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DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Punjab CM urges Amit Shah India, U.S. trade deal falls through to tackle crossborder drones Mr. Modi and Mr. Trump Cache of arms and satellite phones suspected to have been airdropped discussed trade and terro ‘Father rism during their bilateral Special Correspondent ed four suspects from the meeting which lasted for of India’ Chandigarh outskirts of Chola Sahib vil about 40 minutes, Mr. Gok Two days after the Punjab lage in Tarn Taran district. hale said. Special Correspondent police seized a huge cache of State DirectorGeneral of Washington “We believe that we have arms, including fi ve AK47 ri Police Dinkar Gupta had said Sharad Pawar, right, with Ajit Pawar. * FILE PHOTO given a good understanding On his experience at the fl es, pistols, hand grenades that initial investigation re to the U.S. side about the “Howdy, Modi!” diaspora and satellite phones, and in vealed that the weapons challenges that we face on event, U.S. President Do vestigation revealed that the were suspected to have been the count of terrorism in In nald Trump said, “They weapons were suspected to delivered recently across the ED fi les case against dia, including in Jammu & love this gentleman to my have been delivered from border from Pakistan over Kashmir,” the Foreign Secre right. People went crazy, across the border from Pa drones launched by Pakis tary said. Answering ques he [Narendra Modi] is like kistan by drones, Chief Mi tan’s ISI and the statespon NCP chief, nephew tions from the media prior an American version of El nister Amarinder Singh on sored Jihadi and proKhalis to their bilateral meeting at vis.” Tuesday said the incident a tweet from his offi cial han @AmitShah ji to ensure that tani terrorist outfi ts working Launches probe in coop bank scam the UN building, President “I remember India be was a new dimension to Pa dle, Capt. Amarinder wrote, this drone problem is han under its command. Trump urged Prime Minis fore was very torn. There kistan’s sinister designs in “Recent incidents of Pakis dled at the earliest.” “The largescale infi ltra Special Correspondent es and additional working ter Modi and Pakistan Pre was a lot of dissension, the aftermath of the abroga tanorigin drones dropping On September 22, the pol tion appeared to have been New Delhi/MumbAI facilities were also extended mier Imran Khan to meet fi ghting and he brought it tion of Article 370. consignments of arms & am ice busted a terrorist module aimed at scaling terrorism The Enforcement Directo to some factories without for a “good outcome” on all together. Like a father The Chief Minister urged munition is a new and se of the revived Khalistan Zin and militancy in Jammu and rate has registered a money prudent reasons, as is Kashmir. would. Maybe, he is the the Union Home Minister to rious dimension on Pakis dabad Force (KZF), backed Kashmir, Punjab and the In laundering case purported alleged. (With inputs from Father of India,” he added. tackle the problem at the tan’s sinister designs in by a Pakistan and Germany dian hinterland, in the wake ly involving NCP chief Sha “There were several ir Kallol Bhattacherjee ) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC earliest. Tagging Union aftermath of the abrogation based terror group, made of the recent developments rad Pawar, his nephew Ajit regularities in the sanction Home Minister Amit Shah in of Article 370. Request the arms seizure and arrest in the Valley,” he had said. Pawar and about 70 former ing of loans, committed only functionaries of the Maha with the purpose of extend rashtra State Cooperative ing benefi ts to the directors Bank (MSCB) to probe an al of the lending bank, thereby 26 dead, 300 injured ‘Govt. can’t leged ₹ 25,000crore scam. defrauding and cheating the PM must ask ‘Howdy The agency has launched bank and its shareholders,” undermine the probe on the basis of an said the agency offi cial. as quake jolts PoK FIR lodged by the Economic Owing to the alleged mis Parliament’ Off ences Wing of the Mum management, besides in In a tweet, DG ISPR (Spokes near the IndiaPakistan bor farmers, youth’: Congress bai Police, following a Bom creasing overhead expendi person of Pakistan Armed der,” said J.L. Gautam, head Special Correspondent bay High Court directive on tures, the sugar factories Forces) MajorGeneral Asif of operations at the Indian New Delhi August 22. turned sick and were sold at Ghafoor, said: “COAS [Chief National Centre for Seismol Moments after the British Party brings up unemployment, infl ation and fuel prices “The money laundering a rate much lower than the of Army Staff ] directs imme ogy (NCS). There were no Supreme Court ruled case has been registered reserve price. The buyers diate rescue operation in aid reports of damage or casual Prime Minister Boris John SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT to know what happened to against the then chairman, had personal or political of civil administration for ties from Jammu and Kash NEW DELHI son’s suspension of Parlia these sanctioned projects?” managing directors and di links with the board of di victims of earthquake... Ar mir, even as Internet and ment as illegal, Congress The Congress on Tuesday asked Mr. Jha. rectors of the Maharashtra rectors. The consent of bor my troops with aviation and mobile communications re Lok Sabha member Shashi asked the Centre to spell out Ms. Mukherjee said that State Cooperative Bank, rowing units was not taken medical support teams main suspended in large Tharoor on Tuesday said the steps it had taken to con not just fuel but even daily along with Mr. Sharad Pa before undertaking such a dispatched.” parts of the State. the judgement made it tain rising fuel prices, food food items had seen prices war, Mr. Ajit Pawar, Diliprao sale, the agency alleged. Federal Minister for “The earthquake was felt clear that parliamentary infl ation, unemployment shooting up. “While onions Deshmukh, Isharlal Jain, Listing the alleged irregu Science and Technology Fa but there are no reports of majority cannot be used by and petty crimes across the are being sold at ₹ 70 a kg, Jayant Patil, Shivaji Rao Nal larities, the agency claimed wad Chaudhry, who hails any damage,” Amir Ali, from the executive to under country. caulifl ower has touched vade, Anand Rao Adsul, Ra that the directors fl outed va and is elected from Jhelum, the disaster management mine the Parliament itself. Reacting to Prime Minis ₹ 100. Even tomatoes are sell jendra Shingane, Madan Pa rious NABARD, RBI and said there has been a lot of department said. People “To put it bluntly, the ex ter Narendra Modi’s remarks Sharmistha Mukherjee ing for ₹ 50 a kg. We would til and others,” said an SARFAESI guidelines. damage and he was praying turned to social media to ex ecutive, in the name of its at the ‘Howdy, Modi’ event like to know from the go agency offi cial. “There was a huge misap for those aff ected., more de press fears about not being Parliamentary majority, in Houston, U.S. that ‘eve prices in the past one week, vernment what steps are you It is alleged that the then propriation of funds on the vastation was avoided due able to get in touch with cannot use Parliament’s rything is fi ne in India’, the the Congress said the Centre taking to ease the situation,” top executives and manage part of committee mem to the earthquake's 10 km their families in the Valley. own powers and privileges Congress listed out high fuel was levying ₹ 20 as central she said. Ms. Mukherjee said rial staff of the bank con bers, directors and loan depth.“The epicentre was (With PTI inputs) to undermine Parliament prices, rising food infl ation excise on every litre of pe the situation for the com spired with offi cebearers committee members of the itself. In short, Parliament and unemployment among trol while on diesel it was mon man had been made and directors of Sakhar cooperative bank,” the ED cannot be induced by its issues that contradict Mr. ₹ 15.83 per litre. worse by growing jobless Karkhanas (cooperative su has alleged. Mr. Ajit Pawar own majority to commit Modi’s statement. “Former Petroleum Mi ness, both among urban and gar factories) and Soot Gir served as Deputy Chief Mi Khattar rebuts Opposition’s suicide. Note: UK prece nister Veerappa Moily has rural workers. nis to give out loans in a nister from November 10, dents are often cited by In Twin posers mentioned how the UPA go “When you have a young “fraudulent” manner. 2010, to September 26, tirade on slowdown dian courts,” Mr. Tharoor At a press conference, Con vernment had planned an population, then generally it 2014. tweeted. gress spokespersons Shar oil reservoir to store 5 lakh is considered as demograph Fraudulent loans Mr. Sharad Pawar told Though Mr. Tharoor mistha Mukherjee and Pra metric tonnes of crude that ic dividend. But if we fail to The loans were provided to presspersons: “I would have Haryana’s GDP against the country’s 2.9% didn’t specify the context, nav Jha said they expect Mr. could deal with incidents channelise their energy pos the factories, despite their been surprised had no such and farm growth and the industry growth it is seen as a reference to Modi to ask ‘Howdy Farmers like the attack on interna itively, then demographic di weak fi nancials and nega action been taken. I thank rate was 8.6% against the the Centre’s decision to di and Howdy Youth” when he tional oil wells [in Saudi Ara vidend can turn into a de tive networth, whose own the agencies wholehearted higher than country’s 6.9%. Even in the lute Article 370 and the returns to India. bia]... They were to come up mographic nightmare. It ers had alleged links with ly. The people are watching nation’s, says CM service sector Haryana has special status for Jammu Attacking the government in Vizag, Mangalore and la may result in a spike in petty the bank offi cials. No collat and they will take the appro recorded 8.2% growth and Kashmir. over consistently rising fuel ter in Odisha. We would like crimes,” she said. eral was taken in several cas priate decision.” SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT against the country’s 7.5%,” CHANDIGARH he said. With the Opposition parties “In the ease of doing busi raking up the issue of eco ness rankings, Haryana was Shah launches nomic slowdown in the run at the 14th position in 2014 Younger lot in the Congress begs to diff er up to the State Assembly but now it’s at the third spot. website on polls slated for October 21, It is due to the business Haryana Chief Minister Ma friendly environment that in Like Milind’s support for ‘Howdy, Modi!’, several others have openly backed the dilution of Article 370 security fi rms nohar Khattar on Tuesday the past fi ve years the State said the State was economi has seen investments of Sandeep Phukan when it comes to issues of book post. Several young Special Correspondent cally strong and sound with ₹ 80,000 crore, which is the New Delhi national interest and foreign leaders have backed the Mo New Delhi a GDP growth at 8.2% in highest for fi veyear pe The Twitter exchange bet policy,” Mr. Deora said in a di government on diff erent Union Home Minister Amit 201819 against the coun riod,” he said. ween Prime Minister Naren statement. “My family’s rela issues of late. Shah on Tuesday said that try’s 6.8% GDP. Mr. Khattar dismissed the dra Modi and former Mum tionships with institutions, Leaders like Jyotiraditya in olden times, the Gurkha Mr. Khattar said the allegation of the Opposition bai Congress chief Milind political parties and leaders Scindia, Deepender Hooda community was synony State’s economy was in far parties that the State go Deora not only intensifi ed were built keeping India’s in were among those who sup mous with chowkidars (se better shape than many oth vernment had failed to tack speculation on Tuesday terests in mind.” ported the abrogation of the curity guards) because of er States. “We have far bet le the unemployment pro about the political future of Among the reasons he cit special status for Jammu and the trust they enjoyed with ter economic parameters blem. “As much is being the latter but also brought in ed for his resignation, Mr. Kashmir. Jitin Prasada sup people. than neighbouring States said, it is not that much,” he to focus the discontent Barman underlined the Con ported the Prime Minister’s Private security guards like Punjab, where at times said at a news conference among a section of the youn gress’s reluctance to agree to call for population control. were the fi rst line of de employees don’t get their here. “According to fi gures ger leaders in the Congress. Speaking their mind: Milind Deora and Jyotiradiyta Scindia his plea in court that the Na “All these leaders have fence, he said. salaries on time,” he said registered with the govern Just when Mr. Deora are among those who have gone against the party line. tional Register of Citizens be come into politics because of Addressing private se here at a press conference. ment, around 80,000 grad termed the speculation “un implemented in Tripura. their families and have not curity agencies at a func The fact that Haryana’s uates and postgraduates founded” on social media, Mr. Deora’s tweet — describ “For those who have al “I start this day without seen struggle. They are get tion in Delhi, where he in GDP for 201819 has been are unemployed.. Some pe 41yearold Pradyot Deb Bar ing Prime Minister Modi’s ready imagined and charted having to listen to criminals ting impatient now as they augurated a portal related more than the country’s ople with matric, Class10 or man wrote a Facebook post Houston event as a “momen my forward path, I wish to and liars....not having to lis don’t see much of a future to private security, Mr. GDP indicates the sound Class 12 pass qualifi cations to announce his resignation tous fi rst” — just ahead of the give you one unambiguous ten to ‘High Command’ on for themselves and the Con Shah praised the eff orts of economy of the State, he are also unemployed but it as the Congress chief in Trip Maharashtra polls, the form answer: I will serve my coun how to accommodate cor gress,” said Sri Prakash two of them during the 26/ said. “In 201819 the agricul is not that much as is being ura. With questions being er Mumbai Congress chief is try to the best of my ability rupt people in high posi Singh, Professor of Political 11 Mumbai attacks in stop ture growth was 5.5% portrayed.” raised about the timing of sued a statement. and I will remain bipartisan tions,” he wrote in a Face Science, Delhi University. ping the terrorists from in fl icting much damage. “In olden days, chowki- dar meant Gurkhas. The community had created a We must remove doubts in Will disown lynching accused: Bhagwat unique identity for them selves in area of trust... pe Fears of Kashmiris about loss of land and jobs should be allayed, he says ople used to hire them as Chinese minds, says Swamy they were brave and hon Special Correspondent ty,” said an offi cial statement neighbouring countries. est. In some States, chowki- NEW DELHI put out by the RSS. While the Mr. Bhagwat advised the dars had become synony Beijing worried over Delhi’s ties with Washington, he says Rashtriya Swayamsewak statement did not go into the journalists to “believe in mous with Gurkhas... the Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan content of the discussion, what you see” and not to private security agencies Atul Aneja there has been new military Bhagwat, at a meeting on sources present at the meet judge the RSS on the basis of should also follow this mo BEIJING activity in Aksai Chin and Tuesday with 80 journalists ing said it covered almost all propaganda, adding that the del and off er trustworthy Ahead of the ModiXi infor Arunachal,” he said. representing 50 organisa aspects of contemporary dis RSS was working every day services,” Mr. Shah said. mal summit, China is con Dr. Swamy stressed that tions from over 30 coun course. to demolish propaganda “Private security agen cerned about a possible me China was concerned about tries, said the RSS was Mr. Bhagwat told the au against itself. Much of what cies can also recruit stu dia orchestration of a border India’s ties with the U.S., against all forms of violence. dience that the abrogation of he spoke of, including that dents trained by the Na incident next month during which were highlighted on In a specifi c comment on in Mohan Bhagwat J&K’s special status would the organisation views ho tional Cadet Corps the Chinese President’s visit Sunday in Houston where cidents of lynching, he said help “integrate” the people mosexuality as a “variation” [NCC]....so you can get raw to India, says BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra the organisation would “dis command Suresh (Bhaiyyaji) with the rest of India, and rather than an abnormality, material who are full of Rajya Sabha member Subra Subramanian Swamy Modi and U.S. President Do own any swayamsewak Joshi, joint general secretar added that whatever fears had been mentioned by him Desh bhakti [patriotism] manian Swamy. nald Trump addressed a found guilty of such an act”. ies Manmohan Vaidya and they had about loss of land in his threeday lecture se and that too at government “I would say that there is Beijing on Monday. packed football stadium. The interaction restricted Krishan Gopal, northern re and jobs should be allayed. ries at the Vigyan Bhavan last cost,” he said. in the minds [of the Chinese] Dr. Swamy met Vice Fo “We need a political un to foreign journalists lasted gion incharge Bajran Lal He came out in strong year. Mr. Shah told owners of some doubts that we need to reign Minister Luo Zhaohui. derstanding [with China] over twoandahalf hours Gupt and Delhi unit head support of the proposed Citi He did, however, briefl y security fi rms, “All it takes remove. One is they are con He also addressed the elite that in any intervention of and covered topics from the Kulbhushan Ahuja. zenship Amendment Bill say comment on the handling of is a contribution of ₹ 22 a cerned that what you have Party School of the Commu the U.S. in Asia, we will not recent abrogation of the spe “This interaction was part ing Hindus had no place of the economy, after a declara year for insurance cover done with Article 370, are nist Party of China (CPC). be a party in South China cial status of J&K to homo of the continuous process succour other than India. tion that he was “no expert” age of ₹ 2 lakh under the go we going to do something “We [in India] can’t con Sea islands, Taiwan or Hong sexuality and castebased re where the ‘Sarsanghchalak’ The Bill proposes to grant ci but that there was “no para vernment scheme. Can’t about Ladakh,” Dr. Swamy trol every military comman Kong. On Tibet, we will not servations. [chief] engages in construc tizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, lysis as under the 10 years of you spend this much for said in an interaction with der just as they [in China] allow anyone to get into Ti Mr. Bhagwat was accom tive dialogue with people Jains Parsis and Christians UPA” and that the rest of it the wellbeing of your se resident Indian media in can’t. But they have said bet,” Dr. Swamy observed. panied by RSS secondin from diff erent walks of socie fl eeing persecution from was part of a process. curity guard?”
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