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Top cop files two more FIRs against TOI
2008-06-07 08:16:00
GANDHINAGAR: Ahmedabad police commissioner O P Mathur on Friday filed two new FIRs against The Times of India even as TOI handed over a representation to Modi's principal secretary, K Kailasnathan, and copies were provided to the minister of state for home Amit Shah, chief secretary Manjula Subramaniam and principal secretary (home) Balwant Singh.The new FIRs, filed a day after the Gujarat HC granted anticipatory bail to the TOI staffers, take the number of FIRs to five.In Friday's FIRs, Mathur has also included the name of an illustrator with TOI. While TOI has reserved its right to move court for quashing of the FIRs, it has requested the state to withdraw the charges to safeguard the freedom of press."Senior officials of the government have made public statements that the state government has not given specific approval to level charges of sedition against us. We are not sure if Shri Mathur was given permission by the state government to file the said charges under these sectio...
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Rail traffic between Delhi and Rajasthan restored
2008-06-07 08:14:00
NEW DELHI: Rail traffic between Delhi and various destinations in Rajasthan was restored on Saturday with eight trains resuming their services after being suspended for nearly two weeks due to Gujjar agitation demanding ST status for the community."The situation has improved. We have restored the rail services in certain areas of Rajasthan," a Northern Railway official said."Train services have been partially restored in Rajasthan today and eight trains that were suspended due to the agitation will run as per their schedule from today," the official said.The trains that have been restored on Saturday are Ahmedabad-Haridwar Express, Delhi-Jodhpur Mandore Express, Delhi Sarai Rohila-Jodhpur Express, New Delhi- Ahmedabad Rajdhani Express, Ala Hazrat Express, Jaipur-Amritsar Express, Porbander-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express and Ashram Express.The services of Jodhpur Sampark Kranti Express would resume from tomorrow, whereas Jasalmer Express and Jammu- Delhi-Ajmer Express have been partiall...
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No Ahmedabad student in first five in Gujarat SSC examination
2008-06-07 08:12:00
It is surprising thing that the biggest city of Gujarat , Ahmedabad , does not figure till the half of the top ten list of the SSC examinations. The first student of Ahmedabad to find place in the merit list is Patel Avanee Chandrakantbhai of Vidyanagar Girls High School Thakkarbapa Road. She has got 95.38 percent while the topper Gaur Saurabh Kishorkumar of Palanpur has got 96.31 per cent. The difference of 0.93 percent is not small. There are 14 students ahead of Avanee. In the entire merit list Ahmedabad is second after Surat. Ahmedabad has ten students in the top ten while Surat tops with 13 students. In the top ten in a margin of 1.54 per cent there are as many as 53 students. Of these 27 are girls and 26 boys.Source: gujaratglobal
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Ahmedabad based AIA Engineering posts net sales of Rs 691.18cr
2008-06-07 08:10:00
Ahmedabad based AIA Engineering Limited, engaged in the business of manufacturing High Chrome Mill Internals has once again turned out a stable performance for the Financial Year 2007-08. The Company?s Board has recommended a Dividend of Rs.4/- (40%) per equity share of Rs 10/- each and has also decided to split the Equity Shares of face value of Rs.10 each into 5 Equity Shares of Rs.2 each. According to audited results approved by the Company?s Board on Wednesday, the 4th June 2008, the Company on a consolidated basis achieved Net Sales of Rs. 691.18 Crore for the year ended March 31, 2008, which signifies a growth of 32.15% over the sales earnings achieved during 2006-07.For the year, the consolidated Profit Before Tax is Rs.180.23 Crore and the Profit After Tax stood at Rs.133.27 Crore. The growth in PAT is 41.30%.For 2007-08, according to independent financials the Net Sales income from operations has totalled Rs.593.81 Crore as against Rs.399.43 Crore in 2006-07. The Profit Aft...
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Indian visitor upset over Gandhi statue position at Tussauds
2008-06-07 08:09:00
AHMEDABAD: Not happy with the placement of Mahatma Gandhi 's statue at Madam Tussauds, a man from Gujarat after his first visit to the famous wax museum has written to Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown to shift it from that position. V K Saxena of National Council of Civic Liberties in his letter to Brown said the statue is not placed in the wing where the statues of other illustrious world leaders are exhibited. Gandhi's statue is placed at an isolated corner on the second floor near an ice cream parlour close to the dustbin, Saxena wrote in his letter. Thousands of visitors who use this parlour throw away waste into the bin which often spills out near the statue, he said. He requested Brown to take immediate action to see that this anomaly is rectified. Saxena has also sent copies of his letter to all national leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition L K Advani.Source: economictimes
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SEWA joins hands with SBI
2008-06-07 08:08:00
SEWA Gram Mahila Haat (SGMH), a marketing organization for rural produce promoted by SEWA, has entered into an agreement with the State Bank of India to provide comprehensive financial services to the underprivileged encompassing saving, credit, remittance, insurance and pension products in a cost-effective manner in the untapped areas of Gujarat.As per the MOU, the SGMH will work as a business facilitator (BF) and it will conduct only non financial business activities, identification of potential customers and activities, collection and preliminary process of loan applications/ account opening forms including verification of primary information, post-sanction monitoring and follow-up recovery, creating awareness about savings and other products and education and dvice on managing money and debt counselling. The SBI will give 0.5 per cent commission to SGMH on the saving, credit and it will provide crop credits at mere seven per cent per annum to underprivileged section in the rural...
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Dog diverts 5 flights, delays more than 30
2008-06-07 07:59:00
MUMBAI: Five flights were diverted to Ahmedabad and Pune, eight went around the Mumbai skies for 40 minutes before landing, and another 25 were delayed ? all because a dog showed up on a runway of the Mumbai airport on Friday morning.And to make matters worse, a cargo plane blocked the runway for 15 minutes after making an emergency landing, further delaying arrivals and departures. A Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesman admitted: ?All the go-arounds, diversions and delays happened because of the dog and the emergency landing.? According to MIAL, the dog was first spotted around 10.45am on the taxiway near the runway 14-32- the other runway was about to be closed for weekly maintenance at 11.15am.?We chased the dog but it moved on to the runway,? a MIAL official said. And as the airport staff went after the dog, five flights had to encircle the Mumbai skies for more than 40 minutes before being diverted to Ahmedabad and Pune.Jet Airways? three flights - from Bangkok...
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Ahmedabad ready to face monsoon, says civic body
2008-06-07 07:57:00
Ahmedabad is fully geared up to meet any eventuality in case of heavy rain during the upcoming monsoon season, the city?s municipal commissioner I.P. Gautam said Wednesday. ?We?re fully prepared for the monsoon. Even if it is severe,? he said.All arrangements were in place and the flood control room at the Tagore Hall will be operational from Thursday. Other control rooms in all six zones too will be operational the same day, Gautam told IANS.All major digging works were stopped except work on manholes that are being attached with interceptors, which will help open the manhole lids automatically during overflows, he said.A pre-monsoon action plan has already been set in motion. A 50-60 km storm drainage pipeline work too has been done to mitigate any flooding, Gautam said.Source: thaindian.com
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Gujjar agitation: trains still cancelled
2008-06-07 07:52:00
Mumbai (PTI): In view of the ongoing Gujjar agitation in Rajasthan, around 13 passenger trains leaving from Western region to north India continued to remain cancelled, Western Railway said Thursday. The Ferozpur Janata Express from Mumbai Central to Ferozpur (9023), August Kranti Rajdhani Express from Mumbai Central to Hazrat Nizamuddin, Bandra Terminus Gorakhpur-Avadh Express, Bandra Terminus-Dehradun Express, Sampark Kranti Express (2909) and Jammu Tawi holiday special from Bandra have been cancelled, they said. The other trains cancelled include Indore-Nizamuddin Inter City Express, Ahmedabad-Jodhpur Passenger, Ahmedabad-Patna Express, Ahmedabad-New Delhi Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express, Ahmedabad-Nizmuddin Express, Bhuj Bareli Express and Ahmedabad-Gorakhpur Holiday Special. Besides, four trains have been diverted including Mumbai Central-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, Hapa-Jammu Tawi, Bandra-Amritsar Pashchim Express, Mumbai Central-Amritsar Golden Temple Express. The train s...
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SIM card seizure: One held in Dhoraji
2008-06-05 06:08:00
AHMEDABAD: The city crime branch officials have arrested a man from Junagadh in connection with the three SIM card s and two mobile phones that were recovered from Sabarmati Central Jail on May 19.The accused, Nizar Rajwani, 23, was arrested from Dhoraji in Junagadh on Wednesday. "Nizar was the one who had supplied one of the SIM cards that were seized inside the jail. We will have to question him further to know his exact nature of involvement," said joint commissioner of police, crime, Ashish Bhatia.SIM cards and mobile phones were found in the possession of a Pakistani national, Sahnawaz Bhatti. Not just that, crime branch officials later found that Bhatti was using these SIM cards and mobiles to call Pakistan, that too, the LeT headquarters.Crime branch officials, working on a tip-off provided by the central IB, found that Bhatti was conspiring with LeT operatives to help him stage a dramatic jail break. Bhatti was arrested in July 2001 after he crossed over illegally into Kutch ...
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Rail traffic disrupted again in state
2008-06-05 06:07:00
JAIPUR: The rail traffic was once again thrown out of gear, as nearly 200 Gujjar women blocked a three kilometer stretch from Bandikui, a key railway track near Shalawas, in Dausa district on Wednesday.At least 40 trains have been cancelled and over a dozen partially cancelled when the rail traffic got disrupted on route linking Rajasthan to its adjoining states.Security forces are keeping strict vigil in the violence-hit areas.Deputy SP, GRP, Raghuveer Saini, who is camping in Dausa district, told TOI, around 800 Gujjar protestors including 200 women blocked the Jaipur-Delhi rail track with wooden logs, which resulted in the disruption of train traffic."The agitators demolished the track and pulled them apart," he added. Around 23 Gujjar protestors including 12 women, who tried to create disturbance in Bandikui, were arrested on Tuesday and later released on bail.Meanwhile, hundreds of agitators in Sawai Madhopur district resorted to blocking of the highway, linkingto Madhya Prades...
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The Loot opens store in Amritsar
2008-06-05 06:07:00
India's first multi-brand Garments, Footwear and Accessories discount store ?The Loot ' rolled out its maiden outlet in Amritsar today."The company plans 100 outlets by the end of the current financial year and to go public in the next 18 months," the company Managing Director Jay Gupta, said.He added that the retail chain of garments, footwears and accessories was started in 2004 that clocked in 85 per cent growth with a turnover of Rs 51 crore in 2006-07 and expect a turnover of Rs 100 cr this year. The Loot offers its customers a wide range of branded products with discounts from 25 per cent to 60 per cent around the year.The 3,000 sq ft Amritsar store is located in the heart of the city and is the very first store in Punjab. They immediately plan to launch a store in Jalandhar followed by Ludhiana; and eye to roll out at least 10 stores in Punjab.Gupta told that their business model is based on creating brand awareness among masses. He added that they keep thin margins, work ou...
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How green was my Ahmedabad!
2008-06-05 06:06:00
Chirping birds are perched onbranches of huge trees,as if playing a melody in symphony.Beauty of lush green trees is greater than heaven,leaf buds bring good news and blessings written on them.'AHMEDABAD: This is a poet's image of ? hold your breath ? Ahmedabad , contained in Mirat-e-Ahmadi, a historic account. The city may be anything but green today, but 300 years ago, Ahmedabad was described as a city of gardens and orchards, which were grown by the sultans who ruled then. Particularly, the maverick sultan Muhammad Begdo who encouraged people to plant trees.Albert de Mendeslo, a German traveller who came to Ahmedabad in 1638, wrote about the environment of the city: "There are so many other gardens around Ahmedabad and the whole city is so full of trees that it looks like one big garden. Anyone who comes to the city sees such abundance of them that he may well think he is going into a forest."Eminent historian Ratnamanirao Jote dedicated a whole chapter to gardens of Ahmedabad d...
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Toonz Academy starts operations in Ahmedabad, Indore
2008-06-05 06:05:00
Thiruvananthapuram, June 4 (IANS) Toonz Academy , one of the premier animation training institutes in Asia, inaugurated its animation training facilities in Ahmedabad and Indore. In a press release issued here Wednesday, the institute said the opening of new centres was in line with the academy?s domestic expansion plans.The new centres, along with its existing units in Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Nagpur, will offer 12-month advanced diploma in digital arts and animation course in addition to short-term courses.More academies are planned this year in cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Coimbatore. The academy also plans to start a three-year degree course in animation by the next academic year.Toonz Academy executive director Rama Prasad said the expansion drive reinforces the institute?s commitment to contributing well-trained professionals to the animation industry.?Our close association with the production house, Toonz Animation, enables us to tailor the co...

1 held in fake share certificate scam
2008-06-05 06:05:00
AHMEDABAD: The crime branch officials have arrested one Tapan Denga, 57, from Kolkata for his involvement in fake share certificate transfer scam that was busted recently. This is the third arrest made in this case.Crime branch officials had busted the scam on May 31 and had recovered a huge number of fake stamps. They had also arrested Niranjan Shah, a resident of Pavapuri Society in Paldi. More than 25,000 fake rubber stamps of various government offices and institutions were recovered from his possession.Lakshman Jain, a resident of Maheshwari Society in Ambar Cinema, was the second to be arrested in this scam. Jain has told crime branch officials that Denga gave him fake stamps. A team from crime branch then went to West Bengal and arrested the accused.Source: timesofindia
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Ahmedabad students bashed up, flee Bangalore in fear
2008-06-05 06:04:00
AHMEDABAD: They left the city to pursue their dream of higher education. But 30 students, who returned from Bangalore on Wednesday morning, have only nightmares to recount.The students of College of Pharmacy, who shared a flat in Devanahalli near Bangalore, were threatened,terrorised and some of them even beaten up by local residents when they tried to stop a thief who broke into their room. They managed to flee after two traumatic days and reach the city on Wednesday. Even the police and trustees of their college refused to help.For Upendra Singh Jadeja and six other students of Bachelor of Pharmacy, June 2 was yet another day till they returned home around noon from an examination and found the door open."My flatmate Mayur was the first to return and was shocked to find the room ransacked. He saw two people running away through the main door and another entering a room," said Jadeja.Mayur came out of the house and locked it from outside, trapping the thief. "We reached by then and...
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Stir against sedition charge intensifies
2008-06-05 06:01:00
AHMEDABAD: Several Gandhians and civil rights activists showed up in strength at Sabarmati Ashram on Wednesday to protest against the sedition charges brought against The Times of India by Ahmedabad police commissioner O P Mathur. Journalists in Ahmedabad, Surat and other cities have been protesting since Mathur filed a series of sedition charges and defamation for articles that appeared in the newspaper about his ability to guarantee safety of residents in the light of serious terror threats. On Wednesday, the Ahmedabad high court also admitted a plea by TOI for quashing the charges. At the protests, members of Gandhi Sena, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), Janpath, Students Unity Centre of India (SUCI), Kisan Sangathan, Satyajeet Trust and All India Democratic Students Organisation demanded the charges be dropped. "We are against the charges of sedition filed by the commissioner against TOI journalists. This, if encouraged, will become the orde...
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UPA plan: 8 gas cylinders a year at current rate, extra to cost double
2008-06-04 11:10:00
New Delhi, hike today z New LPG distribution policy, hike of Rs 3/l on petrol, Rs 2/l on diesel The UPA government has worked out a Rs 3-hike in the retail price of one litre of petrol, Rs 2 for diesel and a new distribution scheme for cooking gas. Under this, each consumer would get eight cylinders at the current subsidised rate of about Rs 300 and any extra cylinder would be delivered at the market price (Rs 650, given that Rs 350 is the subsidy.) The proposal, hammered after weeklong political parleys, suggests a price increase of Rs 3 per litre on petrol and Rs 2 on diesel while keeping kerosene and LPG prices unchanged. This would garner Rs 11,855 crore for state-run oil marketing companies that are likely to lose Rs 225,000 crore during the current fiscal because of high global crude oil prices. Though ostensibly the proposal says there would be no change in LPG price, the eight-cylinder annual limit is expected to reduce the subsidy component by 33 per cent equal to a Rs 100 ...
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Petrol price to increase
2008-06-04 11:09:00
At midnight on Tuesday motorists will pay almost R10 for a litre of petrol as the latest price hike comes into effect.Last week it was announced that the retail price of all grades of petrol will rise by another 50 cents a litre. This comes after last month's steep price increase that saw the cost of diesel rise above the R10/litre mark and render thousands of older pumps unable to handle the extra digit.The increase comes in the wake of Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni's announcement that a 2 percent rise in the interest rate was being considered to keep inflation within the target range.Source
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Mercury falls as rain lashes Punjab, Haryana
2008-06-04 06:23:00
A couple caught in the rain in Chandigarh on Tuesday.Chandigarh: Light to moderate rains lashed a few parts of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday causing drop in maximum temperature. Heavy showers lashed most parts of Chandigarh in the afternoon after a dust storm. The maximum here settled at 38.8 degrees Celsius, the Meteorological Department said here. In Haryana, Karnal received light showers and the maximum dropped to 34.8 degrees Celsius, five below normal. Ambala had a high of 37.3 C, down three degrees while Hisar registered a high of 38.3 C, also three below normal. Bhiwani recorded a maximum of 35 C. Sirsa, Kalka, Rohtak and Panchkula in the State also received showers. In Punjab, Patiala got few showers and the high there settled at 38.2 C, down two degrees. Amritsar had a partially cloudy sky and received trace amount of rain, but the day was hot at 39.6 C. The Met attributed sudden change in weather to a few systems active over the region. An Upper Air Cyclonic Circulati...
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Gujjars block rail traffic, security beefed up
2008-06-04 06:22:00
Gujjars block rail traffic Gujjar protesters blocked rail traffic by squatting on tracks in violence-hit Dausa district as authorities today tightened security in the affected areas by deploying additional contingents of para-military forces. The stand off between the Gujjar protesters and the state government on the issue of postmortem on bodies of agitation victims here ended as their relatives decided to cremate them following conduct of autopsy last night. A large number of Gujjar protesters, including women, disrupted train movement by sitting on the tracks at a bridge over Banganga river in Bandiqui area in Dausa district, where 14 people were killed in police firing and clashes on ...
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Education ventures mean serious business for IIM, IIT graduates
2008-06-04 06:21:00
Working in the education sector was always a weekend activity, not a potential employment avenue. But in an emerging wave, students from the best academic institutes are getting inclined towards making a mark in the field of education.Think of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) or Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate, and the first thing to come to mind is a plush job either in investment banking, consultancy or IT. However, the likes of Vardan Kabra and Ankita Diwekar-Kabra ? students of IIM-Ahmedabad 2004 batch ? are changing this thinking.This duo conceptualised the Fountainhead Education Foundation ? a custom-designed pre-school and childcare centre in Surat for children between the age of one and five adapted from internationally renowned methods."I got a Rs 7 lakh pre-placement offer from Procter and Gamble (P & G). But neither did I take it up nor sit for the placements. I believe that quality education should be a big business. There are not enough choices for ...
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FM stations collectively kick the butt on World No Tobacco Day
2008-06-04 06:20:00
In a move that would gladden the heart of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, FM radio players across the country came up with innovative on-air and on-ground campaigns to promote a tobacco free life to mark the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on May 31.Red FM joined hands with pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Salaam Bombay, and BMC to organise a Quit Smoking Express campaign. The campaign, which commenced on May 25, comprised on-air and on-ground elements spanning across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. It culminated on May 31. As part of the on-ground activation, the Red FM Quit Smoking Express comprised private buses that went across these towns propagating the anti-smoking message.An official communiqué from Red FM stated, ?Through this initiative, we are not only trying to get the masses to quit smoking, but also helping them get over this addiction by giving them information though a toll free number and website provided by Pfizer.?My FM, too, orga...
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Study finds lead in household dust
2008-06-04 06:19:00
CHENNAI: Children across the country are exposed to lead poisoning even in their homes, according to a study conducted by an environmental NGO, which was unveiled on Friday.The organisation, Toxics Link, found alarmingly high levels of lead in household dust in New Delhi, with wall paint being the main source.Dust wipe samples were collected from floors and window sills in 57 households in Delhi ? and 31% of the samples of floor dust and 14% of the window sill dust samples contained levels of lead that would be considered hazardous by the US Environment Protection Agency."While the study, ?Dusty toxics: A study on lead in household dust in Delhi,' has been done in only one city, the situation is likely to be similar in other Indian cities. We will be conducting a similar study in Chennai by December," says G Arun Senthil Ram, programme coordinator, Toxics Link, Chennai. This has serious implications, especially for children who are likely to ingest dust while playing.Lead is a high...
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Youth found murdered in clinic at Khokhra
2008-06-04 06:19:00
AHMEDABAD: Body of a 30-year old youth was found from the third floor of Veema Hospital in Khokhra on Tuesday afternoon. The youth was later identified as Jayjeetsinh Chauhan, a resident of Ramol. Police believe this to be a revenge killing.According to Amraiwadi police station officials, they were informed around 3 pm on Tuesday about a decomposed body in one of the bathrooms of Veema Kamdar Yojna Hospital near Khokhra circle. "The stench drew attention of the hospital staff. A nurse opened the bathroom of one of the wards on third floor and fainted after seeing the bizarre sight," said PR Gehlot, inspector of Amraiwadi police station.According to the investigators, the youth was severely beaten before death and must have been hit with a blunt object like spade on his head that had cracked his skull. "We later identified the youth as Jayjeetsinh Chauhan, a resident of Ramol. Preliminary investigations proved that the hospital used to be the meeting place for gang members of a notor...
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New Delhi's Bus Rapid Transit System - Democracy Rides a Bus
2008-05-15 19:17:00
For close to a month now, the newspapers in Delhi have been busy covering the fracas caused by the decision of the government to introduce the Bus Rapid System on a fast track. The intent of the government might have been good; but the experience from the phenomenon proves one thing that of course should have been obvious long ago - that technology is a great too but no panacea. Ultimately technological solutions have to operate in society and society is inhabited by human beings, not robots who will dance to a piper?s tune.I missing link in the government?s high powered group, the Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System (DIMTS) Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit System (DIMTS) has got experience in several fields and has obviously got strong political backing but it does not appear to have thought of including a behavioral psychologist or an anthropologist in its technical team who could have assessed and evaluated the traffic usage pattern in Delhi and offered some recommend...
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Dragon call for Toonz Academy
2008-05-15 19:15:00
Toonz Academy , a subsidiary of Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd of Singapore, has set its eyes on the Chinese, the Gulf and Maldives markets to explore animation training and development opportunities.S. Ramprasad, Executive director, Toonz Academy, said, "We have signed agreements with Beijing University, Shengyang University and Dalian University in China to open training institutes. We will next go to Ahmedabad, Indore, Bangalore, Chennai and Coimbatore."Toonz Academy has launched its training facility in Hyderabad, after the company's operations in Mumbai, Delhi, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram.The European Carolus Magnus University, promoted by European Economic Interest Group, would recognise the animation courses offered by the academy."Animation as an opportunity is enormous in the Chinese market place with huge scope to provide broad-based industry-academia related curricula for students. We intend to tap into this emerging market, which no institution has entered so far, and hav...
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Torrent Power to pay Rs.663 mn in dividends
2008-05-15 19:13:00
Torrent Power Ltd Thursday announced payment of Rs.663 million as dividend to its shareholders for the fiscal year 2008. This works out to nearly 12 percent, a jump from four percent dividend announced by the company last fiscal.The company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the decision on the dividend was taken by the board at its meeting Thursday. Last year, the company disbursed Rs.189 million in dividends.The company also announced un-audited results for the fourth quarter (January-March) of 2008. The company has posted net profit of Rs.504.60 million for the quarter as compared to Rs.443.20 million for the quarter that ended March 31, 2007.Overall, for the year 2008, the company posted a net profit of Rs.2.11 billion on a total income of Rs.372.2 billion.The company in its statement said that its mega power project at Sujen in southern Gujarat, with a installed generating capacity of 1147.5 megwatts and investment of Rs.30.96 billion, is expected to be commissioned during...
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Rajput's behaviour not in purview of Nanavati's inquiry
2008-05-15 19:12:00
Ahmedabad (PTI): The BCCI-appointed Commissioner Sudhir Nanavati, who inquired into the slapping row, on Thursday said he was not asked to probe Mumbai Indians coach Lalchand Rajput's alleged behaviour when Harbhajan Singh slapped S Sreesanth after an IPL match."I only had to probe the incident where Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth. I was not asked to probe any other thing like alleged behaviour of Lalchand Rajput when the incident happened," Nanavati told reporters in reply to a question on why no action was taken against the Mumbai coach.Rajput was found guilty by IPL match referee Farokh Engineer and fined half of his match fee for allegedly smiling when the off-spinner slapped the Kerala speedster after an IPL match.Nanavati said he could only probe a matter he was asked to, adding that he he was also not supposed to inquire about the behaviour of Sreesanth during the match.Harbhajan was banned for five one-day internationals by BCCI disciplinary committee yesterday based on the in...
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Shodhyatra On Importance Of Biodiversity
2008-05-15 19:04:00
Hyderabad, Society for research and initiatives for sustainable technologies and institutions (SRISTI), an NGO from Ahmedabad in association with national innovation foundation (NIF) and the Honey Bee network will organize its 21st Shodhyatra in Visakhapatnam from June 2 to 8.The aim of the yatra, is to felicitate local grass root innovators, traditional knowledge holders, students with innovative ideas and people with significant contribution to the society in conserving bio-diversity and to seek inspiration from others.Addressing a press meet here on Thursday, Brig. P. Ganesham, Honey Bee, AP briefed that yatra would start from Borra village to Peddagaruvu village in which scientists, innovators, students, professors will travel more than 150 Km over a period of seven to eight days to convey their message.Source: siasat.com
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