Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] Postal Registration Order No HD/1188/2014-16 www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: APENG/2010/35309 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Issue No: 336 Published from Hyderabad & New Delhi Hyderabad, Saturday, December 31, 2016 Price: 3.00 No: 7 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Mamata dares Modi Russia-US row: Putin Roger Federer launches government to arrest all rules out tit-for-tat injury comeback at Trinamool MPs, MLAs expulsion of diplomats Hopman Cup P-5 P-8 P-11 Briefs Mulayam expels Akhilesh, Make public RBI’s Nov 8 Ram Gopal for 6 years board meeting minutes, Cabinet note: Congress New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The had pre-defined roles. “As far as I Congress on Friday reiterated know, the RBI Board met around its demand for making pub- 5.30 p.m. on November 8. The lic the minutes of a meeting of Board has 14 members, but 10 the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) positions are vacant. Only three Board on November 8 -- hours members attended the meeting before the Prime Minister an- that lasted barely half an hour,” nounced the demonetisation he said. Lucknow, Dec 30 (IANS) over the list of SP candidates than the party chief and the -- as well as the Union Cabinet “Now, in those 30 minutes, Samajwadi Party chief Mu- finalised by Mulayam Singh decision was taken to give note of that day. how the three wise men decided layam Singh Yadav on Friday for assembly polls due next a “strong message” to party “We demand that the minutes to scrap 86 per cent of the coun- expelled his son and Uttar year. cadres. and agenda of the meeting of the try’s currency is something that Pradesh Chief Minister Akh- The Akhilesh faction with He also accused Ram Gopal RBI Board as well as the Cabinet should be in the public domain. ilesh Yadav from the party Ram Gopal Yadav’s support of damaging the future pros- note of November 8 should be We demand, and the RBI has an for six years for “indulging in came up with a separate list of pects of Akhilesh Yadav. made public. The people have obligation, to disclose the agen- Swara Bhaskar is all set to play the anti-party activities”. He said candidates, sparking a crisis. “The party is our priority... the right to know as to how things da and the minutes of that meet- protagonist in movies the party would now elect “I am expelling both Akh- both of them indulged in in- transpired on that day,” senior ing,” the senior Congress leader a new Chief Minister in the ilesh and Ram Gopal Yadav discipline,” he said. Congress leader and former Fi- added. poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. from the party for six years,” Asked who would be the nance Minister P. Chidambaram “The RBI Board, within half UAE church says ‘working’ for Also expelled was and party Mulayam Singh told report- new Chief Minister, Mulayam said. an hour, sent its recommenda- release of kidnapped Indian priest General Secretary Ram Gopal ers at a hurriedly-called press Singh: “We will decide that.” Dubbing demonetisation a de- tion to scrap the old notes to the Yadav who had, earlier in the conference here. Mulayam also appealed cision taken “without consulting Cabinet, which was waiting. So Dubai, Dec 30 (IANS) The Apostolic Vi- day called a national conven- Mulayam Singh said “no party workers to not attend key officials”, Chidambaram said everything was working accord- cariate of Southern Arabia said it has got tion of the Samajwadi Party one has the right to call na- the convention called by the everything worked “as per the set ing to a script and everyone had “strong indications” that Father Tom Uz- on January 1 following a rift tional council meeting” other Akhilesh-Ram Gopal faction. script” wherein all the players his role defined,” he said. hunnalil, the Indian priest who was kid- napped by Islamic State terrorists in Yemen earlier this year, is alive. The Prime The church said it is making “all efforts to Ready for talks on India’s secure a safe release” of the priest kidnapped Minister, Shri from Aden in March, Khaleej Times reported NSG bid but opposed to Narendra on Friday. Modi ad- A video of Father Uzhunnalil had surfaced dressing the this week in which he made an appeal to the UN ban on Azhar: China Indian government, Pope Francis and Bishop New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) certed efforts to effectively gathering at Paul Hinder (the current Vicar Apostolic of the With Beijing blocking its counter all forms of terror- the DigiD- Vicariate), to save his life. move to list JeM chief ism, and confirms preva- han Mela, in In the video, Uzhunnalil said that there have Masood Azhar as a UN des- lence of double standards in New Delhi on been reports in the media that everything was ignated terrorist, India on the fight against terrorism,” being done to secure his release “but in reality Friday said the development said the Ministry of External December 30, nothing seems to have happened”. reflected “double standards” Affairs in a statement. 2016. PIB in the fight against terror- In April, China had blocked CBI moves HC seeking ism and was “surprising” as India’s move to label the cancellation of Tyagi’s bail China was itself a victim of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief a terrorism. terrorist, a decision that had Modi launches mobile payment app BHIM New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The Central Bu- “We note with concern angered New Delhi which has New Delhi, Dec 30 was very simple to use and utha chchap’. Now, time made news but now the reau of Investigation on Friday approached the China’s decision to block been trying to convince Bei- (IANS) Prime Minister a thumb impression was has changed. Your thumb nation is talking about Delhi High Court to seek cancellation of bail to the proposal to list Masood jing to reconsider the decision. Narendra Modi on Friday enough to operate it. is your bank now. It has money coming back into former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief S.P. Tyagi Azhar as a designated terror- In September, it had extended launched an Aadhaar- Modi said the govern- become your identity the system. in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case. ist under the 1267 Sanctions its decision to put a technical based mobile payment ment was working to now.” “Look at the newspapers Justice Vipin Sanghi issued notice to Tyagi Committee of the UN Secu- hold on the UN’s 1267 Com- application at ‘DigiDhan launch a new security fea- He dedicated the new or video clips from three and asked him to file a reply by January 3. rity Council which had been mittee declaring Azhar a ter- Mela’ here to promote and ture, by using which trans- app to Dr B.R. Ambedkar years ago -- the news was Tyagi -- the first chief of any wing of the presented nine months ago rorist by three months. Calling make digital transactions actions could be carried and said: “The mantra of all about what we lost in armed forces to be arrested in the country -- and had received the strong the action surprising, the MEA easier. out without a phone and Dr Ambedkar was to work scams. However, today, and two others were allegedly involved in ir- backing of all other members statement said: “This decision The app is called BHIM Internet etc. for the uplift of the poor. it is about what has come regularities in the procurement of 12 AW-101 of the Committee.” by China is surprising as Chi- (Bharat Interface for Mon- “Be it a smartphone or And the biggest power of back or what is the gain,” VVIP helicopters from Britain-based Agus- “The inability of the inter- na herself has been affected by ey) -- a re-branded version feature phone of Rs 1,000- technology is that it can Modi said. The Prime taWestland. national community to list the scourge of terrorism and of UPI (Unified Payment 1,200, BHIM app can be empower the poor.” Minister recalled the days Tyagi was granted bail by a trial court on its leader Masood Azhar is an has declared opposition to all Interface) and USSD (Un- used. There is no need to Taking a dig at the Con- when India was called December 26. He was the Air Force chief from unfortunate blow to the con- forms of terrorism. structured Supplementary have Internet connectivity. gress, Modi said during the ‘sone ki chidiya’ (bird of 2004 to 2007. Service Data). One only needs a thumb. earlier United Progressive gold) and said the nation The CBI challenged the trial court’s order Speaking on the occa- There was a time when an Alliance rule at the Centre, still had the potential to dated December 26. Trinamool MP arrested in sion, Modi said BHIM app illiterate was called ‘ang- money lost in the scams become the same again. BSE 26,626.46 Sensex chit fund scam by the National Disaster Response NSE 8,185.80 Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Tri- with fellow party MP Sudip 10 dead in Jharkhand mine Force with assistance from the ECL, GOLD 22 CT 28,350 namool MP Tapas Paul was Bandyopadhyay for interro- the Bharat Coking Coal Limited on Friday arrested by the CBI gation in relation to the ponzi cave-in, probes ordered (BCCL), the state government and SILVER 1 KG 39,900 in the Rose Valley chit fund scam.