Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and TUESDAY the life of the candle will not be OCTOBER 29, 2019 shortened. Happiness never CHANDIGARH decreases by being shared. VOL. XXIII, NO. 259 PAGES 8 Buddha Rs. 2 YUGMARGYOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Opposition, Swamy slam govt Three police impostors duped 47,000 Agreement on strategic on EU delegation to Kashmir Euros from French national in Karol Bagh partnership council will ...PAGE 8 elevate India-Saudi ties: PM .... PAGE 8 ...PAGE 8 Three of a family Don't compel us to look murdered by close relative in Bihar BEGUSARAI (BIHAR), OCTOBER 28 A middle-aged man, his wife and their minor daughter were killed al- India takes up legedly by his younger brother here who pumped bullets into them in a fit Pak’s denial of for alternative, of rage before fleeing the spot, police said on Monday. Kunal Singh (50), Kanchan Devi (45) and Sonam Kumari (17) were sprayed with bullets by Vikas late on Sunday night at their house in airspace use to Machaha village of the district, Superintendent of Police, Begusarai, PM’s aircraft Avakash Kumar said. The SP said the entire family had criminal antecedents, with Vikas with int'l body having been named in cases relating to murder of his paternal uncle and NEW DELHI: India has taken up aunt while Kunal recently came out of jail in Samastipur where he was Pakistan’s denial of use of its air- lodged in connection with a case of robbery. space to Prime Minister Naren- Raut warns ally BJP Their father Ashok Singh has been behind bars for over a month upon dra Modi’s flight with the Interna- being caught for engaging in liquor trade, flouting the prohibition law that tional Civil Aviation Organisation, is in force in Bihar, the SP added. government sources said on AGENCY requested Sena for more share of seats be- The deceased couple are survived by two sons aged 15 and five years Monday. MUMBAI, OCTOBER 28 cause of large number of turncoats. at whom Kunal had trained his gun but ran out of ammunition, the SP said. Modi is travelling to Saudi Arabia "Sena chief (Uddhav) Thackeray Efforts were on to nab the culprit, he added. later in the day on a bilateral visit. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday agreed to it, hence they contested on 164 India has sought overflight clear- upped the ante against ally BJP, saying his seats and the Sena on 124," Raut ex- ance from Pakistan for the prime party should not be compelled to look for plained, adding, "We never lie in politics, minister’s aircraft to go to Saudi an alternative to form the next government even if it is for gaining power". Karan Singh advises against moving Arabia. in Maharashtra and asserted there are "no Queried on a scenario where the BJP Sources said India regrets Pak- istan’s decision to yet again deny saints in politics". goes ahead alone and stakes claim to form Parliament, cites building's history overflight clearance for the VVIP The BJP and the Sena, with 105 and 56 the government, he said: special flight which is otherwise seats, respectively, in the new Assembly, "The BJP is the single largest party at pres- NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 28 granted routinely by countries. are locked in a bitter tussle over sharing of ent in the state. If they can provide a ma- India has taken up the issue of power. jority government without the Sena's help, Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Karan Singh has advised against moving denial of overflight clearance with Ever since the results were announced I welcome it". Parliament to a new building. Karan Singh, a veteran leader of the Congress, said the relevant international civil avi- on October 24, there have been statements Hardening stand on equal division of plans of abandoning Parliament House Building, construction of which was finally ation body, they said. from sections in the Congress-NCP, though the chief ministerial tenure, completed in 1927, for a new building is not only “unnecessary” but would deprive “Overflight clearances are not officially, hinting that a move by the Raut said: "We will see how they do not parliamentarians of the “special ambience” in the old one. Singh, who has taken up sought, and granted by other Sena to look beyond the BJP for govern- share the post of chief minister. Both the the issue with Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, said: “We will never be able to build countries as per prescribed ICAO ment formation may get positive feelers. parties agreed on 50:50 power-sharing for- such a structure again, and to shift into a modern building will deprive us of special guidelines,” said a source. Speaking to a news channel, Raut said: mula. There is no need to explain it in de- ambience of the old one. In my view it should be possible for us to shift unneces- India will continue to seek such "We believe in the alliance (with BJP) as that committing such a "sin" was not en- tail". Raut claimed there has been no dis- sary material and offices out of the present building and extend the halls to accom- overflight clearances, sources we contested the polls jointly. But the BJP tirely unfathomable for the Sena. cussion so far between the BJP and Sena modate more members”. Instead, he suggested that the Lok Sabha could move to said. Citing alleged human rights should not compel us to commit the sin of Raut claimed the two parties had on government formation. Raut is the chief the Central Hall—the place where the Constituent Assembly met for several years violations in Jammu and Kash- looking for an alternative for government agreed on an "equal power" sharing for- whip of the party in Parliament and execu- as they framed the Indian Constitution—and Rajya Sabha could move to the Lok mir, Pakistan on Sunday denied formation". mula and had even made an announcement tive editor of Sena mouthpiece Saamana. Sabha Hall. India’s request to allow Modi’s aircraft to move in its airspace for "No one is a saint in politics," he on it in Mumbai. his visit to Saudi Arabia. added, possibly a hint to the senior ally "Ahead of the Assembly polls, the BJP In a statement on Sunday, For- eign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Pakistan has decid- ed to not allow Prime Minister Modi to use the country’s air- space, state-run Radio Pakistan Akbaruddin celebrates reported. He said the decision has been taken in context of the “black day” and in view of the alleged human rights violations in Jam- Diwali 10,000 ft up in sky mu and Kashmir, it added. NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 28 "Happy Diwali sir. People like you are Slump effect: the backbone of our country. Have a won- On Diwali day, India's Permanent Represen- derful time ahead," said one twitter follow- Railways earnings tative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin celebrat- er. ed the festival of lights on board a flight - "You are always special, holding Indian down in Q2 10,000 feet high in the air. Culture held high anywhere everywhere...," NEW DELHI: The Railways Akbaruddin posted a picture of a small said another twitterati. seems to have been hit hard by battery operated LED lamp, beside some One twitterari posted: "Wish you a the slowdown with the earnings eatables, on the food tray of his seat on board very happy Diwali sir. India is proud of of the national transporter suffer- his flight. people like you who have always kept in- ing a dip of Rs 155 crore and Rs "Some celebrate it early, some dia flag high. The indian passport value I 3,901 crore in passenger and freight fares, respectively, in the late...Some, like me, 10000 feet high...It still felt in US last time when I visited. Thanks second quarter of the current fis- is always is Happy #Diwali," he posted. to PM and his team pearl like you. Jai cal, compared to the previous The tweet got over 18,500 likes and was hind." Akbaruddin has over 1,95,000 fol- one, according to an RTI reply. retweeted 1,500 times. lowers on Twitter. The RTI application filed by Chandra Shekhar Gaur, an ac- tivist based in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch, revealed that in the first quarter (April-June) of finan- cial year 2019-20, the railways ISIS chief dead in US raid earned a revenue of Rs 13,398.92 crore from passenger fare. This dipped to Rs 13,243.81 in northwest Syria: crore in the July-September quar- ter. Similarly, in the first quarter, the railways earned Rs President Donald Trump 29,066.92 crore from freight load- ing. In the second quarter, the earnings from freight came down to Rs 25,165.13 crore. The slow- down also affected ticket book- ings, which witnessed a 1.27 per cent decline in April-September 2019, as compared to the corre- sponding period last year. The railways has initiated a slew of measures to counter the slow- down. It recently waived its “busy season” surcharge on freight traf- fic and introduced a scheme of- fering a concession of up to 25 per cent on trains with air-condi- tioned chair car. Texas university WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 28 confirms shooting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive chief of the Islamic State, has been killed by the US spe- at off-campus party cial forces in a raid in northwest Syria on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced on GREENVILLE (US): A Texas Sunday.