c m y k c m y k TABLOID Aamir 25 Khan’s THE ASIAN AGE Lal Singh NEW DELHI WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2019 Chadha will scan Japan Indian NEWSMAKERS | SPORTS | Cricket history Emperor Naruhito CoA reign ends as Sourav ascends to throne in 11 Ganguly set to take over as 14 an ancient ceremony 39th BCCI president today www.asianage.com RNI No. 57290/94, Regd No: DL-SW-05/4189/15-17 Vol. 26 No. 247 | 32 PAGES | `5.00 WINDOWS ■MTNL, Bhel, ITDC’s Ashok Hotel in Delhi up for disinvestment SC rejects CBI British MPs thwart Boris’ plan to get Govt decides to sell 11 PSUs logic, grants PC Brexit deal okayed MADHUSUDAN SAHOO London: British MPs on NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 11 ‘ailing PSUs’ Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel), Andrew Yule & Co, ITDC’s Ashok Hotel, Balmer $5tn challenge: Modi all set Tuesday rejected Prime bail in INX case Minister Boris Johnson’s In a first, the Modi gov- Lawrie Investments and Balmer Lawrie & Co, plans to approve his Brexit ernment at the Centre has Mahanagar telephone Nigam (MTNL), to meet top ministers today deal by October 31, min- finalised 11 “ailing” Telecommunications Consultant India, National ‘No whisper of evidence’ that PC utes after giving prelimi- Public Sector Units Textile Corporation, FCI Aravalli Gypsum and ANIMESH SINGH the Prime Minister has nary approval to the agree- (PSUs) for strategic sale as Minerals India, Hindustan Copper, MECON and NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 called a high level review tried to tamper with evidence: SC ment. MPs voted by a part of its disinvestment Braithwaite & Co. meeting of the infrastruc- majority of 14 to reject his plan. The government With the NDA govern- ture sector on October 23 AGE CORRESPONDENT ‘FLIGHT RISK’ timetable to push through move, however, aims at The move of the The government will ment’s ambitious target of at his residence. Highly- With agnecy inputs the legislation this week, meeting the fiscal deficit Central govt aims to be a minority sharehold- making India a $5 trillion placed sources said that NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 The ‘flight risk’ of making it almost inevitable target and bring the coun- bring economy back er after these strategic economy by 2025 facing Mr Modi would be brain- economic offenders that Brexit will be delayed try’s economy back on on track and meet the sales which will be the twin challenge of a storming with ministers In a relief to should be looked at beyond next week’s dead- track. In its recent meet- fiscal defecit target India’s first such sale domestic economic slow- of key infrastructure sec- former finance as a national phe- line. The Commons sup- ing with top officials of down and unemployment tor-related ministries. minister P. nomenon. ported the Withdrawal the Prime Minister’s reaching a 45 year high, ■ More on Page 2 Chidambaram, Agreement Bill earlier, but Office (PMO), the finance “The government is all other PSUs for strategic the Supreme — TUSHAR MEHTA, then voted against the ministry is learnt to have set for a series of block- sales in tranches, which have been approved by the Consultancy Corporation Court on Solicitor general short timetable. The PM set an ambitious target to buster divestments, lining includes refiner and fuel government for disinvest- (India), Pawan Hans, Tuesday grant- PC warned he would seek an offload government’s up strategic sales of as retailer Bharat Petroleum ment, include Bharat National Projects ed him bail in There can’t be a election if MPs dismissed holdings. many as 11 PSUs. Once the Corporation Ltd (BPCL) to Immunologicals & Construction the INX Media case being universal formula the plan and the EU grant- These 11 PSUs include Cabinet gives its nod to foreign and private firms. Biologicals Corporation Corporation, ITDC Hotels investigated by the ‘merely because cer- ed an extension to 31 Oct. Bharat Heavy Electricals, the list, jointly prepared “Though it is a fact that Ltd, Bharat Earth Movers, (for long-term lease of 50 Central Bureau of Brexit deadline. — AFP Andrew Yule & Co, ITDC’s by Niti Ayog and depart- BPCL’s name does not find National Aluminium years). Investigation (CBI) while tain other offenders Ashok Hotel, Balmer ment of investment and mention in the list as of Company, Natinal With such a move, it is trashing the investigating have flown out of Lawrie Investments and public asset management now, the government will Mineral Development well understood that the agency’s assertions that the country’ Balmer Lawrie & Co, (DIPAM), the government first have to take it to Corporation, Scooters government will become a he was a flight risk, and — SUPREME Mahanagar telephone will move ahead with the Cabinet for its approval,” India, Certification minority shareholder saying that there was “no COURT Nigam (MTNL), strategic sale of these the source said, adding Engineers International through these strategic whisper” of any evidence Telecommunications PSUs whenever it finds that the privatisation plan Ltd, Projects & sales which is happening that he had tried to influ- Consultant India, the market condition suit- requires the nod of Development India, in the country for the first ence witnesses or tamper Setting aside the Delhi National Textile able for the same,” a top Parliament and as per Bridge & Roof Co (India), time. The list also indi- with documents. high court’s September 30 Corporation, FCI Aravalli source in the finance min- plan, it may sell most of its Engineering Projects cates the names of the Mr Chidambaram, who verdict denying bail to Mr Gypsum and Minerals istry told Financial 53.3 per cent stake to a (India), Hindustan companies which will par- has spent two months in Chidambaram, a bench of India, Hindustan Copper, Chronicle on Tuesday. strategic partner. Newsprint Ltd, Cement ticipate in the sale. the custody of enforce- Justice R. Banumathi, MECON and Braithwaite Besides, the government The source added that Corporation of India, The idea is to meet the ment agencies and in jail, Justice A.S. Bopanna and & Co. has also lined up a host of the other PSUs, which Hospital Services ■ Turn to Page 4 can’t walk free at least till Justice Hrishikesh Roy Thursday as he is current- said that he was not a ly in the Enforcement “flight risk” and there Directorate’s custody in a was “no possibility of his related money laundering abscondence from the J&K, Ladakh govt matter. trial.” PM meets, lauds laureate Mr Chidambaram, 74, The apex court said that was arrested by the CBI the high court’s order, staff to get salaries from his Jor Bagh home which said that the possi- here in a late night drama bility of the senior Abhijit; RSS slams winner on August 21. A city court Congress leader influenc- on October 18 remanded ing witnesses could not be as per 7th pay panel NITIN MAHAJAN the Congress veteran to ruled out, was not “sub- NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 the ED custody till stantiated by any finding AGE CORRESPONDENT Thursday. ■ Turn to Page 4 Actor John Travolta poses NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 ‘Kashmir leaders, Nobel laureate Abhijit during a photocall at the Banerjee on Tuesday Rome Film Fest in Rome on In a move that will bring separatists didn’t called on Prime Minister ■ Tuesday. — AP some cheer to 4.5 lakh gov- Narendra Modi and the India urges Pak to drop $20 fee ernment employees in lose kin to terror’ two had a “healthy and Jammu & Kashmir, the New Delhi: Leaders of extensive” interaction on 3 Jaish terrorists home ministry on Hurriyat and mainstream various subjects. Mr Tuesday announced that parties in Jammu and Banerjee, an India-born India & Pakistan killed in J&K fight staffers of the proposed Kashmir, religious American professor at Srinagar: Three terrorists of Union Territories of preachers and clerics Massachusetts Institute of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e- Jammu & Kashmir and have used their influ- Technology (MIT), has Mohammed were killed in Ladakh will get salaries ence to get the children won Nobel in economics Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Nobel Prize win- to sign Kartarpur an encounter in Jammu and and allowances as per 7th of ordinary Kashmiris with Esther Duflo and ner in economics Abhijit Banerjee in New Delhi on Kashmir's Pulwama district Pay Commission recom- killed while none of Michael Kremer for Tuesday. — AP via Twitter on Tuesday, the second mendations from October them lost their own to “experimental approach to such encounter in the past 31. The newly created UTs terrorism, Governor alleviating global pover- ours,” PM Modi said in a meeting. PM Modi started pact tomorrow one week. The encounter of J&K and Ladakh will Satya Pal Malik said on ty.” tweet, sharing a picture of by cracking a joke on how lasted over four hours and come into existence from Tuesday. PAGE 2 “Excellent meeting with their meeting at his offi- media is trying to trap me AGE CORRESPONDENT security forces recovered October 31. Nobel Laureate Abhijit cial residence. to say anti-Modi things... NEW DELHI, OCT. 22 US: Pak support arms and ammunition from The decision will benefit Union Home Minister Banerjee. His passion Mr Banerjee, speaking to He’s been watching the TV the site, director feneral of government employees Amit Shah cleared the towards human empower- the media after his meet- and he’s been watching India and Pakistan will to terror blocking police Dilbagh Singh told a who are presently work- proposal on Tuesday fol- ment is clearly visible. We ing with Prime Minister you guys. And he knows sign the agreement for news channnel. — PTI ing with the state govern- lowing which a formal had a healthy and exten- Modi on Tuesday, said he what you are trying to do,” Kartarpur Corridor on talks with India ment of J&K.