c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I FRIDAY I 1 NOVEMBER 2019 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 301 Established 1938 | 40 PAGES | `6.00 Dear Reader, 73 perish in Pakistan train fire he Union Budget T hiked customs Shutdown greets duties on imported newsprint, raising our production costs. We thus have to hike Deccan Chronicle’s Jammu & Kashmir cover price to `6 on weekdays and `7 on Sundays, effective Ladakh celebrates; 2 Lt. Govs sworn in from today. Thank you for your YUSUF JAMEEL | DC with agency inputs continued support. SRINAGAR, OCT. 31 Signed/- China slammed The state of Jammu and Editor Kashmir formally split into two Union Territories (UTs) on Thursday amid on 370 objection WEATHER swelling anger among the SRIDHAR and Kashmir Union O predominantly Muslim Max: 29.1 C Valley, trepidation and KUMARASWAMI I DC Territory and Ladakh Min: 22.1OC reservations in sections of NEW DELHI, OCT. 31 Union Terri-tory that RH: 82% Jammu’s Hindu popula- included some of China’s Rainfall: Nil tion and jubilation among India and China were in- territory into its adminis- Ladakh’s Buddhists. volved in a fierce excha- trative jurisdiction. China Forecast: Cloudy sky. While Mr Murmu took nge of words on Thursday, deplores and firmly oppos- Rain, thundershowers oath as the first Lt with Beijing calling the es that. India unilaterally likely. Max/Min 31/23ºC Governor of the UT of J&K creation of two new Union changes its domestic laws in Hindi at a function at Territories (of J&K and and administrative divi- the Raj Bhavan in Ladakh) “unlawful and sions challenging China’s Srinagar, his counterpart, void” and New Delhi hit- sovereignty. This is ASTROGUIDE Mr Mathur, was adminis- ting back to remind China unlawful and this is not Vikari; Dakshinayanam tered the oath of office and that it has “illegally occu- effective in any way and Tithi: Kartika Shudda Panchami secrecy by Justice Gita pied” large tracts of land will not change that fact till 12.54 am (Saturday) Mittal, chief justice of belonging to J&K state. that the area is under Star: Moola till 9.56 pm J&K High Court, at a simi- The verbal exchange Chinese actual control,” Varjyam: 8.19 pm to 9.56 pm lar function held earlier in comes just days after the Chinese foreign ministry Durmuhurtam: 8.35 am to 9.20 Seventy-three passengers lost their lives and over 40 (preaching party) passengers to cook breakfast near Leh. He took the oath in informal summit between spokes-person Geng English. PM Narendra Modi and Shuang was quoted as say- am; 12.22 pm to 1.08 pm sustained critical burn wounds on Thursday when three Talwari Station in Liaquatpur area of Pakistan’s Rahim A complete shutdown Chinese President Xi Jin- ing at a foreign ministry Rahukalam: 10.30 am to carriages of Tezgam Express caught fire due to explosion Yar Khan city. The train was bound from Karachi to 12 noon ■ was observed in Kashmir ping at Mamallapuram in press briefing in Beijing. in gas canisters purportedly used by Tableeghi Jamaat Rawalpindi. — AFP Report on Page 9 Valley to protest bifurca- Tamil Nadu. “The Indian India retaliated soon after. HIJRI CALENDAR tion of the state. Many government officially Rab-ul-Awal 3,1441 AH people interviewed by this annou-nced the establish- ■ Page 7: China acquired PRAYERS correspondent termed it ment of so-called Jammu Indian areas in PoK: India Fajar: 5.13 am VIKARABAD HAS “a stab in the back”. Zohar: 12.10 pm The division and down- Act against Centre over grade came on the 88th Asar: 4.10 pm Maghrib: 5.52 pm NO BEDS FOR day after the Centre with- drew the state’s special Isha: 7.00 pm Centre defends DENGUE HIT status by abrogating SUNSET TODAY 5.45 PM ‘snoopgate’: Cong to SC Article 370 and announced SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.14 AM KANIZA GARARI | DC its bifurcation. MOONRISE TOMORROW 9.13 AM DC CORRESPONDENT democracy. We urge the HYDERABAD, OCT. 31 The August 5 decision MPs’ visit to J&K MOONSET TODAY 8.41 PM with agency inputs SC to take suo motu cog- was subsequently ratified NEW DELHI, OCT. 31 WHATSAPP nizance of these illegal Of the 300 patients who by Parliament but spark- DC CORRESPONDENT “expressed a desire to activities and to hold this came to the privately-run ed off a political row with NEW DELHI, OCT. 31 know about India”, adding COUNTER POINT Several individuals — VULNERABLE TO government to account,” Crawford Memorial the Opposition terming it that they were “directly human rights activists, he said. He also posted Hospital in Vikarabad on a politically and ideologi- After a controversy over elected” representatives. scholars and journalists — questions on Twitter for Thursday, 50 were diag- cally motivated move of the visit of several He said that the govern- confirmed to some web- SPYWARE HITS information technology nosed with dengue. In the ruling BJP . The move European Union MPs to ment “would look at such sites that they were target- DC CORRESPONDENT minister Ravi Shankar the last two days, 80 has been challenged in New Delhi and then to requests” in future too ed by a spyware on HYDERABAD, OCT. 31 Prasad over the issue. patients in the hospital Supreme Court filed by J&K earlier this week, the and that “intent, content WhatsApp. Some of them “1. Which agency of GOI have been confirmed various political and civil ministry of external and the ground situation” suggested that Indian gov- With coming to light of has purchased and with dengue, further groups and activists. affairs indicated it had would be “deciding fac- ernment agencies may the Pegasus spyware deployed the Pegasus exposing the epidemic This is for the first time “facilitated” the visit, add- tors”. have been involved in the attacks, concerns have Surveillance Software? 2. sweeping the state. that a state has been con- ing that engagement with Mr Kumar further said surveillance. been raised by cyber- Who — PMO or NSA — Patients are coming in verted into two UTs even the international commu- the issue was whether any The Congress on Thurs- security experts over authorised the purchase? from villages from though there are numer- nity does not amount to such action promotes day alleged that the Modi highly sophisticated atta- 3. What action do you around a 30 km to 40 km ous instances of a UT internationalisation of the India’s “objectives and government has been cks ahead. The spyware intend on taking against radius of the hospital, becoming a full state or a Kashmir issue. interests” and whether “caught snooping” after attacks come under the the guilty?” he asked. because district govern- state being bifurcated into At his weekly briefing on “sharing of perspective” WhatsApp said that jour- category of buffer over- Issuing a clarification on ment hospitals are full two states, like Bihar and Thursday, MEA spokes- serves the “national inter- nalists and human rights flow attack, where the the contentious issue, the and refusing to take any Madhya Pradesh. person Raveesh Kumar est”. activists in India have source code of a particu- government stated, “Some more patients. The age said that the MEPs had been targets of surveil- lar application could be statements have appeared group of patients is from ■ Page 7: J&K reorganisa- been to India on a private ■ Page 7: MEA says it facili- lance. While the Congress altered and controlled by based on reports in media six months to 60 years. tion a tribute to Patel: BJP visit and that they had tated unofficial visits too urged the Supreme Court the hackers’ instructions. regarding breach of priva- Most of the other to hold the Centre accou- cy of Indian citizens on patients are suffering ntable over the issue, the ■ Report on Page 8 Whatsapp. These attempts from viral fevers. Warden held for government denied allega- to malign the Government G Badri, a resident of tions of snooping in the up a multi-crore of India for the reported Vikarabad, said that a Pak violated Vienna Pact: ICJ sodomising boys wake of claims made by Surveillance Structure breach are completely meeting of senior offi- Hyderabad: A 23-year-old Facebook-owned Whats- until stopped by SC. SC misleading.” The state- cials from the health and United Nations, Oct. 31: sentenced to death by a Wednesday, Yusuf said in man working as a warden App that Indian journal- must take immediate cog- ment further added, police departments was Pakistan violated its oblig- Pakistani military court its judgment of July 17 the at a private residential ists and human rights nisance and issue notice to “Government of India is held on Wednesday to ations under the Vienna on charges of “espionage principal judicial organ of school in Rasoolpura vil- activists were among BJP government,” committed to protect the discuss the rush. “It was Convention in the arrest and terrorism” after a the United Nations found lage, Yalal, of Vikarabad those globally spied upon Congress’ chief spokesper- fundamental rights of citi- decided to send patients and detention of Indian closed trial in April 2017. that Pakistan had violated district was taken into cus- by unnamed entities using son Randeep Surjewala zens, including the right to private hospitals in national Kulbhushan Jad- India has maintained that its obligations under tody on Thursday by the an Israeli sypware, said in a series of tweets. to privacy, and will take Vikarabad. Since this hav, International Court Jadhav was kidnapped Article 36 of the Vienna police for alleged sodomis- Pegasus.