Pages 8 Price 1/- For epaper log on to http://www.westerntimes.co.in GUJARAT’S OWN ENGLISH DAILY FOUNDED IN 1967 RNI Reg. No. GUJ/11172/67. Postal Reg. No. G-GNR-321 valid upto 31-12-2017 Founder Editor : Ramubhai Patel PHONE : 079-2640 2880 (Advertisement : 2640 2881 mail : [email protected])* Fax : 2640 2882 Posting at RMS Ahmedabad VOL. 50 * NO. 226 *AHMEDABAD * FRIDAY, 3/2/2017 Printed & Published by Nikunj R. Patel on behalf of Western Times Publications Pvt. Ltd. Printed at Western Times Survey No. 1315P, Opp. Ramapir Temple, Shilaj-Thol Road, Shilaj, Ahmedabad and Published at Western Times Pub. Pvt. Ltd. 301, 3rd Floor, Gala Argos, B/h. Hari Krupa Tower, Nr. Ladies Hostel, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad-380 006. (Gujarat). Editor : Nikunj R. Patel News Brief Aircel-Maxis case: Court discharges all accused New Delhi: of the 2G licences it ac- cences during the Con- A Special court on quired in 2006. On 6 Janu- gress-led United Progres- Congress moves Students' Thursday discharged all ac- ary, the apex court had re- sive Alliance rule. suicide a serious cused in Aircel Maxis deal strained Aircel Ltd from Maxis had acquired the EC, demands cases lodged by the Central selling and trading 2G 74% stake in 2006 from matter: Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spectrum allotted to it in Aircel owner C. stern action and the Enforcement Direc- 2006 and said it would Sivasankaran. The CBI has Congress MP torate (ED) involving ex- consider cancellation of alleged that Sivasankaran against BJP New Delhi, telecom minister Dayanidhi the licences if the Maxis sold the stake under duress New Delhi, Congress Rajya Maran and others. Group owner T. Ananda from the then telecom min- The Congress on Thurs- Sabha member Viplove Earlier, a consortium of Krishnan failed to respond ister Dayanidhi Maran, who day moved the Election Thakur on Thursday banks led by the State to the court’s summons. stalled approvals it needed, Commission (EC) alleging raised the issue of sui- Bank of India (SBI) moved Maxis Group has a 74% and that Maxis, in return, in- that BJP leaders Keshav cide by students due to the Supreme Court on 24 stake in Aircel. vested in his brother Prasad Maurya and pressure to excel in January seeking to be The Aircel-Maxis case Kalanithi Maran’s Sun Direct, Subramanian Swamy had competitive studies and heard before the court de- relates to irregularities in al- the direct-to-home TV arm made remarks amounting urged the government cides to cancel Aircel’s use lotment of 2G spectrum li- of his Sun TV Network Ltd. to soliciting votes in the to take note of the "seri- name of religion and de- ous matter". manded "stern action" She said in the up- against the party. per house that students In a complaint to the were pressured by pri- India signs pact with WB poll panel K.C. Mittal, Secre- vate coaching centres tary, Legal and Human to such an extent that Rights Department of Con- many ended up taking to improve education gress, said that Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Keshav their own lives."Private New Delhi, statement. tems in Uttarakhand, coaching centres across Prasad Maurya and BJP MP Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh India has signed a The project aims at im- Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Subraminan Swamy had Rathore visiting the exhibition, at the“BES Expo 2017” - 23rd International Con- the country put pres- proving quality and equity Uttar Pradesh, Madhya sure on students. Par- $201.50 million financing violated the model code of ference & Exhibition on Terrestrial& Satellite Broadcasting, organised by the agreement with the World in engineering institutes in Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, conduct ahead of elections Broadcast Engineering Society (India), in Delhi o. ents are also involved," the states and take initia- Rajasthan, the eight north- she said, urging the gov- Bank to improve the quality in the five states. of technical education in the tives to strengthen sector eastern states and ernment to investigate governance and perfor- Andaman and Nicobar Is- The party alleged that the matter. country. Maurya raked up the "con- "Financing agreement mance, it said. lands," the statement said. "The objective of the "The project has been tentious issue" of Ram BJP ups ante on poor UP law for credit of $201.50 million temple last month and Will soon fill for the 'Third Technical Edu- programme is to enhance designed as a disburse- talked about its construc- vacancies in cation Quality Improvement quality and equity in par- ment-linked one, that is, the tion after assembly elec- Programme (TEQIP III)' was ticipating engineering edu- World Bank loan will be dis- tions in Uttar Pradesh. It said and order, slams SP regime signed with the World Bank cation institutes and im- bursed on achievement of educational that after Maurya's remarks, Lucknow, men, and criminals, land Arms Act and 1,400 robber- here on Tuesday," the Fi- prove the efficiency of the specific outcomes," it added. BJP MP Subramanian institutions: nance Ministry said in a engineering education sys- --IANS The Bharatiya Janata mafias, boot loggers and ies and dacoities have taken Swamy had made remarks Party (BJP) on Thursday goons rule the roost," he place, the BJP leader said cit- Centre "welcoming the statement upped the ante on law and said and promised a com- ing police statistics. New Delhi, of Shri Maurya". order situation in Uttar plete reversal of the situa- "Under the watch of the The central govern- "The statements made Pradesh and charged the tion if the BJP came to present Samajwadi Party ment said on Thursday Varun Gandhi included in by Shri Maurya as well as Dr. Akhilesh Yadav government power in the state post as- government, senior police said vacancies of teach- Subramanian Swamy are in for "completely failing to sembly elections. officials have been killed, ers in educational insti- utter defiance of the instruc- protect its people". Referring to the under- mafias are having a free run tutions across the coun- tions issued by the Commis- Addressing a press con- construction apartment and women are being BJP's UP star campaigners' list sion and amount to solicit- try will soon be filled. Union Minister Maneka Naqvi and Nitin Gadkari. ference here, BJP National building crash in Kanpur on victimised," Yadav added. Lucknow, ing votes in the name of re- Wednesday, which killed Even journalists, he Responding to After initially dropping Gandhi, was sidelined by Senior party functionar- General Secretary members' concerns in ligion," the party said. Bhupendra Yadav said seven persons, Yadav said added, are not safe in the SP Varun Gandhi from the list Amit Shah after he took over ies Om Mathur, Vinay Katiyar, It said the statements this is a proof how illegal regime and exhorted the the Rajya Sabha, Human of "star campaigners" in the reins of the party. Swamy Prasad Maurya, and crimes against women have Resource Development were also in violation of the gone through the roof dur- practices are being pro- people to stand up against Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on The star campaigners others would campaign for observations made by the moted by the ruling party the government and ensure Minister Prakash Thursday included his name list for Bharatiya Janata party candidates in the third ing the Samajwadi Party Javadekar said the gov- Supreme Court and the BJP (SP) regime and in most leaders and the officials con- that the BJP came to power for the third and fourth Party (BJP) includes Prime and fourth phase also, the or its leaders cannot place ernment was aware of Minister Narendra Modi, party leader said. cases no FIRs are registered cerned are forced to look after the state assembly phases of polling in the any reliance on its 2014 the other way. polls.Uttar Pradesh goes to the situation and the state, a party official said. party President Amit Shah, Veteran actress and poli- by the police. process was on to fill the manifesto "nor under the "In the past five years, In the last one year, more polls spread over seven The parliamentarian Kanpur MP and veteran tician Hema Malini, Delhi garb of manifesto rake up than 25,000 cases have phases between February vacant posts as early as from Sultanpur was named party leader Murli Manohar BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, co- over a thousand attacks possible."We believe religious card to solicit votes have taken place on police- been lodged under the 11 and March 8. as the 39th star campaigner Joshi.Also included are median Raju Srivastav, in the name of religion". there should be no va- in a list of 40. Union ministers Rajnath Rajasthan Chief Minister cancies. It's a govern- Initially presented as a Singh, Uma Bharati, Arun Vasundhara Raje Scindia ment policy and we firebrand youth leader, Jaitley, M. Venkiah Naidu, and Madhya Pradesh Chief have decided to fill up Varun Gandhi, son of the Smriti Irani, Piyush Goel, V.K. Minister Shivraj Singh Mayawati rubbishes poll teachers' vacancies ac- late Sanjay Gandhi and Singh, Mukhtaar Abbas Chauhan will also pitch in. Mamata raises concerns cording to the rules surveys, calls them sponsored soon," the minister told Bulandshahr, if her party was voted back the house. over H-1B visas Bahujan Samaj Party to power. Kolkata, use the programme to re- (BSP) supremo Mayawati on The four-time Chief Min- place American employees ister tore into the Bharatiya West Bengal Chief Min- Court to Thursday trashed the sur- ister Mamata Banerjee on with foreign workers, in- veys ahead of the Uttar Janata Party and said its cluding from India, with consider claims of bringing back the Thursday raised concerns Pradesh assembly polls and over the issue of H-1B US vi- lower wages.