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In P Q% elections by deferring its organ- Telangana also, Shah said, the # ! isational polls. party will go full steam. * % + + For his part, Shah pointed Delivering the inaugural % to the BJP’s growing clout in the address in the meeting which # # country and of India in the was attended by all the top %' ! global league under Prime leaders, including the Prime %% + Minister Narendra Modi who, Minster, State Chief Ministers, ' %, he said, leads the nation from State presidents and most of the -..! front unlike his predecessor members of the National Manmohan Singh. Hitting Executive, Shah said the party !# Q out at the Congress, Shah also would contest the 2019 poll on , said while the BJP believed in the plank of “good governance” NO1N “Making India”, the Congress of the Modi Government from * ! '' # + ! , # ' % ! trusts in “Breaking India.” 2014 to 2019. # # - & ' # () Shah, whose three-year Defence Minister Nirmala + term ends in January next year, Sitharaman briefed the Press on in the country with 19 States mongering against the party % % will lead the party in the Lok the details of Shah’s address to already under its belt with about restoration of the SC/ST !O Sabha election in 2019 and its the highest decision-making good majority. Act provisions. Shah spoke on 2 #' ' organisational polls are likely to body of the BJP. While asking party men to the National Register of %34 be suspended till then as it will Hitting out at the prepare for the general elections, Citizens besides the Citizen 5 6 # focus on the electoral challenge Opposition for indulging in he urged them to focus on vot- Amendment Bill, 2016. He !2 '%' on hand, party sources said. “disruptive politics”, he said ers’ verification process which is said now all persecuted minori- % Organisational polls in an elec- each of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ underway in the country and ties, including Buddhist, Sikhs, N % tion year have often been parties has been defeated by also to challenge what he called Jains and Christians in 6 !O % deferred in the past as well to the National Democratic “P Chidambaram & company Pakistan, Bangladesh and N 7 8 allow the incumbent presi- Alliance in 2014 and thereafter with full facts in hand”. Afghanistan, would be given 9 F ! # dent, his team of office-bearers too, and the BJP has captured The BJP asked the workers asylum/refuge in India. $ # & ' # () and workers to focus on polls, 75 per cent of geographical area to counter Opposition’s rumour Turn to Page 4 P% % " : QO! ! ) ' P ' # , # % !; (' , ' Q'% ## / ' * # " ( ! New Delhi: Putting to rest all exhibition has been held in exhibition in Lucknow trig- M speculation about shifting of Bengaluru every two years. gering angry reactions from !" L the prestigious international Several States, including political parties of Karnataka. , M " $% aerospace exhibition Aero Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha and The five-day event will M !' '(" India, the Government on Tamil Nadu, had offered to the combine a major trade exhibi- Saturday announced that the Defence Ministry to stage the tion for the aerospace and ! , P event next year will be held at 12th edition of Aero India. defence industries with public % its traditional venue Bengaluru Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister air shows, the official commu- NO %'% ! itself from February 20 to 24. Yogi Adityanath had last month niqué said. ! ) * + ! Since its inception in 1996, the urged Sitharaman to hold the Turn to Page 4 , % !, + R % % ! ' #! ! - ! < ! !" . ! 8(*29 % '% ! $ ! resident Donald Trump on (# + $5 % # ! ! PFriday said he wants to % % ' + " " stop the trade subsidies that New Delhi: Petrol price in the national Capital ! growing economies like India Trump said. on Saturday crossed the 80 mark for the first #% $% Q #$ % and China have been receiving He said they call them- time ever as rupee depreciation made imports %! # as he wants the US, which he selves developing nations and costlier. ). )78( $% Q ! + considers a “developing nation”, “under that category they get Petrol price was raised by 39 paise a litre and ! * / , ! to grow faster than anybody. subsidies.” diesel by 44 paise per litre, according to price noti- 37-year-old member of Manipur-based % %' Addressing a fundraiser “We have to pay them fication issued by State fuel retailers. Abanned terrorist outfit Kangleipak ! event in the Fargo city of North money. This whole thing is The increase pushed the petrol price in Delhi Communist Party (KCP-PWG) was arrested by = > M 6? 0 1 Dakota, he also accused the crazy, but we’re going to stop it. to 80.38 per litre. Diesel rate touched its high- Delhi Police’s Special Cell from Bishnupur in %@ M Q World Trade Organisation We’re going to stop it. We have est level of 72.51 a litre. In Mumbai, a litre of Manipur for threatening and extorting busi- $ %'! , " (WTO) of allowing China to stopped it. petrol costs 87.77 and diesel comes for 76.98, nessmen and influential people in Delhi. 5 $ @ 2 become a “great economic “We are a developing the notification said. Fuel prices in Delhi are the The terrorist was also wanted by the % ' 3 4 power”. nation, too, OK? We are. As far cheapest among all metros and most State cap- National Investigative Agency (NIA) and a A % " & “We have some of these as I’m concerned, we are a itals due to lower taxes. Mumbai has the highest reward of 2 lakh was declared on his arrest by % countries that are considered developing nation. I want to be tax rates among the metros. the agency. He has been brought to Delhi on ! growing economies. Some put down in that category Opposition parties have called for a nation- transit remand from Manipur. !B ' A O(#P countries that have not because we are growing, too. wide ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Monday to protest “The accused identified as Moirangthem ' 7 @ )*! * matured enough yet, so we are We are going to grow faster against the spiralling fuel prices. Rana Pratap, alias Paikhomba, is a self-styled % 9,<#$ 1 ( ! 5 6 paying them subsidies. Whole than anybody,” Trump said The spike in prices has renewed calls for cut general secretary of the banned outfit,” said N % !C / thing is crazy. Like India, like amidst applause from the in excise duty but Finance Minister Arun Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of # !$' ! China, like others we say, ‘oh, audience. Jaitley has remained non-committal, saying Police (DCP), Special Cell. !B@ ! " + they’re growing actually’,” Turn to Page 4 international oil prices are volatile. PTI Turn to Page 4 ' % @ !O % @ !2 ! -0 1234 55 8% Q % ! ! # ). )78( sity rainfall in short duration, tained. NB O! O P poor or inadequate drainage A separate study carried % n a little over three decades ! capacity, unplanned reservoir out by the National Remote I— between 1978 and 2011 — regulation and failure of flood Sensing Centre of ISRO found ! a whopping 10 million addi- "# control structures. “Intense that 15 districts of Assam, 10 R % ' M tional hectares of land became !$% rain during the monsoon sea- each of Bihar and Uttar flood-prone area in India. son causes rivers like Pradesh, nine of Odisha and six ' ! While 40 million hectares 2.35 million hectares in Brahmaputra, Ganga and of West Bengal get submerged #,# /98( therefore forced to take to the of land were “prone to floods” Haryana are prone to flood,” Yamuna to swell their banks, by floods for varying streets,” said one of the five M % till 1978 as per the Rashtriya the report said. which, in turn, flood the adja- percentage. isappointed by the failure nuns who took part in the !$ Barh Ayog (RBA) that studied And the addition of flood- cent areas,” the Ministry main- Turn to Page 4 Dor alleged refusal of the protest fast organised by the ,N OM M figures since 1953, the 12th prone areas, as per the 12th Church and the Kerala Joint Christian