THE TIMES OF INDIA, AHMEDABADFRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 20154 TIMES CITY
13th Death Anniversary
LATE SMT. SHREEDEVI K. NAIR
21-8-2002
Time has not dimmedyour memories norerased our deep grief.We always feel your presence. Near & Dear Ones.
Ahmedabad: After high dra-ma during the elections of Raj-path Club, another showdownis in the offing as KarnavatiClub goes to the polls on Friday.
The club is holding elec-tions after three years. Theelections for seven board of di-rectors at the 26th annual gen-eral meeting (AGM) will beheld on Friday. The board ofclub comprises 36 members in-cluding six co-opt members. In-terestingly, the election at thetwo-and-a-half decade old clubis being held after Rajpath Clubelections were held earlier thisyear. Insiders claim that unex-pected majority win by Mem-bers Power Panel (MPP) in Raj-path Club this year pushed theauthorities at Karnavati Clubto hold elections which hasbeen pending for last threeyears.
In the Rajpath Club elec-tions, President Panel support-ed by Girish Dani (currentpresident of Karnavati Club)had lost by huge margin to new-ly formed Members PowerPanel (MPP led by Jagdish Pa-tel) in March this year.
In the Karnavati Club elec-tions, once again both panelsare facing each other. Progres-sive Panel led by Girish Daniand MPP, each have fielded sev-en candidates. Both the panelshave been aggressive in theircampaigning. The 1,100 corpo-rate or institutional votes ofaround 100 corporates in theupcoming elections of Karna-vati club has become a bone ofcontention between the con-testing panels. It is expected tobe a game-changer.
Karnavati set for pollshowdown today
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Corporate VotesExpected To BeGame-Changer
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■ Simon (Bateman) and Robyn (Hall) are a young, well-to-do couple who move from Chicago to Los Angeles after Simon lands a fancy job there. Simon and Robyn’s lives begin to change, ever so gradually, after a chance encounter with Simon’s high school acquaintance Gordo (Edgerton) one day. Gordo becomes overly-friendly and showers the couple with gifts. Behind all the gift-giving though is the memory of a horrifying past incident that manifests itself in the present day.
You get the feeling that you’re in for a treat right from the first few frames of The Gift. Aided by
Eduard Grau’s stunning cine- matography (Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans’ chilling music score is superb too), Edgerton—who has also scripted the film—ratchets up the intensity with Hitchcockian skill.
Simon and Robyn move into their plush new home and are quick to settle into the neighbourhood. Gordo makes his way into their lives with regular
visits, and of course, a succession of gift-wrapped goodies. And yet, it’s pretty obvious by his demeanour that something is not quite right.
It’s enough to make Simon deeply suspicious of Gordo’s motives. Does he want to seduce Robyn? Or is he some kind of psychopath? Simon makes no attempt to hide his hostility towards Gordo. Robyn though is less cynical about Gordo and his generosity. She, in fact, begins to get curious about why Simon is so agitated about Gordo.
Bateman, Hall and Edgerton are, in a word, fantastic. Cliches are studiously avoided in this bone-chilling little gem of a thriller. Instead, the goosebumps are provided by the twists, red herrings and a sense of unsettling uncertainty that is constant throughout. “The past is not done with you,” Gordo cautions Simon in one scene. That neatly encapsulates the essence of the movie as it simmers to a boiling climax.
The Gift is uniformly intense without being heavy. Not for one second does it drag. If you enjoy psych-thrillers, there will be plenty to think about long after the end credits have rolled. Do not miss this one.
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Ahmedabad: Worried by therising prices of onions in theretail and wholesale markets,the state government hasasked officials to take stock ofthe situation and convened ameeting to chalk out remediesto control the skyrocketingprices.
The price of onions in theretail market has touched Rs90 per kg and will soon crossthe Rs 100 mark. The whole-sale price of onion has — forthe first time ever — touched ahigh of Rs 50 per kg. A kilo ofonions is now more expensivea litre of diesel in Gujarat. Alitre of diesel costs Rs 48 whilethe wholesale price of onionsis Rs 50 per kg. Onions are re-tailing at Rs 80-90 per kg. Pric-es are expected to rise furtheras stocks are limited and de-mand more or less constant.
Food and civil suppliesminister BhupendrasinhChudasma said: “We areaware of the rising prices andhave asked secretaries of the
department to take stock. Wewill soon meet and chalk outways to control the price of on-ions even in the retail mar-ket.”
On average, the city hasbeen receiving nearly 160-180tonnes less than the normalrequirement of onions. Priceswhich were around Rs 35 per
kg last week have touched Rs50 on Monday — an increase ofabout 42%. This is the steepestrise this season. According toofficials, this is the first timethe wholesale price has tou-ched Rs 50 per kg.
APMC market sources areexpecting a further rise inSeptember. “The market may
even find onions disappearingby mid-September as stocks incold storage may be exhaust-ed,” says Ghyanshyam Patelof Mahuva APMC. Patel saysthere is shortage of onions inthe market following rains inRajasthan and Maharashtra.Patel says that even the stockin storage is seeing greateramounts of spoilage, due tothe rains and high humidity.
The tonnage of the cropcoming in from Saurashtra isfalling by the day and this iswhy there has been an in-crease in prices. In areas likeSatellite, Vastrapur and Jodh-pur, onions are retailing for Rs60-65.
“The rising prices haveworried me as onion is onevegetable I use extensively. Ifear the prices may touch Rs100 this season. I have alreadycut down my usage and anyfurther increase will force meto stop consuming onions,”said Kiran Shah, a resident ofMemnagar. She said she earli-er used about two kilos of on-ions a week, but is now usingjust one.
Rising onion prices in the cityleave consumers teary-eyed
Ahmedabad:As many as 149 peo-ple — 143 passengers and six crewmembers — had a narrow escapeon Thursday morning after theirDelhi-bound flight suffered a birdstrike and had to make emergen-cy landing at Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel International airport.
IndiGo’s Ahmedabad-Delhiflight 6E-158 took-off at 6.15amfrom the city airport and at6.30am reported a bird-hit, follow-ing which it made an emergencylanding.
Airports Authority of India(AAI) officials confirmed that thearicraft’s engine 1, on the leftwing, suffered minor damageThis is the first major bird-hit in-cident in 2015. The aircraft wasgrounded for more than fivehours before it was repaired andflown back to Delhi. IndiGo calledin engineers from Delhi for the re-pairs.
“An inspection carried out bythe on-ground engineering teamrevealed an engine fan blade wasdamaged beyond allowable lim-its. The aircraft was immediatelywithdrawn from service for main-
tenance at Ahmedabad airport.The aircraft became serviceablefor operations at 1.30pm,” said anIndiGo spokesperson.
Meanwhile, the passengerswere flown by an alternative air-craft to Delhi after a delay of over 3hours. IndiGo had to cancel a fewflights due to non-availability ofthis aircraft for a long duration.
“Birds are a menace at manyIndian airports and pose a risk toaircraft operations. We againwrite to the authorities to controlbird activity around air fields toprevent such bird hits and pre-vent these huge costs to aircraftoperators as well as mitigate pas-senger inconvenience,” added theIndiGo spokesperson.
Last monsoon, two major inci-dents of bird-hits were reportedat Ahmedabad airport in secondweek of August including one toan IndiGo flight. In both the inci-dents, the aircraft suffered dam-age and had to be grounded. Boththese flights were bound forMumbai.
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Airline To Write ToAuthorities About
Bird Menace
Birds from Kotarpur water works often come in the way of aircraft
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Bird-hit groundsDelhi-bound flight
THE D DAY
➤ Progressive Panel (led by Girish Dani) | Saurin Shah, Mahendra Desai, Sanjeev Chajjer, Jagdish M Patel, Saumil Purohit, Raman Patel and Nimesh D Patel.
➤ Members Power Panel (led by Jagdish Patel of Rajpath Club) | Manoj Patel, Ketan Patel, Bhavesh Patel, Amrish Patel, Raxesh Satiya, Jayesh Modi and Sadhnaben Shah
Candidates in fray➤ Polling | from 9am to 5pm on Friday ➤ Counting | From 6pm ➤ Results | Likely by late Friday night
(Officially to be announced at AGM on Saturday morning)
Membership➤ Total Members | 10,000 approximately➤ Ordinary/Regional (individual) members | 8,500➤ Corporate Members | 1,100
Out of 10,000, around 4,000members are expected to
cast their vote in the polls onFriday. Club insiders claim thatsince Friday is a working day,voting is expected to be on alower side than expected andmay hardly touch 50%. Themembers have been asked tobring their smartcard and IDproof for voting. Also a counterwill be set up to help membersclear their dues before voting. TNN
Less than 50%voting expectedKarnavati Club held its
annual general meeting(AGM) on Thursday andcompleted all the procedures injust one minute. Club presidentGirish Dani said, “In the AGM,balance sheet was approved,auditor was appointed for thenext year and names of thecandidates fighting theelections were announced.Also, we increased the mutualfund budget from Rs 35 crore toRs 50 crore. All these decisionswere taken in one minute.” TNN
AGM ends in 1 min
The club is holding elections after three years
The price of onions in the retail market has touched Rs 90 per kg andwill soon cross the Rs 100 mark
Gujarat high court hastransferred 18 district judg-es, including some of thosewho have been dischargingtheir duties in special CBIcourts in the city. The judgewho delivered verdict in theGodhra carnage case, P RPatel, is likely to be appoint-ed as the principal districtjudge at the Mirzapur ruralcourt.
Order on NRI quota reservedGujarat high court complet-ed hearing on the petitionschallenging the recentamendments made in provi-sions for admission of stu-dents in medical courses inNRI quota by giving prefer-ential treatment to studentsfrom Gujarat as their native.Students from other statesargued that this is a vio-lation of the constitutionalprovisions for right to equal-ity of opportunity. HC per-mitted the admission com-mittee to prepare a meritlist, but it would be subjectto the outcome of this case.The judges hearing the casecommented that for thoseliving abroad, entire India istheir motherland and theyare identified as non-resident Indians and not asnon-resident Gujaratis ornon-resident Punjabis.
SPIPA’s UPSCdrive With an aim to createawareness about UnionPublic Service Commission(UPSC) among students,Sardar Patel Institute ofPublic Administration (SPI-PA) on Thursday organiseda session for college stu-dents amidst the presenceof IAS officers and IAS top-pers at the training in-stitute.
CITY DIGEST
Judgestransferred
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad University (AU) onThursday set up a chair professorship in thememory of late Shrenik Lalbhai, the long-serv-ing chairman of Ahmedabad Education Society(AES), the sponsoring body of AU.
Professor Howard Spodek of Philadelphia-based Temple University has been selected as thefirst incumbent by members of a committee con-stituted by the university’s board of governors.
As the selected chair professor, Prof Spodekwill further the university’s mission of develop-ing students as responsible citizens besides im-parting knowledge and skills in their chosen fieldof study.
Through chair professorships, institutions at-tract the best minds to enrich the academic envi-ronment. The ‘Shrenik Lalbhai Chair of Manage-ment of Social Organisations’ is awarded torecognize outstanding individuals teaching, re-searching or otherwise working in the area of civ-il society initiatives. TNN
AU sets up chair inLalbhai’s memory
FOR NEW GARBA TUNESTOI
RIL Group president and Rajya Sabha member Parimal Nathwani, CMAnandiben Patel, musician Gaurang Vyas and Asha Bhosle at the launchof Garba album ‘Taalima Kanku Veray’ in Ahmedabad on Thursday
HC quashes DV case against hubby’s girlfriend: Awoman cannot charge her husband’s mistress with domesticviolence and torturing for not fulfilling dowry demands. Gujarathigh court observed this on Thursday while quashing suchcomplaints in two different cases recently. In this case, oneKavita Sindhi from Anjar in Kutch booked her husband HareshSindhi, his relatives and the husband’s girlfriend too undersection 498A of Indian Penal Code and Dowry Prohibition Actapart from levelling other accusations of beating and causinginsult to provoke breach of peace. TNN
Ahmedabad:For the first timethe state tourism departmentand FICCI organized a specialworkshop for women to betrained guides for heritagewalks in the city.
In the first batch close to 30participants were part of theelaborate three-day workshopconducted at City HeritageCentre in Sankhedi Sheri atManek Chowk.
On day one, for-mer
tourism departmentofficer Kirti Thakk-er introduced partic-ipants to Ahmeda-bad’s rich heritage,its pols and commu-nity living of theWalled City. While heritagewalk expert Girish Gupta gavea detailed presentation on‘Kranti Yatra’, a special walkthat chalked the unique historyof Mahatma Gandhi’s associ-ation with the Walled city,where he used to visit for thefirst 15 years of his movementin India, was carried out.
Apart from Kranti Yatra,the participants were intro-
duced to the main‘Mandir se Mas-jid tak’ walk of
Ahmedabad. Thetwo-hour walk in-troduces citizens toAhmedabad’s ar-chitecture which is
truly secular in spirit. “Islamicstructures, tall Hindu temples,grand Jain derasars, hundredsof havelis, unique minarets, polhouses, and stunning stepwellsco-exist here,” Gupta said.“Scores of structures, whichblend Hindu, Jain, and Islamicinfluences, exemplify the liber-al outlook of the city.
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In the first batch, 30 took part inthree-day workshop
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Now, woman guidesfor heritage walks
Prohibition cases highest in Gujarat
The NCRB report says Gujarat registered 586 cases under Arms Act out of which 1/5th were from Ahmedabad alone. Gujarat
alone reported 2.37 lakh cases or 50% of India’s total cases of violation of prohibition laws. (Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu collectively registered as many cases.) State police and other agencies registered 47 cases under NDPS Act. A total of 250 cases of atrocity against SC/ST were registered and 89 were lodged under Juvenile Justice Act. The state police received 1.63 lakh oral and 2.60 lakh written complaints in 2014, the report says.
Cities in Gujarat man-aged to keep violent crimes in check but the
state as a whole reported a slight rise in such crimes in 2014. This is revealed by the report, ‘Crimes in India-2014’, prepared by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The state witnessed 9% rise in murder and attempt to mur-der cases in 2014 over the pre-vious year.
The report says that in 2014, a total of 1,172 people were reported killed in 1,124 cases. For the second time in a row, Surat registered the highest number of murders with 85 cases followed by Ahmedabad (82) and Rajkot (43). Ahmedabad topped in at-tempt to murder cases fol-lowed by Rajkot and Surat. Rajkot reported 35% rise in attempt to murder cases.
Vishal Goswami gang had caused panic in the city in 2013 by targeting jewelers. On January 15, 2014, the city wit-nessed a major robbery at Shivranjani crossroads in which Hitesh Zaveri, a bullion trader, was shot dead. A Good Samaritan tried to intervene but suffered bullet injuries.
He later succumbed to these injuries. Kirti Gemar, a city-based gangster, targeted quacks in Patan and killed three when they refused to pay him ransom.
Ten murders were commit-ted by firearms in Gujarat – four by licensed firearms and six country-made guns, says the report.
Love affairs topped the reason for murders in 2013 but in 2014, the main cause was personal enmity followed by love affairs.
Serious offencesCity Murder Murder Kidnapping Grievous Extortion
attempt Hurt
Ahmedabad 82 61 367 245 28
Rajkot 43 43 99 92 17
Surat 85 41 263 355 9
Vadodara 24 32 93 106 14
Gujarat 1,124 756 2,722 3,363 185
49
30
16
355
203
22
Age-group of murder victims
Below 6 years
6-16
16-18
18-30
30-45
45-60
Above 60 years
SAFERUrban Areas
497
Reasons for murder in Gujarat
Personal enmity
Love Affair
Property dispute
Gain
Illicit relationship
Witchcraft
Dowry
Rape
Kidnapping
Political
Honour killing
Casteism
Other
136
121
79
57
23
10
8
8
4
3
2
2
651
Crime moves out of cities
20 died daily in road accidents
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For the first time, NCRB compiled data of cases registered under IPC Sec-
tion 304A (causing death by negligence) in various states. It is the same section under which Vismay Shah was sent to prison. The report men-tions that 7,132 people died on Gujarat’s roads in 2014 and 29,677 sustained injuries. Most of these incidents took place in smaller towns or dis-tricts as only 13% of the cases were reported from the four major cities.
Amit Khatri, a city-based road safety trainer, said the figures are startling. “How-ever, the bigger question is how to prove negligence or
rash driving in court,” he said. “If speed could be a rea-son for accidents, there are other factors such as road condition, weather and light-ing and so on.”
LIVES CRASHED
Deaths and injuries by negligence, rash driving/road rage
City Death Injuries
Ahmedabad 324 1,756
Rajkot 137 626
Surat 244 656
Vadodara 199 2,946
Gujarat 7,039 29,677
Murder, Bid To Murder Cases In State Rose By 9%: NCRB
Source: Crime in India 2014, NCRB
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