We study simultaneous non-vanishing of $L(tfrac{1}{2},di)$ and $L(tfrac{1}{2},gotimes di)$, when $di$ runs over an orthogonal basis of the space of Hecke-Maass cusp forms for $SL(3,mathbb{Z})$ and $g$ is a fixed $SL(2,mathbb{Z})$ Hecke cusp form of weight $kequiv 0 pmod 4$.