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Mumbai NEARBY Maoists behind A.P. accident, says NIA LS rejects amendments, Railway Minister earlier hinted at Pak.-backed saboteurs clears Finance Bill NEW DELHI Vijaita Singh Finance Minister Arun Jaitley New Delhi invited suggestions from the The National Investigation Opposition for clean and Agency (NIA) suspects that transparent funding of the Kuneru rail accident in political parties, as the Lok Andhra Pradesh was the job Sabha on Thursday cleared of Maoists, a First Informa- the Finance Bill after it tion Report (FIR) registered rejected ive amendments by the agency has said. (including those pertaining to The Railway Ministry had anonymity of donors to earlier said that Pakistan’s political parties) Inter-Services Intelligence recommended by the Rajya (ISI) was involved in a series Sabha. of rail accidents in the past NATION Ī PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD six months, which included the derailment of the Jag- Regal cinema walks dalpur-Bhubaneswar Ex- into history press near Kuneru on Janu- NEW DELHI REPORTONPAGE13 ary 22, in which over 40 Probe continues: Over 40 persons were killed when the After entertaining ilm lovers persons were killed. Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express derailed in January. * PTI for more than eight decades, Regal cinema signed of in Preliminary assessment Gyaneshwari Express, which dent in which 14 coaches of style with a ‘house-full’ last Hills sizzle at 8° above normal “The Central government is was made to derail by re- the Indore-Patna Express de- show of Raj Kapoor’s 1964 of the opinion that the act of moving the fish plates. More railed on November 20, movie Sangam on Thursday derailment is a suspected than 100 people were killed 2016, killing more than 140 night. The cinema hall, which Resorts across north India recorded the highest surges in temperature terrorist act by Left Wing ex- in the accident, which took people and the recovery of a opened in 1932, once hosted tremists and is a scheduled place near Jhargram in the pressure cooker bomb near personalities like then Prime Jacob Koshy the last week of March. temperature counts as a heat offence under the NIA Act,” West Midnapore district. the rail track at Ghorasan in Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, NEW DELHI Other summer getaways wave and seven or more, as a an FIR registered by the NIA The CBI arrested members Bihar on October 1, 2016. his daughter Indira Gandhi Barmer in Rajasthan may in north India, such as severe heat wave. said. of a Maoist-backed group for Mr. Prabhu’s letter sus- and Amitabh Bachchan. have been the hottest place Shimla, also in Himachal The IMD had already A senior NIA official said it the crime. pecting foul play in the acci- DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD in India on Thursday at 43.4° Pradesh, Pahalgam in warned of summer temper- was preliminary informa- dents was sent after Moti Celsius, but the maximum Jammu & Kashmir and atures being higher than nor- tion, and the probe was yet Three cases sent to NIA Paswan, one of three per- temperature surges were re- Dehradun in Uttarakhand all mal in February and “above to be completed and they Based on Railway Minister sons arrested by the Bihar corded in hill-station favour- registered temperatures normal” temperatures in Hi- were exploring all angles. Suresh Prabhu’s letter to police in January for his al- ites Kullu, in Himachal Pra- seven degrees above their machal Pradesh, Ut- Since the area is close to Home Minister Rajnath leged involvement in plant- desh, and Mukteshwar, in historical normals. tarakhand and Jammu & the Maoist-affected zone, the Singh, alleging sabotage in at ing the pressure cooker Uttarakhand. Kashmir. 2016 was the suspicion of their involve- least six train accidents, bomb at Ghorasan, claimed According to figures on What is a heat wave? warmest year in a century, ment cannot be ruled out, three cases were transferred that they had planted the the India Meteorological De- While there are caveats, the according to the IMD, with the official said. to the NIA. bomb at Kanpur, leading to partment (IMD) website, IMD’s dictionary says that if the country 0.91°C warmer The last time Maoists tar- Besides the Kuneru acci- the train’s derailment, at the FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES Children riding cycles on the these towns recorded 32°C a locations’s long-term nor- than the 1961-1990 average. geted a rail track was in West dent, the other cases being behest of the ISI. (IN TABLOID) bed of the Sonegaon Lake and 27.2° C — a searing eight mal is less than or equal to Bengal in 2010, when a investigated for terror links DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES in Nagpur. * S. SUDARSHAN degrees above normal for 40°C, a five-degree rise in CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 goods train rammed into the are the Kanpur train acci- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Nigeria summons Indian envoy over attacks African nation demands tough action against culprits to deter future assaults Kallol Bhattacherjee Foreign Affairs of Nigeria on going about their studies. findings.” “On behalf of the New Delhi Wednesday where he was That is why we felt we Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister The attack on African nation- asked to explain the incident should register our concern and myself, I want to assure als in Greater Noida took a in which four Nigerians were to you on this occasion, and that there will be an impar- diplomatic turn after Nigeria beaten up by a mob after a to please ask your govern- tial probe,” she said. summoned the Indian envoy local boy was found dead be- ment to take effective meas- MEA spokesperson Gopal and demanded immediate cause of alleged drug ures that this does not occur Baglay stopped short of action against the culprits. overdose. again,” Mr Enikanolaiye was terming the attack racist and The summon, a rare oc- Mr Enikanolaiye, the quoted as saying by a Ni- said the motive behind the currence in India’s bilateral senior-most diplomat of Ni- gerian news outlet. attack was being probed. ties with any African nation, geria, demanded that the “It is clear that such crim- happened even as India gave perpetrators be prosecuted Tough action inal acts are completely un- an assurance that the perpet- so that future attackers are India’s assured of tough acceptable and have been rators would be punished deterred from carrying out action saying that the law of condemned,” he said, reveal- while the Rajya Sabha con- similar assaults. the land would take its ing that the students who demned the attacks. “And we want to see dili- course. External Affairs Min- had been hurt have been re- Reports said Indian High gent prosecution so that it ister Sushma Swaraj, speak- leased by the hospital and Commissioner B.N. Reddy will serve as a deterrent to ing in the Rajya Sabha, said a security has been beefed up was summoned by Perman- those who think they can probe had been ordered and for the African community ent Secretary Olusola Enik- take the law into their hands “once this probe is over, ac- in Greater Noida. anolaiye to the Ministry of and harass students who are tion will be taken as per its SEE ALSO Ī DELHI METRO PAGE 1 Ceiling fans to check Kota suicides Mohammed Iqbal Jaipur Coming up with an out-of- the-box solution, owners of some students’ hostels in Kota, famous for its coach- ing institutes for competit- ive examinations, are fit- ting ceiling fans in hostel rooms with siren sensors and spring devices to check suicides by students. Unable to cope with the pressure of studies, a large number of young boys and girls, who come to Kota from all over the country to join coaching institutes, have taken their own lives in the past few years. Now private hostels, which provide paying guest accommodation to students, have started in- stalling devices in ceiling fans to ensure that the owners are alerted in time and suicide attempts are foiled. While the sensor sets off an alarm, the spring device lowers the fan if a student tries to hang from it. Gajendra Yadav, former president of the Kota Hos- tels Association, said though some hostels were attaching the spring device to the ceiling fans, no bulk orders had been placed. CONTINUED ONĪ PAGE 10 CM A ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 NORTH FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI Timings Friday, March 31 RISE 06:12 SET 18:38 Dikshit takes charge as RISE 08:40 SET 22:13 Saturday, April 01 RISE 06:11 SET 18:39 RISE 09:30 SET 23:18 U.P. Assembly Speaker Sunday, April 02 RISE 06:10 SET 18:40 RISE 10:23 SET 00:00 A columnist and novelist, he is also a ive-time MLA Omar Rashid Mr. Dikshit has had a long LUCKNOW record with the BJP. He has Veteran BJP leader Hriday been the district president Narayan Dikshit took charge of BJP in Unnao, before go- as Speaker of the Uttar Pra- ing on to become the State desh Assembly on Thursday vice-president.