit ratings. Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation said searches were carried out at the offices and residence of Mallya in Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore and other places. They said a case was registered by the agency against Mallya, di-rector of defunct Kingfisher Airlines,the compa-ny, A Raghunathan, chief financial officer of the airline and unknown officials of the bank. It is alleged that the loan was sanctioned in violation of norms regarding credit limits. No immediate reaction was available from the company.

Agency | Mumbai

Spain and Switzerland racked up 11 goals be-tween them to qualify for Euro 2016 on Friday as England maintained their 100 percent record. Champions in 2008 and 2012, Spain beat Lux-embourg 4-0 in Group C thanks to a brace each from Arsenal playmaker Santi Cazorla and Valen-cia striker Paco Alcacer. The result saw Spain win the group outright after rivals Slovakia, who had been breathing down their necks, went down 1-0 at home to Belarus and drop to third. On the down side, Spain suffered a double injury blow losing David Silva to a twisted ankle before Alvaro Morata was

Agency | New Delhi

Over 50,000 employees of the Income Tax Depart-ment will go on a day-long countrywide strike to-day to protest the delay in promotions and appoint-ments of tax officers in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The two prominent groups — In-come Tax Employees Federation (ITEF) and In-come Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association (ITGOA) — represent about 97 percent of the department’s workforce and have already notified the decision to the apex-policy making body of the department, CBDT. The remaining 3 percent work force of the department comprises of officers drawn from the Indian Revenue Service. The associations said if their demands for timely promotion in cadres and providing required infrastructure is not met, the work of budget collection and taxpayer services are “bound to fail” in the coming days. Earlier in June, the government asked the tax department to take urgent steps to widen the tax base and add at least 25 lakh new assesses every month during the current financial year 2015-16.

Agency | New Delhi

Twitter will lay off employees next week as fresh-ly-returned chief Jack Dorsey pushes for a lean-er operation focused on winning users, tech news website Re/code has reported. Layoffs will be spread across the entire San Francisco-based com-pany and will likely include engineers, which ac-count for about half of Twitter’s approximately 4,200 employees, according to Re/code. The job cuts reportedly come as engineering teams are be-ing reorganised at the one-to-many messaging ser-vice. Re/code cited unnamed sources in its yester-day’s report, while Twitter declined to comment on what it referred to as rumour and speculation. Twit-ter is betting that the second coming of co-founder Dorsey as chief executive will bring blockbuster growth that has eluded its grasp and disappointed investors.

Agency | New Delhi

At about 5 pm local time on Saturday — prime time on Indian TV — Vijender Singh will stride out to the ring in the centre of the 21,000

Agency | Kanpur

Notwithstanding criti-cism for making Ajinkya Rahane warm benches, Indian skipper MS Dho-ni on Saturday hinted that the talented bats-man may not feature in the playing eleven for the first ODI against South Africa as he fits into the setup only in the ‘top three’ batting slots. Dhoni, who had earli-er criticised Rahane for not rotating the strike enough in limited overs, said that the Mumbai batsman should only bat at the top of the order and not at five or six. With top three — Rohit Shar-ma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli — selecting

Agency | New Delhi

Delhi Dynamos coach Roberto Carlos did not play in his side’s 1-0 win over Chennaiyin FC on October 8 because of an injury, the Indian Super League football side said on Saturday. The club said that the Brazilian World Cup winner suf-fered a major fracture in his right hand finger during a training session before the first match against Goa at Margao. He, however, played in Goa since the team need-ed him but the injury got worse during that game which Delhi Dynamos lost 0-2. Carlos wanted to play for the fans at the first home game against Chennaiyin at Jawaharlal

Agency | Kolkata

With Eden Gardens slated to host the World Twen-ty20 final in less than six months time, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) have started se-rious efforts not to lose the marquee fixture in the wake of Thursday’s rain abandonment fias-co. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is CAB’s president desig-nate, also seemed deeply concerned and was seen talking to chief curator Prabir Mukherjee’s as-sistant Shankarshan Pal and the groundsmen. “He was telling them to get the ground ready for the upcoming Ranji Trophy match (against Rajasthan) from October 15,” a CAB official said. Eden Gar-dens curator Mukherjee, who was squarely blamed for the episode abandon-ment of Thursday’s third and final Twenty20 match between India and South Africa, was adamant not

In his second innings, Vijender Singh searching for second wind

Rain fiasco wakes up sleeping CAB ahead of 2016 World T20 final

We would find it tough to place Ajinkya Rahane in playing XI, says MS Dhoni

Delhi Dynamos coach Roberto Carlos suffers fracture

Pepsi says BCCI failed to take corrective measures

Spain, Switzerland storm into Euro 2016 finals, England extend winning run

Agency | New Delhi

Title sponsor of the In-dian Premier League, PepsiCo, has blamed the BCCI for bringing “dis-repute” to the game, after expressing the intention of ending its association with the IPL on Friday.The Board of Control for Cricket in India had said, on Friday, it will address concerns raised by Pepsi with “amicable discus-sions” and “necessary solutions” but the bev-erage giant sent a notice saying the decision to

withdraw was taken be-cause “BCCI failed to act in a fair and transparent manner to prevent or take corrective measures in respect of such sporting frauds”. According to the same report, Pepsi also said its association was to “gain positive publicity”, but BCCI breached its contract and “the fraudu-lent and illegal activities committed in the IPL ad-versely affected the im-age of the IPL as also the game of cricket...” The controversy-ridden IPL

hit a new low when the Supreme Court recom-mended suspending the franchises -- Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Su-per Kings -- for two years, following the Lodha Committee’s report into a betting and spot-fixing scandal. Pepsi also hit out at former BCCI president and Chennai Super Kings owner N Srinivasan for “acting in conflict of in-terest as the regulator of the IPL and at the same time as having commer-cial interest in the IPL”.

Nehru Stadium here but could not do that due to his fractured finger. Commenting on his in-jury, Carlos said, “I’m thankful to God that it’s just my finger and not my legs or feet.” “Even though I was not play-ing for the match against Chennaiyin, I’m so glad that the team did a great job. I hope to be able to join them soon. I want a quick recovery for the

fans who came in large numbers to cheer for us in the first home game,” he said in a release. Del-hi Dynamos President Prashant Agarwal said, “We, the Delhi Dyna-mos family, wish him a speedy recovery so that he can continue being the asset that he is for the team. We look forward to see him play brilliant football in the upcoming matches.”

themselves for the series opener at Green Park, it is unlikely that Rahane will fit the bill. “I think four is the number for Rahane. Even four is quite low for him I would say,” said Dhoni on the eve of the match. The captain him-self has promoted him-self to number four and is looking for someone who can perform the role of a finisher, like what

he did best for number of years. Talking more about Rahane, Dhoni said, “Opening fits him really well. Take the ex-ample of Rohit Sharma for that matter. In do-mestic cricket he bats lower but in international matches he opens for us. Our openers more often than not are who bat in the middle order in first class cricket.

seater Manchester Are-na. Wearing custom tri colour shorts made by the same company who designed the ring kit for Ricky Hatton and Carl Froch, he’ll bounce along to the beat of Bollywood chartbuster “Singh is King”. The previous day his twitter feed had been inundated with tweets from Bollywood stars, cricketers and fans wish-ing him good luck for his

debut professional bout against Sonny Whiting. Broadcaster Sony Six expects some 20 million to watch the encoun-ter. Vijender Singh isn’t the first Indian boxer to turn professional, but he certainly seems to have generated the most hype. This isn’t to say that the fervour for the country’s only Olympic medalist in India is evenly matched in Manchester.

stretchered off with a calf injury. Cazorla opened the scoring five minutes be-fore half-time as he swept home a rebound after Jon-athan Joubert had made a smart save from Pedro Rodriguez. Alcacer slot-ted home a neat through ball from Cesc Fabregas on his 99th international appearance 23 minutes

from time. Jordi Alba’s cut-back was then tapped into an empty net by Al-cacer for his sixth inter-national goal in nine ap-pearances. And Cazorla rounded off the scoring with the best goal of the night when he thundered in a shot from the edge of the box to seal Spain’s ticket to France in style.

to show his face again, while the CAB on Fri-day softened its stance on the octogenarian. CAB treasurer Biswarup Dey, who had demanded the curator’s resignation on Thursday night, on Fri-day said he would speak to the curator personally, apparently to convince him to return to his job. “Such things happen in everyone’s life. Some-times even a top class doctor fails to get a patient healed. He is such an ex-perienced person and we must show some respect to him. I will speak to him personally. It was a learn-

ing experience for us,” Dey said. Asked whether the Eden is in danger of losing the World Twen-ty20 final, Dey quipped: “If unlawful activities rise in New Delhi then will the capital be shift-ed?” Ground committee chairman Debabrata Das, however, blamed curator Mukhejee for the failure to host the match on Thurs-day. Claiming that the vet-eran curator did not listen to Ganguly, he said: “Gan-guly called him thrice re-questing him to cover the ground way ahead of the the rainfall but he did not pay any heed.


Correspondent | Vadodara

Tension gripped Jambu-sar town in Bharuch dis-trict, situated some 50 ki-lometers from Vadodara, after a dead cow calf was found in a hotel premises in wee hours on Saturday. The owner of a hotel in the Depot locality of the town was arrested in con-nection with slaughtering a cow calf, whose dead body was recovered from the premisesat around 2:30 am. The police booked the hotel owner, Sikandar Rasool Malik and took him for ques-tioning, while other per-sons involved in the act escaped before the police could reach the spot. Se-curity arrangements were tightened and the police teams were deployed on important points across the town, even a battalion

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Foreign made cigarettes worth Rs 23 crore were seized this year at a port in Hazira. Along with illicit trade of tobacco fake auto components market in the state too is expanding rap-idly, said experts of Feder-ation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indus-try’s (FICCI) Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy (CASCADE). “Gujarat is one of the fastest grow-ing markets for illegal cigarettes and auto com-ponents in the country. Supply of legal cigarettes is showing a decline while the illegal players have taken over this market and

is growing at a faster rate,” said PC Jha, Adviser FIC-CI CASCADE and former Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs while unveiling a report on ‘’Illicit Market: A Threat to Our National Interest’ in city on Friday. In case of auto components and computer hardware, the il-legal market in the state is also growing significantly in terms of value and vol-ume. “High VAT (Value Added Tax) makes legal-ly-procured cigarettes ex-pensive. This is the reason for rapid- growth of illegal cigarette industry in the state,” added SS Trivedi, IGP (Economic Offenses Wing, CID Crime), Gov-ernment of Gujarat.


Stating that a protest at the venue of India vs South Africa ODI at Ra-jkot on October 18 was the only way to broad-cast the voice of agitat-ing Patidars in Gujarat to the world, Hardik Patel, leader of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) on Saturday said the pro-testors will neither inter-rupt nor stall the match in any manner. Taking the 110-day-long Patidar ag-itation forward, the lead-er of PAAS announced a series of rallies and meet-ings in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar as well as a “Mahasammelan” of Patels from Saurashtra, where Hardik is expect-ed to share the stage with rival Patidar group leader


The High Court on Friday issued notices to the Gu-jarat government and the State Election Commis-sion on a petition chal-lenging a recent ordinance and subsequent postpone-ment of elections to the local bodies for three months. The ordinance puts the electorate right as defined under Section 79 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, at the sole discretion of the SEC, the petition said, de-manding that it should be quashed and the SEC be asked to announce pan-chayat elections. Before issuing notices, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and Justice N V Anjaria pri-marily observed that “the state legislature could not dilute the Constitution


State Information Com-missioner(RTI) VS Gadh-vi has said that media can play a very important role in creating aware-ness about Right to In-formation (RTI) among the public if it highlighted the important orders and judgements and informa-tion collected by citizens by using RTI tool. Giving a talk on the “Role of mass media in RTI” on the oc-casion of 10th anniversa-ry of the passage of Right to Information Act-2005, Gadhvi said that it was due to the awareness cre-ated by the media about this tool to cull informa-tion from government de-partments, the number of RTI applications received from citizens had gone up tremendously. Doling out figures, he said the total


Gujarat police believe that, Zainul Abedin, de-tained by Saudi Arabia authorities 20 days back could be the missing link in the 2008 serial blasts investigations. Po-lice authorities say that, Zainul was the person who supplied explosives (ammonium nitrate) to Indian Mujahideen (IM), which carried out the said blasts. A senior police of-ficial from the city crime branch said they are in touch with the central agencies and will send a team to Delhi once the accused is deported to India. Ahmedabad po-lice say that Zainul, who hails from Karnataka, had close links to Riyaz Bhatkal, the mastermind of the said blast and is said to be hiding in Pa-kistan. The Saudi author-ities have also detained a person, Abu Sufiyaan, hailing from Hyderabad and who is believed to be a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative. “It was IM who planned and carried

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Tension in Gujarat town after dead cow calf recovered from hotel premises

India vs South Africa ODI in Rajkot won’t be interrupted by Patidars: Hardik Patel

Gujarat HC notice to govt, poll commission over local body elections

RTI applications on a rise in Gujarat owing to awareness created by media

Zainul Abedin supplied explosives to IM for 2008 blasts: Police

applications received in 2014-15 in Gujarat was a little above 8,000 but over 12,000 applications had been received during the last six months of the current year(2015-16) and at this rate, the number of applications were likely to cross al-most three times of what was received in the pre-vious year. This, he said, indicated the awareness among the people about the use of this important tool to seek information and media certainly had a

role to disseminate infor-mation about this act hav-ing introduced transpar-ency in the government administration. Asked if any changes had taken place in governance after the act was implemented, Gadhvi, a former IAS of-ficer, said that it had led to positive changes among officers who might have earlier not been very cau-tious in making notes on files etc. But every officer was now very cautious and would do his best to make proper notes.

out the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26 2008, we suspect that Zainul Abedin could be the main supplier of the explosives for bomb making,” said a top po-lice official of Gujarat police. 56 people had died and over 200 were injured in the 19 blasts that took place in dif-ferent parts of the city. “During our investiga-tion we had found that Soeb alias Potanical brought the explosives to the IM suspects for the Ahmedabad serial blasts. Now, when Zainul Abe-din’s name has propped up as the main supplier, he could be the miss-ing link,” added a crime branch official. IM had

carried out series of blats across the country including Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Banglore in 2008. Banglore blasts were carried out just a day ahead of the Ahmed-abad serial blasts. Intel-ligence agencies were caught napping as the terror outfit had carried out two serial blasts in two days in different cit-ies. IM operatives also planted 29 bombs in Su-rat. Fortunately, bombs planted in Surat did not explode due to faulty timer chips and batteries. Meanwhile, the other person detained in Saudi Arabia, Abu Sufiyaan is believed to be from Hy-derabad and suspected to be LeT operative.

of the Special Operations Group (SOG) was called in from Bharuch to en-sure that the tension does not escalate into a com-munal clash. Acting on a tip off received late Fri-day night, that a cow was being slaughtered at the premises of Savera hotel, situated near a state bus depot, the police reached the spot and found a dead

calf with deep gash on its neck. Materials used to slaughter cows, such as knives, rods and ropes were also recovered from the spot. The shutter of the hotel, which is situ-ated in the basement of a shopping complex, was half open, but nobody was seen there. The po-lice took the owner of the hotel, Rasool, for ques-

tioning and booked him under various sections of Gujarat Animal Preserva-tion (Amendment) Act, 2011, Prevention of Cru-elty to Animals Act, and Indian Penal Code. “We are questioning the owner of the hotel about who all were involved in the act, though the clear picture is yet to emerge. We found a dead calf with cut mark on its body from the prem-ises of the hotel Savera and the shutter of the ho-tel was open, so based on circumstantial evidences, we have booked the own-er. The hotel is situated in the basement of a shop-ping complex. We have tightened the security and deployed police at check-points across the town to avoid any clash among members of two commu-nities,” said police inspec-tor GR Sharma.

because the Constitution was supreme”. The court posted the petition for further hearing on Octo-ber 14. The petition has

been moved by Viren-drasinh Vaghela and Jag-dish Bhatt through their lawyer Shaktisinh Gohil who is also a senior Gu-

jarat Congress leader. Va-ghela is the vice president of Gandhinagar district panchayat, while Bhatt is from Bhavnagar. In the plea, the petitioners stated that the Gujarat government promulgated two ordinances and one of them empowered the State Election Commis-sion to delay the pancha-yat elections beyond its constitutionally mandato-ry five-year term.

Lalji Patel. Stating that the Gujarat government is yet to act against any of the police officers involved in attacking Patidars at the GMDC rounds in Ahmed-abad in August this year, Patel said he will begin the next round of agitation by holding a “mahapancha-yat” at Ratlam in Madhya

Pradesh on October 11, followed by gatherings at Morbi (Oct 12), tour and meetings in Amreli (Oct 14-15), tour and meetings in Jungadh and Gir-Som-nath (Oct 16-17) and protest during the ODI at Rajkot the following day. “During the match, we all will turn out at the stadium

wearing white T-shirts, that will have the logo of PAAS. Though placards won’t be allowed inside the stadium, we will try to somehow sneak some placards inside the stadi-um on which slogans re-lated to our agitation like Jai Sardar and Jai Patidar will be written. We will

not try to stop the match, nor will we cause any sort of interruption during the game. We will not try to stall the match. We will sit in the stadium and protest while the match is on,” Pa-tel added while addressing mediapersons near Adalaj. When what action will PAAS take if Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) prevents him and his sup-porters from entering the stadium inspite of buying tickets, Patel said, “The stadium might go emp-ty then and we will play cricket match of our own outside (the stadium).” PAAS will also hold meet-ings at Botad (Oct 19), Bhavnagar (Oct 20-21), Mehsana (Oct 22), Suren-dranagar (Oct 24). Hardik also said that his planned visit to Bihar is apolitical.

Tobacco smuggling peaks in Gujarat: FICCI

Bihar polls: Former CM Jagannath Mishra revives his party, announces support to NDA

Agency | New Delhi

Former Bihar Chief Min-ister Jagannath Mishra on Saturday revived his party Bhartiya Jan Con-gress (Rashtriya) and announced that he would work for the victory of BJP-led alliance at the hustings. Mishra, who switched his loyalty to-wards Nitish Kumar after spending his entire po-litical career in the Con-gress party which made him CM thrice and once a union minister, made a fervent appeal to the peo-ple and his party mem-bers to ensure the defeat of 25 years of mis-gov-ernance and non-devel-opment of Lalu-Nitish dispensation. It may be

noted that Mishra’s son Nitish Mishra, who was a minister in Nitish cab-inet before he switched his loyalty towards Jitan Ram Manjhi, is contest-ing now on a BJP ticket from Jhanjharpur assem-bly constituency. “People should get rid of the duo’s dispensation of 25 years as Bihar stood at the bot-tom among all states in respect to many areas.

“Be it industrialisation, power generation, private investments etc where Bihar has not fared well at all. I am saying on the basis of reports of various professional institutions and bodies like World Bank, Planning Commis-sion, Rajiv Gandhi In-stitute of Contemporary Studies and Industrial Analysis, Socio-econom-ic caste census,” Mishra.

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