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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Yediyurappa wins trust vote India has nearly 3,000 tigers, Ramesh Kumar 2 disqualified up by a third from 2014 count quits as Karnataka The results of the census were made public by PM Modi Assembly Speaker MLAs move SC Two MLAs on Monday Jacob Koshy New Delhi Shah to head group Special Correspondent moved the Supreme Court to combat lynching Bengaluru against their disqualification India has 2,967 tigers, a third NEW DELHI The three­day­old BJP govern­ from the Assembly under more than in 2014, accord­ An empowered Group of ment in Karnataka headed by the anti­defection law. They ing to the results of a tiger Ministers constituted last Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurap­ said the Speaker had made census made public on Mon­ year to suggest measures to pa proved its majority with the decision in “hot haste” day by Prime Minister Na­ combat lynchings will ease in the Assembly on Mon­ at the behest of the rendra Modi. continue functioning. It will day by winning the confi­ Congress. They arraigned Madhya Pradesh saw the be headed by Home Minister dence motion by voice vote. the Speaker, the State of highest number at 526, Amit Shah, said a senior Soon after the trust vote Karnataka, Siddaramaiah closely followed by Karnata­ government official. The GoM and the passage of the Fi­ and Dinesh Gundurao as ka (524) and Uttarakhand had met on two occasions. nance Bill for a period of New bonhomie: B.S. Yediyurappa greets Congress leader respondents. Ī PAGE 8 (442). Chhattisgarh and Miz­ Since the GoM was position­ three months along with the Siddaramaiah in the Assembly on Monday. * K. MURALI KUMAR DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD oram saw a decline in tiger specific, there was no need to supplementary budget, population and all other reconstitute it, said the official, speaking on condition Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar, confidence motion, with the The Opposition Congress gress­JD(S) coalition govern­ States saw a “positive” in­ of anonymity. who had disqualified 17 rebel effective strength of the and JD(S) did not press for di­ ment by reducing it to a crease, according to a press MLAs of the Congress and the House down to 208 where the vision of votes, while vocifer­ minority. statement. NEWS Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD JD(S) over the last few days, BJP enjoys the support of 106 ously opposing the confi­ Former CM and CLP leader The survey, the fourth tendered his resignation. MLAs. This was in contrast to dence motion, terming it Siddaramaiah said Mr. Yediy­ such since 2006, is a gargan­ Priyanka ideal as Cong. Mr. Yediyurappa’s third term “immoral and unconstitu­ urappa would not be able to tuan exercise and conduct­ chief, says Amarinder A depleted House in 2018 when he had to resign tional.” give a stable government gi­ ed once in four years. The CHANDIGARH The 17 disqualifications had on account of lack of num­ The desertions by MLAs, ven that he had come to pow­ latest survey is the culmina­ Punjab Chief Minister put the BJP in a comfortable bers within 48 hours of being allegedly engineered by the er by ‘luring MLAs.’ tion of 15 months of forest of­ Amarinder Singh has pitched position in the passage of the sworn in. BJP, brought down the Con­ Ī PAGE 12 ficials surveying 3,81,400 tiger population was cap­ “We have to create a for Congress general CONTINUED ON square kilometres of forest­ tured in these images. healthy balance between secretary Priyanka Gandhi CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Vadra to take over the party’s ed habitat, installing 26,760 While the Pench Tiger Re­ sustainability and develop­ reins, saying she was “a good camera traps and wildlife serve in Madhya Pradesh re­ ment,” Mr. Modi said in his bet” to replace Rahul Gandhi Field day biologists ferreting through corded the highest number address. as party president. “Priyanka 35 million images of wildlife of tigers, the Sathyamanga­ would be a perfect choice to — 76,523 of which were tig­ lam Tiger Reserve in Tamil ECONOMIC VALUE OF RESERVES take over the party reins but ers (there can be multiple Nadu registered the “maxi­ WORTH CRORES Ī PAGE 9 it would all depend on the images of the same tiger). mum improvement” since PENCH, PERIYAR RATED TOP CWC,” he said Nearly 83% of the estimated 2014, the statement said. TIGER RESERVES Ī PAGE 9 NEWS Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mamata’s ‘Tell Didi’ campaign goes live It’s official, Odisha is origin of Rasagola Special Correspondent relations campaign, said Ms. BHUBANESWAR kolkata Banerjee while addressing a The rasagola, a popular Aided by a battery of man­ press conference on Monday. dessert of Odisha, has agement professionals and The Bharatiya Janata Party received the Geographical communications experts, called it a “gimmick” of poll Indication tag from the Registrar of Geographical West Bengal Chief Minister strategist Prashant Kishor. Indication after years of Mamata Banerjee launched “More than 1,000 elected controversy around the “a unique initiative” to reach representatives and party sweet. “Happy to share that out to the people of the State. functionaries will visit more Didi Ke Bo- #Odisha Rasagola has The initiative – Mamata Banerjee than 10,000 villages and ur­ received GI tag in lo, or Tell Didi (Ms. Banerjee) ban habitations to listen to Geographical Indication – has been developed as a Besides, TMC functionaries people. [They] will spend the Registry,” tweeted Chief platform with a phone num­ will now have to visit specific night in those habitations Minister Naveen Patnaik. Shower of blessing: A woman planting paddy saplings in a field on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar after heavy rains on Monday. ber and website to communi­ pockets in cities and villages and also listen to the impor­ Though it has come as blessing for her, the showers have caused a flood­like situation in some parts of Odisha.* BISWARANJAN ROUT cate directly with the Trina­ and even spend nights there tant residents of the area,” NATION Ī PAGE 9 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC mool Congress chief . as part of an enhanced public Ms. Banerjee said. BJP MLA booked for murder over collision Azam Khan apologises U.P. govt. recommends CBI probe; faced repeated threats, says rape survivor’s uncle Omar Rashid lision. The four persons threatened that if they didn’t twice in LS LUCKNOW were travelling to meet him agree to a compromise, they The Uttar Pradesh govern­ when the accident took would be killed one way or Special Correspondent New Delhi ment in a late night decision place. the other, the complaint on Monday decided to refer The BJP MLA was booked said. SP member Azam Khan to the CBI the investigation for murder, attempt to mur­ The uncle also said that apologised twice in the Lok into the case of the Raebareli der, criminal conspiracy and whenever he went to Unnao Sabha on Monday for his accident suffered by the Un­ criminal intimidation. The for a hearing in his case, the remarks against BJP mem­ nao rape survivor and her fa­ FIR mentions 10 persons in­ MLA’s men reminded him ber Rama Devi when she mily. A formal request has Kuldeep Singh Sengar. * PTI cluding Sengar, his brother that “the government is with was presiding over the pro­ been sent to the Centre. Manoj Singh Sengar and his the MLA”. ceedings last week. Earlier in the day, jailed rammed the car they were aides, and 15 to 20 other un­ The uncle’s complaint “... I want to say I had no BJP MLA from Unnao Kul­ travelling in. identified persons. says the driver of the truck such intention towards the deep Singh Sengar, who fac­ The FIR against Sengar In his complaint, the un­ which hit the car in which Chair. I have been a nine­ es charges of gang rape, was was lodged at the Gurbaksh­ cle said he and his family had his family was travelling, was time legislator, a Minister booked for criminal conspi­ ganj police station in Raeba­ faced repeated threats from associated with the MLA. and a Rajya Sabha mem­ racy and murder in connec­ reli on a complaint from the the MLA and his men and The collision was orchestrat­ ber.... If people think that I tion with the accident in survivor’s uncle who has were being intimidated to ed with an “intent to kill”, he committed a mistake then I which the survivor and her been in prison since Febru­ change their statements in said. am sorry for it,” he said af­ lawyer were seriously in­ ary. court or reach a compromise ter the proceedings began. jured, while her two aunts His wife was one of the with the MLA in the gang CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 were killed when a truck victims of Sunday’s fatal col­ rape case. They have been CONGRESS’S PLEA Ī PAGE 13 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC