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JEE admissions
put off again

2002 blasts accused held

from MP: Gujarat ATS has
nabbed Mohammed Irfan Qureshi, 55, the alleged mastermind of five blasts which took
place in July 2002 in Panchmahal district, from Madhya
Pradesh on Sunday. P3

Vyapam scam reaches

SC doors: The Vyapam
scam reaches the apex court
with many citizens coming
together to challenge an MP
high court decision to quash
an FIR against governor Ram
Naresh Yadav. P9

Talks on over foreign

players in legal services:
The government has begun
talks on opening up the legal
services sector to foreign
players, while keeping litigation services exclusive for Indian lawyers. P7

Top NSCN(K) leader

held: The NIA on Monday arrested NSCN(K) regional
commander Khumlo Abi
Anal, allegedly involved in the
conspiracy behind the June 4
killing of 18 Army personnel
in Manipur.

MARKET WATCH
iNDICES
BSE Sensex: 27,645.15
NSE Nifty: 8,318.40

-166.90
-62.70

WEATHER
Max
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Min
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Forecast: Partly cloudy sky. Maximum temperature will be around
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AHMEDABAD TIMES (FOR AHMEDABAD AND GANDHINAGAR CITIES ONLY)

Markets shiver as Greece

looks set to default today

NEWS DIGEST

IIT and NIT aspirants anxiety

increased on Monday as
CBSE failed to release the expected ranks of JEE (Main)
Paper-I and Paper-II, forcing
authorities to defer the joint
seat allocation process by
one more day. P6

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Sensex Hit
But Govt Says
Dont Worry
TNN & AGENCIES

Athens/New Delhi/Mumbai:
Financial
markets
around the world shuddered
as Greece, teetering on the
brink of a debt default, shut
down banks for a week and imposed a daily ATM withdrawal limit of 60 euros (foreign
tourists were exempt).
The sudden shutdown led
to long queues outside ATMs,
fuel pumps and supermarkets
in Greece even as rumours
spread that the government
may have to halt pension
payouts. There were reports
that many ATMs had run out
of cash.
Against the backdrop of
nervous global markets, the
sensex slumped by over 600
points in early trade (before

GREEK BANKS, MKT SHUT FOR A WEEK

Greek PM closes banks,
stock market for a week;
imposes ATM withdrawal limit
of 60 a day
Greek debt crisis dragging
from 2010, when lenders
IMF, European Central Bank
and European Commission
imposed harsh austerity riders
Economy shrank over 5 yrs,
joblessness rose as anger grew
Left with two choices
accept tougher conditions to
access rescue loans or quit
closing 167 points down) even
as policymakers played down
fears of a severe impact on the
broader economy. Oil prices
fell in early trade, while gold
inched up. The rupee closed 29
paise lower at 63.73 to the dollar after having touched an intra-day low of 63.89.
The Greece crisis does
not directly affect India. (But)
interest rate may firm up in
Europe, which could lead to an
outflow of capital from India,

Eurozone PM calls surprise

referendum on July 5
Impact on India
Short-term impact on
markets likely but economy
to remain largely unaffected
finance secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said (global money tends
to go wherever it gets higher
returns).
Greek Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras interrupted
last-ditch debt negotiations
with the announcement that
he was calling a referendum
for July 5 on whether to accept
the tough terms offered by international creditors. Investors are worried that the country will be unable to meet a 1.6

BCCI passes buck on LaMo,

gives 3 cricketers clean chit
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The BCCI has given a clean chit to cricketers

Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja accused by ex-IPL boss
Lalit Modi of receiving favours
from a real estate baron and
passed the buck to world body
ICC since the concerned cricketers are international players.
On Monday, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur pleaded
helplessness since the ICC to
whom Modi wrote a letter in
Oct 2013 naming the cricketers

Now, Jains get

minority status
in Gujarat
[email protected]

Congress drags in Rajes ex-hubby

he Congress on Monday alleged that despite Rajasthan CM

T Vasundhara Rajes estranged husband Hemant Singh admitting

in court that the Dholpur City Palace was government property, Raje
and Lalit Modis company, Niyant Heritage Hotels, had turned it into
a high-end luxury hotel, investing Rs 100 crore in it.

has not communicated any

further course of action.
If they had found anything, they would have reported it to us. If they havent done
that, that means it is a clean
chit We are not passing the
buck to ICC, Thakur said.

billion euro loan repayment to

the IMF due today, with uncertain consequences for its future in the eurozone and even
in the European Union.
Economists said the direct
impact on India was likely
would be marginal; its record
high foreign reserves of $355
billion would act as a cushion
against any wild swings.
But they warned of a possible adverse impact on certain large Indian companies
operating in Europe in the
event of a sharp depreciation
of the euro.
While the Greek crisis has
been brewing for some time,
developments over the weekend deepened its woes.
Creditors want Greece to
cut pensions and raise taxes in
ways that Tsipras has long argued would be counter-productive. The Greek say further austerity will simply
deepen one of the worst economic crises of modern times
in a country where a quarter
of the workforce is already unemployed. P11 & 13

The ICC hasnt revealed yet

if it had investigated the matter. Modi, meanwhile, accused
ICC chairman N Srinivasan of
shielding the players, who
play for Chennai Super Kings,
once owned by Srinivasan
himself. P7

Gandhinagar: Though the

Union ministry of minority affairs has accorded minority
status to the Jain community
through a notification in January 2014, the Gujarat government is yet to do the same in
the state.
In order to woo the influential community in the upcoming urban local bodies elections, the state government
has decided to notify the Jain
community in the state as minorities shortly. P2

Puggies comb jungle to find lions dead or alive

Massive Search On In Flood-Hit Areas
[email protected]

Amreli: Bhimji Mehta, 35, wades

through a swamp in Savarkundla in
Gujarats Amreli district in search of
the king of the jungle. Ravaged by
last weeks floods, unprecedented in 90 years, this part
of Saurashtra is home to
about 75 Asiatic lions
many of them dead or marooned.
Looking at tell-tale
signs, visible only to him,
Mehta tracks down a hungry and weak lioness that
has taken shelter on high
ground to escape the swirling waters
of Shetrunji river. The traumatized
big cat is tranquilized by foresters
who are following Mehta and
appears to be responding
well to treatment.
A team
of

15 expert animal trackers, locally

known as puggies, has launched a
massive hunt to trace beleaguered big
cats struggling to survive the floods
that have killed 11 so far. Many of them
fourth generation trackers, their
mission is to locate carcasses
or lions in distress in the
water-logged countryside.
Nearly 39 lions, many of
them hungry for days, have
been found by them in the 48
hours since the waters abated.
In nearby Liliya, Mohammed Juna and Rahim
Baloch, puggies from Sasan-Gir, are
in hot pursuit of two lions. By
looking

Bhimji Mehta and team during their search

at the depth and size of pug

marks they tell foresters
that the two lions, aged
four and 10, have passed
by only moments earlier.
Waters are yet to recede completely and many
lions must
be hungry
and struggling to

find their way with their 100 kg weight

in such difficult terrain, says Juna.
Fighting odds, including poisonous
insects and reptiles, these trackers
have put their lives on the line to locate
the missing big cats by their pug
marks, droppings, tufts of lion fur
stuck on twigs, scratches on tree barks
and leftovers of a prey.
 Lions
go, P4

Top Ramen to
follow Maggi off
the shelves
[email protected]

New Delhi: The noodle industry in India has found itself

tied up in knots again after the
central food safety regulator
FSSAI on Monday ordered Japanese noodle maker Indo
Nissin to withdraw its Top Ramen brand of instant noodles
from the market.
This comes at a time when
the Indian food industry has
hit the panic button with large

multinationals having to
withdraw popular products
from the shelves due to foodsafety and regulatory issues.
Earlier this month, Swiss
food giant Nestle had recalled
around 30,000 tonnes of its instant noodles brand Maggi
due to excess lead content and
mislabelling of monosodium
glutamate (MSG) content on
its packs. Subsequently, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) with-

drew and stopped production of its Chinese

range of Knorr instant noodles because of pending product approval with FSSAI.
American caf chain
Starbucks stopped
using certain ingredients in its
products not approved by the regulator.
Indo Nissins product
approval for Top Ramen is
pending with FSSAI, according to Gautam Sharma, MD,
Indo Nissin Foods, the Indian
arm of Japans instant noodle maker Nissin Foods
Holding. On 8th June
FSSAI had come out
with the advisory on
product safety testing
of all instant noodle
products in India. At
that time, we had sought
clarification from FSSAI
since Top Ramens product approval is pending with the regulator. They have requested
us to withdraw the product
until they give the product
approval. We hope to get
the approval soon from
FSSAI and be back in
the market he said.
Seeking retest, P8

Dud-cheque
courts cheque
dishonoured
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad: A court set up with

the express purpose of dealing
with cases involving dishonoured cheques is in the dock for
issuing a cheque (in pic) that a
bank could not honour.

Sabir Ali Ansari has sought

the intervention of the chief metropolitan magistrate to get his
money back from the special
court the Negotiable Instruments Act court which had
fined him Rs 5,000 for a
dishonoured cheque.
In 2010,
An-

sari, 58, a resident

of Gomtipur, was
held responsible for a
bounced cheque and
was even awarded a years
imprisonment.
Ansari moved a city sessions court and was exonerated in 2012. So he sought
the Rs 5,000 he had paid as
fine. Just last month, the
court officials issued a
cheque to Ansari,
which he deposited
with the Bank of Barodas Rakhial branch.
The cheque was returned three days later
with a comment that it
bore two dates of issuance
and the drawers signature
was required because of
the discrepancy.
Officials
insist, P4