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NEARBY Never spoke Cabinet approves SC allows Ayodhya mediation of imposing Hindi: Shah ban on e­cigarettes committee to resume talks Special Correspondent NEW DELHI It cites need to protect public health Hunt for missing jumbo Court hints that hearings of the appeals are likely to be completed by October 18 Union Home Minister Amit ends, mahout arrested Shah on Wednesday NEW DELHI Legal Correspondent claimed that he did not An elephant which had been New Delhi push for Hindi over region­ missing for the last two The Supreme Court on Wed­ al languages. months was rescued and its nesday allowed the Ayodhya Referring to his speech mahout arrested on late Tuesday night from east mediation committee to res­ on the occasion of Hindi Delhi. The 47­year­old ume talks with the disputing Divas on Saturday where jumbo, Laxmi, was sent to an Hindu and Muslim parties he made a pitch for a com­ elephant rescue centre at Ban even as it indicated that the mon language for India, Santour in Haryana around 9 ongoing hearings of the ap­ the Home Minister said p.m. on Wednesday, said peals before a Constitution that to end the confusion, forest department officials. Bench is likely to finish by people should listen to his CITY Ī PAGE 3 October 18. speech carefully but “if so­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Chief Justice of India Ran­ meone wants to do polit­ Court raps Delhi govt. jan Gogoi is scheduled to re­ ics, it is their choice.” over delay in sedition case tire on November 17. If the “I have just made the re­ NEW DELHI hearings are completed by quest. I have failed to un­ A city court on Wednesday October 18, the court will derstand what is wrong in pulled up the AAP have a month to write the that,” he said at an event government for “delaying” judgment for the over 70­ for over 25 days. The Bench continues to hear the menced from August 6. The organised by Hindi daily special correspondent prisonment of up to 6 the decision on a Delhi police year­old Ramjanmabhoomi­ said it may even relegate Sa­ appeals. Sunni Waqf Board is arguing Hindustan in Ranchi. NEW DELHI months or a fine of up to request for sanction to Babri Masjid title dispute. turdays for the Ayodhya The parties asked the me­ its case. Clarifying his com­ The Union Cabinet on Wed­ ₹50,000 or both. prosecute former JNUSU hearings if required. diators — former Supreme The mediation effort was ments, he said, “A child nesday approved a ban on e­ president Kanhaiya Kumar Another chance On September 17, the Court judge F.M.I Kalifulla, initiated by the court on can perform, a child’s cigarettes, citing the need to Children at risk and others in a sedition case. By giving mediation another court asked the lawyers to spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi March 8 in a bid to heal proper mental growth is take early action to protect “Envisioned as a tool to “The time which is being chance, the court has chalk out a timeline to pre­ Shankar and senior advocate minds and hearts. The possible only when the public health. combat tobacco addiction, taken to finalise the issue of opened the doors again for sent their oral arguments in Sriram Panchu — that talks Bench had explained that child studies in mother Upon promulgation of electronic cigarettes and sanction or otherwise has an amicable settlement of the appeals. The lawyers had should resume from the the case was “not about the tongue. Mother tongue the ordinance, any produc­ other vaping products have caused wastage of judicial the dispute among the par­ conveyed it on Wednesday, point where they were 1500 sq ft of disputed land, does not mean Hindi.” tion, manufacturing, im­ become a major problem time as the case has been ties. The mediation panel, if after which the Bench esti­ abruptly dropped at the last but about religious senti­ (With PTI inputs) port, export, transport, sale and increase the risk of chil­ listed and adjourned it is successful in patching up mated the hearings could be minute on July 29 due to re­ ments.” The mediation com­ (including online sale), dis­ dren adopting them,” Fi­ repeatedly since the filing of the chargesheet,” CMM a settlement, can move the closed by October 18. sistance from certain blocs mittee had held several tribution or advertisement nance Minister Nirmala Sith­ CONTINUED Manish Khurana said. court with the terms of the On September 16, the me­ across the religious divide, rounds of talks with the sta­ (including online advertise­ araman said at a media settlement anytime during diation committee filed in causing heartburn among keholders in Faizabad dis­ ON Ī PAGE 12 ment) of e­cigarettes shall briefing. CITY Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the hearings or after the parallel a short memoran­ other stakeholders. trict of Uttar Pradesh, of be a cognisable offence pun­ As per a release issued by judgment is reserved but be­ dum informing the court which the disputed area in ishable with imprisonment the Centre, owners of exist­ fore the verdict is that parties across the Hin­ In limbo Ayodhya is a part. The pro­ of up to one year, or fine up ing stocks of e­cigarettes on pronounced. du­Muslim divide had ap­ The Constitution Bench an­ ceedings were held in came­ to ₹1 lakh, or both for the the date of commencement The court said mediation proached it with a request to nounced the failure to reach ra and care was taken to first offence; and imprison­ of the ordinance will have to should continue to remain resume talks to amicably re­ a final settlement in a hear­ maintain confidentiality to ment of up to three years suo motu declare and depo­ confidential and would be solve the dispute. ing on August 2. Adjudica­ ensure its success. and fine up to ₹5 lakh for a sit these with the nearest carried on simultaneously The memorandum sug­ tion of the pending appeals, subsequent offence. Storage police station. with the court proceedings, gested that mediation could which were kept in limbo RAM CHABUTRA TURNS FOCAL of electronic­cigarettes shall POINT OF HEARING PAGE 13 which have been going on continue even as the court due to the mediation, com­ Ī also be punishable with im­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Xi­Modi meet likely to Pak. denies use Tabrez case accused face murder charge Fuel prices see skirt Kashmir issue of its airspace steepest hike for Modi’s flight Jharkhand Police does U­turn, submits supplementary chargesheet since July 5

China had criticised Centre’s move Special correspondent Mehmal Sarfraz special correspondent BHUBANESWAR the MGM Medical College Atul Aneja LAHORE and Hospital. New Delhi Beijing Pakistan on Wednesday an­ Making a U­turn in the Ta­ On the basis of the new re­ Oil marketing companies on China on Tuesday signalled nounced that it would not brez Ansari lynching case af­ port, police came to the con­ Wednesday raised petrol that the Kashmir issue is allow the use of its airspace ter allegations of attempts to clusion that the cardiac ar­ and diesel prices by 0.25 unlikely to be spotlighted for Prime Minister Narendra weaken the case, the Jhark­ rest was caused by the paise and 0.24 paise a litre, during the informal summit Modi’s flight to Germany. hand police submitted a sup­ preceding violence inflicted respectively, the largest in­ in India between Prime Mi­ The official Twitter account plementary chargesheet on with “hard and blunt ob­ crease in nearly two­and­a­ nister Narendra Modi and of the Government of Pakis­ Wednesday, seeking punish­ ject.” half months. Chinese President Xi tan (@pid_gov) shared a ment under Section 302 of Besides, the police have Petrol will now cost Jinping. short video of Foreign Minis­ the IPC (murder) against 11 of also received the integrity re­ ₹72.42 a litre and diesel “I think for those things Xi Jinping ter Shah Mahmood Qureshi the accused. Sahista Pervez, right, wife of Tabrez Ansari, being comforted port of the video in which ₹65.82 in Delhi, the refe­ like Kashmir... I don’t think making this announcement. Another two accused, by her mother. * FILE PHOTO Tabrez was seen brutally rence market for the nation. it will be a major topic occu­ whatever they like,” she Raveesh Kumar, MEA who were apprehended la­ beaten up. The latest hike is the second pying the talks, that is my said in response to a ques­ spokesperson, said, “We re­ ter, would also face murder port. earlier. In the report of the “There has been no tam­ consecutive large increase understanding,” Chinese tion. gret the decision of the Go­ charges. The Seraikela­Khar­ The Jharkhand police Forensic Science Laboratory, pering found in the viral vi­ in petrol and diesel prices. Foreign Ministry spokes­ China had earlier criti­ vernment of Pakistan to de­ sawan police had earlier headquarters, in a press doctors had opined that the deo. So during further inves­ On Tuesday, oil marketing person Hua Chunying said, cised India, especially for ny overflight clearance for dropped the murder charges statement, said: “The reason death was caused due to car­ tigation on the basis of companies increased the during an interaction with its August 5 decision to ac­ the VVIP special flight for a against the accused, con­ of death was reserved in diac arrest. But, the reason additional evidences, ac­ prices by 0.14 paise and 0.15 media from Asia and Africa, cord Union Territory status second time in two weeks, tending that Ansari had died view of pending viscera ex­ of heart attack was not cused have been charged un­ paise, respectively. undergoing an 11­month to Ladakh, which shares a which is otherwise granted of cardiac arrest due to amination in the postmor­ clear.” der section 302,” the police The increase on Wednes­ training course in China. disputed border with Chi­ routinely by any normal stress, and not injury. The tem report received by pol­ For further investigation, said. day was the largest since Ju­ “But for the leaders, they na. country. charges were changed on the ice during the time of police had sought an opinion ly 5. will be free to talk about CONTINUED Ī PAGE 12 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 13 basis of a fresh forensic re­ submission of charge sheet from a board of doctors of CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 13

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If He said a “political call” LEDUM was let out after dusk,” said A new office building for merely by inviting ideas, a would be taken after the Breaking the rules of the Tatiram Padung, another staff and all MPs linked to building falls, then I believe CPWD assesses the bids, road attracts little or no fine elder. Parliament via an under­ it's not an idea, it's someth­ the last day for which is in Arunachal Pradesh, unless In 2016­17, the village ground pathway or a new ing else,” he said. September 30. the “traffic law” violator is a committee collected ₹5,000 structure on top of the ex­ Speaking about the his­ pig or a cow in a village in in ‘bovine fine’. It fell to isting building are among Govt. to take call soon tory of the CPWD, which the Frontier State’s East ₹2,500 and ₹1,500 during the options the Centre is Later, speaking to repor­ was established 165 years Siang district. the subsequent financial open to as it works on its re­ ters, he said more space ago by the British, Mr. Puri Three years before the years. Only ₹500 has been development plan for the could be added “in the said: “CPWD was born in * RAHUL KARMAKAR Motor Vehicles Model village: The entrance to Ledum. collected since April this Central Vista, Union Hous­ Hardeep Singh Puri chamber” to make way for the 1850s, in Lord Dalhou­ (Amendment) Act, 2019, year. “The dip in fines is a ing and Urban Affairs Minis­ expansion of Parliament af­ sie's period. The buildings prescribed heavy penalties youth came out with their Ledum has 112 Adi good sign, implying the ter Hardeep Singh Puri said tral Public Works Depart­ ter future delimitation. constructed in that period for traffic violators across hunting guns and began households while three people are getting used to on Wednesday. ment had floated a request The offices of staff and reflected the colonial ethos India, the elders of Ledum shooting the pigs to let families belong to the Galo cleanliness, which is After the government's for proposal on September Ministers in Parliament cur­ that the country was sub­ village imposed fines on people know the rules were community. remarkable for a village that ambitious plan of redeve­ 2 asking architecture firms rently could be shifted to a jected to.” livestock loitering on the not to be taken lightly,” Tatar By early 2017, the village was once tagged the dirtiest loping Parliament, the 3­ to come up with designs for new building in the com­ He added that the rede­ road leading to district Taying, the 53­year­old gaon youth shot 10 pigs. The in central Arunachal,” said km Central Vista that the redevelopment. plex connected through an velopment of the Central headquarters Pasighat. burah (village elder), told pig­rearers have never since Ajay Kamsi, a cultural stretches from Rashtrapati Referring to the criti­ underground path, he said. Vista was only one part of The quantum of fine read: The Hindu. let the animals out. activist. He attributed much Bhavan till India Gate and cism, Mr. Puri said, while In his speech earlier, Mr. Prime Minister Narendra a bullet for a pig, ₹500 for a A gun is a prized The fine on the cows was of the change in the mindset development of a common speaking at a seminar on Puri had said the option of Modi's dream. cow and the possibility of it possession for many men of conditional, though. “We to John Pada, a local and Central Secretariat was an­ trends in architecture or­ making a “dhaancha” or “He has a vision for In­ being auctioned off. the Adi community whose kept grazing in mind and let now the Superintendent of nounced last week, some ganised by the CPWD here, structure on top was also dia,” he said. “It was difficult at first to festivals include Aran that the cattle use the road Police of Kamle district, who architects raised concerns that he “did not want to en­ on the table. The new impose the fine. Some village involves community hunting. during the day. But owners spread awareness. about the project. The Cen­ gage” with it. “Who said we building would also hold of­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CM M ND-NDE YK