follow us: friday, may 11, 2018 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 36 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Hectic campaign Mahathir stages a surprise comeback Becomes the world’s oldest elected leader; sworn in as Malaysia’s Prime Minister Agence France-Presse won 121 seats, comfortably ends on a bitter note Reuters more than the 112 required to Kuala Lumpur rule. He said he had been as­ No decision yet on Raja Rajeshwari Nagar seat in Karnataka Ninety­two­year­old Mahath­ sured of support from a raft SC Collegium to ir Mohamad was on Thurs­ of parties that would give his meet today Special Correspondent day sworn in as the world’s government 135 members of NEW DELHI Bengaluru oldest elected leader after a parliament. The five­judge Collegium led A month of high­decibel stunning election win that In a ceremony at the na­ by Chief Justice of India Dipak campaigning for the Karna­ swept Malaysia’s establish­ tional palace steeped in cen­ Misra is scheduled to meet on taka Assembly election — ment from power after more turies­old Muslim Malay tra­ Friday to decide on the which saw national and lo­ than six decades. dition, Mr. Mahathir was government’s objections to the elevation of Uttarakhand cal leaders participating in a In a huge upset, former sworn in as Prime Minister High Court Chief Justice K.M. series of political rallies strongman Mr. Mahathir’s by King Sultan Muhammad Joseph to the Supreme Court. across the State — came to a Opposition alliance broke Age no bar: Mahathir Mohamad showing a letter endorsing V. He took the oath, with al­ close on Thursday evening. the grip on power of the Bar­ him as the Prime Minister in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. * AP lies and senior government NEWS Ī PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The State will vote to isan Nasional (BN) coalition, officials in attendance. elect 223 legislators (the which had governed Malay­ ical comeback for Mr. Ma­ Minister Najib Razak after he 40 places designated for election in the Jayanagar sia uninterrupted since its hathir, who previously ruled became embroiled in a mas­ BREAKS MALAYSIA’S POLITICAL namaz in Gurugram segment has been post­ birth as an independent the country with an iron fist sive corruption scandal. STATUS QUO Ī PAGE 12 GURUGRAM poned following the death country in 1957. for 22 years and came out of Official results showed MAHATHIR’S SURPRISE The district administration on of the BJP nominee) on It capped a dramatic polit­ retirement to take on Prime that Mr. Mahathir’s coalition Ī EDITORIAL Thursday designated around Saturday. 40 places, including two The last day saw hectic dozen public spaces, for campaigning by leaders more Indian than many In­ other parts of the country, offering of Friday prayers. across constituencies, with dian people I see,” he said. left in adherence to the poll Kejriwal’s nephew arrested for graft DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD both BJP national president conduct rules that kicked in Amit Shah and Congress Shah promises probe from 6 p.m. president Rahul Gandhi Mr. Shah, however, dismis­ Linked to ₹4.9 cr. scam in construction of drainage network: anti­graft agency signing off with separate sed suggestions that his par­ Yet to decide press conferences. ty leaders, including Mr. The Election Commission is Jatin Anand regularities in the grant of Modi, had indulged in per­ yet to take a decision on the NEW Delhi contracts for roads and sew­ Personal attacks sonal attacks. election to the Raja Rajesh­ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind er lines in 2015­16. While the run­up to the He also announced that if wari Nagar constituency in Kejriwal’s nephew Vinay election has seen personal voted to power, the BJP Bengaluru city, where near­ Bansal was arrested by the Sent to judicial custody attacks by national leaders, would order a fresh inquiry ly 10,000 voter ID or EPIC Anti­Corruption Branch on Mr. Bansal was sent to a day’s Mr. Gandhi took on Prime into all alleged scandals of cards were found in an Thursday for his involve­ judicial custody by a city Minister Narendra Modi for the Siddaramaiah govern­ apartment. ment in an alleged ₹4.9 crore court, where he fainted and FRIDAYREVIEW Ī 12 PAGES raising his family history. ment. scam related to the construc­ had to be hospitalised, ac­ (TABLOID) “My mother is an Italian. The phalanx of leaders, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 tion of a drainage network in cording to the ACB official. DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES She has lived a larger part of who had descended on the HOW FAR IS CONGRESS FROM north­west Delhi awarded to He was was arrested on her life in India and she is State from New Delhi and RETAINING POWER? Ī PAGE 11 his firm by the PWD three the basis of an assessment years ago. Vinay Bansal after he fainted at the Tis Hazari court in Delhi report putting his firm in the More arrests, ACB sources on Thursday. He had to be hospitalised. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA dock “on several counts” in claimed, including those of relation to the quality of con­ ‘India is more than a 2 player e­com market’ serving Delhi government of­ west Delhi’s Pitampura area timing of the arrest, consi­ struction material used, fi­ ficials, were in the offing. Mr. at 4 a.m. “The decision to ar­ dering that the FIRs had nancial irregularities and Bansal, who according to the rest him was made on the ba­ been registered a year ago. overlooking of procedural Cash­and­carry and online retailing are different businesses, says Walmart chief ACB owns 50% stake in M/s sis of the CPWD report re­ The FIRs were registered penalties as per the CPWD in Renu Construction Compa­ ceived by us recently,” a on the basis of a complaint the construction of a drain Amit Baruah sal, co­founder of Flipkart, a McMillon said India would vesting $5 billion in the ny along with his late father senior official from the ACB, by Rahul Sharma, founder of located in Bakoli village, New Delhi day after the U.S. retail giant have more than two players firm’s Indian unit and as Surender Bansal, was picked who asked not to be named, NGO Roads Anti­Corruption north­west Delhi. Walmart CEO Doug McMil­ said it would acquire about in the e­commerce market, a Paytm Mall, backed by Chi­ up from his home in north­ said when asked about the Organisation, who alleged ir­ SEE ALSO Ī DELHI METRO PAGE 1 lon said on Thursday that he 77% of the Indian firm for $16 reference to Flipkart’s chief na’s Alibaba, is steadily ex­ sees cash­and­carry and on­ billion, Mr. McMillon point­ competitor, Amazon. “Over panding its operations. Wal­ Akhilesh slams U.P. govt. line retailing as two different ed to the differences in the time in India, there will be a mart also plans to add 50 over 'fake' encounters types of businesses and nature of Walmart’s existing more competitive environ­ new cash­and­carry stores in LUCKNOW predicted that India would operations in India and Flip­ ment.” the next four to five years. Amid charges that most have more than two major kart’s business, when asked police encounters in U.P. players vying for a share of whether a merger of the two Fierce competition CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 were ‘fake’, Samajwadi Party its rapidly expanding e­com­ companies’ current opera­ Walmart’s expansion in the ‘DEAL WILL KILL RETAIL’ Ī PAGE 10 president Akhilesh Yadav on merce market. tions was on the cards. online retail space in India TRADER, FARMER GROUPS Thursday accused the Yogi Adityanath­led BJP Addressing a joint press Dressed in blue jeans and comes after Amazon CEO Jeff DECRY DEAL Ī PAGE 13 government of misusing the interaction with Binny Ban­ a black Flipkart T­shirt, Mr. Bezos has committed to in­ ONLINE RETAIL FLIP Ī EDITORIAL police. PTI Centre changes tack in restive Valley Vijaita Singh counters was aiding recruit­ New Delhi ment by terror outfits. The Centre is set to roll out a He said there was consen­ calibrated policy for Jammu sus that the killings and en­ and Kashmir, with security counters were not yielding forces asked to “arrest” the desired results. “Funer­ newly recruited members als of local militants attract a and go after the hardened large number of people; this militants. The police, the Ar­ acts as fodder. There is a my and the CRPF are being correlation between the asked to ensure that mili­ funerals and men joining tants surrender during en­ terror groups thereafter. Vil­ counters. lages are a close­knit socie­ A senior government offi­ ty; we have to reduce the cial told The Hindu that ac­ number of killings,” said the cording to an assessment by official. the Central agencies, the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 emotional upsurge at funer­ ‘NO PLACE CALLED INDIAN als of militants killed in en­ OCCUPIED KASHMIR’ Ī PAGE 10 Israel strikes Iran’s intel sites in Syria Associated Press gistics sites and intelligence BEIRUT centres used by elite Iranian The Israeli military on forces. It also said it des­ Thursday said it attacked troyed several Syrian air­de­ nearly all of Iran’s military fence systems after coming installations in Syria in res­ under heavy fire and none ponse to an Iranian rocket of its warplanes was hit.