RNI NO.: DELENG/2005/15351 millenniumpost.in REGD. NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 208 | Saturday, 29 July 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10014.50 (-6.05) qSENSEX 32,309.88 (-73.42) qDOW JONES 21,771.03 (-25.52) qNASDAQ 6,361.93 (+10.57) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.15 (-00.04) qRUPEE/EURO 75.20 (-0.17) qGOLD/10GM 29,300 (-150.00) qSILVER/K 39,150 (-225.00) Quick News44 WILL YOUNGER BROTHER SHAHBAZ REPLACE NAWAZ AS PRIME MINISTER? Nitish wins trust vote Swaraj directs Indian HC OUR CORRESPONDENT PATNA: The Nitish Kumar to give visa to Pak patient Pakistan SC disqualifies government on Friday won the crucial floor test in the Bihar NEW DELHI: Pakistan would have changed Assembly, securing 131 votes had Sushma Swaraj been prime minister, a against the opposition’s 108. grateful Pakistani woman said after India’s Four members in the external affairs minister directed the Indian Sharif, forces his exit 243-member house could not the confidence vote went inside High Commission in Islamabad to issue a visa vote, reducing the total strength one lobby where they signed a for medical treatment. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme The federal Cabinet also stands of the house during the trust register; those against it headed Swaraj’s direction to India’s High Commis- Court on Friday disqualified Prime dissolved. vote to 239. for another lobby and signed a sioner in Pakistan Gautam Bambawale came on Minister Nawaz Sharif for dishon- Though there was no official With the effective strength register. Friday after a woman, Hijaab Asif, sought the esty and ruled that corruption announcement, PML-N sources of the House reduced to 239 At the end, the speaker her urgent intervention in giving visa to a Paki- cases be filed against him and his said Shahbaz Sharif, the younger during voting, Bihar’s new gov- announced the result of the stani who required medical treatment. children over the Panama Papers brother of Nawaz, was most likely ernment needed 120 votes to trust vote, with 131 in favour Touched by Swaraj’s prompt response, Asif scandal, forcing the embattled to succeed him as Prime Minister win the confidence vote. of the NDA and 108 against it. said, “Lots and Lots of Love and respect from leader to resign. after the court verdict. While Raj Bhallav Yadav The 131 votes in favour of here. Wish you were our prime minister. this It is the third time that the However, a name has not of the RJD could not attend as Nitish Kumar comprised JD(U) country would have changed.” Minutes after 67-year-old veteran politician’s been announced for the interim he is in jail, BJP’s Anand Shan- 70, BJP 52, HAM 1, RLSP 2, LJP Swaraj’s tweet to Bambawale, the Indian mission term as premier has been cut prime minister, who will fill the kar Pandey was absent as he is 2 and Independent 4. tweeted that it was in touch with the applicant. short. The much- awaited verdict 45-day vacuum until Shahbaz, 65, undergoing medical treatment The 108 votes against it P5 plunged Pakistan into a political is elected to a National Assembly outside the state. Congress’ comprised RJD 79, Congress crisis at a time when the country seat. Sudarshan could not vote due to 26 and CPI-ML 3. SC rejects SpiceJet’s appeals is facing a brittle economy and a Following the court verdict, a technical reasons as he was out The speaker’s effort to surge in militancy. spokesperson of Pakistan Muslim of the House when the doors decide the fate of the confidence As the unanimous verdict by League Nawaz (PML-N) said in a were shut for lobby division. motion through voice vote in dispute with Maran the five-judge bench was read out statement that Sharif had stepped Speaker Vijay Kumar failed twice following shouting by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan inside down as the Prime Minister. Chaudhary did not participate from both the treasury and the NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday the packed courtroom 1 of the Nawaz Sharif FILE PHOTO The court also ordered a crim- in the voting. opposition benches. dismissed the appeals of budget carrier SpiceJet Supreme Court, a large number inal investigation into the assets CM Nitish Kumar and Dep- Senior RJD MLA Abdul challenging the Delhi High Court verdict ask- of opposition Pakistan Tehreek- state that a member of Parlia- court ordered the Election Com- of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, uty CM Sushil Kumar Modi did Bari Siddiqui demanded secret ing it to deposit Rs 579 crore in connection with e-Insaf workers celebrated outside ment should be “truthful” and mission to issue a notification for Sharif’s trusted aide, and Captain not take part in the voting as voting but was rejected by the a share transfer dispute with its previous owner chanting the slogan, ‘Go, Nawaz, “r i g h t e o u s”. Sharif’s disqualification. Muhammad Safdar, who is Shar- both are members of the Leg- speaker. Kalanithi Maran. G o’. “He is disqualified as a member Following the order, the Elec- if’s son-in-law and a Member of islative Council. However, they At the end of the confidence “We are rejecting (the appeals),” a bench The court disqualified Sharif of the parliament so he has ceased tion Commission de-notified National Assembly (MNA). Earlier, were present in the house. vote, the speaker announced its comprising justices R F Nariman and S K Kaul under Article 62 and 63 of Paki- to be holding the office of Prime Sharif from NA-120 constituency media reports in Pakistan had said In the voting under lobby adjournment for an indefinite said while upholding the July three judgement stan’s Constitution. The articles Minister,” Justice Khan said. The (in Lahore). that they had been disqualified. division, members in favour of period. See P6 of the high court. The appeals were filed in the apex court by SMRITI IRANI, EX-CONG MLA RAJPUT ALSO FILE NOMINATION the airline and its co-founder Ajay Singh. P7 Doval calls on Prez Xi Jagan Reddy PMLA Mandate was to case: ED attaches with other BRICS NSAs `148 cr assets Amit Shah files nomination serve people of Bihar, MPOST BUREAU not one family GANDHINAGAR: BJP chief Amit Shah, Union NITISH KUMAR minister Smriti Irani and newly inducted for- mer Congress MLA Balwantsinh Rajput, who resigned on Thursday and joined the saffron party, on Friday filed their nomination papers In today’s for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. While Shah and Irani were nominated by paper the central leadership a few days back, Rajput, MPOST BUREAU who was Congress’ chief whip in the Assembly, ... was declared the BJP’s third candidate shortly CITY HYDERABAD: The ED has after he quit both from the House and the party three MLAs, including Rajput, quit on Thurs- Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses NSAs including Ajit Doval in Beijing PTI attached assets worth over Rs yesterday. day and joined the ruling party, as many others METRO GETS GREEN RECOGNITION 4 148 crore in connection with Rajput is pitted against senior Congress resigned on Friday. NATION BEIJING: The National Security tegic mutual trust between the BRICS its money laundering probe in leader Ahmed Patel, who has been re-nominated It is believed that the resignations have been Advisor Ajit Doval and other top countries, security cooperation, all of cases related to YSR Congress for the August 8 Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat. orchestrated at the behest of former Congress INDRANI SAT ON SHEENA’S FACE 7 security czars of the BRICS nations you have made a lot of effort,” he said. leader Jagan Mohan Reddy Of the total 11 Rajya Sabha members from strongman Shankersinh Vaghela, who had on Friday called on Chinese President The BRICS cooperation has 10 and others, the agency said. the state, the term of three -- Smriti Irani and resigned from the party as also as the Leader of EDIT Xi Jinping, who praised their efforts years of history and the five-member “ED attaches land worth Dilipbhai Pandya (both BJP) and Ahmed Patel Opposition (LoP) last week. He, however, con- in enhancing mutual trust and coop- group of emerging countries have Rs 148.89 crore in Andhra -- is ending on August 18. tinues to be an MLA and said he would resign INDIAN MARKET GROWS 8 eration despite the vast geographical carried on meaningful cooperation Pradesh under PMLA of com- The Congress nominee can sail through if he from the Assembly after the RS poll. INTERNATIONAL distance among the member nations. despite geographical distance and dif- panies of Nimmagadda Prasad musters the support of 47 MLAs. Talking to media after the trio filed their The meeting comes amid a stand- ferent political systems establishing a in YS Jagan Mohan Reddy In the 182-member Assembly, the strength nominations on Friday, BJP in-charge for Guja- BARCELONA TRAIN CRASH INJURES 54 10 off between China and India in Doka- new type of international relations, case,” the agency said. of Congress has gone down to 51, as six of its rat, Bhupendra Yadav exuded confidence that all lam area in the Sikkim sector. the Chinese president said. A provisional attachment MLAs have resigned since Thursday. While the party candidates would sail through. BUSINESS After day-long deliberations over The BRICS NSAs meeting order under the PMLA law GOVT TO EXAMINE CRYPTO CURRENCIES 12 improving cooperation in a number focussed on global governance, coun- has been issued, a senior offi- of areas, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, ter-terrorism, cyber security and cial said.