@bubbly581 follow us: monday, february 27, 2017 Chennai City Edition thehindu.com 30 pages ț ₹4.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Fast cars hit a police Modi promotes digital Donald Trump will India will bounce stop near Chennai, payment platform not attend White House back in the series, leave drivers furious BHIM on Mann ki Baat correspondents’ dinner says Tendulkar page 7 page 10 page 12 page 15 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY Jaishankar CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Drone strike kills IS to visit U.S. A show of hands this week ‘recruit’ from Kerala Suhasini Haidar NEW DELHI Immigration restrictions in Nine persons drown NIA charge sheet had said that his group was in Afghanistan the U.S. are likely to be of Thoothukudi highlighted as Foreign Sec- Thoothukudi C.S. Narayanan Kutty retary S. Jaishankar travels Nine persons, including ive KASARAGOD to Washington D.C. to meet women and three children, Hafeezuddin T.K., who was senior U.S. officials this drowned in the sea at among the 17 persons from week. Manappad, 51 km from here, Kasaragod district suspected During the talks with on Sunday, when their boat to have joined the Islamic State Department officials, capsized.The boat had gone State (IS) in June last, has including Acting Deputy just 25 metres from shore been killed in a drone attack, Secretary of State Tom when the tragedy struck. TAMIL NADU Ī PAGE 5 his family said on Sunday. Shannon, the first formal DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD A Telegram app message conversations with the received by Hafeezuddin’s Trump administration, Mr. Stir against hydrocarbon mother Khadeeja, and B.C.A. Jaishankar is expected to project gathering pace Rahman, a close relative of discuss the way forward in PUDUKOTTAI the youth, both residents of bilateral ties, including a Students, environmental the coastal hamlet of possible visit by Prime Min- activists, farmers and Padanna near Cheruvathur, isterNarendraModitothe Brides display their hands decorated with henna before a mass marriage function in Ahmedabad villagers joined the protest said that Hafeezuddin was A ile photo of Hafeezuddin, who went missing from U.S. in the next few on Sunday. According to its organisers, 131 Muslim couples took part in the ceremony. REUTERS against the proposed killed on Saturday and that Padanna in Kasaragod district S.K. MOHAN months. hydrocarbon exploration his mortal remains were bur- The visit also comes project at Neduvasal here on Sunday, resorting to fast at ied later in the day. days after an Indian engin- four centres in the district. While there was no con- Brothers arrested in eer Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s Army exam leak: 18 held TAMIL NADU Ī PAGE 4 firmation of the where- killing in an alleged hate at- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD abouts of Hafeezuddin, 25, tack shooting in Kansas. an NIA charge sheet had al- Gujarat for IS links Many, including Informa- Trail may lead all the way to Delhi, say oicials ‘False campaign holds leged that the group had tion and Broadcasting Min- up vaccination drive’ been located in Afgh- Mahesh Langa ister Venkaiah Naidu, have Gautam Mengle COIMBATORE anistan’s Nangarhar AHMEDABAD demanded the “strongest Thane One crore of the targeted province. Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist action from the U.S. admin- The Thane Police Crime population is yet to be The message, purportedly Squad (ATS) has arrested istration,” in the matter. Branch on Sunday busted a covered under the measles- sent by Ashfak Majeed, 27, two alleged Islamic State (IS) During their telephone racket spanning at least two rubella vaccination drive also a native of Padanna, conversation last month, States where question pa- because of a false campaign associates who it said were on social media platforms, an reached Hafeezuddin’s on a mission to carry out Mr. Trump invited Mr. pers of the Indian Army’s re- oicial of the Health mother at 7 a.m. and Mr. serial blasts at some reli- Modi to Washington. cruitment examinations Department said. The drive Rahman one-and-a-half gious place in the State. The two leaders are also were obtained from inside has so far covered only 76 hours later, P.V. Muhammed The siblings, identified as The IS suspects arrested in expected to meet on the sources and sold to aspir- lakh out of the targeted 1.76 Aslam, Padanna grama pan- Waseem and Naeem Ramod- Rajkot. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT sidelines of the G-20 Sum- ants. crore children in the State. chayat welfare standing com- iya, were arrested from Ra- mit in Germany in early The police arrested 18 in TAMIL NADU Ī PAGE 5 mittee chairman, who jkot and Bhavnagar. Their seas through social media July. connection with the racket. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD resides in the neighbour- father, Rajkot-based Arif platforms like Twitter, Face- The Ministry of External About 350 Army aspirants hood, told The Hindu. Aslam Ramodia, is a domestic book and Telegram, an en- Affairs confirmed that Mr. who were picked up from Dindigul Srinivasan communicated the informa- cricket umpire who retired crypted messaging app. Jaishankar would travel to Pune, Nagpur and Goa were that the source of the leak is ilities that the leak may have facing the heat tion to the media on behalf recently from Saurashtra The police recovered Washington D.C. from Feb- released later. a highly placed one, and that extended to several other DINDIGUL of the family. University. crude bombs, gun powder, ruary 28 to March 4. Officials have confirmed the investigation is likely to States. More than a week after the The message sent by Ash- According to ATS Deputy jihadi literature, and several to The Hindu that their in- extend all the way to New Edappadi K. Palaniswami fak, who till recently used to Superintendent of Police mobile phones from them. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 vestigations so far indicate Delhi. There are also possib- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 government won the vote of share information with the K.K. Patel, the two had been “They were ready with all conidence, many Ministers youth’s family, said, “Haffeez under the squad’s watch for the material required to and MLAs of the AIADMK (Sasikala) camp are facing a was killed by a drone strike more than a year. make bombs and had hostile reception in their yesterday and we consider He said they were in con- planned blasts in the next constituencies. On Sunday, him to be a Shaheed (mar- tact with IS operatives over- few days,” Mr. Patel said. posters condemning Forest tyr)… We are waiting for our CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Minister Dindigul C. turn”. Hafeezuddin’s father Srinivasan sprang up in many Abdul Hakeem, away in Abu Neither the Central agen- on complaints filed by seven parts of Dindigul. Dhabi, has left for home to cies nor the State police has relatives of the 17 missing TAMIL NADU Ī PAGE 4 be with his wife and daugh- confirmed the development. persons, including four wo- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ter. He had been nurturing a The police are now investig- men and three children. slim hope of their son re- ating the disappearance of EDGE Ī 4 PAGES maining safe and returning persons from Padanna and DOCTOR BACK FROM ISLAMIC METROPLUS Ī 8 PAGES home some day. Thrikkarippur areas based STATE CUSTODY Ī PAGE 6 Judicial MoP nearing completion Krishnadas Rajagopal NEW DELHI The Supreme Court Col- legium is engaged in ex- haustive consultations to fi- nalise the long-pending Memorandum of Proced- ure (MoP) for appointment of judges and draft clauses which once created an im- passe between the highest judiciary and the government. The MoP draft was handed over to the Col- legium by the government in August 2016. But no pro- gress was made in resolv- ing the differences till J.S. Khehar took over as Chief Justice of India. Chief Justice Khehar has repeatedly given positive signals — once in open court and again at a func- tion last week — that he would have the MoP final- ised soon, possibly by Feb- ruary-end. Sources say clauses in the draft MoP, like the executive’s prerog- ative to reject judicial can- didates recommended by the Collegium on the ground of “national secur- ity,” are no longer a roadblock. Justice T.S. Thakur, Chief Justice Khehar’s immediate predecessor, had time and again made strong observa- tions against perceived gov- ernment inaction. How- ever, since Chief Justice Khehar took over, there has been an improvement in relations strained since the Constitution Bench scrapped the National Judi- cial Appointments Com- mission Act in 2015. 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