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millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 324 | Friday, 1 December 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10,226.55 (-134.75) qSENSEX 33,149.35 (-453.41) pDOW JONES 23,940.68 (+103.97) qNASDAQ 6,824.39 (-87.97) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.46 (-0.15) qRUPEE/EURO 76.34 (-0.16) qGOLD/10GM 30,400 (-120.00) qSILVER/K 39,325 (-675.00) CENTRE GIVES NOD 8 DEAD AS RAINS HIT BANGLADESHI KOHLI, COA TO CONSTRUCT & TN, KERALA, CYCLONE COURT ORDERS FIND COMMON UPGRADE 2,826 KM OF ‘OCHKI’ HEADS TO FORMER PREMIER GROUND ON PAY RURAL ROADS PG3 LAKSHADWEEP PG5 ZIA’S ARREST PG10 HIKE, FTP PG15 CBFC CHIEF JOSHI ALSO ‘MANY STEPS BEING TAKEN TO BOOST SUNDERBANS’ TOURISM POTENTIAL, RURAL ECONOMY APPEARS BEFORE PARL PANEL Rumour mongers to blame for Padmavati row, says Bhansali Sunderbans to become district: CM OUR CORRESPONDENT MPOST BUREAU GOSABA: The Sunderbans will soon be ‘ONLY TALKING, NO NEW DELHI: “Padmavati” director Sanjay a new district, Chief Minister Mamata Leela Bhansali told a parliamentary panel on Banerjee announced on Thursday. Thursday that he had not distorted history in Addressing at a public meeting here, she PERFORMANCE’ the film and he had promised to screen the said, “The police district has already been movie before some royals of Rajasthan because set up and I will be present when the new Mamata to Centre on he wished to avoid a row, sources said. district will come up.” GDP growth As protests peaked over the movie and sev- Sunderbans spans over portions of eral states pushed for a ban on it, the director had South and North 24 Parganas and work is OUR CORRESPONDENT appeared before the panel to explain his point on to prepare the map of the new district, of view. After a two-and-a-half-hour question- along with the moujas of the two districts KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief answer session, the panel asked him to submit a which will be united to set up the new Minister Mamata Banerjee on written response within a fortnight, sources said. one. She urged state government officials Thursday said the 6.3 percent GDP The panel had some questions about the to work hard and ensure that there is no growth in the September quarter Rs. 190-crore movie. Sources said Bhansali was delay in brining the beneficiaries under was “no growth”, and hit out at the asked whether Jauhar, ritual of self-immolation various schemes. Centre for “only talking” and not practised in Rajasthan, could be shown on film, She asked South 24 Parganas district performing. why he gave so little time to the Central Board magistrate Y Ratnakara Rao to conduct Reversing a five-quarter slide of Film Certification for clearing the movie and an inquiry into an allegation made by why it was screened before journalists before a local people to her. “I received a letter in GDP growth, Indian economy clearance from the regulatory body. this morning alleging certain malfunc- bounced back from a three-year “I have not distorted history. I have based the tions of the district administration. I have low to expand by 6.3 per cent in movie on a poem... the misunderstanding was asked the district magistrate to conduct July-September as manufacturing due to rumours,” Bhansali told the panel, sources an inquiry into the matter,” she said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Mayor Sovan Chatterjee at a public meeting in Gosaba on Thursday PIC/MPOST revved up and businesses adjusted said. Rajput groups have claimed that the movie She said connectivity in Sunderbans to the new GST tax regime. had besmirched the 13th Century queen Pad- has been improved with the construction state Forest Department to sit with the Rs 40,000 crore because of them,” she “see any unknown person.” The GDP growth had hit a three- mini, by indicating a romance between her and of two bridges and the third one will be fishermen and resolve the long-standing pointed out. The Trinamool Congress chief asked year low of 5.7 percent in the first Alauddin Khilji, the Delhi Sultan obsessed with built at Pathankhali. Banerjee named the issue of whether they can use forest land Coming down heavily on the BJP gov- her party leaders and workers to bury quarter of 2017-18. It was 7.5 her beauty. cottages that have come up in Jharkh- or not. “The administration will have to ernment at the Centre, she said, “BJP hatchets and work together. “I have percent in the September quarter Bhansali, who repeatedly rejected such alle- ali as Jhar and maintained that with the sit with the local people and win their leaders talk a lot but do not work. When worked seriously for many years and gations, even held a screening before some jour- construction of the cottages, the area’s confidence,” she remarked. we make promises, we try to keep them. I will not tolerate any slackness in the of 2016-17, data released by nalists to prove his claims - a move that CBFC tourism potential will go up. This will Banerjee said that in the past six and But they are just the opposite. They talk party”, she said, adding “I will not toler- the Central Statistics Office (CSO) chief Prasoon Joshi said was disappointing. ultimately help boost the rural economy, a half years, the state government has too much and at the Centre, the lead- ate any difference in opinion— all should showed. “GDP figures out. Again Joshi, who appeared before the panel on Thurs- she explained, adding that cottages for not done anything that has adversely ers are there to make statements.” She work for the betterment of the common no growth. No jobs. Effects of note day along with Bhansali, said he would form a tourists will be built too at Gangasagar. affected the interest of the common man urged the people not to get provoked or p e op l e .” ban scam and unplanned GST con- committee of experts to take a call on the certi- She said that fishermen have been — people belonging to the minority com- swayed by rumours, warning, “The BJP Banerjee inaugurated several projects, tinue to damage the economy. fication of Padmavati. The censor board has not given identity cards which will help them munity, OBCs, tribals and SCs and STs. “will come to you posing as friends but do including expansion of health centres Only talking. No performance,” given clearance to the film, saying its paperwork when they face any accident during their “The erstwhile CPIM government did not not trust them.” She asked people to get to krishi mandi and mother and child Banerjee said in a tweet. was incomplete. trips to the sea to catch fish. She asked the work and we have to repay loans worth in touch with the police whenever they care hub. COUNTER-INSURGENCY OPERATIONS Recruitments lacked 12%, 18% GST rates set to be Five militants transparency before I shot dead Over 200 militants killed in took over merged; 28% on sin goods: FM SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN in Kashmir J&K in 2017, says DGP Vaid MPOST BUREAU encounters MPOST BUREAU In today’s NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday hinted at merging 12 and 18 per- MPOST BUREAU SRINAGAR: For the first time in seven paper cent tax rates under GST once revenue collec- years, the number of militants killed tions picked up and said the top 28 percent SRINAGAR: Five militants in counter-insurgency operations in ... slab would be for a “very thin” list of luxury were on Thursday killed in Jammu and Kashmir has crossed 200, CITY and sin goods. two encounters with security according to the state police. The Goods and Services Tax (GST), rolled forces in Kashmir’s Budgam “Today by the collective effort of @ 3 UNIVERSITY BILLS PASSED 3 out on July 1, currently has four tax slabs of and Baramulla districts, offi- JmuKmrPolice, Indian Army, @crp- forces during counter-insurgency oper- 5, 12 18 and 28 percent. cials said here. findia, CAPF and people of Kashmir ations from 1 January to date this year, NATION There is also a zero percent tax on certain Security forces launched a have led to neutralisation of more than which is the highest since 2010. PM TO ADDRESS SEVEN RALLIES 6 essential daily use commodities. like India it would have been inflationary. cordon and search operation at 200 terrorists in the year of 2017 alone,” In 2010, 270 militants were killed. Jaitley said the new indirect tax regime “Can you have a GST in India where a Futlipora in Pakherpora area, Director General of Police (DGP) S P However, the number dropped to EDIT started with multiple rates to keep the tax Mercedes car and a hawai chappal is taxed 45 km from here, following Vaid tweeted. around 100 per year by the end of 2015. incidence around the same level that existed at the same rate? That’s socially not accept- information about the pres- The DGP’s tweet came on a day five In 2016, 165 militants were killed by BANISHING FRAUDULENT ROOTS 8 pre-GST. able,” Jaitley said. ence of militants in the area, militants were killed in two separate the security forces along the Line of Con- INTERNATIONAL Stating that the country would eventually He said before the implementation of an Army official said. encounters by the security forces in trol (LoC) and in the hinterland. move to a two-tier GST, he said that how fast GST on July 1, most of the goods, including He said the militants Kashmir’s Budgam and Baramulla dis- There has been an increase in civilian INDIANS LARGEST NON-EU MIGRANTS 10 it could be done would depend on the rev- geometry box, rubber bands, copy books, opened fire on security forces, tricts, officials said here.