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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 268 | Thursday, 28 September 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 9735.75 (-135.75) qSENSEX 31,159.81 (-439.95) pDOW JONES 22,344.21 (+59.89) pNASDAQ 6,425.42 (+45.26) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.72 (+0.73) pRUPEE/EURO 77.04 (+0.17) pGOLD/10GM 31,000 (+220.00) qSILVER/K 40,800 (-470.00) ELDERLY WOMAN HC SEEKS GOVT’S GOVT PLANING TO ‘I ENJOY DRESSING KILLED IN EAST REPLY ON PLEA FOR SELL STAKE IN UP IN DELHI, DAUGHTER- GENDER-NEUTRAL ONGC OILFIELDS TO TRADITIONAL IN-LAW HELD PG4 RAPE LAW PG6 PRIVATE FIRMS PG13 CLOTHES’ PG16 Quick News44 ‘GOVT TO END BLACK MONEY, WON’T FLINCH DUE TO CRITICISM’ It was US which treated Central Govt docs’ age of retirement raised to 65 India fastest growing, Hafiz & co as ‘darlings’: Pak NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Foreign Min- NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday ister has acknowledged that Mumbai decided to increase the retirement age of Central terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, Government doctors including those working the Haqqanis and the LeT are “liabili- under the AYUSH ministry and in the railways BJP reminds Yashwant ties” for the country but it does not to 65 years. The retirement age of doctors in OUR CORRESPONDENT have the required “assets” to get rid of some departments is 60 years and in some oth- them. Khawaja Asif said that the US, ers, it is 62. The decision to this effect was taken which is putting pressure on Pakistan on Wednesday by the Union Cabinet, chaired by NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday to tackle terrorist groups operating Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister rejected its former Finance Minister Yas- from its soil, once used to treat them Ravi Shankar Prasad said. P7 hwant Sinha’s criticism of the state of the as “darlings” just 20 to 30 years back. Indian economy, insisting that our coun- US President Donald Trump had try is the fastest growing in the world and last month criticised Pakistan for its Close escape for SpiceJet some “uncertainty” is bound to occur support to terror groups, saying it when “transformative” measures like receives billions in US aid but contin- passengers at Kabul airport demonetisation and GST are taken. Top ues to harbour militants. “Don’t blame party leaders defended the economic sit- us for the Haqqanis (the Haqqani ter- the forum, Asif said that there was no NEW DELHI: Nearly 180 passengers and crew uation after Sinha slammed the govern- ror network) and don’t blame us for military solution to the festering con- on board a Delhi-bound SpiceJet plane from ment over decisions like the note ban the Hafiz Saeeds (chief of Jamaat-ud- flict in Afghanistan. Kabul had a narrow escape on Wednesday when and GST and said that economic revival Dawa terror group),” Khawaja Asif “Scapegoating Pakistan for all the the Taliban launched a rocket attack on the Hamid appeared “highly unlikely” and a “hard said at the Asia Society forum here. Afghan ills is neither fair nor accu- Karzai International Airport in the Afghan capi- landing” inevitable. “These were the people who were rate. This will only help forces that tal. At the time of the rocket attack, SpiceJet’s SG Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that your darlings just 20 to 30 years back. we are trying to fight collectively,” he 22 Kabul-Delhi flight was preparing for take off India’s credibility has been established in They were being dined and wined in said. “We cannot take responsibility for at the airport. “The boarding for SpiceJet flight the international arena under the Modi the White House and now you say ‘go Afghanistan’s peace and security and SG 22 operating Kabul- Delhi was almost com- government. “The whole world admits published on Wednesday, Sinha lashed out DOWNTURN OVER: NITI V-C to hell Pakistanis because you are nur- be asked to achieve what the combined plete when the incident took place. Passengers that India is the fastest growing economy at “superman” Finance Minister Arun Jait- turing these people’,” he was quoted strength of some of the most powerful and crew were safely deboarded and taken to the in the world. No one should forget this fact. ley for making a “mess” of the Indian econ- NEW DELHI: Niti Aayog Vice-Chair- as saying by the state-run Associated and richest countries could not accom- terminal building. There was no damage to the In the matter of economy, in the interna- omy which is headed for a “hard landing as man Rajiv Kumar on Wednesday said Press of Pakistan. plish,” he said. aircraft,” a SpiceJet spokesperson said. tional arena, India’s credibility has been sector after sector is slipping into distress”. that the economic downturn which It is very easy to say Pakistan is Talking about Pakistan’s sour rela- established,” he told reporters in reference He said that Jaitley had been luckier than began in the last two years of the UPA II floating the Haqqanis and Hafiz Saeed tions with India, the minister said that to Sinha’s views. his predecessors to hold the Ministry at a regime has bottomed out and the growth and Lashkar-e-Taiba. They are liabili- a new initiative was needed to bring Centre extends Aadhaar Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said, time when lakhs of crores of rupees were will improve in the next two quarters. ties, Asif said. “I accept that they are India and Pakistan to the negotiating “There is bound to be some uncertainty at his disposal following the depressed “...this downward cycle of economic liabilities, but give us time to get rid of table. “Peace in the neighbourhood is deadline to December 31 when some transformative changes are global crude oil prices. But he wasted the growth began in the last two years of them because we don’t have the assets impossible to achieve unless relations made. It (the economy) may take some oil bonanza which “was waiting to be used the UPA II government and that down- to match these liabilities and you are with India improve.,” Asif said. Paki- NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday amount of time to absorb these changes imaginatively”. ward cycle in my view has bottomed out,” increasing them (our liabilities) fur- stan is ready to work with India to seek extended the deadline for obtaining Aadhaar for but this will pass. Challenges come but “The legacy problems like stalled proj- opined Kumar. ther,” the minister said. peaceful resolution of all disputes and availing of Government schemes and subsidies we will stay the course. The government is ects and bank NPAs were no doubt there “We will be achieving higher growth in Pakistan is ready to work with the to create an environment of peace and by three months to December 31. The extension steadfast in its resolve to end black money and should have been managed better... the next two quarters, and I think 2018-19 USA for effective management of the stability allowing the people of the two is, however, only for those who are yet to apply and corruption. It won’t flinch due to some But the legacy problems have not only will be much better than the current year Afghan border to stop terrorist infiltra- countries to realise their aspirations of of Aadhaar, an order issued by the Ministry of criticism,” said Goyal. been allowed to persist, they have become (in terms of economic growth),” he said. tion and to facilitate a peace settlement prosperity and development, the min- Electronics and Information Technology said. As In a newspaper editorial page article worse,” he added. in Afghanistan, he said. Speaking at ister added. PTI many as 135 schemes (of 35 ministries) includ- ing the free cooking gas (LPG) to poor women, DANCING TO DURGA’S TUNE kerosene and fertiliser subsidy, targeted public Army inflicts huge toll on SSB suspends DIG distribution system (PDS) and MGNREGA will be covered by the extension. for raising illegal Various tourism sectors NSCN (K) at Myanmar border funds from recruits in India have potential OUR CORRESPONDENT for massive growth PRESIDENT RAMNATH KOVIND NEW DELHI: The SSB has suspended a senior DIG-rank officer for allegedly col- lecting over Rs 16 lakh in unauthorised funds from fresh recruits and illegally In today’s detaining an officer at a border camp, officials said. Deputy Inspector Gen- paper eral (DIG) P S Chundawat was posted as the director of the Sashastra Seema ... Bal’s Recruit Training Centre (RTC) in CITY Gorakhpur in the northern state of Uttar SEEMAPURI TO GET FACELIFT 3 Pradesh. An internal inquiry conducted by the NATION force earlier this month found that Chun- dawat was allegedly involved “in the col- DELHI COURT GRANTS BAIL TO QUDDUSI 5 lection of Rs 16,20,955 from trainees for EDIT OUR CORRESPONDENT suffered no casualties,” the statement purchasing unauthorised kit items like added. It, however, did not tell about pagdi/safa, hockey sticks, books, e-rick- CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES 8 NEW DELHI: The Army said that the number of insurgents killed or shaw and LIC policies”. it inflicted “heavy casualties” on the injured in the attack. The Army also The inquiry report adds that he also INTERNATIONAL insurgent group NSCN (K) during asserted that Indian troops “did not raised “unauthorised funds for earth- TRUMP MAN LOSES PRIMARY RUNOFF 11 “retaliatory” fire along the India- cross the international border”.