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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... I know for AUS UNVEILS TOUGHER CITIZENSHIP LAWS 10 function of bureaucrats got delayed some people this may come across as by 12 minutes and the attendees kept weird.. but I thought it is appropriate to BUSINESS entering the venue even aer it for- raise the issue before all of you,” he said. WIPRO SACKS HUNDREDS 13 mally began. Because, the Home Minister said, “I was a little bit worried today. e the Civil Services Day is such an occa- SPORT programme was supposed to start at sion where everyone introspects, dis- 9.45 (AM). We reached ve minutes cusses about the journey that was KNIGHTS LOOK TO TAKE OUT LIONS 14 before the scheduled time. But it started planned. at 9.57 (AM),” he said at the event “What we have achieved so far and attended mostly by ocers belonging what should we do in the future. at’s FOR ADVERTISING to IAS and other all India services. why I have raised the issue,” he said. kindly contact at 9810195709 or Singh said there maybe many rea- Singh said he got the opportunity sons for the delayed start and some rea- to work as a minister several times and [email protected] sons maybe right but there should be an he had served as a chief minister too. introspection as to why the situation is “When I was invited for a function, FOR SUBSCRIPTION such as it is today. when I was the chief minister, it was kindly contact at 8800854665 or “It would have been good that quite natural that I would reach the [email protected] we would not have deviated (from venue 10 minutes before the sched- the scheduled time). Has there been uled time.” SC permits NDMC to e-auction iconic Taj Mansingh Hotel

OUR CORRESPONDENT told the court that the proposed sonable, non-discriminatory, auction was not right as they transparent, non-capricious, NEW DELHI: e Supreme have certain contractual rights unbiased, without favouritism Court on ursday allowed the for lease renewal. or nepotism, in pursuit of pro- New Delhi Municipal Coun- Pressing for the right of rst motion of healthy competition cil to go ahead with the e-auc- refusal if the property housing and equitable treatment, and to tion of the property housing Taj Mansingh was to go under sub-serve the common good, is the iconic Taj Mansingh Hotel the hammer, Salve told the to opt for e-auction of the said here, currently run by Tata court that at some point “we e property, owned by the premises. Group’s Indian Hotels Com- must get renewal opportunity NDMC, was given to IHCL on e apex court had asked pany Ltd. (IHCL). as our track record has been a 33-year lease that ended in the NDMC to reconsider its An apex court bench of unblemished”. 2011. e IHCL has since been decision to auction the ve-star Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose e IHCL had challenged managing the property on sev- hotel in the wake of the Attor- and Justice Rohinton Fali Nari- the Delhi High Court’s Octo- eral extensions it has got from ney General(AG) and Solici- man said the IHCL will have six ber 27 order dismissing its plea the municipal council. tor General’s (SG) opinion not months to vacate the building against the auction of the prop- It may be noted that the to initiate any such a process. — known as Taj Mansingh — erty by the NDMC. e apex NDMC, in its council meet- It had noted the fact that the in case the New Delhi Munici- court had ordered for a status ing earlier, had decided to go opinions of both top law o- pal Council (NDMC) does not quo on November 21, 2016. for outright auction in these cers against the auctioning of succeed in its e-auction. Earlier, a division bench of kind of matters and resolved the hotel was not placed before e court said the NDMC the Delhi High Court had reit- that the best available method the Ministry of Home Aairs will keep in mind that the IHCL erated the September 25 single- to NDMC, which is a pub- for consideration. e bench has an unblemished track judge order that dismissed an lic authority and custodian of had also taken note of the record in hotel management. IHCL suit to renew its licence public property, is to obtain the fact that there was an internal Appearing for the IHCL, and upheld the NDMC’s deci- fair market value of rental of opinion of top NDMC ocials senior counsel Harish Salve sion to auction the property. the said property in a fair, rea- against the auctioning process. 2 town mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 DAYINDAYOUT Poor sleep What’s on Around Town (IM)POSSIBILITIES A group show of paintings and sculp- tures of some of the most celebrated MAY MAKE artists of the nation, the exhibition, (im) possibilities showcase how one can one can decipher the word impossibilities you pessimistic to read as i m possibilities. The names showcased in this exhibition has already ‘Sleep plays an important role in the proved that impossible is nothing and at UIC. it is a privilege to celebrate their (im) ability to regulate negative emotions in “ e questionnaire asks about possibilities. sleep over the previous month WHEN: April 13 – May 13 people who suffer from anxiety’ and answers can be impacted by WHERE: Creativity Art Gallery, Hauz current mood,” Klumpp said. Khas Village “Plus, respondents may not TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm be able to accurately remember how they slept a month ago. e FRAMING THE LIVING actigraph objectively measures current sleep, so the results from TRADITIONS both measurements may not A collaborative match,” she said. photography project “Higher DACC activity in under the aegis of participants with lower levels of Neel Dongre Awards/ sleep eciency could mean the DACC is working harder to carry Grants for Excellence out the demanding work of reap- in Photography (2017) praisal,” Klumpp said. by India Photo Achieve “Our research indicates sleep Foundation, will showcase five photogra- might play an important role in phers presenting different living traditions oor sleep may hamper accidents and were asked to sim- task, while those with lower sleep participants met criteria for sig- and actigraph measure dierent the ability to regulate negative like The Art of Making Tanpura in Maha- the ability to see things in ply look at the images and not to eciency based on the actigraph nicant sleep disturbance, and the aspects of the sleep experience, it emotions in people who suer rashtra and Muga & Eri Silk cultivation in positive light, especially try to control their reaction or to data had higher activity in the actigraph results suggested the is not surprising that brain activ- from anxiety or depression,” she in people suering from “reappraise” what they saw in a DACC. majority had insomnia, research- ity also diered between these said. e study was published Assam through distinctive artistic styles. Pdepression and anxiety, research- more positive light. e questionnaire results ers said. measures,” said Heide Klumpp, in the journal Depression and WHEN: April 21 – May 2 ers including one of Indian origin An example of reappraisal indicated that three out of four “Since the questionnaire assistant professor of psychiatry Anxiety. PTI WHERE: Kamla Devi Complex, IIC have found. would be to see an image of a TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm Researchers from University woman with a badly bruised face of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in and imagine her as an actor in A MUSICAL NIGHT the US, used functional MRI to makeup for a role, rather than With dual voice singing ability, Sairam measure the activity in dierent as a survivor of violence, said Iyer is all set to enthral the Delhi audi- regions of the brain as subjects researchers. ence. Sairam’s incredible skill of ef- were challenged with an emotion- A motion-sensing device fortlessly switching between male and regulation task. called an actigraph measured ey studied about 78 their awake time in bed, or “sleep female voices has received accolades patients, 18 to 65 years of age, eciency,” over a six-day period. from musical heavyweights. In addition to who had been diagnosed with an Researchers, including Anand strengthen the cultural and social fabric, anxiety disorder, a major depres- Kumar from University of Illinois the event promotes Prime Minister’s key sive disorder, or both. at Chicago, found that partici- project – ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao-Beti e participants were given a pants who reported poorer sleep Khilao’ by donating part of the events questionnaire to assess their sleep on the questionnaire were seen over the previous month. to have less brain activity in the proceeds towards the cause. ey were shown disturbing dorsal anterior cingulate cortex WHEN: April 25 WHERE: Kamani Audi- images of violence – from war or during the reappraisal (DACC) torium TIMING: 7 pm onwards THE DANCE OF INDIA Artist Sailesh Sanghvi will be showcasing Dress up his twelve works at the solo art exhibition. Keep body odour at bay The collection shows the different types of dances across the India. The artist, in two THE PROBLEM of body type. Let them know in different genres, acrylic canvas collages right this odour persists a lot in sum- advance if you have any skin and paper collage, portrays the diversity mer when the scorching allergy or infection. heat causes excessive sweat- * ESSENTIAL OILS: of Indian dances in the cultural set-up ing. Getting rid of unwanted Using essential oils like lav- through his work from street entertain- summer hair and taking a shower are ender, peppermint and pine ment to staged performance. some ways to check it, say are also the best way to WHEN: April 21– 30 experts. reduce body odour. ese WHERE: Bikaner House, Pandara Road SUMMER IS HERE and its time * SHOWER TWICE A oils not only give you a nice TIMING: 6 pm onwards to put your best forward in trendiest DAY: Taking a bath twice a fragrance but last longer. outts that are easy on skin keeping day is a perfect solution for * USING LEMON: Rub- BEYOND THE PRESENT the warm weather in mind. From opt- those who sweat excessively. Whether you wear full bing lemon on the parts The symposium will bring together emi- ing light layering to avoid sun burn to It not only cools you during sleeved clothes or sleeveless that stink a lot can help you nent film makers, authors, journalists, pho- mixing and matching can add some the summer months but also tops and tees, you should get reduce the smell. You can fashion quotient in your daily wear targets your body odour. rid of the unwanted hair that also squeeze a lemon into the tographers, musicians, documentary mak- dressing style, experts say. * LET YOUR BODY may start giving a foul smell bucket and bathe with that ers and educationists who will speak on Below are some tips on how one DRY BEFORE DRESSING: due to sweating. water. It is a perfect solution their diverse understandings of how their can glamourise their summer outts It is better to let your body * USE ANTIBACTE to reduce smell from the feet. craft and practice is being influenced by keeping scorching sun. dry before putting on clothes. RIAL SOAP: Antibacterial * EAT THE RIGHT the phenomenal amount of changes that * Go loud this summer, by incor- Wipe your body comprehen- soap helps to counter the FOOD: Oily or fried food our society is experiencing today. porating colour in your wardrobe. sively with the towel to dry bacteria of the body, which and spicy food can also be a WHEN: Add some cheer to your dull days with your body properly as wet- further helps to lessen the major reason behind extreme April 22 – 23 bright coloured clothes. ness attracts sweat easily. foul smell. Take advice from sweating which turns into WHERE: Shri Aurobindo Centre for Arts * Start a process of mix and match * GET RID OF your dermatologist to select body odour aer a short and Communication of top with the bottoms, you may pair UNWANTED HAIR: the soap as per your body while. IANS TIMING: 12 pm – 6 pm a print top for solid pants or a solid top for a print skirt. * Surprise people with this dash of awesomeness. Mixing and matching of scarves, dupattas and sober dress This book is about the sense of loss: Anupam Kher adds a dash of condence to one’s personality. A great way to wear a OUR CORRESPONDENT scarf or dupatta if you have two con- ‘Information turns into trasting colours that can go well with the pastel colour dress. knowledge only by going he veteran actor of * Light layers with natural fab- B’town Anupam Kher rics can be a wonderful way to beat through life, otherwise it was out here in Delhi for the heat during summer. Go for asym- kurta Tthe release of a book ‘ e Spirit metrical jacket over a tunic and palaz- with slim t pants or short kurtas with will be just information,’ of the River’, a spiritual ction, zos for instant chic. Asymmetrical cuts jeans to create own style this season. says the National Film based on the concept of depres- remain popular this year. * Sharp shoulder blades are still in sion. Apart from him the author * For the cool casual look this sum- fashion trends this summer too. Invest award winner of the book, Karina Arora and mer you may pair Indie top of kurti in a strapless blouse or get yourself a the CEO of Hay House publish- with slim t pants or a short kurti with peasant top to get into sultry summer ers Ashok Chopra were present oral Plazzo. mode and let a bronzed look keep you to grace the launch event. * One can also pair a long straight head and shoulders above the rest. IANS Featured by the Hay House publishers ‘ e Spirit of the River’ highlights every kind of emotional and spiritual load, which is carried by humans on a daily basis. e story line of the novel follows the story of Zoe, a newly turned adult’s young life and her tragic experience com- pels us to start a conversation about loss and its implications. ‘The Spirit of the River’ by Karina Arora said, “ is book is about your With her 18th birthday still a inner self, it is about what you happy new memory, is con- highlights every kind of emotional are from inside; it is not about fronted with the untimely death and spiritual load which is carried by the outside factor and what you of her parents. e reality of such look like. Writing a book is one a huge loss throws Zoe into the humans on a daily basis of the ways to cope up with dark corners of grief but leads depression. is is a very far out her on an unexpected journey book,” said Anupam about the constantly with machine, like concept, I haven’t experienced where she learns to experience book he narrated. Whereas on mobile, internet, and things this situation personally, but as life on her own. e simplic- talking terms about depression like that because there comes a I read several books, I formed ity in narration is fresh and the among youngsters, he stated, “I time when you will become like dierent outlook and perspec- story-telling is both engaging think today’s youth has the stress a machine. Information turns tive for life.” and inspiring. about tting into circumstances, into knowledge only by going Karina Arora was 17 “ is book is about the sense like, ‘I want to t in, I want to through life, otherwise it will be when she started writing of loss, about losing parents at look cool’ this is one of the big- just information.” this book, and by the age of such an age, and how the young gest reason for them to indulge On the other hand the 18 she completed it. Based girl Zoe copes up with the sense in such a stressful zone.” On author of the book Karina from Delhi, presently she is of loss she has been through, is materialistic things and social Arora shared her own views and pursuing her business degree the most amazing factor of the media, he said, “You cannot be thoughts regarding the same, she from Australia. 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No. 011-47777500, Email: [email protected], Lucknow O ce: 401, Chintels House 16, Station Road, Lucknow Ph: 0522-4013126 city 3 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp Reckless teen driver snuffs out homeless man’s life e ause, amarth hugh , was aompanie by two of his bath mates, when he lost ontrol an ran the ar onto four sleeping paement wellers Early morning merriment ANAND MOHAN J ey were dragged along with the car for several metres, goes horribly wrong for trio NEW DELHI: A Delhi Pub- before it came to a halt. lic School Mathura Road stu- “ e car came out of dent mowed down a pavement nowhere and hit us. We ANAND MOHAN J reverse the car, crushing the knew Samarth have told dweller and severely injured were all sleeping on the pave- man’s jaw and killing him in Millennium Post that the trio three others with his friend’s ment,” said Sanjay, one of the NEW DELHI: 15 days ago, the process. would sneak out regularly and car in Kashmere Gate area on victims. Samarth Chugh and his “He just stood shocked were on their way to school ursday morning. Ujwal and Bhavya got out of friends Bhavya Rajpal and and could not move from for a Snapchat story. e accused, Samarth the car and ed, while Samarth Ujwal Goel had patched up the spot. His friends had “ ey had all le to make Chugh (18), was accompanied tried to negotiate his way out of aer a bitter ght. le him while he looked a snap chat story. ey wanted by two of his batch mates, when the underpass. e three commerce on. He was still in a state of to take pictures in front of the he lost control and ran the car One of the victims, how- students had to appear for shock when the police nally school early in the morning onto the sleeping pavement ever, was still stuck under their Entrepreneurship exam, managed to apprehend him,” and had planned to upload dwellers. the wheels of the car, and the the nal paper before the long said a highly placed police them,” said Vishal (name Two of them were dragged grinding motions of the wheel awaited holidays. source. changed), a student of DPS for several metres and one of crushed his jaw, killing him in Aer Ujwal managed to At Kashmere Gate police Mathura Road. them was brutally crushed the process. get his father’s Silver Hyundai station, the relatives of Ujwal To further complicate the under the wheel, resulting in Aer he was arrested, it i20 car, the three sneaked and Bhavya had gathered. case, Samarth has claimed his immediate death. The pavement near the Kashmere Gate Railway Bridge where the accident took place on Thursday morning; came to light that Samarth did out of his house early in ey told Millennium Post that he had medical problems e police later arrested not have a license when he was the morning and to make a that the boys had informed and used to have ts. (inset) main accused Samarth Chugh Chugh and also apprehended PIC/MPOST driving the car, which belonged Snapchat story. the family before taking the Even Vishal testied to the the two students accompanying All the injured sus- school and Ujwal Goel decided driving over the speed limit, to Ujwal’s father, Raj Kumar. e boys wanted to car and had run over the fact that Samarth would oen him, identied as Ujwal Goel tained injuries to their head, to take his father’s i20 car for when he reached Kashmere e police have registered document their trip and take pavement dwellers because have ts. (18) and Bhavya Rajpal (18), back and neck. Karan was the ride. Gate underpass, where at least a case under sections 279, 337 photographs in front of the of a punctured tyre. However, it is still not clear when they tried to ee the spot. discharged from Sushrut “Samarth and Bhavya had six pavement dwellers were and 304 of the Indian Penal school and share it with their “ ey used to have a as to why he was allowed to e deceased man has not Trauma centre; however, Asif stayed over at Ujwal’s house sleeping. Code (IPC). friends. routine wherein they would drive the car despite his yet been identied, while the and Sanjay are still in a critical in Model Town (2). ey were While negotiating a right e investigators are now 30 minutes aer they le study late in the night and alleged medical condition. injured have been identied as condition. going to appear for their nal turn, Samarth lost control of trying to ascertain if Raj Kumar Model Town, Samarth was then go out in the morning “He informed us about Asif (30), Karan (26) and San- e three students had board exam. Around 5 am, the car and climbed onto the had willingly handed over the at the wheels of the car and for a ride. ey would usually his medical condition the jay (28), all of who used to work stayed the night at a friend’s Ujwal handed over his car to ve-foot wide footpath and ran car to the students. two homeless people came visit a local Gurudwara to minute we arrested him. as labourers. place on Wednesday for a Samarth and they were on their over the four victims. Further medical tests under it. have their breakfast and We have to undertake a ey were asleep on the group study session for their way to DPS Mathura Road,” Even as the car descended are also being conducted to His friends deserted would return by 8 am,” said medical test to verify his pavement near the Kashmere upcoming board exams. said Deputy Commissioner of the footpath, two of the home- determine whether Samarth him and ed the car, while a relative. claims,” said DCP (North), Gate Railway Bridge when the e following morning, Police (North), Jatin Narwal. less men were still stuck under was drunk at the time of the a confused Samarth tried to However, students who Jatin Narwal. accident took place. they decided to go to their Samarth was reportedly the wheels of the car. accident. Metro services EC Rawat recuses from AAP cases after Barkha Singh steps down as Delhi Mahila to begin from Kejriwal questions his independence Cong chief; takes potshots at Rahul, Maken 4 am on MCD OUR CORRESPONDENT have faith in the independence holding oce of prot. OUR CORRESPONDENT women security to gather votes. “humiliation” from the state quit the party because of that of the institution," Rawat said. While the rst case is at an e issue means nothing to leadership, saying that even very reason, she said. polling day NEW DELHI: Election He said Kejriwal, the advance stage of hearing, the NEW DELHI: In a setback to them.” their phone calls were not “Rahul Gandhi is reluctant Commissioner O P Rawat has AAP and the people of the second case is at its preliminary the Delhi Congress ahead of the Singh said: “In the current answered. to address issues that exist OUR CORRESPONDENT recused himself from cases country should have full faith stage. civic polls here, Barkha Singh organisation, where I myself Singh even quoted within the organisation. Why related to the Aam Aadmi in the independence of the In an interview, Kejriwal on ursday quit as chief of am unsafe, how will I empower other senior party leaders does Rahul Gandhi shy away NEW DELHI: e Metro train Party the Election Commission Commission. had reportedly said he does not the women’s wing. Singh also women in that organisation. questioning her party’s vice- from meeting party leaders services in Delhi will com- is hearing aer Delhi Chief "I thought it was the right believe in the independence of hit out at party vice-president at is why I hereby resign president’s capabilities, saying who ask him questions,” she mence from 4 am on April 23 Minister and party leader thing to do," he said. two Commissioners, including Rahul Gandhi and the party’s from the post of President of “Rahul Gandhi is unt to lead said. in view of the municipal polls, Arvind Kejriwal questioned Rawat had on Wednesday Rawat because he comes from Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken. Delhi Mahila Congress.” the party”. She further added: “He the Delhi Metro Rail Corpora- his independence. decided to recuse himself from Madhya Pradesh and has been e former Delhi If it were not enough that “ e one pertinent question (Rahul) is only interested in tion (DMRC) on ursday said. "He had questioned the the case related to 21 AAP very close to Chief Minister Commission for Women several Congress leaders are we need to ask today is why is meeting sycophants and not Elections to the three civic independence of the Election MLAs for allegedly holding Shivraj Singh Chauhan. (DCW) chief said: “Congress unhappy with the party’s Delhi Rahul Gandhi in hiding? Why leaders who reason, question bodies are due on Sunday and Commission. It is a quasi- oce of prot. ey face the An IAS ocer of the party, under the leadership of hierarchy over distribution of is he scared of meeting his own and ask.” Describing herself as the Delhi State Election Com- judicial body which delivers possibility of disqualication. Madhya Pradesh cadre, Rahul Gandhi and Ajay Maken, tickets for the MCD polls, party members?” Singh said in a loyal soldier of the Congress, mission is gearing up for the verdicts. erefore, I have Another case relates to Rawat retired from service in have only used the issue of even those in the old guard a statement. she said she will continue to electoral exercise. recused myself so that he can 27 AAP MLAs for allegedly December, 2014. empowerment of women and of Congress have alleged Several senior leaders have remain that. "On the day of the MCD elections, the Delhi Metro train services will start from 4.00 am AAP has deserted n a rst so that the sta deployed in elec- Building new parks, upkeep of existing tion duty can avail the facility. MCD poll booths " e trains will run with a Purvanchali voters, frequency of 30 minutes on all to be ‘tobacco the lines till 06.00 am. Aer 6.00 ones a major poll issue in South Delhi am, metro trains will run as per contends JD(U) the normal timetable through- PIYUSH OHRIE in parks, so as to preserve parks in the area have facili- free’ zones out the day on all lines," a senior Most South water. But not all parks have ties like open gyms and good OUR CORRESPONDENT which was won decisively by DMRC ocial said. NEW DELHI: Parks have been resorted to this technique yet. quality swings. Further, there the BJP. NEW DELHI: In a rst in the e DMRC currently oper- the symbols urbanisation in Delhi residents Amid all such grand plans, are many areas that do not even NEW DELHI: e Aam "From autowallahs, rick- country, the Delhi State Elec- ates through various corridors -- South Delhi. As spaces in the highlighted that a most South Delhi residents have parks in their areas.” Aadmi Party has deserted the shaw-wallahs, rehri-patriwal- tion Commission has declared Yellow, Blue, Violet, Red, Green, city shrink, good quality parks highlighted that there is lot that However, stressing that Purvanchalis of eastern Uttar lahs (auto-drivers and rickshaw all the 13,234 polling booths Orange Lines -- spanning across have assumed a lot of impor- lot that needs to be needs to be done to improve there has been work done in Pradesh and Bihar, who voted and street cart pullers) to peo- 'tobacco free' ahead of the the length and breadth of the tance for South Delhi residents. done to improve the prevailing condition. many parks in South Delhi, it to power in Delhi, the Janata ple living in unauthorised colo- MCD polls, to be held this national capital and few neigh- Aer the Municipal Cor- “For long the situation Satish Upadhyay, former South Dal (United) on ursday nies, they all voted their heart Sunday. bouring cities. poration polls, in addition to the prevailing of parks in the area was not Delhi Municipal Corporation alleged, saying that the com- out in the 2015 Delhi Assem- e move comes aer Delhi e Commission which has setting up of more parks, the condition good at all. With loss of green Councillor said: “ e situation munity had now "switched bly elections. But did Arvind government's Health Depart- come up with special campaigns challenge will also be to main- cover and no area for recre- of most parks in the city has over" to the Nitish Kumar-led Kejriwal's party do anything for ment approached the State to raise awareness among vot- tain the existing ones. ational activities, the resi- improved. ere are, however, political outt. them aer assuming power?" Election Commissioner urging ers has also displayed advertise- Having faced criticism for the parks to RWA’s for mainte- dents are forced to take steps certain parks in the area where Days ahead of the capi- "Aer seeing and hearing him to declare all the polling ments inside and out of Metro long over the maintenance of nance has improved the situa- to improve parks in the area. eective watering of plants is tal's Municipal polls, JD (U) about Nitishji's governance in stations as 'tobacco free zones' premises. Over 1.1 lakh voters in parks in the city, the Municipal tion, challenges are still aplenty. While the situation may have not being done. We will try to national general secretary San- Bihar, they are warming up to rather than just declaring them this polls are eligible to exercise Corporation of Delhi adopted Promises to set up open improved slightly, there is still bring water in these parks.” jay Jha also claimed that the the JD (U) as an electoral alter- as 'smoke-free' as it used to be their franchise for the rst time. the public private partnership gyms, installing bre swings lot which needs to be done,” “Many parks are in a bad AAP's support base was "erod- native," Jha told mediapersons. in earlier elections. e total number of elec- (PPP) model, wherein main- and improving lighting in added Pankaj Nagpal, a resi- state, but the parks in Kalk- ing fast" and that it would be the Purvanchalis, according to In a letter to Commis- torate for the civic polls stands tenance of parks was handed parks have mostly been par- dent of Malviya Nagar. aji are in very good shape and "biggest loser" in the elections. Jha, constitute about 30 percent sioner S K Srivastava, Addi- at 1,32,10,206 which include over to resident Welfare Asso- tially unfullled. Highlighting some of the have been maintained well,” His remarks come in the of the electorate in the national tional Director (Health) Dr S 73,15,915 men, 58,93,418 ciations (RWA). ere have been plans to challenges, Nagpal said: “ ere said Narinderkaur Captain of wake of the AAP suering Capital and the JD (U) is going K Arora requested the poll- women and 793 voters in the ough various Council- utilise sewage water treated is no proper lighting in most Congress, who is contesting a loss in the bypoll for the all-out to woo this "kingmaker ing booths should be declared other category. lors admit that handing over of from plants to water the plants of the city parks. Only a few from Kalkaji. Rajouri Garden Assembly seat, community". 'tobacco free'. AGENCIES With poll campaign getting good response, ‘If we win, will make Delhi garbage-free’ t rass edes ndene ANUP VERMA & ROUSHAN ALI agency stops leakage of money, its rev- enroll. Similarly, we have a solid plan for enue and budget will go up. e Delhi healthcare and once we will be in power OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Aer an unprecedented government did the same, resulting in we will introduce them with priority. victory in the Delhi Assembly elections a steep hike in revenue as well as bud- NEW DELHI: Manoj Tiwari, aer address- in 2015, the Aam Aadmi Party vowed get allocation on various overheads. e Centre has given the go-ahead ing another one of his Municipal Corporation to make the Capital a “world class city”. AAP, aer assuming power, took pre- to end the “lal batti” culture in the election rallies in the city on ursday, said that ough the common man’s party aimed ventive steps so it could check leakage Counrty and to use VVPAT machines aer being appointed chief of Delhi BJP, “I went to bring revolutionary changes in edu- of money from various departments. in elections in future. How does the amongst the people belonging to SCs, backward cation, health, power, water and other For the aermath of corruption, help of AAP see this? classes, people of living in jhuggi bastis, rehabili- sectors, a series of strikes by sanitation vigilance and other concerned depart- It was the AAP government which tation colonies, and unauthorised colonies and workers, ongoing tussles with the Lieu- ments is needed. As announced earlier, had rst decided to end VVIP culture also stayed with them in order to understand tenant Governor and the Centre put a we will also abolish house tax. in the state. e government not only their problems.” spanner in their works. stopped use of red beacons, but requested “Today, I can say that the people of Delhi have Scenes from a BJP rally in Delhi on Thursday PIC/MPOST In an exclusive interview with Anup As the Delhi government has brought Centre to scrap using it. It is hard to faith in BJP and on April 23 they shall not only Verma and Roushan Ali of Millennium reforms in education and systems under understand why the Centre took the vote to make the BJP victorious but they shall maintained that the party will not face anti- Post, senior AAP leader Delhi Deputy its jurisdiction, is their a concrete plan decision aer such a long period. Even use this opportunity as a referendum against the incumbency in the upcoming elections, which Chief Minister Manish Sisodia empha- PIC/NAVEEN SHARMA to improve these facilities under MCDs? Prime Minister Narendra Modi used Kejriwal government,” Tiwari added he said was the “semi-nal” to the next Assem- sised on working more in sectors like MPOST EXCLUSIVE To improve education and healthcare, red beacons for more than a decade as Tiwari stated that the performance of the BJP- bly elections in Delhi, whose Chief Minister will education, health, road transport, water, it required integrated system. Nearly Gujarat Chief Minister and for three run civic bodies was not up to the “high standard” be from the saron party. electricity with an integrated system ated from parking, advertisement and nine lakh students get primary educa- years as Prime Minister. But the AAP the party had set for itself. He, however, exuded e “so-called” anti-incumbency against the for the entire city. Sisodia said that if for sanctioning of building plans have tion through Corporation schools and if government stopped the practice the very condence that Modi’s image will make the party BJP-ruled MCDs is “not so much visible on the the AAP gets majority in the Corpora- been diverted to Corporation leaders. we want to improve education standards, rst day. Besides this, the government win the MCD polls for the third time in a row. ground” as is being discussed in the media and tions, it will make Delhi “garbage-free”. Money generated from house tax and we will have to start from the primary should stop the security cover to VIPs “ e Corporations ruled by the party have by Opposition parties, Tiwari said. “Municipal Excerpts: given by the Delhi government have level. If a student fails to get primary and VVIPs, as it creates a lot of chaos. not been able to touch the benchmark of work corporations are merely a department of the Delhi Your party has made Corruption a also not been used for public welfare. education properly, how can he perform set by the BJP at the national level aer it came government. erefore, the Delhi Chief Minister major issue in MCD elections claim- better in the middle and upper level? How do you see your opponents – BJP to power in 2014,” Tiwari said. is fully responsible if the civic bodies have not ing that the Corporations have failed to What is your road-map to reduce cor- e level of basic education should be and Congress – doing in the upcoming He also slammed the Kejriwal government for been able to perform up to the mark,” he asserted. deliver services in 10-years’ rule of BJP. ruption is MCDs? improved. Earlier, Corporation school elections, as both have been claiming a not being able to ensure proper functioning of Union Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath What is the party’s stand over the issue? Corruption can be seen in two ways: students faced problems in enrolling victory this time? the three MCDs, saying “the bodies are depart- Singh, while campaigning for the MCD elections e Corporations have failed to exe- preventive and aermath. e rst one themselves in government schools. But Both BJP and Congress are two sides ments which come under the Delhi government on ursday, said that the people of Delhi have cute their duties as the leaders of ruling can be stopped by the agency itself, while aer implementing the new system. of the same coin. In the history of inde- and it is the latter’s responsibility to ensure its been deprived of inclusive development in the BJP have entirely focused on corrup- for the later one, it required Anti-Cor- students are getting admissions easily. pendent India, not a single BJP and Con- smooth running.” last two years as the local Government did not tion and loot of public money. ey ruption Bureau (ACB). When we came rough the system, data of Corpora- gress government has reduced power, “Let Kejriwal handle the Municipal Corpo- implement development schemes and denied have pocketed the salary of sanitation in power, the Delhi government’s budget tion schools is being provided to govern- water and other types of tari; the AAP rations and the BJP be allowed to run the Delhi benets of the Central schemes to the people. workers (safai karmcharis), causing was of Rs 32,000 crore; but in a span of ment schools and the principals are also government reduced power and water government. Everything will be xed,” Tiwari Singh said that Prime Minister Narender delay in salary-payments. ere is no two years, it has jumped to Rs 48,000 being informed through other means. tari. Governments of these parties are quipped. He said that the MCDs have come up Modi’s government takes decision in the inter- clarity on actual and ghost employees crore, all because of preventive measures As a result, school authorities are being run by maa, but the AAP government with beautiful parks to save people from pollution. est of the nation and, by honest implementation, in the Corporations. Revenue gener- against corruption. If a government or informed about the students willing to is the rst where no maa is involved. e Bhojpuri actor singer-turned-politician wins the people’s support. 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 Yamuna damage: NGT Conmen offered 'loans' to 300 in guise of big banners, held shocked over Sri Sri's remarks ZAFAR ABBAS NEW DELHI: Advertisements might seem appealing but if the Parikh told the green bench that the spiritual guru has gone to the extent of authenticity is le unchecked then you might fall prey to a levelling allegations against the National Green Tribunal nexus of cheats or conmen who would rob you of your wealth. OUR CORRESPONDENT In this relation, the Delhi On April 18, Ravi Shankar had blamed Police Crime Branch has NEW DELHI: e the government and the NGT for nabbed a gang of cheats who National Green Tribunal on copied logos of famous nance ursday slammed the Art permitting AOL to hold the festival on companies, published their ads of Living over its founder Sri the Yamuna river bed and said they in the paper and duped 300 The ads came with lucrative offers on personal and property loans Sri Ravi Shankar blaming the people of Rs 5 crore. Centre and the green panel for should be held responsible if any ese conmen lured peo- newspapers. from any ATMs but mostly damage to the Yamuna ood- environmental damage was caused ple in the name of oering e ads came with lucrative they preferred to withdraw plains, terming it as "shocking". loans under big banners on oers asking people to avail it from Ghaziabad and Aligarh, "You have no sense of extremely low rates. on personal loans and prop- UP. e cops are now investi- responsibility. Who gave you the case to le their response if river Yamuna was so Aer few people from erty loans. gating if bank ocials were also liberty to speak whatever you and objection within two weeks "fragile and pure". Delhi, Ghaziabad, Buland- “ e accused had opened a part of this organised nexus want to? It is shocking," a bench and posted the matter for fur- An expert commit- shahar, and Aligarh registered several bank accounts on the of cheats. headed by NGT Chairperson ther hearing on May 9. tee had told the NGT that complainants with Delhi police basis of fake or forged Ids in e accused have been iden- Justice Swatanter Kumar said. On April 18, Ravi Shan- a whopping Rs 42.02 crore Crime branch, the cops sus- the name of several fake nance tied as Ravi Kumar a resident e observations came kar had blamed the gov- would be required to restore pected the working of a gang companies and were receiving of Bulandshahar, Kishan Pal aer advocate Sanjay Parikh, The lawyer said that Sri Sri had posted the statement on the website ernment and the NGT for Yamuna oodplains, which of conmen. hey money. When the money alias fauji from Gautam- appearing for petitioner Manoj of the Art of Living, his Facebook page permitting AOL to hold was ravaged due to a cultural ese men duped people was deposited in their account, budh Nagar, Tikshnapal Misra, informed the bench the festival on the Yamuna extravaganza organised by through lucrative oers like they immediately withdrew the and Rajneesh Prakash from about Ravi Shankar's recent tions against the NGT. contested the ndings of the river bed and said they should AOL last year. providing loans on nominal same from the bank accounts,” Aligarh. statement blaming the govern- e lawyer said that Sri Sri expert panel. be held responsible if any envi- e expert panel has sug- interest rates. DCP Crime Madhur Verma “We have identied around ment and the NGT for permit- had posted the statement on It said that they have cer- ronmental damage was caused. gested that there would be ese gimmick advertise- said. Aer they trapped an 100 victims till now, we request ting his NGO to hold the World the website of the Art of Liv- tain objections with regard to e AOL head said the foun- two components of the reha- ments were made under the innocent, the fraudsters asked people who have been duped Culture Festival on the ood- ing, his Facebook page and the ndings of the committee dation had obtained all neces- bilitation plan -physical and names of reputed nance the victim to deposit the with similar modus operandi to plains of river Yamuna. also addressed the media on and sought setting aside of the sary permissions, including biological, and they would cost companies. amount in few stated bank contact Crime branch on acp- Parikh told the green bench the same in a written statement. report. from the green panel, and the Rs 28.73 crore and Rs 13.29 e con artists copied the accounts. [email protected] or contact ACP/ that the spiritual guru has gone e counsel appearing for e bench then directed the event could have been stopped crore respectively, besides addi- logo of famous nance com- Following this, the accused ER Crime on 9818099087,” said to the extent of levelling allega- the AOL foundation, however, foundation and other parties in in the beginning itself tional ancillary expenses. panies and published ads in used to withdraw that amount the ocer. Gang war leaves 2 dead, 'All 6 lives could have been saved if emergency 1 injured; manhunt on doors were ket oen lai re oials OUR CORESPONDENT ee with a single bullet injury. Imran OUR CORRESPONDENT 101 several times but was unable Laxmi Nagar in Delhi. And, lastly, of the company, the minister asked as possible”. died on the spot while Qamar died to contact them. en she called Indrabhan was marketing manager them to present the documents of e minister gave the NEW DELHI: In a shootout in aer he was taken to the hospital. NOIDA: Following the tragic re me and informed about the re. I and hailed from Lucknow. eight companies located nearby. authorities three months’ time to Northeast Delhi's Jafrabad, two Rashid was discharged aer the break out in a company in Noida also tried the number but failed to “All the bodies were recov- e authority could provide him inspect all the eight thousand pri- people were shot dead and another treatment.” on Wednesday that le six dead, reach them,” said Rasminder Kaur, ered from the third oor. documents of just two companies vate industries in the district. injured by unknown assailants on According to police, both Imran the cops have nally identied the Jasmeet’s mother. Also, she stated e gate that leads to the terrace, out of them. ey will look into that all these Wednesday night. and Qamar were members of Chenu bodies of the deceased. that aer a while when they tried on the fourth oor, was locked. Following this, he headed companies are following the re e deceased, Imran (25) and gang which is in rivalry with Nasir “ ey would have been saved her phone, it was o. at gate was meant for emergency towards the Fire Department in safety norms and other certicates. Qamar are residents of Jafrabad gang. e member of Nasir gang is if the emergency exit doors on the “We rushed to Noida aer that,” exit. ose who ed downstairs are sector 2, Noida where he found that Aer this, a report will be presented area. suspected to be behind the attack. fourth oor were le unlocked,” said Jasmeet’s mother. Kaur lived safe but the six who tried to escape there was no Fire NOC. to the government. Police suspect it as a case of per- Sources added that these two said re ocials. with her family in Mayur Vihar, by running upstairs were burnt. e company was running on a e minister stated that provid- sonal rivalry between two groups in gangs have been each other’s e deceased have been iden- Delhi. If the gate was not locked, six lives probation certicate. ing compensation amount to the which multiple rounds were red by rival since 2004. Both Nasir and tied as Jasmeet Kaur (20), Vivek Sanjoy Das who was the exec- could have been saved”, said Kul- e minister said “I have been family members of the deceased bike-borne assailants. Chenu are lodged presently in Tihar Kochar (36), Indrabhan Chaud- utive director of the company is deep Kumar, SFO, Noida. sent here by UP chief minister Yogi will be taken by the government e incident took place jail. hary (38), Sanjoy Das (45), Parik- being survived by his wife, 11-year- WHAT DID THE MEN IN Adityanath to look into the mat- only. around 11 pm when both Qamar “Both Imran and Qamar have shit Sharma (27) and Ritesh. old old daughter and 8-year- POWER SAY? ter. We are deeply saddened by “Am here only to inspect the and Imran along with Rashid criminal cases registered against Jasmeet Kaur, who was a HR old son. Parikshit Sharma, an In the wake of the incident, the the incident. is is a sheer neg- situation,” said Mahana. reached a local tea stall in lane 48 them. We are investigating who is manager in the company hailed employee of the accounts depart- Uttar Pradesh Industrial Devel- ligence of the concerned author- Apart from Mahana, Member in Jafrabad. behind the killing,” said DCP North- from Mohali in Punjab and was ment of the company, belonged to opment minister, Satish Mahana ity. ey have not performed of Parliament and Uttar Pradesh Sources said, " ree to four men East Ajit Kumar Singla. just six months old in the company. Shamli, Muzaarnagar. His body inspected the re spot on urs- their job properly. I have ordered cultural minister Mahesh Sharma on the bike were waiting for them. e cops have constituted several Kaur’s body was identied with was identied by a DNA test. “Shar- day and ordered a judicial inquiry. a judicial inquiry into the inci- and Noida’s MLA Pankaj Singh vis- As soon as they arrived, the bikers teams to nab the culprits. the help of a gold ring which her ma’s younger daughter also died a Turning strict on the senior dent. Serious actions will be taken ited the spot and asked the senior surrounded them and started ring. Also, the Delhi Police are con- mother gied her on the eve of her couple of weeks ago”, said his uncle. ocials of the district authority against those found at the fault. ocials at the district level to Imran and Qamar were shot multi- ducting several raids in both Delhi 20th birthday, this year. “She called Vivek Kochar an employee of aer they failed to show him Fire I have asked the concerned author- probe into the matter so that such ple times while Rashid managed to and UP for the same. up the Fire emergency number the same department was from NOC and completion certicate ity to present me the report as soon incidents do not occur again. Cops refuse CBSE warns schools against DCW Chairperson urges cops to help NGT asks govt to to share call selling books, uniforms introduce destination details in abducted domestic helper get salary OUR CORRESPONDENT that schools are run as com- munity service and not as a OUR CORRESPONDENT buses from May 1 Najeeb's case NEW DELHI: e Central business and that commercial- After calculation, Board of Secondary Education isation does not take place in NEW DELHI: In yet another case it was found that OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT has told schools aliated to it the school in any shape what- of abduction and exploitation, a the girl is entitled to that educational institutions are soever. Educational institutions girl was brought to the Capital by NEW DELHI: e National Green Tribunal on not commercial establishments are not commercial establish- a placement agency which later receive an amount of ursday directed Delhi government to introduce NEW DELHI: In a hearing and sale of books, uniforms and ments and their sole purpose placed her in a house in Paschim Rs 2,18,791 as her destination buses from May 1, in a bid to help of the Habeas Corpus Petition stationery by them is a violation is to provide quality education,” Vihar as a domestic help. improve the air quality in the national capital. led by Fatima Nafees, mother of norms. it added. She was not only grounded by salary. DCW has yet A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Jus- of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, An advisory has been issued e CBSE has also reiter- her employer but also denied of again urged the Delhi tice Swatanter Kumar directed the AAP gov- the Delhi Police submitted the following complaints from ated its directive to schools to the salary. ernment to run the point-to-point buses call records of the nine students parents and stakeholders that stick to books published by Aer calculation, it was found Police for recovery of DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal on an experimental basis from Dwarka, accused of assaulting Najeeb, schools are indulging in com- the National Council of Edu- that the girl is entitled to receive the salary the power to recover the sal- Rohini, Janakpuri, CGO complex and Badar- prior to his disappearance, in mercial activities by way of sell- cational Research and Training an amount of Rs 2,18,791 as her ary of domestic helpers. pur border. sealed envelopes to the Delhi ing books and uniforms within (NCERT). salary. e oce of LG has also passed e green panel said these services will start High court. the school premises or through “ e Board receives She was rescued by the Delhi Earlier, the Commission aer an order in this regard,” said Swati from spots where it is convenient for the pub- Meanwhile, the students' selected vendors. reports and complaints regard- Commission For Women (DCW) rescuing the girl had written a let- Maliwal, chairperson DCW. lic at large. union of JNU alleged that the “ e board has taken a ing the pressure exercised by team who reached the house and ter to the Delhi Police and had e Commission had also e NGT said introduction of such bus ser- police refused to share the call serious view of the complaints schools on children and their freed the victim of the clutches of urged them to recover her salary. inquired about this helper from vices would facilitate an individual to opt for record details with Najeeb's and the schools are directed parents to buy textbooks the employer. “ e police failed in imple- the Sub-Divisional Magistrate such a service, rather than driving a car alone on mother and the Standing to desist from the unhealthy other than (that of) NCERT,” Also, an order for recovery of menting the order and the vic- (SDM) of that area. highly-congested roads. Counsel of the State. practice of coercing parents to it said. the girl's salary, Rs 2,18,791 has tim's salary is yet to be recovered,” e SDM in their report stated " e NCT Delhi and trac police will duly Pallavi Sharma, appearing buy text books, note books, sta- Following complaints been passed aer calculating the stated the Commission. that the helper comes in the cat- advertise about the introduction of destination on behalf of Fatima Nafees said, tionary, uniforms, shoes, school about shortage of NCERT amount on the basis of minimum DCW has issued a notice to the egory of bonded labor. buses from April 25 for informing the public," “ e Delhi Police has clearly bags etc from within the prem- books, the CBSE had asked wage set by the Labor Department. Delhi Police to recover the salary Keeping this as the base the the bench ordered and sought a status report mentioned in the status report ise or from selected vendors schools to raise online indent On investigation, it was found as soon as possible. Commission has also written to within four weeks. that they have not found any- only,” the communication sent for NCERT textbooks and that the victim is a resident of Also, an FIR has been regis- the Home Ministry in Jharkhand e green panel also directed the Delhi Trans- thing suspicious from the call to schools read. more than 2,000 schools had Jharkhand and was brought to tered against the girl's employer. and has requested for the rehabili- port Corporation to maintain these buses and records that have been exam- “CBSE norms mandate participated in that. Delhi by a placement agency. “ e Commission has tation of the girl. engage their sta for cleaning and maintain- ined. When the police have ing them. taken such a stand in the status e tribunal had earlier pulled up the Delhi report, then what stopped them 30-yr-old raped DHBVN chalks out power supply schedule for city in summer government for not starting these point-to-point from sharing the details of call bus services till date despite its order. records? Are they trying to 2-yr-old for 5 Destination buses are the ones which ply from protect the nine students who PIYUSH OHRIE crore 13 lakh units of power con- one point to another without any halt in between. have been accused of assaulting sumed in the city. e green panel had lambasted the Delhi gov- Najeeb?" Mohit Pandey, Presi- days, arrested GURUGRAM: e announce- Meanwhile, the issue of ernment aer its counsel submitted that there was dent Students' union said, the ment of Dakshin Haryana Bijli power cuts has already started shortage of buses. Court had already lambasted OUR CORRESPONDENT Vitran (DHBVN) stated that troubling the residents in the city. e panel had said: the Delhi police for delaying “there will be no 24 hour supply “Every summer there is a "it is evident that large number of buses are the investigation. “And now NEW DELHI: A 2-year-old of power in summer” descended problem of power cuts in Guru- standing along Yamuna at the depot. We see no they are showing their complic- was raped for ve to six days like a pall of gloom over the citi- gram. Besides power cuts, we reason why state authorities have not imple- ity in protecting the accused by a 30-year-old in south- zens of Millennium City. also have to deal with issues like mented our order so far." ABVP students by not sharing east Delhi's Okhla before he Sending all plans of provid- the voltage uctuation and trip- It also said that such point-to-point buses their call records,” said Pandey. was arrested by the cops on ing the city with 24 hours of ping due to increased power load. would result in reducing jams as a large number “It has been more than six Wednesday. supply to bed, the DHBVN is While there have always been an of people from places like Dwarka and Rohini months now and we are still e accused, a labourer now unable to meet demands of announcement made of enhanc- come to oces in Central Delhi. where we stood on the rst from Bihar was spotted by the increased power consumption ing the power infrastructure in During an earlier hearing the NGT had said: day, that is, without a single victim’s brother during the act. and have also failed to curb the the city, each time it falls at due "the trac on roads of Delhi needs trace of our colleague, Najeeb,” He used to take the infant to his line losses. Line losses caused mainly due to power theft has been responsible for the to the lackadaisical attitude of to be reduced by taking various mea- he added. Earlier, when the house on the pretext of giving It has recently released their failure of the plan of 24 hour power supply in urban Gurugram the ocials of DHBVN,” said city sures that have already been directed to hearing began, Rahul Mehra, her sweets. e infant had ear- new schedule of power supply resident, Sudhir Arora. be taken by various authorities, including appearing on behalf of the lier complained to her parents for the city. been responsible for the failure of the power cuts may range to six He also stated that as Guru- introduction of destination buses which could police pleaded to rescue him- of stomach pain, but could not Based on the new schedule, the plan of 24 hour power supply hours. gram is called the Millennium certainly help particularly the middle class and self from the case as questions convey her ordeal to them. all the power feeders in Guru- in urban Gurugram. In areas where it is more than City, the power infrastructure single driver from opting for destination buses were raised about his integrity. Charges of kidnapping, gram will have to face power cuts “Areas with maximum cases 50 percent, the power cuts will be requires huge overhaul by the rather than driving a car individually on highly e DCP argued that they need rape and provisions of the Pre- between 7.00 am to 8.00 am and of line losses are being surveyed,” more than eight hours. authorities. congested roads of Delhi." some more details from the vention of Children from Sex- 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. said a senior DHBVN ocial. While it is estimated that 3 “ ere have been instances in Also, it had earlier asked the Aam Aadmi Party Central Forensic Science Lab- ual Oences Act have been However, the DHBVN o- e ocial also mentioned crore units of power daily will the recent past where the power government to encourage the ones who are oratory, Hyderabad to reach slapped on the accused, said cials stated that line losses caused that areas where line losses are be used in the city this time, cut in the city has been for more using public transport by providing incentives any conclusion. police. mainly due to power the has in the range of 40 to 50 percent, on Tuesday there were around 2 than 20 hours,” said Arora. to them. 5 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp nation I-T seizes Rs 10 crore NIA court issues Do not become ‘yes man’ of non-bailable cash, 10kg gold from warrant against netas: Rajnath to bureaucrats ocer’s remises Zakir Naik MUMBAI: e special NIA MPOST BUREAU Lack of impartiality may aect e Home Minister said court here on ursday issued your decision making capabili- the central government is com- a non-bailable warrant against NEW DELHI: Union Home ties,” he said. e home min- mitted to successfully imple- the controversial Islamic Minister Rajnath Singh on ister also took a dig at ocers menting ‘Antyodaya’, a scheme preacher Zakir Naik, wanted ursday asked bureaucrats to who “avoid” taking decisions, for providing subsidised food by the agency for his alleged stand up to the political class if saying such hesitation may to millions of poorest families. role in a terror case. “wrong orders” are given, tell- harm the country’s interests. Singh said civil ser- e National Investigation ing them not to become a “yes “If necessary, discuss and vants have to play a more Agency had registered a case man.” Singh also said that civil deliberate with your seniors active and eective role in its Cash in new currency notes recovered after raid at residence of an UP against Naik under Unlawful servants should be impartial but there should be no hesita- implementation. Additional Commissioner of Sales Tax in Noida on Thursday Activities (Prevention) Act last and show “no hesitation” in tion in taking decisions.” “Our government is known year. taking decisions. Singh said Indian polity has for its commitment and con- NEW DELHI: e Income began early morning, seized It told the court that Naik “If a political executive never faced a vacuum and wit- viction. e Prime Minister Tax(I-T) department on over Rs 10 crore in cash and didn't appear before it even gives wrong orders, do not be nessed continuity in all these has a dream of ensuring ‘Roti, ursday seized over Rs 10 ten kg of gold from the Noida aer three summonses were scared to show them rules. Tell years as the civil servants con- Kapda, Makan, Siksha and crore in cash and about ten residence of Additional Com- issued and it would need to the political executive that you tributed largely in maintaining Swasthya’ (food, house, edu- kg of gold aer it conducted missioner of state Sales Tax take Interpol's help to bring are legally wrong. Do not sign continuity. “ is administra- cation and health service) for searches at the Noida res- department identied as Kes- him back to India. the le. Haan mein haan naa Home Minister Rajnath Singh addressing the inaugural ceremony of tive continuity in India has everyone by 2022. Civil ser- idence of a senior Uttar hav Lal. e ocer is posted "Issue NBW against Naik," milaiye (Do not become a yes the 11th Civil Services Day in New Delhi on Thursday been one of the important rea- vants must ensure that the Pradesh bureaucrat, an in Kanpur at present, the o- said Special Judge V V Patil. man). Do not betray your con- sons for the success of Indian dream becomes a reality,” he ocial said. cial said. Last week, another city science,” he told the inaugural crats in bringing changes in responsibility, accompanied democracy,” he said. said. In a second action, the tax In the second search at court had issued an NBW session at an event to mark the the society, the home minister by accountability. We should Singh said the Narendra Singh said the country’s sleuths searched at least four Noida, the department recov- against Naik in a case of Civil Services Day here. said the job makes an ocer always remember this. Along Modi government through ‘Jan rst home minister, Sardar Val- premises of a former OSD of ered some documents and is money laundering registered e function was attended responsible, accountable and with the responsibility and Dhan, Aadhar and mobile con- labhbhai Patel, had said that if Noida Authority Y P Tyagi in searching various premises by the Enforcement Director- by ocers belonging to the IAS impartial. accountability, impartiality nectivity’ (JAM) convergence civil services was called ‘steel Noida near here as part of its and bank lockers associated ate against him. e ED lawyer and other all India services. “Civil services has power. is the third most important is transforming good gover- frame’ of India it would not be crackdown against govern- with Tyagi and his son. had said Naik was believed to Lauding the role of bureau- But with power comes big aspect of our civil servants. nance into smart governance. an exaggeration. ment servants on charges of e ocial said the depart- be in the United Arab Emirates. alleged tax evasion, the o- ment is probing Tyagi’s alleged Naik, 51, le India last year, cial, who requested anonym- investment in an international allegedly to evade arrest aer ity, said. university in Noida and a lux- some perpetrators of Dhaka Hiahal aears Panchkula AJL case: e ocial said the I-T ury hotel each in Goa and terror attack claimed they were teams, in the rst search that Haridwar. inspired by him. AGENCIES eore in elhi ED quizzes Vora, Hooda les hargesheet against MPOST BUREAU it all this while and had sought NEW DELHI: e Enforce- the provisions of the Preven- a new date from it, aer which ment Directorate (ED) has tion of Money Laundering Act NEW DELHI: Himachal the new summons were issued questioned senior Congress (PMLA), they said. ey were e-to hhattisgarh oer Pradesh Chief Minister Virb- for ursday. leader Motilal Vora and for- also confronted with some doc- hadra Singh on ursday e ED had on Wednesday mer Haryana CM Bhupinder uments seized and recovered in MPOST BUREAU VYAPAM SCAM ACCUSED ARRESTED appeared before the Enforce- refused to give any assurance Singh Hooda in connection this case, ocials added. Vora ment Directorate (ED) here in in the Delhi High Court that it with its money laundering was questioned in the case in NEW DELHI: e CBI on NEW DELHI: e Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has connection with a money laun- will not arrest Singh when he probe into alleged irregulari- his capacity as the Chairman ursday led a charge sheet on ursday arrested a person accused in Vyapam scam. e dering case registered against appears before it. e submis- ties in the allotment of a plot to and Managing Director of the against suspended Principal arrested person has been identied as a resident of village Khi- him and others. Singh arrived sion was made before Justice AJL, publisher of the National Associated Journal Limited Secretary of Chhattisgarh B dora under Morena district in Madhya Pradesh. e arrest has at the agency’s oce here in his R K Gauba by the ED during Herald newspaper, in Panch- (AJL), they added. L Agrawal and three others been made on the basis of NBW issued by the Court of Special Virbhadra Singh ocial car, with a covered bea- the hearing of Singh’s plea for kula in 2005. e ED questioned Vora at before a special court here in Magistrate, Vyapam Cases, Gwalior aer the accused did not con, at about 12:00 noon. e agency has summoned quashing of the money laun- Ocials said while Vora his residence making a special an alleged bribery case. appear even aer receipt of notice at the time of ling of supple- Sporting his trademark Singh in order to record his dering proceedings against (88), the national treasurer of concession in this regard owing e agency led the nal mentary charge-sheet on April 10. MPOST ‘Himachali topi’, the CM did statement in this case and also him. the All India Congress Com- to his old age and his request to report before special judge not interact with media per- to confront him with some e ED summons have mittee, was questioned two be grilled at home. e agency, Virender Kumar Goyal against the consideration of the charge According to CBI, the o- sons on the spot and was seen documents it has seized and come close on the heels of l- days back at his residence early last year, had led a crim- the accused Agrawal, his rela- sheet. All accused four accused cer was facing investigation in raising his st in the air and recovered in this case of dis- ing of a charge sheet by the CBI here, Hooda was also ques- inal complaint and booked tive Anand Agrawal, alleged persons are currently in judi- two cases registered in 2010 heard reciting some lines of a proportionate assets. against Singh, his wife and oth- tioned during the same time Hooda, AJL ocials and oth- middleman Bhagwan Singh cial custody. e agency has when he was Health Secre- patriotic poem: “Sarfaroshi ki e CM, last week, had also ers for allegedly amassing assets in Chandigarh. ers on charges of alleged money and Burhanuddin who had alleged that Agrawal, a 1988 tary in the Chhattisgarh gov- tamanna ab hamare dil mein sent a communication to the worth around Rs 10 crore dis- e central agency has laundering, taking cognisance claimed he was working in the batch IAS ocer, wanted to ernment. He has been charge hain, dekhna hai zor kitna baju agency stating his reasons for proportionate to their known recorded the statements of the of a Haryana State Vigilance Prime Minister's Oce. "settle" an ongoing CBI probe sheeted in one case, while the e qaatil mein hai.” not being able to appear before sources of income. two Congress leaders under Bureau FIR. AGENCIES e court xed April 24 for against him. probe is going on in other.

ICA - 788(14)/2017 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 AIADMK: Panneerselvam faction EC to get 30k new VVPAT machines for Guj, HP polls hardens stance for merger talks OUR CORRESPONDENT

OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: e Election amidurai aakumar Commission will get 30,000 new paper trail machines in July, CHENNAI: Hardening its augmenting its present stock to stance for merger talks, the meet uv searatel a level where it can deploy these Panneerselvam camp on units in all polling stations dur- ursday demanded that the OUR CORRESPONDENT ing the assembly polls in Guja- faction led by Chief Minister rat and Himachal Pradesh later K Palaniswami formally expel CHENNAI: Senior AIADMK this year. AIADMK general secretary V leaders M ambidurai and D “We have 53,500 VVPAT K Sasikala and T T V Dhina- Jayakumar on ursday sep- machines. In the next three karan besides about 30 other arately called on Tamil Nadu months, we will get 30,000 new Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail members of their family from Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, M Thambidurai machines. Nearly 84,000 units (VVPAT) unit is linked to the electronic the party. but insisted their meetings were are sucient for use in all poll- Talks for merger between Dhinakaran as party general camp) conscience knows how not political. Vajpayee cabinet in 1998-99. ing stations in Gujarat and Him- voting machine which allows an the two factions appeared to secretary and deputy general you did that,” he said. ambidurai, also the “It was a courtesy call,” achal Pradesh,” a Commission elector to confirm whether the have hit a roadblock with the secretary, respectively. Further he said, “Only you Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha, ambidurai said, adding, he ocial said. former chief minister Pan- He also wanted the state (Palaniswami camp) know said Rao was his “friend” and used to meet Rao, also Gover- e poll watchdog will make EVM has properly registered his neerselvam’s camp laying government to recommend a the reason, (for sidelining described the meeting as a nor of Maharashtra, whenever a formal announcement that vote given to a particular candidate down conditions including a CBI probe to go into the cir- Dhinakaran.) “courtesy call,” while Finance he visited Mumbai. VVPAT machines will be used CBI probe into the the circum- cumstances that led to Jaya- “We are getting infor- Minister Jayakumar, who also ambidurai’s meeting with in all polling stations in the two machine which allows an elec- these machines to dispel doubts stances leading to Jayalalithaa’s lalithaa’s death in December mation that since he (Dhi- holds Fisheries portfolio, dis- the Governor assumes signi- states when the poll schedule tor to conrm whether the EVM about EVM tampering. death. last year. nakaran) was entangled in cussed the issue of Vice-Chan- cance as it came in the wake of will be announced. has properly registered his vote Sixteen parties had recently A top leader of the for- Only if such conditions several cases, in order to free cellor’s appointment to the changing dynamics in the rul- While the term of the given to a particular candidate. petitioned the EC to revert to mer Chief Minister’s camp, are met, can there be a scope him, Sasikala’s family has used Tamil Nadu Fisheries Univer- ing AIADMK where ministers 182-member Gujarat assem- e Electronics Corporation paper ballot system for greater K P Munusamy said the rst for talks to pave the way for them (Palaniswami camp),” he sity. “ ere is no political sig- in the V K Sasikala faction had bly is ending on January 22 next of India Limited and the Bharat transparency. e BSP, the AAP demand was getting Sasikala merger, Munusamy said. claimed. nicance in the meeting. We revolted against their leader year, the term of the 68-member Electronics Limited manufac- and the Congress had attacked and Dhinakaran’s resignation On the aunt-nephew duo Stating that only under such did not speak politics at all,” TTV Dhinakaran, deciding to Himachal Pradesh assembly will ture EVMs and VVPATS for the EC on the issue of alleged and later their formal expulsion being ousted (by Palaniswami circumstances Dhinakaran has ambidurai said when asked keep his family away from the end on January 7. the Commission. tampering of EVMs. along with 30 other members camp) on April 18 aer a meet- been kept away, Munusamy if he ‘apprised’ the Governor of party. ey had also initiated Going by the precedents, For the EC to allow the use e poll panel had of their family. ing of senior ministers, a key said in keeping with AIADMK the ongoing rumblings in the the modalities of merging their the elections could be held in of VVPATs in all polling sta- ordered for 67,000 additional Panneerselvam also wanted demand of Panneerselvam, party practice, a party notica- ruling AIADMK. faction headed by Chief Min- December this year. tions in the 2019 Lok Sabha paper trail units in 2015, out of withdrawal of adavits sub- Munusamy, however, sus- tion should be issued on Dhi- ambidurai said Rao has ister K Palaniswami with the Voter Veriable Paper polls, it needs 16,15,000 more which 33,500 have been sup- mitted to the Election Com- pected “foul play” behind it. nakaran and Sasikala family’s been his friend since the for- other led by former Chief Min- Audit Trail (VVPAT) unit is such machines. Several parties plied, according to the Law mission declaring Sasikala and “Only your (Palaniswami expulsion. mer was a minister in the AB ister O Pannerselvam. linked to the electronic voting have been pressing for the use of Ministry. min insults divan’ Change work culture, make Give same food Police go into tizzy as wireless people feel secure : Yogi to cops to dons and staff video oes viral petty criminals OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT flashes CM fleet car ‘missing’ in jails: UP CM LUCKNOW: Asserting that LUCKNOW: Senior Uttar OUR CORRESPONDENT the rule of law was the top pri- LUCKNOW: All convicts Pradesh Minister Satyadev ority of his government, Chief in the jails of Uttar Pradesh, Pachauri allegedly insulted JHANSI UP: e district Minister Yogi Adityanath has whether petty criminals or a physically challenged police was thrown into a tizzy directed the state police to notorious maa dons, should employee during a surprise following a wireless message change its work style so as to get the same food and treat- inspection, a video of which Satyadev Pachauri about “the” of one of the vehi- make the common people feel an ocial spokesman said on ment, Chief Minister Yogi has gone viral on social media. cles in the eet of Uttar Pradesh secure. ursday quoting the chief Adityanath has told state o- e incident came days ently-abled man on contract. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, e chief minister, who minister. Adityanath directed cials. e Uttar Pradesh chief aer the Yogi Adityanath gov- What will he do? is is the who arrived on a visit here on reviewed a presentation by the ocials to launch of a drive minister’s remarks came at a ernment renamed the ‘Viklang reason behind lack of hygiene ursday. state’s Home, Vigilance and against maa and also asked review meeting of the state’s Kalyan Vibhag’ (Handicap here,” Pachauri can be heard As the chief minister was Jails department late last night, them to ensure that those who Home, Vigilance and Jails Welfare Department) as ‘Divy- saying in the video clip. meeting district ocials at wrong place it was shied to and a primary school in Takori expressed unhappiness over the provide information on ‘Dial department late last night. ang Jan Shasaktikaran Vib- As he drew ak over the Vikas Bhawan here, the vehi- the allotted parking area, the SP village in Badagaon develop- working of the anti-corruption 100’ were not subjected to ere have oen been hag’ (Divyang Empowerment incident, the minister said his cles in his eet were parked in said, adding the wireless mes- ment block and interacted with wing of the state police and harassment. Stressing on eec- reports and allegations in the Department). remarks have been miscon- the adjoining compound of the sage was given on the informa- students. ordered its reorganisation. tive check on corruption in all past about certain prison- e Khadi and Village strued. “Maybe, my words Circuit House. tion of the vehicle driver. Enquiring about the mid- He also directed that a toll- cells of the police and identi- ers enjoying privileges in jails Industries Minister allegedly were not correct ... I was try- A message was received on Adityanath, who arrived day meal given to the children free number be provided to cation of sta members hav- including the use of phones etc. made a derogatory reference ing to say that everyone cannot the wireless about “the” of one here this morning, undertook in the school, he also inspected common people for lodging ing links with criminals and e chief minister said the when he came across a ‘divy- do all the work,” Pachauri said. of the vehicles, SP (City) Dinesh a surprise inspection of the Dis- the school kitchen. complaints in corruption cases. anti-social elements, the chief same food should be given ang’ contractual employee on Senior cabinet minister Sri- Singh said. trict Hospital where he enquired is is Adityanath’s rst “ ere is a need to improve minister asked for a direct dia- to all convicts -- petty crimi- Wednesday during an inspec- kant Sharma said Chief Minis- A massive hunt was about treatment and other facil- visit to Jhansi in parched Bun- the image of the police in the logue between police and peo- nals or maa dons -- lodged in tion of the department’s oce ter Yogi Adityanath has asked launched and soon aer Traf- ities from the patients. delkhand region of the state eyes of the people and it should ple and taking note of even jails and ordered installation in Dalibagh area here. his ministerial colleagues to c Police informed that since He also inspected the Kri- aer assuming oce almost a be such that people feel secure minor incident and prompt of mobile phone jammers, an “You have kept a dier- ensure use of proper language. the vehicle was parked at the shi Mandi at the Kanpur Road month ago. while criminals feel the fear,” action on them. ocial spokesman said. Naroda Patiya Dismissed BSF jawan says fair trial SYL issue: Pb govt seeks NATION BRIEFS case: Kodnani Centre’s intervention moves HC not given to him, to move court SHAH TO MEET BJP CMs ON SUNDAY, MAY DISCUSS GOVERNANCE AGENDA OUR CORRESPONDENT to call Shah that he would be dismissed. NEW DELHI: BJP chief ministers will meet party “We will go to the Delhi President Amit Shah on Sunday where he is likely to as witness REWARI HARYANA: Dis- High Court. He (Yadav) has missed BSF jawan Tej Baha- served for 20 years. He should discuss the implementation of its governance agen- OUR CORRESPONDENT dur Yadav is planning to move get pension. at is his due,” da in the states ruled by the saffron organisation. court against his sacking as he she said. All 13 chief ministers will be in the national capital AHMEDABAD: e Guja- contended on ursday that Yadav claimed that the on April 23 to take part in the Niti Aayog meeting, rat High Court has sought the he was not given a fair trial food quality served to jawans Punjab CM Amarinder Singh greets PM Modi at a meeting in New Delhi party sources said. They are also scheduled to meet SIT’s stand on former BJP min- aer he complained about improved by 70 per cent aer OUR CORRESPONDENT Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has convened a ister Maya Kodnani’s plea to poor quality of food being his video went viral. were expressed by an ocial meeting of NITI Aayog’s Governing Council on the summon BJP president Amit served to the soldiers. Tej Bahadur Yadav “I got a lot of support from delegation comprising chief Shah and seven others as addi- Yadav, a native of Rewari in my fellow jawans,” said Yadav, NEW DELHI: Punjab on secretary Karan Avtar Singh same day to deliberate on the 15-year road map tional witnesses in the 2002 Haryana, had posted a video “I was not given a fair trial. who was given a rousing wel- ursday urged the Narendra and Principal Secretary (Irri- for development. The council, with all chief ministers Naroda Patiya massacre case online about ve months back, ough I was given an oppor- come from the villagers as Modi government to intervene gation) KBS Sidhu, who met on board, will also discuss 3-year action plan and against her. complaining about poor qual- tunity to present witness but soon as he got down from a in the SYL matter to save the up with Secretary, Ministry seven-year development strategies. A bench of justices Harsha ity food being served to the my mobile phone was seized. Haryana Roadways bus. state from an “ecological disas- of Water Resources Amarjit Devani and Biren Vaishnav troops on the icy heights along I wanted to call colleagues e BSF jawan was sur- ter”, aer it apprised the Centre Singh, that conveyed its stand IAF, ARMY HELP TO DOUSE FIRE AT asked on Wednesday the Spe- the Line of Control (LoC) in as witnesses, but wasn’t rounded by youngsters and of the “critical water situation” on the Satlej-Yamuna Link cial Investigation Team (SIT), Jammu and Kashmir. allowed to do so,” Yadav said elderly people as he reached it was grappled with and its canal issue. MUKUNDRA HILLS FOREST RESERVE formed by the Supreme Court He was dismissed on on ursday aer returning his village. Many youth could inability to share waters with Punjab and Haryana are JAIPUR: The Army and the Air Force had to step in to probe Gujarat riots cases, to Wednesday by a Summary to his village here from Jammu be seen clicking seles and neighbouring states. locked in a dispute over the on Thursday to douse the fire that broke out in the le its reply to Kodnani’s plea Security Force Court (SSFC) and Kashmir. shaking hands with him. Punjab also pointed out sharing of Ravi-Beas waters Mukundra Hills tiger forest reserve on Tuesday and for summoning the eight as where he was tried on two He said he was shocked Yadav’s dismissal came that it does not have sur- for decades. While Haryana was rapidly spreading in the area. An Air Force witnesses for adducing addi- counts -- of making “false to know about his dismissal ve months aer he posted plus water to share with any wants its share, as was decided tional evidence “in the interest allegations” on social media aer being earlier asked to pre- the video on Facebook, trig- other state and urged the cen- when the state was carved out chopper dropped water, taken from the nearby of justice.” regarding the quality of food pare pension and retirement gering public outcry over the tral government to come up of Punjab along with Himachal Chambal river, on the fire spread in about 4 km e seven others who Kod- and carrying two mobile documents. working conditions of troops with a “realistic” solution to Pradesh 50 years ago, succes- radius of the forest reserve, while Army officials nani wanted to be summoned phones while on operational Yadav’s wife Sharmila said guarding the country’s the problem, keeping it’s water sive Punjab governments have helped the fire tenders on ground to douse the fire, as witnesses are former BJP duty, the BSF spokesman said. the family was not expecting frontiers. scarcity in view. ese views refused to share water. SP Kota (city) Swai Singh Godara said. MLA Amrish Patel, Jagdish Patel, Lakhabhai Rathod, Dha- UP BJP EXEC TO MEET ON MAY 1-2 val Shah, Dhiraj Rathod, M D Military cannot be subjected to FIR for its operations: Army LUCKNOW: After BJP stormed to power in Uttar Lakhiya and Kantibhai Solanki. “In the interest of justice, it Pradesh, ending a 15-year hiatus, the party’s state is important to summon these OUR CORRESPONDENT doesn’t any judicial inquiry probe, should not be consid- executive will meet here from May 1 to thank vot- additional witnesses, whom ever exonerate the Army? ered and the court should not ers for the overwhelming support, besides taking the prosecution dropped dur- NEW DELHI: Operations ese inquiries (have) never embark into it. up other issues. BJP national President Amit Shah ing the trial in a special SIT against militants or insur- said that Army did the correct During the hearing, the will address the concluding session of the two-day court, so that additional evi- gents may be aected if FIRs thing. Army is facing problems bench also questioned the meeting, party’s state unit spokesman Shalabh Mani dence can be recorded by the are lodged against the Army, due to bias in such inquiries,” Army over its Court of Inquiry, Tripathi told PTI here. court,” Kodnani’s lawyer Niru- the Supreme Court was told he said. a fact nding proceeding. pam Nanavati said. e high on ursday. Pointing out that Army was “Court of Inquiry is for the MAN HELD FOR HOAX E-MAIL ABOUT court is hearing the appeals of e Army also told the working in very dicult situ- benet of the Army. It is not Kodnani and other convicts apex court that it cannot be ations in these areas, Rohatgi for the satisfaction of public AIRCRAFT HIJACK THREAT in the Naroda Patiya massacre subjected to FIRs for carry- said it has its own system in which has the right to know the HYDERABAD: Police on Thursday arrested a case in which 96 people were ing out anti-militancy opera- place, has its own approach truth behind any incident,” the person from here for allegedly sending a hoax killed. tions in insurgency-prone areas Rohatgi, appearing for the Army and and is governed by dierent bench said aer Rohatgi alleged Kodnani was sentenced to like Jammu and Kashmir and the Assam Rifles, said it cannot be set of rules. “In every military bias in the judicial probes con- e-mail to Mumbai police about a possible aircraft 28 years in jail by a special SIT Manipur, while alleging local operation, Army cannot be ducted by district judges. hijack attempt. “Vamshi Krishna has been arrested court which had adjudicated bias in the judicial inquiries subjected to investigation by the state disbelieved. e bench also pulled up for sending the hoax mail to Mumbai Police Com- the Naroda Patiya massacre conducted against it in these police with regard to its operations Every judicial inquiry can- the Manipur government for missioner about the aircraft hijack threat. Some case. She is currently out on regions, which have tarnished against militants in strife-torn areas not be against the Army. e not taking action on such incriminating material has been seized from his pos- bail. A special SIT court hear- its image. alleged extra-judicial killing alleged fake encounters by session,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Task Force) ing another 2002 Gujarat riot “Judicial inquiries which cases in Manipur are not cases armed forces and asked was it case of Naroda Gam, involv- are biased due to local con- carried out,” Attorney General investigation by the state police of massacre, rather these are “not supposed to do anything”. B Limba Reddy told PTI. On April 16, the security ing Kodnani too as an accused, siderations have tarnished the Mukul Rohatgi told a bench with regard to its operations cases of military operations,” Senior advocate V Giri, at international airports in Mumbai, Hyderabad had recently allowed her plea image of Army. Military oper- of Justices M B Lokur and U against militants in strife-torn he said. He said the petitions appearing for Manipur, and Chennai was put on maximum alert after the to call Shah and 13 others as ations cannot be dissected in a U Lalit. areas. under Article 32 of Associa- accepted the lapse on the state police forces of Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil defence witnesses to prove that particular way. Army cannot Rohatgi, appearing for the “Whether it’s Jammu and tions of Widows from Mani- government’s part but said even Nadu and the CISF were informed about a possible she was not present at the scene be subjected to FIR otherwise Army and the Assam Ries, Kashmir or Manipur, we are pur, seeking FIR into alleged the High Court never asked it aircraft hijack attempt. of the crime. military operations cannot be said it cannot be subjected to facing the same local bias. Why extra- judicial killings and SIT to register FIRs in such cases. 7 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp nation Sena MP Suspected ISIS activists held, were Jadhav’s trial: India aiad flies again; picks planning major attack: Police Air India! OUR CORRESPONDENT in Noida, on the outskirts of seeks details from Pak Delhi. e accused had got in MPOST BUREAU LUCKNOW/MUMBAI: A touch with each other over the MPOST BUREAU has attempted to “misinform” major terror attack in the coun- internet, Arun said, adding the international community. MUMBAI: Barely a month try was claimed to have been that central security agencies NEW DELHI: India has India had also reiterated aer being grounded for averted as 10 suspected ISIS played an important role in the sought from Pakistan details of that Jadhav was innocent and assaulting an Air India staer, activists were held on urs- operation. According to the IG, the appeal process in the Kulb- false charges were framed Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaik- day in a major multi-state the UP ATS had seized some hushan Jadhav case in which against him when the Pakistan wad on ursday took to the operation. important documents aer the it has made 15 attempts to get deputy high commissioner was skies again. e joint operation was March 7 encounter in Lucknow consular access to the Indian summoned. His airline of choice was Air carried out by the police teams Suspected ISIS terrorist being in which a suspected terror- national given death sentence Shah was also told that not India, as he took a ight from of Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar produced in Jalandhar court ist belonging to the Khorasan by a military court there. giving consular access to Jad- Hyderabad to Delhi shortly Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar and ning a major terror attack in module was killed. Following External Aairs Ministry hav amounted to violation of aer 4 PM, an aide of Gaik- Andhra Pradesh, in which four country. Important documents this, the probe was expanded Spokesperson Gopal Baglay human rights as well interna- wad said. suspected terrorists belonging relating to ISIS were seized to ve states. said India was “concerned” as tional norms as the two coun- "Ravi Sir (as Gaikwad, a to the ISIS Khorasan module from them, Arun claimed. He e ATS had received it has no information about tries have a bilateral agreement former teacher, is known in were arrested and six others said two persons Mui Faizan information that the ISIS had the location or the condition details of those proceedings,” requests,” Baglay said, adding it on consular access. his Osmanabad constituency) were detained, ocials said. and Tanveer, allegedly con- been expanding its network in of Jadhav, who Pakistan says Baglay said. was important given the nature Pakistan army had on Mon- travelled business class from e arrests were made dur- nected with ISIS, were arrested Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, was in their custody. India would also like to of charges levelled against the day ruled out consular access to Hyderabad to Delhi today, days ing raids on ursday morn- from Bijnor district. Punjab and Bihar and some Noting that the ministry know how it can proceed in the retired Indian Navy ocer. 46-year-old Jadhav, days aer aer the ying ban was lied," ing in Mumbra (Maharashtra), Nazim Shamshad Ahmed youths from these states had had “called in” the Pakistan case, and asked Shah about var- “We don’t know anything India had made a strong case the aide said. Jalandhar (Punjab), Narkatia- (26), who hails from Bijnor, joined the terror organisation. deputy high commissioner ious options available in Paki- about Jadhav’s location or con- for access to the Indian pris- On April 8, private airlines ganj (Bihar), and Bijnor and was nabbed from Mumbra “All those arrested are in the Syed Haidar Shah on Wednes- stani legal system, Baglay said, dition in Pakistan. It is a mat- oner on death row. had lied the nearly two week- Muzaarnagar (both in Uttar township in ane district age group of 18 to 25 years and day, he said Pakistan has been noting that India is still await- ter of concern for India. We are Indian envoy Gautam Bam- long ying ban on Gaikwad. Pradesh), the ocials added. adjoining Mumbai. Another were living in dierent places asked to provide details of the ing a reponse to its demands concerned about his health and bawale had met the Pakistan e decision of the Fed- Inspector General of the suspect identied as Muzam- like Mumbai, Jalandhar and trial against Jadhav. for consular access and details whereabouts,” he maintained. foreign secretary last week and eration of Indian Airlines UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) mil was arrested from Jaland- UP. We have also found that “Pakistan claims there has of the trial proceedings against On reports that Pakistan demanded a certied copy of (FIA) had come a day aer Aseem Arun, in a statement har district of Punjab. they were denitely inuenced been legal proceedings against Jadhav. will present a dossier on Jad- the charge sheet and the army the national carrier, following in Noida, said that four per- According to an UP ATS by the material available on the Jadhav. If there has been any “Yesterday also we asked for hav with evidence of his alleged court order in the case, besides direction from the Civil Avia- sons were arrested on charges statement in Lucknow, six oth- internet,” UP ADG (Law and proceedings against (him), consular access to Jadhav and spying activities, Baglay merely consular access to the retired tion Ministry, revoked the ban of hatching terror conspiracies. ers were taken into custody Order) Daljit Chaudhary said we would, ocially, like to see in the past we made 13 such said that in past also Pakistan naval ocer. on Gaikwad. He said the accused were plan- and were being questioned in Lucknow. Internal process on in UK : India t eessie ater etratin rm anga fldlains MPOST BUREAU MALLYA CASE ditional bail a few hours later NEW DELHI: Excessive “Extraction of groundwater environmental ow in Ganga before it within 15 minutes. aer providing a bail bond extraction of water between directly aects the ow of the should be 20 per cent in the “Answer our query or face NEW DELHI: Ahead of Ministry Spokesperson Gopal of 650,000 pounds and giv- Haridwar and Unnao in Ganga river. e problem with Ganga lean season from November the consequence. We don’t the next hearing in the fugi- Baglay said. ing an assurance to the court oodplains is a serious issue is two-folds, as a huge quan- to March, 25 per cent during want any study or report. We tive liquor baron Vijay Mal- An "internal process" is on that he will abide by all condi- and should be immediately tity of water is extracted and October and April and 30 per want clear cut solution and lya extradition case on May in the UK in response to India's tions associated with extradi- stopped, the National Green additionally, euents are dis- cent from May to September. answer,” the bench said while 17, India said on ursday extradition request, he added. tion proceedings, such as the Tribunal said on ursday. charged into the river. Exces- When the bench asked adjourning the matter for hear- that it was in touch with the e 61-year-old liquor surrender of his passport and A bench headed by NGT sive extraction of water is a the Ministry about a possible ing on Friday. e tribunal government in the UK, where baron, wanted in India for a ban on him possessing any Chairperson Justice Swatanter serious problem,” the bench, solution to the issue of water had earlier asked the Centre an internal legal process is on defaulting on bank loans, was travel document. Kumar said the water which is which also included Justice R withdrawal, the counsel said to clarify what should be the in the matter. e Indian high arrested aer he appeared at a e UK's Crown Prosecu- being diverted into the vari- S Rathore, said. the ocial concerned was not minimum environmental ow commission in the UK is fol- central London police station tion Service (CPS) will now ous canals should be regulated e tribunal was informed present. e NGT took excep- (E-ow) in the Ganga, in a bid lowing the case with the British on Monday morning. argue the case on behalf of the so as to help maintain a mini- by the Ministry of Water and tion to this and directed the to ensure uninterrupted water government, External Aairs Mallya was released on con- Indian authorities. mum ow of the river. Resources that minimum counsel to call him and appear supply in the river. AGENCIES Govt will not reduce VIPs India hits out WB HIDCO WB HIDCO N. I. Q No.04 of A.G.M (Tourism) of 2017-2018 N. I. T No.05 of G.M (E)-IV of 2017-2018 at China for Sealed Tender is invited for Supply of staff uniforms for Cafe Ekante Sealed Tenders are invited for above NIT having experienced security, says Venkaiah at Eco Island/Business Club at New Town, Kolkata having experienced in similar nature of works from any Govt. Organization. Last renaming parts in similar nature of work from any Govt. Organization. Last date of date of receiving application-25/04/2017 up to 2.00 P.M. NEW DELHI: e govern- receiving application-27.04.2017 up to 2.00 P.M. All other information All other information and details may be obtained from the ment has no plans to cut back of Arunachal and details may be obtained from the office of the A.G.M (Tourism), WB office of the G.M (E)-IV, WB HIDCO at HIDCO BHABAN, on security to VIPs, Union HIDCO at Eco Island, Eco Park, New Town, Kolkata-700157. Detailed 35-1111 MAR, New Town, Kolkata. Minister M Venkaiah Naidu may be seen in our website at www.wbhidcoltd.com. on ursday said, a day aer NEW DELHI: India on ICA/T 888(3)2017 General Manager (Engg)-IV the Centre banned the use of ursday hit out at China for ICA/T 889(3)2017 A.G.M (Toursim) WB HIDCO WB HIDCO beacon lights atop all vehicles, giving Chinese names to some except emergency vehicles like parts of Arunachal Pradesh, ambulances and re brigade. saying assigning invented WB HIDCO WB HIDCO “With regard to security, jid dispute, the Minister said names to towns of the neigh- NOTICE INVITING TENDER N. I. Q. No.05 of A.G.M (Tourism) of 2017-2018 it is necessary in the interest the case has been going on bour does not make illegal ter- e-N.I.T No.67(2nd Call) of G.M (Elect) of 2016-2017 Sealed Tender is invited for Supply of Linen and Upholstery for Cafe of the country because impor- for so many years and there is ritorial claims legal. Sealed Two Part tenders on Percentage Basis for Providing Ekante at Eco Island/Business Club at New Town, Kolkata having tant people have to be pro- nothing new in that. He did External Aairs Ministry street lighting arrangement on Street No. 635,598,669 experienced in similar nature of work from any Govt. Organization. tected. Otherwise, there is no not elaborate on what could Spokesperson Gopal Baglay are invited from the agencies having ability in execution for Last date of receiving application-27.04.2017 up to 2.00 P.M. All preferential treatment,” Naidu, be the impact of the Supreme also asserted that Arunachal other information and details may be obtained from the office of who holds the portfolio of Court order in the Babri Mas- Pradesh is an integral part of similar nature of work. Last date of Bid Submission is 29-04- the A.G.M (Tourism), WB HIDCO at Eco Island, Eco Park, New Town, Information and Broadcast- jid demolition case on the BJP. India. 2017 upto 6.00 P.M. Detailed may be seen in our website Kolkata-700157. Detailed may be seen in our website at www. ing, told reporters here. About Top BJP leaders L K Advani, "Assigning invented names at www.wbhidcoltd.com wbhidcoltd.com. ICA/T 890(3)2017 the Centre’s decision to put an M M Joshi and Uma Bharti will to towns of your neighbour ICA/T 891(3)2017 A.G.M (Toursim) WB HIDCO end to the VIP culture, he said: be tried for criminal conspir- does not make illegal territo- “Everybody is a VIP and that acy in the 1992 Babri Masjid rial claims legal. Arunachal is the philosophy of our gov- demolition case as the apex Pradesh is and will always ernment.” ough it is a small court had yesterday allowed the be an integral part of India," initiative but it sends a mes- CBI plea to restore the charge Baglay told reporters here. sage that every person should against them. e SC, however, When asked if India has be treated equally, he added. noted that Rajasthan Gover- taken up the matter with He hoped that state govern- nor Kalyan Singh enjoys con- China, he said the Chinese ments will also shun the used stitutional immunity and can government has not com- of beacons or they will face the be tried only aer he ceases to municated anything o- wrath of the people. hold the oce. Singh was the cially so far and the ministry On a query about the Ram chief minister of Uttar Pradesh has seen only reports on the Janmabhoomi-Babri Mas- in 1992. AGENCIES development. AGENCIES ‘Visually disabled persons are struggling with new notes’ ABRIDGED NOTICE INVITING e-TENDER N.I.T. No. : WBIW/EE/WMD/ NIT-04e/2017-18 OUR CORRESPONDENT ing, engraving or inscription issues and woes are not taken Executive Engineer West Midnapore Division invites tender for 05(Five) nos. works which can be sensed by n- into consideration when print- Amount Put to Tender for Sl. No.: 1) Rs.1531101.00 MUMBAI: e visually dis- gers. I was told this demand ing new notes,” he said. 2) Rs. 1507265.00 3) Rs. 1497329.00 4) Rs. Rs1454271.00 abled persons –those suer- will be addressed, but to date, “ e old notes had proper 5) Rs. 1452421.00 ing from various degrees of no steps have been taken to embossing. e visually dis- Tender forms and other details can be obtained from the blindness –are nding the new address our problem,” said abled persons could dierenti- Department website www.wbmd.gov.in http://etenderwb. currency notes `unfriendly’, Joaquim Rapose, national sec- ate them. With new notes, the nic.in (Direct Site) because they are dicult to retary of NAB. size is changed and there are Last date of submission of Bid 05/05/2017 at 17-30 hours recognise by touch. “I was also told (later) no visually disabled-friendly Sd/- Lack of adequate emboss- that new batch of notes will markings,” Rapose said. Executive Engineer, l & W. Dte ing or engraving on new Rs have necessary changes, but Dr Sam Taraporewala, West Midnapore Division 500 and Rs 2,000 notes makes we have not noticed any head of the department at Midnapore, Paschim Medinipur it dicult to dierentiate and change so far,” Rapose said. Xavier’s Resource Centre for recognise them for someone As per State Development and the Visually Challenged here, with impaired eyesight, said Finance Corporation for Dis- said, “Unlike European coun- an ocial of National Associa- abled, there are 5.74 lakh per- tries or the US, we still do not tion for the Blind (NAB) here. sons with visual disability in have currency recognisers “Aer the scrapping old Maharashtra. (note-reading machines). It Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, I “ e government data says is true that the new currency approached the Union Gov- there are 80 lakh people in the notes have been creating a ernment to ensure that new country who are visually dis- problem for the visually dis- notes have some emboss- abled. Unfortunately their abled persons.” 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 EDITORIAL Looking back into history Double trouble Struggle for India’s freedom was a peoples’ movement, and it is imperative to highlight the contributions of those whose stories were neglected for years at home, abroad ANIRBAN GANGULY hile honour- nited States President Donald Trump’s latest exec- ing the descen- utive order, which seeks to tighten norms for the dants of those issuance of H-1B visas, may force Indian IT rms who had par- to lay o sta at home, according to a recent report Wticipated in the Paika Revolt Uby the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Asso- of 1817 in Bhubaneswar, Prime cham). Nearly 86% of the H-1B visas issued for workers in Minister Narendra Modi made the computer space go to Indians. is gure will now be a very pertinent observation. scaled down to about 60% or even less, the report said. Fol- He said that the narrative built lowing Trump’s executive order, Australian Prime Minister around the struggle for India’s Malcolm Turnbull also announced that he was abolishing freedom had been limited to a the 457 visa program, a migrant worker scheme very popular few episodes and a few families among Indians looking to move to Australia. As experts on while it was, in reality, a “Jan the subject have argued, this is double standards on the part Andolan”, a peoples’ movement. of these developed economies, which are seemingly ne with is narrative thus needs lib- the free ow of capital, but then build walls when it comes to eration and needs to be looked the free movement of labour. ese developments also sug- at as it truly was—a peoples’ gest that New Delhi has failed to convince foreign govern- movement which saw count- ments in accommodating Indian interests when formulating Stories of such less women and men join the policy. Under these changing circumstances, India will have struggle and undergo severe little choice but to generate more employment at home. How participation hardship, mental and physical is the ruling National Democratic Alliance government per- abound, stories torture and sacrices. forming on this front? Stories of such participa- One of the major planks that Prime Minister Narendra which, if tion abound, stories which, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi once observed that the narrative built around the struggle for India’s freedom had been limited to a few episodes Modi campaigned on in the run up to the 2014 general elec- weaved into weaved into our curriculums, tions was the promise of more jobs. Going by the government’s into our books and narratives, strength in pushing forward the mately involved in the revolu- our responsibility to bring interestingly saw themselves assessment, it isn’t doing very well on this front. In reply to a our curriculums, can evolve a wholly dierent wheel of liberty. tionary movement in Bengal. women into the folds of the as the precursor to the famous question in Parliament earlier this year, Minister of State for into our books understanding of ourselves It was in this context of Both were daughters of Beni Non-Cooperation movement,” Rani Jhansi regiment of the Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said that overall unemployment and more importantly of our Prime Minister’s observa- Madhav Das, Headmaster at she recalled. “Women had to INA. Because of their close and was rising, but the rate was highest among the Other Back- and narratives, freedom. It is the memory of tions on the need to recog- Ravenshaw School Cuttack who whole-heartedly participate unrelenting involvement with ward Classes (OBCs). e overall unemployment rate in the can evolve a this dimension that needs to nise that the freedom struggle was also Netaji Subhas Chan- in our struggle for freedom. revolutionary work, both sisters country is 5 percent, while it is 5.2 percent for OBCs. From be rediscovered and reiterated. was a peoples’ movement, that dra Bose’s teacher, mentor and We moved from one locality had to face prolonged spells of 3.8% in 2011, the unemployment rate has only gone up. At a wholly different Prime Minister Modi, in his the programme, organised by guide. Netaji kept in close con- to another, organising meet- imprisonment, mental torture time when 12 million join the labour force every year, experts understanding own way, has been at it right Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee tact with Beni Madhav Das till ings and enlisting women ‘saty- and challenges of various kinds. are worried about the implications jobless growth could have from his days as Chief Minis- Research Foundation and the his escape from India and the agrahis’. One day, my friend In 1943, Kalyani Das on India’s social fabric. e economic reforms of the early of ourselves and ter of Gujarat when he brought Nehru Memorial Museum and Das sisters became close asso- Sovarani came and told us that, became an active member of ‘90s, which saw India take its rst steps towards liberalisation, more importantly back to India the ashes of Shy- Library (NMML) to commem- ciates of Netaji. It was through in recognition of our arduous the Bengal relief committee set sought to encourage the growth of labour-intensive industries, of our freedom amji Krishna Verma in 2003 orate the 87th anniversary of their father that Kalyani and work, Subhas Babu had oered up by Dr. Syama Prasad Mook- job creation and reduce income inequality. Even though the from Geneva where they had the Chittagong Revolt became Bina Das came in close con- us the use of his car, for moving erjee during the Bengal fam- rst decade of this millennium saw the fastest rate of growth lain ever since Krishna Verma’s highly symbolic. e NMML tact with Netaji and helped him about from place to place. We ine which saw over 3 million ever for the Indian economy under the previous United Pro- death in 1930. has, under the present dispen- in organising women volun- would get tired and exhausted deaths. Dr. Mookerjee made gressive Alliance government, the rate of job creation was Even as Prime Minister, sation, at last, opened its doors teers group while being active as we went around on foot, and, herculean eorts to organise abysmally low. Ideally, high economic growth should trans- Modi continued on Krishna to many other narratives and in revolutionary activities as therefore, it would be a great relief work, and it was due to late into greater employment opportunities. In its rst three Verma’s trail and ensured that sagas – all of which have made well. Kalyani Das organised relief for us to have the car at his eorts that the rest of India years in oce, the Modi government has struggled in com- the Inner Temple reinstated legitimate contributions to our the Chhatri Sangha, a dynamic our disposal,” she added. Beni came to know the actual reality ing to grips with the spectre of jobless growth. ere has Verma as a barrister hav- struggle for freedom but were women’s group that trained Madhav Das, Kalyani’s father of the famine. Kalyani formed been no signicant pickup in private investment, and credit ing expelled him in 1909 for neglected or marginalised over women in martial arts for rev- and Subhas’s mentor, frowned an integral part of that work. growth remains in the doldrums. Measures like demoneti- advocating India’s freedom. In the years. olutionary activities. Both the on this act of his favourite pupil. In the end as, Prime Minis- sation have resulted in severe job losses across the informal August 2016, inspired by Modi It is also oen forgotten sisters became popular mem- “When other workers are going ter Modi pointed out, the saga economy. However, this is not to suggest that the govern- and with the pledge of protect- that women played a signi- bers of the Bengal revolution- around on foot, you should also of this epic struggle needs to be ment’s struggles with employment generation are of its own ing our freedom, BJP leaders cant role in the ght for freedom ary network. do the same. You will feel supe- liberated, and the story of many doing. e current downswing in the global economy, allied fanned out across the country especially in the revolutionary In 1928 when Netaji organ- rior to others if you use the car. such Kalyanis and Binas need with greater automation across various industries, have also on a “Tiranga Yatra”, travelling movements. e commemora- ised his famous Bengal Volun- Don’t let this happen to you”, to be narrated and celebrated. played a signicant role, and facing up to these challenges is across the country, honouring tive programme thus saw the teers he took help of Kalyani was his caution. (Dr. Anirban Ganguly is hard for the NDA government. Nonetheless, it now has to also forgotten heroes of the freedom release of the English version Das, among others, for organ- Kalyani Das and other the Director of the Dr. Syama deal with the reality of countries like the USA and Australia movement, paying tribute and of the autobiography of Kaly- ising the Women Corps of women who helped Netaji orga- Prasad Mookerjee Research turning increasingly local in hiring and assertive in getting rid homage to thousands of other ani Das. Bina and Kalyani Das the Bengal Volunteers. In her nise the women’s corps, fore- Foundation in New Delhi. e of foreigners. For the remaining period of its ve-year term, such leaders, workers and activ- – known in the revolutionary memoirs, Kalyani recalls an most among them was Lotika views expressed are strictly the challenges are indeed immense. ists who had contributed their circles as Das Sisters – were inti- interesting incident. “It was Ghosh (Sri Aurobindo’s niece) personal.) It is a fact that many rms are investing more in digitisa- tion and automation—articial intelligence, machine coding, dear etc. In a bid to slash costs, these companies are hiring fewer Quote martial STRINGENT DETERRENCE EDITOR millenniumpost.in employees. However, greater automation, which is a lasting structural change to how existing businesses function, is not Crime against women is on the rise constantly.The situation is so dismal that it has virtually desen- Log on to write letters to the the only factor responsible for job cuts. Others include restruc- If we don't believe in editor or send them to turing in many existing industries, poor investment sentiment, freedom of expression sitised people to the horrors associated with it. The unfortunate and infamous incident of December low capacity utilisation in the face of uncertain markets at 2012 was one that caused immense public outrage but did nothing of consequence. An incident of [email protected] home, abroad and weak credit generation, and greater consoli- for people we despise, crime against women is nothing more than a news report. What we need terribly is not just laws, but You can also send your dation by major rms, especially in the telecom sector. ese we don't believe in it at comments to The Editor, factors could dent the aspirations of millions of young peo- serious deterrent laws against crime against women and sensitisation to it. Beyond physical abuse, Millennium Post, ple preparing to join the workforce every year. As per recent all internet trolls have begun to issue threats of rape and violence against women who don't agree with media reports, the number of employees brought on board by Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah the likes of as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant and HCL Tech- NOAM CHOMSKY the majoritarian view. This is unfortunate and action is required. Via email Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 nologies this year will be 40% less as against last year—from REMYA NAIR 60,000 engineers this year against 100,000. In a separate devel- opment last year, the country’s second-biggest private lender HDFC Bank cut down its sta by 4,581 employees in a single quarter. Even in the banking sector, there has been greater emphasis on automation, as algorithms reduce dependence on Real potent life of lead workers and accomplish the same task at a much faster pelt. “Over the next ve years, India will need to create 12-15 mil- lion non-agricultural jobs per year. However, between 2005 Long-term impacts of lead exposure have finally been revealed: reduced IQ and 2012, only eight million such jobs were created. Hence, the gap of 4-7 million jobs a year needs to be addressed, which is levels and lower socio-economic status likely to rise with the rise in young people joining the labour force,” a joint report by Boston Consulting Group and the hough the health impacts of ence value for blood lead levels. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said. According to VIBHA exposure to lead were rst A study published in Environ Toxicol VARSHNEY the Sixth Economic Census, the proportion of workers across reported in the 1970s, a new in 2010 showed that the average levels agricultural enterprises in rural India has increased while study, published in JAMA on among 200 children between the age of the proportion of those working in non-agricultural jobs has TMarch 28, has established the long-term 3-12 years in Lucknow were 9.3 µg/dL declined. It is a worrying trend. Small companies are obviously eects—it can not only reduce IQ levels, (range: 1.0-27.9 µg/dL). Seventy-four in no position to take up the burden of employment genera- but also lower socio-economic status. children (37 per cent) had levels above tion. ey just aren’t productive enough. Meanwhile, many Lead is a cumulative toxicant that 10 µg/dL. e continued presence of large corporate houses are submerged under a mountain of aects multiple body systems and is lead is worrisome as it points to multiple debt, sparking a circle of low growth, weak bank credit, job particularly harmful to young children, sources of lead. It would be useful to g- cuts, low output and low growth. Where does India start-up according to the World Health Organi- ure out where this lead is coming from. sector stand regarding employment generation? e answer zation (WHO). It aects the brain, liver, Sources include soil and dust lead (the is not very high, considering how inuential companies like kidney and bones. It is stored in the teeth result of use of leaded petrol in the past), Snapdeal and Flipkart issuing the proverbial pink slip to hun- In May 2016, an and bones, where it accumulates over air lead from industrial sources, batter- dreds of people in recent months. ese companies are on a time and is released with age. ies, water coming from lead pipes, food major cost-cutting spree while trying to save the money they interactive map e researchers used data from the contamination from spices and utensils, have raised from investors. developed by Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Lead content in paints is dangerous (Representational Image) herbal medicines and cosmetics. Experts What can the Modi government do to improve the situa- Development Study, an investigation of suggest a national population-based tion? “Logically, it needs to work on areas that create hurdles the New York health and behaviour of children born there was a 1.61 point decline in IQ. crumbling factories, which are now study to determine the prevalence of for new private investments, aggressively push public spend- University School between April 1972 and March 1973 in Life-long perils leaking lead into the rivers and water elevated levels of lead in blood. ing to create more demand and promote local entrepreneur- Dunedin, New Zealand. At that time, “We found that childhood lead expo- systems. As a result, new cases of chil- Satish Sinha, associate director, Tox- ship that can result in the creation of more jobs. e changes of Medicine New Zealand was using gasoline which sure was related to cognitive decline dren with high lead levels have become ics Link, a Delhi-based non-prot, says in the global employment market will push more profession- found that lead had high levels of lead. In 1983, when the to midlife and with downward socio- a health concern. “Regardless of where though with every ban on a source of als back to their home countries creating the need for more children were 11 years old, the research- economic mobility,” Aaron Reuben, you began in life, lead is going to exert lead, there is a perceptible decrease in local jobs, although it might help reducing the problem of a exposure costs ers measured the level of lead in the lead author of the study told Down To a downward pull,” says Avshalom Caspi, levels of lead in the blood, it would be country losing talent,” according to Dinesh Unnikrishnan, the India US $236 blood of 565 of the children, and found Earth. He is a research student with the co-author of the study. e research dicult to remove lead from all the nancial editor of a popular Indian news website. that all children had high levels of lead, department of psychology and neu- team plans to continue following the products as this would not be commer- billion annually. irrespective of their socio-economic roscience at Duke University, USA. It cohort to see if childhood lead expo- cially viable. “We are already trying to Leaded gasoline status. When these children turned 38, was ob-served that each 1 point decrease sure is associated with other negative remove mercury from our lives but we was phased out the researchers tested them again for in IQ test scores translated to $200 to outcomes as they age. cannot do this with every metal,” he says. Positive step cognitive functions. ey found that 600 less income per year. “We found A window into India However, we need to be careful on how n a positive development, the Union Cabinet on Wednes- in India in 2000, children with greater lead exposure in there are long-term implications for a e ndings have grave conse- we use products that have lead, and that day decided that beacon lights will be removed from all and efforts are on childhood had poorer cognitive func- child’s life trajectory, regard-less of where quences for countries where lead is includes everyday items like batteries vehicles, except emergency vehicles, like ambulances and tions at midlife. ey studied the occu- they started out in life. is suggests still pervasive in the environment. In and TV screens, adds Sinha. re trucks. is is one of the steps the government hopes to limit the levels pations of the children with that of their that public responses to lead exposure May 2016, an interactive map developed Regulation is dicult, as the paint Ito take in ending the ‘VIP culture’ that permeates public life of lead in paints parents when they were about the same events should take a long-term per- by the New York University School of story revealed. e Bureau of Indian in India. In many parts of India, these objects have become a age. While the trend is children have spective,” says Reuben. “We all believed Medicine found that lead exposure costs Standards (BIS) has recommended paint symbol of authority, especially for elected representatives and too better occupations than their parents, that when lead was banned from pet- India US $236 billion annually. Leaded makers to keep the lead content under 90 government ocials. However, seasoned politicians realise but in children with elevated lead levels, rol, the problem was solved. But studies gasoline was phased out in India in 2000, parts per million, but the Central Pollu- that beacons and sirens create a wall between them and the the trend was the opposite. e occu- had not followed up the lead-exposed and eorts are on to limit the levels of tion Control Board (CPCB) has allowed common man and in the long run can severely erode their pations they held at age of 38 tended to individuals into midlife,” says Terrie lead in paints too. But in 2015, Metropo- the sale of old paint stocks for another mass support. e Trinamool Congress-led government in be slightly less well-paid or prestigious Mott, senior author of the study, and lis Health-care, a Mumbai-based pathol- two years aer the CPCB norms, which West Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee was than their parents had. associate director of the Dunedin Mul- ogy major, re-ported that of the 733 are yet to be nalised, come into force. the rst to remove red beacons followed by the AAP gov- e results show that blood-lead lev- tidisciplinary Health and Development blood samples it analysed, 23.47 per at’s why this landmark study ernment in 2013 during its 49-day tenure. Nonetheless, it is els above the historic international level Research. at’s why the study assumes cent tested positive for lead. While they should force policymakers to devise imperative to note that this is a merely cosmetic step. Elected of concern (>10 microgrammes lead per signicance. For developed countries, did not give the levels of lead in blood, and enforce regulation, as the ndings representatives continue to behave with a shocking sense of decilitre of blood or µg/dL), resulted polluted sites must be cleaned up, and a study published in e Indian Jour- establish the poor later-life outcomes for entitlement even though they are technically ‘public servants’. in reduction of adult IQ scores by 4.25 those doing up an old house and strip- nal of Pediatrics in 2013 showed that exposed individuals and communities. e recent Air India episode involving a Shiv Sena MP is a points when compared to that of their ping old paint must take extra care, say 12 per cent of the 300 children tested DOWN TO EARTH testament to this fact. less exposed peers. Also, for each 5µg/dL the researchers. For instance, in North in Delhi had lead levels in their blood (Views expressed are strictly those increase in childhood blood-lead level, America, old industrial cities have many more than 0.10 µg/dL—the then refer- of Down to Earth.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp in focus Trump’s actions pose real dangers International body must probe Syrian action, writes Arun Srivastava er bombing Syria on the pretext of avenging a chemical attack on the civilian population in rebel- held Idlib province, United States APresident Donald Trump has also severed his personal relations with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Before making this deci- sion, Trump did not wait to weigh the pros and cons of this arbitrary decision. Having a good relationship with Russia would have undoubtedly helped Trump in a better way. He would have been credited with retrieving some of America’s lost glory in the wake of Russia taking the initiative in the war against the Islamic State in Syria. e US-Russia friendship has been dealt a severe blow by the so called friends’ of Amer- ica. ese are the persons whom Trump has kept away. But unfortunately, they have been now dictating the course of action. is does not reect well on Trump. e proactive stance of the British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson on punishing Rus- The world has sia by tightening sanctions and the alacrity not forgotten how with which he roped in support of his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault to urge the George Bush used international community to “go further” in a similar motive punishing those responsible for the chemi- cal weapons attack in Syria on April 4, is part to attack Iraq. of this design. He real intention Johnson has his reasons. His argument manifests the British hatred towards Putin. was to get rid A majority of Britons sharing the European Saddam Hussein Union’s vision on Brexit nurse the view that Britain had came out of the EU only due to the and usurp the manipulation and rigging of the referendum country’s oil. by Russia. He is aware that the American-led sanctions have failed to crack Russia. Even But he used the then he was persuading the G7 to tighten Weapons of Mass sanctions further. Destruction bogey Signicantly the UK Labour leader, Jer- United States President Donald Trump emy Corbyn accused Johnson of display- as an alibi to ing a “Cold War mentality’. He warned that ensure a peaceful settlement in Syria. “Putin meandering object. It is an irony that George Putin has restored Russia’s status of a great Russian people is quite intriguing and at the attack Iraq backing American missile strike was “utterly and Trump should get together. ey are the Bush’s policies were primarily responsible for power, lost with the Soviet Union. He steered same time hilarious. Amusing for the reason disastrous”. According to him Johnson nurses superpowers of the world. Vladimir Putin the creation of ISIS in Iraq. Barack Obama’s Russia away from the Western orbit, rebuilt that Johnson was using the old rotten mech- a wrong perception and his belief that last can be forced into all sorts of directions if policies, meanwhile, gave birth to the trans- the country’s military force and protect Rus- anism to alienate Putin from his people. He week’s retaliatory action by the US could sucient political and other pressure is put national terror group in Syria. sian security interests to send the message ought to have realised that average Russian open the door for a fresh diplomatic eort on him,” he said. Trump, who had fought the presidential to the world that Russia was back in play. had endorsed and supported Putin’s actions to remove Assad from power is not correct. Recent moves by the Americans and the campaign pledging to stay out of Middle East He stood up to US global dominance. Seen to preserve the nationalism. e shadow chancellor, John McDon- EU raise serious apprehensions about their conicts, is now acting as the volatile region’s as disruptive in the West, Putin has struck a President Trump has taken his unilater- nell, called him a liability for Britain and said real intentions. Surprisingly both these leaders conscience keeper. is shi clearly manifests rm tone at home. alism in foreign policy to a dangerous level. he “undermines our credibility”. But British want that the charge of engaging in chemical that he has fallen into the trap. Trump who Putin once described himself as Russia’s He is talking only about ensuring the secu- Prime Minister eresa May defended him warfare should be investigated, not by the UN, just over a month ago wanted to bar entry of top nationalist. He has also proclaimed patrio- rity of the American citizens as if the safety on ursday, saying he had done an “excellent but by the independent Organisation for the all Syrian refugees into the US, now wants tism to be Russia’s national idea. Putin is above of the people of other countries has no rele- job in bringing together the G7” and deliv- Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Intrigu- the world to believe that he cares about Syr- all a symbol of stability aer a decade and a vance to him. e world is having a war like ering a unanimous message of condemna- ingly they are not pressing for UN probe. ian children. half of turmoil that included the misguided situation and any day, and the US can send tion to Russia. In the prevailing situation, he It is evident that any investigation other Aer the USA lost the Syrian battle and and botched reform of the Soviet communist missiles or resort to air attacks. Many human intends to raise the issue of sanctions at future than by UN would be open to manipulation. Russia was bestowed with the credit of n- system. Putin has shaped a country to echo his rights organisations have questioned Trump meetings of European foreign ministers. It e USA has the expertise in such manoeu- ishing the hegemony of America, the west- values and grievances. And now he’s working claim that the Assad government was respon- apparently implied that both the countries vrings. e world has not forgotten how ern countries, NATO, the EU countries have to secure his legacy. sible for the recent chemical attacks. ere want to deepen the crisis further and turn it George Bush used a similar motive to attack been feeling restless, and their one-point ough Russia isn’t a Communist coun- has to be a third party investigation into this a global problem. Iraq. He real intention was to get rid Saddam agenda was to throw Putin out of power; but try anymore, the western capitalist block still incident. e international situation is very It is in this backdrop Jeremy Corbyn sug- Hussein and usurp the country’s oil. But he could not succeed. e allegation of Assad looks at it as a communist fellow traveller. grave. ere is a need for telling Trump that gested that Donald Trump should “rapidly used the Weapons of Mass Destruction bogey using chemical weapons has come to their ey have been scared of the image of Putin. he does not have the sole right of deciding engage” with Vladimir Putin to restart the as an alibi to attack Iraq. e same line is being rescue. ey do not intend to miss it. ese is is why Johnson alleged that Putin was who is guilty or who is not. IPA Syria peace process. e Labour leader called applied in Syria. In Iraq, Saddam Hussain was forces are scared of Putin consolidating his “toxifying the image of Russia” by backing ( e views expressed here are strictly for more pressure to be put on Russia to the direct target. But in Syria, Putin is the grip on Russia. Bashar al-Assad. His showing concern for the personal.)

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With this ing permission of AAP some of the industry’s issues a power purchase agreement reduce nancial risk for the cure the power in line with arrangement, developers in FM Radio spot since Pradesh Urja and provide a fair and secure (PPA) on April 17, 2017. suppliers as well as the inter- guaranteed energy o-take, the RSP quoted low taris, keep- yesterday. Very sad. Vikas Nigam. It system of payments. ese In another rst, the project mediary power procurer. developer is compensated for ing aside the buer. guidelines are drawn from the received subsidies from Clean 4 RUMSL provides a letter the shortfall in supply. Guar- is the first project RSP in Madhya Pradesh (M.P). Technology Fund (CTF), an of credit for one month’s pay- anteed energy o-take is the Termination Compensation in the country to e Centre has also written to international fund for low ment, a payment security fund amount of electricity the pro- Clarity on consequences of all other states asking them to carbon technologies. It oers along with the MP state govern- curer agrees to buy in a year. early termination of the con- SORABH PANT have electricity incorporate the features from three-tier payment security ment guarantee for the delay tract is a must so that devel- @hankypanty procurers this project in their policy, for mechanism to developers: let- in payments by MPPMCL, the Availing subsidies opers and their nanciers can keeping the cost of solar power ter of credit, payment security electricity procurer accounts e cost of RSP was much protect their investments. from different low. fund and M.P state government for 78% of power sold. 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Usually in 4 For the remaining 22% of sources helped bring down the from the aer-eects to the after trying to help (DMRC) and year of operation was Rs 2.97 most government contracting, power, DMRC has to provide park cost. Internal evacuation extent of a combination of debt create a baby. Madhya per unit, the least ever in the including for procurement of only for a Letter of Credit, the infrastructure was kept inex- due, equity investment insur- country. e low tari rate was solar power, contracts are struc- amount, however, is equivalent pensive using MNRE grant ance covers. Such a provision Pradesh Power achieved without using viability tured such that the government to 1.25 times the average two under the solar park scheme, has been made in the case of Management gap funding, a form of capital bears the minimum risk and all month’s billing. and a World Bank loan, 25% of Rewa project for the rst time KAVITA KRISHNAN subsidy bridging between proj- uncertainties are le to the sup- which is a super-concessional in Indian renewable energy @kavita_krishnan Corporation Ltd ect costs as per the market and plier/developer, who loads the Deemed generation loan from Clean Technology sector. (MPPMCL) the developer’s quotation. same on to the cost. For Rewa, e erratic unavailability Fund, available at an inter- e Rewa solar park’s e project—developed by the project structuring was of evacuation infrastructure, est rate of 0.25%. 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It their losses, RUMSL compen- Change in law the government now wants to lence against women, is the rst project in the coun- Payment security mechanism sates for grid unavailability Developers x tari con- follow the RSP model for solar try to have electricity procur- e distribution companies beyond 50 hours (during gen- sidering the prevailing tax sce- as well as wind tenders across intimidation and attack ers from dierent categories, or discoms have suered mas- eration hours between 6 AM to nario, but any change in tax the country. DOWN TO EARTH on free speech namely Delhi Metro Rail Cor- sive losses in the past and do 6 PM) which can also be due rates or laws is dicult to fore- ( e views expressed are poration (DMRC) and Madhya not have enough cash to make to instructions from Regional see. e “change in law” clause strictly personal.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 UK’s Labour vows to Russia assures SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK no more US take on ‘cosy cartel’ strikes on that protects wealthy Syrian army Assad regime behind attack, DAMASCUS: Syria’s presi- dential advisor Buthaina Shaba’an said on Wednesday France to produce proof that her government’s main ally, Russia, assured the Syrian government that there will be PARIS: France says it will pro- no more US strikes on Syrian vide proof within days that Syr- Israel: Assad’s forces still have military positions. ian President Bashar Assad’s Her remarks came a couple regime carried out the April several tonnes of chemical weapons of weeks aer the US launched 4 chemical attack in Syria that 59 Tomahawk missiles on killed at least 90 people. JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said that it be- the Shayrat Air Base in cen- Speaking on French TV, lieves Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces tral Syria, in retaliation for an Foreign Minister Jean-Marc still possess several tonnes of chemical weap- alleged toxic gas attack by the Ayrault said: “We will pro- Syrian army on a rebel-held vide proof that the regime did ons, issuing the assessment two weeks after a LONDON: Opposition leader corporations… But things can, town in Idlib province, Xinhua indeed organise these strikes chemical attack that killed nearly 90 people in Jeremy Corbyn vowed on and they will, change.” news agency reported. with chemical weapons.” Syria. Israel, along with many countries, blames ursday to defeat what he Last year’s vote to leave the e Russians “stressed to us He said he couldn’t provide the strike on Assad’s military. A senior Israeli calls a “cosy cartel” at the heart European Union split Labour’s that they are standing by Syria, evidence now because analysis of British politics that protects traditional supporter base, and we understood from them is still underway but added: “In military officer, in a briefing to Israeli reporters, the interests of the wealthy. e which is divided between typ- that the American aggression a few days I’ll be able to provide said “a few tonnes of chemical weapons” (upto 3 pledge will come in a speech ically pro-EU inner city vot- will not be repeated,” Shaba’an proof.” Assad has denied that tonnes) remained in the hands of Assad’s forces, to launch his Labour Party’s ers, and working-class voters in told pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV he was behind the attack. Syria a military official said. A global watchdog said national election campaign. less auent areas who voted in in an interview. agreed to give up its chemical sarin or a similar banned toxin was used. AGENCIES Opinion polls show Corbyn’s favour of Brexit. Further slamming the weapons arsenal in 2013. Labour facing a heavy defeat Analysis of polling data strike, Shaba’an said the US Speaking on ursday, at the June 8 election, which conducted by the Times news- missile strike was a “reckless French presidential candidate to probe a suspected chemi- dent” — even though an o- ing with Russia’s deputy foreign should ask them, frankly.” was called by Conservative paper showed May could win a aggression that took place Jean-Luc Melenchon called on cal attack in Syria, sources told cial probe is already underway. minister Gennady Gatilov is Syrian regime supporter Prime Minister eresa May landslide majority of 114 seats, without investigation,” adding the United Nations to punish AFP. e dra decision, seen e UN’s Syria envoy said set for Monday in Geneva. Moscow and opposition- earlier this week to capitalise up from the Conservatives’ that what the United States is those behind the attack and by AFP, calls for an investiga- on ursday that he will hold “ e trilateral meeting is backer Washington had been on Labour’s poor ratings and 12-seat victory in 2015. at doing today reects “confu- said “whoever uses chemi- tion by the Organization for talks with Russian ocials not o the table, it is simply the key foreign powers shaping to strengthen support for her would limit the scope for par- sion.” e ocial said that the cal weapons should be con- the Prohibition of Chemical next week but without the US being postponed”, de Mistura the UN’s Syria peace process. strategy for leaving the Euro- liament to block or water down alleged chemical attack was a demned.” e governing body Weapons (OPCW) “to estab- present aer previous plans told reporters. De Mistura has pre- pean Union. her plan for Britain to quit the setup, citing what she described of the global chemical arms lish whether chemical weapons for a trilateral meeting were Asked why US President viously asked for more Corbyn, battling to con- EU single market and to priori- as western specialists as saying watchdog voted on ursday were used in Khan Sheikhoun “postponed”. Donald Trump’s representa- clarity from Trump’s admin- trol a party divided by his le tise immigration control. that there was no aerial bom- on a controversial Russian-Ira- and how they were delivered UN peace mediator Staf- tives decided to skip the meet- istration on its vision for the wing agenda and win support But, while May is trying bardment on the targeted area nian move to set up a new team to the site of the reported inci- fan de Mistura said his meet- ing, de Mistura said: “you Syria talks. AGENCIES from a public which is unsure to focus the election debate in the Khan Sheikhoun town. of his political views and lead- on Brexit, Corbyn is looking Shaba’an said the US strike ership ability, will seek to tap to harness the powerful anti- wasn’t a military, but a politi- Watchdog: Sarin or similar voters’ frustration at the politi- establishment mood revealed cal message, adding that the Aus unveils tougher citizenship laws cal establishment. by the EU referendum, which alliance between Russia, Syria toxin used in Syria attack “ ey say I don’t play by the has roots stretching back to the and Iran is “stronger than ever.” MELBOURNE: Announc- dren, with possible questions lian citizenship was a “privi- rules — their rules. We can’t 2007-9 nancial crisis. Meanwhile, the presiden- ing sweeping changes to Aus- about child marriage, female lege” that should be “cherished”. win, they say, because we don’t “Labour is the party that tial advisor said that the US is DAMASCUS: An international chemical weapons tralia’s citizenship laws, Prime genital mutilation and domes- He said citizenship would play their game. ey’re quite will put the interests of the in a state of declination, while inspector has found “incontrovertible” evidence Minister Malcolm Turnbull tic violence. e test will have only be granted to those who right I don’t,” he said in extracts majority rst…. e Brit- Russia, China and India are ris- that sarin gas or a similar substance was used on ursday unveiled tighter questions assessing an appli- support Australian values, of his speech released before- ish people know that they ing high. She said her country in a chemical attack in Syria. The Organisation requirements for new appli- cant’s understanding of and respect the country’s laws and hand. “ ese rules have created are the true wealth creators, was expecting an investigation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) cants, a move that follows the commitment to shared Aus- “want to work hard by integrat- a cosy cartel which rigs the sys- held back by a system rigged team from the Organization scrapping of the 457 visa pro- tralian values and responsibili- ing and contributing to an even tem in favour of a few power- for the wealth extractors,” for the Prohibition of Chemi- took biomedical samples from 10 victims of the gram for foreign workers. ties, Turnbull said. better Australia”. ful and wealthy individuals and Corbyn said. AGENCIES cal Weapons. AGENCIES April 4 attack on Khan Sheikhoun and found Under the new reforms, the e number of times an “Citizenship is at the heart indications that they were exposed to Sarin or a applicants must be permanent applicant can fail the citizen- of our national identity. It is Sarin-like substance, CNN reported on Thursday. residents for at least four years ship test has been restricted to the foundation of our democ- — three years longer than at three. At present the test has racy. We must ensure that our The findings showed that stockpiles of Sarin still present — and must be com- no such restriction. Apart from citizenship program is con- exist in Syria. OPCW Director General Ahmet mitted to embrace “Australian this, an automatic fail for appli- ducted in our national inter- Uzumcu said the biomedical samples were col- values”. Prospective citizens will cants who cheat during the est,” he added. Turnbull also lected from three deceased victims, as well as have to pass a standalone Eng- citizenship test has been intro- stressed that English language from seven others in a hospital. AGENCIES lish test that will focus heavily duced. Unveiling the changes, prociency was essential for on respect for women and chil- Turnbull stressed that Austra- economic participation. AGENCIES Bangladesh: Canteen leaselder red r sering ee t inds

DHAKA: A canteen lease- holder at Bangladesh’s pres- tigious Dhaka University has been red for serving beef to Hindu students and hurting their religious sentiments, a PRESS NOTICE Public Health Engineering Department, Haryana media report said on urs- (from the authorities),” Act- Public Health Engineering Division No-2, Gohana day. e university has formed ing Proctor Amzad Ali was Notice Inviting Tender a committee to investigate the quoted as saying by bdnews24. No.--- Dated: ------incident. e committee has e students ordered been asked to submit a report Tehari for breakfast aer Online bids are hereby invited on behalf of Governor of Haryana for the works mentioned below:- within a week. Zakir Hossain, working overnight to prepare • Tender No.39795: DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boosting a class-four employee who for the ‘Mangal Shobhaja- Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Jasrana,Rukhi, Madina, Bilbilan, Kat- became the leaseholder of tra’ procession. Zakir admit- wal, Bali, Riwara under Public Health Fngg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. Faculty of Fine Arts canteen, ted to making the Tehari with App, Cost Rs. 5.55 Lacs was expelled on Sunday for beef, but alleged that Bangla- • Tender No. 39791:- DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Mundlana,Chirana, Sarsad, ‘creating disorder’ on ‘Pahela desh Chhatra League leader Mathand under Public Ilealth Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. Baishakh’ when thousands ‘Sohag’ and his associates in App. Cost Rs. 6.00 lac of students gathered on the the Pahela Baishakh Celebra- • Tender No. 39792 DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- campus to celebrate the Ban- tion Committee ‘intentionally’ ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Bhainwal Bawal, Bhainwal Mithan, Anwali, Rabra, Mirzapur Kheri under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of gla New Year. ordered the beef Tehari and commencement of work. e students of the faculty fed it to their Hindu ‘co-stu- App. Cost Rs. 6.36 Lacs said beef was never allowed in dents’, the report said. • Tender No._ 39786: DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- their canteen considering the Zakir said they did so ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Chhapra, Khelpa,Gharwal, Ishapur Kheri, Kohla, Baroda uthan under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of fact that it is ‘forbidden’ for because he did not agree commencement of work. Hindus. “He was running the to their demand to pay App. Cost Rs. 6.49 Lacs. canteen without permission extortion money. AGENCIES • Tender No. 39790 :- DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boosting Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.c Butana Kundu, Dhurana, Shanui under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. App. Cost Rs. 6.60 Lacs • Tender No._ 39788 DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- Trial for 20 in suspected ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Ahulana, Kathura, Bhanderi, Moi Hooda, under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. App. Cost Rs. 6.78 Lacs French terror cell begins • Tender No. 39793 ..:- DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Siwanka, Mehmudpur, Jagsi, Bichpari, Busana under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. PARIS: Twenty members of being tried by a special anti- App. Cost ( Rs. 6.85 Lacs a suspected jihadist network terror tribunal in Paris, 10 • Tender No._ 39784 :- DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Siwanamal,Baroda Mor, Gan- thought to have been behind are in prison and seven are gana, Banwasa under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. a grenade attack on a Jewish on conditional release, while App. Cost Rs. 7.03 Lacs grocery store in 2012 went on three others are being sought • Tender No._ 39794 :- DNIT for the work of “Mtc. of Pumping Machinery of Rural water supply Schemes ( T/wells, Boost- trial in France on ursday on — two of whom are thought to ing Stations & Water works ).” To Annual Mtc. Of various Rural Water Supply Schemes i.e Nuran Khera, Bhawar, Rind- hana & Dhanana under Public Health Engg. Divn. No. 2, Gohana for 24 months from the date of commencement of work. terror charges. e “Cannes- be in Syria. Aged 23 to 33, they App. Cost Rs. 7.20 Lacs Torcy cell”, named for the are accused of plotting to stage towns where its members were several attacks on military and Estimated Earnest Tender During date & time based, is suspected of having civilian targets, and of seeking No. of Cost Money Document Fee Downloading of Tender download Tender Opening Time Limit work Tender End Date Dated planned several other attacks, to join jihadist ranks in Syria. and was considered the most Police arrested two members 1. Rs 5.55 lacs Rs. 11100/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017- 22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months dangerous to threaten the of the network while inves- 2. Rs 6.00 lacs Rs.12000/- Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months country when it was disman- tigating a grenade attack on 3. Rs 6.36 lacs Rs. 12720/- Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months tled in 2012. a Jewish grocery in the Paris 4. Rs 6.49 lacs Rs, 12980/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months e trial opens as France suburb of Sarcelles in Septem- 5. Rs 6.60 lacs Rs. 13200/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months is grappling with fresh fears ber 2012. Two masked men 6. Rs 6.78 lacs Rs. 13560/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017 -17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months of jihadist terror attacks, with threw a grenade into the shop, the police arresting two men injuring one person, but the 7. Rs 6.85 lacs Rs.13700/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017 -17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months Tuesday suspected of plotting fact that it rolled under a trol- 8. Rs 7.03 lacs Rs.14060/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017 -17.00 25.04.2017 -22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months an assault just days before the ley prevented more casualties. 9. Rs 7.20 lacs Rs. 14400/ Rs.2000/- 14.04.2017- 17.00 25.04.2017-22.00 26.04.2017-13.00 24 Months presidential election — the Police also found bomb-mak- 9. Possession of Digital Signature Certicate (DSC) and registration of the contractors on the portal i.e. http://haryanaphed. rst to be held in France under ing equipment in a storage unit etenders.in is a prerequisite for e tendering. Kindly contact o/o Nextenders (India) Pvt. Ltd., at 13asement, HSRDCBuild- a state of emergency. rented by Jeremie Bailly, 28, ing, Bay No.13 14, Sec 2, Panchkula. Contact persons : 09815034028 / 09592259876 Analysts say the Cannes- the alleged leader of the group. 10. For any other queries, please contact Executive Engineer, PHE Div. No. 1, Tel.(0) 01263-258117 Tel (M) Address Execu- tive Engineer Public Health Engineering Division No 2, Gohana. Torcy network signalled a his- Another suspected member, For further details and e-tendering schedule, visit website http://haryanaphed.etenders.in toric shi in France’s struggle Jeremie Louis-Sydney, a petty For & on behalf of Governor of Haryana against terrorism, to battling criminal, was killed in Octo- PRDH-Advt. No:-1082/11/1971/1718/48987 Executive Engineer mass attacks by Islamic radi- ber 2012 when police came to Dated: 20/04/2017 PHE Division No 2, Gohana cals inspired, or even guided, arrest him at his apartment in by foreigners. Of the 20 men Strasbourg. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp Russians will CIA AND FBI LAUNCH LOOKOUT FOR WIKILEAKS MOLE Japan mugging: Thieves grab $3.5 choose successor million in cash via ballot box: Putin Manhunt launched for leaker who gave top-secret from businessman Wikileaks exposed how these agencies spy on smartphones, smart televisions and computers

WASHINGTON: e CIA agency’s hacking abilities, turn- and the FBI are currently in ing everyday items like phones the midst of an intense man- and smart TVs into devices hunt for a mole inside the spy that can snoop on targeted agency who is believed to have individuals. leaked sensitive documents During his remarks, Pom- TOKYO: ree masked robbers MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin a veteran of the Soviet Union’s to WikiLeaks, according to a peo noted how Wikileaks was snatched a suitcase stued with said on ursday that only the campaign in Afghanistan who report on Wednesday. encouraging its ‘followers’ to millions of dollars in cash from a Russian people will choose complained that a well known e joint investigation work for the CIA, in order to businessman who had just with- who succeeds him as presi- Russian senator was telling is focusing on either a CIA steal secrets. He also pointed drawn the money from a bank dent, through the electoral everyone that Vyacheslav employee or contractor who out the link between the GRU, in western Japan on ursday, process. Volodin, the speaker of the had access to thousands of Russian military intelligence, police said. Russia will hold a presi- State Duma, the lower house top-secret documents about and Wikileaks, explaining how In the audacious daylight dential election in March of parliament, would soon its methods of hacking into the latter published informa- mugging, assailants set upon the next year. Putin has not said be president. Volodin, 53, is smartphones, smart televi- tion given from the former, 29-year-old victim as he dragged whether he will run or not, a former head of the presi- sions, and computers, accord- stolen from ‘US victims’ at the case containing USD 380 but is widely expected to go dential administration and ing to CBS News. the Democratic National million yen (USD 3.5 million) for what would be his fourth enjoys a high public prole e investigation is cur- the documents. Pompeo pointed a nger the lives that they put at risk Committee. across a parking lot in down- term. in his current job as speaker. rently focusing on the names ‘It’s time to call out at Wikileaks’ founder Julian or the damage they cause to e remarks were ironic town Fukuoka, a police spokes- “ e president’s succes- Most Russian analysts of hundreds of individuals Wikileaks for what it really Assange and NSA whistle- national security,’ Pompeo said given that Pompeo’s boss, Pres- man and local media said. sor will be decided by the believe Putin, who has dom- who may have had access to is, a non-state hostile intelli- blower Edward Snowden and of the duo. ident Donald Trump, said dur- He was sprayed in the face Russian people only during inated the Russian political the materials. Last week, CIA gence service oen abetted by said they leaked American e CIA was targeted ing the campaign that he ‘loved’ with what is thought to have a democratic election and landscape for the last 17 years, Director Mike Pompeo made state actors like Russia,’ Pom- government documents for by Wikileaks last month, as WikiLeaks when it was hacking been tear gas by the attackers, by nobody else,” Putin told will serve one last term before his rst public remarks about peo charged as he spoke at the selsh reasons. Assange and company pub- into the emails of top associates who made o in a car with the a Kremlin meeting. He was handing over to a successor WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy Center for Strategic and Inter- As long as they make a lished thousands of docu- of his opponent in the election, suitcase. Few other details were responding to a question from in 2024. AGENCIES organization that published national Studies on ursday. splash they care nothing about ments, which detailed the Hillary Clinton. AGENCIES initially available. While Japan is still a cash- RUSSIA METRO BOMBING based society, it is unusual for US approves $295.6 million someone to carry such a large ‘Unchecked’ Iran could sum, which would have weighed Metro bombing mastermind military equipment sale to Iraq at least 38 kilogrammes (84 pounds). become another N Korea: US e country has an envi- nearl ientie, sas S WASHINGTON: US secre- he said at a hurriedly-convened retaliate if the US breached the WASHINGTON: The US State Department has ap- able safety record and mug- tary of state Rex Tillerson has press brieng. nuclear agreement. proved the sale of $295.6 million worth of military gings and other forms of street MOSCOW: Russian ocials have announced that they are termed the Iran nuclear deala “Iran’s nuclear ambitions Tillerson, seeking to rein- equipment to Iraq for artillery and infantry Kurd- crime, such as pickpocket- close to having identied the mastermind behind a bomb attack failure and said an “unchecked” are a grave risk to international force the idea that the US is ish peshmerga units, a Pentagon agency said on ing, are rare. But Japan does this month on a metro station in Saint Petersburg. Tehran could become another peace and security,” Tillerson forcefully countering Iran’s Wednesday. The equipment requested by the Iraqi have a shadowy underworld Ocials in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said North Korea, but stopped short said. His toughen stand on destabilising behaviour in the run by ‘yakuza’ organised ursday that they had “practically established” the identity of threatening to derail the Iran on Wednesday, came a day Middle East, also described goernment wold otfit two peshmerga infantry crime syndicates. AGENCIES of the attack organizer. landmark agreement. aer the Trump administration Tehran as a “leading state spon- brigades and two support artillery battalions, the Russian news agencies said FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, Tillerson said the US is notied the Congress that Teh- sor of terror”. “ e evidence is Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in who announced the development, did not elaborate on more conducting a comprehen- ran is complying with the 2015 clear: Iran’s provocative actions a statement. AGENCIES details and did not say whether he was referring to a group or sive review of its Iran policy nuclear deal negotiated by for- threaten the United States, the an individual. Akbarjon Djalilov, a 22-year-old Kyrgyz-born and added that the Obama- mer president Barack Obama region and the world,” he said. Russian citizen, carried out the April 3 attack, which killed era nuclear deal only “delays” to limit the Islamic Republic’s “An unchecked Iran has 14 people, mostly students, and injured some 50 others. e Tehran’s goal of becoming a nuclear ability. e adminis- the potential to travel the bomber was among those killed in the blast. nuclear state. tration said it has extended same path as North Korea and ere has been no claim of responsibility for the act of ter- “ is deal represents the the sanctions relief to Iran take the world along with it. ror, but ocials in Moscow have indicated that the attack could same failed approach of the in exchange for curbs on its e United States is keen to have been orchestrated by Daesh, a Takri group based in Iraq past that brought us to the cur- nuclear programme. avoid a second piece of evi- and Syria, which has been behind several assaults in Russia rent imminent threat we face Iran has defended its dence that strategic patience over the past years. from North Korea. e Trump nuclear programme as purely is a failed approach.” Tillerson Meanwhile, another man of Kyrgyz origin has been detained administration has no inten- civilian and its supreme leader accused Iran of intensifying by the FSB on suspicion of helping the attack. He appeared in tion of passing the buck to a Ayatollah Khamenei warned in multiple conicts including the court on Tuesday and admitted to “some involvement” in the future administration on Iran,” November that Tehran would one in Syria. AGENCIES crime. Ocials have also detained eight others, all from Cen- tral Asian countries, but the suspects have yet to confess to any role in the metro attack. DAKSHIN HARYANA BIJLI VITRAN NIGAM Russia has been a target of attacks by Daesh since it started a military campaign in September 2015 to help the Syrian gov- Corrigendum no 1 dated 18.04.2017 to NIT No. 567/DH/MM/XEN/ MM-I dated 29.03.2017 for procurement of DLMS compliant single ernment in its ght against terror groups. e campaign, which phase energy meters (10-60A) with self locking type polycarbonate came at the request of Damascus, has inicted huge losses meter box alongwith latest amendments against TE No QD-747. on the Daesh positions east of the Arab country. Russia has It is notied for information of all concerned that closing date defended the campaign as a bid to block the return of Russian of tender enquiry no. QD-747 been extended from 21.04.2017 to nationals, who have joined the ranks of Daesh and other ter- 08.05.2017. Detailed information can be obtained from websites i.e ror groups in Syria over the past six years. AGENCIES https://haryanaprocurement.gov.in and www.dhbvn.com PRDH-Advt. No:-1136/11/1482/1718/48989 Superintending Engineer/MM, 913 gold coins found Dated: 20/04/2017 For CE/MM, DHBVN, Hisar Haryana Urban Development Authority in a piano in UK, Haryana Urban HUDA Oce Complex, Sec- E-AUCTION Development tor-12, Faridabad NOTICE Authority Ph, 0129-2220691 declared a treasure Eo[email protected] www.huda.org.in

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Sr. No. Description of Sites/building Sector No. Plot No. 1 Booth Site without basement with/ 03 25, 26, 27, 28 & 38 LONDON: A total of 913 gold string purse, and amount to single story coins dating back to the 18th more than 6kg of gold bul- 2 SCO Sites ve story with basement 12 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 century, the largest hoard of lion. e inquest revealed the gold sovereigns in Britain, original owner and their heirs 3 SCO Sites ve story with basement 12 66, 72 (Corner) found hidden in an old piano, remain unknown. 4 Shop Site two story 12 S-64, S-72 (Corner) has been declared treasure by e hoard’s market value a court. will be decided by an indepen- 5 Shop Site three story 12 S-65, S-66, S-71, S-70 e discovery was made dent Treasure Valuation Com- in Shropshire in December mittee at the British Museum. 6 Shop Site ve story 12 S- 67, S-68, S-69 last year when the piano’s new e upright piano was made 7 SCF Site with basement three story 14 8, 16, & 17 owners had it re-tuned and by Broadwood and Sons of repaired. Shrewsbury Coro- London and sold to two music 8 Clinic Site 17 7, & 8 ner’s Court decided the nd teachers in Saron Waldon, 9 Nursing Home Site 21D 4, & 5 qualied as treasure, which Essex in 1906. means ownership now lies Aer that, the piano’s his- 10 Primary School Site 28 7500 Sq. Mtr. with the Crown. It will be tory is unknown, until 1983 11 High School 45 05 Acre (near GH-3) oered for sale to museums, when it was purchased by the the BBC reported. Hemming family in the Saf- 12 Dhaba Site 58 Transport Nagar 83, &84 e tuner who found the fron Walden area. AGENCIES hoard and Bishops Castle millenniumpost.in Community College, which e brochure containing detailed terms and conditions of e-auction including eli- millenniumpost NO H ALF TR U THS owns the piano, will share a gibility conditions and Earnest money deposit (EMD) of these sites are also available reward. on the portal www.huda.org.in and https://haryanaeprocurement.gov.in. 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No:-1083/11/3318/1718/48960 Dated: 20/04/2017 ets and a single leather draw- 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 Developed nations raising FinMin has okayed 8.65% protectionist walls: Nirmala interest on EPF: Bandaru NEW DELHI: Labour Minister Bandaru Dat- tatreya on ursday said that the Finance Min- NEW DELHI: India on urs- istry has approved 8.65 per cent interest rate on day expressed concern over ‘Currenc fluctuation has EPF deposits for 2016 -17. moves of certain countries like e minister’s statement has laid to rest the US and Australia to tighten ecome the new normal’ apprehensions among formal sector workers their visa regime and pressed that they would get lower rate of interest than for a WTO-backed global the 8.65 per cent approved by the Employees’ framework to facilitate services NEW DELHI: rrency ctation has become Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) trustees trade. Commerce and Indus- the new normal and there is a need to focs in December last year. try Minister Nirmala Sithara- on other factors like infrastrctre and raw e ratication of the 8.65 per cent inter- man said India has submitted material cost to enhance eport competitie- est on EPF will enable the retirement fund a proposal to the World Trade ness, ommerce and Indstry inister irmala body EPFO to credit this rate of return into the Organisation (WTO) seeking accounts of four crore subscribers. an agreement on trade facilita- Sitharaman said today. The minister said the “Finance Ministry has agreed to 8.65 per The Finance Ministry has tion in services. ale of the crrency is only one factor and cent rate of interest. Now, the communication been asking the Labour Citing the examples of the Indian eporters hae learnt to take into ac- will come. e formal discussions are over,” the Ministry to ‘rationalise’ US, the UK, Australia and New cont crrency ctation while planning their minister said on the sidelines of National Safety Zealand, which are tightening Awards function. the EPF interest rate in shipments. It is st not the crrency which their visa regime for movement “We will immediately issue the notication view of lowering of returns of skilled professionals, she gies yo the competitieness ... bt there are and credit the rate of interest to over four crore said: “Countries are now very other factors which are eally critical for or subscribers,” he added. on various administered clearly raising protectionist eporters like infrastrctre, raw material cost, e minister also said that the bill to amend savings schemes like PPF walls as regards service trade”. energy spplies, state restrictions, she told payment of gratuity Act in order to double the “And it is time that we have ceiling of tax-free gratuity to Rs 20 lakh, would a global framework within reporters here. I wold not want to place too soon be placed before the Union Cabinet for earlier this month. which trade in services can mch emphasis only on crrency ctation approval. As per the practice, the board’s decision is happen. We will be actively or only the rpee strengthening, she added. e Employees’ Provident Fund Organisa- concurred by the Finance Ministry aer evalu- pursuing our proposal in the Strengthening of the domestic crrency against tion trustees had approved 8.65 per cent rate on ating whether the EPFO would be able to pro- WTO,” she told reporters here. the S dollar makes eport ncompetitie as EPF in December last year. vide the rate approved by trustees through its e trade facilitation agree- wants all the member countries more expensive and restrictive. e Finance Ministry has been nudging the own income or not. ment in services proposal is to study the proposal before the She further said that per nit realisation comes down. PTI Labour Ministry to lower the EPF rate for align- Once the Finance Ministry raties the rate of aimed at liberalising rules for forthcoming ministerial meet- Finance Minister Arun Jait- ing it with the rates of small savings schemes interest approved by the CBT, it is credited into movement of professionals and ing of WTO in December at ley, who is in the US, would “So it is not an unilateral temporary work visas to send like PPF. the account of EPFO members for that particu- other steps to reduce transac- Argentina. take up the matter with the US (issue) where Indian compa- employees to work on client Earlier, a source had said that in a communi- lar nancial year. tion costs to boost growth of Talking about the execu- administration. “It is not just nies would have to face this, sites. With visa programmes cation to the Labour Ministry, the Finance Min- e Finance Ministry had last year decided the services sector. tive order signed by the US the US, but several countries there are several US companies in these countries becoming istry has asked the former to provide the rate of to lower the EPF interest rate of 8.8 per cent for India is pitching for this President Donald Trump on now adopting such measures,” in India which are doing busi- more rigorous, domestic tech- interest approved by the EPFO trustees, provided 2015-16 as approved by the CBT, to 8.7 per cent. pact in the WTO as the ser- H1B visas, she said America she said adding the govern- ness for years here,” she said. nology rms will face chal- there must not be any decit to the fund. e decision drew ak from all quarters forcing vices sector contributes over 60 has committed certain number ment and the industry need When asked whether India lenges in movement of skilled Dattatreya has been maintaining that EPFO the government to uphold 8.8 per cent. per cent to the GDP and 28 per of these visas to India and “we to work together on the issue. would drag the US and Austra- professionals and spike in their subscribers be provided 8.65 per cent rate of e Finance Ministry has been asking the cent to total employment. e would denitely want” America Sitharaman said India lia to the WTO’s dispute reso- operational costs. ese com- interest for 2016-17. Labour Ministry to rationalise the EPF interest move is aimed at developing a to honour that commitment. would engage with these coun- lution mechanism, she said: “At panies get over 60 per cent of “ e Central Board of Trustees (CBT) had rate in view of lowering of returns on various broader framework governing However, the minister said, tries to sort out the visa related this stage, we will engage con- their revenues from the North decided to give 8.65 per cent. We would have administered savings schemes like PPF. global services trade, just like she is in touch with the Indian matters. e restrictive visa structively. At the same time, American market, about 20 surplus of Rs 158 crore on providing 8.65 per e government generally raties the rate of a similar pact implemented by industry on these issues amid regime would also impact the India will ensure that it will not per cent from Europe and cent. I have requested them to approve 8.65 per return approved by the CBT because the EPFO the WTO on goods trade. fears that the new American US companies that are operat- accept unfair treatment”. the remaining from the other cent. In any case, this amount (interest income) is an autonomous body and provides interest on Sitharaman said, India visa regime would make visas ing in India, she added. Indian IT companies use economies. PTI will be given to workers,” Dattatreya had said EPF deposits from its own income. PTI yndai lines `5,000 cr ‘ engineers in ndia nt or India’s FY18 mango on new cars for India, eyes erts may t 1 million sales by 2021 sotware deeloent os’ NEW DELHI: Talent shortage Over 36,000 engineer- skills is adversely impacting the for programming, since most is acute in the IT and data sci- ing students form IT related IT and data science ecosystem good programmers get jobs in tnnes eda ence ecosystem in India with branches of over 500 colleges in India. e world is moving industry at good salaries, the a survey claiming that 95 per took Automata -- a Machine towards introducing program- study said. NEW DELHI: India’s mango and ‘Kesar’ are being exported cent of engineers in the country Learning based assessment of ming to three-year-old! India Moreover, programming exports are likely to surpass currently from southern and are not t to take up soware soware development skills - needs to catch up,” Aspiring skills are ve times poorer for last year’s level and touch western parts of the country. development jobs. and over 2/3 could not even Minds CTO and Co-Founder tier III colleges as compared to 50,000 tonne mark in the “Right now, there is good According to a study by write code that compiles. Varun Aggarwal said. tier 1 colleges. ongoing scal, buoyed by harvest of mango. Quality employability assessment e study further noted e employability gap can “Sixty nine per cent of can- strong demand and supply is also good. ere are no company Aspiring Minds, that while more than 60 per be attributed to rote learn- didates from top 100 colleges of export quality fruit, gov- reports of unseasonal rains or only 4.77 per cent candidates cent candidates cannot even ing based approaches rather are able to write a compilable ernment body APEDA said hailstorm. If the current situ- can write the correct logic for write code that compiles, only than actually writing pro- code versus rest of the colleges on Tuesday. ation prevails, total exports Hyundai Motor India Ltd MD & CEO Y K Koo at the launch of the all-new a programme -- a minimum 1.4 per cent can write function- grammes on a computer for where only 31 per cent are able e country had shipped will denitely surpass last Xcent in New Delhi on Thursday PTI requirement for any program- ally correct and ecient code. dierent problems. Also, there to write a compilable code,” the 45,730 tonnes of mangoes. year’s level and may touch ming job. “Lack of programming is a dearth of good teachers report said. PTI e export gures per- 50,000 tonnes mark,” the o- NEW DELHI: South Korean Motor India Ltd MD & CEO tain to shipments under- cial said. auto major Hyundai Motor Co Y K Koo told reporters here. taken by exporters registered e volumes are expected is looking to almost double its e company plans to with APEDA. “Around 200 to rise as new export destina- sales from Indian operations introduce two new models eline in railay earnings rm sra e-atin tonnes of mangoes have been tions like Korea have opened to one million units by 2021 each year till 2020, including exported so far this month. up for Indian mangoes. for which it will invest Rs 5,000 hybrid products, as part of the NEW DELHI: e earnings pletion of gauge conversion All 17 zonal railways as completely switched over to e exports will pick up pace ere will be more ship- crore to bring in new models. planned launches, he added. from the sale of railway scrap process and the gures have well as all production units of e- auction from June 1, 2013 in the coming weeks,” a senior ments to New Zealand, Aus- e company, which oper- When asked about the com- on the e-platform have come come down accordingly. railways use this single plat- and so far, nearly 8000 e-auc- ocial of the Agricultural tralia and Korea, he added. ates in India through a wholly- pany’s sales expectations from down subsequently in the last In order to bring trans- form for disposal of scrap. tions have been conducted and Processed Food Products e arrival of mangoes owned subsidiary, plans to its enhanced product portfolio three years. parency and eciency, rail- Railway scrap is generated successfully. Export Development Author- from the south and west introduce eight models by by 2020, HMIL Director, Sales Railways disposed o Rs ways had made it mandatory mainly from condemned wag- e ocial said prompt ity ( APEDA) said. India has started, while the 2020, including three models & Marketing, Rakesh Srivas- 2,719 crore of scrap during for scrap to be sold through ons, coaches, locos, wheels, disposal of scrap not only Of the total shipments season in the northern states catering to new segments, and tava said: “We expect to sell one 2016-17 as against Rs 2,801 e-auction only. E-auction axles and discarded rails. helps in decongesting the undertaken so far, about like Uttar Pradesh will begin hybrids. million units by 2021.” crore in 2015-16 and Rs 3,247 module is part of IREPS e e-auction of scrap was work place but also contrib- 131 tonne has been shipped from mid-June onwards. “In the next four years till e company last year sold crore in 2014-15. (Indian Railways e- procure- introduced on a pilot basis on utes to the Swachh Bharat to the US, 42 tonnes to the Mango production this 2020, we plan to invest Rs 5 lakh units in the domes- A senior Railway Minis- ment system) which is the sin- March 6, 2012 and since then, mission besides making a Middle-East and 18 tonnes to year is estimated to be 19.21 5,000 crore to develop eight tic market, thereby register- try ocial said scrap genera- gle portal of Indian Railways it has been introduced on the signicant contribution in the European Union (EU), he million tonnes, higher than new products and out of them ing a market share of 17 per tion has declined due to better handling all purchase tenders entire rail network. generating revenue for the said. Mango varieties, espe- 18.6 million tonnes in the three models will be new seg- cent in the passenger vehicle utilisation of assets and com- and e-auctions. e Indian Railways had railways. PTI cially ‘Baiganpally’, ‘Alfonso’ year-ago period. PTI ment products,” Hyundai segment. PTI PM Modi, Paytm founder only Indians to make nian usiness conence it to ime st nflential ele list slis marginall in rilune NEW DELHI: Business con- NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra dence for the April-June The Dun & Bradstreet Composite Modi and Paytm founder Vijay Shek- The list features quarter of this year declined har Sharma were the only two Indi- marginally as weak consump- Business Optimism Index stood at ans to make it to an annual list of ‘100 pioneers, artists, titans, tion and investment demand 78.9 during April-June 2017, down most inuential people in the world’ leaders and icons kept mood subdued, says a 2.6% from a year ago. The index this year released by the Time magazine survey. on ursday. from around the world e metric saw a pick- for January-March of 2017 had e list features pioneers, artists, honoured for ‘the power up compared to the previous plunged to a 31-quarter low owing titans, leaders and icons from around quarter, but fell 2.6 per cent as to a severe cash crunch. The outcome the world honoured for “the power of of their inventions, the against the same period of the their inventions, the scale of their ambi- scale of their ambitions, previous year. of the recent state elections and the tions, the genius of their solutions to the genius of their e Dun & Bradstreet imminent materialisation of problems that no one before them could Composite Business Opti- structural reforms in the form of solve.” e magazine has also included solutions to problems mism Index stood at 78.9 dur- US President Donald Trump, Russian ing April-June of 2017, down a planned rollout of the GST President Vladimir Putin and British that no one before them 2.6 per cent from a year ago. have boosted investor confidence Prime Minister eresa May in the new could solve e index for January-March of list of 100 most inuential people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma 2017 had plunged to a 31-quar- e prole of Modi, 66, written by ter low owing to severe cash have boosted investor con- ately ready for technological author Pankaj Mishra, said that in May economic, geopolitical and cultural For 43-year-old Sharma, Infosys co- year,” Nilekani wrote. crunch. “With remonetisation dence. About the year-on-year and other changes that the GST 2014 — long before Trump seemed supremacy is far from being realised, founder Nandan Nilekani wrote that Sharma had “catapulted himself into causing currency in circulation decline in business condence, would necessitate. conceivable as a US president — Modi the prole read, but his “extended fam- when India’s government unexpectedly a nation’s consciousness. It was a mas- to rise, the concerns of demon- Singh said “yet, the underlying “Going forward, develop- became the prime minister of the ily of Hindu nationalists have taken to scrapped 86 per cent of the country’s terstroke by a small-town boy who stud- etisation are gradually dissi- weak consumption and invest- ment on the implementation world’s largest democracy. scapegoating secular and liberal intel- currency notes in November, Sharma ied in a Hindi medium school before pating and this is reected in ment demand continue to keep of the GST, along with the ris- “Once barred from the US for his lectuals as well as poor Muslims.” “seized the moment”. conquering the country’s Anglophone the moderate pick-up in busi- business sentiment subdued ing probability of El Nino and suspected complicity in anti-Muslim “Yet Modi’s aura remains undimmed. As Indians scrambled to exchange startup world,” he wrote. ness condence for the second as compared to the previous its implications for food ina- violence, and politically ostracised at He is a maestro of the art of political the banned notes for new currency, Paytm is now backed by the chief of quarter of 2017 as compared to year’s level”. tion, and supply management home as well, this Hindu nationalist seduction, playing on the existential Paytm, Sharma’s digital payments China’s Alibaba, Jack Ma, and Sharma the previous quarter,” Dun & He further said that while measures will play a key role used Twitter to bypass traditional media fears and cultural insecurities of people startup, went on a promotional spree, is branching out into the more heavily Bradstreet India Lead Econo- the imminent implementa- in shaping business sentiment,” and speak directly to masses feeling le facing downward or blocked mobility,” inviting Indians to start using Paytm’s regulated world of banking, with plans mist Arun Singh said. tion of the GST will bring ease he added. or pushed behind by globalisation, and it said. Modi’s elections victory in Uttar digital wallet to pay for everyday goods to oer digital accounts. “He will face Moreover, the outcome of to an otherwise complicated e index, measures the he promised to make India great again Pradesh, India’s most politically signi- and services. new challenges from deep-pocketed recent state elections and the tax structure, it has triggered pulse of the business commu- by rooting out self-serving elites,” it said. cant state, by a landslide conrmed that “It worked. By the end of 2016, and more-experienced competitors. But imminent materialisation of uncertainty in India Inc, partic- nity and is arrived at on the Nearly three years aer he came “elected strongmen are the chief bene- Paytm had 177 million users, compared knowing Vijay, he will win the next time structural reforms in the form ularly in the MSME segment, basis of a quarterly survey of to power, Modi’s vision of India’s ciaries of a global revolt against elites.” with 122 million at the beginning of the around too,” his prole read. PTI of a planned rollout of the GST which may not be immedi- business expectations. PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp I-T Dept seeks ` cr ne Wipro dismisses hundreds after annual appraisal NEW DELHI: e country’s from ritish airn ner third largest soware services rm Wipro has sacked hun- NEW DELHI: e Income Tax Depart- dreds of employees follow- ment has slapped a fresh notice on Brit- ing its annual “performance ish rm Cairn Energy, seeking up to Rs Oil producers a p p r a i s a l ”. 30,700 crore in penalties for its alleged According to sources, failure to pay Rs 10,247 crore capital ‘might have to’ Wipro has shown the door to gains tax on time. about 600 employees, while Within weeks of tax tribunal ITAT extend output speculation was rife that the upholding levy of retrospective tax, the number could go as high as Income Tax Department rst sent a cuts: Saudi 2,000. fresh demand note of Rs 10,247 crore At the end of December and another show cause notice asking 2016, the Bengaluru-based as to why penalty should not be levied ABU DHABI: Saudi Ara- company had over 1.79 lakh for its failure in paying tax on time and bia’s energy minister said employees. ling of returns. today that oil-producing When contacted, Wipro Swiss US oens ,seater Senior tax department ocials said countries might have to said it undertakes a “rigor- Cairn Energy has sought 10 more days extend output cuts agreed ous performance appraisal tech ack oce near Mumai to reply to the show cause seeking levy process” on a regular basis to for the first si months of penalty. align its workforce with busi- MUMBAI: Swiss bank UBS on Thursday opened of the year in order to “Capital gains was due on Cairn ness objectives, strategic priori- a 1,200-seat support centre on the outskirts Energy on March 31, 2007, and due achieve the desired rebal- ties of the company, and client of the financial capital to help its global bsi- date for ling return was December ancing of the market. “We requirements. nesses. It has hired 300 employees to help the 2007. But the company led return by might have to extend in “ e performance appraisal March 31, 2014” aer the tax depart- may also lead to the separa- group’s technology function primarily and will order to reach the target... ment on January 24, 2014 sent a dra tion of some employees from gradually ramp up the number, the bank said in of stock levels,” Khalid al- assessment order, an ocial said. “It is a show cause kind of a notice include any penalties which may also be the company and these num- a statement, without disclosing the investment e assessment, the ocial said, got and further action will follow based on applied to the nal assessment (poten- Falih told an energy forum bers vary from year to year,” in the facility. The facility will provide knowl- completed in January 2016 and a nal the response the company les,” the tially up to 300 per cent of any tax nally in Abu Dhabi, referring to it added. edge process services, including research and order was issued raising a tax demand of ocial said, adding that the tax depart- agreed), it had said. a deal between OPEC and e company, however, did Rs 10,247 crore and another Rs 18,800 ment has six months from the passage of Following the January 2014 dra not comment on the number analytics, business process services, including non-OPEC producers to crore in interest for 10 years. ITAT order to impose penalty. assessment order, the tax department of employees who have been transaction and data processing, and IT infra e ITAT, however, in its March 9 e penalties are being sought under had restrained the company from sell- cut production by around asked to leave. support to businesses all over the world. order held that while Cairn Energy was Section 271 (1)(c) of the Income Tax Act ing the residual 9.8 per cent stake it 1.8 million barrels per day. Wipro said its comprehen- This is the second such centre for UBS in the liable to pay tax on the 2006 transfer for failing to pay tax on capital gains holds in Cairn India. Falih, whose country is the sive performance evaluation of India assets to newly created Cairn made. Cairn Energy had in 2011 sold Cairn process includes mentoring, country, after a similar one in Pune, the state- world’s top exporter, said India, prior to its listing, interest cannot A Cairn Energy spokesperson India to Vedanta. re-training and upskilling of ment added. “Business solutions centers are there was a sort of “initial be charged as the demand was raised could not be immediately reached for e company had in the shareholder employees. e company is central to our ambition to offer competitive so- using retrospective tax legislation. comments. notice stated that it strongly contests agreement “ on the need scheduled to report its fourth lutions to our clients while focusing on opera- e ocial said the ITAT had not e company had earlier this month the nal assessment order and that the to extend the deal after quarter and full-year numbers tional excellence,” Axel P Lehmann, group chief barred levy of penalties and so the fresh in a notice to shareholders acknowl- enforcement of any tax liability deemed talks in Kuwait last month. on April 25. notice is being sent. edged that it had received an amended due by the tax department will be lim- e development comes at operating officer said. PTI e Income Tax Act provides for tax demand on March 31, 2017 that ited to India assets, which had a value a time when Indian IT com- penalties of 100 per cent to 300 per cent also talked about late payment of inter- of about USD 750 million as of Decem- Cairn also said that it had on March panies are facing an uncertain and New Zealand. these countries becoming more of the tax due, the ocial said, adding est to be charged from February 2016 ber 31, 2016. 11, 2015 led a Notice of Dispute under environment given the curbs ese companies use tem- rigorous, Indian IT companies that the notice sent does not mention of -- 30 days following the date of the nal ese assets comprised principally e UK-India Investment Treaty in being proposed on worker visa porary work visas to send are likely to face challenges in the quantum of penalties the tax depart- assessment order. Cairn’s residual shareholding in Cairn order to protect its legal position and norms by various countries like employees to work on client movement of labour as well as ment is seeking. e nal assessment order did not India. shareholder interests. PTI the US, Singapore, Australia sites. With visa programmes in a spike in operational costs. PTI P-note investments at 4-month Hindustan Zinc Q4 Domestic air passenger high of `1.78 lakh cr in March rt rises y trac growth is to MUMBAI: e deceleration in the domestic to 87 per cent in March this year compared to NEW DELHI: Investments in value of P-note investments in ings in equities were at Rs 1.12 NEW DELHI: Vedanta Group higher production and sale of air trac growth continues for the second con- 85.3 per cent a year ago. domestic capital markets via Indian markets -- equity, debt lakh crore at March-end and rm Hindustan Zinc (HZL) mined metal,” the company secutive month this year with the demand for National carrier Air India’s market share participatory notes (P-notes) and derivatives -- increased to the remaining were in debt today posted a 42.3 jump in said in a statement. travel going up nearly 15 per cent to 90.45 lakh during the month stood at 13 per cent, down have surprisingly surged to 1,78,437 crore at March-end, and derivatives markets. e net prot to Rs 3,056.96 crore HZL Chairman Agnivesh in March. from 14.7 per cent in March 2016, according 4-month high of Rs 1.78 lakh from Rs 1,70,191 crore at the quantum of FPI investments for the quarter ended March Agarwal said the 2016-17 scal e local airlines had own 78.72 lakh pas- to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation crore at the end of March end of February. via P-notes remain unchanged 31, 2017, on the back of higher has been record breaking for sengers in March 2016. (DGCA) data. despite stringent norms put in Prior to that, the total invest- at 6.6 per cent in March. production and sale of mined Hindustan Zinc in many ways. Aer posting over 20 per cent growth in e budget carrier IndiGo continued to lead place by Sebi to curb inow of ment value through P-notes In February, markets reg- metal. e company had posted e record performance domestic passenger market for the 13 consecu- the pack with 30.23 lakh passengers own by it illicit funds. P-notes are issued stood at Rs 1.75 lakh crore in ulator Sebi had said the steps a net prot of Rs 2,147.22 crore of the company, supported by tive months till January this year, the demand for during the previous month, while another bud- by registered Foreign Portfolio January-end and Rs 1.57 lakh taken by it on P-notes are “suf- in the year-ago quarter. strong zinc prices, helped HZL air travel dropped to 15.77 per cent in February. get airline SpiceJet saw the highest occupancy Investors to overseas investors crore in December-end. cient enough” to address Its total income during the generate unparallelled value According to Monthly trac data released across its ights among all other carriers at 91.1 who wish to be a part of the In March, investments the concerns of SIT on black quarter was Rs 7,237.28 crore, for its stakeholders during the today, eleven domestic airlines together ew per cent in March. Indian stock markets without through the route had touched money, but the regulator is a rise of 72.4 per cent over year, he added. e company 90.45 lakh passengers in the previous month, In the month, as many as 1,109 passengers registering themselves directly. the highest level since Novem- open to further suggestions. the year-ago period. “Reve- achieved highest-ever mined registering a growth of 14.91 per cent. were denied boarding by the domestic carriers ey however need to go ber, when the cumulative value It had asserted that consis- nues during the quarter were metal production during the e private carriers, which include Jet Air- for various reasons, according to the data, with through a proper due diligence of such investments stood at tent tightening of norms has Rs 6,699 crore, up 97 per cent quarter, up 13 per cent from ways, IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir, Vistara and AirA- private carrier Jet Airways disallowing the maxi- process. 1,79,648 crore. made these instruments less Y-o-Y on account of strong previous quarter and 66 per sia India, among others, increased their share in mum number of passengers (913) from entering According to Sebi data, total Of the total, P-note hold- attractive. PTI zinc, lead and silver prices, cent Y-o-Y. PTI the total domestic travel market by 1.7 per cent its aircra prior to departure. PTI

CORPORATE KALEIDOSCOPE Western MNCs’ nightmare: Patanjali sure of doubling revenue to `10K cr in FY 17

Rajeev Mehrotra, CMD, RITES, and Puneet Kumar, Executive Director (Expotech), received the Top Exporters Silver Award for 2013-14 OUR CORRESPONDENT on food processing organised from Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC) under Leading industrialist, thought leader and Chairman of Hero Enterprise, Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory, Vice President of Mauritius and by Federation of Indian Cham- Ministry of Commerce in the merchandise category, with the foreign Sunil Kant Munjal announced an investment of Rs 100 crore into Sanjay Budhia, Past President - ICC and MD - PATTON Group, at an NEW DELHI: e expansion bers of Commerce and Indus- exchange earnings of Rs 444 crore Aavishkaar’s new fund, the Aavishkaar Bharat Fund interactive session organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce plans of Patanjali Ayurved, try (FCCI) in Gurugram on which has become a house- ursday. hold name in India due to its As Nagpur is known for brand ambassador Baba Ram- oranges, the upcoming unit of dev, are giving sleepless nights Patanjali in the city would be to top multinational compa- used to make orange and other nies having a strong presence juices. e Patanjali CEO fur- in the country. Aer crossing ther said that the company was Rs 5,000 crore revenue marks working on a major research in the nancial year 2015-16, unit in herbal medicines and the indigenous company is their cultivation. set to achieve its target of Rs “ e company was working 10,000 crore revenues in the on plans to ensure supplies of just concluded the nancial raw materials -- a plan on the year 2016-17. rearing of cows to ensure milk According to Patanjali availability for making ghee -- Ayurved’s chief operating o- being one of them,” Balkrishna cer Acharya Balkrishna, the said, adding that the company company will set up four man- had set itself a target of dou- ufacturing plants in as many bling its revenues to Rs 10,000 cities in India this nancial year crore for 2016-17. and the company would soon Commenting on FDI, Bal- present its annual report on the akrishna said, “ e mandate of Selvi L Jyosana, a 7th Std student of St Joseph of Cluny Matric With an effort to reinforce its market leadership, SAIL organised a NTPC-Ramagundam CISF Fire Wing observed National Fire Service numbers achieved in the year the company is not to oppose Higher Secondary School, had participated in the Asian Youth Chess visit of a group of customers to its most modern IISCO Steel Plant Week – 2017 from April 14 to 20. At the closing ceremony held gone by. the FDI, but I must say that Championship held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 31 March to 10 at Burnpur to have a first-hand look at the production facility of at the fire station on Thursday, Chief Guest D K Dubey, ED- “ ese plants will come foreign companies should not April as a representative of India and returned home with Silver state-of-the-art Universal Section Mill (USM). Chief Executive Officer Ramagundam, addressed the gathering and appreciated the Fire up at Nagpur in Maharash- spoil the Indian food culture. Medal. Dr Sarat Kumar Acharya, CMD, R Vikraman, Director (HR), Rajesh K Rathi complemented this joint effort with Central Marketing Wing of CISF for their excellent service on controlling fire hazards tra, Noida in Uttar Pradesh, It’s also a fact that manufactur- applauded Selvi L Jyothsana, who represented India and secured Organisation and called it vital to promote steel intensive designs for by creating awareness, preventing fire, rescuing post fire as well as Indore in Madhya Pradesh and ers of the country have a better Silver Medal. Her father, L K Lakshminarayanan is also seen usage in various projects, buildings and structures rehabilitating Andhra Pradesh,” Balkrishna understanding of our domes- told reporters at a conference tic market.” 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi |Friday, 21 April, 2017

GOOD PERFORMANCE WILL AUTOMATICALLY ‘UNIQUE’ YOUNIS EYES FINAL TEST MILESTONE LEADING CHELSEA MY PROUDEST IMPROVE RANKING: SINDHU KARACHI: When Younis Khan hangs up his bat at the end of ACHIEVEMENT, SAYS TERRY Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies, it will likely be with a final HYDERABAD: India’s star shuttler P.V. Sindhu is focusing on LONDON: John Terry, who will leave Chelsea at the end of the Test milestone against his name. Younis is just 23 runs away coming championships and aims to give her best to achieve season after 22 years at the club, said goodbye to the fans from becoming the first Pakistan player to score 10,000 Test her ultimate goal -- becoming World No. 1. After winning the through an open letter, in which he said that being the Blues’ runs. With the first of three Tests against the West Indies begin- Indian Open Superseries early this month, she was almost there, captain has been his greatest achievement. “Wearing the arm- ning tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica, few would bet against him with a career-best ranking of World No. 2. The 2016 Olympic band and being your captain has been without doubt one of the marking his swansong with a final foray into the record books. silver medallist slipped to fifth place last week. proudest achievements of my life,” the English skipper said.

Monaco defeat IPL TURNS 10: MATCH PREVIEW Dortmund to Major drawback: Barca advance to CL Buoyant Knights semi-nal PARIS: AS Monaco battered crash out as uve stand rm l t tae t Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in the second leg for a 6-3 aggregate BARCELONA: A distraught from the edge of the area before win in their Champions League Neymar le the eld in tears only a brilliant challenge from quarternal clash. e Ligue 1 as Juventus held Barcelona to Gerard Pique prevented Juan wounded Lions club, who entered the round- a 0-0 draw at the Camp Nou to Cuadrado’s cross providing of-16 as an underdog, are reach the Champions League Higuain with a tap in. Barca headed to the semi-nals for semi-nals 3-0 on aggregate. had to wait 19 minutes for the rst time since 2004, reports Barca had overcome a 4-0 their rst clear sight of goal as Efe. Wednesday’s contest at the rst-leg decit against Paris they intricately worked the ball Stade Louis II was played in Saint-Germain in the last 16 around a packed Juventus box the shadow of the bombing with a dramatic 6-1 win back before Messi red inches wide. that marred last week’s rst on home soil. Messi then stung Gianluigi leg in Dortmund. e Dort- But Juventus showed why Buon’s palms for the rst time mund player who suered a they boast the best defensive on the half-hour mark. “Over- broken wrist in the attack on record in the competition as all they were the better team the team bus, Spanish defender Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and and deserved to go through,” Marc Bartra, was in the stands Neymar were blunted as the Pique said. “Little-by-little we and received a Monaco shirt Italians gained revenge for their started to create chances, but before the start of the match. defeat in the 2015 Champions they built a mountain.” At the Aer losing 3-2 at home in League nal. other end, Higuain threatened the rst leg, the visitors had “To not concede a goal in again when he just couldn’t KKR cricketers during a practice session at Eden Gardens PIC/PTI little choice but to go forward two games against Barcelona get enough power on Miralem in numbers, leaving them- says a lot about the tactical level Pjanic’s dinked cross to beat KOLKATA: Revenge will be Chris Gayle was at his Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is airborne after being challenged by Juventus’ Miralem Pjanic during the selves vulnerable on the coun- of the team,” said Juventus boss Marc-Andre ter Stegen. Ney- on their minds when wooden lethal best as he plundered a ter-attack. ree minutes in, Massimiliano Allegri. Champions League quarter-final second leg match between Barcelona and Juventus at Camp Nou PIC/AP/PTI mar had been Barca’s hero in spooners Gujarat Lions take 38-ball 77 to help Virat Kohli’s Dortmund goalkeeper Roman “ ey had more chances in Monaco in Friday’s semi-nal rst half in Turin and that has pions’ mistakes. a remarkable nish with two on table toppers Kolkata team post a mammoth 213. Bürki repelled a shot from Turin than they did tonight. draw. “We tried with all our cost us dearly. I will remember Allegri’s men pressed high goals and an assist in the nal Knight Riders (KKR) in a Gujarat batsmen fought hard Benjamin Mendy, but le the e team defended very might, but we couldn’t nd the what happened in the rst half to prevent Barca dominating minutes against PSG. Yet, he return Indian Premier League with Brendon McCullum rebound for Kylian Mbappe, solidly tonight.” route to goal,” said Barca coach there.” Straight from kick-o possession and enjoyed the bet- found it far harder up against (IPL) xture here at the Eden smashing a 44-ball 72 but in who hammered it home to put Juventus join holders Real Luis Enrique. the visitors seemed determined ter of the early chances. Gon- friend and former Barca team- Gardens on Friday. the end fell 21 runs short. the hosts ahead 1-0. AGENCIES Madrid, Atletico Madrid and “We played a very poor to learn from the French cham- zalo Higuain volleyed over mate Dani Alves. AGENCIES e Suresh-Raina led Against defending cham- franchise — in both the out- pions Sunrisers Hyderabad t’s rst games of the season too, Gujarat succumbed to French Open decision on SC quashes — suered a 10-wicket defeat a tame defeat in the second Amla’s century helps KXIP in their own den on April 7. game of the campaign. Sharapova on May 15 mlaint KKR openers Gau- e good part for Friday’s tam Gambhir (76 o 48) visitors is McCullum’s form PARIS: Maria Sharapova will learn on May 15 wheth- against Dhoni and Chris Lynn (93 o 41) with the willow. e dash- post 198/4 against MI made short work of Gujarat’s ing Kiwi batsman has scored er she can compete at the French Open after her 183 where Raina top-scored scored 225 runs in ve games drgs ban, rench tennis officials said on Thrsday, NEW DELHI: e Supreme INDORE: Hashim Amla’s with an unbeaten 68. at an average of 45. insisting the absence of pregnant Serena Williams Court on ursday quashed classy hundred powered Kings Since then, both sides Coming to the home wold hae no bearing on their decision. Twotime a criminal complaint against XI Punjab to a competitive have tread on dier- team, the twice IPL cham- Roland Garros champion Sharapova controversially former India cricket captain 198/4 against Mumbai Indians ent paths with the men in pions showed exemplary Mahendra Singh Dhoni by in an Indian Premier League purple recording four vic- character during their nail- returns next week from a 15-month drugs ban at an Andhra Pradesh resi- encounter, here on ursday. tories and just one loss out biting four-wicket win against the TA Stttgart rand ri. Stttgart offered the dent following his depic- Playing shots that would of their ve engagements so Delhi Daredevils with one 30-year-old Russian a wildcard entry because she tion as Lord Vishnu by a delight the purists, Amla far, and Gujarat facing four ball remaining. no longer has a world ranking -- a move that an- business magazine. Quash- spanked all the Mumbai reversals and just one win to Being in the gered some players. Sharapova has also been invited ing the criminal complaint, Indians bowlers en route his show for. dumps while chasing 169 to the bench headed by Justice unbeaten 104 o 60 balls, Against Rising Pune win, Manish Pandey (69 not to clay-court events in Madrid and Rome. Whether Dipak Misra said that the which included as many as Supergiant, Australian out) and Yusuf Pathan (59) she receives a wildcard for Roland Garros will be ingredients of the oence six sixes apart from eight medium pacer Andrew Tye stemmed the rot doggedly revealed just a week before qualifying begins for the alleged in the criminal com- boundaries. bagged a hattrick an returned with a 110-run stand for the ay ne rand Slam. rench Tennis ed- plaint amounting to hurting In fact ve of the half dozen best gures of (5/17) as Guja- fourth wicket. the religious feelings of the sixes were hit o Sri Lankan rat won by seven wickets with Since that four-wicket eration T president ernard idicelli said last complainant are not made slinger Lasith Malinga (0/58 two overs to spare. Ace India loss to Mumbai Indians month they faced a moral dilemma and hinted he out. in 4 overs). Hashim Amla of Kings XI Punjab plays a shot during the match against le-arm orthodox spinner in their second outing, the was against it. If Sharapova misses out the French In the magazine cover ere were straight hits, Ravindra Jadeja played for Gautam Gambhir-led fran- Mumbai Indians in Indore on Thursday PIC/PTI Open will go ahead in the absence of the two biggest that was released in 2013, shirt arm jabs over long-on, the rst time in that match chise has not looked back, drawcards in the women’s game, with Williams an- Dhoni —dressed up as Lord slashes over point, hook, and a runs in only 5.3 overs to send fours as he got the required but could not reap much scripting a hattrick of wins. Vishnu — was seen holding majestic pull-shot in ‘Nataraja the Mumbai attack in complete momentum. dividends picking up just Besides Gambhir look- nouncing Wednesday the end of her season due to several objects in his hands, style’, which brought up his rst disarray. e very next over from one wicket and going for ing rock solid at the top of pregnancy. AGENCIES including a shoe. e trial hundred in shortest format as e last six overs produced Malinga saw Amla punce on 40 runs too. Since then, the order (196 runs in ve court in Karnataka had well second of this edition. an astounding 87 runs aer him taking 22 o that over and the side formed in 2016 n- matches), Pandey has been directed the registration of Skipper Glenn Maxwell, KXIP were 111 for 2 at the end suddenly 50 runs came o two ished second best against in outstanding form, amass- a case against Dhoni under on his part played a typi- of the 14th over. overs. Mumbai Indians and ing 221 from his four essays section 295 which pertains cally breezy innings smash- It was the 15th over of the Brief Scores: Royal Challengers Banga- at a staggering average of 221. to injuring or deling a ing 40 o 18 balls with the innings were Maxwell decided Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai lore, their bowlers failing Pathan getting among runs place of worship with intent help of four boundaries and to tee o taking 28 runs o the Indians to live up to the occasion on should also be a cause of joy to insult the religion of any three sixes. Mitchell McLenaghan over. KXIP: 198/4 (Hashim Amla both counts. for KKR. class along with section 34 It was the 3rd wicket part- e KXIP skipper hit the 104, Glenn Maxwell 40). Jadeja went wicketless, What remains to be seen (common intention) of the nership between Amla and hapless New Zealand interna- MI: Mitchell McClenaghan leaking 57 runs against RCB is who opens the batting Indian Penal Code. AGENCIES Maxwell that produced 83 tional for three sixes and two (2/46). AGENCIES in his quota of four overs. with Gambhir. AGENCIES Champions Trophy: Aus, B’desh announce squads

MELBOURNE/DHAKA: cult team to choose and there Fast bowler Mitchell Starc in the International Cricket the tournament was a big step Fast bowlers James Pattin- have been some unlucky play- and Chris Lynn have also been Council (ICC) Champi- forward. son and John Hastings have ers on this occasion,” national included in the 15-man squad ons Trophy in more than a “It is denitely a big step recovered from their injuries selector Trevor Hohns said in as they make their return from decade. ey last p0layed in forward for our country to to return to the Australian a statement. injury. the Champions’ Trophy in qualify directly to this year’s squad for the ICC Champions Talking of the interna- However, all-rounder 2006 under the captaincy of Champion’s Trophy, and it is Trophy to be held in England tional return of Pattinson and James Faulkner has been omit- Habibul Bashar. e cut-o really important for the team next month. Hastings, Hohns asserted that ted from the side. date for announcing squad is as well,” Bashar was quoted as “We have selected a very their experience of playing e Bangladesh Cricket April 25 for the eighth edition saying by an ICC statement. exciting, well-balanced squad county cricket in England will Board (BCB) on ursday of the eight-team tournament. “Now we have the oppor- that will give us plenty of help them adapt to the local recalled medium-pacer Shaul South Africa and Australia tunity to demonstrate how options with both batting and conditions. Islam and le out Nurul Hasan, have already announced their good our ODI skills are at bowling, depending on the “Both James and John have Subashis Roy and Shuvagata squads for the tournament, the present time.” e selec- conditions.” made very good returns from Hom from the 15-strong team second in importance only tors also announced the team “We are in a very fortu- injury and are bowling well for for the ICC Champions Tro- to the showcase event World for a tri-series that Bangla- nate position at the moment their respective teams in the phy, to be held in England and Cup. desh will take part in, featur- with a large number of quality English County competition Wales in June. Bashar, one of the ambas- ing Ireland and New Zealand, players available for selection, as well as both contributing is will be the rst time sadors for this year’s tourna- in Ireland, to prepare for the as such this was a very di- well with the bat,” Hohns said. Bangladesh are participating ment, said qualication for Champions Trophy. AGENCIES ndy rray stnned y lert Monte-Carlo Masters: Rafael Nadal ams-inlas in nte arl storms past birthday boy Zverev ndy Murray’s serving woes continued as he afael Nadal didn’t give crashedA out of the Monte Alexander Zverev the Carlo Rolex Masters follow- Rbirthday gi he desired the ing a 2-6 6-2 7-5 defeat to most on ursday at the Albert Ramos-Vinolas. e Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, world number one started his with the Spaniard scoring a second-round match against commanding 6-1, 6-1 third- Gilles Muller on Wednesday round victory in 69 minutes. with three double faults in the e Spanish superstar did little rst four points of the match wrong against the 20-year-old and it did not get much better #NextGenATP German as he in his match-up against the improved to 60-4 lifetime at clay-specialist. Murray was the ATP World Tour Masters PIC/PTI broken seven times during a see-saw encounter with the Span- 1000 tournament, where he is iard and was leading 4-0 in the nal set before he suered a attempting to li a 10th trophy. nine straight games from 1-1 in Nadal has a 367-34 clay- spectacular collapse. Ramos-Vinolas rallied back to take the Memories soon disappeared of the opener. He lost nine service court match wins record, a next four games to level the decider and despite the Scot tak- Nadal’s struggle to beat Zverev points in total, wrapping up his with the best winning percent- ing the ninth to go 5-4 up, the 15th seed closed out the match at the Australian Open in Jan- 21st match win of the year aer age (.915) of any player in the with three successive games to seal an unlikely victory. AGENCIES uary, as the fourth seed won Zverev hit his rst double fault. Open Era. AGENCIES MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017 mp Entertainment 15 I’m still an OUTSIDER in Hollywood Filmography over the years Chris Pratt talks about his initial days of struggle in Hollywood

TOKYO: Chris Pratt is the main Pratt said during a Disney press nia and LA for a long time... ey that is dierent from the creators lead in two of the biggest Hol- meet for Guardians of the Galaxy all become very similar. ere is and the writers in LA.” lywood franchises – Jurassic Vol. 2 here. great weather, great food, easygo- Born in Virginia, his mother World and Guardians of the Gal- e Disney lm will release in ing attitude, it is pretty progressive, worked at a supermarket chain axy – and is one of its highest-earn- India on May 5. thoughtful and mindful – all that and his father was a contractor. His ing stars, but the American actor Pratt was a homeless man before is really great but it doesn’t neces- father died in 2014 when he was still considers himself an outsider he rose to stardom. He used to live in sarily make (for) the most diverse, lming Jurassic World. in Hollywood. a Scooby-Doo van and worked at a compelling group of actors,” said the e actor now feels that nding e actor believes “Hollywood seafood restaurant in Hawaii in late star, who grew up in Lake Stevens in a way into Hollywood has become has a tendency to homogenise its 1990s. It was at this restaurant he Washington state. less complicated over time. men and women” and that is why was discovered by actor Rae Dawn Appreciating the new wave of While making a career on the entering showbiz with an outsider’s Chong, who then gave him his rst diversity in Hollywood, Pratt said, small screen, Pratt continued work- perspective worked in his favour. lm Cursed Part 3 in 2000. “A lot of guys become exactly the ing on his Hollywood dream and “I denitely felt like an outsider e 37-year-old asserts that there same. For me, it was really helpful to auditioned for lms like Avatar, G.I. (when he started working in the is “great benet” of being an out- have this outsider perspective. Peo- Joe and Star Trek. West) and I was (an outsider). I sider. He says that “being an out- ple in LA oen cast a Canadian, or His lmography includes proj- probably still am (an outsider) in a sider is becoming more and more someone from Australia, Britain or ects like Bride Wars, Moneyball, Zero way, although I spend more time in helpful now”. India or anywhere from the outside Dark irty, e Magnicent Seven IANS ‘Adapting Half Girlfriend Los Angeles (LA) than out of LA,” “...People who live in Califor- because they have a point of view and more recently, Passengers. r ig sreen as dilt Need stricter laws for crimes MUMBAI: Mohit Suri is back against women: Gauhar Khan with yet another love story Half Girlfriend, which is an adapta- tion of Chetan Bhagat’s novel of KOLKATA: Actor Gauahar Khan believes personal. the same name and the director violence against women will continue if the Batting for comfort, Gauahar Khan said, says it was dicult to translate central government and the judiciary don’t “I will not wear something just because it’s the book into a two-hour for- formulate stricter laws. trending or looks good on someone else” – mat for the celluloid. “...if the government and the law do not be it even casuals like jeans and T-shirts. “It is dicult as you can’t make stricter rules for the kind of crimes “You could be the best fashion base the entire book in a two- that are happening against women, we can designer in the world but if it does hour lm. ere is a lot that keep talking... but it’s going to continue if not suit my body type and I’m not you need to edit and make sure we don’t make stricter rules”, she said dur- convinced about how it looks on all the essential points are not ing the announcement of the Indian Fash- me, I will not wear it.” IANS lost out. We have changed cer- releases on May 19, is a story ion League here. tain things and Chetan Bhagat about about a guy who can’t e Begum Jaan actor was asked about has been quite co-operative,” speak English and despite her views on the position of women in Mohit said. Hindi being our national lan- India. “I have never made a lm guage the hypocrisy in India Begum Jaan is an adaptation of Bengali that had a story that people is that those who don’t speak lm Rajkahini, helmed by Srijit Mukherji. already knew. ere is de- English are looked down upon It released on April 14, and has spurred a nitely pressure of living up to as people who speak English debate on discrimination against women. it (response the book got). But are forward.“It’s an interest- Gauahar Khan said women are more I have tried not to let this factor ing concept. I wanted to show vocal now but the scenario and mindset of (pressure) aect me and have how two people come from dif- a section of people need to change. tried my best to stay honest to ferent worlds and try to gure Asked for her take on fashion, she said t h e s t or y.” out whose world is a right,” the fashion for her is subjective and style is “Half Girlfriend, which lmmaker says. PTI Harry Styles ‘Guardians’ dance Britney to propose thinks Zayn Malik to tunes of ‘Jhoom to Sam Asghari? was right to quit Jhoom Baba’ One Direction

LOS ANGELES: One Direction singer Harry Styles says he is happy that Zayn Malik, who le the pop boy band in March 2015, is liking it aer going solo. Aer quitting One Direction, Malik had said he wasn’t a fan of the music the group made. ough Styles thinks it was a “shame” Malik made the comments he did, he wishes him all the best for the future, reported Rolling Stone magazine. “I think it’s a shame he felt that way. But I LOS ANGELES: Pop star Britney never wish any- Spears is reportedly planning to pro- thing but luck pose to her boyfriend Sam Asghari. to anyone doing e 35-year-old diva will apparently what they love. buy her own engagement ring and and If you’re not tie the knot with Asghari before her Las enjoying some- Vegas residency gets over at the end of the thing and need NEW DELHI: Disney India has acquired the rights of Bappi year, reported OK! magazine. to do something Lahiri’s popular song Jhoom jhoom jhoom baba to rehash “Since Sam would be spending her else you abso- it for a promotional video of forthcoming Hollywood lm money, Britney is buying her own engage- lutely should do Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. ment ring,” a source said. that. I’m glad he’s Guardians of the Galaxy brought classic songs back in “ e wedding will be buttery-themed, and doing what he style, and the second part of the 2014 lm promises to live monarchs will be released when they exchange likes and good up to the expectations. e studio decided to pick the song vows,” the source said, adding, “ ey’re choreo- luck to him,” from 1980’s lm Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki to be in sync graphing their rst dance, which will play out the Styles says. with the lm’s spirit. story of how they met.” While One Direction are currently on “Guardians of the Galaxy are a super cool set of superhe- As for the guest list, the source revealed, “Brit- hiatus, Styles won’t rule out getting back roes who believe in having a ball as they save the galaxy. As ney wants to invite dancers, staers and her entire together with Liam Payne, Niall Horan and music is a dominant aspect of the movie, we thought it would Vegas squad, as well as family and friends.” Louis Tomlinson in the future. be a great idea to revive a retro hit dance for the Hindi ver- Spears has been dating Asghari since late last “I love the band and would never rule out sion,” Amrita Pandey, Vice President-Studios, Disney India, year aer he starred in music video for her single anything in the future. e band changed said in a statement. ‘Slumber Party’. PTI my life, gave me everything.” PTI She added, “Aer listening to some popular songs from 1980s, the team unanimously felt ‘Jhoom jhoom jhoom baba’ echoes the fun spirit associated with the Guardians. e song is about making the best of the moment and enjoying it, just ans tgt rst tar ars as a e ar amill like these superheroes. We hope the mash-up for Guardians Of e Galaxy Vol. 2 will be enjoyed by existing and innu- LOS ANGELES: Actor Mark it’s coming to the Late Show merable new fans in India.” Hamill remembers when fans two weeks aer that’,” he says. e song was released on ursday. thought the rst Star Wars e actor, who was at the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is written and directed by lm was a joke and says the screening with his now-late James Gunn, and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave audience laughed during co-star Carrie Fisher, who Bautista. It also features the voices of actors like Vin Diesel the cinematic debut. played Princess Leia, says and Bradley Cooper. It is releasing on May 5 in India, in Eng- e 65-year-old actor, they both giggled with the lish, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. who starred as Jedi Knight Reporter. crowd but adds that they were With the backdrop titled ‘Awesome Mixtape #2’,the sec- Luke Skywalker in the “At the end of the trailer horried. ond part of the 2014 lm Guardians of the Galaxy will take three original sci- lms, it said, ‘a billion light years Hamill recently returned further the team’s adventures as they traverse dierent cos- says fans made fun of the in the making. And it’s to the ‘Star Wars’ franchise mos to protect their world. is time, the storyline will project when A New Hope coming to your galaxy this for the 2015 e Force Awak- explore family values and also unravel many family truths hit screens back in 1977, summer.’ Somebody in the ens and will be starring in the and mysteries. AGENCIES according to e Hollywood balcony yelled out, ‘yeah and upcoming e Last Jedi. PTI 16 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 21 April, 2017