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3.45 New Delhi. India on Thursday gave green signal to the meet- day after the Modi ing following Pakistan Prime AGovernment confirmed Minister’s September 15 letter External Affairs Minister to Prime Minister Narendra Sushma Swaraj’s talks with her Modi seeking the resumption Pakistani counterpart Shah of dialogue between the two Mehmood Qureshi on the side- countries. lines of the upcoming United On Friday, the MEA said, Nations General Assembly “After Imran Khan’s letter, we (UNGA) in New York next thought Pakistan is moving week, India on Friday called off towards positive changes, a the meeting citing Pakistan’s new beginning. But now it complicity in the “brutal” seems behind their proposal killing of three policemen in were evil intentions.” Jammu & Kashmir as well as India is also furious over the release of postal stamps glo- the release of 20 special stamps rifying Kashmiri terrorist by Islamabad glorifying Burhan Burhan Wani. Wani — the Hizbul Accusing Pakistan and Mujahideen terrorist killed by Prime Minister Imran Khan of security forces in 2016 — in the “evil designs” after three police- guise of solidarity with men were kidnapped and killed Kashmiris. by terrorists in Shopian in While agreeing to the J&K, India said talks with meeting after Imran Khan’s Pakistan in such an environ- request, New Delhi had sought ! " ment would be “meaningless”. to clarify on Thursday that it ! # “The true face of the would be “just a meeting” and Pakistan Prime Minister has “not resumption of dialogue”. been exposed in his first few “Let’s distinguish between months in office,” said Ministry meeting and dialogue. This $ ! %& ' ( for External Affairs (MEA) doesn’t change our stand on spokesperson Raveesh Kumar terrorism,” MEA spokesman a here on Friday. had said day before. He said the 2$ spreading ideology and policy four generations”, Shah said. “The latest brutal killings of Government has agreed to the ) * of party. Everyone has the They (Congress) have our security personnel by meeting but no agenda has haratiya Janata Party (BJP) details of 15 years of BJP gov- left many states as BIMRAU Pakistan-based entities and the been set so far. BNational President and ernment in Chhattisgarh and States, he said. recent release of a series of 20 This would have been the 3% Rajya Sabha member Amit more than 4 years rule under Shah highlighted the Jan- postage stamps by Pakistan first high-level talks between Shah on Friday threw up a Prime Minister Narendra Modi Dhan yojana to link back glorifying a terrorist and ter- the two sides since the errorists shot dead three challenge to party workers and at the Centre. Everyone has to accounts, health insurance rorism confirm that Pakistan Pathankot terror strikes from Tpolicemen shortly after asked them to take a pledge for reach out to the voters, con- scheme of Rs 5 lakh, LPG dis- will not mend its ways,” the Pakistan in 2016. The abducting them from their res- % &' ()* 6 ! rooting out Congress party vince them and motivate them tribution, vaccination MEA Spokesperson said. Pathankot attack on January 2, idences in two villages of south from the country. to vote for the party,” he said. drive, Mudra Scheme covering He noted that “two deeply 2016, by a heavily armed Kashmir’s Shopian district on +" ()- 7 '189 “Now 70 per cent of the Leaders do not win elec- 12 crore youth, hike in MSP disturbing developments have Pakistani group in the Friday for refusing to obey their / !" ! country covering 19 States have tion; it is the hard work and for farmers, including the sur- taken place” since Thursday’s Pathankot Air Force Station diktat to resign from their 9" BJP Governments in power; so willpower of party workers, gical strike. announcement of a meeting had then led to a similar break- posts. The killings triggered a () ./0 ()- : " remaining states have to be which ensure elections are Country would not tolerate between the Foreign Ministers down of the dialogue resump- spree of resignations of the ;! brought under party’s fold by won. It all started from 10 illegal immigrants as they are of India and Pakistan in New tion process between the two Special Police Officers (SPOs) first winning the 2018 Assembly members of Jan Sangh having consuming the resources of York later this month. “In view neighbours. even as the officials main- polls and then again in 2019 Lok faced continuous failures but local people; so when in Assam of the changed situation, there On Friday morning, three tained that no formal resigna- Sabha polls”, he said. continued to strive and now NRC was implemented, Rahul will be no meeting between the policemen were dragged out of tions have been received. (1 /2/3# ()4 < He was addressing the BJP has 18 crore members, the Gandhi started started voicing Foreign Ministers of India and their homes in Kashmir’s Sources said four persons, ‘Shakti Kendra Karyakartha’ highest in the world, the party’s human rights violation. But Pakistan in New York,” he said. Shopian by terrorists and killed. including three policemen, ( &# ()4 62;! (Booth Level Workers) National President said. what about human rights of local Eyebrows were raised on On Tuesday, a BSF jawan’s were abducted from Kapran Convention held at Logistic “Loss of Congress was gain residents, who are being denied Thursday as India confirmed body was found mutilated with and Batagund villages of Park premises on Friday. of BJP, which took its tally to 19 job, food and other facilities at the meeting even though inci- his throat slit after he went Shopian district in the wee “The victory is ours. There states where the BJP govern- cost of immigration”, he asked. dents of cross-border killings of missing when the Pakistan hours of Friday. Hours later, Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, who was revealed the role of “terror out- is need to win polls from ments exist. AICC President “I ask Rahul Gandhi to Indian security personnel did Rangers fired at a patrol team bullet-riddled bodies of the brother of an SPO, was set free fits Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) Panchayat to Parliament, so Rahul Gandhi is asking what clear his stand on the issue as not stop and Islamabad was clearing elephant grass along three SPOs were recovered and returned home. and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) in that party rules the country for has been done in last 4 years; BJP is clear that it would not seen to be setting the agenda the international border. from Lumni Wangam village in Police in a statement said this barbaric act of terror. next 50 years,” Shah said. instead he should answer what tolerate illegal immigrants”, for the meeting rather than the Continued on Page 4 Shopian. The fourth abductee preliminary investigation Continued on Page 4 Elections are won by was done in country by his last Shah said. +, - . 3.45 The girl somehow managed to reach her flat unharmed and narrated 21-year-old woman executive engi- her ordeal to her family members. 3.45 Aneer working with an MNC foiled “Meanwhile, the arrested accused "" a rape bid by seven of her rowdy neigh- have been identified as Abhishek, day after The bours at her high-rise residential com- Sawan, Ankit, alias Kali, Mukesh, aka APioneer reported # plext in an upscale society at Sector-86 Monty, and Sachin, while Hemant and how wedding lawns in Gurugram on Thursday around Kamal, alias Nandi, are still at large, are flouting MCD and " 9.45 pm. police said. green laws with impuni- The Acting on her complaint, police Brothers Ankit and Sawan are res- ty, the Supreme Court Monitoring have arrested five accused out of seven idents of Jind in Haryana and have com- appointed Monitoring Committee has on the charge of rape bid while two, who pleted BTech and were residing in a Committee has cracked written to both the 3.45 are brothers, are absconding, police said. rented flat in the society. Their friend down on such marriage venues and corporations, directing them to seal “When I reached the society I Nandi was allegedly attacked by a motels located in south and north Delhi. them 48 hour after serving notices. n a significant development, thought of taking the stairs. When I Delhi-based gangster and had received The committee conducted an Confirming the development, Ia French media report quot- reached the first floor, I noticed a per- six gunshots a few months ago. He also inspection of the farm houses and senior officials of south and north cor- ed former French President son there. He made some queer noise; got police protection. The accused had motels falling under the jurisdiction of porations said they have received the Francois Hollande as purport- when I moved forward he grabbed my come to Gurugram to attend a marriage. South and North Delhi Municipal official communiqué and will start edly saying that the Indian hand. I got scared and threw his hand They were celebrating a party when Corporations and noticed violations like sending notices soon. Government proposed and managed to run away. I noticed that the incident took place in the complex, unauthoriesd construction, misuse of “Basements for these motels were Reliance Defence as the part- some others were following me,” the vic- police said. “Police teams are conduct- properties, air conditions pandals, found being used for commercial pur- ner for Dassault Aviation in the former French President commercial decision.” tim said in her complaint. ing raids to nab the absconding shamiyanas, sheds on their premises pose in violation of permitted use as per 58,000 crore Rafale jet fight- Hollande’s statement that Dassault Aviation, the “They attempted to rape me and accused,” said Shamsher Singh, and holding social functions. It was sanctioned plan, which was permitted er deal and France did not have Government of India insisted makers of Rafale, had chosen threatened me and my parents with dire Assistant Commissioner of Police found that permission from the respec- for parking and services only,” the let- a choice. upon a particular firm as offset Reliance Defence as its partner consequences if we report the matter to (ACP) Crime. tive municipal corporations was never ter stated. Reacting to Hollande’s partner for the Dassault Aviation to fulfill offset obligations of the police,” she claimed in her complaint. Continued on Page 4 taken. Continued on Page 4 remark that is at variance with in Rafale is being verified.” deal. The Government has the stand taken by the Indian The spokesperson said, “It been maintaining it did not Government, the Defence is reiterated that neither the have any role in selection of the Ministry spokesman said on Government nor the French offset partner. / 0 Friday, “The report referring to Government had any say in the Continued on Page 4
. 3.45 rich plant varieties they found S Negi, Lalit Giri and K during the expedition, the Chandra Sekar in their study an on human activities and authors said, “A total of 409 published in the latest issue of Bfocused conservation taxa belonging to 203 genera Current Science journal. undertaken since 1983 in and 71 families (377 “Tagged as World Heritage Uttarakhand's Nanda Devi Angiosperms, 7 Gymnosperms Site by UNESCO in 1988, the National Park has further and 25 Pteridophytes) were park is situated around the enriched the wilderness and documented from the National peak of Nanda Devi (7816 m) 131%&,2 forest composition of the park Park. Two types of forest com- in the hill State of Northern situated in high altitude of munities, ie Betula utilis along India. Till 1983, tourism was rime Minister Narendra Modi Western Himalayas, accord- timberline, and mixed forest of allowed in the Biosphere !"#"$ Pwill visit poll-bound ing to a research. Abies spectabilis with B. utilis Reserve which has two core ! " Chhattisgarh on Saturday at farmers’ Researchers from GB Pant form the dominant forests areas — Valley of Flowers and $%& " heartland Janjgir-Champa district. National Institute of Himalayan inside the National Park. Nanda Devi National Park '( In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “Glad to be visiting Environment and Sustainable Earlier they were scarce in which is home to Nanda Devi L" ! M ++,& Chhattisgarh tomorrow. I shall be in Janjgir Champ were I will Development had carried out numbers.” Peak also. However, the gov- O lay the foundation stone for highway projects and a railway line. a month-long study to assess Park. They noted that the pro- too in the form of growth of “Maximum species rich- ernment banned tourists' entry ./ 0 I would also visit exhibitions on handloom and agriculture, sec- floristic diversity, community hibition of anthropogenic high value plants, diversity, ness was observed in in the region to save the peak & tors where Chhattisgarh has done well under @drdramansingh composition and regeneration activities, which was imposed forest composition and Dibrugheta (128) followed by of Nanda Devi from environ- /12O " Ji.” Senior Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh have planned to show status of different forests in the to save the peak of Nanda improved ecological condi- Dharansi (43) and Sarsopatal mental degradation,” Dr & black flags to Prime Minister during his programmes at Janjgir- park post-prohibition of Devi (7816 m) housed in the tions of the region spread over (34) among the studied alpine Vikram S Negi told The Champa as a mark of protest against alleged police brutality to human activities in almost last National Park. helped bring 624 kilometer square. meadows of this National Pioneer. Congress cadres in Bilaspur city recently. four decades in the National positive changes in the region Giving details of the high Park,” said researchers Vikram Continued on Page 4 ( ) (* ++, +-./
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These in the lower ranks of the police "Surgical strike day" with the ;%33D$&C3+ using the UGC to achieve of their livelihoods? This he Union Home Ministry reports are based on false pro- department with at least six Opposition calling it a foul 1&+4+&+&, their political agenda. another jumla!" the former Ton Friday said no Special paganda by mischievous ele- policemen resigning from ser- politics while Centre insisting /D;22;+;32+ We won't abide by the direc- Union HRD Minister said. Police Officer has resigned in ments," the Union Home vice. Two of them issued video that the moves certainly reflect- N/;5$+5D4&$5;$ tions of UGC," Chatterjee Javadekar told reporters in Jammu & Kashmir following Ministry said in a statement. messages dissociating them- ed patriotism and not politics. 34 5O said at Kolkata. Delhi the ruling BJP differed the killing of three police per- "Jammu & Kashmir has a selves from the police ranks. While Trinamool Congress said Government for trying to "We would have under- with the Congress as it only sonnel by banned terror group professional and committed "My name is Irshad Ahmad they would not follow the HRD "malign and politicise" the by the National Cadet stood it had they asked us to gave advise to institutes to fol- Hizbul Mujahideen and police force which is fully Baba and I was working as a Ministry's diktat, former HRD Army and said educational Corps(NCC) and visit to exhi- observe the day in the name of low a programme while the termed such reports as "false geared up to meet the security constable in the police. I have Minister and senior Congress institutes will not abide by bitions are among the pre- sacrifices made by our soldiers. opposition party made its deci- propaganda" by "mischievous" challenges, including those rendered my resignation...," leader Kapil Sibal took a jibe by UGC's directive. Countering scribed events by the University We have full respect for our sol- sions compulsory when it was elements. related to Panchayat and Urban said one of the SPOs in a asking whether the UGC would him, BJP State president Dilip Grants Commission(UGC) for diers and their sacrifices." "The in power. "Where is politics? The Ministry also said that body elections," the statement video message being widely cir- celebrate November 8 the Ghosh said the TMC the celebration. Colleges have Indian Army has always been This is not politics but patrio- the terror groups are rattled by further read. culated on social media in demonetisation day. Government has made it a been asked to organise parades kept above politics and contro- tism," Javadekar said, adding the action taken by the securi- There are over 30,000 SPOs Srinagar. HRD Minister Prakash practice to oppose each and by the National Cadet Corps versies. But now we are seeing that students needed to be ty forces against the terrorist and their services are reviewed Tajalla Hussain Lone, Javadekar said the UGC direc- every decision of the Centre. (NCC) and lectures by ex- that the BJP is trying to malign informed about the surgical groups and as many as 28 ter- from time to time. Some mis- another SPO, said he had tives was not compulsory but Javadekar said the UGC army officers. and politicise the Indian Army. strikes, and military and civil rorists have been neutralized in chievous elements are trying to resigned from the police an advisory. UGC has asked the communication reflected "patri- On September 29 in 2016, This is not right and we won't works soldiers do. Shopian alone this year. project that those SPOs whose department on September 17 universities and the higher otism not politics", and it is not the Indian Army carried out support it," Chatterjee said. He claimed that students 28 terrorists have been services are not renewed due to and was issuing the video to educational institutions to cel- compulsory for the academic "surgical strikes" on seven ter- Sibal sarcastically asked and institutes had made sug- neutralised this year in Shopian administrative reasons, have put to rest any doubts, and ebrate the second anniversary institutions to organise any such rorist launch pads across the whether the UGC would "dare" gestions that the second alone where the three police- resigned. Terrorists are on that Hizbul Mujahideen com- of the surgical strikes on terror event. He rejected the criticism Line of Control(LoC) as a to celebrate November 8, the anniversary of surgical strikes men were killed on Friday. backfoot in Jammu & Kashmir, mander Riyaz Naikoo has camps in Pakistan-occupied by opposition parties as response to an attack on its day when demonetisation was should be observed. Asked "Due to pro-active actions of the Home Ministry said. several times warned local Kashmir(PoK). "absolutely ridiculous and false". base in Uri earlier that month. announced in 2016, as 'surgi- why it was not commemorat- Jammu & Kashmir police, ter- The three policemen were policemen, especially SPOs, to West Bengal Education Talk sessions by ex-ser- The Army had said its special cal strike day'. "UGC directs ed last year, he said a rorists have been pushed to the abducted from their homes in resign from the force, saying Minister Partha Chatterjee vicemen about sacrifices by the forces inflicted "significant VC's of all universities to cele- good suggestion can be exe- corner and are being driven to south Kashmir's Shopian dis- that the Government is criticised the BJP-led Central armed forces, special parades casualties" on terrorists waiting brate 29th September as cuted anytime. desperation," the Home trict and shot dead in cold using them. !& !"# /0 # O P- . " '() 3.45 there was silence on the part of " $"RQ R the Government. itting out at the Centre Singhvi alleged that muti- "*+,-- 3.45 This is for the first time Irrespective of the main- Hover the security situa- lations have been on the rise that dirty linen is being washed tainability of the complaint, tion in Jammu & Kashmir, the since 2016 and also cited the 3.45 mid a row between CBI in the open and two top offi- CBI has provided most of the Congress on Friday alleged recent killing of a BSF jawan ADirector Alok Verma and cials are embroiled in allega- files as requested by the CVC that the NDA Government who was found with his he Enforcement the agency's second-in-com- tions of corruption. and the remaining will be sub- was playing with the "crown of throat slit. TDirectorate (ED) attached mand Rakesh Asthana, the "It is unfortunate that base- mitted soon. India" and treating the people He also slammed the immovable properties and public relations wing of the CBI less and frivolous allegations The CBI also claimed that of the State like "guinea pigs". Government's decision to agree bank balances worth 42.88 swung into action to defend the are being made publicly with- there is no substance in the Congress spokesman to the meeting between crore derived by accused Amit chief and malign his deputy. out proper verification of facts media reports that CBI is not Abhishek Singhvi alleged that External Affairs Minister Bhardwaj and his accomplices The CBI spokesperson issued a to malign the image of the cooperating in the enquiry. there had been a marked quan- Sushma Swaraj and her in Bitcoin Trading Ponzi statement terming CBI Special Director CBI and intimidate The allegation of preventing titative increase in ceasefire Pakistani counterpart Shah scheme under the banner of Director Rakesh Asthana's the officials of the organisa- raids against the accused in the violations, deaths of security Mahmood Qureshi on the side- Variabletech Pvt Ltd Singapore. complaint to the CVC against tion," reads the CBI statement. IRCTC case is absolutely false. personnel, civilian killings, lines of the UN General These attached properties the agency chief of his inter- The CVC has sought for The investigation of the case has and terror incidents in Jammu Assembly in New York. include six offices of Bhardwaj ference in certain cases as certain case files from the CBI resulted in filing a chargesheet & Kashmir since the BJP came However, later in the located at Dubai (UAE) and the "malicious" and "frivolous". The on the basis of a complaint filed before the designated court. to power at the Centre and in chievous" elements. there is a 500 per cent increase." evening, India called off the flats and bank balances of his row between the two officers by the Special Director, CBI, This could not have been pos- the State. "There is a quantitative He said the UPA had meeting citing the "brutal" two marketing agents Hemant has raised several eyebrows on the statement said. sible without the explicit He blamed the and qualitative change. The brought the State and its peo- killing of the three policemen Bhope and Pankaj Adlakha. the selection of officers, includ- "In its response to the CVC approval of the Director CBI, Government for the deterio- quantitative change is reflect- ple in the mainstream, but the in Jammu & Kashmir as well as The ED probe has revealed ing Verma, as the agency chief letter, the Chief Vigilance the agency further claimed. rating security situation in ed in any of the four parame- NDA Government converted the release of postal stamps glo- that Amit Bhardwaj had start- and their integrity. Officer (CVO) of CBI has CBI has pointed out in its Jammu & Kashmir and cited ters — ceasefire violations, that mainstream into "mid- rifying Kashmiri militant ed a company at Singapore In an unusual move, the pointed out that the complaint letter to CVC that the issue the abduction and killing of death of security personnel, stream". Singhvi also accused Burhan Wani. Singhvi slammed under the banner of CBI issued a statement after is an attempt by the com- relating to the IRCTC case three policemen and the civilian deaths, terror inci- the Government of treating the Government's Pakistan pol- Variabletech Pvt Ltd in 2015 reports about Asthana filing a plainant to intimidate the offi- was raked up earlier also and reported resignations by police dents," Singhvi said. Jammu & Kashmir like a "lab- icy as a 'No Pak policy'. and through its web-site complaint before the Central cers of CBI who are investi- brought before the Supreme personnel in the State. It is "shocking" that 414 oratory experiment" and its "It is knee-jerk, it is www.gainbitcoin.com, he Vigilance Commission alleging gating his role in at least half a Court on two occasions. The The Home Ministry, how- jawans have died since the BJP people like "guinea pigs". episodic, it is momentary, it is launched a ponzi scheme of interference in the probes dozen cases. The CBI said that matter was dismissed by the ever, said on Friday that no came to power at the Centre "The Government has transient, it depends on the Bitcoin trading. undertaken by the special the CVC should opine on the Supreme Court. The peti- policeman has resigned in the and in the State, he said. betrayed each and every part of mood of the moment. This Bitcoin is a virtual crypto- investigation team under him. maintainability of the com- tioners were also in posses- state following the killing of the Singhvi said, "256 civilians Jammu & Kashmir and Government has no moral currency which is popular The statement comes amid plaint and consider it malicious sion of information from three police personnel by ter- have died. As I have said on all Ladakh," the Congress leader right to continue. The amongst a section of the reports that Verma interfered and frivolous in order to pro- highly confidential internal ror group Hizbul Mujahideen parametres there is 100, 200, said. He alleged that to all the Government is playing with investors. Under the said in the investigation of IRCTC tect the integrity of the organ- documents, which is a serious and described such reports as 300 per cent increase. In the incidents of violence and dete- crown, with the pride of scheme, Bhardwaj, through his tender scam. isation," the CBI said. offence, it added. "false propaganda" by "mis- case of ceasefire violations, riorating security situation, India," he said. team of marketing agents, used to lure the gullible people by asking them to buy Bitcoins out % * of their investments and then ( . /" invest these Bitcoins in his 4 gainbitcoin scheme by promis- ing high returns. . + 3.45 trained in sign language and tinct part of a subject. "The idea of this exercise Besides, information related Through this scheme, Q67 "R finger spelling alphabet. The number of sign is to acquaint the officials with to basic etiquette while con- Bhardwaj and his marketing n a move to make upcoming election watchdog has written languages. the issues that concern and the versing with persons with dis- agents were able to collect New Delhi: The Congress on IAssembly and Lok Sabha to all concerned to hire pro- In a commu- questions that are frequently by abilities was also shared with investments worth about Friday demanded a probe into polls accessible for all, the fessionals to receive the train- niqués' to Chief such voters," said officials of EC. the Officials of the 80,000 Bitcoins. However, the Narendra Modi-led Election Commission (EC) ing and also provided huge Electoral Officers "During the session, the Commission and they were instead of paying back the Government's much vaunted has decided to train all the posters of sign language and of States and election staff will be sensitised sensitised regarding the needs promised returns to the "Skill India", claiming that the electoral officers and staff to finger spelling alphabet for the Union Territories, on the needs of the persons of hearing impaired persons. investors in Bitcoins, Bhardwaj scheme was a massive scam get adequately trained in sign differentially abled to be dis- the EC said, " It with hearing impairment. The training was conducted offered them returns in his own benefiting people within the language and finger spelling played on all election related may be seen that Under the programme, a with the help of the Indian Sign newly launched crypto-cur- "BJP eco-system". Citing media alphabet. During the training premises. September 23, has polling scenario will be recre- Language Research and rency token MCAP which had reports and RTI replies, Congress session, the election officials According to EC officials, been declared as ated to enable the officials and Training Centre (ISLRTC) to nearly no value on crypto- spokesperson Abhishek Manu will be given training in elec- during the training programme International Day staff better understand what is prepare election officials to currency exchanges. Singhvi alleged that the scheme tion related sign languages session, the election officials of Sign Languages required of them while dealing communicate with voters with A large numbers of launched in 2015 to "train 40 symbols such as 'election', will be provided basic knowl- dactylology) is the representa- by United Nations. Accordingly, with voters with hearing dis- hearing disabilities. investors in Bhardwaj's firm crore people" was actually a 'voter identity card', 'address', edge as well as election related tion of the letters of a writing the sign language training ses- abilities," said EC officials. For the hearing impaired, were cheated in this way, the "shortcut to profitable business 'polling booth', polling station, sign languages or finger system and sometimes numer- sions may be conducted on any Earlier, the EC has provid- the EC had stated that sign lan- ED said. for the unscrupulous". political parties, voter slips spelling symbols such as 'elec- al systems, using only the working day in the week which ed training to chief electoral guage windows will be provid- The ED initiated investiga- "Skill India Mission has with photo, voter guides and tion', 'voter identity card', hands. These manual alphabets is also the "International Week officials and deputy electoral ed in all audio-visual training tion under the provisions of the turned out to be a massive scam other things. 'address', 'polling booth', polit- (also known as finger alphabets of Deaf". officials of states and union ter- and awareness content of the Prevention of Money with people within the BJP eco- Sources in the EC said ical parties, electronic voting or hand alphabets), have often The EC also made it clear ritories wherein the officers commission. For the visually- Laundering Act, 2002 resulting system, its cronies, middlemen, that the Commission has machines, voter slips with been used in hearing impaired that the training should be con- were acquainted with basic as challenged electors, the EC had in the provisional attachments of touts and mafia pocketing the directed all the electoral officers photo, electronic voting education, and have subse- ducted by sign language expert well as election related sign lan- stated that it would be issuing immovable properties and bank money for the same and listing and staff to get adequately machines. Finger-spelling (or quently been adopted as a dis- with a suitable experience in the guages symbols on last week. braille voter identity cards. balances worth 42.88 crore. ghost beneficiaries. "The mission of skilling has evolved into a mechanism of fast billing for BJP's friends. In the name of : making youth employable, Modi Government's Skill Development Ministry seems to have created 3.45 ic gardening, pottery and a shortcut to profitable business much more. for the unscrupulous," said he much-awaited, Global "It is a celebration of letting Singhvi. TFestival of Spiritual out your negativity and impure The Congress also targeted Sciences (GFFS) 2018 is being thoughts. This year with line- Textile Minister Smriti Irani held in one of Asia's largest up of global speakers, musi- over the alleged scam. "Irani, meditation pyramids, cians, and yogis one can learn who leaves no opportunity to Pyramid International Valley, the power of creating one's exert her larynx on variety of at the outskirts of Bangalore own unique vibe," said Pinky inane issues, is absolutely mum from September 29 to Daga, CEO, Thriive Art & on the rampant corruption October 4 where you can Soul, a state-of-the-art holistic under her watch, why?" asked have a holistic experience of wellness portal and organiser Singhvi. He also cited the wellness and spirituality to of the event. Government-appointed Sharda enliven your soul. This festival is open to all Prasad Committee that had What's even more advan- individuals coming from dif- "criticised the Modi tageous is that your queries will ferent walks of life like stu- Government for setting an be answered by some of the dents, working people and unachievable target of skilling most admired and influential topics ranging from the besides dance performances homemakers. 40 crore youth". "The commit- masters and healers in the 'Physics of Consciousness' to by Zia Nath, a danseuse and For those who are new to tee had further found that the world in the ambience of the 'Dream Interpretation & whirling expert and a sound spirituality, the celebratory Modi Government had been nature, making the entire event Symbology', from 'Indigenous Immersion session by Aurelio, aspect makes it less intimi- missing its targets over the pre- —11th edition of GFSS 2018— Wisdom of the Native a sound therapist and live dating, explains Pinky Daga. vious two years as far as skilling even more spiritual. Medicine Wheel' to music performance by "Masters break down esoteric the workforce was concerned," This spiritual festival fea- 'Connecting Ancient Wisdom Adam Apollo. subjects into their basics. So, said Singhvi, demanding a tures gurus like Susan Hough, with Quantum Physics' to set To keep children engaged, even those who've never even probe into the scam and recov- Jasmuheen, Prof Kaya, Dr your soul alight. the GFSS -2018 will have heard of spirituality are able ery of "crores of people's money Lakshmi Newton and The festival will also have interesting line up of mindful to experience it and this lost due to these irregularities". Christiane Muller and many activities like Tai Chi, yoga and fun activities such as begins an inner transforma- IANS & 7 7 & ! &* / 0 9 others will be speaking on and meditation sessions Kid's yoga, storytelling, organ- tion within them," she added. ( ) (* ++, +-./ ! " " 4 ' .
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2$ BJP Government again at the " Centre. “Every worker has o barriers can cause any something in hand for com- Nhindrance to stop party parison; Chhattisgarh before workers, if they have the obses- 2003 and after fourteen-and-a- 4 sion to work hard and are striv- half years of BJP rule and four ing continuously for welfare of years of Modi Government, 2$ 0 "0 #' 0<60#8 > '=' the people, Chief Minister where it stands now,” he said. "'"=0#"' <'#"' "06 Raman Singh said on Friday. The CM said party workers > '=' + >' = "'"=D"2"'8 “This is what the party have to reach 32 lakh beneficia- traffic policeman was = '"!"3 "#" "06 #' workers had done in past three ries of both State and Central Akilled while on duty at #' . "6'3 ' 0D/'6 0 occasions in 2003, 2008 and schemes. Highlighting details VIP road when a tree fell on " ' "6 =3"& # ' 0 2013 in Chhattisgarh. They of few schemes and decisions to him during arrival of Bharatiya " # "&/' # "##06 # are the core strength of the be spread among electors, Singh Janata Party’s National &' 2'"== > =# " party and are helping to repeat said that in memory of founder President Amit Shah to the city. formation of government for of Chhattisgarh, former PM late A tree fell over him and he injuries during treatment , the fourth consecutive time and Atal Bihari Vajpayee memorial succumbed to injuries while police said. also to set a record,” he said. soil from each village would be undergoing treatment at a private In another incident, former It would be the ‘Rajtilak’ of collected, for the ‘Atal Memorial’, hospital, police said. The Station Parliamentary Secretary and the party workers, said Singh. paddy is being procured at rate House Officer, Mana informed former MLA from He was addressing the of Rs 2,050/Rs 2,070 per quintal that the name of policeman is Dharamjaigarh, Om Prakash Shakti Kendra Karyakartha while Rs 750 crore bonus is being Akash Gosai and is a resident of Rathia and three other BJP (Booth Level Workers) Conve- distributed to tendupatta collec- Kayabandha in Atal Nagar. leaders sustained serious ntion held at Logistic Park tors, among others. Inclement weather persist- injuries in a road mishap while premises here. Shah along with He asked the workers to ed in the morning and strong they were on way to Raipur to other party leaders were present. recall the terror period from wind was also blowing. In attend the programme of Making a call to the party 2000 to 2003 when 5 quintals between, the cop who was Amit Shah. The incident took workers, the CM said they of paddy was being purchased standing under the tree while on place at the main road of should make promise to the BJP and before procurement, paddy duty got seriously injured when Mandir Hasaud around 5 am national president Amit Shah to was being dipped in water to tree fell over him, police said. on Friday. The leaders have win the State election by 65-plus test it, those were the days, He was immediately been admitted to a private seats in 2018 and also the 11 Lok which are now gone in past, rushed to a private hospital in hospital where their condition Sabha seats in 2019 to form the Singh said. the capital but he succumbed to is reported to be stable. +*0 288 " " %"
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2$ The Coal Transfer Car was The steel plant project is from Nagarnar to Vizag is inaugurated at the Coke Oven getting ready for its commis- envisaged to be executed in MDC Ltd’s Nagarnar Plant Complex of Nagarnar Steel in sioning of various units pro- SPV mode. The works for * Nis all set for inaugural May this year. gressively, for which opera- Bailadila to Jagdalpur segment heating up of its Coke Oven in With this inauguration, tional power supply system is (140 Km) has been taken up. Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. one set of complete equip- already energized during first This project is challenging in The Coke Oven will be inau- ment had been put in place for week of March 2018, they terms of obtaining various & gurated on September 28. commissioning of the Coke informed. clearances and permissions Union Minister for Steel Oven Project. In order to facilitate the from statutory bodies and com- Chaudhary Birender Singh and The Coke Transfer Car has commissioning activities of plexity of the route, officials ;;;" (CGPCC) president Bhupesh Chhattisgarh Chief Minister been manufactured and sup- steel plant, procurement action informed. Baghel will proceed from Raman Singh will light up the plied by Bhilai Engineering for initial requirement of var- The company is executing Raipur along with Congress Coke Oven on September 28, Corporation, Bhilai which has ious raw materials, spares, con- the project in two phases. The 4 activists while Leader of 2018, officials informed. also been awarded the EPC sumables, etc., are also under first phase is being executed 6 Opposition in the State Notably, the charging of the (Engineering and Project process. from Bacheli to Nagarnar in Assembly TS Singhdeo will Coal Handling System has Construction) contract for the NMDC already is in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh 2$ depart from Bilaspur to reach already been done at the plant complete Coke Oven package process of implementing an at an estimated outlay of Rs Janjgir on Saturday. Senior and gains significance because at a cost of Rs 1,978 crore. ambitious project of laying 4,000 crore; and the second enior Congress leaders of Congress leader Charandas the 3 MTPA capacity Nagarnar NMDC had started the Slurry Pipeline from Bailadila phase will be executed from Sthe State would start from Mahant would be present at Steel Plant is expected to han- 220KV GIS (Gas Insulated 0 0 +03#' > ' # "/6"' to Jagdalpur and further upto Nagarnar to Vizag in Andhra various district headquarters Janjgir. dle close to 2.5 million tonnes Switch) Main Receiving Sub- Visakhapatnam, officials Pradesh at an outlay of Rs 6,000 on Saturday and will join All the leaders in the form of coking coal annually to feed station in February this year, '06' 02 "06 > +03#' informed. crore, officials informed. together at Janjgir-Champa to of three rallies would meet at its two Coke Ovens. followed by Power supply to the The capacity of the pipeline Notably, to transport pellet show black flags to Prime a point at Janjgir and will Coking coal is converted to Sinter Plant. "="0 02 2# /& # ! is 15 MTPA and this will be feed concentrate from Bailadila Minister Narendra Modi dur- jointly move forward to show coke for charging into blast fur- Subsequently, as per sched- associated with facilities like to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the ing his programmes as a mark black flags to oppose the Prime nace to reduce iron ore to ule, power will be stepped 0 0 &#=5' (48 ()4 Beneficiation Plant at Kirandul company will have the pipeline of protest against alleged police Minister Narendra Modi where molten steel. down to 33KV and conducted and Bacheli, Pellet Plant at laid along the highways with a brutality to Congress activists he is going to address a public NMDC has already placed to the 11 sub-stations that will System (PPDS) through over- coils from its upcoming 3 Nagarnar and Vizag. provision of partial off-take to in Bilaspur. meeting after dedicating to the order for procurement of the distribute power to different head cable gallery system. MTPA Nagarnar Steel Plant in The Slurry Pipeline feed its proposed 3 MTPA Party sources informed public Madhwa Power Plant first consignment of coking units of the steel plant by the NMDC will put all its Bastar by March 2019, officials between Bacheli to Nagarnar is Steel plant coming up at that Chhattisgarh Pradesh established by the State coal, officials informed. Plant Power Distribution efforts to roll out the first HR informed. being executed by NMDC and Nagarnar. Congress Committee Government, sources said.
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killings. The abductions and body elections in October and from police stations. The Former Chief Minister and destruction in Jammu & $ ! %& execution took place four days panchayat elections in action, however, is believed to PDP president Mehbooba Kashmir. We have always 7 <7= after terrorists had issued warn- November and December. be the primary cause for pre- Mufti blamed the Centre’s poli- sought dialogue both on the ' ing to the serving SPOs to ten- Even as notifications for two mature shifting of then police cies for the abduction and internal and external fronts der resignations. Posters of phases of municipal polls have chief Shesh Paul Vaid. killing of three policemen say- and will continue to seek dia- banned HM outfit had been issued, no candidate has Meanwhile, an alert was ing that “dialogue, the only way logue regardless of how such ( appeared in the area earlier this filed nomination papers in sounded in south Kashmir forward seems to be a distant genuine and practical appeals week warning the SPOs to Kashmir. areas directing all the cops on dream for now”. are distorted,” Omar Abdullah ) * give up their jobs. Two prominent main- leave to be alert and report back “Three more policemen said here, adding New Delhi The SPOs are temporarily stream parties National on duty at the earliest. have lost their lives to ultras’ and Islamabad need to restore ? 8' engaged cops working on con- Conference and Peoples Top police officials imme- bullets. Outrage, shock, and the credibility and sanctity of From Page 1 solidated remuneration Democratic Party have diately rushed to Shopian town condemnation will be the institution of dialogue. Further investigation is between Rs 5,500 and Rs 6,000. announced to stay away from after the cops’ bodies were expressed by all of us on “The State (J&K) has witnessed going on to identify the culprits The SPOs are generally the polls but the Congress has found. A wreath-laying cere- expected lines. Unfortunately, enough death, destruction, in the crime.” engaged for menial works in decided to take a plunge in mony led by the Inspector it brings no solace to the fam- mayhem and turmoil and we The martyred policemen police stations while many of order to “refuse open field to General of Police (Kashmir ilies of the victims,” Mehbooba cannot delay the resolution of have been identified as Firdous them are involved in counter- the communal forces of the BJP range) was held before the tweeted. the problem any longer,” he Ahmad Kuchey (follower), insurgency operations. Most of and the RSS”. bodies were handed over to the “Clearly, with the rise in said. Kuldeep Singh (SPO) and Nisar the SPOs are not given access The killing of police offi- next of kin of martyred cops. kidnapping of police personnel CPI (M) leader and legis- Ahmad Dhobi (selection grade to firearms. Subject to satis- cials has further reduced Sources said over 20 SPOs and their families, the Centre’s lator MY Tarigami described constable). A Twitter handle factory conduct, the SPOs are chances of turnover in the have announced their resigna- muscular policy is not working the killings as ‘unfortunate and purportedly belonging to the eligible to absorption in the Valley. This is second direct tions through social media at all. Dialogue, the only way tragic’, saying the martyred Hizbul Mujahideen group has regular constabulary after three attack on police personnel in networking sites and also from forward seems to be a distant policemen were unarmed. claimed responsibility for the years of service. less than a month’s time. Last mosques since Friday morning dream for now,” Mehbooba “The martyred policemen abduction and killing. Terrorists have intensified month, 11 relatives of police in Shopian district. added. were not on combat duty but Acting police chief Dilbagh attacks on SPOs. Last month, personnel were abducted and Latest reports said two The NC leaders Farooq were abducted unarmed from Singh told reporters that the around two dozen SPOs later set free by the Hizbul SPOs apparently under ter- Abdullah and Omar Abdullah their homes,” he said. police have conducted recent resigned in Tral sub-district of Mujahideen that described the rorists’ captivity, announced also condemned the killing of Whose ‘cause’ is being >#' 3#'!02 "0 ""0< # operations against the terrorists Pulwama after separate action as retaliation to securi- their resignations and making the SPOs while emphasising on served by such killings? 2$ "/D"0 "="D "'# " D 0# "#'" successfully and killings of attempts on the lives of their ty forces’ campaign against appeal to other SPOs to follow resumption of dialogue Whether a person is killed by /6 5 #"!0 /# 5 # &"'# SPOs shows their desperation. two colleagues in Luraw and terrorists’ families and relatives. the suit. process. the bullet from one side or the anata Congress Chhattisgarh "06 # 0 6"# /6 5 Former Chief Ministers Pastuna villages. Shortly after the abductions, The J&K Police have “Seeking dialogue with other side, it is a Kashmiri who JJogi (JCC)( J) President and "00 /0<6 3 0 Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba The killings took place at a relatives of ultras, including denied any resignations of Pakistan is based on our aspi- is losing a life. For how long former State Chief Minister Ajit would be announced soon. Mufti and Omar Abdullah time when the authorities have father of Hizbul commander SPOs officially received by the ration to see an end to insta- such killings will continue?” he Jogi has extended the party’s Notably, the first phase of expressed shock over the announced holding urban local Riyaz Naikoo, were released department. bility, violence, death and asked. campaign for the upcoming the Yatra, was taken out in eight Assembly polls by taking out of the Assembly constituencies second leg of ‘Vijay Yatra’ namely — Raipur (Rural), (Victory March). Dharsiwa, Baloda Bazar, ! " " !# "%%% A JCC (J) Spokesperson Bhatapara, Kasdol, Masturi, informed that the Yatra which Beltara and Kota. was to be taken out from The Yatra was launched Sunday has been extended. from Banjari Temple of Raipur From Page 1 changes on plant diversity, for- seedling, sapling and tree layers in the other biosphere reserves results could be a pilot to nent long-term monitoring sites After striking an alliance (Rural) Assembly segment and He said the comparison of est composition and ecological showed considerable variation areas particularly at the time strengthen conservation mea- as per globally accepted proto- with Bahujan Samaj Party a culminated at Mahamaya the present study with the earli- conditions of the National Park. in the population structure of when the country is looking to sures across the Protected Area cols to understand the relation joint Yatra would be taken out Temple, Ratanpur of the Kota er studies conducted in 1993 and Also, proportionate distri- different communities, Negi increase its green cover, the Network. They also suggested between vegetation shifting and by the party and the new date Assembly Segment. 2003, has indicated positive bution of individuals in said. Pitching in for such bans researchers felt that the present establishment of a few perma- climate warming.
PSU, HAL a 30,000 crore ‘off- set contract’ to benefit PM’s "; crony friend exposed!” Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted. Congress leader P From Page 1 Chidambaram said, “In the The Modi Government’s From Page 1 NDA-negotiated Rafale air- confirmation of the meeting Hollande’s remark has craft deal, we have got no air- even after the discovery of the escalated the political slugfest craft, we have got only lies. mutilated corpse of the over the multi-billion dollar What is the new lie that the Border Security Force (BSF) deal. The French media report government will put out in soldier was questioned by the quoted Hollande as saying, response to Mr Hollande?” Opposition in the light of the “We did not have a say in “President (Former) BJP Government’s past refrain this...The Indian Government Francois Hollande should also that there would be no talks proposed this service group enlighten us how the price unless there was a cessation of and Dassault negotiated with went up from 590 crore in terrorist activities by (Anil) Ambani group. 2012 to 1,690 crore in 2015 Islamabad. We did not have a choice, we per Rafale fighter jet? The Opposition Congress took the partner who was given Escalation of a mere 1,100 targeted the Government on to us.” crore. I am sure the Euro its Pakistan policy after the The Congress and other equivalent would not be a killings. Opposition parties latched on problem to calculate,” Congress “On September 19, 2018, to the report and stepped up spokesperson Manish Tewari the USA clearly stated that their attack on the Modi tweeted. Jaish-e-Mohammad and Government over the deal. Modi had announced the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) are The Congress alleged that the procurement of 36 Rafale jets main contributors to terror, Government’s “complicity, col- after holding talks with then they are linked to lusion and conspiracy” to ben- French President Hollande on al-Qaeda,” said Congress efit Prime Minister Narendra April 10, 2015 in Paris. spokesperson Abhishek Manu Modi’s “crony friend” has been The Opposition has been Singhvi. exposed following Hollande’s accusing the Government of “The Government has reported comments. “Cat’s out choosing Reliance Defence betrayed each and every part of the Bag!!! Complicity, over State-run Hindustan of Jammu & Kashmir. The Collusion & Conspiracy of Aeronautics Ltd to benefit the mutilations are unspeakable Modi Govt in denying the private firm. horror,” he said.
From Page 1 “These hooligans were always drunk and had entered into scuffle with other residents earlier as well. They also carried illegal weapons and allegedly threatened sev- eral residents in the society. A probe should be initiated against them,” a resident of the society on the condition of anonymity, said. “A case under sections including 376 (rape) and 511 (attempts to commit offences) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against the culprits at Kherki Daula police station and is being investigated,” the ACP said.
and cause traffic jams on already busy roads. Since these party lawns do not have prop- &.0! er water connections, ground- water is illegally extracted and +, - tankers could be seen moving in and out. Motels and party . lawns in areas under South Delhi Municipal Corporation From Page 1 (SDMC), North Corporation It further said the are violating, the laid down Monitoring Committee decid- norms with impunity while ed that all the Farm Houses and having “additional built-up Motels which are violating areas” and are still running “Sanctioned Building Plan” without facing any action. and “Completion Plan” be As there are many such sealed immediately after serv- venues across the city, they are ing notices. They will be given operating in areas at Qutub a 48-hour time (excepting hol- Minar, MG Road, Arjangarh, idays) as per existing policy, Bhati mines, Chattarpur Road asking them to reply as why and GT Karnal Road. Many of their Farm Houses and motels the farmhouses built air-con- premises being misused should ditioned pandals illegally even not be sealed? outside their premises without Earlier on September 18, inviting any objection from The Pioneer reported that the zonal department of the despite the Supreme Court's municipal corporation. orders to not allow sprawling According to sources, all party lawns in the national these units allegedly paid Rs Capital to host opulent wed- three to five lakh for organis- dings, owners of these lawns are ing such wedding functions to raking moolah while babus are the officials of the respective looking the other way. Sources zonal offices. As per estimates, said officials take their cut on 12000 such illegal pandals, daily basis to let them violate the shamiyana and illegal weeding municipal law and green norms. venues exit in the capital along The majority of these party with national highways, caus- lawns are run on diesel gensets ing huge traffic jams. ( ) (* ++, +-./ !%&' 2 " 4 -
.3%+;3 told journalists, insisting on anonymity. “CAATSA sanc- @ he United States hit a tions in this context are not - = TChinese military organisa- intended to undermine the tion with punishing financial defense capabilities of any par- sanctions for buying Russian ticular country. They are aimed A fighter jets and missiles as it at imposing costs on Russia in stepped up pressure on response to its malign activities.” Moscow: The US’ latest batch relations,” Ryabkov said in a Beijing: An “outraged” China targeted a third country with Moscow over its “malign activ- CAATSA, or the of sanctions targeting Russian statement cited by TASS news on Friday lodged a diplomat- its Countering America’s ities”. It was the first time the Countering America’s businesses and China under- agency. “It’s foolish to play ic protest with the US for Adversaries Through Trump administration target- Adversaries Through Sanctions mine global stability and are with fire, because things could imposing punitive sanctions Sanctions Act of 2017 (CAAT- ed a third country with its Act, was passed in 2017 as a akin to playing with fire, offi- get dangerous.” on its military unit for buying SA), designed to punish CAATSA sanctions, designed tool that gives the Trump cials here said on Friday. “We’ve been keeping a Russian weapons, warning of Russia for its seizure of to punish Russia for its seizure administration more ways to Deputy Foreign Minister close eye on how the US “consequences” if the sanc- Crimea and other activities. of Crimea and other activities. target Russia, Iran and North Sergei Ryabkov’s comments applies it sanctions against our tions are not revoked. Reacting to the US move, The State Department said Korea with economic and polit- came after Washington on country. This seems to have The US State Department Chinese Foreign Ministry it was applying the 2017 legis- ical sanctions. senior official said EDD and its The Russians named for Thursday imposed a new batch turned into some sort of said on Thursday that the pur- spokesman Geng Shuang said, lation against the Equipment With regard to Russia, director, Li Shangfu, were hit CAATSA blacklisting have all of sanctions, hitting 33 of national sport, with yester- chases of Russian Sukhoi Su- “China is strongly outraged by Development Department of CAATSA arises from the coun- with sanctions because of the been named previously under Russia’s most high-profile cit- day’s anti-Russian measures 35 fighter jets and S-400 sur- this unreasonable action of the the Chinese Ministry of Defence try’s “aggression in Ukraine, purchases made from other US sanctions regimes. izens with ties to the Kremlin. becoming the 60th since 2011. face-to-air missiles by China’s US and lodged stern repre- for its purchase of Russian annexation of Crimea, cyber Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main They include private paramil- Ryabkov said the sanc- “Every new round of Equipment Development sentations”. Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and S- intrusions and attacks, inter- arms export entity already on the itary contractor PMC Wagner, tions were aimed at Russian sanctions shows that our Department (EDD) of China’s “What the US has done 400 surface-to-air missiles. ference in the 2016 elections, CAATSA blacklist for its support and Russian Defense Ministry defence organisations, politi- enemy’s previous attempts to Ministry of Defence violated gravely violated the basis At the same time, the State and other malign activities,” the of the Assad regime in Syria. procurement group Oboron- cians and businessmen. pressure Russia have failed to US sanctions on Russia. norms governing the inter- Department also announced it State Department said. The sanctions freeze any of logistika, and KNAAP, Russia’s “It would be good for yield any result. Numerous US Both the EDD and its national relations and harmed was placing 33 Russian intelli- “We will continue to vigor- EDD’s and Li’s assets in US largest aircraft manufacturer. them to recall the notion of blacklists duplicate each other director, Li Shangfu, have the state-to-state and military- gence and military-linked ously implement CAATSA and jurisdictions. They restrict They also include 25 global stability, which they more and more. That’s funny, been named in Thursday’s to-military relations between actors on its sanctions blacklist urge all countries to curtail rela- EDD’s access to global financial Russians and three Russian recklessly upset by whipping but this is true,” the minister sanctions. It is the first time the two sides,” he said. under the CAATSA rules. tionships with Russia’s defense markets by blocking foreign companies who were indicted up tensions in Russian-US said. IANS the Trump administration PTI “The ultimate target of and intelligence sectors, both of exchange transactions under over the past year by Russia col- these sanctions is Russia,” a which are linked to malign activ- US jurisdiction or any transac- lusion investigator Robert in political meddling and hack- In addition, the chief of the body GRU, Igor Korobov, and were also hit with the CAAT- senior administration official ities worldwide,” it said. The tions in the US financial system. Mueller for their involvement ing during the 2016 election. Russian military intelligence deputy chief Sergey Gizunov, SA sanctions. 2 %2 & := OP ! London: British Prime said our proposals would a detailed explanation The two options being Minister Theresa May on undermine the single mar- and counter proposals. offered by the EU for the long- " Friday issued the European ket. He didn’t explain how So we now need to hear term relationship — for the UK Union (EU) with an ultimatum in any detail or make from the EU what to stay in the European United Nations: President South Korea, Egypt, France, to come up with an alternative any counter-propos- the real issues are Economic Area and customs Donald Trump will talk about Israel, Japan and the UK. plan for Brexit and treat the UK al. So we are at an and what their union or a basic free trade .3%+;3 protecting US sovereignty, Trump is “looking forward with respect in the negotiations. impasse,” she said. alternative is so agreement — were not accept- expanding relations with coun- to talking about the foreign pol- Her televised statement Her statement we can discuss able, she said. May said the first bandoning his previous tries that share similar values icy successes the US has had over from Downing Street came further noted: them. Until we option would “make a mockery Arestraint, President Donald and call for a halt to the spread the last year and where we are after a day of upheavals in “Throughout this do, we cannot of the referendum”, while the Trump challenged by name of weapons of mass destruction going to go from here. He wants Salzburg at Austria, during process I have make progress.” second would mean Northern the woman accusing his during next week’s gathering of to talk about protecting US sov- which European Council Head treated the EU She said the Ireland would be “permanent- Supreme Court nominee of world leaders at the UN ereignty,” and expanding rela- Donald Tusk announced that with nothing but two sides were ly separated economically from sexual assault on Friday, declar- General Assembly, his top tions with countries that share the UK’s Brexit plans were respect. The UK still “a long way the rest of the UK by a border ing that if the alleged attack was diplomat to the UN has said. similar values, US Ambassador unworkable. expects the apart” on two down the Irish Sea.” so terrible she would have Trump will participate in a to the UN Nikki Haley said. May hit back at the EU same, a good big issues: the Reiterating her Brexit stand reported it to law enforcement. number of UN General Haley cited the example of leaders for rejecting her plan relationship at post-Brexit of “no deal is better than a bad Trump’s change in tone — Assembly (UNGA) events and US decisions to exit UN’s Global with no alternative at this “late the end of this economic rela- deal”, May said the best out- and apparent shift in tactics — bilateral meetings from Migration Compact and Paris stage of negotiations”, saying it process depends tionship come would be to leave with a came as Christine Blasey Ford’s had seemed all but certain. It September 24-27. Trump will Climate Change Accord, saying was “not acceptable”. “I will not on it. between the UK deal and the UK had put for- lawyers negotiate with the has also bloomed into a broad- also hold bilateral meetings “all of these things that we felt like overturn the result of the ref- “At this late stage and EU, and the ward a third way — her Senate Judiciary Committee er clash over whether women with Secretary General Antonio were mandating things on the erendum nor will I break up in the negotiations, it “backstop” for the Chequers plan, which Tusk on the terms for her possible alleging abuse are taken seri- Guterres, President of General US, those aren’t things we want my country,” a defiant British is not acceptable to Irish border, if there is rejected on Thursday on the testimony next week in a dra- ously by men and how both Assembly María Fernanda to be involved in. We really value PM said. simply reject the other a delay in implement- ground that it would under- matic showdown over her accu- political parties address such Espinosa Garces, leaders of sovereignty of the country.” “Yesterday Donald Tusk side’s proposals without ing that relationship. mine the single market. PTI sation that threatens Judge Brett claims with the advent of the Kavanaugh’s confirmation. #MeToo movement — a theme Trump tweeted, “I have that could echo in this / @C " no doubt that, if the attack on November’s elections for con- (9+ Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, trol of Congress. charges would have been In another tweet, Trump, @44 immediately filed with local who was in Las Vegas for var- Law Enforcement Authorities ious events, wrote: “Judge Brett ' by either her or her loving par- Kavanaugh is a fine man, with . ? ents. I ask that she bring those an impeccable reputation, who filings forward so that we can is under assault by radical left New York: Police say three infants and two adults were learn date, time, and place!” wing politicians who don’t stabbed at an overnight day care centre in New York The President previously want to know the answers, City. All are in critical but stable condition. Authorities had avoided naming Ford or they just want to destroy and say the stabbings happened just before 4 am Friday at plainly casting doubt on her delay. Facts don’t matter. I go a home in Queens. They said a three-day-old girl and account. Ford alleges through this with them every a one-month-old girl were stabbed in the abdomen, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted single day in D.C.” and a 20-day-old girl suffered cuts to her ear, chin and her more than 30 years ago Ford is willing to tell her lip. Police said the father of a child at the centre and a when they were teenagers. story — but only if agreement woman who worked there were also stabbed. Kavanaugh has denied can be reached on “terms that A 52-year-old woman was found in the base- the allegation. are fair and which ensure her ment of the home in the Flushing neighbourhood. The accusation has jarred safety,” her lawyer said Police say she had slashed her own wrist and is in the 53-year-old conservative Thursday. She said Ford needs custody at a hospital. Police say a butcher knife and jurist’s prospects for winning time to make sure her family is meat cleaver were found at the scene. A motive has- confirmation, which until secure, prepare her testimony n’t been determined. It isn’t clear whether the day Ford’s emergence last week and travel to Washington. & care center was licensed. AP 0 & !" !"( + * E New York: While we have the University of Pennsylvania. "0 C 2 Jakarta: Dozens of Indonesians of Representatives is widely always heard that sharing is The study, published in + 4 F" who served jail time for cor- viewed as one of its most graft- caring, a new study has shown Current Biology, is based on : " ruption are set to run for pub- riddled institutions. that an individual’s tendency to Hadza hunter-gatherer people in Nairobi: The death toll in a ferry the dock. The death toll rose to lic office, the country’s electoral However, the Supreme be generous depends on how Tanzania — also one of the last capsize in Lake Victoria climbed 126 by mid-afternoon Friday, L2 + 4 agency said Friday, as the Court ruled last week that 38 much people around him or populations left on the planet. to 126 on Friday, as Tanzanian according to Tanzania’s trans- GHG7 ' world’s largest Muslim-major- people previously convicted of her are sharing. During the study, the team rescue workers pressed on with port Minister. M ity nation kicks off campaign- graft could run for office, The findings showed it is that people do not have a sta- visited 56 camps in Tanzania the search to find scores more “We are sad to report there ing at the weekend. despite their criminal records. not that people, who like to ble tendency to cooperate and over six years. They asked near- people feared drowned. are 126 dead,” Isack Kamwele The ex-convicts are among The decision came after share, choose to live with those are instead influenced by those ly 400 Hadza adults to play pub- The MV Nyerere may have told state television, adding more than 8,000 people vying Indonesia’s electoral agency having same habits. Rather, they around them,” said Coren lic goods game where, instead been carrying as many as 200 that a further update would be + + for seats in parliament and tried to block their eligibility. adapt their own sharing ten- Apicella from the University of of money, they were asked to passengers — double the ferry’s provided at 6pm local time. 0#6 "# 03 $3 regional councils with 186 mil- “We were actually against dencies so as to match that of the Pennsylvania. consider sharing straws of capacity — when it capsized Mwanza governor John % %" lion registered voters eligible to this, but since the Supreme group they currently live in. “If you find yourself sur- honey, their favourite food. close to the pier on Ukara Mongella had earlier said the cast a ballot in national polls on Court gave them the green light In other words, sharing, rounded by selfish people, you Each person started with Island on Thursday, according number of survivors was 40, but , O% April 17. to run, there’s nothing we can being contagious, is driven by don’t necessarily have to find a four straws, which they could to reports on state media. it was unclear whether any new " 0 " Election campaigning do,” General Elections local group norms and new crowd, but by being gen- put toward the whole group or Witnesses reached by AFP survivors had been found since starts from Sunday. Indonesia Commission head Arief behaviour and not individual erous yourself, you can get not. The honey straws con- said the ferry sank when pas- rescue operations resumed with 0 is riddled with corruption at all Budiman told AFP on Friday. generosity. others to be generous as well,” tributed to the group got sengers rushed to one side to police and army divers on ! levels of society and its House AFP “We were surprised to find added Kristopher Smith, from tripled. IANS disembark as it approached Friday morning. AFP O+P + +P / "9 2 < 5 6 , 1 ! L " M New York: In a first, US sci- the organoids can be used to ming and action of genetic " entists have used stem cells to study diseases like pathways that direct cells to grow human oesophagus — oeosinophilic oesophagitis and become respiratory instead of 788 ' 9 1 $ 3 O known as the food pipe — in Barrett’s metaplasia, or to bio- oesophageal. The Sox2 protein " the laboratory, an advance that engineer genetically matched inhibits the signalling of a mol- Canberra: Australian scien- researchers from the University mentally-friendly, scalable and . will enable personalised oesophageal tissue for individ- ecule called Wnt and promotes tists said on Friday they have of New South Wales, reports low cost,” said Zavabeti, whose disease diagnosis, regenerative ual patients,” he added. the formation and survival of developed a nano-filter that can Xinhua news agency. team’s findings were published + + therapies. In the study, published in oesophageal tissues. clean contaminated water 100 Water contamination in the Advanced Functional A team from the Cincinnati journal Cell Stem Cell, team Conversely, absence of Sox2 times faster than the current remains a significant challenge Materials scientific journal. "'3 , Children’s Hospital in Ohio focused on the gene Sox2 and during development process in technology, pointing to better globally, with one in nine peo- “Previous research has " ! successfully generated fully its associated protein — known mice can result in oesophageal access to the crucial resource ple without access to clean already shown the materials we $3 " " formed human oesophageal about two months. to trigger oesophageal condi- agenesis — a condition in which worldwide. water close to home, and heavy used are effective in absorbing I" organoids — tiny version of an “Disorders of the oesoph- tions when their function is oesophagus terminates in a The filter removes oils and metal contamination “causes contaminants like mercury, 'G6G organ produced in vitro in agus and trachea are prevalent disrupted. pouch and does not connect to heavy metals including lead serious health sulphates and phos- three dimensions — using enough in people that organoid The scientists used mice, stomach. Those tests showed from water via an alloy that problems and chil- phates. & pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). models of human oesophagus frogs and human tissue cultures bioengineered and biopsies tis- combines gallium-based liquid dren are particu- “With further devel- PSCs are master cells that could be greatly beneficial,” to identify other genes and sues were strikingly similar in metals with aluminium, help- larly vulnerable”, opment and commercial can potentially produce any cell said lead investigator Jim Wells, molecular pathways regulated composition, team said. Cinci- ing to absorb the contami- RMIT researcher support, this new nano- ! ' 7 6G or tissue the body needs to from the hospital. by Sox2 during oesophagus nnati Children’s scientists have nants with aluminium oxide Ali Zavabeti said. filter could be a cheap =G 'G: repair itself. The oesophageal “In addition to being a formation. During critical stages previously used PSCs to bio- compounds, RMIT University “Our new and ultra-fast solution 0 " organoids grew to a length of new model to study birth of embryonic development, the engineer human intestine, stom- said in a statement about the nano-filter is sus- to the problem of dirty about 300-800 micrometres in defects like oesophageal atresia, Sox2 gene blocks the program- ach, colon and liver. IANS innovation that also involved tainable, environ- water.” IANS ( COMMENT & ANALYSIS ( ( ) (* ++, +-./ ( ) (* ++, +-./
www.dailypioneer.com &-,*D* Everybody loves a good fascist Mayawati’s move " ) @4$ ( American settlers' brutal treatment of Native the word “fascio” means a bundle or a bunch in Italy. It was widely believed that the initial attrac- to the Japanese mind. War appeared to be a Indians. implying unity. To be effective, the answer had In practice, the economy was toned up by tion of the German people towards Hitler and possible panacea which eventually led to the 568:E - S Fascism is class collaboration as commu- to be something that would prove attractive to rearmament and public works. Soldiers were his programme of class collaboration was more 1941 naval attack on Pearl Harbor, the nism is class conflict and capitalism is (accused the peasants, the workers as well as to their recruited in large numbers and so were work- or less were on the lines of Mussolini’s Italy American base of warships on its Pacific coast. " & " of) class exploitation. Western Europe was unions. This was discovered in “class collab- ers in factories to produce arms. This would although on a far grander scale to save the This was followed by the land invasion of '< " ! /2 , O deeply concerned by the Russian revolution of oration” as represented by fascism. bring profits to the bourgeoisie who could then economy and bring prosperity which Germany British and French colonies in South-east Asia. " 1917 led by Vladimir Ilych Lenin and felt Prof Alfredo Rocco, Minister of Justice in pay the proletariat well. Urban prosperity experienced in some measure in the 1930s Just before the Pearl Harbor attack, Defence 2 $55 threatened. One of the reactions was the inno- the Mussolini Cabinet, set forth the gist of this would increase demand for agricultural pro- before the Nazi racist, authoritarian ideology Minister Gen Tojo Hideki was made the " " & vation of a new contrarian ideology, namely, new ideology in the course of a speech at duce. What was left of the under-employed took over. Premier. The war moulded all classes of the 01 O " 1 & & - * of class collaboration, in order to keep class Perugia in 1925. According to him, society does youth was absorbed by the armed forces. The Japan is another example of a fascist Japanese people into one. This was an exper- " " " " '' conflict from taking over society. not exist for the individual but the individual promise to the whole nation was foreign con- experiment. With the restoration of the Meiji iment of fascism in Asia. n the wake of the arrest of five urban Some years ago in the US, there was a cel- for the society. Economic progress is a social quests which would bring economic surplus- regime in 1850 and the reforms initiated in So much for fascism and its smaller as well " , 2 " Naxals by the Pune police, Congress chief ebration to commemorate Swami interest and all classes of people should com- es. The Albanian adventure and the invasion 1868, were sown the seeds of ferment and eco- as grander variations. But what is its ugly con- " /2" " I" Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP-led Vivekananda’s birth anniversary. That was an bine or collaborate to maximise production. of Abyssinia were two efforts to fulfil this nomic progress. The gates of Japan opened and nection with politics in India? India is not & O Government of being fascist. This writer occasion when the secular fundamentalists The interests of the employers and the promise until, of course, World War II broke foreign contacts began with industrial devel- Europe. 2018 is not 1920. Communism is dead. doubts if the Congress president knows were provoked to call the Rashtriya employed are identical. To ensure that this is out. Another example of the practice of fascism opment growing, and the number of urban There is poverty here but no Great Depression " whatI fascism means; although he is educated Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishva Hindu practiced, there must be a system of state dis- or class collaboration, albeit on a much more workers increased. By 1922, a Communist sparked by a financial collapse of the Wall Street ; 5 ! 'G( and certainly not an 'anpadh gawar' to use his Parishad, fascists. A meeting presided over by cipline over class conflicts. Strikes and lock- limited scale, was in Spain under Gen Francisco Party was founded. In the rural areas, silk farms kind on the horizon. The Indian ethos has no + & party leader Sanjay Nirupam’s phrase for the well-known journalist late Kuldip Nayar was outs alike were held to be illegal and punish- Franco. Neither the Italian nor the Spanish sprung up and there was a fragmentation of record of imperialism and, therefore, no Prime Minister. held to dissuade the distinguished Sonal able by heavy fines, and in certain cases, impris- experience is widely known in great detail in farms. Also, discontent grew among the ten- promise of foreign conquests would be cred- " " & The expression fascist as a condemnation Mansingh from going to Washington to give onment. Wherever possible, the employers and India. What the members of the Indian intel- ants who worked there. Thereafter came the ible. If an attempt is being made to compare was first used frequently in Indira Gandhi’s a dance performance in connection with the workers in each industry, trade or profession, ligentsia are familiar with, however, are the share market crash which triggered the Great minorities in fascist states and Muslims of " !" & " time. Her grandson is merely following the tra- celebration. Because, in the view of those at the were organised together in a syndicated asso- doings of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. It was Depression in 1929.The Japanese economy India, it is ridiculous and perverse. No one in " " ! " dition set by her. Surely, other Congress lead- meeting, the organisers of the commemoration ciation. Where it was not possible to form such founded by Hitler and his six comrades in received its share of tremors. One of the reme- their right mind has accused Muslims of ers know that fascism is not a synonym for were fascist. What they did not realise was that syndicates, the unions and the employers’ asso- Munich in 1920. The economic deprivation in dies to relieve the pains of the economic cri- betraying India, not even the BJP, whose only A "& " despotism though fascists can be despotic and the word was not the political abuse that they ciations remained separate but combined to Germany was much greater than witnessed in sis was expansion through military conquest. contention has been that there has been K !& despots fascists. The first is a particular ide- thought it was. Benito Mussolini initiated the form guilds to coordinate and ensure cordial- Italy. The country paid an exorbitant price for The fact that the Japanese population had more appeasement of the Muslim community’s " " ology while the latter is a brutal autocracy fascist movement in March 1919 at Milan and ity. If collective bargaining could not end sat- its defeat in World War I. Runaway inflation than doubled since the Meiji restoration clergy and its whims. All in all, to call anyone which was equally a feature of Stalinism founded the party called Partito Nazional isfactorily, disputes were referred to law courts as well as the world depression ignited by a meant that more and more jobs were neces- a fascist in India is to talk nonsense. " " " /12 . exterminating the bourgeois and the kulaks; Fascista in November 1921. It ruled Italy for assisted by experts. This is how class collabo- crash in share prices on Wall Street in New York sary. The ghost of Karl Marx and the scenes (The writer is a well-known columnist and & /12O ! Nazism mass murdering Jews and white two decades. To recapitulate what fascism was, ration was conceptualised by the Fascist Party in 1929 made matters unbearable for Germany. of the Russian Revolution were not invisible an author) & " ! " " & , 2 0 /2 2"0 4 % 2 $ 2 / ./ 1 + 3 " People are now heard saying that the I think that the desperation of the clown prince Barriers to universal financial access & ! D 5 "2 , / 0 country’s chowkidar is a thief. This is what is to attract attention to himself at the cost of ,9 " the people in Rajasthan and elsewhere feel. the Prime Minister’s name. —Congress president —Union Minister & O " ! RAHUL GANDHI SMRITI IRANI As we near the goal of universal financial access, there is a need to bridge the inequality gap. Ensuring financial literacy and " ; " " subsequent inclusion can unleash the untapped potential at the bottom of the pyramid, leading to a less-cash economy # & " the spread of literary cannot be con- they have lower average incomes # ! " 2 " ! fined to being gender-specific. from which they save for old age. +$ " & " " ! My passion towards this trans- With increasing life expectancy, D formation stems from deep-rooted there is a need to provision for /12 convictions based on my working increasing and inflationary cost of " /"" " & Subsidy sops must stop /34$ ) ( life’s experience since I began my healthcare; women need to be suffi- # ) career in the late 70’s. I was the guinea ciently financially literate to be " 5 # % S .* ) * ( " " " pig of my experiments with money, future-ready for any contingencies. and through sheer trial and error at By being forbidden from inher- + , - . ) ON O " 4 he World Bank Group an early age, I succeeded in trans- itance in many patriarchal societies, ! / , )01 " & " has put forward an ambi- forming simple wages to savings, and though laws are changing, women ! against then MRP of only 4,830 per tonne. tious global goal to reach savings to assets. Again, there was no own lesser property. And they have- ( ) ( In a year in the early 90s, payment was made Universal Financial Access genius to the idea but just the magic been excluded from decision-making ( " but not even a grain of urea came. (UFA) by 2020, as finan- of disciplined savings and the com- on deployment of family earnings ( 13$" O" + " /12 " There were irregularities in payment to Tcial literacy and financial inclusion pounding power of money. The since millennia, as it has been deemed ) ! & & $++, manufacturers too. Under the retention price has now become the topmost prior- skills of compounding money is now the sole prerogative of the ‘karta’ or scheme (RPS) — earlier incarnation of NPS ity for policymakers, regulators and a science, a learning that must begin the head of the family in India. 2 S ! " 2 — some units were allowed inflated retention development agencies, globally. The by including it in school curricula so Deepening financial literacy and price. There were even allegations of gold plat- UFA goal is that by 2020, adults who that successive generations grow subsequent inclusion would unleash '( # " ing — a euphemism for showing capacity currently aren’t a part of the formal into disciplined investors and ethi- the hugely untapped potential at the # 34 he Modi Government has revolu- lower than actual to get higher RP. Since, the financial system, must have access to cal borrowers. bottom-of-pyramid leading to a - # - Increasing incidents of Indian aircraft running into trou- tionised the way subsidies are dis- same system continues even today, it is not easy a bank account to transact money, Thereafter, financial literacy reduction in the cash economy, as 56( ble must ring alarm bells. While flights making emer- Tbursed to beneficiaries by leveraging to prevent inflated payments. which becomes the basic building must be imparted to the millennials more money finds its way into the 789 ** 78:: 8;( ** ( technology, especially the use of direct bene- There is no rational basis to keep urea block to manage their financial lives. who comprise 34 per cent of our banking ecosystem. That would also 7::9 # 789 8::8 ( gency landings for a variety of reasons have become a fit transfer (DBT) on the Jan Dhan-Aadhaar- MRP at an exceptionally low level — a mere The Prime Minister’s Dhan Jan population, and who, research shows, inculcate the savings discipline and recurring phenomenon, the most recent incident wherein # 8;( - Mobile platform. This has made a dent on pil- 1/4th to ½ of the production cost. Yet, this was Yojana achieved a remarkable feat by are credit-oriented and spend more increase capital formation, and this 7::9 ** 34 ( an air pressure mix-up led to Jet Airways passengers’ ferage, and gargantuan resources, thus saved, a golden goose available to dubious traders to bringing 80 per cent of the popula- on lifestyle. So, they need to learn the in turn, would release the availabil- 4S - 4 4 ( being left bleeding and panic-stricken must prompt a are being used for development and enhanced mint money by selling to chemical factories tion into mainstream banking. But discipline and risks of living life ity of adequate credit to foster entre- )01 # complete audit of all airlines safety practices. funding of welfare schemes for wider and deep- at high price. True, Prime Minister Narendra subsequently, most accounts have beyond their income. The middle preneurial spirit of the masses, as er coverage. But large-scale pilferage still con- Modi has brought in mandatory neem coat- remained passive, with an average of aged are securely married women more people are enabled through the R S ( tinues. This happens in ways that even escape ing of urea and claimed that this has stopped three transactions a year. This and are educated, yet are uninitiat- formal financial infrastructure and ) ) ! ) = ( the radar of our ever alert Prime Minister. diversion. However, considering that there are because around 76 per cent of India’s ed in finance — just because they freed from dependence on ! , At the fundamental level, it can be 600 million bags to be policed, this seems to adult population does not under- find its vocabulary too difficult to unscrupulous money-lenders. # ) For gender equity sourced to the very existence of controls in be too good to believe. stand even basic financial concepts. comprehend. Then, there are Thus far it’s a slow progress, as sectors, such as food, fertilisers, petroleum, In petrol and diesel, lack of competition For increased economic partic- divorcees and widows, comprising 12 India has climbed by just one rank ** # - S oil and lubricants (POL), and power, which allows oil PSUs viz Indian Oil Corporation, ipation, the spread of financial liter- per cent of the population, who need to become 130 out of 189 countries continue to guzzle huge amounts despite Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and acy is the primary enabler of finan- to be initiated, as most are under-lit- due to indiscriminate lending.” While prosperity and bring down poverty in the 2018 United Nations Human > " savings via DBT. Here, a question arises: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, to get cial inclusion — both are twin pil- erate on personal finance. Let’s the incidence of indebtedness (IOI), 42+&3 by changing investment habits of Development Index (HDI). The 789 How do controls lead to pilferage? away with a high price based on import par- lars in mitigation of poverty. Only by remember that the ultimate goal of which is a proportion of households people, and also secure in knowing increase in rankings is a quantum - )01 $ % O" ; " Take, for example, food and fertilisers. higher cost or even make fictitious claims. ity principle plus fortuitous benefit of import working jointly on both aspects can every one of us is to own a secure having outstanding debt, today that gradual asset creation is within leap by 50 per cent since 1990, which To make these affordable to the poor, the Under the National Food Security Act duty. For LPG and kerosene, they enjoy com- we herald the next revolution of pros- asset in the form of home ownership stands at an average of 47.4 per cent, /444 their reach too. reflects that the strides taken by the ! # + " 0 Government controls their maximum (NFSA), wheat is given to the beneficiaries at plete monopoly as private entities are barred perity and growth for India in the along with building on a savings cor- average savings per annum per saver +;$% An example of how rapidly Government have been successful in # " !"," . retail price (MRP) at a low level, unrelat- two rupee per kilogram as against the much from selling subsidised stuff. 21st century by enhancing scope for pus, which provides dignity and insu- households was reportedly as low as financial literacy can spread and lead lifting millions out of poverty — per ( J2 , K/ ! " !" " ! ed to the cost of production and distrib- higher cost of supplying it at 25 per kg. The In power sector, inflated tariff charged by banking, insurance, mutual fund lates from future shocks. 17,488 according to the 2018 pan- 3&4 to financial inclusion is by demisti- capita gross national income ? ution. The differential amount is reim- latter includes MSP of 17 per kilogram paid independent power producers (IPPs) easily industry and housing for all. All four Financial literacy is one of the India National Bank for Agriculture fying complicated banking jargon by increased by 266 per cent. However, - " " , % " bursed to manufacturers/agencies as sub- to the farmer and eight rupee per kilogram as pass muster in the name of subsidised supplies services are interlinked to financial most serious issues in the US, as also and Rural Development (NABARD) ;$+5D3 dumbing down financial vocabulary, there still remains a huge gap of ," ," sidy. Whereas, 80 per cent of the popula- handling and distribution charges, reim- made to the farmers and poor households. inclusion, as also are growth pro- globally for women. Women earn 25 survey. With an abysmally low abil- 4$&+;334 and thereafter, disseminating learn- inequality as the gains of equitable # 3 ; tion gets food at a subsidised rate, as bursed to the handling agencies, such as the There are instances of inflated fuel price (via pellers of the economy, which have per cent less than men, and spend an ity to save and rising levels of debt, ing and getting the masses to get economic development are yet to # " regards fertilisers, all farmers have access Food Corporation of India (FCI). The charges ‘over-invoicing’ of coal imports) getting their own multiplier effect in adding average of 11.5 years out of the work- how long will it take for the rural C;&+;35 operational in much the same way percolate to the base of the pyramid. @ S ( to these at low MRP. are given on ‘actual’ basis. accommodated in the tariff, eventually paid close to a percentage point to the force. Individuals must be competent poor to climb out of poverty? educationally illiterates in rural India Those disparities can only be . R ," "; " Among POL in the case of LPG, even These subsume inefficiency and irregu- by the exchequer. As in fertilizers, here also gross domestic product (GDP). This to make decisions not only about The Government consequently +33%3 could take to the working of smart- addressed through increased outlays as oil marketing public sector undertakings larities committed by agencies — this was instances of gold plating have come to light. can happen only when people are assets but also about debts. And debt has a major role to play in policy for- phones, and enjoying the WhatsApp in education and vocational training, S # . " % L M ) ; N ," (PSUs) sell at full price, beneficiaries receive pointed out by the Comptroller and Auditor This loot of national resources needs to financially literate and begin to is pervasive across all income strata mation so as to mainstream the mar- 2;+3% feature. This must be done through in prioritising financial literacy, and subsidy in their account. However, kerosene General (CAG). The ‘loaders’ getting away with be stopped. But this can’t be done merely make informed investment choices. and stands at alarmingly increased ginalised into creating an eco-system Government-accredited programmes by increasing women’s participa- ( " " O +& " % is sold to them at low (subsidised) price. monthly salary in lakhs could easily pass through administrative cleaning up. To do However, financial literacy, the levels, even 10 years post 2008 eco- conducive to inclusion. The objective 33&5 disseminated through tele-learning, tion in the job force, which is at an L M 0" ," Retail prices of petrol and diesel are de jure muster under a cost-based mechanism. In this, the Government should go for policy first prerequisite for financial inclu- nomic crisis. This means that we of the financial literacy and financial 5+&D34/D and use of mobile phones to penetrate abysmal 27 per cent currently. . /" 0 decontrolled, but de facto, the Government 2016, there were reports of disappearance of reforms with focus on removing pricing and sion, is where India lags behind as failed to learn from the perils of over- inclusion committee is to attempt to the spread of financial literacy. Melinda Gates, co-Chairperson of # controls them by issuing diktat (albeit food stocks in Punjab causing a loss of over distribution controls. The control on MRP most women remain financially illit- leveraging. Today, credit is lavishly spearhead a financial revolution 3&3% Even the US Department of the Gates Foundation once said: # ( " I" unwritten) to PSUs, which account for over 20,000 crore to the exchequer. must go and subsidy to the poor should be erate. As International Monetary available and institutions that pro- borne of Niti Aayog’s prioritisation Education reports that 3.8 million “When women have money in their # " ," " 90 per cent of the sales. In the 2000s, in fertilisers, the UPA given directly. With this, the very basis for Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde mote credit to the exclusion of sav- which is in sync with the global pri- .;,3O American adult women possess lit- hands and the authority to choose * S # L L " ," 2 5 When the Government orders manufac- Government contracted for import of gas — entities claiming inflated cost will disappear. said: “It’s now a proven fact, when ings, place the poor in deeper ority accorded to financial inclusion eracy skills below a “basic” level. Also, how to spend it, they grow in con- turers/suppliers to sell products at a price lower fuel used in manufacture of urea — at an ‘inflat- Instead, they will be forced to cut cost and women do better, economies do bet- bondage, as credit alone cannot and financial literacy unanimously by 2+&2+;33 OECD studies show that women fidence and power by taking control "" & " 0 " than what it costs, it is obliged to fully com- ed’ price knowing that the resultant higher cost increase efficiency to stay afloat. While ben- ter.” There exists an ocean of save the poor from poverty. the World Bank, the European have lower financial literacy levels of their economic future.” ? S ( " " " pensate them for the shortfall. This is where of making fertilizers would be fully reimbursed efiting all consumers, this will reduce subsidy untapped opportunities in India to As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Union, G-20, and the Organisation +1;/ ;& than men in both developed and (The writer, an author & colum- . ( ( ! % I the rub lies. Assured of full neutralisation, they under new pricing scheme (NPS). It had also outgo and help fiscal consolidation. When will expand the scope of financial inclu- expressed: “If we have growth only for Economic Co-operation and developing countries. Since women nist, is Chairperson, Committee on won’t have an incentive to cut cost and work imported urea at high price which went up to Modi crack the whip? sion and financial literacy for women on the basis of 31 per cent credit off Development (OECD). live longer than men and have short- Financial Inclusion and Literacy for ( ) +% " " . efficiently. They are even tempted to claim an exorbitant 50,000 per tonne (2008-09) (The writer is a freelance journalist) across all demographic strata, albeit, take, history will record it as growth The goal is to enable shared er working lives in paid employment, Women, Niti Aayog) )01 $ " / O 568B )01 &" 0 " +;+4+; 78B 7CB 4 - ," " " ** 34 D66 # N" L monotheistic view as they say “sab ka and restructuring are futile. RSS chief texts that sanctify caste. It is no from requiring permits. This argurs maalik ek hai”. Mohan Bhagwat’s claim that the secret that the RSS draws its leader- well for minimising operating costs. "0 ; ! * 4 " 4 " / )01S ) ( Sir — This refers to the editorial, But above all, what matters most organisation keeps away from politics ship from the upper castes. As a result, the vehicle market will " " " " ," “Right note” (September21). It augurs is the emphatic translation of the is belied by the diktats given to its L ! " G David Milton be encouraged to work in this field )01 2 ( + " well that Rashtriya Swayamsevak words into action, failing which his political arm, the Bharatiya Janata !MJ 'GK / !" ! P=6GG " ! Maruthancode and new entrepreneurs will come into ) 4 I Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat sage advice will fall on stony ground. Party (BJP). + 'G=P 7GGG " play. As the fourth-largest consumer @ ) ( has, among other burning issues, Azhar A Khan His claim that Hindutva does " 2"0 3 / ! " " of natural oils, India is now realising 8666 ( " including cow vigilantism, clarified Rampur not exclude Muslims is falsified by the " ! 2" <GGG "'G=P + that Biodiesel vehicles and EVs are the D66666 " # +; " " the Sangh’s stand on Indian Muslims’ absence of Muslims in leadership !J2$K 3 , ! Sir — This refers to the article, “An only oxygen for keeping transporta- ) " / " status with the heartening message “if positions in both the RSS and the BJP. " / ! + ! ! " opportunity India must not miss” tion alive towards a healthy future. We = J/K " " ! +" " Muslims are unwanted, there is no It is intriguing that Bhagwat (September 21) by Sanjib Pohit & must tap on this. ( Hindutva”. Sir — This refers to the editorial, speaks of a Hindu Rashtra and the % " ! ! " Pradip Biswas. Union Transport Shivam Srivastava % 0" " " " + ! " 0 ! ! " ) This will allay fear of sorts linger- “Right note” (September21). It is Constitution in the same breath and Minister Nitin Gadkari recently Ujjain ) " & " " ing on the community’s mind even as hard for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak finds no inconsistency. If the RSS is 0" ! /D# announced that the Government " !" 9 ! - " his invocation of Sir Syed Ahmad Sangh (RSS) to reconcile its goals and really against caste discrimination, as plans to exempt electrical vehicles Khan’s words underscores the compulsions. Its attempts at openness stated, it should repudiate the religious (EVs) and other alternative fuel cars ##'3# & 0'F2=";< = ( ) (* ++, +-./ ) C" . $ :
+ message to Prabhakaran at +4,9;3 According to Rajapaksa, world because of its “complic- &33 the behest of TDK (the abbre- 4D4&54 three high officials from Sri ity” in the civil war. E" @ / viation usually used by Swamy Lanka and India were deput- Karunanidhi in the com- n a disclosure which could to describe Sonia Gandhi) +++.;$54 ed for regular exchange of pany of his two wives had Ihave repercussions across during the final days of the 5$3&,C information to facilitate prop- staged a “two-hour long fast” 3% the political spectrum in the May 2009 war. er coordination during the at Marina Beach questioning country, senior BJP leader and He said the Indian Navy %++;355;C operation against the LTTE the then Union Government’s hree more terrorists of Rajya Sabha member ship which was expected to +,534$;3 terrorists during the month of complicity in the civil war in Tbanned Lashkar-e-Tayyeba Subramanian Swamy stated reach the theatre of war did May 2009. “This was known as Sri Lanka and had called it off (LeT) outfit were killed in a on Friday that Sonia Gandhi, not leave Indian shores 2+,/'7+; Troika System and these offi- following assurances from the prolonged gun-battle in Sumlar the then Congress president, P because of stiff Opposition %5%+;. cials met even in the middle of Centre that it had no role in forests of north Kashmir’s Chidambaram, the then Union from highest authorities. +4,94 the night. What we need is a the military operations. The Bandipora district on Friday Home Minister and Velupillai “Prabhakaran could not be system like this in our eco- LTTE had used innocent taking the toll of terrorists to Prabhakaran, the chief of the informed by the Congress /+D4+,5 nomic cooperation also,” Tamils as human shields to five. Two terrorists were killed dreaded Liberation Tigers of leadership about the change of 55;C+ Rajapaksa had said. save the LTTE chief in the initial phase of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were plan,” said Swamy. This is in stark contrast to Prabhakaran and his hench- encounter on Thursday. hand in glove with each other. Swamy’s disclosure comes .;54/&$; the claims by the DMK, then men from the Sri Lankan A defence spokesman said In a message posted on his immediately after the visit of +N&;,25&+DO3 an important ally of the UPA army. that weapons and war-like micro-blogging platform, Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Governnment led by K P Munusamy , the stores were recovered from the two terrorists in the initial LeT cadre. Swamy said Chidambaram president of Sri Lanka to New +&C5. Manmohan Singh. AIADMK strongman told encounter site. The encounter phase. Meanwhile, normal life had sent a message to Delhi at the invitation of Karunanidhi, the then Chief reporters at Chennai on Friday was in progress when last However, the multi lay- was affected in Capital Srinagar Prabhakaran during the 2009 Swamy. Rajapaksa, who was organisation. Minister of Tamil Nadu had that the disclosure by reports came in from the area. ered cordon remained intact as the authorities disallowed battle (which saw the annihi- the President of Sri Lanka “We had a mechanism said that the Centre had told Rajapaksa proved that the The encounter began on and the search operation was Ashura processions in the main lation of the LTTE) to await during the civil war of May during the war (against the him that the operation by the DMK too was engaged in the Thursday when a joint team of resumed on Friday. They said city. The authorities imposed Indian Navy to come to rescue 2009, had told Prashant LTTE in 2009) called the Sri Lankan Government was killing of Tamils in northern Army, CRPF and Special that during the intense search restrictions in the jurisdiction him. “Navy did come but it Tiwari of The Pioneer in an Troika, where three officials only to nab LTTE chief Sri Lanka during May 2009. Operations Group (SOG) of operation the contact with the of five police stations in old was Sri Lankan Navy. exclusive interview that the from both sides (India and Sri Prabhakaran and India had no “The Indian Government was J&K Police launched a massive hiding terrorists was re-estab- Srinagar. The Friday congre- Prabhakaran walked out of the Governments of India and Lanka ) were able to discuss role in the military operations. offering military assistance to operation in the Shokhbaba, lished triggering fresh gun- gational prayers were not jungle into the beach thinking Sri Lanka had worked in tan- any issue, even in the middle The AIADMK on Friday the Sri Lankan Government in Sumlar area of Bandipora. fight. During the ensuing allowed in Grand Mosque of it was the Indian Navy and dem in the 2009 civil war in of the night,” said Rajapaksa. declared that it would launch the attack against the LTTE. Security sources said that the encounter, three more terror- Srinagar even as the authorities hence was killed,” said Swamy the island nation which result- Experts are of the view that the a massive agitation all over The DMK is responsible for operation was temporarily sus- ists were killed. kept senior separatist leader in his posting. ed in the annihilation of the Troika had played a major role Tamil Nadu on September 25 thousands of Tamils who got pended through the night in Security sources said that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under He also said that PC dreaded Liberation Tigers of in scuttling the move to save to highlight how the DMK had killed in the war,” said view of darkness after killing of the slain are suspected to be detention at his residence. (Chidambaram) had sent the Tamil Eelam, a terrorist Prabhakaran. betrayed Tamils all over the Munusamy. . %. '3 " "4 231 ,$,/ nosed with Down's Syndrome. 7 She and her husband approached he Opposition Congress in Goa on Friday gave he Bombay High Court on Friday the high court last week seeking per- Ta notice for removal of Assembly Speaker Tallowed a 33-year-old woman, who mission for abortion, saying that they 231 “Today, the truth has come out very Pramod Sawant. is in her 30th week of pregnancy, to were already caring for a specially-abled clearly. It is not the Congress, it is The party, which has 16 members in the 40- undergo an abortion as a medical test child, and forcing them to continue with he Congress on Friday demanded a nobody but their own party's ex-chief member Assembly, also gave a 14-day notice for con- had revealed that the foetus has a devel- the present pregnancy would cause Tprobe into renewal of iron ore min- minister Laxmikant Parsekar (who) had vening of a session of the House for undertaking the opmental birth defect. them much physical and emotional ing leases during the previous tenure of told (the Lokayukta) very clearly that it process of removing Sawant from the post. A division bench of justices A S Oka trauma. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. is not him but Parrikar who is the cause The move came days after the party staked claim and A S Gadkari also granted the Giving birth to another child with All India Congress Committee of looting of 1,44,000 crore,” to form an alternate Government, contending that woman's request to undergo the abor- special needs would impose a financial (AICC) secretary A Chellakumar said Chellakumar claimed. the BJP-led ruling alliance had lost majority in the tion at a private clinic in Nashik. burden on them as the woman is a former BJP Chief Minister Laxmikant He sought to know why the State Assembly. On the High Court's direction, The clinic in Nashik is duly certi- housewife and the husband runs a small Parsekar had revealed that renewal of Government was silent over the matter The Government is headed by Chief Minister doctors at the Government-run J J fied to perform legally approved med- business, the petition said. mining leases, termed illegal by the and why no charge sheet had been filed. Manohar Parrikar who is hospitalised in Delhi for Hospital here had examined her and ical termination of pregnancy. On September 11, the woman's doc- Supreme Court, was done during the The Congress leader said a com- a pancreatic ailment. approved the abortion at such a late However, the State Government is tor suggested that considering her first tenure of his predecessor Parrikar. mittee should be formed to investigate The notice for removal of Sawant was given under stage, considering the condition of the yet to complete the process of register- child's condition, she should undergo Parrikar had earlier held the chief Parsekar's allegations. “Rule 243 of Rules and Procedure and Conduct of foetus. ing and approving private clinics for car- a scan to check if the present foetus had minister's post from 2012 to 2014 and he The former Chief Minister, in a writ- Business of the Legislative Assembly of Goa, read with However, the Government had rying out abortions in cases where the abnormalities. was succeeded by Parsekar. Parrikar, cur- ten reply to the Lokayukta last month, Article 179C of the Constitution of India,” Leader of opposed her request to undergo abor- pregnancy has exceeded 20 weeks, the The scan revealed that the foetus rently admitted in New Delhi's AIIMS for had said the policy to renew mining leas- Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar said. tion at the Nashik clinic. Government lawyer said. has “Schizencephaly”, a rare develop- a pancreatic ailment, became Goa's chief es was framed by his predecessor Rule 243 States provision for moving a resolu- She should be directed to undergo Advocate Kuldeep Nikam, the mental birth defect characterised by minister again in March 2017. (Parrikar) on the instructions of the Goa tion to ask for permission of the House to discuss abortion at a Government hospital as woman's lawyer, said she should be abnormal slits or clefts in the brain. A complaint was filed before the bench of the Bombay High Court. about impeachment of the Speaker. the Medical Termination of Pregnancy allowed to undergo the procedure at the The condition causes developmen- Lokayukta alleging the involvement of “Parrikar had begun renewing the Kavlekar, however, refused to specify on what (MTP) Act mandates that the procedure Nashik clinic as the doctors there knew tal delays. It can also cause seizures and Parsekar, the then mines secretary leases and during his tenure, eight or grounds it wants Sawant to be removed as the must be performed only at Government her case history well. problems with brain-spinal cord com- Pawan Kumar Sain and current mines nine of them were already renewed,” Speaker, saying the reasons will be spelt out on the hospitals or private hospitals recognised The High Court acceded to the munication, the petition said. and geology department director Parsekar had told the anti-corruption floor of the House. for this purpose by the Government, it request, saying that she should not be The Medical Termination of Prasanna Acharya in the illegal renew- watchdog. “When I took over, I followed The legislators said they propose to move the said. penalised because the State had failed Pregnancy Act permits abortions after al of 88 mining leases, which were Parrikar's track,” Parsekar, who was the motion to remove Sawant from the office of In Maharashtra, private clinics and to complete registration of clinics. 20 weeks only if continuation of the quashed by the apex court on February chief minister of Goa from November Speaker of Legislative Assembly at the end of 14 days' hospitals which perform MTP are The petition said that the woman pregnancy poses a threat to the child's 7, 2018. 2014 till March last year, had said. notice period. required to be certified by civic bodies. already has a five-year-old son diag- or the mother's life. & +&,+ /0112 2/ +%+ ! , - %% + & P
%$.+ due to electrocution,” said the police. 2+3 name of her husband cropped up and Assam Chief Minister the CDR of his phone revealed that he ix persons, including minor chil- Sarbananda Sonowal ordered an he Begusarai police is all set to arrest was in constant touch with rape case Sdren, were electrocuted to death inquiry into the electrocution inci- Tformer Social Welfare Minister main accused Brajesh Thakur who at a village under Rupohi police sta- dent which reportedly killed six Manju Verma’s husband was running the shelter home. It was tion in Assam’s Nagaon district on people at Rupohihat Legislative Chandrashekhar Verma in connection also alleged that Verma had been vis- Friday even as Assam Chief Assembly Constituency at Uttar with a case filed against him with Cheria iting the shelter home and spending Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Khatowal village in Nagaon district. Bariarpur police station last month for time there. ordered an inquiry into the tragic The Chief Minister have asked possessing illegal arms and ammuni- Manju Verma had stoutly denied incident. Additional Chief Secretary and tions. An order to arrest him was the allegations and claimed that her hus- The incident took place at Uttar Chairman APDCL Jishnu Barua to issued by Begusarai Police band visited the shelter home only once Khatowal village in Nagaon district enquire into the incident. “The Superintendent on Friday. that too along with her when she went when six persons, including chil- inquiry will primarily be encom- The SP moved following a directive there in her capacity as social welfare dren, got down to a fishery to fish passing within its ambit the cir- by the Supreme Court which found the minister. and got electrocuted. “A faulty elec- cumstances leading to the electro- case against Verma serious and a divi- The sensational case is being inves- tric high voltage wire got snapped cution and submit the report to the sion Bench directed the police to inter- tigated by the CBI and now the apex and reportedly electrocuted the vil- government immediately,” a state- rogate him. court has decided to monitor it. The lages fishery. The locals intimated ment issued by the Chief Minister’s The arms and ammunitions had Supreme Court also took notice of the this to the local line man of the elec- office said. been recovered during a search in the firing in remand home at Purnea in tricity board. The electricity was cut Meanwhile, the irate mob residential premises of the couple which two people died. The bench of off initially and the six people got attacked and vandalized the house whose name figured in the infamous Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice down to the fishery. However, after of local line man holding him 0 * Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. Deepak Gupta expressed surprise as to sometime, all the six persons died responsible for the incident. / 9 The Minister had to resign when the how weapon reached the remand home. P P )3
/3%5$$ and appealed to Governor the BJP is planning to take some was supposed to protect the affairs), then we too have many Vajubhai Vala to initiate action MLAs to resort in Pune or Constitution and citizens of the things at our disposal.” " "1 s the political uncertainty against the CM. Soon after the Mumbai. The BJP in the state country was “provoking” peo- “Government is in our hand. Aadded to infighting and has CM’s statement, there was a has also authorised ple. Another BJP MP Prahlad Don't I have the authority to do hit the fragile coalition in snap protest by a few Congress Yeddyurappa to take suitable Joshi termed the statement as whatever I can? I caution him + E D4/4 worked his up to become Karnataka, political pundits workers at the residence of BJP action if need be to form the the “most irresponsible and to be careful,” he added. party’s politburo and was elect- feel the President’s Rule looms state president BS Yeddyurappa. government. unpardonable offence” and said Chief Minister HD n a setback to Telangana ed to Lok Sabha from Adilabad. large over the State. The war of The saffron party has also The BJP accused chief min- the chief minister's choice of Kumaraswamy on Thursday IRashtra Samiti, a senior party But after his defeat in the words between Chief Minister threatened to take legal action ister of sedition and sought words displayed his state of reminded Yeddyurappa on the leader and former MP Ramesh last elections he joined the HD Kumaraswamy, who is against Kumaraswamy. action over his remark asking mind. denotification case. “Do not Rathod has quit the party and ruling TRS along with anoth- struggling to keep the coalition In a major development on people to rise in revolt against Upset over the alleged top- instigate me to lose my joined the main Opposition er senior TDP leader Tummala intact, and BJP chief BS Friday the JDs has called a leg- BJP for its alleged attempt to pling game of the BJP, an angry patience. I have my government Congress party. Nageshwara Rao and was Yeddyurappa for the last few islature party meeting at destabilise the collation gov- Kumaraswamy had on and can take extreme decision,” Rathod was angry on not working hard to cultivate the days has reached a peak lead- Hassan on Saturday indicates ernment. The party has also Thursday warned BJP to be he said, warning the BJP top getting the Assembly election constituency. However in the ing to fluid political situation. the political fluidity in the state. officially lodged a complaint restrained in its speech about leader to stay away from mak- ticket from his home con- nized a big protest demonstra- list of TRS candidates In a fit of anger Chief Minister who looks has- with DGP and said the chief Gowda and his family, saying he ing wild allegations against stituency Khanapur in Nirmal tion in Khanapur and Rathod announced by the Chief Kumaraswamy had asked the sled went to former chief min- minister has violated section can even ask people to rise in members of his family and district. issued warning to the TRS Minister K Chandrashekhar people to revolt (dange) against ister Siddaramaiah to discuss 124(A) and other sections of revolt against it if it continued stop attempting to topple the Ramesh along with his leader. A tribal leader Rathod Rao he failed to find a place the BJP for trying to topple his the political situation. The cus- IPC. Party workers Holding to disturb Congress-Janata Dal- coalition government. wife Suman joined the and his family was quite influ- and the ticket was given to Government but later he said tomary cabinet meeting on placards and raising slogans Secular coalition government In another development Congress party in Hyderabad ential in the area. Rekha Naik. his statement was misquoted. Thursday according to sources against JDs supremo headed by him. the JDs legislatures have com- in presence of AICC secretary With this he has complet- Rathod was confident that Yeddyurappa too charged JD(S) too discussed political situation Devegowda and his sons, Launching a no-holds- plained to the speaker about RC Kuntia. ed the round of joining all the on Congress ticket will emerge and Kumaraswamy as com- arising out of operation Lotus including Kumaraswamy, barred attack on state BJP chief BJP’s operation lotus and asked Speculations were rife for three major parties in the state. victorious from his con- mission agents. threat by the BJP which plans protested in Bengaluru. B S Yeddyurappa, the speaker to protect the quite some time that Rathode He started his career with the stituency and the party will The BJP termed the use of to poach JDs and Congress BJP leader Shobha Kumaraswamy had said: “If MLAs from horse trading and was on his way out from TRS Telugu Desam party where come to power in the next elec- the word ‘revolt’ as “seditious” MLAs. According to sources in Karndlaje said the person who you dig too much (into our poaching. after his supporters had orga- starting from the grass root he tions. ( ) (* ++, +-./ 3 4 % 8 +9
5 territorial war, there were six up to four cubs. Gestation cubs, two lionesses and three period of lioness is around " matured lions. As on Friday 110 days and in normal cir- !2 !/ autopsy reports of eight lions cumstances lioness become have come and prima facie the pregnant after an interval of 20 experts are of the opinion that to 24 months. Of the total 9;59+ The SP said some people all eight big cats died of infight- newly born lion cubs, only 25 including “some BJP support- %343% ing. Post Mortem reports of to 30 per cent reach to matu- pposition parties, includ- ers have been arrested for incit- remaining three Asiatic Lions rity, while 70 to 75 per cent die Oing the Left and the BJP, ing the crowd.” mid lots of hue and cry are awaited, but mostly the due to some or other natural staged road blockades in vari- Meanwhile at least 10 other Aover the deaths of 11 lions cause of the death likely to be and unnatural reasons. ous parts of North Bengal after people were admitted to vari- in the Gir Forest — the last the same. As per the last census of two students at Islampur in ous hospitals and were under- abode of Asiatic Lions situated With a view to curb more Asiatic Lions in the eight dis- North Dinajpur district died of going treatment. in western Gujarat, the State deaths of lions due to infight- tricts of Saurashtra region, 523 bullet injuries following clash- While the BJP immediate- forest department claimed that ing, the State forest department big cats were reported that es with the police. ly demanded a CBI investigation the deaths of big cats were nat- Reasons including aging, persica) as endangered due to has shifted five mature lions including 109 mature male, The students of Daribhit into the case and the Left asked ural and not a single death disease, injury, weakness and its small numbers and area of from Dalkhania and Jashadhar 201 female, 73 sub-adults and High School in Islampur bor- for a judicial inquiry from occurred due to viral infection infighting for capturing terri- occupancy. ranges to other places in Gir 14o cubs (below one year). On dering Bihar were allegedly massive protest by the locals Kolkata Education Minister or other disease. tory are considered as natural “Basically lion is a territo- forest. According to Sinha, and average every year 210 lion protesting against the appoint- who said the police had fired at Partho Chatterjee blamed the Many eye-brows have been in the case of lion’s death. rial animal and stay within its deaths of lions due to territor- cubs born in Gujarat and of ment of Urdu and Sanskrit the protesting students. right wing parties for creating raised following deaths of lions Hence the State forest depart- pride. As a result of it whenever ial war were considered as nat- these nearly 140 die by the time teachers keeping Bengali, However district SP Punit trouble in the region. in Dalkhania and Jashadhar ment is considering these the leader of a pride becomes ural phenomena and such inci- they reach up to the age of three History and other departments Kumar said the police had not “We know who are creating ranges situated in eastern part deaths of Asiatic Lions as nat- weak, mostly due to aging, dences are occurring time to years. Hardly 70 of them are vacant. fired at the crowd. “There was trouble there. There are reports of Gir Forest. During 12th to ural. Despite the fact, 11 deaths strong lions from neighbouring time. However, such high death surviving and reach to matu- Following clashes on a skirmish and the police had that the BJP is involved. But we 19th September as many as 11 within a span of eight days prides try to take his place and toll within a short span due to rity. During the year 2017-18 as Thursday a number of people to use force to control the can assure you that no one will lions died due to infighting and would be alarming for the attack on the weak lion and his infighting was alarming, he many as 69 lions died in including students and some crowd but there was no firing be spared and strict action will territorial war, confirms GK state forest department con- progenies. In such attacks, adds. Gujarat. Of these 51 died due policemen sustained bullet and as per reports coming now.” He be taken against those who are Sinha, Principal Chief sidering that International stronger lion not only kills the Generally, in one lion’s ter- to natural reasons and 18 due other injuries, police said. Out however said the autopsy responsible,” he said adding Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Union for Conservation of weaker one but his cubs also,” ritory up to three lionesses to unnatural reasons including of them one student died on reports would give a clear pic- the district inspector of schools and Head of Forest Force in Nature (IUCN) listed the said the PCCF. reside and after mating season accidents, electrocution and Thursday and the other died at ture as to what led to the have been suspended for failing Gujarat. Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo Of the 11 lions died due to each lioness would give birth other causes. Siliguri on Friday leading to deaths. to handle the situation. " & &* * *
# and submitted his resignation Defending his decision to Now he will be rewarded by the said that during the hearing of soon after pronouncing the join the BJP, Ravinder Reddy BJP leadership”. the case itself suspicions were ! " verdict. said, “BJP is a patriotic party Referring to the retired expressed that the judge was Nine people were killed free of any dynastic culture. The judge’s decision to contest the not of clear mind. “Now this when a bomb exploded in the party is committed to check anti coming assembly elections, he has been vindicated by his + E D4/4 court yard of Mecca Masjid national elements and to work said, “I am sure Aseemanand decision to join BJP”. He alleged soon after Friday congregation. for the national integration”, he and his friends will campaign that there was a total collusion ): judge who had acquitted all Later the CBI and the National said. Ravinder Reddy said that for him and I hope the retired between the public prosecutor Athe accused belonging to Investigation Agency had he wants to contest the coming judge will lose his deposit”. who was a BJP leader and Hindu extremist groups in arrested members of various Assembly elections preferably Civil Liberties Monitoring investigators and under pres- 9;59+ Banerjee the then Youth Congress split the Mecca Masjid bomb blast case Hindu groups including RSS, from his home district committee (CLMC) has sure from Hindutva organisa- party to form her own Trinamool Congress. earlier this year has decided to Lokesh Sharma and Devender Karimnagar or Medak. demanded the Supreme Court tions the accused were saved in n a move loaded with positive vibes for Since then much water had flowed down the join the BJP. Gupta. When asked whether his and the High Court to take a pre planned Mannar. “This IMamata Banerjee, the Congress on Friday Hooghly with Mitra himself joining the In a development, which Ravinder Reddy told the move will not caste aspersions notice of the strange case of raises a serious question of made some sudden and crucial changes in the TMC in 2009, winning from the Diamond has created a stir in political media that he had come to the and raise doubts about his judge Ravinder Reddy and influence of Hindutva organi- Pradesh Congress brass by removing State Harbour MP constituency before quitting that and legal circles in Hyderabad BJP office to join the party on judgment acquitting the order a fresh hearing of the sations on the lower courts and party president Adhir Chowdhury — a pro- party to rejoin the Congress again. former IVth Additional the invitation of the BJP lead- accused in the Mecca Masjid Mecca Masjid blast case. the Higher courts should take claimed anti-Mamata face — and bringing in Chowdhury has earlier went on record Metropolitan Sessions Judge ers. “I had come after meeting blast case, he said, “This has Committee general secre- note of it and take action his place a more accommodative Somen Mitra saying that there would be no alliance with K Ravinder Reddy visited the the BJP President Amit Shah in nothing to do with the judg- tary Lateef Mohammed Khan against such judges”. a septuagenarian leader. the Trinamool Congress till he was at the BJP state office and met the Hyderabad last week and was ment. I discharged my duties as Chowdhury has been made the chairman helm. senior party leader and former also in touch with Bandaru a judge with integrity and hon- of the election (campaign) committee while When asked to comment on whether he Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya. I had come on esty and delivered the judg- other three senior leaders: AH Khan too would pursue the same anti-Trinamool Dattatreya. their invitation to join the ment. I am now retired from Mohammed Ali Shabbir, how even the courts are being Chowdhury, a South Malda MP, Shankar policy in respect of electoral alliances, Mitra Party sources said that he party”, he said. service to serve the country and leader of Opposition Congress controlled and influenced. Malakar and Deepa Dasmunshi have been said he was “none to take a decision on the had come to the office with the Sources in the state BJP the people”. in Telangana Legislative The doors of justice were also made the acting vice presidents of the State issue. It is for the high command to take a plans of formally joining the office said that no date was Though Ravinder Reddy Council said that the judge being closed for the people”. unit, sources said. decision on alliances. When they will ask my party but was asked by the fixed for his formal joining and sought to rule out the link joining the BJP exposes the He questioned how the There was no word from Chowdhury who opinion about the issue I will give it.” party leaders to wait for some- Dattatreya asked him to wait between the Mecca Masjid deep conspiracy behind the accused could be acquitted has been in favour of a Left-Congress, rather On what his opinion was regarding the time. till a formal communication blast case judgment and his acquittal of the accused of even after giving confession to than Congress-TMC alliance in the 2019 gen- longevity of a Congress-TMC alliance if it real- In his judgment of April 19 from the central leadership. decision to join BJP, there was Mecca Masjid case. “There a judge. “I hold the TRS gov- eral elections as — “Mamata Banerjee has ly became a reality, he said “as of now if we he had acquitted all the five Sources said that there was a a criticism from different quar- was a deep nexus behind it. ernment in the state also ruined our party organisation after we allied ally with the TMC then definitely we will get accused belonging to Hindu need for some more discus- ters. NIA was influenced by the responsible. They are in with her by engineering defections with bla- some seats from Bengal. But in the long run groups including Swami sions with in the party and all Majlis-e-Ittehadul BJP. The prosecutor belonged power. Why they did not tant use of money and muscle power.” we will lose organizationally as has been seen Aseemanand alias Nabha the state leaders including state Muslimeen president and MP to the BJP and now the judge challenge the lower court Mitra was the PCC president in 1998. through the past experiences when TMC has Kumar Sircar, a RSS member president K Lakshman need to Asaduddin Owaisi said, “We after his retirement is joining judgment in the High Court”, Following serious differences with him engineered defections in the Congress.” citing lack of sufficient proof be taken into confidence. knew where he was going. BJP. This clearly shows that he asked. < = . !"; </ & " / / 9;& (
" The fugitive jeweller also debate. vision he required. claimed that the news anchor He has urged the court to At that time, he had also $+* ,$,/ concerned and the panelists did make his submission a part of said that there existed a “trend not object to the comments the court records and, in light of mob lynching” in the coun- ugitive jeweller Mehul made by the caller. Instead, the of the same, to cancel the try presently, and he feared that %3%+;9 The Prime Minister will be 2008 and was constructed at an FChoksi, a co-accused in the anchor even laughed at the NBW issued against him. if he returned to India, he received by the Governor of estimated cost of 350 crore. Punjab National Bank fraud comments and the same makes The special court has now might become a victim of such rime Minister Narendra Sikkim Ganga Prasad and state The project is being billed as case, on Friday moved the spe- it apparent that the anchor and directed the Central Bureau of lynching. PModi will inaugurate the Chief Minister Pawan Kumar an engineering marvel — it has cial CBI court here for cancel- debate on the fraud. the panelists too “tacitly” Investigation to file its reply to The CBI charge sheet Pakyong Airport in Sikkim on Chamling after his arrival in been built at an height of 4,500 lation of a non-bailable warrant He told the court that he agreed with what the callers the application by October 3 named Choksi, the managing September 24, officials said on the state, the officials said. feet in an inhospitable terrain. against him claiming he has was “shocked” to watch a suggested, Choksi said in the this year, which is the next date director of Gitanjali group, for- Friday. He will stay at Raj Bhawan Once commissioned, it will reasons to believe that his debate on a national television plea. of hearing in the case. mer PNB MD and CEO Usha The greenfield airport, on September 23 and will inau- be the 100th functional airport return to India might endanger news channel where two callers “From the above two calls This is the second such Ananthasubramanian, then located 30 km from here, will gurate the Pakyong airport the in the country. his life. phoned in to share their opin- made by the callers and the application filed by Choksi PNB executive directors put Sikkim on the aviation next day. As on date, Sikkim is the On May 22 this year, after ion on the fraud. tacit approval given to the before the special court, claim- Brahmaji Rao and Sanjiv Sharan, map of the country. The PM’s programme at only state in the country with- taking cognisance of the second The callers, Choksi claimed same by the news anchor and ing a threat to his life and seek- and PNB deputy manager The Prime Minister will the airport will begin at around out a functional airport. charge sheet filed in the in the plea, “suggested that a the panelists, it is clear that the ing that the NBW be can- Gokulnath Shetty, among others address a public meeting at St 10 am on September 24, a State Low-cost airline SpiceJet 12,636-crore PNB fraud case special team be formed to averments made by the appli- celled. as key accused in the case. Xavier’s School ground in Government official said has been granted permission to by the CBI, the special court track Mehul Choksi down and cant (Choksi) in the application In June this year, he had While urging the court to Pakyong after inaugurating the Friday, adding, that the PM will fly to Pakyong from Kolkata had issued the NBW against shoot him to death once he was filed before this court regard- filed a plea claiming that he had issue the NBW, the CBI had state’s first airport, the officials then address the people at under the Civil Aviation Choksi. brought back to India”. ing a threat to his life and the been advised bed rest on argued that its issuance would said. The Prime Minister is 10.30 am at the St Xavier’s Ministry’s regional connectiv- Choksi, in an application Choksi claimed that the fear of mob lynching is vindi- account of his ill health fol- allow the probe agency to scheduled to arrive at the School ground. ity scheme. filed Friday through his lawyer callers said that such treatment cated,” the application read. lowing a “heart operation,” approach the Interpol for issu- Bagdogra airport at 4.10 pm on From there he will return SpiceJet has already con- Sanjay Abbott, said his appre- would send out a strong mes- Choksi also sent some and he feared that once in ing a Red Corner Notice September 23 after which he to the Pakyong airport, board ducted a dry run at the airport hensions over his safety are sage to society and prevent fur- audio and video CDs claiming India, the probe agencies would against Choksi, Nirav Modi will board an helicopter from a chopper and fly to Bagdogra. with one its Bombardier Dash based upon what transpired ther cases of frauds and fiscal that they contained the cited not help him secure the kind of and some other persons there to fly to Gangtok, the offi- The Pakyong airport was 8-Q400 aircraft successfully during a recent television scams. footage from the news channel medical treatment and super- accused in the case. cials said. approved by the Centre in landing there on March 5. 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03"< 3.45 sions being granted to the firm, it failed to file its reply which 3.45 national level cess on selected ebi on Friday slapped a fine depicts an approach to not commodities for a specified Sof 35 lakh on Falcon Tyres cooperate with the investigation. inance Minister Arun Jaitley period to help such states. GST for not providing the informa- “Thus, for not complying Fhas proposed additional Council to discuss,” Kerala tion sought by the regulator in with the summons for supply- cess on select commodities Finance Minister Thomas Isaac a matter related to preferential ing information/ documents under GST to raise funds to said in a tweet. allotment of shares of the firm. sought by the IA (investigating help Kerala tide over the dam- Isaac was of the view that In April 2012, the authority) during the investi- ages caused due to floods, a GST should be made flexible to Securities and Exchange Board gations, it is held that Falcon state minister said on Friday. take care of “unforeseen urgent of India (Sebi) issued various has violated... Sebi Act,” the reg- The proposal of levy of cess demand for resources as in the summons to Falcon. ulator said. is expected to come up for dis- case natural calamities”. One of the summons Noting that Falcon is cussion at the GST Council The issue regarding addi- sought the balance sheet of “liable for monetary penalty”, meeting on September 28. tional cess for funding rehabili- Falcon for the financial years Sebi slapped a fine of 35 lakh “Kerala welcomes the sug- tation activities in flood-hit 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. on the firm. gestion of hon’ble FM for a Kerala was discussed on Another summon directed the In a separate order, the reg- Thursday during a meeting of company to confirm whether it ulator imposed a penalty of 4 Isaac with Jaitley. signed any deed of assignment lakh on Excel Castronics’ non Isaac has also pressed for with three other entities — executive director Payal additional funds from the Centre Suncap, Regus and Salputri — Jayeshbhai Madiyar for disclo- to rebuild the state, which is esti- for assigning a loan of 144.04 sure lapses. mated to have suffered a loss of crore to itself. In August 2014, the hold- 20,000 crore (as per a prelimi- In an order, Sebi said ings of Payal in Excel nary estimate) due to the floods. Falcon was informed to furnish Castronics increased from The Government may have required documents, but it 3,91,532 shares to 4,20,762 to amend the GST law to per- had sought extension of time. shares, which is 5.167 per cent mit imposition of a new cess in According to the order, of the share capital of the com- the new indirect tax regime. despite multiple time exten- pany.
GOVT. OF MAHARASHTRA PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION SOLAPUR. Sat Rasta, Near Karigar Petrol Pump, Solapur - 413003 [email protected] Phone No. 0217/2312310 E-TENDER NOTICE NO. 23 FOR 2018-2019 (Online) Sealed online B-1 e-tenders for the following work are invited by the Executive Engineer, Public Works Division , Solapur (Telephone No. 2312310) from the Contractors Registered with Government of Maharashtra Public Works Department in appropriate class. Sr. Name of Work Estimated Cost No. (In lack) 1 Repairs to Barshi Solapur Road S.H. 204 KM 37/200 to 64/800 Rs. 70.00 Lack Dist-Solapur. 2 Repairs to Tandulwadi Musti Dhotri Walsang Achegaon Tilatigate Rs. 65.00 Lack Kanabas Bankalgi Sanjwad to join road S.H. 213 MDR 44 KM 22/00 to 43/00 Dist-Solapur 3 Repairs to Alur Bhurikawathe Wagdari Shirwal Akkalkot Jeur Rs. 80.00 Lack Karajagi Mangrul Tadwal Mundhewadi SH 211 road KM 176/500 to 221/00 Dist-Solapur NOTED:- Details of Tender documents will be available and downloaded online directly from the Government of Maharashtra e-tendering website http://mahatenders.gov.in & http://mahapwd.com as under. Above Tender Notice is displayed on P.W.D. website www.mahapwd.com From date 21/9/2018. Sd/- Executive Engineer, DGIPR/2018/2019/3105 Public Work Division, Solapur. ( ) (* ++, +-./ 7 ! 55
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