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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY J&K L­G invites investors, says Supreme Court declines communication curbs will go to stay poll bond scheme Externally sponsored militancy under It is being used to fill the coffers of ruling party: petitioners Arvind Kejriwal to file control, Murmu tells business meet Krishnadas Rajagopal nomination papers today NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Vijaita Singh security in a systematic man­ Chief Justice of India (CJI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind New Delhi ner,” he said. Sharad A. Bobde on Monday Kejriwal, who was expected to file his nomination papers Highlighting investment op­ Some delegates ques­ orally made it clear that if for the Assembly elections portunities in Jammu and tioned Mr. Murmu about the the Supreme Court had after a massive roadshow on Kashmir, Lieutenant­Gover­ communication restrictions found it unnecessary to stay Monday, will file his papers nor G.C. Murmu said on impacting trade. Chief Secre­ the electoral bonds scheme on Tuesday, which is the last Monday that communica­ tary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam earlier, it might not stay the day for filing of nominations. tion restrictions, including responded that more relaxa­ scheme even now. He said that he “did not feel the Internet ban, were “tem­ tions were on the way. The comments came on a like leaving behind the porary.” On August 6, 2019, Parlia­ fervent plea by advocates people at the roadshow”. A meeting of business de­ ment revoked the special sta­ Prashant Bhushan and Sha­

CITY Ī PAGE 4 legates was held here in the tus of the erstwhile State, dan Farasat that new facts DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD run­up to the first­ever which was bifurcated into On their toes: Army jawans during an encounter with had come up indicating that three­day Global Investors’ the Union Territories of Jam­ terrorists in Shopian district of J&K on Monday. * PTI the scheme was being fre­ Cong. releases second Summit to be held in Srina­ mu and Kashmir and La­ quently opened to allow list of seven candidates gar and Jammu in April. The dakh. The Valley and Jammu funds to fill the coffers of the NEW DELHI summit was scheduled to be regions have been under an ruling party. The All India Congress 3 Hizb militants killed held last year, but was Internet clampdown for the sought a stay on the scheme. four weeks to the EC to file a Committee late on Monday night released its second list postponed. past five months. EC, RBI overruled On April 12 last, the court reply to the plea for a stay. of seven candidates for the Mr. Murmu said, “We grab in Shopian encounter Mr. Bhushan said the passed an interim order di­ However, Mr. Bhushan ar­ Delhi Assembly elections. It the headlines for militancy Mining reserve scheme would be opened recting political parties to gued that it would be too late has nominated first­timer and terrorism. These are not K.K. Sharma, Adviser to the ‘Top leader, police deserter slain ’ again now, with the Delhi provide complete informa­ by then as Delhi election was Romesh Sabharwal to fight the headlines conducive to Lt. Governor, told The Hindu election scheduled on Fe­ tion to the EC in sealed cov­ due on February 8. The against AAP convener Arvind investment. However, the that Jammu and Kashmir Special Correspondent Jammu and Kashmir Di­ bruary 8. Instead of opening ers on every single donor court then asked the EC to Kejriwal from New Delhi. Mr. ground realities are quite dif­ had a huge mining reserve Srinagar rector General of Police Dil­ the scheme exclusively for and contribution received file its reply in a fortnight. Sabharwal was the State ferent. First, after the aboli­ that could be exploited for Security forces killed three bagh Singh, who termed the the Lok Sabha election, as by them till date through The April 12 interim order NSUI president in 1987­88 tion of Article 370, the duali­ production. “J&K has re­ Hizb­ul­Mujahideen mili­ operation a major success, envisaged, it had become a electoral bonds. However, it was meant to ensure that the and has been an executive ty in which the people of serves of limestone and gyp­ tants in an encounter in supported the idea of setting mechanism to funnel bena- did not stay the operation of balance was not tilted in any­ member of the DPCC since Jammu and Kashmir existed sum that we can exploit for south Kashmir’s Shopian on up deradicalisation centres mi funds to fuel political par­ the scheme. body’s favour before the 2004. has vanished...” production. For that, we are Monday. for youth, who have gone ties. “If the matter has been ar­ general election in May 2019. CITY Ī PAGE 4 “Externally sponsored revamping the policy; indus­ “Three terrorists were astray. Both the Election Com­ gued for stay and it was not The court then ordered pol­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD militancy is well under con­ trialists from J&K can partici­ eliminated in a joint opera­ Mr. Singh said Pakistan mission (EC) and the Re­ granted, we will also not itical parties to provide the trol. There are a few isolated pate. The land allotment pol­ tion in Wachi,” said a Srina­ and its agencies have serve Bank of India (RBI) had grant it,” the CJI said. EC with “detailed particu­ incidents, which are so rare icy will also be revised. The gar­based Army spokesman. stepped up radicalisation in strongly objected to the Mr. Bhushan reiterated lars of the donors as against that they can be classified as Internet has been suspended “Weapons and war­like this area recently and “some scheme and raised the red that the court should consid­ the each bond; the amount crime. Only 10% of the area for a limited period, it will stores were recovered,” said of our young minds have flag against it. er the scheme with a new of each such bond and the is affected by militancy and not be long before it is res­ the Army. A police deserter been affected by it.” Mr. Farasat said over eye as many novel and dis­ full particulars of the credit law and order incidents. We tored,” he said. and a top­ranking ‘comman­ (With PTI inputs) ₹6,000 crore had been turbing facts had come to received against each bond.” are tackling those pockets der’ were among the three drawn in through the the fore since April 12. and will ensure safety and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 militants killed. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 scheme recently. They The court initially gave CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 19 convicted in Muzaffarpur shelter home case Nadda elected IMF lowers India’s growth forecast to 4.8% unopposed as It had pegged economic growth at 6.1% for 2019 in October Arguments on the quantum of sentence will be heard on January 28 BJP president Press Trust of India credit sluggishness for the for 2019 and the projection Davos lowering of India forecasts, for 2020 represent 0.1 per­ Special Correspondent sexually assaulting the in­ NEW DELHI Special Correspondent The International Monetary IMF Chief Economist Gita centage point reduction for Nirbhaya case: mates. Some of them were NEW DELHI Fund (IMF) on Monday lo­ Gopinath, however, said the each year while that for 2021 A Delhi court on Monday also taken to hotels where Former Union Minister J.P. wered India’s economic growth momentum should is 0.2 percentage point convicted key accused Bra­ plea dismissed they were raped. Nadda was on Monday growth estimate for the cur­ improve next year due to lower. jesh Thakur and 18 others of After the CBI filed a elected unopposed as the rent fiscal to 4.8% and listed factors like the positive im­ “A more subdued growth sexual and physical assault charge sheet, the court The SC dismissed the plea BJP’s national president, the country’s much lower­ pact of corporate tax rate re­ forecast for India... accounts of girl inmates of a shelter framed charges against the of a Nirbhaya gang rape making him the 11th party than­expected GDP num­ duction. for the lion’s share of the home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. accused persons on March convict against the Delhi chief. bers as the single biggest “Global growth, estimat­ downward revisions,” the Arguments on the quan­ 30, 2019. HC’s rejection of his claim PM Narendra Modi, who drag on its global growth fo­ ed at 2.9% in 2019, is project­ IMF said ahead of the start tum of sentence will be They were tried for a that he was a juvenile at the was at the party headquar­ recast for two years. ed to increase to 3.3% in of the World Economic Fo­ heard on January 28. range of offences, including time of the crime. The court ters to felicitate Mr. Nadda, In October, the IMF had 2020 and inch up further to rum (WEF) annual summit Additional sessions judge gang­rape, sexual assault said the plea of juvenility 59, on his election, called pegged India’s economic 3.4% in 2021,” the IMF said, here. Saurabh Kulshreshtha con­ and harassment, cruelty to cannot be reagitated once him an “outstanding karya- growth at 6.1% for 2019. while releasing an update to Ms. Gopinath said growth victed Thakur of aggravated A file photo of key accused child under the authority of successive courts had karta [party worker]”. its World Economic Outlook in India slowed sharply ow­ sexual assault under the Brajesh Thakur being taken to shelter­home functionaries rejected the claim. Ī PAGE 9 Mr. Modi said the event Decline in rural demand (WEO). ing to stress in the non­bank Protection of Children from a court in Delhi. * PTI and Social Welfare depart­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC reflected the party’s long­ Listing decline in rural de­ Compared to the October financial sector and weak Sexual Offences (POCSO) ment officials, and adminis­ time policy of promoting mand growth and an overall WEO forecast, the estimate rural income growth. Act, gang rape, rape and ing allegations by the ac­ ed. tering drugs to the victims. workers vertically while ex­ other related offences un­ cused that the testimonies The CBI took over the The shelter home was panding the party horizon­ der the Indian Penal Code of the victims were not probe in 2018 following a run by NGO ‘Sewa Sankalp tally across the country. and the Juvenile Justice Act. trustworthy. Supreme Court directive. It Evam Vikas Samiti.’ “That is the reason why gen­ Vicky, one of the accused, recorded statements of the The instances of sexual eration after generation, we has been acquitted. 34 inmates abused victims and made several ar­ assault were first made pu­ have leaders to take the par­ The court had postponed The case pertains to the alle­ rests. blic through a report by the ty forward.” the verdict and sought a res­ gation that at least 34 in­ It was alleged that Thakur Tata Institute of Social ponse from the CBI, follow­ mates were sexually assault­ would bring in people for Sciences. ‘SPREADING LIES’ Ī PAGE 12 ‘JNU CCTVs Police file criminal cases against protesters not damaged in vandalism’ Most of those named in the FIRs are women, including daughters of Urdu poet Omar Rashid was held without any per­ LUCKNOW Priscilla Jebaraj mission and violated the NEW DELHI The Uttar Pradesh police prohibitory orders under Neither biometric systems have lodged three criminal Section 144 of Cr.PC. nor CCTV cameras were cases against the protesters, Ms. Sumaiya Rana con­ broken or destroyed at Ja­ mostly women, demonstrat­ demned the police action waharlal Nehru University ing against the Citizenship and said the government in the first week of January, (Amendment) Act (CAA) at was trying to save its face by according to the response the Clocktower Park in Luck­ booking the protesters. to a Right to Information now since Friday. query, despite the universi­ The police have named CM’s stand ty’s claim that vandalism around two dozen persons Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister by students damaged these in the FIRs, while more than Yogi Adityanath on Sunday systems. 135 are unidentified protes­ hit out at political parties op­ However, there is no ters. Most of those named in posing the CAA, saying they continuous CCTV footage the FIRs are women and in­ On the ground: Women writing slogans on the floor during a spread negative propaganda protest at Ghanta Ghar in Lucknow on Monday. * ANI available from JNU’s main clude Sumaiya Rana and to malign the country’s im­ gate for the afternoon and Fauzia Rana, daughters of age by “pushing women to night of January 5, when Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, In one of the FIRs, the Ra­ shoving) by the protesters the front”. He did not refer students and teachers were a Sahitya Akademi Award na sisters and others have against the police on duty, a to any incident or event. attacked on the campus, winner. been booked under Sections police officer said. At a rally in support of the says the RTI response to a 147, 145, 188 and 283 of the The FIR, lodged on the CAA in Gorakhpur, he urged plea filed by Saurav Das, a No arrests IPC. The charges are unlaw­ complaint of the women supporters of the new law member of the National The SHO of Thakurganj pol­ ful assembly, rioting, disobe­ constables on duty, alleged “not to remain silent”, and Campaign for People’s ice station, where the FIRs dience to order and causing that on January 18, the per­ asked them to send post­ Right to Information, on Ja­ were lodged, confirmed to anger or obstruction in pu­ sons named “pushed and cards to Prime Minister Na­ nuary 9. The reply exposes The Hindu that the protes­ blic way or line of shoved them out” of the site rendra Modi endorsing it. several discrepancies and ters were booked in three navigation. when they had gone there to He alleged that the Oppo­ ambiguities in the FIRs. separate cases but no arrests The case was lodged for disperse the crowd. The pol­ sition was trying to “mislead DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 4 were made yet. dhakka mukki (pushing and ice said the protest gathering people” on the CAA.

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