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The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday took custody of Dubai-based businessman Rajeev Saxena and a corporate aviation lobbyist Deepak Talwar in the VVIP choppers case within hours of the deportation of the duo to India from Dubai.

Saxena was wanted in Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP choppers Money Laundering case and lobbyist Deepak Talwar was wanted by the ED and CBI in a case of misusing over Rs 90 crore taken through the Foreign Funding Route (FFR), were brought in a special plane to Delhi around 1:30AM and were arrested by the ED.

After a request made by Indian agencies both of them were picked by Dubai authorities on Wednesday.

British National Christian James Michel, the alleged middleman and co accused in this matter, was extradited last year in the month of December from Dubai to India and is currently in judicial custody.

It is submitted on behalf of counsel for Saxena that no extradition proceedings were started against him in the UAE and he was not allowed to access his family or lawyers while being sent to India.

In this matter, Talwar has been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery and under the various provisions of the FCRA for allegedly diverting Rs 90.72 crore worth of foreign funds meant for ambulances and other articles received by his NGO from Europe’s leading missile manufacturing company.

The ED and CBI have booked Talwar in criminal cases of corruption and Income Tax Department has charged him with tax evasion.

The ED had summoned Rajeev Saxena multiple times in the case and had arrested his wife Shivani Saxena from Chennai airport in July, 2017 and she is now out on bail.

It is alleged on behalf of ED that Rajeev, his wife and their two Dubai-based firms Ms UHY Saxena, Dubai and Ms Matrix Holdings routed “the proceeds of crime and further layered and integrated in buying the immovable properties/shares among others”.

ED further alleged that “AgustaWestland International Ltd, UK paid an amount of Euro 58 million as kickbacks through Gordian Services Sarl, Tunisia and IDS Sarl, Tunisia and “these companies further siphoned off the said proceeds of crime in the name of consultancy contracts to Interstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius, and others which were further transferred to UHY Saxena, Dubai and Matrix Holdings Ltd. Dubai and others”.

ED alleged that Rajeev was “beneficial owner” of Interstellar Technologies Ltd and both his companies received proceeds of crime in their respective Dubai bank accounts from this firm and couple have remitted/ transferred a “huge amount of money” through their Dubai based companies to various other accounts.

On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica’s British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of kickbacks to the tune of Rs 423 crore paid by the firm for securing the deal.

Rajeev Saxena and Deepak Talwar were produced before Additional Session Judge Arvind Kumar in Patiala House Court on Thursday.

Soon after, the India lost to New Zealand by eight wickets in the fourth ODI in Hamilton, few hours later on Thursday Dave Richardson, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the International Cricket Council (ICC) said India are the favourites for the ICC world cup 2019.

ICC Chief said on the occasion that The International Cricket Council (ICC) and Coca-Cola India, here jointly announced that they have entered into a five years of global strategic partnership.

When Richardson was asked about his claim, that India is the strong contender for the title in the World Cup, but the team was bundled out on 92 runs in the fourth ODI in New Zealand’s Hamilton, Richardson smiled at it and said , “Everyone has their own day.”

IT major Mphasis on Thursday today partnered with NASSCOM to felicitate best in class AI start-ups at the upcoming NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2019.
In an effort to drive the adoption of futuristic technologies including Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics, the partnership will recognize, nurture and promote bright young startups to scale the current AI ecosystem in India.
India is ranked amongst the top ten AI/Data Science ecosystems globally and in future, the demand for advanced deep tech and AI-related technologies is expected to unlock a trillion-dollar opportunity.
The Data Science industry in India is expected to become a USD 16 billion ecosystem by 2025, from the current USD 2 billion, translating to an 8x growth. AI has the potential to add US$957 billion, or 15 percent of current gross value added to India’s economy in 2035 and Advanced Tech startups will drive this transformation as well as spearhead the broad structural transformation of the economy.
To meet the growing need to support the ecosystem, thirty AI focused start-ups from the NASSCOM 10,000 startups initiative are invited to participate in the ‘Mphasis Pitch Day’. The showcase is aimed at identifying the most innovative AI startups that will bridge the technology gap across enterprises business, a company release said here.(UNI)

Days after the government moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking return of undisputed land at Ram janmbhoomi site to Ram janmbhoomi Nyas, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey on Thursday said that the grand Ram Temple will be soon built in Ayodhya of Uttar Pradesh.

Talking to reporters in Parliament premises, Mr Choubey said, “I have full faith that the grand temple of Lord Ram would be constructed very soon. As you are aware, the government has requested the Supreme Court to grant those lands which are undisputed. We also appeal to the apex court that the disputed land must be resolved as soon as possible, so that the sentiments of crores of people could be respected.”

However, the apex court has deferred the January 29 hearing in SC in the Ayodhya case . The new date has not yet been announced.

BJP’s ally LJP was of the view that the court’s judgment should be accepted by all.

Minister of Food and public distribution Ram Vilas Paswan told reporters here, “Our party’s stand is that whatsoever the court’s judgment, it should be acceptable to all.”

On the first day of winter session in Parliament, President Ramnath Kovind addressed the joint sitting of LOk Sabha and Rajya Sabha .

“The President’s address indicates that we have worked on ground in the last 4.5 years. We have given priority to the development and taken forward the concept of “sabka sath – sabka vikas”. It was a historic address,” Mr Choubey said.(UNI)

Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar P on Thursday took over as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command at Mumbai.

He succeeded Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, who retired upon superannuation, after an illustrious career spanning nearly four decades in the Indian Navy.

At an impressive ceremonial parade at the Naval Air Station Shikra, the outgoing and incoming Cs-in-C were accorded a guard of honour after which they proceeded to the Headquarters of the Western Naval Command for a formal handing-taking over, the Indian Navy said.

On completion, Vice Admiral Luthra was “pulled out” in true Naval tradition.

An alumnus of Sainik School Kazhakootam and the National Defence Academy, Vice Admiral Kumar was commissioned in the Indian Navy on July 1, 1981.

As a specialist in Missiles and Gunnery, the Flag Officer has served onboard frontline warships of the Indian Navy and abroad.

Vice Admiral Kumar has the rare distinction of commanding six warships, including two foreign warships. These include guided missile corvette INS Kulish, guided missile frigate INS Talwar, guided missile destroyers INS Mumbai and INS Mysore.

The officer has completed the Naval Higher Command Course and is also an alumnus of the prestigious Naval War College, Newport, USA.

The Admiral has served extensively in the Western Naval Command in the initial specialist and Command appointments. He has also been the Chief Staff Officer (Operations) of the Western Naval Command.

Vice Admiral Kumar has also been the Flag Officer Commanding of the Eastern Fleet, Commanding Officer of Gunnery and Missiles Training School – INS Dronacharya, served as Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resources Development) at IHQ MoD (Navy) and Chief of Staff of Southern Naval Command.

(UNI) Private airline IndiGo and Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) — operator of Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB) — have entered into a 20-year agreement to sub-lease land at the BLR Airport to build a state-of-the-art Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility.
The 13,000 sq mt hangar, to be built on five acres in the BLR Airport campus, would be able to accommodate two narrow body aircraft and will have support infrastructure, including an engine QEC shop warehouse and engineering offices for all repair and maintenance.
Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, Chief Operating Officer, IndiGo, said: “Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB), with its strategic location, will play an even more important role going forward. It is for this reason that IndiGo decided to build a hangar as the core of our maintenance centre in South. This facility will become operational by 2020.”

(UNI) China’s Chang’e-4 probe, having made the first-ever soft landing on moon’s far side, found that the temperature of the lunar surface dropped to as low as minus 190 degrees centigrade, colder than expected.

This is the first time Chinese scientists have received first-hand data about the temperatures on the surface of the far side of the moon during the lunar night, Xinhua reported.

The rover and the lander of the Chang’e-4 probe have been awakened by sunlight after a long “sleep” during their first extremely cold night on the moon, the China National Space Administration announced on Thursday.

As a result of the tidal locking effect, the moon’s revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, and the same side of the moon always faces Earth.

“According to the measurements of Chang’e-4, the temperature of the shallow layer of the lunar soil on the far side of the moon is lower than the data obtained by the U.S. Apollo mission on the near side of the moon,” said Zhang He, executive director of the Chang’e-4 probe project, from the China Academy of Space Technology.

“That’s probably due to the difference in lunar soil composition between the two sides of the moon. We still need more careful analysis,” Zhang said.

A lunar day equals 14 days on Earth, and a lunar night is the same length. The Chang’e-4 probe switched to dormant mode during the lunar night due to the lack of solar power.

Temperatures vary enormously between day and night on the moon. Previously, Chinese scientists had no data on exactly how cold it could be.

The rover and the lander carried the radioisotope heat source, which helped keep the probe warm during the lunar night.

The lander was also equipped with an isotope thermoelectric cell and dozens of temperature data collectors to measure the temperatures on the surface of the moon during the lunar night.

The launch of OneWeb communications satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana, planned for February 20, has been delayed due to problems with the equipment of the Russian carrier, Greg Wyler, the chairman of OneWeb, said Thursday.
“It’s true, there is an anomoly on the rocket which will cause us to push out the launch. Our satellites are fine and ready to go!” Wyler tweeted.

Australian palaeontologists have found fossilized bones which they believe came from a theropod, the bipedal, carnivorous and predatory group of dinosaurs best known from the likes of Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor.

Elizabeth Smith of the Australian Opal Centre unearthed the set of opalized bones at Lightning Ridge in central New South Wales, before passing them on to the palaeontology team at the University of New England (UNE), they revealed on Wednesday.

However, due to the limited find, which constituted part of a hip bone and some tail bones, the team from UNE stopped short of giving the new dinosaur a name.

“We identified some similarities between this newly discovered set of bones and megaraptorids, but because of the limited material we couldn’t say for certain that it actually was a megaraptorid, or confirm that is belonged with any other theropod group,” UNE palaeontologist Tom Broughman said.

“Because of the uncertainty of its identification, this new specimen has not been given a formal name,” Broughman said.

From the dimensions of the bones, Broughman said the dinosaur would have been about five to six meters in length and was likely a carnivorous hunter.

The bones bear resemblance to that of megaratorids previously found in the area, a subtype of theropod best characterized by a strongly curved claw on the first digit of each hand.

Historically Australia has proved a difficult place for fossil hunters, with much of the land flat and heavily weathered. However, Lightning Ridge, where the latest fossils appeared, has a reputation for turning up big finds.

“Lightning Ridge is a pretty special place for doing vertebrate palaeontology,” Broughman said.

“Back in the Late Cretaceous, Lightning Ridge would have been at the shores of an inland sea, the Eromanga Sea, that covered most of central and northern Australia at the time, but which was steadily retreating northwards.”

“All of the fossils at Lightning Ridge have been found from the efforts of miners who excavate opals from deep underground,” Broughman added.

Broughman and his team hoped to find out more about the dinosaur fauna of Lightning Ridge, believing that what’s been found so far is just a fraction of what lies beneath the surface.

Washington’s sanctions against Venezuela will not bring the country to a standstill, but still do damage, Hector Rodriguez, the governor of the northern Venezuelan state of Miranda, said in an interview with Sputnik.
“In general, the sanctions do not stop us, but make the development more expensive. At the same time, this urges us to change technologies and [look for new] partners — not only political, but economical as well,” Rodriguez said.
He added that the country was currently going through a tough period.
“But at the same time this is a possibility for Venezuela to finish the process of liberation — not only in terms of politics, but also in terms of the economy and technology,” Rodriguez specified.
Venezuela is currently in a state of political and economical crisis, with Juan Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled Venezuelan National Assembly, having declared himself the country’s interim president last Wednesday. Since the United States and several allies have instantly recognized Guaido, incumbent leader Nicolas Maduro accused Washington of orchestrating a coup in Venezuela.
On Monday, US National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that the United States was imposing sanctions against Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA, banning deals with the company and blocking $7 billion in PDVSA’s assets. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that by blocking PDVSA assets, the United States took care of this company in the interests of the people of Venezuela and also took measures to protect its own market.(UNI) 

MoneyOnClick, a technology and data science based lending startup, today announced that the company has successfully raised Rs 15 crore (USD2.15 million) as part of its seed capital fund from marquee investors such as Orios Venture Partners, Kalaari Capital, and 3one4 Capital.
Established in 2018, MoneyOnClick aims to disrupt a large segment in the consumer lending space.
MoneyOnClick is focused to provide a lending platform to consumers who fall outside the margins of the formal banking system due to their lack of a credit history or low credit ratings. MoneyOnClick aims to provide unsecured loans to these customers especially those who reside in Tier II & III markets while keeping very low default rates.
Talking about the funding, Vishal Chopra, Co-Founder at MoneyOnClick, said, “We are excited to partner with Orios Venture Partners, 3one4 and Kalaari Capital who have chosen to invest in our vision to provide unsecured loans to customers not served by banks and NBFCs. These funds would enable us to hire a great team and
build technology capabilities that will form a solid foundation for our company.”
The company plans to utilise the funds to hire leadership and operations teams across verticals. Also, a part of the funds will be invested to strengthen the core technology with Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning based credit underwriting and risk assessment platform.
A large number of borrowers today are forced to seek credit from unorganised lenders who charge high-interest rates, which these consumers have no option but to pay if they are to avail credit.
This is one of the primary problem areas which MoneyOnCick, with the help of digitization coupled with AI-ML, will seek to solve while secure more ‘new to credit’ (NTC) consumers for easy and credible access to personal loans.(UNI)

(UNI) The International Cricket Council (ICC) and Coca-Cola India, here on Thursday jointly announced that they have entered into a five years of global strategic partnership.
The five years agreement includes all ICC events around the world including the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 in England and Wales, the ICC statement said.
ICC chief Executive David Richardson said, its our pleasure to welcome Coca-Cola on board as an ICC partner for the next five years.

Kangana Ranaut starrer ‘Manikarnika:The Queen of Jhansi’ witnessed an excellent weekday trending on the box office, with a total collection of Rs 56.90 crore, trade sources said on Thursday.
”Kangana’s biggest opener ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ performed best in Delhi, NCR, UP, Punjab and Rajasthan,” the sources said.
”The movie earned Rs 8.75 crore on Friday, Rs 18.10 crore on Saturday, Rs 15.70 crore on Sunday, Rs 5.10 crore on Monday, Rs 4.75 crore on Tuesday and Rs 4.50 crore on Wednesday, pushing the total to Rs 56.90 crore,” sources added.
‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ is an epic biographical period drama based on the life of the Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi.
It is directed by Krish and Kangana Ranaut and produced by Zee Studios in association with Kamal Jain and Nishant Pitti.
The film stars Kangana Ranaut in the titular role.
A special screening of the film was organised by Zee Entertainment for President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Cultural Centre on January 18.
The film was released on 3700 screens in 50 countries worldwide in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
The flick released on January 25, and is running successfully on the box office.(UNI)

(UNI) Hindon Air Force Airport will start operating flights commercially from March this year.
Construction work of the Hindon airport would be completed by end of February and after that it would start its first commercial flight under the regional air connectivity scheme UDAN, a government official said on Wednesday.
After the airport would start functioning, an 80-seater aircraft would fly from Hindon to Pithoragarh, jaisalmer, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and Hubli.
The airport, constructed by the Airports Authority of India, would be able to handle aircraft which has 80 seats only, the official added.
The official said Spicejet was allotted the proposal to start services from the airport. Beside this, IndiGo has shown its interest to start its services as soon as the airport gets ready.
Hindon Airport was included in the second chapter of UDAN in order to connect small and medium towns through air network.

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design formally presented the fourth annual Carnot Prize to Union Railways and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday here.

The Minister has decided that the award money of dollar 25,000, which he will receive as part of the 2018 Carnot Prize, will be donated to the International Solar Alliance to institute the Diwakar Award. The Diwakar award will recognise, every year, an outstanding organisation that has been working for special children and maximising the use of solar energy.

Mr Goyal had previously been unable to accept the award in the United States of America, due to the unfortunate train tragedy that took place in Amritsar.

The award recognises the pathbreaking transformations in India’s energy sector under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The efforts of Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and RK Singh, Minister for Power, and New and Renewable Energy will further bolster India’s commitment towards mitigating climate change and provide energy security to the 125 crore people of the nation.

Mr Goyal had stated that “it is both a personal honour as well as a tribute to the efforts of all involved in this great work throughout India to be recognised with the Carnot Prize by the University of Pennsylvania”.

The Carnot Prize is the Kleinman Center’s annual recognition of distinguished contributions to energy policy through scholarship or practice. The most prestigious award in the energy sector, Carnot Prize is named after French physicist Nicolas Sadi Carnot who recognised that the power of the steam engine would “produce a great revolution” in human development.

The Carnot Prize is intended to honour those leading revolutions in energy policy to further progress and prosperity. (UNI)

In a move to boost research and development in the field of scientific development in the country, the Government on Wednesday announced hike in ‘Research Fellowship’ for PhD students and other research personnel enrolled in any area of science and technology, engineering, mathematical sciences, agricultural sciences, life sciences and pharmacy with effect from January 1, 2019.

The hike in fellowship will directly benefit over 60,000 ‘Research Fellows’ and also provide a template to the states to consider increase in their fellowship rates.

Under the new norms, the fellowship of the Junior Research Fellows (JRF) in the first two years of Ph.D programme is increased from the current rate of Rs 25,000 to Rs 31,000 per month while in the remaining tenure of Ph.D, senior research fellow will now get Rs 35,000 per month instead of Rs 28,000 per month.

Similarly, there is substantial increase of 30-35 percent have also been made in the financial rewards for the scientists involved in the “Research and Development” (R&D) projects, working as ‘Research Associates’.

The top bracket of Research Associateship is now fixed at Rs 54,000. All research fellows are now also entitled to House Rent Allowance (HRA) as per Central Government norms.

Government has ensured that this empowering mechanism is uniformly applicable across all the fellowship granting Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Academic and Government R&D organisations of the country.

For the first time, the Government has recommended a set of strong financial and academic incentives to enhance and recognise the performance of our research fellows, a senior official of the Ministry of Science and Technology said. (UNI)

Responding to the allegations of politicising his visit to BJP leader and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said his visit to the Goa chief minister was ‘strictly personal’ and driven by his empathy for the health condition of the latter.

In a letter to Mr Parrikar, Mr Gandhi, responding to a purported letter written by the Goa chief minister to him charging him of politicising his visit to the BJP leader, said, ‘Respectfully, my visit to you was strictly personal and driven purely by my empathy for your situation. You will no doubt recall that I also called you when you were undergoing treatment in the United States to enquire after your health and wish you well. ‘On the BJP and Mr Parrikar’s charge that he had, in his recent speeches, referred to conversations with Mr Parrikar during their meeting in Goa, Mr Gandhi said he had only referred to information that was already in the public domain.

‘I have not shared any details of my conversation with you when we met in Goa yesterday. In my two speeches since we met, I have referred to what is already in the public domain,’ he said.

‘It is a fact that in April 2015, while you were inaugurating a fish market in Goa, PM Modi announced the RAFALE deal in France with the then French President, Hollande. It is also a fact that you clearly stated to the press that you had no idea about the new deal engineered by the PM. This has been widely reported in all sections of the media.

Again, it is a fact that there is an audio recording of your own Cabinet colleague in Goa, claiming you told ministers in a cabinet meeting that you have the RAFALE papers in your “bed room”, implying that you have power over PM Modi and his cronies,’ Rahul said.

While asserting that he reserved the ‘absolute right to attack the corrupt PM on his blatant dishonesty in the RAFALE deal’, Rahul, however, said he understood that immense pressure to demonstrating his loyalty to the PM had led Mr Parrikar to attack him in this uncharacteristic manner.

‘Parrikar Ji, I empathise with your situation. I understand the Immense pressure you are under after our meeting yesterday. Pressure that has forced you to take the highly unusual step of demonstrating your loyalty to the PM and his cronies by attacking me in this uncharacteristic manner,’ Rahul said.

‘However Parrikar Ji, regardless of my visit, I am a democratic representative, elected to serve the Indian people, and as such I reserve the absolute right to attack the corrupt PM on his blatant dishonesty in the RAFALE deal,’Rahul said.

Earlier, Parrikar wrote to the Congress chief, accusing him of lying. The Rafale fighter jet deal, he wrote, had not even come up during their private conversation, Mr Parrikar wrote.

“Paying a courtesy visit and then stooping so low as to make a false statement for petty political gain has raised, in my mind, questions about the sincerity and purpose of your visit,” Mr Parrikar said.

He said such tactics should not be adopted against a person “fighting a life-threatening illness”. (UNI)

In a clear message to Pakistan disapproving its conduct, the High Commissioner of Pakistan to India Sohail Mahmood was summoned by the Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday night in connection with the “telephone conversation” initiated by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.

“The Foreign Secretary conveyed the Government of India’s condemnation in the strongest terms of this latest brazen attempt by Pakistan to subvert India’s unity and to violate our sovereignty and territorial integrity, by none other than the Pakistan Foreign Minister,” an MEA statement said here.

The BJP leader and Karnataka MP Shobha Karandlaje has mocked at the Congress over the news that AgustaWestland scam accused Rajiv Saxena and lobbyist Deepak Talwar have been extradited to India.

“Good news coming in Mitron, Friends of Congress nabbed by UAE officials and illegally extradited to India, BJP government reinforcing the trust of Common man,” She tweeted.

In what is seen as a major progress made by probe agencies in their efforts to unearth the corruption in the Defence deals, Christian Michel’s aide, Rajiv Saxena – co-accused in AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam and Deepak Talwar – a corporate lobbyist – have been extradited from Dubai past mid night.

Rajiv Saxena, according to reports, had in December 2018 filed for an anticipatory bail plea in front of the Patiala House Court.

He failed to respond to summons by the ED, following which an extradition request was put.

Rajiv Saxena is a co-accused in the scam and is a Dubai based Chartered Accountant who had allegedly laundered kickbacks in the deal. He had been named in the ED chargesheet.

Deepak Talwar is accused of facilitating aviation deals and is accused of concealing income of over Rs 1000 crores.

Rajiv Saxena’s wife Shivani Saxena was arrested from the Chennai airport in 2017 and is currently out on bail.

These fresh extradition have happened nearly two months after the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case.

The Enforcement Directorate has alleged that Rajiv Saxena, his wife Shivani Saxena, and their two Dubai-based firms routed “the proceeds of crime” and integrated the amount buying the immovable properties and shares among others.(UNI)

Shraddha Kapoor recently came on board for Remo’s next dance film after the successful stint with ‘ABCD 2’ starring alongside Varun Dhawan.
The actress is going to learn as many as five new dance forms for the film.
Shraddha has even hired her trainer Praveen Nair back who had trained her for ‘ABCD 2’.
She started with preps the day she came on board.
The movie will take dance to a notch higher and Shraddha wanted to ensure she does justice to it just like ‘ABCD 2’.
Since the makers have specific requirements of how her body has to be to essay the role of a professional dancer and since there is rigorous dancing, she wanted to have Praveen back as he understands that very well.
Shraddha had trained with Praveen for the previous film and the results were up on the screen.
Shraddha who’s currently wrapping up ‘Saaho’ shoot schedule and also shooting for portions for Nitesh Tiwari’s next ‘Chhichhore’ and takes time out daily for her training and practice.
The actress trains for 1.5 hours every day without any break and is doing dance rehearsals for three hours.(UNI)

India-born Chief financial officer of Tesla Inc, Deepak Ahuja has announced his retirement from the company on Thursday.
He would be succeeded by Zach Kirkhorn, the electric car maker’s vice president of finance, who has been with Tesla since the days of the original Roadster.
The announcement of the legendary CFO’s retirement was related near the end of the Q4 earnings call, with CEO Elon Musk expressing his thanks to the executive for his contributions to the company.
“I feel really good about Zach taking over. He’s proven his self over the years with many tough challenges he’s worked on,” Ahuja said.
Deepak, for his part, also thanked Tesla, stating that the company has arguably the best team in the industry. Despite leaving his post, Deepak is set to play a role in the company nonetheless, with Elon Musk stating that he would continue to serve as a “senior adviser” for “probably years to come.”
Ahuja, an IIT-BHU alumni was offered the position of Chief Financial Officer at Tesla Motors in June 2008 but he retired in 2015. He was again re-instated on the same position in Feb 2017.
Growing up in Mumbai, Ahuja originally planned to go into the family business. His parents were serial entrepreneurs who had established several successful businesses, primarily in the garment industry, manufacturing jeans and lingerie.
After Ahuja earned a bachelor’s degree in ceramic engineering from Banaras Hindu University, his father invited him to become a business partner in a factory that would manufacture ceramic insulators for the electric grid. The plan was that Ahuja would study in the United States to learn more about ceramic technology, then he would return to India .
The initial part of the plan worked well as in 1985, at the age of 22, Ahuja enrolled in McCormick as a
PhD student in materials science, his first time in the United States. Two years later he had earned
a master’s degree and made a couple of alterations to his life plan, he would not return to India right away, and he would not complete a PhD. “A PhD would have taken me too deeply into pure science,” Ahuja explained in a Mccornick report, and further discovered he was more interested in applied technology.
Ahuja has also worked in several automobile companies like Ford motors and Auto Alliance International.(UNI)