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Mumbai NEARBY India to attend Lahore meet Congress stand on GDP on Indus Waters Treaty data unfortunate: Jaitley ‘Growth rate igures are a matter of pride for every Indian’ Jats to block highways World Bank oicials play mediator in two months of diplomatic negotiations Nistula Hebbar to Delhi on March 20 VARANASI FM seeks to NEW DELHI Suhasini Haidar Union Finance Minister Demanding quota in New Delhi Key SAARC post Arun Jaitley on Thursday mollify traders education and jobs, Signalling a major shift in its termed “unfortunate” the thousands of Jats from i position on talks with for Pak. o cial Congress’s stand question- Special correspondent Haryana, Punjab and other Pakistan on the Indus Waters ing the GDP data pegging Varanasi northern States gathered at Kallol Bhattacherjee Union Finance Minister Jantar Mantar on Thursday Treaty (IWT), India has ac- the growth rate at 7.1% . NEW DELHI Arun Jaitley made a whistle- and threatened to gherao cepted an invitation to at- He was speaking to journ- stop visit to poll-bound Parliament and block major tend the next meeting of the After months of difficulty alists on a visit to Varanasi highways leading to Delhi on Permanent Indus Commis- posed mainly by India, that will go to the polls in the Varanasi. He spent much of March 20 if their demands sion (PIC) to be held in Pakistan on Wednesday seventh and last phase of the his time speaking to traders, were not met. Lahore in March, various succeeded in getting its Assembly elections in Uttar the core support base of the sources confirmed to The official elected to the post of Pradesh on March 8. Bharatiya Janata Party, to DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Hindu. Secretary-General of the The growth rate figures soothe the ruffled feelings According to officials South Asian Association for “are a matter of pride for Arun Jaitley addresses a over demonetisation and privy to the development, Regional Cooperation every Indian, and it is unfor- press conference in tax notices. Ī PAGE 11 HC orders CBI probe the move came after two (SAARC). Pakistan was tunate that the Congress ap- Varanasi on Thursday. PTI DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD into Mathura clash MEERUT months of diplomatic negoti- backed by all members, pears disappointed by this ations, with World Bank offi- including India, which made achievement,” he said. the collection of excise and the organised sector,” he The Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered a Central cials playing mediator in en- the selection consensus- The Congress had ques- Value Added Tax had in- said. That data was available Ī PAGE 11 Bureau of Investigation probe couraging Pakistan to extend based. tioned the veracity of the creased. Thus, in these fig- and there was no scope for into the violence in the the invitation and for India DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD data and several econom- ures of November-Decem- analysis, he added. Jawahar Bagh park area in to accept. ists, too, expressed surprise ber, when there was a Mr. Jaitley said Uttar Pra- Mathura in which 24 people, The news closely follows Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. ing” the talks after the Uri at- key officials, including Na- at the robust growth of the currency squeeze and re- desh was the most signific- including two senior police the visit of World Bank Chief Officials acknowledged tacks in September. tional Security Adviser Ajit economy especially after the monetisation was happen- ant in the five States which oicers and many squatters Executive Officer Kristalina that the holding of the next According to senior gov- Doval and Foreign Secretary disruption caused by de- ing, for the excise and VAT have gone to Assembly polls belonging to Swadhin Bharat Georgieva to Delhi, where annual round of the PIC, ernment officials at the time, S. Jaishankar, to “review” the monetisation. collections to rise, is a clear and said the BJP would form Vidhik Satyagrah, an armed she met with Union Finance which was last held in July the decision to suspend the IWT. Mr. Jaitley dismissed indication of an endorse- the government there. group led by Ram Vriksh Minister Arun Jaitley, weeks 2016 was a “positive” sign, talks had been taken when (With inputs from Arun S) these as attempts to spread ment of our position that the Yadav, were killed. after her visit in January to given that India had an- Prime Minister Narendra misinformation. “I had said country should move for- EC SEEKS BSP RESPONSE ON NORTH Ī PAGE 2 Islamabad, where she met nounced it was “suspend- Modi held a meeting with CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 in November-December that ward to more and more of BIG CASH DEPOSITS Ī PAGE 11 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Aadhaar must for online CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC booking of rail tickets NEW DELHI Learning lane Univs are places of debate, The Railways will soon move towards Aadhaar-based online ticketing system to not violence, says President prevent touts from blocking a bulk of tickets, end fraudulent bookings. The Pranab’s comments come days after unrest in Ramjas Aadhaar number has been The President’s sugges- tion when our universities made mandatory for senior K.S. Sudhi Kochi tion comes in the wake of a like Nalanda and Takshshila citizens to avail concessions Asserting that there should raging debate on the free- were at the height of their in train tickets from April 1. NEWS Ī PAGE 10 be “no room in India for the dom of expression following glory. Nalanda and Taksh- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD intolerant Indian”, President the violent clashes at Ramjas shila are not mere geograph- Pranab Mukherjee on College of Delhi University. ical expressions but repres- Thursday said it was tragic entations of the idea for free to see universities across the Intellectual exercises thought which flourished in country “caught in the vor- Mr. Mukherjee said these these great universities of tex of violence and temples of learning must re- the past. Our premier insti- disquiet”. sound with intellectual exer- tutions of higher education Delivering the K.S. Raja- cises, free thinking and free are the vehicles on which In- mony memorial lecture here exchanges and creativity dia has to propel itself into a on Thursday, Mr. Mukherjee and that there should be knowledge society,” he said. said “universities must en- space for legitimate criticism India, said Mr. Mukher- gage in reasoned discussion and dissent in the country. jee, has been since ancient FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES and debate rather than The President pointed out times a bastion of free (TABLOID) Burning the midnight oil: Students studying for the HSC and SSC exams late into the night on a footpath of Poddar Lane propagate a culture of that “India was a world thought, speech and expres- DELHI METROĪ 6 PAGES at Worli in central Mumbai, known as ‘Abhyas Gali’ (study lane). RAJNEESH LONDHE unrest”. leader in the field of educa- sion. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Gurkha veterans battle for pension Forced to go to Nepal for the beneit Still struggling: Ganga Bahadur Thapa at his home in Lohitpur, Arunachal Pradesh. RITU RAJ KONWAR Kallol Bhattacherjee which has banking facilities. TEZU (ARUNACHAL PRADESH) For this group of elderly Can’t afford it Gurkhas who fought in the The difficulties facing the 1962 war, old age has veterans stand out. A become a formidable enemy. promise was made by One of the soldier- President Pranab Mukherjee veterans is 82-year-old to the Gurkhas in Pokhara. Ganga Bahadur Thapa, “The ex-servicemen are the bedridden for a year now in foundational pillars of the Lohitpur village of friendship between Nepal Arunachal Pradesh. Apart and India. The Indian from physical paralysis, he Government and Indian faces a different kind of Army are proud of the suffering: his pension is Gurkha soldiers and ex- literally too far away to servicemen. I, on behalf of collect. the Government of India He and others can get assure you that the their pension only if they Government of India will travel to Pokhara in Nepal, never step back in its efforts which is over 1,600 km by for the welfare of its ex- road. Most Gurkha soldiers servicemen. Today 32,000 living in Lohitpur are among Gurkha soldiers are serving the 1.26 lakh Gurkha ex- in the Indian Army,” the servicemen in India entitled President said to the Gurkha to pension. But they cannot soldiers on November 4, receive the money and 2016, during a visit. health benefits here. “I cannot afford to go to “The rules say that we can Pokhara every year,” said