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XXIV, NO. 323, PAGES 8, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Mini Marathon to Municipal Haryana Cabinet Brilliant be organised Corporation urges Guv to take Labuschagne leads on birthday of Chandigarh gears up consent of Prez to charge with fourth Himachal Chief for Swachh authorize use of hundred of the Minister on Jan 6 Survekshan 2020 Hindi in High Court summer PAGE 5PAGE 7 PAGE 3 PAGE 8 Top Iranian commander killed in US airstrikes in Iraq AGENCY Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Just a few hours later, the BAGHDAD, JAN 3 Ali Khamenei vowed to take “se- Revolutionary Guard Corps an- Soleimani killing to protect US vere revenge” for Soleimani’s nounced Soleimani “was mar- Top Iranian commander Qasem death. tyred in an attack by America on Soleimani was killed on Friday in personnel abroad: Pentagon Trump tweeted out a picture Baghdad airport this morning”. a US strike on Baghdad’s interna- of the US flag without any expla- The Hashed confirmed both tional airport, Iran and the US WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump ordered for the US airstrike in nation, as the pre-dawn develop- Soleimani and its deputy chief Iraq that killed General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's pow- confirmed, in the most dramatic erful Revolutionary Guards, in a "decisive defensive action" to protect US ments marked the most major es- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were Nafe Singh Rathi episode yet of escalating tensions personnel abroad and deter future attacks being planned by Iran, the calation yet in a feared proxy war killed in what it said was a “US between the two countries. Pentagon said Friday. between Iran and the US on Iraqi strike that targeted their car on the appointed Hry The Pentagon said US Presi- General Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite al-Quds force and architect of soil. Baghdad International Airport dent Donald Trump ordered its regional security apparatus, was killed following a US airstrike at Bagh- Early on Friday, a volley of road”. The Hashed is a network of INLD chief Soleimani’s “killing”, after a pro- dad's international airport on Friday. The strike also killed the deputy chief missiles hit Baghdad’s interna- mostly-Shiite armed units, many CHANDIGARH: The Indian Na- Iran mob this week laid siege to of Iraq's powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force. The Pentagon tional airport, striking a convoy of whom have close ties to Tehran tional Lok Dal on Friday appoint- the US embassy. confirmed the death of Soleimani in Iraq, saying the strike was carried out belonging to the Hashed al- but which have been officially in- ed former legislator Nafe Singh Declaring three days of at the direction of Trump. Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary corporated into Iraq’s state secu- Rathi as the party's Haryana unit mourning across the country, force with close ties to Iran. rity forces. chief. He will succeed Birbal Das Dhalia, who, senior party leader Abhay Singh Chautala said, has been elevated as the Indian Na- tional Lok Dal's (INLD) national People being misled president. "Rathi, a two-time MLA, has been appointed as the new chief of state (Haryana) unit of INLD on the advice of party over CAA, NRC: Khattar supremo Om Prakash Chautala Govt won't budge an inch after his consultations with senior party members," Abhay Chautala Special assembly session from January 20 said. Rathi is a former MLA from Bahadurgarh assembly con- stituency. The INLD slumped to CHANDIGARH, JANAURY 3 its worst-ever performance in the October 2019 Haryana Assembly Haryana is going to hold a special as- polls. on CAA, says Amit Shah sembly session from January 20 to ratify a bill to extend reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Anglo Indians in the state Army officer, four for another 10 years. Recently the Targets opposition for spreading rumours Constitution amendment bill was jawans injured passed in the Parliament. in mine blast AGENCY The reservation quoto given to der him today morning. JODHPUR(RAJ), JAN 3 the SCs and STs and the Anglo-Indi- The CM said pension of the JAMMU: An Army officer and ‘Cong should be four jawans on Friday suffered in- ans in the Parliement and assembly aged, widows, and others has been juries in mine explosion along the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday ashamed for speaking for the last 70 years will end on increased from Rs 2000 to Rs 2250 Line of Control in Rajouri sector said the government will not budge an inch on against Savarkar’ Janaury 25 and hence all the states and it will be paid from the month of of Jammu and Kashmir. its decision to implement the Citizenship need to make the necessary emend- January. Total expenditure on the pay- Defence sources here said that Amendment Act despite the opposition's mis- JODHPUR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on ment in their respective state assem- ment for pension to theb 28 lakh peo- one Lieutenant and four jawans information campaign . Friday hit out at Congress for speaking against blies before this date this year. ple will be Rs 584 crore. He said suffered injuries in landmine ex- Launching an "awareness programme", Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Addressing a press conference keeping in mind the intended strike of plosion this morning in Kalal area he said the Congress was misleading Muslims for vote-bank politics and said that Congress- here today, Haryana Chief Minister the transport unions in Haryana again of Nowshera in Rajouri. over the Act and challenged party leader men should be ashamed of themselves. Manohar Lal Khattar said the deci- the state government will make all They said that injured were im- Rahul Gandhi to a discussion if he has read "For vote-bank politics, Congress party is sion to hold the special session was arrangements so that people are not mediately evacuated and rushed speaking against a great personality like Veer the law. Savarkar. Congressmen should be ashamed of taken at the cabinet meeting held un- inconvenienced during the stir. to the command hospital Udham- The BJP will take out 500 rallies across pur. However, Defence themselves," said Shah addressing a rally here. the country, beginning Saturday to reach out Shah's remark comes after Ranjit Savarkar, Spokesman here said that at to three crore people, he said. about 1215 hours, Pakistan initi- grandson of Savarkar, alleged that Congress is Shah, who is also the BJP president, said plotting to defame his grandfather through the ated unprovoked ceasefire viola- the party had to launch this programme be- Parminder Dhindsa quits as tion by firing of Small arms. party booklet which claims that the Hindu Ma- cause of the misinformation spread by the op- hasabha co-founder had a "physical relation- position parties on the amended law. ship" with Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathu- Let all these parties come together. The ram Godse. SAD legislative party leader Tourism Festival to Bharatiya Janata Party is not going back an "There is no provision in the Citizenship Ranjit urged the Madhya Pradesh government be organised on inch on the CAA,' he said at the meeting held Amendment Act to take anyone's citizenship to ban the Congress'booklet. AGENCY Badal family and "revive its lost Makar Sakranti in Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's away but it is a law to grant citizenship," he He also asserted that a criminal case should be CHANDIGARH, JAN 3 glory". Former minister and cur- assembly constituency. added. registered against the Congress Seva Dal as it rent Sahnewal MLA Sharanjit SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh The home minister said it is shameful that "We have not kept out any religion. We was during their camp that the booklet was dis- Days after his father Singh Dhillon will now Tourism Department will organ- the Congress is criticising the sacrifice of are giving citizenship to minorities of Pak- tributed. and Rajya Sabha MP be the new leader of the ise 'Tourism Festival' on the oc- casion of Makar Sakranti on great sons of the country, like Veer Savarkar, istan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan whether Sukhdev Singh Dhind- SAD legislative party in 14th January, 2020 at Tattapani. for the sake of its vote bank. they are Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi or vote bank. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi sa rebelled against the the state assembly, said It would be organised in collabo- The remark comes amid a row over the Christian," he said. He challenged Congress has protected the human rights human rights top Akali leadership, Sukhbir Singh Badal in a ration with district Mandi Admin- distribution of a booklet against the Hindutva leader Rahul to a discussion on the law. and honour of millions of refugees who came former Punjab finance statement here. Badal ac- istration. This was disclosed by icon at a camp held by Congress-affiliated Rahul baba if you have read the law come to India, the BJP leader said. "Mahatma Gand- minister Parminder cepted the one-line resig- Director Tourism Department Seva Dal in Madhya Pradesh. But Shah did anywhere for a discussion (charcha). If you hi had made the promise. Was he communal? Singh Dhindsa on Fri- nation of Dhindsa, a two- Yunus while presiding a meeting not directly refer to it. haven't read it, I will get it translated into Ital- Former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had day resigned from the time finance minister, on here today. He said that objec- Opposition parties have criticised the ian, he said, in a swipe at his Italian-origin also said in Parliament that citizenship will be post of the leader of the Friday.