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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Sena denied more time, NCP’s turn now IIP shrinks by 4.3% Cong., NCP in huddle as Governor refuses Sena plea for three more days to produce letters of support to lowest in 8 years Special Correspondent All 3 major sectors saw contraction Mumbai/New Delhi In fast­paced political deve­ Special Correspondent said. “In the old (2004­05) Brace for ‘severe’ air lopments in Maharashtra, New Delhi base, IIP in October 2011 quality today, tomorrow Governor Bhagat Singh Kosh­ Industrial activity in Sep­ contracted by 5%.” NEW DELHI yari on Monday evening in­ tember contracted sharply Within the Index, the Delhi’s air quality stayed in vited the Nationalist Con­ by 4.3%, driven by major capital goods sector saw a the ‘very poor’ category on gress Party (NCP) to form the slowdowns in the capital contraction of 20.7%, com­ Monday and is expected to fall to the ‘severe’ category government after the Shiv goods, mining, and manu­ pared with shrinkage of 21% on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sena failed to provide the let­ facturing sectors, according in August. The mining sec­ The air quality is expected to ters of support from the Con­ to official data released on tor contracted by 8.5%, come back to ‘very poor’ gress­NCP alliance. Monday. compared with an anaemic category on Thursday. The Though the Shiv Sena had The contraction in the In­ growth of 0.1% in August. city’s Air Quality Index on asked for three more days to dex of Industrial Production The manufacturing sector Monday was 360 (very poor), produce the letters, Mr. (IIP) in September is com­ contracted 3.9% in Septem­ slightly up from 321 (very Koshyari turned down the pared with the contraction ber, compared with a con­ poor) on Sunday, according request and invited the NCP, of 1.1% in August. The Index traction of 1.2% in the pre­ to the Central Pollution which is the third largest par­ had grown 4.3% in Septem­ vious month. The electricity Control Board. ty with 54 MLAs in the 288­ ber of the previous year. sector, too, saw a continued CITY Ī PAGE 2 member Assembly. “This is the first time after contraction, shrinking 2.6%, DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “We will discuss the pro­ November 2012 that all compared with a contrac­ Three killed as truck posal with our allies tomor­ ic Alliance. The political dra­ Kharge and K.C. Venugopal, meetings away from the me­ three broad­based sectors tion of 0.9% in August. rams cab in Okhla row and will get back with ma took another twist after are learnt to have voiced re­ dia glare with serious discus­ Gehlot briefs have contracted and the The consumer durables NEW DELHI our reply to the Governor’s the Congress announced servations at the CWC meet­ sions on being part of a non­ MLAs at resort lowest monthly growth in sector continued to shrink Three men, two of them office before 8.30 p.m. to­ that it need more time to talk ing. Congress leaders from BJP government. Senior par­ the 2011­12 base year series,” in September, by 9.9%, com­ brothers, were killed and one morrow,” NCP State presi­ to its ally, the NCP, just mi­ Kerala, which sends the ty leaders Mr. Kharge, Amid speculation on Devendra Kumar Pant, pared with a contraction of was grievously injured when dent Jayant Patil said after nutes before the 7:30 p.m. highest number of MPs to the Ahmed Patel and Mr. Venu­ government formation in Chief Economist and Senior 9.1% in August. a truck rammed their cab in meeting the Governor late in deadline that the Governor Lok Sabha, in particular, are gopal are expected in Mum­ Maharashtra, Rajasthan Director, Public Finance, In­ the Okhla area of south­east the evening. had set for the Shiv Sena to learnt to have argued that a bai on Tuesday. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot dia Ratings & Research, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Delhi, the police said on In a late night develop­ stake claim. tie­up with the Shiv Sena will While Shiv Sena chief on Monday briefed the Monday. The incident ment, NCP president Sharad “The Congress Working send a “wrong political sig­ Uddhav Thackeray, along Congress MLAs, put up at a happened around 11 p.m. on Pawar called up Shiv Sena Committee (CWC) met this nal” and give an edge to the with party colleague Sanjay resort near Jaipur, about the Sunday. The truck driver chief Uddhav Thackeray to morning and had a detailed Left parties. Raut, met NCP chief Sharad party’s stand and obtained suddenly turned the vehicle clear any misgivings and is discussion on the situation in However, a majority of the Pawar at a five­star hotel in their views. Mr. Gehlot, on Maa Anand Mai Marg and along with his Chhattisgarh hit the cab coming from the learnt to have expressed con­ Maharashtra after which a newly elected Congress Bandra, senior Shiv Sena opposite direction. fidence that the crisis would consultation was held with MLAs were not only in favour leaders Anil Desai and Ar­ counterpart Bhupesh be resolved by Tuesday. State leaders. The Congress of supporting a Shiv Sena­led vind Sawant met senior Con­ Baghel, reached the resort CITY Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD president has spoken with alliance but also on joining gress leader Ahmed Patel in late in the evening. The Sena exits NDA Sharad Pawar ji. The party the government. New Delhi. MLAs, who were shifted to The developments came on will have further discussion Yuva Sena chief Aaditya the resort on the Jaipur­ a day when the Shiv Sena’s with the NCP,” the Congress ‘Positive direction’ Thackeray, meanwhile, was Delhi National Highway on lone representative in the said in a statement. Top Congress sources told optimistic while talking to Friday and Saturday, later Union Cabinet, Arvind Sa­ The statement, however, The Hindu that though the media at Raj Bhavan after left for Mr. Gehlot’s official want, resigned as the Union had no mention about ex­ “there has been a pause to he met Mr. Koshyari seeking residence, where a dinner Heavy Industries Minister, tending support to the Shiv the process, it is proceeding more time. was hosted in the honour of and the party severed its ties Sena. Senior leaders, includ­ in a positive direction” as former President Pratibha with the National Democrat­ ing A.K. Antony, Mallikarjun there have been crucial CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Patil. Ī PAGE 12 Trains to CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC MHA begins temple Trains collide run again JNU rocks Delhi in Hyderabad, in Kashmir trust formation job 18 injured Officials to seeks Law Ministry’s opinion V. Geetanath Special Correspondent Abhinay Deshpande New Delhi Special Correspondent In its unanimous verdict, HYDERABAD Train services in Kashmir NEW DELHI the court said: “The Central Eighteen passengers were will resume on Tuesday, The Union Home Ministry Government shall, within a injured, one critically, after the Railway Ministry said has initiated the process of period of three months a local MMTS suburban here on Monday. The ser­ setting up a trust to fix the from the date of this judg­ train crashed into a Secun­ vices were stopped nearly modalities for the construc­ ment, formulate a scheme derabad­bound Hundry three months ago, follow­ tion of a temple in Ayodhya under the Acquisition of Express coming from Kur­ ing the Union govern­ as per the Supreme Court Certain Area at Ayodhya nool just outside the Ka­ ment’s decision to with­ order in the Ram Janmab­ Act, 1993.” cheguda station on Mon­ draw the special status hoomi­Babri Masjid case de­ “The scheme shall envis­ day morning. granted to Jammu and livered on Saturday. age the setting up of a trust Twelve of the injured Kashmir under Article 370. Ministry officials are exa­ with a board of trustees or were discharged from the “After assurance by the mining the 1,045­page ver­ any other appropriate bo­ Osmania General Hospital GRP [Government Railway dict and will soon seek the dy... The scheme to be (OGH) after first aid. Police], J&K, regarding safe opinion of the Law Ministry framed by Central govern­ MMTS train loco­pilot L. operation of trains in Kash­ and the Attorney­ General ment shall make necessary Chandrasekhar, 36, who mir Valley between 10 a.m. on how to proceed with set­ provisions in regard to the was trapped in the man­ and 3 p.m., the Firozpur ting up a trust. An official functioning of the trust or gled lead coach, was pulled Division will commence a said the technical aspects of body including on matters out alive after an eight­ limited passenger service the order were being relating to the management hour rescue operation and of two set of trains bet­ studied. of the trust, the powers of rushed to the hospital. Ad­ ween Srinagar­Baramulla­ However, another official the trustees including the ditional General Manager Srinagar from November said it was not clear whether construction of a temple B.B.