Strength does not come from THURSDAY physical capacity. It comes from OCTOBER 10, 2019 an indomitable will. CHANDIGARH VOL. XXIII, NO. 241 Mahatma Gandhi PAGES 12 Rs. 2 YUGMARGYOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER India eye series victory Polls: Police intensifies vigil in SRK keen on making a against Proteas in Pune border areas 'hit kind' of film ...PAGE 12 .... PAGE 3 ...PAGE 10 Not for other countries Shah slams Congress for to comment: India on mocking ‘Shastra Puja’ Xi-Khan Kashmir talks AGENCY 5% DA hike for NEW DELHI, OCT 9 central employees, Hours after Chinese President Xi Jin- ping said he was watching the situa- pensioners Reiterates target of 75 in Haryana tion in Kashmir and would support NEW DELHI: The government Pakistan in issues related to its core in- on Wednesday announced the RANVIR PARASHAR terests, India said it is not for other highest-ever 5 percentage points KAITHAL, OCT 9 countries to comment on the internal increase in dearness allowance affairs of India. (DA) which will bring cheers to 50 Union Home Minister and National Presi- In response to a query from media lakh central employees and 65 dent of BJP Amit Shah today reiterated that on reference to Kashmir in the meeting lakh pensioners ahead of Diwali. his party would achieve its target by winning between Chinese President Xi Jinping The Union Cabinet chaired by at least 75 seats in the forthcoming assembly and Pakistan PM Imran Khan, official Prime Minister Narendra Modi polls. Addressing a huge gathering here in spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, approved the 5 per cent addition- al DA/DR (dearness relief) over sector 19 HUDA , Shah called upon the peo- “We have seen the report regarding the existing rate of 12 per cent of ple to vote and support BJP and uproot all the meeting of Chinese President Xi Jin- the basic pay/pension due in opposition parties from the state. He ping with Pakistan’s Prime Minister in Beijing that the right and wrong of July, 2019, the government said. slammed Congress for its leaders mocking Imran Khan which also refers to their the situation in Kashmir was clear and The decision will cost the ex- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh performing discussions on Kashmir. India’s posi- that India and Pakistan should resolve chequer Rs 16,000 crore, Infor- 'Shashtra Puja' after receiving the first Rafale tion has been consistent and clear that their differences through dialogue, the mation and Broadcasting Minis- fighter jet in France. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part official Xinhua News Agency had re- ter Prakash Javadekar said while Addressing an election rally here, Shah of India. China is well aware of our ported. briefing media on the decisions also targeted Congress over not being able to position. It is not for other countries to Xi’s meeting with Imran Khan taken by the Cabinet. repeal Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir comment on the internal affairs of In- came just days before his informal over its long rule even as people of the coun- dia.” summit with Prime Minister Narendra try wanted so. Xi told visiting Pakistan Prime Modi in Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu Sudhanshu "On August 5, Prime Minister Narendra Minister Imran Khan during a meeting on October 11 and 12. Modi repealed Article 370. For seventy years Trivedi elected every citizen has this feeling that Jammu and Kashmir is not fully integrated with the No place for Infiltrators Sedition case against celebs who to RS from UP country. Those who ruled for three-three Modi in particular, every day, Mr Shah al- KAITHAL: Home minister made it clear that the LUCKNOW: BJP national generations did not have guts to remove Ar- leged. But, he assured that all illegal immi- infiltrators would be made to leave the country wrote open letter to PM dropped spokesperson Sudhanshu Trive- ticle 370," he said. grants will be sent out of the country, much before the next general elections and NRC MUZAFFARPUR: Police here on Wednesday ordered closure of a sedition case di on Wednesday elected to the He also introduced all the candidates of before the next general Lok Sabha elections would be implemented across the country. He lodged against close to 50 acclaimed artists and intellectuals who wrote a letter to Rajya Sabha in the bypolls to fill party from Kalayat, Kaithal, Pundri and in 2024. He sarcastically remarked that Con- said that no infiltrator would be allowed to reside Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year seeking his intervention in the rising in- the seat which fell vacant follow- Guhla-Cheeka to the audience and sought the gress Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, sit- in the country.While targeting Congress leader cidence of mob lynching. Muzaffarpur SSP Manoj Kumar Sinha said order has been ing death of former Union minis- votes in the name of NAMO and MANO. He ting Kaithal MLA and party's candidate, too Randeep Singh Surjewala who is party candi- issued by him for closure of the case as investigation so far revealed that allegations ter Arun Jaitley. praised CM Manohar Lal for his transparent suffered from some complex and always date from the seat, Shah said that people of were levelled against the accused out of “mischief” and “lacked substance”. Trivedi was elected unopposed administration and the method of giving em- spoke against BJP and Mr Modi, even when Kaithal will make him understand the conse- Among those booked for alleged sedition after they wrote an open letter to Prime Min- and was handed over the certifi- ployment to the youth in the state. It has be- the Prime Minister got a warm welcome on quences of "opposing" NRC. He said that oppo- ister Narendra Modi against growing incidents of lynching included Aparna Sen, Adoor cate after the expiry of the time come the habit of Congress to criticise the tour to foreign nations, which was a matter of sition has no issue to raise before public and all Gopalakrishnan, Ramchandra Guha, Anurag Kashyap. of withdrawal at the vidhan sab- their leaders are busy in raising irrelevant issues. ha today. BJP in general and Prime Minister Narendra great honour for the whole country. The BJP leader, a PhD holder in Mechanical Engineering, has been working for the party for a long time. India-France Defence Dialogue Congress to boycott BDC polls in J&K He was a part of the 4-member committee which was responsi- ble for the campaign during 2014 AGENCY porters here at a press confer- the polls without the partici- Lok Sabha polls. to enhance strategic ties: Rajnath JAMMU, OCT 9 ence. pation of prominent political The Rajya Sabha term of Jaitley, He said, ''We asked the parties,'' Mr Mir added. How- who passed away on August 24, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh administration to defer the ever, he said on the one hand, was to end on April 2, 2024. AGENCY Congress Committee on polls by two to three months the Centre has announced PARIS, OCT 9 Wednesday announced to but our demand was not con- Jammu and Kashmir and boycott the upcoming Block sidered. Our leaders are de- Ladakh as new Union Territo- 4 killed as car falls Defence minister Rajnath Singh Development Council polls in tained and the situation is not ries but simultaneously hold- concluded the annual India-France protest against continued de- conducive so finally we de- ing BDC polls without 73rd into gorge in Tehri Defence Dialogue with French tention of its leaders. cided to boycott the BDC amendment. ''As J&K and DEHRADUN: Four people were Armed Forces minister Florence The party which had ear- polls.'' Ladakh becomes UTs then all killed when a car in which they Parly in Paris, with enhanced lier agreed to participate in tion Commission also regard- PDP and National Con- Centre laws automatically be- were travelling fell into a deep strategic ties on top of his agenda. the electoral process, took a ing the prevailing situation in ference are also not taking comes applicable here and if gorge in Uttarakhand's Tehri dis- Singh was received by a mili- U-turn today. Jammu and Kashmir on Sep- part in the exercise for the so, then without 73rd amend- trict on Wednesday, police said. tary guard of honour at Hotel de Today happens to be the tember 5 and requested for same reason, he said. ''If they ment, BDC polls are null and One person was also injured in Brienne, the headquarters of the last day for filing of nomina- the release our leaders under want to ensure BJP's victory void as they are not being con- the accident which occurred near French Armed Forces ministry in tions for the October 24 polls. house arrest,'' JKPCC chief and give them a ''walkover'', ducted as per Central Laws Ulad on Kirtinagar-Silkhakhal mo- Paris, on Tuesday night at end of a ''We approached the Elec- Ghulam Ahmed Mir told re- then let them go ahead with Act,'' Mr Mir claimed. tor road on Tuesday evening, packed day's schedule during which he re- with a meeting at Elysee Palace with Presi- they said. The car fell into a 300-metre- ceived the delivery of the first Rafale com- dent Emmanuel Macron for talks described deep gorge killing the four people bat jet for the Indian Air Force (IAF). as a warm and productive , as both leaders on the spot, the State Emergency This marks a new milestone in the Indo- resolved to take the India-France relation- More Pak drones spotted Three scientists get Nobel Operation Centre said.