2nd TEST ON KNIFE’S EDGE 6/63 Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling figures help restrict Australia’s lead to 87 runs 93 runs added so far between Pujara (79 n.o) and Rahane (40 n.o), the highest partnership of this series. The pair bats through the first wicketless session of the Test (post-tea) 10 Virat Kohli’s batting average in the series, the worst of his career. He was out to a ‘surprising’ LBW decision How much is enough? On a crumbling pitch, a lead of 150 will be competitive. Anything over 200 may be match-winning Pujara India 213/4 in 2nd innings, 126 runs ahead in a gripping match that’s changing every session Jadeja FULL COVERAGE P 27 John.Sarkar@timesgroup.com New Delhi: Like their curry, Indians love their TV shows spicy, with a sprinkle of vio- lence and drama. No wonder, they have turned out to be the fastest binge watchers on Earth, lapping up Netflix se- ries such as Narcos, Bloodli- ne and Marvel’s Jessica Jones in just three days flat. The glo- bal average is four days. Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of video-streaming giant Netflix, sees India as an important market, although consumption is still mostly on mobile phones compared with other countries, where smart TVs are replacing tra- ditional ones. Hastings, a serial entre- preneur, co-founded Califor- nia-headquartered Netflix, now valued at $60 billion, with Marc Randolph in 1997 after selling off his first com- pany Pure Software. His advi- ce to entrepreneurs: “Find an idea that most people think is stupid and it turns out to be smart. Because if everybody knows it’s smart, the big com- panies will do it.” DIGITAL REVOLUTION FLOURISHING IN INDIA FULL Q&A: P 15 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Sanjeev Rastogi Indians are fastest in world at binge watching: Netflix chief W iFi connectivity across the country is set to im- prove with telecom regula- tor Trai planning to allow individuals, communities, small-time entrepreneurs and content and applica- tion providers to offer affor- dable and high-speed inter- net to the public, reports Pankaj Doval. Trai is set to make the recommenda- tions soon. The plan is to provide in- ternet for as little as 2 paise per MB against existing ra- tes of around 10 paise in the mobile telecom market. P 15 Trai plan to make Wi-Fi cheaper, widely available Affordable houses may soon be exempt from stamp duty, which varies between 4% and 8% of the transaction value. P10 ‘Note ban may hit current qtr’: The impact of note ban on GDP may be seen in the current quarter in some segments, while the remonetisation exercise should be completed in two to three months, RBI depu- ty governor Viral V Acharya said on Monday. P15 Welspun’s steel plant gets MoEF nod: Welspun Steel Limited received environment clearance from the MoEF for its proposed 3 MTPA integrated steel plant at Anjar. P15 Karni Sena vandals shatter fort mirrors: Members of the Karni Sena shattered herita- ge mirrors at the Padmini Palace in Chittorgarh Fort, a Unesco world heritage site, on Sunday. P8 NEWS DIGEST No stamp duty on affordable homes? MARKET WATCH SENSEX BSE: 29,048.19 ▲ 215.74 NSE: 8,963.45 ▲ 65.90 Times Classifieds | P 6 Gandhinagar: After hectic campaigning for the last leg of elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two- day visit to his home state on Tuesday, his 10th since beco- ming the PM in May 2014. Modi will arrive at the Su- rat airport at around 2:30 pm and leave for Dahej by a chop- per where he will visit the ONGC Petro-additions Ltd (OPaL) plant. Later, he will dedicate the new bridge over Narmada, the OPaL plant and Bharuch bus port at an hour-long function at the Bharuch Krushi University. After addressing a public meeting, Modi will leave for Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar where he will chair a meeting of all BJP officebearers. Tho- se who would be present in this first election-oriented meeting include chief mini- ster Vijay Rupani, deputy CM Nitin Patel, all ministers, MPs and MLAs besides other officebearers of the state BJP. Party sources said that Modi is likely to outline his expec- tations from the state BJP unit regarding the poll prepa- redness. Modi’s immediate visit to Gujarat after completing the UP campaign has set off anot- her round of chatter of early assembly elections among the political and bureaucra- tic circles. However, Rupani has cle- arly ruled out any such possi- bility. He had last addressed the BJP workers on Decem- ber 9, 2016. BJP’s national pre- sident Amit Shah, who arri- ved from Varanasi on Mon- day night, is also expected to address the party unit along with the PM. P 5 Modi begins two-day Gujarat visit today Kapil.Dave@timesgroup.com Max 34.7° (+1) .............................. Min 18.7° (+2) WEATHER Ahmedabad Forecast:Clear sky. Maximum temperature will be around 35°C New Delhi: The conspiracy charge against senior BJP le- aders L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti in the Babri Masjid demolition could be revived with Supreme Court noting that the charge was dropped on a technicality and also suggested joint trial of the accused. The demolition case was back in focus just ahead of the final round of polling in Uttar Pradesh with a bench of Jus- tices P C Ghose and R F Nari- man saying that the conspira- cy charge was dropped mere- ly on a technical ground. The conspiracy charge was drop- ped by a Rae Bareli trial co- urt. At present, the trial aga- inst BJP leaders is going on in a Rae Bareli court on charges other than conspiracy while proceedings against “unk- nown persons” with regard to the demolition are also being heard in a Lucknow court. Appearing for CBI, addi- tional solicitor general Nee- raj Kaul stuck to the stand ta- ken during the tenure of the UPA government seeking re- vival of conspiracy charges and said the agency is agree- able for clubbing of both the trial proceedings. SC Suggests Joint Trial With Kar Sevaks Babri: Conspiracy charge against Advani to return? ➤ Following Babri Masjid’s demolition on Dec 6, 1992, CBI chargesheeted L K Advani and 20 others under Sec 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (false statements, rumours circulated to disturb peace) ➤ CBI later invoked criminal conspiracy charge against Advani & 13 others but these were quashed by a spl court ➤ Order upheld by Allahabad HC in May 2010; CBI then approached SC in appeal CHARGES WERE QUASHED BY SPL COURT TIMES NEWS NETWORK Varanasi: In the first six phases of the UP assembly elections, PM Narendra Mo- di addressed just 18 rallies, aggregating barely 40 hours of campaigning. But just be- fore the seventh phase, as Va- ranasi became the epicentre of the campaign, he suddenly shifted gear and visited his constituency for three days on the trot, holding three “ja- nata darshan” programmes and addressing as many ral- lies. In all, Modi spent over 22 hours in Varanasi in the past three days — a first for any PM so far—as campaigning came to an end on March 6 for the seventh and last phase of the assembly polls. It was the first time Modi held so many roadshows in Varanasi after taking charge as PM. Apart from the rally on the first day—which was termed as “janata darshan" by BJP leaders —and the second and third roadshows between Gadwaghat and Ramnagar area, Modi also offered prayers at the Kaal Bhairav temple for the first time since he became Varanasi's MP. Modi hits top gear as UP campaign enters last stretch RajivSrivastava @timesgroup.com R ishikesh, believed by ma- ny to be the yoga capital of India, is also emer- ging as one of the biggest ex- porters of yoga teachers to So- utheast Asia as well as China where demand for yoga is at an all-time high. An estimated 1,500 Indian yoga teachers, for instance, are believed to be te- aching in China. Of these, 70 to 80% hail from Rishikesh and Haridwar, home to various yo- ga schools where these tea- chers have honed their skills. Ashish Bahuguna, who has been teaching yoga in Chi- na for over a decade now, le- arnt his asanas at the Par- marth Niketan ashram in Ris- told TOI over email. According to a report by Beijing-based Daxue Consul- ting, the yoga market in China is growing rapidly with the number of people involved in its practice rising from 4 mil- lion in 2009 to 10 million in 2014. hikesh. Last year, he was con- ferred the title of ‘The Most Beautiful Yogi of China.’ Ba- huguna, who runs his own stu- dio ‘WeYoga’ in Beijing, says that even though there are others who are teaching yoga, Indian teachers are the most preferred. “The Chinese pre- fer us since we have a grip over the basics of the science,” he Rishikesh yoga gurus have China in a twist Prachi Raturi Misra TNN Continued on P 10 New Delhi: Soon after Pa- kistan’s former national se- curity advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani reiterated his stand that the 26/11 attack on Mumbai was a "classic ex- ample" of cross-border ter- rorism as it was carried out by a Pakistan-based group, India asked Pakistan to pro- secute Lashkar-e-Taiba chi- ef Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. "26/11 Mumbai strikes, carried out by a terror group based in Pakistan, was a classic trans-border terro- rist event," Durrani said while addressing a confe- rence on combating terro- rism at the Institute of De- fence Studies and Analyses here. Durrani was Pakistan’s NSA when the attacks were carried out on November 26, 2008. He was sacked by his government the next year, shortly after he became the first Pakistani official to confirm that one of the at- tackers, Ajmal Kasab, was a Pakistani, putting paid to Is- lamabad’s effort to deny links to the carnage. 26/11 was cross-border terror: Ex-Pak NSA TIMES NEWS NETWORK U S President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised, more limited execu- tive order banning migrants from six mostly-Muslim co- untries from coming to the US for 90 days. The new order, ai- med at improving on the hasti- ly drafted ban in January that was blocked by the judiciary, drops Iraq from the list of se- ven countries. TNN P 12 Trump issues new travel ban, drops Iraq T he pilot of an air ambulan- ce flying from Delhi to Bangkok to airlift a patient to Gurgaon’s Medanta Medicity reportedly died after the pla- ne crashed close to an air force airfield in Thailand on Sun- day, on way to its destination. There were two pilots and three Medanta doctors on bo- ard. One doctor suffered 45% burns, three others had less than 24% burns. TNN P 10 Air ambulance crashes; pilot dead, docs hurt I ndia accounts for the second highest death rate of kids un- der 5 years of age due to environ- mental risks, mainly pollution and poor sanitation. According to a World Health Organisation list for south-east Asia, only My- anmar (297 deaths per lakh an- nually) is ranked above India (248.14 deaths). In the global list of countries with highest death rate among under-5 kids due to unhealthy environment, India is ranked No. 35. TNN P8 Poor sanitation, pollution taking big toll on kids T he Supreme Court sought explanation on Monday from the Centre and RBI on why citizens had been denied the opportunity to deposit scrapped currency till March 31as promised by PM Modi when he demonetised Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes on November 8 last year. P 10 SC wants answers on note ban deadline Continued on P 10 T he SC rejected Gayatri Prajapati’s plea for stay of arrest in an alleged gang-rape case. Regretting that the case was being given “political colour”, the court said its order was confined to registration of an FIR and did not mention anything about an arrest. P 10 No relief for UP mantri in rape case Continued on P 10 * INCLUSIVE OF AHMEDABAD TIMES (FOR AHMEDABAD AND GANDHINAGAR CITIES ONLY) BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | EPAPER.TIMESOFINDIA.COM AHMEDABAD | TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 | PAGES 24 | PRICE `3.00 P 17 Continued on P 10 A crowd at PM Modi’s rally at Rohaniya in Varanasi on Monday. He has visited Varanasi 3 days in a row