millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 4, ISSUE 68 | Monday, 12 March 2018 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS FIRST REPORT OF 11 SPL COURTS INDIA FRET NEPOTISM DOES ATTACK COMES IN TO TRY 3,816 OVER ROHIT’S NOT EXIST, SAYS SINCE SIGHTING CASES AGAINST FORM AHEAD OF KAREENA OF FELINE PG4 LAWMAKERS PG6 SL CLASH PG14 KAPOOR PG16 WILL BE THE FIRST CHINESE LEADER AFTER THE FOUNDER CHAIRMAN MAO ZEDONG TO REMAIN IN POWER LIFELONG Four young trekkers Xi set to rule China for life as charred to death in parl scraps two-term limit Theni forest fire MPOST BUREAU BEIJING: China’s one-party polit- ier force capable of winning mod- ical landscape on Sunday changed ern wars. CHENNAI: Four students who were as the country’s rubber-stamp par- The proposal of limitless ten- part of a large group of trekkers were liament ratified a historic consti- ure for Xi has sparked worldwide charred to death in a forest fire in Kuru- tutional amendment abolishing concerns, especially in China’s gumalai area in Tamil Nadu’s Theni on the two-term limit for President neighbourhood. Sunday. Xi Jinping, paving the way for his For India, observers say, Xi’s Madurai circle conservator of forests continuation in power perhaps continuation will have particu- RK Jagenia confirmed the death of four for life. lar significance, especially in the people and said that the group came Set for his second five-year backdrop of last year’s 73-day-long from Suriyanelli in Munnar to a private term as President this month, Dokalam standoff where Chinese estate in Kozhukkumalai in Bodinayak- 64-year-old Xi, the most power- troops tried to build a road in the kanur. While descending the slopes, the Meanwhile, authorities have ful leader in recent decades head- area claimed by Bhutan to reach group was caught in a major fire. launched a massive operation to rescue ing the ruling Communist Party close to India’s narrow corridor Assistant conservator of forests others caught in the fire. of China (CPC) and the mili- connecting North Eastern states. Mahendran said that the group, in a Defence minister Nirmala Sithara- tary, will now be the first Chinese Under Xi, China has been state of panic, strayed from the trekking man, who was approached by chief min- leader after the founder chairman pouring billions of dollars in path and landed up in a gully which is ister K Palaniswami for help, said 10-15 Mao Zedong to remain in power India’s neighbourhood in projects narrow. The area is entirely covered with students were making their way to the lifelong. like China-Pakistan Economic tall lemongrass, which can quickly catch foothills (after being rescued). The National People’s Congress Corridor traversing through PoK, fire. The cause of the fire was not -pre In a series of tweets, she also said (NPC) has kept its reputation as connectivity projects in Nepal, Sri cisely known. two helicopters of the Indian Air Force the rubber stamp parliament for Lanka and the Maldives, raising Two people have been safely rescued from its Sulur base near Coimbatore its routine approval of CPC pro- strategic stakes for India. and sent to Bodi for treatment, he said. were being sent to assist in the rescue posals by voting precisely to the Xi stood up first at the Great Ahead of the vote by deputies tural Revolution resulting in the Significantly, Sunday’s amend- The rescue of others struck in the operations. official script. Hall of the People in Beijing to in the NPC, the seven-member killings of millions of people. ment also removed term-limits for area has become very difficult due lack The trekking club which organised The NPC approved the amend- cast his paper ballot in a red box. Standing Committee - the top- Observers say the constitu- the Vice President. of adequate lighting facilities. the trek is based in Chennai. Anxious ment removing the term limits for The first Constitution of China most body of the ruling Commu- tional amendment in effect paves The inclusion of the Vice Presi- According to a senior official, this parents were seen waiting for news of the president and the vice pres- was enacted in 1954. The current nist Party of China - unanimously the way for China’s transition dent was notably aimed at rein- is not the right time for trekking activi- their children, some of them software ident with 2,958 in favour, two Constitution has been in place approved the amendment to abol- from being a one-party state to forcing Xi’s support base as his ties in Theni forest division as the area professionals. The government was tak- against and three abstentions, offi- since 1982 and has undergone four ish the presidential term limits. one leader state with Xi, described trusted lieutenant, Wang Qishan is prone to frequent fires. ing all efforts to rescue trekkers trapped cial media reported. The two votes amendments in 1988, 1993, 1999 The amendment effectively by some as an Emperor, to remain (69), is tipped to take over the post “A study by the forest department in Forest fire, says Chief minister Edap- of dissent apparently had the offi- and 2004. ended the collective leadership in power in the foreseeable future. despite a widely-followed conven- shows that Agamalai West, Periathu- padi K Palaniswami said. cial sanction to show a semblance The removal of the term limit system followed by the CPC to Xi, christened as “lingxiu” - a tion by Chinese leaders to retire kombai, Oothamparai and Ulakkaru- Forest minister has rushed to the of diversity. For Sunday’s vote, the was regarded as the biggest politi- avert a dictatorship emerging in leader with the highest prestige, after 68 years. Wang headed the thiar in the Bodi North hills are some of spot. The government would order a NPC chose to follow paper ballot cal change in the one-party system otherwise a one-party state akin is aggressively pushing Chinese dreaded anti-graft campaign car- the areas where incidents of fire occur thorough probe on an unauthorised trek system instead of hand raising and which remained in force in China to the era of Mao which witnessed military’s modernisation to make ried out by Xi since he began his every dry season. Trekking in these into the forest, Chief minister Edappadi electronic voting. since 1949. the most brutal events like Cul- the world’s largest army a might- first term in 2013. PTI areas has to be avoided,” the official said. K Palaniswami said. Legislators 69 parents jailed for Have ‘completely 50,000 farmers are catalysts of allowing minors drive forgiven’ father’s reach Mumbai for development killers, says Rahul VENKAIAH NAIDU on roads in Hyderabad farm loan waiver SINGAPORE: Congress presi- MPOST BUREAU dent Rahul Gandhi said that he MPOST BUREAU and his sister Priyanka Gandhi In today’s HYDERABAD: Cracking the whip have “completely forgiven” his MUMBAI: After walking with blis- against underage driving, as many 69 father Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. tered feet for about 180 km in the paper parents have been jailed in Hyderabad During his interaction with blazing sun over the last five days, over the past one month for allowing IIM alumni in Singapore, Gan- between 35,000 and 50,000 farm- ... their minor children to drive, police dhi, when asked if he and his ers from Maharashtra’s Nashik dis- CITY said. sister Priyanka had forgiven his father’s killers, said: “We trict have entered the capital city. The Hyderabad Traffic Police were very upset and hurt, and for many years we were They camped at the Thane-Mum- SINGHVI TO FILE NOMINATION 3 (HTP), as part of its campaign against quite angry. But, somehow, completely...in fact, com- bai border on Sunday morning NATION underage driving, found minors in the pletely (forgiven).” before heading for the KJ Somaiya Monday, but it will not disturb the age group of 14-16 years, driving bikes, “There is a history that when one realises that when Ground in Sion. The traffic police city. We will begin our rally after GOVT OWES AI OVER `325 CR 7 scooters and cars and in some cases these events take place, it’s collision of ideas, forces, con- say they are prepared and have also 11 am so that students appearing even three-wheelers, without driving fusion. That’s where you get caught. I remember when I issued a traffic advisory to avoid for their Class 10 board exam don’t EDIT licences, Deputy Commissioner of should be treated seriously as it not saw Prabhakaran on TV lying dead, I got two feelings - jams in the city. Elaborate secu- face any difficulties,” Dhawle said. Police (Traffic) A V Ranganath said. only endangers lives of minor driv- one was why they are humiliating this man in this way. rity arrangements are also in place, Some of the demands of the SOME FOREST QUESTIONS 8 Subsequently, the parents (fathers) ers but of others also and the courts “And second was I felt really bad for him and his kids, police said. farmers include a complete farm INTERNATIONAL of the 69 teenagers were produced were convinced of our requests,” Ran- and I did that because I understood deeply what it meant The farmer contingent, includ- loan waiver, transfer of forest land before the local courts, which sent ganath said. to be on the other side of that thing. So to me when I see ing tribal cultivators, led by the to tillers, implementation of the STUDENT HURLS SHOE AT SHARIF 10 them to jail ranging from one-day to The parents are being prosecuted violence regardless of who it is, I know that there is a Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha Swaminathan Commission’s rec- three-day imprisonment apart from under section 180 of the MV Act human being behind that, there is a family behind that, a (AIKS), plans to gherao the Vid- ommendations, compensation of BUSINESS imposing fines for the violation of (Allowing unauthorised persons to kid crying behind that.