Manohar Parrikar Returns to Fish Curry and Rice Land As CM
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Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: Deleng/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Issue No: 72 New Delhi, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Price: 3.00 No: 5 Published from New Delhi & Hyderabad Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Probe ordered into Turkey slams EU officials in row Stan Wawrinka advances Sukma Maoist attack: over Netherlands campaigning at Indian Wells Rajnath Singh P-5 P-8 P-11 Briefs Biren to be sworn in as BJP’s first Manipur CM Imphal, March 14 (IANS) Nongth- members of the non-Congress par- ombam Biren will be sworn in as the ties and the lone independent have first BJP Chief Minister of Manipur extended support to the BJP, and the on Wednesday morning, Raj Bhavan Congress has not been able to increase sources said. its strength from 28. He will be sworn-in at Raj Bhavan Ibobi Singh had pinned his hope at 10.30 a.m., the sources said. Biren on the National People’s Party, which and one or two elected members may has four MLAs. However, the NPP take oath. general secretary Vivekraj Wangkhem A formal communique is yet to be said, “We have extended support to received. National and regional BJP the BJP and it is final.” The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Shurhozelie Liezietsu calls on the Prime Minister, Shri leaders are expected to be present The BJP ministry is also facing trou- Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on March 14, 2017. PIB during the swearing in ceremony. bles since the Naga People’s Front Meanwhile, Congress leaders are has demanded that its four MLAs keeping their fingers crossed. Former should be given ministerial berths. Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh, who The earlier understanding was that it Manohar Parrikar returns to Priyanka Chopra: I’m not someone tendered his resignation on Monday would support the BJP from outside. who looks for love night, said: “We had staked our claim The NPF further said that four other to form the next ministry.”However, Naga MLAs should also be accommo- fish curry and rice land as CM Search operation near Pathankot that hope is fading away as all other dated with important portfolios. had often wistfully recounted Goa which jettisoned him back airbase following intel inputs his fondness for fish curry and to state politics, the BJP camp Chandigarh, March 14 (IANS) Security agen- Blizzard forces Trump, rice over butter chicken, betray- believes that he is the leader to cies carried out a search operation on Tuesday ing his geographical preference look forward to, when it comes near the Pathankot airbase and the Mamoon and dropping repeated hints at to managing the cut-throat army cantonment following intelligence in- Merkel to postpone meeting a possible return to state poli- world of coalition politics, espe- puts about suspected anti-national elements Washington/Berlin, March 14 ZDF. Merkel said she believes “one- tics. “I have lost weight in Delhi cially when the margin of ma- in the area, police said. (IANS) The first face-to-face meeting on-one conversations are always much because I like fish curry more. I jority, as well as error, is slim. The search operation was carried out by between President Donald Trump better than talking about each other”, miss the food from Goa... I only “He can take quick decisions Army soldiers, paramilitary force troopers and and German Chancellor Angela calling that the slogan for her visit. De- Panaji, March 14 (IANS) Ap- said that I like Goan food better. and his powers of persuasion Punjab police personnel. Merkel was postponed due to a ma- spite being criticised by Trump in re- pointed Chief Minister for the I leave it to you to make sense are tremendous. Without his ef- Shops and some other establishments near jor snowstorm on the US East Coast. cent months, Merkel will be arriving in fourth time since 2000, BJP out of it,” Parrikar said in Febru- forts, the BJP would have taken the Pathankot airbase were asked to shut White House Press Secretary Sean the US with an open mind, senior Ger- leader Manohar Parrikar, who ary this year. much, much longer to come to down. Spicer said the planned Oval Office man government officials in Berlin said. resigned as Defence Minister Parrikar, who has been ac- power in a state like Goa, where The area near the frontier airbase was sealed sit-down, scheduled for Tuesday, Talks between Trump and Merkel, on Monday, is the proverbial cused of spending large Catholics are nearly one fourth during the search operation. was postponed until Friday. who last year was ranked by Forbes prodigal son, who has returned amounts of time in Goa even of the state’s population,” a se- “There were intelligence inputs of suspi- For some, the blizzard that delayed as the second most powerful person home to the land of fish curry when he was Defence Minister, nior BJP leader told IANS. cious elements in the area following which the Merkel’s trip to Washington by three in the world after Russia’s Vladimir and rice. had led a sustained pre-poll Parrikar as a first-time legisla- search operation was carried out,” a police of- days might be seen as a bad omen. But Putin, comes amid disputes over Parrikar, 61, who was admin- campaign in the run up to the tor in 1994 was tipped for greater ficer told IANS. in Germany, commentators said that NATO defence spending. The Presi- istered the oath of office by Goa February 4 assembly poll, and things, especially after the man- The Pathankot airbase was attacked by sus- the quick rescheduling on both sides dent has also threatened to impose Governor Mridula Sinha, is the was parachuted back to Goa as ner in which he had his elector- pected Pakistani terrorists on January 2 last was a promising signal, NBC News re- import penalties on German car- coastal state’s 23rd Chief Min- Chief Minister by the BJP high ate, as well as the media, eat out year. ported. The fact that Merkel will now makers while the US administra- ister. The Indian Institute of command, when the post-poll of his hands, thanks to his repar- travel to the US on Friday shows “how tion’s economic adviser has accused Technology-Bombay alumnus goings-on got rough. tee, wit and the resolute manner Parliament passes Enemy important this trip also is for the White Germany of gaining unfair trade ad- during his 29-month outing as While partly, it may have been in which he attacked malgover- Property Bill House”, reported German broadcaster vantages through a weak euro. a central minister in New Delhi Parrikar’s fondness for being in nance and corruption. Successors of those who migrated to Paki- stan and China during partition will have no The Vice President, claim over the properties left behind in India, Shri M. Hamid An- Need to make structural with Parliament on Tuesday passing a bill to sari addressing the amend a 49-year-old law. inaugural session The Enemy Property (Amendment and of the 3rd Counter changes in Congress: Validation) Bill, 2016, which amends the Terrorism Confer- Enemy Property Act, 1968, was passed by ence, in New Delhi Rahul after UP poll defeat voice vote in the Lok Sabha, incorporating on March 14, 2017. the amendments made by the Rajya Sabha The Deputy Prime New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) the BJP,” he told reporters out- Minister of Nepal, last week. After massive defeat in Uttar side Parliament. Speaking out Shri Bimlendra The Lok Sabha had passed the bill earlier but Pradesh where it had forged an for the first time after the results Nidhi, the Chief certain amendments were introduced to it in Minister of Hary- alliance with Samajwadi Party of the elections to five states the Rajya Sabha, on the recommendations of a ana, Shri Manohar to take on the BJP, Congress were declared on March 11, Select Committee. Lal Khattar and the vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Gandhi said, “Our fight with the Those amendments had to be approved Minister of State Tuesday said that there is a need BJP is an ideological fight. What by the Lower House, which was done on for External Affairs, to make structural and organisa- the BJP has done in Manipur Tuesday. Shri M.J. Akbar are tional changes in the party. and Goa is their ideology – and also seen. PIB Commenting on the power that is what we are fighting.” BSE 29,442.63 struggle in Manipur and Goa, “It is a question of how much Sensex where the Congress won major- the BJP has thrown to steal the NSE 9,087.00 ity of seats but the BJP staked mandate of people of Manipur GOLD 22 CT 29,725 Akali leader gunned down in Punjab village claim to form government, Ra- and Goa. That is the question. It hul said the “BJP is misusing is not about how soon they went, SILVER 1 KG 42,700 Chandigarh, March 14 (IANS) questioning. Police officials said have started showing their true co- money for power”. but with how much money the The Punjab Police on Tuesday that the accused Army officer was lours. In a statement, AAP leaders Rahul also accused the BJP BJP gave to steal the mandate of launched a manhunt for a retired threatening Gurbachan Singh and Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Kanwar of “stealing” the mandate of Goa and Manipur,” Gandhi said Forex Rates Army colonel and his son after a his family for the last few days us- Sandhu said that both the Con- people and “undermining de- on queries as to why Congress Indian Rupees 79-year-old man was shot dead in ing a loudspeaker from his house in gressmen and Akalis have same mocracy” in these states by use “delayed” staking claim for gov- Punjab’s Gurdaspur district.