Delhi monday, january 2, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 1 ● CITY EDITION ● 28 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, Malappuram and Mumbai Shoe thrown at Arvind Tapas Paul names Black money will Somdev Devvarman Kejriwal at public Babul Supriyo in Rose be converted into announces retirement meeting in Rohtak Valley chit fund scam cheaper loans: Jaitley from professional tennis Page 4 Page 12 Page 15 Page 17 • • BRIEFLY Loans to be cheaper Pakistan backs China’s Akhilesh camp declares him SP head block on Azhar as SBI slashes rate NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Sunday Mulayam made Despite this, the Akhilesh endorsed the block that China camp went ahead with the has imposed on India’s mentor, Amar meet, where some “major Benchmark rate will campaign at the United Nations decisions” were “unanim- be 8 per cent as Security Council to blacklist Singh expelled ously passed”. Masood Azhar of the Jaish-e- from party While Mr. Akhilesh was against 8.9 per cent Mohammed, a Pakistan-based declared the new party pres- terror group. It said India’s OMAR RASHID ident, his father was releg- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT campaign to impose a ban on ated to the nominal post of a Masood Azhar was “politically LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party su- margdarshak or a guiding MUMBAI: State Bank of India motivated.” premo Mulayam Singh on mentor. (SBI), the country’s largest ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 Sunday expelled his cousin, The meet also “displaced” lender, has reduced its mar- general secretary Ramgopal Mr. Shivpal, Mr. Akhilesh’s ginal cost of funds based Mine accident toll Yadav for the “illegal” act of bête noire, from his party lending rate (MCLR) by a mounts to 18 making Uttar Pradesh Chief post, and “expelled” Amar whopping 90 basis points. Minister Akhilesh Yadav the Singh, Mr. Mulayam’s aide Among the steepest interest GODDA (JHARKHAND): Two more new “national president”. who has been held respons- rate cuts in a long time, the bodies were recovered from the This was Mr. Ramgopal’s ible by the Akhilesh camp for move is aimed at boosting debris of the Rajmahal Open second expulsion in three the internal feud. loan growth, which has fallen loans. The efective interest Cast Mine here on Sunday. The days, and his third in the last TROUBLE CONTINUES: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and ‘newly elected Samajwadi Party national Later, Mr. Akhilesh to a multi-decade low. MCLR rate for new home loans is death toll went up to 18. The three months. president’ Akhilesh Yadav speaks at a convention in Lucknow on Sunday as party general tweeted: “Sometimes to pro- is the benchmark rate to likely to be between 8.25 per authorities revised the number Mr. Ramgopal had earlier secretary Ramgopal Yadav looks on. — PHOTO: PTI tect the ones you love you which all loans are linked. A cent and 8.5 per cent. Exist- of people still buried in the in the day gone against the must make the right de- percentage point equals 100 ing loans linked to the MCLR rubble to six. Twenty-three diktat of the supremo and proposals and decisions ing, signed by Mr. Mulayam, menced at the Jnaneshwar cision. What I did today was basis points (bps). will be impacted when they people went missing after the convened a special “emer- passed there as “illegal.” the board blamed Mr. Mishra Park, Mr. Mulayam a tough decision but one that The SBI, in a statement, are re-priced. MCLR has accident, Sub-Divisional Officer gency national convention” Later in the day, Mr. Ramgopal for “conspiring” issued a warning to party I had to take.” said its one-year MCLR been in efect from April 1 Sanjay Kumar said. of the SP, where several pro- Ramgopal’s expulsion was to harm the SP. It, however, members against attending would be 8 per cent as com- and had replaced the base ½ NATION | PAGE 9 posals and decisions were approved by the SP’s central did not refer to Mr. Akhilesh. the programme, asserting it ½ SOME OF THE OLD GUARD pared with 8.9 per cent rate. “The decision is promp- Jan Dhan deposits announced by him in the parliamentary board meet- Mr. Mulayam has con- was in “total violation of the GRAVITATE TO AKHILESH earlier. Home and auto loans ted by liquidity,” SBI chair- presence of a few thousand ing at Mr. Mulayam’s resid- vened a fresh national con- party constitution and dis- CAMP; CM APPOINTS NEW of most banks, including the man Arundhati Bhattacharya double to ₨87,000 cr. STATE PRESIDENT | PAGE 12 party workers. Mr. Mulayam ence, attended by Shivpal Ya- vention on January 5. Hours cipline and organised with ½ SBI, are linked to their one- told The Hindu. NEW DELHI: Deposits in Jan Dhan termed the meet “unconsti- dav, State president. In a before the convention called the intention of harming” the SPLIT WIDE OPEN year MCLRs. The rate cut ½ PAGE 12 accounts have more than tutional” and dismissed the letter issued after the meet- by Mr. Ramgopal com- party. | EDITORIAL will be applicable to all fresh CONTINUED ON doubled to ₨87,000 crore in 45 days post demonetisation, prompting the tax department to “dissect” information relating 2 Indians among 39 dead in Turkey attack to such deposits, an official said. We will not hesitate to use ½ NEWS | PAGE 13 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TMC MP to appear force if needed: Gen. Rawat NEW DELHI: Two Indians died in before CBI on Jan 3 a New Year’s eve terror strike “Supersession was “We want peace and KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress at a night club in Istanbul, MP Sudip Bandopadhyay on Turkey, that claimed 39 lives. a decision of the tranquillity on the Sunday said he would appear External Afairs Minister government” border. But it doesn’t before the CBI on January 3 in Sushma Swaraj made the an- mean we are weak.. connection with the nouncement on Twitter on DINAKAR PERI investigation into the Rose Sunday. We are capable.” Valley chit fund scam. “I was “I have a bad news from NEW DELHI: Chief of Army Staf first called on November 15, but Turkey. We have lost two In- Gen. Bipin Rawat said on shoulder. I hope that we con- I couldn’t go. The CBI told me to dian nationals in the Istanbul Sunday that India desired tinue to work shoulder to come on January 3,” he said. attack. Indian ambassador is peace but, if provoked, would shoulder in future too to fur- on way to Istanbul. The vic- not hesitate to use force. Army chief Gen. Bipin Rawat ther the unity and strength of ½ PAGE 12 NEWS | tims are Mr Abis Rizvi, son “We want peace and tran- addresses the media in New the Army,” he added. Indonesian tourist of former Rajya Sabha MP, quillity on the border. But it Delhi on Sunday. — PHOTO: PTI Eastern Army Com- and Ms Khushi Shah from doesn’t mean we are weak. mander Lt. Gen. Praveen boat blaze kills 23 Gujarat,” she tweeted. We are fully capable and pre- the border; 141 terrorists Bakshi and Southern Army JAKARTA: A massive fire erupted The Rizvis are well- pared. If necessary, we will were killed in Jammu and Commander Lt. Gen. PM in a boat carrying hundreds of known businessmen in not hesitate to use force,” he Kashmir. Hariz are senior to Gen. local tourists to an island north Mumbai with interests in said, in response to a ques- Gen. Rawat stated that the Rawat. of the Indonesian capital Jakarta real estate, education and en- tion from the media after re- rank and file of the Army was Lt. Gen. Bakshi was widely on Sunday, leaving 23 dead and tertainment. Turkish police viewing a guard of honour equal to him irrespective of tipped for the top post as per 17 injured. Passengers jumped launched a massive manhunt outside South Block. the “arm and service they be- the ‘seniority-cum-merit’ into the sea as flames engulfed for the gunman who went on He assumed charge as the long to.” which has been traditionally the boat. the rampage at the nightclub. 27th Army chief on Saturday. On the supersession of two followed. However, the gov- The assailant shot dead a po- Last year was the worst for oicers in appointing him as ernment appointed Gen. ½ WORLD | PAGE 14 liceman and a civilian at the the Army in terms of casual- the Army chief, Gen. Rawat Rawat, who was then Vice EDUCATIONPLUS club entrance and then ties with major terror attacks said it was “a decision of the Chief, citing his “tremendous 4 Pages turned his gun on partygo- and heightened tensions government” and he “accepts hands-on experience” as well METROPLUS ers. (With AFP) along the Line of Control and it with all humility.” as his “operational assign- Survivors mourn the loss of friends who died when a gunman went on the rampage at a 4 Pages ½ FULL COVERAGE | PAGE 14 the International Boundary “I respect the two super- ments” as most suitable to nightclub in Istanbul during a New Year celebrations, leaving 39 dead. — PHOTO: REUTERS with Pakistan. seded oicers. I have worked deal with “emerging It lost 63 personnel along with them shoulder to challenges.” Man dies in police station, Now bus-tracking body dumped in cover-up bid only a click away SHUBHOMOY SIKDAR AVINASH BHAT NEW DELHI: In a case of an at- BENGALURU: In a first for a tempted police cover-up, a government-run transport 25-year-old man first fell to corporation, the Karnataka death under mysterious cir- State Road Transport cumstances from the terrace Corporation has of the Adarsh Nagar police developed an open source station following which real-time updated data some policemen allegedly sharing platform to be dumped his body elsewhere shared with app to pass it of as an unidenti- developers and fied corpse.