E " 0 .-$F # $F # F "%!-"./01 = &+ 2"", B C 0## . 6013/ 345/&41% *!01+2 &:A""=' D >> +,"! A&'A''A =! "&= => /!==!:+'"'A /A:6 '! !:%A'! 2 34235/06 070 ! "$% !& *+)&$R) ": 6&" " #$ port commissioner on her last day in office, an official said. According to the order, based on the cost of a vehicle, N O ) :=1! the one-time parking charge for L private cars and SUVs will L our days after Prime range between 6,000 and # FMinister Narendra Modi 75,000 — 18 times the exist- % & # strongly hinted at bringing 99 ing rate of 4,000. '' # per cent of products and ser- With the order, bus and vices in the 18 per cent or lower ** :=1! taxi operators would be hit brackets, the GST Council on hard as the annual parking fee # Saturday reduced tax rates on he Delhi Transport for different categories of com- ( L 23 goods and services, includ- TDepartment has approved mercial vehicles will rise from ' ) ing movie tickets, TV and a recommendation proposed the existing 2,500-4,000 to ( # monitor screens and power by all three municipal corpo- 10,000-25,000. % banks, and exempted frozen * + & , & & -' & # $ ') rations for a hike of one-time The process of charging the * # and preserved vegetables from parking charges in the nation- money during vehicle regis- the levy. cranks, gear boxes, used tyres, al Capital. With the move, car tration is prescribed through a ( The reduced rates are like- lithium ion batteries, digital buyers in Delhi will have to pay notification of Union Urban L# # ly to come into effect from cameras, video camera and 6 - # 2 2>? higher one-time parking Affairs Ministry not by the &+ ) January 1, 2019, Finance video game consoles. 024? - 2 24? >4? charges in 2019. transport department, Joshi # # Minister Arun Jaitley told The 28 per cent slab is now # > #. - According to the order who has taken charge as North reporters after the 31st meeting restricted to only luxury and 24?6 >4? issued by outgoing Transport Delhi Municipal Corporation’s of GST Council here. The sin goods apart from auto-parts Commissioner Varsha Joshi commissioner told PTI. . annual revenue implication of and cement — the tax rate on 00 . # , on Friday, the charges will The Transport Department ' the rate cuts would be 5,500 which could not be cut due to now range between 6,000 and only acts like the post office in crore, he said. high revenue implication. A >4 0 >4? . - 75,000 which will be applic- the process, she said. Of the 23 goods and ser- “Rate rationalisation is an # 0 .BB able from January 1, 2019. The parking charges mech- , ( vices on which rates have been ongoing process. When the The Transport Department anism will be replaced by spot - . - / slashed, tax rate on seven items original rates were fixed, India then the revenue impact would ity increases we gradually bring collects the parking charges on parking fees after 0 in the 28 per cent slab has been had the most irrational taxation have been there and therefore it down. And therefore 28 per behalf of the municipal corpo- new parking regulations are '1 & -. brought down. With this, only rates. the social expenditure of cen- cent bracket is already moving rations, which is meant for cre- notified by the Delhi 2 & -/ # 28 goods are left in the highest Most of these items were tral and State Governments towards a sunset, except the ating parking infrastructure in Government, she said. ', L 28 per cent tax bracket. charged, along with cascading would have suffered. luxury and sin items, 3 items the city. The proposal recom- “Till then this mechanism & -/# The goods on which GST effect, at 31 per cent. So we had “Therefore we followed a which are used by upper mended by the three corpora- will be applicable. So we fol- 3 has been lowered to 18 per cent only transiently put them at 28 more realistic pragmatic and a income group and only 1 item tions regarding the same was lowed an Urban Affairs from 28 per cent include pul- per cent, because if we had prudent policy that as the rev- of common use remains,” pending for quite some time Ministry notification and leys, transmission shafts and immediately brought it down enues move up and affordabil- Jaitley said and was cleared by the trans- issued these orders,” she added. # 4 # 6 ; # #$% &R ( 00 0 K ## -$ ( $()$ . # !"## $ - P . # .0 ** :=1! Sisodia clarified the lines about %& -(# ' Rajiv Gandhi were not part of ' (" #' Q efuting party MLA Alka the original resolution placed ## +," - ) RLamba’s claim that Delhi before the House. It was a #-# .# Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal handwritten amendment pro- # $ ## had “demanded” her resigna- posed by a party MLA and it '!:6' * tion for not supporting a res- cannot be passed in such a olution in the Delhi Assembly manner, he added. akir Musa’s radical group 6 on stripping late Prime “The aim of the original ZAnsar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, % # 37& Minister Rajiv Gandhi of resolution, moved by Jarnail an outfit affiliated to al-Qaeda, (( / ) Bharat Ratna, Delhi Deputy Singh, was only to help the vic- received a severe jolt when six Chief Minister Manish Sisodia tims of 1984 riots of its terrorists, including the 0# * 89:; on Saturday said neither any get justice. No resolution men- outfit deputy chief, were killed . 1 37& resignation has been sought tioning late PM Rajiv Gandhi in a gunfight in south 2345 - $ ) from her and nor is anyone was passed in the Assembly as Kashmir’s Tral sub-district on % # ! & #! & & ) . # # resigning from the party. being reported in the media,” Saturday morning. ' % . 2 Q Addressing the media, Sisodia said. The gunfight triggered * around 8.30 am at Arampora was no collateral damage dur- “All the six terrorists were !"#$%&# & 6 . * 89:<L village along the Awantipore- ing the encounter.” wanted for their complicity in ' M Tral road, some 35 km from He said arms and ammu- a series of terror crimes, includ- 0 ( Srinagar, when joint teams of nition were recovered from ing an attack on security estab- ( # * police, Army’s 42 Rashtriya the site of encounter. All the six lishments and civilian atroci- 0 # + ' Rifles and CRPF’s 130 and 180 terrorists were locals from Tral ties,” the spokesman said. " Q & battalions launched an opera- and neighbouring areas and A police officer said Soliha #O 0 tion after “tip-off about ter- were affiliated to Ansar was active since 2015 and Rasiq . . $ ' Q rorists’ presence”. Ghazwat-ul-Hind. had joined a militant group in # Q “As the searches were going The slain included Musa’s 2016. on, the search party was fired deputy Soliha Mohammad “The two (Soliha and * upon by the holed-up terrorists. Akhoon of Arampora, Faisal Rasiq) were initially associated +," The fire was retaliated leading Khanday, resident of Amlar, with Hizbul Mujahideen and 6 to a gunfight,” said a police Nadeem Sofi of Batagund, when Zakir Musa parted ways + 0 4 spokesman in Srinagar. “In the Rasiq Mir, Rouf Ahmed Bhat with Hizb and formed Ansar, 1 % * # ! ensuing encounter, six terror- and Umar Ramzan all three the two joined him,” the officer - # 0 Q # $ # ists were neutralised. There residents of Dadsara. added. L M $ ( 89:; > # Q ! * Q , 6 # * :=1! ern parts of the country, which es temperatures below four over the northern region which Officials said frost has % include Rajasthan, Punjab, degree Celsius over a consistent results in ground frost. Frost is already started to damage in L hy is north India wit- Haryana and Delhi, are getting period of time. formed when the dew on the plants like potato, peas, toma- Wnessing a colder-than- affected by this severe weath- The IMD said as a result of ground freezes and forms a toes and capsicum in Punjab, ( usual winter this year? It is due er. The IMD said a cold wave drop in temperatures, high thin layer of ice due to the sud- Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and ' ! " to early and heavy snowfall in prevails when a place witness- moisture content will prevail den drop in temperatures. Himachal Pradesh. -&) the region and the western dis- The IMD also said analy- % New Delhi: Only one out of 39 turbance across east Jammu sis of minimum temperature & ( N O locations through which the and Kashmir moving down- +(( data over the country during %? Ganga flows had clean water in wards. the last four decades suggest- N O the post-monsoon period this Since