millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 99 | Thursday, 13 April 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 9203.45 (-33.55) qSENSEX 29,643.48 (-144.87) qDOW JONES 20,651.30 (-6.72) qNASDAQ 5,866.77 (-14.16) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.67 (-0.11) qRUPEE/EURO 68.56 (-0.06) pGOLD/10GM 29,760.00 (+410.00) pSILVER/K 42,750.00 (+925.00) MAMATA SC VERDICT NEGATED LYNN-LESS KKR ACTING IS INAUGURATES 4TH PROTECTION TO LOOK TO START NOT UNIT OF SAGARDIGHI ARMED FORCES, SAYS HOME RUN WITH WIN MY LIFE: PLANT PG3 CENTRE PG7 AGAINST KXIP PG14 NARGIS PG16 SUBMIT KYC, AADHAAR DETAILS: I-T DEPT Parl condemns BJP Bank accounts may Threats don’t scare activist’s bounty offer be blocked if not self- NEW DELHI: Parliament announced Rs 11 lakh bounty on Wednesday strongly con- for anyone who brings the certified by Apr 30 me, says Mamata demned a statement by a BJP head of Chief Minister. Min- youth wing leader Yogesh ister of State for Parliamen- OUR CORRESPONDENT by RSS affiliates, she said, “Some Varshney announcing a Rs 11 tary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas MPOST BUREAU locals have popped up suddenly lakh bounty to anyone who Naqvi said: “I strongly con- DOMKAL: In wake of a BJP youth asking people to play with swords. beheads West Bengal Chief demn such type of statements. NEW DELHI: Accounts opened from July 2014 wing leader announcing a bounty That’s not the Bengal’s culture,” she Minister Mamata Banerjee, State government is free to to August, 2015 will have to submit know your on her head, Bengal Chief Minis- said adding “Let them learn Bengal’s with the Centre saying the take appropriate legal action customer (KYC) details and their Aadhaar num- ter Mamata Banerjee on Wednes- culture first, then comment about state government was “free to on this issue”. ber to banks and financial institutions by April day said one can threaten or call her the state”. “There is no need to give take legal action” against him. BSP supremo Mayawati 30 and self-certify them to comply with FATCA names, but cannot scare her. importance to them,” she said. The issue was raised in termed it as a “serious mat- regulations (Foreign Tax Compliance Act), the Without naming anyone, Baner- Meanwhile, the BJP’s youth both the Houses by Trinamool ter” and said “BJP should not tax department said on Tuesday. jee said, “They can abuse me, vilify wing on Wednesday disowned Congress members, with all just condemn the statement, In case the account holders are unable to me and conspire against me. They its leader Yogesh major polit- but should also take action.” furnish details and provide self-certification by can abuse me as much as they want. Varshney, who ALL POLITICAL PARTIES ical parties Other opposition parties the new deadline, banks and financial institu- I pray to God to forgive them. They had announced a STAND BY MAMATA and the gov- including Congress, Left and tions have the option of blocking the accounts . do not know what they are saying. I Rs 11 lakh bounty ernment con- SP, also supported TMC on Once the details are furnished they can will not say anything more.” Mamata Banerjee at a public function at Domkol on Wednesday PIC/MPOST on West Bengal demning the this issue and condemned the operate the accounts. The provision applies to In an apparent reference to the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement. incident. Jaya Bachchan (SP) accounts which come under the ambit of FATCA Hindutva brigade, she told a public us. That will help us move forward. ganda spread through the Internet head and demanded legal action In the Rajya Sabha, Deputy said there was a need to take regulations. meeting here in Domkol in Mur- Now we are in Bengal. We will move and social networking site. Social against him. Chairman P J Kurien said the “aggressive” steps for pro- Banks and financial institutions were asked shidabad, “If anyone says that being to Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and networks have been used to spread “BJYM stands against the state- state government can register tection of women. “You can to obtain self-certification and carry out due a Hindu I can’t go to a mosque or a then to Delhi,” she said. false rumours in lieu of money. ments made by Yogesh Varshney, an FIR and take action. protect cows and women are diligence for all individual and entity accounts church, it cannot be so. I am com- She also reiterated that the peo- Huge funds from abroad are com- and also urges the local admin- Raising this issue dur- facing atrocities,” she added. opened from July 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015 to mitted to the people. I am commit- ple would decide what they want to ing in for this. istration to take all the necessary ing Zero Hour in the Upper “How dare somebody talk like comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compli- ted to protecting everyone. eat or what they wear. No political “Don’t be scared. Always legal actions against him as per law,” House, TMC member this”, especially against women ance Act (FATCA) pact signed by India and the There is no use threatening me. party can decide that she said and remember that I am there as your Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha said Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said a CM particularly when women United States. “The more you threaten or call asked the people not to get pro- biggest custodian,” Banerjee said. in a statement, adding Varshney BJP youth activist has publicly are feeling insecure. “Is this the In July 2015, India and the US signed a tax me names, the more I will proceed... voked by any instigation. Referring to the brandishing of was expelled two years ago from described West Bengal Chief way you are going to protect information sharing agreement under a new US Your criticism will be blessings for “Do not fall prey to false propa- swords at Ram Navami processions the party. Minister as a “demon” and women,” Bachchan asked. MPOST law, FATCA, aimed at bolstering efforts for auto- matic exchange of financial information between the two nations about tax evaders. PILOT PROJECT TO BEGIN IN 5 CITIES “The account holders may be informed that, ‘Conviction rate of CBI dipped in last 3 years’ in case self-certifications are not provided till April 30, 2017, the accounts would be blocked, Petrol, diesel prices to MPOST BUREAU rate, Government had taken various mea- ing for more than five years, six cases are which would mean that the financial institution sures for improving the functioning of the pending for more than 10 years and two would prohibit the account holder from effecting NEW DELHI: The conviction rate of the CBI which, inter alia, includes modernisa- cases are pending for more than 15 years,” any transaction with respect to such accounts,” change every day in these CBI has dipped from 69 per cent in 2014 tion of the CBI, enhanced quality of train- he said. the tax department said in a statement. to 66.8 per cent in 2016, the Lok Sabha was ing, upgradation of infrastructure, creation He was asked by BJP MP Feroze Varun informed on Wednesday. of additional posts of public prosecutors, Gandhi about the number of cases that are 5 cities from May 1 Minister of State for Personnel, Public modernisation of CFSL etc,” he said. pending for investigation with the Central MPOST BUREAU Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh The minister said according to data on Bureau of Investigation for different peri- We have requested said in the year 2014 the conviction rate February 28, 2017, there are 1,174 cases ods from two, five, 10 and 15 years. the President for his NEW DELHI: Come May 1, petrol was 69.02 per cent, in 2015 it was 65.1 per pending under investigation with the CBI. The minister said out of 1,174 cases, and diesel prices will change every day cent and in 2016 it was 66.8 per cent. “Out of these, 157 cases are pending for 108 cases relate to disproportionate assets urgent intervention in sync with international rates, much “In order to ensure better conviction more than two years, 35 cases are pend- and 223 cases relate to cheating or forgery. like what happens in most advanced to protect India’s markets. constitutional democracy State-owned fuel retailers Indian GHULAM NABI AZAD Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petro- leum Corp Ltd (HPCL), which own over 95 per cent of nearly 58,000 pet- In today’s rol pumps in the country, will launch a pilot for daily price revision in five select cities from May 1 and gradually While petrol price was freed from paper extend it to all over the country. government control in June 2010, diesel “Ultimately, we will be driving rates were deregulated in October 2014. ... towards market linked rates on a daily Technically, oil companies have CITY basis at all pumps across the coun- freedom to revise rates but often they try,” IOC Chairman B Ashok said on have been guided by political consider- CRUDE BOMBS EXPLODE IN BURDWAN 4 Wednesday. ations. Rates differ by only a few paise NATION A pilot for daily revision of pet- between pumps of the three state fuel rol and diesel price will be first imple- retailers. Unbranded petrol at IOC DALAI’S VISIT IMPACTS BORDER DISPUTE 7 mented in Puducherry, Vizag in pumps in Delhi costs Rs 66.29 per litre, Andhra Pradesh, Udaipur in Rajas- while the same at BPCL pumps in the EDIT than, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and city is priced at Rs 66.37 a litre.