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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 242 | Saturday, 2 September 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 9974.40 (+56.50) pSENSEX 31,892.23 (+161.74) pDOW JONES 22,008.21 (+60.11) pNASDAQ 6,439.98 (+11.32) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.02 (-0.12) pRUPEE/EURO 75.91 (+0.41) pGOLD/10GM 30,200 (+150.00) pSILVER/K 41,200 (+700.00) THREE MEN BURNT 1984 RIOTS: SC PANEL LEGENDS, RIVALS ‘SOMETIMES ALIVE AS CAR CNG TO EXAMINE ADVANCE TO LAST 32 I WISH I HAD KIT EXPLODES IN SIT DECISION TO WHILE WOMEN’S DRAW ANOTHER GURUGRAM PG4 CLOSE 199 CASES PG7 TAKES HIT PG14 SURNAME’ PG16 Modi asks taxmen to be friendly to Dalit student who fought NEET exam in Supreme Court found hanging MPOST BUREAU to study to become a doctor, but did not S Anitha to better our argument and make our like NEET and JEE, which is used for honest taxpayers perform well in the National Eligibility argument louder in court.” engineering students. CHENNAI: A 17 -year-old Dalit stu- cum Entrance Test, commonly referred A year ago, the Supreme Court The top court exempted the state from MPOST BUREAU dent from Tamil Nadu who asked the to as “NEET.” ordered all medical colleges across the NEET last year but refused a request to Supreme Court not to insist on a com- Her family said she was found country to use NEET to decide admis- continue the exemption this year. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi mon entrance exam for medical colleges hanging. sions. Tamil Nadu, which has close to 40 The centre said if the Tamil Nadu gov- on Friday asked tax officials to be friendly to has committed suicide on Friday, alleg- Superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal medical colleges, said its students are at a ernment were to issue an ordinance or honest taxpayers as part of his efforts to end the edly after she did not get admission to a Haasan, both expected to join poli- disadvantage while taking NEET, which it executive order that would effectively cir- fear of the taxman and make India a more tax medical college. tics soon, tweeted about Anitha. “My alleged is more apt for students who study cumvent NEET, it would back the move. compliant society. S Anitha, 17, the daughter of a daily heart goes out to her for all the pain and in CBSE schools, and punishes poor and But abruptly, last week, it said the oppo- Inaugurating the second edition of ‘Rajaswa wager, scored 1,176 marks out of 1,200 agony she would have undergone,” said rural students who cannot afford the site in the Supreme Court, which then Gyan Sangam’ -- the joint conference of direct in her board exams in Tamil Nadu, Rajinikanth. should not have happened... our argu- private tuition classes usually needed to ordered Tamil Nadu to use NEET as its and and indirect tax officials -- Modi asked which would have allowed her to enrol Haasan said, “This is a tragedy which ment has probably been weak. We’ll have score high on common entrance exams sole criterion for college admissions. them to ensure that the benefits of the biggest tax reform since independence, GST, reach the OLD FACES COULD MAKE WAY FOR NEW ONES common man by way of reduced prices. The closed-door two-day conference is being 2 killed as Ghazipur attended by senior officers of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). landfill collapses “Hon’ble PM @narendramodi directed the tax administrators to be friendly to the honest Modi’s new-look team taxpayers,” CBEC said in a Twitter post. Since coming to power in May 2014, Modi has assured taxpayers that he will remove the fear of tax officials hounding them by ushering in accountability and answerability. Measures taken include cutting down phys- to take oath on Sunday ical interface between the taxpayer and official to curb corruption and easier online filing of SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE Programme Implementation in the returns and claiming of refund as also paperless last reshuffle, could be spared the email-based inquiry and e-scrutiny. NEW DELHI: Fourteen new min- axe because of elections in his state CBEC said Modi appreciated the efforts isters are expected to be sworn in Karnataka next year. put in by Central and state officials for smooth the much-awaited reshuffle of the According to political analysts, Police and people gather near the Ghazipur landfill site in East Delhi implementation of the Goods and Services Tax Modi cabinet will take place on Modi wants to counter the Opposi- on Friday PIC/NAVEEN SHARMA (GST), which unifies more than a dozen levies Sunday in which about half-a- tion attack over issues like demon- like excise duty, service tax and VAT. dozen ministers are expected to etisation, lower GDP growth and ZAFAR ABBAS to watch the rescue attempts. GST, which Modi previously described as a make way for several new faces, cow vigilantism by bringing in new “We received a call regard- ‘good and simple tax’ that will help end tax ter- including those of the BJP’s allies. faces who would deliver. NEW DELHI: A giant pile of ing a car falling into the canal rorism and inspector raj, was rolled out from Prime Minister Narendra Modi Evictions from the cabinet are garbage caved in at a massive due to sliding of a garbage July 1, making India one market and ending will undertake the third and proba- based only on performance after a dumping site in Delhi on Fri- dump in Gazipur. It was later cascading effect of multiple taxes. bly last major recasting of his coun- review, the sources said, with PM day afternoon, which pushed a reported that the garbage dump “Honble PM @narendramodi desired that cil of ministers before the next Lok Modi clear he wants ministers who few cars, an autorickshaw and a fell on one taxi car, two bikes the benefit of GST should percolate to the com- Sabha polls in 2019. Mahendra Nath Pandey - had resources minister, said only Shah perform and work hard. scooter into a canal. Two peo- and one scooter in the canal. mon man,” CBEC said. The changes in Team Modi are resigned on Thursday ahead of the or anyone on his behalf can speak Shah had met Modi on Thurs- ple are dead and a few others Soon rescue teams reached the being made with an eye on key rejig, Labour Minister Bandaru on the issue. day and the two leaders are under- are said to be trapped after an spot and carried on the opera- assembly elections in several states Dattatreya is also learnt to have Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Sanjeev stood to have finalised the changes 80-foot heap crashed onto the tion.” said Ravinder Yadav, Joint Indian democracy in the next few months and then resigned on Friday. The party had Balyan both said they were told in the council of ministers. road with such ferocity that cars CP eastern range. the 2019 national election when asked them to quit. to resign by the party and they Arun Jaitley, who currently were flung off the road. The two deceased have PM Modi will seek a second term. Three cabinet ministers, Uma unquestioningly did so. “It’s not holds the charge of two heavy- A rescue operation has been been identified as Rajkumari enabled President, PM “A process has been set in Bharti Kalraj Mishra and Suresh my decision, it’s the decision of weight portfolios -- finance and on for nearly three hours at the (30) and Abhishek (27). Both motion for the swearing-in cer- Prabhu, have also offered to resign, the party, and I will follow (it),” defence, may retain only one, site in Ghazipur, which is on deceased were residents of rise to great heights emony at Rashtrapati Bhavan at said BJP sources amid speculations Rudy said. sources said. the outskirts of the capital. A Delhi. The injured have been SMRITI IRANI around 10 am on Sunday,” a top that there may be a few more exits. Agriculture Minister Radha Road Transport and Highways team of the National Disaster identified as Karan, Pankaj of government official said. Mishra met the prime minis- Mohan Singh could be asked to Minister Nitin Gadkari, seen as Response Force or NDRF has Khoda colony, Amit, Deepak While four junior ministers - ter on Friday and offered to quit, a go, sources said. one of the more capable ministers, arrived to help in the rescue and Ayub Ansari of Rajvir col- Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Sanjiv Kumar source close to him said. Sadananda Gowda, who was can be given more responsibility. and large cranes are clearing the ony in Gazipur. In today’s Balyan, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Bharti, who is the water demoted from Law to Statistics and Turn to P5 road of trash. A crowd gathered More reports on P3 paper DARJEELING UNREST Brics Summit: VVIP CHOPPER SCAM ... India to raise CITY Look-out notice against CBI chargesheet against PARENTS THRONG SCHOOLS DURING MEGA PTM 3 terror concerns NATION GJM chief Bimal Gurung OUR CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI TRAGEDY: TOLL REACHES 33 6 OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: India is ex-IAF chief S P Tyagi expected to raise its concerns EDIT KOLKATA: The Criminal Investiga- over terrorism strongly at MPOST BUREAU AgustaWestland CEO Bruno OLD ANSWERS, ‘NEW’ MONSOON 8 tion Department (CID) has issued the next week’s BRICS Sum- Spagnolini, former Finmec- a look-out notice against abscond- mit, hosted by China, which NEW DELHI: The CBI on Fri- canica Chairman Giuseppe INTERNATIONAL ing Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) yesterday said New Delhi’s day filed a charge sheet in a city Orsi and the Anglo-Italian chief Bimal Gurung, secretary general concerns over Pakistan’s coun- court against former IAF Chief company, AgustaWestland, as PUTIN WARNS OF ‘MAJOR CONFLICT’ 10 Roshan Giri and youth leader Kan- ter-terrorism record is not an S P Tyagi and nine others in the accused in the case.