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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 109 | Friday, 21 April 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 9136.40 (+32.90) pSENSEX 29,422.39 (+85.82) qDOW JONES 20,404.49 (-118.79) pNASDAQ 5,863.03 (+13.56) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.56 (+0.2) pRUPEE/EURO 69.53 (+0.31) qGOLD/10GM 29,810.00 (-90.00) pSILVER/K 42,460.00 (+210.00) ‘IF WE WIN, WILL OPS FACTION ASSAD REGIME I’M STILL AN MAKE DELHI HARDENS STANCE BEHIND ATTACK, OUTSIDER IN GARBAGE- FOR MERGER FRANCE TO PRODUCE HOLLYWOOD FREE’ PG3 TALKS PG6 PROOF PG10 PG15 Quick News44 PAK SC ORDERS JIT TO PROBE GRAFT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SHARIF’S FAMILY Oil ministry red-flags PM Modi, Paytm founder only Indians to make it Nawaz Sharif narrowly Sunday holiday for to Time 100 list fuel outlets NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds on to premiership and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma were MPOST BUREAU the only two Indians to make it to an annual list ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif wanted to remove the Prime Min- of ‘100 most inuential people in the world’ this on ursday narrowly managed ister as sought by the petitioners. NEW DELHI: e oil ministry year released by the Time magazine on ursday. to save his premiership aer a The case is about e case was launched on has denounced the decision of e list features pioneers, artists, titans, leaders Pakistan Supreme Court bench November 3 and the court held a section of petrol pump opera- and icons from around the world honoured for declared there was “insucient alleged money 35 hearings before concluding the tors, mostly in South India, to “the power of their inventions, the scale of their evidence” to remove him from laundering by proceedings on February 23. keep outlets shut on Sundays, small section of dealers will ambitions, the genius of their solutions to prob- oce but ordered setting up of a e case is about alleged money saying such a move will incon- lead to inconvenience for the lems that no one before them could solve.” e Joint Investigation Team to probe Sharif in 1990s laundering by Sharif in 1990s when venience the general public. general public". magazine has also included US President Don- the gra allegations against his when he twice he twice served as Prime Minister It took umbrage at the Con- e tweets, which were ald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin family. to purchase assets in London. sortium of Indian Petroleum retweeted by Oil Minister and British Prime Minister eresa May in the e court ordered Sharif, 67, served as Prime e assets surfaced when Pan- Dealers using Prime Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, also new list of 100 most inuential people. P12 and his two sons - Hasan and Minister to ama papers last year showed that Narendra Modi's appeal of not stated that major dealer asso- Hussain - to appear before the JIT, they were managed through o- using fuel for a day to help cut ciations are not participating which would include ocials from purchase assets shore companies owned by Shar- India's import dependence, in the closure. Suspected ISIS activists the Federal Investigation Agency in London if’s children. saying it was aimed at con- "Major dealers' federations (FIA), the National Accountabil- e case led by various peti- serving fuel and not for petrol have claried that they don't ity Bureau (NAB), the Security and tioners Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf pump owners to remain shut. endorse any closure of petrol held, were planning Exchange Commission of Pakistan chief Imran Khan, Jamaat-i-Isl- Already, the All India pumps on any day," a tweet (SECP), the Inter-Services Intelli- and will complete its work in 60 landmark 547 pages judgement 57 ami emir Sirajul Haq and Sheikh Petroleum Dealers Associa- went. major attack: Police gence (ISI) and the Military Intel- days. days aer concluding the hearing. Rashid Ahmed sought disquali- tion, which claims to represent On the issue of Modi's ligence (MI). e ve-judge bench compris- Justice Ijaz Afzal, Justice Azmat cation of Prime Minister Sharif 80 per cent of the 53,224 pet- slogan, the ministry said, LUCKNOW/MUMBAI: A major terror attack e JIT has been given two ing Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Jus- Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan over his alleged misstatement in rol pumps of public sector oil "e Prime Minister in in the country was claimed to have been averted months to complete the probe. tice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ejaz wrote the majority judgment, his address to the nation on April 5 rms, has said it is not partici- #MannKiBaat appealed to Peo- as 10 suspected ISIS activists were held on urs- It will present its report before Afzal Khan, Justice Azmat Saeed whereas Justice Gulzar and Jus- and his speech before the National pating in the closure exercise. ple of India not to use fuel once day in a major multi-state operation. the bench aer every two weeks and Justice Ijazul Ahsan issued the tice Khosa in their dissenting note Assembly on May 16, 2016. AGENCIES Southern states of Tamil a week and not to dealers to e joint operation was carried out by Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, close their pumps on Sundays." the police teams of Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, All India Petroleum Deal- Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, ‘Holding talks on with stakeholders on no-fly list’ parts of Karnataka -- mostly ers Association President Ajay in which four suspected terrorists belonging to around Bengaluru -- and some Bansal said that the association, the ISIS Khorasan module were arrested and six MPOST BUREAU dents of unruly and dis- respect to unruly and dis- with Air India and other tive behaviour in our skies areas of Maharashtra, especially which has nearly 46,000 petrol others were detained, ocials said. ruptive behaviour of air ruptive behaviour,” he said. private airlines barring and on our airlines have Mumbai, may see petrol pump pump owners as members, are e arrests were made during raids on NEW DELHI: e govern- passengers, Minister of e Civil Aviation Gaikwad from taking their been increasing. owners down their shutters on not participating in the closure. ursday morning in Mumbra (Maharash- ment is in discussions with State for Civil Aviation Jay- Ministry has been look- ights. Aer he regretted “So, it is in fact a very Sundays beginning May 14 to "Our members in 22 states tra), Jalandhar (Punjab), Narkatiaganj (Bihar), stakeholders on nding the ant Sinha on ursday said ing at ways to have stricter the incident, the ban, which serious matter we have to press for higher commission are not going on any protests," and Bijnor and Muzaarnagar (both in Uttar “right way” to have a no- the question now is what measures to tackle unruly was in place for two weeks, think about,” Sinha said at on petrol and diesel they sell. he claried, adding that the Pradesh), the ocials added. P7 y list to deal with unruly can be done “pro-actively behaviour by yers against was revoked by the carriers. an event here. "@PetroleumMin neither association has called a meeting air passengers, close on the and preemptively”. the backdrop of Shiv Sena “You all know from the Emphasising that there endorses nor approves of move of the general body in the next heels of a parliamentar- “We are considering MP Ravindra Gaikwad newspapers and we have is a dierence between by a small section of dealers to few weeks to discuss the agree- I wanted to call ian assaulting an Air India and discussing with all assaulting an Air India heard this with lot of evi- security and safety, he said keep their petrol pumps closed ment PSU oil companies had staer. stakeholders as to what staer at the airport here dence backing this up from no-y lists in other coun- on Sundays," the ministry said signed with it in November last colleagues as witnesses, but Noting that there has is the right way to have a last month. e incident all the airlines that inci- tries are for national secu- in a series of tweets. year to consider their demand wasn’t allowed to do so... been an increase in inci- national no-y list with had sparked o an outrage dents of unruly and disrup- rity and not for safety. Such closure, it said, "by a for raising fuel margins. TEJ BAHADUR YADAV Irked by delay in event, Rajnath In today’s paper asks babus to pull up their socks ... MPOST BUREAU any laxity in our commit- CITY ment?” he asked. NEW DELHI: Union Referring to the coun- TEEN DRIVER SNUFFS OUT MAN’S LIFE 3 Home Minister Rajnath try’s rst Home Minister, Singh on ursday pulled Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, NATION up bureaucrats and asked who had termed the civil them to be punctual aer services as the ‘steel frame’ ‘MILITARY CANNOT BE SUBJECTED TO FIR’ 6 an event that he attended of India, Singh asked EDIT got delayed by a few whether the ‘steel frame’ minutes. of the civil services has REMEMBERING THOSE FORGOTTEN 8 Singh, who was the become weak? chief guest at the inaugural session “I am telling this as I think we all INTERNATIONAL of an event to mark the Civil Services should conduct a serious introspection. Day here, said he was worried that a I am raising this issue as... 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