YOUR BSP MLA jailed Intolerance Shootings trigger SECOND for raping minor increasing in Pak surge in gun sales FRONT UP chief minister The Qu’ran Sales of handguns in PAGE Mayawati sent one of repeatedly advises Arizona jumped 60% her party MLAs to jail Muslims to suppress to 263 on January 10 on Wednesday in a sentiments of compared with the rape case revenge and anger same date a year ago AHMEDABAD ` p7 ` p10 ` p9 Thursday January 13 2011

GREENS COME ALIVE Gujarat Kensville Challenge tees off today 64 foreign and 54 Indian golfers to fight it out in first These violinists European Challenge Tour in regaled the Bachchan: I’ll take audience at Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD and a lot of thinking will be required Kensville on while executing shots. Wednesday When the Kensville Golf and Country Tadini said that the margin of victo- up golf after retiring! Club was given finishing touches in 2007, ry will be narrow. “This course is simi- no one expected it to host an interna- lar to other Challenge Tours but more tional event in the near future. Howev- difficult than other ones. The uphill is Media persons make a beeline for er,three years down the line, the stage is slow and it will test the players. One will set, the greens are in fine shape and the have to calculate the bounce. I feel it is ’s superstar club house has come alive to host the going to be a competitive tournament,” first ever European Challenge Tour said the Italian. Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD scenes elsewhere. event in India. Meanwhile, the Indian challenge suf- When asked, the big man felt The Gujarat Kensville Challenge 2011 fered a jolt after Jeev Milkha Singh There was a loud buzz when the the game of golf needs time to begins on Thursday with 118 golfers pulled out from the event on Wednesday. news that , master and added in a lighter readying to tee off for the However,there will be plen- the showman of the millenni- note that he would take it up 200,000 event. This will also GREENS COME ty to look forward to as a um, would be arriving at the only after retiring from his ac- be the first European Tour ALIVE field of 54 Indians will also Kensville Golf and Country tive acting career. Challenge event of the year be in the fray. All eyes will Club on Wednesday to official- “Golf requires lot of pa- and though the golfers are a bit rusty, now be on Gaganjeet Bhullar, the top ly inaugurate the Kensville Eu- tience and needs to be played in they will be trying to start the season on ranked Indian of the year. Others to ropean Golf Challenge 2010. a peaceful atmosphere. I will a winning note. watch out for include No.1 in the Order As expected, there was a take it up after retiring,” he Leading the field will be Italian of Merit, Ashok Kumar and young chal- THREE-TIER GOLF COURSE TO COME UP IN CITY CAMPILLO TRIUMPHS mad scramble to get close to the joked. The brand ambassador Alessandro Tadini, the top seed for the lenger Rashid Khan who will play his While many rue the overall lack of sports Spaniard Jorge Campillo warmed up for the Bollywood superstar. Young of Gujarat state tourism had event. With the previous season ending second event as a professional after bag- infrastructure in the country, Ahmedabad will soon main event of the inaugural Gujarat and old alike made a dash at the words of praise for the young quite a while back, Tadini made a trip to ging the silver medal at the Guangzhou have its fourth golfing facility. A comprehensive three- Kensville Challenge in great style by leading first sight of Big B on the entrepreneurs of the state and Portugal to prepare for the India event. Asian Games last year. tier golfing range and academy will come up near SG his team to victory at the Pro-Am held at the greens. A loud cheer followed owners of Kensville. “I practiced in Portugal with my The event, which will be played for at Highway and will be open to the public. The pay-and- Kensville Golf and Country Club here on when he teed off. “Gujarat has always been coach for 10 days. This event is quite ear- least the next three years, sees the Chal- play format will mean that people of the city will be Wednesday. To warm up for the main Later at the press conference known for its entrepreneurs ly in the season and I needed a bit of lenge Tour fall in line with the Euro- able to take up golf lessons without burning a big hole tournament, 24 professionals took part in some unusual scenes were wit- and the good thing is that these practice,” he said ahead of Wednesday’s pean Tour, which had first staged an in their pockets. This will be India’s only second such the Pro-Am, playing as a team with three nessed. Press photographers, youngsters have not forgotten Pro-Am event. Many golfers who took event in 2008 in New Delhi. facility with the other being in Delhi. “The golf amateurs. The idea of the event is to give an journalists and videographers their culture. They have made part in the Prom-Am event were of the The winner here will walk away with academy will be functional within a month. We want to opportunity to amateurs to learn the tricks jostled with each other to get as the state proud even outside In- opinion that the 7250-yard par-72 course a cheque of 32,000 while the runner-up nurture young talent in the state and make the game of the trade from professionals whereas the close to Bachchan for photo- dia.” He expressed interest in is long and difficult. Jeev Milkha Singh, will be richer by 22,000. Both Kensville popular,” said Sameer Sinha, managing director, pros get a feel of the course before the graphs and ‘additional’ inter- purchasing a plot at the course who has co-designed the course, also felt and the Gujarat government are spon- Kensville Golf and Country Club. main course. views. It is unlikely that here, like Sachin Tendulkar that the placements need to be perfect soring the tournament. Amitabh would have seen such and Jeev Milkha Singh.

Union telecom Emotional homecoming minister Kapil Sibal may face Cong, NCP avert flare-up privilege motion of a different kind for Jeev for lowering the credibility of a over Rahul remark Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD iad of his fans. constitutional body Praful Patel downplays earlier shrill reaction of party leaders His run of trouble began when he Need to give my body a rest, star injured his shoulder playing in Dubai after ‘coalition compulsions’ comment golfer blogs after pulling out of tour- early last year. After a two-month nament It was going to be an emo- break he returned to the course but Sibal in dock for CAG flak Anil Sharma & Shubhangi “This story originated from tional homecoming of sorts for Jeev the rotator cuff pain in his left shoul- Khapre NEW DELHI. Lucknow where the Congress Milkha Singh, playing at his signa- der never went. Anil Anand NEW DELHI DEFENCE CHIEFS FACE PAC general secretary had an inter- ture golf course at the Kensville Golf Jeev continued playing with it and A day after Congress general action with college students. and Country Club. he was further bogged Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal For the first time in the parliamentary secretary Rahul Gandhi held During the course of his dis- The country’s leading down by back problems. could be in for trouble for slamming history of India, the chiefs of the three coalition compulsions as re- cussion, he did not refer to the golfer was thrilled to take He pulled out of the Ca- the findings of the comptroller and armed forces appeared before the public sponsible for the galloping in- NCP or Pawar or blame any part in the first ever Eu- sio Open event held in auditor general (CAG) on the allot- accounts committee (PAC) on Wednesday. flation, the NCP, the apparent party for the rising prices,” he ropean Challenge tour in November in Japan due ment of 2G spectrum. A week after he The committee had called them in target of the statement, re- said. He maintained that the en- the country that will com- to a lower hip injury. Af- termed the CAG’s loss figure of Rs1.76 connection with alleged irregularities in sponded in different voices. A tire controversy had emerged mence at the picturesque ter not hitting a ball for lakh crore as “erroneous and sensa- the canteen stores supplies. PAC potential flare-up, however, without any basis. course here tomorrow. over a month, he re- tional”, Sibal is likely to face action chairman MM Joshi has not ruled out the seems to have been averted. NCP leader Praful Patel and On Tuesday evening he turned to action in the for “lowering the credibility” of a con- possibility of another meeting. A section of the NCP had in- other Congress leaders moved was accorded a tradition- Royal Trophy, Thailand stitutional body. terpreted Rahul’s statement as into damage control soon. In a al Indian welcome and the after confirming his par- The public accounts committee improper and against propriety.They an attack on party chief and more than 60 democracies in hurriedly convened meeting in game’s followers were ea- ticipation just a day be- (PAC), headed by senior BJP leader have authorised me to take appropri- agriculture minister Sharad the world, including Italy,have Mumbai, Patel said, “The par- gerly waiting to see him fore the event began. MM Joshi, has decided to take “ap- ate steps to prevent such a develop- Pawar and issued scathing coalition governments. “The ty distances itself from Tri- in action. So close is his The injury-plagued propriate” steps to ensure that such ment in future.” statements. Firing the first sal- era of coalition governments pathi’s statement made in Del- association with Jeev Milkha Singh season still has not end- an act was not repeated in future. The He said Sibal should have read the vo, party general secretary DP is here to stay,” said Tripathi. hi. There is no reason for any- Kensville that his entire ed for the star player,who CAG has officially stated that the min- report carefully.“The CAG has never Tripathi sought to remind the Senior NCP leader Tariq An- body to get upset. Rahul Gand- family had come for the event. has decided to cut down on his play- ister’s move amounted to contempt of said that it is (Rs1.76 lakh crore) the young Congress leader that war also joined the chorus hi has not mentioned Sharad Milkha Singh, one of India’s great- ing this year. “I have realized it the the house. The issue figured during exact amount,” Joshi added. “humility and not arrogance” scaling up the attack against Pawar or the NCP.Neither has est athletes ever and Jeev’s father, hard way that I am no longer the PAC’s meeting here on Wednes- The panel has not ruled out the pos- should be the hallmark of the the Congress. he held the party or leader re- even played together in the pro-am young, and I am definitely not Su- day. Taking a serious note of the tele- sibility of moving a privilege motion. principal coalition partner. In an effort to douse the fire, sponsible for price rise.” Patel event on Wednesday. perman. I need to give my body a good com minister’s statement, Joshi said, “It is not to censure anyone. But I will He went a step further to re- Congress spokesperson Ab- said Rahul had responded to a However, the news of his pullout rest” — that’s how he expressed his “The sense of the committee mem- decide the appropriate steps at an ap- mind Rahul’s “Italy-born” hishek Manu Singhvi deflected question raised by a student on late in the evening disappointed myr- sentiments in his blog. bers was that whatever Sibal said was propriate time,” Joshi said. mother Sonia Gandhi that the entire blame on the media. coalition compulsions.

BACKPAGEREAD `15,00, 000 cr Steve Jobs, Murdoch to From p1 Soon, SC norms to restrain Dirty Harrys unveil iPad paper Govt may be asked to not reward policemen “It’s different here; you can see it, feel HOW THEY ARE REWARDED it. The drive to Mahatma Mandir itself was different,” said Mahindra in his The publication, which will be called The Daily, is A bench of justices Dalveer Bhan- The commissioner has the power to give a maximum address. “Your (Gujarat’s) leadership dari and Deepak Verma has accepted reward of Rs30,000 to the team which has successfully completed is legendary. It has not only made a expected to launch on January 19 the proposed guidelines framed by the an encounter. On an average, each member of the team gets mark in this state but also in India. Gu- People’s Union for Civil Liberties around Rs2,000. Earlier, till 1993, a Gallantry award used to be jarat is the leading state of the country, Washington: Steve Jobs and Ru- Jesse Angelo left Murdoch’s (PUCL) along with the suggestions given to the policemen for an encounter, but this was stopped. breaking new ground; new leadership pert Murdoch, the two media New York Post, where he was sec- made by the and in the country. Gujarat will soon give moguls will appear together at ond in command, to run The Dai- the National Human Rights Commis- ENCOUNTER SPECIALISTS IN TROUBLE sion (NHRC). leadership to not only the country but the San Francisco Museum of ly, and former Viacom digital dis- , , According to the NHRC, 2,956 cas- beyond,” Tata said. Modern Art, according to a tribution boss Greg Clayman police inspector: assistant police es have been registered in connection CEO and managing director of ICI- source familiar with came aboard to Has eliminated 112 inspector: Part of with police encounters in different CI Bank, Chanda Kochhar congratu- preparations for the run the business gangsters. Was 30 encounters. Was Rakesh Bhatnagar NEW DELHI parts of the country since the body lated the state on organising the most launch of The Daily, side. Murdoch is dismissed from arrested in the was formed in 1993. Of these, 1,366 successful business summit the coun- Murdoch’s iPad publi- reportedly willing service and is presently lodged Khwaja Yunus custodial death try has ever seen. Both the Ambani cation. The launch to sink $30 million Concerned at the high number of fake complaints alleged fake encounters. in jail for his alleged case in February 2003. Has brothers intriguingly compared Modi date is expected to be into the project. encounter killings which claim many PUCL lawyer Prashant Bhushan involvement in the Lakhan resigned from the police force to their own father Dhirubhai. Anil January 19, but that The cash infu- innocent lives across the country,the said a dedicated investigative team, Bhaiya encounter case said Modi can realise his (Anil’s) father may change. sion has spurred Supreme Court is set to issue detailed preferably from a separate cadre of Ravindra Angre, Dhirubhai and Mahatma Gandhi’s The Daily has been The Daily into a guidelines to restrain law enforce- the police, should be attached to the Daya Nayak, assistant police dreams of India. the talk of the media high-profile hir- ment agencies from becoming a law NHRC/SHRC to investigate all en- assistant police inspector: Has At the end of four-hour-long con- world over the past cou- ing spree over the unto themselves. counter deaths. Also, an FIR must be inspector: Involved eliminated more secutive speeches, when Modi finally ple months, and the past couple of The apex court is likely to direct the registered in all such cases. in close to 80 than 55 gangsters. took the podium for his speech, it sur- News Corp chief has even dubbed months. So far, Angelo and his government not to reward and deco- The question of granting compen- encounters. Was Was arrested in June this year prisingly lacked his usual spark as it his “No. 1 most exciting project.” team have brought in a number of rate cops for staging ‘encounters’ and sation to the dependents of the de- arrested by the anti-corruption for allegedly threatening and he read out a prepared speech. The hush-hush project has been top-notch journalists from media branding them as ‘in response to the ceased should depend upon the facts bureau in February 2006 in a extorting money from a builder Pulling a quote out of Barack Obama, taking shape at the company’s Man- outlets such as the New Yorker, firing’ by the citizens, who were oth- of each case and it shall be determined disproportionate assets case in and is currently Modi pronounced “Gujarat can, and hattan headquarters, but it will also The Daily Beast, Forbes, AOL and erwise unarmed. by NHRC. and is suspended from service suspended from service Gujarat will”. have staffers in Los Angeles. Politico.—Agencies

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