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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY India aware of ₹25,000­cr. fund to Maharashtra BJP brass to meet Pak. ‘motive’ on Kartarpur help housing sector Governor to stake claim today Suhasini Haidar NEW DELHI Centre, SBI and LIC to pool funds Cong., BJP spar over Mandate for the NCP and Congress to sit in Opposition, says Sharad Pawar Pakistan’s military has a NMML Society rejig “strategic purpose” in NEW DELHI Alok Deshpande opening up the Kartarpur The BJP on Wednesday Sharad Vyas corridor, and India is wary defended the Culture Mumbai of its “ulterior motive” to Ministry’s decision to remove The end to the impasse over fan Sikh separatism in Pun­ Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Mallikarjun Kharge government formation in jab, said government and Karan Singh from the Maharashtra is in sight with sources here on Wednes­ Nehru Memorial Museum and a delegation of senior Bhara­ day. However, the Modi go­ Library Society, which was tiya Janata Party (BJP) lead­ vernment is still commit­ reconstituted on Tuesday. ers scheduled to meet Gover­ ted to going ahead with the NEWS Ī PAGE 12 nor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at project, due to be inaugu­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 10.30 a.m. on Thursday to rated on Saturday. JNU students continue stake claim. “There is a duality in the protest against fee hike Senior leader and a mem­ corridor,” said an official. NEW DELHI ber of the BJP core commit­ “As conceived, the corri­ Thousands of students of tee Sudhir Mungantiwar said dor has a strategic purpose Jawaharlal Nehru University on Wednesday after the se­ for Pakistan …[but] India on Wednesday continued cond round of meetings at has walked into this with their protest against a revised Chief Minister Devendra its eyes open, and as a de­ Special Correspondent “The fund size will initial­ hostel manual that proposes Fadnavis’ residence, “You mocratic government re­ NEW DELHI ly be ₹25,000 crore with the a “mammoth” increase in cannot split water, no matter cognised the wishes of the The Union Cabinet has ap­ government providing hostel fees. how much you try to. Shiv Sikh community.” proved the creation of an Al­ ₹10,000 crore and the State CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Sena and the BJP are togeth­ On Wednesday, India ternative Investment Fund Bank of India and the Life er. We had a good meeting Road Transport & Highways waiting for the BJP­Shiv Sena objected to photographs of (AIF) of ₹25,000 crore to Insurance Corporation pro­ Man lynched, another No plan for over the farmers’ issue to­ Nitin Gadkari and senior alliance to form the govern­ former Sikh separatist provide last­mile funding viding the balance,” Ms. injured in Jharkhand day. We should wait for the Congress leader Ahmed Pa­ ment so that the NCP­Con­ leader Jarnail Singh Bhin­ for stalled affordable and Sitharaman said. “The fund BOKARO (JHARKHAND) President’s A man was lynched and news, the good news can tel in New Delhi set off spec­ gress could begin working as dranwale and other “terro­ middle­income housing is not capped at ₹25,000 another was seriously injured come anytime.” ulation as it came amid polit­ an “effective Opposition.” Rule: Governor rists from the 1980s” as projects across the country, crore and will likely grow as The Governor’s office has ical uncertainty over “Shiv Sena and BJP have well as pictures of posters Finance Minister Nirmala a lot of sovereign funds have when a group of people Amid a looming thrashed them for allegedly been informed of the visit by government formation in been in alliance for 25 years. calling for a “Referendum Sitharaman announced on shown interest.” constitutional crisis in stealing the battery of a truck the BJP delegation. “We are Maharashtra. There is no question of 2020”, in a promotional vi­ Wednesday. The funds will be set up Maharashtra, Governor in Bokaro district on hoping for the deadlock to The Congress leader, ho­ anyone else forming the go­ deo released by the Pakis­ The Minister had an­ as Category­II Alternative In­ Wednesday, a senior police end tomorrow,” said a per­ wever, maintained that he vernment in Maharashtra. Bhagat Singh Koshyari said tan Information Depart­ nounced the proposal to vestment Fund registered officer said here. son familiar with the matter met Mr. Gadkari to discuss They will come together on Wednesday that he had ment. The objectionable create this fund in mid­Sep­ with the Securities and Ex­ NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 5 in the Governor’s office. road and infrastructure pro­ sooner or later. The people no intention whatsoever of references were deleted tember, which the Cabinet change Board of India and DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Sources said a Sena dele­ jects in Gujarat and that go­ have given us the mandate to imposing President’s Rule from the version of the vi­ has now approved. All affor­ will be managed by SBICAP gation led by Eknath Shinde vernment formation in Mah­ sit in the Opposition and we in a hurry. “No Governor deo tweeted out by the Pa­ dable and middle­income Ventures Limited. and Subhash Desai also met arashtra did not figure in will do it effectively,” Mr. Pa­ would want to impose kistan government official housing projects that are net According to the govern­ BJP leaders on the sidelines their talks. war said at a press President’s Rule. The ideal handle, however. worth positive and are regis­ ment’s estimates, there are of a meeting held to review In a related development, conference. situation would be if the tered with the Real Estate more than 1,600 housing the unseasonal rains in the Nationalist Congress Party (Inputs from Sandeep parties themselves find a INDIA RAISES SECURITY Regulatory Authority (RE­ projects in which 4.58 lakh State. (NCP) president Sharad Pa­ Phukan in New Delhi) solution and come CONCERNS WITH PAK. Ī PAGE 13 RA) and that have not been crore units are stalled. Meanwhile, a meeting war said at a press confe­ forward to stake claim,” he REPLICATE KARTARPUR deemed liquidation­worthy between Union Minister for rence in Mumbai that he was CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 told The Hindu. Ī PAGE 12 MODEL: MANMOHAN Ī PAGE 13 will be eligible. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Over 18,000 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC BSNL staff Season’s first Sort out differences amicably, opt for VRS Delhi HC tells police, lawyers Yuthika Bhargava New Delhi CRPF personnel deployed at police headquarters Within days of the state­ run telecom operator Soibam Rocky Singh BSNL opening its voluntary New Delhi retirement scheme (VRS), The Delhi High Court on 18,400 employees have Wednesday urged the repre­ opted for it. The loss­mak­ sentatives of lawyers and ing PSU had rolled out the police to hold a joint meet­ scheme for its employees, ing to “sort out their diffe­ following the Union Cabi­ rences amicably”. net nod to a nearly The suggestion from the ₹70,000­crore revival court came on a day when package for BSNL and CRPF personnel were de­ MTNL last month. This in­ ployed at the police head­ cluded ₹30,000 crore for quarters and lawyers ab­ Lawyers protesting against the Delhi police at the Saket VRS for the two firms. stained from work in all Court Complex in New Delhi on Wednesday. * R.V. MOORTHY For BSNL employees, district courts in the capital. the VRS option will remain An argument over park­ Delhi police personnel with of the police personnel in­ open till December 4. The ing at the Tis Hazari Court their families staging an un­ volved in the clash, conti­ scheme was opened on No­ Complex between police precedented 11­hour protest nued for the third day on vember 3. “Till 7 p.m., over and lawyers on Saturday led at the police headquarters Wednesday. 18,400 BSNL employees, of to violence in which people here on Tuesday seeking the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 the over 1 lakh eligible staff, from both sides were in­ arrest of the lawyers in­ LAWYERS, POLICEMEN CLASH have opted for VRS,” a jured. volved. IN ALWAR Ī PAGE 12 Ī source told The Hindu. Chilling out: Tourists get ready for skiing during the first spell of snow in Gulmarg, north Kashmir, on Wednesday.* NISSAR AHMAD The issue has since snow­ Meanwhile, the strike by SEE ALSO PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC balled, with thousands of lawyers, demanding arrest EDITORIAL Ī PAGE 10 Chargesheet filed in Chinmayanand case Govt. may lift ‘Wean farmers off stubble burning’ odd­even on Probe team to file final report in Allahabad HC on Nov. 28 Supreme Court sets three­month deadline for Centre to prepare scheme Nov. 11, 12 Press Trust of India umentary evidence. duce or seduce” a woman un­ Legal Correspondent The court would take a vernment three weeks to re­ Shahjahanpur (U.P.) The contents of the char­ der his charge to have “sexual Special Correspondent NEW DELHI decision on the sharing of fi­ pair the potholes. The Special Investigation gesheet were not immediate­ intercourse not amounting to New Delhi The Supreme Court on Wed­ nancial liability between the The Bench sat hours Team probing sexual harass­ ly available as the probe team the offence of rape”. The Aam Aadmi Party go­ nesday ordered the Centre Centre and the States on a beyond regular hours to ad­ ment allegations against has to file a final report in the The four accused in the ex­ vernment on Wednesday to prepare a comprehensive later date.