millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 SUNDAY millenniumPUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 88 | Sunday, 2 April, 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 post NO HALF TRUTHS CITY PAGE 3 INTERNATIONAL PAGE 6 FILM PAGE 16 FAKE EGG ROW: CPI(M)’S RABIN TRUMP GOVT SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS “I WAS CAREFUL TO NOT DEB’S NEPHEW’S NAME CROPS UP ISSUES TO BE RAISED PRIVATELY END UP BEING SLOTTED” Quick News44 MODI GOVT MOVE DOES NOT SYNC WITH ITS NOISE ON CHIT FUNDS: TMC ED raids over 100 Akhilesh lost because he spots in 17 states in insulted me: Mulayam ‘Small saving interest cuts op against shell cos MAINPURI: In a public outburst against Akh- ilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam NEW DELHI: The Enforce- Singh Yadav on Saturday said his son had demonic and anti-people’ ment Directorate(ED) on Sat- insulted him and the voters understood that urday conducted nationwide “one who is not loyal to his father, cannot be loyal TARUN GOSWAMI Senior Trinamool Congress searches at over 100 locations to anyone” which led to the party’s poll debacle. leader Madan Mitra too attended as part of its major crackdown He also said that a final view on floating a new KOLKATA: Dubbing the Centre’s Saturday’s meeting on Banerjee’s on 500 shell companies sus- party is yet to be taken. decision to reduce interest rates instructions. Asked about Mitra’s pected to be generating huge Mulayam laid bare his anger for the first time on small savings “demonic and presence at the meeting, Chatter- amounts of black money. after the SP’s defeat in the UP assembly election anti-people”, the Trinamool Con- jee shot back, “He is a party mem- The raid operations across 17 was virtually out on the field fought under the leadership of Akhilesh who had gress on Saturday urged it to safe- ber and did not join the Trinamool states began early in the morn- to undertake one of the big- replaced his father as the party supremo follow- guard the interests of the common from some other party and so ing with ED sleuths swooping gest operations in the country ing a battle of turf with his uncle Shivpal Yadav. man, particularly senior citizens. attended the meeting.” down at market places, busi- against shell firms. The drive “I was badly insulted, which I had never faced Chief Minister and TC supremo Chatterjee said that there had ness centres, residential prem- was part of a recent PMO direc- in my life. Nevertheless, I tolerated. No leader of Mamata Banerjee, who chaired a been discussions about the ongo- ises and even houses put up on tive to check the illegal opera- any party in India had made his son a chief min- Core Committee meeting of the ing Trinamool Congress member- rent to hunt down the allegedly tions of these companies. ister during his lifetime, but I made Akhilesh the party at Kalighat in the afternoon, ship drive at length at Saturday’s dubious and suspicious firms “The operations are based Chief Minister of UP,” he said in his first address also urged all Trinamool Congress meeting. Banerjee told the leaders which the agency believes are on various investigations done in his pocket burough after the UP assembly leaders and workers to stand by that under the present political sce- the “backbone” of black money by the agency and some oth- results in which the SP got only 47 seats out 403. the affected people and fight for nario, the importance of Trinamool in the country. ers as part of their anti-black Mulayam who was unseated as party president their cause. CENTRE’S RATE WAR ON MASSES Congress had gone up and urged ED teams had visited at money crackdown charter,” by Akhilesh just before the elections had stayed Briefing the media after the them to develop close contact with least 110 locations in cities like said ED Director Karnal Singh. away from the election campaign. See PG4 meeting, party Secretary General SCHEME OLD NEW the masses. Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmed- He said the operations were Partha Chatterjee said that Baner- Chatterjee also informed that abad, Panaji, Kochi, Bengaluru, continuing late into the night. jee had expressed serious con- PPF 8% 7.9% as the party’s senior man in Nadia, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, ED teams also visited those WikiLeaks spills more cern over the Centre’s decision to National Savings 8% 7.9% Gourshankar Dutta, was not keep- Patna, Jaipur, Chandigarh, who are allegedly connected reduce the rates of interest on small ing well, four leaders Ujjal Biswas, Jalandhar, Srinagar, Indore and to some of the most promi- beans on CIA hacking ops savings. Sukanya Samriddhi 8.5% 8.4% Kallol Khan, Ajay De and Pundar- some in Haryana. The agency nent corruption and black “On the one hand, they are Senior Citizens’ Saving Plan ikakshya Saha had been asked to said it searched a Mumbai- money cases being probed in shouting about chit funds and on 8.5% 8.4% look after the organisation in the based operator who was run- the country at present. The WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks’ latest disclosure the other by reducing the rates of Recurring (5 Years) 7.3% 7.2% district. ning 700 shell companies with agency said it recovered docu- of CIA cyber tools reveals a technique used by interest on small savings, they have A finance ministry notification 20 dummy directors and had ments and raided those dubi- the agency to hide its digital tracks, potentially hit the interests of the common Kisan Vikas Patra interest rate reduced to 7.6%; so money said investments in the public prov- “converted Rs 46.7 crore for ous firms which were “used in blowing the cover on current and past hacking people, particularly senior citizens, will now be doubled in 112 months under this scheme ident fund (PPF) scheme will fetch Chaggan Bhujbal”, the jailed the National Rural Health Mis- operations aimed at gathering intelligence on badly. We really do not know what a lower annual rate of 7.9 per cent, ex-Maharashtra deputy chief sion (NRHM) scam to launder terrorists and other foreign targets. The release prompted them to reduce these ment had shocked the nation and April-June quarter, a move that the same as the five-year National minister. proceeds of crime.” on Friday of the CIA’s “Marble Framework” rates of interest. We will urge the delighted India Inc by announc- would prompt banks to cut their Savings Certificate. The existing The central probe agency, It said the action was car- comes less than a month after the anti-secrecy Centre to take steps to safeguard ing a lowering of interest rates on deposit rates. For April-June, these rate for these two schemes is 8 which has a total strength of ried out against those opera- organization dumped onto the Internet a trove the interests of the common peo- small saving schemes like PPF, have been lowered by 0.1 per cent per cent. Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) about 800 officers and staff tors allegedly used by ex-Noida of files - dubbed Vault 7 - that described the type ple,” Chatterjee maintained. Kisan Vikas Patra and the Sukanya across the board compared to investments will yield 7.6 per cent at its various regional and Chief Engineer Yadav Singh “to of malware and methods the CIA uses to gain On Friday, the Union Govern- Samriddhi by 0.1 per cent for the January-March. and mature in 112 months. zonal offices in the country, convert his illegal wealth”. access to targets’ phones, computers and other electronic devices. See PG6 EC asks for report on EVMs Kerala CPM govt’s new minister Accept criticism as argument and not being fudged ‘in BJP’s favour’ has huge biz interests in Kuwait THIRUVANANTHA- CONFLICT OF INTEREST? to Thomas at the Raj Bha- as intolerance NEW DELHI: The Election Commis- PURAM: Businessman- van. Chief Minister Pinarayi PRESIDENT PRANAB MUKHERJEE sion has sought a detailed report from Kejriwal meets CEC, turned- politician Thomas Vijayan and his cabinet col- the district poll authorities in Bhind, Chandy of the Nationalist leagues were present at the Madhya Pradesh on media reports that seeks probe, return to Congress Party (NCP) was on function. VVPAT was only dispensing slips of ballot paper system Saturday sworn in as transport A three-time Member In today’s BJP symbol during a demonstration minister in Kerala’s CPM-led of the Legislative Assembly exercise. An Assembly bypoll is due in NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Left Democratic Front gov- (MLA) from Kuttanad in Ala- paper Bhind next week and the demonstration Minister Arvind Kejriwal ernment, replacing A K Sas- puzha district, he is the fourth was part of the familiarisation exercise. on Saturday urged the Elec- eendran, who quit as transport minister from the district. ... “We have sought a detailed report tion Commission (EC) to minister following allegations Nationalist Congress Par- from district election officer,” a Com- investigate cases of "faulty" of a sleazy telephone conver- Thomas Chandy ty’s Saseendran had resigned CITY mission spokesperson said. The vot- EVMs and ascertain if their sation with a woman. on March 26 after a purported ers see Voter-verifiable paper audit Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi software can be tweaked "in Thomas, who has extensive and lake resorts in the state, audio clip of him speaking in TEHELKA FOR LEGAL STEPS AGAINST SAMUEL 3 trail (VVPAT) slip for seven seconds, favour of the BJP". Kejriwal business interests in the West exuded confidence that meet- sexual undertones to a woman which would be an acknowledgement VVPAT first dispensed a slip with met Chief Election Commis- Asian Arab state of Kuwait and ing both business and minis- was aired by Malayalam chan- NATION receipt for the party they voted for in (BJP’s) lotus symbol but the second one sioner Nasim Zaidi and also the southern Indian state of terial responsibilities together nel Mangalam.